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The Washington herald., 1919-04-05
ATLANTIC CITY
TO Be AIR PORT
Planes Clearing for Resort
Must Be Registered, Just
As Ships Are.

Atlantic City. y. J.. April A-ThIs
resort is likely to achieve the honor
OF being designated as first air port
in the world. Plans for the port wer.
announced today by Augustus Post
secretary OF the Aerial League OF
America. The air port. according to
Mr.. Post. is to be operated on the
same lines as a seaport.
Aircraft starting from this port %
he said. ''are to be registered under
the rules Of the aircraft inspection
service of the Department OF Com
merce. having clearance papers. Just
as ships OF the sea have.
The new port will also supply 2
flying field for the Aero Club OF Amer
ica, the Aerial League OF America and
the Atlantic City Aero Club.
I'm addition. it will serve as an aerial
mail station and aerial police station
for tlantic City.
1T vii have facilities for trans-At-
lsntic airships. whether Of tho sea-
plane. airplanc or dirigibIc balloon
type"
The Washington herald., 1919-04-05
WILSON'S COLD
SEVERE, MUST
STAY IN BED
Physician Orders Complete
Rest After Patient De-
velops Racking Cough.
FIRST LADY AS NURSE
Excludes Even Members Of
the Big -Four from Hus-
bands Sickroom.

Paris. April 4--There Is nothing
more TO be said than that President
Wilson is suffering from a severe
cold,' was the only statement elicit
ed late this evening from Admiral
Cary Grayson, the Presidents physi-
clan. Mr.. Wilson has been confined
TO his bed since yesterday. The de-
gree Of his fever was not revealed.
1t was learned, however. that his
cold is accompanied by a distinctly
racking cough.
"Will there be any necessity for
issuing daily buIletins?'' DR.. Grayson
was asked.
Probably not" was the answer.
Big Four in Conference.
While Mr.. Wilson has been for
bidden by his doctor to participate
in the conferences of the big four"
today's deliberations Of that body
were held at the Presidents resi-
dence. with Col. House taking Mr..
Wilson's place. The object was to
have communications and inquiries
sent into the sick-roOm il such a
necessity should arise. but whether
this was done is not known Dr.
Greyson gave the strictest orders
against any disturbance whatever.
CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO.
The Washington herald., 1919-04-05
CARRANzA MAR
CRISIS OF RULE
Government Facing Sever
est Test In Proposed
Revolt, Is Belief.

That the Carranza government in
Mexico may be facing the severest
test of its tumultuous term was the
belief in diplomatic quarters yester-
day in the wake of news of a pro-
posed revolutionary movement head
ed by Gems. Aurelio Blanquet and
Felix Diaz-
The new situation threatening in
the republic is occupying the close
attention of the government; al
though Mexican Ambassador BouflIas
here Is certain that Carranza is thor
oughly able to cope with any deveI-
opment OF the BlanQuet-Diaz union.
Depends on Reactionaries.
Blanquet's chief strength. it is de-
clared by those in close touch with
the Mexican situation. lies in prob
ability of support from the reaction
airy patty of the old pre-revolutionary
regime
The reactonaries. largely the politi-
cal and military chieftains of Porto
rio Diaz, have gradually gained power
in Mexico City. it is deCalred. and
now hold many important posts un-
der CarTanza.
Banquet, it is held. is depending
upon a union with this element after
he has consolidated the rebel forces
in the states of Vera Cruz. Pueblo
and other regions east and south of
the Mexican capital
U. $. support for Carran,a.
Mexican Ambassador BoniIIas
laid the situation before the State
Department here at that time and
requested the lifting OF the United
States arms embargo imposed upon
Mexico by President Wilson in
1916. The request was granted
later and this step is believed by
diplomats to indicate that the
United States will give full sup
port to Carranza so long as he is
able to maintain his position.
Gen. Pablo Gonzales, recently
victorious over the bandit Zapatta
will undertake a federal expedi-
tion against the Blanquet-Felix
Diaz forces, according to word
here.
The Washington herald., 1919-04-05

very busy birthday, for Margaret,
then II. had managed to beat him at
billiards. He was more uckled than
IL he had just launched a new Sl0o.-
o00. 900 corporation. Reporters tried to
squeeze an interview from them. They
got It, It ran something like this:
MY daughter has managed TO beat
mo at billiards. I'm too busy to talk.
I want to see IL she can do IT again"
with never a thought of the dream
he and his friend Miller had voiced
many years before. respecting their
possible offspring. Andrew Carnegie
and his wife, who shared his demo-
cratic views. set about making a real
American woman of the girl who will
inherit such part of the iron masters
$500, 10000 as he had not given away.
She was taught TO cook and sew and
clean house. When she first went 10
school at the age of 1s. she knew far
more about housekeeping than most
young women know when they marry.
Then Came the Ensign.
She could market and make clothes
and the miniature apartment set
apart in the Carnegie mansion at Q
East Ninety-first street. for her spe-
cial use and experimentation, had
been furnished and re-furnished. and
arranged and rearranged. by her un-
til II was perfect
, And then, about a year ago. IL An
drew Carnegie had lost recollection
of his long-ago dream. Dame Nature
stepped in to remind him. Margaret
Carnegie was school friend of the
sister of Roswell p. Miller, son of
Mr.. Carnegie's old chum. He had
been driving an ambulance in France.
but returned TO take service in the
American navy. He and Margaret
Carnegie formed even a stronger at
tachment than had existed betwe
their fathers. She was just the kind
of a girl young Carnegie. the mill
hand. had promised Miller she should
be. The attachment ripened into love
and finally Ensign Miller asked An
drew Carnegie for his daughters
hand. Then II was the iron master
remembered the dream of over half a
century ago. He told 1t because 1t
had come true.
The Washington herald., 1919-04-05
AMERICANS co
TO ALLIES AID
Reinforcements on Way to
Badly Pressed Force
In Murmansk.

London, April 4.-american rein
forcements are on the way to the
Murmansk front, where the situation
of the British and allied troops is
said to be critical.
Adyices to the Exchange Telegra ph
Company today announced the Boil
sheviki were badly beaten in an at
tack on the Archangel front near
Bolsheocerki, Wednesday. They were
said to hayS lost heavily. while the
allied losses were slight.
Not Confirmed In Paris.
Paris, April 4.-There is no con-
firmation here of the sensational
story emanating from London that
American and allied troops on the
Archangel front are cut off by the
Bolsheviki and threatened with an
Inhalation, Gen. Tasker Bliss told
American newspaper men today.
New Revolt In Petrograd.
Berlin. April 4-Reports received
from Petrograd declared workers
there have started a new uprising
against the Soviet government Chi
nese mercensries are said to be
using machine guns against the dem.
onstrators.
Premier Denine, according to the re-
ports, has rushed to Petrograd from
Moscow to quiet the workers, who
are demanding food and abolition OF
the Bolsheyik Dictatorship.
The Washington herald., 1919-04-05
HUNS MUST PAY,
BRITISH DEMAND
Parliament Wants Lloyd
George to Make Good
Prediction Promises.

Paris, April 4.-"Chickens coming
home to roost," with the British
peace delegation threaten difficulties
for the program designed TO solve
the everlasting puzzle OF how to make
Germany pay for the war.
Chickens, in this instance, are Pre-
mier Lloyd Georges sweeping prom
ises during the recent election cam
paIgn to force the enemy to stand
the whole cost of the war. Now the
British parliament, which is over
wheimingly Conservative. is demand
ing to know whether the premier is
going to make good on his program.
What is puzzling Lloyd Georges ad-
Visors here is whether the newly
evolved scheme of collecting a ''rea-
sonable sum from Germany now and
collecting future sums in accordance
with the recommends tons of a per-
manent financial commission will sat
isfy parliaments clamoring Unionist
majority.
In the meantime IL kas been per
mitted to become known that 1t is
the struggle of the British to find a
way, seemingly, at least, to make
good on their election promises, that
has been chiefly responsible for the
delay in arranging a peace settle
ment.
The Washington herald., 1919-04-05
FILIP|NOS SOON
WILL Be FREED,
BAKER AYERS
''Time Almost, If Not al
ready Here, for Inde-
pendence," He Tells.
SPEAKS FOR WILSON
Declares Americans Love
Freedom Too Well to
Deny 1t to Anyone.

The time for Philippine independ-
ence has substantially come, secre-
tary of War Baker yesterday told the
Filipino mission here, seeking self
government.
The mission. consisting Of forty
prominent natives of the Islands.
headed by Manuel L. Juezon, presi-
dent of the Filipino senate, previous
ly had presented an appeal to Secre-
tary Of War Baker at the War De-
partment
Declaring that the islands stood
by YOU in the fight ''for the rights
and liberties of small nations" Que
zon. speaking for the mission. said
that granting Of independence to his
country will prove to the world that
America is a '1Iberating rather than
a conquering nation"
Day Near, Baker Declares
Replying, Secretary Baker said:
The day $ very close at hand when
independence of the islands can De
formally accomplished" He de-
scribed existing relations as pelns
merely formal ties"
This, he added, is the view OF the
CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE.
The Washington herald., 1919-04-05
BATTLES RAGING
IN GERMAN CITY
Street Fighting In Stuttgart
Said to Be Attended by
Heavy Casualties.

Berlin, April 4-Deadly street bat
ties are raging in Stuttgart between
Spartacans and government troops.
according to advices received here.
Casualties are said to be heavy.
Spartacans are reported to have
captured the principal hand grenade
depot in Stuttgart. Numerous small
bands of radicals have been cut off
from the main bodies and captured.
The government has again tempor-
arily restored order in the Ruhr dis
trict by rushing 5000 troops into that
region.
The general strike continues to
spread. and has extended to Coffin
gen. Ludwighaven and Friedrichs-
haven.
Ludwighaven is on the west bank OF
the Rhine, opposite Mannheim, and is
within the zone occupied by the
French.
The Washington herald., 1919-04-05
KANSAS GOVERNOR
DECLINES DEBATE
Turns Down Suggestion of ]. o,
Thompson for Trade Discussion.

Topeka, Kans., April 4.-Gov. AL
len, of Kansas. today declined to
take issue with Joseph o. Thomp-
son. president of the Farmers Pro-
tective League. of Alabama, on the
subject of whether the cotton grow
ers of the South had rendered more
efficient work during the war
than the wheat growers of the West
President Thompson proposed de-
bates at Topeka, Montgomery, Ala,
and at Madison Square Garden, New
York.
II have expressly stated in my
criticism of the cotton speculation
that there were no sectional lines
IN the United States in honesty and
said Allen. This issue
has not been raised. at least by me,
and see no incentive to the ac-
ceptanee of such a challenge"
The Washington herald., 1919-04-05
Dream Of Carnegie, Mil Hand,
Comes True as Daughter Weds
Engagement of Margaret, Child of Steel King,
to Son of Old Friend
Announced

New York. April A lons-for-
gotten and but recently remembered
dream of Andrew Carnegie. the steel
king, will be fulfilled when his
daughter. Miss Margaret Carnegie.
VINO took out marriage license to-
day with Ensign Roosevelt p. Mil
ler' U. S. ~. weds the young officer
on April %.
MISS Carnegie, who gave her age
as a. was born of a late marriage,
for the great iron master did not
marry Louise Whitfield, the heiress'
mother. until he was So. More than
score of years before his mar
riage. when Mr.. Carnegie. as a hired
man in a Pittsburgh steel mill was
known as Andy" the young work.
man. then 30. was chatting with his
bosom friend. Roswell Miller. They
had formed a strong friendship dur
ing the civil war. Miller having
fought as a lieutenant in the Third
New York Artillery. and young Car
negie working in the ONCE of the
superintendent of military tele-
graphs.
The Dreams Of Young Men.
The two men Were looking over
some steel rails, ordered by Miller.
then railroad contractor, A be-
dizened young woman fiounced by
and Carnegie. glancing at her, re.
marked to his friend:
Ross, If l ever get married and
have a daughter. I'm not going to
let her grow up to be a doll. She
is going to know something about
making her home"
And If l ever have a boy. Andy"
responded Miller, II hope he mar
ries that girl of yours, or someone
like her; because he is going to
earn his own living and know how
to do it with his own hands"
Twelve years after his marriage,
Margaret came to brighten the home
of Andrew Carnegie, then 81 years
of age. He is now s6 and she is q.
yet they are chums and have been
ever since she could lisp and toddIe
about the room.
When the steel king was 10, he spent
The Washington herald., 1919-04-05
HERALD SPECIAL
GOOD ONE WEEK
Double Vote Offer Spurs
Candidates to Greater
Efforts in Drive.

One week from today the double
vote extra cash prize offer VIII
close. After that date a less num-
Der of votes will be given on new
subscriptions and there will be no
more extra prizes. In fact those who
do their best work during the next
week are the ones who will most
likely land high on the list when
the campaign closes.
o. l.. Briggs, of Clarendon, Va,
leads the field with 10000 votes. Mr..
Briggs has done splendid work since
entering the craftsmanship Club.
Second on the list is Miss u. B.
Hupp. of SperryviIle. Va, who is
credited with 3O7. $50 votes.
The First District leader is A. Shul-
man. who is making a strong effort
to win one of the big prizes. His
vote standing today was 305,5O0. In
the Second District Andrew T. Bailey
is leading. with 301, 80 votes.
Mrs. Margaret K. Frost has passed
the 10000 mark and is leading the
CONTINUED ON PAGE NINE.
The Washington herald., 1919-04-05
Heir to Crown
In MoUie Film
To Aid Cadets
No Salary as Screen Star,
But Prince Says He Likes
1t Anyway.

London, April 4.-The Prince of
Wales is to be featured as a movie
actor in two forthcoming screen pro-
auctions, THE Power of Right" and
The Warrior Strain" The interest
taken by the Prince in the cadet
movement Is responsible for his ap-
pearance as one of the principal
characters in the plays, which will
be released soon.
He will be pictured distributing
awards for gallantry and taking the
salutes in a march in review by a
thousand cadets. The Power of
Right Is designed to carry a lesson
of patriotism II depicts the British
when they were cave dwellers, when
brute force ruled supreme.
There is a rapid sketch OF the years
intervening to bring the play up to
date. The Prince rewards a cadet
who discovers and captures a German
spy.
The job brought no salary to the
Prince. but he said he liked it.
The Washington herald., 1919-04-05

Canada Filler S
Plan for Bride
Couple VIII Leave Montreal
On Extended AirpIane
Bridal Tour.

Montreal Quebec. April Am aerial
honeymoon is being PLANNED by =
former flying corps ofhcer OF this
city, who desires that his name BE-
kept secret until his plans have been
completed
The young mans bride-to-be is
Toronto girl, and the trip Is TO start
from there, Il is 70 extend over
seven months. The first objective
is to be Vancouver. From there the
pair will cross the United States bor-
der and swing through the Middle
Western and Southern States.
A small camping outfit will be car
ried for use when landings are made
in out-of-the-way places.
The Washington herald., 1919-04-05
RUSS PROBLEM
FIRST AT PARLEY
Definite Move for Alliance
With Germany Dis
turbs ENJOYS.

Paris, April "A concrete proposal
signed by Nicolai Lenine. the Russian
Bolshevist premier, is before the
Peace Conference, according to - re-
ports emanating from a usually re-
liable source tonight.
The conference also is In receipt
of definite information showing that
Karl Kautsky. German under-secre-
tary of foreign affairs, recently sent
to Moscow by Foreign Minister Count
Won Brockdorff- and Philip
Scheidemann. the German chancellor,
are now endeayoring to bring about
a formal alliance between Germany
and Russia.
The Russian problem has thus be-
come for the moment the predomin-
ant subject Of discussion at the DUAL
d'Orsay.
The Washington herald., 1919-04-05
BRITISH LABOR
ADOPTS IDEALS
Urges Self-Detemination of
Colonies, But Is Silent
As to Ireland.

London, April l.-Representauves Of
Sho Labor rzrty el1d-tridnsr uni5nS
in joint conference here today adopted
program setting forth the peace
ideals Of British workers.
They urged the league Of nations
covenant be amended so as to extend
the principle OF seif-deter1nination to
all colonies, prohibit conscription and
provide disarmament, and provide for
election OF the body OF delegates by
parliaments instead Of allowing them
to be appointed by governments.
The program recommended that the
peace work be haStened
The Washington herald., 1919-04-05
Says He Is Bankers Heir
And Liege Hero; Jailed

Chicago. April A-Capt. Jean L.
Hoegaerden. who said he had been
wounded at Liege and that his father
was president OF the National Bank
of Belgium, is today charged with
operating a confidence game.
The complainant is late friend
RAYMOND De Cayles. who asserted he
had advanced the captain several
thousand dollars on various checks
and De Cayles had lost $iC.e1l on an
option when an oil scheme Hoegaer-
den proposed had fallen through.
The Washington herald., 1919-04-05
u. S. PLANE is READY
FOR TRANS-SEA TRIP
Start Will Probably Be Made Lat
ter Part of Month.

New York. April 4.-The big flying
machine, NC-2, with which the
United States navy's attempt to cross
the Atlantic will probably be made, is
ready for the flight.
If the navy goes ahead with it's plan
to have column of destroyers
stretched across the sea to take care
of the aviators in case the plane de-
scends. the start cannot be made until
tho latter part of this month. Other
wise, there appears to be nothing to
prevent the United States from steal
ing a march on the British, who are
getting ready for a try from st. Johns,
n. F. The NC-2 behaved we'll in
her trial flight at the Rockaway Avia-
ton Field.
The Washington herald., 1919-04-05
DISASTER FACES
U. S. TROOPS IN
RUSS AREA
European Reports Indicate
Situation More Serious
Than Known Here.
MAY SEND MORE MEN
Believed Arrival Of Special
Agents in Paris VIII Lead
To Clean-Cut Policy.

More American troops may be
sent to Northern Russia IL reports
from London that the allied forces
on both fronts face impending dis
sster are correct.
The decision to send American
reinforcements. it was learned at
the War Department yesterday,
would be made by the Supreme War
Council Secretary of War Baker
said the department had no infor-
nation on the latest phase Of the
military situation in the north, as
portrayed in the British press.
He declared the only troops we
have sent to Russia, in addition to
the forces already there, are a de-
tachment of engineers. Further
more. in accordance with the Presi-
dents decision. which was trans
mitted by the Secretary of War to
the chairmen of the Senate and
House Military Affairs committees,
all American forces in Russia will
be withdrawn in the spring. as soon
as navigation permits.
London Has UnfayorabIe Reports.
The London reports. however, are
apparently only the elimination OF a
long series Of reports regarding the
military situation in Northern Russia,
which were received and known in
AZ London and Paris. but which did
acs each this country.
u Paris, up to as late as three
wet ago, all OF the grave possibil-
itirs Of disaster to American troops IN
N+ortheTn Russia were fully known.
scr American observers il was not a
c4se Of another "Khartum' but It was
q rossibility Of another Clusters Mas
a5cEe." Allied forces were known to
hopelessly outnumbered, and Boil
st forces were known to be ad-
ing upon them slowly but surely.
What Is Our Russian PoIicys
tator Hiram Johnson, of Cali
l-rnla, who has been the chief critic
Z ne administrations Russian poll
view of the grave news from
s.ah6on, called upon the War De-
rtr american troops are kept in the
Businesses Of the North.
ac said:
rho trouble all along has been
rss the American people do not
Encr what is happening to their
7wn boys up there. It's been i'm
1sssEsIe through the War Depart
n1 ~ or the White House. or any
asssF governmental agency. to find
aur Why our boys were sent up
tErrf to find out why they are
.th@rc or to find out what is hap
pening to them. We ought to be
able to find out in some way what
the policy OF our government is with
regard to Russia"
Special Report Expected.
There was considerable interest in
official circles here yesterday over the
report from Paris that two investi-
gators, sent to Russia personally by
the President. have returned with a
report. which embodies considerable
material favorable to the BOlshevists.
These men, w. c. Bullitt and Lincoln
SteTens, the former an attache of the
State Department, and the latter a
writer. may be the means or bringing
cut Russian policy.
one of the means suggested has
been economic assistance to the Boil
shevists, without official recognition.
leaving time and their actions to tell
whether or not they are entitled to
recognition.
The Washington herald., 1919-04-05
MODEST DOUCHBOY
WEARS D. S. CROSS
Only Did My Duty Declared
Oklahoma Rancher.

New York. April 4.-The American
army's most modest, haro has been
located. He is Private Edgar PEN
nington. a rancher of Alta, okla. and
he is q member Of Company K. ss7th
Regiment. Ninetieth Division. He de-
barked from the cruiser Frederick to-
day. wearing the D. s. C. on his
breast.
What is the decoration forT' he
was asked
Dunno" replied Private Penning-
ton.
Didn't you do something"
Yep: did my duty"
Anything special?"
Nope"
Didn't you capture any machine
guns, or rescue any wounded men.
or
Yep; rescued four officers"
The Washington herald., 1919-04-05
STRIKE RIOTS OCCUR
on WORKERS RETURN
Shots Are Fired and Stones Fly in
Industrial Souabblc.

{ Passaic,y N, J., April A major
ity of the workers of. the Botany
and Gera textile mills who have
been on strike for nearly two
months, have returned to work, il
was reported by the mill owners.
At the Forstmann and Huffman
woolen mills. Garfield, returning
workers met with opposition of strike
pickets and a stone fight ensued.
Several on both sides were bruised.
Deputies who have been sworn in
as guards fired their revolvas, in
the air and restored order. Some
arrests were made.
After the fight one striker was
found hidden in a cellar. suffering
from a bullet wound. He was re-
moved to a hospital.
The Washington herald., 1919-04-05
Drop Charge Against Reed.

New York, April 4.-Indictments
charging violation of the espionage
act against John Reed, A. I. Shipla-
coff, w. J. Robinson and s. Simpson
were dismissed today in the Federal
district court by Judge John C. Knox,
on motion of Assistant United States
District Attorney Earl B. Barnes, con-
CURED in by Attorney General A. Nit
chell Palmer.
The Washington herald., 1919-04-05
J. P. MORGAN LOANS
UNCLE SAM 100000
Money Advanced to Permit En-
ployment Service to Find Tobs

J. P. Morgan & Co. have placed
100000 at the order of the Federal
Employment Service to maintain the
branch employment bureaus in New
York State until July /. the Depart
ment of Labor announces.
This will enable a continuance of
all the New York offices closed by
the failure of Congress to pass the
deficiency bill.
'It would be most unfortunate that
the service should now be cut down, "
Morgan & Co. wrote. "and in order to
avoid this, we will pay you at such
time as you call upon us between
now and July !, amounts up TO
sloooO0"