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The weekly Alaska citizen., 1919-11-10
NATI0NWIDE RAID ON
 ANARCHISTS STARTED
 BY FEDERAL OFFICIALS

NEW YORK, Nov 7--( (P)-Moving with the sud denness and mexpectedness of bolt of lightning from clear sky, agents of the department of justice ts evening began nationwide raid on anarchists which has resulted in the arrest of hundreds of radical altator who unwarned were taken without any difficulty. The surprise occasioned by the raid has totally paralyzed radical circles and left them without breath for com ment at the moment.
 In this city alone 200 radicals arrested at the headquarters of the Russian soviet Fifty of these being held for deportation Eight women were arrested in this bunch and two of them among the lot to be deported The sweep said to have gathered in all the leaders,
 ST. LOUIS RAID
 ST. LOUIS, Mo-, Nov. 7.-QP)-In raid made by agents of the department of justice here tonight two per- arrested for alleged anarchstic tendencies
 BIG BAG IN NEWARK
 NEWARK, N. J., Nov. 7.-(P)-Quietly and with out word of forewang, special federal agents of the department of ustc this evening raked clean the radical joints in this city, Trty-sx persons arrested and being held radical agitators
 A JITNEY FULL
 DETROIT, Mich, Nov. 7-(H)-Actng smultane ously with agents in other cities turnout the country federal agents tonight made raid local radical head quarters A total of 50 radicals arrested by the officers number of them will be held for deportation
 IN PHILADELPHIA
 PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Nov. -Philadelphia's contribution to the federal agent bag of radicals thru out the country tonight placed at 3O that many persons of alleged anachstic tendencies being arrested and talk to the federal jail.
 OTHERS IN MICHIGAN
 JACKS SON, Mch, Nov. 7.-H9- Six alleged radical agitators arrested here this evening by special agents of the department of justce These said to have been actively agtatng the overthrow of the gov ernlnent.
 MANY IN CHICAGO
 CHICAGO, H., Nov. 7-(P)-The net result of the federal raid radical agencies in this city had not been ascerained at midnight It is reported that at least wagon load of persons arrested and taken to the federal prison The number of actual arrests is unknown
 HUNDREDS UNREPORTED
 NEW YORK, Nov. 7.-H9-Reports received here say that 27 radicals arrested tonight in Ansonia Conn., and many others other eastern cities and towns Officials here believe that the total number arrested will we'll up into hundreds if not thousands
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1919-11-10
BERLIN PAPERS
 ANNOUNCE PLOT
CLAIM RUSSIAN BOLS PLANNED TO OVERTHROW PRESENT
 GOVERNMENT.

ESSEN, Germany, Nov. 6.--R)- Berlin newspapers received here to- day state that government officials have discovered a communist plot for the overthrow of the present German government and the establishment of a soviet form of government. The plot is declared to have been con- ceived and supported by the Russian bolsheviki leaders. If the conspiracy had been successful Germany was to have become an ally of soviet Russia
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1919-11-10
HOLDUPS SLUG MONEY CARRIER
HELENA BANK MESSENGER SAND RAGGED AND ROBBED OF
 SOME CURRENCY.

HELENA, Mont, Nov. 5.-P|- Charles Stevens, a messenger for the Union Bank and Trust Co.,, of this city WAS sandbagged and robbed of a package containing considerable sum of money in currency tonight. The messenger was rendered uncon- scious by the blow and when he re- gained his wits both the money and the robbers were gone. No clue of the assailants has been discoverd.
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1919-11-10

Ships will not be able to move until tle order is rescinded.
 Host of these vessels are in the passenger carrying trade between New York and European ports. Prac, tically all of them had booked full lists for the outgoing voyage. These bookings have been cancelled and ;.u'sons making reservations notified that no definite date can be set for
 aiiings. Thousands of persons have been forced to postpone European trips by fuel conditions. Similar situation, to lesser degree, are said to exist in many Atlantic coast ports.
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1919-11-10
DARK SKINNED PAUL REVERES
 GET ONE YEAR
NEGROES WHO SPREAD NEWS OF ELAINE OUTBREAK OVER COUN- PRESIDE ON OCTOBER l, ARE SENTENCED TO ONE YEAR IN JAIL,

HELENA, Ark, Nov. 7.-(P)-raul Revere brot down to modern times does not always pay as seven negroes .ound to their sorrow in the district court here this afternoon when they were sentenced to one year each in jail for might riding" The trial and convictions were taken in connec- tion with the October race riots at Elaine.
 When the outbreak occurred, seven dark skinned Paul Reveres, like the original who made history on a mem orable night in April 1775, by riding
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1919-11-10
ATLANTIC FLEET
 MANEUVER SOON
WINTER MANUEVERS COMING OFF IN JANUARY IN SOUTH
 ERN WATERS.

WASHINGTON, D.. C., Nov. 5.-(P) An official statement issued from the navy department this evening avs that the annual winter maneuv- CTS of the Atlantic fleet will be held in January. The fleets mimic war fare will be held in southern waters. Following the manuevers the entire feet will visit the Panama canal and several South American ports.
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1919-11-10
GOTHAM POLICE
 SCANDAL AIRED
EXTRAORDINARY GRAND JURY TO INVESTIGATE SERIOUS
 GRAFT CHARGES

NEW YORK, Nov. 6.-R)-A special grand jury was convened here today and began an investigation of serious charges against the New York police as a whole. Charges filed by prominent New Workers accuse the police department with being in alliance with the under world of the city and taking a rake off from illicit earnings of members of various criminal gangs operating in the city.
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1919-11-10
HUNDREDS STARVE IN BOL PRISONS BOLSHEViKj ADMIT INMATES OF THEIR JAlLS WERE
 STARVED

HELsINGFoRS, Nov. 7.-P)-An official report sent out today by the bolsheviki news bureau at Moscow states that 630 out of total of 1000 inmates of kresty prison in Petroorad have died of starvation. Only the strongest men in the jail have survived and many of these are mere physical wreeks. The bolsheviki say that food ls too scarce to be fed to prisoners.
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1919-11-10
--- E--- TWO STEAMERS LONG OVERDUE
GALE SWEEPING GREAT LAKES; FREIGHTERS MAY HAVE
 MET DISASTER

PORT ARTHUR, Ont, Nov. 5.-(R) After one of the worst snow storms accompanied by winds of highest ve- locity, two freighters, Glenlivet anr Glenmount, are overdue at this port 36 hours. Not word has been heard froln either ship and it is possible that the vessels have been driven ashore at some out-of-the-way point
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1919-11-10
PANAMA CANAL
 OPENING SOON
FORMAL OPENING OF BIG DITCH WILL BE HELD SOME TIME
 NEXT MONTH
ervatiOns.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 7.-R)-An announcement issued here this even- ing says that the formal opening of the Panama Canal will take place early in December. Secretary of War Newton D. Baker will represent the American government at the opening ceremonies.
 The first vessel to pass thru the canal made the passage on Jan. z,
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1919-11-10
FOREIGN SHIPS
 KEPT AT DOCKS
 BY COAL ORDER
THOUSANDS OF PASSENGERS UNI ABLE TO SAIL FOR EUROPE WHEN SHIPS ARE REFUSED PERMISSION TO BUNKER IN PORT.

NEW YORK, N. Y., Nov. 7.--(P- In this port alone at least 200 vessels of foreign registry and ownership are tied to the wharves as the result of the fuel administrators order re- fusing to permit any foreign bottoms to bunker in any American port, fol- lowing the general coal strike. These
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1919-11-10
COLLEGE FACULTY
 IN LABOR UNION
MONTANA UNIVERSITY TEACH FRS AFFILIATE WITH
 A. E. o. L.

MIssoULA, Mont. Nov. 7~(R -More than 100 members of the faculty of the University of Mon- tana have joined the Faculty Union" and are now affiliated with the American Federation of Labor. The local is preparing a salary scale which will be demanded from the state. The charter does not carry any strike provision. It is believed that this Ia the first or- panlzatlon of its kind In America.
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1919-11-10

1914. Commercial traffic was not in augurated until several months after. on August 15, 1914. The plans for a formal opening were upset by the outbreak of the war. Elaborate ceremonies will probably mark the formal opening.
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1919-11-10
HAYS PROMISES MANY REFORMS
 IN THE FUTURE
JUS REPUBLICANS"r EXPECT TO WHEN THAT PARTY ASSUMES CONTROL. SAYS CHAIRMAN HAYS.

SPRINGFIELD. H., Nov. 7.-P)- That the republican party will solve Americas industrial problems and put the country back on the road to prosperity is the claim made by Chair man Will Hays. of the republican na- tional committee, in an address made before the Illinois Republican Edi- torial Association, in convention here tonight. He urged the assembled editors to pay more attention to rolj- tics as science of government.
 He said the country's difficulties at this time are latgely economic. He said that he believed that exact justice to all classes would solve the nations industrial problems.
 The republican party, he declared, is absolutely set against all forms of government ownership and similar activities. but that it favored strong federal regulation. He said that when the republicans assume control there will be legislation providing for the budget system, development of foreign trade, improvement of the diplomatic service, adequate merchant marine, and for a better relation be- tween capital and labor.
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1919-11-10

Operated by 4O-horspower kero- sene motor, self-propelled thresh- CT has been invented which, as it travels across field, pours grain i'm to an accompanying wagon and de- posits the straw in windrows.
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1919-11-10

By royal order the celebration of Arbor Day has been made obligatory in every township and municipality in Spain, and tree planting is to be carried on upon more extensive scale than ever before.
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1919-11-10
COMPERS FAILS TO SECURE AN ALTERATION OF GOVERNMENTAL
 POLICY; COAL SHORTAGE GROWS

WASHINGTON, Nov. 7-(H)-After a third ference with President Gompers and Secretary Morrison of the American Federation of Labor Attorney General Palmer announced this evening that tine governments policy in the coal strike will be changed The inunc ton proceedings will be fought to finish Mr. Gompers staked everything last personal appeal to the at torney general in effort to stay the injunction hear ing in Indianapolis tomorrow. The case will now be fought out in the courts on its merits.
 FIGHT TO BITTER END
 WASHINGTON Nov. 7-(P)-Govemmen officials who in touch with the coal strike are preparing for long shutdown of the mncs They see no hope for any immediate settlement if the government is full in having temporary injunction issued The unions prepared to fight the thru to the supreme court
 Proceeding on such hypothesis, the officials pre- pairing for fight to the bitter end. Fuel is being con served in every possible manner Stringent restrictions on the of coal to be enforced in every section of the country. It is however, predicted that those miners the edge of the union districts will shortly return to work. This will give some relief.
 TAKE WHAT THEY NEED
 CHICAGO, H., Nov. 1.-(H9--Oklahoma wants coal Governor Robertson, of that state in statement pub shed in papers turnout the state today told the people to follow the law of sefpreservaton and Take any coal you get your hands on He stated that officials would not stand by and the citizens of Oklahoma suffer from cold if they could get fuel by any method.
 The situation is being brot out orcbly every day by the dwindng train service. In many sections of the country today additional passenger trains were taken off the time cards.
 ORDER MINERS OUT OF HOMES
 HUNTINGTON, w. Va, Nov. 7.-(P--Reflsing to return to york; striking union coal miners today dered to vacate their homes These houses the prop erty of the coal companies who declare that if the men won't work they must find some other places to live.
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1919-11-10

Apropos of celebrated dynamite case under trial in San Francisco lawyers are telling of the experience of a prosecuting attorney who en- countered somewhat difficult wit ness Finally he asked the man if he was acquainted with any of the men on the jury. "Yes, sir," an- nounced the witness, more than half of them" Are you willing to swear that you know more than half of them?" demanded the lawyer. 'Why, if 1t comes to that, I'm willing to swear that I know more than all of them put together"
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1919-11-10
DIAMOND MEDAL
 FOR BRAVE MAN
ALASKA ENLISTED MAN BOOST ED FOR WASHINGTON STATE
 WAR MEDAL.

SEATTLE, Wash, Nov. 7.-P)-- The adiutant generals office of the State of Washington recently an nounced that it would give diamond medal to the bravest Washington vet can of the late war. The Roose- welt post, of the Veterans of Foreign Wars" of this city, has suggested that the medal be given to c. P. M. Nelson.
 MT. Nelson is resident of Seattle but enlisted at Anchorage, Alaska. He served, however, with troops from this tate. His military record shows that, scorning the dreaded mustard gas he carried wounded comrade thru a heavy barrage to a relief hospital
 tation, for which act it is recon. ionded that the state medal be lwa.ded to him.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-19
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New-York tribune., 1919-01-19

group, always on the lookout for some
new way in which to be Of service,
wisely leaving the big activities TO the
larger organizations, who are better
able to handle them, going out into the
highways and byways, to the isolated
forts and camps where other visitors do
not venture, and where the little group
Of men in the hospital look forward to
their coming as the one bright spot in
the long, dull week.
The girls are in charge of the canteen
of the Volunteer Service Club, on Sew
enth Avenue, Saturday nights, where
they entertain and feed from $50 to
zoo men. They furnish two motion
picture shows week to the men at the
Greenhut Hospital. They gave Thanks
giving and Christmas dinners and enter
talnments not only to the men in the
smaller and more remote hospitals (who
New-York tribune., 1919-01-19

gether with George Plechanov and Leo
Deutsch, organized what was known as
the League for the Emancipation of the
Workers, an organization based on
MARKHAM Socialism and opposed to ter
rorism as the means of revolutionary
struggle.
''In the years of preparation for an
open revolt against the autocratic gov
ernment, which finally came in 1905,
women revolutionists shared with men
the eXigences of the struggle. They
worked underground; they distributed
literature under cover of night; they
went to meetings in the fields and ceme-
teries; they spent days and nights work
ing on printing machines in cellars and
sat at meetings Of committees in gar
rets; they participated in uprisings and
demonstrations in various parts of the
country; they went to prison and exile,
New-York tribune., 1919-01-19

plete with names of women who fought
side by side with men, first as pioneers
in the early '70s and sos, when
active revolutionary groups we're begin
ming to spring up in the different cult
ural and industrial centres of Russia,
and later as builders and active work
ers IN a movement which touched every
corner of the vast country and was ac-
claimed by the great mass of Russian
workers and peasants.
First, we see young women, mostly
of the intelligent middle class, going
among the people and bringing to them
education which the Czarist government
denied them. They were the ones who
blazed the way for an intelligent mass
movement among the workers and peas
ants for the overthrow of the autocracy
In the days Of terrorist propaganda
idealists answered the White Terror of
reaction with the Red Terror Of revolu-
ton, which eliminated with the assas-
sinatlon of Alexander II in 1881. There
are two women who rise above all others
in those trying days. They are Sophie
PeroVskaya and Gesia Hoffman, who
took charge of the assassination Of the
White Car at moment when the un-
dertaking was almost frustrated Both
of them paid the price by dying on the
gallows.
"Vera Figner, who was also impli-
Gated in the revolutionary propaganda
of that period, went to the Schlusseburg
Fortress, where she remained for twen-
ty-seven years, until the doors opened
during the memorable days of March,
1917
at the same time. Vera Sasulitch, to-
New-York tribune., 1919-01-19

are their special charge but in certain
wards of the larger military and naval
hospitals as we'll
A letter was recently received from
Miss Booth, who is working under the
y. M. c. A. in France, in which she
suggested that the members of the
Girls National Honor Guard turn thelr
attention to the needs of the men Of the
regular army who, she feels have beer
neglected; thus another new field Of
labor is opened up.
Would you like to help, this earnest
little band of young women in the eli
cient, helpful work that they are doing
Miss Friend. who is acting rs nationai
president in the absence of Miss Booth.
VIII be only too delighted to show You
the way, and, in the mean time. any con
tributions of fruit or flowers, or cigar
cites or other luxuries. or the monev
with which to buy these for She boys in
the hospitals, will be most GRATEFUL
received by her at national headquar-
ters, % - est Thirty-fourth Street
New-York tribune., 1919-01-19

II should suppose that the influences
which cause most of the males among
the proletariat and the poorer peasantry
of Russia to uphold the present Soviet
regime would likewise cause most of
the female members Of those classes to
take the same course; and, so far as |
am informed such is the case Women
are certainly playing a large part, both
among the leaders and among the rank
and file of Russian Bolshevism to-day
But probably other women-women of
other classes, the product of another
social environment-are playing a pro-
portionately large part among the oppo-
nents OF BolsheVism
I'm other words, Bolshcvsm is not
question of sex, but of social economic
interest and training'
New-York tribune., 1919-01-19
Some Of the Girls
Learned Telegraphy

Their Willingness to serve in what
ever capacity might be needed was
shown when the city fathers of Jackson
V'llc, Fla, called for volunteers for the
government telegraph offices to fill the
places of the men who had gone into
the service Several members, who had
never been inside an office in their lives.
volunteered to do the work, and they
studied night and day and in vcrv
short time were ready for service.
In another city there was a dearth Of
nurses aids in the military hospital, and
the members Of this organization formed
New-York tribune., 1919-01-19

rett Hay, chairman Of the New Yors
City Woman Suffrage party:
Some women. like some men. will
be attracted and held by the ideas and
schemes advanced by the Bolshevik cle-
ments of society. Human nature in the
two sexes is much alike. | do not he
lieYe, though, that there is an inherent
tendency in women toward Bolshevjsm
or that large numbers Will espouse if
This is, of course, mere conjecture and
can only be stated as my personal belief
1t is based, however. or facts as
find them. Associated as / am with large
numbers Of women Of all classes. faith.
and opinions, hnd that women ha,s
strong humanitarian instincts. as cen.
trasted with the more businesshkc view.
point Of men. For instance. they value
human life more than property a natu.
raj thing, since they arc the conservator.
of life. This at times may make them
seem either radical or visionary to tie
men who are firm in the opinion that our
present social and industrial systems are
the best that can be devised.
There is, however, strong element
of common sense in women that pre-
vents them from going too far out of thr
beaten paths of life, that has, in fac,.
induced many thinkers to refer to them
as the conservative sex Women have
always to think of the children. of their
present and future welfare, and this
tends to make them careful and cau
tious in their thinking.
The extreme radicalism of the Bol-
sheviki and their lack OF restraint VIII
appeal, then, only to the few members
of my sex whose experiences and tram
ing have given them a somewhat dis
torted conception of life. The erea.
majority Of women, who as they be
come enfranchised viii have the power
to effect changes, Win undoubtedly im
tiate and support many reforms nov
needed-but they viii never nocl. as
recruits into the ranks Of the Boshe-
WIKI
And we might as we'll let it 20 at thai
New-York tribune., 1919-01-19

a feeling of patriotism and responsi-
bility. It's members pledge themselves
"to uphold our national honor from
criticism, the American flag from desc
Grafton, and the government of the
United States and those who represent
it from personal disrespect"
The Importance of being prepared for
any emergency and to be able to give
c1tlclent assistance to the community in
any crisis was so impressed upon the
members Of the guard that each girl
pledged herself to become efficient in
some. one line Of work which might be
useful to the country in either peace
or war.
The first opportunity which was
Vouchsafcd this organization to prove
It's worth came during the Mexican
trouble, when the members Of it's Texas
branch established canteens and read
ing rooms for our troops, met the trains
when they came in with iced drinks for
the men, administered first aid during
two engagements, visited the HOSPITALS.
and were the mourncrs to carry flowers
to the graves Of the boys who died far
away from family and friends.
They we're the original canteen work
crs. Every night during the first month
OF the war motor car, driven by one
OF these young women, made the rounds
OF the city bridges at midnight, carrying
hot coffee and sandwiches to the men
who stood on guard They met incom
ing trains and they visited the hosptas
IN isolated camps and forts, carrying
comforts TO the sick.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-19
BY ROSE FALLS BRES
A tto17,ey at Lac

Section 3, Acts of 1907, provides:
ANY American woman who mar
ries foreigner shall take the nation
ality Of her husband'
Under this ultimatum of the Federal
law women of voting age in the en-
franchised states who have allowed
their hearts to run away with their
American rights must stand aside like
the poor boy at a country frolic:
They may hunger and thirst, others TAX
ing their fill
OF the coveted vote which evadeth them
still.
In South Dakota, one of the latest
states to swing into the equal suffrage
column, the All-American idea was an
enormous help in getting enough votes
to land the amendment, so in that state
at least there is not likely to be any
fight on the foregoing Federal act. al
though Mrs. Ellen Spencer Mussey, vet
eran woman lawyer, suffragst and col
lcge head at Washington, has been hard
at work for moro than a year in an cf-
fort, with the cooperation Of many wom-
en- and women's clubs, to have the law
repealed which forces Nov I lay me
down my American citizenship in ex-
change for q foreign husband