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TROOPS KILL OFFICOS
LONDON, Jan. 25—Soviet troops near the Lettish
frontier mutinied yesterday and killed several commissar*
ies. The uprising is said to have had a background in the
fact that the soldiers are hungry and poorly clad and the
command to enforce inquisition upon villages causes the
rioting.
AUDITOR BACKS UP COLONEL ABADIE
I NEW YORK, Jan. 25—Perlet Morse, whose account
ing firm audited the books of the Bethlem Ship Building
Corporation, testified, yesterday before the Walsh Com
mission. He coroborated the testimony of Colonel E. H.
t Abadie, concerning the discovery f a voucher for $260,000
which is alleged to cover the personal expenses of Charles
Schwab for the month of October, 1918. Schwab recently
denied taking any money from the Shipping Board and
even went so far as to say he had not even accepted the
$1.00 per year salary.
NEW YORK, Jan. 25—S. A. Ichik, general auditor of
the Bethlehem Steel Corporation denied today before the
Congressional Committee that any part of the voucher ex
I pense of Charles Schwab wras ever charged to ship con
struct! on.
SNOW INTERFERES WITH SERVICE
DENVER, Jan. 25—A blanket of snow eight inche
thick covered Denver and eastern Colorado yesterday, re
suiting in an almost complete paralysis of all telegrap)
and telephone communication for several hours. It was the
worst storm experienced this season.
MAKING ARRANGEMENTS
TO MOVE SALMON PACK
SEATTLE, Jan. 25—A committee of transportation
men was formed yesterday to co-operate with the salmon
fishing interests in relieving and improving the situation
now facing the packers. Following the meeting 150 repre
sentatives of the steamboat and railroad lines, with Fred
Wettenck president of Standard Packing Company saic
that there was no surplus at present and that the stocks on
hand were far less than those on hand in 1920. The?average
salmon pack is slightly in excess of 6,000000 cases. The two
million cases now stored in Seattle represent about seventy
per cent of the stock available in the country and the rail
* road men have agreed to work together to aid the move
' ment of this stock withput delay.
SIR EDWARD EXPECTED TO REFUSE
LONDON, Jan. 25—Sir Edward Carson is expected
to refuse the Premiership of Ulster and to intimate his
withdrawal from Irish affairs when he receives the Ulster
delegation today. He will continue to be interested in Ire
land simply as a well wisher from England.
NATION’S FIRES EXPENSIVE
NEW YORK, Jan. 25—Fires destroyed property worth
between $416,000,000 in the United States from 1915 to
19’9 according to figures that have been compiled by the
National Board of Fire Underwriters. Electricity led as
the cause of fire. $$4,000,000 loss was caused by matches
t v and smoking ranked second with $63,000,000.
TOBACCO GROWERS THREATENED
LEXINGTON, Jan. 25—Night riders last night visit
ed farmers in Bath and Flemming counties nnd warned
most of them not to haul any more tobacco to market un
til the prices were higher. They were toldJ that Jheir bams
would be burned if the warning was not complied with.
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MINE EXPLOSION KILLS MINERS
OET.FNiTZ. Saxony. Jan. 25—An explosion of fire
damp th’s mominy caused the death of six miners and in
jury to forty more who were nearby.
Business Center Suffers Loss
of $4,000,000 In Property
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* ATHENS, Jan. 25—A large part of the Athens busi
ness section is a mass of smouldering ruins today as the re- ‘
suit of a fire which destroyed many blocks. It is estimatec
that the loss is more than four million dollars. No loss oi
life has been reported. The rapid spread of the blaze was
due to, an expbsion of gasoline drums which scattered the
flames beyond control.
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JAPAN WILLING TO ACT
TOKIO, Jan. 25—The Japanese government would
consider restriction of armament should another nation
n oach the plan but according to Viscount Uchida, foreign
minister there is little hope of any immediate movement
toward disarmament. *
CRIME STILL RAMPANT
IN GREATER NEW YORK
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NEW YORK, Jan. 25—A recurrence of crime, includ
ng three, deaths and two dying with jnjuries inflicted by
lighwaymen and five holdups, featured the weeks opera
Vions by criminals in New York iCty. One of the victims oi
he robbers was killed on Crowder street in broad da;
■ght. Another was killed when he attempted to prevent r
tor robbery and a third wasTound dead on the rail roat
racks. Armed bandits near Tarrytown obtained loot val
ued at ten thousand dollrs when they held up an auto party
ind a milk wagon.
MEMBERS OF THE LEAGUE ARRESTED
PORTLAND, Jan. 25—Thirteen members of the Un
m Liberty League were arrested Saturday when the;
m: tempted to bold a meeting in memorium of Bloody Sun
lay which occured in Petrograd, Jan. 22,1905.
EDUCATION HEADS DIFFER
SEATTLE, Jan. 24—Charles W. Hawkesworth, sup
jrintenaent or the Bureau of Education In southeaster'!.
.iiasKa in a statement made yesterday concerning his an
iuuncement that the Bureau of Education eventually
,/ould ehminate the federal schools'of the territory where
i'erritorial and Nelson schools were in operation. He said,
l’he Bureau of Education has been misunderstood in the
j erritory, particularly among the members of the Alaskan
natives. It has been accused of wishing to segregate the
iative people and keep them from the whites. Just the con
rarv is the case and from now on the policy of the Bureau
/ill be to eliminate Bureau schools where other means of
ducation exist We do not expect this assimilation to be
i matter of a few months or years, but in time there will
oe no more schools in Alaska for Natives where othei
chools exist. We expect some opposition among the white
people but the fact remains as long as a native is a dti
:en and a taxpayer, his children can attend the schools of
he Territory if they come from sanitary homes.”
Lester L. Henderson, commissioner of Education for
Alaska says the abolishment of the Bureau schools at the
present is not timdy, declaring that the elimination of the
iative school in any community does not mean that the
loors of the public schools are to be thrown open to reedve
all the natives as dtizens.
He further stilted that three things stand in the way
if the unified scheme of education for Alaska. Economic
'tatus and hereditary tendencies of the native for him to
conform to the standard set for Territorial schools, in reg
ularity and punctuality of attendance and the inability of
*iie average native to oonfrm to the rules of home sanita
tion and bodily cleanliness to prevent a prevailance of in
fectious diseases among the native population. W. T. Loop
Chief of the Alaska Bureau of Education says that Con
troversy over tins subject is very premature inasmuch as
*io assimibiBon of the wMt*» and nativexhildren can be ex-:
pected until the distant future.
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OIL TANK EXPLOSION
KILLS MANY PEOPLE
MEMPHIS, Ten. Jan. 25—At least twenty five people,
mostly negroes were killed yesterday afternoon and more
than fifty injured when a tank car- of gasoline exploded,
iear the filling station. It was set off presumably by a
,park from a workers chisel. The explosion tore to splint
ers a row of'frame buildings, mostly dwellings and shat
tered windows within a radius of fifteen blocks in the
nost densly populated portion of the city. A fire resulted
which for a time threatened to spread to a nearby gas
plant. It was checked before it had time to gain headway.
BANDIT PLEADS GUILTY
SEATTLE, Jan. 25— John Schmidt, the bandit who
shot and killed two city detectives last Friday night plead
ed guilty to the charge yesterday. His trial has been set
for Thursday morning and under the Washington law the
jury may determine whether he will hang or be imprison
ed for life.
RED ARMY IN BERLIN
BERLIN, Jan. 25—A semi-official statement says
evidence of the existence of a German Communist Red
Yriny exists in Germany with headquarters in Berlin. The
'act was revealed by the search of houses in many cities,
’he army possesses light and heavy guns and also a vast
mount of ammunition and supplies. A report from Dussel
’orff says that the Red general has been arrested.
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TWO NEGROES ARE LYNCHED
WARRENTCN, N. C., Jan. 25—Alfred Williams and
Mummer Bullock, negroes were taken from jail here yes
erday by a. masked mob and lynched.
MAHYAPPUCATIONSFOR
WATER POWER PERMITS
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 25—Applications have
jeen received by the Federal Power Commission for per
nits and licenses for water power development in Alaska
..uring the past month from the following persons.
N. L. Weeks of Los Angeles for Orchard Lake, Swan
uake, Fish Lake and Shelockum Lake on Revillagidedo
island.
L. T. Votger of Tacoma for Orchard Lake.
American Paper Company, for Orchard Lake.
W. E. Appearson of Seattle for Josephine Creek near
Copper Harbor,Prince of Wales Island.
Paul Butler of Chicago for Swan Lake and Fish Lake.
Most of these applications for permits to develop
/ater power are connected with the Pulp and paper indus
ry now springing up in Alaska.
TO RENEW MILITARY OCCUPATION
CONSTANTINOPLE, Jan. 25—Renewed military oc
cupation by the allies is iminent. Troops are said to be.re
juircd because of the threatened disorder and thd presence
>f followers of the Nationalists party and leaders of Hie
Bolsheviki elements and the failure of Hie Turks to ratify
;he peace treaty.
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THIRTY THOUSAND STARVING IN CRIMEA
SALONJKJ, Jan. 25s—Thirty thousand refugees from
Crimea in Caucasus face starvation unless aid is received
it onc-e. Typhus fever and other diseases are rampant
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