i iwii in w,mmmmwwmmmmmmmmKMm In UTHEWEATHIR Hn WtM aJtefnoenawjtenlghti (p8wedby,ckrhf,cMer: tempera tare fslHiig fa';freesflj. Tuesday Mr. TBMriWAXVHn AT KAUH HOUR TSHfi I73l?iri7n,70 (so 1 , ': TOpTOtt pitattC VlZQQZV JJ1 ir .h T"Tt:v'r' - '-!. i i- j & m aift r.. r cimbaih f, fiiH h i k. -. -. . . . k. r pw wmimm 'ie,.' uw ' ' ' :, c Lu ; n T i ii i ' ' ''' . .. ' . .. '. .. 'vj VOL. VII.-rN"0. 167" FOR LIGHT PENALTY One Lawyer for Pelrce dtae De- fendant Proposes blillty Plea as Accessory TRY 'BOOTS' WEDNESDAY , ALONE OR t With' HIM .Tn.nh "Archie" Moss and Sue "Boots" Bcgcrs, Indicted for the mur der of,Henry T. Pelrce last November, and also as accessories after the fact, trill bo brought to trial together nt 10 o'clock Wednesday mprnlug. Mom was to have been tried today'., and his attorneys were In court with representatives of the district, attor ney's offlco, to argue the preliminaries of the case After nearly throe hours of. discus sion In private, and a trip of his coun sel to Moss' cell, Judge Audcnrlcd an nounced that the trial would go .over. The delay In Moss' trial was brought sbotit by a dispute between his own lawyers over whether, 'or not ho should plead guilty as an. accessory. They were given' the forty-eight hours to unite their own .minds. The announcement that "Boots would be trid with Moss .came 'it's a big surprise. It has been predicted right along that 'Moss" would be tried' first, and then the girl., How Lawyers Differ Mom' attorneys, Henry M, Steven inn and John E; Walsh, consulted with the district attorney's representatives nuil Judge Audenried for nearlyi' two hours this morning, then went to talk the matter over with" their .client. It h understood Mr. Stevenson .demanded that Moss be tried on both Indictments, feeling that both would fail. Mr. Walsh, howevnr. was willing. It Isnald. to have. Moss plend guilty to the accessory In dictment provided 'the other Indictment be dropped.-, . " The district attorney's office, It is understood, lifti o confidence In, its ability to convict Moss of murder, and is willing to agree to n light sentence If he will plead guilty, to the accessory chnrge. . To compllcnte this already complex nitnntlon still further. promos the nn notincementrthat the itrl will be nut on trial with Moss. The commonwealth's rase against her, Is even njore 'slender than that against-Moss. However, she is Indicted for both 'murder and being nn nrcrsnorr. Her attorneys have ad id right along that they will not permit her to plend jmlltv to either charge and will' force the Commonwealth to bring hcr'totrlnl, The limit sentence which -could be glren Moss or tho girl. .In the event of their conviction as accessories would be two years. . At 10 o'clock this morning, when the case wss"called for trial before Judge Audenried In Ilooni 45f!., which 1h Crltn-. 1 Inal Court No; 2, the Judge 'summoned counsel to his chambers, District At torner Itotnn. Assistant District At torney .Brown in charge of niurdcr esses, and Assistant District Attorney Sneitcr, who1 w'as detailed to prosecute Moss, talked the matter over witli Judge Audenried In the presence of.Mr. Stevenson and Mr.. Walsh,- Moss1 at tornys. Following the long conference, it was neciucti flint .lings' attorneys annum consult him In ,the sheriff's cell room and And out how" far he .would he will ing to go. There, wom another .hour's delay, then tie announcement thnt the esse would go over until Wednesday. For the murder cjf Pelrce, Phila delphia manufacturers' representative, who wns slain In his apartment over 2007 Market .street. Trendwny already has been convicted In the second degree, and Is now serving a sentence, of not less than nineteen years and slxjinonths nor more than "twenty, years In the Eastern Penitentiary. Spoken of as ''Drunken Boob" Moss has been spoken o.f as - the "drunken boob" of the murder, as wit nesses at TrcUway'n trial testified that he was very drunk throughout, tho pro ceedings of the Saturday night' when Peircc, also drunk, was slain by Klliott. -Alio is now n fugitive from jus tice with, n Urst-degree-murder Indict-, tnent hanging over him. When It was learned that Treadway, Elliott, Moss and the girl hnd been In the party In Pclrce's room the night h was slain, all four were indicted for first-degree murder. Later, when it Hcmrd evident that Moss and tho girl hnd participated Jn n minor degree, the district attorney's office went before thq Orand Jury again nnd had these two re indicted on the tester charge of being accessories after the fact. Only two witnesses have becnbrought from out of the'clty. These are. Moss' friend Paulson, to, whose house ho" went when the party stopped nt Baltimore in their flight M Wheeling'. W. Vn where Treadway 'nnd the girl were nr rested, nnd Mrs. Benjnmln. proprietress of the boarding house ,on Pennsylvania arenue, Baltimore, to which Poulson sent the party '.for rooms. Said Moss Offered to Sell Pin Mrs. Benjomin testified at Tread way's trial that .Moss had offered to fell her the diamond pin takcii from Peirce's tie for ?8. The chief wltnc&s against the de fenoant will be Detective William Bel 'haw, head of the murder squad, who jvas sent to Pittsburgh to bring him back after lxk-had been arrested there. On the return Journcd ,Mos made a confession to Belshaw, which will be offered In evidence. This confession it yss which the detective bureau used to break down tTroa'dway's' original tIy,.i.T.r."'J?;?5:. ,lnd aid, that Moss and "A!" killed Pelrce. This was repudiated so vehemently nnd so cir ciimstantially in Moss' confession, and to completely confirmed by tho girl's in-' dependent .statement, that when Tread way was confronted with It he admitted that his eurller ejnteinent had been a el.0,RS' VKJ8 no' "Peffrd to be either as lengthr or as bitterly fought IIZ1 ih,ot of T;viJYay. as the facte against blm arc far fewer. The gen eral be Cf Is that he wl get oft lightly. Mpeelally as hH testimony wa,s of great help to (he coinmbuwrnlth Jn clenrlng "P the murder mystory, MAN HANQ8 HIMSELF InJ hZ i,Vkoit 1lrw,' W8S foun1 nang m ,rom ? ,onH "' "ar shed cnrlv "'?" JHck. and thrown one end over a linok In tl-c ce Dg. JHe then ant narjnilr had llft.,1 l, Vei tX tEe 5wn rC''HOn V U,su,,:lde 4 not RnUr-4 u 6tona-cii Mattei 8 wAtiVAmhi11- , Dodges Her Father EDNA HUDSON Disappeared from her homo here . several years ago. Parents learned two weeks Agtf she was making n hit in vaudeville at Seattle nnd Mllier 'started West. At 'Omaha, Neb,, he. got word Edna's show had closed ' and she again had vanished ELUDES HER FATHER Philadelphia Oirl Quits Seattle as Parent Is .on Way to Bring' Her Home NEW HUNT IS STARTED Edna' Hudson, twenty-two years old, who vanished from her home nt Fifty third street and ' Woodbine nvenuef Wyunefleld, morp than six months ago, and 'who wns located recently as n mem ber of n theatrical company plnylng In Seattle, Washington, again Is num bered among the missing. Through a detective agency, William V. Hudson, the girl's father, who is president of the Hudson Automobile Accessories Co., at Twenty-first, nnd .Market streets, learned his daughter was appearing nr il theatre In Seattle: She had adopted, "Yvvonne Farr" as n stage nnme. ,,. Immediately 'upon learning of her whereabouts, Mr, Hudson started for Seattle .to Induce Ills' daughter to give up her stage career and' return, home: , The trip,' was uneventful , until Omaha, Neb., was reached. 'When ,th train pulled lnio the station, Mr, Hud son .was rather startled to hear his namo shouted, repeatedly through the trniu. Finally he was located by, ,'a paging messenger boy who handed him a telegram. It wiih from 'a detecjiye agency' in the West, nnd read: "Show closed at Winter Garden Theatre tonight nnd left town 'Imme diately. Mnnsgument can give no In formation relative to, future bookings." . So' the pursuing parent returned home. In his office yesterday Mr. Hudson spent most of the day wrltine telegrams to points west In nn effort to catch up with' bis . daughter's move ments'. He plans to leave the city ngaln upon receipt of definite Information. Miss Hudson was teducnted nt. the .Marshall School for Girls. Oak Lane The institution now Is known ns Miss Cole s School, VSlnce she w.aa fourteen." said Mr, Hudson, "niy daughter has studied music and dnnclng. Her mother nnd I urged her to take up theatrical work in an amateur way, but she Insisted she wanieu. n proiessionai career, a friend of mjne, who is a. producer, tried to dls. pnnrnirn hoi nt mi' Biirirtttlnn Ann time I Imnglne she suspected wa were opposing her plans. One day she left nome anu sue nns raiieu to wrlto to us since.' SHIP DAMAGED IN COLLISION Wrecking Crews Endeavoring to Keep Sfchooner Afloat KfforU are being made by wrecking crews to keep afloat the five. masted schooner Jennie Flood Kreger, which wns badly damnged In n collision off Cape Henlopen yesterday with the tank steamship V. Tt. Thayer. The bow of the schooner was rut off and all Its head gear carried away In the necident. ImmedIntelyL after the collision both vessels bende'd for, tho Delaware breakwater the Thayer pro ceeding under Its ovn power with the Kreger In tow nnd In a sinking condi tion. As soon as the vessels entered the breakwater wrecking crews began work on the Kreger in an effort to keep her afloat. The Thayer" continued to Wil mington, whero she will undergo minor rcpnlrs, TWO HELD IN EAST.eFdEATH Brother Badly Hurt In Celebration. Men Sought Surrender Chester, Pa March 28. Amldlo Cnllchla and Paul Maro. 817 Broomall street, charged with slaying Frank Per rori and seriously woundinr'hls brother John during a free-for-all Eastercele- Drntion early tuts morning, wnmcd to the Media Hospital, where they received treatment for s'lght wounds nnd then surrendered to' Wstrlct, Attorney Tay jor. Several inmates la the house were ar rested by the police and are being de. tallied as- witnesses. COLD HURTS FRUIT IN WEST ' Wintry Weather Moving East After Causing Widespread Damage Chleaco. March 28. (B.v A. P.) The cold wave which today was moving eastward over the Mississippi and Ohio river valleys caused widespread damage to some of .the frult'-raising section of the Middle West. The damage was esneclallv severe, in southeastern Mis souri and southern Illinois, where fruit trees were In bud and winter wneat wjthqut the protecting blanket of the winter snows, ' ' Freerine temperatures were reported from all sections north -of the Kansas- Oklahoma boundary, thermometers reg istering from 32 degrees to as lqv as 12 flern-e shove zero. The, hea'vr wind was one of the savine factors in some JCrUJt sections. . . r ACTRESS DAUGHTER FRIENDS SEND PLEA FOR DISARMAMENT : TO THE PRESIDENT -- Yearly Meeting Unanimously Asks Government t6 Stop War Expenditures CAMPAIGN TO ELIMINATE CAPITAL PUNISHMENT ON Philadelphia Orthodox Friends today called Upon, President Harding td start n world disarmament movement; arid urged thnt the United States, refrain from, spending additional money for. the ne,vy, t The action wn,s taken at the opening ot tho Yearly Meeting. Fourth and Arch streets. ' ' George y Warner, whd recently headed n delegation riilch called upon the President In tho Interest of disarm ament, offered the resolution which vvns unanimously carried. The resolu tion then was placed on the' secretary's table and. all the mcmberR signed, ii frill be forwarded to Washington at once. Mr. Warner told of. his visit to the President. He said His address on dls-i armnment wns listened to with great Interest nnd that President Harding sat) he favored disarmament proviaeu all the other nations would join, but tlict ht would not assume' the responsi bility of Initiating the movement in the nnme of the United Btates. Today's resolution Vas' adopted In the hope that the President might find it a basis' for, taking action'. , - Men and Women at Meeting , Mcu nnd women attended loony's ses sion; The rollcall showed that the Catherine, was one of the largest In yCars. The committee on membership announced that there are 4401 members in the Philadelphia ,mcetlug. Vnrlous committees presented reports showing the growth of philanthropic' work undertaken by the meeting. The book store at Third and Arch streets is in n thriving condition. 2008 volumes' having been sold during the year. ' If wns anno'uncedjLhftt the "Uvea of Enrly Frlends''v-hail Ijcen translated Into Mexican nnd" Korean' and widely' distributed in both countries. ' Satis factory results-have attendedi the dis tribution of literature iri England 'and uermnny. . , ' The prison (reform committee . re ported that it was hard 'at work on a cn'mpuign to eliminate capital' punish ment, neverai. committees were ap pointed to m etui re letters to be1 read at later sessions nnd to audit the ac counts of the treasurer. Alfredit II. Garrett was appointed chairman' ot a jbmmltfeq on ''organic church unity. '' Full rrogranr for Meetla f.AC($d n. m. the FrisnoV Temper anee ''Association pfPhllade1phla will mcet(und is to be followed, at 7:80 in. the evening by the Friends', Frecdine'n'a Association.- which has ' rharee ot 'Friends' work among the; colored peo ple. Today Is one or, tnc lulictt- days on the program of the yearly meeting. , ' n-om i to .Kiiu p. m. mo nenezet Community IToilae. which Is located at 01 S Locust street,- nnd Is under JTrlends' malagement, was open to any visi tors. Tho meetlne'of the First Dnv School .Association, convening at 0 In tba afternoon, will' be addressed; after a briof business meeting, by Henry E. Trallc, of the American Daptlst Publi cation Society, "on the. subject of "For ward Steps In Religious Education," , The Temperance Association, of Friends, meeting nt 4:80, also at the Twelfth Street House, Is to have John F. Kramer, federal prohibition comi missioner." of Washington, ns speaker. He will gfvo an 'address. "Our Oppor tunitiesOur Responsibilities." In the evening the Friends' work among negroes, will be taken up, and tho meeting of the. Friends' Freedmen's Association, which has charge of the Aa lM.tt,ll,lAna turn MnWMnna tt.111 h. Mil. 11 V lUOlllUllUtlD 1UI UIMIVVO, nil, MV HU- dressed by James O.. Blddlo and .J. R. Paul Brock,, of - Atlantic City'. The former chairman of the board of man agers of Cheyney. Training School ,wlll tell of plans for Cheyney as n Pennsyl vania state normal school. Tho latter, who is principal of the Indiana Avenue School, will speak on "F.ducatlon and the Colored People." DOROTHY STILL WAITS FOR PROMISED $1000 Trenton Qjrl Disappointed, but Not Discouraged by Nonarrlval of Check Trenton, N, !.. March 28. Disap pointed but still hopeful, Dorothy Miller, the nrettv sixtcen-.vear-old Trenton slrl who has offered herself in marringe to any man who will give her mother $1000 for a surgical operation said to be necessary to save her life, waited all morning for nn expected let ter from a man in St. Paul, who she hod been infomed through "dispatches was evnding Her the $1MK in a certified che-.k without anv conditons whatever. Dorothv said she thnueht that the check would come later In the day "and then when it. comes," she said, "I won't have to marry anybody." A member of a medical staff .of the Mercer Hospital of this city," who with- bolds his name, In a communication to a local paper expressed Indignation over the Dorothy Miller case, declaring that nil three hospitals Qf Trenton have' free wards and' that Mrs. Miller could be operated on and treated In any of them without a penny. He thought the no toriety of the Miller case was an unjust reflection on the Trenton hospitals, GLOUCESTER BONIFACE DIES John R. Jackson, Hotelman, Was Mayor for Three Terms John Ri Jackson, former mayor of Gloucester, N, J,, end proprietor f Jackson's Hotel at Westvllje, died sud denly at 2 o'clock this morning of heart disease. Dr. James. Hunter, the family physician, was called, but before be arrived Mr. Jackson was dead.? Ho apparently was In good health yester day and spent a great part of the day riding in his motorcar and making Hot ter calls. , ' The former mayor was born' Ir. Ches ter county, Pennsylvania. sixtyTfive years ago and was three times elected mayor of Gloucester City on the Demo cratic ticket. His incumbency was during the .days of the old Gloucestei beach and racetrack, Eighteen years ago he purchased the AVstvill, Hotel ana since tnen managed it and resided Lthei?L .X-tJ0,$F h5? Jen famous, patch i forthwith, a fresh supply, to Mrs, lforUteplafAh4d4md,6bore.Jians.lVanf.NeBB', ' ' ..." " i ' ' . ' v. -"1 PHIIjAPELPHIA MONliAt, MARCH 28, 1921 RAlN'EXPECTEP'tOPAV Mercury Reaches 80, but Cooler Weather .doming This Evening . Unreasonably high temperature, wilt give way inte this auernoon to rain fol lowed by clcsr cooler ,wther, .accord lag to. forecasts ,nt the Philadelphia bureau and from Washington) The thermometer, which yesterday made a' record-breaking climb to 83 degrees, begsri to climb From 07 degrees nt 8 o'clock this morning reached 80 cirly this afternoon. . 'Hut a cold ware, sweeping down from iho Great Lakes reglbn, nlroady has the Mississippi valley In its frostly grip, hnd will arrive here with a strongest to' northwest wind tonight. A general warning against freezing temperatures nas been issued. . CONFECTIONER LOSES $500 Money Taken From Safe While 8tore ' Was Crowded With Customers ' While busily engaged with his Easter trade Saturday night, Albert C. Mar ronjiwho conducts a confectionery store nt 1014 Chestnut street, failed to notice that the door of the safe', which stOod in the rear of the' store' near a show 'case, had been carelessly left ajar by one of the clerks. When It .came tlmo to close the store Marron, In making nn Inventory of his sales and the contents of the safe( .dis covered that $000 In bills,' which had been tied into a bundle and placed In a compartment of the safe, was miss ing, , He, notified the, police of the .Fif teen tli nnd Locust streets, station, and after an investigation by .District jDe tectlvcs Foy, and Coyle It was decided that in the crowded store a thief, posing as. a, customer, .mpst.haye snatched the money from the open safe while un noticed. , , "ship endda?voyage AmerlcanConsur Wife Keen to Ob tain loe Cream Soda The American freighter Santa, Clara; from Calcutta and' French and Spanish ports, ended' her1 sixty-day. voyage to day when bIio docked .at Port "Rich mond, Aboard the freighter,, as a third steward wns Mrs. E. R.' Pottle, wife of the .American consul at Dllboa, Spain, and her three-year-old daugh ter, Edllh. Her American home Is in Brooklyn. The first thing Mrs. Pottle asked was whether they stll served Ice-cream sodoB In this country. "I haven't had an Ice cream .soda In two -years;" she said, "nnd Edith has, never tasted one.'' She. thinks Spain Js .a better country for, men. than womeu, Colonel B. S. Johnson, Of the Rrltish forces in India. waboard Hie Santa Clara. He Is en route with 'Mrs. 'John-: sou for Quebec. The" Santa Clara 'was delayed, fifteen uars in. the butz eausi following n col lision ,wrth .the Sn Aryan, BANDIT SUSPECTS ARRESTED Three Aliens Accused of Holding Up 'Man. and Woman Three suspected highwaymen were held, tinder. ffiOO ball ' for court this morning when, arraigned before Mag istrate Pennock at. the Thirty-second street and Woodland avenue' police ,sU tlon. ''They-were arrested jbortly after midnight. and are accused Of attempt ing tyhold up. a mnn and a woman near Sixty -second street nnd Woodland avt, pue. Badly frightened and out of breath, after, a run of several blocks, the vic tims reported their experience to Pa trolman Hoopcs," of the Sixty-fifth street and Woodland avenue station, Who was petroling his beat a short dis tance from' the police station. Hoopes went immediately to the scene of the attempted hold-up and placed three suspects under, arrest. One was armed with a long-bladed knifo and another carried c large revolver. They, said 'they were rniiip nencio, Angeio vestno and Antonio Foselo, All gave addresses near Sixty-second Ferry avenue. streot and Grays ROB POSTQFFICE SAFE Six. Men Get '$1600 at Marshallton, Near Wilmington Six' men rode.' Into the town of Mar shallton, six miles southwest of Wil mington, enrly today and four of, tliem oiew open tue sate in toe postomce while the other two waited in their automobile. Before residents of the town realized whnt had happened, the men had escaped with about $1WW) worth of stamps and some ensh. rostmaster John T. Mullms does not yet know the exact amount of the loss. Everything in the safe, was taken, including .some personal property ot the postmaster. The safe also belongs to him. According to Harry Chambers, wh,o lives next r",oor to the postotttcc, there were four distinct explosions about, 3 o'clock this, morning, lie wid he looked out of the window in time to 'see, four men run from the building. They ran to the .edge of town, he said, where they jumped Into the automobile and made their escape. GAS KILLS MAN IInToFFICE William Welnert Found Dead In Pro duce Commission House William Weinert, slxty-one.yesrs old. 1B00 Diamond street, wns found dead Into yesterday afternoon in his place of business with n gas jet open. Welnert, who 'has conducted s produce commis sion house under the name of1 Weinert & Co., at Serond and Dock streets, for ien yearn, ien. nis nomr, yesiernoy morn ing to go to his office. When he did not return, relatives became uneasy; and Horace McFctridge, a nephew, 1215 Oxford street, went In search of him Tne uoor ot weinert's store was .locked,, but McFctridge had a key. The room was run or gas, and Welnert was lying- on the floor. He was tsken to the rennsyivania Hospital,- and was found to be desd. McFctridge saldjast night thst his uuclc had suffered from heart trouble for three years, ansvvsbusNelTof mail Assemblywoman Van Ness Runs Out of Official Stationery Trenjon, March 281 Credited with having the largest correspondence of 'any representative in the Legislature, Mrs. Jennie 0. Van Ness, of Newark, one oi me two women nrst elected to the New Jersey lsw-maklng body, has npplled to thf House committer on stationery for a, new supply of official stationery. At the beginning of the tesslon every member was supplied with quantities supposed to Inst during the session. Mrs, Van' Ness' supply his been ex hausted and. Dr. Clinton H. Read, of Mercer county, chairman of the com- miner, vnas instructed nis dark to dls 3 SUPREME COURT TAX DECISIONS AID FEDERAL RECEIPTS Increases In Value of Corporate Bonds and Capital Invest ments'Taxable LEVY ON PROFITS FROM TRUST FUND SALE VALID Washington March 28. Three im' portent 'decisions 'on federal taxes, af fecting many thousands of investors were announced today by the Supreme Court. The decisions were : , First. Increase of value of a capital Investment is taxable as income under the rovepuo act of 1010. Second, Increase in the value of corporate bouJu, originally acquired nnd held, for investment, la taxable under the same act. , Third. Profits, rcajlzed .from. ..the sale of assets of a trust fund u're' tax able under income' and excess profits Jaws.,, .,, .,n ,. The decision holding that the in crease of' value of a capital Investment is taxable was given In the appeal of David M. Goodrich, from a ruling of ine internal ueytnuc. Uureau assessing hira upon the increased value of stocks purchased prior to 1018, Action of the, revenue officials wns affirmed by the Supreme Court In' the 'transaction showing a gain. Can't Tax. Losing Transactions The COUrt rule! thnt thn trnnwtl.ti shoiying an actual loss could -not be' taxed since there was no "gain" de rived. In ruling that the increase lu the value of corporate bonds, originally ac quired and held for Investment is tax able,, the Supreme Ciurt reversed the decision of federal courts of Connecti cut, which held ngalnst the goverdment on the question of' whether an Income tax could be levied against an IncreaseJ iu me vaiuc oi securities purchased and held as an Investment, but ruled thnt the tax could only be imposed on the actual gain. - Thousands of cases of Income, assess ments come within this decision of tho court, upon which depended the neces sity of the government rcfuuding mil lions of dollars In taxes. Profit on Sale of Assets Taxable The ruling that profits from the sale of assets of a trust fund are taxable directly affects several cases now lu litigation and iudirectlv affects thou sands of trust funds, it, was given lu the. appeal brought by the Merchants' Loan and Trust' Co. as trustees, of the estate of Arthur Ryerso'n, a citizen of Illinois. r Ryerson left ns part.of his estate cap ita!, stock in the firm of Ryerson & Son, valued ut' $300,000. Four' years jc hln cleaith this stock was sold for 11,280,000. and tho Cash obtained wns added to the estate. The government Imposed n tax of $311,000 on the In creased value. This opinion was read by. Associate Justice , Clark. Coupled with the Ryerson cas was that brought by the El, Dorado Coal and Mining. Co. an Indiana corporation, which abandoned business in 1017, dis poned of its nssets and accounts for $2 1 5.000 and distributed nil its funds among the stockholders. It was assessed an additional $3000 onthe ground that the money obtained through the sale i ei.re.cnted nn Increase of $5080 over the viilue of the assets in 1013. The court bssed its decision on those rendered In former cases bearing pu the nKnnlng of the term "income.'r The Supreme .Court ngreed today to review decisions of New, York co'urta holding thst "dividends annll.i h credit in partial payment of stlpu'ated premiums did not constitute Income" and also thnt "decline in market value of securities owned by the tax payer constituted 'depreciation of prop- The decision of the lower court was rendered In favor of the New York Life Insurance Co. In suits filed by thnt company agnlnBt Charles W. Ander son, collector of Intcrnnl revenue for the Second New York district. EGG-ROLLING CARNIVAL ON WHITE HOUSE LAN Happy Children Have Their Easter Frolic for First Time Since 1917 Washington, March 28. (Rv A. P The youngsters of Washington took possession of the White House lawns today for the first Raster egg. rolling since 1017. All the kids of the cltv were free to come and go at will in Presi drul Harding's back yard for tho whole day. and they poured down every street and by every car line, each armed with n basket of colored eggs, to deluge the great sweep of lawn in a foodtlde of laughing, shouting and crowing child hood. Kids came by coaster, in autos. afoot, in perambulators, riding in their par ents arms nnd by every other means of ocomotlon. The grown-ups were not Invited, but there were thousands dur ing the day who lined the fences and looked smilingly over at the rioting groups on the ble lawns. ThB P-..t. dents own band, the Marino Band, tuned up to help things along for the President's guests. The weather man had predicted a blc rlMtn In lit. , .<l. a .. j "i' mr nuiuiiirriiKc temperature, but he was good-natured about It and held Off. sivinc the vnunrlj. fi-. bright weather with which to open the KRjEBEL GROWS WEAKER Youth 8hot by Father at Lansdale Unconscious Five Days v Youth and vitality are enabling Hr rison B. Kriebel, of Lansdale. shot by his father, Edwin 7 Kriebel, following a quarrel Wednesday, to put up-a val lant tight for life, . Mm Krieb'l 'ww tAkeoto the Sel Icrsvllle Hospital after the shooting. Two or three times the patient has opened his eyes for a m oment, but linn not regained consciousness, or recog nlzfd his wife, who hss been at his bedside almost constantly. Nutriment .Is given every few hours. Todsy reports from the hospital show him growing weaker. The father, who shot himself after shooting his son. died an hour later. There had been family differences, and the last quarrerernse because the elder Mrs.' Kriebel preferred to live with her son . Published Dsllv KtcfPt 8un1.)r, Copyrteht, 1M1 by When She Needed It Mtqst Tho check for $100 rctfeiued by this woman today means more than you might guess. Two weeks age her employment at Hog Island ended. Friday, when her only daughter wired that death had taken the son-in-law, she was not in position to make the trip to Michigan. Fortune and the jury gavo her tho prize, and tonight she will be on her way westward. , LIMERICK NO. 85 Said a tailor, "My customers know I can clean and press, dye, mend and sew;, Yet with stitch after stitch, I am not getting rich, '' My 'darned' 'pile 'seanuf to 'shrink' 'stead & grow." LENT ISTOVER. BUY LOTS OF CANDY WITH JINGLE MONEY NOWi Third Page from the Last E Delaware County, Residents Aro First of Sex to Serve in SUch Case V BOTH SIDES ARE SATISFIED Believed to be the first of their sex In this country ever to serve on a jury trying a murder case, Mrs. Bmma B. Prcis, of Chester, and Mrs. Anna Bruce, of Eddystone, were chosen today In Judge IJroomnl's court at Media. The case was that of Kallznik Xyz nlk, charged with the murder of Mike Wolcwics, who was'stabbed to death in Lelperrille November 11 Isst year. Four other wrimec ca' the Jury panel, when questioned by District Attorney Taylor, .sold they had conscientious scruples against Infliction of capital punishment. The;' were Klennor Voting; Swarthmore; Sarah D. Krskine. Media; Alice Alexander, Norwood, and Mary Thomas, Eddystone. Eight men had been found acceptable to the commonwealth and the defense when Sirs. Preis was called. She was accepted nt once by the prosecution when she told District Attorney Taylor she hod no scruples ngalnst the death penalty. "Are you satfsficd to serve on n mur der jury?" asked Harry O. Sweeney, counsel for the defense. "I nm," Mrs. Preis replied. "Will ,you give the same credence to the testimony of .foreigners', through in terpreters, as 'you would to the testi mony of Americans?" Mr. Sweeney asked. "I would,' she replied. "Are you aware that, If you are ac cepted you will' be compelled tO'stnj' out overnleht when the jury is locked up?" counsel for the defense persisted. , Mrs. Preis said she wns awnre of that requirement and that she was satisfied to" serve. Virtually the same line of examination was conducted when Mrs. Bruce was called and accepted as juror JJo. 12. Mrs. Bruce is the mother of six chil dren, R0BBERS DRjLL WALL Forced to Abandon Cloth After Gaining Entrance to Shop Robbers demolished part of n thir teen - Inch brick wall to gain entrance to the tailor shop of Htunrt Tor reca. nt the southeast corner of Fif teenth street and Columbia avenue, early this morning, but were forced to abandon $2500 worth of cloth .which they jind piled in a yard nt the rear of the shop. A three-foot crowbar, a hatchet and jimmy also were abuuuoned. Fifty cents, taken from a cash drawer, com prised the loot. Anthony Porrcca discovered the rob bery this morning when he found ten bolts of cloth in the yard. He was mys tified as to how the robbers entered the shop until he pushed n table away and discovered a hole in the wall fifteen by eighteen inches. Robbers, who en tered the shop early last Easter morn ing, were frightened away. On Sep tember 13, 1910, the shop 'was robbed of cloth vslued at .$000, and on Janu ary 0. 1020, robbers escaped with $10, 000 worth of cloth. 2 WOM N CHOSEN MURDER JURY RENTALS AND FARES NICARAGUA ROCKED BY EARTHQUAKE SHOCK SAN JUAN DEL STJR, Nicaragua, March 28. A strong earth qunko shock, lasting twenty seconds, was felt here at 2 o'clock this morning. No damage from tho tremor has beeii reported. i ELECTION RETURNS FROM ORIENTE, CUBA, MEAGER HAVANA, March 28. Returns from the paritla presidential elections held on. Saturday in Oriente province are very meager, nnd tho central electoral board deems them insufficient to warrant the publication of any figures. Advices indicate that complete order prevailed during the day throughout the province. HUNGARY BOOSTS VALUE OF AUSTRIAN CROWN PIECE BUDAPEST, March 28. As a result of tho overhauling of its finances the Hungarian government has made the crown worth two nnd one-half Austrian crowns. This Increase in the value of the Hungarian crown has had a peculiar sequel, 'according to a statement made to The Associated Press by Kolman Hegedus, min ister of finance. , MAN HURT IN SUBWAY DIES William Bird Was Caught Between Tram and Concrete Pillar William nird, fifty-two years old, of 1012 Ulnggold street, who was injured In a trolley acchk'nt several weeks ago and taken to the Jefferson Hospital, died today as the result of his Injuries. Bird, who was foreman of n con struction gang working in the Market' street subway, wns caught between n train and a concrete pillar at Second and Market Htreets, March 01 receiving a fracture of tb skull. .'hn you think of'wMMpr. flub - crlptlon Price SO Tr by Mall. Public tar Compstir1 , -- JULIA A. HAMMOND, 619 North Tenth Street BILL AFFECTS P. R. T. Measure in House Would Give Cor' .nission Power Over Underlying Contracts PASSAGE IS PREDICTED P. R. T. Rental Probe Bill, Will Carry, Says Author State Ttepresentative A. S. 0. Millar, nuthor of a bill to authorize invstigatibn of the rentnls paid un derlying companies by the Philadel phia Itapid Transit Co., expressed confidence today his measure would Jje passed by the House at Harris burg. "It Is futile for the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Co. to attempt to im prove its financial condition through advances In fares," he said, "as long as l U compelled to pay such ex orbitant rentals to the underlying tompnnles." Mr. Millar said one subsidiary is receiving a 72' per cent annual re turn on Its investment and nnother subsidiary more than a 70 per cent return. The most important action in the Philadelphia transit- situation will take plure at Harrlshurg tonight, when the Millar hill, aimed to investigate high rentals paid to underlying compnnies by Ihc Philadelphia Rapid Transit Co.. conies Up for, a vote. In the House,, This bill, which 'has the indorse ment of business nnd improvement or ganizations, would give the Public Serv ice Commission power to Investigate tb rentals and, where excessive, reduce them. Should the measure ultimately pass It will throw the rental question wide open and may cause the IlapliI Transit Co. to reconsider its plans for a higher fare. Philadelphia members of the Legislature- have declared they are opposed to in increase in fares nnd will favor any measure aimed to prevent it. .!.f '.h.fi PvAT- Co- fi,cs np' tar""" with the Public Service Commission fixing a flat seven -cent fare, with the present four tickets for twentv-fivo cents abolished, the I'nlted ' Uusiness .urn h association will fight the pro posal. At n meeting of the association's transportation committee today, plans for this fight were drawn. It will be based on the contention the present seven-cent rate Is only temporary, does n,of. ifxpLr "n'll May 1. and thnt the Public Service Commission has not made a final ruling on It. Richard Wegleln. president of Coun cil, said today representatives of that body should sit in with those frnmlng n ' " rrnnmoni "j.. inasmuch as representatives of the Public Serv ice Commission had been invited. V.I..think 't..ml?n' hnvp been just as well, Mr. Wegleln ssld, "if repre sentativrs of Council had been invited so they could bo familiar with everv step taken in the lease." Mr. Wegleln ndded that nether he or Councilman Hugh Montgomery, chnir- Cantlniml no ram Fur. Column Two HARVARD ROLL LIMITED School of Business Administration ' Open to Only 300 Cambridge, Mass., March 28. Limi tation to .100 of the number of men who will be accepted as members of the en tering class at the Harvard School of Juislnent Administration next fall was announced yesterday. The enter ns class this year numbered 303, Willacy II. Donham, denn, said, In view of the recent Increase In the till tjon fee, the school wan under oblige, tlon to give instruction of the highest lUallty nnd that thnt could be assured only it tho Bite of the school be limited iw nr uiiiuxt m smuenis it was or- ganlied to b: tindlt. PRICE TWO CENTS ,'S O.ARMYP0LICH1 mm''tf . VJ sent to suppiey COMMUNIST iff 'I V Radical Uprising; Occurs at Montabaur In American Bridgehead Area mn ncDisati rwmo etici I' M ra uiu uunuiHii uuuo gntbb ,,- ,;ji INSURGENTS IN SAXON? Hy the Associated Press $ Coblenz, Mnrch 28. A Communist uprising occurred this morning In ,th! " American bridgehead nrea, at Montif baur, six miles northeast of Kbreii' breitstein, i A riot call was answered by the pro vost mnrahal, and American military police were dispntched to Montabaur 6 restore order. . Halle, Germany, March 28. (By A. P.) Federal artillery was taking a. ' prominent part today in dealing wHJi V the Insurgent communists In this dis turbed section of Prussian Saxony. j The artlller shelled the coininHaistl who were grouped on the hills tto tlw1 west of Elslebent dispersing them." , After a brief engagement the town 61 . Sangerbnusei. southwest of Klsteben, , was .occupied by federal forces, which now control that place. Count Ponlnskl. colonel of police in tile Mansfeld district, hll abn lmna of the operations, around Elslebem Berlin, March 28. (By A. Pt) The rioting activities in the Communist app rising in central Germany nre conpen- i trating now on Illtterfield, wbore.'tb l extremists have succeeded In disarming the local police and occupying tbe pub ' He buildings, according to an 'official communique. During' 8unday, Bay the statement, bandits, looted the bank and the postoffice at Sangerhnusen nnd put ' the local telegraph office out of cons mission. s (The foregoing Halle dispatch report ing the occutiancr of HaneerhmiHun I,V federal forces is probably later, infor" motion concerning the situation' there.) Through trains, which normally tr verse the Halle section, are being re routed, owing to the sabotaging of thp trackage and bridges by the Communists', who are continuing to, spread terror's., they proceed westward nnd northward from Halle, with the security police at I their heels. ji-i The extent to which a general sirlka movement is likely to develop .as . a sequel to the present outbreak could not be determined today, as the worker l everywhere are tnking their Easter hfU , iday. Troop reinforcements are' constantly arriving at different points in the riot area nnd the government announces that' It. does not propose - to enter into a truce .and that It will also demand the unconditional surrender of the arms' sad munitions -held' by'-'the Communists, HAYS' ASSISTANT NAMED Hubert Work, "Colorado Ex-National, Committeeman, Appointed Washington. March 28. (By A. P.) Hubert Work, president of tht American Medical Association and former Republican national committee' man, from Colorado, was given n re cess appointment by President Harding today as first assistant postmaster gen- , eral. , Dr. Hubert Work Is a physician, Ht, Ing nt Pueblo. Colorado. He was bonl In 1800 at Mnrlon Center, Pa. ,Dr. Work studied medicine at? the Univer sity of Michigan and obtained his M. D. degree at the I'niversity of Pennsyl vania in 1885. After practicing' for a time nt Grcply. Colo., he removed tor Pueblo, where he founded the, Wood croft Hospital for mental and nervous diseases. Dr. Work has been active in Republican activities and has been In succession chairman of the state com mittee., delegate-at-large to the national convention and since 1012 Colorado member of the O. O. P. national com-' mlttee. SENATOR TO FIGHT SUIT? Cameron Calls Alienation, Charg "Sheer, Unadulterated Blackmail",' Washington, March 28. (By A. P.) In a formal statement today Senate? Ralph II, Cameron, of Arizona, char acterized as "sheer, unadult-atect, plain blackmail" a suit filed against him by Edward T. MrFarlin, of New York, asking 5100.000 damaged for alienation of Mrs. MctarJin's affections. Papers in the rase, Senator Camer on's statement said, were first filed In 1016. and, he said, no effort at freryice on him was made until last week. "Now thnt I have become a United; States senator," said Mr. Cameron in his statement, "those behind this ridic ulous suit have evidently decided to' at tack me in the hope of injuring me by giving widespread publicity to the ab surd charges made by them. I am pre pared to tight this suit with both fista, fearlessly und in the open." STILL HOPE FOR AIRMEN ' . i Naval Authorities Enter on Fifth Day of Unrewarded Search Pensacola, Kla., March 28 (By1 A'. P.I Naval authorities here today entered upon the fifth day of their yet unrewarded search for some trace of the naval balloon which has been missing since last Tuesday, when it took the air here with five passengers. Although1 still holding to the belief that the five men have been picked up by some fisU ing vessel, officials planned to continue the search unremittingly. . In arranging to send the dirigible Q-T out for a thorough hunt today over Bay; and Holmes counties, naval officer were working on the theory that the balloon might have carried far enough tc reach land thcro before descending-, I.' the men had unhooked the basket and, climbed Into the rigging. A strady shoreward wind, they believet would have carried the bdg clear of the gulf in that direction if the weight had baas' thus reduced. "VERY 8EVERE" QUAKE FELT6 Washington, March 28. Earthqualil tivim'ip vnainutviitrij bo very SftVSffl'i tWJ,, bs -' ri. a j Georgetown University. 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