The evening world. Newspaper, March 20, 1920, Page 1

) { TO:NIGNT’S WEATHER—Faln Get the Comity Back on Peace Basis ) ARMY OF 100,000 ” SOVIETS SET UP IN. YOu Lx. NC NO, 21,386—DAILY. Cworete WES new "Te NE Press Pul Fork World). TWO - YEARS IN PRISON FOR ‘SENATOR TR ger x w YORK, EXIT AT MARCH 20, ATTORNEY GENERAL GETS EVENING WORLD FIGURES ON MANUFACTURERS’ PROFITS Mr: Palmer Can Now Answer Query, “Is This Profiteering?” With These Comparative Charts of Profits and Dividends Before Him. ‘fhe Bvening World has printed during the past two weeks daily statements af the tremendous profits made and officially reported by big corporations and firms dealing with the manufacture of necessities. They ave been published with the headline question: “Is This Profiteering?” Therarticles have been forwarded to Attorney General Palmer. Tee Evening World to-day summarizes these articles in the form ot | of cheating at cards, was begun this charts, showing at e glance the corporation profits and the increase in surphas-of « number of the companies: AMERICAN HIDE AND LEATHER CO. ‘ Derg ts sakd to have won more than $350,000 were made public. | ‘The. only witness examined was 1 ‘ Jaco M. Silverman, & “dress mana- acs facturer, ving at (No. 1311 President Street, Brooklyn, who told of partici- pating in stud-poker games in Krohn- fhe net profits ineressed from about $2,010,000 in 19% to: about. $5,680,000 in 1919. © o ean In every dollar of scles the profit increased fron 6% eonts in 1914 t6 12§ cenis in 1919. Im torms of dividends on tho common stock, the eernings eveileble for distribution increased from 44 cents e ehere in 1915 to $15.52 a share in 1919. an rmrmmnrnmmn=m= AWDSKEAG MANUFACTURING COMEANY \ J ‘The net profit increased from $869,845 in 1917 to $8,691,833 in 1919. as Yn every Goller of sales the margin of profit inoremed from 2; cents in 1917 to 163 cents in 1919. Im terms of dividends on the conmon stock, the earnings aveileble for distribution increased from aif averace of $3.01 0 5 vetveon 1912 end 1916 to 2 shere in 1918. ~—eeeeeeeeeeereem=s> CORN PRODUCTS REFINING COMBATY distribution in camon 5 a GSel6 in 1915 to $25.06 in 1919 per share. The profits eveileble for @hvidonds increased oe ~ entinued on Page Twa) st ‘OOD BET THAT WON $12,000(8 TOLD AT KROHNBERS TAL Witness an) Alleged Poker Cheat Won Big Pot on Turn of Last Card. “READERS” ARE SHOWN. Complainant Calls Off Cards | in Court by Looking at Backs. The examination of Louis Krolin- berg, President of the Bijorl Waist Company, under arrest on a charge morning before Justice Kernochan, 01 the Court of Special Sesstons, and de- tails of the much discussed stud- poker tournament in which Krotn- ‘verg’s home, in the home of Joseph M. Gehenck, motion picture producer and husband of Norma Talmadge, and in various hotels. @Mverman identified a deck of cards, with which Kronberg was al- leged to trave won a $12,000 pot the night of Dec. 14. The cards had a fleuer de lis design on the back, the verious lines of the petuls being shaded 90 that if one had the key he coukl read the card face downward. Mr. Silverman, after testifying he took the deck after a suspicious play, called off each of the cards while ‘holding the face toward Justice Ker nochan and the back toward himself He made one mistake in calling the fifty-two cards Tells How Kronberg Won Part of $12,000. He then related the circumstances of the $12,000 pot. Of the seven play ers, all dropped out but Krohnberg and (Lawis when the fourth card had been dealt, Krobnberg, sitting on the left of the dealer, had one card “in the hole” as poker players expremw it, | and had a three, a nine and a four exposed. Lewis had his “hole” card unexposed and an ave, an eight and a ten in sight. Krohnberg bet $1,200. Lewis pushed in all the money he had in front of him, $5,700, thus cafl- ing Krohnbeng’s $1,200 and raising him $4,500 Krohnberg said, according to the witness, “You are a good fellow, 1 will call you,” and put in $4,600 more. “Lewis then turned over an ace in the hole,” continued Silverman said you can't | have better than two nines; I'll split | “and | got you beat, as the pot % per cent. to the loser and 75 | per cent. to the winner.’ Krohnberg refused to do this, Lewis then said (Continued on Ninth Page.) | |AMERICA’S GREATEST WARSHIP LAUNCHED, NEWPORT vs, Va., March 20 | The Mar and, ie Mat Py Ae nee for uaported rere | CAPTURES ESSEN; | EIGHT RHINE CITIES 1920, Post Office, New Entered an Second-Class Matter ‘ork, TO-MORROW'S WEATHER—Fai 12 PAGES. PRICE TWO rWO CENTS, N.Y, SENATOR NEWBERRY GUILTY WITH 16 OF HIS BACKERS, OF ELECTION CONSPIRACY eS @ Face Penalties of Two Years in| SENATOR NEWBERRY, Prison and Fines of ‘CONVICTED TO-DAY $10,000. OF ELECTION FRAUD HE REFUSES / TO RESIGN, Sixty-eight of the Defend-| ants in Case Are | Set Free. | GRAND RAPIDS, Mich, Mareh | —United States Senator Truman | H, Newberry to-day was sentenced to serve two years in the Federal| Prison at Leavenworth, Kan. for) election conspiracy. Newberry was also tined $10,000, Motions for stay of judgment were denied. GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., March 20. —Senator Truman H. Newberry was guilty of criminal conspiracy in the campaign of 1918, according to a ver. dict returned in United States Dis trict Court here to-day. The cave has been on trial for eight weeks, starting with 123 active defendants and finishing with 85. Found guilty with Newberry were GIRL BUYS BACK sixteen of his 84 defendants. NOTES TO DESERTER “Father TRUMAN Ban NEWBERRY. © by coveomar will not resign from the States Senate," Phelps New berry, son of Senator Newberry, sta ed to-day. The Senator said he would Bids Up Suitcase to $9.75, make a formal statement er in the Letters and day. ” . The others found guilty follow “All Over,” Only Comment. ORTHENSE SMITHSON H enteen, of Passa United Takes Throws It Away— Paul King, Detroit, Newberry campaign. who managed Frederick Cody, New York City due oh dmiees ch paveons At: legislative agent and’ Newberry's! tracted to the Barge Office to-day right hand man by the annual sale of the effects Charles Floyd, Grand Rapids, man- | of deceased, deserting and absent | sailors of the United States Navy De- | and Merchant Marine, paid little } attention to the mad chase for Asi Mitchell uger for the Newberry campaign Templeton, head of the troit Chamber of Commerce Hannibal Hopkins, publicity agent tor the Newberry campaign. Allan bargains until Supt | Mandea up a suiteAse to Deputy B. Frank Emory of Detroit | U.S. Comminsioner Price and the Darry O. Turner, Detroit | aken axed Gaow much ano E. V. Chilson, former Secretary of} wereds! State, of Lansing | © ‘That's it," said the young man Robert (M. Andrews, publisher. | wo accompanied Hortense and her Menominee. mother, Mrs, Edward P, Smithson, John 8. Newherry, brother of Sen and the girl carried the bidding ator ‘Newberry, who furnished $99,100 ng until the guitcise was for the campaign kn 1 down to her at $ Milton Oakman, Detroit, manager ircled ee murolaee tpt ofthe Wayne County Newberry com Hy ead 1, Gkaw tank & mittee packag eters, stuffed them William J, Mickel, Oahkosh, Wis nto she had ‘brought with Newberry worker h ew the $9.75 case to Richard lietcher, State Labor c t 1 missioner ‘Oh, t : sn’t anything Silas J, MeGregor, of Delt | . ss Smithson said, “ex Fred (Henry, Flint | I wrote every one of Geong: Ladd, Sturbridge, Mass, | I'm not going to say Immediately after le . passed this afternoon a fi} aer'wnen ne mame tie tow ve SUUNday World | Classified Ads. SHOULD BE IN THE WORLD OFFICE EARLY TO-DAY (Continued on Second Page.) > | DEMPSEY PLEADS NOTGUILTY With His peineo Court Answers Draft Charges Manager in San bry SAN FRANCISCO, se ea ee THI EARLY ADS, GET THE | NOGR HSH Rete ARDS Eee PREFERENCE WHI to the i argo that | ¢ ad I SUNDAY ADS. HAV Dempsey also picaded not guilty to|f| TO BE OMITTED : the charge that ho had evaded th AT NAVY AUCTION| | crime could not have SINN FEIN GUARDS SLAIN CORK MAYOR FROM POLE HUNT Refuse Give British Ofti- cials Information Regarding Mysterious Murder. to FLY REPUBLIC’S FLAG. Royal Irish ¢ With Bullets in Streets— Reprisals Feared. CORK, sensational Ireland, March this 20.—The murder morning Lord Mayor Mact in his home by masked men, has not yet been solved, but two days ago he received threatening letter which directed the Lord Mayor to iprepare for death, as he had heen doomed. Two hours before the Lord Mayor was muniered Constable Murtag of the Royal Irish Constabulary, was shot dead in the street. His body was riddied with bullets. When the police visited MacGuriin’s house to make ing purposes they were refused admission. The Lord Mayor's Body, draped in the Sinn Fein volunter uniform, lies in his residence, which is guarded by volun teers. ‘The body will Hie in state in the City Hall from to-night until Monday when a public ‘Two hours after force of military home and the body was lying inquiries for pat funeral will be the visited held murder a large MacGurin's room searched the where Thus far no motive for the murder It is held that the been committed by Sinn Feiners agi of their own number and many residents of Cork are expressing fear of reprisals which may all of Ireland. The murder of MacGurin follows an attempt Thursday night against the life of Prof. Stockle. Alderman in the ( the has been assigned nst one affect who was an ‘ork Corporation in Sinn Fein interests, The Sinn Fein flag floated at half mast over the City Hall tolday and purning card on the main en door bore the inscription 1 in consequence of the death of Thomas MacGurin, First Republi ean Lord Mayor of Cork.” Lord Mayor 1 o'clock this morning A half dozen men knocked at the door of the home of the Lord Mayor, Thomas MacGurin. “ Mrs, MacGurin opened the door tm. Some of them held her others ran upstairs to the 2 bedroom. They took hii to th ing and shot him in the chest then fled hurriedly, Mayor MacGurin, wns shot dead at and the men rushed while @ prominent Sinn | Sonstable Riddled NEWBERRY Y 40 O00 REDS INRUKR DISTRICT; EBERT GAINS IN SAKONY; 2,000 KILLED IN CIVIL WAR | Duesseldorf Taken by a Red Force of 6,000—Public Buildings in Leip- sic Shelled by Ebert Troops, Who Drive Out Communists, Killing 100 and Wounding 200. ’ LONDON, March 20.—The capture of Essen, home of tne Krupp works, was effected on Friday by a Spartacan army of about 100,000 men, with 77 guns and an equipment of armored automobiles, accord- ing to advices from Aix-le-Chapelle to-day. The Spartacans proclaimed 4 Soviet republic there. There was a battle lasting twenty-four hours in which 300 were killed before the Communists finally won possession, of the city, Essen was “elled by artillery in possession of the wotk- iagmen, In the Ruhr district the strength ofthe Reds 1s now estimated to be 40,000 men, with machine guns, motor cars and artillery. Government troops and civil guards are reported in Berlin des Paiches to be advancing into southwest Saxony. During last night the manufacturing city of Duesseldorf, on the Rhine north of Cologne, was captured by Spartacan forces, the Govern. ment troops evacuating it without a fight, Reports from Berlin last night said that 6,000 Reds were marching orf the city. The situation in the mining dis- tricts of the Rhineland are described , as atill extraordinarily serious. Sey. eral places are in complete control of Spartacans and Communists, their dominance being secured trequently only after severe fighting. In Cassel 17 dead and 64 wounded are reported, and in Nuremburg 23 dead aud @ wounded, Mulheim, southwest of Fesen, Ober- hausen, at the northwest, the Import- GERMANS CALL OFF GENERAL STRIKE Ebert Government Starts Back to Berlin on Special Train Tonight oncession to Workers. BERLIN, Press) March 20 (Associated The general strike has been | ended, it was announced here to-day. |*Mt Industrial town of EWvertield® to LONDON, March 20.—According ewe pak and Kettwig, ‘south of ulheim, are repo ‘ to Berlin advices received here this borted to have been uated by the small forces of gov- afternoon, ernment troops holding them after the Government bas ac cepted the worker’ demands, includ-| being defeated in fighting with the ing far reaching concessions to the|Sbartaeans. The government troope Independent Socialists, took refuge in part in the British zone STUTTGART, March 20 (Asso-|0f occupation, where they were dia. ciated Press).—The entire Ebert Gov- ernment, including Minister of De- fense Noske, will leave for Berlin to- night on a ape train. Gen, von Seecht, in command at Berlin, has sent a Wireless message saying that everything i# quiet in the capital, | The German cruisers Schwarzburg and Witlesbach at over without bloodshed this morning naval after nt troops in the station armed, the despatches state. All pow- sfble precautions are being taken to forestall any attempts against the Rhine bridgeheads. A messenger from Berlin says the Hert Government troops have bombed public buildings at Leipsic in An attempt to dislodge German work- ers’ forces, and several hundred per- sons have been killed The message says 100 were killed and 200 wounded in the street fighting in Berlin on Kiel were tal by sailors at the station, the Governm: Feiner, was interned after the Easter | had been disarr The officers of} pruryday rebellion. the cruisers were deposed and the! Later news via Copenhagen sayw A white fag was holsted over the vet|roinsic is being succepefully cleerie ‘Twenty-seven police and Government |sels, ‘The captain uf the Wittlesbach, 1h. toG08 of the reeuine unae oe employees hud been assassinated in| tho reports add, committed suicide by| py, roory OF the regular army | The Ireland since Jan. 1 of last year, ac-| shooting Ppeecrclldadiae Mb diatabe dM. cording to an official announcement i bin 2 bare _— oxneegs | made in the House of Commons | ingly heavy. More than 100 workmen Thursday by the Chief Secretary tor| AYLAN MEMORY A BIT HAZY. | raisin an attempt to capture the | {reland, James Ian Macpherson, The | ¢ Masall Aaures au states] Thomea. gohoo!, latest previous outrage in the Cork Pe in Scher? Poe ee Two thousand persons have been | district was perpetrated on the night] ta Hylan appeared before su-| Killed in the fighting incident to the of March LU, when Constable Scully! prame Court Justice Kelby in frooklyn|German revolutionary movement and was shot at Glenmire, |today examin n bef ail of | di es of the last week, .it is _— the action aguinat him for | W stimated in Berlin, according to the Bank Cashier Accused of Taking) n, Mayor Hylan ad-| iexchange Telegraph correspondent im hi hot ae ar wae that ¢ ial ane eM tac aie pie Bur 1ae tatuments made in Dis) Communists huvé occupled the stae V 4 Va, disclosed oa hi ie ity vege {HONS int stern section of Bertin 1 t ussiata sat ae nareotte [4d refuse to permit the resumption od Febery liket w of railroad traffic until their demands 7 ELL-ANS APTER MEALS and soo| det! uel ewwoud return i Fee ae ve Soa dew tee GOOD DIGESTION eaies pon Cake ame | Cana nase saya thet Admiral Levetaiwe3 an a supporte s ageved to. rosign ek ae WORK WONDERS, the dempatch said. 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