The evening world. Newspaper, June 2, 1922, Page 1

) rs ele ne . 2 ‘IF IT HAPPENS IN NEW YORK IT’S IN THE EVENING WORLD” foe ee IN CELL AFTER “SOLVING” WARD PLO To-Night’s Weather—PRO WORLD NAL a i Oh EDITION ‘VOL. LXIL. NO, 2, 065—DAILY. Copretent (New York World) by Press lishing Company, Entered ns Second-Class Matter Post Office, New York, N. ¥. To-Morrow’a Weather—PROBABLE SHOWERS, ‘ DITION jo. FINALE PRICE THREE CENTS —— Because We Won't Up to Date ine of Gas Manufactur BEHIND ALL U. $ U. S, CITIES City in Clutches of of Oil Con- cerns That Keep Out Coke Oven Process. By Sophie Irene Loeb. SECOND ARTICLE. brings out the following: eo twenty-two-candle power, which is the most costly method of making gas, has become obso- lete. Little or no effort has been made by the gas corporations to change the standard or the method of making gas. The recent decision of the Su- preme Court that the present price of gas is confiscatory, is but ‘one evidence of the costly methods empleyed in New York City. In the City of Cleveland, scarce- ly a day’s journey away, the peo- ple are paying 85 cents per 1,000 cubic feet and New Yorkers pay form $1.25 to $1.50. As far West as Seattle, Wai people are paying on a aliding woale from $1.25 to 60c., with a 20 per cent. discount on the first rate for prompt payment. In Philadelphia, two hours from New York, the price of gas is $1 per 1,000 feet. The price of gas in Chicago is $1 per 1,000 cubic feet and they are working out a coke-oven method of making gas to reduce this price. In St. Louis the charge is $1.05 for 1,000 oubic feet and they are furnishing a 600 British Thermal Unit. (Approximately th®®samo fas is now served in New York.) In Minneapolis the same 600 British Thermal Unit, is served at $1.06 to the consumer and 890. for public use. In Reading, Pa., the rates range from $1 to $1.10. In all of the above instances the gas rates are lower than New York, and they have changed from a candle power to a British Therma! Unit, ranging from 475 “British Thermal Units to 660. ordingly. NEW YORK MAKE CHEAPER PRODUCT (Continued on Thirty-second Page. REAL ESTATE for the Sunday World Must be in The World Office To-Day Before 6 P. M. Te Insure Proper Classification ae Adopt Tre Evening World's quest as to why NewYork pays the highest gas rate in proportion to its population In other words, they have resorted to a moro economical way of making} yr. gas and the prices have been lowered GAS MEN WON'T New York had an option to do th game thing but not since 1906, when The New York Evening World se- cured the original 80-cent Gas Law, have they availed themselves of mak- img a cheaper gas that will at the ADVERTISEMENTS PARTIAL MONOPOLY BY U. 8. STEEL IS ADMITTED BY GARY $55,957,823 Profits in “Lean . Year” on $655,407,568 Business. During to-day's session of the Lockwood Housing Committee Sam- uel Untermyer, its chief counsel, ob- tained an admission from Judge E. H. Gary, head of the United States Steel Corporation, that last night's merger of the Midvale, the Inland and the Republic steel concerns would end competition in structural steel, so far as these concerns were concerned. “And you understand this commit tee is particularly concerned with structural steel in connection with housing?" Judge Gary was asked. “I did not know it was confined to structural steel,""_ retorted Judge Gary “If Mr. Morgan is not the domina- ting figure in the United States Steel Corporation, who on earth is?" asked Mr. Untermyer. “Well, I will say the finance com- mittee is and hag always been,” re- plied Judge Gary. The finance committee meets every week, the witness explained. The five members of this committee are J, P. Morgan, George F. Baker, Judge Gary, Percival Roberts, President Farrell and Messrs, Lindabury and Philbrick, “Suppose, instead of this being a kind and eleemesynary despotism, tt were a ruthless one, and you chose to exterminate your competitors by foregoing this¢three or five dollars a ton differential, it would not take long to do so, woud it?” “f don’t think that is a practical question,” replied Judge Gary. “But { tls logical," insisted Mr. Un- termyer. Jinige Gary admitted that the U. 8. Steel Corporation had a monopoly in a number of products. “There are lines in which you have a complete monoply in this country?" Mr, Untermyer asked. “If you call that a monoply,” replied Judge Gary. He didn't remember off hand the 1921 volume of business. Asked to take the report, he smilingly replied it wonld take him time to go through the records, Charles Mac Veagh, attorney for Gary, located the page in the report containing the figures sought. Page 25 showed a total of $655,407,- 568 of business in 1921, “a lean year," as Mr, Gary said. After pay- ing interest on bonds the 1921 net profit was $55,957,823. Mr. Untermyer objected to includ- ing a sinking fund charge against net earnings. Mr. Gary thought it should be charged, The “leap year" showed a reduc- (Continued on Ninth Page.) nee Se Es HEARSTS GUESTS OF HARVEYS AT LONDON LUNCHEON Publisher and Wife Enter- tained Last Night by Nobility. LONDON, June 2. Ambassador and Mrs. George Harvey to-day entertained at luncheon Mr, and Mrs. William Randolph Hearet, BRITISH TROOPS NON-PROGRESSIVE. NEW YORK ME SEN st PAYS ay 05.61 50 PEAK RATE ULSTER CAPITAL Regiment Recently Returned From Ireland Leaves Plym- outh for Belfast. POUR OIL ON WOMAN. Draft of New Constitution Has Features Thought to Be Untenable. = LONDON, June 2 (Associated Press).—A British regiment which re- turned from Ireland in February left Plymouth to-day for Belfast. As a result of representations by Sir James Craig, the Ulster Premier, the Evening News to-day says it un- derstands a concession has been made to the Ulster Government, giving It greater control of British troops. in Ulster without first having to obtain authority from Winston Churchill, the Colontal Secretary. Reports are current that the Constitution, as drawn up in Dub- lin and brought for submis: sion to the Cabinet, is unacceptable. It is said to depart from its model, the Canadian Constitution, in tmpor- tant respects, and also proposes for the representative of the Crown in Ireland a status which is wholly un- satisfactory, and further provides that Ireland have liberty of action regard- ing her foreign relations, which the supporters of the treaty in Englana | never contemplated. BELFAST, June 2 (Associated Press).—After a twenty-four hours’ orgy of shooting, Incendiarism and looting, the city enjoyed a compara- tively quiet night, although sniping continued in the Mill Field area and a woman was severely wounded, ‘An act of the most barbarous cru- elty which occurred during last night's rioting became known this morning. ,When a gang forced, the door of @ doctor's residence in the south side of the city, they were told by the servant, Susan McCormick, that he was not at home. Thereupon they poured a can of petrol over her ang set her clothing afire. Sho ran screaming into the street, where neighbors extinguished the flames, but not beforo she had been severely, burned. She was taken to a hospital in a serious condition, Heavy firing between Irish Repub- lican army forces and Ulster special constables occurred during the night at Dungooley Cross, on the Louth- Armagh border. It lasted seven hours, and it is believed threo of the specials were killed. The iohabt- tants along the border in the vicinity have fled to Dundalk. Firing also occurred at Culleville for several hours. ° Catholles are fleeing from Ulster in here large numbers ——._-- ENGLAND TO PAY S. IN THE FALL LONDON, June 2 (Associated Press).—The Government has com- pleted arrangemgnts to pay during the coming fall interest amounting to £25,009,000 on the British debt to the United States. It has not yet been decided whether a special mission will be sent to Washington to discuss the debt with the American Government. ——— THE WORLD TRAVEL BUREAU. Arcade, Pulitzer ye Bullding. | 63-63 ‘elephione Park Row, N. Y. City. $000, Check room for bay open day and sight. i tavellers’ checks re aod pares Roney rdere and Boy of Five Plunges Into Chasm Between Buildings As He Is Being Carried Across Roofs at Fire M: KR re AND DACOHTER MAY Fire SuresChter, Driver ang olice Driver and Police Who Saved Lives by Their Heroism at Greenwich Street Fire REUNION OF 271H TO HEAR HARDING SPEECH BY RADI Review Precédes Addresses by Prominent American and Allied Leaders, The doughty 27th Division, which broke the much vaunted Hindenburg Line and otherwise covered itself with glory in France, held a reunion today in the 7th Regiment Armory. The reunion brought together from all over the State many men who had not the division seen one another since came home in Marchg 1919. ‘Tho 6,000 veterans and the 5,000 troops belonging to the National Guard in this cily will be reviewed by Major Gen. John F. O'Ryan. He will have around him a number of distin guished guests, including Gen. Joh Pershing, Gov, Miller, Mayor Hylan Field Marshal "rench and Col. J. Mayhew Wainwright, Assiswtant Secretary of War, who served with the division, all of whom will make addresses; United States Senators Calder and Wadsworth, Baron De Cartier, representing the Belgian Goy ernment; Col. Dumont, representin France, and Gen. Bethell, represent assador, also Col representing th Ing the British Am! Sampson Faison, 0th Division. The first work of the day armory was opened at 9 o'clock, the registry of those attending the re union and the transportation certificates of coming from out of town Captains and Majors and Colonels were there to meet their men, an rank distinctions were flung when the was validating of tt those aside (Continued on Ninth Page.) Photographs of the reunion of the heroes of the 27th Di vision will appear to-night in Pictorial (Green) the Night Edition of The Evening World. a Kescued, Together With 30 ee Many of Them Chi dren, by Heroism of Two Policemen and Firemen. Michael Kramer, five years old, fell five stories as he was being rescued at a fire that endangered thirty per- song in the five-story building, No. 160 Greenwich Street, at 4.30 A. M., to-day. He plunged into a small pit formed by the walls of three build- ings. The pit was filled with rubbish and water, and a spectacular rescue was made by Battalion Qbfet David J. Oliver and his driver, William A. Fraser. They got on the roof of a two-story extension, and Oliver stood on the hottem rings of the ladder while Fraser lowered him into the pit. The boy was floating unconscious in the water when reached, He was hurried to the Broad Street Hospital, where it was sald he probably would die The first two floors of the building fre bake shops, Five families live on the three upper floors, and most of the thirty persons are children. Po- licem: Sydney Kerr of the Oak Street Station heard the shouts of the bakers as they ran into the street, and by the time he had sent an alarm and returned, the flames had gone through the halls to the roof. The building |8 near Cortlandt Street and t door tothe old Greenwich Street olice Station, Just outside is the Ninth Avenue “L" structure William Kramer, his wife, and their children, Michael, five; May, 1 half, and Tillie seven, live fourth floor. ‘They have a boart John Larsen, When they opened thelr doors to run out they found the Tear fire-escapes hot and crowded with struggling men, women and children. The escapes were 60 hot no one could go down them, and it was impossible to get ladders up structure, in front because of the ‘L'' tinued on Ninth Page.) ——— Pants Summer Suite, $14.95. LOTHING Corner, Bway, cor PP. Woolworth Hida), wil! sell " da Ten? apocial price Moltate wold elsewhere’ at 635. for to-day and Saturday, 614.05 wd $17.0. Open Saturday night tl 10. HUB Gothiers, Broadway, cor, Barclay Bt.—Advt Our GEO, BROADHURST HELD AFTER BEING ATTACKED ON SHIP San Francisco Man Also Held, Said to Have Assaulted Playwright. BALTIMORE, June2.—When the steamship Columbia docked here this afternoon from San Francisco, Untted States officials placed George H Broadhurst, noted playwright and theatrical producer of New York, and J. B, Symon, of San Francisco, under detention as the result of an alleged Murderous assault committed by Symon upon Broadhurst while the vessel was on tho high seas. TWO BOYS KILLED, ONE DYING, BY AUTO 'wo boys, one’a baby of two, were Killed to-day by automobiles, and a third is dying in a hospital. The chauffeur in each case was arreste Stanley Mongoski, two ye i No. 135 Street, Brooklyn, stepped from the sidewalk to the street near his home and was run down by an auto truck own by Brandt & Hage of No. 65 Ves Street. He was taken to the Methodist Episcopal Hospital, where he led half n hor later, Ralph Shannon, the chauffeur, No. 240 Brooklyn Avenue, Brooklyn, was arrested. Robert Stewart, six, of No. 210 West 146th Street, fell from an auto mobile in which he was riding at 146th Street and Seventh Avenue and a rear wheel passed over his head. He war taken to Columbus Hospital, where he died soon after, his skull being frac- tured, The operator of the motor car, Uriah Sutherland, of No. 228 West 188th Street, was arrested and ar- raigned in Washington Heights Court Jacob Ashkinazi, nine, of No, 1382 Park Avenue, was struck by an au- tomobile at Lexington Avenue and 108d Street. He was taken to Mt, Binal Hospital with a fractured skull. The driver of the car was arrested, jary Tells Why U. S. Reeal | Has Partial "Monopell CHICAGO PAYS $1 FOR GAS: REVELATION BY NEW WITNESS IN WARD MYSTERY BLOWS UP FTER A SEARCHING INQUIRY Cunningham, Who Says He Aided Injured Man, Explains Shooting— Calls Father Real Conspiracy Vic- tim—His Story Not Convincing. Nothing was learned by District Attorney F. B. Weeks of Westchester County or any of the officials working with him to-day to teat the extent of the truthfulness of the statement made by a “witness” produced by the Néw York American, J, J Cunningham, ‘under arrest at White Plains as @ material witness because of his telling of circumstantial, but conflicting, tales regarding the killing of Clarence Petera by Walter 8. Ward. Cun- ningham said Joe Jackson was setiously wound by Ward when Peters. was-killed. P In some of the “revelations” he said the wounded Jackson had been taken to Stamford, Conn. Sheriff Werner and two deputies spent an hour in Stamford interviewing Charles Rogers and Louis Natale, local chauf- feurs. Though the Cunningham stories mentioned a Charles Rogers as having been with Jackson at teh time of the shooting and at Stamford, both men were excused and Sheriff Werner returned to White Plains leaving his men to search southtrn Connecticut hospitals and sanitariums. GIRL PUPIL OF 12, CURBED AT HOME, ATTEMPTS SUICIDE Rose Drinks fodine in School, but Promptly. Tells Nurse. In dramatic protest against restric- tions which her mother sought to im- Pose upon her as a young child, Rose Rizen, twelve years old, swallowed a quantity of fodine this morning in the hallway of her classroom in Public School No, 30, at 141st Street and Promptness with which she told what she had done and the aid that was given her doubtless saved her life. She was taken first to Linco!n Hospl- tal and then to her home, No. 435 East 188th Street, by her mother, the hospital physicians saying that she was not seriously ill of the poison. The lttle girl was in cooking class this morning and in the midst of the lesson she asked the teacher, Miss Mau Whitney, if she might leave the room, Tnis permission bing granted, Rose went into the hallway just out- side the door and drank an ounce and a half of lodine. As soon as ¢he had done this she walked down four flights of stairs to the room of Miss Hilda Jorgensen, the nurse of the school, and told her what she had done. An ambulance was sent for, and while It was on its way Miss Jorgen sen and [Patrolman Michael Meraglia, of the Alexander Avenue Station, ad miniatered first aid in the shape of quantities of milk. Then the am ulance took the child away for more thorough treatment. The bottle from which she had drunk was found in the fold of her dress. Sho had taken it from a medicine chest at home The little girl's mother said, in ex- planation of her daughter's plaint that she was not allowed to go out “ike other girls,"* that Rose wanted too much entertainment of the kind not suited either to her years nor her station. She had disappeared some time ago for a whole day, and It was discovered, the mother said, that she had been over in New Jersey for the day. The girl's parents are separated. Frieda Epstein and Florence Gold- stein, two classmates of Rose, told reporters to-day that Rose had asked them yeterday to run away with her. District Attorney Weeks invited Walter S, Ward too to White Plaine Jal and look at Cunningham. Ward said he would be glad of the oppor- tunity late in the day. The mother of Cunningham still further discredited his utterances, after a visit to him to-day with a lawyer engaged by her, Maurice J. McCarthy of No. 27 William Street, She said that his story to the effect that Jackson or any other wounded man was brought to her home In the Bronx Is not true. Mr. McCarthy said he would give the authorities, time to satisfy themselves Cunningham was not "a material witness to any- thing,” and would then seek his re- lease on bail or by habeas corpus proceedings. The assistants of Mr. Weeks de- scribed his tentative conciusions as to the value of Cunningham's story, as follows: “Cunningham has some informa- tion. Whether he gained it at first hand or has overheard underworld gossip which he has elaborated and sought to capitalize for his own bene- fit is not yet clear. He will be held, at least, until it Is clear.” CUNNINGHAM GIVEN OVER TO DISTRICT ATTORNEY. Cunningham was surrendered to District Attorney Weeks of West- chester last night by the New York American with which Cunningham has been dickering, at first anony~ mously, ever since Walter Ward as- sumed responsibility for the killing of Peters, May 22. On the strength of his anonymous communication vague hints were published deacrib- ing Peters as having been seen ‘luxuriously lolling” i Ward's Itbrary the night before he waa found dead. After persuading Cunningham (nto disclosing himself the American got from him a highly dramatic narrative of a rage-maddened outburst of Wal- ter Ward in his library, in which he shot down the defenseless Peters and wounded another man. The two men shot were represented as having called on Ward and engaged him in conversation in which he showed he was familiar with a blaek- mailing plot directed against another person, presumably George 8. Ward, his millionaire father, who was on his way back from Europe. In this story it was represented that a man in the confidence of the whole Ward family had been secreted with another witness so that the conversation in the library could be overheard, to the undoing of young Ward. ( The whole of the statement on which that contribution to the litera- ture of the Ward case was based was published in to-day's Evening Journal, Cunningham !s made to aay in thie statement that, with the “con« H b