TAX TROUBLE

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXX, Issue 12200, 12 March 1934, Page 5

TAX TROUBLE

CHARGES AGAINST EX-U.S • OFFICIALS C A l '

(U.P.A. by Elec. Tel. Copyright) (Received March 11, 6.35 P.m.) WASHINGTON), March 10.

The Attorney-General, Mr Cummings, to-night announced that proceedings against the ex-Secretary to the Treasury, Mr, Mellon, the exMayor of New York, Mr Walker, Mr Thomas Lament, a partner of the Morgan Company, and Thomas Sidle the noted Cleveland law r yer and partner of the ex-Secretary of War, Mr Baker, for alleged tax evasion, would be presented to grand juries as soon as tbe newly-created tax division of the Department of Justice was created. He also announced that other cases of a similar nature are pending against other individuals. The case against Mr Mellon, it is understood, has been under investigation for some time.

GAOL FOR RACKETEER-

CARNERA’S MANAGER GETS FOUR MONTHS

(U.P.A. by Elec. Tel. Copyright) NEW YORK, March 9.

William J. Duffy, Camera’s manager. who graduated from Sing Sing penitentiary to a Broadway boxing promoter and cabaret impressario, was sentenced to four months’ imprisonment for income tax evasion-. He returned from the supervision of Camera in tbe Loughran bout just in time to be sentenced. Duffy was convicted in January, but the court deferred sentence, Duffy hoping to realise enough on the Carnera-Loughran match to make good the delinquent taxes on his income

Duffy owes the taxes on income derived from a barnstorming tour Camera made in 1930. Previously Duffy served a penitentiary sentence for robbery, and later was known in New York as a “big time racketeer.”