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Mrs. Marshall Asks
$23,275 Tax Refund
In Plea to High Court
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Ex-Film Star Bases
Claim on Community
Property Law
In an appeal on file today In the
Supreme Court Corinne Griffith
Marshall, one-time screen star,
sought return of $23,275 in Federal
income taxes which, she alleged,
was erroneously paid under the Cali
fornia community property law.
Mrs. Marshall, wife of George
Preston Marshall, laundry operator
and owner of the Washington Red
skins, petitioned the court yesterday
to review the claim which previous
ly has been rejected by the United
States Court of Claims.
Through Counsel C. Leo De Orsev,
Milton W. King and Bernard I.
Nordlinger the court was advised
that the point at issue has direct
bearing on the community property
laws of nine States, as it will deter
mine how Federal income tax liabil
ity can be shifted under these.
The tax in question was paid on
income earned in 1930 when Mrs.
Marshall was the wife of Oliver
Morosco, from whom she was di
vorced in 1934.
In April, 1927, California enacted
a law giving husband and wife domi
ciled there an equal vested interest
in community property. In Novem
ber of that year, the court is in
formed, the actress and her then
husband entered into an agreement
providing in substance that all earn
ings of either after that date should
be the sole property of the earner.
In 1930 each reported their income
separately, the wife paying income
tax on $283,821 and the husband on
$55,442. Thereafter the commissioner
of internal revenue held that the
income of the couple should be al
located under the community prop
erty laws of California, with one
half of the income of each attributed
to the other.
By such a division. Mr. Morosco
would have owed additional tax. for
which assessment has been made,
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and, Mrs. Marshall points out, her
own tax should have been reduced
correspondingly. The tax against
her former husband, however, has
not been collected, according to the
petitioner, and the collector of in
ternal revenue has refused to grant
a refund to the wife. The Court of
Claims upheld this decision, declar
ing that the petitioner was not en
titled to recover because her earn
ings, in view of the agreement,
never became community property.
“The sole issue now presented,”
the court is told, “is whether hus
band and wife, domiciled in Cali
fornia, can enter into an anticipa
tory arrangement whereby they can
effectively shift Federal income tax
liability for receipt of community
income.”
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Four Chicagoans Drown
In Lake Michigan
By the Associated Press.
GARY, Ind., Aug. 23.—Pour Chi
cago persons were drowned and
a fifth was rescued yesterday when a
strong undertow pulled them into
Lake Michigan while they were
swimming at a bathing beach here.
The drowned:
Mary OMalley, 35, and John Mo
ran, 60, both of whose bodies were
recovered, and Mary Moran, 25, and
John Hogan, 11, being sought by life
guards.
Mary Hogan. 8. was rescued by her
cousin, Joseph O’Malley, 19.
Philippine Bill Seeks
To Limit Alien Labor
By the Associated Press.
MANILA, Aug. 23.—A bill which
would prove a hard blow to Chinese,
Japanese and other foreigners work
ing in the Philippines was introduced
in the National Assembly today by
Jose Uy of Marinduqe Province.
The measure would provide that
at least 75 per cent of employes in
any one firm be citizens of the
Philippines or the United States. It
would exclude those whose work re
quires technical knowledge or ability
unobtainable in the Philippines.
Friend of Royalty to Receive
Strange Burial in Atlantic
By the Associated Press.
KANSAS CITY, Aug. 23.—A
strange burial in the deepest part
of the Atlantic, comingling the ashes
of a woman who once was enter
tained by European royalty with
those of her husband and child, will
be given Mrs. Eleanor Massie Hope
of Shreveport, La.
Sterling Stewart, Cass County
lumberman, said today he was sworn
to secrecy about some of the details,
but divulged he was one of 11 per
sons asked to participate in the
ceremony.
Between New York and Liverpool
the ashes of Mrs. Hope, her husband,
George D. Hope, once prosperous
lumberman, and their daughter will
be placed in a copper urn, covered
with a floral blanket 5 feet square
and cast off to sink to the ocean’s
.bottom. Then the 11 persons will
continue to Europe on a tour at the
late Mrs. Hope’s expense. The hus
band and daughter are buried here,
and their bodies will be exhumed.
Mr. Stewart said Mrs. Hope once
found so many diamonds on her
husband's 10.000-acre holdings in
Arkansas that she gave a bridge
party and presented the winners
with the jewels.
After her husband’s death Mrs.
Hope went to Europe to live for a
time.
"She wrote me frequently during
the years she lived in England,” Mr.
Stewart said.
“She was a house guest of Queen
Mary. She danced many times with
the Duke of Windsor when he was
Prince of Wales. She entertained
him at her home and he gave par
ties in her honor.”
Marines Acquitted
In Salesman's Death
By the Associated Press.
NORFOLK, Va., Aug. 23.—Two 19
year-old marines, stationed on the
aircraft carrier Ranger, were free
today of charges of murder which
grew out of the slaying of F. T. Jen
nings, traveling salesman of Au
gusta, Ga., in a hotel room here
July 24.
The youths, Wallace E. Miller of
Johnson City, Tenn., and Lawrence
M. King of Columbia, Miss., were
acquitted within a half hour last
night by a Corporation Court Jury.
Both testified they had gone to
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Jennings’ hotel room at his invita
tion to have some beer. King said
that while he was sitting on the bed
Jennings made improper advances
to him. Miller, who had gone into
the bathroom, returned and a scuffle
followed, King stated. Jennings was
struck with beer bottles and a water
pitcher.
"We didn’t think the man was
hurt very badly,” King said. "We
left and I first discovered Jennings
had died the next day when Miller
came to tell me. I did not make a
report immediately because I was
afraid. I didn’t know what to do.
"I had never seen or heard of
Jennings prior to meeting him that
night.”
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