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Tax Act Held Valid De- spite Minor Defects.” THESE ARE EXPUNGED. But “Framework” Stands and poration Efforts to Es- cape Are Blocked. (Spretal to The Prening World), ALBANY, Nov. 21—New York State escaped having to pay back to corporations over $60,000,000 when fhe Court of Appeals to%day sus- toined the framework of the Corpora- tion Income Tax Law, the constita- temality of which had. been assailed | by several of the largest corporate taxpayers operating in this State. “This decision,” Attorney General Newton declared, “oheckmates the ef- of business and mercantile cor- ions to recover all corporate fanchise taxes paid to the State for he past three years. It represents he culmination of a ecore of attacks tom all directions seeking to wreck ns new mettiod of taxing conpora- ons for the privileges they are ac- wded in this State.” The opinion of the Court of Ap- Us, written by Judge Benjamin N. sdozo and made public to-day, sus- \e the law in its entirety except in gee portions which refuse to allow corporations to include stock and ¥ holdings among their assets. In by instances assets of this nature « ‘@ held outside the State and the rt has directed that they shall re- we recognition as property earnin. ome outside the State's jurisdic- | mm * “he statute upheld by the Court of yeale wae enacted in 1917 and is erally known aa the Emerson scantilo and Mankfacturing Tax ». T. Dawes, deputy, who was as- sociated with Attorney General New- ton in the defense of this statute, de- clared that an unfavorable decision to the State would have compelled the totation of a new bond iasue by the State in order to refund the $60,000,- 900 involved in the, litigation, He added that the statute bas been finally tested and proved a constitutional means of securing, revenue from the corporations. Judge Cardozo, with whom Judges Chase, Crane, Andrews and Pond con- cur in upholding the act, thus ex- plains the duty of the court to ex- punge minor offending features and sustain the basic principles upon which the act rests: “7 find it unbelievable that a Legis- lature willing to impose a tax with those invalid items in would be un~- willing that the tax should stand if those items were out, Undoubtedly it wished them in, if it had the legal right to keep them, To say that does not mean that rather than lose them it would throw the project to the winds. Laws are not to be sacrificed ‘courts on the assumption that gislation is the play of whim and Jmey. “A doctrinnaire emphgsis on the pos- ‘ype rather than the probable would forbig severance at all timex No doubt it Is easy, sheRering ourselves: vehind some implacable tenet of sep- aration of governmenta] powers, to ist upon a certainty impossible of 4 nment. We do small service to state by so Mstransigeant a pdse. ‘ur right to destroy is bounded “ne limits of necessity. Our duty ‘) gave, unless in saving we pervert. yom all the world can gee what we mild do, we are not to @lose’ our 28 as Judges to what we must per- ive as men. This need is all the eater In a field where the law is {o @ stage of transition and readjust- ment. With the lines so biurred and vague between the lawful and the unlawful, the most honestly conceived and carefully developed system of assessment may involve some ele- ment of value beyond the reach of the taxing power. I will not readily tmpute a desire to place the revenues of the State in jeopardy by the sac- rifice of the whole whenever there fs " failure of @ part.” Attorney General Newton to-day expressed the belief that this de- cision will operate to deter any fur- ther assaults upon the constitution- ality of the corporation income tax and will enable the Legislature to proceed upon assured ground in the matter of franchise taxation. ASKS WRIT AGAINST JUSTICE. ‘La Fetra Him. Samuel Meyers, attorney, of No. 800 Riverside Drive, Will ask Supreme Court Justice Hotehkiss on’ Monday for a writ of prohibition to restrain Edward La Fetra, Justice of the City Court, from imposing punishmeat for con- tempt upon him next Friday, Justice La Fetra declared Attorney Meyers in contempt during the trial of Leventhal vs, the Home Insurance Com pany in January, 1919, but fatied to im- pone @ penalty, Last Tuesday Justice La Fetra set Dec, 3 for the fixing of the punishment. Attorney Moyers in ia moving papers to provent Justice Fotra from punishing him silenes jat the J suddenly became an s witness a then transferred TOSTATEAS COURT| BATTLE IN HOTEL: | UPHOLDS TAXLAW) TWO MEN SLASHED ——>—— —_— Mercantile and Manufacturing| Dr. McElroy Says His Assail- ant Acted Like a Maniac— , Denies Nurse Story. Dr. John W. McElroy, a matricu- late at the Post Graduate Hospital, was arraigned in Jefferson Market Court to-day, charged with felonious assault .upon Ralph Burkhardt, an apartment house manager, following a razor battle last night in the phy- sician’s apartments in the Hotel Albert, No. 42 East 11fh Street. Bu it Is in St. Vincent's Hos- pital suffering from the slashes and was unable to appear {n court, Early to-day he had told a detective that he had gone to MoElroy's place to settle a grievance over a nurse. This charge the physician stoutly de- nied, adding that he had never seen Burkhardt before in his life and be- \leved, ,when the man invaded ‘his rooms, that he had to deal with a maniac, “IT was in St. George's Church when Dr. MarRoe was Kliled by an insane man," Dr, McElroy sald in court, “and last night I felt sure [ was confronted by just such a person. As for the nurse charge, there is not one word of truth In it, My assailant had to say fomething, so he said that.” \No testimony in the case was taken ‘before Magistrate Schwab and it was continued until two weeks from to- day in order to give Burkhardt time to recover. The physician was re- leased in $2,000 ball. His left wrist was bandaged when he came to court. Dr. McElroy, who comes of a prominent Atlanta family, is a six- footer and powerful. He emerged from the battie with two long razor slashes in the forearm, Burkhardt has two deep cuts on the side of his neck and one across apple. So far as the police have been able to learn anything about the two men, Dr. McElroy has lived in t ) Hotel Albert for three months, During the World War he was attached to the British army, serving with the Gor» don Highlanders. He was wounded and gassed at Ypres. When the United States came into the war he joined the A. E. F. and rose to the rank of Major, Burkhardt is manager of the apart. ment house at No. 100 Cathedral Parkway, where he has lived, since 1914, It ‘was said this morning that he !s an officer in the Cathedral Realty Company, which owns the building. Also he is a six footer, like the physician, and powerfully built. ‘At 7.45 last night Mamie Hannigan, telephone operator at the Albert, re- ported to Manager E. D. Fowler that she could hear sounds of a fight in No. 615, Dr, McElroy’s*room, on the sixth floor. Mr, Fowler, Dr. Thum, house physicien, and two hallboys went up. The door was ajar. Dr. McElroy was in the centre of the room‘ dress- ing his injuries. Burkhardt was sem!- conscious on the bed. The disor- dered room was splotched with blood.-| When Dr. McElroy was asked if he did it he is quoted as saying: “I'm here to tell the world I did, T'4 have shot him if I had a gun. It was hie life or mige. I was talking at the phone when ho opened the door and walked in. [ never saw him before in my life. He said, ‘I've come to get you, IT gaid, ‘Get out of here. I don’t know you. You are in the wrong room,’ He put his hand in his pocket, and when he came toward me I dropped the telephone receiver. Then he pulled a razor and his first slash cut a gash in my vest. I knocked him down, but he was up and at me again, I parried his slashes with my left arm and in that way was cut. The struggle con- tinued for twenty minutes, and dur- ing It he received his wounds.” When Burthardt recovered con- sciousness in tne hospital he sald, ai cording to the police, that Dr. McEl- roy had been attentive to a trained nurse friend of his, Burkhardt's, and he had gone to warn him to let her alone. He said ay soon as he got in the room Dr. McElroy went to a trunk, got the razor and attacked him. Both men deny owning the razor, and the doctor, on hearing Burkhardt’ story, denigd knowing the nurse Investigation showed that Burk- hardt had gone to the room v.an- nounced, — $300,000 RUSSIAN ¢ MONEY TO RED CROSS Given by Embassy at Washington and Made Available at Once for Aid in Crimea. WASHINGTON, Nov. 27.—The Rus- stan Embassy here has given $300,000 to the American Red Cross for the re- Hef of the thousands of suffering refu- gees in the Crimea, It was sald to-day fat the headquarters of the Red Cross that the money had been made tmme- (Jately available for the purchase of food, clothing aid medicaments and for the transportation of the refugees to places of safety. An appeal for ald from America hs peen made by Prince Lvoft, head of tte Zemastvo Alllanve, the Ru organization which has b | with the Amertcan Red C Crimea, ' “The evacuation of the Crimea has boen a ua Sagi ye galt Prince ys cablegram the whole of Ly Duman nity, snay ny well ahudaer ‘at the sut- his Adam's 4 ‘ ani Potent Army From Death She’s City’s Hi Orderliness at tractive, and tution, Evening. best known citizen In 1914, 105 child the stre cars. 8 Sa ‘Thus far this year of school toiley carg in Ph yeur only four sche Company, She ls know her by sight. féw-outulde the P. r “Miss Safety-Fi | Laura M. Roadifer, Who Or- ganized School Boys Into a That Has Sav Recognized as a Local Insii-| By Martin Green. (Special Staff Correspondent of The} PHILADELPHIA, Mies Safety-Finst,” of the most ful delphia-—perhaps tt lg the mést has saved the adelphia chi The potential vw: child }ife ts beyond calcula 8 of Philadelphia by trolley ty campaign of child life saving in 1915. age have Hade were lost ta uuiley "Miss Satety-Firet” of the Philadelphia Rapid Transit} Wot irst” Is Miss the of Life Guards ed Little Ones in Streets, and eroine—Makes nd Caution At-| ' Her Army Is } arr ul World.) | Nov. 2 The of Philadeiphia is| citizens of Phi would be safe tu} jal useful citizen, fo lives of hundreds ldren | ale of a single on ren were killed on rst” began her only two children | n killed by| phia @nd last vol childrens’ accidents. is an employee | # a brisk, clear-eyed, | aturactive young woman, radiating! tnthusiasm and helpfulness, More than 250,000 city school children! &! cA Few of them and g¢ R, T. organization inst” nyt EVENING ii ha yolunt pils and 11,000. my » hag bec on. The job | SHE MAKES the kno n n of the hat ordertin ty ni peal adelph sistant, » now leust Mich ch popular with dren of each twio dresves are short and delivered ¥ schools, Cut Child Fatalities by Street Cars In Philadelphia From 105 to 2 a Year ae BOYS SAFETY FATROL ON DOTY know that shé™is Laura M. Roadifer.|9 o'clock in the morning or 1 ote! Sh r but one paid asaistants, the ex of the , ny, assistant, but cor hooks. | ladei- | teachers empl the po- and parents yr a rreat mbled. ina ne a Phiadel of "Miss Safe nildren how ts, huw to plek afe placos avoid danger res nteresting “SAFETY FI ATTRACIIVE first pla Wwe oh Say Meio ts ineluding | vethods and persona lv a profound parents N't do thus and ao hild that if .t DOES maequences Will be safe |and pleasant doesn't comamnd and a nor forbid; vines, And she the childre a than Mary Pickford o Douglas Paitbanks. Fither “Miss her alw a add eiphia. soho) & yegr, ‘These ad- to per ‘ children n the afternoon when ieee LEADS CHILD MINOS AWAY} FROM ACCIDENT HORRORS. | Mins Saf in| the f injury childron are fairy stories in w’ safety is made interesting ie able, The older children ted in course of netion ' ful to the ‘The obje to first and } school there ts a patrol elsht to a dozen boys, ) twelve to fifteen years mbers of the patrol. cted by “Miss Saf rep made by e rivalry and Ken= i « wear on their left} recon t a or bands | | | time ar have dispersed to their homes after | ¢ chool hours t | EVEN MAIL TRUCK DRIVERS| OBEY “SAFETY FIRST” GUARDS, | Where there are no tre men the authority of th rnized by street car motor drivers of automobiles, The hand of \ieutenant of halts the glittering car of the uyor or even the pgnderous United States |rhe remaining days of 1926 Mail tru And p) ‘aristocrats i, ud! These lads are the of the Philadelphia ‘They never take off their Ted a NUVoemou aw Ob, Cone, WOMAN DEMANDS U.S. DEPORT GIRL HUSBAND ADOPTED aciaalpiess Says French Ward “Exerted Strange and Evil Influ- ence” on Him. Capt. Robert Charles Gill, formerly of the Medical Corps, United States Army, at Camp Upton, and hie wife are anxiously awaiting the decision of the Secretqry of Labor in the de- portation caso of Maria Schneider, a pretty young French woman. Capt. Gil, who has gray hair, before the Board of Special Inquiry at Ellis island. yesterday testified that he had adopted the young woman, and asked that she be allowed to enter the coun- try. Mra. Gill, who went before the board of her own accord, opposed the girl's entry so emphatically. that, in view of certain statements by the }|Captain, the board referred the case ‘| direetly to Secretary Wilson, Mrs. Gill, who was unaccompanied vy her husband, admitted that Mile Schneider's arrival hus caused het mental anxiety, She told the tm- abgration officials te young woman wad exerted “a strange and evil in- juence” upon her husband. ‘The story starts in Paris, where,) during the war, Capt Gill was living with Mile. Schieider's father. When the father died, Capt it appears, heuc 4 Marta ps to adopt her. uraine Oet, 22, She told’ immigra- | Lon officials she bad married lo Capt. Gill, Later, on jhe witness stand, she adnitted this, Was untrue Gill had adopted her, she then lared, She explained that she bad tite the false statement about the narrlage through fear she would not be admitted uniess she was Capt. wite, She is being helt on Island. en brassards in thelr waking houra and ‘Miss Safety-First’ has been told by who pin the many mothers of boys bodges of authority to thelr night | shirts when they jo toed. ‘They are always on the job, Once a month the whol rol fore eets at the Assembly Rooin of the Chamber of Commerce. They hobnob with business men and bank- ers and talk over the problems of their tasks with all the earnestness of statesmen and much more sincer- ity. At stated intervals prizes are awarded in the shape of medals for particularly meritoridus work, Gen, Pershing does not wear his war trophies with more dignity than ts assumed # by — thtsse Moan schoolboys. In the beginning there was great] opposition on part of old fash- matter in. Yiddish distributed by thi the homes in th by foreigners still ve tongites, ry quarter during year every ehild In the set piled with dustrated blott and Italian, are in bited addicted to thotr the sis wup ing safety messages, Through the co-! operation of the City Government more playgrounds have n estab- Hahed and more streets buve been set aside for children’s play in Philadel- phia im the last four years than ever before in a similar period HOW WOULD NEW YORK TAKE A “SAFETY FIRST” CAMPAIGN? To one accustomed to the ne long progres uf New York youth across busy streets and from the sidewalks to the asphalt in pursuit of baseballs, hoops and other pla things, or in the course of games, the orderly movement of Juvenile and| adult pedestrians here i# amazing, Down here you sce children crossing at the sings and nowhere else. You see children pause at tho curb and stook up and down the street before attempting to cross. Where strect play is in progress tt is ale | most oxelusively confined to the alde- walks. Hecently “Miss Safety First’ has branched out on a now line of activi- tv which ts producing wonderful re- sults. Thi rol boys und the older school children tuke the numbers of automobiles which violate the trat- fle rules, The complaints are sont to Mise Safety Firat" and she se them to the Chamber of Comme where they are handled by 1 committee whi owners of the yr reports of the ehildre: Lefore any letters were sent out the reports of numerous children were carefully checked up. It was found that the of cons veli founded complaints was hat the netivity POLICE GLAD TO CO-OPERATE) WITH “MISS SAR ETS FIRST.” tomobilex » classify auc! dente only he ago, ¢ | n the police and ows is close apd ef letachment of new polleemen is ud Iressed by “Miss Safety First before they go out on regular duty and she has such m Way of communteating to others her own Interest that the cops ure y r life This your promises to establish a novody familiar with n cities would With only f arrived i re on La} | Is needed, sho manages to guther as semblages of mothers and talk to! them in English, where they can understand English, throuyh terpreter otherwixe, Attrac ers in brilliant colors, nding | schoo! | Ps NEW GAS RATE $1.10 IN THREE BOROUGHS BY ORDER OF COURT, Manhattan, Brooklyn, users} Hit by Decree in Effect on December 1. | Nine gas companien serving thou- sands of consumers tn Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens were authorised to charge $1.10 per 1,000 cubic fect for their product yesterday by a decision handed down in the United States District Court by Vi s Mayer, Hough and Ward. The hew rate be- comes effective Dec. 1. The decree in designed to give the gus companies temporary relief pend- ing the outcome of an equity sult now before the United States Supreme Court, which attacka the constitu- tionality of the 80-Cent Gas Law. fn} this actibn the Consolidated Gas Company and the Brooklyn Union Gas Company, with subsidiaries, com- plained that the 80-Cent Law was |confiscatory @nd sought permission of the Fedetal Courts to charge @ higher rate. Nix of the companies granted the new rate fre subsidiaries of the Consolidated concern and three are subsidiaries of the Brooklyn Union Gas Company. They are the Stand- |ard Light Company of New York. New York Mutual Gaslight Company, Northern Union Gas Company, New materdam Gas Company, Bast River Gas Company of Long Isiand City, Central Union Gas Company, Flatbush Qas_ Company “and the Newtown Gas Company, Under the decision, the impounding Jof the excess money collected is nol necessary, provided the gas com-| panies depowit surety bonds of not over $500,000 to gottle with their cus- tomers in event that the highest tribunal upholds the 80-Cent Gas Law, Several months ago, when the Fed- eral District Court declared the 80- Cent Gas Law confiscatory and un- constitutional and enjoined Attorney al Newton, District Attorney | Swann and the Public Service Com. | [mission from enforcing its provisions, | |the Consolidated Gas Company and | {ts subsidiaries, advanced their r to $1 per 1,000 cubic feet. The exc money collected was then turned over | to Richard Welling, as special master, pending the outcome of the gas litt gation by the United States Supreme Court, LONELY WOMAN WEIGHS WORDS Of MANY WOOERS | and Expects to Make | Quick Choice. loned schoot pripcipals und teach and some pollcé officials to grantin t> little boys all the mutho manied by “Miss Safety First opposition was dissipated long ay The children carry tle safety cam- paign to their homes. In som lo- calities where iss Safety Firat" i # found that addtional e | | Chancen of Philadelphians for the | |hand of Miss Catherine’ Loulna Stack |went glimmering to-day when the fifty-year-old nurse, who advertised lin a Philadelphia newspaper for a |husbanu, recetved seventy-five letters |from would-be husbands right here In| New York. ‘Phere were also wooers {n | Providence, Newark, Little Falls, Ja- | matea. and Jersey City Miss Stack lives with ler steter, Mrs. Manning; her niece, Irene Gray, her nieco's Httle girl, Alleen, and ‘Teddy, the dog, in a two-story yellow stage at No, 7 Clinton Place, the {| Hronx. The house belongs to her sis- | ter. | The first tet the morning. | Miss Stack admits she was excited | when she got the letter and could scarcely walt to open it, It was from a man named Smith, In the F Hospital connected with tho et The writer probably will not be the choten one, however, Miss | Stack wants 4 inan from fifty to fifty- four and not a “boy of thirty-five Ike this one.” . Miss Stack does not want any one “thirty-five bossing her about." A imanewith that kind of a domi- necring young volce called up yester- day afternoon, and Miss Stack rang off, Furthermore, Mr. Smith, letter Miss Stack would not let the camo at 7 o'clock in the for whose reporter read, wants financial qusist. | ance, and this ts nbt altogether watis- tory, in fact, she adinitted that » pick of the lot was a large fot tror “with a good finunclal hound which came from a Mr, Johneton, at engineer in Jersey City, who secned to haye means, Whilanot king for | mithionalr ei. dows nut want any | “hanging themselves to her | money.’ 1 day or two Miss Stock will jatart a |two « TUBE SERVICE INEXCUSABLE. P. S. Commiaston So Informa the Head of Interborongh Company. ‘The corresponden r fina: cgholce, with yne or inadequate subway again beon called to the President Hedley of th by Deputy Tublle Service Charles V. Halley in a letter made pub- service has attention of Interborough "ommissloner See BED ¥ lle to-day, ‘The letter 1 based on com- hildren charged ag | plaints from: Ale bunts Rng on am le ead tap) Anion | # by | tora for the looks with reasonable as at | service te not only inadequate and ake but without excuse,” the Commissioner ayen ventures to hope that next year|sata to reporters to-day. His letter thgte will no school chuldron at all points out In many Inatances the killed by trofley cara on the streets ely hia of Philad Pompany has not even given the eervics that the agbedules call ‘tor. yeclinie | $1,000 TP PAD ON AS4O00 SHIP. * BOARD CONTRA = Witness Tells congenial Investigators Repairs Cost $5,000,000 a Month. Testimony that it cost the Govern ment $6,000.00 a month, oF $69,000,000 a year, to repalr Shipping Board vew= rela was given to-day before the | Waleh Congressional Committes by Harold F. Haines, a junior examiner for the Emergency Fleet Corporation. He based this estimate, he sald, wpom conditions prevailing at the Port of New York Ship chandler acconiing te Haines, practically always made @ clear profi upon all supplies fume nished to Shipping Board vessels of from 33 1-8 te 75 per cent. He told of one company, the Fitner Atwood Company of Boston and Portland, Maing which he declared paid a #0 prion to a Shipping Hoard Qptain on a $4,000 order, The cost of repairing ships probably was enormously increased, the wit ness said, by reason of carelessnes® on the part of Shipping Board. offie clals in tho transmission to repair yard checkers of duplicate copies of repair contracts. Frequently sudh® copies were not delivered into the checkers’ hands unti! after the repairs had been completed and the ships had left the yards, Haines said. This opened the way to overcharges excess charges which the witness la- timated many repalr companies wese not slow to seize. if Investigating ten plaints of unwarranted charges by ship chandl¢rs in the ports of Baltt- more, Norfolk and New York, the witness Mud private operators of Shipping Board vessels were found to have no regular plan for ration ing their ships, many of which, least so far as goods charged for were concerned, were shown to have been sumptuousty rationed, Substitution of inferior goods for requisitioned supplies was as com> mon, according ‘to Haines, as Was overcharging for standard goods. As an alleged Instance where both sub- ; | stItution and overcharge had been practised, he mentioned a caso im volving 1,000 pounds of beef. The | requisition called’ for beef hinds, or hindquarters, which should have been furnished at 18 cents, The Sparrow | Point Storgs Company of Baltimore, cents, but delivered forequa | which could have been purchased 11 cents, Haines testified tha’ was sent to Norfolk to Inyestl charge that there jas collusion vetween the Marine Equipment Company, a ship chandlery compiny, and Collector Hamilton of the Port of Norfolk. He discovered, he declared, that Hamtl- ton owned $10,000 worth of the Mm rine Equipment Company's stock, The witness was approached, he said, by Hamilton's bro.her-in-lawy, whom he did not nam@, and warned: “Haines, if you're tryingto get any- thing on Hamilton you'd better lay off, because he's the closest man in * Virginia to President Wilson.” The outcome of that Investigation was not revealed before the com- mittee. Last January, he said, ment vessel repaired by Philadelphia, ‘wes considered unseen worthy by its crew which signed @ sealed statement and left it behind to be opened in event anything hape pened to the ship. ‘The ship, he was disabled 400 milea out. He’ di not know what became of the sealed statement. The witness said that at No: Va., he saw a bill for $48, which been paid for putting a, fifty-cent hinge on a galley door, A machinist, he asserted, was employed to cut the hinge from a heavy piece of steal, nstead of going out and buying tt. The next, witness, B. 8. Onkem. heait of the Supply and Sales Divistom of the Shipping Hoard, told the com- mittee that the Liberty Shipbuilding ‘ompany of Wilmington, N. ©., which ost the Government $826,000 to build, was sold after the War for $87,500, Robert [. Laggren, Director of Sup~ ply and Sales Division of the Eastern District, admitted that, although bis division was intrusted with the task of disposing of surplus materiala, he did not have the authority to ques» tlon the appraisals of the Shippt Hourd engineers. Mr. Laggren sal t in his department alpne he had to cut $95,000 off the pay- ast two months “by weede ing out the InefMctents,” The hearing adjourned for the day and will resume Monday morning at dhe Pennsylvania Hotel, FREEDMAN ESTATE IN COURT, Vrustees Petition Surrogate Folep for @ Settlement of Property. 1 Walter G. Onke pt. b, gnd the Guaranty npany, as executors and trua- jay petitioned Surrogate James ¥ a settloment of the estate y J. Freedman, who died Dee, Freedman at one time was nt and owner of the Giants ard isiness associate of Richard settlement was asked because Vakman's desire to resign as @ a govern- Cramps, of Untermyer, truatee. Mr. Oukman, who ls sevénty-five, ashy from ae 5 shown 2.86 to be relieved a tive businems account! the. estate amonuted to $4 when it was Laken over by a te-vetiring fy {strators and that charges a aince then amount to $107,930, TWENTY KILLED BY BOMBS, Airplane Minwiix Blow tu Pass tory Near Milan, ROME, Nov. 27.—Twenty persona ato dead and missing In’ a series of ex> plosions of airplane bomba at unt= tions factory at, Vergiate, forty from, Milan, a despatch, & sagiero | to-day specific comme =) which furnished the meat, charged 3. R3B4i42 a3, al a “or a °e oe Pah H ESE 5 503 *