The evening world. Newspaper, May 13, 1920, Page 1

CY BYIY aT he Evenin o Be Sure af ‘Gettin Worl Drder in Advance of § our Newsdealer ‘TO-DAY'S WEATHER—Rain, rid, | The “Circulation Books Open to All. | “Circulation Books Open to All.” ] TO-MOR SSS WN bs Mal Uh LX. NO. 21,432—DAILY. Coprtiayt, 280, Co, (The New York Wofld), . by The Press Publishing NEW YORK, THURSDAY, MAY 13, 19 20. Entered as Second-Ciass Matter Post Office, New York, N. ¥- dia in Motor Oil Has) 1-2 Cents in Last | Four Months. PASSED ON TO USER dends and Surplus Have plied Up Over $200,000,- 000 in Seven Years. By Martin Green. announcement of the Standard bompany of New York, “Socony,” advance in the price of gaso- dedlore of 1% cents a gallon, hing the public coincidently with ion of the annual statement ing net earnings for 1919 $15,000,- advance of net earnings for 1918, to curiosity as to what “Socony” charge for gasoline had it in- 4 ite net earnings $25,000,000 in- of $15,000,000. On Jan. 8 of this “Bocony” advanced the price of ine 1 cent @ gallon On March] added 2 conta o zallon, and the| increase of May 10 boosted the prod: | 4% cents a gallon in four months. Bocony” and the other companies the Standard Oil group are run- true to form. Sinco 1912, ven a sing Govarnment Aissclved the} pdard Oil monoply into thirty-| groups, for the purpose of cing the price of crude oily kero~ gasoline and other ol! products, idiarica have steadily increased, | the price of crudt oll, gasoline, ene and other oll products has dily incrensed. figures submitted by these nies since 1915 show that in Fy instance whero the gross prof-| for the year showed a substantial | se all Federal taxes wero n- ite, before dividénd allotments, bed at about the same percentage | the gross profits. WSocony” is a glittering case in 3 The capital stock of “Socony” 1) 4a $75,000,000, Since 1914 it has | P@lisbursed in regular dividends 947,250,000 and accumulated a ‘purplus of $93,327,000, a total of 140,577,000, which is about $10,- 000 leas than twice the par | Value of the capital stock, And in | 913 it distributed a stock divi- déhd of $60,000,000. Dividends and surplus accumulations have rolled up $200,577,000 in seven years. SHOW GASOLINE HAS DOUBLED | y | IN PRICE SINCE 1914, | ‘The average retai) price of gasoline tm New York in 1914 was 17 cents a| gallon. The rota) price to-day ts 34 cents al gallon. Experts in oil say the price (Continued on Tenth Pa e.) i} —— Classified Advertisers || Important! Classified advertising copy for The Sunday Werld whould be ia Tho World office Q-sr Be fore Friday will =| receding Publication vee the preference Shay setiaretyeks Bs Tasseedy rtieine ie TEUNSd gor tock ee ‘time 40 wet it. IS THIS PROFITEERING ? ROFITS OF STANDARD OIL "17 SWELL AS GASOLINE PRICE j RISES, DESPITE HlGn TAXES Ca |AMERICAN WOOLEN CRAIG SAYS ACID WAS USED TO ERASE HYLAN SIGNATURE Countersigned Crimmins| Check for $34,087 Before Error Was Discovered. MISTAKE AMOUNT. | Comptroller’s Sharp Answer tol | Berolzheimer’s Attack on His Office. | In reply to the charge made] {by City Chamberlain Berolzheimer |that Comptroller Craig was “incom- | petent and gullty of neglect of duty” in that ‘the finance department made an error of $30,000 in drawing up a warrant to the Crimmins Contracting Company, the Comptroller to-day turned over, to District Attorney Swann the warrant in question and all.othor papers connected with the transaction. In taking this action the Comp- troMer called the attention of Mr. Swann to the allegation that this war- EARNINGS NEAR TO 400 PER CENT. Within $1,000,000 of the Total of the Company’s Common Stock. WASHINGTON, May 13. N investigation completed A by the Department of Jus- tice shows. the American Woolen Company made a net profit of $19,000,000 in the first quarter of 1920, or within $1,- 000,000 of the total common stock capitalization of the company. According té the informant the investigation of the Amnfertcan ~ Woolen Company was begun two months ago, following the receipt of charges thgt it was profiteer- ing in necessities, On the basis of $19,000,000 for the first quarter, the American Woolen Company would earn total profits of $76,000,000, or nearly 400 per cent. on its total omumon stock capitalization, dur- img 1820. The Eveging Worki on March ¢ \eat culied w the attention of At- \uwesy General Palmer the enor- Nene exratngs of the American Woolen Company, with the in- quiry, “le Uuis profteering?” —— SeTEE: GREAT SILK MILLS MAY BE SHUT DOWN Reductions in Number of Em- ployees and Hours Follow Reduced Orders. PROVIDENCE, May 13.— Most of the silk mills will shut down in the near future in all probability, aocord- ing to advices received here. Nearly a the mills have shut down to a three-day-a-week basis, and have shut down all night shitta, ‘Two of, the largest silk mills, the Pennsylvania Textile Company of Pawtucket and Central Falls and the Fortana Silk Mill at Central Yalls have made radical reductions in help employed. The former has reduced operations to a 50 per cent. basis, and the Ifftter has cut down to three days a week. PROFESSOR SHOWS TATTERED COAT AS WARNING TO UNION | Ripley of Harvard Tells Workers If Public Is Ignored It Won't Buy Clothes. BOSTON, May 18, XHIBITING the tattered lin- ing of his coat, Prof. Will- jam D. Ripley of Harvard told the Amalgamated Clothing Workers’ convention here the Public could not afford to buy clothing at present prices. ‘The workers had just pledged themselves to cut their working hours to forty a week at present prices. “If you will look at the clothing n one-half of the pec ple of the country to-day you will gee that It is worn, old, or ma over,” said Prof. Ripley. ‘If in saving yourself and the manufacturer you ask large prof- fits to divide up between you and forget us, we, the public, will not and there will be nothing to f rant was signed for both the Meyor and the City Chamberlain and that after the error had been discovered efforts were made to “obliterate and destroy the evidence of the action on this warrant in the offices of, the Mayor and City Chamberlain.” According to Mr. Craig acid was used in an attempt to remove the counter signature for the Mayor and that an attempt counter signature for was made by heavy pen.” | In his statement Comptrotler Craig eaid: “The statements contained in the | tetter of Chamberlain Berolzheimer to “scratching with a given out for publication’ May 10, 1920, do not tell the story uf the Crimmins warrant. From the can-|} celled and mmutilated warrant just sur- rendered by the Chamberiain, it ap-| pears that although there was clerical error evident on the face of the warrant, in that the amount was| correctly shown in one part of the| warrant and incorrectly copied in another, 0 that the figures on the warrant showed that it was for §3,- 487.69 the amount was described 1 words as $34,087.69, it was neverthe- | legs countersigned for the Mayor. “Moreover, this very warrant was accompanied by a tally sheet upon | which the proper amount of the war- rant was correctly shown, After the warrant was countersigned for the Mayor, st was sent from the Mayor's office to the Chamberlain. “In suppressing material facts the Chamberlain has attempted to excul- pate the Mayor from responsibility for the countersigning of the warrant and himself from signing the sub- joined check without which the war- rant was of no effect, The warrant and the tally sheet accompanying it |show a manifest error of $30,000. to obliterate the} Berolzhe!mer | Mayor Hylan. dated May 8, 1920, and |* WEEK AREAD AUECKERT MURDER PLANNED BY ASSASSIN; REVENGE DECLARED MOTIVE | Exact hoveninie of iver MI 1 Discovered in Detail by Evening World Man. FLED OVER THE ROOF. scaped Through Basement of House Next Door—Alien 1s Hunted. The methods employed by the us- sagsin who entered the apartment of Fritz Ernest Rueckert in Hoboken early last Sunday morning, shot him and escaped, were to-day discovered in all their details by an Evening World reporter, When thene din- coverles were laid before Chief: of Police Hayes and Inspector Kiely of the Detective Bureau, both admitted that they were correct to the least detail. Rueckert was shot by a man who |came over the roof on the weather worn strands of clothesline which were found dangling by the kitchen window after the murder. He es- caped over the roofs, reaching them by an toner stainway, and, descend- ling inte the house adjoining that Jn {which Rueckert lived, had thence no eiMculty lo getting away. The discoveries of The Evening World aan set aside the belle once advanced that the assasvin must have had a key to Rueckert’s apartment and also that it was the work of a clumsy interned sailor looking for booty. The work of the murderer was characterized by the utmost cau- jtion, skill and preparation, and points more than ever to the idea | that Rueckert was murdered for re- venge, SLAYER LOOKED OVER GROUND WEEK BEFORE. To understand the elaborate pre- cautions made by the killer, when he had determined upon the crime—for it 1s certadn that he went upon the roof over Rueckert's apartment « week ‘before the actual crime, evi- dently to look over the ground—it is necessary to describe the position of the house. It t# at Nos, 1127-29 Washington Street, adjoining the house at No, 1131, which is one door from the corner of 12th Street. Rueckert's apartment is on the top floor of No, 1127-29. The roofs of the two houses adjoin but are marked oft from each other by a picket fenoe. On the morning of the murder the assassin entered No. 1131 and as- cended to the roof, going out upon it through one of the usual pent- | houses to be found on apartment house roofs, There he tore a num- “After the Chamberlain had de- | (Continued on Second Page.) — |SHOE PROFITEERS | ARE FINED $2,000 iatch on the inside of the pent-house | | Company Pleaded Guilty to Making | Unjust | and Unreasonable Jufendant f making un narges for MEXICO; mn and its effect | Untied states | ber of pickets from the fence, making |an opening through which he could) | readily pass, One of the pickets he} took back to No, 1131 and, thrusting {it through the handle of the drop- door, fastened it so that could not be opened from the out- side | Then, leaving a picket in readiness | | (Continued on Second Page.) oe \Textile Workers Accept 15 Per Cent. Tncremse. FALL RIVER, Mass. § aix union ¢ the National A mation of xtile Workers cided to accept the manufacturers’ | cfter of a 16 per cent, increase in wages, ANE. AT 18 SURE RELIKF—WAY IT's | WEddieus tor iudiacstion eave. 2h Racing Entries on Page & ‘ the door | GIRL, 10, AND BOY ‘SHE ELOPED! WITH ~— ARE HOME AGAIN Romance Ends When Their | $5.45 Capital Vanishes After Visit to New York. Ten-year-old Vera Turten and hier thirteen-year-old champion, Roy Da- vies, are back at their homes in Arlington, N. J.‘ after an interstate adventure. ‘They said they «10; Hay the night of their disappear night, private garage not far from the boy’s home. The next day they made a pilgrimage to New York, the girl pay- ing most of the expenses because she had $5 and the boy had only 45 cents. In the afternoon they went to New- ark and last night they say they slept In a shack in Heller's Field at Newark, where the maji airplane lands. They were exhausted, tired of adventure and glad to get home. Vera {s the daughter of Mrs. William Turton of No. 70 Laurel Avenue, Arl- | ington, N. J., and Roy ts the adopted ; son of Mr. and Mrs. Davies, No. 63 Washington Avenue, Arlington, The Davies family took Roy from the State not legally adopt him. Accordig 10 the Davies family {t was planned to send him back to the home yesterday On Tuesday night the boy went to the Turton home and kissed the iIttle girl, ‘Phen turning to Mrs. Turton he said: joodby; I am going back to the Home to-morrow. The man {s coming to take me." On Tuesday Vera camo home late from school. Her mother refused to let her go out after dinner on this} account. The girl received permis- sion to go out on the front stoop after Roy left to call the family dog. Sho did not return and her mother suw her playing in the Davies yard | with Roy. The two children disap- | peared soon after this, With an express wagon, laden with all the boy’s clothes, three dresses and three pairs of shoes belonging to Vera, they went toward the Passaic River, On Wednesday morning they garage on the river road, A nelghbor reported having seen the children on an rte ferry boat from Chambers Street, Manhattan, to Jersey City yesterday afternoon. He lid not talk to them because he had not heard they were missing. Neigh- bors and the police searched for the boy and girl all last night without |wetting any trace of them. Accord- Jing to some boy companions, Roy |had hidden away some canned goods which he was going to take back to | the Home with him, PEARLS IN LONDON | BRING TOP PRICES « LONDON for a Gispored of by " iflcent rope 00 wnd one 00 pounds a KSTACRANT, % May May 12-—A necklace new record for Another sixty pearls | realized oat gos a os are, Home for Boys five years ago, but did | were seen coming out of a private | told them he had saved up $65 and} EIGHT-CENT FARES “ON LINES OF B.R.T. Request of Garrison to Service Commission Is Forwarded | to Mayor Hylan. se ste POW SRS Ci ED] lind reased W ages of Employees | One Reason for Charging More Than a Nickel. M. Garrison, receiver tor | lat New York Consolidated Ratlways Company, which operhtes the B. R. | T. subways, to-day filed with Pubite | | Service Commissioner Nixon an ap- | plication for an increase of the fare from 5 to 8 cents. Mr. Nixon prepared a trangeript of | the application and sent it to Mayor | Hylan along with a letter calling the Lindley | interests” in the properties afd Its “vital cortcern” in tho fare question. ‘The Mayor is advised that the appll- cation has been placed on file and t will be considered “in “due | course,” | Receiver Garrison in his applica- ion said the Public Service Comnits- sion has the right to Increase the fare | from five cents to eight cents and! that five centa is insuMcient to yield 4 reasonable compensation for the service rendered. Mr. Garrison critictsed the city for| not proceeding with reasonable dili- genc, in consiruction of railroads under contract No, 4. He changed that the delay on the purt of the city {has greatly enlarged the investment lof both the city and the company | with consequent increased charges \and Increased cost of labor and ma- ! terials. He cited the increased wages paid to employees. for the thirteen | months erfding Jan. 31, 1920, the op- erating expenses, taxes and fixed charges, including the sinking fund! on the Municipal Railway Corpora- | tion's bonds exceed the gross earn- | ings fram operation by the sum of | $1,419,606.47, i As a result of these conditions he Jalleged that the company on Jan. 1, }1919, defaulted in the payment of In- | | terest on $60,000,000 bonds. it was further set forth t eight nt fare would yield a erable increase {n revenue without} additional operating cost and that the increawe would yield not more than | a just and reayonable average re-| turn upon the value of the property and, further, it would yield no more than 1s required to meet the charges and taxes from revenues provided for | in the contract Mr. Garrison toole the view that the | Commission has the authority now to | | authorize him to charge and collect an elght-cent fare The right of the Public Gervice | Commission to raise fares where there | was a five-cent fare stipulated im the | franchise or contracts under which a | company is operating was settled em- |phatically In the negative by the \Court of Appeals in'the Rochester {case, and the Court of Agmpeals re- {terated its ruling last Septemb upon an application for a reangument | of that now famous case denied Jthe comrany wpplicall sald Corppration Counsel O'Brien, | “The same question ls raised in two | appeals Waich were argued before t ‘ourt of May 3 bt but adhere vy t tribunal ma Ap Uh wil of the reports that Pr loyd Georg make a visit} to United Statew some time this year, but ‘The ,World correspondent | learned to-day that the British Promier fede no plans of that nature. & recurrence mier may ‘ee ASKED BY RECEIVER Mayor's attention to the city’s. “vital | . | the | leged to have sold on April 12, Last, HlS FORCES IN TWICE THEIR £Di Mini Y PRICE TWO CENTS IN GREATER NEW YORK CARRANZA WON'T GIVE UP. ROW'S WEATHER—Fair. By tk His ia awn BLSEWUERG BATTLE WITh OWN NUMBER Mexican President Said to Have Lost 300 in Killed Alone, but Is Stub- bornly Keeping Up the Struggle and Personally Directing It. VERA CRUZ, May 1° —Latest advices from San Marcos, the village |neay which Carranza, the fugitive President, the ettect that the battle was renewed is directing the operations. is making’ his stand, ‘are to to-day and that Carranza in person Tne revolutionary leaders estimate that he has lost as many as 300 of his followers, but the force at his command has in its Possession least twenty machine guns, which have enabled them thus far to beat off all attacks, ‘The'teaders here have ordered {wo-batterles af Tield ‘artillery to re- intorc> their forces, they add, and besides that a targe number of men dre on the way to aid those who have Carranza surrounded, 4 WILSON SUGGESTS AID FOR CHRISTIANS IN OTHER LANDS Must Be Helped to Realize Their Ideals of Justice, He Tells Baptists, WASHINGTON, May 13.—'"The Na- tion now faces nothing leas than the question whether it is to help Christian people In other parts of the world to realize their ideals of justice and of President Wilson said to-day in a message to the Southern Baptist Convention here. This was accepted as a reference to the peace treaty, although It was not specifically mentioned, a> ieee INDICTED FOR 100% POTATO ATO PROFITS Charles H. ad Cal Carl W. Kimball Acoused on Two Counts by U.S. Grand Jury. A gross profit of more than 100 per cent. was tude in two big potato deals by the produce commission concern of Charles H, and Carl W. Kimball! of No. 202 Franklin Street, according to an indictment handed to Judge Augustus N, Hand in United States District Court by the Federal Grand Jury to- day. ‘The indictment charges that the firm which is one of the biggest in the cfty, paid $5.04 a sack of 165 pounds for potatoes, which they fatter sold for $11.50 @ wack, There are two counts in indictment, one for the amount of 49,000 pounds, which the concern ts al- a the other for the amount of 44,804 pounds of potatoes, which the indict- ordered peace," if|ures to the mi chauld FS tb it ia believed it will not ment charges were sold four days later. The purchasers were A. and 8. Kern- blum, of No. 117 Warren Street. The €ross profit of $3/600 on the forty-seven tons of potatoes was unearthed by George Bishop, an Investigator for the Department of Justice Flying Squadron. Assistant U. 8. District Attorney Max- well 8. Mattock {8 In charge of the prosecution, Judge Hand directed that warrants for the arrest of the dealers tasued at once. "| COST OF LIVING Is STILL SOARING May 18,—In the last ave locreased ap: nt, in t nited to investigations made t Departinent of Laber, Food. clothing and all necessities have in- creased approximately 25 per cent. In Pennsylvania, the department's figures TON, M4 per ording retary Wilson itted these conference One report is that the revolu- jtlonists outnumber the Carran- jatas more than two to one, having 14,000 men to 6,000 sup- porting the President. The area of the battle-feld ts re- ported to be appruximately five square miles, Terrific storms have swept the mountain region where the struggie 9 going on, and telegraphic comm nication has been interrupted in the immediate yicinity of the scene of battle. Gen, Guadaloupe Sanchez Nas sone to Experunzu with his personal ff and five trainloads of troops te co-operate in what is believed to be the decisive action of the’ rebellion. Esperanza is about forty miles south- east of Ban Marcos, Col. Carlos 8. Oragco, chief of oper- ations in the Tampico district, who was arrested when he arrived here on board the steamer Jalisco early this week, has been sent back to Tampico, He 1's alleged to have had publie funds tn his possession when appre. hended, and will be placed on trial (or embezzlement, ’ American destroyer No. 292 and the transport Maumee arrived here to- day. Gen. Obregon has spread broadcast by telegraph an appeal to the people to return to their customary voca- tions, In explaining the cause of the revolution, he says @ revolt was necessary “to liberate the country from @ regime which was breaking down the intellectual and material life of the people and which was vio- lating law: Filipe Sanchez Carranza, who was taken prisoner by the rebels at Tex coco, just east of Mexico City, has committed suicide by shooting hime self through the head. pnt GEN. TREVINO SENT TO SAVE THE LIFE OF CARRANZA Gonzales Seeks to Prevent Violence to Fugitive By the Rebels, MEXICO CITY, May 10 (Assock ated Press).—Gen, Jacinto Trevino left Mexico City Sunday night for Apizaco, State of Puebla, saying he would endeavor “to save the life of President Carranza.” Gen, Trevino was accompanied only by bis staff; He acted as commander of the vanguard of Liberty Constitu- tionalist forces who occupled Mexico City, May 7, He was commissioned by Gen, Pablo Gonzales to attempt ta save Carranza’s life, i