Salt Lake Telegram | 1920-11-22 | Page 3 | Injunction on Navy Asked by W. U

O Or NAVY A KO Of w. w 1 1 Wi Wire e Company C Carries Caries r i s C Cable le ler r Dispute to Supreme l Court r W. W WASHINGTON SI I Nov Nov ov 2 22 The The The Western Union I Telegraph ph company F f applied to the pis District rJ t of of Columbia supreme court today for tor an Injunction to restrain Secretary of the Navy Daniels from interfering in the construction con con- conI I o a telegraph cable between Miami and nd Miami Beach Fl Fla The Western Union company also asked the court to require the tho naval secretary to instruct subordinate of officials of- of officials and naval officers to cease e threatening to destroy the cable if laid The company In its petition pointed out that the requested in injunction injunction in- in injunction junction would cover a different cable line than the Barbadoes cable the laying of A vich AIch Ich was prevented several several months ago by the sen sending inD of ot war- war ships to Miami The Tho Western Union company farther further fur fur- ther they declared that the cable now in course of construction was to replace an existing line Une which has been In operation since 1899 that i 1 already had been spent in the work i and that this expenditure would go for naught aught unless the navy department department t were enjoined from Interfering with the completion of ot the work Rear Hear Admiral Anderson the commandant comI com- com mandant of ot the Miami district some sometime sometime time ago had compelled its I I to cease work worle although the war department department department de- de had approved the plans for forS S passing the drawbridges of ot the new Miami causeway the company said Secretary Daniels it was asserted upheld the action of the naval commander commander com com- mander who had declared work could knot not proceed until V Washington permUted per- per mUted it