Show MELLON AID DENIES TWO SHORT SALES SALES' PITTSBURGH Feb 28 25 A W-A A denial de nial fiat that Andrew W W. Mellon sold stocks short during 19 1931 1 was made today oday by Howard M. M Johnson the financiers financier's secretary before the board of tax appeals at the hearing of Mellons Melons Melon's Mel Mel- Ions on's income tax case Johnson had testified last week that two wo short sales had been made in March of ot 1931 in a special brokerage account maintained by Mellon Toda Today he said aid he wished to correct that that-that hat that the sale factually actually was not nota a short one but one made mide with the Intention mention of ot deli delivering 1 ing i-ing ng stocks already I iii n Mellons Mellon's portfolio He explained the market marlet price dipped sharply between the time the theor or order er to sell ell one block had be n given to the broker and his delivery of stock from Mellons Mellon's safety safet deposit box and that he decided to buy instead of oC deliver the thc stock |