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\ ERIN RRSS Gee BECKER'S LAWYERS HN OE NUR Hope Assistant-District Attor- ney De Ford Will Give * Important Leads, PLOT LETTER GIVEN OUT Harford Marshall Maintains! Webber Confessed Becker Was “Framed Up.” Becker's lawyers went ahead to- day with their plans to Institute a John Doe proceeding to inquire into the whole case and present \nder oath witnesses to attempt to lie their contentio# t Becker Is the victim of a conspiracy. The most important feature of this investiga-| tion will be the testimony of Assistant Mistrict Attorney Willlam A. De Ford, according to Becker's lawyers. Mr. De Ford will be asked to tell what he knows of the manner in which the testimony of James Mar- shall, the negro who corroborated the evidence of the “Harlem conference’ where the murder is alleged to have been planned. Mr. De Ford has stated that he has no competent evidence in the case, but it is the hopo of W, Bourke Cockran, Martin T. Manton and John T. Mcintyre, Becker's law- yers, that he can give information which will lead to important evid MARSHALL WILL NOT GO BE- FORE GOVERNOR, Harford T. Marshall to-day made public the letter which he wrote to Chief Judge Bartlett of the Court of Appeals telling him of “Bridgie” Webber's statement that Becker was not implicated in the murder of Her- man Rosenthal. Judge Bartlett de- clined to act on the fetter and Indl- cated that Governor Whitman was the one to be made acquainted with the facts. Mr. Marshall pointed out in his letaer that he did not go to the Governor because the latter was the prosecuting officer in the case. “I will not go to the Governo: Mr, Marshall said to-day, “I will do nothing further until a legal proceed~ ing necessitates it” The letter Mr. Marshall wrote says in part: “I again saw Webber, the next day, in*the Tombs. He appeared to be very much agitated at the dismissal of the writ of habeas corpus, and at that time I had a conversation with him, of which the following ts the substance: “Without previously having men- tioned the name of Lieut, Becker to me, he sald: ‘How bad does Whit- man want Becker? 1 said: ‘I don't know. What do you mean?’ He then | said: ‘Would Whitman let us out if v 1 sald: anything He said: 1 delivered Becke not know. Did Becker hav to do with the murder? No, but what can I do? * “T realized at that moment that It was his intention to Rive some testl- mony against Charles Becker which I knew to be false. I thereupon told him to get another lawsér, “Convinced as I was, and am, of the Innocence of Lieut. Becker upon the charge of murder, I consented to become one of his counsel upon the secon@trial and was retained by him two days before the trial began, I ‘had never spoken with Lieut, Becker) before that, nor had | at that time, or any other time, told him anything about Webber's communication to mo. WEBBER REFUSED TO ALLOW HIM TO TESTIFY. "1 informed Mr. Manton during the trial that I wished Webber to be asked if he would waive privilege and allow me to testify, He was asked twice and both times refused.” District Attorney Charles A. Perkins to-day denied that he had asserted that nothing could save ex-T'olle Lieutenant Charles Becker from th chair, He declared that statemer quoting him as saying that Becke would surely be executed were ne correct and suid ho had no state. ment to make as to the ultimate fate of Becker. Mr. Perkins sald Mr, De Ford never participated in the preparation of the second trial and has no knowledge of the case, except that possessed by every one who has read the record uf the trial. Of the proposal of Becker's lawyers to attack the corroboration of the “Harlem conference” by James Mar- shall, the negro witness, Mr. Perkins said he had thoroughly investicated For Constipation use The Delicious Laxative Chocolate Ew-Lax rolieves sonst pabloa regulates bd the stomach and bowels, stimulates the Teese Olin ibe tad Sek young an ell druggists, Ce ee: ‘t do! To-Day’s Illustrated Les- son Suggests a Proper Regulation of Meals During the Summer and Gives Handball Ex- | ercises Which Are Gen- erally Beneficial. Because of her perfect physical proportions, Pauline Furlong has been named the “American Venus.” She t# the author of “Beauty Oulture at Home,” and ts an authority on all questions of woman's physical well-being. She will give a course of lessons to the women readers of The Eve ning World this summer on “How || to Make Yourself Well and Strong and Preserve Your Figure.” LESSON Xvi. By Pauline Furlong. | There is one argument which | health students who criticise the modern dietary are being compelled constantly to meet. The obdurate believers in “three solid meals a day” |declare: “Folks have always eaten |that way. Think of the enormous bakings and brewings and preserv- ings of our mothers and grandmoth- ers! Remember the old-fashioned | barbecues when oxen and sheep were roasted whole! Three meals, with | plenty of food at each one, are not | too many for the husky American | mantor woman,” The point these good people ways forget is that in the days of |barbecues and enormous family | bakings most of the male and female | participants were engaged in stren- uous physical labor for at least some part of every day, Just to live took | more physical energy in those days |than it does now. One could not es- cape every staircase by means of an elevator, The automobile was un- dreamed of, and even in the cities public transportation was in an ex- |ceedingly undeveloped state. People | Walked or rode horseback much more than they do at present. AMOUNT OF EXERCISE SHOULD REGULATE AMOUNT OF FOOD. Even well-to;do men and women worked with their hands.’80 many products were made in the household that the mistress found plenty of physical labor for herself, even | though she had daughters and serv- ing maids under her direction, Busi- hess enterprises were smalier and the merchant or manufacturer often worked side by side with his men, t is a proved fact that persons al- | who move about and keep their muscles bi ther in work play or in cise, may ore food menta Shey dean, ey do an | work at all. That is why we ees | 80 many stout persons, both men and women, in this year of 1915, We cat as if we were working ten | hours a day on the farm: actual- | ly we are doing nothing of the | eort. A few wise men like Henry Ford, | who has just founded a department of dietetics in the Detroit hospital {which bears his name, have already warned us that we are “overstocking | our engine: Another of this group of prophets is Samuel G. Blythe, the well known Washington correspon- how he himself experienced “The Fun jot, Getting Thin,” Mr, Blythe's method seems to me most interesting, although It differs somewhat from the one which I have recommended to you. Frankly, I think it calls for more selt. ntrol than most persons possess? Mr. Blythe save up no dishes which he liked, not en those supposed to be most fat- ng, but merely ate less—a great « less-——of each one. | I may be wrong, but I think that such a procedure would be more tan- + {0 MOSt persons than com- tion from forbidden fruit, I am very fond of ice cream, but | know that if a physician should tell the manner In which Marshall became a State witness and ls convinced he told the h. "The impropriety of a prosecuting officer promoting publication for the purpose of influencing the result of a trial is obvious," Lastrict Attorney Perkins said in a statement. “But | equally obvious in the unfairness and | indecency of attempting to foment in- terest in the cause of a defendant by unfounded suggestions that scepti- cism as to his guilt exists in the | minds of those who prosecuted him, WOULD PUT AN END TO COVERT RUMORS. “For several days now there have (been : covert rumors eman named sources to | the that ‘irregularities,’ so- called, exist in the manner in which | the evidence in the Becker case was | procured, and that members of tne | District Attorney's staff are cognizant | of such irregularities, | “Under these circumstances, jt seems necessary to state that’ the evidence in the Becker case w District Attorney nor those of staff who participated in the prepay tion or the trial of the Becker ca hor any other member of the Disiric Attorney's staff has any knowleds of irregularity in the way such dence was procured; that If there were any sugh irregularity it would necessarily a to some of them,” jdent and novelist, who has described | THE EVENING WORLD, FRIDAY, JULY 16, 1915. { | me either to stop eating it or @nt only one spoonful at a time I should forthwith bar it from my menu, Howev Mr, Blythe's method ev dently worked with him, for he lost fifty-five pounds in five months simply by reducing the quantity of his food and by giving up alcohol altogether. . dust here is a point which | ightly et 1 to consider the question from any other than the not necessary hygienio viewpoint in making this decision. If you persist in | drinking beer or highballe or | champagne, | cannot guarantee that you will benefit greatly by ‘ercise or the diet which | rescribed. | Returning to the conclusion on which Mr. Blythe bases his whole sys- | tem of reduction, It is perfectly truo | too much—unleas there are financial reasons which prevent gluttony. Two meals a day are quite sufficient for vere physical labor. OMITTING NOON MEAL ADDS TO SUMMER COMFORT, | I have suggested lunch as a good | meal with which to dispense, because its omission means less of a gap be- tween the times of taking nourish- ment than as if elther breakfast or | dinner were omitted, If you begin | omitting the noon meal this summer one of the first ways In which you will be repaid is by the sensation of greater coolness, even on torrid days, Taking food into the body, particu- larly some sorts of food, adds to the increase {s naturally felt most keenly when the external temperatur® is high. ‘This is another reason why the suinmer is the psychological time of | year to start a reduction course. When you first begin to cut down the qpantity of your food you will doubtless miss it, You may feel hungry—in fact, if you are seriously | trying to lose flesh you should always leave the table before you are fully satisfied. Hut your hunger should not be accepted as a sign that now you are eating too little to sustain your- self in perfect health, The cravin for the old “solid three meals" is | simply a sign that a bad babit is a difficult thing to give up, Eventually | can promise you that you will foal. ae well eati fied with a san s you feel t sumption of exorbitant jount of fo in and on your health, jen’t it ever so much moro dignifid and self-respect- ing to feel that you aro mating only as much food as you nee for healthful nourishment— rather thane stuffing yourself as t ff the poor g | I have “the fat Woman's sports, day I have another to add to them, t is the game of handball. HANDBALL EXERCISES EVERY MUSCLE OF THE BODY. This game is of extremely ancient origin and is often played by trained Imen athletes in a large, apectally jconstructed court with ¢laborate rules. But I do not suggest that you lo this far, You can play it in your lown rooms or in any narrow court- yard, which has one high brick wail, ‘A tennis ball, or one of the soft rub- |ber ones which you can purchase |for 10 cents, will be better adapted to your strength than the hard rub- ber ball used in regular handball, You can get exe by playing alone, but the game \s more amus- ling if played with two persons, One sof them drops the ball, then as it |wathered together in tne customary way, by trusted members of the Di | teiot Attorney's staff; that neither the | his |bounces from the floor, hits it with her cupped hand in the direction of \the wall, This is called a “serve. The other player must wait till the ball hits the floor again, after bounc- \tng from the wall, thon as Lt bounce from the floor, she in her turn must apply her cupped hand to tt with |eufficlent force to send it toward the wall once more, Each time the player hits the ball on the bounce from the floor, after the serve, scores one for the player, ! internal heat of the system, and the | The first person to win twenty points wins the game. It sounds simple enough, but it isn't easy as you think. It is, however, won- derful exercise. Every muscle in the body 1s brought into play. running, bending, swinging you arms constantly, You should try to hit the ball with your left hand, as well as with your right. The hand, by the way, should be held with the fingers and thumb pressed tightly together and curved inward, so that the palm is hollowed. ‘The exercise 1s so violent that th® perspiration will be streaming from you before you have finished the firat game, fd at the start I don't advise you to play more than one game at a time, As you grow stronger perhaps two or three consecutive games will not be too hard for you, but don’t go above that limit. The game will re- that most city dwellers eat altogether ! most persons who do not perform se- duce every part of your body, Readers of Miss Furlong’s ar- ticles who are keeping measure- ment charts or otherwise follow ing her lessons are infited to write to her, in care of The Evening World, asking any questions per. tinent to the lessons or requesting information that will aid them in following her rules for diet and exercise. Letters From Evening World Readers Following Miss : Furlong’s Lessons. L, H. asks: trying to redu Yes, all kinds—fish, oysters, clams and lobsters in seaso} “Can I eat sea food, if WORRIED writes: nervous, but just your height and weigh 150 pounds. What exercises will benefit me?" Any and all of them will help you. Take lots of rest and cultivate poise. "Lam extremely L. B. ask: “Please tell me how to gain thirty pounds.” A course in exercise and diet will be given in these columns later. M. H. writes: height?” Hang from the transom or strongly fastened curtain pole and twist tho body from side to side several times a day. As this is very strenuous, be careful not to overdo It. “How can I gain in Miss G. C. writes: “Please tell me if buttermilk taken in the morning 1s fattening?” It is not if taken in moderation MISS B. A. 8 writes have a dull pain in my liver and the doctor ad- vises exercise for it—which ones shall I take?" The swaying, bending and livers squeoze are best for you ———_—~>—— - FIVE PERSONS HURT IN AUTO CRASH, 3 MORTALLY Brakes Failing to Work, Car Ran Away Dow®@a Steep Hill and Struck a Tree. pouci® 811, July 16. e per sons were hurt, three mortally, yester- day when the brake of a touring car failed to work on Pine Hill, west of Kingston, and the car at terrific speed ran down the long declivity and was smashed against @ tree. The injured, pleked up at the road- side and rushed to Kingston City Hoa- pital, were identified as the Rev. T. I. ‘Yemplyn and wife of Arena, Delaware County; Amos Credel and daughter of Hancock, N, Y. and Mrs, Minnie Brown of Arena, Mr. Templyn, Miss Credel and Mrs, Brown have fractured skulls, the others broken arms or legs. A daugh- ter of the clergyman escaped injury. Pine Hill {8 one of the steepest gradi in the Catokills, You are| ' WHAT EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW! PREPARE TO URGE How to Keep Well, Keep Strong and Keep a Perfect Figure, Told jn a Series of Illustrated Lessons | EDISON WANTS NAVY | EXPERTS TO SHARE: CREDIT WITH BOARD Daniels Says Inventor Believes New Naval Bureau Should Be Purely Advisory, WASHINGTON, July 16.—Secretary Daniels returned to-day from his conference with Thomas A, Edison, who will head the new Naval Ad- visory Board. Mr. Danlels sald gen- |eral plans for the new bureau of In- | vention in the Department and the civilian board were talked over, but the personnel of the board was not discussed, “Mr, Edison thought,” sald the Secretary, “that the plan offered possibilities of getting the foremost engineers of the country to aid us. Ho js impressed with the idea that, methods of warfare are undergoing radical change—that what has been may not be in future, “It is his idea that the board should be purely advisory and that navy of- ficers skilled by practice in their work should continue development of ideas, getting the board's advice where it could aid them, Mr, Edison thought that to serve on this board would be regarded as a crowning honor for an American engineer—the equal of decorations given by foreign governments for scientific achieve- ments." Mr. Daniels believed there would be ttle diMculty getting appropriations from Congress for the, work. Several Senators and Representatives, he sald, already have approved the plan, “If we can show Congress the wis- dom of the plan,” he said, “I think we will have little trouble with ap- propriations,” Government purchase of the wire- leas control for torpedoos, invented by John Hays Hammond jr, proba- bly will be recommended to Congress by Secretary Garrison. Tho appropri ation committees during the closing days of the last Congress were urged to provide for seouring the now device for protecting the coasts, but no ac- tion Was taken | Officials of the Ordnance and For- tifications Divisions believe a con- cealed shore station may wbsolutely patrol a submerged torpedo within ® limits of vision, and that an ap- |proaching battleship would have little nce to escape, rmy officers see possibilities of greatly extending tho usefulness of the wireless control with the ald of an aeroplane scout. An aviator flying high and out of range could by wire- |less to the operator ashore direct an attack on a hostile ship out of sight ot the shore station > WILSON’S VACATION ENDING. resident Arranges to Leavy nish Early Next Week, CORNISH, N. H, July 16.—Ar- rangements were completed to-day for President Wilson's return to Washington early next week, Mem- \bers of his family will remain here, and the President hopes to join them again later if public business per- mits, Before his next trip here he probably will visit his daughter, Mra, W. G, McAdoo, at her summer ‘home in Maine, After an early round of golf with Dr. Cary T, Grayson the President retired to his study at Harlakenden House and spent several hours work~ ing on official b wngton, Cor- WANTTO STAR ST EEG CR FROM OFFICE Let Them Use Public Stands, Opporeftts of Proposed Oni? Sy. Mayor Mitchel to-day gave a hear- ing on three propomed new city or- dinances, The most important is one giving sight-seel! cars the privilege of standing in aes of a building In which they rent an office. license Commissioner Bell said that if the ordinance was signed it should be amended so as not to per- mit them to stand for an unlimited time, "If you algn this ordinance you are going to give them back the streets,” sald Joseph A. Nelson, President of the Public Hackmen'’s Association, It is true the ordinance gives the Police Commissioner the authority to say Just how and when these cai shall stand, but if they get this priv- flege they will give the Commissioner the fight of his life.” Mr, Nelson added that there was no reason why the sight-seeing cars should not use the public stands given the as his assc The companies: a for that purpor the same lation had to do, lawyers for declared the sight-seeing d that the onty privilege t panies asked was the right to be ed to load people in their cars in front of thelr offices and bring them back to the same plac “We want the right to do bust same ag the dry g stores who have their delivery wagons tn front of thelr stores and load their packages for delivery,” sald A, K. Wing, counsel for the Green Sight- Seeing Company. ‘The Mayor gave all interested a we sk in which to file briefs WILSON IN NO HURRY TO RECOGNIZE CARRANZA Favors Awaiting More Decisive Military Stroke Than the Tak- ing of Mexico City. WINDSOR, Vt., July 16.—President Wilson does not intend to recognize Carranza merely because Carranzista forces have occilpled Mexico City, He favors awaiting some more decisive military stroke or ible political developments before thaking up hia mind fully with respect to Mexico, it was learned at the summer White House to-day. At all events, this country's noxt Mexican situation will not ed until after the German- Amortean controversy is settled, Re- ports reaching the President say that the famine conditions in Mexico are somewhat Improved and that there is no demand for Immediate action WASHINGTON, July 16. - Gen. Carranza’s expression of regret pat his purposes have apparently n misunderstood by the United States, and his appeal for the “hearty sym- pathy of the American Government” in his efforts to restore peace to Mexico, are regarded here as the forerunners of representations for recognition by the United States, State Departm officials reiter- ated to-day that no formal repre- sentations had come from Carranza, and that, while the situation was being watched closely, no action was imminent. It may be discussed by the Cabinet Tuesday (STRIKE OF 21,000 MAY END OR INCREASE T0-D Joint Mediation Committee Ready to Report to Sub-Committee Immediate, Action. on ‘The 21,000 unton pantsmakers and vest and knee pants workers who have heen on strike since the beginning of the week will know late to-day whether they are to return to thelr work on Monday. More than 60,000 other workers in the men’s garment indus- try, who have been threatening to Join the strike, will learn at the same time whether they are to walk out of more than 800 shops to-morrow mora- was announced to-day at the Hebrew Societies’ Hall, No. ond Avenue, that before night the joint mediation committee of vanufacturers and workers will an- nounce their recommendations to the ydiate Action. ufacturers have agreed, An announcement mi y jal, to a reinstatement of In effect two years ago unions contended, bad m 25 to 45 per cent, in The m cording to a union 0} the old wag and which, been out f two years, ——o—_—_ ON RAMPAGE IN HOTEL. Nude Male Window an = Crowd From In Rentrained, Crowds watching a newspaper bulle- tin board at Washington and Johnson Streets, Brooklyn, this morning, were startled by the sight of @ nude man standing in a window on the second floor of the Clarendon Hotel, waving bis arma and exhorting the people on the street in a vein of religious frenzy. Pa- trolman Michael Imbriale took him Into custody, The management sald a woman occu- ying the room wh: the man was }found had just run screaming down the hall, saying some one had invaded her bedehamber, ‘The prisoner said he was John Van Harlingen, thirty, No, 196A 3 Cumberland Street,’ now’ ‘known as Washington Park, ‘Dr, W, F. Steger of Kings County Hospital took him rhe, police say Van Harlingen ts the He bok Wasningion Parks. te regis: 0. . He regis: tered at the botel last night, (MYSTERY IN DEATH | MORGAN'S ASSA | OF BOY RUSHED UNDERELEVATOR Must Have Lain There an Hour Before a Stranger Dis- covered Him. The Coroner and the police are trying to find out just how little Max Colenstein was crushed to death this morning in @ freight elevator at No. 120 West Twenty-sixth Street. His body was found under the floor of the elevator by a man who came into the buliding on business at 10.90 o'clock, and there is some mystery as to why the accident was not discovered long before. Colenstein was a bright lad of fif- teen, who got his first job last Mon- day with Harry Morshenheim, a fur- rier, at No, 169 West Twonty-fifth Street. Mr. Morshenheim sent him at 9.80 this morning on an errand to a customer in the twelve-story Joft building, No. 120 West Twenty-sixth Street. The boy never got to his destination. There are two freight elevators in the building. One was standing Idle at the ground floor when the boy came in, and Eustace Patten, who runs the other one, declares that ho did not see him at any time, Tho idle elevator was incloapd behind a safety door that slides up and down, A wtranger came into the building at 10.30 A. M. He rang the bell ex- citedly for Patten, and when he came down cried: “What's happened to that boy?” Patten raised the car and pulled little Max out from under it, He had been crushed between the oor of the car and the floor of the building. The boy died in a few moments, The stranger who gave the alarm hurried away. Patten wan so panic-stricken that it was almost Impossible to get a straight story from: him. He told a reporter of The Evening World that the man on the other elevator quit work ag 5.30 A. M. and went away. He would not tell his name, If the sufety door had been latched it is im- possible to Bee how little Max could have got into the car. The police are looking for the missing car operator and in tho meantime are keeping Pat- ten under observatign. Max Colenstein lived with his parents at No. 389 Kast Tenth Stree He was an active lad, still in knick- erbooke: What the police cannot understand is how the accident, which must have happened goon after was not discovered for 9.30 A. M., nearly an hour, though Patten was running his car up and down all the time and people were going in and out of the building. ‘CONVERT WILSON, ”’ NOW THE GERMAN CRY Vossische Zeitung, ‘Organ of the Chancellor, Hopes President Will Follow Bryan, BERLIN (via wireless to Sayville, L. L), July 16.—The Vossiche Zeitung, often an exponent of the German Chancellor's views, to-day had the fol- lowing additional comment to make on Austria’s note to America, protesting against the sale of war munitions to the allies: “We hope that this strong neutrality argument will impress and convert President Wilson aa Bryan was con- verted before. Now t# the golden op- portunity for America to show her ceadines# to observe true neutrality.” ‘The German press generally con- sidered the Austrian note as a shrewd political move, but were sceptical of its effect on the Washington Govern- iment. —— Dentes Writ of Mandamas, Supreme Court Justice Shearn denied yesterday # writ of mandamus to Gus- tav Bemmig, who sought to foree Seer tary of state hii In his n mig with having made, in defeating a change of venue, 4 false state: the county In which he was Purity Premier says : “You can change an ordi- nary Swiss cheese sandwich to a tidbit fit for the gods by omitting mustard and using Puts a soul in any salad. A Premier Product, pure and wholesome but not sive, Ask your grocer, if he hasn't Aske us for Se Francis H. Leg; Hudson River, 27th to write us, tt & Co., St., New York NOT SHOT; KILLED JUMP, INQUEST Cun ‘ UT vo Wardens and Prisoners Testify to Manner of Holt’s Suicide in Jail, Justice of the Peace Walter Ie | Jones, acting as Coroner, to-day at Mineola his inquiry ifte the death of Prof. Erich Muenter, alias Frank Holt, the agsailant of J, P. Morgan, who killed himself in Mineola jall on the night of July’ @ To-day’s hearing put a quistus the reports that Holt was shot ‘ outside the jail or that some one from the outside emuggied him o pistol with which he killed himself, Among the witnesses heard to-day were three prisoners in the Mineola — jail who were in cells on the upper tier on the night of Holt’s death. They testified that they were unable to ete | anything from thelr cella, but they beard a man, breathing heavily and — apparently crying, scrambling up the ~~ screen around the cell block. Them — they heard a sound as of a body strik= ing the concrete floor. i One of the prisoners told of elite ing the next morning to the top.of ~ the screen and finding there the bandage which had been wrapped around Holt's head. The suicide, to — be the more certain that he fracture his skull, had torn off bandage before jumping, We Hiults and Guard Hoffman were heard. Justice Jones will render a within a few days find! killed himself by a as be twenty feet from the screen. It Is probable also that will find that there ‘was Dgligence ot carelessness in watching Holt. . Final Reductions Aare had Sahat OP SILK STOCKIN THAT WEAR ® GOTHAM GotvoStripet oN keen —— aT YOUR DEALER'S ap GOTHAM HOSIERY SHop, 21 WEST HTH BT, tien this Summer have} you every days Evening World, Gc per week Dally World, 12 por week Sunday Wer, Se por Sunday - chet ga hist, often a# you 4