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»but tho LUEBEARD REVELS IN HIS WIFE-MURDERS Bec Spel dan R—Fair, . WITTE. To Be Sure of The Evenin Getting Worl Order in Rivenes to) Your Newsdealer ee or) — TO-MORROW'S WEATHER—Fair. VOL. LX. NO, 21,433—DAILY. Copyright, 1920, by The Press Publishing ‘Go. (The New York World). _NEW YORK, FRIDAY, MAY 14, 1920. Entered as Second-Clnss Post Office, New Yorks N. We Mattor PRICE TWO CENTS | IN GREATER NEW YORK IS THIS PROFITEERING? SURPLUS OF STANDARD OIL COMPANY OF NEW ERSeY Pur az AT MORE THAN $500,000,000 Paid 388.24 Per Cen Per Cent. on Capi- tal Stock of $100,000,000 in Seven Years. AND GASOLINE GOES UP. Boss of Oil Mammoths Hold- ing Its Own in the Financial World. By Martin Green. “Bocony,” as the Standard Oil. Com- Dany of New York styles itself, is one ‘ef seven Standard Oil companies which 5 dominate the gas- oline industry of the United States. Before the Gov- ernment dissolved the Standard Oil Company these corporations were all under one management, Now they operate as, separate con- ‘corns, but they are contriled by the same interests which controlled d ‘GENERAL Were, mensed in the parent monop- PALMER. ic The seven dominating companies @ro the Standard |" Company of New Jersey, the Standard Oil] Company ot ew York, the Standard Oil Com- pany of Ohio, the Standard Oil Com- pany of Indiana, the Standard Oil Kansas, the Standard Oil Company of Kentucky and the Standa Company of California, They control numerous subsidiary companies en- gaged in all branches of the oil and Ratura! gas business in the United States And abroad. The Standard Oil Company ‘of New Jersey owns wholly or in part no less than twenty-seven aubsidiary com- panies with a combined capital of about $11,000,000, Bach of these sub- Aidiaries submits separate bulk of the profits go to the Standard Oil Company of Now Jersey. However the Standard O11 Com- pany of Now Jersey, in its reports to the Government, includes only its transactions as an operating com- { pany. For that reason there is no way of getting at the actual pro- fits of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey through published reports or statements, The only figures open to inspection are those bearing upon its own trani actions. ‘These show that the old boss of the herd of Standard Oil mammoths sig holding its own, thank you. The Standard Oil Company of New Jer-, sey paid in dividends in the seven ‘ years 1912 to 1918 inclusive, 388.22 per cent, on its nominal capital stock $100,000,000. The capital stock was T Soiea fast year, but the company hag made no report of its operations * tor 1919, The latest report is for the ° our (Continued on Thirty cond Page.) TWAIN'S HOME. A “SHRINE.” HARTFORD, Conn., May 14, — The Stato Park Commission has the authority to take over the former home ef Mark Twain In this city to preserve it as ‘a literary shrine,” according to an opinion handed down last night py Brank E. Healy, Attorney General of | them when they| d Oil] reports, PARROT CURSES AS ROBBERS STEAL Weds Is Taken While Bride Is Shopping. When James Catenag, ex-service man, and his bride returned to their apartment at No. 362 Third Avenue yesterday they found’ tha bhe,.con- tents of their home had vanished as though by tnagic. This morning they sought the aid and counsel of their friend, William F. Schneider, County Clerk. “Polly.” hitherto an orderly parrot and a member of the Catenas house- | hold, i: seoms wus the only one gn the job, When the Catenas reached their home they were stopped on the stairs by the woman who lives on the | floor below, who complained: “What on carth is the matter with | your parrot? He has been screaming and ratsing bedlam all afternoon.” “Oh, he thick, strident wail from the floor above, and the Caienas ran upstairs. There they found Polly with a glassy eye glued upon the smashed remaihs of a kitchen chair, cursing. | When Mrs, and littered rooms which she had |left neat and homelike that morning [to go shopping, she began to cry. The Catenas had just furnished their home at cost of about $1,500, and the thieves left of the furnish- ings, only a broken chair or two and a number of pots and pans. Catenas left Polly philosophically cursing and began an investigation. No one in the house had seen or heard the looters. The woman on the floor below said that she had heard no footsteps nor other noises, only the strident, awful language of Polly. A funeral had been held from the apartment across the ‘hall on the same floor that afternoon at 2 o'clock Mr. Catenas learned, and he told Mr, had probably ‘broken in after the funeral. Catenas served with the 60th Field Artillery during the war. He owns a hat renovating business at No, 468 Sixth Avenue and County Clerk Schnelder has known the young soldier since boyhood. eo STATION “ROBBED OF $9,000. rn Agent in Spokane pio Insensibility. SPOKANE, Wash. , May 14.—Nine thousand dollars in a single package on its di Mt | was it acked silver the room WORLD RYSTAORANT Bpectal for to-day, Friday, ‘May 14, 1920- Brotiea |i ca deter ce cent Woo and ened Ga he der bie adi ise “adr jo sda bn. liste ALL THE FURNITURE sonnei Everything in Flat of Newly-| ! Oh, heck!" came Polly's! Catenas saw the bare | Schneider that he uhought the thieves | Just ‘before | of currency was obtained | midnight by two holdup men who beat ja d kicked the American Railway Ex press. Company agent at the Great| | according to the agent, H. A. Peterson, At the Emergency Hospital Peterson lared the men were able to enter t EA REBELS TAKE THO TRAINS | ir resident’s Torcin Eoeperatety| Attempting to Cyt Their Way Northward. |MORE W. ARSHIPS SENT. British and French Cruisers at . Vera Cruz in Addition to American Vessels. CRUZ, May 14. Press.)—Rebel attacks | position held by President’ Carranza near San Marcos, State of Puebla, | have been successful at some points, but the struggle still going on. Two more trains that were in posses- |ston of the President have been \taken, according to advices, A de- tachment of his men is attempting to cut {ts way out toward the north, and jt is expected the’main body of the Carranza troops will make an ef- fort to follow. Rebel reinforcements are being rushed. to the scene of the struggle, which extends oyer a front of ap- proximately three miles. No further news has been received from Mexico City as to the situation there, Tampico reports the Mexico City wireless station is being used only for transmission of official mes- sages. During lust night nothing was received by the newspaper El Dicta- men from its spondent at the| scene of the battle near San Marcos. W. A. Body, British Vice Consul for this city, is with President Carranga. Bfforts are being made by British and | ‘American authorities hore to reach | him, ‘They » arranged, through | naval commander Hiram Toledo of | the Mexican flotilla here, that Naval Lieut, Ambrosio llades will go on @ (Associated against the is cori ha’ special train to San Marcos, where he | will make an effort to get in touch | with Carranza’s officers and bring out | Mr. Body. | British und French warships made | their appearance here to-day for the | since the outbreak of the | vessels which arrived | first time | revolution, the being the French cruiser Descartes and the British cruiser Glasgow. The number of American warships at anchor in the harbor was increased to four by the arrival of the protected cruiser Dolphin from mpico. MEXICO CITY, via Galveston, May 14. — Representatives of leading} American and Bri h oll companie: have been in conference there to con- | sider requests ‘of revolutionary | leaders that taxes on oll exports for a certain period be paid in advance. ‘The amount requested, oil men said, was about five millidn pesos, They said they were holding the request under consideration be use of the/ uncertainty of the situation. Appointments for the Provisional | Government included Sanchez Azona, la Senator and former Minister to France, as Minister of Foreign At- | tairs; Aureliano Mepdivil, Minister lor the Treasury, and Gen. Jacinto Trevino as Minister of War. Gens. Obr nm and Gonzales were j Teported to have ugreed that legisla- | tive and judicial powers should con- | tinue functioning without interfe ence. A commission of lawyers at- | tended the conference |MEXICANS BRING $2,000,000 TO UV. S. Four Carranza Governors Said to | Have Reached Fort Ringgold, | Texas, With Cash, . 4 rin, May 14.—It is re- Gardena tines, who ‘ ur sued by (Gen le reached Fort ®inggald, Texai | They were said t have r (public tundas, \ | keep your back to the show." | how.’ * | pulled a chair up to the door lea men. One of them was William D, Roberts. “Hi, there,” called Roberts, “where BANDIT LOOTS FIGHTS 90 Gil KILLED AS ft JEERS THEM | Boards Tran and and Grabs $100,- | 000 After Forcing One Pos- tal Man to Tie Others. | * | IN HIS HOME, | TRAPPED Keeps Up Battle Until He’ Is! Shot Dead—Wounds Police Officers. CHICAGO, May 14.—Horacc v.| Walton, thirty years old, a former | postal clerk of &. Joseph, Mo., shot to death in hit apartment in a revolver fight with fifty Chicago patrolmen after'he had successfully held up the five clerks of a mail car on the Illinois Centra! Railroad near Kankakee and escaped with $100,000 in currency, The money was” redovéred.” “Two policemen who tackled Walton are seriously injured, * Walton boarded the train shortly after midnight. His experience in the service had taught him just what to do and no questions were raised when he represented himself as an inspec. | tor, When the train pulled out of Kankakee and the doors were closed early to-day he pulled a revolver and dropped all pretence, FORCES ONE POSTAL CLERK TO TIE UP THE OTHERS. “Here, you," he said to J. P, Walker, one of the clerks, “take those ropes in the corner and bind these other f lows hand and foot, I know what I'm | risking; one false move and I'll blow] you to Kingdom Come.” | Walker, ‘his hands trembling, did as he was told. Then he was him-| self directed to a big blue chest. | “Sit there,” said the robber,” and The other mail clerks say he tied Walker fast and then went straight to the currency sacks. | asy,” he said, “when you know He packed his satchel with bundles | said to contain $5,000 each, When the bag would hold he ing | o the vestibule and sat there for more than an hour until the train began to slow down as it reached the outskirts of the city, The mail clerks say he was silent. At 63d Street he dropped from the moving train, the bag and a fortune in hig right hand. Three blocks from the railroad he | attracted the attention of two police no more (Continued on Second Page.) Classified Adver CLOSING TIME 5.30 P. M. SHARP SATURDAY FOR The SUNDAY WORLD’S | Classified Advertisements || BRANCH OFFICES CLOSE BEFORE 5 O'CLOCK Positively no Classified Advertise- ments will be recelved for The Sunday World after 5.30 P. M, Advertising copy for The xund World should ve ih The World office ON OR BEFORE FRIDAY PRECEDING PUBLICATION | boken, | White Metal | No. | was in the Gates Avenue Court this MAIL CAR: CAGO POLICK; ‘MURDER GLUE SEEN IN RUECKERT HOME NEAR WAR CAMP RACE |Slain Merchant Owned Land Adjoining Keansburg Reservation, Pursuit of the theory that. brite Ernest Rueckert was miffderad in revenge for his pronounced @att-Cer- maniam, bis friendship tof t things American and his spe them by the purchase of tomas, “ied to-day to the discovery thir thi o4 owned a summer home at Beacon Beach, near Keansburg, N. J., adjoin- ing a former Government reservation. He occupied it during the time the Government using’ the reserva- tion for war purposes. There he had a seven- well fitted and furnished, and a two- car garage. He bought it two years ago from Charles A. Fnlle, President of the White Metal Company of Ho- of which Rueckert was Vice President. The adjoining reservation was purchased from the Government at the close of the war by a real estate operator with whom Rueckert, at the time of his death, was arranging for 4 further purchase to increase his room house, | plot of land, Rueckert weeks ago visited to-day the place and arranged two to | have it made ready for Miss Vorrath, whom he was to marry. Rufus East- ond, the gardener there, said to-day that Miss Vorrath, accompanied by her mother and brother, had often spent week-ends at the house. Upon his last visit the gardener declared Mr. Rueckert appeared worried and preoccupied. So far as could be learned there had never mn any merry parties in the house. Chief of Police Hayes of Hoboken said to-day that hie de} following out also the theory that for- mer German stockholders fof the Manufacturing Com- pany, whose stock was seized by the Alien Property Custodian, might have had motives for wishing Rueckert out af the way. Rueckert had ac- quired their stock from the Custodian, it was said, and had refused to sell it back to them. The police are seek ing the identity of these former stockholders who were residents of Germany. alee GUM-DROP KID” PELTS ACTORS AND THE POLICE| ssimistic Youth Finds Use Confection Never Dreamed of by Dr. Cook, Harry Miller, eighteen years old, of | 582 Evergreen Avenue, Brooklyn, morning charged with using gum- lrops in a way never discoveted by Dr. Cook The evidence yas that he went to a vaudeville show, took a gallery seat, and peppered the aotors with gum | drops. When was arrested he threw some at the cop and at th his supply at the Lieutenant ‘The gumdrops were no good and the actors were worse, und the police never were good for anything," Mil- ler explained to the court verthe- |leas he was sent to Kings County ‘Hospital for obwervation, artment was | for | HENRY ACQUITTED ON COURT'S ORDER; RESTORED 10 DUTY Judge Malone Holds No Open} Vice Was Shown in In- | spector’s District. OF JURY’S HANDS |Instructions Make No Mention $1,000 Paid for Aid on Hotel L OUT | ot ease, Inspector Dominick Henry was « quitted, of neglect of duty to-day 4 jury in General Sessions by direg- tion of Judge Malone. suspended when | indicted, was at once restored to duty | j Henry, he ‘was by Commissioner Enright and was sent back to command the Fourth In- spection District. Inspector Thomas McDonald, who had be@n substituting for Henry, was sent to the First In- |spection Distric | Judge Malone said he was “con- rethiedto ‘grant’ tive motion of W. Bou ‘8 chief couu- sel, it ke Cockran, Henr foré a dismissal that because had not shown Honry was knowingly permitting vice in his district letter of been or defiantly negligent in “To exact the very the statute by insisting that a faliure to achieve absolute perfection wa criminal,” Jidge Malone said, in of- fect, “would result in making the | holding of a public office mor dangerous than profitable.” Abundant mitted, the Judge sald, that there were places in the district to which immoial evidence had been sub- persons resorted; but none had been shown to be a menace to the morals of anybody except to the persons who | Inhabited these places and to othe who went to considerable t through secret and involved channel, to gain access to the “It has been shown,” said Judge Ma lone, “that there are no disorderly houses, as they are commonly known, openly operated in the Fourth Inspec- tion District.” | Immediately after the jury had com plied with the court's order without! leaving the jury box there was 1 rush of Henry's friends to congratulate him. Jurow mmented | on the failure of Judie Malone to men- | tion the transaction between land Ferdinand Delenne, former prietor of the Hotel de Franve, paid Henry $1,000 for aid in getting an he in departing. c Henry prop: who extension of « lease on the hotel, whigh }Henry had threatened to close and in |which Henry made an arrest shortly after the final payment by Delenne, “Ihe acquittal of Inspestor Henry | I will not have the slightest effect on my investi n of the Policg De- | partment,”* said Commi of Ac counts David Hirshfield. “I will con tinue to prosecute the oharges of | Astistant District Attorney th ! and the Rev. Dr of wham I will have before me to tell all they know about police conditions. “hese blustering and boisterous in | dividuals have failed to make good against Henry and there ts only on | thi ing now loft for them to Jim” and I raton ight to resis should make 1 publ | a MEN'S SUIT OR T e244 hing Cor comer Barclay Opp. Woolwor w well today and Saturday 2,000 inen’s and young n's pring Suite and aie In blues, browns es; sindle oF douple { CLoruinns, & | BUREAD, r dig, ots “Hare | How, “N.0N Cuy. Taiegtone eosin su, t power evdery aod tearellace ah oie 4 Cackles 1 “HAPPY IN KILLING WIVES,” BLUEBEARD WATSON SAYS; “Why, for Seven Months I Did Not Kill Any at All; I Have Always Been Gentle and Kind; I Love Kittens and Dogs and Children,” BY ROBERT EDGREN. (Special Despatch to (Copyright, 1920, by Robert Edgren.} LOS ANGELES, Calif., May 14.—I walked down the jail corridor® to Bluebeard Watson’s cell in the iron door swung open just enough |door closed behind me. Through the small square -peephole came, the muffled sound of the retreating footsteps of the armed guard. alone with the world’s foulest murderer, There he lay before me on a small iron cot, facing me squarely; staring straight at me with unblinking eyes that seemed to hold a world of menacing hostility. He hates reporters, /He blames the newspapers” for searching out some of the detail: If it were not for our prying into his affairs he might still be happily engaged in the gentle pastime of murdering helpless women and sinking their bodies in bottomless lakes, burying them in hidden canyons on the edge o, the desolate waste places where no man ever trod before where no man would ever tread again to discover what the wae coyotes might dig up. TAX ON $24,000,000 OF HETTY GREEN’S ESTATE FOR N. Y. Appellate Division, Reversing Sur- rogate, Si Transfer Levy Is Due This State, HE estate of Hetty’ Green, ale long known as the “richest woman in the world,” must . pay an Inheritance tax in this State, according to a decision of the Appellate Division of the Su- preme Court,’ The decision re= verses a decision of former Sure rogate Fowler and the Transfer ‘Tax Appraiser that Hotty Green had no capital invested in New York, Justice Edgar 8. K. Merrell wrote the decision. He found that Mrs. Green had formed the Westminster Company and the Windham Company through which she did an enormous loan tm eas in this city and that through the Westminster Com- pany alone she invested more than $26,000,000. Altogether, the Court held, $38,000,000 of the $100,000,000 on fortune was in- vested in this State, and at least $24 006,; was taxable here, ‘The amount of the tax will be between $1,000,000 and $1,500,000, An uppeal can be taken by the es- to ly by permission of a Jus- wf the Appellate Division or of the Court of Appeals. CHICKEN IN COURT LAYS EGG, diy When Man Whe er In Sentenced. Stole 141 to Tho Brening Work WINSTED, ¢ May 14.--Henry Jo wa need to six months tn ' { fined $100 and costs by Judge ' town court in Thompsonville ierdas pleading guilty to the t r t chickens from Hiram ens were brought to needed, Just as x punced the hens eackied loudly a ish pleased with t Het. W Patrolman Barton tried to stop the jubilation he found a vid eww floor Kx Was Laken to @ restaurant earby and coc or the pris > Racing Entri on Page 2 sg Watson lay there flat on his back, The Evening Wortd.) Los Angeles County Hospital, The to admit me and: I stepped in. ‘The 1 was s that helped to put him where he i is staring at me. No @oubt I stared at him. After days of trying [ had mans: aged to arrange for the first and only: private interview he has been foreeft |to give, except to the District Attors ney. And now that'l was here I hatett the task. Outside in the warm Call< fornia sunshine banks of roses nodded softly in the gentle breeze that crept up from the sea and rustled through: the fluttering leaves of the trees. Out there the alr was clean and pure, And inside— AS IF DEVILS HUNG about HIM, I began to notiée a peculiar thing. In this cell with Watson therq was a strangeness in the air. It was like ah odor, and yet it was the famillac howpital smefl or the smell of dead, confined air, for there was ventilation enough, Neither was it the smell of dirt, for the place was clean. I was puzzled over it. And as I stood look-~ ing down on tlie motionless form of the murderer, into the blank, wall-eyed stare of his pecullany flat faded blue eyes, an impression grew stronger and stronger. If there is such a thing as an odor of evil, of unutterable vileness, this was the thing now in my hostrils, I wondered if that smell was in the air when Jesus cast the devils’out of the herd of swine, I looked at Wat+ son and a new impression began to grow, It wasn't an odor, after all, but something almost like an odor; some- thing revealed to another sense. It seemed to me that the devils in him hung about like an invisible mist, surrounding him for a few feet, It seemed as if I was just at the edge of that mist, and that if I moved closer the evil forces would have me in their grasp. Unconsciously [ tightened the grip on my nerve forces to resist, So far not a word had been spoken, What do you do when yon Interview the most frightful murderer of help- less women the world has ever known? You don't offer to shake his impossible—that. Watson's hands, the cotton not the hands of & as | had heard hand. Absolutely I looked down at siretohed sheet, T | musician or an artist across coarse ey were, nem deseribed, They .were big hands; | bony hands, with Jong fingers and knuckles, lying open, yet sugs | large | (Continued on Page 26) ? S em “BEGAN ONLY 3 YEARS AGO” wie: amennemenein ae