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2B ROCKEFELLERS QUIT AS HEADS OF OIL TRUST EDITION. 6 The bi Circulation Books Open to Au eee _PRICE ONE ‘CENT. Coorrient. ns 1984, he TM NEW YORK, MONDAY, ‘DECEMBER 4, wottet York “i ROCKEFELLERS GET wr OF OFFICE IN HM. FLAGLER RESINS, 100 et Archbold, Long Chief Lieuten- ant of John D., New Head of Parent Company. MANY OTHERS RESIGN. Subsidiary Concerns Com- pelled to Elect New Boards in Reorganization. | | | {John D. Rockefeller, William Rocke-| feller, William G. Rockefeller and H. Flaglor to-day resigned from the Imcos they held in the Standard Ot! Jompany of New Jersey, and from the ‘@clal positions held #y them in all of Ae subsidiary corporations of the great ust that has its centre at No, 2% roadway, The two names that made Me oll trade the nucleus of the greajest Ynancial machine of its time. dropped without incident from the official lists Khere they had held place for a quarter it @ contury, Yohn D .Rockefeller, president of the New Jersey, or holding company, gave way to John D. Archbold, the Heutenant #ho had for twelve years been the ac Sual administrative head of the Ott] rust and {ts various branches. H. M.| flagier, a director since the inception of he trust, resigned. and the corporation id not choose @ successor. William Rockefeller, vice-prest: nt and director, tnd Wiliam G. Rockefeller, assistant Teasurer, left the company. BOARD OF DIRECTORS CUT TO NINE MEMBERS. ‘The trust reduced the number of !ts| Yirectors from fourteen to nim In the | Sroceedings the old standbys of the Yoekefeller re. pe went with their thief. HW. C.F ir, E. T. Bedford ma L. J. Drake each dropped out to ‘wake either no place in the reorganiza- | Jon of the trust, or one other than that | Mf director of the parent body. | , All the resignations were handed in| tt @ special meeting of the Board of Mrectors at No. Broadway to-day. | As soon as tt jefs had quit the fobs the directors elected the folle wg officers to succeed the old regim n D. Archbold, President; A. edford and “W. C. Teagle, VI . Bedford, a director Yharles 'T, White, Secretary. ‘This left he official board of the Standard Oii Company of New Jersey as follc J. D. Archbold, President; J. A, Mot- fet, Vice-President; A. C. Bedford, Vice- | President and Treasurer; W. C, Teagle, Vice-President; ©. M. Pratt, Director; C. W. Hi Director; O. T, Waring, Director; I". Hf. Bedford, Director; Wal- ler Je: Director; Frank Wilson, Assistamt Tréasurer; Charles T. White, Becretary. BUBSIDIARY CONCLRNS ALSO REORGANIZED. The same wave that struck the chief wy of the Trust also turned over the ‘pbaidiary companies. be Standard O11 Com weld a special meeting and at !t these esignations were presented; William tockefeller, president; John D, Arch- ‘old, vice-president and director; HI. C. tolger jr vice-president; C, M. Pratt, f. A, Moffett, A. C. Bedford, L. J. Drake c and W, je, directors; Wiillam G Rocke treasurer; Frank Wilson, retary, and Charles T, White, assist- retary, places the od: H att and W. residents and direc 8 'y and Director; H. 4 Ps M. Higgins, Director; James d, Director; R. P, Tinsley and W,. J. Higgs, Assistant-Sec- v ‘ew York subsid- psident ors e officers and directors of the who had like positions in other sorporations contrstia! by the Standard Company resigned from such posi- 9 st the same tUme that they quit he parent company, Tho idea of getting out 1s to comply nth the objection of.the Federa! courts © the system of Interlocking director- itey, by which directors of one corpora- ion held places of control on boards AN $f other companies whose domination de jad been prue dissolving the Standard O Com- pany. OL TRUST; ASTOR SUICIDE’ SECRET IS cr | BY SWORN FRIEND ensigns Californian Who Knows Iden- tity of “Maurice Stewart” Is Pledged to Silence. The mystery about the identity of the man who committed suicide in the Hotel Astor on the night of Nov. 6 and who was erroneously declared to be Lord BSholto Doug! Marquis of Queensbury, ts not !tkely to be cleared up. Coroner Feinberg at the time found a letter addressed to the dead man, who had registered at the hotel as Maurice Stewart, algned by P. A, Demins and mujled from Ioamosa, Cal. The Cor- oner wrote to Mr. Demins. To-day he received the following answer. The deceased in his last letter ¢o me, of Nov. 3, to which my answer of the Sth is in your possession, asked me solemnly to keep the man- ner of his death from his relatives, He was @ European who had no rela- tives or interest of any kind in this country, and his name can be of no interest to your office or to the pub- lc. My attorney advises me that there are no reasons why I should disclose his identity, so I will reapect his last wish, I learned of his death from the Papers on the 9th, I immediately notified his relatives, stating that he met with an accident and died. I ot hear from them for two or three weeks, and, should they send Instruction as to the disposition of » body, I will let you know at once, am merely an acquaintance of 19 relatives, and have no authority to act in their behalf, Yours truly, (Signed) P, A, DEMINS, The letter was written on the paper of the Foothill Orange Association of loamosa, Cal ‘The bods, after being kept @ week in the rooms of an undertaking concern at No. 24 Bighth avenue, was bunfed in Kensico Cemetery at the expense of the undertaker, be filed at the next meeting of the sev- eral companies, “REACHED AGE OF RETIRE. MENT,” 18 EXCUSE, It is noted that In some cases the men who resigned from the board of the Jersey corporation were switched to the New York board, and that some of the New York company's former officlals become officials of Jersey company. The general {dea has been to see that the same name did not appear on any two of the Standard O!l boards, But the Interesting fact | remains, large and eloquent of the changes of tho times, that John D.| Rockefeller, Willlam G. Rockefeller, | William Rockefeller, H. M. Flagler | and E. T, Bedfotd, giants in the cor- poration world of their time, are com. | pletely wiped from the slate. That the older heads of the tion had reached the was given as one of the reasons why the resignations were tendered. ‘The | chief reason, if not the only real one, | was that the trust was compelled to, make @ general shift in order to comply | with the reorganization order of the United States Supreme Court, John D, Archbold, who steps into the} Rockefeller shoes, 1s sixty-three yerrs| the New| | corpora: | retirement age | old. He has been in the ofl business | since he was a youth, He was born in Leesburg, O., and went to the Pennsyl- In 1875 he became a director of the | Standard Oil Company. When John D Ltockefeller dropped the management of thy corporation twelve years ago, Mr. Archbold became it actual head. 1 piloted It through its contest with the Government. The changes had no effect on Stana- | ard Ol] stock, which was quoted to-day on the curb at 690 bid gtd no sales, 210 Standard Ol stock fas been on the market for years, except a littls thar has been used to fix a public price, The real holders never have traded, } It was announced at No. 2 Broadway hat the places of men who had re- Hened, trom yeni 8 ‘aah oma iy iat oy ae th are | plied: | ‘Oh, it didn't go o vanla ofl region when he was sixteen, | ¢ SH GIRLS GET THEIR INNING IN STOKES SHOOTING Lillian Graham Likely to Be First Witness Called To-morrow. PROSECUTION ALL IN. IlIness_ of Millionaire Victim Fails to Get Court’s Order to Halt. Assistant District-Attorney Buckner to-day rested the case of the State against Lillian Graham and Ethel Con- rad, the two former show girls who shot William EB. D. Stokes, the elderly millionaire hotel proprietor and club- man, Unless Mir, Stokes, who is ill in his apartment at the Hotel Ansonia, is able to come to court to-morrow for a re-cross-examination, Justice Marcus will probably order the defense to pro- ceed, in which case Miss Graham will take the stand to tell her side of the romance that led to the shooting of Stokes in the girl's apartments at the Varuna, Eightieth street and Broad-, way, June 7 last. The prosecution closed with the test!- mony of police witnesses this afternoon. Mr, Buckner had intended to continue hia te-direot examination of Stokes but, in order to expedite matters. he an- nounced that he would abandon his in- tention and consider his, case reste with the understanding that the de- fense proceed, and later put Stokes on the stand for re-crose examination, when he should be able to appear. The defense objected and secured an adjournment until to-morrow in the hope that Stokes would be well enough to take the etand. Justice Marcus granted the adjournment on the uader- standing that the defense will be ready to go on if Stokes does not appsar and the Court should order them to do so. SAYS HE GAVE FIRST AID TO WOUNDED MAN. ‘The first witness called by Mr. Buck- ner to-day was Walter S, Fischer, ac- countant for Cushman’s bakery, He was passing the Varuna apartment at Eigh- tleth street and Broadway at the time of the hooting, June 7, and heard @ commotion in the building. He testified that he heard a woman screaming for help and, sending @ friend who was with hm to the police station, he ran into the Varuna and upstairs, where he found Stokes clinging to the atairrat! in the grip of a man. A woman brought out strips of linen and Fischer made a tourniquet around Mr. Stokes's leg. While he was attending Mr, Stokes the two girls, he testified, were in the hal Miss Graham was screaming ,and Miss Conrad was attempting to quiet her. “[ heard Miss Conrad say: ‘Don't wor- ry, Lillian, I'm just as much to blame as you are,’" testified the witness, Fischer sald he asked the @irls who| had shot Stokes, and Miss Graham re- “I shot him.” ‘Then Miss Conrad, according to the witness soothingly said: “Don't be afraid | Lilllan, I shot him, too.” Attorney Jordan cross-examined the winess, but made no great effort to shake his story. |SAID STOKES ATTACKED miss |‘! afternoon. GRAHAM FIRST. James P, McCormick, detective ser- | | meant detailed to the West Sixty-elghth” street station, testified that Miss Con- rad attempted to take all the blame for the shooting, but Miss Graham in- sisted on bearing her share of the bur- den. “Miss Conrad took me in the par- lor," said McCormick, “and showed me ‘pickel-plated revolver. Detective | Flynn opened the revolver, and when Miss Conrad saw the shell she cried: It didn't go oft! I'm go glad it didn't go oft!’ I told her it did go off, and that there were the three empty shells to prove it. She then fell on her knees by the sofa and cried: ‘I'm’ glad {t did go off! I'm glad it did “I asked why they had shot Stokes, and Miss Graham told me had come there for some letters, expecting to find her there. When he saw her, she said, he got wildly ex- cited and seized her by the throat, I found no marke on her throat, but the forefinger of her right hand was cut and bruised.” Paul McMahon, electrician at the Va- runa, swore iit ie was on the toor above the girls wh |came down In che was on the atatrw Mr. levator. Mr. Stoki , holding the ban- , “conus mm Second Page.) he heard shots and | [DUVEEN RUSHES BY SPEGAAL TRAN TOFAGESENTENGE Art Dealer Wins Race From! New Hampshire to Save $50,000 Bail. $1,255,000 Paid by Firm for Smuggling Sufficient, His Counsel Urges. | Benjamin J. Duveen of the art dealing |firm of Duveen Brothers, who pleaded guilty several months ago to smuggling, saved his bail of $50,000 by appearing in the United States District Court this afternoon at 4 o'clock for eentence. Mr. Duveen reached the courthouse direct from the Grand Central station, after a trip tn @ apecial train from up In New Hampshire, where he found snowbound early this morning. When Jud Martin decreed, month, that Duveen must be here (or sentence on December 4, or forfelt his bail, Duveen w: in England. News reached his counsel, John B, Stanch- field, to-day that he was on his way to New York, and the session of court would have been held open for his ar- rival had he not reached here by 4 o'clock. PLEADS $1,265,000 PENALTY ENOUGH. When Duveen presented himeelf this afternoon Mr. Stanchfleld began a iong plea for leniency. He maintained that the Duveen family had been punished enough, baving paid in $1,200,000 in cus- toms duties and set up that Benjamin J. Duveen, the last he family to present himself for a tence, is'a sick man. Deputy United Gtates District-Attor- | | | jbis hands in disgust of the Duveen case, ked Judge diolt to tmpose # prison sentence and a substantial fine besides, The arguments began at 415 o'clock and continued until late in the after- noon, Duveen was about exhausted when he got to the Federal Building, His where- about had been @ matter of doubt until this morning. Tt was learned that Duveen, under the name of Duncan, sailed from Europe # few days after Judge Holt's views on smuggling penalties were pub- shed, In this statement the judge favored @ fine rather than a prison ntence. Duveen took passage on the steamer Magentic, due in Portland yes- terday, but she was delayed by storms, This morning she reached port, where arrangements had been made to take Duveen off immediately, He was met at the pler by his father-tn-law, Harry Moss, a retired real estate dealer of not} BEGS FOR CLEMENCY. | himself | last] |ney Wemple, acting for United States! District-Attorney Wise, who mas washed | “1911. ‘Builder of Standard Oil Trust Who Resigned as Its Head To-Day (From a photograph by an Evening World Staff Photographer.) | | | JOHN D, ROCKEFELLER, GER SENSATION 10 COM SAYS LEADER OF BUILDERS McNamara Confession Only a Side Issue in Comparison With What Will Follow in land, "o time. 3 a otnity. here '* no doubt that the coming lta velopments will entire! 'y throw the |Present prosecutions tn the background, Prosecutions of the McNamaras would become merely side issues in compart son with what would follow in the ex- work. In whose inte Talsed and used?" “Do you know the 1 Federal Grand Jury {s investigating the st was this carrying of dynamite about the country When asked directly if he knew the that en who are re- the climax of the Federal investigation when, according to semi-o! information, at least ten or twelve prominent labor*leaders will be ar- rested on indictments charging them with complicity in a plot for the illegal carrying of explosives on passenger trains engaged in interstate commerce, Detective Burns ts to-day in Cleve- on which he will return to Indianapolis the latter part of this we pecta to go to Los Angeles in a with the dynamiting ea’ Until he returns, no call will be issu for a to discuss the Detective Burns made the startling , GOMPERS KNEW ALL, SAYS “4 ved IG LABOR MEN WATCHED IN BOMB PLOT Weather—Cieart = ‘PRICE ONE OENT. To-Night; Tu: INA EDITION. KX, ml ARREST A DOZEN LABOR LEADERS AS DYNAMITE PLOTTERS ‘Federal Indictments Charging Con- | spiracy in Bomb Case Expected to Result From Indianapolis Investigation. |MORE ARRESTS LOOKED FOR EVERY HOUR IN CLEVELAND. Gompers Either Knew McNamaras’ Confession or Was Deceived by His Man, Darrow Asserts. DIANAPOLIS, Ind., Dec. 4.—With the admission here to-day by Federal officials that prominent union labor officials are under surveillance in connection with the great dynamite plot, new arrests are expected at any time. Eight Burns detectives are here to-day to make preparations for al convince any one there was overwhelm- ing evidence that the McNamaras were eullty. Still, Gompers has accused me of ‘planting’ the dynamite here and now he says he has been deceived by the MeoNamaras, DARROW TOLD THEM IT WAS NO FRAME-UP. From there he probably will New York, he says, after oO. to He also ex hort All his travels are in connection k. The whereabouts of Frank M- Ryan.) “some of the othe~ union men knew of irtv! President of the International Assocta-| their guilt, too, Clarence Darrow told Exposures and at Least Thir ty tion of Bridge and Structural = the labor men at that meeting in Indlan- Wi Workers, will be kept a secret for|apouls that he did not believe 1 had Men ill Be Arrested. several days because Mr, Ryan desires | tramed up this case. to avoid discussing at this time the “We shall not rest until we have y of the MoNamara) brought to justice all those connected Walter Drew, counsel for the National 4ynamite outrages in the country, They |Picas of guilty of ¢ . Erectors’ Associntion. said to-day that |Degan with 1908, About ten or elevea | Prothers, according to Leo M. ere with the dynamiting outrages through- the proceedings at Los Angeles and the /°f these were in Mew York or ite wi. |POrt, attorney for the association: | out the country, I am no respecter of 4 ecutive board ara situation. persons, and whether tho men associated with the MoNamaras are ‘higher up’ or ‘lower down’ they will be prosecuted.” The last is understood to be the atti+ meeting of the MoNar posure of dynamiting outrages through / yy (x71) huvserumons i ae charge here after a conference with | tude of the Federal Government, which, out the country, He sald that thirty | vie a iiwyer, His brothor mane gti?| United States District-Attorney Miller | with @ “mountain of evidence,” ts pres oF forty mone defendants would ve rie wie wot $450 a toh fon ene terely | that not only Samuel Gompers, but! paring to follow the trail of every pers named und that the seat of develop. |p (00! Whe Kot $80 @ Job for the ds of labor unions having national | son even remotely associated with the ment would be transferred from Tos |), (70 i gr oo money appeals: headquarters here, knew at the M0 | dynamite plot, The Government started Angeles to Indianapolis, Ind,, where a see) to carry on] icy started to raise the “defense fund" | the machinery following the conference N 3 were guilty. with Mr, Miller. Accountants and etenographers pro- seeded to-day with examination of recs the BURNS. 0. 408 West One Hundred and Thirty-|Mmes of the other labor leaders to be spovsibie for, the employment of the) 1 oeng knew that McNamara | orda and correspondence of the Inter- | Seventh street, and they left immediate. | brought Into the prosecutions he re- course I do. It seoma to me that | Was guilty and has known it all along,” | national Association of Bridge and \ly for this city. plied that he did, but would not dis toe 5 de. oma to me that | wae HNNNY AMtWhen Ar, Gompers says | Structural Ion Workers, in the Federal The storm delayed the train so much| lose them. He sait that he had no, Uy hts oo Me Your | walt as surprised and that the McNa- Grand Jury chambers, {n a search for that when Dover, N. H., was reached|‘de# to what extent tho McNamaran}/ 0%) (no spe ioe ree nd deceived him in dectaring (evidence, it was learned, a3 to the exe |1t was decided that if Duveen was to) WoUld #0 tn thelr own confes uctural Workers and 1 their innocence he tella what 1s not true, | aot disposition of certain funds of the | get here in time to save his ball bona| Mt Drew was besteged for information | 1) im basic He knew that they were guilty at the | association, According to the informas |he would have to engage a special| ®t noon to-day when he came to his |") 0 kt paint ve he and the heady of the Interna | tion compiled by the National Krectors? train, This was done, and Mr, Stanch-| Mee at > Hh West Thletyessoond | ew 3 aula tlonal unions whose headquarters are in | one hundred explosions @- field expects that kis client will be here] *"t He hag. thip (0 s89 Claney, first net a | tndianapolts conferred here on the que employers of non-union “A Federal nd Jury on Nov. 7 fe i ’ Butlers! fon of funds to defend the pris workers occurred between August, took up, the evidence that the State aA Vice presidents J. J Namara, | 0n © are trying to get away frot , and December, 1910, in many States, courts at Indianapolls bad. Ali of the ary ae : J. Young, | ® Malice aly vesaeet ee yr 1 it is the details of the orgeniaaian | PERSIANS APPEAL FOR AID —|records seized at the heudquarte Charles Meum, i ristiner and || by Maria (nat AY Were tae ee ee craearaen aa FROM UNITED STATES, | {12 Bzdee and Structural tron Workers 11% kin, 4) © exe “land charged me with trying the Mc-|that the United States authoritica seek +} were firat placed under guard and tnen | 0em! y ‘ to hawhaand Paar hy aches ———— er double puard. ‘The Grand Jury at- |HINTS THEY VOTED TO SPEND | Samara ee art mfloaliy, the: Federal iaduise aie National Council Sends Petition to|Journed unti Dec, 14 to xive the t $1,000 A MONTH details of the o¥ L collect, and ito whether or not the statute govert | Congress — Loca! Assemblies fopportunity to get hiv 0 in clted th names in the connection | Nemera caso had not Gompora accused | mito has been’ violated, but the Praise Shuster. | for presentation, On Dec. was asked | me of ‘planting’ the dynamite in Indian: | visit of Detective William J. Burne to TEHERAN, Persia, Dec. 4e-The Na-| Jury will re prwibh hls |< vote the $1,000 « month | apotis, this city yesterday, it is intimated pro« tonal Council has cabled an appeat for | efor If, all olen buslnons "tt js only fair to the defendants and | sccutions on more serious charges may |aid to the American Congress and to | {sposed of to give aye ation tw that they did.” lt the District-Attorney who has charge | follow if the Federal Gi Ju the alster parliaments of the world, | SAYS GOMPERS NOW HAS HIS formation, can you way | oy the eas p tho evidence in con: | turn indictments against ‘The Jocal assembiles at Ispahan, Ta OWN TROUBLES. t will follow in other | mdence, but le a tat to the |to have been “higher up” 4 brig and Kerman and other cities 1 sm not prepared to say that Sam- 1 4 that of Indian-| presy regar t that wa, at t©)Namara conspiracy. telegraphed to Mr. Shuster, lauding jis | ue é ympers took his stand at first when United States Attorney Mille n ple services and affirming the! onfiden the M maras were arres! good 1 magin that they woull first statement on ae F ab oo jin him, or bad faith 1 have he lesire to w an ays mite outrag “ LONGWORTH PUTTING DOWN luion to-day declared that the —_——- ything that rete, upon * as @ count and | ment had uncovered “the most damnable ALL ON BOARD MOTOR ympers or add to his bu mitted’ 1912 BOOM FOR ROOSEVELT) consiiracy ever entered into in ta has enough, Burns has not told ie « und it re kaa ead tae mk a a BOAT FOUND | BY POLICE, jany evidence that he ax again Juris SHINGTON, Dec. 4.--Representa-| when “such unsafe teade Presiden | Gompers. He m have 15 and J sie holas Li « after napers of the Amer Tho polico of the One Hundred and|Would not know of it, ¥ do nob think # 3 i ay Wh father-in-law, | Lavor must be retin Twenty-sixth street station late this |that Qempere wil hg. alias AF 8 Mit ARIES COP GO| 27, tent Bi made this + i} Yo} epo: ‘at the df rt before the Grant ary a adian- G ann da “ » » oun men the gaselene bout Only" One, which’ was [@pais wve| Smacunoement totais BURNS IN CLEVELAND, missing all night in the Sound, and had | a Lear mare, ibet oy rat | welt ve nd will co: ARRESTS EXPECTED taken off the eight men still on board, |! don’t, believe that he ¢ ne a q t to make DEP ny a ‘The bout wax found tled up at Locust's|Piaa the use Of ta dyna. are| him tho Republi inee for Pres THERE AT ANY HOUR, Point In Pelham All on boara | BE may Me Sirsa tN 5 rr i the convent fi TY ; were sate, ‘bit ha severely | meeting the altuation, when ted. Staten tatutes, whisn| MF Loneworuh’ Loin the boat, (The details of the hunt for | tue Only One a) : ® ~*~ any “There have been just Au eve: Ohio, 100 (Continued og Second Pag | Boosey to Taft or La Pollette, who said the ‘This was the word sent out frei the offices of ber Widen, Brectors’ rae,