The evening world. Newspaper, December 17, 1918, Page 1

= "If It Happens In It’s In The Evening World’’ New York The |“ Cireul: ition Books Open to Aue?) _ PRICE Two Cc Copyright, ENTS. 1918, by The Preas Fsbiishiog (The New York Werk f “Circulation Books Open to All.” ii : NEW YORK, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1918, 22° PAGES > "PRICE TWO phates INDICT TAXI EGG AND BUTTER SPECULATORS, SAY HEAVY “EXPORT ORDERS CAUSED ADVANCE IN PRIGES ———— Rise Began With Comman- deering by Government in August, It Is Declared. SUPPLY NOW Butter Concerns Deny That Special Dividends Prove Excess Profits. {Special to The Evening World.) CHICAGO, Dec, 17.—There seems to be no end to the butter and os profiteering. The Government is mak- ing an ageressive effort through the present Federal Grand Jury to reach the profitcers. Hert is their defense: “The chief factor in the present high price of butter and cgas ‘8 not yoom hoarding by warebousemen. nor prof- middlemen of retailers, ous shipments of both {leering by but the enor products out of Chicago, and from the don the order of the Atlantic seab British M In August the commandeered 60 try Government, through Mr, Hoover cent. of the storage butter and 40 per cent. of the eggs. Within a month butter jumped 12 cents a pound, Thi Government price was the September price, about 45 cents a pound age butter Is now selling at 65 cents, a further advane The Chitago Cold 5 which operates three plants here sub- mitted on Saturday these figures to the Government as to the butter and eggs on hand: BUTTER—Dec. 1, 1917, 8,000,000 Dec. 1, 1918, 2,000,000 Stor- pounds; ounds. 3 EGG8—Dec. 7, 1917, 214,000 ca Dec. 7, 1918, 75,000 cases. This situation is true in all other ouses in the country, according to M. C. Cummings, Treasurer of the Chicego Cold Storage Company, who was sunumoned to appear before As- sistant District Attor Frederick Dickinson in the High Cost of Living investigation, This decrease in supply ts partly accounted for by the country-wide shortage due to the demands abroad, seasonal conditions and the action of the Government. Carloads of eggs are being candled here and going east every week. INSIST EXPORT ORDERS .ARE BOOSTING PRICES. “These eggs.” said Mr, Cummings, “are shipped at the order of the British Ministry. They are going to the hospitals of France and England, It looks as though we would have to continue to supply Europe with many products for a long time. “These cggs, and this is true of butter too, are not held at the com- mand of any one man or group of men. We have furnished the Gov- ernment with sheets showing that our storage products are owned by hundreds of customers, They are scattered all over the country. We have nothing to do with them except to ship according order, ‘There are never more than 4 cent, of the eggs of the country in storage at one time. “The export of bt pushing up the price In the list of exe wo to per er and eggs is owners at this (Continued on Hieventh Page.) ines WORLD RESTAURANT, aac ment Ds 17, 1918. ie trtiers. . 1) Abe tid ing. apevial—Aadvt, SHORT. | | lived per| .of 10 cents a pound. | tornge Company | ‘BODY OF GIRL IN RIVER; | WILSON AND Ft GH DISCUSS. WAR DRIVER AS BROOKLYN BANK SLAYER TAXIMANINDICTED WOUNDED MENHOME ON THE TRANSPORT MAUI WHSON TAKES UIP PLANS ASBROOKLYNBANK MURDER ACCESSORY Witness Says He Saw ! lough and Starter With “Long” and “Short” Men. | MAT BE COLUMBIA STUDENT MONEY BAG Is TRACED, Room Mate of Miss Arias Found Note That She Was Seeking Death. of a young we M The body nan, > lieved to be Miss Dominica Arias, University who Whittier Hall, to-day in the North River near 129th Columbia student at was found Street, Miss Arias had the Philippines about two month ago ta psychology. She shared a room in the dormitory with Miss , @ Chinese student, Yesterday morning when Miss Tan entere@ the » found # note’ from: Miss it said: Going to seek death, body found by the police to- |day is that of a girl about five feet tall, welghing 100 pounds, with da eyes and black h wearing overcoat, & white | we: come from study a Arias, | The K dr r, black stockings and h ‘shoes, ‘This description fit that of Miss Arias. No reason is known why Miss Arias should have ended her life, | FLEET MAY NOT GET HERE UNTIL CHRISTMAS EVE Plans for Great Naval Review Dec, 23 Unchanged, However, Pending Definite Information, WASHINGTON, Dec, 17—The Amerl- battle squadron returning from Europe may not reach New York until Christmas eve, because of delay jn de parting from the British b The Navy Department announced to- day, howe eview at New York, pla would not be ordered postponed until mere definite information came by wireless from Ad- miral Mayo, who reported today that every effort was being made to make up lost time on the voyage. Secretary Daniels said he would know definitely by Friday exactly when the ships might be expected @t New York. can Queenstown Gives U. 8. Destroyers Farewe! Monday, Great crowds thronged the to-day to bid farewell to the fleet of twelve American destroyers which sailed for home. The crews of ships in the harbor waved fa Americans as they steamed of the harbor, It was a pretty picture that was pre- sented when the moved from the! Stevens, the senior si led the way Balch, Cassin, Terry, Caldwell, Conyngham, and Trippe. The first to the Azores, where they will Join| the tender ship Dixle yesterday. After a short stay Azores they wil complete to America. 13 MISSING INT TRAIN WRECK. | Dec, 16.— shore here anchor p of th followed by the The squadron, Jenkins, Paulding, Ammen McCall, Sterett destroyers will their voyage Burn Man WINNIPEG eveived here toda, fon by fire Jian: Pacife orM 1 ay that Th Advices the de pach on t here of yesterday for thirteen passenger fire, it was ind rth ove are ate bar upled by a family _ CAREFUL MOTHERS give their eilidicn Father Jobn's Mudicine to bulla sirupwta io resist colds—AdvL and cheered the} slowly out! | document were American » warshipa| | | Tourist Coach on Canadian Paciae | and McCullough for two onto, | o¢ More City as Police Renew Efforts to Find Slayers. DAY’S CRIME RECORD. Saloon in Astoria held up daylight within 100 feet of patrol on box where poliogman was duty; rebbers believed to be men who killed two bank officials in East Brooklyn holdup. Thres men bound and gagged Vittoria Cunee in his grocery store at No. 246 East 56th Street and escaped with $600 in bonds and cash, Two men shot and killed on Staten Island road. Two Brooklyn boys, the police say, confess forty burglaries. Woman robbed by three men in taxicab on Eighth Avenue; two men captured by police. George McCullough, taxicab driver, was indicted for murder in the first and J degree, as an accessory, n cCul- Robberies Reported in Mulligan, auto starter at the Navarre | Hotel, was held in $10,000 bail, as a to-day when t material witness police found a new witness who said he had geen both of them talking to men answering the description of the “tall” and “short” st Brooklyn Bank robbers on the morning of the crime. His statements were consi ered important as the definite indication that the taxicab men knew the first ot highwaymen’s something plans, Mulligan is the starter who called McCullough’s car for the holdup men, and McCullough not only drove them to the bank but picked them up as they fled with $13,000 after shooting two officials of the bank The foreman of the jury McCullough was J. J. Barret, When Judge Campbell received the record the driver was arraigned and pleaded not guilty. In the indictment it wa charged he had shot and killed De Witt C. Peal, paying teller on Dec 13, ‘The form is the same as though he had personally done the shooting Among the witnesses noted th Dr. M. E. Marten, A Freeman, David Morehouse, Newchaffer, John C. Martin Plunkett and Acting Capt. Cough He was held without bail Mulligan was later arraigned fore Judge McDermott indicting on be and County go| held in $10,000 as a material witness, Newchaffer, whose name was mer which sailed | thon: das a witness, was located by at the} cant Coughlin to-day. He is a tax and lives at No, 404 East He told Capt. Cx Attorney Mulligan driver, too, Street and District had known 55th Lew for six He averreil he went to visit them at the last Friday morning to tools and found them in convers: with two men, one tall and on ‘he tall man, he sald, t and muffler, the raincoat b appearance like the one the pol in the tax He bu wore 4 ra in found later (Continued on Second Page.) will vou ber weara the C of MIAUL BRINGS 2,265 WOUNDED: OLD G9TH HEROES ARE HOME Lieut. W Decorated wounded sol ficers, Hoboken as the jot Ambrose ted me expect , plank of th The tr ora for Bravery: Ceitic Brings 2,200 Men, euring yundec dock an bringing among of men of New York's ol become ment, which ha 165th Infantry of the 4 to land 6 first three men Infantry). And the first ¢ war t ae aise. Ben arm Gang ian Farin f to nk the Mex 1 at the he had rons « ea and valorou. rk in the I (Continued on Highth Page.) ro J. Moore and Oth famo 1 6911 Rainbow SAW MANY KILLED : 2h BOCHES RAIDED * ALLIED HOSPITALS Medical Officers, Ht Home, SMITHS LEAD BIG IN COUNT HERE OF SOLDIER VOTE _— Some Upper West Side Districts. Votes absent at camps cast by soldi . dep at the time of the | were counted to- The total lay. vote for t rs Tell | mated at more than 17, ty who wer Not a Ballot for Whitman in ts and barracks November election Is @s- FOR BRINGING ARMY HOME AT MEETING WITH HURLEY Heavy Rain Causes Postponement of Visit to the Marne Battlefield —Gets Assurance That French People Favor His Peace Program. PARIS, Dec, 17.—A heavy rain necessitated calling’ off President | Wilson's projected trip to the Marne battlefield to-day. It also prevehted | the President and Rear Admiral Grayson from playing golf at St. Cloud, which had been planned for 6 A. M. The weather cleared up toward noon and the Wilsons again motored to Versailles for a more thorough inspection of the Palace amd Ce a OT tenn ote aoenineoleres , oul YOUTHS AND GIRLS ~ PARADE IN BERLIN DEMANDING VOTE \Insist All Persons 18 Years Old Shall Have Franchise and Threaten Government. President Wilson’ to-day cons | ferred with Edward N. Hurley on engaging shipping for the homer ward movement of the troops, During the last few days the for+ eign Governments havo been can- celling the charters of ships used by the United States in trans- Porting troops so that the vessels might be put back in trade. This afternoon the President cone fers with Marshal Foch and Italian Ambassador Cellere, the latter pre« sumably about the details of the trim to Rome, To-night the Wilsons, Poin« cares and about fifty distinguished) Frenchmen and Americans will be the Suests of Ambassador and Mrs, Sharm st dinner, A reception will follow: FRENCH PEOPLE SAID TO UP© HOLD WILSON PRINCIPLES, President Wilson has been deeptyt impressed by the reception given hinm in Paris. Assurances are said to have come to him from what was regarded as a dependable source that the French people as a whole are sincers in thelr acceptance of his principles and will uphold them. It 19 mot necessary to assume, ace cording to the view of American oft~ clal circles, that the French people would go to the point of taking issue BERLIN, Dec 17 (Associated hundred boys and girls paraded through the streets of the city to-day on their way to the Reichstag building, where the Sol- and Workmen's Congress is They demanded votes for persons eighteen years of age, the abolition of corporal punishment in schools and the participation by chil- in the administration of the Government and schools, The march- Press),—Several diers’ betng held. dren How Germans Bombed bes nein ee ee fi ain ero carried red flags and incendiary | with their own Government if it were Plainly Marked Places, © [otc ny come cmos’ SetMR | placards necessary to support President Wil~ dae is | rT lee Smith and in A seventeen year old lad made an/| son, for it is the belief of the Amerie Be emia ec bea | MUMBEF OF precincts Governor Whit-| gadresy warning the executive com-|C® representatives that no issue of jman failed to get a single vot mittee of “terrible consequences”, if that kind can arise, | hospitals pack of the British front and) yy the Seventh Hlection District] eh» jyvenile programme was not The view seems to have gained RUA Ate oe a MInS| Teen eid ae j progr car-|gtrength following the first inter | sa tala docdas: bY two American | . ‘| ried out, The chairman of the execu-| yiew between President Wilson and en who. from July, 1917, un.|i* ¥@# reported at noon that not &! tive committee declared his sympathy | Premier Clemenceau. There was m nd of the war were attached vote was cast for Whitman. with the children’s demands, Later lack of warmtb in the French states- to the British Army They are Lieu In Blection Distr N », In the! the procession halted in the square man’s appreciation of the Amer- J. Karl Bloomer of St. Louls and Iieut.| West 47th Street Publi Bullé-lin gront of the Reichstag butiding, | mM" Pomdem 1 was reported, 1t/Res William Findley of Graham, Mo. ing, all were for Smith, District No, | where youthtul orators demanded the | N# ‘adioated that Bis attitude wae When they first went to France tney| 31, No, 731 Tenth A reported the |femoval of Premier Ebert and Phittpp | Meas the sympathetic, were attached to the hospital at Co- at t Sche r ed the} an the ennpeomnens be Wie Saeay babi basa tareab yp aie melee epi Dm for t « for White maneanian the National Assembly Paris and the persona! examination he ¢ man. x , bas made into the situation here 000 wounded, Comiers ‘was fe In the Twenty-third Awsembly Dis- |4"@ threatened @ juvenile strike) 28 Go wie. nee o back of the fighting lines and the hus-| tri on Helghts throughout Germany if their demands | President Wilson has come to under~ | trict, the Washington Heights section. stand why the Peace Conference can- pital was plainly marked by gizaatic| out of a total of 54 votos cant it waa | Were Not immediately accepted. not got under way before the first of red crosse: |said that 34 were for Smith and 20 the i e cs - appeared over the hospital which was] In the Twelfth Assembly District, | seven quners | to the conference settled in its offices nd dropped veveral shells. ‘Five| the soldier vote wus light ive ceca | rem todwing Howse Windows. |7o* terete ty TROOPS AND AE wouniled’ #oldlace Lieut. Fits voting place? ; BYRACUSH, N, Fy Deo. treEnree VIEW THEM IN PARIS. immons, un Ameri attac to vr ad ‘aa were burned to death tn @ lodging) Pregident Wilson's visit to the th ‘ f n Arm were ed to Fourte } y and f here ea this orning. American troops at the front and his vom Comlers, Drs, Bloomer t of the Sixth A k D were injured, most them|review of them in Paris that is Findley were transferred to Et rhe 1 t i n windows of the burn-| planned will be out of the way by whara ihers-was aibaddalhed' honnlaed ng place w Twenty-five men werelthe first of the year. Meanwhile the This place Was unmistakably a hos | [1 w pe tt se ea eee Til ce wectly | informal conferences, which mean 80 pital and wa fusely marked for| the Seventh A . mH fle. beckevout Phase much and decide so much in laying jeu Germas Aron: the oeu : ssh ling rescues and naram|the groundwork for such a task as is ald post iatake 4 h ‘ before the Peace Conference will Nevertheless, on May: eatin oe ‘ Frank Nally and Fqunk| make progress. ‘The President is tae ' ‘ men, Were found in the|weeking to get acquainted with the ‘ Fo muccsed in, on 9 Pa unt t 1 Fate a . ae ree at n an|men with whom he is to deal so that rvch wquadron di i “4 Tho reaull will be reported by: th y ty {0 hospital. ne may discuss with the greatest the bull Nth EManhing ean Ge Rn) teats Sei v. “| freedom the problems arising and de- Haine 209 went a 7 soldier . wei | 5594 An rye de ocigy eateee 8 : ‘velop the value of the personal equa. low, their lives sad & per-cese Haitian othoe. other Mute gee evibin the President's point of i i ————.