The evening world. Newspaper, January 8, 1917, Page 3

| PROSECUTOR REOPENS CASE DEAD snceiililipcims District Attorney Turns to New Suspect—Less Sure Lewis Was Murderer. HOLDS A ‘CONFERENCE.’ Detectives and Friends of Girl Present—Latter’s Brother Sees the Mayor. (Special to ‘The Evening World) PHILADELPHIA, Jan, &—Distriet Attorney Rotan this afternoon held a conference with the detectives who have been trying“to find the slayer of Mazie Colbert, Roberts, and several Quainted with the slain model. His + Hon the indi- cates he is not entirely satisfed now that the suicide of Bern rl W. Lewis im Atlantic City cleared up the mys- tery, as he announced Saturday. Those who took part in the con- ference were: Charles Kaler, the ‘wealthy brewer of Mahanoy City, Pa., whose name has been connected with the case from the start because of his known fondness. for Miss Roberts and the costly presents he lavished upon her; C. Emery Titman, @ man ip comfortable circumstances, ‘Who has been in the company of Miss Roberts; Magistrate Harry Imber, who admits he knew the dead model, ut Who dented the story circulated by she police that she had pawne® her jewelry to buy him a Christmas Present; Capt. Tate, head of the De- tective Bureau, and Detectives Far- reil, Hodge, Callahan and Mahoney. Mayor Smith's announcement of his intention to take a personal hand tn the investigation following a visit to- @ay from the dead woman's brother, and tho insisthnce of the Colbert fam- ily that they do not believe Lewis killed the model, are believed to be responsible for the conference. GIRL'’S SISTER TELLS POLICE OF HINTS. District Attorney Rotan and Capt Tate are said to be determined that the story told yesterday by the dead woman's sister to the effect that dn admirer had threatened Miss Rob- ers’s life when she failed to return a diamond ring he had given her shall ‘ve disposed of for all time. This was one of the first stories investigated and dropped by the detectives. After her visit to the police Miss Colbert, the sister, said: “I told the dotectives that a friend of a man that the whole family knows to have been very Intimate with Grace had come to us, and said be had heard this intimate say he would get back a ring he had given Grace if he had to choke her. I know that this man has been insanely jeal- ous of Grace, and threatened several times to ‘get’ her. He was infatuated with her. I have another witness that overheard him saying he would ‘get’ her. “I went to the Wilton Apartments aad found a bunch of keys in the flat where Grace died. I don't be- Heve they belonged to Lewis, who killed himself. But they may belong to this man. 1 know all the friends Grace had, and can give the detec- tives the names of all of them if they want them.” One of the first things that upset the police theory was that Lewis had written at least thrée letters to his wife and others in Pittsburgh sev- known as @race men well ac- in reopening case OF SLAIN MODEL AS MAYOR TAKES HAND IN INQUIRY way out but one. Grace Roberts. Two persons say, ac- erts introduced them to fore or sing taken. None of Grace Robert tion Lew of her fiends, 1t is now admitted no one saw Lew- 8 Go into the Roberts apartment at the time he left a taxi waiting out- side the buliding where she lived. No! one even saw him go tnto the building. He merely went round the corner and disappeared, FOUND NO “MARKS OF TEETH” ON SUICIDE’S HANDS. Also it $$ claimed in Pittsburgh de- spatches that the “marks of teeth” on the dead man’s hands, as described by the police, were found not to exist when the body was closely examfned. There is a hotel clerk who saw Lewis's hands when he registered after the murder, and a girl manicured his hands at the Bellevue- Stratford, who say he had no notice- able marks on his hands, Other claims of the police overthrown by investi- gation ure that a portiere cord found in Lewis's effects was from Grace Roberts's apartment. But even when the case seemed strongest against Lewis, there was nO motive established, It was thought he might have taken diainond ring. nothing to snow for it, No evidence was found he pawned {t, and when he had had to borrow $10 after reacii- ing Atlantle City, Lawy PITTSBURGH, Pa. J. Dodds, member of a Pittsburgh law firm afd close friend of the family of Jan. 8.—Robert Wenman A. Lewis, was on his way to Philadelphia to-day to co-opers with representatives of the aged coal broker there, investigating the death of Rer- nard Wesley Lewis, whose suicide has been linked with the murder of Mazie Colbert, known Grace Roberts. The Lewis fa ly and friends to-day express = belief that Bernard Lewis's hailed 1, be hysterical act, and not @ virtual “admission of fit’ that he killed the model, - igs > MORE AMERICANS KILLED. jan. §.—The names of the folllwing former residents of the United States appear in the Canadian overnight casualties: Killed in action—Private F. Eldredge, St. Louls, Mo.; Private J. Urquhart, Waltham, Mass.; Sergt, G. ingham, New ‘or Wounded—Private Tex Horne, Austin, Dangerous {ll—Lance Sergt. W. San Diego, Cal Seriously wounded. 0. Kelson, Driscoll, — > —- CANADIAN LOSS 68,290. or" Page, -Lance Corporal D. se 58,857 Occurred tn 1916— 10,454 Killed, Ont, Jan. 8.—Casualties dian force December aggregate 6 OTTAWA, to the Can dead,’ 1,108 1,970 “Of this number 53,837 casualties oc- curred in 1916, WASHINGTON, Jan. in the Supreme Court against North Carolina to collect $2,186,000 on State bonds issued during the reconstruction period and repudiated as fraudulent, was to-day Withdrawn. Private bond: holders were acting through Cuba. TM (wes wn | ee pa i i Century Favorite ‘Time has enriched this per- fect blend of selected ryes. dealer who tries to Luden's."’ The Public knows. Luden’s quick- ly relieves coughs and colds, MENTHOL CANDY ‘ ” ‘The Boomerang has nothing on the condemna- tion that will fly back to the put over “something just as good as LUDENS COUGH DROPS Look for the Luden yellow package. ¢ Give Quieh Reliek x eral weeks ago, announcing that he! was going to end his life. The burden of his excuse was that he had made @ mess of his life and “there is no| It now appears there is no conclu-! sive evidence that Lewis ever knew! sording to the police, thay Grace Rob- | Awis a year) ago, but they had never seen him be- | and they might be mise ‘8 tam. | ily or friends had ever heard her men-! although she talked freely | who} the missing | It he did there was| to the end of 0, made up as ‘THE EVENING WORLD, M \Efficiency Specialists Summoned | To Tell Housekeepers How to Fight | High Cost of Living Scientifically Mr, Efficiency on the stand Leaders in Social Life Grapple With Evils | That Afflict Poor as Well as Themselves by Organizing a ‘‘Confes sion Conventicle of} Housekeepers” Where| Experts Who Know All About It Will Answer! All Questions Put to, | Them. | | Marguerite Mooers Marshall. New York is to have a new kind| of experience meeting—a confession | conventicle of housekeepers, | Women from all over the city will) meet at the Hotel Astor, on the after- noon of Jan, 23, to tell of their strug- gles with the Evil One,’ the High Cost of Living, and to receive ad- vice and ‘encour- agement from the bi modern minister | of grace, the “ex-| pert.". There will bepresent twenty- four specialists of , national distine- Ra tion, Including na- tional and State offici professors from Yale, Columbia, Cornell and Pratt Institute, directors of housekeeping associations and hotel chefs, to answer every question propounded by the women on the subjects of food, cloth- ing, the house and household man- agement. An interesting feature of this ex- perience meeting'Is that it has been arranged by a committee of wealthy and socially prominent women, among whom are Mrs, Herbert L. Satterlee, daughter of the late J. P. Morgan; Mrs, William Alexander, Mrs. H. H,. lagler, Mrs. Annie Nathan Meyer, Mss. Cadwalader Jones, Mrs, Arthur Dodge, Mrs,| Henry Fairfield Osborn, Mra. Will-)| fam R. Shepherd, Mrs. Frederic B.! follows: Killed, 10,354; died of wounds,| Pratt. Mrs. Helen Hartloy Jenkins, | 4,00; died of sickness, 494; presumed | MP8. H. Hobart Porter, Mra, Leonard wounded, 48,454; miasing,| B. Shoenfeld, Mrs, Arthur Lehman. But though these rich women are) not ashamed to avow themselves in- | terested in the problems of the housewife, the conference at the, Astor is to be a thoroughly public and democratic affair, Moreover, the proceeds of it will be used to carry on the work of the Home Economics | Committee of the National Spectal Ald Society, of which the slogan is, “The home 1# the first iine of de- fense.” MRS. MEYER PROMISES PATRONS THEIR MONEY'S WORTH. “What every woman ought to know, and probably doesn’t, really suns up the programme for our ex- | pertence meeting,” Mrs, Annie Nathan Meyer, Chairman of the Home Econ omic Committee, told me, is the fou well known as a dramatist and a shrewd student of social and domestic problema. “The price of a ticket to the meeting will be $2, and 1 person ally agree to refund the money te very housewife who attends and who | feels that she hasn't received money's worth, “No such congress of distinguished authoritles Mrs, Meyer of Barnard College and | her has ever before been | brought together for the benefit of | the housewife. At the Experience Meeting she' will meet face to face will have the chance to Interro- gate the men and who can |give her the latest definite, most efficient informs about every branch of her grew of home-making. formal, wordy woman may rise women most profession There will be no speeches, But any | from the floor and} sk any question she likes about do- | mestic problems, with the assurance that she will receive nawer from the best qualified expert.” “But what sort of questions may be asked?” [ inquired, "Can't you give me some examples?” “Here are some written ones al ready received by the committee at its rooms, No, 269 Fifth Avenue,” re piled Mra, Meyer. “These will ger tainly be answered a the experience |the United States Bureau of Agricul- Mrs, Annie Nathan Meyer meeting: ‘How van I save coal? ‘How can I make my home dinners as attractive as those served in restau. rants? ‘How can I remove stains from garments?” ‘What can I do to refurbish my old furniture?’ ‘How can I tell pure linen and pure woollen from adulterated fabrics?” “What ts the matter with skim milk? should I give my child meat? EXPERT CELEBRITIES WILL AN- SWER THE QUESTIONS. “Questions are invited regarding the nutritive values, the economy, the| high cost and the chemistry of food; regarding meat substitutes, markets, transportation, preserving, canning, and eliminating the middleman. Com- missioner Dillon and Commissioner Hartigan will be on the platform, and| other food authorities who will an- swer queries are Dr, Charles F, Lang- worthy, Chief of Home Economica in ture; Prof. Lafayette Mendel of Yale University; Miss May Van Arasdale, assistant professon of household arts at Teachers’ College, and Monsieur Panchard, chef at the Hotel McAlpin, “Clothing problems that will be taken up include economy of dress, | ready-made clothing, the ethics of shopping and the question of stabiliz- e. Alfred Child, who rned the Housekeeping in Stamford, Conn.; Parton Haney, di- rector of art for the New York high schools, and Miss Mary Quinn, super- visor in design at Pratt Institute, will reply to questions about the up-to- date kitchen, labor saving devices, in- terior decoration, furniture and the low cost of beauty in the home. “part Time Service,” as a hopeful solution of the servant problem, will be explained to inquirers by ‘Mrs, Anna Hedges Talbot, adviser and in- spector of the New York State De- partment of Education; Miss Loulse Odencranz, Superintendent of Woman's Department of the St Department of Labor, and Miss Hen rietta Roelefs, Secretary of the Com- mission on Household Employment of the National Board of the Y. W. C. A. “The household budget, keeping ac- counts, daily routine, methods of work, laundry and economy of fuel fare other problems of domestic man- agement concerning which questions are encouraged, LEARNING HOW TO MAKE A DOL- LAR DO A DOLLAR'S WORK. “And all this is knowledge woman should have,” nt ( ONDAY, JANUARY 8, 1917, ‘When | © continued earnestly. “For years tome of us have been trying to | DON'T SUFFER WITH NEURALGIA Musterole Gives Comfort When those sharp pains go shoot+ ing through your head, when your | skull seems as if it would split, just rub a little Musterole on the temples and neck, It draws out the inflammation, soothes away the pain—usually giving quick relief, Musterole is a clean, white oint- ment, made with oil of mustard. Better than a mustard plaster and | does not blister! Many doctors and nurses frankly | recommend sterole for sore throat, bronchitis, croup, stiff neck, asthma, neuralgia, congestion, pleur- isy,;rheumatism, lumbago, pains and aches of the back or joints, sprains, | sore muscles, bruises, chilblains, frosted feet—colds of the chest (it | often prevents pneumonia), MACKENSEN TAKES -ROUNANIAN TOWN; 4910 PRISONERS Ss re iis Book Ahead Toward Sereth River in Southern Moldavia. BERLIN, Jan, 8 (by wireless to Sayville) —The Russiang and Rou- manians were dislodged yesterday from strongly fortified positions over @ considerable front tn Southern Moldavia, the War Office announces, The important Roumanian town of Fokshant has been captured, and 8.910 prisoners taken, (The struggle for possession of the Ine of the Sereth, In Bouth-_ ern Moldavia, has centred lately in the vicinity of Fokshani, mid- way between the Danube and the Moldavian frontier mountains, Fleid Marshal von Mackensen, in his effort to break the Russian centre, delivered @ thrust nine miles northwest of Fokshani, where Berlin yesterday reported the capture of the summit of Mount Odebechti, a commanding height. In one Month Macken- sen's army has forced its way nearly 100 milew since the capture of Bucharest.) Following is the Office's statement “Front of Archduke Joseph: Despite & snowstorm and severe cold weather, we again pushed back the enomy be- tweon the Putna and Oitzu Valleys. “Army group of Field Marshal von ckensen: Jan, 7 brought another great success to the Ninth Army, oa- pecially to the victortus German and je, Austro-Hungarian troops of Generals text of the War instruct the poo live economically; how to pro her family with healthful meals ‘i v fore ‘enall cum; hew to simplify Kraft, von Dellmenfinges and ee her dress and her household du- | Morgen. They threw back the Rou- ties. maniang and Russtans from the t impertinence-—u strongly fortified main mass of Mount e willing to gor. We AL i “There is no woman eo rich that she can afford to waste, There Ix no woman with so many servants that she can afford not to care for the food values her family receives at each meal, ‘That's a part of her job, and the American woman, lke the ‘American man, should know her job. Any engineer Knows the caloric value of each pound of coal he uses, But how many women can tel fou Ly tured. From the captured fortifica- ees tine oo suet oF maior at tone 3,010 prisoners, three cannon and “The Home Economics Committee | several machine-guns were brought already has given one course of lec-|!n." IN REPLY TO ENTENTE are about to be housewives, Hand in a Statement Which Neither course on household man: be given during Lent. We have dia- Accepts Nor Rejects En- tente Note. tributed free a pamphlet, ‘Advice to Householders,’ containing such data LONDON, Jan. §.—Router’s Athens correspondent says the Greek’ Gov- As a list of the milk stations, of the public markets; what to,do if your ernment has handed to the diplomatic representatives of the Entente garbage {a not removed $romptly or if your gas meter does not work as it should, and other important details. series of statements in responee to the last note of the allina. These statements are neither a re- Another of our free publications, pu fusal nor an acceptance of the En- Mished during the milk strike is the tente note, but point out dimMculties ‘Diet Without Fresh Milk.’ Then, at our headquarters we have a library in the way of compliance with #ome of the terms. Odobecht! to the Putna “Burther south, the Milcovu posi- tion, which had been constructed tn October, and was now tenaciously de- fended, Was captured by storm and in hand to hand fighting. Pushing be- yond, we gavo the enemy no time to settle bimaelf in hia second line on the canal between Fokshani and Yarestea. This position also was pierced, and, pressing further, we crossed the road from Fokshant! to Bolotesti. “This morning Fokshant was cap- of home economics free to individuals or to clubs, “We are trying with all our might to teach women what they want to learn about thelr tremendously tm- portant profession, Women every- where, rich and poor and in between, are waking up to the fact that they don't know and that they ought to —— know the business of home making.! An Athens despatch last Saturday ‘The high cost of living simply inten-| said the Greek Government had de- sifies an old problem, an old neod,| cided to reject certain clauses of the For while there must be laws against; Entente note, which demands ropara- cheaters, the ultimate way not to be) tion for the recent outbreak at Athens cheated ia to know so much that you[in which LEntente soldiers were can't be fooled.” fired on | ALLES OCCUPY GERMAN TRENCHES ONARRAS FRONT 'Penetrate First, Second and Third Lines for Length of 2,000 Yards. | BRITISH HEADQUARTERS IN |FRANCE, Jan. &—One of the strangest Incidents of the war was the Scotch-English raid southeast of Arras on Saturday. First, second and third line Ger- | man trenches were entered almost) unopposed. The stormers declare that despite "8S O 8” flares the Germans did not receive reinforcements or a tiilery ald, Those in the trenches suddenly disappeared tn the dugou which (he British bombed and ole up along the 2,000 yards of front | Involved, A Scottish officer who participated in the rald declared he did not see a German, and did not hear a machine gun nor @ aniper's rifle—although he fat on the parapet of an enemy third line trench, smoked a cigarette, and strolled leisurely back to his own trenches. { The raid followed a five-hour smashing bombardment and was ex-| ecuted under cover of a smoke as well} as shell-fire barrage. Officers of the Portuguese expedt- tlonary force have arrivea nere pre- paratory to fighting on the weatern front and are tackitag enthusiastically thelr new probiems, Presence of these Portuguese off cere ia France marks the bexinning | of Portugal's actual participation in fighting activities, It is understood the Portuguese forces afe plentifully equipped with 75-miliimetre Meld guns, these batte: on regularly Gonstituting “s the Portuguese division formation, Bertt R rte Lees ers Msitucs my ation, “= AM BERLIN, Jai Ville). —@Ix airplanes were lost ty Ententé forces yesterday on thé Fras co-Belgian front, army announced in to-day's statement operations in that war area. On the Yeor front, Hent and north of the Somme temper- arlly lively artillery duels developed. PAHS, Jan. 8.—Patrol e qoocurred =f Bou and of Parroy Forest, Otherwise there int Httle activity, <———— | GERMAN WEEKLY RA OF POTATOES REDUCES Nation Is Now Dependent on Own Resources for Milk and Butter. AMSTERDAM, Jan. §.—Tho Framsk- furter Zeitung asserts Germany Is al- most entirely dePendent on her own resources for milk and butter, while homemade cheese has almost entirely disappeared. The Cologne Gazette reports further restrictions on potatoes in the Dites- seldort industrial district, the weekly ration being fixed at three with four pounds of kohirabi. Essen municipality has prot the against reduction from five pounds. NEW RUSSIAN GAINS ON THE RIGA FRONT Berlin Admits Czar's Troops Have Followed Up Success of Jan, 5. ‘ BERLIN (via Sayville wirefess), Jan, §.—Rusyian forces which attacked cain yesterday with strong columne on a front west of the road from Riga to Mitau succeeded in Droadening somewhat the terrain gained Jan. 5 on the Aa River, to-day’s official state- ment said. Elsewhere the enemy was sanguin. rly repulsed. HURLBURT TRUCKS n Exhibition in the Corridor Adjoining of the Lobby the Hotel Biltmore January 6-13 Highest Factor of Safety in the Motor Truck World B. Altman & Co. | Several Desirable Styles in Women’s and Misses’ Brassieres will be offered, to-morrow, in the Corset Department, at the unusually low prices of 50c. & 9 (Second Floor) Excellent. Values in Silk Umbrellas will be obtatnable to-morrow at the special prices quoted. iMen’s and Women's Umbrellas of taffeta or (Third FROM » with novelty handles; a very | able quality . . . . $3.75 | Women's Twilled Silk Umbrellas, with handles of natura! wood a $2.75 Fitth Avenue-Madiaon Avenue, New York is now In progress and will be continued to-morrow and Wednesday A Special Sale of Velveteen & Broadcloth Dresses in burgundy, green and beige, offers extraordinary value at $27.50 Women's Ready-to-wear Department - Floor) ‘ + An Important Sale of Women’s Hand-embroidered Lingerie FRANCE AND THE PHILIPPINES 8 (by wireless to Be 4 4 ; / | |