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r ,v"W' f " " " .j v 'J I WEATHER FORECAST: Fair tonight and tomorrow. (Full Report on Page Two.) HOME EDITION NUMBER 90'62. WASHINGTON, MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 23, 1916. PRICE ONE CENT. "X T rl ;t IT FQRFSFESG.O.PiVACKENSEN 'S MAJ0RITY0F10 IN THE HOUSE Chairman Woods, of Congress ional Campaign Committee, Confident of Success. MUST CHANGE 12 DISTRICTS Republican Gain in Sixteen States Now Seems Sure, Reports Say. NEW YORK, Oct. 23. That the next House 1b to be Republican by a small but comfortable working majority was the report made to National Chairman William R. Wilcox by Congressman Prank P. Woods, of Iowa, head of the Republican Congressional campaign committee. The committees ha been ' conducting Its own campaign 'for the election of a Republican House, with offices In this city, Washington and Chicago. I Con gressman Woods, who puts In most of his tlmo In Washington, conferred with Mr. Wlllcox and with Senator John W. Weeks of the Senatorial committee, with which the Congressional committee la co-operating. The fight for the next House of Repre sentatives has bcon exceedingly bitter in the lost few weeks, and It was ad mitted by Republicans that the number of doubtful districts had Increased rath er than diminished In this time. It Is the labor centers which aro causing trouble. Adamson Eight-Hour Law Argument Reports received by the, commltteo show that Samuel Oompers and the American Federation of Labor are at work with speakers and literature In cvory one of these districts trying to elect Democratic Congressmen, using the Adamson law as their chief argu ment. The political activities of the federn tlon. according to those in close touch with this situation, exceed anything vever seen, and the labor leaders are making a terrlflo drlvo In many dis tricts, which ordinarily would be con sidered safely Republican. The result of this has been to make prognostica tions regarding the Congressional elec tion difficult The Democratic majority in tho pres ent House IS Twenty-three. To insure a Republican House tho Republicans must carry at least twelve of the Democratlo districts and hold their present strength. While Congressman Woods and his associates are not ready ns yet to give out any figured, they havo told Chairman Wlllcox and other Republicans here that they expect to win tho House by at least ten seats. Estimate Ib Conservative. This Is a most conservative estimate, however, and is based on conditions as they aro at tho present time. It Is the general belief that conditions will Im prove in tho next two weeks, and some (Continued on Second Page.) Asked One Flower Of Each Mourner Will of Wiliam H. Beck, Also Stip ulated That There Be No Funeral Sermon. Disposition of an estate valued at approximately 00,000 Is made in the wUl of William II .Beck, filed for pro bate in the District Supreme Court to day. "I wish no more than ono slnglo flower from any single person," says the testator; "no music, and no religious services other than those of the Grand Army, but do wish that any of my friends who have anything to say will be allowed to do so, as I prefer this to the perfunctory sermons by clorgymen." A sum of $1,600 Is devised by the will to covor the expenses, traveling and hotel, of threo friends of tho deceased to the testator's funeral. Bequesta of 11,000 each are made to Children's Hospital, the Homo for In curables, and tho Kplsoopal, Bye, Ear, and Throat Hospital. A dozen or more Government em ployes, friends of the testator during his life are made beneficiaries ef be quests ranging from $100 to 11,009 by the terms of the will. Among theso beneficiaries are miss mna .-uorse, miss Mary K. Bates, Miss Isabel Smith, Navv Department; Miss Queenle Bmlth, General Land .Oftlco; Mrs. Clara B. Taylor. Miss Mary R. Wilcox. Bureau of Indian Affairs, and Mrs. Nellie K. Fealy, of tho Department of Agrlcul- Af'ter numerous other similar be quests, the testator leaves 150,000 to. Royel C. Beok. a nephew, of Philadel phia; $20,000 to Harry C. Beok, an other nephew; $60,000 to Ada B. Myers; nnd to Mrs. Mary U. McCoy 35,000 and an annuity of $200 a year. Valeria R. Myers Is left the residue of the estato and Is named as execu tor. WAR HAS EFFECT ON "MILADY'S LINES" More Exercise And Less Fattening Food Responsible. NEW YORK. Oct. 23. War has mado German women thin and given them "elegant lines," according to Mme. Frieda Hcmpel, Just back from Switz erland. Where they formerly only attended to their household duties, they are now doing patriotic tasks, she says, and, what Is more, tho pinch of food short age causes them to eat less fattening foods. . .. . Germany wants peace, she declared, and President Wilson has a great op portunity to be peacemaker, ,. ROUTS ROUMANIANS, T A If IMP rnTQTAM7A ,u invading forces in Dobrudja upture most Important Roumanian Seaport and Ter minus of Railroad; Hailed by Berlin as Greatest Victory of Campaign. BERLIN. Oct. 23. Constanza, Roumania.'s greatest seaport, and only commercial outlet to Field Marshal Mackensen's armies, it was officially announced tnis afternoon. Capture of the city is the greatest single achievement for the central powers since Roumania entered the war eight weeks ago. The victory is hailed by German military men as of more imp portance than all the gains made by the allies since the Somme offensive began. Official dispatches from the German and Bulgarian war offices indicate that the Russo-Roumanians have suffered a disastrous rout. Smashing northward along the Black Sea coast, Mackensen's army occupied first the Roumanian port of Tuzla and then swept onward through strongly fortified Roumanian lines of defense, marching twelve miles to Constanza in a little more than two days. The rapidity of the Teutonic advance is accepted as an indi cation that the Russians and Roumanians became demoralized and made an extremely disordered retreat. BERLIN EXPECTED VICTORY. An official statement from Sofia earlier In the day, reporting the capture of a village six miles south of Constanza, prepared Berlin for news of a great vic tory. No surprise was manifested hero when It was announced that Mackcnsen had pushed on through the ruins of tho old Trajan's wall and had occupied Con stanza itself. Since Roumania entered the war, Rus sian trasports have been bringing Slav troops, munitions, and other war sup plies to the aid of the Roumanians. TWELVE BODIES ARE TAKEN FROM MINE Expect Deaths From Explosion to Reach Probably Twenty When Rescue Is Over. BIRMINGHAM, Ala.. Oct. 23,-The death list resulting from tho gas ox plosion In tho Marvel mine, thirty-five miles south of Birmingham, will con tain fifteen and possibly twenty names, it became known today, when the twelfth body was brought out by res cuers. They reported at least three more bodies to be recovered, and there are Ave other men unaccounted for. Tho rescue is being directed by Gov ernment mine-rescue men, and State In spector C H. Nesbitt Thousands of per sons crowded about the shaft through out the night The mines were tested a few hours previous to the explosion. Surgeon's Strange Death Causes Stir Dr. Alexander A. Uhlc, Philadel phia, Dies After Injection of Cocaine for Operation. PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 23. Medical circles in this city have been stirred to a high pitch by the peculiar death of Dr. Alexander A. Uhlc, one of the best-known surgeons In this country. Joseph R. Stulb declared Dr. Uhle had died after ho permitted Dr. H. F. Rldpath to give him an Injection of cocalno Saturday afternon prior to a minor throat operation. Both physicians are well-known socially, as well ns professionally. Stulb Is Dr. Utile's Itfe-lonir frlond, and he accompanied him to witness the operation. Dr. Uhle collaDsed Immediately after the Injection, and died In an ambulance going to the Methodist Hospital. News of the death was kept aulet until late yes terday. Physicians at tho hospital declared It is their belief that Dr. Utile's heart was weak, and the drug brought about a reaction that re sulted In death. Steel Hits New High Record Price NEW YORK, Oct, 23.-Unlted States Steel, common, set a new high record price at 121H. making a gain of $2 a share during a throe - quartera - of - a - mll - lion-snare-murwiiH un ma aiuun. ba change today. Gains of two or three points were made by many market leaders, while several specialities mover1 to new high record prices. Wheat Harvest of World Is 25 Per Cent Below 1915 ROME, Oct. 23. The total wheat har vest of the world Is estimated by the International Agricultural Institute as 7 per oent below the averago and 25 per cent below that of last year. The Institute's report Includes for the first time the crop or European Russia, which It estimates to be 20 per cent less than that of last year. ARMYSOUTH the Black Sea, has fallen before Large bodies of Russian troops havo arrived in Roumania through tho port of Constanza, whoso capture by the cen tral powers effectually puts an end to the transportation of re-enforcements via the Black Sea. Tho thlrty-flvc-mltc Constanza-Cern.a-voda railway, leading across the Bn jibe, Is tho carrier over which Roumania has derived a large quantity of her sup pl5".,J The Teutonic- right wing Is now astride that railway at Constanza. while Mackensen's center and left wing aro swinging forward to capturo the re (Contlnued on Second Page.) MERCHANTS APPEAL FOR HALF HOLIDAY Inform President Wilson of Wishes of Local Business Men in Telegram. Tho Retail Merchants' Association to day wired President Wilson n press ing appeal on behalf of the business men of Washington to grnnl tho Sat urday halMiollday to department clerks. The association has always been an advocate of tho extension of tho Sat urday half-holiday to tho entire work ing year. More than a year ago Sec retary Charles J. Columbus took ud the matter with tho heads of the de- fiartmcnts, and the association author zed that It bo discussed with Prcsl. aeni nson. Many conferences were held with the heads of the executive depart ments, but. owing to an opinion of the Attorney General, then on flle. the President did not see his way clear to grant the Saturday half-holiday. On his return to Washington this morning President R. 1. Andrews di rected that a telegram be sent to the President renewing the associations appeal, and adding the assurance that the business men of Washington are In hearty accord with what has come to bo a unanimity of sentiment among the heads of the executive de partments themselves. The telegram states: President Wootlrow Wilson, Shadow Lawn, Long Branch, N. J. Tho Retail Merchants' Association respectfully renews Its appeal of a. year ago for tho Huturdny half-holiday for Government clerks. Its Intro duction at this time would bo a won derful help for the early Christmas shopping movement and for business generally, which certainly the country would appreciate. RETAIL MERCHANTS' ASSOCIA TION, R. P. ANDREWS, President. CHARLES J. COLUMBUS, Secretary. Inspector For Gas Co. Is Found Dead Frederick R. Law Discovered In Governor Hole by Fellow Workers. Frederick years old, R. Law, twenty-seven an inspector for the Georgetown Gas Company, was found dead in one of the governor holes of the company at Thirty-second street ' oday and Kllnglo road northwest at noon He was found by Charles Donohuo and George Jones, employes of the company, who hurried him to George town Hospital in a gas company au tomobile. Dr. C. Leldell. at the hos pital, pronounced him dead, presum ably from Inhaling gas. Law starHed out. this morntilg with one of the company's automobile, and when ho had not boen hoard from by noon, Donohue and Jonns were sent out to look for him. Tho governor hies cntaln the apparatus from which the flow of gas Into the nouses in ine street is reguiaiea Law was a son of Policeman James Law, for ninny years a mounted man in the Seventh precinct. He lived in Grant road northwest. Coroner Is In vestlgatlng the circumstances of his death. UNABLEFIRST OF TO PUT STOP TO NEGRO E Laborers Get Fast State Guards in Migration to ' North. 300 PASS THROUGH CAPITAL Reader of Party, During Stop Here, Tells How Charges Got Through. A batch of D00 negro workmen from Jacksonville, Fin., consigned to East ern cities, arrived in Washington Saturday night. The train came over the Atlantic Coast Line railroad, and tho negroes havo already been sent on to tholr destinations. The tralntoad of negroes was In charge of a former Washlngtonlan. well known In this city, who has mado Jacksonville his homo for some yours. Ho talked freely about it. tell ing tho methods of getting the negroes past tho State guards, and other details. He ktfew of no uollllo.nl nut-nose to thfl AVnnrtntlnn nt ti.ffm.i frnm tliA South, seeing In it only the economic fact of tho men going where they could get higher wages. Visited Labor Department. The conductor of the 300 negroes paid visits to the Department of Labor and Justice this morning, to see If his ac tivities had violated any laws or regu lations. Officials of both departments were much Interested in his atntcment, but would mako no comment on It. It was learned that up to a few months ago the Department of Labor had been transporting labor from the South to Northern points, where It se cured them employment. It discon tinued this practice about August of this year. Several hundred negroes aro. understood to havo been brought North b It bcfnro that time. That its opera tions In Florida were not without fric tion with tho local authorities was the statement of a Florida, man. No reason was asslgntd by l'b department" for Its cessation of the transport of negroes North. Two conflicting views of the move ment of negroes from the South to Northern States have been taken by high officials here. One of those opin ions Is to tho effect that tho move ment Is for political purpose, purely and simply, and that the negroes are wanted In certain closely contested border States to vole the Republican ticket nnd turn tho election. Another view that has found favor In the minds qf offlcluls Is that the movement is solely nn economic one. Those holding this view point to the need for labor, skilled nnd unskilled, on Northern railroads and Industrial establishments. That these concerns aro Instrumental In Imumtlng negroes from tho South to take the places of Italians. Ruthenlans, Slovaclcs, and other foreigners who have In the past been employed Is urged. Wanted In Trenton. "When we wero nearly here," he de clared, "a man entered the train nnd approached mo, giving his credentials as a company representative. 'I want twenty-five educated ncgroe, men who can read and write, for Trenton. N. J..' ho told mo. Ho said that ho wanted them there to take tho place of baggogo smashers with a transfer company. Ho ,lrl.r.l thnt lnhnr wan a scarce article In Trenton, as so many foreigners had returned to Europe to fight In tho war. "About 100 of the men I brought with me went to Baltimore. Others went farther North. Moat of them went with a certain large Eastern railroad, which has been clamoring for men for some time. I understand that other Eastern roads Intend to adopt the same methods to get men." , The labor agent declared that an average of $2 per head was paid by Eastern cmployors to agents bringing negroes from the South. He described the difficulty of getting the men out of the South, and the subtorfuges employed. .... . "It Is six months In Jail In Florida If vnn nrn nitiirht." ho said. That 10,000 negroes have been brought North from tho fitnte of Flor ida alono was tho estimate of The Times' Informant, who declared that tho labor market of tho South wns being sadly depleted by the exodus of negroes. THREE ELECTROCUTED IN BETHLEHEM PLANT Tragedy Caused By Electricians' Mistake, Is Charge. ALLENTOWN.Pa.. Oct. 23.-A search Ing Investigation Into tho death of three men, who wero electrocuted at tho mam of the Bethlohcm Steol Company last night. Is under way hero today. Tho men were tho victims of a mistake by an electrician, It is charged. Tho victims, nil electricians, wero re pairing a h'gh-tenslon wire. It Is sold nnotho rman turned on tho current. Four others near tho who narrowly es caped a similar fate. Express Earnings Show Big Increase Four Hundred Per Cent Rise in Income Is Shown. A 400 per cent Increase In operat ing income of nine Intorstnto express companlos during tho fiscal year of 1910 over the fiscal year 1013 was reported by the Interstate Commerco Commission today. The figures wero 110,580,000, against 2,656,00. A total of 1176,000,000 was collected during the year as express cnareei. xonus OF RAILROADS IN U. S. GIVEN OUT BY I. C. C. WLBEMh Si-. mB JUDGE C. A. PROUTY. BAKER WEI FOR ROOSEVELT Secretary of War an "Amiable Pacifist Unfit for Present Position' Says Colonel. ALBUQUERQUE, N. M.. Oct. 23. Colonel Roosevelt fairly nto his way through Albuiiucrque. New Mexico's largest city, today. Due for a flvo hour stop, ho wns given n breakfast roceptlon from 8 to 9:30 and a noon day banquet from 12 to 1:30 after he hnd spoken at 10 a. in. Secrotary of War Baker was the particular target for Roosovelt's cam pnlgn dnrta today. It became known today that tho Colonel probably will answer the ap peals of West Virginians and stop in tnat Ntnie wnen lie goes to Haltlmore to sneak Monday or Tuesday of next week. Tho secret of tho unexpectedly long stop at Gallup, N. M., came out today. At Gallup tho Colonel got his worst ' tnste of heckling. Tho Roosevelt spe cial was supposed to stop less than five minutes. It was held up twenty flvo minutes. It has since been learned that somo ono turned a screw which kept tho brakes tight until every brake wns examined nnd the trouble remedied. Rallrond officials havo started an Investigation. , Roosevelt's speech was largely de-' voted to an attack on Newton D. I Baker, Secretnry of War. I "When men occupy an Improper and unpatriotic position and seek to Justify themselves by precedents from tho (Continued on Second Page.) Fairfax Man Loses His Life in Wreck Engineer John R. Francis Loses Life in Crash Near Per- ryman, Md. WILMINGTON, Del,, Oct. 23.-Taklng a closed switch at a high lato of speed near ferryman, Md., early this morn ing, a Baltimore nnd Ohio freight truln wns derailed nnd wrecked, nnd En gineer John R. Francis, of Falrfnx, Vu., and Fireman B. R. Randall, of Coak ley, Md., wero Instantly killed. Whiln tho englno nnd thirteen cars wero piled up on tho tracks, a light en glno cnisnca Into the wreckage, Injur ing fireman Algard, who was removed to a Baltimore hospital. Trafllc was dolayed by tho wreck until 10 o'clock this morning. All trains being switched over tho Pennsylvania lines between Bay View and this city. Flier Drops Flowers For Mrs. Wilson's Grave ROME, Ga., Oct. 23.-A wreath of flowers entwined with an American flag, was dropped from a height of 1,400 feot by John Green, nn aviator, on tho cemetery hore In which Mro, Ellon Wilson, wlfo of tho President, Is burled. The wreath wns placed on Mrs. Wil son's grave as Homo's tribute to her memory. British Steamer Sunk. LONDON, Oct. 23. The British steam er Fortuna has been sunk. Ten of tho crew were landed today, but It is be lieved the captain and fifteen others were drowned. VALUATIONS LAKE ERIE STORM SHAFTSTOLL IS GROWING Feared Another Steamer Has Foundered With Its Crew of Twenty-five Men. TOLEDO, Ohio, Oct. a. Tho steamer Congress that tho roads of tho United Matthews. Captain Cunningham, ar- States were overcapitalized and their rived here early today with tho bodies security Issues badly watered, of three sailors wearing life belts of tho j p,.i n.it- steamer Merldo. Tho Mcrida was bound ., 1 uencral for Buffalo, and was duo last Saturday. I ,Int,.,Vas,8l,vn T8 ' Pnlon of offl- The Mcrida, owned by James Play- SftL" "' nlh" , ,ntf" C"merco fair, of Midland. Ontario, sailed from ol?,',l"n y ,' .he. """"J"8 Fort William. Ontario, with a crew of Son nn.,!, n '?"!! '" th C?UniY twenty-nve. tho middle of last week. .M ?.,, ?!!!' j""" Th Mri,lA u-n ln.t Hn Frlrtnv morn- cou,d down and that omo The Mcrida was last seen JTiaay morn-! roatI( -wou,d De round neaViiy orer- Ing at 10 o'clock by tho Btcamcr Briton capitalized nnd some would not off tho Southeast shoals. Lake Erie. What tho aggregate for the country Tlho bodies were picked up by the' W'H show when the valuation U fln Matthev.s oft Port Stanley, Ontario. Bevoral ye" nce Is specula- yesterday morning. The tontatlvo valuation figures, as Tho Mcrldn. bound for Buffalo, was given out today, ascribo to the Texas under tho command of Cupt. H. 8. Midland, with 111 miles, a value, less Jones, of Buffalo. Fear wns expressed depreciation, of 2,C27,417. today tnat to ine long nsi or casuniucs from tho lake storm will bo added ull of the crew of tho Mcrida. Thirty-four dead Is tho known toll now of tho storm, with twenty-one of the Merida's crew unaccounted for. Tho report of Cnpt. Alexander Mc Donald of tho Harvey Goulder that ho had found the Inke "full of wrcckago" which ho could not Identify, caused tho fear that other steamers ns yet unre ported may have foundered with loss of Capt. Walter J. Grashaw. Cleveland blnn.. irn. tltA nnlv Hlirvlvnt nt thn whalebark Jamen 13. Colgato s crow of twenty-five. Ho was picked up from a rnfY vVntVninv nff fonnoiiut rcpruuucuoii 01 roan ana equipment. pLfthi Ciinnlnghnm reported tho depreciation Is not taken Into con bom?, were "frond flY"y iX we.t of ;ldc?"' C0,It reproduction U Long Point, Ontario. Ho said tho r;!,",,u; , . , .. ... . freighter Charlotto G. Brlctung also had . ,T o total outstanding capital and lla plcked UP four bodies In the sumo vl- ! WHtlM of tho company, us of June W. clnity. believed to havo been from the . !2!4; '", ,vel by tho commission as $54, Merlda. taking them to Sandwich, On- Lli 6.H. tiro. The Merida's homo port Is Chi- In addition, thcio were outstanding iiJo $4,994,(00 of receiver's certificates and Homo unidentified wrcckago has been certain other paper, whoso liability the sighted Atlanta company shaicd with a con- Search was begun today for tho forty- structlon company, one missing, though llttlo hope was i The road has $3.000,ft common nnd held out that any would bu found I $lo,000,000 preferred stock, nnd a total alive ' of WWW mortgogo bonds outstand- Tho storm was tho most disastrous lng In addition to equipment notes and Ijko KVlO lias seen since mo ureal Lakes storm of November, 1013, when sovontccn vessels weni aown. Margate England, Attacked From Air Man And Woman Slightly Injured And Hotel Damaged by Bombs from Zeppelins. LONDON, Oct. 23. Tho English watering place of Margate, eighty mU.es southeast of London, was raid- od by German air torces inia inurniuK, and throo bombs dropped, It was offl- I dally announced thU afternoon. I The Cllftonvllle Hotel wns slightly damaged and a man and woman wero slightly injured BERLIN (via wireless to Sayvlllo), Oct. 23. "A German seaplnno squud ron successfully bombarded llrltlnh sea forces off the Flanders coast Sat urday afternoon," It was officially announced todny. "One hit wns ob served upon a destroyer. All raiders, In spite of heavy shelling, returned unharmed." ' MUCH 'ITER' FOUND III CAPITAL OFIE Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlan tic's, Liabilities Declared to Exceed Its Worth. HETTY GREEN ROAD IS 0. K. Texas Midland Value Placed High Above Its Capitaliza tion Subject to Review. The Interstate Commerce Com mission tofiay began answering tho question : "Are the railroads of America overcapitalized?" Tentative valuations of two rail roads, as made by the physical val uation division, of which Judge' C. A. Prouty is the head, were an-' nounced through the commission. These roads are the Texas Mid land, and the Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic, both well-known line 1 nP .t. C...U FIRST TO BE VALUED. These aro tho first roads in tho Country whose valuations havo been tentatively finished, subject to review by the en tire commission. In the caso of tho Texas Midland, which Is known ns tho Hetty Green road. It Is found that Its value exceeds Its capitalization. But in tho caso of tho Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic, It Is found that tho capital and liabili ties outstanding are far In excess of the valuation figures of the commission. When tho physical valuation law was passed It was declared freely In , " mu iui vi reproduction ann Is exclusive of certain land. The capital stock and mortgage Indebted ness Is $2,112,000. Of this, $112,000 Is capital stock at par. Value More Than Liabilities. Comparison of valuation nnd of the capital and mortgage liability against tho road shows that Its value exceeds tho paper ugnlnst It. The Atlanta, Birmingham, and Atlan tic, with a llttlo over C33 miles, Is given a valuation, with depreciation allowed for, of $18,071,930. This is the cost of : iotivw" uun-.-i. Results Now Expected. Tho fixing of tho tentative valuations of tho two roads nnmed Indicates that the operations of the physical valuation division havo reached a point where they will show results. Flgures'bn other roads will bo unuounccd In the near futuie. Tho next question Is whether the roads will be nbto to combat successfully the figures tentatively sot forth. In tho announcement by (ho commission to- , dny, It Ic stated tho roads will havo thirty days from November 1 to file protests to tho commission. If they make p. showing In protest, their objections will be heard. Other wise the commission will order the fig ures of the physical valuation division to stand. Surveys ProRrcsslnR Rapidly. Such rapid progress has been made In tho field survey work In valuing the roads that In round numbors tho survey of 100,000 of tho iJO,oSo miles of road In this country has been complotcd. Tho survey Is going aheud at the rate of 60,000 miles u year and In threo years more will be finished. It will tako a year after that for the valuation division to complete Its of fice work and the fixing of prloes. But In the meantime, prices will be computed on one road after another a Bl ROAD 1