Ketchikan; Alaska^ Wednesday April 23, 1919
Number 158
VOLUME FOUR
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Thirty Thousand Czecho-Slovak Troops Deserted
Hungarians For Rumanians, Making Certain
The Early Downfall of Soviet Government
BUDAPEST, Hungary, April 23.—Thirty thousand Czecho
slovak troops deserted to the side of the Rumanians, it was
learned from Soviet Government. This will probably mean the
accession of a socialist democratic regime headed by Sigmund
Kunff.
Siberian Army Under Kolchak Advances
LONDON, April 23.—An Omsk dispatch says that the Siber
ian army under General Kolchak has advanced to within one hun
dred miles of the Volga river, defeating the Bolshevikis in every
battle.
RERLIN' April 23.—Warrants have been issued for the ar
rest of Prince Henry of Prussia for plotting to replace his broth
er, Count Wilhelm, former Kaiser of Germany on the throne. He
is said to be hiding in Poland.
BUDAPEST. April 23.—The city is in the throes of anarchy
and is going throgh a crisis far worse than that of April 3,, when
ihe city was overthrown by the Soviets.
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ELEVEN BIG
Mining Companies Assert
Rate On Products
Amount To 170
WASHINGTON, D. C„ April 23. —
Eleven of the greatest mining anil
Sine'tim' Corporations in the country
today filed a protest to tile Interstate
Commerce Commission against tlie
Raiload Administration regulating the
freight rates on their products amount
in.tr. they assert, to one hundred and
fievVnty per cent now.
PREDICT SMOKELESS
CITY m TWO YEARS
PITTSBURG, Pa., April 23.—Charles
AT Means former manager of the In
s"o<-tlon section of the United States
fuel administration, has predicted a
smokeless Pittsburg in two years.
Probably no city in the country lias
done as much as Pittsburg in the de
veloping of smoke preventive methods.
It has been figured that the less here
on account of the presence of smoke,
runs iinto hundreds of thousands a
year.
MRS. COSGROVE
APPOINTED HEAD
OF COMMITTEE
Mrs. Josephine G. Valentine, Chair
man of the First Division, has appoint
ed Mrs. Charles II. Cosgrove as chair
man of the Ketchikan Woman’s Vic
tory Loan Committee for Ketchikan,
in a message received by Mrs. Cos
grove today.
In accordance with instructions Mrs.
CosgroVe lias appointed a committee
of workers to assist her and lias ob
tained the ensent of the following la
dies to act with her: Mrs. Alfred R.
Larson, Mrs. E. C. Howard, Miss Lo
ma Van Zandt and Mrs. J. Filmore
Warder.
Waste neither time nor money, but
make the (best use of both. Buy a
Bond.
JEFFERSON COMING
SEATTLE, April 23.—The Jeffer
son sailed for the north this morning
at nine o’clock with one hundred and
ninety passengers on board including
Chinese crews for Ketchikan, Wran
gell, Skowl Arm, and Point Warde.
Passengers for Ketchikan were Mrs.
May Williams, Ernest Euis and wife,
Charlesc Hanson, Laura Keirs, Mrs. J.
Horner, Mrs. Pearl Freeberg, Jack
Tatty, Mrs. R. F. Davis, Violet Davis,
Mrs. M, Ridley and twenty-six Chinese.
MOVEMENT OF BOATS
Northbound
| Jefferson Friday,
j Watson Saturday.
Southbound- •
Alaska May 1st
Evans Friday.
City of Seattle Sunday.
FXPEL ARCHDUKES
FROM OLD AUSTRIA
GENEVA. April 23.—According to
information from reliable sources, all
the Austrian archdukes, with their fam
ities, including Archduke Friederich, a
former marshal, have been expelled'
from Austrian territory. A special j
tain escorted by Republican guards j
left Vienna yesterday convoying the j
nrcbducal party to Switzerland. The
Swiss, it is declared, are not particu
larly gratified at this for they contin
ue to be severely rationed.
VALLEJO, Cal., April 23.—The im-j
mediate preparation of a landing place
for hydroplanes is called for in or
L't-s just received at Mare Island na
v yard here, as a step to permit the
'nrrying out of practice flights be
■ we i Mare Island and San Diego,
Cal.
VERNE R, PETTY
IS COMING HOME
Mayor and Mrs. It. L. Petty rec
"'’•verl word yesterday from tlieir son
Machinists Mate Verne Reed
*t- that he expects to 'be released
’rim active service in a few days and
will start for liome immediately. He
is now stationed aboard the U. S. S.
"i'tnn a sunnlv ship, with home port
t Norfolk, Va,
Verne Reed Petty was one of the
very first Alaskan boys to enlist for
W'sr service, making his application in
April 1917 for the Aviation corps. At
that time the oorps was not fully es
tablished, so after waiting a time he
switched his application over to the
Navy, being called in August 1917. He
entered as a second class machinist
end in twenty months lias received
three promotions. Shortly after ho
entered the Navy, and while still at
Bremerton, he saved the life of a fcl
ow sailor who fell overboard, at the
risk of his own life, and was recom
mended by Secretary Daniels and was
presented with a medal for bravery.
Later he was promoted to first-class
machinist and was recently made
chief machinist and placed in charge
r the engine room of the tig Ameri
supply ship. During Ills stay at
Hremerton he was made instructor
mid gave lecture's to enlisted men, Un
!i! his transfer to active service.
While on the Westbridge, last Au
gust, 1918, Verne Petty and another
companion were the only two persons
in the engine room who escaped with
their lives when the ship was torpe
doed on August 15. The first torpedo
flooded the engine room and in the ex
plosion which followed his right, ban 1
was broken. Making a dive for the
ladder he arrived on deck to find that
all the boats had gone." Another boy
'"otn the engine room then came un
!th a badly smashed foot and to
'l,’»r they managed to get a boat off
"•v,jeh they drifted for ten hours
wounded and exposed to the elements
until picked by the Burroughs. They
were brought to Brest and remained
there for about a month.
On his discharged from the hospi
tal Verne was then assigned to what
is knovn as the ‘‘suleido fleet”, the
shipn which travel sans convoy, but
crttmutelv for him the armistice w. s
s’gned shortly afterwards.
, He has been away from home for
nearly two years and liis parents are
awaiting his return with much im
patience.
ORVILLE BILLINGS
COMMITS SUICIDE
TRIAL DUE TODAY
TACOMA, Wash April 23.—Orville
•Billings, millionaire and former repub
lican candidate for Governor for the
state of Washington, shot and killed
himself here1 last night in his home in j
the presence of his wife.
Mr. Billings was to have faced a I
trial today in the Seattle courts on
the charges of having wronged a deaf
mute girl, Gladys Utter, aged 23
years, in the Savoy Hotel two years!
ago. Tihe case had been postponed
several times.
DENVER, April 23.—At the conven-1
tion of the National Farmers Union
held here, resolutions were adopted
favoring the erection of a temple of
agriculture in Washington, D. C., as
a headquarters of all of tile agricul
tural Interests of the country and ap
propriating funds from the treasury
of the oganiratlon for assisting in the
work.
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National Assembly Of
Montenegro Transfers
Power To Serbia
LONDON, April 23.—A dispatch
'ust received from Podhoritza today j
says that the kingdom of Montenegro 1
ceased to exist on Sunday when the
National Assembly of Montenegro
transferred its power to the Serbian
Government and completing the un
ion of Montenegro and Serbia.
Cettinjo is the capital of Montenegro
which has a total population of 520,
OhO people and a total area of 5,650
miles. King Nicholas who has abdi-;
cated is the father of Queen Helena
of Italy.
SEATTLE RUBBERS
AT “FLYING CIRCUS”
SEATTLE, April 23.—A dozen j
airplanes re-enacting a western front
aerial battle and styled “The Flying
t'irous” soared over Seattle for an
holr this afternoon at a height of three
thousand feet. Schools were closed
'"'d everybody rubbered
The’ “Flying Circus” consisted of
s’l sorts of aerial acrobatics and
• "ded with an exact duplication of a
battle. The American planes were de
tected in the act of dropping victory
lean literature (bombs) on the city I
’and the “Germans” pursued them.
CROSS OCEAN
Flight To Ireland Will Be '
Made By Three
Machines i«
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 23. — |
The Navy Department announced to-!
d ay that three American naval sea-! ’
o'anes will attempt tho flight across
the Atlantic early next 'JnoAtli from '
Rockaway Beach to Ireland.
An official of the department dis
cussing the trip stated that gasoline is :
the great problem. Tile maximum i'
distance to be flown in crossing the!
ocean is acknowledged to be 1,800 ,
miles. Allowing 15 per cent for
drifting, etc., 'brings the total distance
to 2,000 miles. At 100 miles per houf1,
a 90-horse power motor would require
20 hours supply of gas. Consuming
about 9 gallons an hour, the motor
would need thus 180 gj^lons or 1,116
pounds Every galldll- weighs Six
pounds so it is an edsy matter to!
make Very accurate calculations.
FIRST BASEBALL
GAME TODAY
SEATTLE, April 2S.—Pacific Coast 1
baseball opened this aftcjtKLon in Seat1
tie with Seattle and Oakland playing, j
COLORADO SPRINGS!. Colo., April
23.—The heaviest snow blanket in
vears Ins covered Pike’s peak this win
ter it is announced, the drift in some
plac es near the bank having been 15
feet deep. This snow will melt and
fill the lakes and reservoirs which
give
ply.
Colorado Springs the water sup
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AERIAL MAIL SERVICE
OPERATING IN FRANCE
PARIS. April 23.—There are now
seven aerial mail services operating in
Fiance according to the Bureau do
r*OBte, at the present time. The routes
- between t.he following cities: Par
:s Valencienes; Paris-Brussls; Strass
tnrg-Longwy; Biety-Nancy; Paris
Bordeaux; Paris-St. Nazaire and Tar-!
on-Nice.
PROTEST AGAINST i
SUNDAY FLYING
WALLA WALLA, April 23.—Minis-!
tors who have protested hero against ;
army aviators flying on Sundays, have
withdrawn their objection to after
noon flights. It is reported that the
objection was made to morning
fiiyhts on account of the fear that it
would interfere with Sunday schools
and churches.
WAY BE FIRST
U, S, AMBASSADOR
TO CZECHO SLOVAKIA
WASHINGTON, D. C. April-23. —It
3 understood in official circles here
hat Richard Crane, private secretary
o Secretary Lansing of the State De
partment, lias been selected to be
(ime the first America il minister to
he new republic of Czecho-Slovakia.
le is the son of Charles R. Crane of
'hicago, aged 33, He has been con
ected with the state department for
[lore than four years, having first been
ppointed clerk and later secretary to
Jr. Lansing.
SHAMOKIN, Penn., April 23.—When
i runaway train on the Locust sum
nit grade of the Reading railway
crashed into a locomotive, three train
lien were killed. The wreck is the
vorst that has occurred on the divl
lion in a quarter of a Century-Thirty
jars are piled up on the tracks.
DEMOCRATIC
CONVENTION
Will Be Held In Juneau
May 2 To Nominate
New Candidate
JUNEAU. April 23:—Chairman W.
r. Burns, of the Fairbanks Democratic
Territorial Central Committee issued a
>all yesterday for a Democratic Terri
torial Convention to be held at Juneau
in Friday M!ay 2, for the purpose of
nominating a candidate for delegate
to congress to be voted for at an elect
on to be held June 3, provided that
he primaries in May will be held as
the divisional committee may provide.
Representatives to the convention
iron) the first division will be com
rosed of 78 delegates; second division
16; third division 82 and the fourth,
'4 delegates.
NO DECREASE IN
PRICE OF CLOTHES
IN PROSPECT YET
CHICAGO, April 23.7 .’Members of
he national association of retail cloth
iers who met here to consider the situ
rtion gave it out officially today as
heir opinion that there will be no de
pease in the price of medium and bot
e-rades of clothing and possibly a
moderate reduction in lower grades
ran!lining re-worked wool (shoddy)
"’d cotton, in the prices for the fall
i <d winter of 191!). The basis of the
dtuation lies in the continued high
oriees for raw material and labor, it
vas said by the delegates.
ANSWER
mtsm
CALI FOR 1
Nt* American
CONFERENCE IN A
DEADLOCK OVER
ITALIANQUESTION
French Government Appoints A French Military Com
mission To Meet The German Delegation At
The Frontier Enroute To Versailles
PARIS, April 23j—The deadlock on the Italian question con
mues in the Supreme Council. President Wilson insists that
^’iume be internationalized and a free city but attached to the
Jugo-Slavs customs system and also available as a seaport for the
small nations behind it.
Italian Delegates Peeved And Are Going Home .
PARIS, April 23.—Following a flat declaration by President
Wilson in a public statement that Italy cannot h; e Fiume be
cause it would be a flagrant violation of the principles express
ed in his Fourteen Points, the Italian delegates failed to attend
fhis afternoon’s session of the ~ Supreme Council of delegates,
declaring, “President Wilson’s statement has bioken up the
peace conference.’’ It is asserted that Premier Orlando will
leave for home tonight or tomorrow, followed by the remainder
of the delegation as early as possible.
President Wilson, Lloyd George and Clemenceau are today con
sidering the differences between Japan and China in their scrap
over Kiao-Chau and the city behind it, Tsing-tao, wre toby the
Japanese from Germany. Germany had taken these from China
in 1897 and they were captured by Anglo-Japanese forces in
1914.
The French Government has appointed a French Military
Commission to meet the German delegation at the Frontier. The
Commission wall escort the Germans to Versailles and look after
them while they are in France.
The Allied Government today informed the German Govern
ment that they were ready toreceive her delegates at Versailles
on April 28.
BREST. France, April 23.—The S. S. George Washington will
return to New York with troops as soon as she can make the
necessary repairs.
TREATED AS ALIENS
FOR TIME BEING
WASHINGTON, April 23.—The 2,
700 officers and men. including many
United States citizens who arrived in
New York on the Mauretania recently
after having been discharged from the
British army, will be treated as aliens,
until their nationality is proven, ac
cording to an announcement made to
day by Connnissioer of Immigration
Camenitti.
RAINBOWS DUE
HOME APRIL ?J
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 23. —
The War Department announced to
day that more than 4500 officers and
men of the 42d. (Rainbow) division
were included in the list of troops
who have already sailed from France.
The Rainbow division men are aboard
four warships, the battleships, Min
nesota and South Carolina, due at
Newport News, April 27 and the North
Carolina and Montana, due in New
York on the same day.
PORTO RICANS WANT
EIGHT-HOUR DAY
"Clio eight-hour day is one of the
■ '•<Moin,pg declared essential to indtls
<-‘a' unity hv resolutions adopted af
"o cvtranrdhiarv session of aericul
m-nl and building-trades employees
under the auspices of the Free Federa
* -on of Laborers of Porto Rico. affiH
oil with the American Federation of
■•bur. according to the January num
’ ■■■ of t> o vtontbv T abor Review of
Riv.-ean of Labor Statistics, United
ato*,** Pr'-artment of Labor.
mp,, other standards set by the reso
"tio”s are a fixed scale of wa^es for
•'"dinary liours of labor and over
timp■ byoienie and healthful condi
'o"s in factories: conciliation andar
’ ’‘rnt'on- recognition of labor’s right
a organize; ri"lit to make collective
aeveements union surpervision of ap
prenticeship in the building trades;
inclusion o. all laborers under the
rkmen’s compensation law: and
, ■— ..‘in,, nf safety legislation appli
’*n <' building trades.
Water to a depth of one foot to
oaa and a half feet covers the gov
•rnmvr.t railroad tracks along Snow
ri'er at Mile 16 for a distance of over
a mile, says the Seward Gateway.. Sev
era! piles have been washed out and
a span of the wagon bridge was
iwent away when the glacier lake
>fc0. T>a83engers were required tc
■ ” some distance before being pic’'
l U-, by trains at each side of th
erflow.
't is foolish to lav out money in r
purchase of repentance. Buy a Bond.
NATIONAL
CONVENTION
Federal Authorities Break
Up Meeting Of The
I, W, W,
SIOUX CITY, Iown, April 23. —Tho
I AV. W. National Convention, Agri
ultural Branch, which was in session
'■r>ro. was brought to an abrupt end
"ben Sheriff Jones, accompanied by
?eventy-five deputies, Federal policc
nen and secret service men raided the
headquarters where the convention
•vas being held.
A large quantity of literature was
seized and confiscated.
LOCAL GREAT WAR
VETERANS ORGANIZE
At a largeand enthusiastic meeting
Saturday, tho honorably discharged
'"ldier-. . ""A marines of Ket
n,ii-. i organizzed fern solves Into a
' at War veterans or •>nizatIon simi
- to those in the States
' H. 7eigler was elected i mmander
' B. Walker. Sen'or Vico Co mander
stto Anderson. Junior Vic© Co., nand
W Winston. Judge Advocate: C.
' Collins. AduitaV. Fd Borin. Qur
■>nsW ami E Elliot Sergt. Major.
•’ e organization has now over 75 mem
-rs with applications coming in and
is expected thaf it will number 200.
A convention is called for either at
st. Louis or Chicago next fall, when
he permanent organization for tho
Toited States will he perfected.
SON AND ORIDE HERE
Air. and Mrs. E. F. Hermann who ar
ived on one of the last boats from
,phnm Wash are here to locate,
rA’n" to Mr. ' "'rrmann, senior, of
—"a n’s Cafe.
'r Herrmann r: ys his son has just
©turned from France whoro he sorv.
ed seven months in tho front with the
G3rd artillery, and immediately on his
return to his old home in Bellinghaan.
claimed Miss Annie Alerson as his
bride.
Mr. Herrmann expects to take bis
-'ll into business v-lth him hers In bis
afe.
that you have done before
' still be incomplete
J"ss you buckle to once more,
me' Victory Loan to meet.