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*fasic materials cannot be through the Federal Land Banks, may Well have its powers enlarged to pro- ‘vide ample farm production credits as ‘well as enlarged land credits. It is entirely practical to create a division In the Federal Land Banks to deal with production credits, with tho limita: tion of time so adjusted to the farm turnover as the Federal Reserve sys- tem provides for the turnover in the manufacturing and mercantile world: “Special provision must he made for livestock production credits, and the limit of land loans may be safely en- Iarged. Various measures are pending before you, and the best judgment of Congress ought to be expressed in a prompt enactment at the present ses- sion, “But American agriculture needs more than added credit facilities. The credits will help to solve the pressing problems growing out of war inflated Jand values and the drastic deflation of three years ago, but permanent and deserved agricultural good for- tune depends on better and cheaper transportation. “Here ts an outstanding problem demanding the most rigorous con- sideration of the Congress and the country. In the last half of the year now closing the railways, broken in carrying capacity because of motive power and rolling stock out of order. though insistently declaring to the contrary, embargoed the farmer's shipments or denied him cars when fortunate markets were calling. Too frequently transportation failed while perishable products were turning from possible profit to losses counted in tens of millions, “| know of no problem exceeding in importance this one of transportation. in our complex and interdependent modern life transportation is essential to our very existance. “Manifestly, we have need to be- gin on plans to coordinate all trans- portation faciliti We should more effectively connect up our rail lines with our carriers by sea. We ought to reap some benefit from the hun- dreds of millions expended on inland waterways, proving our capacity .o utilize as well as expend. We ought to turn the motor truck into a rail- way feeder and distributor instead of a destroying competitor. it would be folly to ignore that we live in a motor age. The motor car reflects our standard of living and gauges the speed of our present-day life, It long ago ran down simple living, and never halted to inquire about the prostrate figure which ‘ell as its victim. With full recognition of motor car transportation wo must turn it to the most practical use. “This transportation problem can- not be wajved aside. The demand for lowered costs on farm products and ignored, Rates horizontically increased, to meet increased wage outlays during the war inflation are not easily re- yduced. When some very moderato wage reductions were effected last jummer there was a five per cent. rizontal reduction in rates. "I sought at that time, in a very informal way, to have the railway managers go before tho Interstate Commerce Commission and agree to «a leavier reduction on farm products and coal and other basic commodities, ice-covered slopes of the Queens- | TRAN I borough Bridge, where for a time more than 200 trucks were tied up. ‘They could not get away until after Tk UP IN MONTHS 8 o'clock, when the bridge was sanded. All Bronx traffic was subject to at least half an hour's delay. Trains re- turning from downtown after the be- ginning of the sleet storm were unable (Continued) Washington Square occupants was injured. The worst of the operating trouble to make better time than two hours between City Hall and Bronx Paric. was on the Third Avenue elevated ime, where Interborough Rapid Tran- The Putnam Division of the New York Central was overwhelmed with sit Company officials admitted thot the tie-up was for a time “almost the passengers from other lines, who relied on its covered third rail ic heep complete." But no line was unaf- fected, for those unimpeded by the it going normally. Jobn Stilzer was pushed off the Morrisania Station of the Putnam di- vision in front of an incoming train. Max Smalle of No, 1228 Union Ave nue jumped from the platform and dragged him to safety. Mr. Stilzer was taken to Lincoln Hospital, e A short circuit in a rheostat coil in “yrange ee ey ene tarent®l tho forward car of a Lexington Ave- yeported that it took an hour to ride|"e subway ut Jerome Avenue and from 96th Street to Chambers Strect 200th Street set fire to the insulation. sora a Weal Side subway, and many| The Passengers screamed in alarm ore unnble to get out at thelr regus|and crowded cach other dangerously. Jar stations because of the pressing The motorman had the fire out in or three minutes and the passengers ‘The. worst jamming that New York | ‘Muleted In three more. = hag seen in rots occurred between| Solomon Clark of No. 656 East 8 and 9 o'clock at the Grand Central 160th Street, slipped on the steps of Terainal, Delayed subway trains,| 28 home and was seriously bruised already overcrowded, were stormed and scratched. He was taken to Lin- there by abnormally big crowds from coin Hospital by Ambulance Surgeon the New York Central trains. iil ssnteey Guards in many instances were pow-| ,, Thomas Senfsky a (rucking erless to make the platform crowds ee vagencalrnd gia “a Pbk “Let ‘em out first.” Passengers try-] Tatk, Yonkers, dint of he ing to get out and passengers trying |1) ee nt arrivi ne to get in met ‘and crushed each other the he or k entral arriving at the in mutual defeat—for those who Street Station at 10 o'clock to- wanted to get out were carried awny day. It was believed that the crowded down town and those who wanted to condition of the train c.used the Be aceh count. heart attack. Eurly passengers on all the elevated Nines and many of the surface lines reported very slow progress, trains and cars stopping again and again as they struck the slippery spots. And canditions in Brooklyn were similar, especially on the Brighton Beach and Culver lines, Two elevated ‘trains caught fire son the Third Avenue line in New York and leave unchanged the freight tar- iffs which a very large portion of the traMe was able to bear, Neither the managers nor the Commission saw fit to adopt the euggestion, so we had the horizontal reduction too slight to bo felt by the higher class cargves and too little to benefit the heavy tonnage calling most loudly for ro- lief. ‘Government operation does not afford the cure, It was Government operation which brought us to the very order of things against which we now rebel, and we are still liqui- dating the costs of that supreme folly, ‘Surely the genius of the Railway Builders has not become extinct among the railway managers, Now economies, new efficiencies in co-oper- ation must be found. ‘The fact that labor takes 60 to 60 per cent. of total railway earnings makes limitations within which to effect economies very difficult, but the demand 1 no tess in- sistent on that account The President then urged merger of the railroads, pooling of equipments and a central agency financing and to suggest economies. ‘Then turning to the Important Rail- such agency should be a guaranty nst suspended operation, public must be spared even iad threat of discontinued service. “The Labor Board, beaks js not so constituted as best to serve the public interest, With six partisan members on a board of nine, three partisans nominated by the employees and three hy the railway managers, it is inevi- {able that the partisan viewpoint is maintained throughout hearings and in decisions handed down. * * ® Only the public group of three is fre fo function in unblased decisions. Therefore the partisan memborship may well be abolished, and decisions should be made by an impartial tri- bunal, “I am well convinced that the fune- tlons of this tribunal could be much better carried on here in Washington. Even were it to be continued as a separate tribunal, there ought to bo contact with the Interstate Commerce Commission, which has supreme au- thority In the rate making to which wage cost bears an indissoluble rela- tionship. “Theoretically, a fair and living wage must be determined quite avart from the employers’ earning capacity, but in practice, in the railway service, they are inseparabl The record of advanced rates to meet inrreased wagos, both determined by the Goy- ernment, is proof enough. “The substitution of a Jabor division in the Interstate Commerce Commits- sion made up from its membership, to hear and decide disputes relating to wages and working conditions which have failed of adjustment by proper committees created by the ra.lwaya and their employees, offers a more ef- fective plan, “It need not be surprising that there is dissatisfaction over delayed hear- ings and decisions by the present board when every trivial dispute ts carried tu that tribunal. The law should require the railroads and their (Continued on Tenth Page.) None of the to aid in their]. HARDING MESSAGE [5 BID FOR VOTES IN NEXT ELECTION Deals With Subjects He Be- lieves Affected Results in Recent Balloting. DISCONTENT HEEDED. Agriculture and Transporta tion Treated in Effort to Placate Farmers, By David Lawrence. (Special Correspondent of The Eve- ning World.) WASHINGTON, Dec. 8 (Copyright, 1922).—President Harding has taken complete cognizance in his message to Congress to-day of the major prob- lems which made the electrate so rest- less this year and brought such a confused result in the elections just A month ago yesterday. The President says something on nearly every subject which might might have had anything to do with the balloting’ or which might affect the course of affairs in the next Na- tional referendum in 1924, *Members of both parties will agree that irre- spective of the merit of Mr. Harding's proposals, whether they constitute a cure for the ills or a plea in avoidance, the President has nevertheless by his recitation of problems given a com- prehensive account of “the state of the Union." em Much of what Mr. Harding has recommended does not come as a sur- prise, but until the executive speaks, until the leader of the dominant poli- tical party puts his words formally on record, there is never the same weight given or the same attention paid to the recommendations, Agriculture stands first and fore- most In Mr. Harding's thought.. He knows that the revolt in the Middle West, indeed the friction inside .he Republican party, has at its root a dissatisfaction with America's imper- fect system of financing the farmer. Enlargement of the powers of the Farm Loan Bureau, together wita the permanent establishment of a 8: tem that will do at all times what the War Finance Corporation did in an emergency, is what Mr, Harding pro- poses, The details are being worked out in Congressional committees nov. But credits alone are not sufficient, Freight rates have been a bugaboo, and with that problitn the President links the poor transportation, Mr, Harding makes a plea for more use of the motor truck, better high- Ways, and a co-ordination of motor facilities to move crops. He openly criticises the railroads for saying their motive power is good when it is not and he deplores the poor service they have given in regions of the country where perishable crops had to be moved, He refers particularly to the Pacific Coast. Yet, as the President tackles the railroad problem, he realizes in his Speech that the railroad strike was not an accident, but that back of it all is the perennial dispute about la- bor, The most important recommen- dation he makes is the abolition of the United States Railroad Labor Board, or rather its complete revision. As has been pointed out again and again in these despatches, the weakness of the board has been its division into three groups, labor, employer and public. This in arbitration tribunals only means that the real burden is placed on the neutral members. Mr. Harding proposes a board to be con posed of all neutral member: Thinking also that the labor board {s an ill-fated institution, without power to enforce its decrees, the President thrusts forward the idea of making a new subdivision of the Interstate Commerce Commisston to concentrate on labor disputes, ‘This provision’ probably will be bitterly fought by labor, for it means that the arbitrary rules of a fair return on the investment will be considered by one branch of the Interstate Com- merece Commission and that another will fix wages on the basis of what the railroads can afford to pay, his is where labor enters the argu- IMIMENSE QUANTITY OF COAL FERE; BUT DEALERS FAIL TO FIND BUYER _— but neither blaze was serious, They (Continued) were empty trains in each case and the guards extinguished the flames without turning in alarms. Great streams. of passengers from the paralyzed Third Avenue line rushed over to Lexington Avenue and packed the subway platforms. At 8 A. M. the offices of the Tra sit Commission reported that the ‘Ti: Avenue tie-up was “very, very peri- ous.”’ They reported, however, that a preliminary survey had shown that the Third Avenue line was the only one tied up. The trouble op this line, they said, began shortly after 6.30 A. M., when express and additional Jocal trains were being put on to take «are of the morning rush. The stop- ‘page was reported to be on both south and northbound tracks Motorists who forgot their tire ebains also suffered, especially on the following quantities of small suze steam anthracite on hand Patterson & Broan, 4 barges; Fuel Service Company, 9 barges} Blue Ridge Coal Company, 3 barges, and Thorne, Neale & Co, 16 carloads. At the termine, Weston-Dodson Comp: has carloads, and Thorne, Neale joads of bituminous coal, In the B. & 0. lying thi sion bas twenty-nine cars of bitumi nous which has been the This coal, being in New York, | p jurisdiction of the Fuel Administration, but the Fuel Admin istration docs not know it is there 28 for sixty) BOSTON MAYOR WANTS COAL GOUGERS JAILED | INSTEAD OF FINED BOSTON, Dec, 8.—Mayor | Curley to-day urged jail terms for profiteering coal dealers. The Mayor asked Charles B, | Wooley, Sealer of Weights and | Measures, to request Chief terminal on Staten) Justice Bolster of the Munici- Island the Coal Corporation has twen- | ars of bituminous coal which | for ninety days, and the Interstate Commerce Commis- pal Court to impose jail sen- tences instead of fines. | This action followed infor- mation received by the Mayor that peddlers were selling coal consisting largely of slate in small lot at prices that were at the rute of §25 a ton COAL DICTATOR ADMITS BIG STOCK AVAILABLE HERE Householders Will Be Forced to Use~ Part Substitutes. State Fuel Administrator Woodin admitted this afternoon that there is an immense supply of small size an- thracite steam coal in the New Jersey terminals, but said he has no control over It. “If we could find a way to compel people to buy it we could move that conl,”” he said. ‘But,’ even tn tho face of the emergency, consumers do not want that kind of coal and they will not take it.” Mr. Woodin, District Administrator Arthur 8, Leyroyd and Commissioner Grover Whalen, representing the Mayor at a conference to-day, figured out a plan that will, {t is believed, move much of this surplus coal now lying in the terminals. They agreed upon the form of an order wiitch will be issued for publication in morning newspapers to-morrow, which provides that every delivery of anthracite coal must be accompanied by a stated per- centage of substitute—either small size anthracite, bituminous or coke. This order is along the lines adopted by the district fuel adminis- trators in session in Albany with Gov, Miller yesterday. It is the simplest means of getting the substitutes cir- culated. Inspectors will be stattcned at all coal yards to see that no de- liveries of 109 per cent. anthracits are made. The percentage of substitute will vary with the type of heating to bo served. The Fuel Administrator reported this afternoon that 28,000 tons of steam size coal have been distributed in Greater New York in the last four days. Yesterday 2,008 tons of domest- fe size anthracite were received in Brooklyn, 2,361 tons in Manhattan and 503 tons in the Bronx, ment with the ery that it should be given a living wage even if there js not as much profit as the government now guarantees. Lgbor has fought the government theory of what con- stitutes a fair return on railroad in- vestment. Also there is every reason to believe that labor is just as much opposed to any tribunal which enforces: its de- crees, whether it is called a labor board or a subdivision of the Inter- state Commerce Commission, or any- thing else. The present ‘interstate Commerce Commission act has e1- forceable provisions already. Simple amendment to include labor dis- putes would be easy from a @sycho- logical viewpoint, as it would eem to place carriers and employees on the same basis, but laobr will fight that tooth and nail. It always has in- sisted on the unrestricted right to quit work in a body. The President hopes to soften the effects of this enforcement policy by limiting the disputes to be considered by the national tribunal to those which “are likely to affect the public welfare. Definition of this phrase will probably provoke considerable de- bate and controversy. Mr. Harding doesn’t ignore the sentiment in favor of a change in the tariff and promises that the flexible provisions of the law permitting the Executive to proclaim changes will not become a dead letter, Immigration is touched on, too, with the suggestion that quotas be enlarged ultimately and that aliens be examined abroad #0 as to prevent hardships at ports of entry through the dental of admission to applications who have already made the v ge to American shores. The proposal to submit a constitu- tional amendment prohibiting child labor is not unexpected and will help friends of the President to point to the “progressive? character of his administration, especially at a time when the ‘progressive’? bloc 1s ad- vocating such thing: Mr. Harding frankly tells the Amer ican people he tan't opposed to amend- ing the Constitution when the changes are for the better. It had been re- ported that he wanted to stand pat on the Constitution. But he proposes that all tax-ex- empt securities now be abolished, It will take many years for an amend- ment like that to be submitted to the several states and ratified, but ulti- mately it will prevail as it falls within the category of ‘progressive’? doc- trine on which the radicals have al- ways thrived—it is a measure aimed at th wealthy, something popular with the radical politicians in the states. It has the support of Mr, Harding, however, because he thinks it will increase government revenues a time when the budget sorely needs added sources of income. ‘The Prohibition portions of the mos- sage contain « few surprises. The President had been reported weaken~ ing on the Volstead law, It had been said he noted a shift of sentiment in the last elections. He comes out in his message as favoring a rigorous en- forcement of the Volstead act He frankly says the provisions of the Iw are not in his opinion contrary to pub- lic desire. He predicts that a repeal of the teenth Amendment is not likely asks for “literal enforcement.” Mr, Harding announces that le will call the Governors of all the | TRISH H INSURGENTS SENT TO FIRING SQUAD ON TREASON CHARGE RORY O'CONNOR. States into conference here to con- sider ways and means of enforcing the Prohibition Laws through the in- creased use of Btate machinery. The message is a complete victory for the drys. There isn't a hint of wetness in it. Broadly speaking this means that Mr. Harding wants the Republican party to stand pat on the Prohibition issue, believing public sentiment to be on that side. The Democrats will naturally discuss whether to take the other horn of the dilemma. Their greatest strength in the Eastern States has been acquired through wet votes. Some Democratic leaders think a Union of the solid South and the populous Eastern States is enough to elect a wet President. They think the South, which is dry, will not ob- Ject, however, to modification of the Volstead act to permit the sale of wine and beer. This is all theoretical. What Mr, Harding as done, however, is to align his party on the dry side by his message to Congress. As for international affairs, the President maintains that America need not take a concrete part in Euro- pean affairs, proposing that Ameri- can foreign policy be based, so far as helping Europe is concerned, cn “sympathy fraternity and the high- est fellowship gin COURT STOPS Fit LIEUTENANT'S TRIAL ON BRIBE CHARGES (Continued) recognize 18, closely ac cupying the floor, did not Isaaes as a member of Engine No. with all of whom he we quainted. This man, named Rosinsky, ran to the quarters of No. 18 and said he thought there was “a fake inspec- tor in the Cohen Brothers’ place.” Monahan and another fireman re- turned to the Cohen Brothers’ factory with Rosinsky and confronted Isaacs. The sworn report continues that Isaacs confessed in the presence of the two firemen that he had accepted $5 from one of the Cohens for promis- ing to overlook a small violation of the fire laws and that he had previ- ously taken $1 from Miss Cohn, the cashier of the O. C. D Co. He was told to return to adquarters of his owns company. Monahan’s report was forwarded to Commissioner Prennan that same night. ‘The next day Isaacs put in his application for retirement, Un- der the law such an application must be approved {f the applicant has seen more than twenty years service. Isaacs became a fireman in 1899, The day after that Commissioner Drennan ordered him suspended, pui under charges and put to trial Through his attorney, Isaacs objected that he was out of the department » was suspended. ustice Gan- day gave him the right to be heard on that point next Tuesday and postponed his trial until after that hearing. Isaacs has had but two, complaints against him in his twenty-two of wervice years _> AD AC FROM § 7 nic and Laxative frome at ININE Tablota Headache caused from Pere ite slgastuie of at W pure you wet BRUMY, Ov Advi WHITNEY TROPHIES IN $20,000 LOOT TAKEN IN RAID Last of Band of Five Long Island Twiliglit Burglars Arrested. For a long time to come, Nassau ‘County authorities promise, com- muters along the north shore and in the centre of Long Island will feel easier in spending their evenings in town than up to the time Sheriff Weeks, Fingerprint Expert Charles Hanson and Superintendent E. W. Weeks of Plandome hunted down James Crawford, the Negro who Is in Mineola Jat) awaiting the arrival of four New York prisoners arrested last night for trial with him. ao om “Marry Payne Whitney's place ley Hills to the Sound there ight raids ending in the loss ,000 to a second hand sult ‘3 from Nov. 1 to Nov. 15. ‘The method was simple. An automo- bile was driven as near as possible to the house to be robbed. A auick survey would determine whether members of the family were at home; the lights would show that. There was a quick dash into the nearest window which had not yet been fast- ened for the night, or even the front door. Sometimes the raid extended as far as the second story. From Mr. Whitney's home a tiger- skin rug was snatched and some polo and racing trophies. Henry Halt- hauser of Plandome lost an evening Cress outfit, laid out to await his ar wal for 2 ried change. Other Plandome homes robbed were those of Martin Howard, J. 1. Gibbons and William Allison, A quantity of jew- elry was stolen from Acosta Nichols of Cold Spring Harbor. The home ¢ W. W. Davis of Great Neck was vis ited in the absence of his family in the South, Altogether from $10,000 to $20,000 of property was missed, though the authoritles were active from the very first robbery reported. It was noted that in many of the homes which were robbed there were Negro girls, of more or less frivolous tendencies, employed as maids, Whrefore Weeks and the rest began to look for Jim Crawford, whose lean gray black face, drawn up on one side by a twitching ‘‘tle,”" masked a charm which made hearts under dark breasts flutter from the back districts of Port Washington, through Manhasset's “Smoketown"’ and along the railroad colony at Little Neck, all the way to the Congo dis- trict of Flushing. It is not so many years since Craw- ford was arrested for the murder of an old Negro with whom he lived Manhasse cheerful witnesses. came sullen and then not brought to Other charges have been made against him formally, with a similar result, But when he was actually found three days ago the detectives said they found a revolver in his pocket. He was persuaded to talk. His con- versation had to do with Fred Jack- son, a Negro of No. 116 West 53d Street. Jackson was found to be in the New York County Penitentiary serving a sentence for weapon carry- ing. Jackson also talked. Sheriff Smith and his party went last night to the candy store of Dominic Cohara at No, 304 West 7h Street. They searched the place and found nearly $10,000 worth of missing property and forty pawntickets, in- dicating about as much more. Cohara and his wife, Frances, were arrested charged with receiving stolen goods, though they said they had no idea the things they bought from their Negro clients were stolen. At the home of Cohara’s son-in-law, John Sullivan, No. 300 West 40th Street, a few trinkets and a Lueger pistol were found and he also was arrested, The New York police say their re ords show sentences to the Catholic Protectory in 1904 for delinquency, a sentence to Elmira Reformatory 1907 for attempted burglary and a sentence to Atlanta prison in 1911 for counterfeiting Charles W. Hans pert of Nassau County, to-day said he believes he can clean up prac tteally all of the recent Long Island robberies. He believes $100,000 worth of valuables will be recovered which vere stolen from this section and that New Jersey authorities may be aided in recovering the same amount’ taken *rom homes in that State in the last i trial, , fingerprint ex- ——_———— RORY O'CONNOR AND LIAM MELLOWES ARE EXECUTED BY IRISH <Continued) that held the Four Courts Building tn Dublin In its stand against the Free State troops last June, Each was taken prisoner when the building was captured after a three-day siege. Both O'Connor and Mellowes had been arrested a number of times. Meliowes, who bad barely passed his twenty-seventh birthday when executed, had the more romantic areer of the two, Even when in his cens he was an indefatigable work- er for the Republican cause. He o: ganized the Fiannah-Elreann, & body of boys who pledged their lives for a free Ireland, and made a bicycle tour of the country to complete thie work, In 1915 he was arrested by the British, but escaped, and a price of £1,000 was put on his head. Finally his hiding place wns discovered and surrounded, but he broke through the lines, disguised ag a nun, and reached the seacoast, where he shipped as a stoker and, after a stormy voyage, arrived in America. During the later days of the World War he lived In the United States, but in 1919 returned to Treland to engage again in the fight for the republic. Rory O'Connor was educated to be an egnineer, completing a courre in Dublin University, after which he re- ceived an appointment in Western Canada. The possibility of entering the Irish fight for freedom apparently never entered his mind until the eat- break of the World War, when he suddenly left his lonely camp in Can- ada, crossed the ocean and became one of the central figures in te fa- mous Easter rebellion of 1916. Ho was captured, but later released under the amnesty. For many months he took an active part in the guerrilla warfare which scourged Ireland, but it was as the leader of the Republican forces that seized the Four Courts building in Dublin that he first came trfto inter- national prominence. His defence of that place with a comparative hand- ful of men in the face of bombard- ment from the Free State guns caught the popular imagination on both sides of the Atlantic. However, the hopelessness of the situation, with reinforcements lacking and the Free State forces bent on a prolonged siege, if necessary, finally induced him to surrender and since that time he had been treated as a prisoner of war, LONDON, Dec. 8 (Associated Press).—The Irish Republicans, says @ despatch to the Evening Standard from Dublin, heve issued a manifesto describing Timothy Healy, the Goy- ernor General, as a lifelong enemy of the nation. The manifesto adds: “The fight will go on as long as there fs a man in Ireland. It is war to the death. DUBLI Irish aster ep: A master spy of insurgency was known te the ate Government to-day as the sible for the death in am- Michael Collins and Gen. This spy, posing as achaut- feur and machine gunner in the Na- Vonal army, yesterday stole an arm- ered cas and handed it over to the Pebels. The armored car used in a Rebel assult at Ballymakeera, County Cork, where 100 Free State troops surrend- ered to an overwhelming Insuigent force, afler one had been Killed and 15 wounded. ‘The Free State Government an- nounced the man who handed over she car to the De Valeraites was In el ‘ge of an armored car accompany- jag Michael Collins when the famo.s Free State chieftain was slain, At that time, this man claimed his ma- chine gun jammed, It was recalled. Later, when Gen. Ennis was similarly ambushed and killed, the spy claimed Wis failure to return Rebel fire was due to having but one machine gun helt. YOUNG MOTHER, PEEVED WITH HUSBAND, TAKES POISON IN BRONX HOME IM Since to Hospital ablets. Mrs. Bessie Goldstein, twenty-cne, of No. 3044 Kingsbridge Avenue, the Bronx, who is a bride of a year and a mother of a two-months-old baby, swallowed two bichloride of mercury tablets in the bathroom of her home this moming following a misunder- standing with her husband, and 4s in Fordham Hospital in a serious condi- tion. ‘The young mother had been 4il since the birth of her daughter and up to last Friday was in charge of a nurse. Her husband, Samuel, suggested to her this morning that she go to the home of his mofher for a while, as he was obliged to go to business and could not spend his time with her dur- ing the day. ‘This suggestion was misconstrued, according to neighbors. Going to the bathroom to prepare the baby's mill, Mrs. Goldstein swal- lowed the tablets, Sho fell to the floor and her husband ran to her as- sistance, the open bottle of tablets ap- prising him of what had transpired. Policeman McGowan of the Kings- bridge Station, who was called, sum- moned Dr, Goldman of Fordham Hos- pital, but the woman refused to take an emetic and she was rushed to the hospital. Mrs. ch After Bessie Goldn rth, Rushe Swallowing CANDY There Is More Than One Way of winning a customer. making Com- arisons — the Best Eecay You Know with the Best We Make. Advt.on Page 24 Candy "FRE KILLS ONE, SWEEPS 27 BLOCKS, IN OREGON TOWN Damage Done in Astoria Blaze of Nearly * $15,000,000. ASTORIA, Ore., Dec. 8 (Associated Press).—The business district of As- toria was laid in ruins to-day by a fire which broke out shortly after 2 A, M., and despite efforts of the local fire department and reinforcements from Portlund, swept twenty-seven blocks, causing a loss estimated at between $10,000,000 and $15,000,000, According to reports from the fire- swept district, Morris Staples, Pres!- dent of the Bank of Commerce, dropped dead. At 8 o'clock the flames had eaten under the pavement on Commercial Street, burning the piling on which the city was built, and firemen were unable to cope with this development. One life only was lost in tie fire. according to reports available at % o'clock, that of Staples. Two other business men who were missing and believed dead were accounted for later. Patients were removed from Bt. Mary’s Hospital, all the windows o! which were shattered by explosiors of dynamite or gasoline tanks, CAUSES $500 DAMAGE ALBANY, Dec. 8.—As Garry Farrell, clerk for Majority Leader Lusk of the Senate, and Edward Muldowney of the Assembly docket room, were leaving the Elks Club Inst evening, their attention was attracted by a blaze leaping out of the window c* the bill drafting room on the third floor of the Capitol, near the northeast corner, They sent in an alarm and firemen quickly put out the bi The flames had burned down the heavy window curtain, burst out the glass and spread to the law books on the shelv nearby. Otto Jantz said that it w: probably caused by a crossed electr wire, Ho estimates the damage less than $500. RECALL OF DECISIONS OF U. S. SUPREME COURT, LOVETT’S SUGGESTION WASHINGTON, Dec. 8.—Judge Robert 8. 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