The evening world. Newspaper, October 14, 1922, Page 1

To- Night's Weather—CLOUDY) WARMER. NAL EDITION (VOL. LXIIL NO. 22, 179— DAILY. IOWA HAS THE WORLD Copyright (New Publishing Company, Che [« Circulation Books Open to All.’’ } NEW York World) by 1922, YORK, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1922. EXGEED THREE AND A HALE BILLIONS IN FORTY YEARS World of Finance Awed by the Enormous Growth and Disbursements to Sharehold- ers—Distributions Heavily Increase Since Trust’s “Dissolution.” Tremendous growth in earning power by the various Standard Oil ompanies has long been a source of envy and admiration by managers of fother big business concerns. Yet there are probably few people not closely associated with Standard O{1 management who fully appreciate how ex- ftraordinarily successful these enterprises have been, The record of growth of these companies, measured by increases in earnings, is almost beyond comprehension. There is no parallel to {t in the business history of the world, Much ado Is being made of the fact @- CASES OF, REAL THING; NO WHISKEY ‘Stock to the holders of its shares, that Gigantic Liquor Plot Wired the Standard O!l1 Company of New Jersey plans to pay a stock dividend of From Chieago Seems to Ooze Away. 200 per cent. and that the Standard Oil Company of California will pay a Stock dividend of 100 per cent. When Matched aguinst earnings and re- ources the size of these dividends be- comes relatively insignificant, It is now a matter of financial record that when the old Standard Ol Company of New Jersey was ordered to dispose of its holdings of controlled companies in 1911, most Wall Street experts jumped to the conclusion that because of the nature of the decree of the United tSates Suprme Court, stitt competition necesarily would arise be- tween the various producing and transportation companies divorced J from the Standard Company of New lersey, that the price of crude of] and [i of its by-products would drop, and hat earnings of the various companies would suffer to a great extent. But it has been proved that the dissolu- tion order was one of Standard Oil's greatest boons, Competition did not come, the price of crude oil products advanced instead of declined and earn ings, which had been phenomenal ever since the organization of the Trus beck In 1882, spurted upward in a manner that tests the capacity of Juman comprehension. In the nineteen years from the in- forporation of the Standard O11 Com- pany of New Jersey up to and in- cluding 1911, the year the divorce de- cree of the Supreme Court became effective, the company was able to dis- burse in cash to stockholders the enormous sum of $742,650,564. Stag- gering as this may seem, it 1s shown by subsequent developments that in q 1911, after disbursing this amount, the Trust was yet in the initial sta ef development, The cash dividends paid by the| 57 Standard Oil Company of New Jetsey in the ten and one-half years sinc dissolution, added to the accumulated and undistributed eurnings as of the Four Prohibition agents were sent the New York office to the Terminal stores in Brooklyn to-day on a tip from Chicago to the effect 50,000 cases of bottled goods in storage there might prove to con- whiskey masquerading behind from Bush tain nels, The Chicago despatch that sent the agents scurrying across the river hinted of ‘a gigantic liquor plot." And further investigation brings out charges of forgery and mysterious al- lusions to the refinancing of ‘‘a bot- tling concern" unnamed. Whether there is any involved is a moot question. most direct evidence thus far tained is a statement from Phillip L. erhardt, Vice President of the Bush ‘Terminal Company, who said that in testing the ginger ale there “for gas pressure’ he personally drank four cases of the beverage and found it kickless. The Prohibition agents al are reported to have found no alcohol in the bottles they sampled. The word from Chicago was t carloads of supposed ginger ale had been shipped from the factory of Jame A. Pugh, at Benton Harbor, Mich, to the Bush Terminal It real whiskey The ob- be conisgned to the sf close of last year, are greatly in excess ane eh plead iendlpets of the amount of dividends id in the Borden Avenue, Long Island first nineteen years of its histor: be precise the excess is $133, And it is to be remembered that in the ro) last ten and a half years the New 4) Jersey company had to struggle ong without any income from the y At the office of President of the following statement Ly Charles Goddard syndicate, the was made to- About three weeks ago the Bush minal people called us up to ask out a consignment of ginger ale held for us. We replied that we had such order. We do not deal in ale, A week later we were { (Continued anaes Fourth Page,. r) RATHENAU. SLAYERS y) GIVEN BIG SENTENCE li] Driver of Murder Car Gets Fifteen Years. @ LEIPSIG, Oct no ginger (Continued on Second ‘page ) eee FUGITIVE CASSES CAUGHT AT ATLANTA 2 German 14— Associated Press).—Sentences up to _ fifteen years penal servitude were Indicted fox Wes Bh aning, Gave jail, Fled. imposed to-day on the men who have Anthony Cassese, under Indictment trial here on the charge of been on on two charges of conspiracy to violate icity in the murder of Dr complicity | ithenan, — late. Foreign} the Volstead act, and who was the Minister. owner of the rum confiscated yacht Edith, was arrested in § this morning as a fugitiy avannah, Ga from justice, following his indictments in Ernest Techow, who drove the mur- @erers’ motorcar, received the maxi- mum penalty, while his brother, Hans] Cags: Techow, was sentenced to four years| Brooklyn, gave bal and fled as an accessory. Stevens, @ young woman who ne: William Guenther was sentenced to} panied him to Bahama, stood trial and eight years for complicity in the | Was sequitted. Cassese x said to have murder, and Karl Tiilessen to three out of rum running : Y 000 quarts of Scotch yeare for “transgression of public Or- | wninkey, valued at $100,000, were de- ders," Tho other det unis Were I stroyed by customs offictals. sentenced variously to from twolwhiskoy was taken from Cassesc's ht last urs’ penal servitude April months to five Uve a i , that { a ) Picturesque Life Story of “Al” Smith, by Martin Green MEET ON “GRID” SASTANDARD OIL EARNINGS — jEAST AND WEST TRANSIT BOARD NO MAYORUNITE Third Woman, Who Was Scorned, Murdered Rev. Hall and Singer, Startling New Theory of Writer AT YALE TO-DAY] TO GET BUSES BACK). on osiow, ast ae of Noster tv Jones Brothers, Rival Coaches, Lead lowa and Eli Teams in Battle. BIG CROWD EXPECTED. Yale Team Weakened on Ac- count of Injuries for This Battle. By Willian Abbott. (Staff Correspondent of The Evening World.) NEW HAVEN, Conn., Oct. 14.— Howard and Tad Jones played on the same Blue eleven back in 1907 just before Yale's football fortunes began to ebb. Howard came back in 1909 and coached a victorious Bulldog team. Tad duplicated the feat in 1916. The successes of the Jones boys mark the only games Yale won from Harvard in thirteen years, Tho queer working of Fate now makes rivals of the famous coaching brothers, This afternoon, in the Bowl, Tad will again be in charge of a Yale team, but across the white- lined gridiron on the visitors’ bench will sit Brother Howard anxiously watching the prowess of his giant Iowa team, It will be the first time brothers have been rival coaches in an important football contest. In addition to the dramatic feature of the Jones brothers filling the role of friendly enemies this afternoon's engagement is one of the big inter- sectional games of the season, Towa, winner of the 1921 Western Confer- ence title, expects to give Eastern prestige a rude jolt. Yale, weakened by injuries, will not make costly sac- rifices to turn back the giant Hawk eyes but the Bulldogs are not un- mindful of the need of winning the intersectional battle. The local management expects all early season attendance records to be broken. The decided drop in tempera- ture has put a real football tang in the air and it's likely 60,000 or more spectators will be in the Bowl for the kick-off, There's a big slice of the corn belt scattered around town. Graduates from many Western colleges are here helping rooters from the Hawkeye State to whoop it up. The game is being regarded strictly as a battle between the East and West. Visit- ors from the corn sector are rooting to see Iowa ‘collar the Bulldog. Yale is apprehensive about the re- sult of this afternoon’s clash. Capt. Jordan, Beckett and O'Hearn, regu- lar backs, and Miller, left tackle, will he missing from the line-up because of injuries, It 1s feared the loss of the (Continued on Ninth Page.) ATTEMPT TO STEAL CANDLER LETTERS TO MRS. DE BOUCHEL Man Who Seized Package of 30 Forced to Give Them Up. NEW ORLE Oct, 14.—A pac ket of thirty letters, sald to have been written by Asa G. Candler sr. to Mrs ANS, Onesima De Bouchel, was seized in the office of Harold Moise, associate coun- sel for Mrs, De Rouchel, but he re- covered the letters, Moise sald to-day “Tt happened two days ago,"' said Moise, “but I didn't say anything uhout it because {t sounded so much like a fairy tale Moise said the package had just been received by registered mail, when a man, apparently about thirty after mumbling a remark about a de tective agency, seized the letters and fled. “L grabbed him and knocked him down,"' Moise stated, ‘‘and he left in 4 hurry — BILLY SUNDAY ARRESTED FOR sP ING LOS ANGELES, Oct, 14.—William A Sunday Jr on of Billy Sunday, the evangelist, Was arrested hh C night on a charge of specding and in ball of $500 for apne in & pollew court Commission Ais Stay of In- junction So Owners May Obtain “Rights.” PROMISES APPROVAL. City Will Grant 400 Permits at Board Meeting Monday. The State City Administration and the Transit Commission “are not very far apart" in their simultaneous efforts to-day to rush to the relief of 0,000 daily bus passengers who will have to walk or taxi twice dally if the injunction granted by Supreme Court Justice Mullan against illegal operation of buses becomes operative. While the City Administration was announcing a call for a special meet- ing of the Board of Estimate on Mon- day for the purpose of granting tem- porary permits to 400 bus operators, the Transit Commission announced that it had applied to Justice Mullan for permission to interveno in the bus injunction proceedings and request a suspension of the injunction order for thirty days so that bus operators may, 4s required by law, apply to the Transit Commission for certificates of convenience and necessity to operat: after they have been first granted permission by the Board of Estimate and Apportionment. The city's plan for the granting of temporary permits to bus opera tors was propounded in a letter by Grover A. Whalen, Commissioner of Plant and Structures, to Mayor Hylan, in which Mr. Whalen points out that it would be preposterous to grant even short term franchises to individual bus operators who might e in a position to dety the Munisi pal authorities with the same arro- gance displayed by corporations hold- ing long term franchise rights The Transit Commission's petition to the Supreme Court asking permis sion to be declared a party in Interest recites that if the injunction granted by Justice Mullan prevails 200,009 daily bus passengers will be deprived of their means of transportation. The figures "200,000" are quoted from Commissioner Whalen’s reports. The petition of the Transit mission further recites that for the purpose of preventing public incon- venience thirty-days' stay of the in- junction order should be granted, ‘'so that necessary steps may be taken as provided by law to permit the legal, safe and proper operation of bus lines, pending the adoption of a plan of re- adjustment and improvement of the general transit situation now being formulated by the Transit Commis sion The ‘Transit Commisston — reminds the Court in its petition to intervene that if the Board of Estimate de to continue bus operation final readjustment of the sit situation, ‘‘all that is Com- es pending a general tran necessary to (Continued on Fourth Vase ) an HARDING FOR WOMAN ON THE TARIFF BOARD Three New Members to Be Named WASHINGTO: 14.—A_ spirited contest has developed for places on the United States Tariff Commission under plans for Its reorganization Three new members will be within the six or eight weeks. time Congress recony will be ready to organi: sion for its new and labors, The President, it {8 name a woman to the women are keenly Interested in duties, named Ry t Presiden commis important more believed, will commission, as tariff —— FLY BLAMED FOR DEATH OF FLORAL PARK GIRL Miss Loretta Reid, nineteen, of No. 161 Carnation Avenue, Floral Park, who died Tuesday night in Jamaica Hospital was said last night to have suffered blood potsoning from the bite of an in- sect, presumably 4 fly, which stung her last Saturday. hortly after sho began to swell and the over her fa was bitten her cheek swelling spread || The Fourth Ward Kid Says Fact Outshines Fiction in Baffling Mystery of Famous Jersey Murder. Mrs. Wilson Woodrow, author of “Swallowed Up,” "The Hawk's Nest” and other brilliant and popular mystery stories, has written es- pecially for The Evening World her analysis of the Hall murder mys- tery. With keen intelligence, with the novelist's knowledge of human motives and passions and with a woman's intuition, Mrs. Woodrow has viewed this most remarkable of murder cases from a new angle. She sets down for Evening World readers a penetrating study of the crime, of the community in which it occurred, of possible solutions of the mystery. Do your theories about the still unsolved double murder in New Brunswick agree with those of this noted woman writer? By Mrs. Wilson Woodrow. There are certain ironical aspects in the New Brunswick murder “mystery when one stops to consider them. A small town Is always in the attitude of drawing aside its skirts when New York flaunts by, the sophis- tieated, wicked city that hatches crime as lightly as a spider hatches eggs. And yet New York, with all her underworld resources, has not been able to compete with the small town in producing a murder mystery of such scandalous {mpll- cations, strange and hidden con- volutions, such sensational situa- ‘ tions as the New Jersey town has presented to the public. Edgar Leo Masters should hasten there and write a new ‘Spoon River Antho!- ogy.” In this case Life beat us spinners of mystery yarns to it, showing a more Juxurlantly gruesome and sinister imagination than any of us possesses, and disdaining the limits which cireumseribe us. Our editors and readers demand that we be plausible, logical and use the long arm of coincidence sparingly. Life snaps her fingers at such arbitrary rulings. In tho double murder of the Rev. Dr. Hall.and Mrs. Mills unrelated sit- uation is piled on unrelated situa- tion, and all promising clues are lost in the general muddle If the gods had graciously popped such a situation into my head, the first thing I would do in the effort to work out the story would be to get the scene, the pic- WILSON WooDpROW ture clear, he background would be the old, aristocratic church in which the best famiHes of the ton have long worshipped. The cultivated, popular rector emerges with all the charm of his magnetic personality, and by his side is the wife fourteen years older than himself, entrenched in inherited wealth and undisputed social position, conservative to the last deg: Behind her is her brother, who frequents the fire houses and finds his chlef enjoyment and excite- ment in a really good, destructive t I would give particular and thorough study to every feminine mem- ber of that congregation, especially those outwardly prim and conven- tional ladies who sternly batten down their errant desires for love and romance and adventure, and never quite dare ask themselves whether they go to church so faithfully to worship God or the rector. I would never rest until I knew the secret thoughts of that close NANG (Continued on Second Page.) FIGHTING IN FIUME, }|HAYNES PUTS OFF OUT| DRY SHIP RULING DESTROTERS FOR ANOTHER WEEK D’Annunzio and Zanellay a 2 Forces Are Clashing Commissioner Extends Date Bieg apie sat ae To Oct. 21 After See- LONDON, ct, 14 (Associated ‘4 ; Press).—Fighting has broken out be ing Harding WASHINGTON, Oct. 14 Application of Attorney General Daugherty's Hquor transportation tween the D'An and the Zanella forer unzio legionaires in Wiume 1 Rome me to the Central] ruling to foreign vessels leaving News to-day their home ports do American t vessels. leaving foreign ports An: Ancona me sad state Shat which was to have bt me effec Ttallan destroyers have been tive to-day, was extended one spatched to prevent the departure of week, or until Oct. 21, by order of Fascisti forces trom Zara for Miume Prohibition Commissioner Haynes to-day after @ visit to the White a House GREEK ARMY REFUSES The extension was announced TO GET OUT OF THRACE] jewiea ‘by the Prohibition com Third Corps F nes io, Obs? Ore pe cr vrendineriniine x tions and in order to give full ADRIA Me CAssocinted tim for compliance with the Press).—The Arn terms of the opinion of the Attor has refuse ee ney General to the effect that th Thrace, transportation and sale of liquors LONDON, Oct. 14.—A Constantinople] on American ships and foreign despatch to the Tiinwa reports that the ships In the territorial waters of commander of the 4th Greek Army the United States are unlawful Corps has ordered hla troopa to begin] ROtice is hereby went through the evacuation of Eastern Thra to-day. press that the time for compliance co: ANTINOPLE, Oct. 14 CAsso- therewith is hereby extended from ke hie Mud HMrgiiidriaid ssels leaving the he mission Who Became Governor |, To Morrow's Weather—CLOUDY, > MAL EDITION ttt PRICE THREE. CENTS GOOD CHANCE TO BEAT YALE | IN TO-DAY ’S CONTEST SECRET MURDER INQUIRY ING PUSHED IN JERSEY, LOGAL DETECTIVE REVEALS Sleuth Meets Charge of “Bungling Stupidity” With Announcement That Special Investi- gators Have Run Down Clues Quietly and Are Near a Solution. (Special From a Staff Correspondent of The Evening World.) NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J., Oct. 14.—Resenting the criticism o! Timothy N. Pfeiffer, counsel for the widow of the Rev. Dr. Hall, in a letter to Gov. Edwards regarding “official bungling” in the investiga- tion of the Hall-Mills murder mystery to-day, Detective George Tot- ten told of some features of the case which have not become public Totten said that when the bodies of the minister and his choir sinj were found, the rector’s eyelids had been drawn down so that he appeared to be asleep, while those of Mrs. Mills were open and staring. The detective also said that the time of the murders was definitely fixed as between 9:30 and 10:15 on the night of Sept. 14 $22,125,000 RASE BY LABOR BOARD established at the Hail home. The 451,911 Workers to Receive question was carried to Lawyer Pfeit o who replied be had posted the Average Minimum Wage of 23 to 37 Cents. ling." guards Curther bang~ SECRET INQUIRY GOING ON FOR WEEKS. “From the moment I saw the diff event consideration with which the dead bodies had been treated—the ey of the minister lovingly closed and ht » prevent Klasses placed on his nose and the woman with her head almost cut off and her eyes staring—I know T wa. not on the trail of any blackmailer or CHICAGO, Oct. 14 (Association Totten Press).—The United States Railroad Labor Board to-day granted a cent-an-hour increase in wages to 461,911 members of the United Iirotherhood of Maintenance of Way employees and railroad shop workers, The increase applies to four of the robber or ordinarily criminal,” said. ‘I have had four men working two- three on that lead for working so myself known been doing, Within everybody will know een weeks and nobody but they quietly that has what have a very few days. now. and will be satisfied we have not wasting elght classes of maintenance em 1 time or bungling. sloyees. ‘o' Prosecutor Stricker of Middlesex The decision came after ten days ‘ of deadlock among the board mem-| 84 Prosecutor Beekinan of Somers appeared at the Hudson County Court House in Jersey City and went to the chambers of Supreme Court Justice Parker, whose juridic includes their counties. It that they the ap plication to him for bers, in which Chairman Ben W. Hooper and a member of the public group succeeded in obtaining a ma- Jority in r of the increase. The two-cent increase was proposed by the public group, but not until the accession of W, H. McMenimen, of the labor group, and Samuel Hig- gins, of the railroad representation, was the decision for an increase made to-day tion understood made & special pie After cutor for the murder case possible. brief conference the justice and th The increase means un addition of| prosecutors took a train for’ Newark $22,1 to the wage bill of the A nation's railroad, ‘The average mini-| NEW YORK DETECTIVES AIDING mum wage under the decision will IN INQUIRY to 37 cents an hour. range trom 23 Astonishment over the Mrs. unexpected Hall that good offices t s of Some: Che minimum wage of from 23 to] demand of counsel fur 37 cents an hour is one cent an hour recent wage advance snnounced ‘by United States Steel Co. for unsicilled labor About 45 per cent. of the Gov. Edwards use h Supersede the prosece the set and Middlesex Counties in the in men wilt of the part! vestigation murders Is Ket 87 cents an hour, or more, and] answered forty per cent. will receive about}, 00°” . a)’ canta ao Hol Galy about 6 pe The Evening World learned to-day cent, will receive Jess than thirty|that just before writing the letter cents hourly Timothy N. Pfeiffer, formerly an As Rates of pay for 4,000 maintenance: sistant District Attorney in New Yor! of way men will be under that figure 16 ROADS AND MEN AGREE TO ABIDE BY U. S. LABOR BOARD in charge of the Homicide Bureau had received a report from two forme police detectives in New York Cit wh eved notable succes mysteries as solvers of mur This report is said to have satis CHICAGO, Oct. 14 (Assoctatea| ed Mr. Pfeiffer that the further an Press). —Sixteen railroads have com-| ¢XPerienced and competent criminal pleted agreoments with new organ-| Prosecutor gets Into the case the et shopmen by which| 800ner Mrs, Hall will be relieved of in effect the men waive the right to| the emotional strain which is break strike and the Companies pledgea|!€ down her nervous system themsolves not to litigate, both par-] PROSECUTORS SORELY TRI! tea cing to abide by the deci AND ADMIT IT. sions of the Railroad Labor Board,| as for Azariah Beekman, Pr ti hoshom KNOwe sRGRy stor of the Pleas for the County « merset, the project to have the ur happy Hall-Mills matter taken off his Begins in EVENING WORLD On MONDAY cement een y a