The evening world. Newspaper, December 5, 1922, Page 3

Two Shares for One to Con- , solidated Stockholders—Raise Capital $25,000,000. NEW FIGHT NOW ON. Margin Below 80 Cents De- clared Confiscatory; $1.15 to $1.25 Deemed Unfair. By Sophie Irene Loeb. The Consolidated Gas Company Is voting on a proposition whereby ‘he Present outstanding 1,250,000 shares of common stock are to be exchanged for ® new Issue of stock In which the Stockholders will get two shares for one. To do this they will amend the certificate of incorporation of the com- pany so as to permit the issuance of 3,000,000 shares of common stock for this purpose, the difference of 600,000 shares to be offered to the stockhold- ers at $50 a share. The Consolida increase the authorized capital stock of the company from the present au- tvorized amount of $125,000,000 to $140,000,000, par value. ‘This 1s to be divided into 1,250,000 shares of common stock at the par value of $100 cach, and 300,006 shares of € per cent. cumulative participating preferred the par Value of $50 cach. All this two-shar that of increasing the capital stock, &c., is based upon the high rate of $1.25 and $1.50 per thousand feet of gas, sold to the ns of consumers in the City of New York, which rate was recently reduced 10 per cent. by the Public Service Commission, but In reality ng ‘he ges standards and giving the consum- capital stock, of -for-one plan and ais-d because of chan ers less for their money than they got before. And even at the 10 per cent. reduc- tion, according to the best estimates available, the Gas ‘Trust is mak prefit of SO per cent. rate. Since giving of two-fd on the present the above announcemen| the stockhol -one of he benefit their res of stock, t s be as fo whether uuthorization should he allowed the Consolidated Gas Com- pany by the State or should they be forced to into the thereby re- Manufacture of gas at 9": the cost Among the organ| their denunc rates ation © and the Gas 1 ning them is the ity ncils of New Yor! F ntrated effort is t an appeal to the coming a fo fix a rate as it did formerly com- mensurate with the earn of this gigantic corporation Evening fn as 7 ned that the c re entitled to a much lo an now charged for g: The the former andie to the Britis thermal recently authorized by rvice Commission, made such ction in cost possible for the Gas ‘Trust that It can now safel issue these enormous additional shares of stock and be assured of such future from unit the profits for the stockholders as will fhvite new shareholders, while the consumers continue to pay the prices now ¢ 1 from which these tre- mendous profits accumulate Prominent authoriti n the gas question assert that Supreme Court of the United $ in its de- cision nullifying the original 80 © Gas Law secured in 1906 through © Evening Wo ve before it all the fact gas corporati This condition to the fact that all the business of the Cons ntinued on Twenty-second Page.) CO.'S IMMENSE PROFITS SHOWN: LEGISLATURE WILL BE ASKED FOR A NEW RATE ed will also vote to}, $$ me ___ TWO LADS PERISH ~ IN IRE; MOTHERS IURED IN LEA Victims Trapped on Second Floor of Home at Mt. Freedom, N. J. MORRISTOWN, N. J., Dee ‘Two small boys were burned to d early to-day when fi home of Samuel Cantor at Mount Freedom, a mile and a half from Mor- ristown. The mothers of the childven jumped from second story windows and were se injured. They are both in the Morristown Memorial Hos- pital he dead are Samuel ¢ 1 two, and John Trisk, ¢ ntor jr., four. Mrs. Cantor and her guest, Mrs. Helen Trisk of Dover, had been sleepi when swakened ‘by the fire. Mrs. Cantor's husband vas sleeping on | a njured. death of the two children cae egmtes 4 HURT, AUTO WRECKED AS RAIN HIDES “L” PILLAR | Driver In Ser! sult first floo fy and we Coroner as Re- of the Smash-Up, His view obscured by Anthony ve} of No, 306 West Sith Street, & 2 touring car containing the downpour f Autio, years old, while driy three young women, north on Broad- way, early this morning crashed into aj pillar of the “L’ tension of the west| Pr bwa 18th Street, ' Aullo re- eclved SPANKING WEEK URGED |, FOR CITY'S CHILDREN | Smith Alf for scaretor.| 0 forme THE EVENING WORLD, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1922. of the 150 members of the Sultan's harem are shown. Since Mohammed VI, fled to Mal- ta on a British warship it has been trying problem ¢or Rafet Pasha to find husbands for the ex-Sui- tan’s wives, ‘They range in from seven- teen to thirty-five years. All of them are penniless, The ladies of the harem who Some of the Sultan’s Deserted Wives Who Seek Husbands Si are able to find husbands will be permitted to remain in Constanti- nople, but the remainder will be ent to their homes in the Interior. Most of the women are Circas- Cop’s Keen Nose for Breakfast Halts Man With Hot Eats in Coat mentally contemplati ractures of ribs and was taken| breakfast of ham and eggs, buckwl to Columbus Hospital where it was said] Cakes and coffee as he neh ea ree condition is serl comer cf 163d et and ‘Third Ave- © three women, who received lacer- | NUe, When his nostrils suddenly picked and contusion up the odor of hot food. neing attended by Dr The nearest restaurant was a block ea) Tiospital. fs Meee Non ee oes Vournier the air and vege tr Mary Martin, nines} te Odor gradually away, ‘Then teen years old, of No. 250 West s2a| he recalled that it h sailed him in Biecet anata tas he had passed a man years old hurrying along Patrol . of th iuickened his pace i pe Rt up close to the pedestrian narra kien te 1 t the move apparent them he ron to a police booth | He ode ummoned an ambulance he po: Hold on there,"* commanded th uy there Was no light on the policen and the man stopped Fournier ordered him to step into ¢ —_—__>___—_. ' nd unbutton his coat, which it le tly, the something man obeyed, nd a } In one bulky reveal pt to feel the pangs of hunger as th ur of relief approaches, and Patrolman Jobn Fournier of the Morrisania inct was no exception to the rule at 7.45 o'clock this morning He \ Dishwasher Hid Steaming Chicken, Ham, Saucrkraut and Catchup as He Hur ‘clicemen who go on patrol at midnight and tramp through the until § o'clock in the morning are ied Along. pounds of sauerkraut and in anothe a bottle of tomate catsup The walking delicatessen establis ment proved to be Henry Kuziow thirty-six, No. 18 East 117th Street He admitted he was employed as a dishwasher in a rant at| No 0 Third Avenue and had left there ew minu manager moned and saic nissini food from t hen for some time. but had not suspected Kuziow, who never carried a bundle in or out the place and never wore an overcoat Apparently, said, Kuziow watched lis chance and when the chef's bacl. was turned bed anyth could reach off the rang table, stuffed it under 1 did a quick gets In Morrisania wo dd spanking week panking,"? would zens of New Yor said dn an addre anniversary mectin and Sisters at. th tonight, Other Stephen S. Wise vilins, Mrs. iney C. I strong, Mrs Sheldon Justic numb: ei ildren’s | ‘ent ha om 15,000 in 1915 to 10,000 in 1921. Mrs. William Kk. | Vanderbilt was on the speakers’ plat-| ~ WOMAN’S LEG BROKEN a WHEN TROLLEY HITS HER wurina, thirty West 7th § ast night by a tro! ! i and Ken, Accordi epped in frou Aste five years} al Street. He to the police of t P. th Mes 1 atrolman O'Donnell of et Station gave vina until an the first ald tol mbulance ar | ate | | > car. ten We mc | SALVATION ARMY HAS Proper of $15,325,630.82 ‘Love Wins Freedom for Girl Sentenced for Grand Larceny {Pound Cuilty in Brooklyn Court, Man Prom y Prisoner. Mar to Love won freedom for Miss Lillian Blasi, a en, to-day in yn County Court, Just as Judge MacMahon finihsed sentencing iford Reformat on of grand larcen athony crelli, aged twenty-six, of Strect, Brooklyn, stepped the Judge and said op send her away, Your Honor. —_— \ iS consented tk ; She is not a bad girl ang, [M4 bad exar nd not an inctin made some mis.} 0M to do wrong has been the handi she is not to blame, | C2? under v hee > o ond we will be married at} Her sixteen yedrs, she 1 1 1 she won't do any- | Spent four in institution ng again Judge MacMahon Judge MacMahon withdrew the sen-| Mahon > with the a Ivs, Marie Mahon, proba sweetheart to Mat Licen it knew the Bureau, where the couple were m on ried by Deputy City Clerk Joan f “Your Honor, I have aalready made| Quayle, When eturned to court ut she continued. | Judge MacMa paroled ¢ girl has made some mistakes but Dec. 8, when he will finally ¢ v She was not been at No, $8 Carlton Aven ne apie n her childhood oklyn $15,325,630 IN PROPERTY 1 Assets tr Linbilities 82,097,00 058. Army ia United States has a market valu ling to papers ourt Justice ins when he army nort real propert 10 for a bu table 8 of the Sa intry) we nd its nd Hat $6,208 with eme ¢ religious and cha wo 1 1 a ~ . Y. U, BASKETBALL SCHEDULE ANNOUNCED TWENTY TONS OF COAL DUG UP IN BOOZE HUNT Joa 4 Ne Lintment at Ene Snecesstul. « 1 I six had clott tons of high that bananns was not the ¢ freigh and s0 the customs pe re l coal they f of wh urs to be ¢ PAINT EIUS SON COMIN HANG PATIOS § MADRID, pb U Hee bo Crtnies Jescribed as ORY NAVY DEPLOYS AS 5000 CASES OF qUoR APPROAE Vast Inflow From Bahamas Expected for the Christ- mas Hetidays. Fhe American ayy navy-—that fleet of ghost ships which seeks to keep the Prohibition laws intact on the high seas—to put ou cck a gre flotilla of rum which has turted for New York and other points Jong the Bastern with tock of Christma Reinforced with pressed into servic Mar aken to the o in y for nearly 100. bootlegging Which ave known to be tearing up from the Bahamas with 50,000 to 100 000 cases of liquor, or to be lying off hore waiting for th going rum ts to arrive, Orders have been issued to halt every ship which looks riclon The totul number of craft In. the flect is a mystery. At Prohibi- mn Enforcement headquarters, offi declined to make public it ength, ‘They said it was not large ugh, but it was the best they could muster that ey ing they had Was out nov would be by end of the week 1 ment of ner Haynes in ‘ that the Gulf tor Ml offi- declared gers were ering just as t off the Jer- and Long 1 Mie flat track nd in whieh I Island —aboun ul which t be used fo omergeney ling flek under watch. 1) n eye on whicl t land was being t red by sea from ships at In some cas it said, flares e warned avia o dump their s into the shallow Great South from which the bottles could be its had withdrawn ee 285 MUST GET LEGISLATION TO MOVE OBJECTIONABLE 6TH AVE. “L” COLUMNS Hoard of Estimate Blocked tnt by sit Constante Tie set Blevated Railroa arvied into elfect the Boa I ile b t Mure for a 1 vblin h Pr J M on t queste va ngest Corp nt . ean n that t dt te moar at it Comm » had powe nd to tion t 1 hr Com Transit ( has taken was 1 lL by | pul NORKIN HELPED Dig nee His Plight) winnre pit, NEW WITNESS ASSERTS pee Also Stood Guard Three Nights Over Mrs. Becker’s Grave, Jury Is Told. HE BLAMED HUSBAND. Mother of Slain Woman Re- veals Victim Feared Death by Husband. The same Bronx County Grand Jury which indicted Abraham Becker for the murder of his wife, Jennie, who was buried, presumably alive, In © pit near the automobile shop of Reuben Norkin at 140th Street and uthern Boulevard, to-day heard testimony as to Norkin's connection with the crime. An indictment of Norkin ts expected be presented early this afternoon. Norkin has confessed to having been a witness of the killing, standing by while Becker struck his wife In the to head and then dragged her, sti! groaning, to a previously prepared grave. But he has denied any further complicity in the act. Henry Gerner, one of Norkin's em- ployecs, gave the Jurymen one bit of testimony which indicate that Norkin kept watch Mrs. Becker's secret grave for at least three days after the murder, Gerner seemed to over d that on three nights immediately ifter April 7, the date established as that on which Mrs, Becker vas killed, he returned to the Norkin shop after supper to finish some rush automobile work. found Norkin asleep on the running board On these occasions he of © motor car which stood not more than ten feet from the woman's rave in the disused boiler pit. Mortis Bloom, a poultry dealer with a shop at No, 674 Mast 140th Street, which is opposite the murder yard, testified that in the first days of April he saw two men digging what looked like a grave in the pit. Norkin's con- fession stated that Becker alone dug the hole in which his wife's body was afterward put. Assistant Distr! Attorney Alt Cohn of Bronx County is to-d: the track of evidence not only t Albert Becker conspired to murde his wife, but that the woman eus- pected it and had expressed her fears in letters to her mothe in London, Mrs. tta Halwritz, and possibly to others, Mrs, rt on ut Ray Koe sherg of ton, n of Mrs. Becker, who came to the Bronx after the finding of the body, told Mr. Cohn that Mrs, ¥ had so feared her husband t secreted at times every article in the house t might have been used in causing her quick death Mr. Cobn hos ietters Mrs. Becker wrote to her mother, in which she in- dicated her dread of her husband, and the Prosecutor has sent a request to the mother to send him all other let- ters bearing on this point Norkin's wife Is sticking to him, and through the efforts of his family and friends State Senator ‘Thomas 1 heridan of Hartman, Sheridan & Te. Kill, has been engaged to defend him “| don’t believe my husband ts guilty of the terrible charge Hecker sald Mrs. Norkin. ays frequent visits to him in the nty Jail and he ts understood to y authority to seil his Co have given 88, n Becker was told the details busin Ww of Norkin’s confession he seemed astonished, but stuck to his story that Norkin struck the death blow Wilson Winning Long Fight; May Recover Completely From Effects of Stroke : + Walks Some Without Assistance and Rear Admiral {rayson, His Physician, Believes That This Improvement Will Continue. WASHINGTON, Dec. 5 (Copyright 1922 by United Press Assovia- tions).—Woodrow Wiison, who has made a game uphill fight for the was last three years to regain his health, may recover completely from the stroke of paralysis which came upon him as the result of arduous labors © This information given the United Press to-day by one of the his.steady Improving condition, Mr. Wilson will never recover the Bl robust health he enjoyea cu the early his long illness has greatly taxed b's strength at an age when vitality is not regained easily, Bot it Is believed in his great battle for the League of Nations. who has been a constant observer of part of his Admim.stration, o8 that the effect of the peralysis sort may disappearand he may agaly en- Neighbor of Al Smith’s Dis-]J°” tt! use of his arms, legs and badd ‘sia muscles. misses Waiter and Re- For the first time since he was stricken in the White House three years ago, after being forced to aban- don his League of Nations tour, Mr. Wilson is able to wall more than a few steps withut Rear Admiral Cary T. Grayson, his person- al physician, to-day said: “M Wilson continues to show steady and most encouraging improve- ment, He is undoubtedly in much better health now than at any time since his long illness began and there is every reason to believe that this Improvement will continue.’ Admiral extren bukes Detective. “Thank the Lord," remarked. City istrate Thomas J. Nolan, in Centre reet Court to-da: in) the course of a hearing on an alleged vio- lation of the Mullan-Gage act, ‘it will Police assistance. be onl ya couple of months until the repeals this unnece sary and op| e law Thasmuch d sistrate Nolan is a ibor and a lifelo x friend of Gov.- mith his remark was consid significant by thos Smith who heard it. Mr. thus far to in fon as to the repeal of Grayson indicated ho was y hopeful that Mr. Wilson has refused dicate his p ihe: Neullansineeeaes would make virtually a complete The case that called out Magis-| Ccovery. At present Mr. Wilson strotls trato Nolan's comment was that’ of}! the garden of his 8 Street home Harry Gardino, a waiter in a res-{ Without assistance. He carries his famous aicea cane but is using it testiftca]@% % Means of support less and le led the res. [¢8ch day. He walks about in his home q{also. but has taken no walks on the streets of Washington. The vecovery of the War President thus far has been remarkable, physi- No, 15 Robert e ente xter taurant at veet Detective that savon taurant yesterday afternoon found a bottle of whiskey in a back room. “Did you have a search warrant clans here agree. If he Is able w asked the court shake off completely the effects 0! No, sir."’ replied the sleuth the paralysis, it will be almost a mi “Of course you know you had aol ucle, men of his age rarely are right fo search that place without afable to reeover from such a s warrant,’ said Magistrate Nolan. |! suffered, physicians hold. “You have committed an illegal net he Wilson of to-day is in marked lors ought to take co- | contrast and your sup is dis- to the crippled invalid wh» nizance of it The defendant hobvled out of the Witte House on charged. March 4, 1921, and into the Capitol tenn el to participate in the Inaugural cer monies of President Harding GET BUSINESS SECRET Then he could burdily shuffle one BY BRIBE, IS CHARGE] foot in front of the other, his face was ashen gray, hisleft shoul ew led a marked stoop and New Mork Man Hera tn Uaeseel vom wae virtually right, ‘To-ds Sree a pesn movement of his feet is much freer, Under ection In the New Jersey} there is more life in the left arm and Crime Act making it a crime (o offen] shoulder, und a healthy color flushes «bribe or Rra to nn employee of] his cheeks. ‘There still is sort of any firm in-an endeavor to get an im-] twist aroond his mouth, which + praweMirhvGrec l Landeckor. of No. {88/8 in a peculiar smile, but it te is grad disappearing 414 Kant 16th Street, Manhattan, ia] such of the credit for Mr held by Magistrate Smith, of the Fourth | son's remarkable progress in. t« District Magistartes’ Court, Manhattan, Jing his health must go to Mrs. to await extradition to Jersey City. De-]xon. She has been a most patient tective John O'Neill went to ‘Trenton absolutely insisting on the long to-day in an effort to obtain the ex- | Pe of seclusion, The mecent Armistice Day speech of the former begs ta President, in’ which he axsatled was charged that Lundecker Ravel oig time foes of the League of wv Mbert Lavalle, of Noo 1711-2] ions with sparks of his wartime fire, York Street, Jersey City, an empl revealed his marked tinpiovement, of the Richards Chemical Company, of {put it. was not learned until to-day No, 1) Warren Street, Jersey City, lasttinat his intimates believe be can June, tn ratiuen far enlot Ja valle Baye siake:of + WitUnl i. mit raeuee On nim the secret of a forni wd by’ the | Pa raiysts, Fae any aid that there was a ef] Previously, attendants had to tt ficenble falling off in the company's| him into his car for his business, and the arrest of Landecker | rides. Now he can reach fe ed his car with little assist & Myers Tonacco Co. —and after all, what oiher cigarette is 30 highly respected by so many men? AN TIMA 1 |