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New-York tribune., 1918-02-12
$780,, 900 Distrib buted
From Jewish Fund
Commission Reports 100000
Jews Without Food or
Clothing

The commission of American Jews
sent abroad some time ago by the Joint
distribution committee of the Ameri-
can Funds for Jewish War Sufferers
made its report yesterday at meeting
held at the home of Felix M. Warburp
11O9 Fifth Avenue. The commission
consisted of DR.. Boris D. Bogen. and
Max Senior. They arrived from Eurone
only d few days ago.
That newspapers in Warsaw daily
carry reports Of Jews who died from
starvation; that thousands of children
cannot attend school in Poland for lack
of clothing; that in Poland there are
100000 Jews, and another million in
Llthuania, who have neither work. food
nor clothing -.these were only few
Of the statements made by the COM
mission. They declared that the suf-
terlng of the Jews day makes the
worst stories that came from the other
side seem mild in comparison
lnasmuch as it is impossible to send
money, food or clothing direct to those
who need it so badly, the commission
arranged with committee of promi-
nent Jews in Holland to act as an in
termedlary. Before the commission left
the other side they saw their plans
than half a million dollars worth of
essentials for those who were suffering.
One important move made by the
commission was to arrange for the
transfer of individual remittances.
whereby Jews in America may aid
their relatives in Poland and Lithuania
directly
New-York tribune., 1918-02-12
''Canteen Women" Needed

Two hundred and fifty thousand dol
lars and the sacrifice of their SUNNI n
vacations was the demand made upon
the women of the National League for
Women's Service at their annual meet
ing at the Waldorf Astoria yesterday
Mrs. Dom Barbour, head Of the can
teen service of the league, announced
that there would be an increased need
for volunteer workers to help in the
canteens for soldiers and sailors next
summer. and called upon the women
to make their summer plans so as to
hold themselves within call.
I'VE need now an average of 10000
men a month" said Mrs. Barbour. "We
made 1900 sandwiches for the Camp
Upton men here last week. Eight WON
en- established record by making 425
sandwiches in one hour.
There is to be a new rule of mo
taking taxi in our canteens hereafter. I
nave found that the women work bet
ter if they do not have their attention
distracted by conversation"
New-York tribune., 1918-02-12
Chemist Boasts He
Can Poison Armv
Prussian ''Pied Piper" of Ho-
boken Docks Pipes Once
Too Often: Interned

NEWARK. Feb. 11.-Havine boasted
OF possessing enough poison to exter-
inmate the entire American army, Will
lam Hohoage. a Prussian chemist, was
interned at Ellis Island to-day by local
Department of Justice officials.
Hohoage, who is thirty-cight wears
old. lived at 40 Shipman Street. Grad
rated by German university as chem
ist. Hohoage, who came here in 1911,
did not work at his profession. He
claimed to have a secret formula for
killing rats.
Hohoage informed the Secret Service
agents that he did practically all his
work about the docks in Hoboken and
New York and. although without per
init, had no trouble in gaining access
to them. He said he never registered
as German, preferring internment.
Hohoage was in a saloon when he
made his boast Of having in his pos
session enough poison to kill every man
in the American army
New-York tribune., 1918-02-12
News in Brief

Through the names of Brooklyn mer-
chants found on her wearing apparel, the
police are seeking to establish the identity
of the woman about thirty years old whose
body was found Sunday floating on cake
of ice off Coney Island.
Chief J--tice Frederic Kernochan of Spe-
cial Sessions; Judge William H. Wadhams.
Of General Sessions, and DR.. Katharine B..
Davis will be among the speakers at the
meeting to be held at the Hotel McAlpin
Friday afternoon to protest against the pro-
posal to abolish the Parole Board.
Mrs. Lillian Hellman and Mrs. L. Bella
De Voc. both fifty years old, were found
asphyxiated in Mrs. Hellman's apartment,
at 42l East Seventeenth Street. They had
been dead about ten days, and it is thought
that defective gas meter was responsible.
Mrs. Hellmans husband was found frozen
to death in the fiat on New Years Eve.
The women of Queens Borough were asked
week ago by Thorndyke c. McKennee,
Commissioner Of Jurors. to let him know
whether or not they would like to serve as
jurors Up to date the Commissioner has
not received single reply.
Two of the three burglars discovered nv
Patrolman George Werner blowing the safe
in the store of Louis Resier, 1872 Rivington
Street, escaped through rear windows. but
the third. said to be Joseph Dubinsky,
jammed as he attempted to climb through a
hole in the wall to the hallway made by
the burglars. He has been held for an ex-
animation on Thursday.
NEW ROCHELLE.-Robert Sanders who
SAID ne was twenty-five years old and lives
at o07 Jerome Avenue, Brooklyn, was locked
up. in the Fort Socum guardhouse after
oelnR arrested in Rye. NJ Y. by deputy
sheriff. charged with violation Of the draft
New-York tribune., 1918-02-12
Boy, IS, Hangs Self
By Necktie in Home
Mother Finds Him Dangling
From Pipe in Bathroom

While his twclve-year- -old sister Anne
sat in an adjoining room reading
book, George Frumkin, fifteen years
old, of 18 East 117th Street, stepped
into the bathroom, quietly closed the
door, tied a necktie around water
pipe near the ceiling and then knotted
the other end around his throat. Some
time later his mother found him. DR..
Schmerzler, of Harlem Hospital, said
the boy had undoubtedly been dead for
several minutes before his mother dis
covered his body.
The only reason any member of the
family could ascribe for the boys act
was overstudy. He has had an in
satiable desire to learn. When he
graduated from grammar school last
June he become an engraver's appren-
tice This fall he registered in the
night school at 116th Street, between
Fifth and Lenox avenues.
Yesterday there was neither work
nor school. The boy read all morning
and early in The afternoon went to
a moving picture show. He had started
to read again on his return from that
place when the suicide thought evil
IDENTIFY seized him.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-12
Detectives Arrest Alleged
Writer Of Extortionate
Letter to Pianist
Newark Fire Excuse
Epistles Threatened to Put
Blame for Blaze on
Musician

Harold Bauer, one Of the foremost
pianists in the country, was selected
as the victim Of an extortion scheme
which came to light last night with the
arrest of Clarence Nurse, of 306 West
l46th Street, on q charge Of attempting
extortion. Two thousand dollars was
demanded of the musician, and he was
threatened with exposure as Ger
man incendiary, who recently started a
lire of considerable proportions on a
pier at Port Newark Terminal.
when the letter was received at Mr..
Bauer's home at 301 West Ninety-first
Street last Tuesday Mr.. Bauer was on
tour in the West. His wife opened the
letter. 1t was written on the station
cry Of the Garden City Hotel in Gar
zen Gen City, Long Island, and was signed
The writer warned Mr.. Bauer that he
must send $1,000 to him at the hotel or
she u p charge OF having kindled the fire
at Port Newark Terminal would be
made against him. In conclusion.
"Wailace" said that men had asked him
to blow up ferryboat, adding "they
won't pay me for the job, SO YOU will
have to-" Despite the letterhead the
postmark was that Of the ub-station
at l46th Street and Eighth avenue.
Realizing that the letter might con-
tain clew Of some Importance to
those investigating the fire, Mrs. Bauer
turned it over to the Department Of
Justice, whose agents referred it to In
spector Tunney.
cocted reply to the missive, saving
that $4,000 was too much, that Bauer
was not concerned in the fire but was
willing to pay 5000 to keep his name
out: Of the inquiry. "Wallace" re-
sponded promptly that 5000 was not
enough but that $500 would be accent
able. The detectives went to Garden
City.
No one named Wallace was at the
motel: In q letter box containing let
ters for prospective guests they found
ten to Wallace. 1t had been opened
and resealed. The detectives inter-
rogated the entire staff of the hotel.
They found no one named Wallace, but
they discovered that Douglas E. Nurse,
one of the employees, had a brother who
lived at 300 West 146th Street, almost
on the corner where the letter had
been postmarked
Brother Is Implicated
Nurse was questioned again. He de-
MED having written the threatening
letter, but. according to the detectives.
said that he had opened letters ad-
dressed to "Mr. Wallace" at the re-
guest Of his brother Clarence and had
informed his brother of their contents.
Clarence Nurse was arrested at his
home. He is an ironworker, and is en-
pioyed, he said, by the Submarine Boat
Corporation, on Newark Bay. Accord
ing to the police, he admitted author
ship of the letter, but said that youn,
woman had suggested it and told him
what to put in it. Again, the police
say, he declared that fellow worknen
at the shipbuilding plant had put the
notion in his head Of picking out Mr..
Bauer.
Mr.. Bauer was thought to be in De-
troit last night
New-York tribune., 1918-02-12
Our Lady of Lourdes
Besought by the Halt
Thousands Make Pilgrimage to
Brooklyn Church Seeking
Cure of Ills

More than ten thousand persons
Y,slted yInnrdas the e. Church ! ~ Of Our Lady. Of
street. Brooklyn yesterday in memo.
rial rial OF the entranced, ecstatic peasant
girl to whom were vouchsafed visions
IN shallow cave on the slopes of the
Pfyrennees sixty years ago. It was the
1east day of Our Lady Of Lourdes.
me lame and the halt arrived by
nundreds bearing candles and flowers
winch they set in the imitation erotto
behind the altar rail of the church.
praying before the sacred image with.
IN IN that they might be cured Of their
MS. There were women and men who
stood in line for more than an hour to to
Mobile down the aisle of the church
on crutches and leave their offerings
and their prayers. There were women
who carried paralyzed children in the
nope OF miracle to cure the evil
wrought in the plague of 1916.
The Very Rev. Salvatore Walleser.
Bishop Of the Caroline Islands cele,
brated pontifical mass at 10 a. m.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-12

bombs that he seldom slept twice in
succession in the same room.
At Salonica, prisoner in home
which was virtually fortress, he
orgotten ySea His younger brothen oa %s
homed V, succeeded him as Sultan.
His harem was broken up, his court
jewels sold at auction for upward of
million dollars, which went toward
building warships for the Young
Turks navy, and the former Sultan,
few thousand dollars q year for his
comfort in exile.
Outside his villa there were always
stationed picked guards from the
Young Turk army, in double rows Of
conical guard houses, and directly
about the house was wall which the
former Sutton himself had required to
be built higher.
Worked on His Hobbies
Inside this fortress he spent his time
reading, reclining on his divan smok-
ing cigarettes. or at work on some of
his hobbies. These included chemistry
and architecture. AS Sultan, it is said,
he had often presided over an analysis
OF poisons, of which he was in such
dread. He was equipped with set of
OF mosques and palaces.
His only visitors we're the military
commander of the Salonca garrison
and two physicians. The latter were
often required to take a preliminary
dose OF their medicine in the presence
OF the once imperial patient.
Some years ago Abdul -Hamid began
writing what was generally supposed
to be his memoirs, and part of his al
legged production was published, but
after time his restlessness got the
better of him and he tore up his manu-
scripts. In March, 1911, it was said he
tried to escape from his fortress, and
upon. Illustration Of the plot he sought
to kill himself. He broke tumbler
and with the Jagged glass tried to open
a vein. One Of his attendants seized
him before he had done himself injury
In the fall of 1912, at the outbreak
of the Balkan War, the deposed sultan
was taken from the fortress at Salon
1ca and transferred in a German war
ship to lonely palace on the Asiatic
side of the Bosporus, not far from
Constantinople. There it was, after
ilve years of desolation, in which he
attempted several times to take his
lie, that Abd-ul-Hamid died
New-York tribune., 1918-02-12
Belgian Girl Here to Describe
Country Ruin by Hun Hordes
Daughter of King Albert 8,
Chief Justice to Speak Be-
fore Advertising Club
Especial c Correspondence

AOF~Ss~~ WI 90 ROJtNtTtEGl
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. lo.--Miss Su
zanne s'!vercruys, the sixteen-year-old
daughter Of Belgium's chief Justice
Will go to New York this week to de.
liver to that city a message from her
country, now crushed under the heel
OF German militarism. She will speak
frst before the New York Advertisine
Club at Its luncheon Thursday.
"Warl You do not know the mean
ing Of war here III America yet" Mis-
Slivercruys said to-day. "Your beau
slIui young women sing and dance and
are happy and gay. Your young MAJ
tn are marcnlng away into camps, it i
true out they know not yet of war in al,
ITS horror. You are busy preparing il,
every town and city. and it is all YER
wonderful the way your great countr;
ls gong into this conflict, but YOU have
YET to find out the true meaning o.
war. -
NY prayer is that you NAV never
KNOW as Belgium knows; that you may
never suffer as Belgium has suffered.
mat you will arise and end this terrible
carnage before the Hun shall have az
rived at your own gate.
~ Suppose here in the United States
New York with a mighty % armv snd ni
navy: You had fed before them to
Il, trenton .n and then to Philadelphia. On
on ~ shey came relentlessly still you fell
PACK until you arrived in Washington,
and a! then, after many days, the city sOa; Of
asnlngton was surrounded by the
enemy and they occupied the CITY. That
was .sM what happened to US in Belgium.
my prayer for the young woman
hood Of America is that they NAV A be-
spared the brutality, the insults. the
anguish and suffering that have been
nseaped ne upon the helpless womanhood
OF my own brave Belgium by the cruel
and despotic Hun during these three
years of horror. &C
That the girls and women of
Alner,ca fa1a .n may not suffer the terrible
late "a that befell many of our young
Belgian women, who were lined .up in
the City Hall courtyards Of their viii
New-York tribune., 1918-02-12
Whitrnan's Foes
Plan Early Fight
Over Farm Issue
Reappointments to Council
Will Be Basis of Attack
on Governor
[Staf Co7'respondence1

d ALBANY, Feb. 1.-THE anti-Whit-
man forces are setting the stage for
the real fight on the Governor. One of
the leaders informed The Tribune to-
night that the battle would commence
in real earnest within the next fort
night
The issue on which the fight will be
made is the Governors reappointment
of the Farms and Markets Council, of
which John Mitchell, the labor leader
is chairman, and Charles Belts, men,
Der of the Republican State Committee.
secretary.
The Tribune was informed that the
action of the New York State Grange
and the Western New York Horticul-
tural Society in asking the Senate not
to confirm these appointments would
be given attentive ear This means
the fight will be made on the floor Of
the Senate.
"The farmers not only asked US not
to confirm these appointments, but
condemned them, together with that Of
the secretary, Charles Belts" said The
Tribune's informant "And what the
farmers did at Syracuse last week and
at Rochester the week before, will be
repeated at Ithaca this week. And
feel certain that when we have laid the
case of the farmers before the Sen
ate these appointments will not be con-
tirmed."
Say Farmers Are Fooled.
The Whitman followers declare that
the farmers have been fooled into TAX
Ing the action they have by Senator
Elon r. Brown. majority leader of the
Senate, and other anti Whitman men
here. They point to the fact that the
JOINT legislative committee investigat-
ing farm problems has held meetings
in Rochester and Syracuse simultane-
ously with the farmers organizations
which passed the condemnatory rcso-
lutions. Senator Brown is chairman
of this committee.
And in this connection the Whitman
men also refer to the engagement of
Thaddeus c. Sweet, Speaker Of the AS
sembly. to address the farmers in con-
ference at Ithaca this week. Speaker
Sweet, it will be recalled, attacked the
Governor last Saturday, charging him
with appropriating the Assembly's leg
islative programme to repeal the town
school law, which since it's PASSAGE
last year has been one of the causes of
dissatisfaction among the farmers.
Plan to Play Trump Card
- The anti Whitman leaders promise to
play their trump card when they call
before the Brown committee the men,
bers of the Farms and Markets Coun-
Gil and inquire into the disposition of
the $1,00O,000 appropriated by the Leg
New-York tribune., 1918-02-12
Buried" Soldier Returns
Greets Family Who Thought
Him Dead Three Months

POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y, Feb. IL
Supposed to have been buried as a sui
eide in November, Robert Leroy, a
former member of the 10th Infantry,
walked into the house and greeted his
family here to-day. He said he had
just returned from France, where he
was wounded in action.
In Baltimore hospital yesterday ne
learned OF his supposed suicide, and so
ne came home to help clear up the
mystery.
The body of man found in a swamp
near Vassar College with part of his
head blown off in November was identi-
lied as Leroy by dozen friends. Leroy
then had been missing two months. The
body was buried in the Leroy plot.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-12
Coxey Urges Fiat Money
Hobo Leader Comes to At
lantic City in Style

ATLANTIC CITY, Feb. 11.-Jacob
Coxey, sr., once commander of the
hobo army, has come out of the West
again. He is at the Hotel Traymore.
This time he came in a Pullman and
brought along his dress clothes, and
his views on finance.
Fiat money will save the world" he
said. "Let us have fiat money. l am
against this enslaving bonding system.
l advocated costless preparedness in
1916, but l was charged as visionary,
as l was in 1895 and 1897, when l ad
vocated the initiative, the referendum
and the recall, since adopted by many
states"
New-York tribune., 1918-02-12
Soldiers to Hooverize
On Voyage Across
Strict Food Conservation Or.
dered on Transports; No
Complaints Expected

American soldiers and officers will
Hooverize henccforth on their trips
across the seas. They will live on the
same menus ordered by the National
food administration for all American
steamships sailing the Atlantic and the
Gulf of Mexico
Announcement to this effect was is
sued yesterday by the Federal Food
Board, with the observation that no
trouble and no complaints were ex-
pected from the soldiers, who are un-
dertaking a bigger sacrifice than ab-
staining from meat occasionally.
The Atlantic menu provides for two
wheatless days week and one wheat
less meal daily, one mcatless day a
week and one meatless meal day. one
porkless day, and food conservation
every day.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-12
Mrs. William B. Leeds
Marries Greek Prince
Welded in Switzerland to
Brother of Deposed King,
Says London Paner

LONDON, Feb. 12.-Mrs. William B.
Leeds, wealthy American widow. and
irlnce CHRISTOPHER Of Greece, accord
ing to the "Daily Sketch" have been
quietly married in Switzerland, where
tirs, IT'S n';es Leeds has been stopping for a
health. "e''e"' W
=, a previous report of the marriage Of
Mrs. MRS. Leeds and Prince Christopher Of
Greece :, &c, has been published. Mrs. Leeds
Is the widow Of William B. Leeds. one
of the leaders in the tin plate industrv
OF America, from whom she inhe erited
ABOUT $l4,000,000. She is a daughter
or the late William c. Stuart, of Cleye-
land, Ohio.
Prince Christopher is the youngest
pfosher pro r % OF Constantine, the deposed
ENG Of Greece. His father was the late
King George. He is about thirty Years oars
Of age. yours
New-York tribune., 1918-02-12

1slature to carry out the work of the
Farms and Markets Council
10 you expect to find anything
wrong" the Brown committee mem
ber was asked.
1T won't do any harm to inquire, !"
was the answer. "There are ten mem
oers on the Farms and Markets Coun-
cll Inc farmers have asked that the
majority of the committee consist nf
men actively engaged in apricnlturai
pursuits and that the secretary he a
graduate of an agricultural colleee"
New-York tribune., 1918-02-12
Mexican General
Shot by Colonel

"HAlCo CITY, Feb. II. - General
s''" banderas was shot and killed to-
~. Ny IN downtown cafe by Colonel
'sue' Peralta. General Banderas took
hyp ypW.ominent W' part in the revolutions led
ia ia Maaero wac f and Carranza-s Colonel Peral
"a sr.I was 8 formerly chief Of staff for Cen
t;ono,bie ,a, ,bienI IIamin G. Hill, the Constitu-
cIfS.a'lst of a. leader. and is now member
VI r tne House of Deputies.
f,oo ~noer the constitutional immunity
l;han lm arrest Colonel Peralta is still at
WHY The Congress, the only body
cnn'n "n can consider his case. will not
S''Vene until September.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-12

lagos when the Germans arrived. and
then were dragged off into captivity;
that the women of America may not
see their young men slain by the thou
sands, their fathers sent off into Ger
many as laborers, their mothers sent
INTO the fields to perform the hardest
OF menial labor, their own sisters shot
Down IN defence of honor, is my heart
felt prayer.
"All these things have happened in
my own unhappy Belgium-I have seen
them all with my own eyes"
New-York tribune., 1918-02-12
Non-Pa artisan League
Heads Face Plot Arrest
President and Secretary Charged
With Obstructing Army
Enlistments

Wake ah1AaKEEsEslEL|p, IF sl.| M'nn y r. Feb. 11-A
gent OK the National Non-Partisat,
League League with conspiracy to discourage
Issued here to-day. His arrest r. s1' ar.
pected tomorrow. 80 '~
A warrant also was issued charging
Joseph Gilbert, secretary and organizas.
Ilon manager Of the league, with con-
spiracy. to discourage enlistments md
With violating the state law coyerins
d1sloyalty. Gilbert Is being tried here
on charge Of unlawful nssemblare,
having been arrested three weeks aro
after holding a meeting in violation Of
tne IN orders Of the Sheriff Of jackson
New-York tribune., 1918-02-12
Army Wants Phone Girls
Switchboard Soldiers" Need
ed for Service in France

The New York Telephone Company
issued a call yesterday for young
women volunteers as Switchboard SOL
diers" in France. The standards are
high. Applicants must be able to speak
French, must be "level- headed, re-
sourceful, able to exercise good judg-
ment in emergencies, and willing to
work hard and even endure hardships,
if necessary"
The girls will be part of the Sig
nal Corps and will wear uniforms.
The pay will be $50 month for
operators, $72 for supervisors and
s125 for chief operators. About 100
girls have been accepted.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-12
Saowploughs Fail Up North

u'' 1So steam and two electric ploughs,
s'A'ng continuously since the blizzard
-. January IL, failed to open the line
n. ne Michigan Railway from Battle
a. esk AK and Kalamazoo to Grand Rapids.
w. Yoo shovellers were engaged to carve
csrss through the snow for interurban
brolo Uhe Drift was encountered which
bio y, 1ne sharp prov from one of the
Of dp,uogns. 1T will still be the work
oetroit News. " ''"A''-
New-York tribune., 1918-02-12
122 Harvard Men Made Ensiens

CAMBRIDGE, Mass, Feb. 11.-Com-
missions to ensigns in the Naval Re-
serve We're awarded to-day to 122 grad
yates of the cadet school at Harvard.
Rear Admiral Spencer S. Wood, COM
mandant of the First Naval District
made the awards.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-12
Federal Food Boards
Daily Price List

Rettl 0rocers' associations here hnvs
agreed not to charge more than the prices
beloto. on a cdsh-and-carry basis. The prices
ars suggested BY tho Federal Food Board.
and persons compelled to pay higher price.
ore asked to report to the Federal Food
Board. 220 West FUtv-seventh Street; tels-
phone Circle BOO
New-York tribune., 1918-02-12

for enlisted men and their women rela-
tlves and friends in New York Tea will
ne served every afternoon for such par
ties, and chaperons will be supplied to
the sisters or fancees of enlisted men
coming to New York alone. Miss Helen
Farouhar is director of the hostess
house,