Warren Evening Times (Newspaper) - January 22, 1919, Warren, Pennsylvania Circulation Warren Times la a of Audit Bureau of which Its figures WARREN EVENING TIMES THE ONE PAPEI IN MOST IMNY HOMES The only paper tm tea county that circulation eack To the advertiser should apear loader VOL NINETEEN WARREN PA WEDNESDAY 22 1919 PRICE TWO CENTS PORTUGAL TORN RY UPRISING Monarchist Revolution ed to Be Spreading ity of Army and Navy to Have Joined the Navy Manuel Proclaimed King in Practically All of the ern Towns CONFLICTING REPORTS RECEIVED IN LONDON ABOUT SITUATION ARMED RIFLES AND GRENADES ARE RIOTING IN CITY Berlin Jan 21 via London Jan 22 was renewed ri- here last night The armed with rifles and hand grenades attacked the An- halter station The fighting spread to Koenig Strasse Dessauer Strasse Wilhelms Platz Albrecht and Nicker Strasse At Bremen the laborites dis- armed the soldiers and occupied the town hall stock exchange and telegraph and tele- phone office Two regiments of government troops have been ordered to re- main in Berlin and protect the government and aid the police It is announced that the al Assembly will be held in mar on February 20 ATLANTIC COAST IS SWEPT CLEAR OF HUN MINES j of These Death-Dealing Weapons of Warfare Have Been Accounted for by Sweepers of the Navy DELIVERY ON RECORD Sheriff's Posse Believed to Have RUSSIAN SOLDIERS SHOT BY BOLSHEVIKI Iron Discipline Is Being ed by Leon Trotzky Death for Insubordination and lect of Drill Surrounded Twenty-One of ARE VERY FREQUENT Twenty-five Desperate Who Last Night ed From the Rock Island All Are Said to Be Heavily Armed THEY SANK FIVE U S Washington Jan By Ned Exclusive Cable by tlie I jV S London Express Madrid Jan I revolution in i was reported today to be A majority of army and navy is said to have joined the The of former the only man of with tlic situation to op- inion held in Reports Paris Jan re- ports were received here today re- garding the situation in Portugal but i ue latest advices indicate that the inline laid the German insurrectionists had gained j ing their visits to the Atlantic coast ground j last summer has swept Manuel was proclaimed king in up by navy mine sweepers it was practically of the important northern j learned today j This mine was picked ten miles It was reported from Oporto of Fenwick Island shoals and tne monarchists burned the was the last of a field of seven sown flag at Valence after declaring by the German submarine one for a of the boats which under cover of A royalist government was spread lurking death in the claimed at Oporto with Senhor of United States vessels as Premier and Senhor Barbosa Of this field five have been swept as war minister The latter was by the navy and two were former Republican premier who being the cause of the sinking to to investigate of the San Saba and Saetia conditions The owed but was released on have been notified by rhe that he sign a paper Department of the removal of the monarchy obstruction to commerce and Au unconfirmed report was naval men here are that here that Manuel had arrived at no more will be found Lisbon on a ship from England i According to the best information Warning for Emperor Charles that could be obtained of the Cable by the I N S of the Atlantic and from London Daily Express j formation derived from other sources Geneva Jan the Germans admitted laying 47 government has warned former mines along our coast from Fire Charles that unless the to Fenwick Island The navy archist plots at home and abroad i however has already accounted for cease at once he will be expelled from 57 and in their search found that Vienna Ithe German maps were not wholly reliable guides LATE RETURNS SHOW EBERT GUARDS WERE OVERPOWERED AND THE TURNKEY SHOT Rock Island 111 Jan sheriff's posse is believed to have surrounded twenty one of twenty five desperate criminals who late last night Stockholm Jan line is being imposed upon the sheviki armies by Trotzky and in the past three mouths diers have been shot for and neglect of drill said a dis- patch from Moscow today quoting the secretly published newspaper Mutinies in the armies are frequent but aer attended with terrible After explaining the defeat of the at Perm the newspaper tells of the nature of disciplinary scaped from the Rock Island Flogging and tortures are extensively Great numbers prison and fleeing in I finding refuge in a woods near here ot youths are beins alld where they are said be preparing to battle to the posse All of the escaped prisoners are ped for not answering the demand for conscripts At a number of ers barricaded themselves in the CHARGES AGAINST BURLESON Former Vice President of the Postal Company Appearing Before the House Postoffice Committee Declares master General Attempted to Scramble Property of His Organization NEW RATES SAiD TO BE FROM 2 TO 100 PER CENT HIGHER Washington Jan 22 -A attempt by Postmaster to the Postal Telegraph Company's ty with that of the Western Union in order to its value and promote his desire for government ownership of the country's telegraph lines was charged this afternoon by Edward Reynolds former vice- president of the Postal Company be- fore the Rouse committee Reynolds who was dismissed by I to be armed with revolvers and I homp of Count it was shotguns and a battle is expected Four of the escaped men which include several safe men and robbers wore captured an after their escape The escape of the men is con- one of the boldest Jain de- liveries in the history of the country It followed an unsuccessful attempt made to escape by the same crowd three weeks ago The delivery last night is believed to have been affected by the use of a wooden key The men getting out cells made their way to the STILL LEADING IN ELECTION ranged and in all cases single mines were placed above and Majority Socialists Will Have below the field and the remainder f grouped inside the area thus formed Control ill Berlin explained a naval officer today was not only effective in -a or coming but also more than doubled our work in locating and sweeping up the mines That the came here expressly for the purpose of laying mines is indisputable from the fact the was built for that purpose and at least one of the other of which there were three carried mines of an entirely different type The German mine fields succeeded in sinking five American vessels the Sandiego the -San Saba Herbert Pratt and the Saetia The battleship Minnesota was struck by a mine but not sunk Three other on the spread are thought to have been Berlin Jan 21 via London Jan counted up to noon ny sh majority Socialists supporters of Chancellor Ebert's government far in the lead Two and were undecided as Majority Socialists 114 seats in he National Assembly Democrats 46 German Nationals 4 Independent Socialists 19 Four candidates aan peoples party 11 and thirty-three ifere chosen Minister Philip Scheidemann in an lection day speech on the new stice conditions made a gloomy pre- ato France and England if drastic erms are imposed They calculate to to said nann By the removal of great Amounts of agricultural machinery ve will be forced into starvation But Entente will quickly come to their lenses for starving Germany will rove the soil over which Bolshevism ill pass without halting at the of France and England HOUSE MAY K ABLE TO SIT AT SESSION NEXT WEEK Paris Jan condition of House is improved to such extent today that he was able take an ride It that he will be able to sit ith the American delegates at the ace conference next week REPORTED HAVE BROKEN OUT Berlin via London Pan revolution has broken out at according to a report re- sired here today The anti-Bolshevik forces there ive proclaimed a general strike for riday mined but this fact has not been definitely settled They the Somerstad Mirlo and Frederick logg The remainder of the mines 49 in all either have been picked up by navy sweepers or washed ashore That the Germans were after the largest vessels is evident from the fact that they laid their mines at a of 21 feet The mine layer uses a 13 foot Eighteen of the mines were found after the armistice was signed Naval officers however do not give the Germans for much assistance for the maps obtained were way off in their descriptions of localities REPORT I Washington Jan least tor Western tonight and Thursday I 1 probably rain Thursday mild I I temperature GERMANS DISGUISED AS WOMEN ARRESTED FOLLOWING EXPLOSION by red guards and 70 of the were executed Chinese are attached to every battalion of the army and are given liberty to torture their tims in any way that cruelty may gest Mutineers are flogged three times every week for a month Sometimes the peasant boys who have been PEASANTS SLAIN BY IN THE PROVINCES NEAR MOSCOW Stockholm Jan hundred peasants have been slain by in the provinces south of Moscow and a serious rising is in progress Scores of villages have been burned cow is practically surrounded by the rebels who are gaining re- especially in the Tula lov and Ryazan The peasants are defending a fortified line along the Oka river Serpukhov and Red guards are trying to press the killing of women and children GERMAN WOMEN IN TRENCHES FROM PRISONS RUSSIA'S FATE IN BALANCE What Steps Are to Be Taken Are to Be Decided by Council of Great ers Before It Concludes Session Today Danish ister for Military Intervention as Necessary Step FOUR OF BIG FIVE POWERS OPPOSED TO SUCH A MOVE By John KUwin Paris Jan seeps are to be taker in are be de- by the Supreme Council of the great powers before it concludes its Bova Arriving in Boston ia as v i on the Roval Mail Steamship li is understood that Harold S 1 the Danish minister to Melita Bring Interesting Russia was called before the Burleson for alleged disloyalty ter the government took the tele- graph systems as a war measure tried of the also averred that Burleson to break down the morale Postal by destroying property rights of i he Postal which are guaranteed by the constitution and planned to close Sty out of 100 Postal to destroy competition between the conference yesterday pleaded for military intervention in He j pointed out that this step was to curb the terror ADDITIONAL UNITS ARE COMING iand to the From Battlefront I Four of the five powers do I not favor tins step France's view Boston Mass Jan Royal is that there should be mail steamship IMelita from Brest France bringing some 1.650 soldiers officers nurses and civilian Postal and the Western Union and i workers arrived today broken bv barbarous flogging it easier and cheaper for sent home as a warning to others j government to get a grip on their HS a 10 i from victims are dragged into which would make it Bounded and gashed men from Often the darkened rooms where they are en to death Trotzky has made a ruling that henceforth the Russian soldiers must spy on one another and those against who a charge is brought are shot forthwith From the transport were landed SENATOR quarters of the sheriff's family 011 first floor of the jail building Jail guards summoned by the call fought with the men During the fight in the jail building shots were exchanged and turn-key Sexton was shot x Overpowering the guards the con- victs fled through the ing at random Finding an window the men climb through it to the street where protected by a heavy fog they managed to escape before a general alarm could be sounded A sheriff's posse was formed im- mediately and gave chase in auto- mobiles towns and were notified to be on the for the men Every avenue of escape from the city was ordered put under armed guards and an hour Pittsburgh Jan later word was received here of the j United States Senator Oliver of capture of the men j Pennsylvania died at his home here Chicago detectives on receiving today Members of the family were word that the men were headed foi present at his death Chicago placed an armed guard on ali i The senator suffered from a spinal IS DEAD approaching the city affection and had gradually been de- Shortly after six o'clock this dining for several mouths He re- ing word was received tired from active politics in 1817 and land that the men had been since last June Had given up all in a woods near Rockford ness activities Citizens volunteering to aid He was 71 years authorities were left or the scene in high powered The funeral will be held w Senator Oliver the owner and biles The escaped men had been paroled here Twenty prisoners held on minor I erty holdings here charges refused to participate in the A school teacher and lawyer in his delivery and remained in their sells early life he engaged in 1881 in the Turn-key Sexton shot by the men manufacture of iron and steel being published of two daily newspapers the and government arsenal morning and evening He also had extensive was not seriously wounded OF RUSSIAN REDS IS TAKEN IN ROUND-UP IN CHICAGO associated with the Oliver Iron and Steel Company He disposed of his interests in 1901 I He was a presidential elector resenting Pennsylvania in and tional convention in 1904 In March T 1909 he was elected U- S Senator Implicated in Plot for Release for the unexpired term of Philander iC Knox and was re- for the full term He was a thirty-three degree Mason EARLY MORNING BADLY DAMAGES MONTREAL CONVENT Montreal Jan caused heavy damage early today in the convent at Roberval Cable by I V S and Daily Brussels Jan as women were rested today near Mons following tho -a munition dump which destroyed over a mile of the railroad The of I W Chicago Jan Bessie Abrahamson Queen of the Russian Reds in Chicago and who is saiu to have masqueraded as Red Rosn Luxemburg's is held by the federal authorities today a of I said to bo implicated in a plot to bring about the release of I W now held in the federal prison at Fort is under way The Abrahamson woman was ar- rested late last night in a raid authorities in a south side flat At the same time other of- swooped down on the I W W headquarters on south Throop street arresting 35 men and confiscating nearly a ton of pictures and ture all of which is said to be of an incendiary nature ants in the region of the explosion Hundreds of photographs Of Rosa fled in terror MILLIONS WILL BE LOST IN SURPLUS SUPPLY OF WOOL Washington Jan 22 The United States government will lose between and in the auctioning oft of its surplus supply of American wool R J Thorne director of army purchases told the House military affairs com- this afternoon Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht wore confiscated Intercepted letters from the sian red queen to members of the fir of a plot being hatched in Chicago to obtain their liberation The Abrahamson woman admitted writing the letters but according to the authorities refused to tell of the plot Se is held on the cal charge of distributing the alleged seditious matter until further is made ARMOR HAS OPINION OF FARMERS Washington Jan den Armour millionaire meat packer has a well defined idea of the farmers business acumen 1 have met but few farmers who are not pretty good he said with a smile I testifying this afternoon before the House Interstate Commerce committee Armour took the stand ed in dark brown suit tan shoes a purple knit tie with j a pearl scarfpin of the kind that looks worth either 50 cents or He answered congressmen with an expression of great cerity and and no when addressing the legislators I to government con- and the of five mobile the front casual southwest trol j members the government took yale the telegraph the word went out officially from Washington that any man who opposed i captains Heintz of control would lose his head and Thomas W Jones of Reynolds charged O two soldier insisted that two American aces Lieut O A of die telegraph would Ralston Lincoln who downed be detrimental to the public in- seven enemy planes and Lieut C as the telegraph consisted Johnson of Iowa who got five of 90 per cent personal and 10 per German airmen and six American cent equipment and was not an who were in German prison men Is given to the allied troops now in Russia attitude on Russia has not yet been officially made though both Premier Orlando and foreign Minister Sonnino were ent at the meetings of the lied council which has the problem under consideration If additional troops are sent into utility system find like the Postoffice camps ready support ol that the women of this contention among several German soldiers who fought against members of the committee among the division at Chateau-Thierry them Steenerson wore from German penitentiaries and ative Martin B Madden Republican Illinois Representative Steenerson is tive among a group of ment ownership of public utilities in the House He tured to say today that the Moon measure will never get past the door I honestly believe the measure hospital Russia the reinforcements in- line without a elude Greek Roumanian and Italian units At present are only American British French and anese soldiers in Russia It realized however that any plan for military sia proper and Poland be set if there is any truth in the reports that the Germans di- General are assisting the The are apparently ting ready to invade Poland on a big scale and the are con- troops in the east using the Bolshevik menace an excuse The Polish question included given the choice of remaining in the matters for discussion by or going to the front Doughboys of greater Boston said the uniform of Bodies of women the battlefield More Units Washington Jan were found on 22 Additional wiil never be reported by the com- units of the American forces totalling 270 officers and 927 men have been assigned to early convoy to home ports General March chief of staff announced envoys of the big five today Lord Robert Cecil expert on the league of nations will receive the Allied newspaper correspondents in audience this evening when he will explain the details of the British plan for such a society It is unlikely that there be a plenary session of the peace ence tomorrow as a meeting of the French Cabinet is scheduled riot merely we Following are the Base A Bonar Law who went to London 11 i i ii f Tn have the close of number 15 176 officers and session to take all the testimony 58 aero squadron because the principle of the thing 172 104th aero squadron 186 of- is wrong and will be voted down and men company of said Mr Steenerson transportation corps 255 First He has brought from Minnesota transportation corps the chairman of the state public 153 the second casual of commission of that 95 who has submitted testimony io show that the very thing that public ownership or seeks to eliminate in the The following tank corps and salvage 75 24 10 telephone and telegraph battalion 519 has been accomplished in Minnesota replacement snd salvage com- by a division of territory which 49 906 fines the operations of one company battalion in a state to a certain portion of casual companies A that state and gives the other portion i of the territory exclusively competing company The October a u- to the replacement draft 204 and center 37 e chairman stated positively that companies number U- HO Number 4 98 and Number and awaits only se from 6 71 Quartermaster casual federal control to set the private b balloon Ditt in ownership put in operation company 183 balloon com- 182 field signal Representative Madden division 493 tauon division hurried to the assistance of Mr Re- Pontoon train 140 telegraph when Chairman Moon 224 SSth regiment coast declared lie acted treasonably in opposing government control of Postal wires Such abuse is intolerable Mr Madden observed By all means that should be stricken from the record j It's going to stand in that record the chairman replied You can add your objections if you like Mr Reynolds explains his tion is to the fact that son in absence of physical physical valuation figures of the tal system arbitrarily set a tion of and tho government compensation for the system at per cent on this value artillery corps less 3rd battalion and base hospital Number 24 170 and 31 nurses BRITISH COMMISSION SEARCHES FOR KISSING WAR PRISONERS on an important mission yesterday will return to Paris by airplane morrow if the weather permits The Chamber of Deputies will hold a reception for President oil February 3 ADMIRAL BRISTOL WILL COMMAND U S FLOTILLA British General Takes Charge of Allied Forces There Paris Jan Bristol S X left Paris today for to take a flotilla of American destroyers to The only American warship hitherto in the Bosphorus was the Scorpion which had to remain thru wir owing to the mines When America entered the war the on was practically interned as a re- of German pressure Thf general c the Allied forces at Constantinople ha taken control says a dispatch to tho Temps This action followed two months of conversations while the supporters of Pasha were continually ing to foment and disorders The paper also says Greece baa i expressed her to enter I a league of nations and suggests the Asylums and Mines Of Germany Dardanelles b maed an international Being Scoured IIj II 1 Cable by iho I S ami the HerMn Jan art Germany in search Postal official again today for straggling bands of prisoners of peated that he is unable to produce war who may still possibly be de- figures on the physical valuation of the properly and stated that he could not even guess and hit the ation within several million dollars He asserts that Burleson sated the Western Union on the basu of tis earnings instead of on its physical valuation Reynolds alleges that the Postmaster General and the Western Union are in alliance to foist upon thf in tho of higher phone and telegraph rates the cial rates into which fallen tho financial difficulties the Western Union has as involuntary workers in Kven the asylums are being It believed however that not more than about 100 of the will he found I that the has sent a Mst of all the missing German prisoners and tho government has been warned nol to destroy the German records of captives After the search for the living has been concluded the British will begin searching German graveyards waterway MASSACRE OF JEWS SUPPRESSED POLISH IS New York Jan that the Polish press is withholding facts concerning the anti-Jewish outbreak in Lemberg in which hundreds Of Jews perished were contained in a cablegram received here today by the Jewish Daily Forward from Abraham Capan editor of that paper in Paris AND ASSOCIATES WILL ASK FOR NEW TRIAL TOMORROW Chicago Victor Berger and his four ist associates will appear before Land is tomorrow on a for a new trial Judge
