0strong winds. ISet 6s e et ss _A1" """ "AT codA' I ysdi. NO.. 380. NASHIpTO,. AC., SATURDAY, MARCH 24, 1917. O0E cENT. DANIELS ASKS ENLISTMENTSFOR WAR ONLY Department Agrees to Accept Recruits to Serve in the Present Crisis. EXPECTED TO FILL RANKS 26.456 - Men Required-Need Not Finish Out Full FourYear Period. The Navy Department. in a big drive to bring enlistments up to full strength, and to fill the immediate need for men. Yesterday dispatched orders to all recruiting stations to accept men for the marine corps as well as the reserve corps for a term limited to the "present emergency.' Men so recruited will be pressed Into service with the understanding that they will receive furlough when the emergency ends and not be compelled to serve out the usual four years. To rush enflstments and broaden the campaign for new men, an additional force of 100 officers and 1,000 men may be detailed for recruiting purposes. The total enlisted strength of the navy is 61,00. it was shown by Department reports yesterday. Figuring in the men whose term of enlistment will expire in the near future the Navy now needs 6.4i6 men to bring the number up to the maximum allowed by the present law. When the present limit is reached, the President will be asked to extend it, to furnish plenty of additional men far every vessel and for duty on shore. When the special session convenes, legislation Is expected to be pressed, making it easier for enlisted men to secure commissions. The Navy Department needs 995 officers now for Immediate duty. Neede Mere Destroyers. Secretary of the Navy Daniels stated yesterday that the government is prepared to buy any number of torpedo boat destroyers the nation's shipyards can lay down, and he will meet the principal builders of warships at the department today in an effort to speed up constructinn. The navy will insist that the fifteen torpedo boats destroyers already authorized, be constructed within twelve months. If that be possible. instead of within two years, the usual time allowed to onplete such craft. The department is rishing its plans to award at an early date contracts for the construction of ''0 submarine chasers. Contracts already have been let for gasoline engiues to equip such small vessels. The builders of sixteen small nondirigible airships, recently ordered for * oast patrol work in co-operation with aeroplanes, advised Secretary Daniels ,esterday that their plants -are being pushed to their manimum. to turn out the ships in the shortest possible time. The contracts required first deliveries within four months. The first ship will he ready for trial within a month and the others soon aftetward The joint army and navy ba.rd again conferred with representativ's of air-craft and rubber companies to perfect details for the building of a mammoth air fleet for scout purposes and -oast defense work. To Bay Own Planes. Teo hunlred wealthy residents of New York. thtruh tie .tero Club of America. yesta day promised Secretary Daniels to "do their bit" toward aerial preparedness. and voluntarily offered to buy their own seaplanes and train for servie without pay. e Added precautions to protect Atlantic and Pacific coast fortifications against spies were taken by officials. Commanders of all fortifications have been given notice that all unofficial aircraft shall keep away from such reservations. Forces of guards about all fortifications have been enlarged to uphold regulations trohiilting all persons not attached to the military service from visiting fortifications or taking pictures or making observations either inside or outside such military posts. GIRL'S CORPSE FOUND; MOB THREATENS FARMER Disclosures by Victim's Mother Leads to Young Man's Arrest. Ssdal to The Wasaington Herald. Dalton, Texas. March 23.-Highly excited citizens from the vicinity of Midway. near here, thronged the streets today, threatening Will Porter, 26, a farmer, arrested following the finding of the body of Miss Elma Staley. 20, in the Loon River. The girl's feet were bound together with baling wire and wire also had been used in fastening together a veil which was tightly wound about her head and face. There were bruises on the head and body. Miss Staley had been missing nine days. The body evidently had been in the l water only half that time. It was found by boys who were fishing. Disclosures made to Sheriff Smith by her mother were responsible for Porter's arrest. URGUTA BOROWS $50,000. El Paso, Texas. March 23.-General Francisco Murguta, commandes of the Carransa forces in the state of Chihuahua, has levied a "loan" of 60,000 on merchants of Chihuahua City, according to arrivals from there today. The Carransa troops have not been paid for weeks and thIs method of obtaining money with which to pay themI was adopted to prevent a threatened revolt. In the Sunday Herald A SERMON Dr. Jeohn Van Sckieaik, Jr. President of the Board of Education. Written especially for Washington Herald readers, DR.. WILRDS SMALls Principal of Enstern High School and Instructor of Teachers' College of . W. U., Why Movin Pictures Should En Used ln"the Puhlic ehoas, Gil.' Togs May Cha, But S.1n Would See Chicago, March t3.-Chicago beauties will not wear the clinging jersey net costumes this summer, and will not parade the beach, minus stockings, if a delagation of Chicago club women have their way. "There is no buoyancy In jersey material when It is wet," Mrs. E. H. Smith, of the Women's City Club, told a council committee today. "It clings so closely that a girl might as well be wearing tights." Alderman Cullerton, Who has been In the council 45 years, thought no hasty action should be taken until the beaches open for the summer and the aldermen get a chance to see for themselves. BIGAMY CH GEO0 Police Hunt Husband of D. C. Girl Ill with Fever. William Douglas Crawford. 22 years old, a fascinating youth of Martinsburg. W. Va., and Washington. is being sought the country over to come back and face his young Martinsburg wife and his young Washington wife, an angry Baptist minister at Rockville whom he trapped into performing both marriages, the grand jury and States attorney at Rockville, and his broken-hearted mother. His first wife, Emily A. Bishop, the daughter of a woolen mill owner In Martinsburg, married him In 1912. when she was only .. '. ---A - His second wife. Marie Thelma McElhone. 18 years old, daughter of the late Philip McElhone, who was a personal friend of President McKinley, and whose mother is now secretary to a United States Senator, ran off to Rockville with him last December 27, and was married by the same minister who had married Crawford the first time. 1ll at Home Here. He deserted her two days later, and now she Is Ill at her home in the Cordova apartments with scarlet fever. Her mother, who is a devout Roman Catholic, Is heartbroken over the affair and over the prospect of a divorce for her daughter. The minister who performed both ceremonies is Rev. S. R. White, a retired Baptist minister of Rockville. Crawford persuaded him that he had been divorced from his first frife. William Douglas Crawford. or Robert Douglas Crawford as he was known at the second marriage, Is the son of the late William Douglas Crawford, of Martlnsburg. He has lived in Washington frequently. His mother lived at the Toronto apartments for several years. He has a sister who is said to be on the stage. His mother is now living in Danville, Va. "I brought the action," said Mrs, McElhone last night, "at the advice of my frienda and to protect my own little girl from criticism." Mrs. McElhone has been in constant attendance at the bedside of ber daughter. OONTINUED ON PAGU TWO. 900 SALVATION ARMY BARRACKS FOR U. S. Commander. Evangeline Booth Offers Quarters for Recruiting. (By the Iaternatiemal News Serviee.) New York. March 23.-Commander Evangeline Booth today offered 900 Salvation Army barracks to the War and Navy Departments for recruiting stations. They are located in large cities from roast to coast. Two of the organization's officers left tonight for Washington to discuss the matter with Secretary Baker and Secretary Daniels. The Salvation Army's 121 industrial homrs, and more than a hundred hospitals In Its control will be placed at the government's disposal. They can be used as hospitals. Jail-Cell "Barred Zone" Parts Wilson and Kaiser Aniston, Ala.. March 23.-A "barredzone" separates Woodrow Wilson from "the Kaiser" at the Calhoun County Jail. The grand jury returned true bills against Woodrow Wilson, charged with stealing a cow and against Jesse Kaiser, charged With perjury. Woodrow is a negro, and Kaiser Is a white man. MOVIE GIRL GETS $7,000. New York, March 23.-Anna Kearney, 17 years old, of 461 Avenue U, Brooklyn, was given 17.000 damages by a jury in Justice Garretson's part of the Kings County Supreme Court yesterday against the Vitagraph Company of America. She charged that while taking part in the dilm, "The Battle Cry of Peace,' at the company's plant in Brooklyn, in June, 1915, as she was running through a doorway, a bomb exploded, burning her severely on head, neck and body. She also said she suffered internal injuries and has had chronic neurasthenia ever since. FLYU UNDRumS8 HIM Bristol. Pa.. March 23.-William Gagg, of Morrisville. car inspector of the Pennsylvania Railroad yards in West Morrisville. narrowly escaped death Wednesday night when he was caught midway of the bridge crossing Pennsylvania aveaue, at Morrieville, by the Southern express No, 293, Gagg walked over the bridge for a short cut, and when he saw the train thundering down the rails he dropped down over the edge, clinging to a beam. The suction of the train drew In Gagg's coat, which was ripped from his back, but he escaped unscathed. Berlin (vla Sayville wireless), March 3. -"By the destruction of a Prench battleship of the-Danton type, the warship losses of our enemies, excluding aumiliy vessels, have reached, in round fgare,' UU,00 tons," the Overseas News Agency mnoned today. "This equals the combined to ae of ltussia and Japan at the beginning the war, and was only O,0S tons tferior to the United States navy, which was the third largest at the outbreek of the wai'.'' ARRNAN (EU3 WRZEEA It, rouis., Mo., Marsh 2L-Unsdenteed psons broke Into the Boeialer bager-. chera, a German club here. eriy today, mbeito pieees a large picture og the Germas aise, dintroed emem-- and a ~silk Germma fag and wrmked he fUrsituys, The daage Is gut g~ t UU - GZAR'S FAMILY HELD AT PALACE Former Czar Interned at Tsarskoe-Selo--Five Children Have Measels. .ps Cable to n.o Wmsbi. .si. Tsarskoe-Selo, Russia, March R (via London), March IL-On his arrival here today In the custody of four members of the Duma, Nicholas Romanof. -the deposed emperor, was turned over Immediately to the Tsarskoe-Selo commander and taken to the Alexandrovsky .Palace, where the former Empress Alexandra already was interned. The special train carrying the former ruler arrived at 1:30 o'clock on the branch line outside Alexandrovsky Park. On leaving the train Nicholas entered an automobile accompanied by his adjutant. Prince Dolgoroukoff, the only courtier of the first rank who accompanied him, and by the four Duma commissioners. They were driven to the palace. Nicholas was met at the door In the left wing of the palace by-Count Benkendorff, who was his marshal of the court, and is now under arrest. The former ruler held himself erect, looking calm and indifferent, although he stepped from the automobile with nervous haste. Battalion at Depot. A battalion of the First Rifle Guard Regiment was at the railroad depot. The commander at Tsarskoe-Selo is Col. Kobullinsky, formerly commander of the Petrogradsky Regiment, stationed in peace time at Warsaw. To him the Duma commissioners announced: ,"Our mission of handing over the emperor is finished. We now go to Petrograd to announce this fact to the Duma." An astonishing circumstance, In view of the attitude of Nicholas toward the population of Tsarskoe-Selo- which lived entirely upon Imperial favor, was the lack of public Interest. In regard to the conditions under which Nicholas was being held in the palace officers declar-d they knew nothing. Concerning Alexandra and the other members of the family the following Information was given: All the five children are in bed with the measles, for which reason Alexandra has not been outside the palate walls for two days. So far as is known no order has been issued preventing her from walking about the grounds. BRITAIN WIDENS ZONE OF ANTI-"SUB" ACTION Dangerous Area in North Sea Widened. U. S. Is Told. Great Britain has widened her "zone of danger' in the North Sea in order to intensify the warfare against German submarines and to render even greater the dififcultes of further escapes to the high seas by German commerce raiders of the Moewe type: Under the new orders, which become effective April 1. the dangeoous area will comprise all the waters except the territorial waters of Holland and Denmark, included In an irregular-shaped are extending from three miles from the coast of Jutland southward and westward, and then bending eastward to a point close to the southeasterly extremity of Holland. The announcement of the extended zone of anti-submarine activity was communicated to Ambassador Page by the foreign office yesterday. UNIONS GOT $20,000 TO STAY ON THE JOB Contractors Say Labor Heads Were "Greased" to Prevent Strike. (By the Iateraatioaal News Service,) Cleveland. Ohio, March 23.-The Cuyahoga grand jury, late today, was told by nineteen building contractors that $30,000 In graft was paid to prevent strikes on bridges In the course of construction, prior to the lockout of 20,000 men by the building trades employers' association. - It was testified Jacob Babin. builder of the New Olmsted Hotel, paid 33.000 in weekly installments to insure continuous work on the hotel. Union men say the stories are untrue. FIRE SWEEPS PAINT PLANT. Cincinnati, Ohio, March 33.-Fire which broke out in the Richmond Brothers' Paint and Varnish Company's shop here late this afternoon destroyed that building, threatened the Commercial Tribune Building and the rest of the block. Exploding varnish imperilled the lives of many employes in the varnish store, but- it is believed all escaped. FOUR CHILDREN DIE IN FIRE. Saginaw, Mich., March 23.-Four children were burned to death early today in a fire which destroyed the farmhouse of William Hartatein, near Merrill, Saginaw county. Mr. and Mrs. Hartatein and two children escaped. Why Are You Why Are You Pr< Can you name the President 14%/ Germanys in the area of Do you kiiW the weaithi o1 A FOUR-PAG " America--- The WASHINGTC Gives yopu important facts ti own country and tells you how Be practical iar your patrioti vital questions. Be sure to get your eoDT of tomonrwg/ Siunda, Jem War S5pport Gov Samuel McCall. of Massachusetts, called at the White House last night and pledged to President Wilson the resources of his State is support of the government in the nation's crisis, Gov. McCall told the President that the Masaachuisetts legislature already had appropriated $1.000.000 to put the State in readiness for wars emergeneles and stood ready to spend more to strengthen the country's pepaed ness to meet any eventuality. CYCLONES KILL 35 Two Storms Sweep Indiana. New Albany Hit. (y the .terate.a New. Servlee.) Chieage March 24-(.t.u.dy)-A member .f the torad. relief committee .. .sd ever the ..g ditaee tele.h. that th..y-.ve were knew. to he dead in New Albany. Iad., at midnight. He said the knew. Injured were Indianapolis, Ind. March 23.-At least thirteen persons dead, many injured and heavy property damage is the toll of two tornadoes which swept Indiana late this afternoon. The first storm swept over the southeast part of Sullivan County. narrowly missing Carlisle, and killed one man and Injured ten or more persons, mainly children. Many farm houses and barns were destroyed and 'two school houses were wregked. The second tornado struck New Albany, more than 100 miles from Carlisle, late in the afternoon and killed at least twelve persons and injured forty others. The storm struck the northeast part of New Albany, where most of the negroes live, and destroyed or damaged more than forty structures. Six negro children and six workmen were taken out of the ruins of the houses and the police are searching for more victims. The path of the torpado, which was a regular twister, was very narrow, from a quarter to a half mile wide. But along that narrow path for seven miles is a scene of destruction. Fully 20 farmhouses and homes were demolished, hundreds of trees were twisted out of the grounand every telegraph and telephone pole in the path of the funnel-shaped cloud was velled, leaving the wires ii a tangled mass. Railroad tracks. struck by the tornado, were ripped from the sleepere and the ties scattered about. SEE END OF WAR Officials Here Believe Germany Soon Will Yield. sredsal to Ths wesstts. Herai Brooklyn, N. Y., March 23.-The Brooklyn Eagle today prints the following dispatch from its Washington correspondent: The belief is growing in Washington that Germany will not atempt to carry the war much further. No tangible ground for such a belief can be discovered, but the fact that there is much talk, in and out of official circles, to the same effect is regarded as having significance. This idea that Germany has had about all the war she wants is in no way connected with the report started yesterday that some neutral nation might try to mediate between the United States and Germany. This government expects no such offer, and Is not interested in any. A complete revocation of the whole German submarine campaign might pave the way for mediation, but this is not looked upon as a present possibility. But apart entirely from the vague rumor of a mediation offer exists the Impression that. with the United States about to enter the war as a belligerent the first steps toward peace in Europe are not remote. Government officials, including military men as well as statesmen, do not see how Germany can continue to fight much longer against steadily growing odds. Once the United States becomes a war factor, those odds will increase immeasurably. The government has heard and seen much within the past few weeks to foster the idea that a break up of the war is a possibility of the near future. NAVY "ROOKIES" DECLINED. New York, March 23.-Josephus Daniels, Secretary of the Navy. is no favorite with at least thirty women in New York today.' Secretary Daniels failed to issue orders to the recruiting station here to accept women for naval service after stories emanated from Washington to the effect that the Navy Department sought the aid of women. BRITAIN CONTROLS SHIPS. Londan. March 23.-Virtually every ton of British shipping is now under the control of the government. The shipping controller has Included in his management at fixed rates, all "liner tonnage" engaged in Australian, South American and South African trade. in American ud of the Facd , s? Did you know we Could put the United States? this country? E MAGAZINE Land We Love" MWORROWS SUNDAYN HERAWD at you should know aboqit your to keep posted. It is free. urn-become informed0on these this valuable supplement. Order Heraldi odiy. KAISER DRIVEN TOWARD, SERVE French Advance . But Are Wary of Von Hindenberg Strategy on Life. Landon. March .-What looks like a general engagement in the open is beginning about St. Quentin and La Fere, where the German retreat in France has paused. French troops are on the offensive, attacking the German positionS while the B; lush are also facing strong resistance but are steadily comnag up. Fighting every inch of the way. the French made much progress today and are now almost in the outskirts of the two cities. The French war omoe announced tonight that the Germans have diverted the waters of the Oise into La Fere and that the city is flooded. This indicates strongly that the Germans intend to retire to the high ground some live miles beyond La Fere, Though the French pushed ahead at along their part of the front, their most notable progress was made in a brilliant attack on a wide front within only a few miles of St. Quentin. Here they pushed back the Germans-though the latter resisted stubbornly-from more than a mile to more than two miles deep. Preneh Cross CaOma. There was hard fighting in this region along the eastern bank of the SommeCrozat Canal most of the day. The French had crossed the canal on either side of St. Simon, not quite midway between St. Quentin and LaFere. A German report says they were repulsed with the loss of 230 prisoners, machine guns and carts, but the French rallied and drove the Germans far from their oisInal positions. French troops about Lafere have alas lone ahead, gaining the heights north )f the Olse, which overlook the valley mnd the city of lafere itself. They are now within easy gun range of the forte >f Vendoul and Liese. It Is from this egion that the Germans evidently Intend withdrawing to the Mesteres-Ribemont Ine on higher ground. South of the Oise the French threw nore troops across the Ailette. pushing hem out toward the fringes of the for. 'St of St. Gobain. a position of tremenlous strength which they will be able o take only at great cost. The whole question at present appears to be whether the allies can move their heavy artillery fast enough so as to strike s smashing blow at the Germans before he latter can effectively organise their iositton. Military critics in Paris and CONTI1NUL ON PAGE TWO. WILL CARRY TROOPS FOR LUs AT COST American Railways Pledge Service to Government if War Comes. I By the Iaternatieoal News Service.) New York, March 21.-American railroads, in the event of war, will transport troops and supplies for the government at cost. This decision was reached here today in which nineteen managers representing two hundred American rail. roads took part. The managers also prepared estimates of the number of troops they could move within twenty-four hours from giver points and the amount of supplies and munitions that could be transported. Demands for an Increease in freight rates, particularly soft coal were formulated by the managers, who claim that soft coal is now bringing higher prices than ever before and an increase in freight rates on it would not work a hardship. Schedules of hours and pay for all members of the railroad brotherhoods, In compliance with the eight-hour agreement reached last Saturday, will be completed today. The brotherhood heads will leave tonight and will return thirty days hence to meet the managers and discuss the practicability of the schedules. AGREEMENT REACHED ON PAY OF TRAINMEN 3rotherhood Heads and Managers Ready to Apply Law. (By the iaternatieaal News Serviee.t New York, March 21.-At the close o1 the conference today between the brothrrhood chiefs and the railway managers It was announced that a tentative agree. ment had been reached for application of the Adamson act. Elisha Lee, chairman of the National Conference Committee of the Railways said they had agreed on a tentative ha 51s, covering the greater part of the wagt schedules so that the increased wage' accruing since January 1 may be paid employes quickly. "A number of minor points are still t< be decided." he said. "And a further con. Terence will be held some time in April. If any differences arise as to the applica. tion of the law they will be referred to a }oint board of eight, four to be appointed by the National Conferenca Committee of the Railways and four by the brothers foods." GERMANY REDUCE RATION. Amsterdam, March 2.-OwIng to the scarcity of wheat, the German bread rations will be reduced one-fourth, betInning April 15, according to Berlin adrices. The meat rations will be increased by 50 gramns weekly. Thsre will be no change In the potato ration whIch is five pounds wreekly. With the reduction of the bread rations the German government hopes to provide the people until the nyzt harvest, WARNS BRITAIN OF PANIC. London. March 3.-Sounding a strong wrarning against panic, which he said, wrould bring bn disaster, Charles Bathurst told the House of Commons today that 'patience will see the nation through." He asserted that suffering among the poor in England, due to the food shortage, was not as great. as in the other belligerent countries, WAR MEABURES 1UBED Augusta. Me., March 23.-Three wal measures were rushed through the House today. Collectively, they provide for a term if several years' imprisonment for bnlawful or malicious trespass upon pusblie paoperties or injury to pubbe property ar mills og-.magsimey or pebea e pabice a' ug waite 17 AMEMICAN! ON TORPEI ANOTHEF George W. Stead, of C in Fresh U-Boat wegian U. S. CONSULS President Wrill Delay I Congress Meets i Resources One more American life was jeop on Thursday when the Norwegian t warning. Consul Wesley Frost. at Qu partment last night. George W. Stem Malmanger when she was sunk. Cons% TEXT OF "The Norwegian tanker "Malmant Avonmouth. with a cargo of kerosene, s of Fastnet at noon March 22. She r the evening. No injuries or losses of I The explosion may have been a mine. American. George Wilson Stead, of Ch Seven American lives were lost whi sunk by a German submarine off the co: from Consul Frank W. Mahin at Ams1 last night. The Healdston was sunk de were marked by the American flag. 1 Consul Mahin was: SOCIALISTS SPLIT Leading Members Issue ProWar Manifesto. (Sy the Interumtto..a News Serviee.t New York, March 23-The Socialist party was split asunder today when a group of its most prominent members Issued a pro-war manifesto. Those participating in this open revolt against the "peace at any price" declaration recently issued by the Socialist national executive committee were Charles Edward Russeil, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, J. G. Phelps Stokes. 1 Upton Sinclair. William English Walling. William J. Ghent, Leroy Scott. Walter E. Kruesi. Charlotte Kimball Kruesi and William L Stoddard. Although still avowing themsilves Socialists, they ek nnwiedeed they had laid themselves open to expulsion from the party. Local Socialist offs i'. however. including Morris Hillquit and Edward F. Cassidy. said it was not likely the distinguished dissenters would be punished so severely. The manifesto of the war wing contained these passages: "We abhor bloodshed,. but we see clearlv that blood had better he shed than saved by cowardice to decay in b.nda;e. ;One cannot keep peace longer than one's neighbors will permit. We would sacriflee peace rather than submit to inva-, sion of such liberties as we already have. imperfect though they be. "The former position of the United States as the hermit of the Western Hemisphere is no longzer tenable. Our country belongs to a family of nations and must assume its share of responsibi!it y for the maintenance of just international relations. "If a nation runs amuck it must he overcome by the superior force of united action." 296 FRENCH LOSE LIVES WHEN DANTON IS SUNK Paris Admits Torpedoing of Battleship On March 19. Paris, March w.-The French admiralty tonight announced the destruction by a torpedo in the Mediterranean on March 19 of the battleship Danton. with a loss of 296 men. Eight hundred and sixty men were saved by a torpedo boat destroyer and patrol boats. The patrol boat, the Massue, attacked the U-boat, the statewent says. The submarine disappeared. The German admiralty on March 30 announced the sinking of the Danton. a battleship of 1t.(0 tons. She was commissioned in 19.. 17,000 Russ Convicts Freed by Uprising Petrograd, March 25.-Seventeen thousand criminals formerly imprisonled in the prison at Khorson, overwhelmed the prison guards on the first day of the revolt, it became known today and set free 600 other prisoners held in another wring. All these men are still at large. No serious trouble hss been reported. however. Iowa RACKs WAR TaR.&INJG. Des MoInes. lae March 23.-Declaring that a state of war already exists between the UnIted States and Germany. and asserting that it is a struggle between democracy and despotism, the Iowa' State Senate by unanimous vote adopted today a concurrent resolutIon by Senator' Fraley. calling upon the Iowa Senators and Congressmen to aid in Pam=ge at once a bill for general military triining. saying the resolution spoke for itself. 40,000 1. 1. TICKETS 110EGED. the arrest of Frank Osborn. a conductor of the New York. New Haven and Hartford Railroad, and three other emploses of the itne. OWS forged tickets have1 been recovered, according to a statement issued at the State's attorney's offte here. More arrets are expected. *uQatee Seesee t. Daaitmee. Every Hour on the Hour. Baltimore ne Ohto. P1.! roun trig. IatvravaJy =i 5asam 7 LOST . )OED SHIP; IN DANGEl iester, Pa., Jeopardized Attack on NorVessel. FILE REPORTS nal War Move Until n Extra Session. !Mobilized. rdized in the Germa submarihe sous aker Malanger was sank without uenstown, reported to the State Ded of Chester. Pa.. was aboard the i Frost's report said: REPORT. er." 3,810 tons, from New York for pas sunk by an explosion six miles east emained afloat until 5:30 o'clock in ife. No warning or attempt to escape. The vessel was under escort. One ester. Pa.. engineer, was aboard" n the American tanker Healdston was st of Holland, according to dispatches erdam, reaching the State Department pite the fact that her stern and sides he American death list furnished by LIST OF AMERICANS. "Third Assistant Engineer Johnson, of Hoboken, N. T.; Second Mate Chandler, New York City; Third Mate Hudgins, Norfolk, Va.; Oiler Lesercaux, Michigan; Cabin Boy Healy, San Francisco; Sailors Smith. of Chicago, and Steiner, of Pittsburgh. "Healdston's light showed her na ne and the American Bag painted on her side. Also the Stars and Stripes was flying from her stern. Two torpedoes were fired. One entered amidships at the same. The other entered at the flag. The ship sank in a few moments. Three boats were lowered. One capsized, drowning occupants. One with eight occupants reached northern Holland. (inc man died of injuries; one badly hurt. Sufered fem Cold. "Thirteen in other boats twelve heurs suffering from cord wind and choppy yeas, brought by Dutch trawler to Youdicr. Submarine appeared after the boats aere lowered. Offered no assistance. Indistinct in darkness but doubtless German Disappeared when ship sank. No ther vessel in sight. "rrew of 41, of whom 13 were Amer-. rans. Rest of various nationalities. TwenU-one lives lost; sev.n Americana.' President Wilson and his cabinet yeserday decided to wait for Congress be.re taking any definite move against 'errnany. unless further submarine agr, rrm-ne absolutely force the Unites :tales to act. Preparedness was made the chief duty of every department of the government after the President and his adviser reviewed the tangled international situation, and looked over the preprations already ordered. It was decided o make every endeavop to mobilize all of the resources, men, money and Industry, behind the President. to have these resources ready for instant use :hen Congress convenes. Meantime, the attitude of the adminIstration will wait upon the developments in the zone of death and destruction where ship after ship of the American merchant marine has gone done unwarned. tnlesa Germany's submarine activities force this country into active warfare, no more will be made until the direct represenitatives of the American people, in Congress assembled, after April . decide on the course which the nation must take. Lest night, the Congressional leaders, with Speaker Champ Clark of the House at their head, began to arrive in Washington for the most momentous session In more than half a century. and they were prepared to go to any lengths to hack up the President in his fght for Amerl-an rights at sea. Caiml',. and in grim silence, the administration yesterday received the otffclal detailed report of the death of 't men of the crew of the American tanker Healdton. The Healdton was sunk without warnng almost within sight of the neutral shores of Holland, by a submarine that made no effort to aid the crew to escape death. Officially the only effect of the Healdton report was to accentuate the wholes.ale drive for complete prepared,ess which th~e administration has begun. -nere was no expression of formal regrets: there was no expression of surprise. But from the White House to apitol lill, ofTicial Washington sets its asw with grim determination to make ready for the apparently mnevitable strngte to avenge the men who west dowu to their death in the peaceful persigt et .merican commercial lifra. DauletS Shows Psaams. :ecretary of the Navy Daniels laid before the Cabinet meeting 7eeterday his report of what hes been seemptshed, and what has bee. plas4a to make the nation'.sb art. eo e fens, reedy for the lmpeninig strug.te. It was betet and to the point. nd it plaoed squarely befoge the Pre.. dent and his advimers the need fer speed In saval estrlete and in the sahiatment of man to smea the natien'a arships. Secretary Daniels left the Vhie House with eli autheuity ta Co4TINUD ON PAGE mW. II