Evening Star Newspaper, March 8, 1935, Page 31

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1935. ARGUMENTS SNAG MELLON HEARING Question of Admitting Union Trust Transactions De- bated by Counsel. By the Associated Press. SWINDLER IN PRISON Pleads Guilty to Embezzling $54,000 in Bank Funds. CHICAGO, March 8 (#).—Joseph Baiata, who pleaded guilty to an al- leged plot to swindle the Abraham Lincoln Life Insurance Co. and an Indianapolis bank with funds em- bezzled- from a Chicago bank, was taken to Joliet Prison yesterday to start his 1-to-10-year term. Baiata admitted the emberziement of about $54,000 from the Amalga- mated Trust & Savings Bank, in which the gang supposedly duped a youthful bank clerk, Otto Van Derck, into “pulling” checks. THOMAS A. SCOTT IS SUED BY WIFE $1,500 Unpaid Under Separation Agreement, Charges Daughter of Dr. Wilmer. Mrs, Rebekah Wilmer Scott, 2101 R street, socially prominent daughter of Dr. Willism Holland Wilmer, interna- tionally famous eye specialist, has filed suit in District Supreme Court against her estranged husband, ‘Thomas A. Scott, of the Metropolitan |evmt of currency inflati sent ane paymen ot soos & monit 2| REAL ESTATE MEN & separation agreement. ‘Through _Attorneys Edmund L. Jones and Richard L. Wilmer, Mrs. Scott tells the court she and her hus- band, who formerly was known as Thomas A. Scott Thropp, agreed on | Justice Bailey Holds Agents May Not Perform Certain Legal May 5 last to live apart, and that he was to pay her $500 monthly for the support of herself and their two young children. No payments have been made for three months, she says. ‘The separation agreement, a copy of which is attached to her petition, B-13 Bailey in District Supreme Court, made public yesterday. The result will tend to terminate s I.IMITED IN RUL'NG procedure of years' standing in the District, it was said. The opinion was handed down in an injunction action instituted by Richard A. Harman, an attorney in the Evans Building, against J. McKene ney Berry, realty agent, 1363 Wiscone sin avenue. Through Attorney Riche Real estate agents are prohibited | ard L. Merrick, Harman contended was to run for three years, the Way | from performing certain functions for | that Berry was engaging in unauthor- being open meanwhile for other ar- rangements. Included is a. proviso permitting chmnl in p-ymenu in clients which are construed as entail- | 26d practice of law by preparing and filing eviction suits in Municipal Court ing the practice of law, in & memo- | in his own name rather than that of randum opinion by Justice Jennings! the owner of the property involved. PITTSBURGH, March 8 —Whether the manifold stock transactions of the glant Union Trust Co. shall find their way into Andrew W. Mellon’s income tax hearing snagged the case behind a barrier of legal arguments today. Insisting & long list of sales should g0 into the record, Robert H. Jackson, Government counsel, said they are | necessary to attack the credibility of | & witness and to show the $300,000,000 | Pittsburgh bank engaged in tax eva- sion “as a usual course of business.” | Hogan Disputes Connection. Mellon’s chief counsel, Frank J. | Hogan, was just as insistent the bank affairs mentioned by Jackson had nothing to do with the hearing, which | is dealing with the financier’s claim | he should be allowed a refund of $139.000 in 1931 income taxes and . | the Bureau of Internal Revenue's de- This Style : : { mand he pay $2,089.000 additional. s Low as 2 RN Both attorneys argued their conten- o 311;5 50 N | tions before three members of the Tax - | Board of Appeals today. Presiding | Member Ernest Van Fossan adjourned | the hearing an hour early yesterday | when the matter came up. Union Trust Witness. Carl R. Korb, young vice president of the Union Trust, was the witness | under fire from Jackson as the Gov- ernment attorney sought to bring out | by questions whether Korb in No- | vember, 1930, had not prepared a list | of Union Trust stocks at a cost price higher than the then market price. At that point Hogan asked the board to halt that line of questioning because what the Union Trust Co. did a year before Mellon “is accused of underpaying his tax has nothing to do with this case.” Jackson told the board he is attack- THE NATIONAL' Wfi? Vel Other Models as Low as $99.50 | SEE THE NEW . . . [/ Frigidaire '35 With the Famous SUPER FREEZER F--V-E P-I-E-C-E AMERIBAN-BUSCH Observer Says Fossil Dust Brought 1 j L5 Shower of Bone Meal. vi gy ) . 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