A
VOLUME FOUR
Ketchikan, Alaska, Tuesday April 1, 1919
Number 139
ALL LAUDS IN HUNGARY WILL BL
IATIONALIZEDIWITHIN THREE DATE
DECURES FOREIGNINISTER KUh
Soviet Government Will Annul All Debts Of the Old
Hungarian Government and Country
Will Begin New History for Itself
LONDON. April 1. — Foreign Minister Bela Kun, in a wire
ess dispatch from Budapest today declared that the national
ization of Hungary is going forward at a rapid pace and that
within three days at the outset, all lands in Hungary will have
. l>een nationalized and all debts of the old regime annulled.
The Soviet government has occupied all halls, theatres and
churches and has arranged for revolutionary plays in the
former and addresses in the latter on the significance of the
revolution.
Neutral Zone Cause Of The Crisis
According to a dispatch from Vienna, the establishment by
the Peace conference of a neutral zone on the Hungarian Ru
manian frontier was the cause of the crisis which precipitated
the revolution. This zone was originally intended to make the
Hungarians desist from attacking the Rumanians and to close
the gap between Rumania and Poland. The entente note de
fining this zone was dated March 19. the dispatches add.
LONDON. April 1.—A dispatch from Berne which threw
some light on the personell of the ne%v Soviet government has
been considerably disturbing to officials here, particularly that
of Bela Kun as Foreign Minister as he was for some time aide
de-camp of Leon Trotsky in Russia. The new minister of war
is described as having been an orderly in the second army who
was once punished for indiscretion on military affairs.
Alexander Gorbal. who has assumed the presidency of the enw
Soviet government upon the resignation of the Hungarian Gov
ernment. is a workman who. at first was a conservative social
ist but who is now moved to the head of the communist revolu
tionary element. Joseph Pagany, minister of war, formerly
.was president of the Soldaterrait.
f FRANCO -BRITISH BORE
TO STRAT SHORTLY
• LONDON'. — The decades-old dream
of a cross channel tunnel connecting
England with France is to become a
v reality at last.
Off and on for more than a century
the project of building a tunnel under
the English channel has been under
• consideration in England. Several
times it approached materialization,
but invariably was discarded again,
due to political opposition based on
Unwillingness to stive up the advant
ages of the “tight little island." Just
before the war there seemed a chance
that the Entente Cordiale had finally
done away with tfci3 opposition^ but
the outbreak of hostilities again kill
ed the plan. While the big conflict
was on. the people of both countne.
* regretted more than once that such £
- tunnel did not exist; had it ejasted
Belgium might never have been invad
ed.
As far back as 1802 M Mathieu, a
famed French engineer, made Known
his plans for a tunnel between Eng
land and France which could be use.;
bv coaches. His proposals serve tc
* * show the great advances of engineer
ing in a little over a century, He
proposed to have the bore ventilated
t>y shafts r''ing mgu au«>e iue
face of the water and the tube itself
was to be lighted by oil lamps. His
scheme was termed visionary, Objec
tions being raised that the waves
could destroy the shafts, which also
were inimical to navigation.
Two British engineers brought the
' proposal forward again in 1S70, but
I the opposition again could not be
overcome, Three years later a French
cntpany actually did go to work on
a tunnel, but the British government
alarmed over the possibility, brought
the activities to a halt. The com
pany had raised a capita! of about
$41X1,000, Shafts were sunk on both
sides of the channel and a horizontal
bore of about a mile had been ex
cavated under water on the French
side,
Queen Victoria gave her support
to a new tunnel project and a bill
was introduced in Parliament au
thorizing it, Again the project was
talked t<> death, its opponents ad
mitting the friendly relations be
tween England and France, but add
ing that “the best thing between
them was the sea.”
H, E, Simoiids. superintendent of
the Metlakatla cannery, of the An
nette Island Packing company, was a
business visitor in town yesterday and
registered at the Stedman,
mSHINGim
-SIDELIGHTS
held ot Honor tor fallen American soldiers
WASHINGTON.—Ail American “field of honor” In France, in which may
rest forever the bodies of American soldiers killed in the world war, is
proposed In bills introduced by Representatives Fess of Ohio and Item of
Alabama. “Something like 63,<X)0
American soldiers," said Representa
tive Fess, in discussing the bills, “have
made the supreme sacrifice in a for
eign country. They were brigaded
along a line 1100 miles in length.
“They were buried where they
fell. The policy of the government is
to return these dead if possible, but
the difficulty Is apparent. It Is sug
gested that we establish In France a
field of honor, to be beautifully em
bellished and to be a thing of beauty
1C IU IVJUCa
I
I
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in*: iu uuu m uic uiusi urauuiui yui i ui
France a location near a city or town and to make the field the last thing in
l»eauty that an artist can make it, to be developed under the approval of the
Association of Fine Arts here In Washington.
‘•The idea is to build within the field a hall of records and a chapel. The
graves will be marked by little headstones with simply the name or the Initials
of the sol.der. The hall of records Is to be the place where the records of
all the bodies will be preserved. The grounds should be consecrated as to
be open to Jew and Gentile, Protestant and Catholic.
"The government would be the final Judge as to where the field should be
located, with the permission and consent of the French government, and the
government would, of course, remove the bodies and place them in the field.
And the government would keep a guard of one or more companies of soldiers
there, such a guard to be permanently maintained as a symbol of the gov
ernment’s perpetual presence upon the field."
The measure seeks to incorporate the American Field of Honor associa
tion which would construct and maintain the proposed memorial cemetery,
die p an for which has been approved by Secretary Baker.
TRIP TO POLE
THRUAlR IK JUNE
i LONDON. Eng, April 1.—Captain
Robert Bartlett, noted Canadian Are
*ic Explorer is planning to fly from;
Now York to the North Pole in Jtlne.j
*t was announced here today. He will
start his northenr tip from a base at
Capo Columbia,
ARREST GENERAL
EAGLE PASS. Texas, April 1. -*■“ Aj
foremost military commander in Mex
ico under Huerta, General J, A. Ro-,
bios, was arrested -here charged with
smuggling.
LEAVES LARGE ES
TATE IN PORTLAND
PORTLAND, Ore.. April 1—The e3
tate of the late Mr. Pittock, chief own
er of the Portland Oregonian, and
i prominent newspaper man for the pae>
fifty years, ha.- been appraised at ap
proximately oiyht million dollars, it
was announced today,
LONDON, April 1— A British non
rigid airship has just completed a
13t)0-milo flight over the North Sea
visiting Holland and Denmark, The
trip was made in forty hours.
SUBCHASERS AND
GUNBOAT COMING
SEATTLE. April 1,—The gunboat
Vicksburg and wo submarine chasers
sailed today from Bremerton for Al
askan waters to do patrol duty this
spring and summer.
CADETS FOR NEW ZEALAND
LONDON, April 1—The govern
ment of New Zealand has decided to
establish a system of cadet training
which will aim at producing physical
menrtal and moral, rathgr than mili
tary. fitness, owing to the largo per
centage of medical rejections of can
didates for the New Zealand Expedi
tionary Force, Compulsion will be
limited To seventy hours yearly.
NINE MILLION IN CANADA
OTTAWA, April 1,—The Govern
: ment estimate of the population of
Canada at the present time is in the
; neighborhood of nine million people
A question in regard to it was asked
, recently in the House of Commons and
the sensus experts prepared a report
which gives the figures at 8.835.000,
; HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS
IN THE IRISH BANKS
DUBLIN. — Increasing prosperity
during the last half year is shown by
Irish bank reports, The dividends
' paid to the shareholders vary from 18
' per cent to 7 per cent, Since the war
'began the deposits in the Irish banka
have increased from $300.000 000 to
S450.0O0.0d0, notwithstanding the fact
that rite interest payable on deposits
is much smaller than that obtainable
I from war loansj A great deal ol
Irish money went into the <war loans,
The increase in the money available
in spite of greatly increased taxation
, is a measure of the effect of the war
! <.n Irish prosperity,
BRITISH AIR FORCE
HAD27.300 PLANES
i
LONDON, — Britain was »pre-emln
I ent in the air at the close of hostili
j tie«, These figures made public show
! that from practically nothing the Roy
i al Air Force grew to be the bigge3t
| air service in the world:
1514 1518
Aeroplanes 166 21,000
Seaplanes 45 1 300
Airships 7 103
In August, 1514, the R, F, C, and
the R N A S between them mustered
n total strength of officers of only
285; on Noverbber 1, last year, the R.
A, F, total of officers was 30,000, of
whom 10,000 were pilots and 2,000 ob
servers on the active service list. Oth
er ranks In 1914 numbered 1 853, and
in 1518 there were 264,000, of whom
21,000 were flying in cadets in train
ing for commissions,
STEAMERS SAIL
SEATTLE, April 1,—The Admira’
Schley and Watson ill sail tonight with
four hundred and twenty five passen
gers. neary all of whom are cannery
men for Port Armstong, Pavlog Har
toor, Chcrmley, Quadra, Hanes, Funter
Bay, Port Conclusion Port Graham
Sawmill Bay, Kenal, Alitak, and Yak
utat.
MOVEMENTS OF BOATS
souti. bound-- '
Farragut Wednesday 2nd.
'‘ty cf Seattle Wednesday.
lefferscm Sunday
ortlibotmd
admiral Watson, April 2.
Admiral Schley Wednesday,
Alameda Saturday,
BREMERTON
YARD T0 BE
ENLARGED
Head of House Naval
Committee Visits Na
val Yard Today
SEATTLE, April l.-s-Coagres strain
Wnj, J, Browningf of Camden, Nw
/Jersey bead of the House Naval Com
mittee, seven of 'whom gre vlaiting In
rSeattle today, gave out a few of the
detail* which will make Bremerton one
of the most important Naval yards in
the United States,
Among the impfoveilonts contem
| Mated is the expansion of the yard to
[nearly twice its present capacity so as
ho keep a great fleet Veady for action
on this coast and especially to provide
increased protection, for Aiaska( >Mr,
Bowning said that the fleet ia to be
equally divided between the Pacific
and Atlantic and that the Pacific
coast must be prepared to keep the
fleet ready for sea at all times.
RELEASES PACKERS
WASHINGTON. IT -C. -April 1. —
•President Wilson has issued a procla
mation from Paris, which releases the
meat dealers and packets from furth
fer control by the federal food admin
istatian.
JEWS WILL NOT
RETURN TO
PALESTINE
So Declares Oscar S,
Strauss of New
York City
■LONDON. April 1,—Oscar Strauss
noted New Yorker, and one time A
rtferican ambassador to Turkey, assert
1 ed here today in a press interview
that it was his candid opinion that the
world scattered Jewish race would
never go back to Paestine in great
numbers, A zionlu country would
f never <be. he declared. One reason,
»for this he declares is that great nuaa
t bes of Jewish people are, have been
j'and will be, successful in America and
have made It the land of their adoption
/ Oscar Soomon Strauss, was Secre
tary of the Department of Commerce
land Labor in the cabinet of Presi
dent ‘Roosevelt from 1906 til 1909, and
then appointed ambassador to Turkey
until 1910, He is the author of: The
Origin of Repubican Form of Govern
men in the United States: Roger Wil
liams. the Pioneer of Religious Liber
tv in the United States: Reform in
ithe Consular Service; United States
Doctrine of Citizenship; Our Diplo
macy with Reference to our Foreign
Service His home is in New York,
CHEYENNE, Wyo,. April 1, — The
'&»uance of bronze medals has been au
thorized by the Wyoming legislature,
to every soldier enlisted from the
state. One side will contain the sol
dier's name and rank, the other an
inscription: “In recognition of loyal
service in tho world war, from the
state at Wyoming>
JACK PICKFORD IS-LET OUT FOR
NAVY BRIBE
WASHINGTON, Jack Plckford. the
movie star and brother of Mary Pick
'ord. was discharged from the navy
'or complicity in the Now York navy
eraft scandal involving wholesale brib
-tv cf naval officers ‘by rich slackers
who obtained thereby boirtbproof jobs
luring the war
Pkkford, it was disclosed, was the'
go-between who arranged the transac-|
tious between Lieutenant Benjamin S,
Davis and the "safety first” men geek [
ing enrollment in the naval reserve, |
Davis* who divided $10^000 bribe mon
ey with other officers, ,wa9 diumisfied
and is now serving a three-year peni
tentiary service,
PfcNAL COLONY AGAIN NtfcUEO
MEXICO CITY,—The abandoned
tenal colony on the group of islands
off ithe coast of Teptct known as Las
Tres Marias, it is expected, will .be
reestablished to accommodate the
small army of habitual criminals
which the police of the Capitol -have
rounded up in their raid. A wave of
-ddiips and robberies which recently
wept Mexico City resulted in a gen
■ral rp-arutp which, within less than a
'( k weeks, brought in about 500 pris
vnere, many of -thesn had -escaped
from prison, t
6000 RESPONSE .
FROM VOLUNTEERS
WASHINGTON, D. ('..April 1, —
The Wf»r Department reports today
fha^tfcere is a gratifying number of re
sponses throughout t)i nation to the
•call for fifty thousand, volunteers for
overseas service,
ALASKAN "oifcS
SEATTLE. April 1,- George F, Per
ridge, a former Athskan miner died
today at Redmond In this county. He
had 'been ill for some time,
FIVE HOCKEY !
PLAYERS STRICKEN
SEATTLE. April 1.—Five of the
'members of the- "Les Cahttdiens” chib,
the world champion players, who have
tspen playing here ■with the local team,
hare been stricken with infuenza and
i are seriously ill, H-all and McDonald
are said to ibe in a dangerous condt
rtion, AH further local games have
ibeen called off,
PORTLAND; April 1,—It was an
nouncrd today that military badges to
be furnished by the City of Portland
to men who left this city to enter the
military service, will be presented
formally fo the men at a ceremony
which twill bo a feature of the Victory
Rose Festival In Jim*. K is estimat
ed that about lt.yOd n left Portland
to enter the ranks.
TO RESUME WORK AT
ANYOX TODAY
NEW YORK. April 1.—Operations
at the Granby Company’s smelter at
Auyox resumed operations today it
was announced. The plant has been
closed since early in March when fire
damaged part of the works.
OFF FOR MEXICO
HAVANA Cuba( April 1.—Jackson
Johnson, negro heavyweight pugilist,
who arrived here recently with his
wife from Spain where he has been
residing for a number of years, sail
ed for Mexico yesterday, It is report
ed that several boxing contests have
been arranged for him there,
BAKER TO SAIL FOR
EUROPE SHORTLY
WASHINGTON, D, C, April 1, —
Secretary Newtan D, Bakeri of the
War Department, has announced that
he will sail on Sunday, April 6 for
Europe, The time of his stay abroad
has not been determined,
TAKE OPTION ON SITE
SEATTLE, April 1,—An option on a
now county jail site has been obtained
by King county at the corner of
Fourth avenue and James street, The
new site is ‘directly opposite the city
jail. The present jail is declared to
be unsanitary and inadequate,
$40,000 DRUGS SEIZED
CLEVELAND, O . -Nearly $40,000
worth of morphine and other drugs
were seized today in a federal raid on
the Rest-Cure sanatarium and resulted
in the arrest of Dr, Moritz Lewenthal,
Four ffleu and a woman, arrested as
they left the sanatarium, admitted, ac
cording to federal agents, being sup
plied with drugs -there,
GERMAN UNIFORMS U6ED
COBLENZ—Thousands of unused
Herman uniforms that were found in
the storehouses here have been deliv
ered to the local authorities by Ameri
can army officials for conversion in
to civilian clothing for the poorer
residents of the city,*
Both boys and men now appear on
the streets in new dotheB, some of
which have .been disguised by dyes.
The women too, have availed them
selves of the opportunity to get warm
war coats, They have scorned, how
ever. the camouflage of the dye man
and it is now a common sight to see
one wearing a long war coat that
obviously once, as a gTay military
overcoat, adorned a German officer,
The only change lias been the femin
izing of ithe collar and sleeves with
perhaps the addition here and there
of a few buttons or trimming,
Some men of the Rineland have
resorted to the turning of the war
coat Inside out, Scores of men who
ere well dressed wear the buttons on
what was the inside of the army coat,
Bishop B, T, Ri/we left on the Jeff- j
ersou last evening after spending sev
eral days In Ketchikan, He -is on bis
annual trip through the territory and
expects to visit the interior this sea
son,
Sam Baker, representing the west
ern Drygoods Company, left on the
Jefferson foj Juneau this morning. 1
WILSON DECLARES IN FUTURE
THERE MUST BE LESS TALK
AND MORE REAL WORK DONE
French Plans for Reparation and Military Safety
Along the Rhine Frontier Ars Causing
Delay In Work of Congress
PARIS, April 1,—The Peace conference work is not going for
ward as rapidly as it should, it was learned today. The wide
difference inopinion and the French plans for reparation are
causing much delay. The question of military safety fsuMhe
French along the river Rhine is also proving a knotty question
for the conference to solve. The people are chafing at the delay
and the French press is becoming extremely querelous over the
iack of results.
President Wilson warned the members of the peace confer
ence today that the time was at hand when thev s' ould begin
showing results for their long sessions. He declared that he
was not inclined to shirk the responsibility for the delays and
that one country was just as much to blame as another but that
in the future there should be less discussing and n e action.
Japanese Situation Is Nou)
Corning American Officials
Considerable of Anxiety
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 1,—The Japanese question is
causing the officials here no end of worry, the result of reports
of their activities in all pai’ts of American territory.
tl was learned today that Japanese interests are making a de
termined effort to exploit the Philippine Islands, from semi-of
ficial information from Manila which just reached Washington.
During the last few months the influx of Japanese population
into Mindano and other agricultural districts has assumed ex
tensive and alarming proportions and the situation is rapidly
approaching a critical stage.
SACRAMENTO, Calf., April 1.—Senator Phelan in an ad- *■
dress to the members of the state legislature likened the Japan
ese to the Germans of the Orient and warned them that it was
time to begin a campaign right there in California against the
.Tapanizing of the United States. ,
War Tax On Messages
The local cable office has been in
formed that effective today, April 1,
there will t>e a government War Tax
of ten cents on all messages where the
; rate is over 50 cents and 5 cents
where the rate is less,
Today also the increase in rate an
nounced by the commercial companies
in the United States of 20 per cent
over existing rates on all classes of
business except press and messages to
and from Canada, went into effect at
2 a, m
Mrs, Bert Barclay was an arrival on
the Jefferson last evening from Seat
tle where she has spent the past three
months visiting with friends, spending
some time with her son "who is attend
ing St, Martin’s Academy near there,
MISS GARRISON
PLEADS NOT GUILTY
TO MURDER CHARGE
SEATTLE, April 1,—Miss Ruth Car
I rison today entered a plea of “not
i guilty” this afternoon in Taliman’s
I Court, to the' charge of murder in the
! first decree, The formal plea filed
j rends in part, “Not guilty by reason
I of mental irresponsibility at the time
1 the crime was committed and charged
| and that the defendant has become
mentally responsible between the
i time of committing the crime and the
,/time of trial,”
t' Miss Garrison expects to become a
' mother in four months,
TV. B, Blanche, representing the
New York Life Insurance Company
! left on the Jeffer3scn last, evening af
ter spending several days in the city
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Red ice Next Summer in Chicago From Long Lake
FOX LAKE, ILL.—Long Lake, near Fox lake, is turning red—blood red.
Residents of the neighborhood first noted tin; lake water getting a pinkish
hue several weeks ago. An Investigation—thoroughly unscii iitific, of course—
was then made hy tae scholars of the
vicinity. The hunters and trappers,
I the old settlers anil weather prophets
> were puzzled. The hotel keepers and
. resort owners who profit from the sum
• mer tourist trade then began to take
an interest in the phenomenon, as did
a Chicago Ice company, which owns
i several Icehouses.
[ Alderman Georj • M. Maypole of
Chicago, former poi.ee magistrate at
Fox Lake, who knows the Long lake
territory better than the native guides,
was appealed to. “That's remarkable,” the alderman said. “I wouldn’t want
to dictate a solution right offhand, but follow this clue carefully. The Gra
ham boys are great hunters, the duck season has been with us. They have
shot a multitude of ducks on the lake and the blood r < ra i ,e deceased
ducks, you know-”
.T. B. Graham, one of the family of famous trap shots and duck hunters,
was reached over the telephone.
“As a matter of fact, the duck hunting bus been pretty poor this year."
he said. “But the story of the water turning red Is true, llunntng out of
the lake It looks red. The lee brownish colored. We have sent samples of
the water to Chicago for analysis, but have not heard the result yet. If the
Ice freezes thick enough to harvest Chicago may get a ebaue'e to eat red
Ice next summer."
That, Watson, Is the case. We shall have to look Into —rorder, mys
tery, or whatnot.
Of course there will be an Increase In price next summer In Chicago—
fpr red Ice!