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ea. pamphlet devoted to instruction of SAILOR CHARGED WITH RUECKERT MU ‘TO-NIGHT’S WEATHER—Probable showers, “iyi To Be Sure of Getting The Evening World, Order in Advance from Your Newsdealer _ Che ‘f “Circulation Books Open to All.’ | Aa (The New York World). » MONDAY, MAY 17, 1920 Entered an Second-Ciass Matter , Post Office, New York, NET INCOME OF VACUUM OIL RUECKERT MURDER CHARGED TOSAILOR CAPTURED IN OHIO MORE SOLDIERS ~FROMENGLAND COMPANY MULTIPLIES Five. M2 REL ——_TIMESIN AS MANY YEARS ¢ Standard Orphan in Seven Years Pays $7,800,000 Div- | iN READY idends on $15,000,000. Demonsirations Continue in Londonderry After Two Nights of Rioting. HEAVY GUARD IN CORK. Countess Markievicz, Sinn Fein Member of Parliament, Makes | Theatrical Reappearance. troops from England were landed at Earnings Leap Since Its Dis-| PUBLIC PAY Bantry on Saturday and immediately solution Until They Have |Aistributea throughout West Cor, Reached $46,867,900. By Martin Gree. President's Board Told Reve- nue Will Have to Come From Increased Rates. ITY. the poor orphans—the | Standard O11 orphans—which | were torn from their parent, the | Standard Ol} Company of New ment and have been wandering round in a colg, but make money.| The Vacuum ATTORNEY 1914 hobbled GENERAL along on @ net in- PALMER. come of only ings of a measly $13.84 on each In 1918, after paying all Federal taxes, the Vacuum Oil Company produced) earnings of $10,392,075, equivalent to $69.28 a share. And the surplus at the end of 1918, after there had been deducted in an item of “adjust- ments” $5,480,223, registered at $43,- 646,791; Figures on the business of 1919 are not available. The capital stock of the Vacuum On Company has been $15,000,000 since 1912. The surplus amounts to almost threo times the capital stock. Reports have been circulated that the com- pany will, on a return of the country to peace conditions, 000 of the surplus to the stockholders tn the shape of a stock dividend—not | employees taxable—thereby raising the capital) Whittier. to $50,000,000. Some orphan! said, cannot-be expected to compete A igi with outside rates, cent for cent per|Were compelled to employ rowboats. Consideration, he declared, must be given to regularity and com- munity of employment ‘The peak of the cost of living has|Saturday and Sunday night between been reached, Mr, Whitter asserted, | Unionists and Sinn Feiners in Bel- and the board must t ake thig into |fast, despatches here said. Troops consideration, * Continuing, he said: | “With the forces now at work to bring about a reduction in the high |Kil'ed in Limerick Satuniny night is ‘ living cost, it is next to impossible | 4 to bdlieve that the peak in the in-|Feiners for treason, Iie had veen| FOR GERMANY FIXED} #'ven on the Fowler Bill, designed crease in the cost of ving hag not;cused of giving information to} been. reached; and a procedure that |British authorities and had been! would fix railroad wages permanently |Warned several times. | on the basis of the present living cost rolled by tho STANDARD OIL | could hardly be defended, Sinn or 4 “Unless some automatic principle is [pertanerlt fe the fn i ion of Dublin, whose whereabouts issolution of that corporation | ¢mbodied in the award of your board /® a | Se that will operate to readjust basic | has long been a myst rates as living costs go back toward |theatrical reappenranc unless some-!commandant’s unifo: NET INCOME MULTIPLIED FIVE TIMES IN FIVE YEARS. hour. Before going further into figures yhowing how the Vacuum Oil Com- pany, in spite of the war, which killed off & goodly portion of its foreign trade, and the income and excess profit taxes, has multiplied its net in- come five times in five years it is in- teresting to quote some history from business records. We take from a inyesturs these paragraphs: “The Vacuum Oil Company was in- eorporated on Oct. 4, 1866, under the | laws of New York. ‘The company was COMPANY OF NEW JERSEY until (Continued on Second Pag Class ified Advertisers i) may. uow bo | would | rates,” Important! Cwasificd advertising copy for The ||| is intended to as ta ‘The Sunday World should ‘World effice | should be taken w On or Before Friday °°" ape “Wor every hu Preceding Publication |\|*2%0 {0 '™, | sald, receives the preference day advertising ‘nae to be ||! CHICAGO, May 17. Jersey, in 1911 by | ers, through 1. T. Whitter, Chairman a drastic Govern- | of the Conference Committee of Rail-| way Managers, to-day told President Wilson's Railroad Labor Board here Gruel world ever|they were ready to grant wage in- since, all by their} creases to employees. lonesomes, unable] increase was not specified. i[t will be Mone throwing by the crowd, and at to do anything) left to the board. t Whitter urged a system whereby! Take the Vacuum | wages should be automatically in- Oi Company for! creased or ott as the cost o instance, | rises. or falls. i Wage increases, according to Mr.j{ Ou Company 1D | whitter, will be passed onto the pub- le in ‘he shape of increased rates in r and freight service. part of the new demands by $2,075,643, which represented €4rn-) .ooiosees the board probably will find justified by the rise in the cost of the 150,000 shares of capital stock. | | ieee Mr. ‘Whitter eald, who de- railroad owners would) stand ‘by the board's decision, Wage increases to employees in the last four years have totailea $1,300,000,000, | Xchange of party crice with stone) or 63 per cent, he said. “We are here in good faith and| not to argue that all of the workers’ requests should be denied,” he aid. “We appréciate fully that the in- creases receiver: by some employees in the last five years have not been commensurate with the increases in the cost of living.” That wages paid workers in nine distribute $35,00,- | other industries are higher in locali- ties than those received by railroad admitted by Mr he The extent of 35 | | passenge! el the pre-war basis, or thing is incorporated that will provide jan open for a review of the award after some |in memory specifted period, any wage rates that{Irish Republican Parliam your award|were executed or killed during the| permanent [rebellion of 1918, o suid, does not mean that it/residence of Mrs. ver cent, increase te last two years. where they will be stationed at points five miles apart. Troops also arrived at Skibbereen, They com-' mandeered several buildings there, | including the Town Hall, which was made their headquarters. | LONDONDERRY, May 11.—Lon- donderry, after two nights of riot- Ing, wan ogain the scene of riotous demonstrations to-day. The city was in @ state of high téNHsIsh; and there were many encounters between Sinn Felners and Unionists, Thero was ong point Sinn Peiners, the police reported, fired shots at two Union- ist ex-soldiers. Hundreds of the military, with ma- chine guns, and police, with rifles, were ordered to the usual danger point, between Tiridge and Fountain streets, Bottles, bricks and pistols were freely employed by the combatants | more shop windows were broken. Groups of men and women in unionist quarter of Fountain Strect and similar groups in the Sinn Fein quarter of Bridge Street, followed an and bottle throwing. Then more than | one hundred revolver shots followed. | mer soldier named Doherty, three others were wounded. When tle he tilitles broke out the police in the dis- turbed area were withdrawn and for a few hours mob law was supreme Armed and masked men, who held Carlisle Bridge as a sort of “no man's land” Saturday night, took possession again Sunday night and there was indiscriminate revolver shooting. Na- tionalists who previously had used the bridge to reach the waterside LONDON, May 17.—Two men were killed and several others, Including a police inspector, wounded tn rioting Accusation William Schlager, once « transat- z . lantic galior, later a walter in Ho- His “Baby’s Night” if boken and known along the water- He Gets Out. “Red Berlin” Willie,” was formally charged'to-day| Deputy United States Marshals with the murder of Frits Ernest |Whalen and Dempsey took Nicky He wae arraigned before| Arnstein to-day before Judge Knox Recorder Carstens vy Inspector Kiely | to give Nicky a chance to punge him- of the Hoboken Detective Bureau, |self of contempt by promising to who asked that the prisoner be re- answer questions in the bankruptcy ‘Thursday and held | proceedings to find out if he hes hid- without bail on the charge of murder. |dem funds ‘which could be seized by No complaint against Schlager had|the surety companied in making up been written out and when this was |iosses on account of thé. 95,000,000 called to the attention of the Recorder |bond and etodk:robberlés dn which he is charged with being implicated. If “Berlin manded until he said that the charge would be put into writing immediately. was then taken back to police head- | migsioner Gilchrist. quarters and locked up. vas arrested in Youngs-|he must go back to Ladlow street Bchiager hither he went the morn- ing after Rueckert was ahot to death in his apertment in Hoboken. He had |demanded in addition to the $75,000 told friends where ho was going 90 {already furnished in the New York ‘Meulty about finding | State courts. wed at first to come back ag daghited they threats | States Marshal McCarthy's office that nd he consented, He was this morning by Policeman Forsythe of the Second Precinct as pel ee eae eae | would gut tis ball higher, than ,- ‘ slag m8" | O09, Anked what he would do in’a revolver was found the morning | (0% 4 of the murde When Rueckert's body was exam-| im going straight home to see the sned 18 was found to be marked with]... mpo-morrow night I'll go to the several deep goratches on arma hands] 5°07 nq ges Pannie—sho always the ‘result of the struggle he) | kes me laugh. But to-night ie the| baby’s. Fannie wanted to bring her| cumbing. A long deep scratch was " treet, but I wouldn't | found on Gchlagers heck,’ tue police | 27> .ncciaw Stree He accounted for it by saying (Continued on Second Page.) that he had received t handling pig a iron at Youngstown. The Hoboken police are sure there was n in last night's encounter and many | In addition to the killing af a for- | the murderer before suc- murder of Rueckert. bought the revolver at Cohn’s pawn- shop was not the man who did the — shooting, tiey said. Schlager was not identified by any of the employees of the shop as the purchaser, whose name was given as Charles Berger, of Follies.” The man who |finally restored order. believed to hav gia Markievicz, Sian Fein member of Patrick's divi- meeting of the men | The police on March 12 raided the monn De slwite of the Sinn Fein leader, us the {search of the aba | ‘The police barracks in Gonu ré|town, a village of County Meath, Balbriggan, were attacked unday morning, THE WOULD TRAVEL BUREAD, No. 618 Bloomfield Street, Hoboken. (Continued om Second Page.) TOTAL INDEMNITY James Dalton, who was shot and | been shot by Sinn| DUBLIN, May 17.—-Countecs Geor-|This Is the Sum Agreed Upon at] tes. Anglo-French Conference Paris Reports. made 2 PARIS, May 17. lad in a} » yesterday at} Croker Pari | of the; nt who} hero that the Angio- French conference at Hythe, ut $40 a barrel in the near future which closed approximately pointed out, to discount vee > 40 | nit her to settle her ¢ United States and the | peg —- ee ise a herein” | eeggstem nets nei Stes, Brut |ARNGTEIN EXPECTS rom Youngstown. Sat ory mec | 9094000 MORE BALL On His Deathbed. Says He Will Make To-Night Arnstein agrees to anewer the ques- tions he will be taken before Com- Refusing to answer the questions Jail untesa his wife, Fannie Brice, the actress. and his friends can find the ‘A report was brought to Arnstein while he was waiting In United superseding indictments were to be found against him in the State courts, He refused to be worried, he sald, because he thought no judge if he were released this afternoon, he said: that| SEES EGGS AT $3, at least two men were involved in the FLOUR AT $40, WITH DAYLIGHT SAVING Engulfed in Their ALBANY, May 17 RGUMBENTS for and against A daylight saving were ad- vanced before Gov, Smith to-day when a hearing was * he: to repeal the daylight saving law, AT $30,000,000,000) aimough it contains a provision giving local option to municipall- One of the first speakers in op- position to the present law ‘was Herbert Myrick, editor of Farms ind Markets, who pictured butter official | at $2 @ pound, eggs at $3 a dozen, potatoes at $15 a barrel and flour decided | unless everything 1s done to aid total which Ger- the farmer in production food- many should pay as reparatoin stuf, A food famine next win- would be fixed at 120,000,000,000 ter, he indicated, is not imposwible 30, - ¢ conditions do not chang ORIN via Med in thetr own follle -day insist upon light so as to give imposes already aggering under conditions." £25,000 bail which Judge Knott has | Repeal of ‘Law Attack DRY LAW DECISION POSTPONED; COURT RECESSES TO JUNE 1| U.S. Supreme Coourt Hands Down Other Decisions, but None on Prohibition. WASHINGTON, May 1. 18 Supreme Court failed again to-day to decide the validity of the Prohibition Amendment and tho Volstead En- forcement Act and rocessed until June 1. Several decisions were ‘handed down by the court but none bear- ing on Prohttation SUGAR IS BOOSTED. CENT A POUND BY TWO REFINERIES Riley Asks Washington to Re: voke Licenses of Three Big New York Brokers. Announcement was made to-day thet the American Sugar Refining Company has advanced sugar refin- ing'prices T cent a pound to a 20%- cent. basis for bulk granulated. The National Sugar Refining Company, it was sald, has made a similar ad- vance. ‘This seems the net result up to date | of Attorney General Palmer's an-| nouncdment last week that hereafter | the Department of Justice will atlow | wholesalers not more than one or re- tailers more than 2 cents’ profit on & pound of sugar. A. W. Riley, heart of the travelling investigators of profiteering for the Department of Justice, announced to- day he had sent to Washington a rec- commendation that the licenses of thres large sugar brokerage firms of this city be revoked. He explained that licenses are still required of sugar brokers even though the Sugar Equalization Board was Wseoutinued. If these brokers attempt to do business without licenses they be- come Hable to prosecution under the Laver act, with penalties of two years in prison and a $5,000 fine for each transaction, Riley sald. The Federal Grand Jury in Brook- lyn returned @ series of indictments before Judge Chatfield to-day against Armour & Co. and Harold G, Mills, assistant superintendent (five counts); the Wilson Company and Lonis Jo- seph, manager (five counts Co. and William Cleary, manager (seven counts); Morris & Co. and George W. Ebfers, manager (one count), and Morris & Co. and James BH. Nash, assistant manager (two counts), and Cudahy Packing Com- pany and Oliver H. Saunders, assist- ant manager (four counts), ‘The indictments of the first three concerns were superseding charges including new informations against them in addition to those contained in @ previous indictment, ‘The packing houses and their em- ployees are charged with making un- just, unfair and discriminating charges in business with Brooklyn butchers, Each transaction is repre- sen ment and the penalty may be two years in priaon and a fine of $5,000 Demurrers on previous indictments jare to be argued Wednesday,-and it la understood that persons named tn | the new indictments will be arraigned | at that time for pleadin, a Bread Is Soarce ip Madrid. | MADRID, May 17.~Gread was again scarce In Medrid yesterday and read Ines formed efore the bukeries and |mfliers’ establishments to obtain the smal] quantity available, ‘The millers declare that the stock of flour tn the Jeapital is insuffictent to supply the! population, ~ = Six Bellans, het water, Sure Relief, Don't TO-MORROW'S WEATHER—Probable showers. PRICE TWO CENTS.| tmee cexrs IN GREATER NEW YORK TROOPS DESERT CARRANZA “REBELS SEIZE HIS CABINET, BUT HE REFUSES 10 GIVE UP Many Women and Children Who . Fled Mexican Capital With the Deposed Chief Left in Trains When They Are Abandoned. MEXICO CITY, May 17.—Members of ‘Carranza’s Cabinet, the entire nymber of whom have been captured, are expected to atrive here FLSCWHERS it is believed that with them will be a trainload of civilians trom | San Marcos, State of Vera Cruz, where fighting has been going on between Obregon’s forces and those of the recent Government. With the fugitives are foreigners who have heen trying to get out of thd 7 Carranga’ hinwelf i@ said to bave) eseaped to the mountains on horse ; back. No other details of the gapture ot his Cabinet members weré given. ‘The attack on the Carranza Ministers, | Who wore endeavoring to protect thelr chief, ended tn.“ complete triumph Constitutionslist NIXON ENJOINED B. R. T. FARE BOOST! : i Injunction Obtained by City Re-| strdins Him From Taking Any Action in Increase ‘Plan Supreme Court Justice Whitaker Party.” Revolationists have captured 3,69 * this afternoon granted a temporary | injunction resteaining Publjc Service, Prisoners with 24 tralus, 4 plecns of Commissioner Nixon from taking any | artitery, 200 machine gui action on the application for an eight-| TW€antity of ammunition and goid and silver bars, one airplane and mapy automobiles, cent fare order asked for by Lindiey M. Garrison, receiver for the B. R, T.| Corporation Counsel O'Brien, who ob- | tained the writ, will go before @u- preme Court Jnatice Tierney ‘Thurs- day and endeavor to have the stay made permanent. Mn O'Brien cited thay the B. R. T.| wus a partner of the city, which has | Put up $10,000,000 under Dual Sub-| way Contract No. contract expressly stipulates that the fare shail be, five cents and no more. Giving specific reasons for his be- Uer that the B. RL T. {9 seeking an cight-cent fare through an order by Nixon, Mr. O'Brien quoted Commis- sioner Nixon's letter to Mayor Hylan in which the Commissioner sald: “As the company !s operating the | subways under a leabo from the City of Néw York, this Commission for the present will take no other action he application on file.” maintaining an almost stoical “calm, went to Gen. Myrgula and suggested it would be ‘best to surrender. ordered burning of the Government from the capital. Murguia, seconded by Luis Cabrera, Carranza’s Minister of the Treasury, bertuaded their chief there was still @ chance to fight their way out gud escape into the mountains, Many prominent leaders and citi- zens, who had flea from Mexico City Presidential abandoned, Some wounded were jeft on the burning trains, rescued by the revolutionists, bodies of two dead lederal Generals were found on the battlefield, women and children were abandoned. Deapatches drew a tragi-comic pie- ture of the flight of Carranza’s band. Juan Barvigan, youthful Chiet of Staff, minus ‘his gaudy uniform, was trying frantically to crank a small automobile, Ignacio Bonilla, former Ambassador to the United States and the man whose candidacy did more than anything to being about the crisis, had lost his. horse and was described as rushing madly among the soldiers, erying: “A thousand pesos for a horse!” Riderleas horses, frightened by the din, raced over ‘the battlefield, but Bonillas pursued them tn vain. —~— THOUSANDS DESERT CARRANZA’S ARMY IN FLIGHT TO HILLS Force of 10,000 Which Accompa- nied Him Suffered Greatly for Lack of Food. VERA CRUZ, May 17 (Associated Press).—Lack of food and water low~ ered the morale of Carranza’s men ae that their defeat at the hands of ue was a comparatively easy task, says a despatch from the Associated Press correspondent in the battle zone, He had just been joined by a correspondent of the newspaper El Dictamen of this city, who was with Carranza when ho fied from | Mexico City on May 7, and witnessed 1980: much of the fighting around Gan Marcos and Rinconada, ‘When revolutionary troops swept 4, and that this than place t Swift &) GO OUT IN LONDON Tendency !s to Wear More Drapery and Expose the Neck May 17.—Low cut sages are no longer in good standing Even in Paris the style is said to be on the wane. Hem tho dresses aro showing more drapery than ever and even for day wear the throat 1s less exposed than Dressmakers are set- themselves more againat gowns and the dictum is generally ac- cepted by wearers of tho latest gowns. prea Ba $18,000 IN LIQUOR STOLEN, Om Truck With es Fer Brooklyn. 11-—A_ motor for long time, ted ‘by one count of the indict- | OLEVELAND, truck loaded with whiskey valued at $18,000 was driven away by Uquor thiowss this morning when Samuel Coha, chauffeur, left it while he breakfasted. ‘The truck was loaded with 120 cases of bonded whiskey, intended for medici~ which Cohn was trans portig by Government permit from a Kentucky distiller to @ wholesale house in Brooklyn, N. ¥. revolutionists nal purposes,