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Evening star., 1912-11-09
GOVERNMENT CLERK
MISSING SINCE SUNDAY
Friends of Harry GangeWer
of Treasury Department
Fear Foul Play.

Mystery surrounds the disappearance
of Harry Gangewer. for forty-one
years a clerk in the Treasury Depart
ment. who Is missing from his board
ing house, 4S53 Wisconsin avenue
northwest
Suggestions that the missing mar
might have met with foul play or that
he has gone to Philadelphia were made
today by friends. A report OF his dis
appearance was made to the police to-
day.
Mr.. Gangewer, who is fifty -eight
years old. was last seen by friends Sun
day morning. He left his boarding
house about $50 o'clock. telling Mrs.
Annie f. Phelps. the landlady, he was
going to the home of Rev. ]. Henry
Garner of st. Adams Church. 1910
Davenport street. 1t was learned he
called at the minister's home, but, find
ing him away. remained only a short
time. He departed and that was the
last seen of him.
Evening star., 1912-11-09
TEN MILLION STAMPS.
Mrs. Parkhurst's Collection Bought
by New York Dealer.

NEW YORK, November "a collec-
ton of ten million Cancelled postage
stamps. domestic and foreign, done up
in 100000 new packages, is on exhibition
today at the office of New York dealer.
They We're sold to him by Mrs. Charles
HI. Parkhurst. wife Of the pastor of the
Madison Square Presbyterian Church.
Mrs. Parkhurst had been patiently col
lecting them for thirty years, and sold
them because the. Parkhursts recently
moved to a smaller house, where there
was no room for the stamps.
Thirty years ago Mrs. Parkhurst read
an advertisement which offered free tut
ton for Chinese lad at an American
institution of learning in exchange for
1,O0O,0 900 Cancelled stamps. Mrs. Park
hurst began to collect them with great
diligence. but when she had million
she could find no place where they might
be exchanged for college days for a
celestial. So she just went on saving
them.
Evening star., 1912-11-09
NINE KILLED IN COLLISION.
Railway Wreck Caused by Misun'
derstanding of Signals.

CARTEESvILLE, Ga. November O.
Nine men are known to have been
killed and fifteen others injured in a
head-on collision between a Louisville
and Nashville freight train and a work
train at Emerson. near here, late yes
terday afternoon.
A. b. Baker and b. Blankenship. fore
man and assistant foreman of the work
gang. respectively. were among the
dead. The others were colored.
The wreck Is said to have been due
to a misunderstanding of signals. 1t
will be some hours before the tracks
are cleared OF the wreckage. and IL is
expected the bodies of other negro
workmen may be found in the debris.
Evening star., 1912-11-09
PROVE TO BE GILT-EDGED.
Penciled Memoranda of Debts, Rep
resenting Loans BY Cattleman.

KANSAS CITY. Mo-, November 9.-An
administrators report of the estate OF
J. X. Zimmerman, a cattleman of Waco,
Tex, who died In Excelsior Springs, Mo-.
October 6. filed in the probate court here
today values the estate at $1.14O, ,245 Ad-
m nistrators foun dthat $260tOOO of this
amount represented loans to Texas cat
tlemen in sums OF $1,000 to 5000. OF
which the only record kept was pen
ciled notation on a slip of paper. All
were found to be gilt edged.
Mr.. Zimmerman. died intestate. He was
buried in his Old home, in Hanover, Pa.
He was unmarried and often had told
friends he never would make will, be-
cause Of a superstition that once a will
is made death Of the maker follows soon.
Several probable Zimmerman heirs have
been located. among them Mrs. Emma
Chance Of Kewanee, III.
Evening star., 1912-11-09
SHIP FAST TAKES WATER.
May Be Impossible to Save Liner
Royal George.

QUEBEC, November 8. = The liner
Royal George, stranded since Wednesday
night on the rocks of the st. Lawrence.
was taking water fast today, and may
be impossible Of rescue. Word came from
her captain this forenoon that she was
leaking worse; that one hold was filled
with water. and that water had swept
through in great quantities to the boiler
house and all the tanks.
Efforts to extricate the ship have not
been abandoned, however. Two tugs
alongside today waited the advent OF
high tide to try again to pull her clear
Throughout the night lighters worked re-
moving the cargo.
Today and tonight, it is believed. the
remainder of the cargo will be taken on
and if today's effort to float her Is un-
successful it will be repeated at high tide
tomorrow.
Evening star., 1912-11-09
Resigned to Take Rest.

The missing man had been employed Al
the Treasury Department since 1871. He
resigned October 3. after he had told his
daughter, Mrs. Emma Perry of this city,
that he intended to rest for a year. He
declared he expected to resume his posi-
ton. after taking a twelve-month rest.
1t was learned that Mr. Gangewer drew
$50 from a bank Saturday, but it is moi
known how much money he had with him
Sunday. Mrs. Phelps said she thought
he had considerable sum, and 1t was
suggested that possibly he had met with
foul play and been robbed.
Mrs. Phelps said Mr.. Gangewer had
spoken recently of going to Philadelphia
to visit relatives. Whether or not he is
in the Quaker city has not been learned
Mr.. Gangewer is described as being
about ) feet ) inches tall. and weighing
about lbs pounds. When last seen he
wore a black suit and overcoat and 9
black derby hat. A description of him
has been sent to all of the police in the
District, with instructions to look out foI
him.
Evening star., 1912-11-09
Decline to Discuss Basis.

None OF the promoters will discuss the
probable basis upon which the stock OF
the railway concern will be traded In for
the securities OF the holding company.
IL Is announced, however, that the de-
tails of the trade will be made public
when the corporal on commission of Nir-
sinia Is asked to approve the transaction.
Statements by the promoters to the ef-
feet that absorption OF local utilities is
not contemplated at the present time have
not resulted in lessening the activi les 81
District officials toward the end OF being
prepared to oppose il court any attempt
at a merger of Washingtons public
service corporations prior to the creation
of a public utilities commission.
Evening star., 1912-11-09
Service Is the Keynote Of
Modern Store Keeping

No realizes appreciates this fully than the
woman who has acquired the habit OF reading THE STARS
saving opportunities presented by its advertisers.
Service the attractive and convenient stores
comprehensive stocks the reliable and fashionable
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following the advertisements in THE STAR regularly and
thoroughly every day.
Another big the exceptional offerings that ap
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everything you require for and for home comfort
remarkably low prices Learn the lesson thousands of THE
STARS readers already know: that you only profit by
all the best bargains by closely and constantly reading all the
ads in THE STAR
Copyright
Evening star., 1912-11-09
EUROPE |SFAC|NG
GRAVE SITUATION
Continued from First Page.)

net met today at the palace of the Ely
see with President Fallieres. Premier
Poincare read the latest dispatches re-
ceived from the French ambassador at
ST. Petersburg, Vienna and other capi-
tails, which led to a long discussion.
Nothing of what occurred at the cabinet
0uncil was made public.
Serious disorders are reported to have
broken out in Constantinople, where
kurd soldiers are said to be killing
Christians in the Galata quarter, ac-
cording to special dispatch from Bucha-
rest. Roumania, published by the Paris
Midi under reserve Some buildings of
the Turkish, capital are said to have been
on
Evening star., 1912-11-09
CLASSED AS "STEERER." :"
Charles Bradford Arrested in Con-
nection With Alleged Swindle.

NEW YORK. November 9.-Another ar
Test was made early today in connection
with the wire-tapping swindle exposed by
X. C. Sudbury, the young Wilmington, ~
G.. lawyer. who recently lost SO. 900 In an
alleged pooiroom here. The man arrest
ed today gave his name as Charles Brad
ford, fifty years old.
He Is charged by the police with being
PIE "steerer'' who persuaded Sudbury to
Eome to New York.
Evening star., 1912-11-09
Hodges Leads in Kansas.

TOPEKA. Kan. November 9.-EarIv
returns today failed to settle the contest
for the Kansas governorship. The latest
table gives Hodges. democrat. a lead of
AS over Capper. republican. About sixty
OF the counties have sent in Official ag-
ures.
The socialist vote ran above 10000
about 10000 more than ever before. Ben
Wilson. socialist. was elected to the
legislature from Crawford county.
Evening star., 1912-11-09
LEPER WAITS ON COAST.
Former Mess Attendant on C0nnecti
cut to Be Taken to Hawaii.

VALLEJO, Cal. November 9.-Suffer-
ing from !eprosy in an advanced stage, a
Hawaiian mess attendant named Kaolwf
Is confined in a tent near the Mare Is
land navy yard hospital. awaiting the
departure of a transport on which he will.
be taken TO the lepers' colony in the Ha-
waiian Islands.
kaolwi was mess attendant on the bat
tleship Connecticut. and after he was dis
covered suffering from the malady he
was placed in boXcar and brought
across the continent.
Evening star., 1912-11-09
WILL NOT CHANGE PLEAS.
Rumor Regarding Rosenthal Case
Gunmen Is Denied.

NEW YORK, November "a rumor
was persistent in and about the criminal
courts building today that the four gun
men indicted for shooting down Herman
Rosenthal desired to withdraw Their pleas
of not guilty and enter pleas to murder in
the second degree.
Their counsel denied, however. that any
such move was contemplated. and Dis
trict Attorney Whitman would make no
comment. The prisoners themselves,
Lefty Louie" Whitley" Lewis, "Dago
Frank" and .'Gyp the Blood had moth
ing to say. There was no court SESSION
today.
The selection of the jurors, five of
whom had been chosen yesterday, will be
resumed Monday.
Evening star., 1912-11-09
TYPHUS VACCINE SUCCESS.
But Few Cases Of Fever Among Men
in the Army,

Medical officers are much gratified with
the continued success of anti-typhoid vac
cination in the army. Records show that
among the 5000 troops in the United
States there have been during the past
ten months but twelve cases of typhoid
and only two deaths.
Most OF these cases were among re-
cruits who had not received the treat
ment and of the deaths one was an
officer and the other a recruit, who had
not been innoculated with the anti-ty-
phoid prophylactic.
Evening star., 1912-11-09
FACULTY MEMBERS RESIGN.
Differences at Fordham University
Over Policies of Administration.

NEW YORK, November 9.-Announce-
ment is made at Fordham University Of
the resignation of Dean James J. Walsh
of the medical school, together with some
twelve or fifteen other professors and
members Of the faculty.
The designations are the result of a
disagreement over policies of admins
tration. A conference of students is to
be held to determine what action the
undergraduates shall take in the matter
Evening star., 1912-11-09
SUFFRAGISTS TO CELEBRATE.
New York Women Pleased With Vic
tory in Four States.

NEW YORK, November 9.-The New
York advocates of votes for women will
tonight celebrate the woman suffrage
Victories in Kansas. Arizona, Michigan
and Oregon torch light parade of
S,Ub women marching four abreast
down 9Th avenue to the music of fifty
brass bands is the plan. All the march
ers vii be decorated with the suffrage
insignia and most OF them will wear
specially designed uniform, costing 81
cents.
The man marchers. who are expected
to number several thousands, will wear
yellow chrysanthemums and carry flags
inscribed with suitable slogans
Evening star., 1912-11-09
One Dead in Train Wreck.

PARIS, KY, November 9.-Engineer
James Lemon Of Coving.on. KY, was
killed, Fireman James Hanley of Gym
thiana, KY, probably fatally injured and
another trainmen badly hurt when a
Louisville and Nashville passenger train
bound from Jacksonville, Fla, to Cincin-
natl ran into an open switch near here.
The engine was overturned, but the pas
senger coaches remained on the rails.
Evening star., 1912-11-09
HUGE LAKE SHIP LAUNCHED.
Largest Passenger Vessel Ever Built
for Inland Service.

DETROIT, November 9.-The sidewheel
steamer Gee and Bee of the Cleveland
and Buffalo Transit Company, the largest
passenger boat ever built for service on
the great lakes. was successfully launch
ed today at Wyandotte.
...iss Eleanor Moodey of Painesville.
Ohio daughter Of an official of the tran
sit company, was the sponsor. The new
vessel is 500 feet long and has a hull
beam of IS feet. The boat is to be ope. at
cd between Cleveland and Buffalo, and is
expected to be ready for COMMISSION
July l.
Evening star., 1912-11-09
Activity of Corporation Counsel.

Corporation Counsel h. ii. Thomas 10
at work on bill which may be filed in
the Supreme Court of the District OF
Columbia within the next few days. Ii
is not known to what extent the Depart
ment of Justice may be cooperating with
the local officials i'm the matter, but il
is believed that the department is assist
ing at least to the extent of offering its
advice.
Evening star., 1912-11-09
HARVARD AGAIN WINNER.
Its Team Defeats Yale in Cross.
Country Run,

BOSTON. November 9.-The Harvard
cross-country team continued its victories
today by defeating Yale in a five-mile
race over the Chestnut Hill course by a
score of 10 to 80. The entire Harvard
team, which won from Cornell last week,
finished before the Yale men.
+. w. Copeland of Harvard led the
field in 81 minutes and 45 seconds, or ]
minute and 3 seconds better than H.
Jaques' record for the course iast year.
The Yale freshmen defeated the Har-
ward freshmen over the same course by
score of 25 to 81.
Evening star., 1912-11-09
MAY BLANKET MACHNISTS.
Recommendation to President That
They Be Paced Under Civil Service.

Recommendation that the machinists in
the government navy yards be placed un-
der civil service is made in a report SUBJ
mitted today to the Secretary Of the
Navy by the commandants of the va
rious yards. who met here recently to
discuss that question. as also others Of
navy yard administration. The COM
mandants were unanimous in their rec
ommendation. The Secretary of the
Navy probably will recommend to Presi-
dent Taft that the commandants' deci-
sion be made operative.
Evening star., 1912-11-09
URGES WOMAN FOR CABINET.
Advice to Wilson Of a Leading Suf'
fraoist of California.

LOS ANGELES, Cal. November o.
Mrs. Clara Shortridge Foltz. attorney
and leading suffragist Of California. yes
terday sent to President-to-be Wilson the
following telegram:
Accept my congratulations. In max
ing up your cabinet please consider the
women of the ten suffrage states. AS a
member Of your cabinet a wise, scholarly
woman would bring to your council great
assistance for the universal good of the
people,
Evening star., 1912-11-09
Heavy Losses Reported.

USKUP, Turkey, November 9-The bat
tie that resulted in the capture of the
Turkish city of Prilip (or Perlepo) by the
Servian troops was one of the most Sc
we're that has been fought on this side
of the Balkan peninsula. The Servians
lost $500 killed and wounded, while the
Turks suffered 5000 casualties. The bat
tlefield is still covered with corpses.
Owing to the broken nature of the
country and the poor railroad communi-
cation, the members of the Red Cross
Society are encountering the greatest
difficulty in dealing with the wounded.
The fall of the Turkish stronghold of
Monastir, which is now being attacked
by Servlan and Greek columns, Is eX-
pected hourly.
Attitude of Servia.
BELGRADE, Servia, November o.
"The League of the Balkan Nations is ut
terly opposed to making Albania an au-
tonomous state, as desired by Germany,
ustria-Hungary and Ita.y," said Pre-
mier Pachiten Of Seryia, in the course of
an interview here today.
The premier laid emphasis on the fact
that the allied Balkan states were work.
ing in harmony on all questions. He de-
cared that they demanded the complete
disappearance of the sovereignty OF the
sultan from European Turkey, and the
division of the territory among the VIC
torious nations belonging to the Balkan
league.
The partition of Turkish territory, he
said, had already been arranged along
broad lines by the allies. the on y ques-
ton left open for discussion being those
relating to the destiny of Constantinop.e,
Saloniki and the Dardanelles.
The fate of Constantinople and the Dar-
danelles, said the premier, would be left
AS for Saloniki, however, the Balkan
allies had not yet reached an agreement
as to who was to have 1t.
Will Maintain Order.
PARIS. November 9.-Kiamil Pasha,
the Turkish grand vizier, has informed
the foreign ambassadors in CONSTANT
nople that he will maintain order there
until the end. If, however. the Turkish
capital should be occupied by the in
vaders the grand viz.er declared that
he could not be answerable for what
the evaporation Of the population
might lead to. Anything that might
happen then would be on the conscience
of Europe, he said.
According 20 special dispatch to the
Matin the grand vizier said:
DO not think that either I or the
sultan will ever abandon CONSTANT
nople. My sovereign will await death
In his palace and ! in my Office"
minister for foreign affairs, according
to another special dispatch from Con-
stantinople, is directing affairs there
with singular tenacity and devotion, In
spite OF his eighty-five years. He ap-
~ a rl f< hn y,,Ry. .ut.
population of the Turkish capital. For
eleven days he has not left his Office.
Evening star., 1912-11-09
GRATEFUL TO THIS COUNTRY.
Citizens in Nicaragua Appreciative
of Aid Given.

The State Department has received
through the Navy Department. a copy
Of a letter sent to Admiral Southerland
commander-in-chief Of the Pacific feet
at Corinto. Nicaragua, by certain citizens
OF Nicaragua. expressing their sincere
gratitude to the United States govern.
ment and its military representatives In
Nicaragua for the part taken by them
In the suppression Of the recent rebel.
lion.
Evening star., 1912-11-09
Covington Fire Loss 500, 600.

COvINGTON. KY. November 9.-Fire
beick building housing the Kentucky
early today destroyed the three-story
bourbon DistiIling Company, the Park
Gilmore Chemical Company and the Ken
lucky Pharmaceutical Company, at IL tc
is East Pike street, this city. causing a
loss estimated at 100000
Evening star., 1912-11-09
Washington Boy Wins for Cornell.

PHILADELPHIA, November 9.-Cor-
country run from Pennsylvania by the
score of % to ~. The race was 514 miles
through Fairmount Park, and John Paul
Jones of Washington, D. c., the individ-
ual winner, covered the distance in 81
minutes, 23 seconds. establishing a new
record for the course. The former time
was 2749, made by Berna of Cornell.
Evening star., 1912-11-09
Women to Serve on Kansas Juries

WICHITA. Kan. November 9.-As re-
suit of the adoption of the equal suffrage
amendment In the state woman jurors
will be drawn in the district court here
for the January term, court officials an
nounced yesterday. The amendment be-
comes operative at once
Evening star., 1912-11-09
UNDERWOOD
8 UNDERWOOD 6
OTHER hoTos @lNTeRNAr,ohAL News Seev

adopting every precaution for public
security, and numerous preventive ar
rests already have been made, while all
fugitive soldiers are being stopped at the
outskirts of the city.
1t is stated here that one of the Euro
pean powers is encouraging the porte to
resist to the end, representing that the
forts of Tchatalja are capable of turning
the war to the advantage of Turkey.
Evening star., 1912-11-09
FUNERAL OF DIR. FLETCHER.
Services at st. Thomas Church Mon.
day Morning.

Funeral services for DIR. Robert
Fletcher. for many years employed in
the library of the surgeon general of
the army, who died yesterday at the
Evening star., 1912-11-09
Turks Claim a Victory
in Fight at AdrianopIe

CONSTANTINOPLE,N November 9.-The
Turkish garrison of Adrianople claims to
have inflicted a severe defeat on the Bu,-
garians in two-day battle on the west
front OF the fortress in the vicinity of
Maras.
An official report dated November 8.
has been received from the civil gov
ernor OF Adrianople in which he says
the battle began at O'Clock the morning
OF November and continued without
cessation eleven hours. After half an
hours pause fighting was resumed with
renewed vigor and lasted all night and
the whole Of the next day until nightfall
OF November s.
The Turkish report says the Turkish
troops attacked with fixed bayonets and
compelled the Bulgarians to retire, leay-
ing several hundred rifles and quantity
OF ammunition on the field.
Says Bulgarians Were Repulsed.
All along the western front, the report
continues. the Turkish guns have silenced
the Bulgarian batteries. while on the
southern front the Bulgarians, after sus-
tanning heavy losses near Mount Kartal
We're driven to the west Of that hill The
report concludes:
This bloody battle. lasting thirty-six
hours, will go down as one of the most
brilliant feats Of arms in Ottoman his
tory"
The authorities Of constantinople are
Evening star., 1912-11-09
Stimson in Army Race.

Secretary Stimson will take part In an
army obstacle race at Fort Myer this
afternoon. He Is good horseman and is
expected to make a creditable record.
Evening star., 1912-11-09
Reelection Costs Mann $2,465.

It cost Representative James r. Mann
OF Illinois. minority leader Of the House.
$2485 to be reelected last Tuesday. ac-
cording to a report he has just filed with
the clerk Of the House. His was among
the first Of the final expense accounts to
be reported.
Evening star., 1912-11-09
Keyser Elected to Gridiron Club.

Charles e. keyser, Washington corre-
spondent Of the st. Louis Globe-Demo-
crat. was today elected member OF the
Gridiron Club. Mr.. Keyser has been con-
nected with Washington Journalism Tor
about six years.
Evening star., 1912-11-09
Wilson Refers to Discussion of
an Extra Session.
NOT ANNOUNCING PURPOSE
Pronounces Views every Useful and
Important, Indeed"
ADMITS DEBT TO THE PRESS
Calls Claim That Country Opposes
Tariff Revision Because He Got
Minority Vote Queer Reasoning.

PRINCETON. y. J.. November every
useful and important. indeed" was the
comment which Pres.dent-to-be Woodrow
Wilson made today on the array of edi-
torials. statements and declarations from
prominent persons being published in
various newspapers advocating or oppos-
ing an extra session of Congress to re-
wise the tariff
Are YOU going to take all these clip
s,nss with you on your vacation he
was asked.
His Debt to the Press.
oh, no. replied the governor. I've
read them already. The newspapers cer-
tainly are helping ma in my listening
policy"
The attention of Mr.. Wilson was di-
rected to an argument in an editorial
that inasmuoh as he had not received
majority of the popular vote and that
since both the republican and progressive
parties favored a policy OF protection,
therefore the country had voted against
tariff revision.
That's queer reasoning" remarked the
pres,dent-elect ''They overlook the fact
that many state legislatures went demo-
ratio, which means democratic senators.
and likewise that there were great
Hluibef VI utliotldt4S SoHSiSooHich
elected
Prefers Mr.. Wilson.
Mr. Wilson looked over his mail today
and found that there were seven different
ways that people We're addressing him.
First, there was .President-elect Wilson,
then Gov. Wilson," also DIR. Wilson
and prof. Wilson, for his one-time uni
versity connection: then there were His
Excellency President Wilson,, and His
Excellency Gov. Wilson," Last. but best
liked of all by him, was plain Mr.. Wood
row wilson
Il would rather be called Mr.. Wilson
than anything else he said today.
.President-elect is too awkward a mouth
fii. / wish my friends would use mister
i'll addressing me-"
Called Woodrow in Princeton.
In Princeton, however, some of his
classmates call him Woodrow and so
do the people in town and the students
OF the university. Not infrequentiy one
heard during the last few days I'm
glad Woodrow won out In his house
hold Mrs. Wilson calls him Woodrow"
Joseph II. Wilson calls him Brother
and one of his daughters calls him
Father
This completes the list of names by
which Woodrow Wilson finds himself ad-
dressed every day.
Mr.. Wilson planned to see New York
University and Princeton play foot ball
here today.
Mrs Wilson went to New York today
to do some shopping.