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Evening star., 1917-03-23
LOOKS MUCH LIKE WAR,
SAYS SENATOR GALLINGER
Declares People Will Be as Ready
to Do Their Duty as at Any Sim
liar Call in the Past.

1T looks very much like war, and if
war comes the people of the United
States will be found as ready to do their
duty as they have been in any war of
the past said Senator Gallinger OF
New Hampshire, republican leader of
the Senate. today at his residence here.
Pending the meeting of Congress, Sena-
tor Gallinger added, nothing can be
said on the international situation by
mon who do not wish to exploit them
selves.
Senator GallinSer is making satsfac-
,o,.I nroeress toward full recovery
from The serious illness which overlook
him a week or more before the close of
the last Congress. He expects to be in
his seat in the Senate at the opening OF
the special session April :.
Evening star., 1917-03-23
Co-Operation With Allies.

The subject of financial cooperation
with the allies. which is expected first
to take on the form OF extension of
credits for supplies. is being discussed
in a tentative way, with the idea of
having a concrete plan ready when the
occasion for using it comes. officials
say consideration of the subject has
not advanced to stage where any
thing definite could be disclosed.
The question of cooperation on sup
plying munitions is understood to be
more pressing. 1t is understood that
the allied governments are fearful that
in preparing the American army and
navy for war operations the supply OF
munitions to the armies in France
might be decreased at vital moment
Plans are being considered for a CO.
operative distribution of output which
would be most effective.
Evening star., 1917-03-23
READY TO LEAVE VIENNA.
Ambassador Penfeld and Staff Have
Their Belongings Packed.

GENEVA. via Paris. March %, los
a.m.-Two American engineers who have
just arrived from Vienna after being de-
layed for fortnight at the frontier say
that United States Ambassador Penfield.
his staff and many American families
have packed their belongings and are
ready to leave the Austrian capital at
any moment.
The travellers say that Austrians gen
orally believe that war with America is
inevitable. but are not much concerned
at the prospect They added that food
was extremely dear. but could be obtained
at the hotels, the poorer classes, however.
suffering horribly.
Evening star., 1917-03-23
Consul Reports Sinking.

President Wilson received his first Of
ncial reports on the sinking of the
Healdton early today The news came
in cabled reports last night from
American Consul Mahin at Amsterdam,
after the President had retired.
The consul's dispatch follows:
STANDARD Oil ship Healdton. from
Philadelphia for Rotterdam. cargo oil.
torpedoed without warning S:l5 even
ing of 21st. twenty-five miles north of
Terschelling, Holland Twenty of crew
drowned One died of injuries. Others
ttaken) to north of Holland. Submarine
seen after torpedoing. More "details to
follow.
Later ward was received that thir
teen members of the crew have arrived
at Ymuiden. Holland They said the
steamer was sunk without warning in
the so-caIled safe zone, and express
cd the telief that nineteen men were
. drowned
The Healdton was insured by the
governments war risk bureau for
Ssa9. O0G.
The loss of the Healdton is the great
est yet sustained by the bureau. The
next largest was the loss of the steam =
er Illinois. insured for s25O.6Go.
Approximately 64,O00.000 in iusur-
ance has been issued by the bureau on
American ships and cargoes within the
lest thirty days. Much of this amount
has been issued since the restriction
against insurinG contra band was re
moved. Total profits 10 the bureau. 4
was said today. Gave approXimated
1000 900 since il first began business
in September. 1914. losses have totaled
about $1.000.000.
The increased demand for govern
ment insurance on American ships an''
cargoes to DelIigerent ports was main
tanned today. Another large number of
applications was received by mail and
telegraph.
Evening star., 1917-03-23
CHAMP CLARK SAYS
He WILL Be CHOSEN
Predicts His Reelection as
Speaker in One Hour. and
Forty Minutes.
EXPECTS l TO 5 MAJORITY

Char1p Clark reaching Washington
this morning and comforting with his
lieutensnts. who have been in tele-
sraphic correspondence with demo-
cratic and other members-elect of the
next House, wheeled around in his big
chair in his office and greeted the news
paper men.
"Welln" he asked, bluflly-
"How long will it take to organize the
House," was the counter question.
zone hour and forty minutes replied
Mr.. Clark.
"How do YOU figure that out?
".Just this way" said Mr.. Clark. TAX
ing a mad and pencil The chaplain
will take about ten minutes for prayer.
Then there will be a roll call. to devel-
Oh the attendance OF members. 1hal
will consume forty minutes.
after that, there will be NOMINATION
of candidates for Speaker of the House.
which should be confined to ten minutes
Next, a roll call on the election of Speak
er-another forty minutes
"Who Is to Be Electede I AM
"Who is going to be elected on that
call?''
81 am" replied Mr.. Clark. laconically.
II will have from one TO five majority.
he went on to say.
He will have eight" interposed Jerry
South, chief clerk of the House. who
was seated nearby.
and there is another thing l would
like to say continued Mr.. clark. u
wish YOU would make IL plain and clear
up a misapprehension which i have seen
printed several times. about the number
of votes required TO elect Speaker. A
quorum being present, il takes majority
of the votes cast to choose Speaker.
That's all there is to it. Of course.
Quorum will be present and the candidate
who receives a ma jorIry of the votes re-
corded will be the Speaker, and that set
ties it
what do you think Congress will
do?" he was asked
Il don't know. President Wilson
knows what he will ask Congress to
do. He knows more about the interna-
tional situation than any one else. lie
has information which no one in Con-
And vet, in a week the whole situa-
tion may change. There may be more
revolutions in Europe
So there is a statement of the posi-
ton of the man who heads the demo-
cratic contingent in Congress. He is
confident that the democrats Will or
ganize the House and that he VIII be
Speaker. He takes no stock in talk OF
bipartisan control or anything of that
lit .s.
Evening star., 1917-03-23
,7o,.mer Sneaker for the President.

NEW ORLEANS, La. March %
Representative Joseph G. Cannon OF
Illinois. former Speaker of the House
of REPRESENTATIVES., stated here last
night he was for the President in
the present international CRISIS and
would vote to declare a state OF wal
Germany should the matter be placed
special session. Representative Can
non is here on private business.
Evening star., 1917-03-23
The Republican Side of It.

The leading man in the republican
contingent is not yet ''on the job but
at his Office today it was announced
that he will be here. in due time. When
James r. Mann. the minority leader.
left town he left no public record of
his whereabouts.
Several reports were current this
morning of his journeyines. One had
it that he and Representative Mckln-
ley of Illinois were on their way to
Venezuela on fruit steamer. Another
was that he was going to the Danish
West Indies to look over Uncle Sam s
new deal in insular real estate An
other was that he was proceeding to
Haiti. while still another was that
he was spading his celebrated garden
on the outskirts of Chicago.
His Office today declined to discuss
any of these rumors, but said to put
it down fiat that he would be here in
time to shy his castor into the ring
when the new Congress meets.
There was no change today in the
condition of any of the members of the
House who are "on the lift" or ailins
with spring fever or otherwise af-
ficted
Evening star., 1917-03-23
Another German Filler Killed.

LONDON. March 23-Another of Ger
many's best military aviators. Fritz
Manshott, has been killed in an air
fight on the western front according to
a Berlin dispatch transmitted by the
Exchange Telegraph correspondent at
The Hague.
Evening star., 1917-03-23
CAR |SA[LOWED
TO Join HIS FAMILY
Nicholas, Wife and Children
Now Prisoners at the Palace
in Tsarskoe-SeIo.
FIRST RECOGNITION BY U. S.

By the Associated Press.
TSARSKOE-SELO Russia. Thursday,
March %, via London, March 23. 12:45
p.m.-On his arrival here today in the
custody of four members of the duma,
Nicholas Romanoff. the deposed en-
peror, 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
l: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
We're driven to the palace.
Nicholas was met at the door in the
left wing of the palace by Count
Benckendorff, who was his marshal OF
the court and is now under arrest. The
former ruler held himself erect, looking
calm and Indifferent, although he step
ped from the automobile with nervous
haste. A battalion of the 1st Rifle
Guard Regiment was at the railroad
depot.
The commander at Tsarskoe-Selo is
Col. kobuilinsky, formerly commander
of the Petrogradsky regiment, station
ed in peace time at Warsaw. To him
the duma commissioners announced
Our mission of handing over the EN-
peror is finished. We now go to Petro.
grad to announce this fact to the
duma."
Evening star., 1917-03-23
Optimistic in New Hampshire.

Senator Pomerene of Ohio returned TO
Washington today from New Hamp-
shire where he went to deliver an ad-
dress at democratic banquet in Con-
cord He said tina. the enthusiasm
among the democrats of the state was
very great. and that they We're predict
ing a democrat would be elected to fill
the vacancy caused by the death of
Representative Sulloway, republican.
Evening star., 1917-03-23
+ nator Lodge Discusses
: roposed Colombian Treaty
With the Secretary of State

Senator Lodge. ranking republican
mem Der of the foreign relations COM
mittee. discussed the general interna-
tional situation today with Secretary
Lansing. He declined to talk about
his visit. but it is known that the
treaty with Colombia by which the
United States would pay s25 100000 for
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Evening star., 1917-03-23
D. c. NAVAL MILITIA
.PREPAR|NGFORCALL
Predicted That Battalion Viii
Be Aboard Fighting Ships
Within Twenty Days.
RUSH ORDERS EXPECTED

officers and men of the Naval Bat
talon of the National Guard of the Dis
trict of Columbia will be aboard fight
ing ships of the United States Navy
within the next twenty days. it was
learned from reliable source today.
Those on duty at the armory at Water
and o streets southwest for several
weeks have been rushing preparations
for possible call. Several of them
said today that they expected summons
a any time.
officers who had not taken the eX
animation required before they can be
mustered into the United States service
are now undergoing the test and their
papers will go before the examining
board at the Washington Navy Yard
in few days for marking. The exam
nations were made under rush orders.
In addition. those in the enlisted
personnel who have not taken the pre-
scribed physical examinations for a
change of their status from naval
militia to national naval volunteers are
being put through the examinations
hastily at the armory on the water
front,
Evening star., 1917-03-23
Will Move Promptly.

Just as soon as the cali is issued it
was learned today. the men will be
Immediately assembled and sent to the
Norfolk yard, and there will be no on
portunity given to recruit for this
service. When the District outfit
leaves all of the recruiting will be
handled by the regular navy stations.
Several former officers of the local
naval militia who recently resigned
from the service have made applications
to be recommissioned One of these is
former Lieut.. (Junior srade) Charles s
OConnor who resigned several months
ago The matter, il is understood. is
TO be taken up with the Navy Depart
ment Immediately.
One thing is certain, It is stated, which
is that as soon as the call is issued
there will be no waiting to recruit or
ganizations to any specified strength.
The men will be rushed off to stations
outlined nlthe mobilization order.
Evening star., 1917-03-23
Shot Away Electric Sign.

Notwithstanding the electrically illu-
minated words ''Healdton, y. Y, between
the masts the vessel was bombarded
suddenly by an invisible submarine
which first shot away this illuminated
name and thereupon without warming
twice torpedoed the vessel Fire broke
out at once. Owing to the nature OF the
cargo and an explosion in the machine
room. the crew Immediately sought
safety in the boats. not having min
ute TO dress or collect any of their be-
lorgings.
All efforts to save the nineteen men
in the overturned boat were fruitless.
The boat with thirteen men, including
the captain. was sighted on Thursday
by the steam trawler Java, which had
just put TO sea. but Immediately re-
turned to Imudien with the shipwreck-
ed men. number of these survivors
We're in their underclothes, and all
We're terribly exhausted by the night s
fatigue and exposure in the open boat
to bitter cold and snow
They had not even enough strength
TO come alongside the trawler. whose
skipper had to apply his best seaman
ship to approach the boat without run
ming it down. once on board the
rraWler some of the survivors fell 10
the deck in a faint from exhaustion.
Thought Glow Northern Lights.
According to the captain of the
Healdton. one of the torpedoes hit his
vessel in the stern and the other amid
ships Dutch fishermen say they OBJ
served the glow of the burning steam
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Evening star., 1917-03-23
Cancels Engagements.

The President. to keep in touch with
army and navy preparations. Cancelled
practically all engagements today ex-
cept one with Gov. Mccall of Massachu-
setts, who wanted to confer on ways in
which the state might cooperate with
the federal government.
The President is devoting his almost
undivided attention to preparations
for national defense. and it is expected
that he will continue to do so in the
ing of Congress.
one of his latest steps in the prepar-
edness plans was to authorize the sus-
pension Of the ,eight-hour law as applied
10 plants engaged on naval work
The national council of defense and its
advisory committee of seven industrial
leaders will meet here tomorrow to dis
cuss the next immediate steps to put the
country in state of adequate prepared
Evening star., 1917-03-23
Cabinet Considers Address.

The Presidents address to Congress
was taken up in its tentative form at
today's cabinet meeting. Practically
all the secretaries had been asked to
bring material for points upon which
it will touch.
While the exact nature of the Pres
ident's address necessarily will be de-
termined by the developments of the
next ten days. il is expected to be
specific in character and probably will
outline comprehensively just what
steps he believes Congress should take
to meet the warlike operations of Ger
man submarines.
Administration officials realize that
during the period of waiting a sus-
tanned effort is being made in Germany
to place the responsibility for war on
the United States. The hint of an Of
fer of mediation is regarded as an
added evidence Of this movement. but
the President and all his advisers are
determined that if war actually comes
it shall be clear TO the world that it
has not been of Americas choosing.
Evening star., 1917-03-23
Seven Americans in Crew of
HeaIdton Sunk in "Safe"
Zone Are Missing.
TOTAL DEATH LIST NOW
is PLACED AT TWENTY
Standard Oil Tanker Torpedoed
Twice Without Warning
Wednesday Night.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
ROTTERDAM. March 81. via London
& p.m.-The six Americans saved from
the HealdtOn are Capt. Charles Chris
topher of Brooklyn. }. Caldwell of New
York, chief engineer. and &. w. Embry
of New Orleans, first assistant engi-
neer, all of whom landed mt Ymuiden
u. .. Willerup, chief mate; Y. Sven
son. second assistant engineer. and W.
{. johnson. third assistant engineer,
who landed at TerscheIling.
AMSTERDAM, via London, March %.
The American steamer Healaton was
torpedoed Wednesday evening. accord
ing to a Terschelling dispatch to the
Telegraaf. Three boats We're launch
ed. one of which containing eight men,
one of the men badly injured, was
brought to Terschelling by a torpedo
boat One of the men died on the way.
Nothing is known of the other boats.
The Handelsblad says there are only
six Americans among the survivors. 1t
is believed that fourteen were killed
by the explosion.
Evening star., 1917-03-23
Two Hundred courtiers in Prison

Two hundred adherentS and courtlerS
of the. former emperor are under ar
rest here. A correspondent of the As
sociated Press discovered them in the
Nicholas gymnasium. a big building
next to the city hail, where the COM
mission of officers and soldiers who
are now administering Tsarskoe- -Selo,
mas its headquarters. :-..t
In a big room on the first floor were
seventy persons in civilian dress, for
agents. Here also were four Russian
officers with German names, who had
been arrested by old soldiers on sus-
picion of having sent communications
from the former empress to Berlin by
way of Stockholm. In a neighboring
room sat the director of the Tsarskoe
Lyceum1 School, who was general in
the army and a close friend of Ras-
putin, as well as reactionary member
of the district court
On the second floor. in a separate
room Prince Putiatin is held prisoner.
Prince Putiatfn was one of reactionary
Russia's most powerful men. He was
formerly private secretary to the en-
peror, and in recent years director of
the palace. Putiatin is famous for his
presence during the interview in 1905 be-
tween reform members of the Zemstvos
and the emperor. The zemstvos dele
cation warned the monarch that a rev.
olution was impending. and before re-
iecting their advice Nicholas listened
to the whispered counsel of Putiatin.
Dmitri Shipoff, president of the zemst-
yos council, subsequently reported that
the emperor was under the control of
the prince.
outside of Putiatin's room three men,
hers of the civil militia. armed with
bayonets are on guard. The prisoners
CONTINUED On Eleventh Pa0a.l
Evening star., 1917-03-23
Only Six Americans Saved.

THE HAGUE. Netherlands. March %.
via London, 3:25 p.m.--A second boat
from the Healdton has been brought to
Terschelling by Dutch torpedo boat with
eight men. including one badly injured.
one Dutchman had jumped overheard,
losing his life The third boat, contain
ing nineteen men, was overturned when
the ship capsZed.
All were drowned. ma liking "A total of
twenty lives lost out of the crew of
forty -one. OF the thirteen America ms
on board only six We're saved. Two
Dutchmen also were among the victims.
others of whom were Spaniards. Nor
vegians and a Finn.
Detailed accounts of the sinking show
that the Healdton, after considera bl lie
delay at Halifax. on her way to Rot
tcrdam. proceeded to Bergen, Norway,
where she received orders to resume
the voyage to Rotterdam. Nothing of
special import happened until Wednes-
day at about SIS pm.
Evening star., 1917-03-23
Former Commander Subject to Call.

The orders for the mobilization, it is
understood, contemplate the call into the
service cf at least one retired officer of
the District Naval Militia This is Com
mander Joseph A. Dempf. who left the
active service in command of the organ
ization only a few months ago 1t is un-
derstood that Commander Dempf will be
assigned for duty at the water front
armory. where there will be large amounts
of naval stores which will not be taken
by the organization when it leaves
The District organization now has
only approximately 100 enlisted men
and efforts are being made by Com
mander X. E. Brummett and his officers
to recruit to fun strength. Some of
those on the rolls may not be per
mitted 10 go when the call comes. as
it is underst ood those who could be OF
more service to the country in their
civilian occupations than aboard ship
will be left behind. y large number
of the men in the local organization
are employed at the Washington navy
yard and not a few at the steel plant
at Giesboro point. where munitions are
manufactured.
Evening star., 1917-03-23
Sunk in Safe" Zone.

In its account of the sinking of the
Healdton the Handelsbald says:
The unrelability of the German as
surances regarding the so-called safe
zone is shown by the reports of the
crew of the Healdton and the crews of
fishing boats.
For safety's sake the Healdton chose
the northern route. All went well until
Wednesday evening, at S:1o O'Clock,
when a submarine suddenly made a
treacherous attack. Without fully
emerging and without warning it
fired two torpedoes, which hit the
steamer amidships, so that the vessel,
because of the dangerous character OF
her cargo and an explosion in the en-
gine room, caught fire at once.
The crew. in three boats, tried to
leave the ship. Two sloops with thir-
teen and seven men. respectively, sue
ceeded in getting away. but the third
containing twenty-one men. capsized
and nearly all were drowned.
Evening star., 1917-03-23
Plans Made for Mobilization.

Plans for the transportation of the
District naval militia. as we'll as the
naval militia organizations in other
parts of the countrl, to their mobiiIZa-
ton points have been completed at the
Navy Department. ii was said. The
District unit. as soon as il is modified
it was said today. will be sent to the
Norfolk navy yard, where the organi-
zatiou will be placed under the com
mand of the comm1ndant there, who
will distribute the officers and men
aboard ships where they are needed.
The rganiZation, it WAS learned, will
not be kept intact. The battalion will
proceed to Norfolk aboard mer-
chantman.
The Sylvia, converted yacht, training
ship OF the local organization, now is at
the Washington navy yard undergoing
such repairs as are needed to put the
little craft in frst-class condition for
use dispatch boat. Whether any
members of the Distric; militia will be
put aboard her was not learned today.
Soon after the organization goes to Nor
folk the ship may be sent down under a
regular navy crew.
Evening star., 1917-03-23
Found Exhausted in Sloop.

The crew of Dutch trawler. which
observed the fire from great distance,
believed the glow to be that of the
aurora borealis and did not go to the
rescue. The next day. however. seeing
a sloop under sail they at once stopped
fishing and steamed in the direction of
the sloop. whose occupants were SO eX-
hausted that they were unable to
maneuver their boat alongside the
trawler. The captain of the trawler
finally managed to approach the sloop
and some of the Dutch fishermen
jumped into the craft and brought it
alongside the trawler, where the ship
wrecked men were taken on board,
cared for and supplied with dry cloth
ing. All the property of the crew was
lost.
After the attack the submarine at
once submerged and disappeared without
troubling over the lot OF the shipwrecled
sailors.
Among the crew of the Healdton were
thirteen Americans, of whom six were
rescued
Evening star., 1917-03-23
WEATHER.

Cloudy tonight and tomorrow. proba-
bly, rain; warmer tonight.
Temperature for tweutyfour hours
ending = pm: Highest. 5s. at pm.
yesterday. lowest. 50. at am. today.
Full report on page l6.