Therefore, administration leaders in Congress believe that with but two weeks of the session remaining the President should get his emergency program before Congress at once. To do so, the President was closeted in his study, hard at work. No announcement as to what he was doing was forthcoming, but it was understood that he was working over his emergency plans preparatory to submitting them to Congress. With the exception of an hour at church, and a brief automobile ride this afternoon, the president spent the entire day at work.

There were no new reports from the war on the State Department today, and State Department officials noted as somewhat significant the general reduction in the destructiveness of the German submarine campaign. They pointed out that up to date the ruthless warfare had failed by a wide margin to destroy shipping at the rate of 1,000,000 tons a month, fixed by the American Admiralty when the campaign began. With the American freighters orleans and Boilers in the neighborhood of the war zone tonight, however, Washington waited anxiously for reports of their progress. It was stated that the sinking of either one of these vessels without warning would make the situation still more serious. 