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sere as tal DOCTOR'S CHARGES ‘EIPEN PROBE OF SHE WANTS 1,000 TONS OF TOBACCO FOR MEN IN WAR. CORONER SYSTEN Physician Under Arrest Said to Have Made “Confession” to Wallstein. | Woman Traps Medical Man With Marked Money, Posing as Patient. loner of Accounts Wall- fatimated to-day that the pub- favestigation of the Board of may be renewed, as a result ‘Sf & “confession” alleged to have Made to him, last night, by I. Hoag, a negro physician, Was arrested at his office, No. West One Hundred and Thirty. @treet, charged with selling \MitHicine to @ woman to produce : an authoritative source close © the Commisrioner, it was learned coroners and coroner's physi- ‘Wil be questioned on allegations te bave been made by the negro The charges, it is said, ead to criminal prosecution. *Bhe “interview wan entirely satis- 4 feotery, and will be of distinct value! ‘to! Dre investigation,” was as far as | Coamiasioner Waliatein would go in @tving out an official statement @ahding dis grilling of Dr. Hoax last Wallatein denied a published that City Chamberlain Bruere | Wem present when the negro was ques. : Previous career of Dr. Hoag eld maters which were of interest Me in the investigation of the Cor- ‘4g. “This was true particularly WHA refernce to a prior arreat of his 8 © charge of heving performed a operation. Upon notification nt to the station from the probe ‘ommissioner of Accounts. arrested by Detective A. Cressemn of the Central assisted by/Harry A. Tattie- ‘Milas Reed, according to the state- ments of the police, went to Hoag’s Mice and gave him « marked $6 bil! _ Gor pills. he left with the medecine /aa6 Dr. Hong's arrest followed, ( rc. and a blackjack were found the police inn search of the apart- ment. When Hoag, flashily attired @ Persian lamb overcoat, peared Mogietrate Modus in the “ ‘ourt charged with “Malpractice and having drugs in his @ asked for an adourn- R of case until Wedneaday | Was held in $3,000 bail, This was granted and he “MAY QUIZ OFFICIALS.| i} | MRS CLARA_WASHINGTON LOPP -. Mra, Clara Washington Lopp, for- merly connected with the American Hospital in Paris, and who, with her husband, wan at the front with the French army, ia in this country try- ing to raine 1,000 tonn of tobacco, in |the shape of cigars, cigarettes and plain tobacco, for the soldiers and the wounded In France and Belgium. Mra. Lopp has just returned from Washington, where she aaw a num- ber of Ambassadors, who she declares all commended her project. The cigars, cigarettes and tobacco will be distributed by the Matin and Figaro, Paris newspapers, Mre. Lopp is at the Hotel Belleciaire, Broadway and Seventy-noventh Street, where she said yesterduy that in talking with the soldiers at the front they told her of the lack of tobacco, pipes, vigaretten, eapectally the sho declared, * me story all along the line. WOMAN TAKES HANDFUL OF MERCURY TABLETS Refused to Accept Medical Attention and Js Taken to Hospital, a Prisoner, Nearly a handful of bichloride of mercury tablets were taken by Mra. Lena Feinberg of No. 411 Hast One Hundred and Seventy-third Street early to-day, if her statement made to Dr. J. L, Rubenstein of No. 1667 Washington Avenue ts correct. The woman ts in a critical condition. Bhe and ber husband, Isaac, she told Policeman Traynor, had a dis- agreement, and about 1 o'clock this morning she informed her husband that she had taken the polson, He summoned Dr, Rubenstein, but she refused to allow him to treat her, so her husbanc summoned Policeman Traynor and asked him to get an ain- bulance, Dr. Sokol came from Ford- ham Hospital, and after treating Mre. Feinberg removed her to that insti- tution, She is charged with attempt- ed suicide, Advertising ior Temorrew the | Mest Sensational Shoe Bargains In the Whole City of New iis the Most Wonderiui _ Bargain Section That =. GAITER TOP Ba tongue — heary chrome leather, Double sales, York Bargain Basement Has Nel its F BOOTS THE EVE HIVES OF MINERS TOUCH HEART OF HRS. HARMAN ‘With Daughter She Visits Site of Famous Colorado Tent Colony at Ludfow. TRINIDAD, Col., Dec. 11.—Mre. J. | Borden Harriman of New York aod Washington, social leader and @ mem- ber of the Federal Commission on In- dustrial Keiationa, spent yesterday in he Colorado strike gone, and trod pon ground that a few months ago was covered with .he blood of etrik- | rs 4 militiamen. She returned here iast night and said she was tired, but had been greatly enlightened %y the things seen and heard on daughter, ground covered last Sunday by man Walsh of the Industrial Commi sion when he made a flying trip down here to acquaint himeelf with the goography and people of the district. But she made her investigation along lines somewhat different from bi! Instead of seeking statistics, she searched for “the hun in side, Arriving bere early yesterday in their auto, the Harri....ne went to the Toltec Hotel, There Mrs, Harriman got Into communication with Col, I. Lockett, commander of the Eleventh United States Cavalry, on patrol in | thia district | WAS PERMITTED TO GO WHERE- | EVER SHE PLEASED. Col, Lockett ga r information as to the location of camps and ar- rangod for the military to see that she was permitted to go wherever she | desired. | Mrs. Harriman went first to the Ludlow tent colony and then over the site of the old colony, which was wiped out by fire in the battle of April 20, when more than twenty | men, women and children were killed. Bho seemed to be particularly in- terested in the housing and cooking arrangements for the strikers and in- attention to the kitchens, She asked pertinent questions of women of the colony. | “This has been one of the most in- teresting days of my life and I have learned some things about the human | heart that nover were revealed to me before,” ahe said at her hotel | night. | those poor women who have been compelled to undergo the hardships of cold and suffering, I imagine that | their liven in the days of the strike must have been full of terror. i THAN FROM MEN. | “T shall not discuss my findings in| detail, but I believe the women f met told me things that no man could ever have learned from them. They have suffered greatly and the most surprising thing of all is the courage and endurance they show.” In addition to Ludlow, Mrs, Harri- man motored through the campa ot Primero, pire, Berwind and Ta- basco. She arrived here at a particularly acute time, for the strike was ide- clared off’ yesterday, and there was agitation among the ' excitable foreigners, Massmeetings were held in several groups of men at almost e' Mrs, Harriman visited. Scores of men applied for work at the minos but there were no places for them, and this added greatly @o thelr ex- citement. Hut there was no disorder. At dinner time last olght Mra. ) had not decided definitely she would return go Denvor ain in the strike district an- other day, She said there wero sev- eral other places she desired to visit. Ammons Aska Wileen te Delay the Withdrawal of Treeps. DENVER, Dec. 11.--Gov. Ammons \y terday telegraphed to Prest- dent Wilson that the State of Col- orado is not yet rady to reassert its | sovereignty in the coal strike dls- triots, He asked the President not to withdraw the Federal troops until it | appeare cor that there will not be individual acts of violence. | | “No date has been fixed for the moval of the Federal troops, as has | been reported frequently,” said Gov, Ammons, “It is not pi ble they will be removed immediately. they are started out of the 8 will be taken out gradual! WASHINGTON, Dec. 1-—As @ re- sult of the settlement of the Colorado | strike it is probable the Federal! troops will be withdrawn from the mining section within the next two or three days. —_—_———Js CUTS OUT WORD “CONVICT.” Prisoners A Allow Grow Fall Crop of Heir and Mustaches, HARTFORD, Dec. 11.—Tho word! nvict.” referring to prisoners, te rin use at the Connecticut State Prison, This is one of a num- | ber of changes in the rules and regu lations of the Institution made cently by Warden Ward A. Garner, and which the Warden says have had used “inmat the Warden man with brutal n se freely at meals vo long | conv they, observe rr h include the disarm- only those NING WORLD, BIG ARMY RESERVE | Senator Would Have Young Mea | Given Regular Army Training as Preparedness for War. | WASHINGTON, Dec. 11.—Deolar- jing that there has been too much publeityot military affaires of the nation, Senator Weeks of Massachu- setts in @ speech in the Benate to-day joponed agitation for apecial investt- gation of military preparedness, | praised the strength and personnel ‘of the navy and urged the organisa- — Policeman-Actor Traps Man Hej Many of the National Guard Organ- Charges' With Selling Cocaine. So many complaints have been re- ceived by Commissioner Wood about @ gang of dealers in cocaine and heroin that infested the Newton Creek eéction, Williameburg, that he sent out @ special detective to-day. Louis Noennich, dressed Uke along Grand Street and at Catherine Btlect leaned against a lamp-post and tramp, sluok shuddered. igh & reee Weeks maintained that a much large: trained army could be maintained at less expense than a permanent stand- jing army now. believe,” anid the Senator, “that Id be passed at once which organize the regular army. This reorganization should give to the mobile army the proper propor- tion of infantry, field artillery, cav- airy, engineers, signal, sanitary troopa the need ammunition and sup- pl ytrains, and provide for properly equipped men eorve the shortest time with the colora necessary to train them as sol- diers, and then pass them as soon as trained to reserve, an dthat while serving in this reserve the men must be paid, Make the enlistment age jeighteen to twenty-one, with consent lof parents, and twenty-five as limit for first enlistment.” In addition to the national reserve |force Senator Weeks would have a aimilar reserve organized under the State militias and urged laws to pro- vide akilled military trainers for vol- untecrs. ———— THINK FEDERAL AID TO FARMERS UNJUSTIFIED Secretury of Agriculture Houston Blames South for Growing Undiversified Crops. WASHINGTON, Dec. 11.—In bis nual report Secretary Houston of the Department of A. opinion fustiNies aval through the credit, and her takes just and pai of the farmers’ requirements, He asks are jowever, for an e@ c) riation of several million dollars unt of the hoof an@ mouth loennich gave an extra hi pots. ‘The law must provide that the| Th y him to death, and five or six young fellows ran up. Poll who had been hiding, dashed acro and the gang ran. ‘The prisoner, who said he was Fred velt Street, M boken. his Roosevelt Street place A Well dressed young man etrolied t him but did not speak until ard ebudder. “Do you need some yen?” inquired the nice young man. “I sure need a tootsie,” Noennich replied in a husky whisper. How much?” he answered; where- upon the nice young man handed over! two boxes of cocaine and sald: “That'll man Waitwood, in, twenty, of 895 Grand Street, rg, was held in $600 =< George B. Perraszo is a successful with shops at . 195 Bleecker Street, No. 8 Roos on Street and Hi He reported to the poll: shot up Thursday morning and he thinks! ight have been e outcome of Jealousy, because he has been bothered recently by many fake funeral calls. Two bullets were fired through the plate glass window, one ruining a paint- ing of Christ being lowerd from the) nd almost hitting Domentco 6 night fot seme {MILLS FINDS MILITIA rhrpay, DECEMBER 11, 1914. DETECTIVE AS TRAMP =| NEEDED, SAYS WEEKS} CATCHES DRUG SELLER: name enly—organisations of no value as @ military asset te the Federal Government.” This is the way Brig. Gen. A. L. Mille, Chief of the Division of Militia Affairs of the War Depart- Fient, characterizes the citinen soldiery of the country in his annual report to-day. Gen. Mills points out that hie eritt- clom is entirely impersonal and is made “for the sole purpose of setting forth an accurate statement of exist- conditions with the view and in ia the hope of leading to a needed form.” One method of providin . ty OF STATES DEFICIENT izations of No Value as a Fighting Asset to Nation. WASHINGTON, Deo. 1i—“In ne State ie the prescribed minimum peace etrength of all organisations of the. organised militia maintained and in reform is to be found, in Gi many instances the 4 deficiency has) Cointon, in the passage of s bill for militia by the reached auch a figure as to leave the| ¢1, corresponding organisations such in Federal Gi ‘evernment: At 68 She Sues Her Buctens. Mra. Frances O'Reilly, sixtg-cight, No. 6103 Fifth Avenue, Brosktya, plied yesterday to Supreme Court tice Clark of that borough for altmeny,/] and counsel fee in her suit againet Dew: nis O'Reilly, seventy-four, to whem abe was married in 1868 Mra. O'Reilly al- leged that her husband, a commission merchant, has il} treated her lately. He denies it. Decision wae reserved. —_—_——— Mire. Alfred Vande Returne. Mrs. Alfred Vanderbilt and her chil- dren, Alfred jr. and George, arrived here yesterday from Sagamore Lodge, ‘® lin the Adirondac! and <goupy. ing their apartment at the Vanderbilt, where they will be joined to-day by ‘Mr. Vanderbilt. Stewart & Co, Correct Apparel for Women & Misses 8TH AVENUE AT 37TH STREET Will Close Out Saturda 180 Superb Fur-Trinimed Suits Trimmed with Leopard, Chinchilla Squirrel, Beaver, Skunk Raccoon or Hudson Seal Among these suits are n.any of the finest in our entire stock: they are all I MateriaJs are Duvetyn, Chiffon Broad. cloth, Velour de Lain, Peau de Souris and Broadtail; lined with pussy wil: Former Prices up to $59.50 new Empire and flare models. low and other fancy silks. 118.50 150 Seal Plush & Corduroy Coats Corduroy Coats have Deep Fur Collars. peau de cygne lined and interlined. Plush Coats have Self Collars. New Empire and flare modeJs of seal plush and velvet corduroy; the corduroy coats are in all shades, including the new sand and putty colors: Former Price $29.50 15.00 210 Exquisite Gowns Gowns for Dinner, Theatre or Evening Wear; Afternoon Party or Calling ular stock, © = Dresses; Frocks for the dance; all taken from ri Gpected several tents, paying especial | 52’ 14, apy ‘imately tin history, and to- in 15,340,000 bale pes ae Loute J. Schaeffer of Bath Beach, who was convicted in the Court of Special Sessions @ week ago of stealing « piece of velvet worth 20 cents from the Gilma B. Smith Company, notions, at No. © ‘My heart goes out to some «?| se e | LEARNED MORE FROM WOMEN places and there Ad u d en 369,000,000 barrels, the jeat ever arvested, roduction of six lead- in ated at 6,000,000,000 bushels, al 000,000 in excess of | J’ the 1913 crop, There has been no substantial ad- in corn in fifteen y: while in heep and tore thei e cereal producing own home supplies, that rection w not now be In {ta present hard cas No EAR FOR C From he Loulaville Courter Journal.) Polly wants a cracker,” squawked the M1 that bird can say?" swered the dealor, “and it's It, lived with a Boston Schaeffer, who foe the was @ confidential employee of the Smith Company, clusive patterns to business ri robation officer reported to the Justices hat Benaeter, owned 5 third [eleaee ld ft ell, you wi is supposed to jump thet high this Greene Street, was to-day sentenced to t penitentiary for three months by 4 Forker. ix years tices McInerney, Zell sold the firm's ex- firm, whose salesmen we: ir fer with the patt off this fellow ti and does it.” Saysthe Music Master: Landay Brothers have made extraordinary preparations to care for your Christmas Victrola requirements. They have largely increased their stock of: Victrolas and have added to their statt of musician- salesmen-—they have made their service ideal. Every instrument and record is carefully tested before it is delivered. Landay’s guarantee satistaction. Take advantage ot this unusual offer. Christmas Victrola Outfit $71.25 1 Style IX Victrola in mahogany or other finish .. $50.00 1 Handsome $15 Record Cabinet to match. $10.00 15 Double-face, 10-inch Records (30 selections) you own choice, at 75c. Many of our most valued patrons have availed themselves of the Landay Deferred Payment Plan, which makes it possible to pay for the instrument you select little by little each month. Records, 60c up. Victrolas, $15 to $250 Authorised Victor Factory Distributors soak ¥ ei Former |12.50 rices up to $49.50 Christmas x Number — OF THE — Brooklyn Daily Times SATURDAY, DECEMBER 12 WILL CONTAIN FEATURES PECULIARLY FITTING TO THE YULETIDE SEASON CHRISTMAS FACTS that all should know, and Christmas Fancies that have sprung from the minds of brilliant readers: The grave question of Christmas gifts. How and what to buy in the stores. Matters of interest to children. Subjects which fill the thoughts of women at this time of year. Pictures and poetry filled with the Yuletide spirit. Serious comment of and from all lands. Light, bright and right reading for the holiday season. 4 THE BROOKLYN TIMES XMAS NUMBER *%& OUT DECEMBER 12 For a good, hearty laugh over the greatest comic characters ever created. The Captain, Hans and Fritz, Ma, The Professor, the Sunday World's great Comic Section for which Dirks, the famous Katzenjammer Kids, now draws exclusively. be sure and originator