THE DAILY PROGRESS!VE-MNER
—T-1
VOLUME FOUR
Ketchikan. Alaska, Friday April 12, 1919
Number 148
AMERICAN MUTINY REPORT CONFIRMED
Another Wily German Plot is Goming out before
Allies
BOLSHEVIK! PLOT TO HAlttRATE
WORLD-WIDE PROLETARIAT REVOLT
IS DISCLOSED IN PARIS REPORT
Foreign Minister Says Germany Will Never Sign
Peace That Differs Materially From Wil
son's Fourteen Point Plan
PARIS. April 11.—It was announced here today that con
firmation hay been received of the Bolsbeviki plot to inaugurate
a world wide proletarian revolution. The initial step planned
n' i be the taking -er : the administrative power of Germany
by the Sparta cans- with, the present government acquiescent,
immediately after the Paris Peace Conference closes. Once in
. :r.tr:i Germany, the Spartacans planned to refuse to pay
indemnities or carry out the peace terms of the Allies.
BERLIN. April 11.—The Local Anzeiger says that the Gov
ernment troops used machine guns on the Spartacans in their
outbreak at Dusseidorf yesterday, killing twenty-five.
Foreign Minister Kuhlmar. i nan address at Weimar today as
serted that Germany never would sign any peace that differs
materially from Wilson's fourteen points.
Dr. Demberg. former chief of the German propaganda sen -
ice in the United States, writing in the Tageblatt of Berlin, de
clares that the German people will never consent to a peace
treaty that is not inspired by impartiality, justice and a spirit of
reconciliation. Nor will they, he adds sign a peace treaty which
does no: contain a league of nations in which Germany is ad
mitted with full rights and will only consent to disarmament
when other members of the League disarm.
Senator Johnson Declares American Soidiers in Rus
sia Were Put Under Foreign Command And
It Was Time To Put A Stop To it
WASHINGTON. D. C.. April 11.—A confirmation of the re
f- rt ? mutiny of a company of American troops on the Arch
angel '’-or* is given cut by leaders in the War Department. Toe
-^•Idlers refused to fight the Bolsheviki any further and unless
Washington gave assurance of any early withdrawal of all A
mericans, there would be a general mutiny.
Senator Johnson, of California, discussing the mutiny of the
American soldiers at Archangel said that the American soldiers
were sent to Northern Russia under British Command and that
American soldiers had been sent to Siberia under Japanese com
mand and that it was high time to put an end to such a state
of affairs.
JEFFERSON AND
CURACOA SA!L TODAY
SEATTLE. Apr:: IT— J-:ff-'r*cr.:
sailed for the o'.rth at aia-- o'doflt ti.’j!
tsorai.-.g with two hundred aa-l *w^ilT.j
-so 5->p':e o- board including rr-v«
l.ir-e y Orfctal. for Quadra. Auk R?r
t>,r. Tee Harbor, and Teaaiee For
Ketchikan ar- Mrs Jots Johnson. M
Kiuiirt and wife. Mrs. M. W. Gr -
gory, Mrs. Louise Frencfcke, J. T. Ber
S«Oc. Bes Moor?. Margaret Thompson.
C. A. Clart George H. Saaw, and
wife.
The Curacoa sails tonight with f,ne
handred cann: - reman for Red B.aff
HftCeta. Tyee a-.d Karheen causer:-s.
Acting ^ Macagrr VTHeroy Gle-soc
and wife, of *'r.e Salt Chock mine, at
Kasaa .. *■-*»- arrival* i.c town lav* eve
nit? ©a Ira* and are at t.-.e Fi-viiia.
MOVEMENT OF BOATS
Southbound—
City erf Seattle T reeelay.
ilasteda 15tE
Northbound
Jefferson Saiarday.
Farragut Friday
WAKING BETTER CITIZENS
The effect of tie educational cam
paign of the Bureau of Xatnralia
tlon with the public schools is shown
in no uncertain fashion by recent
■atttraUzati'O® returns. the returns of
the fiscal year lilS.
During -he preceding year only 31.
210 cases were "continued'’, which
mean*, in the majority of cases, tlat
the decision of the judge was with
held for a certain period to gir^Mu
applicant time to pursue farther his
study of English and citizenship. Uur
ir.z the fiscal year 1&18, however, 15,
510 cases were continued. This marks
an increase of 50 per cent. Fifty per
cent more cases—that means, in which
the judge was impressed with the
necessity of taking the educational
qualification seriously; 50 per cent
more communities, by a fair analogy,
is which the foreign-bora man or!
woman is being given opportunities of
acquiring the knowledge of language;
and institutions of this country that:
will make him a good citizen.
“One thousand innocent bystanders!
killed la Berlin.” That'* frank exag
geration. There aren't 100 Innocent
persons in all Germany—Washington!
Herald. I
NURSING CORPS
TO BE INCREASED
Washington, d. c, April u. —
The Department of Nursing of the A
mertcan Red Cross announced yester
day that because of the number of pa
tients to be cared for in the hospitals
of the Public Health Service, the nurs
ing force will be increased from 50,
000 to 73.000 a year under the recent
set of congress designed to meet the
growinr -<spi:al needs of the enlarg
ed merchant marine An agreement
has been entered . ito a< a result
• hereby the graduate enrolled nurses
will be furnished to the service as Red
Cross nurses to the army and navy.
Washington, d. c.. April il—Ac
cording to figures compiled by the de
triment of labor here, at least 200.
and possibly 350.000 v.egTaes e nit
rated from the southern states to the
north durine the war. The movement
extended through the last half of 1917
and the entire year 191$
WAGE INCREASE
FOR RAILROAD EM
PLOYES OF U, S.
WASHINGTON. D. C.. April 11. —
Director Genera! Hines of the C. S.
Railroad Administration announced to
day that a wage increase, effective at
uce had been given -o four hundred
thousand railroad engineers. firemen,
trainman ar.d conductors, aggregating ’
a total of ISo.Ow.OOO a wear.
HONOR FLAHERTY
NEW YORK. April 11.—James A.
Flaherty, Supreme Knight of the
Knights of Columbus, has been appoint
ed a member of the Arcadia of Rome,
according to advices received here to
day. This i-s a literary society found
ed in the seventeenth century by Queen
Christine of Sweden. Several Popes
iv- members and President Wil
son was made a member on his recent
visit to Rome. Only five Americans
have been appointed members. Among
these are Cardinal Gibbons, and Arch
bishop Mundelein of Chicago.
Bewails Berlin’s Filth
COPENHAGEN. April 11.—A cor
r>soo-«dent of the Berliner Lofcai-An
zeiger {r- a recent issue savs that Ber
‘ tb- capital of the empire becomes
more degraded every day. Formerly
a model of order and cleanliness, It is
n -w slovenly and dirty. Some of its
best streets recall nothing now but the
slums of a Polish manufacturing town.
Hawkers have taken possession and
have made a pig sty of a once great
and beautiful city. From early morn
ing til! late night all kinds of rubbish
are exposed on booths or offered bv
peddlers, The booty of thieves and the
-■ocks of receivers of stolen goods are
shamelessly ffered.
Importunate beggars, he continues
throng the entrances to the under
ground stations, and venders of inde
cent leaflets and picture post cards cor
rupt youths with their poisonous wares.
Nobody cares, and the police do not in
terfere. Under cover of freedom of
the press any kind of printed matter
is allowed circulation.
MRS. WILLIAMS HERE
Mrs. Osborne Williams and three
lidren were arrivals in Ketchikan yes
terday afternoon on llie tug Apex of
•he Wilson Fisheries, and are on their
wayto join Mr. Williams at Port Wal
ter where he has accepted the position
"f -.tcountant for th. summer.
The Apes is towing a stow. C. C.
"o. So. 2"> of the Washington Tug &
B g- Co. loaded with spruce piling
'or Chcmley and Yes Bay, and left this
- ft rncca for its destination.
Mrs Williams and children were the
gn.'s s of Mr- and Mrs. Cheney <i New
To*, ; for dinner last evening and had
beer, with Rev. *:.& Mrs. C. M.
Van Marter today.
TANKERS IN PORT
T r. Standard Oil ca*e the ha
Primers arrival in port yeatt,day aoeu
with a cargo of aih- and barrel oil.
fcr K-rtcliikaa. P.-t-raburg. Juneau,
Sttfc i ai d Waterfall. She U unloadin'/
r areo for thl* point and will pro
ved north.
Tt tasker At!: . ar.ir.d In port tbit
TonJng at 10:30 with a cargo of bulk;
oils.. |
SAM GOMPERS
BACK' FROM
EUROPE
Suffered Paralytic Stroke
A Few Days Ago
On Way Home
NEW YORK, April 11.—Samuel Gom
pers. president of the American Feder
ation of Labor and president of the In
ternational Commission, who returned
from the labor conference in Paris last
evening, burst into tears as he came a
ri.cre, exclaiming. “My own land.
Trank God!”
Later. Mr. Gompers informed his
wife who was at the pier to meet him
5 hat he had sustained a paralytic
stroke a few days asro on the way over
from Europe.
LONDON. April 11.—It was official
ly stated to a questioner in the house of
commons that the excess of premiums
over payments under the government
aircraft insurance scheme, which pro
vided payment of damages through loss
from air raids, amounts to more than
fifty million pounds.
REORGANIZED
U. S. FLEET
TO MEET
American Fleet To Meet
As Unit For First
Time Soon
N E 'A ^ GRK. April 11.—Preparations
are now well under way to proride a
proper welcome for the 27.000 officers
and men of the reorganized Atlantic;
fleet which is expected to arrive in
New York. April la for a two weeks’
visit. During this time the great ar
mada will ride at anchor in the Hudson
forming a column of ironclads which
will extend for miles.
The fleet now includes fourteen su
t-erd read noughts and sixty destroyers.
Six of the dreadnoughts are those
which served with the British Grand
Geet in the North Sea from Dec. 4.
1S17, until Dec. 14, 1913, and most of
the destroyers saw service in the
North Sea or acted as convoys to
troopships. One of the destroyers, the
Parker trapped a German submarine
and towed it into port.
This is the first time since the U
it-d States entered the war that the
fleet will be seen as a unit and will
be the greatest collection of fighting
shins ever seen under the Stars and
Stripes.
TO RETURN HOME
Miss Nora Muaeth. who has been em
ployed in the local Post Office for the
past four months, during which time
she has been the guest of her sister,
Mrs. J. H. Davies, leaves this weekend
for her home in Douglas.
Mrs. Davies and two children will
accompany her north to Juneau where
they will join Representative Davies
who is attending the territorial legisla
ture.
During her short stay here, Miss Mu
seth has made many lasting friends
who will deeply regret her departure
and nope that she may return again.
JUDGE MAHONEY BACK
Judge Wm. T. Mahoney was an ar
rival from the south this week from
California where he was called by the
illness of his father who died five days
after his arrival home.
Judge Mahoney says Alaska is the
only safe place to live these days,
what with the Influenza breaking out
periodically, and small poz and typhoid
raging Intermittently all over the
country.
During Judge Mahoney’s absence. Dr.
Henry C. Story acted as U. 8. Com
missioner.
T" ipv,-r«-cked sailor of the future
may not be »o keen about reaching!
dry land.—Brooklyn Eagle.
BRITISH ARMY
BEING REDUCED
LONDON*. April 11.—According U
the White Paper issued by the Gov
ernment, the British Army at home and
abroad, exclusive or the force in In
dia .now numbers 2,500,000 men, and
is being reduced to 952,000.
The army of the Rhine, including
troops In France and Belgium, wil'
consist, after demobilization, of 23.00C
officers and 380,000 men. The ar
mies of the Middle East will be as fol
lows: In Italy. 600 officers and 10,000
men, In Bulgaria. Turkey and the
Caucasus. 4.S50 officers and 75,000
men of th eBritish Army and a large
force from the Indian Army.
The home and colonial establishment
including troops in Russia, will consist
of 15.000 officers and 225.000 men.
NEW YORK. April 11—The W*ai
Trade Board has announced that un
set diamonds may now be exported tc
the United Kingdom of Great Britain
Their importation was prohibited by a
proclamation made July 2S, 1915.
NEW EPIDEMIC
IN PORTLAND
PORTLAND. Ore., April 11.—A new
epidemic is now common in Portland
the result of the recent wave of Influ
enza, and that is “baldness.” Bald
headed men and women are becoming
a common sight.
People who had a fever for a few
days and then recovered are now dis
covering that their vair is falling out
rapidly and many are completely bald.
Specialists are doing a rushing busi
ness trying to restore or save the de
parting hair, and there promises to
be a brisk demand in the wig market.
GIRL SHOOTS SELF
WHEN MOTHER DIES
BELLINGHAM. Wash. April 11. —
Two minutes after Mrs. Winnefred
Couch of this city died last nis'ht, her
daughter. Ethel, an lS-year-old school
eiri ccmmitted suicide by shooting her
sc'f. Grief over her mother's death is
supposed to have caused temporary in
say it v during which she took her own
life.
SALT LAKE CITY. April 11.—Jas.
M Shockley, a life-termer at the Utah
State prison, convicted of murder, was
recently allowed temporary freedom in
order to visit his aged mother at Bell.
Mo., He made the round trip in ten
days and no account of movements
■ere k»pt by the prison officials. He
has written many stories since being
in the jail, many of which have ap
"car-.-d in pr'-mhient magazines.
PENSIONS ARE
NOW AVAILABLE
Judt'e Wm. T. Mahoney reports to
day that the pensions for Alaska pio
neers, have been received from Juneau,
the territorial legislature having ap
propriations to cover. So pensions
have been paid for several months ow
ing to the fact that the fund had run
out, and no money was availalble until
the spring meeting of the legislature.
All pioneers to whom pensions are
due may receive same by calling at the
offic.- o fthc U.. S. Commissioner.
ALONG THE WATER FRONT
Th<- halibut boats Star. K. Neilfon.
I. ‘re, Atlas Stranger, Tatouche,
Mitchell, Waste Aurora, Rolfe, Road
Amundson. Volunteer and Heligoland,
file.-red for the s<-a fisheries this week.
The Pioneer arrived today with 31,000
rr- • d i tint she sold hey.
GUEST OF LEADBETTERS
Mrs George Vttnl of the Guard Isl
and Mahtbcu^. who is visiting in town
‘••-ill be the guest of Captain and Mrs.
Leadbetter for ten days, at th.dr home
In Newtown.
IS DISAPPOINTED
Mr. J. A. Clary, of the Standard Oil
Of-.'r, who has been anticipating the
arrival of his wife and three children
ou the next northbound trip of the
C’i* of Seattle, received word today
'rf vi Mrs Clan- in Seattle that the trip
.Orth had ‘been postponed on account of
lack Junior ‘being ill with a bad case
>t the mumps.
GENEVA SELECTED HOME OF THE
LEAGUE NATIONS FIRST MEETING
Specific Provision To Safeguard Monroe Doctrine
Adopted By League Of Nations Commi ee And
Will Be Incorporated in the Covenant
WASHINGTON- D. C., April 11.—According to advices re
ceived at the White House today from Paris, mote progress has
been made by the peace conference during the past forty-eight
hours than has been made in the previous two weeks.
PARIS. April 11.—Geneva has been finally selected as 11 i per
manent home of the League of Nations, but the impression pre
vails that thefirst meeting of the League will be held in Wash
• ington, D. C., in October this year.
At two o’clock this morning, following an all night session,
President Wilson personally announced that the Monroe Doc
trine had been exempted from interference by the League of
Nations. This has been made possible by the adoption by the
League of Nationscommittee of a specific provision drafted by
Thomas W. Gregory, who is advising the commission on the
legal phases- The proviso safeguards the doctrine without spe
; eifically mentioning it. as specific mention would introduce a
controversy over the specific wants of various states. It af
firms in substance that coercive measure of united powers as
provided by the covenant shall not operate against nations of
the western hemisphere unless the United States and other
western countries shall approve.
It is held that this will give the United States and the west
ern republics the final word on applying collective force against
nations on that hemisphere, and this, in effect, reaffirms the
Monroe doctrine.
British Labor Party Is Restive
In a settlement policy issued by the British Labor Party, de
mands are made that the Paris conference make peace at once
on Wilson’s fourteen points plan, also that military interference
in Russia cease at once.
Geneva is the capital of the canton of the same name, in the
Swiss Republic situated at the western extremity of the Lake
of Geneva, where the Rhone issues. The territory of Geneva
having- through the Congress of Vienna, obtained an accession
of 15 communes, detached from France and Savoy, was admitted
a member of the Swiss Confederation in 1814, and ranks as the
22nd canton. TheFrench language is spoken. The more import
ant buildings are the cathedral or church of St. Pierre, a Gothic
structure of the 10th, 11th and 12th centuries; the town house
in Florentine style; the Musee Rath, containing a collection of
over 90,000 volumes and the Museum of Natural History. In
bterature and science Geneva has always occupied a distin
guished place.
WAR MEMORIALS
PLANNED IN
MANY PLACES
In all parts of the country efforts to
establish fitting memorials to the
American heroes in the world war are
starting and there is a general tend
ency to advocate community buildings
or bridges and other public improve
merits that make a town or city a bet
ter place to live in. New ideals for the
perpetuation of a hero’s name and fame
have come with the recent victory and
these are revealed in letters sent to
the United States Department of Labor
in response to suggestions for stimulat
ing building activites.
Kansas City is one of the places in
whi'h plans Sa memorial have been i
most serious _ discussed. A great mu
seem to be h"ilt on a hill near the
Union Station has been suggested by
Prof. John S. Ankeny, of the Universe j
tv of Missouri, who advocates a pro
ject that would be really a coneentra
lion of a parkway and public plav-I
ground scheme, a place of recreation
as Well as education, in which rairi< ;
days could be passed advantageously by
I atroiis of the playgrounds.
“What better memorial of the actual!
life and warfare of the soldier could In
planned than collection of accouter
ments of all kinds well installed in th
great halls and rooms of tho lower
floori?’’ asks Prof. Ankeny. “In one
wing could be housed the collections
hearing upon tho spiritual aspects e'
the war. This might include paintin*"'
and statues of patriotic and militarv
subjects, pictures actually made at the
front, and collections of war posters.”
The immediate p'anning of these
memorials in various cltirs means that
work mav ! started in time to afford
employ’ m to. ■-’sands of soldiers
nr ill i i France. Cl u b women and civic
organizations are awake to tho possi
bilities which these memo. Ills repre
sent and it is generally reailrod that
the memorials may not only provide
for practical needs in a community,
while they stand as a lasting remim'. r
of deeds of supreme hcrois and pa
triotism, but that through them the
Nation may reveal its growth in art
knowledge and art expression. Tho
periods of hideous portrait statues and
badly modeled symbolic figures -has
passed away with the infancy of the
Nation, now a full-grown world power.
DEPARTURES TODAY
Leaving on the Princes thia morn
ing for Seattle were B. M. Stone, L. It.
Kllison, It. H. Chadwick Nols Olson
ami Bjorn Casperaon for Seattle. Mrs.
Frodsham for Vancouver, and George
Mantani'/. for Cleveland, Ohio.
LEAVES FOR VANCOUVER
Mrs. Win. B. Prods ham, violinist at
the Dream Theatre, left on the Princes*
this morning for Vancouver, B. C.,
where sle will make her homo with
her late husband’s family. Mr. Frod
sham was u victim of the Influenza at
Camp Dodge Inst year
The Russians a"o allowing tholr
Prof« ssors to die «.f starvation. Life
's hard and earth yearns for the Rus
sian who shows any signs of intelli
gence nowadays.