The evening world. Newspaper, May 18, 1920, Page 1

TO-NIGHT'S _WEATHER—Probabie Shower To Be Sure of Getting The Evening World, Order in Advance from Your DN oe ° Che _ [*Cireutation Books Open to All.’ »| 0 orld. - shonin! sel Mendes to All.” ] EDITION Copyrig! s . 1920, by The Press Publishing (The New York World). NEW YORK, TUESDAY, MAY 18, 1920. THREE CESTS BLSEweeKR Entered VAT MEME SVN AAS Fes Se PRICE TWO CENTS | IS THIS PROFITEERING? | OHIO UIL CO, 5 DIVIDENDS IN EIGHT YEARS MORE THAN FIVE TIMES CAPITAL STOCK o— Besides This There There Has Been |OHIO,OIL DECLARES a Stock Dividend of | ON™ MORE EXTRA 133 1-3 Per Cent. DIVIDEND OF $2.75 They Have Nevertheless N extra, dividend of $2.75 in addition to the regular . 4 | ea Cutting of Prices Hits Chicago, | Northwest. PIPE LINE ORPHANS | This : oie é Le al © noon-hour crowd was passing! Omaha and Other Cities |. sv. PAUL, Mint, May 18. 45 a } $1.25 Quarterly on $25 the United Cigar Store at Orange and * A. INGE of Stronge Tom From Their Parent} Stock Par Value. i i Se eee Ae eal in the West. oe ee | Cigar Chee tae Locked in Closet | Treasury ieee: Offici \MILLINERS MAKE ITING AU’ rO.| Says World Can't Do |° PRICE REDUCTION | ‘ — | Business on Present Basis. OF 50) 50 PER CENT. Policeman Keeps on Directing’ | Traffic While Robbery | BANKS USE PRESSURE. Will Apply to to Whole Chain of STOREMNEARK NATIONIIDE CUT IN PRIGES ‘rr AM FOLLOWS PUBLIC'S REFUSAL ~~ TO-BUY AT HIGH FIGURES After Armed Bandits Frac- ture His Skull. Is Committed. Stores Throughout the to-day announceg price reductions approximating 50 per cent. a traffic polle y-five ‘ : a traffic policeman, twenty-five feet! WasiINGTON, May 18—Price re-| away from the éntrance to the store,| auctions by retail dealers throughout | Original Charges Made by Sen- PE ACEO [RAT ci Peg 10 CURB RIOTS IV RELAND ces TROOPS GO BY THOUSANDS Officer Used Senator’s Lan-| guage, He Says, “Whose | Hand Moved the Ouija?” | ere rare Barbed Wire Net Planned to Hem in Districts Where Disorders Con- tinue—Concentration Camps Like Those Used in Boer War Suggested. LONDON, May 18,—The crisis in the north, west and south of {relard apparently was,developing rapidly to-day with all indications that Gen Macready had begun his long-expected campaign to restore orde in the island. CALLS IT ALL POLITICS. ator in Speech—Echoed by Sims, He Adds. WASHINGTON, May 18.—Senator Boles Penrose is behind the attack which Rear Admiral sims is directing at the conduct of the navy during the war, Secretary of the Navy Duniéls Done Well in the World. By Martin Green. Here is a Standard Oll orphan which has paid tn dividends in ight Years—191"-1919, tuclusive—tive and one-quarter times theepar value of capital stock out of profits and a stock dividend of 1381-3 per cent. in addition. It ts the Onio Oil Com- pany, one of the ttumerous brood of the old Standard Oil Company ot} New Jersey torn from the home of its parent tn 1911 by the United | States Supreme PALMER. out to do the best it could. ts not a regular orphan. Its :apital | ‘stock of $15,000,000, par value $25 a share, {s owned to a great extent by the shareholders of the old Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, who took | it over when the Standard Oil monvp- oly was disintegrated. Let us what Ohio O{l has done since it \vas condemned to independent effort in 1912, It ha paid to its shareholde proximately $79,200,000 in dividends out of earnings and has taken care of income and excess profits taxes besides. In fact, in 1917 and 1918, when the Federal taxes were iret imposed, the dividends were increased. The dividend for 1919 was $23 a share. DIVIDENDS IN EIGHT YEARS) AMOUNTED TO $99,200,000. It paid to {ts shareholders in 1916 the um of $20,000,000 as a stock dividend. ‘This amount was received, in stock from the Illinois Pipe Line Company, which bought the Ohio Oil Company’ pipe line and equipment in Pennsyl- vania, Ohio, Indiana and fMlinois. The shareholders have received in divi dends, cash and stock, in eight years $99,200,000. On Dec. 31, 1919, the net assets of the company applicable to the c stock amounted to $78,415,864 or $130.69 per share of $26 par value. The the stock on the New York ¢ wurket ranged during ty $405 a share. The Ohto Oll 3 ap- rice Comp: Classified Advertisers Important! for ha 4_ advertising copy Clanuified 9: for Te Sunday World should do ‘World office On or Before Friday Preceding Publication copy receives the preference 7 BROY sunday advarsing hae to be 3. Tate advertning ta. ow iis for tack ef time te set it. THE WORLD | Bill Sia Of course the Ohio Oll Company | tal} 1919 from $316 | jucing concern, It is th ner of arge tracts of oll producing and oil) possibility lands in Dlinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvan Kansas and (Continued on Sixteenth Page ) quarterly dividend of $1.25 has been declared by the Ohio Oi! Company, accoruing to informa tion reciived on Wall Street chis morning from Findlay, 0. Bot dividends are payable on June 3 to stock of record of May 29. Pur value of the stock is $25. The O.i0 Oil Company is one of the Statdahe POW Company's “orphans.” It was separated from the old company in 1911 by Su- preme Court decision. SHAKES TREE, GETS sker Makes Big Catch With- Bait or Line—And He's Elder in Caurch, out Special to The Evening Word NEWTON, N. J., May 18.—-William \ partment store, saying price cutting Slacker, famous from end to end of tho| {2 the crowd. for patriotic motives was “bunvomb,” Kittatinny Mountains as the best guide| When Seidler regained conscious-| s reptingwell sald in Sussex County, walked into the of-| Kicking at the -w “There is no doubt that the market fice of Lion's Head Inn on Dove Island| closet. A barber next door| nos broken in this particular line. It | to: aay and 1 fo the tle sour| heard him and went to his assistance.|ig ympogsible to predict whether a area ed to overflowing | at the Newark City Hospital it was! zeneral nation-wide price reduction is with the hi n of perch| Jia his skull was fractured and he ever seen in those parts. “Didn't have didn't have Mr. Slacker “I was just wood Lake, before no | bait no nawthin rowin’ around breakfast, s Swart when lake I pint. The is higher than | knowed it, right over into the water, and I'll be dog-goned if every branch wasn’ | crowded with perch. { b d back to the xced buck to the sket, shook the Lord, 1 huri et P'int, | we baskets!” Mr. Slacker is an — RIP THEATRE SAFE I could a’ in the church. Sunday Receipts Taken | House—Police Withhold News. Some time during A BASKET OF FISH) line, didn't have no| My die. sald ever d them willows is bended camp for this held willows and here filled twenty AND STEAL $3,000 From *| “Strong Box” of Manhattan Opera Sunday night bur- glars drilled the combination from # big The company operates a chain of mill: ery stores throughout the Nortuwest. MISSING BULTE GIRL FOUND IN RSYES | was busy with traffic when three tee entered the tobacco store and |asked the clerk, Louis Seidler, forty- six years old, for some cigars. Seidler bent over to get the cigars| and as he placed them on the counter | he looked into two revolvers. | [wo of the bandits then backed Setter into an adjoining room while | the country constitute one more sound guarantee that “the present hot ai prosperity” is bound to cease, R. C. Leffingwell, Assistant Secretary of th Treasury} said to-day. “Dealers are cutting prices in the mercantile trade for two reasons only,” the third stood guard | Leffingwell said. These are | While two of the robbers bound and First—People have stopped liu gagged the clerk, the third robber poe because prices are too sold three to’ a customer and) a rang up the sale on the cash register. Severe acs are Meantime the two robbers in the Hibs merchants to take . back room, after binding Seidler,| ‘4% bipea struck him over the head with a| Hess AP ania ea blackjack, and ed ti to 16" aes pen z iy Peeayee blackJ and dragged him to 4) i ither the United States nor the | where they locked him in. Neeser apes Hee one | the bandits rifled the cash) Ds GANS ES Sten h5e: 0 bul 8 on the present basi When shown a statement by George Brandeis, head of a big Omaha de- | r, took all the cash, $100, and | weht out to the automobile they had jteft at ‘They disappeared the curb, | sa beginning. There is no doubt, how- ever, | if ‘ that it must come “The public is over-consuming, buy- ing too many automobiles, too many silk stockings, too many clothes, too much everything, Everybody has a job and can get another at short no- tice. This is the situation that al- ways brings over-spending and over- spending brings high prices, “The one sure method of reducing prices is to stop buying except those things necessary to sustain life.’” CHICAGO, May 18.—Clothing mer- hants here have cut men and women's clothing from 20 to 80 per cent., re- tailers said to-day. "We reduced the price of men's clothes 20 per cent. some time ago,” said Louls Baer, head of a big cloth- Ing establishment. “It isn't due to the high cost of liv- “NO MARTYRDOM IN CUTTING PRICES” | I come up again them willows over the Head of Omaha Department Store | Declares Such Assertion | Is “Bunk.” OMAHA, Neb., May 18.—Department stores’ martyrdom in cutting prices 15 | and 20 per cent. “to ald in reducing the cost of living’? was labelled “buncombe to-day by George Brandeis, head of a! ‘atore here which announced a 30 per | cent. price reduction. |“ “phe market broke three or four weeks ‘ago. Brandeis declared in announcing his lower prices. ‘Any other reason for reductions {s bunk," he declared. fc | | | | HENRIETTA BULTE... Disappeared Month Ago While on Way to Bank to Make Deposit for Father. | Mrs. Louise Bulte, mother of Henri- etta Bulte, who disappeared from he. | | 000,000,000 and Sims tell it to Penrose? Whose hand {has been moving the ouija around? it is worth note that at the very | similarity of the intimated to-day, continuing his tegt!- mony before the Senate Naval Af- ‘atry Cammittee. In’ bringing the Pennsylvania Re- publica chieftain into the contro- versy ag the possible directing genius behind the scenes, Daniels conveyed the impression that he believed poll- ties was responsible for the Sims charges. He quoted from a speech Monrose made in the Senate Aug. 1918, in which he blamed the Seer tary of the Navy for “procrastina- tion,” delaying active naval partici- pation three months at a cost of $15, many lives—the same accusation which forms the keystone of the Sims attack. “I have been informed that it was}, not Admiral Sims who originated this charge but that it was first made in the Senate on Aug. 24, 1918, py tor Penr " aniels sald, “The original charges, amplified and repeated by Adiniral Sims before thi committee, are contained in Senator | Penrose's speech, Daniels remarked on the use pf similar language by several wit- nesses testifying in! support of Sims, “They all speak the Senator's lan- guage, figures, phrases and all,” he added, declaring they were ith plagiarists or received thought wa: by mental telepathy from the Penrose ouija board. “Did they collaborate or mental telegrams?" ho “Did Penrose tell it to exchange demandes. Sims or did] time Penrose was making his speech Sims was writing to Capt, Pratt in the Navy Department here threaten- ing an Investigation of the conduct of the war, “That great minds, even those of politicians and Admirals, and sone who are both, run in the same chan nels is strikingly exemplified by the allegations of Sims and Penrowe. “All these charges are c | Three big department stores cut ! } r any desire on our part bring 7 |prices on everything except patented | (ne or any desire 0 OF Pe «| home while on her way to deposit | |lines 20 per cent. The biggest depart-| aren't buying the clothes, that's $265 In the Harlem Savings Bank on ment store in the city, which was not Baer said he believed the people 125th Street April 12 last, was notified by the police this morning that her! daughter bas been located in a mov- hadn't because of the wet weather. “The overalls stunt hasn't affected the market any,” he said. "I am of- fering overalls for $4 with few ti among the price cutters, at 10 o'clock bought posted notice that without a single ex- | ception everything in the store was cut! 30 per cent. Two other big stores got safe in the office of the Manhatan Ope r rs.’'| ing picture colony in California and Is | | House, 84th Strot, noar Eighth Avenue, |!” the Tieht fei hy PERO ee ene, agape iad being held for instructions from the | Poe the door away with snmlee 604 | imply reveled in shopping. Severat| FLEES ADIRONDACK | police ere | rant : timekta t6 Bure times police were called in to preserve ord that the girl had been located William Oviatt, meneral manager for|¢T# Overturned and near riots started | _ | Missing Persons Bureau, late last [Comstock & Gest, said to-day that de- [several tim et i Wall of ae st Raveried by Es-]night and he immediately notified tives of the We Street station, | Elght smaller stores to-day joined| pe 5 , Mrs, Bulte. A telegram from the Lo who "ware cworkit the case, hag |the movement with reductions of trom | caped Trapper Sweeping Angeles police Pa BIKE rte ‘sea j cautioned him not to discuss the rob-| at fo 0) ner: gent, A lase sutomottie | Over 1,000 Acres. been found, and asked what disposi- ie anes Fone tate rcoutan |aneisio0'an clasedic ae on open) EULTON CHAIN, N. Y., May 18—|tlon should be made of her, No de articles of furniture © burglars lett! ‘The ste which made ‘he 20 per!Fleeing before a wall of flame seventy-| tails were given, some of their tools. le reduction announced — the cut |five feet high at the head of a grea Miss Bulte, fifteen years old, jeft | The polio ufe kers| would extend to its restaurants also, |forest fire which is sweeping the Mud-| home to go to the bank to deposit $203 =| atended Sunday, nig low and after | One which started with |hole Dam section of the Adirondacks,| her father had given her, When she the performance euled themselves |a annour dition. | Frank Lalone, an Indian trapper, to-day | taited to apear that night her parents when t BuIA) keop an @ya.on the +) reached Thendara. He fost part of his) cided the police, and arch , wetehman, except from clothes and barely caped with his life Hid = a des co san Meat Down 10 Per Cent. Packers ied nanufacturey to come through the fire, the flames at) been kidnapped Say. Dilae deere the front are from Afty to seventy-five} "I don't care what she has done, CHICAGO, Ma $.—T wholesal ag hatte is ape | feet high wad hay ady hurned over| said her mother this morning, ff meat has declined per cent ie 80'aan cent alc it 1,000 & It caught him while fish: | ms Henrietta, and I'll be only too glad Aurion, Whe liek Year: 9 the erlope: ef ines ‘ to get her back and care for her tin of the Inetitut in Meat Bdtor Weld im Larceny Charue. | sos the blazes are. still running | She 4 been found ard is well." hers ie decline in| the of! BOSTON, May 18 mes J an, | unc though fire wardens, rang the “bunetin 9; 1 age as held for the Federal ( OH fhe TAOM oi vines, above. here, |dahL ote . Jury on charges, ot larceny of papers |were called oul leat night, py the vil; ing Spamming Play | (ra is the s gle of ty cf} Of Juss | lage wong, to help “ 9 againa Pe \ » « oe ee | the |reams of paper ‘of the tained in Senator's speech have saved yourself thousands of| by investigating hie | brief accusations which his plagiarists | and you might FRANCE BLOCKS evidence was found among the papers Souvarine, a Socialist editor, who was" arrested yesterday on the cha | was found at Jor hypnotized successors have elab- orated into many hundred thouand words.” The “telegraphic wireless” between | Penrose and Sims “must have been working clear across the ocean," Daniels continued, “for Sims was tell- | ing practically the same things to} Americans who were in Burop Sims, he said, expressed precisely the me idea in a Lon same year P He Penrose ch Oct. 11 added that he| speech only learned of the few days SEEK DIVORCE AT NEWPORT Mra, Pauline Wagsta and Mee, Charlotte H. Sorchan Sue, NEWPORT 1, M 18.—-M Charlotte H shan and Mrs Pauline lew seeking dverees of di voree In the Superior Court from Victor Sorchan and Samuel J. Wag taf. to provide is the ground in thoug ff also eruelt, | lof the Eixtrem| Evidently it {s the purpose of the Government to wire off large areas and compel the people to pass through: openings so that their movements may be restricted. Airplanes are to be used extensively. § Thousands of fresh troops were be« ing distributed in the west and south, Simultaneously the Government was reported ready to adopt drastic measures in Londonderry, which newspapers deacribed as “the city of the dreadful night.” MANY MORE TROOPS SENT TO SOVIET PLOT 10 RULE SEVEN CITIES Paris, Brest, Marseilles, Tours, Orleans, Bordeaux and A A NT LONDONDERRY. Strassburg on the List. A large body of troops arrived in = By as atk Londonderry last night, following y eae three nights of rioting between PARIS, May 18—Soviet rule In! Unionists and Sinn Feiners, Cordons France was to have been established of soldiers were thrown about the if the revolutionary striked in- disorderly areas, Saloons were closed at 4 P.M, Citizens were urged to re~ main off the streets at migit | The existence of a “state of war,” despatches said, was be- flinning to be recognized by every> body in Ireland. In some quars ters the proclamation of martial Jaw was expected. If martial law declared at least 400,000 troops { wou'd be required, according to experts. Meanwhile military engineers are Said to be prospecting sites for the establishment of concentraf~p camps into which the Non-Unionu -ahable tania, It 1s asserted, are tot and perhaps treated after the: of the Boer War. The scenes in Londonderry are ike described by the London Star: “Londonderry has experienced ans other night of terror, From tea o'clock until midnight the centre of the city, which has been the scene of the wildest rioting, was in undisputed ; Possession of Unionist ex-soldiers, ‘who, with masked or blackened faces, |{ndulged in almost continuous revol« ‘ver firing. The outbreak occurred through the meeting of the rivas groups in Bridge Street and Fountdin Street, and for a time something Iike a pitched battle raged, during which the police were obliged to withdraw while the two crowds blazed away at ceeded, who vugurated on May 1 had suc according ty the French poll said to-day they had obtained com- plete documentary evidence, The the bulk of this police say wized at the residence of Morty ot having plotted against the safety of the Stat Other evidence, they state, the home of Htuenne Leveque, one of the secretaries of the Federation of Railroad Men, who was arrested yesterday morning. ‘The police claim that seven Soviets had been lished and were await- | ing the success of the strikes to blossom forth as local governments in| Orleans, Tours, Brest, Bordeaux, Marseilics, Strassburg and Paris ready to take up the leadership ana control of affairs had the strikes proved effective. The Secretary of Police Inspector Charles Ducroco declared this after- | noon that he had sufficieng, evidence to ca the of ten‘br twelve of the extremist on charges of plotting the se- curity of under 58 of the criminal code, the article used in the prosecution of former Premier st arres leaders em Se ee a ei mc Lgainst internal France, article “aillaux. | each other, e Diamonds, rubies and sapphi in| REVOLVER FIRE KEPT UP CON- om Moscow and bank accounta| TINUOUSLY. showing bh doposits of rubles in “In the affray a Nationalist ex-sol- % enhagen banks for Souvarine and der named Bernard Doherty wag tharles Rappoport, one of the leaders Shot through the chest und died with- t movement in France, {18 half aa hour. Doherty, whose only have been unearthed |>Fther was killed in the war and — |who was himseif gassed and wound- says he expects to be ar- | was only twenty-one, In the early uses Jouhaux, President t@sea of the riot the revolver fring re reported t by the pe ested and ac f the General Federation of Labor, |W4% continuous, and botties, stones ft having sold his faction into the; #Md bricks were aguin freely used on > hands of the Government. “We are | 88op Windows which escaped during NUOnahy: BAOtaIiate SILIN eaba Saturday night's urbance, a | “Unionist desperadoes took possess Hunuary to Stam Peace Treaty, [#8 of the principal thoroughfares, SODAERAT Maye Gk Gs vs ,|and there was a renewal on a more Peas) Hungary Will’ sign the. peace | extensive scale of the violence of Sat. treaty presented to her by the Allies, | Urday mielt, it la reported here, Count Albert Ap-. “Ruffians drawing cordons across ponyi, Who strongly opposed the ac-|the streets held up all pedestrians, eptance of the treaty, has cesigned| who were questioned as to their ree {rom the Peace Delegation, ligious faith, Any who Sappened to _- oo be Catholics were brutally beaten. jt WORLD REST, | Bpectal for to-day, Tuceda frome fried p RANT was during @ lull ip the Aghting that is 100: tendon! Doherty received the shot which Doiaien Sie gb caused bis death, With » friend be was going up Orchard Street jth ai