Show HIGHER bw TELEPHONE KILLS TOL S government FILES BRIEF IN SUPREME couff COUR AGAINST steif STATE APPEALS declares that suits instituted by south dakota and massachusetts authorities to prevent increase in rates should be dismissed WashIng tonk increase increase of intrastate telephone toll rates ly by the lie postmaster arnnal was defended lit in it 1 l brief filed by the government on oil may 2 in fit the IKI supreme court in ili connection with poll pending ding appeals from south dakota and enss coulta tito state authorities lit in their appeals haw con coil tended the increase In creaso ans ns nil in ter ference ence with their police powers the government brief dve avelares lares ilia suits I 1 I 1 by y alio it to S 0 I 1 lilt dakota anil and ell aset tg author 1 tle s to rt rl strain tin the postmaster general front from increasing the lie rates nvere in reality the lie united states without its consent and should iw be inis sed the also contends that in ili taking over control of the telephone pl lIlo systems of alic lie country ilia president placed thein lit in tho the litinas glinnda of tit in postmaster general and ills his representatives senta tives under tinder the brond broad powers given him ly by tile tho resolution to manage us as lie he saw fit and they thus chils were in 1 l et added to tit UK postal service and eli became 1 11 ns iauch it part pait ot otlie the weans means 0 of newa news or IT communication c 0 ns as ilia dinall I 1 the regulation of rate the lie bridi salt said ns as tit in exercise of power la tile hie assertion of ft a right to control a private business hust noia affected with a public into interest and subject to a public use so ili as to subject mhd private property to tile the public service upon tile the payment of 0 f just compensation to tills this end in 11 1 order that the kriv private nt right may inny not bo be assorted asser fed to extort undue tIon for uso use the power Is exercised to it regulate tile price for use just ns it 1 might I 1 9 I 1 1 ho he to regulate tile price fr for tin tile property itself it if the alic fee wits being taken |