Evening Star Newspaper, November 26, 1928, Page 7

THE YVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, 00 B MONDAY, NOVEMBER an 2y, 1628, kgl HEW YORK FIGHTS FOR BIG RYAN TAX State Will Contest Claim of Virginia for $20,000,000 ' Inheritance L'evy. 87 the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, November 26.—Officials of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance announced yes- terday that they would proceed at once with a search to prove that the late Thomas Fortune Ryan was a legal resi- dent of this State and that his estate is subject to an inheritance tax of ap-! proximately $20,000,000. Ryan had lived for 57 years in New York, where he amassed his wealth. {Ie had an estate also in Virginia, where he was born. Two years ago he an- 1ounced that he would make Washing- on his legal residence. ‘Tax officials of Virginia have not con- idered Ryan a resident of that State or 14 years. There is no inheritance tax n the District of Columbia. “We are going to make every effort o prove that his home and interests were here and that he was a genuine esident of New York, whatever may b2 claimed by the other side.” Maurice A. Stephenson, deputy commissioner of taxation, said. “It may be a long and flicult fight, but we are hopeful that ve can prove our case.” The procedure in New York will be “0 assume that Mr. Ryan was a resident °f this State, and his executors will be ~alled upon to furnish full information ~bout his estate. If they raise the con- tention that he was a resident of an- other State, they will be asked to fur- aish their evidence. . Should the case reach State courts ~nd if the courts of each State declare “Ir. Ryan a resident of that State, the ~se would be taken to the Supreme Court for final determination, taxation partment officials said. | Funeral Is Simple. A low requiem mass— the simplest “aneral service of the Catholic Church | ~today marked the burial of Thomas | Tortune Ryan. At the mass, in the church of St. Jean Beptiste, built thrcigh gifts of £1,000,000 from the Ryan :ortune, were 1,000 persons, many of them leaders of finance. There were no honorary pallbearers. The bronze casket containing the body was carried into the church by profes- ional pallbearers, and a little more han half an hour later it was borne ut again to be taken to a receiving ault in Calvary Cemetery. The Rev. J. A. Pauzo, pastor of the hurch, celebrated the mass, and in the | hancel sat priests of surrounding arishes. Monsignor Michael J. Lavelle, cctor of St. Patrick’s Cathedral, and he Right Rev. Andrew Brennan, bishop »t Richmond, Va., were present. Others who_attended the service in- | cluded J. P. Morgan, Thomas W. La- mont, Otto H. Kahn, Charles M. ichwab, Bernard Baruch, Charles H. 1‘111 and members of the Guggenheim amily. Mr. Ryan's widow, an invalid, who {§ the Ryan estate at Oak Ridge, in & Virginia mountains, was unable to tend the services. RYAN NOT RESIDENT HERE. ‘e Financier Declared to Have Paid No D. C. Real Estate Tax. The late Thomas Fortune Ryan fail- to establish a residence in the Dis- ot of Columbia before he died, Cor- ration Counsel William W. Bride said iay. Bride said that as far as he was able | » discover Mr. Ryan paid no taxes -re since 1921 and in that year the -x was a personal and not a real es- ate tax. The District collects no inheritance 2x and there was a report to the ef- sct_that Mr. Ryan two years ago had “stablished a residence here in order o escape the tax. Mr. Bride looked into hie matter, but could discover no evi- ‘once of the residence having been es- “blished here. $ First and best hospitality aees AMPICO SYMPHONIQUE—$1,295 (Initial payment only 10%—balance payable over several years) | unfriendly tribe lived in 'COURT DENIES USE OF $100,000 FOR TREASURY CLERK'S TOMB Will Provided Resid ue of Estate Go for Monument and Burials—50 Residents Abroad Will Now Share. When Miss Mary Ann Spencer, | Treasury Department clerk, died in June, 1919, her will stipulated that the residue of her estate, which later was found to amount to $100,000, should be expended in the erection of a vault and monument, and the American Security & Trust Co., the executor, was directed to bear the cost of removing her body and the remains of her parents to Arlington National Cemetery should thfil cemetery ever be opened to the public. ; Since Miss Spencer is buried in Con- gressional Cemetery and no provision has been made for the opening of Arlington for public interment the executor asked the District Supreme Court to construe the provision of the will, when the large amount of the residue became known, and direct how it should be carried out. Justice Jennings Bailey, who filed a memorandum opinion in the case, held that the testatrix intended that only a suitable amount should be used in the erection of the monument and the re- mainder reserved for the expense of moving the bodies to Arlington and erecting a suitable monument there. “As Arlington is not open to the public,” says the court, “and there is no reason to believe that it will be in any definite time, the bequest for the re- moval of the body is void and the testa- trix died intestate to that extent.” As a result of the court's decision. more than 50 residents of England and Ireland, claiming to be second cousins of Miss Spencer, will share in the dis- tribution of the bulk of the residue of the estate. They had appeared in court through Attorneys Newmyer & King and Lyon & Lyon in opposition to the use of the $100,000 in accord- ance with the stipulation in their rela- tive's will. As no evidence was offered as to what would be a swifable amount to pay for a monument, the court said, it is a matter of discretior. with the trust company, taking into consideration the size of the estate, the fact that she left no near relatives and the fact due should be expended for the two purposes. Attorneys Peelle, Ogilby & Lesh represented the executor and Attorney E. C. Dutton appeared for Congressional Cemetery. Miss Spencer, who had lived here nlany years, attracted attention during her lifetime by riding to and from work at the Treasury Department on a bi- cycle. Included in her estate was the Spencer Apartments at Second and D streets northeast. When the trust company paid all debts and legacies of the estate, it dis- covered that it had on hand $100,000 to cover the cost of the monument and removal of the bodies. WARLIKE RIFFIANS ACTUALLY NORDICS Harvard Museum Attache Brings Back Ethnological Findings From North Africa. CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (#).—Discovery of evidence that the warlike Riffians of North Africa really are a North Euro- pean people, of fair-haired Nordic at- iributes, is announced at Peabody Mu- seum of Harvard University by C. S. Coon of the museum staff. He recently returned from a Summer of research in the Riff, his fourth jorney to Northern Morocco. With the ethnological findings goes a story of adventure by an American voungster traveling as a civilian, with his wife as his only regular companion. During one of the Summers Coon was in and out of the French and Spanish Riffian fighting lines. Riffians became so weli acquainted as to tell Coon stories about their fights. One such concerned a French column that halted for the night in the v‘afiley of an apparently friendly Rffian village, The villagers first sold the French supplies and then warned them that an the hills, ad- vising them to remain away from the hills that night, while they, the friend- ly Riffians, stood guard in the hills. That night the village “defender” opened fire on the French and bombed their camp. The French fought back. Get Note of Thanks.” In the morning the villagers, their arms put away, called upon the French to relate their story of “defending” the visitors. They claimed that they had lost 20 men in the night and asked the French commander how many he lost. He replied “sixty.” The villagers boast- ed that they received an official note of thanks for their “defense.” Another story was of a party of Rif- fians going sniping at night against aid— aid—to Spanish lines. One of their number was caught in a bear trap which the Spaniards had set against snipers. The Riffians said they were unable to re- lease their comrade and that they took away his arms and led to him a cow, which he held by its tether. At day- light the Spaniards finding the sniper asked how he came there. He replied that he had been trailing a strayed cow. So the Spaniards made amends for his injury by giving him good care and freedom. From the measurements of hundreds There also was flans to be Nordic. some Alpine, or mid-European, and Mediterranean, or South European white stock. He found negro bloods to be a separate caste not crossed with the Riffians. In hair color, Coon found 65 per cent of the men with brownish and reddish tints, and less than 1 per cent pure golden. Beard colors showed 60 per cent light and 4 per cent golden. The eye census gave 54 per cent of gray or blue mixed with brown, and 2 per cent pure blue. He found a survival of the Black Sab- bat—a form of witch mockery and devil worship which existed in Europe in the Middle Ages. Riffian cultivation of rye he identified as a North European sur- vival. He found them Mohammedans to outward appearance, but on closer acquaintance inclined to make fun of some of the tenets of Mohammedanism, and even willing to eat forbidden pork. 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