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gat t ' ! 1 J WEATHER FORECAST: Fair Tonight and Colder (Iull Report on Page Two.) Che Ifahrogftm Wim$ HOME EDITION -T-"" NTJAlBEIt 8709. WASHINGTON THURSDAY EVENING, tfJEBRTTABY 3t 1916. PBICE ONE CENT. BEN CABLES Civilian Prisoners on Appam Freed; Vessel Detained by U. S. A uthorities 0. K. PAGE BEST NAVY D. C. RULERS S WLSQN WANTS BILL TO 0. S. HAVE FOR TWO PER CENT ON LOANS Commissioners Declare Present Law Restricting Interest to J4 One Per Cont Works Hard r ship on Poor. . Utilities Board. They Say, Has Ample Power to Lower Price of Gas and Grant Universal " Transfers. Declarng the law now in fo'ce limiting interest to 1 per cent a month has worked a hardship on poor persons, the Commissioners today sent to Congress a favorable report, on the bill intoduccd b Congressman Page vt North Caro lina increasing the rate ofiinterest under the "loan shark act" from 1 to 2 per cent a month. The legislation seeks also to prevent loons being made outside of the (District on application made in the (District. Special legislation provid:ng for a reduction in the price of gas, in the opinion of the Commissioners fy not " necessary, in view of the powersjwnjfcrced. upon the Public Utilities Commission. BOARD ft AS AMPLE POWERS. Jn reports transmitted on four bills to reduce the price of gas. the board States that the- puhllr utllitv law confers upon the Public Utilities Commission ample power for tho Proper control of the serv ice and rates of tho gaa companies, and that It Is belloved to be the Intent of Congress that any action taken with feference to fixing the price, of Ran should follow as a result of a working out of that law. Opposed To Pension Bill. A similar report Is made on the bill Introduced , tiy Congressman Clark of plorlda providing for universal trans fers on the street car and herdlc lines. The, Public Utilities Commission, it 3 stated, will be In a position to act Upon the question of universal transfers fcriten the valuations of the properties of fho street railways, now ncaring com pletion, arc determined. An adverse report was admitted on the bill Introduced by Congressman Kahn to authorize tho Commissioners la place o nthe pension roll the names f certain members of the old lire department. Tho Commissioners say Ihey cannot bo certain that the per ions mentlonod In the pi opened Icgls fritlon represent all the survivors of Iho old flro department, nor Is thoro (ny record to show that the bone ciarlcs named In the bill weic ae ually In tho service. Favorable action In rrrommonded on I bill by Congressman Oglenby to irovlde for the ronionl to unother lte of the Cemetery nf tho White tabernacle Number Thlrtj -nine of he Ancient United Order of Sons anil laughters. Brethren and Sisters of loses. no greater part nl til- cTnotei y in m Iho line of Thirl y-scvriuh st-cel extend ed, which fact, it Is stated, has tntoi ferfid with the making of Intetments jn recent .-ears, and the cemetery haa peen anandonea. 4 Senate Subcommittee Starts Reading of Documents For and Against Appointee. After a preliminary meeting tody. the luhcommtttee of th" Fenptn Judiciary Committee In charge nf th" rase of Louis D. Brandels. noi"ied for Jus lice of the Supreme Com. Adjourned n't' 10:30 Saturdsv The subcommittee . s work I f going over a m"'" n' '"-- "' inc- 'm for and f""" ' " nn ot competed m' ' " ''-"' ar vd snd penatf"-' - ' cred to tterd the seslon nf -Me. It li general'vassund " ""mber ff Derions wlM be 1jeM " itnies efore decision Is reached Pu ri-ns or eall'c witnesses have not been l-ide Whet the subcommittee met to Jav it found a remrkabl. valance of tf"' sbout the merits of Mr. Brandels, liw'd In the mutter before the sub. emmittee. Fnstor flpn 'nirtnin s'd b luenmm'f '" '-vtn,. n--. ifv h" ' ' -- rh1 Uf It l n x hr n" t" fl e nd perhaps more charges, have been Hlu CASE GOE TO SATURDAY IEEN DISABLED Submarine Believed to Have Snipped Great Trunk Lines From Europe. ALL BUSINESS IS DELAYED! Remaining Wires Are Burdened With Great Mass-of Com munications. ' T.ONION. Feb. 3. Seven of Europe's cables to Amerira have bcn mynteri oiiMly put out of business. For more thin a month they have nrrn Ivlng hi the bottom of tho ocean, temporarily useless while the n mnlnlng ones are overburdened with the great mass of communication poKstiu? dally between the two con tinent. S.utlsfartcry Information 1i unob talnabl" here, but it was rumored to day that s, now typo of German sub marine, oqulpped for cable cutting, may be working off Europe's wost tirn coast. Near French Coast. Two Fem-h cubles. strotchlng fiom Brest for 3,000 miles to Cape Cod and Mlqunlun. It le rumored, hae boen snipped off the French- coast, Flvu others llnrs from Ireland to Now foundlnnd and Xova Scotia, ovei which Jntich of tho business between London and American cities passes, ur reported to have been c at The possibility that Europe might lose all direct cable communication with America if the rumors prove to be well founded. Is not remote. Possible Routes. In that event messages would have to be transmitted with great delay and at great expense Via Oporto, to Spain, thenco to Madeira, the Canary Islands, Pcrnarobuco, Brazil., and- then relayed to -New York. 'Tho only other possible route would be via Egypt, India. China, and San Francisco. There is no wireless station In England which -.would compete with the powerful German wireless which sends dally messages to America Should German submarines succeed In severing nil the cables between Europe and America, the Germans would have Anally turned the tables on' the British for cutting German cables at the beginning of the war. F L Trip of J. P. Morgan Said to Have Bearing on Another Consignment. NE YORK, Feb. 3.- France wants one and two hundred million dollars more of American mone for the war. according to Wall Street eports to day and .1. P. Mirenn Is enroute tu I'.uropo on the Uotterdam today to -c about It. Franco alreitily has borrowed $370. cro.Otxl in Anicr'ca since the war began and this new loan will bilng the amount well above the hulf-blllion murl; L'nlll.o the Anglo French half-billion dollar aud other loanf, backed onlv by national credit, tills new loan. It is said, will have art collatornl Amerlcin railroad securities owned In France. The Frenrh loan bonds are to be placed among American investors, runninar three to five years and draw ing probably 5 per cent. These de tails were not denied by members of the Hoine of Mpran when they were asked about it. T GETS PAPEM PAPERS Nothing of a materially Incriminating nature was contained In the copies of papers taken from Captain von Pape'l. recalled German m'lltary attache, by tho British authorities and forwarded to thi- Stite Department, a high de partment ofr'ctal said today. There is no evidence that would nld the authori ties in running down plots In this ooun try. ho said. The check stubs alleged to have been taken from von Papen were not sent, most of the papers received being copies ot letters already printed In the pres. No successors will be apolnted by Ber lin to Captains von Papen and Boy-Ed until the war Is ended, it was learned at the German embassy today. British Ship Chasehill Has Foundered At Sea LONDON. Feb. 3. The British steam er Chnshill, which pulled from New York January 13 for Havre, foundered at sea. Advlre? to her owners here tndny ald that her ereu ns nved. v-e i harehlll was built in 1M1 and dlplacd 4.5S3 tons. She was registered at Xondoa. WANTS A FROM AIR STATE DEPARTIN jtiML t 4 " w3jBimMKMKKL iIIIIIIIhiIIIIIIIIIIIiIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIsIiB illlllllllliillllllllllslllllllllllHfefekML QiIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIsh t& tyt 'C5j5&& $&& vLHIIIIHSh, W 'i'flk. ' l ;w alllllllllBi&IIIIIILIIIIIIlH vsllllllllllllSalllHEns. vt aHUHk. w I111b111b1111I111111b11111BI1ksb1111V - '- - Above Sentry guarding; Appant'a gangway. Below, at left- GOV. GEN. SIR EDWARD M. MERE WETHER. At right LIEUT. HANS BERGE. MURDER Son Detained Awaiting Investi gation of Killing of Mather Near Automobile. BUFFAU3, Feb. 3. The murder of Mrs. Agnes M. Telper, wealthy widow of a local steel manufacturer, and her son Frederick, will be re-enacted for the benefit of the county authorities on the Orchard Park highway today. John Edward Teiper mill demonstrate so far as possible, exactly what tran spired during tho assault upon the au tomobile party, which he says was com mitted bv n negro bandit. This pro ceeding is 1 1 the suggestion of Telper's counsel, E. It. O'Malley. The condition of Oruee Telper became more alarming today and an operation to relieve pressure on her brain was rerformed. Yountj Telper slept hut lit tle during the night. He walked bacK and forth In hh coll. For tho llrst time since his mother and sister were murdered Teiper Is lodged in a cell. No charge has been placed against him. Edward K. O'Malley and ex-Judge George A. Lewis, his counsel, havo agreed to permit his detention without u warrant. Grace Telper. a sister, who has been unconscious slnco early Mon day morning shows no slgna of re gaining sonscioiisness. Telner has admitted ownership of a bloodstained pistol found near the rcene nt the duul murder "Rlng that ho had purc'iHed It ten d.-vs befoie the crime Th" weapon, according to District Attorney Dudley, undoubtedly was the one used by the mutderer. There were four empty chambers in the pistol, Telper's admission, the district at torney added, is perhaps the most startling piece of evidence obtained since the Inquiry began, though he claims to have other surprising dis closures which have convinced the In vestigators that they are on the right track. Telper was tnken to headquarters after he had attended the funeral of bis mother nnd brother under guard. Though morbidly curious crowdn gathered at the home and filled tho little chnpcl of the Blessed Sacrament, where services were held, there was no lemblanc" of disorder. Reproductions of rtnger prints on Tel per's collar nnd the pistol nnd hammer found near the scene of the murders have proved unavailable for Identifica tion purposes. Mrs. Hofheinz Succumbs To Wounds in Throat Mrs. Louisa llofhclnx, fifty-seven years old, who was found with her throat and wrists gashed early yester day morning, in the bathroom of ner home. 2132 M street northwest, died from hr Inltirtex at the Emergency Ife'jplt.il -srly toda. Coroner Nevitt made an Investigation of the circumstances of the case, and arlll Usue a certlficaU latar today. warn OF BUFFALO WOMAN 5BillllBBkiii55' vsHIHia 11 1 ' T '.li 1 Ti" .e MUST FACE IN CODE THEFT CASE Torpedo Flotilla Commander and Aide At Time of Dis appearance Ordered to Trial I Lieut. Herbert A. Jones, commander of the reserve torpedo flotilla, and Ensign Robert D. Klrkpatrlck, navi gation officer, today were ordered court-martialed because of loss or theft of the navy's secret code book from the destroyer Hull. Jones was commanding officer and Klrkpatrlck next In command of the Hull, stationed at Mare Island navy yiiro, at tho time the code book Jls appeared. Navy officials refused to discuss the case further than to udmit that the coi in the hands of a foreign gov ernment would prove more than em hirt asking to the department even dur'ng peace times. AH letalls con cerning the loss are being kept necret. Tno court martial. Itself, because of tho nature of the charge against the ofllrer-, will be kept as secret as pos sible. ALL U-BOAT ISSUES REPORTED SETTLED ZURICH, Feb. 3. German financiers have been assured by their government that German American controversies are about to be settled, according to dispatches from Frankfort to day. As a result the German bourse rallied sharply today. Ambassadoi Eornstorff rocelved fiom Ucrlin today a cable telling that a memorandum from the foreign office regarding the Lusitanla Is on the way to him. The ambassador's messaee was dattd January 30 (Sunday). He bu lelves, ho nald. the memorandum re ferred to will reach here either Fri day afternoon or Saturday morning. In either event he will De able to communicate its cuntents to the State Department some tjme Saturday. Tho ambassador was willing today to forecast tho charactor of the com ing message from Berlin. Other offi cials expressed belief that It would ho one calculated to bring to an end the long dispute. None would sav defl nltcly, however, that he expected It to he drawn in conformity with the exuet conditions laid down by thM Government in the last exchnnse be tween Secretary Lansing and Ambas sador Bornstorff To do this It would hnve to admit, nructlcallv without reservation that the sinking of th bis liner wu-u llltgal act. mm S O.S. TO British Ambassador Wants All Subjects on Board Released By Germans. Sir Cecil' Sprlng-Rlce. the British am bassador, today appealed again to tho State Deartment for the release of all British subjects on board the liner Ap pam. The renewal of the appeal was made necessarv by the fact that the German prize crew commander. Lieuten ant Berge, has refused to permit some of the Britishers to disembark, despite tho request of the State Department. Exactly which of the Englishmen are being detained and upon what grounds neither the State Department nor the British embassy haa been clearly in formed. There is a general understand ing, however, that the German com mander hns set up the claim to hold all Brltlsr officers and men taken off the Brttlsi transports that were sunk by the German raider Moewe, as well as the crews of British merchant fJ-'ps. Including the Appam, which resisted capture. That the Appam is a war prize is the official view taken by United States authorities, according to the State De partment todav. Department At Sea. The State Department is frankly at sea as to where Its obligations lie. Un tier a general principle of International lav, a neutral port cannot bo made a prison detention camp for a belligerent Power. But the general principles of International law. It Is admitted, would require the United States to refuse asy lum to the Appam as a prlre of war. It Is under the special treaties between the United States and Prussia of 1799 and 1828. that the United States Gov ernment has about decided that It Is its duty to permit the German prixe crew comamnder to sequester the vessel at Norfolk as a prlre of war. Under the exceptional provisions of thepe tratles the German' commander Is entitled to extraordlnarv privileges not recognized generally bv International law. Whether now these samo privi leges Include tho right to detain British subjects on the vessel as prisoners of war is the extremelv knotty and tech nical question confronting tho depart ment, Timo and again In the International correspondence of the United 'States has the broad principle been enunciated that a neutral port cannot be nut to tho war uses and needs of a belligerent nowet. But even where snocinl treaties have not existed, exceptions have been made in the case of specific incidents. Russian Ship Interned. Fo- example In 1855, during the Crimean war. the Russian steamer Sitka put Into San Francisco und In terned. She hod on board British prisoners of war. Efforts were mnde to obtain the release of these prls oi't i bv habeas corpus proceeding, Atto-ne Geenral. afterward Secretar) (Continued on Second Page) H 1 APPAM Mystery in Identity of Sea Raid: er Deepens Liner's Status Unsettled- : - - NORFOLK, Feb. 3. Confined as German prisoners of war , for nineteen days, 244 British civilians and one American citizen were re leased today from the liner Appam now lying at Newport News, the subject of an international dispatt as to her status. Still confined to their state rooms by their German captors are the British crew of the Appam against whose release Lieutenant Berge, commanding the vessel's prize crew, has protested on the ground that they are belligerents, and twelve other British officers. OTHER BELLIGERENTS. Four members of the crow of the Clan McTavish, Australian meat steamer, whose gallant battle against the myste rious sea raider, whose exploits in tho east Atlantic resulted In the Appam's capture, are also detained until their htatus can be determined at Washing ton. Also on board the Appam are the twenty-two Germans who navigated the vessel trom the sccno of its capture off the. Canary Islands Into Norfolk, ana twenty Germans who. at the time, were being transported from West Africa to England as British prisoners. Collector of the Port Hamilton has taken charge of the Appam pending orders from Washington as to her dis posal. Before leaving the Appam many of the passengers, even tho British, tliunkod Lieutenant Berge and the prize crew fct tho courteous treat ment given them during their im PXisonmont. Trains wore in readlnbss to take many of them Immediately to New 1 ork and Noifolk where British au thorities prepured to tend them to England. Among the first passengers to set foot nshore today was G. D. Taglla (Contlnued on Page Fourteen.) ONE CH II Commissioners Adopt Regula tion As Additional Safeguard to Safety of Structure. As an additional Mtfartt&rii to tte Aqueduct bridge, tho Commissioner to day adopted a regulation prohibiting more than one sttvet car on the bridge at one time. It is provided also that no car shall cross the bridge at a greater rate of speed than six miles an hour. Cars may stop at the north end of the bridge to take on or discharge- passengers; who will be permitted to leave and board cars from the west side onl Cars will not be permitted to stop on any othoi portion tif the bildgi-. The weight nf tlic earn Is limited to thirty shoit tons. The regulation become iffocUv at noon February f. ON AQUEDUCT BRIDGE TO PROTECT IL S. Tells St. Louis He intends That Record of His Administration Shall Be One of Genuine, Not Pretended, Neutrality. President Is Confident the West Will Urge Congress to Pass Legislation For Prepared ness Within a Month. ST. LOUIS, Mo., Feb. 3. In a stirring speech today President Wilson told St. Louis that he in tends the record of his Administra tion to be one "of genuine neu trality and not pretended neu trality." The audience, several thousand of whom were of German lineage, applauded the declaration until the Coliseum rang. "I am ready to make allowances for sboth sides," the President said. "And I have tried to think so far as is possible, from the point of view of the othet; side.' "I know," he added solemnly, "how my own h,eart would burn and how ray head would whirl ?f I saw my country irt danger.' WANTS BIGGEST NAVY. In speaking of tho navy, the Presi dent said that to adequately protect this country's coast-lines, "I think our navy should be the greatest in tho world It should be unconquerable." The President again nolnted out the dangers to be encountered In maintain ing this country's trade "There are cargoes of wheat, flour, and manufac tures." he said, "all of which come into contact with the fires abroad all com bustibles into which sparks from those. flr" mav fall " President Wilson stirred his audience of 8.000 when ho solemnly warned the people of Missouri to prepare for the upholding of American rights ana j ideals. The address was the final ono ho will make on his Western trip. At noon he leaves for Washington, confident that the people of tho Mlddlo West will urge their Congressmen to "do some thing for a national defense within a month." The gallery was a regular army or the "unemployed." President James Eads How, of the "army." was on hand on the floor of the hill with a resolu tion to President Wilson, protesting against "preparednes," Will Not Settle War. "Preparedness never can and never will finally and effectively settle war fare," the resolution said. It is making its way to the President through three channels today -person ally by How, by special delivery, and by telegram It Is signed by Charles Kruse, "national chairman." ani was drawn at a meeting of the "national committee of the unemployed " When the President and Mrs Wilson entered the hall at 10:T7 o'clock the great crowd roso to Its feet and cheered them for two minutes. Mrs. AVllson wore a handsome black gown, and vio lets took the place of her usual bouquet of orchids. Before the President was Introduced a chorus of 1.500 voices sang "The Star Spanglcd Banner." "Not only Is It necessary that wo pre pare to mobilize the forces of tho coun try for dofense, but It is also neccssan to mobilize tho economic resources ox the country for the great work of heal ing to bo done after thf war Is over ' said the President, a sentiment loudh applauded by tho business men. who were his audience. "America will be efficiently nuccess ful in the world of business If aho Is righteous in the world of busbies." ho said. "Advertisers arc coming to realize that the real 'efficiency Is in the facts an they are,' and all business men are coming to tho realization that It J better to prepare for the facts when you see them Coming." Wants Domestic Peace, Too. He predicted a wonderful future for America. "America has been sh about going out Into tho world of competition," he said. "In a way sh haa shut her doors from the rest of tha worlJ. "I came into the Middle West to fin something and I found it," the Presi dent said. "I had boen told that tha MnNWeHt was not warm for national defense, but I knew that the people here wore as true to the spirit of th country as anywhere else. "The facts are very easily and briefly stated. America Is at peace with all the world and desires to re main so. It Is not a shallow peace It U a fundamental peace. She Is a' ppaio because she ontertainH a real friendship Tor all the nations of the world. "It would tear the heart strings of Ami-rice to be at war with any of the great nations of the world. If great insues were Involved, however w'liT It was necessary to defend oik eivus, we would not be at peace The heart of this country Is sound, made up pf the fundamental principles of humanity. It i not jrutdad by? tho fm- N WORLD i J