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ielBdtott HOME EDITION Weather Forecast: Fair Tonight; Wednesday Cloudy NUMBEK 8489. WASHINGTON, TUESDAY EVENING, MABOH 30, 1015. PRICE ONE CENT. r' i U.S. ALARMED BY VICTORIES OF Railroads Out of Mexico City Stopped as First Chief Draws Near.

VILLA'S TROOPS DESERTING Border Conditions Less Threatening for Time Being at Matamoras. Administration officials arc manifesting serious concern today over the sudden change of fortune in Mexico and tho Increasing strength of the Car-ranzista faction. Not only have they conflimation of the reverses sustained by the Villa troops at Matamoras, and of tho reports that Villlsta troops are deserting in large numbers to Carranza near Agua Prlcta, but they have reason to believe that Mexico City -will be In the bunds of the Carranlsta8 within the next forty-eight hours. Wlttj this announcement came the Information that railroad communication out of Mexico City again has been interrupted. General destruction of railroads and bridges Is reported from various points of northern Mexico, a dispatch from Nogalcs Mtating that twelve railway bridges had been blown up between Llano and Carbo.

During; the last few weeks Washington has been looking to Villa to clean up the Mexican trouble in short order by crushing Carranza. The latter, it was thought, and the advices from consuls had so indicated, was CARRANZA i on his last legs at Vor Cruz Victories fcftrai two or three days, tho wily first bhicf has delivered a sorles of severe defeats to the much-vaunted bandit chieftain of the north and the Administration here sees trouble ahead. While border conditions were momentarily somewhat less threatening today at Matamoras they were much more so at Nuovo Laredo. General Funston reported Villlstas moving strongly on the latter place. The Carranza commander there had announced he would fight.

Firing across the line was deemed almost tertaln In the event of the seemingly Inevitable battle. War Department officials admitted field artillery might lip ordered to Laredo, to protect American neutrality, lives and "property. Even at Matamoras the lull did not promise to continue long. Villa was believed to be delaying a general as-bault only while he brought up re-enforcements. It was persistently reported he had fifteen carloads of artillery on their way there from Monterey.

Carranza Intractable. Carranza from the flrst has been far more intractable than Villa in responding to representations made by this Government in behalf of foreigners in Mexico. More recently, it became known today. Carranza, in responso to representations from the United States. sent a reply bristling with defiance and indicating plainly his belief that no rcalter how far he may go In disregarding the righto of foreigners, the Washington authorities will not Ufce force, and the nations of Europe are too much occu-(Contlnued on Second Page.) WALTER DILLON Health Department to Begin Prosecutions Under Eight-Hour Law.

The appointment of Walter r. Dillon today as inspector under tho eight-hour law. to succeed Paul W. Garrett, le-slgucd, gives the Health Department opportunity to brinng prosecutions against twenty alleged offenders, whose cases, it Is said, have been referred to the f'orporution Counsel These oases have born held In uboy- nnco pending tho decision of Justice Covington ot the District Supreme I'ourt in the proceedings brought ugulnst the Oommlsalonersc to enjoin them from the enforcement of the law Mr Dillon will enter upon his duties pril 1. Recites 'The Then Shoots Self on Street Car I'TKA March Jlc 'ormltk twrnt -two, of I'tica.

hhol himself todux affr Mtanding on tho weal of a Syracuse to l'th-H car and reciting "Th- Pass-engen. nmdi sain effoits to roach mm MeC'onnteh li living In a hospital Imported La Carolina Cherutos, 10c. Finest Haana tobacco, mild, sweet, fragrant. Advt. BECOMES INSPECTOR Million-Share Day On Stock Exchange Bethlehem Steel and Rock Island Lead Flurry on Strong DemandPrices Firm.

NEW YORK, March CO. Tho Stock Exchango had Us busiest day slnco the war began today. Satos during one hour totaled 2.11,000 shares and more than a million dollar worth of bonds. It was "million-share day" in the languago of tho Street. Bethlehem Steel and nock Island lcU in the flurry, the former reaching Ol another new high record.

Prices rulqd' firm everywhero with a strong demand. aEEfTOTRAVERSE CM. NEXT 5n Twenty Battleships and Twenty Destroyers to Go Through, Daniels Announces. In spite of the slides in the canal and tho talk that the battleships might not bo sent through the waterway. Secretary Daniels said today it was tho intention to send a gigantic fleet, consisting of probably twenty battleships, twenty or moic destroyers, and other vessels, from the Atlantic to tho Pacific and north along the Pacific coast in July.

This will be done following the maneuvers off Now Tork, where there will be assembled the greatest fleet of fighting craft ever seen in this country. President Wilson will rcviow it. Reports that the maneuvers oft New-York might bo abandoned were definitely denied today by Secretary Daniels. He is already considering plans, and will soon have a personal conference with Admiral Fletcher in regard to them. Admiral Fletcher is expected at Hampton Roads In about ten days for target practice.

Secretary Daniels will visit the fleet at that time, see target practice, and will confer with iLE.lcitr,ei.- jV iim T7jT v. Daniels that he will review th floet at the time of the maneuvers off Now York. All the warships that go to the Pacific will go north as far as San Francisco. Then a division will go to Puget Sound and a division to Hawaii. Secretary Daniels will go to both places.

APPEAL IS MADE FOR Gathering of Data in District's Fight Will Be Started Immediately. With the appointment of subcommittees representing tho several civic organizations. P. T. Moran, chairman of tho finance committee of the citizens' committee preparing to present the District's attitude in the half-and-half principle investigation, is issuing a call to all public spirited Washlngtonlans to contribute to tho expense fund of the campaign.

The contributions desired arc nominal from $1 to $10 and Mr. Moran and Henry B. F. Macfarland, chairman of tho executive committee in general charge of tho District's interests, estimate that if there is anything like a response reprebentative of the citizenry of the District, there will not be need for big donations. The gathering of data in the half-and-half tight Is to start immediately under the direction of the executive committee, which has begun series of conferences with members of tho subcommittees on historical facts financial facts, statistical facts, taxation and assessment and finance.

Mr. Macfarland asserts that the brief to be tiled by tho District will be coincide, owing to the interest and activi ties of these workers, and a force of clerical assistants is soon to be engaged to begin tho compilation of a complete review of the llnancial arrangement be tween the District and Federal Governments, together with the District's argument In favor of tho retention of tho present relations. Japanese Diet to Meet In Extra Session in May NEW YORK, March 30. An extra session of the Japanese Diet will optn about May 20, according to a statement given out bv the East and West Ncab Bureau toduy. The government, which was supported by the people at tho recent election, will then move tho passage of bills tor an Inoreased army, for naval Improvements and for subsidies for the Japanese merchant marine.

The China-Japan negotiations will fcc discussed. Trial of Dr. T. J. Kemp on Morphine Charge Begun Hr Thomas J.

Kemp, charged with ioluting the pharmacy law by prc-hf i thing and furnishing morphine to harles Mcfann. in connection with a crusade the latter w.i. conducting, wan again plated on tiial befors Judge l'ugh and a Jury In the District brunch of folic Court today The trial wus blurted last wtck. but neoause of the sudden illness of one of the jurors tho Jury Has discharged. HALF-AMD-HALF FU GIRL ORIS FIRST JITNEY BUS SEEN Cleveland Park to Congressional Library Route Is Already in Operation.

PAYS OPERATION COSTS Miss Elizabeth Cushman 'links Regular Schedule Would Be Justified. The flrst Jitney bus to he operated In the Capital is driven by a oung woman, Miss Klizabcth Cushman, Tllden street northwest, who utilizes her car to take fellow clerks at the Congressional Library to and from their homes in Cleveland Park. Miss Cushman hays she is not running ii "regular" Jitney line. It Is Just an accommodation line, run at the icqucst of girl friends In Cleveland Park, who arc associated with her at the Library. Miss Cushman says she was in the hublt of picking up her friends In the morning to take them to tho Library, and then would drive them home with her at night.

Her friends Insisted on paying- for the ride, and the Congressional Library Jitney bus lino was launched. Tays For the Gas." "The Jltnev bus pays," Miss Cush man Bald today. I bollevo It would pay to install a regular schedule between Cleveland Park and downtown, even though It Is a 'long It is about four miles from the Cleveland Park neighborhood to the Library. Miss Cushman docs not believe a line from Chevy chase to the downtown section would bo a paying venture, owing to the distance, but she is surprised that Jitney bus lines have not been inaugurated in cross-town streets and from districts that are not served by car lines. The Congressional Library Jitney bus was not in service today, as the car was being painted.

The painting will not he done with nroflts from the oncration nc' car however, as the Jitney has btt-ln operation for only a fwdy. "lint It lutft nnlrf fnr mv' Hut it has paid for my' gas," Cushman said. BY RESCUING FLEET News That Submarine Has Been Towed 300 Feet Causes Ray of Hope The first real rav of hope foi the recovery of the submaiine F-4, which went to the bottom off Honolulu harbor, came today when an official dispatch reached the Navy Department saying the vessel had been moved COO feet nearer the shore. Secretary of the Navy Daniels announced he had received a telegram from Rear Admiral Moore, commandant at Honolulu, to this effect. No further particulars were given.

The Nay Department is not advised In what depth of water the vessel now is or what arc the prospects for hct complete recovery. In responso. to an inquiry from the department yesterday. Rear Admiral Moore wired that tilt F-l had been located definitely about yards southwest of Honolulu lighthouse. The depth of wator, he said, was from forty-three to sixty fathoms.

This telegram was not encouraging to the officials of the department. They calculated that If the submarine whs down beyond ZOO feet It would bo impossible to recover her, because divers would probably bo unable to go down more than that distance. Uut now that word has come that tho submarine lias actually been moved the officials are more hopeful. No further thought is entertained that any Of those in the submarine are alive. Cut.

in the flrst place, tho officials do not want the bodies left lying In a watery grave, ana, in ine second place, they desire to know what caused the disaster. Russian, Single-Handed, Captured German Trench PETROGRAD, March 30. The bravery of Captaip Suvoroff, who, single-handed, captured a Gcmian trench In the Orzec river fighting in Poland, received special mention in an official bulletin lo.la. Suvoroff leaped Into the trench, wrested a machine gun from two Germans and slaughtered the oeeu-punts of the trench. Then ho plavrci the machine gun on a force of advancing Germans until they broke and fled.

Russian tioops came up and occupied the trench. NWfiH NGTONIANS TO ALLY CAUGHT DO YOU KNOW The Most Beautiful Girl in Washington? See Tomorrow's Times SHIP IS DISABLED, FIVE RQW450 MILES Sailors From Steamship 0. M. ClarlFinally Arrive at Port San Luis. i i "1 1 TASK BELIEVED HOPELESS Coast Guard Cutter Puts Out Immediately to Find Craft in Distress.

Five members of the crew of the big steam schooner O. M. Clark, long over-duo at San Francisco from Hilo, Jla-wail, have reached Port Pan Luis, on the California coast, atter an almost unparalleled journey in an open boat across the Pacific. The Clark is disabled and rolling helplessly In the F'aclftc swell, her propeller gone, 50 miles off finn Diego. with fifteen souls aboard and water nnd provisions short.

The boat rrew of five picked men put off days ago to try to make land and summon assistance for the big freighter, according to- information reaching Coast Guard headquarters here. They left the Clark 100 miles off San Diego, and made cast on what was believed to be an almost hopeless Jour- Ine, Thcy rowed most of ths way. holding due east, and getting what help they could from the wind with a makeshift sail. Details or their Journey and tho plight of the Clark nic.fipE "known hcic. 4iV i The Coast Guard McCulloch, breasting: a heavy swell, ls speeding toward the spot where tho Clark was left boat's crew.

She is off the steamer lanes, and the McCulloch may havo to sweep the broad waters of the Paritlc for dajjg before finding the missing 3hjl, a aho Is drifting The McCulloch wfiJrAJWerrcf'ty tho search as soon us the pitiful boat crew reached Port San Luis and officials at Coast Guard headquarters here arc anxiously waiting word from her. They say that the lost vessel may be drifting rapidly, carried by winds and tides farther and farther from rescue. The Clark was built at Hoqutam, The Clark was built at Iloqulan, trade. She burnt oil and has no aux-ilary power. She was reported out of Hllo, Hawaii, for San Francisco weeks ago, and the hole coast was aroused over her disappearance, and for days It baa been felt that she was lost ETIQUETTE SCHOOL Wilson Says He Expects to Attend Classes Himself After He Has Retired.

President Wilson is establishing a school of etiquette for cx-Prcsldcnts of tho United States. Although not soliciting an pupils from nmong the living (there being only two, he expected to attend the classes hlmpelf, after he has from the Presidency. This Information was good-naturedly imparted today by tho President, when callers pressed him foi comments on recent utterances by cx-Prceldent Taft and ex-Prcsldent Roosevelt, to wit: Mr. Taft's charge that inefficiency is being substituted for efficiency In the present Administration of the Philippine Islands, with a resultant loss of a million and a half pesos annually in taxes, and Colonel Roosevelt's charges ancnt the alleged shipping lobby. Tho President declared he hoped when he got out of office his successors would not express opinions about what he, as an ex-President, might have to say about them.

It was not often, he remarked laughingly, that there were two ex-Prcsldcnts living at the same time, and he was trying to Invent a school of etiquette which would meet such a situation. Comptroller Rejects $11,000 Salary Claim, Comptiollci Uowney toda rejected Mrs. Jennie McCarty MacMath's $11,013 claim for salary because her husband, Thomas II Mnc.M'ith, besides serving us clerk In the New York Customs House, for which he drew J1.S00 yeurly, ulso acted as weigher from 1907 to 13KJ. mm X-P CIVILIAN DEATH TOLL IS 160 IN SUBMARINE WAR Uvea Lcat. February 20.

Cambank torpedoed in Channel 4 February 23. Harpation torpedoed in Channel 3 Fcbuary 24 Deptford torpedoed in Channel I March 15. Fingal torpedoed in North Sea 6 March 16. Glenartney torpedoed in Channel 1 March 16. Hyndford torpedoed in Channel 1 March 28.

Falaba torpedoed off Milford Haven 1 18 March 29. Aguila torpedoed off Fish Guard 20, Tta 1Q0 Above figures are for the period from February 18 when theGer-man submarine warfare was formally inaugurated. addition to these, twenty-three non-combafants, according to the British admiralty, lost their lives through submarine attacks from January 21 to February 18. i wJ.V a Mfts. Pankhurst Hailed Heroine of England Spirited Away From Being Mobbed Two Years Ago, Noted Suffragist Today, a Changed Person, Is Called "Britain's Most Eloquent Woman." By WILLIAM LONDON (b mafl to New York).

March 19. England Is Pankhurst! cheerlng Mrs. The newspapers are calling her "England's most eloquent woman." Their praiso of her Is unstinted. So is "a gracious woman" now in the very same columns in which she used to be called a "mad woman." Every night Mrs. Pankhurst speaks at the Pavilion, tho Identical theater fram which, every Monday afternoon two years ago, she was spirited av.ay to prevent her from being mobbed.

Mrs. Pankhurst is part of tho program. She appears In various gowns, mostly black, all of exquisite cut She Invariably wears a laco shawl, and from her neck hangs a lorgnct, which she Is never seen to use. Thero Is elegance, poise and restraint in her appearance In her speech. She is a changed Mrs.

Pankhurst. And the. England that once hooted hv now greets her wlth chocrg or weoo.me. "Women and the Her theme Is "Women and the "I must refer to the last previous oc caslon in which I appeared here." said M. Pahkhurst on "ner open'lng n.Bght: ciibbu at hull nine in in- ternal warfare warfare on the pait of.

the women who were denied by the government of tho country what they considered their legitimate rights of citizenship. "When 1 came here we were fighting about rights; tonight we arc lighting tor duties. In face of a terrible danger people have to forget their rights and think only of their duties." Lloyd-George. Premier Asquith all the men of the government whoso lives were made miserable by the criticism and physical attacks of Mrs. Pankhurst and her followers came in for praise.

"I am thankful and proud ft sav," ioid Mrs. Tankhurst. "that the nation as represented by tho government is doing its duty. Some of us who think that the government does not always do its duty were anxious when the war broke out. I was in Brittany when the trouble began, and I wondered whether England would come In, or play the coward's part by TROOPS TO SMYRNA Expect First Serious Assault of Allies' Expeditionary Forces to Be Made There.

LONDON. March SO. Athens dispatches recehed here via Paris today say largo bodies of Turkish troops have been convoyed to Smyrna over the Constantinople railway. Tho Turks arc reported to bo convinced that the tirst serious attempt of the allied expeditionary force will be to capture Smyrna, CONSTANTINOPLE Amsterdam). March ai.

Large bodies ot Jtus-slan Cossacks havo been ropuls-cd with heavy losses by the Turku operating north of Olti, In the Russian Caucasus, It was announced officially today. High Record Set for Chicago Real Estate CHICAGO. March new high rcc- ord tor ('lcugo ical estate 1 was bet today. The Fine Arts Hullding end the laud It stands on at I'S-i'ii' South Miuhlgun avenue was oM iiy Mie Stpdebaker estate to the estate ot Charles A. Clupln lor ftt.OOO a front foot.

TURKEY IS RUING aMMBavaa mmmmt G. SHEPHERD. stepping out. Thank heaven, we de- ciuc'l to come In and stand by cal- lant little Belgium. "The Germans thought we were a decadent people.

One of tjc reasoni w-as that they saw In this country women engaged with men in polltltal warfare." Just In this part of Mrs. Pankhurst speech came her trump Find Courage In Men. "The Germans are not good psychologists." she said. "They should havo known that the country In which women have courage to fight 1 a country whero you will find courage in men. Where you have women crushed you will find men of Inferior quality." This paragraph in Mrs.

Pankhurfct's speech always brings a roar of cheers. "The Germans thouuht ih miff it. Ista would continue their fight in war Ime." continued the militant leader. yuai a whe a you Sv, by the' nem.Wiqm jTjnrf' ire to shut yourys tV youR, Vw-i. fp.

larKcq ytju jitvr to Mnur. vottr fto ui. nuuuicn iiu mrm up biqc ny slue in uuiense ot national aerenses. all hate war, but there Is this difference between ourselves and the crowu tliat we ae- I ilff IVX may up sparea war. Baltimore Advances to Fifth Place After Having Dropped to Ninth in Exports.

An increase in imports, with a cor responding gain in customs receipts and a decline in exports are shown In the report of tho Department of Commerce giving figures on the foreign commerce for the week ending March I -i. i no trane nainnw fur ihn favor of the United States was io. as compared with $21,000,000 for the preceding week, and $47,000,000 for the1 week ending March 13. Baltimore advanced to fifth nlacp In MPOHT INCREAS oil FOR WEEK export totals, after dropping to ninth ror over the torpedoing of the steam- l-eclu Thr Hgures on the ers Kalaba and Aguila. with a loss bus.ln(,18S cover shipments at of nfc n(nv estimated at 144 cave thirteen principal ports doing SS ner csiimaico at m.

gave cent of tho Import and S3 per cent of I R' todH' to grave concern for the the export buslnc-. safety of other big passcngcr-carry- i1-? tor t10 week was ins liners about to enter the German marked. Mgures from the thirteen ports for the week ending March 13 1 gave 1 fnc' total Import allies as and for lntiuest at Milford Haven today the week ending March 1-0 thev were 'resulted in the formal finding that the iotal. ccl 3unpcc-i eight known victims of tho Falaba to their deaths through ex- for the preceding week. posurc, follow Ins torpedoing of tho ship.

For the period sIiko December I total Surviving olfkers testified that when duties collected, the submarine was sighted, the Falaba's ua waai altered the vessel's course while the crew was ordered to stand by the boats. CUMBERLAND GIRL'S I SLAYER NOT FOUND) Impression Increases That Miss Margaret Mullan Was MurderedMystery Grows Deeper. March The authorities arc batflcd over the mvs-terlous death of Marguret Mullan. daughter ot V. T.

Mullan. retired llnv manufacturer. The corom r's lnciue.t. coerlng five hours, disclosed nothing, and alibU were practically proved by persons alleged to have lieut: under tuspleion. 1 lie impression grows that a murder was committed, und it is believed wie lonniy eoi.imiBPioners will offor a icward of tor the upurehen sion oi me guilty person.

The girl w.ih deaf, and It was shown at the hearing that she way seen alone ubout midnight. A theory Is held that she was run down by joy riders, who. string thev were undetected, threw the body over tho fence. The money In her purse wa undisturbed, and while hor neck whh broken and her fate und body bore ecrntrr-p. there v.

ah no actual evident ot attn k. mifs neii.iiKPd to one oldest tamillc. of Canton Now "Shameen. The hlnesr TcU graph Administration annouiicff that from April 1 fo tecraph and fable purposcv the city jf I anion 111 ue knuun as ohamccn LINE ORDUNA 15 ESCORTED DESTROYERS Boats Made Ready to Be Lowered Instantly in Case of Submarine Attack Reaches Liverpool Unmolested. Halifax Contingents Stand Guard While Ship, Under Full Steam and in Darkness, Dashes Through Irish Sea.

LONDON. March 30. Escorted by destroyers ana mins-sweepcri to guard against German submarines reported off the harbor, the big liner Orduna sped up the Mersey and into Liverpool today. Her officers had been warned by wireless of the fate of the African liner Falaba and every man of her crew was alert, in expectation of a submarine attack. The Orduna's wireless picked up the news of the sinking of the Falaba, which was easily overhauled by the 18-knot German raider.

Consequently her officers were genuinely concerned for her safety and took most extrnnrdinorv me unci uuais were maae ready to be lowered instantly in case of submarine attack. RECRUITS STAND GUARD. IM. 1 i Scvrral Halifax contingents, composed of Newfoundland military recruits, en route to England, voluntarily stood guard while the Orduna. under full stiam and In almost utter darkness, dashed through the lilsh Sea.

The news of the sinking of the Ka-Inba wa6 a secret among the Orduna's ofllcers until the liner reached Liverpool. Her passengers knew nothing of the destroyci convoy until they went on deck this morning. Official of the Eldei line announced that revised figures show probable loss of life of 112 from the torpedoing of the I Kalaba. Eieht bodies have been re- covered. IN passengers and members of the crew arc still missing, and Elder line officials are positive there have peiished.

Many of the survivors were penniless. Th company provided them with transportation to their homes. Inquest Finds Death of Submarine Victims Was Caused by Explosion LONDON, March 30. England's hor- The submarine was at least three knots faster than the Falaba, witnesses testllled. She overhauled the.

liner within llfteen minutes and signaled "stop and abandon your ship!" The Kalaba kept on her course and the submarine sign iled "Stop or I'll fire Into The Kalaba then hovc-to and was putting her boats oer the f-ldc when tho torpedo struck her admidshlps. Representatives of big shipping companies besieged the admiralty offices early today. They were assured that most drastic precautions had been taken to protect trans-Atlantic liners from New York from submarine attacks during their pissage through the Irish Sea. Crowds Inquire For Relatives. All night crowds thronged about the offices of the Elder line here, In- Quiring for relatives aboard tho linei Falaba.

Larly today officers of the Elder line admitted they had practically abandoned hope for .10 passengers and crew of the Falaba still missing. Trawlers raking the waters off the. southern coast of Wales today reported sighting a number of bodies. Reports from Fishguard regarding the exact loss of life aboard tho Aguila are htill contradictory, but the admiralty reports twenty-three the Aguila's crew arid three passengers missing. Fear For Big Liners.

The London pi ess expresses the hor-roi (if the natiuii over the sinking of the a aii, tl Aguila. with heavy of iif ri'ii Pr- IN BY tltl.