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Show W PRICES NEW YORK, Dec. 21 The plight I of babes who are emaciated on-the dav of. Christmas because the high cost of milk forbids the purchase of this nourishment by mothers who are poor I occupied the attention of investiga-j tors today at the John Doe inquiry i into the milk situation. I Conditions which exist among New iuitt. uiumreii ngni up to Christmas eve," were described by Mrs. Mary Sullivan, welfare worker, who produced produc-ed photographs of babies suffering from the lack of milkv John D. Miller, lawyer and farmer of Susquenna and Pottstown, Pa., general gen-eral counsel for the Dairymen's league and recently chosen its vice president, a position which he said bee had not; yet accepted, was on tho stand the greater part of the day. He studied the photographs shown by Mrs. Sullivan Sulli-van and exclaimed: "Poor little kids! They look as if they did not have much chance." "It's a damned shame," said John T. Dooling, an assistant district at- 1 torney who is conducing tho inquiry. Mrs. Sullivan said she would spend Christmas Eve trying to raise money 1 to buy milk. "They are about half Jead," she testified. 1 "They are just like, little animals." 1 3xclaimed Magistrate McAdoo, presid- mg. "Are they little starved ani-uals?" ani-uals?" "Yes," replied Mrs. Sullivan. oo 1 |