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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.
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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', ' '
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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
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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.
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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.
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flub - crlptlon Price SO Tr by Mall.
Public tar Compstir1 ,
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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
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mm''tf . VJ
sent to suppiey
COMMUNIST iff
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Radical Uprising; Occurs at
Montabaur In American
Bridgehead Area
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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 '
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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
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