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PRESIDENT CHEERED
ON. ARRIVAL HERE TO
SEE NEW SAYRE BABY
Mr.. and Mrs. Wilson Visit
Daughter and Child at Hos
pital Following Rousing
Reception at Station
MAY SPEND EASTER HERE

President Wilson arrived In Philadel-
child. Eleanor Arson Sayre. daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Francis B. Sayre, at the
jefferson Hospital. Mr.. Wilson. accom-
panied by Mrs. Wilson. arrived at Broad
Street Station at about o'clock, and pro-
ceeded Immediately to the hospital at 10th
and Walnut streets.
While the President was in a private
room occupied by Mrs. Sayre and her little
daughter Mrs. Wilson, under the escort of
DIR. George II. Mohler, superintendent of
the hospital, made tour of the building.
She was particularly impressed by the fa-
cilities of the institution and did not con-
ceal her admiration. Thee hildren's ward
and its 10 little occupants attracted more
than usual attention. Mrs. Wilson paused
beside each bed and spoke or shook hands
with every one of the little sufferers, Her
visit was especially welcomed by the chill
dren, as the ward has only been released
from quarantine a few days.
Mrs. Wilson's inspection of the hospital
included the surgical wards and the clinl-
cal amphitheatre. She returned to the
sixth floor, on which Mrs. Sayre's room is
located, and rejoined her husband and DR..
Edward p. Davis. who is the physician in
charge of the case. Throughout the tour
groups of nurses on the various floors
smiling.
No other visitors were admitted to the
hospital while President and Mrs. Wilson
were inside the building.
Although the Chief Executive came
direct from Washington, where he has
been under perhaps the greatest strain
that any President has ever experienced
owing to the crisis and possible war that
confronts this country with both Ger
many and Mexico, he nevertheless smiled
graclously in acknowledging the great
ovation that passengers in the station
gave him.
While the President and Mrs. Wilson
were walking from the train TO exit gate
an incident occurred which wrung cheers
from the crowds. Mr.. Wilson had almost
reached the open exit gate when a curly
haired <@ungster about 5 years old ap-
preached him. The child apparently had
become separated for the moment from its
caretaker. The President halted. shook
hands with his young welcomer. whom he
patted on the head as he spoke a kindly
word of greeting, He then rejoined Mrs
Wilson who also spoke TO the child, and
passed out of the train shed to the waiting
automobile.
There is possibility that the President
will remain in this city over Easter. Ys-
iting relatives. Among the relatives he
will probably visit is his grandniece, Miss
Anna Cothran.
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ACCUSED GIRL GETS DELAY
Young Woman Blamed for Theft of
$1,000 From Employers

Linda S. Metz, who lives with an aunt
on Baltimore avenue west OF 56th street,
and who was arrested by Detective Rich
last night on a warrant accusing her of
having embezzled more than $1,000 from
the Page Betting Company by whom she
has been employed as bookkeeper for
four years, was held in $1,000 bail by
Magistrate Beaton at the Central Station
this morning for a further hearing
April 20.
No testimony was offered at the hear
ing and the wOman's counsel, Cyrus ID.
Foss, asked a cOntinuance, The defend
ant, who is about 2s years old, Is said
10 have admitted 10 the police that the
money represented cash sales which she
failed 70 turn IA and that she used Il to
pay doctors bills and buy clothing. Bail
was furnished by the aunt
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CUMMINS GAINING ON FORD
IN LATE NEBRASKA RETURNS
Automobile Man, However, Still
Leads by 5000 Votes

OMAHA, Neb.. April 21.-United States
Senator Cummins Is climbing up toward
Henry Ford in the belated returns OF the
preferential primaries. and may succeed
in overtaking the automobile mRnufac-
turer. However. Ford Is still nearly 5000
IA the lead.
W J. Bryan Is still In sixth place and
losing ground Ia his race for delegate
at-larea. sutton. Republican. for Gov
ernor. IS drawing away from MokeleEe
and probably VIII b nomlnatea
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SPIES OBTAIN
VITAL SECRETS
in WASHINGTON
Government Worried by
Carelessness of Depart
ment Heads
ORDERED TO SHUT UP"

WASHINGTON. April 21.-A system of
espionage that would do credit to an alb
solute monarchy exists in Washington.
IL is maintained by several agencies most
ly representatives of foreign Governments
AS a result, Government secrets, some OF
them of extreme Importance, have in the
past few months found their way into the
possession of outsiders, who have used
them to embarrass the United States. This
has been especially so in cases of inter-
national moment.
Plans for future action. affecting both
Europe and Mexico. have leaked out In
such manner that carefully laid plans.
sometimes having taken months to perfect,
have had to be changed at the last mo-
ment.
So serious was the situation that three
of the governmental departments arected
united in an investigation. The reports
covering the results now are before the
chiefs of these departments.
They show that virtually every leak
is directly blamable on Government Of
ficials themselves. Washington officials
are notorious for talking over the tele-
phone to any one who will listen. Today
however most of them have received
quiet but peremptory tip to quit that
method of discussing any matters that af-
feet Government policies.
In the large residences OF nearly all
Washington officials there are telephone
systems with as many as dozen
branches. Servants or others in the houses
have overheard conversations of Cabinet
officials, army and navy chiefs, and other
high officials by cutting in" on these
branches
This information has industrlously been
'peddled," sometimes to half dozen
sources And II has not always been ac-
curately reported, one instance recently
having occurred where reported COM
munication from an American Ambassa-
dor was distorted into proposition en-
tirely foreign from what was intended.
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WASHINGTON. April 2l.-Amba assador
Won Bernstorff has been caught in a trap
from which he cannot escape. il Wash.
ington's Interpretation of the last few days
developments is correct.
Washington has come to the conclusion
that the German Embassy faces the neoes.
sity of admitting improper activities or
having the fact proved against It, Whether
Count Won Bernsto,n II can prove Washing.
ton is wrong remains to be seem
Papers taken from the Office OF Wolf
Won Igel, confidential secretary of Captain
Won Papen, and himself accredited TO the
embassy, form the principal basis for the
belief. The alleged confession of Horst
Won der Goltz i'm London. copy of which
is in Washington. forms an important
element.
The situation was considered by the
Presidents Cabinet today. 1t had already
been~cOnsidered the past few days by the
Justice Department and the State Depart
ment.
How seriously the embassy has been
Continued on Page Seven, Column Two
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RAIN MAY START RIOT
OF EASTER PARADERS
Looks as If Western Storm May
Be Boardwalk Visitor
Sunday
Easter Weather Enigma
for All Best Prophets

Special Easter forecast made by
United States Weather Bureau at
Washington-"For eastern Penn
sylvania and New Jersey-Prob-
able showers Saturday, with indi-
cations of clearing Sunday. Tenn
perature will remain normal"
"Long-distance" forecast, made
two weeks ago by Willis l.. Moore,
professor of meteorology at the
George Washington University and
former chief of the United States
Weather Bureau, and w. F. Ca
rothers, director of the Carothers
Observatory, Houston, Tex, and
based on a new discovery in solar
physics-"The week will open with
showers and rising temperatures"
Forecast made today by George
S. Bliss, section director of the
United States Weather Bureau,
this city-"The outlook for good
weather Sunday is not as encour-
aging as yesterday. The unusually
slow movement of a storm area
from the West may bring showers
Sunday, but there is strong hope
that the day will be fair"
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5000 TURKS KILLED
IN ATTACK ON BRITISH
Sultan's Forces Penetrate De-
tenders Lines in Mesopotamia.
Germans Among Dead

LONDON, April 21.-More than 5000
Turkish troops were killed in the lighting
against the British forces in Mesopotamia
the War ofice announced this afternoon
The enemy, 10000 strong. attacked the
British positions on April II and IS and
succeeded in penetrating part OF the Brit
ish front. The Turks lost heavily, how
ever. while the British casualties in dead
and wounded were considerably less than
the total number of enemy dead.
The following official statement on the
fighting on these two days was given out:
An enemy force OF 10000. eompris-
ing one division and portions OF
others attacked our positions in
Mesopotamia. on April II and April
is. They penetrated part Of our front
front.
In front OF one of our brigades.
1900 TO 1909 bodies of Turks were
counted 1t Is reported that the IA
talities were greater on other portions
Of our line
the number of Turks killed on
April 1913 were more than 5000.
Many Germans who led some OF the
attacking forces were killed.
The enemy supposed our troops
were isolated by khoods from the rest
OF the force, though our supports are
moving up.
Our casualties In killed. wounded
ana missing are less than the total
number Of Turks kiifed-
lhe omcial statement does not stats
whether the Turks we're elected from tha
trsncnes they eonQnree on part = lAe
British lfent
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BIG STRIKE BEGUN AT
WESTINGHOUSE PLANT
1900 Employees at East Pitts
burgh and 1000 at Turtle
Hill Quit Work

PITTSBURGH. Pa, April Fifteen
hundred employees in two departments OF
the Westinghouse Electric and Machine
Company's East Pittsburgh plant walked
out late this afternon. More are expected
TO follow. The walk-out followed the com
pany's refusal of demands presented by
the toolmakers These workers asked that
their hours be reduced from nine and
three quarters TO eight and that they re-
ceive 10 hours pay.
The employees of the shell-makins de-
partment struck in sympathy with the
toolmakers.
Two thousand employees OF the new
Westinghouse plant. at Turtle Creek. con
structed for making shells for belligerents,
later walked out in sympathy with the
East Pittsburgh workers
The strike may spread TO all Westins'
house plants IN the Pittsburgh district.
employing nearly $4,000 men
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VILLA, ALIVE AND UNHURT,
GATHERS TROOPS FOR RAID

Ell PASO. Tex, April 21.-Pancho
Villa Is in the State of Zacatecas. un-
harmed. He is the hero of a large fol-
lowing of bandits, gathered from the
Durango Mountains to aid him in driving
the American soldiers from Mexican soil.
This information was obtained today
by agents of the State Department, fol-
lowing the discovery through American
sources that Villa had passed through
Parral on April 10 and had gone south
east from there.
1t was learned today that Villas objec-
tive was Sombrerte. near the border of the
States of Durango and Zacatecas, about so
miles southwest of Torreon.
Another report states that Villa passed
through Troya, about 25 miles east OF
Parral. two days before the engagement
between Americans and Carranza troops
there
Evidence that villa. II wounded follow
ing the Columbus raid as asserted by Car
ranzistas, has recovered from the wound
and now appears as sound as ever, has
been obtained through MeXicans near
Torreon who say they saw Villa In per-
son riding at the head of a column of
men, west of Torreon on April l3, and
that Villistas in the Torreon country were
quitting their homes to join the bandit
band in the zacatecas country.
villa, 1t is said, was in Torreon with
several of his men on April IS. He was
not disguised, but did not make himself
conspicuous in the town, where he has
thousands of followers. II was learned by
Government agents that Villa met several
bandit leaders In the outskirts of To-reon
and that he proceeded on into Zacatecas,
presumably on their request to take lead
.,ership as the head of a considerable force
OF Villistas gathered there for him.
Adyices from the south, from private
but reliable souces, say that the whole
of Central Mexico. and especially the Tor
reon district and the country lying be-
tween Parral and Torreon, is afiame with
violent anti-American sentiment. News
OF the Parral incident. colored TO appeal to
the ignorant Meaicans. has been spread
Continued on Page Seven. Column -Four
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SLAVS LOSE REGIMENT
IN REPULSE NEAR DVINSK
BERLIN, April

Russian attack at Garbunowka,
northwest of Dvinsk, was checked. the
Russians losing about one regiment, the
War Office reported today.
Army of General Won Bothmer-A
German aeroplane squadron threw bombs
on the railway buildings at Tarnopol,"
the report continued.
Balkan front-Our airmen bombarded
French encampments in the Yardar valley
and west thereof"
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VILLA PURSUIT
FACES ATTACK
BY UNITED FOE
Villistas, Carranzistas and
Citizens Threaten U. S.
Expedition
OUTLAW RALLIES TROOPS
Bandit Chieftain Not Dead,
Carranza Aid Definitely
Reports

The American expedition in Mexic
to get Pancho Villa today is menace,
from several points of the compass;
Villa himself is not dead, ac-
cording to official announcement,
but in Zacatecas gathering new
forces to attack his pursuers.
Carranzistas, in large numbers,
have swooped down toward Par
raj, "ready to shoot" should ex-
cuse be given.
Mexican civilians, enraged over
the invasion of their territory and
deceived into believing the Amer
leans were roundly beaten at
Parral, are threatening.
Germany's hand is seen by
American investigators in melting
the Villista uprising.
Reinforcements are held at the
border, although needed at the
front, pending the arrival of
Chief Of Staff Scott. Fears are
expressed the expedition will be
withdrawn.
The Americans have been or
dered by Carranza commanders
not to proceed any farther south
than Parral.
General Carranza, supposed ally
of the United States, is about to
collapse as ruling power, while
General Obregon, foe of this Gov
ernment, is directing affairs.
Dispatches today say that ten cars
Of supplies destined for General
Pershing have been held up the Car.
rama commander at Chihuahua City
Pershing's forces have been com
PEELED to fall back upon Satevo and
prepared for genera
attack. With this movement, Car.
rama troops have massed near Casas
Grandes ready to pounce upon the
lines of communication.
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BERNSTORFF MAY
GO BEFORE BERLIN
ANSWERS WILSON
Won Igel Papers Involve
Him-German Embassy
Has Asked Eight Times
for Them
HIS POSITION DELICATE

NEW YORK, April 21.-All the pa
pers seized in the recent raid on the
Office of Wolf Won Igel, at so Wall
street, were forwarded to Attorney
General Gregory in Washington to-
day. The Attorney General will hand
them to Secretary of State Lansing
tomorrow.
This announcement was made today
by United States District Attorney H.
Snowden Marshall. The bundle sent
contained both the original papers and
the Photographic prints and negatives
of them.
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10 NEUTRAL VESSELS TAKEN INTO KIRKwALL

steamships
and New Orleans Gothenbug Swedish steamship Baden Ba
Stockholm
Inland GOtenburg Tampa chstn the Danish
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]. E. WIDENER PAYS ssOOOOO FOR FAMOUS TAPEs,

The famous Maan tapestry of 40 such works of textile art collected by
p v
Ito
of AR
and waso owned Mazarin. of
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Boys Body Turns Indigo Color Be
fore His Death

PoTrsToWN, Pa, April 2l.-From the
effects of eating candy eggs William Dun
lap, 16 years old. son Of fGeorge Dunlap. this
borough, died today at the Pottstown Hos
pital The boy died two hours after being
admitted to the hospital from acute dilata-
tion OF the stomach.
Physicians think his fatal illness was
due 70 eating impure Easter candles.
His body turned an indigo color before he
died. An autopsy will be made.
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LIGHTS MATCH TO ADMIRE EASTER sUIT-HoME BURNS


his He
in
total dtructio
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READING, Pa, April 21. - Miss Ida
Reitnauer, Of Boyertown, will be married
tomorrow, the day of her fathers fu-
neral. TO Leroy Reightnour. of Pottstown.
Her father. George j. b. Reltnauer, died
Wednesday after arrangements for the
wedding had been completed. 1t was de-
cided to hold the funeral tomorrow morn
day
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RECRUITS MAY GO TO MEXICAN FRONT AT ONCE

2-Re o
in
throughout
or to the xican border
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THE WEATHER
FORECAST

For philadelphia and Vicinitaf-
Probably showers tonight and Sat
urdag; slightly a0armer tonight and
cooler Saturday; moderate sOuthsrly
winds.
For details see page II
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plant
OF he
caugh and machinery yesterday.
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BULLETINS
U. s. LOSES oUAKER oATs ANTI.TRUsT suTT


antitrust the Justice
Achuer from the eopno
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PARIS April Fhe Journal des ps prints FOurnier News
hmedfr from n
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their
handAm
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Won HAEsELER MAY BE-vERDUN scAPEGoAT


military authorities
of the
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TEUToN SUBJECTS CALLED FROM RUMANIA

ROME April 21Austan and German subjects living In Runania ncud
from
$ the fear that
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No Action on Brandeis' Nomination

WASHINGTON. April 2l.-The Senate
Judiciary COMMITTEES today adjourned un'
m Monday without acting on the nomina-
tion of Louis d. Brandeis 70 be an Asso-
Gle Justice OF the Supreme Court
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BRITISH POSITION AT KuT acRITcAL.. TURKS SAY


expecting small bass e the sena
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Woodbury.
wHloughby adviser the Chinese Government
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TWO BRITISH SHIPS ToRpEDoED; NEUTRAL SUNK

LONDON April the British
The the bark stoed
a in
las
in
n
reWhch the ship carried
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GREAT BRITAIN MAY TAX U. s. INVESTORS

2lThe british Government
a o esed
a
ha budRe
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Fire Destroys Barn in Darby

Fire. believed 70 have started In the
hayloft OF the barn owned By James
Boyer, on Davis lane near Main street
Darcy destroyed the building ana 4 nuna.
Der q Agricultural lmplamenfs today. Ihe
loss i sstisnatsd q s4eae,
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GERMANY CONSENTS TO AID IN TuBANrIA PROBE


of
marine
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IN cases of AIeasIes in Tamaaua

PoTTsYILLE, Pa. April q. - There
are 14I eases OF measles IN Tamaqua, Of
4 regulation Of 1900. The closing o1 the
schools. movies and other public places Is
oontsmplalea
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LOST AND FOUND

,fsz-I,osl diamond and pearl bar PIN al Haze
l. .iorn's. 18Th and Chestnut Friday af!ernoon-
~. 4lI reward and QUESTIONS asked IL re-
cr,l. .Etsf~-I.osf. DIAMOND and sapphire
st1iaI We'd. sss April 49, kuzlar' q
sasi q * es e&ss & - ~ ssg AIs7
es1ss Lsss .aa Fsuaa Aas q Rass Il
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DANISH SHE REPORTED CAPTURED by GERMANS


Copenhagen the the Germans and taken
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WASHINGTON, submarine
OF
TwoA America sorewm memb weresa
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URKIsH GOvERNMENT EXECUTES FOUR GREEK sP

CoNsTANTNoPLE April 2It officially announced today that m
executed
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PRESIDENT WEARS NO SIGNS OF WORRY

President Wilson threw out the
hall that opened the baseball sea-
son in Washington yesterday. He
was accompanied by Mrs. Wilson,
who is seated On his right.
Photo by Underwood . Underwood.
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Continued on Page Seven. Column Three
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Photo by Underwood q Underwood.
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KILLED BY EASTER CANDY

CONTINUED on PaEe ssyen. Column FOuI
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Funeral and Marriage in a Day

Continued ON Page Seven. Column Two