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in of Lu a a a a a a a a a a a a I THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK, MONDAY, JANUARY 14, 1918. Save Your Cash and Your Health CASCARA EZ QUININE POMID' The standard cold cure for 20 yearsIn tablet form -safe, sure, no opiates curce cold in 24 hours- grip in 3 days. Money back if it fails. Get the genuine boz with Red top and Mr.

Hill's picture on it. Costs less, gives more, saves money. 24 Tablets for 25c. At Any Drug Store deeply impressed by the fact that their hard-earned freedom is jeopardized by negotiations for a separate peace, nor that if Germany dominates Russia their highly- prized liberty and fruits of the revolution will be sacrificed." Flanagan, who succeeds Smedley as Borough Secretary, held that post for three years under Connolly and for the last six months was Deputy County Clerk. There remain now two good jobs in the County Clerk's office to be distributed.

BRITAIN MUST ADD 420.000 TO ARMY AT ONCE--GEODES London, January 14--Between 420,000 and 450,000 troops must be raised at once in this country, Sir Auckland Geddes, Minister of National Service, told the House of Commons today. The Minister said this was the absolute minimum, and that it might be necessary during the year to take more from civil life for the army. Auckland has been holding conferences during the last few days with union leaders. These conferences will be continued this week and. until they are concluded, a complete survey of the situation is impossible.

The aim of the Minister of National Service is to obtain a substantia. agreement with the labor men on the Government's proposed Military Service Bill, the primary object of which is understood to be to secure reinforcements for the army by releasing a very large number of young and fit men now doing civilian work in national and semi-national capacities at home. This means the cancellation of the certificates of exemption that these men obtained because of their employment in munitions works and other war industries. A majority of the trades union leaders virtually have agreed to co-operate with the Government in this combing-out process, but the shop stewards of the engineering and ship building industries have not yet given their adherence to the proposal. They refuse to accept any agreement made between the Government and the trades union officials and demand, on the other hand, immediate conscription of wealth and adequate provision for war victims.

FORMER PREMIER CAILLAUX OF FRANCE IS PUT UNDER ARREST Paris, January 14-Former Premier Joseph Caillaux, who has been under investigation by the authorities in connection with the German propaganda in France, was placed under arrest this morning. AM. SLGAR REFINERY STARTS WORK AGAIN; PLENTY OF RAW PRODUCT After a lapse of several weeks the Brooklyn plant of the American Sugar Refining Company started up. today. It was said that there was a supply of raw sugar 011 hand and that it was expected the plant would continue operation.

Sugar is now coming in from the West Indies in encouraging amounts. BOARDMAN PAID OUT FUSION MONEY HERE Seven Districts Didn't Get Any Because Livingston Said No. Deputy State Controller William Boardman of Brooklyn, called to the stand today in the Fusion Campaign Fund inquiry, gave some interesting information regarding the distribution of part of the fund destined for the Brooklyn Republican organization. Mr. Boardman declared that he had received $7,780 from the Fusion committee for distribution among the Brooklyn Republican leaders for use in the primaries and that he had distributed $5,280 and turned back $2,519,43, for which he held a receipt.

It developed that no money was distributed in seven districts, five of which were, according to Mr. Boardman's testimony, the First, Fifth, Twelfth, Seventeenth and Twenty-second. Asked who had decided what leaders were 10 be paid, Mr. Boardman declared it was County Leader LivIngston. Mr.

Boardman declared that he had attended a meeting at the Union League Club in Manhattan at, the invitation of some of the Fusion Committee, at which it had been decided to spend for the primaries approxiFusion mately $10 an election district. The Committee had requested him to help them out in Brooklyn, he said, and he had promised to do 50. That was about two weeks before the primaries. After the primaries, he he accepted the vote of the added, mandate of his party and people was as the for Bennett. The stenographic minutes of the examination of Mr.

Boardman later given out by Assistant District Attorney Kilroe were questioned by Mr. Boardman when interrogated about it. While right, in the main, he declared, it contained a number of minor Irregularities in statements attributed to him. When asked what he thought of a campaign fund of approximately 000.000. Boardman said: "I don't see what they did with He thought it very improper to pay a man for making a speech in a campaign and said he had made EL great many speeches but had never received A.

cent. He thought it might be all right to pay the expenses of national speakers. He declared he had received and paid out the Fusion money inside of fourteen days in accordance with law. WILLARD APPROVES REORGANIZATION OF WAR DEPARTMENT Chairman of War Industries. Board Wants Baker's Plan Given Fair Trial.

THINKS IT WILL SUCCEED Washington, January 14-Daniel Willard, chairman of War Industries Board, today testified in Senate Military Committee's war inquiry that he had advocated the creation of a Government Minister of Muni. tions but now was in favor of trying out the new War Department reorganization. He said he considered the reorganization, with its change in pur. chasing, "infinitely better" than that of six months ago. War Department Reorganization Approved.

"I am distinctly in favor of what the Secretary of War has done so far," he said. "Putting the Army purchasing departments on the most efficient basis is what is being done. I am in full sympathy with the character of the organization." Mr. Willard said he thought when the country entered the war one of the first things to be done was to establish a Minister of Munitions. "When I became chairman of the Industries Board I still held that opinion." he continued.

Secretary Baker, however, asked Mr. Willard to keep his mind open until he considered reorganization plans. "I had very little confidence at first," Mr. Willard said, "that we could make the War Department reorganization With men like General Goethals at the head of the Army activities, however, Mr. Willard said, he believed it would be operated efficiently.

Army and Navy supply co-ordination, he thought, could be effected under the plan submitted by Secretary Baker. One Fault in Plan. "It has one fault," said Mr. Willard. "It is a good plan and can be made to work; but, after all, it is purely will work.

It is weak there, and voluntary. If everyone do it something may be necessary to make it work. A single purchasing head is not Instead of the War Industries Board being the head of the new organization, Mr. Willard suggested that one man with authority from the President to decide differences between various departments would secure better efficiency. "That would be a director of munitions?" suggested Senator Weeks.

"No, I've changed my views on that," Mr. Willard answered. "The one man could act under authority of the President, who should be given power by Congress." "It seems to me the present scheme might be a debating society," said Senator Chamberlain. "You have touched the weak spot in the new organization." 'I would have one man at the head and have the President have authority to do anything at any time that might be needed." said Mr. Willard.

"I would have one man instead of the War Industries Board- man with authority from the President. I would have this individual instead of the War Industries Board and the Council of National Defense both--one man reporting direct to the President." HENNIG'S DAMAGE NIL Washington, January 14- That submarine attacks on United States merchant ships or warships are rarelv successful was brought Quit during the examination of Rear Admiral Ralph Earl, chief of the Bureau of Ordnance, and Commander Thomas A. Kearney, assistant chief. in the course of the investigation of the sub-committee of the Naval Affairs Committee. The committee also made a special inquiry as to the damage done to torpedoes at the Bliss Works in Brooklyn.

It ascertained that 110 torpednas or damaged parts had found their way into service; that spare parts for torpedoes, such as gyro wheels, had been tampered with, but this was promptly detected by the naval inspector of ordnance, and a close watch was maintained upon these articles, with the result that the perpetrator of the damage, one Paul Charles Hennig, a native Leipsig, Germany, who had been this country since 1908, has been arrested, and is now waiting trial. "INSULTED," SAYS HYLAN; WHITNEY ANSWERS Referring to a remark made by Public. Servier, Commissioner Whitney to Mayor lylan when they met at the City Hall this morning that good transit service depended on whether a person preferred to take the best or the worst way, the Mayor said today: "Whitney'h remark to me was insulting and that is the reason why I walked away, I take the first train that comes along, whether it happens to be a Brooklyn or a Lexington avenue train." When Mr. Whitney heard of this statement he said: "One of the big difficulties with the problem of giving good transit service is that people insist on taking the first train or the first car that comes along whether that gives them the best, accommodations or not. While I stood on the Gates avenue station, eight loop trains, all with standing passengers and as many cars 88 a station accommodates, passed through.

Also there passed seven Lexington avenue trains, six with four cars and one with five cars. All had vaiant seats at Gates avenut and all those trains could be lengthened to six cars. The reason people take the loop trains is so they can transfer to the Broadway line without extra fare. "I intended no insult 10 the Mayor. I am perfectly Innocent of such an idea.

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Grove's signature is on each box. Single Fare, Crush; Two Fares, Comfort -Whitney Public Service Commissioner Travis HI. Whitney today made the following statement in reference to his trip from Gates avenue station to New York: reached the Gates avenue station this morning at 7:20. I stayed on the station until 8:25, during which time twenty express trains passed the center track, none of them loaded as heavily as the elevated trains from the Bronx, and fifteen local stopped at the station. Of these locals eight came over the Willlamsburg Bridge and through the Centre street loop to Chambers street.

Of these eight trains all but one was composed of the new steel cars which began operation on Broadway, Brooklyn, last week. The seven other local trains were Lexington avenue trains coming over the Brooklyn Bridge to Park Row. These were four car trains, except one which had five cars. Each of these seven trains came to Gates avenue with available empty seats. "While I waited for the Mayor at the west end of the station, it happened that at just about 8 o'clock, I was called furher down the platform, during which time the Mayor, as afterward learned, came up the stairway and went directly into the train.

At 8:25 I boarded a Lexington avenue train, which reached Park Row 28 minutes later, and I was in City Hall within thirty minutes after I left Gates avenue. The Mayor did not reach City Hall from Chambers street until two or three minutes later, having taken about fifty minutes for the trip. "The annual count of travel over tho various bridges shows that since about the time the dual contracts in March, 1913, the travel were signed on has trains decreased across the about Brooklyn Bridge 90,000 passenday; that the travel 011 the gers a trains crossing the Williamsburg Bridge has increased nearly 150,000 day; travel across the passengers a Manhattan Bridge. on trains has increased nearly 160,000 passengers a day, and the travel on the surface cars crossing the various bridges has remained about stationary since 1913. These figures as to the shift of travel confirm the experience that I had this morning from Gates avenue, that there is opportunity for better service Brooklyn Bridge than across across the Williamsburg Bridge for those passengers who have the choice of bridges.

"This increase of 150,000 passengers a day over the Williamsburg Bridge results in part from the fact that people can now change at Canal street and go up Broadway, Manhatfor the same five-cent fare. At tan, least 50,000 passengers a day are saving at least the half-fare they were MAYOR STARTEING 22 MINUTES AHEAD, ENDS TRIP AFTER WHITNEY Continued From Page 1. the easy grace with which his Honor could bounce himself off a fat man in the rear and brace himself with an elbow against a skinny man on one side, without skipping a line in the paper. A young woman who knew the Mayor by sight was standing in front of him and remarked cheerily that conditions were not so bad this morning. He said "Yes," and kept on reading, but even his marvelous adaptability proved unequal to the fresh additions at the other stations, and he stopped reading to do a little talking.

He inquired solicitously of the young woman where she lived, where she worked, and how long it took her to make the trip every morning and afternoon. He seemed to think it took too long. Has an Argument With a Guard. A sawed -off B. R.

T. guard wedged his way through the crowd and opened a sraail door in the side of the car by the exit door near which the Mayor was standing and turned on the lights. That led to a discussion between his Honor and the guard, which came about through the fact that Commissioner Whitney, who had been at the other end of the Gates avenue platform, had not seen the Mayor get aboard and had been left. The Mayor thought the Commissioner be in the next car and wanted to gO back to look. The guard told him that the door could not be opened without a key.

His Honor wanted to know how, in an emergency, the passengers would get out. The guard explained ed that he had a key. So far so good, but, continued the Mayor, what would happen if a guard lost his key? The guard replied that he never lost his key. That was conclusive enough in his mind, but not in that of the Mayor, who insisted that there was no authority in the books for a subway guard being a superinan and immune to losing a key. The profound truth of that observation worked through the skull of the guard, who said there was an emergency dingus under the seats that was sure fire at opening side doors or end doors.

Thus they talked back and forth, the Mayor and the guard, and as the hot air in the car became oppressive the Mayor told a citizen could reach it to open the ventilator, which was no sooner said than done and conditions became a bit more bearable. Francis P. Bent, who has been appointed head of the Bureau of Contract Supervision, happened to be standing near the Mayor. He chipped in with sage suggestions now and then, and accompanied the Mayor to the City Hall. Long and Dreary Ride.

On the whole, it was a long and dreary ride. The express train gave a perfect imitation of the prosecution of a German spy, in its number of inexplicable halts and delays. Frost was on the windows and the ininates couldn't see ahead or to one side. When the train stopped, which it did whenever the motorman thought of it -and he had a fine memory- the victims only knew. they were they because they were there, and shifted their weight to the other fellow's foot, which courtesy was keenly appreciated.

It is quite boring to have the other fellow's feet on your same foot all the way from Gates avenue to the City Hall. Strangers get mad about It and want to fight or write letters to the editor, but true-blue Brooklynites bear it with astonishing equanimity. They can hardly understand why the Mayor should interfere with one of the borough's cherished privileges, ir the other fellow is considerate enough to shift to the other one of your feet at decent intervals. Comparatively few of the standers left at Canal street. Most of them went through to Chambers street and most of them tried to get out of the doors at the same time, which was hard 011 the temper and worse on buttons.

The Mayor held back for A moment or two to the main rush of those avoid who evidently had to get out instantly if the country was to be saved from immediate desolation. This forebearance and common sense in leaving car was so extraordinary in a genuine Brooklynite or New Yorker that it astounded the observers and led them Lo expect great things from his administration. When he finally departed he was lost in the big shuffle, BEDFORD APPROVES POST-WAR BOYCOTT AGAINST GERMANY obliged to pay before the line Broadway, Manhattan, was put operation. The number of tracks across the Williamsburg Bridge cannot be increased, but last fall the commission had the trains lengthened from six to seven cars, necessitating changes in all the draw bars in the cars, and last week succeeded in getting certain clearances made in the Centre Street Loop and on the Williamsburg Bridge that would allow the commencement of operation the large steel cars. About fifty these were in operation this morning, which number will be increased seventy, and afiord approximately 30 per cent.

increase in capacity on the Broadway line. Within a few days the large cars can -nerate on Broadway- Myrtle avenue-Fresh Pond road line, and as soon as the work at Last New York will be completed about 130 of the new steel cars will be in use 011 the Broadway-Canarsie line. "I am very glad to say that at the conference with the Priorities mittee in Washington last week, was able to secure the promise of the committee that a certifcate would be issued for the steel necessary for the completion of the East New York work. Congestion on E. D.

Bridge. "While my observations this morning confirmed the reports which have had previously that there is extreme congestion on trains crossing the Williamsburg Bridge from stations this side of Gates avenue, the congestion is not as serious as on the subway some the elevated lines in Manhattan. "This congestion should not exist and will not as soon as the new lines can be placed in operation. "The most serious situation is at Canal and Centre streets and Canal street and Broadway, where passengers change to Broadway, Manhattan, trains. This congestion is so serious that last week we secured the aid of six police officers to help handle the crowds, but the possibility of serious accident is SO great that it may he necessary to consider the cutting off of transfers at Canal and Centre streets and thus confine the Canal street subway and the Broadway subway to the use of passengers coming over the Fourth avenue subway and its branches in South Brooklyn.

"The difficulty arises from the fact that the commission, in an attempt to give advantages to the public as soon as possible, has allowed the opening of new lines and connections fore they were entirely completed and before all of the facilities were available. In this situation it is a question of whether people prefer to ride for one fare with slow movement of trains and extreme congestion until all the facilities are ready, or whether by paying two fares it would be better for them to travel by other routes." except that a photographer nailed him with a flashlight as he was going up the steps at the station. Mayor Reticent; Whitney Loquacious. The Mayor, while not abrupt with the newspaper men, was not inclined to talk to them, and they did not obtrude on the gummy ride. Not SO with Mr.

Whitney, who had quite a few things to say. Among them were: "The fact that the Mayor got into the first car at Gates avenue just as he and the car reached the station at the same time, caused me to miss his Honor. I then remained at the station for twenty minutes, took a Lexington avenue train over the Brooklyn Bridge and beat him by about a minute. And there you are. I am sorry I missed him, as I wanted him to get off with me and note the conditions at Canal and Center streets, and Canal and Broadway, also at Chambers street.

More policemen are absolutely necessary at those points to protect the public, and my object was to give the Mayor a first-hand observation of the daily conditions. We will have to make the trip together, possibly later this week. One Transportation Problem Feature. with the transportation that since 1913 the neotroubles number passengers over the Brooklyn Bridge has decreased 000 per day, while the number over the Williamsburg Bridge has increased 170.000 per day. That has relieved the Brooklyn Bridge SO that it is possible, by taking the Lexington avenue line on Broadway, Brooklyn, to make a straight run through, while the increased congestion on the Broadway- Williamsburg Bridge line has resulted in delays caused the necessity of holding back trains while those ahead are discharging passengers at Canal and Chambers streets.

"Since last Thursday we have put into service on the Broadway line, which the Mayor took, about fifty of the big cars taken from the Fourth avenue, Brooklyn, subway line. "When I met the Mayor at the City Fall this morning and he asked me how I got over so quickly, I told him he should have chosen the best line, which is over the Brooklyn Bridge and is the best for reasons have stated. instead of taking the worst line, which is that over the Williamsburg Bridge and is subject to delays, not from lack of cars, but from the lack of discharging facilities." HELD FOR PICKING POCKETS. Although out on bail for pocketpicking, in at Broadway department store, recently, Lottie Edelstein, 26 years old, of 146 McKibbin street, was arraigned again in the Williamsburg Bridge Court yesterday for pickIng the handbag of Mrs. Elizabeth Schmidt, 94 Grand street, while she was shopping in a Grand street department store.

QUESTION TEACHERS ON THEIR WAR VIEWS A number of teachers have been questioned by Dr. John L. Tildsley, Associate Superintendent of Schools, for the Board of Education, since the first of the year concerning views expressed by them while the war was in progress. It was learned today that if it can be shown that any of them have uttered disloyal sentiments they will be put under charges and tried under the new Board. Dr.

Tildsley said that there were at present no charges pending against anyone, but that the Board would not be slow to make charges if the facts warrant it. Dr. Tildsley confirmed a report that Miss Isabel Davenport, a teacher of psychology and logic in the New York Training School for Teachers and a member of an old pre-Revolutionary family, had been asked why she did not sign a loyalty pledge. She was questioned on Friday. "Miss Davenport," he said, "has no charge against her nor will she have.

She answered the questions to the entire satisfaction of the board. She explained that she did not sign the pledge because the words United States were not used." CASTORIA RIA For Infants and Children In Use For Over 30 Years Always bears Signature of Ca Standard Oil Man Says Military Caste Must Be Destroyed. People Must Rule. TO PLEDGE 500,000 U.S. MEN Alfred C.

Bedford, chairman of the board of directors of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, today expressed hearty approval of the United States Chamber of Commerce plan to let German business men know that the German people must control their government before trade with the United States can be resumed after the war. The plan, as announced in Washington, is to pledge 500,000 American business men to a post-war boycott unless the German people can give assurance that raw materials from this country will not be used in preparation for another war. The Chamber of Commerce has sent out 500,000 ballots with a resolution urging German business men to cooperate to the end that a disastrous economic war may be averted and that a. lasting peace may be made more certain. Mr.

Bedford said: Destroy Military Caste, Says A. C. Bedford. "I certainly believe that the business men of Germany should be made to understand that America will not -establish commercial relations with Germany unless that country has al government responsible to the German people. It would be futile to wage this war if at its end there is to be a military autocracy in control of the government.

and Germany is immediately to get ready to wage another war. There can be no lasting peace with Germany until military caste is destroyed and the German people rule. It is of the utmost importance for America to tell the German business men that we are in this war not for profit, but for liberty and righteousness, and that if the war should end with the German military caste still in power, we will not ship to Germany goods that will help in the upbuilding of Germany's armament to be used against us and our Allies. I do not believe that the German people really understood how the military caste of Germany was sacrificing the great foreign commerce of their nation and what the military leaders were throwing away when the Emperor declared war. I believe that had they realized this they never would have consented to the beginning of the war.

Commerce is a great bond to friendship, but with Germany it proved a bond that the military caste could sever." Some difference of opinion existed among other business men as to the practicability of the plan. Herman A. Metz, who, before the war, did a big business in dyestuffs with Germany, declared bluntly that he considered the plan unworkable. "Joke," Says Metz; "Practical," Says Burrell. "I think it's a joke," he said.

"Peowill buy where it is cheapest. The fellow who don't goes broke." A directly contrary opinion was expressed by F. A. M. Burrell, who said: "It seems to me a practical plan.

All business is reciprocal. We will work with them it they will work with us in the right Ludwig Nissen, the diamond merchant, would not take either side. "Excuse me. I do not want to express an opinion on anything at the present time," he said. Simon Rothschild said that he had not studied the plan thoroughly, and that it was "too big a subject to pass upon off hand." The resolution follows: The Chamber of Commerce Plan.

Whereas the size of Germany's present armament and her militaristic attitude have been due to the fact that her government is a. military autocracy not responsible to the German people; and Whereas, The size of the German armament after the war will be the measure of the greatness of the armament forced on all nations; and Whereas, Careful analysis of economic conditions shows that the size of Germany's future armament will fundamentally depend on her after war receipts of raw materials and profits from her foreign trade: Whereas, In our opinion the American people for the purpose of preventing an excessive armament will asuredly enter a commercial combination against Germany it governmental conditions in Germany make it necessary for self-defense: and Whereas, We believe the American people will not join in discrimination against German goods after the war if the danger of excessive armament has been removed by the fact that the German Government has in reality become a responsible instrument controlled by the German people; therefore, be it Resolved, That the Chamber of Contherce of the United Stateg of America earnestly calls the attention of the business men of Germany to these conditions and urges them also to study this situation and to co-operate to the end that a disastrous economic war may be averted and that a lasting peace may be made more certain. Officers of the Chamber of Commerce believe that united action on this resolution will have more effect in Germany than any single thing outside of the President's message. Germans cannot, for years to come, resume their peace-time business relations with England and France, it is pointed out; and if they are shown that the only way to transact business with the United States is to get a responsible government, they will be strongly moved to get one. Switzerland and the Scandinavian countries will be the channels through which the knowledge of the proposed boycott will be transmitted to Germany.

OBITUARY See also Death Notices, last page. PHILIP TAG. for last thirty -three years superintendent of the Acker, Merrill Condit warehouse In West Forty- third street, Manhattan, died on Saturday at his residence, 232 Sterling street, Flatbush. Mr. Tag is survived by his wife, Frieda: a son, Harry; a sister and a brother.

The funeral services will be held tomorrow evening, and the interment, on Wednes- day, will be in the Lutheran Cemetery. J. FRANK TALLMAN, 63 years old, for. merly general manager of the New York Life Insurance Company, died suddenly on Saturday, from acute indigestion, at his residence, 711 Park place. Mr.

Tallman was born in Poughkeepsie, N. the son of the late Judge I'. F. Tallman, and had been a resident of Brooklyn for twenty-five years. He was graduate of Syracuse University, class of 1877, and pitched on the 'varsity baseball team.

He was a member of Long Island Lodge, F. and A. and at the time of his death was employed as an under. writer by the Mutual Life Insurance Company, at 164 Montague street. He was A brother -Inlaw of the late Rey, Walter D.

Babcock, pastor of the Brick Church, in Manhattan. He is survived by his wife, Mary A. one son. John of the S. Navy, and three sisters, Mrs.

Mary E. Davis, of Poughkeepsie, and Mrs. Walter D. Babcock. The funeral services will be held tomorrow evening, and the interment at Poughkeepsle, CONDUCTOR HELD FOR TRIAL.

Louis Grill of 37 Hinsdale avenue, a conductor on the B. R. was before Magistrate Dodd in the New Jersey avenue court today charged by Edward Crowd of the B. R. T.

with keeping money received for fares. He was held on $300 bail for the Court of Special Sessions. FINAL CLEARANCE OF KNOX HATS FOR WOMEN Millinery from the Fifth Avenue stock of the KNOX HAT COMPANY. Sport Hats $3 and $4 Velours Trimmed Millinery. $3.50, $4 and $5 From the KNOX Sport Shop for Women, Sweaters of Silk and of Wool, $2.50 to $5.

Former prices, $12 to $21. Also a few very fine imported coats. FACTORY SALESROOM KNOX HAT COMPANY, Inc. 601 Grand Avenue, Brooklyn LAWYER SCHAFFNER GUILTY OF FORGERY Third Degree Plea Accepted and Opportunity Given to Make Restitution. TO BE SENTENCED MONDAY.

Schaffner Forged Register's and Seal to Mortgage and Obtained $4,500. Arthur G. Schaffner, a. lawyer, pleaded guilty to forgery in the third degree today when called before Justice Fawcett in the criminal branch of the Supreme Court to stand trial on two indictments found against him. Assistant District Attorney Conway, who investigated Schaffner's activities, told Justice Fawcett that there were other forgeries and that the two indictments, the before obtaining the Court of $4,500 today from repDenis P.

Healy Sr. and his son, who are in the garage business. It was by forging the Register's stamp and seal to a mortgage to make it look as thought it had been recorded and by forging a mortgage guarantee certificate that Schaffner induced the Healys buy that mortgage and others. The Healys were swindled out of something like $15,000. Justice Fawcett deferred sentence until next Monday, 80 that in the meantime Schaffer could make restitution to all of his victims, if possible.

If he pays his victims, that fact will be taken into consideration when sentence is pronounced. Five years is the limit under his plea. Schaffner, who was admitted to the bar seven years ago, is 31 years old, married, and lives at 1331 Pacific street with his wife and family. lie had an office at 619 Nostrand avenue. SAYS HE WAS "FRAME DUP." Negro Claims He Was Victim of Prank at Navy Yard.

Loretto Decreny, 21, a West Indian negro, of 8 West 132d street, Bronx, will be tried this afternoon before Judge Chatfield on a charge of stealing a watch and stickpin from the clothing of a man being examined for enlistment in the Navy at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. According to his counsel, Alexander Drescher, Decency will explain that he was "framed up" because of his color. Decrency went to the yard to enlist and says he was abused, kicked and cuffed. Afterward, he says, he found a watch in his pocket, stolen from another applicant. He was then arrested.

The Rev. G. F. Miller, pastor of St. Augustine's Protestant Episcopal Church, and George Wibecan are interested in the case.

MRS. F. B. KNAUSE DIES Mrs. Marguerite Knause, wife of Dr.

1'. B. Knause, Deputy Commisof Health in charge of Brookstoner, died yesterday. Announcement of the death was made at the office of Dr. Knause, 1076 Bushwick avenue, where it was stated that she had died at her home, 18 Palmetto street, and taht the funeral services would be held from there tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock.

Interment will be in Greenwood. Dr. Knaus, who has been Acting Health Commissioner since January 1, is relieved temporarily by Alonzo Blauvelt, Acting Sanitary Commissioner. Mrs. Knause's maiden name was Marguerite Porter.

Her first husband was Stephen S. W. Tennant. He died in 1914 and afterward Mrs. Tennant married ex-Congressman Charles G.

Bennett, becoming his second wife. She became the wife of Dr. Knause on July 3, 1916. The ceremony was performed quietly at New Canaan, Conn. CALLS IN MORTGAGE ON REPUBLICAN CLUB A mortgage of $3,500 on the clubhouse and grounds of the Kings County Republican Club, at 1038 Greene avenue, has been foreclosed, it was learned today, by Mrs.

Charles J. Weber, widow of the former Assemblyman, and the organization is expected to move eventually to a more central location in the Fifth Assembly District, probably in the vicinity of Halsey street and Ralph avenue. Inside party politics, it has been known for some time, have been at work for months to bring about another location for the club. In bringing foreclosure proceedings Mrs. Weber did SO with the understanding that those in control of the club would seek another location very shortly.

She is to permit the organization to remain where it is until that time. The clubhouse, a big frame structure, surrounded by large grounds, beof the club about eight came ago through the efforts of Robyears ert A. Sharkey, the then leader, and Charles J. Weber, then Assemblyman. Through the Republican Club Homemakers Organization they turned the building over to the club for the amount they had paid for it and shares to the value of $5,000 were taken in it by the members.

The property is said to be worth about $16,000. BELLANS FOR ANTINE 6 BELL-ANS DO Hot Sure water Relief INDIGESTION U.S. WANTS STEHLIN TO STAY AT FRONT Brooklyn Aviator Asked to Forego Visit Home and Take His New Commission. HAS NOT DECIDED AS YET. Discharged by French Army and No Longer Has Right to Wear Uniform.

Eagle Bureau, 43 Rue Cambon. Paris, January 14-Joseph Stehlin, the young Brooklyn aviator who made a brilliant record in the Lafayette Escadrille and who is already packed and provided with a ticket for a vacation visit to Brooklyn, has been placed in an embarrassing predicament by the anxiety of the American Aviation Corps to have his services at once. Stehlin would now be at sea on his way home had his ship not been delayed and the present situation could not have arisen. Events of the last few days, however, have left him confronted with the alternative of giving up his trip home or incurring the displeasure of the Army aviation' officials and possibly losing his chance at the proffered commission which he expected to accept upon his return to France. Stehlin started for Brooklyn on a perfectly good months leave of absence from the French Army, the document of which he carries in his pocket.

After his ship was delayed the French Army ordered his release from the Lafayette Escarille, and the Amercan aviation officers demanded that he take his officer's oath and become a member of the American service forthwith. They claim that his release cancels his leave of absence. If Stehlin goes home on his French leave of absence he may be liable to arrest for wearing a French uniform, now that he is no longer in the service. On the other hand, he feels that he is entitled to some vacation. Still he does not like to lose the commission offered him by the American Aviation Corps.

Stehlin is visiting Pau at present. The following Brooklyn and Long Is. land men have registered at the Eagle Bureau: Samuel Stuart, 55 Hanson place: Rowland McElvare, 231 Decatur street; William McMurray, 145 Cornelia street; Charles Anderson, 265 Madison street; Thomas Shields, 124 Dikeman street; Edward Eakan, 475 Franklin street; W. D. Chipp, Port' Washington, L.

Atwood, Townsend, 571 Franklin avenue; William W. Trench, 1815 Newkirk avenue; Walter Boyle, 147 Ross street; Robert Corbet, R. G. Brown, Charles Hogan and John Steele, Central Y. M.

C. Joseph Scarlett, Far Rockaway; Frank Nolan, 1334 Bushwick avenue; Edward O'Neil, 624 Park place; August Sohl, 174 Iona avenue. MORE COAL FOR POOR The police are continuing the distribution of poor families still, and to richer people who are suffering from the lack of fuel. The record up to noon today is as follows: BROOKLYN. Families.

Coal contributed. Given Dist. aided. Tons. out.

834 1.886 6. 61 10. 779 64 41 11. 1,723 102 86 14 712 35 231 1,214 78 691 QUEENS 370 801 29 17 286 62 GERMANS LOOT BELGIAN CEMETERIES OF BRONZE Washington, January 14-Bronze statues in Belgian cemeteries have been taken for war purposes by the Germans, according to official dispatches here today. A semi -official estimate of the economic depredations of German invaders in Belgium places the damage at more than 8,000,000,000 francs, of which 1,400.000,000 was in cash up to last August.

FREDERICK MAY DIES Washington, January 14-Frederick May, a wealthy real estate operator and capitalist, with large interests near Bar Harbor, died here today, the result of a recent illness from pneumonia. DEATHS DEATHS WOODHAM--On Monday, January 14, 1918, at her residence, Greene av, MARY CORDELIA WOODHAM, wife of the late Alfred Woodham. Funeral private. CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS IN TODAY'S EAGLE tassification. Page Amusements Sales 9 Automobiles Boarding Howling Business Coastwise Corp.

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at Auction Situations Wanted Steamboats Travel Wanted BECOMES ILL ON TROLLEY. Miss May Morrison, 20 years old. of 15 College place, Rockville Centre, L. became ill this morning on a trolley car of the New York and Long Island Traction Company at Rockaway Boulevard and Three Mile Mill road, South Ozone Park, and was removed to St. Mary's Hospital, Jamaica..