Evening Star Newspaper, March 14, 1923, Page 18

118 OTH SAYS GRS 1SUT IS BLACKVAL ;kiambino Instructs Attorney i to Fight Legal Action by : Miss Dixon. { PHE HAS DISAPPEARED er Lawyer Says He Can Produce Her When Case Comes Up for Trial. ¥ the Associated Press. ANEW YORK, March 14.—Declaring at he is the victim of attempted lackmail, Babe Ruth, home-run king, a8 instructed his attorney to fight threatened legal action for $50,000 v Miss Dolores Dixon, nineteen pars old. 4 Hyman Bushell, Ruth's attorney, ald that he expected Miss Dixon's ttorney, George Felnber; he suit In local courts to Bushell sald he had been orized fo reveal the suit by Ruth, who is t the Yankee training camp in New rleans, with Mrs. Ruth and thelr mall daughter. The lawyer declared hat Ruth did not even know Miss | ixon, who charges that he took her otoring on several occaslons last ummer. i Miss Dixon could not be located. t the apartment on Riverside drive, here she formerly lived it was sald he had moved March 1, and had left o forwarding address. Mr. Feinberg aid she changed residences at his uggestion and that he could pro-, Quce her at the proper time. Ruth was informed that the suit was fmpending last November 14, Mr. Bushell aserted and was served with 4, after Ruth had gone to Hot prings, Ark. to prepare for spring ‘aining that his attorney received the Dy of a complaint detailing the harges by Miss Dixon. = :1In the Kings county court recently iss Barbara B. Escoe, companion of §:ummnn.. It was not until February | REVISED TAX LAWS MAY BE 1924 ISSUE (Continued from First Page.) dent Harding’s right-hand man when it comes to mapping out campaigns, be- {leve the lssue in 1924 will be taxes ir- respective of what has been done by that date to change the existing laws. The significant fact is that the presidential plans contemplate some expresion on the subject of taxes. Secretary Mellon of the Treasury De- partment has been waging a cam- paign for the adoption of a constitu- tional amendment abolishing the tax- exempt security. President Harding indorsed the proposal in his address to Congress in December, 1921, and there is little doubt that the amend- ment will be actively before the state legislature while the 1924 campaign 18 in progress. It is an 1 on which 18 and conservative ike seem ave combined in C. ess. The radicals don’t like the idea of seeing ‘wealthy folks escape taxation by in- vesting in state and municipal securi- ties and not _onl; is_the government losing Your Batisfaction e —— Your Business Needs a Junior Ledger Outfit No Matter How Small —— T | the cqnservatives feel that |- taxes 'to which’ it 18 logically en- titled, but that, as Mr. Harding him- self-expressed {t, the “drift of weaith into non-taxabls securities is hinder- ing the flow of large capital to our industries, manufacturing, agricul- tural and carrying, until we are dis- couraging the very aotivities which make our wealth.” ~— Sales Tax Looms. 1t by thé time the election of 1924 is at hand, the proposed amendment to the federal Constitution has not been ratified, Mr. Harding will be found vigorously campaigning for it as one of the elements in his pro- gram of reduced taxa<idn bocause, if of his advisers insisted that uneconomic tax and he did y approve it during the cam- Since that timi the federal government can tax the[Pre incoms of the many billions of dol- lars invested in securities which at present are free from federal taxa- tion, the Treasury Department will feel warrantd in recommending a m:‘l.-':ldun‘hla reduction in the tax rate. ere 18 an and he himself made the that tho soldier bonus b Must Face Neaus Issue. 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