THE NOME NUGGET
PEACE DELEGATE ASSASSINATED
ALASKA'S MEEDS KMMNfS AIM WESTESH TRF
RUSSIA HOLDS SWISS
FOR ASSASSINATION
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LAUSANNE, May 12—M. Vorouky, head of the Russia* Sower. |
<keU*aiAon art. the Lausanne Peace CoOnference was assassinated. Hr* |
vtaB Shot several times and killed outright M. Ahern* head of the •
Sgriet Press Bureau in Lausanne, and Dibricoksy another Russian were |
wounded.
Vonosky and hire party were dining art the Hotel Cecil. Maurice
Atexajuder Co-nradii. a former soldfie/r In thcRussian army admitted the
deed when arrest**!. j
RUSSIANS HOLD SWITZERLAND KUSTONMKH:
BERLIN, May 12—Russian j'epresental.ives at the Lausanne Con
ference have handed a note to Che Swiss Goverrunem formally accusing
Switzerland of failure to take precauttilons to protect the lives of Voroeky. i
Ahrens and Ditortocoksky. After being sanL^tied that an. attack os the j
Boriet delegates was planned the mote aays the allies will be lN#d moral.!? i
WWponsibW* for the death of Vorosky and tike wounding oi others by the ;
fanner olav of the Czar’s army.
•ON KADI AdTSKS ROliiHKVIKI CAUSE OF Al»IWN
LAURANNK. May 12—In a pOoa before the exaintnin*; ma^tort rat*
today Conrad* charged the Boldhevlki with todtuititng his aged porastB and ;
tug eons, who hmo» starvation, and cruel t’eacmerst iD Rnmt* after ,
tHre re volution.
GERMANS RETALIATE FOR COURT DMTSION
BSSES. May 12 -Sabotage gangs burned an important railroad
bridge an aamwer to Che verdict of the French court martial at liu'eeeel
dorf, which imposed the dearth sentence upon Albert Schotagetter.
SctftologertJLer and aix other were chnrg**! with sabotage and *w
tdonaga The bridge wan on the maim line between. Waltrop and Lumen
and the Bargemeisters of Wiese two towns have been ameFted.
imiTISH SHIP RELEASED BY SOVIET
HULL. England. Maiy 12—The owners of the trawler Grace John
son, seizure of which recently oocaisioned -reports from Great Britaon to
the Rueeten Soviet government, have received a telegram from the skip
pea* Nellson, stating tihiat. he has been, released by the Rolwhevtki and is
mow at a Norwegian port, expecting to sail homeward.
BASE BALL 1K>PE FROM MAJOR LEAGUES
NATIONALS—Besides ten home run in the St. Louis-Phiiadelphia
0une which was a hard hitflJing contest, both teams used eight pitchera
and twenty seven players participated. Williams made three home
runs. Boston won in the ninth inning after two men were out when
pinch hitter Bagwell aig/led and sent McGinnis around to third. Marq
ard’e pitching was exceptional. Cunminlgham clinched the game for
New York in the sixth when he drove in three runs With a double bagger
PVtXahurg knocked out three singfles and a double in the thiTd inning and
soared four rune.
.... AMERICANS—St. Louie routed four of Philadelphia twilere. in
cluding Rommel, and piled up six tallies in the sixth incOcg. Wright
allowed the visitors but four runs. Zachary was too good for Detroit.
Heilman it's home run shut out Detmtot.
BREVITIES.
SEATTLE, ltay 12—Galen Wood, a 71 year oM retired minister,
drowned when he fell from the Smith Cove pier.
NEW YORK, May 12—Ambassador Harvey arrived from London
SEATTLE, May 12—Two hundred sixly passenger? ’argely book
ed for the Interior of Aleelca, are aboard the Northwestern which will
sal! today.
WASHINGTON, May 12—The Air Mail Service, sine* its ins*alla
t’on, has coat 94.295,267.
NEW YORK, May 12—Willard and Floyd Johnson of Des Moines
meet tonight In a fifteen round fight in Yankee Stadium.
NEW REPARATIONS OFFER MAY RESULT
PARIS, May 12—A nelw German Reparations offer te expected to
SffBff out of the Brtttoh reftfty to Chaneetlor puno’a note.
DIPLOMATIC CORPS
ISSUES ULTIMATUM
CHINESE GOVERNMENT
PEKING. May 12 The DfcpJomtiitir Corps delivered an utLima/iuni j
U> Oh UK* last night, demanding that the government release all foreign ,
prisoners beilid by bandits in the Sien Tun*: HiiliLs by midnight.
TO FINI> THK ItKABON WHV GAMUTS t Ol?LJ> ACT
WASHINGTON, May 12—A joint inquiry by representatives of th»
foreign governments in Peking. as to the caiws which made possible the i
capture of American and foreign ciltia«»ne .n Shantung by Chinese bandits, !
has been agreed to by the Chinese government.
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WASHINGTON. May 12—-Officfo3 advices from Peking rftate that
the Chin can govefroment will join the inquiry by foreign diiplomaUs into
the causes that made the Suchow kidnapping possible and will establish
whether ♦'hope was any coMuefon between bandits and Chinese officials.
PROMINENT AMERICANS STII.I. PRISONERS CHINA
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j WASHINGTON. May 12—Th.- Star.- Department advices Idora the
America® Legation at Peking said it was believed the foreigners 9**11
held by Chinese ban<#ts in Shantung number fourteen men and women.
The America®, prisoners are. J. B PoweM and Ed. Winkley of
Shanghai. Leon Friedman of the China Motor Corporation, of Shanghai
Lee Soltoroon of Shanghai and Majors Robt. Allien, and Roland Pings r of
the Unilted States army.
BRITAIN AJW1SES (dJUU.NT TO THY AGAIN
LONDON, May 12—Brevity and incisiveness were the features of
Great Britain’s newest note to Germany on the Reparations question,
which now is complete. The document points out m the simplest lang
uage the inadequacy, from the British viewpoint. of Germany’s proposals
and urges her to try again.
SOVIET GOVERNMENT
WANTS GOOD WILL
BOT WILL FIGHT
MOSCOW, May 12—The Soviet government doe® not desire to
break with Greait Brtiitaiin, M. Ga-nfakey, Deputy Foreign MinliSter, de
cJared >111 a speech before the Trades Union Coun'cil. The Council passed
a resolution declaring that Russia would meet with force any attempt
to infringe upon her independence.
MOSCOW, May 12—All Moscow’s factories and government insti
tutions were dosed this morning to’ permUt employees to take part ini
gne<ait demonstration agatlnst the British note. Surghig crowds early
began, to fill the streets of the city. Intent of demonstration seemed Jo
be .peacefully, but it appeared evident that they meant to make gathering
an Impressive one.
RUSSIA CONTEMPLATES AIR MENACE
NEW YORK, May 12—The Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce,
fcn Its annual report, made public last night, reveals that the year’s pro
gram In Russia calls for a fleet of five thousand planes.
CRUISER RMAKES NEW RECORD ON PACIFIC
SAN FRANCISCO, May 12—The Cruiser Omaha, arriving yester
day afternoon from Honolulu, clipped off 25 hours from the (ttme between
the two ports. She was doing her beat to land a letter from Honolulu
to Washington in 101 hours. The letter was mailed by the postmaster
I of Honolulu, addressed to the Postmaster General.
DEVELOPMENT ALASKA
HARDING’S PURPOSE
WASHINGTON, May 12—Harding has only on*? motive in mak
ing hu* western trip this summer, and that i-s 'to visit Alaska and obtain
first hand information useful in dealing with the problems of that terri*
tory. It was said at the White House, in the course of .the discussion
of the tour into the interior, that the I’resident feeds that development
of Alaska has been gieatly reardod thru officials in Washington. For
uhat reason he looks upon the proposed trip ;us a step toward development
of the territory in the right way.
KLU KMAIliKIW AM) POISON 1'KN WIHI/DKKS IVIMt’TH#
NEW YORK, May 12 Indictment of George Max PeM, President
i of the American Society of (Vomjpopers, Authous and Publishers, on
charges of sending scurrilous maititer thru the mails, together with that
of A. Ryan financier and son of Thomas P. Ryan, resulted from an inves
tigation into the activities of a suspected international band of black
j mailers anti poison pen wfeklers. These blackmailers have threatened
j moire than one hundred promnent pennons, according to disclosures made
1 by the Iftotrict Attorney.
HARVEY TWITTED BY NEWSPAPER MEN
NEW YORK. May 12- “I am an American, but am not a damned
TERRE HAUTE. May 12-—FWty students and guests at the ' Jun
ior Prom” uf the Rose Polytechnicail Tnsd-ftute are under medical treat
ment from drinMinp poisoned punch.
SENT TO PRISON FOR PR.U1«XAST USE OF MAILS
NEW YORK. May 12—fk>otr»r Leonard C. Hirschberg. fnrerlym of
Baltimore who was conicted with Wethrop Smith recently of using the
mails to ib-fnaud, by conaplilracy in a Blind Pool. was sentenced to serw?
FOMM1TTFE TO INVESTIGATE AM.KKK \\ N INDIANS
WASH • NO TON, May 12—Secretary Work has invited ii'Or- than
one hundred prominent men and women t.o form a Committee for the
j in.v«s«/i'ga*ion of problems to do with the American Indian. Th- inv ;s
| tigatlon line invicfw the improvement of government methods of dealing
I with its wards
STUDENTS DRINK POISONED PI NCH
A I.ASK A S. S. CO. FREIGHTER BREA KS IN TWO
SEATTLE. May 12- The freighter Lake Gehii-art. ashore oa the
Washington coalet. has broken in two and is a (total loss, according to
word received this morning by the Alaska Steamship Company.
BUILDERS TEST OF SHU'S NOW ON,
RGCRLAND, Maine. May 12—The Ligfht Cruiber Richmond, the
first of the new type of warcraft to reach the trial stage on the Atlantic
Is now undergoing her trilaH trips whitch begins a series of Builders Ac
ceptance Teats on the Rockland course.
AMERICAN GOLF PLAVEH DEFEATED
LONDON, Miay 12—FrancJis Oumiiet of Boston was defeated In the
eenvi finial ro<und of the Britlibh Amatuer Gollf championship tiurnament
here by Roger Pethersd. the Oxford student.
WATERHOUSE EXONERATED FROM PERSONAL LIABILITY
SEATTLE, May 12—The jury returned a verdict in favor of Frank
Waterhouse im the leuiit which has been in progress for five weeks, to
recover from His personally the sum of $167,985. which it was claimed
he had personally lbst in a government. ship building eontra<Jt. The
amount lost had bee® charged to the .now defunct corporation of Frank
Waterhouse and Company and suit was begun to recover.
DEC!ARK OFF BOYCOTT AGAINST AMERICAN SHIPS
VERA ORUZ, Merieo, May 12—The recently announced boycott
against American ships toudbing at this post, has beem declared cff.
The Mexican Local Union declined to cooperate.