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Evening star., 1916-11-23
NEW D. c. JUSTICE
SWORN IN TODAY
Members of Bench and Bar
Join in Welcoming VIII
liam Hitz.
BEGINS DUTIES TUESDAY

William Hitz, a native of Washing.
ton and member of the District bar
was elevated to the bench of the Su.
preme Court of the District of Colum-
bia today. The oath of office was ad.
ministered by Chief Justice Covington
in his chambers at the Emery building
shortly after 10 o'clock. Congratula-
tions were then extended by the mem
bers Of the court and a large number
of lawyers and friends of the new
jurist-
At the close Of the simple ceremony
OF administering the oath Chief Justice
Covington was the first to extend felic.
itationS.
Evening star., 1916-11-23
Conservation of Paper

Every citizen is called upon to see
that not pound Of paper is wasted.
Demand from every clerk that any
unnecessary wrapping of packages
be dispensed with.
II you have no further use for to-
days newspaper save it for the
school children's playground fund.
Cali Main 6036 and ask for the
nearest public school to your home
and the old papers will be sent for.
Evening star., 1916-11-23
Want Naval Training Station.

Residents of Norfolk and vicinity
have asked the Navy Department to
purchase the site of the jamestown
exposition and adjoining available land
for the establishment OF an advanced
base and naval training station. as a
means of relieving the present over
crowded condition of the navy yard at
portsmouth, opposite Norfolk The
property is offered the government for
81, 800, 900. which the officials of the de-
nsrtment regard as somewhat excess
Siye.
Evening star., 1916-11-23
Decision Wanted by January l.

The department officials continued to-
day to express the hope that decision
could be had in 4 test case from the
supreme Court before January l, when
the law becomes effective.
Charles Henry Butler. for fourteen
wears reporter of the Supreme Court.
and who recently resigned, when asked
the quickest period of review OF any
case in the Supreme Court, said that
so far as he could remember 1t was IN
the case of E. H. Hartman against
the Northern Securities Company to
restrain distribution of the Union Ia
cific stock.
The case was unsuccessful in the cir
cult court of appeals, where Judgment
was entered January 3, 1905. Hartman
immediately asked for writ OF certlorari,
which the Supreme Court granted Janu-
ary 30. 1906, on which day it adjourned
for the usual three week February re-
cess, but il set the case down to be
heard Immediately after recess. IT was
argued March /, 1905. and decided March
6, 1905.
In this case Chief Justice Fuller an
nounced the decision of the court and
stated that in view OF the Importance of
decision affirming the crciuit court of
appeals. bur that the opinion would be
delivered later The opinion was not
delivered until four weeks after the de-
cision was announced. Mr.. Butler said
that so far as he could remember that
was the only case advanced, argued inn
mediately and "A decision announced with
out waiting for preparation of an opinion
during his term.
Evening star., 1916-11-23
FRIGHT" Of PURSUIT CUT
FROM MEXICAN PACT
American Representatives Agree to
Elimination Because Object Can Be
Accomplished Another Way.

BY the Associated Press
ATLANTIC CITY, y. J., November
23.-Whcn the Observation-Disclosures joint
commission convened today il appeared
evident that the Americans were WILL
ing to meet the MeXicans half way in
phrasing the proposals made Tuesday
SO that the Mexicans would feel justi-
fed in agreeing to them. 1t has been
indicated that the Americans were con-
tent to have eliminated from the official
document reference to the right of the
American government to send troops
into Mexico. 1t was understood that
the chief objections of the Mexicans
was to such provision.
1t was pointed out that the suggest
ed alteration would not change ma
terially the real meaning of the pro-
gram submitted to the Mexican COM
missioners, but would save them the
humiliation of signing a document in
which there appeared the formal con-
sent of the Mexican government for
the violation of its territory by troops
of the United States.
Evening star., 1916-11-23
U-B0AT TROUBLES
MAY Be IMPENDING
Berlin Hints Possibility of
Period Of Complications With
United States.
TEN SHIP LOSS INQUIRIES


By the Associated Press.
BERLIN, Tuesday, November Il, by
wireless to the Associated Press via
Sayville, \. Y. November ga period
of complications may again be impend-
ing in German American relations.
Germany's conduct of. submarine war
fare has brought forth an abundant
crop of American inquiries. of which
Joseph G. Grew. the American charge,
recently has filed no less than ten,
five of them today. Six remain to be
answered, including the cases Of the
Marina on which number of Ameri-
cans appeared to be killed, and the liner
Ara bia, the sinking of which the Ameri-
can government declares to be incon-
sistent with the promises of the Ger
man government regarding the treat
ment of passenger lines.
The United States bases its attitude in
the case of the Arabia on the assump-
ton that it was unarmed and torpedoed
without warning and is unable to see
that there was justification for forcing
the passengers into the boats. Wash
ington believes the submarine COM
mander on ascertaining that there
were women and children on the decks,
should have rcfrained from making an
attack.
Evening star., 1916-11-23
Noted Cartoonist Dies.

DAYTON, Ohio, November 23.-De
Voss Woodward Driscoll, aged forty
three, we'll known cartoonist. died at
a local hospital last night. He had
been i'll about one month. Driscoll
originated the mule Maud cartoons.
He was also feature writer as we'll
as an author of humorous verse;
Evening star., 1916-11-23
Can Obtain Object Otherwise.

Little would be added to the strength
of the agreement, it was suggested, by
forcing the Mexicans to sign docu-
ment in which there actually was con-
ceded the right of the American gov
ernment to unlimited and unrestricted
pursuit of bandits in Mexico while the
same object could be accomplished if
that point were not mentioned in the
formal agreement.
With that feature eliminated there
would remain little more than the
agreement for the withdrawal of Amer
lean troops now in Mexico and the
provision that the armies of the two
countries should guard their respective
frontiers. The question of crossing
into Mexico in event of future raids
will not. however, be one of doubt for
the Mexicans, who have been informed
that this government VIII not hesitate
to pursue raiders across the border
line into Mexico and as far as 1t ap-
pears necessary to go.
DIR. J. Mott of the American commits
sion is expected to return tonight from
Cleveland The commissioners ex-
pressed the hope that the official agree
ment might be ready for signing when
he appeared in the session tomorrow.
Evening star., 1916-11-23
Arrested as Soup Poisoner.

SpALDING, Neb.. November ga
man who, the town marshal believes.
answers the description of Jean Crones,
wanted in Chicago on charges of hav-
ing poisoned soup served at banquet
rendered there in honor of Archbishop
MundeIein, is under arrest here. About
200 persons attended the Chicago BAN
quet, and most of them were made i'll.
Crones - accused OF having poisoned
the sous n 1ustherance of anarchistic
iaoAA
Evening star., 1916-11-23
Miss Rankin Spent $687 20.

HELENA, Mont. November 23.-Miss
Jeanette Rankin of Missoula, who was
elected to Congress on the republican
ticket November Z, spent $Ss7.70 on her
campaign, according to her expense ac-
count on file today at the Office of the
secretary of state.
Evening star., 1916-11-23
To Arrange for Veterans Camp.

Brig. Gen. AbieI l.. Smith of the
ouartermaster Corps has been ordered
to visit Vicksburg, Miss. to arrange
for the camp TO be held there next year
for federal veterans of the civil war.
Evening star., 1916-11-23
Danube Eliminated as Defense.

There is a possibility also. according
to the same authority. that the Ru-
manians will not be able to get away
through the region to the south of the
railroad. 1t eliminates the Danube as
the southern defense of this part of
Rumania, and. if followed up. turns the
northern mountain defenses of Ru-
mania, which the Rumanians have been
endeavoring SO stubbornly to hold;
gives Gen. Won Falkenhayn an oppor-
tunity for open field strategy and the
tactical handling of troops, and sup
plies his forces. which heretofore have
been dependent for their communica- :
tions on narrow roads through Szurduk
pass. with one good railway from the
Iron Gates of the Danube. and, with the
fall of Craiova, with a second line. run
ming from kalafatu, opposite the Bull
garian town of Eidin.
Evening star., 1916-11-23
Germans Overrunning Western
WaIIachia, Latest Battle
Reports Would Indicate.
EXTENDING THEIR FRONT
IN DIRECTION OF ORS0VA
Many Obstacles Surmounted by Won
Falkenhayn in Swift and Unre-
lenting Campaign.

BY tiaa Associated Press.
LONDON, November 23.-Latest re-
ports of the vigorous campaign Gen.
Won Falkenhayn is waging against the
Rumanians indicate that the Teutonic
forces are overrunning western Wal
l4chia. following up sharply their de-
.eat of the Rumaniaus in the jul val
ley region and the capture of Craiova.
Russian reinforcements have arrived
on the Transylvanian front, the Berlin
war office reports.
The Rumanian troops in the jul VAL
ley, in western Wallachia, have been
withdrawn and now occupy their old
positions, the Bucharest war office an
nounced today
Berlin reports progress for the Aus
tro-German armies that are extending
the Teutouic front westward from the
jul region toward Orsova. The fate of
the Rumanian army that was operat-
ing in the Orsova region yet remains
in doubt as does the extent to which
the Russo-Rumanian forces in the jul
valley were able to withstand the'swift
southwark thrust of Won Falkenhayn's s
troops.
Evening star., 1916-11-23
SAYS TWO U-B0ATS
FREEDOM BRITANNIA
But One Torpedo Took Effect.
Order on Vessel
Perfect.
v0 WOUNDED ABOARD

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON. November 23.-Press dis
patches from Athens saying there were
no wounded on board the hospital ship
Britannia when it was sunk off the Greek
coast were confirmed today by the ad-
miralty, which made the following an
nouncement:
NO wounded were aboard the Britain
mic, on which there were only the ship s
crew and the hospital staff"
According to an Athens dispatch to
the Daily Chronicle. survivors of the
Britannia believe that two German sub
marines were lying in wait for the
steamship in the narrow seas close to
the island. The Britannia was attacked
from both sides simultaneously. each
submarine sending a single torpedo.
One of these missed the mark, but the
other inflicted a square hit.
Evening star., 1916-11-23

generally, that the importance of the
victory which places Won Falkenhayns
legions in battle order on the sweeping
plains of Rumania Is only beginning
to be realized in lay circles. According
TO the military experts, it turns at one
sweep all western Wallachia over TO
the invaders and makes the position OF
the Rumanians IN the Orsova region
virtually untenable.
Evening star., 1916-11-23
CHAIRMAN EXPECTED
TOBE NAMED SOON
No Further Delay Anticipated
in Selecting Head of In
auguraI Committee.
IN HANDS OF MCCORMICK

Expectation that the inaugural chair
man will be named without further de-
lay, now that President Wilson has let
it be known that he intends to turn
i this matter over to Vance Mccormick.
chairman of the democratic national
committee, was freely expressed by
party leaders and business men gen
/ orally here today.
Messages from New York said that
/ Chairman Mccormick has been out of
the city for several days. but is to
/, return tonight. He is known to be
seriously considering the question Of
the inaugural chairman, and his po-
litical consultants say some dehnite
statement may soon be expected from
him. 1t is known that both at the
White House and at Mr.. Mccormick s
| offices there has been a reluctance to
take any official action in this matter
until a message of congratulatlon was
/ received from Mr.. Hughes.
Nav Be Settled in Day or Two.
! II is understood that within day or
! two. now that Mr.. Hughes has recognized
/ President Wilson's reelection, soRe def
! mite agreement vino will be the inau-
g,iral chairman will be reached, so that
| the organized democracy of the District
may know where it stands and that tenta-
! tive plans for the inaugural celebration
may be made
! That some big social entertainment for
! the 1900 visitors expected here for
! the inaugural festivities can be arranged
/ is the confident belief not only of the
Iarty leaders. but also of the banking and
/ business interests. Out Of Difference to
! the wishes Of the President as expressed
/ AT the last inauguration, and in recogni
tion of unprecedented state Of interna-
/ tional affairs something In the nature OF
/ d public reception. a promenade OF on1-
/ cial assemblage may be substituted for
| the time -honored inaugural ball. The Dis
| trict leaders are still hopeful. however.
| recognize his participation at a ball to be
AN official act, in courtesy to the wishes
! of the citizens Of the capital as a crown
. ing feature of the celebration of welcome
to the people from all over the country.
Temporary Structure Planned.
| If the inaugural bali, or reception. or
assemblage. is held it is practically as
sured that it will not be in any gov
ernment building where the regular
| working force Of any government de-
partment would be thrown out of their
Offices temporary structure to
planned. Arrangements will be made
for heating this and lighting it on a
| scale never before attempted.
Several sites for such a structure
have been seriously considered. and
one in particular that could be ad.
| vantageously used and fitted out in a
| remarkably elaborate style with com
| raratively small expense. II this site
is used the question of heating and
i lighting would be solved and the Presi.
dents participation be carried out will,
the utmost dignity and even grandeur
Until there is positive announcement
regarding the inaugural chairman and
he has had opportunity to consult
with the President nothing further car
be done IN this matter.
Evening star., 1916-11-23
Order Aboard Is Perfect.

| Order aboard the steamer was perfect,
| nurses, officers and men lined up on the
deck showed excellent discipline. Thirty
or forty members Of the crew who were
wounded by the explosion first received
attention. The women were saved first,
| then some of the crew donned life belts
| and took to the water.
| Wireless messages Immediately were
sent in all directions calling for help
| and allied destrcyers and sweepers ar
| rived quickly.
One of the rescued steNariesses, the
dispatch says, also was a survivor Of
1 the Titanic. She was an eyewitness
to the unfortunate attempt to launch
the first two Of the Britannica boats
which became entangled in the screw.
Owing to the list of the steamer the
screw was out of the water and re-
volving rapidly. The loaded boats ~era
smashed like matchwood and many OF
the occupants were Killed outright
| others were severely wounded.
| Survivors were landed at Phaleron.
Piraeus and Keratsini. During the night
the British minister. Sir F. f. II. Elliot,
visited the wounded at the Russian
| Hospital.
Sinks in Fifty-Five Minutes.
| The Daily News Athens correspon-
dent sends the following concerning
the sinking of the Britannia:
| The Britannia was torpedoed t
o'clock in the morning and sank near
| shore ffty-fve minutes later. She was
! going to Saloniki. but had no wounded
on board
| Her complement included 121 nurses
and 800 officers and men of the Army
Medical Corps. Twenty-Five of the in
jured from the steamer are now in the
| Russian hospital, while others are aboard
allied warships.
1.-THE islanders of Zea saw the vessel
sinking and the victims struggling in the
waves and promptly responded to the ap-
peals for help and an Anglo French
squadron from Piraeus, comprised Of de-
stroyers and auxiliarfes, Immediately went
| to the scene.
| Some Severely Injured.
"The injuries Of some of those on board
! are very severe, especially the occupants
of two boats which were caught by the
| propellers of the steamer. The women
of Zea tore up their clothing to bandage
the injured.
! THE Britannia had 1900 beds which
sick and wounded an hour prior to the
torpedoing''
| The smallness of the loss OF life on
board the Britannia Is beiieved here
| to have been due to the steamers mag
nificent life-saving equipment. She
| had u double bottom, over five feet
! deep. divided into Il large number of
compa rtments, and this system extend
| ed well above her water line.
| The ship carried forty-eight of the
| largest size lifeboats ever fitted to an
| ocean liner two of them being equip
ped with powerful engines. They were
| arranged in four groups, leaving a
large space for the marshaling of the
! passengers in case of disaster. The
davits were built on a new principle.
40 that the boats could be launched
electrically on an even keel even II the
| ship were badly listing. 1t was also
possible to launch all the boats from
one side, if necessary.
| The ship had sixteen transverse
! bulkheads. and six of the main com
nartments could be flooded without at
| fecting the stability Of the ship.
Evening star., 1916-11-23
Pursuit Unrelenting.

So rapid and unrelenting was the
pursuit that November 1s the cavalry
had reached the Orsova-Craiova rail-
road line on a breadth of twelve miles
from Strehaia station to Filliash. an
important railroad junction. where the
line running north toward the noun
tain passes branches from the main
Bucharest line. The pursuing forces
of Gen. Falkenhayn continued to sweep
like a food down the valley, and now
have reached a point just outside Of
Orsova. one of the important towns of
Rumania.
SO unostentatiously have Gen. Won
f'aikenhayn's operations been conduct
ed and 50 little have the Rumanian
names meant to the reading public
Evening star., 1916-11-23
"cost Secondary Consideration"

In support of his contention that
'.the first consideration of the public is
to obtain transportation facilities" and
that "the cost is in reality second
consideration" Mr.. Thorn declared that
when a nationwide strike recently
threatened to tie up the railroads
business men would have been will
ing to pay almost anything to get their
Evening star., 1916-11-23
Welcomed by Chief Justice.

Mr.. Justice Hitz." he said, II con-
graduate you and am glad to have you
with us" The other members of the
bench then shook hands with their new
associate and were followed by Justice
Branueis of the United States Supreme
Court, who had been present at the
ceremony. After Assistant Attorney
General Thompson had congratulated
ms former associate of the Department
of Justice a long line of LAWYERS. clerks
and friends was formed and each shook
the hand OF Justice Hitz. The lawyers
were led by Attorney Frederic ID. Me
kenney and J. S. Flannery, former law
partners of Justice Hitz.
The off1ces of the chief Justice and of
Justlce stafford We're not large enough
to accommodate the crowd which bed
assembled to do honor to the new in.
rist- 1t was remarked that the out
pouring of the bar was evidence of
their appreciation of the action Of
PRESIDENT wilson in appointing Dis
Justice Hitz
Sits in General Term,
Justice Hitz, who succeeds ,be lar.
Justice Anderson, will take up the du-
Equity Division /. He is expected to
hold court next Tuesday. He sat, how
ever, with his associates in a general
term Immediately after the ceremony
this morning.
The new justice was born in Wash
ington and has lived here all of his
life, excepting few years spent in
Chevy Chase, Md. Former published
statements that Justice Hitz is a resi-
dent of Maryland are erroneous as he
resumed his residence in Washington
more than year ago, and his appoint
ment to the bench is wholly a local ap-
pointment.
Two huge baskets of roses and chrys-
anthemums were presented to Justice
Hitz and were placed upon the desk in
his chambers
Evening star., 1916-11-23
Battle of Tirgujiulij.

After a long silence imposed by the
direct wish of Gen. Falkenhayn. who
did not wish to have any hopes raised
by premature accounts of his opera
tions. descriptions of the momentous
victory of the Teutonic forces in the
battle Of Tirgujiulij, which broke the
resistance of the Russo Rumanian
armies in western Wallachia and open
ed the way TO the Rumanian plain, are
now available. The battle was fought
from November Is to Il, after the
German and Austro-Hungarian forces
in a week OF steady combats. had
forced their way from the submits Of
the mountains on the Eumaniau-
Transylvanian frontier TO the foot Of
the Alpine regions, mastering the
armored turrets Of the permanent
frontier fortifcations with big NOR
tars and breaking the Rumanian re-
siStance wherever il was encountered.
Elected from the wild. mountainous
regions to the rolling foothills beyond,
the Rumanians. who by now had re
ceived heavy Russian reinforcements,
elected to stand on the range of hills
running east and west and lying south
of Tirguiiulij. the first important
town south Of the mountain The posi-
tion was naturally strong, and heavy
fog enabled the Ruma mans TO take up
their positions unmolested by their
Evening star., 1916-11-23
Active on Danube.

Indications of the abandonment by the
Rumanians of a large section of west
ern Wallachia may be found in today's
announcement by the Bulgarian wal
Office. 1t reports the destruction by
Rumanian forces of the bridge over the
Danube near Corabia, fifty miles south
east of Craiova; the firing Of stores OF
ammunition there, and the sinking by
the Rumanians of their barges in the
Danube. presumably in the region lndi-
Gated.
In Dobrudja listless artillery fighting
occurred with engagements among ad-
vance guards on our right wing The
situation on the Black sea is reported
Unchanged.
Germans Meet Difficulties.
BERLIN. November %. by wireless to
Sayville.-The difficulties Of campaign
ing in mountainous districts on
the Rumanian-T n-Transylvanian border
through which the Austro-German
armies have been pushing in their
invasion of Rumania are depicted to-
day in an Overseas News Agency re-
view of the recent fighting. Recently
bitter cold has prevailed in the hill! re-
gion, where the fighting zone at some
points has been at n elevation as great
1900 feet, and the narrow pass roads
have been blocked with snow and ice.
At certain places where the invading
columns were advancing there was but
one such road available for troops and
the heavy equipment of artillery and
supplies needed to press the offensive
with only carts and automobiles a
means of transportation. Despite these
difficulties and the tenacious resistance
of the Rumanians. who are declared in
the review to have been aided by
civilians in guerrilla warfare, the
Austro-German armies stormed height
after height and steadily forced their
way forward. In eight days Gen
Falkenhayn's forces striking down to-
ward Craiova advanced no less than
ffty-fiye miles.
Evening star., 1916-11-23

Rain tonight. Tomorrow partly over
cast and colder; strong southerly
winds.
Temperature for twenty-four hours
ending pm: Highest. So. at pm.
today: lowest. 40. at IL pm. yesterday.
Full report on page 10.