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The Washington herald., 1919-01-05
MAN OFF
STRANDED SHIP
Only Skeleton Crew Re-
mains on Northern Pa
cihc to Float Her.

Fire Island. y. Y. Jan. L-Only a
skeleton crew remained on the strs nd
ed hospital transport Northern Pacifio
tonight
The 1874 wounded. 10 other troops
and passengers and most OF the 4SS
navy sailors and officers had been
safely removed. The troops were ar
Camp Mills. the wounded scattered
in several hospitals in and near New
York
WreckinE operations were started
late this afternoon. Hope Of pulling
the Northern Pacific into deep water
has not been abandoned, but first sha
must be Ightered by throwing over-
board her guns and other heavy mov-
ables.
Not a Life Lost.
Great credit was given to the navys
the coast guard and the Army Aedi-
cal Corps for taking more than 26c1
persons OF the ship. under the WORSE
weather conditions. without losing a
single life. The rescUers faced death
constantly. taking desperate chances
and suffered many hardships as theS
toiled on hour after hour. drenched
with spray. in rain that turned into
snow early today.
The skies cleared this afternoon.
and the sun came out for the firss
time since the Northern Pacific struck
Wounded Lacked Fresh Air.
The ship grounded shortly after I
a. m. Wednesday. The worst suffer-
ing aboard, IT was said was when
the automatic ventilatOr system was
put out Of commission by stOppaEe OF
the engines Wounded below deck.
then lacked fresh air. The strain was
made harder to bear, said coast
guards, BY the deafeninE crash OF
breakers against the side Of the
steamer. The noise and jar were
stunning. Finally drinking water rsn
low. From first TO last the morale
OF the men in such deadly peril,
many Of them bed-ridden and help
less, was unbToken.
Tonight the sea was much cslrner,
and danger Of the Northern Pacific
going to pieces appeared 10 have
passed for the present
Official inquiry into the cause OF
the accident to the Northern Pscifc
may be protracted. II was declared
today. Reports were current that the
Fire Island Light was mistaken for
the Ambrose Light and that the OH
Ger on watch Wednesday morning
TO his quarters. The ship was said
to have been steaminE. bow on, to-
ward Fire Island when she grounded
Another report, that the compass was
defective, received little credence.
The Washington herald., 1919-01-05
PUBLIC TO COME
FIRST, M'AD00'S.
RAIL SOLUTION
Director General Declares
All Politics Must Be Kept :
Out of Ownership.
INSISTS ON FIVE YEARS
Solons in Cross Fire Grill
ing Hint They Favor Pr
vate Control of Roads.

A ringing declaration that tho
railroads must be kept out Of poli-
tics, a clear statement that the
whole railroad problem must be
solved in the interest OF the people
and not OF the railroads, and a con-
fession that he has himself as yet
been unable to formulate any recon-
mendation for a permanent adjust
ment of the governments relation
to the railroads marked the second
and finaI day OF the Director Gen
eral McAdoo's appearance before the
Senate Interstate Commerce Com
mittee.
He continued his argument for a
five years extension OF the governs
ment's operation OF the lines under
a cross fire Of questions from SenA-
tors Kellogg, CUmmins. Pomerene
and Underwood, and no word Of
sympathy for his recommendation
was heard until he was about 10
leave the committee when Senator
LaFOllette, whose silence had been
unbroken through the two daysr
session, sought TO briefly restate the
McAdOo position.
That is my position. Thank
you" he said to the Senator. Trib-
uleS 10 MGANO0 : dQIAlule II HUN u
the roads. however, were paid by
the members Of the committee.
Must Bar Politics
The railroads must be kept out OF
politics" Mr.. McAdoo declared. I've
religiously kept them out OF it. I
don't know the politics OF the Off
cials. Wait. ] believe do know the
DoIitics Of one Of the regional direc-
tors. He's a Republican. We haven't
cared what a mans politics are
We've tried to get the best railroad
ing talent available"
This declaration came during a Sc
ries Of questions by senator Town
send. The second high spot was dur
ing the questioning Of Senator Nc
Lean, Of Connecticut. The Senator
had gone back TO the question which
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By ALBERT THOMAS.
Former Minister of Armament

Copyright, 1913 by Universal SerTicel.
Paris, Jan. 1T is a situation
truly exceptional and strange which
permits US to enjoy President VII
son in Europe.
At home Mr.. Wilson is a political
man involved in the daily political
battle-the newspapers tell us he is
indeed the life of his party-and he
is therefore exposed to the Criti-
cisms of his adversaries.
Some of our reactiOnary politicians,
ardent partisans of a peace based
upon force, attempted to make heard
in Europe echoes of the political
conflict across the Atlantic. They
thereby attempted to reduce Will
sons prestige or attack his ideas.
They have not succeeded.
Lacking sympathy and support
among the masses. his adversaries
have shown him the same respect as
his friends.
1t is Curiosityt
Whence comes such unprecedented,
such unparalleled popularity? Is IL
the effect of the amiable and ira
ditional curiosity of the people of
old world for the inhabitants of the
new, which marked the celebrated
Franklin visit to Versailles?
Is it a manifestation of the graft
tude of the allied peoples, particularly
the French. for the chief of the great
nation which came at a decisive mo-
ment to help the triumph of justice
and whose troops FASTENED victory?
Beyond doubt. But the popular af-
fection for President Wilson is some
thing more. BY his statements ana
messages and replies to the diplomatic
governments he gave the American in
teryention its complete meaning.
He first became known to the Euro
pean masses when. in December, 1916,
he asked the two groups of belliger.
ents their aims. Then he began to be
much discussed. Some who are today
admiring and supporting him most ar
IDENTIFY asked with anxiety whether
there was not some political game
which might help Germany behind
his inquiry.
Events which followed rapidly
showed the pure idealism which in
spired that first move. Fortified by
acts which sustained his words and
invested with authority based upon
crowning popular support. President
The Washington herald., 1919-01-05
LABOR. Will NOT
/. STAND FOR CUT,
SAYS GoMPERS
Warns Senate Committee
Present Wage Scales
Must Stand.
LAUDS VALOR OF u. S.
Gives America Almost Sole
Credit for Winning
of War.

The magnificent pledge by the
people OF the United States of all the
nations resources turned the tide in
the war. Samuel Gompers, president
of the American Federation OF Labor,
told the Senate Committee on Educa-
ton and Labor yesterday.
1T was not only our 100000 men
in France and our unlimited produc-
ton. of munitions and supplies that
did it," he said. 'It was the pledge
of all our men, all our wealth, to be
given without stint that brought the
turning point in the conflict"
Gompers added that If the United
States had gone into the war ''in
picayunish fashion the Allies could
not have won.
But entering as we did, throwing
in everything we had, every ounce of
power and every unit of strength.
constituted great and crushing
blow to the German military ma
chine. l have always been proud of
my own country because from the
time of our entrance into the war We
began to think of it and of our part
in it in big terms"
Says All Europe sinned.
Gompers declared he had never
been able to understand the bitter
ness of the peoples of England and
of continental Europe, because they
have "all been guilty of the same
things. have all done wrongs, have
all taken their Auons as freebooters. -
He said that one reason why the
American flag is universally respect
ed among the nations of Europe. is
that it is recognized that the United
States has had no part in these
things.
No people could fight under the
institutions of monarchies and auto
cratic forms with the valor, the brav-
cry, the abandon, displayed by a peo-
pie fighting under a flag that all
knew stood for the things that the
flag of the United States implies" he
added.
The Washington herald., 1919-01-05
Pays
Tribute to
Scientists
Academies Play Part in
Simplifying Problems of
Politics, He Tells Savants
in Rome Address.

Rome. Jan. 4-President Wilson,
upon being made a member of the
Academy of the Lincei. in the pres
ence of the King and Queen of Italy
and a large group of world-famous
Italian scientists and high officials
delivered the following address today.
Your Majesty, Mr.. President and
Gentlemen of the Academy:
Il have listened. sir. with the
profoundest appreciation to- the
beautiful address which you have
been kind enough to deliver, and
want to say how deeply 1 appre-
Ciate the honor you have con-
ferred upon me in permitting me to
become a member of this great
academy, because there is a sense
in which the continuity of human
thought is IN tine care of bodies
like this
There is a serenity, q long view
on the part of science which seems
to be of no age, but to carry hui
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CONFIRM INTERNMENT
OF Won MACKENSEN
Confined in Palace of Count Karo-
lYi BY French Soldiers.

Dispatches through official chan
nels yesterday confirmed reports that
Marshal Won Mackensen, the German
leader. has been interned in Budapest
BY the French soldiers in charge of
the city.
Il is stated that a detachment of
100 French soldiers went to the palace
OF Count Ladislas Karolyi where
Mackensen was residing He protest
ed the investment, declaring he had
given himself up to the Hungarian
government, and that no one else had
authority over him. He was in
formed by the French that his intern
mept had been ordered, and that he
was to remain in the palace which
would be under the guard of French
soldiers
The Washington herald., 1919-01-05
- WASHINGTON. D.. SUNDAY.
Wilson Ranks
With Saviour,
Orator Says

Rome. Jan, Awhile the Presi-
dent was en- route to Rome he
was accorded the most enthusiast
tic welcomes in some of the small
towns. Florid Latin oratory often
rose to hitherto unexplored
heights. One mayor, addressing
the President, furnished a typical
example. He said:
II do not believe it would be
sacreligious to say That President
Wilson ranks with Christ as the
worlds savior"
The Washington herald., 1919-01-05
Foodstufs Needed Within
Thirty Days to Prevent
Myriad Deaths and Wide
spread Disorders in All
Liberated Nations.

Declaring that "foodstufs must
be placed in certain localities with
in the next fifteen to thirty days if
human life and order are to be
preserved" President Wilson has
appealed to Congress by cable for
an appropriation of Sl00.0OO,000
to relieve starvation in the desti-
tute regions of Europe, outside of
Germany.
The Presidents cable was received
by Secretary of the Treasury Glass,
through the Secretary of State, and
was forwarded to the Speaker OF the
House of Representatives. The
Speaker Immediately referred it to
Chairman SherIey. Of the Appropria-
tions Committee, who submitted the
matter in tentative form to the
House yesterday.
The Presidents cablegram fol-
lows:
Extended investigation and con-
SideratiOn of the food situation in
certain parts of Europe disclose that
especially the urban population in
certain areas are not only facing
absolute starvation during the COM
ing winter. but that many OF these
poPUlatiOny are unable to find i'm
mediate resources with which to
purchase their food.
Can't Find Resources.
These regions have been so sub
jected to destruction by war. not only
OF their foOdstuffs but of their finan-
cial resources and their power of pro-
duCtiOn and export, that they are ut
teTly incapable of finding any resour-
Ces that can be converted into inter-
national exchange for food purchases.
While the Secretary of the Treasury
can accept obligations of certain gov
ernments. and through these meas
Ures their situations can be cared for
temporarily, there are still other
areas through eastern and southern
Europe where such arrangements
cannot be made. This appdies more
particularly to the liberated peoples
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Popularity of President
Unparalleled in Europe
to Swing Into Line-Pleased with Real
ization of Their Fondest Hopes

Wilson was then able to formulate
before the eyes of an attentive world
the means by which he intended to re
spond to the deepest desires Of all hu
manity of assuring a just peace and
institute the rule Of justice through a
league of nations.
Speaks with Precision.
The President has the special
merit of giving his words that lumin-
Gus precision. that final form which
give his most practical political ideas
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Vladiuostok In Grip of
SaUagery and Misery
Filth Reeks Amid Wealth, Human Wrecks
Sleep on Stone Floors, with Order and
Decency Absolutely Defeated.

Order and decency are nearly over
whelmed in a back-to-the-waI battle
with baTbarism.
And these conditions are only a be-
ginning to the misery that rules In the
interior-or so they tell me here
Reek with yermin.
Human wrecks huddle on stone
floors among vermin-infested rags
Others, drowsy, stare with vacant
eyes
Beings hardly a step removed from
extreme savagery drag their way
through the crowds
It's worse than this in the interior, -
a voice shouted in my ear Think OF
those who couldn't get away!'
Even before the gangplank was
dropped, we could see from the boa,
that abject misery gripped many in
Vladivostok.
Hold your breath" an officer from
American headquarters remarked as
we passed through the custom house.
l tried, but one accidental Whit sent
me reeling toward the door.
A dirty wharf and a collection OF
human beings not half so we'll kept
or clean as the average village dog
back home-that was my welcome to
Siberia. 1 began to realize that
hadn't been altogether misinformec
about this part of Russia.
Outspeed Our Allies.
Our machine slid in and out of long
lines OF crudely-made wagons drawn
by blind, stumbling wrecks of horse
flesh. They might have been lust in.
Yalided home from the Western front
other machines passed us, rocking
and humping in high speed over the
cobblestones. 1 am sure not one was
going less than forty miles an hour
British, Russian. Japanese and Czech
flags waved from the radiators and
the moment we got out of the con.
gested traffc our chauffeur stepped on
the accelerator with what appeared
to me to be a fiendish determination
to outspeed our allies.
1 found Mai Gen, William 8
Graves, commander of the American
forces. and his staff quartered in an
imposing Russian home on the main
avenue-Svetlantska is one way OF
spelling 1t, and there are a dozen
waN of pronouncing 1t.
From window in the chief of
staff's office l had a good view of the
street below. In less than fifteen
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The Washington herald., 1919-01-05
WORLD BACKS
WILSON; BAKER
War Secretary Declares
President Is Spokesman
Of World Democracy.

Buffalo. y. Y. Jan. 4-Declaring
the spirits of millions of dead men
hover over the Versailles peace ses-
sion. demanding their sacrifices be
not fruitless, Secretary of War Baker
here tonight expressed the view that
a league Of nations can be reared to
prevent future wars OF conquest
He spoke before the Buffalo Cham
Der of Commerce.
While admitting the proposed
league would perhaps not entiIly
guarantee against wars, Baker de-
cIared:
1t is at least possible that if We
write the record of the judgment of
this generation it will have some
weight with those who are to come
after US. that it will be an admoni-
ton to the new world that is in the
making of the experience the old
world has had. that it will become a
cornerstone in the national policies
of civilized peoples. that their chill
dren will read it in their school books
about government. and that gradually
1t will become 4 commonplace in the
hearts of men that the suffering and
sacrifice and loss of war are things
to be endured only when liberty It
SrlL IS at SLdhe ana lndl no man OF
group of men dares invoke such a
weapon as war in any other than a
high and conSecrated cause"
Baker Lauds President.
AIludlng to President Wilson, Ba-
ker continued:
SO far as We in America are con-
CeTned our case is in the hands of
our Captain. He stands with hesd
erect in the ancient places of the
Old World where other kinds of
treaties used to be made. and repre-
sents a great and free people. 1t
may be that there are voices in this
country which culver with hesita-
tion, and here and there timorOus
uncertainty. but back of him in that
council chamber are the voices of
the dCmOcracies of the world, of the
men who labor and of the women
who sacrifice; he is by the force of
events the spOk of the dsmoc-
raCy of the world. and the compost
tions OF this war will be a new
Magma Charta- a new Bill OF Rights,
to Hberate the children of the future
from the burdens of the past"
The Washington herald., 1919-01-05
BY PEGGY HULL
Woman War Correspondent Now
Covering Russia and Siberia
for The Washington Herald.

Vladivostok. Siberia, Jan. 4.
The gateway to The Terror.
That's Nladivostok.
l came to this forsaken corner Of
the earth to penetrate the blackness
that surrounds Russia.
l find that blackness rushing here
to meet meas II meets all travellers
from America who seek TO enter Rus
sia by its frozen backdoor, Siberia.
Savagery and civilization rub ell
bows here.
Filth reeks amid wealth.
The Washington herald., 1919-01-05
BRITISH WARSHIPS IN FINLAND
Finnish Soldiers Join Voluntary
Army to Fight Bolshevih.

Copenhagen. Jan. Five British
warships have arrived at 1ielsings-
fors, capital and chief port OF Fin
land. Three of the vessels after
wards escorted a Finnish transport
TO Reval.
More than 10000 Finnish soldiers
have Joined the voluntary army to
fight Bolshevism.
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Chief Of Food Council De-
clares l25,OOO,OO Men,
Women and Children at
Point Of Death; Nations
Bankrupt.
BY HERBERT c. HOOVER,
Director General of the Allied
American Supreme Food Council.
By Universal Service.

Paris, Jan. 4.-The Supreme Food
Council just organized faces the
tremendous task of keeping 125, ,00O,-
900 persons from starving to death
The United States must furnish
the bulk of food. From now until
next July $500, 900, 900 worth of
provisions must be exported from
America. Congress will have to en-
act legislation enabling the sale OF
food on long time credits to nations
or rather shells of one time ma
lonesome of whom were bellig-
erents arrayed against the allies,
before relief can be given to their
impoverished inhabitants.
Food will undoubtedly play lead
ing role at the Peace Conference. II
relief is not forthcoming, and forth
coming with all speed, Bolshevism
and anarchy may sweep over desti-
tute Europe with the fury of for
est fire.
Councils Hands Tied.
Save for those nations with whom
America co-operated actively in the
war and to whom we can advance
credits, the hands of the new food
council are tied. And the people of
these unfortunate nations represent
only one-quater of the starving
125, 10000 men, women and chill
dren. The others are destitute, both
in money and food, and it is up to
America to stake" them.
We must send them food in the
hope that 1t will restore order and
produce stable governments. When
this is accomplished we can look to
those stable governments for remun-
Grafton.
The shortage in Germany is mainly
one of fats. Austria, especially Ger
man Austria, is in a desperate plight.
There certain parts. many towns and
cities, will face starvation within
from ten days to two months.
This is the reason why 10000 tons
of food have been dispatched to Adri-
attic ports.
Freed Territories Main Problem.
Germany is by no means the prime
concern for the moment. The lib
Grated territories of France, Bel
gium, Serbia and like countries con-
stitute the main problem.
Furthermore Germany will have
TO furnish tonnage for the entire
expectation with 100000 tons of
shipping now available in her ports.
And II we are to feed Germany,
these same vessels will be used for
the transportation of the greater
part OF our army back home
As for Russia. President Wilson
is financing the feeding of the civil
ian populations in the districts
where American and allied troops
are stationed from the personal
fund which Congress placed at his
disposal for war purposes.
An interesting example of how
the world must save itself, and is
already beginning to save itself
from starvation is the fact that the
CzeCho-S -Slovaks of Italy are now
loaning food to the starving Aus
trians, whom less than two months
ago they were fighting bitterly,
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Wants Paderewski Deported.

Copenhagen, Jan. 4.-The Germa n
armistice commission has protested
the presence of Ignace Paderewski
in Poland, is causing dangerous ex-
citement and has demanded that the
allies order him to leave. according
to the Berlingske Tidendes
The Washington herald., 1919-01-05
RIOTS AGAIN IN RIGA.
German Theater Set on Fire During
Renewed Street Fighting.

Copenhagen, Jan. "A Bolshevik
revolution has broken out in Riga
and street fighting is under way, ac-
cording to the Lokal Anzsigar The
German theater has been set on fire
A Russian wireless dispatch re-
ported tonight that the Lithuanian
soviet controls Riga.
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400, 900 Huns Idle.

Berlin. Jan. -Four hundred
thousand people are out of work
throughout Germany as a result of
the shortas, of coal and raw ma
tAriaIs- 1t was learned today.
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WILSON COMING
TO GET SUPPORT
Anxious to Crystalize Amer
lean Sentiment on League
of Nations.

That the President expects to
carry with him into the. Peace Con-
ference the full strength of Ameri-
can public opinion. became known in
Washington yesterday after the re-
ceipt of semi official cables from
abroad.
His return on February lois now
understood to be for the purpose of
crystaliZing American public senti-
ment. Opponents of the league of
nations and the materialists of Eu-
ropean diplomacy, whose self-inter-
ests lead them to decry the Presi-
dents idealistic program, are seek
ing to minimize his authority as a
spokesman for this country by
pointing to the recent COngression-
al elections as a reputation of his
program.
The President will take occasion
to appear before the American peo-
pie on several occasions, on his
return. to explain his program. He
expects that 1t will receive full ac-
cord from one end of the country
to the other.
Thinks shock Worn on.
With such a reception. he can point
to a united country behind him when
he returns to Europe. His close
friends think the shock of his break
ing precedents in going to Europe will
have worn off before his return and
that his tremendous ovations in Eu-
rope will have persuaded the Amer
lean people that his trip was worth
while as a matter of international
friendship and good will.
1t is pointed out that the birthday
anniversaries of Lincoln on February
Il and Washington on February %,
would offer opportunities for appear
ances in a natural manner. and that
a discussion of the career of either
would easily open up a discussion of
freedom.
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Elected, Then Arrested.

Dublin. Jan. L-Cathal Brughs,
newly-elected Sim Fein member OF
Parliament was under arrest here
today. The charges were not msoe
public.
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THE WEATHER:

Today - Fair. Tomorrow - Fair
not much change in temperature
gentle, variable winds.
Highest temperature yesterday
21: lowest. 13.
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