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Question of Admitting Union
Trust Transactions De
bated by Counsel.
By the Associated Press.
PITTSBURGH, March 8 —Whether
the manifold stock transactions of the
giant Union Trust Co. shall find their
way Into Andrew W. Mellon's Income
tax hearing snagged the case behind
a barrier of legal arguments today.
Insisting a long list of sales should
go into the record, Robert H. Jackson,
Government counsel, said they are
necessary to attack the credibility of
a witness and to ahow the $300,000,000
Pittsburgh bank engaged In tax eva
sion “as a usual course of business.”
Hogan Disputes Connection.
Mellon’s chief counsel, Prank J.
Hogan, was just as Insistent the bank
i affairs mentioned by Jackson had
| nothing to do with the hearing, which
j is dealing with the financier's claim
he should be allowed a refund of
$139,000 in 1931 Income taxes and
the Bureau of internal Revenue’s de
mand he pay $3,089,000 additional.
Both attorneys argued their conten
' tlons before three members of the Tax
Board of Appeals today. Presiding
Member Ernest Van Possan adjourned
the hearing an hour early yesterday
when the matter came up.
Union Trust Witness.
Carl R. Korb, young vice president
of the Union Trust, was the witness
under fire from Jackson as the Gov
ernment attorney sought to bring out
by questions whether Korb In No
vember. 1930, had not prepared g list
of Union Trust stocks at a cost price
higher than the then market price.
At that point Hogan asked the
board to halt that line of questioning
because what the Union Trust Co. did
a year before Mellon “is accused of
underpaying his tax has nothing to do
| with this case.”
Jackson told the board he Is attack
ing the credibility of Korb "and his
bias, also the credibility of the record
of the Union Trust Co.. Introduced in
this case, the credibility of the affi
davit of Henry C. McEldowney, its
president, received in this case, and
to show- the knowledge of and the
participation in a plan of tax evasion
claimed by the Government.” v
RAIN BRINGS FERTILIZER
Observer Says Fossil Dust Brought
Shower of Bone Meal.
GREAT BEND, Kans.. March 8 UPl.
—Western Kansas farmers should pray
for more duststorms like the one they
had last week, says Bon Turner, who
declares he can tell the origin of the
storms by taste.
That storm, he explained, came
from the fossil beds of Comanche
County.
"That dust from the fossils was the
same as a shower of bone meal, and
any one knows that bone meal is good
fertilizer.”
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SWINDLER IN PRISON
Pleads Guilty to Embezzling
$54,000 in Bank Funds.
CHICAGO, March S (A*).—Joseph
Batata, who pleaded guilty to an al
leged plot to swindle the Abraham
Lincoln Life Insurance Co. and an
Indianapolis bank with funds em
bezzled- from a Chicago bank, was
taken to Joliet Prison yesterday to
start his l-to-10-year term.
Batata admitted the embezzlement
of about $94,000 from the Amalga
mated Trust St Savings Bank, in
which the gang supposedly duped a
youthful bank clerk, Otto Van Derek,
into “pulling” checks.
THOMAS A. SCOn
IS SUED BY WIFE
$1,900 Unpaid Under Separation
Agreement, Charge* Daughter
of Dr. Wilmer.
———»
Mrs. Rebekah Wilmer Scott, 2101 R
street, socially prominent daughter of
Dr. William Holland Wilmer, interna
tionally famous eye specialist, has
filed suit in District Supreme Court
against her estranged husband,
Thomas A. Scott, of the Metropolitan i
Club for $1,500, which she says repre
sent due payments of $500 a month in
a separation agreement.
Through Attorneys Edmund L.
Jones and Richard L. Wllmer, Mrs.
Scott tells the court she and her hus
band, who formerly was known as
Thomas A. Scott Thropp, agreed on
May 5 last to live apart, and that he
was to pay her $500 monthly for the
support of herself and their two young
children. No payments have been
made for three months, she says.
Hie separation agreement, a copy
of which is attached to her petition,
was to run for three years, the way
being open meanwhile for other ar
rangements. Included is a proviso
permitting changes in payments In
event of currency inflation.
REAL ESTATE MEN
LIMITED IN RULING
Justice Bailey Holds Agents May
Not Perform Certain Legal
Functions.
Real estate agents are prohibited
from performing certain functions for
clients which are construed as entail
ing the practice of law, in a memo
randum opinion by Justice Jennings 1
Bailey In District Supreme Court,
made public yesterday.
The result will tend to terminate a
procedure of years’ standing in the
District, it was said.
The opinion was handed down in
an Injunction action instituted by
Richard A. Harman, an attorney la
the Evans Building, against J. McKen
ney Berry, realty agent, 1363 Wiscon
sin avenue. Through Attorney Rich
ard L. Merrick, Harman contended
that Berry was engaging in unauthor
iked practice of law by preparing and
filing eviction suits in Municipal Court
in his own name rather than that of
the owner of the property Involved.
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