Show S'S NOTED COMMUNIST DEAD IN MOSCOW John Reed U. U S. S Writer Radical Typhus Victim f PORTLAND Ore Oct 18 John John Reed magazine writer died yesterday yesterday yesterday yester yester- day in Moscow Russia of typhus aCCording ac according according ac- ac cording to a telegram received here hereby hereby I by Henry G. G Reed a bro brother her from Louise Bryant Reeds Reed's widow John Reed for the past ten fen years years' was prominent as a writer in mag magazines and as a war correspondent In addition he wrote a number of ot books book on the world war and problems problems problems lems ari arising from that conflict In igi he was in Russia as a so socialist socialist socialist so- so delegate and upon return it was announced he had been appointed Russian consul in New York He lie was not accorded recognition by the United States States' government however and later dispatches from Petrograd d claimed his credentials as consul had been canceled Reeds Reed's pronounced views on communism communism com corn led to his arrest on several occasions and it was charged he made seditious utterances while the United States was engaged in the war Charges of sedition brought against him were dropped however in April 1919 He sailed for Russia during the autumn of the same year and subsequent subsequent quent to that time was yas as indicted at Chicago for violation of the state I syndicalism act It appears he later tel S'S I I returned to the United d States and nd I once once- once more went to Europe it being ing i i reported he had been found In the j coal bunker of a ship in a Finnish J port The state d department at WashIngton Washington Washington Wash- Wash ington denied he had hadan an American passport and it was charged he ho was traveling with forged papers Since reaching Finland Reed has been reported arrested on two occasions occasions oc oc- OC- OC and at at one one time It was said he had been executed On August 28 it was reported he had been sent to Moscow to represent represent sent American communists John Reed was born at Portland Ore on October 22 1887 1587 He re received received re- re the degree of bachelor o of arts at Harvard university In 1910 and Immediately began his career as a writer He Ho served at various times on the editorial staffs of prominent magazines S |