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f - i} _THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, MAY 31, 1922, WARNS TAXPAYERS ($157,000,000 Tobacco Merger —_{i'2.282* uss arged with attempting to pol \ Consolidates Products Co. {:'s\i:*wrichkpoc gee execut And United Retail Stores)" *\ i | BUDGET KICKING James B. Duke Usderstted to Have Directed $12,500 SECOND TIME the Deal Which Brings Him Actively Lara vet ike) Back Into the Trade. ra Ago. 300, May 31.—A verdict s@ an acident in 1917 made him stutter was awarded to am Van Pelt in Oakland against | Must Get Protests i in Early If | They Are to Count, Says R Mr. Met A $167,000,000 tobacco merger wns|per cent. on their present holdings. tv Franclsco-Oakland ‘Terminal Metz, announced yesterday by James M.| An official notice has been matled| Rallwa Van Pelt was driving a > Tobance Prod. |t® all stockholders of pw meeting on| wagon that was st by a car. He The Inatitute for Public Service, Dixon, President of the Tobacco Prod- | yung 28, to vote on th¢ proposal, sued for $20,500, alleging permpnent in- o od ; he 8 eal ier ucts Corporation, Mr. Dix esterday sald one of the| Juries and a nervous affiiction which rough former y Comptrol It Is to be of Tobacco Products and {principal benefits would be a pooling} Makes him stutter. Van Pelt was awarded $12,500 two years ago, but Judgo Robinson ordered @ new trial. Herman A. Metz, Chairman of tis Committee on Non-Partisan Facts, is- | sued astatement yesterday reminding any taxpayers who think $850,000,000 is too much or too little for the city’s budget in 1923 that the budget estl- mates for next year are being made the United Retall Stores Corporation, jf the profits of manufacturing and which by stock ownership controls the |"etatling. United Cigar Stores Company. The mofger, it ts understood, ts to be under the guldance of James B to effect many changes in its Duke, founder of tho American To-|operating methods. No change in the bacco Company and the British-Amer- |personnel is contemplated, but new lean Tobacco Corporation, which Mr, Dixon continued, jnited Cigar Stores, | , subsidiary of Retail blood will be Injected and expansion now. He adds that the best time to} means his return to active particl-lor tho Syatern will contidue” Fine Firsitare start budget study is the month of} pation in the tobacco business and a youR June. the exerting of powerful influence in| CAME AS IMMIGRANT, z Bnd bad “ ” " the retail trade. His influence in “Heretofore,” writes Mr. Met,ling new corporation 1s indicated by “with the exception of two or three}the fact that Mr. Dixon, who ts 10 eeasons, ten years ago, when citizen| head the new corporation, was asso- committees informed themselves and|clated with him frém boyhood until d the public before it was too late, the} he Joined the present Tobacco Prod.| Angelo Paino, who arrived a stecrage ucta Corporation. Thomas B. Yullle,| passenger twenty years ago with all his who will be advisory head of the leaf| possessions in a bundle, leaves with hia wife and family and a fortune oy the Conte Rosso to-morrow to visit Rome, ‘The family has tho best suite on the GOES BACK WEALTHY CREO Taking Family to Visit Old Home, Best Suite on Ship. public has discovered that budgets or too small after oM-| tobacco buying department, also was cials bh ed and when it was n0/trained under Mr. Duke, and became longer easy for officials to consider | vice President in charge of buying of citizen objection. In the early days|jocr ang manufacturing. Red _ of Juné, department heads will wel-| “Wai street bas been predicting) n' coming tuck. auld An come opportunity to explain to tho ling merger and the return of Mr! celebration in hie home in : citizens who kaow their work: best: | Due to the tobacco trade. nue, Cofena, “I oame here to get a Couch, Hammock for the Ppech ios ouks Stand $4.95 Extr; a Breet Sa vizesbonaron Ob) Conti ‘The new merger is to be effectod| chance and I got it. The only thin , iz not oe ee en eee orcs neg] bY an increase of capitalization of cana es abn me As my hte e Real Home - . ae the Tobacco Products Corporation | “ couldn't help thai fe moron earn meting the ry" one So aes angen Try, in sens cea | Pay a8 YOu Can | crippled for tack of money. The|e® exchange of the ks of that] contractors in Queens CREDIT TERMS nd the United Retail Stores aati asaciccns havckans trouble was these stories came two | Company &! | months after the budget was voted, |20r the Rew Tobacco Products stock | pyGLisH LAWYER EXECUTED Fon Weekly \ The new stock is to be of two classes, POISONING WIFE yy i Rating about te tikawibe Aunty eat “A” and common. Class “A” is tol Lonpon useslatia Press) ‘Avenue Smith a0 _ arta * be 7 per cent. non-cumulative, on} iio. qrerbert Rewar : Commissioner Enright waa refused 600]D¢ 7 Per cont. Dom cee ne goon | —Masor Herbert Rowse Armstrong, a g ‘Street State Sts $100 $200 $300 $500 1 83 $3 BS more policemen when the budget was after completion of the merger. ‘Tha leading Welsh solicitor, was convicted voted, although he claimed then that ‘ New York was undér-policed. citi. }common ft im aie ance per | zens did not help him obtain the Oo ae Nis. Nochl “vehi? Benatar Beacons cncugh? blained him for} yy 1. ‘The increase in capitaltzation “Clearly it ought not to require a|'® merely sufficient to take care of crime wave or a disease wave or any|*he Gastar! cece ptacay 0 ee other hard luck wave to secure public] The prop 'e each company is an exchange of their holdings of common stock In each corporation for oné-half share of the new Class “A stock and one-half share of the new common for each { "i The option, however, is extended to 8 Ber bow PRA a ldtad cued beeh aa! the stockholders of both companies en, 1ce . at get. tne the Tostitute for] of taking all common stock of the Rahrig merger in hange for the common $6,000,000 Worth of Furs Were stored, cared for and insured for our customers, in our own vaults, on our own premises, last year. support for any proved need, Nor ought it to require a too high tax wave to secure public attention to unnecessary expenditures."” Furriers for Neary a Century | Public Service will have men working| Merger In sxchenes Dor UO Cations. FULTON & SMITH STREETS, BROOKLYN every day all summer. The office 18) ropacco Products shareholders may Telephone Triangle 5900 ; No, 1135 Amsterdam Avenue. take all Class “A” if they desire. ' 2%, Valuaté $500 or M “TASCELIES TO BE MADE eee canta: #5 come plied tO 10 1G cecaenemn tale ibe BARL. make the exchange, but may retain 3% on Lesser Valuation | LONDON, May 3L—King George 1a] bis Rresent holdtiae. Holders of Te New Models Available for Remodeling at Summer tain a certain return of 3% per cent. Prices. and a bonus in common stock that is 4 expected to yield an addittona! 2% per cent., thus giving an equivalent of 6 Men, Too, May Store Their Winter Apparel Here for the Suramer—Phone Triangle 4700 OPPENHEIM GLLINS & EC FULTON STREET - BROOKLYN Presenting Tomorrow, The Initial Sale of a New Season Several Hundred Captivating Sunimer Frocks of Figured Crepe de Chine For Women and Misses Made with the Skill and Care Accorded High Priced Frocks Extraordinary Values at the Price 13.75 Four Models Illustrated Lightsome Summertime Frocks of su- perior quality Crepe de Chine, in novel figured patterns and delicate pastel shades, Some have white Crepe de Chine butterfly sleeves, some have lace collars, cuffs and vestees, others are fascinatingly beaded and trimmed with k buttons. “Realize Your Expectations—at Either of Our Three Locations’” 1329-1331 ° 4810-4812 BROADWAY > FIFTH AVE. Near Gates Avenue Bet. 48th & 49th Sts. BROOKLYN BROOKLYN | FULTON STREET cro BRIDGE STREET at Hoyt It Subway Mation Brooklyn | Thursday Great June Reductions Eight Extraordinary Special Items—Offering by Far the Most Remarkable Saving Opportunities—Most of Them Are Below Cost Thousands of Pairs of Perfect All Silk Hosiery ULL FASHIONED, INGRAIN AND DIPPED HOSE. SILK FROM TOP TO TOE. SOME \/iTH 45 FULL GARTER TOPS. IN SHADES OF BLACK, WHITE, BROWN, GUNMETAL, POLO e CHAMPAGNE, GRAY, NUDE AND BEIGE. INCLUDED ARE NETS & WELDREST CHIFFONS. Two Hundred Beautiful New Silk Frocks, Go on Sale at IGH CLASS MODELS, FASHIONED OF ROSHANARA, GEORGETTE, CANTON CREPE, 3 75 CREPE DE CHINE, CREPE ROMAINE AND PRINTED CREPE DE CHINE. MANY NOVELTY AND SPORT COMBINATIONS. WOMEN’S AND MISSES’ SIZES o - Women’s and Misses’ Summer Wash Frocks, Low Priced at REMARKABLE COLLECTION, EMBRACING MANY NEW 79 NOVEL STYLE CREATIONS. THERE ARE CRISP ORGANDIES, e DOTTED SWISS AND IMPORTED GINGHAMS. VARIOUS MODELS. Women’s and Misses’ Shantung Sport Suits, Unusual Values 'HE BELTED LONG LINE SILHOUETTE MODE; STRICTLY TAILORED, OCEAN PEARL 50 ( BUTTON TRIMMING, EFFECTIVELY STYLED. ALL SIZES FOR WOMEN AND MISSES. Two Hundred Women’s and Misses’ Sport Skirts, 5.00 Values URF SATIN AND MERCERIZED GABARDINE. NEATLY TAILORED POCKETS, DETACH- 95 S ABLE BELT AND GATHERED. CUT FULL AND GOOD FITTING. SIZES 25 TO 38 BANDS. 2 Exceptional Purchase of 350 Smart Silk Capes EAUTIFUL SILK CANTON CREPE AND VELETTE CAPES. Q.75 FINISHED WITH RUCHED COLLAR OR SILK ROSETTES Fine All Wool Sweaters Greatly Reduced for Thursday at HESE SWEATERS ARE THE FAVORED SLIP-ON, BELTED MODEL OF ALL PURE WOOL Ki THE BATEAU NECK. SELF BORDER OF FANCY CROSS DESIGN IN ALL SPORT SHADES \ 1000 Sport and Dress Hats Would Ordinarily Sell at 10 NCLUDING NEW MID-SUMMERSTYLESOF GEORGETTE, SATIN, CANTON CREPE, STRAW, 19 HAIR BRAID, RIBBON, FELT AND FAILLE SILK, EVERY WANTED NEW PASTEL SHADE. a ine a Your Expectations—at Either of Mextins, Three Locations’’= oe 04 Q 4 O¢