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Show Ill BEEO OF : mm FIE DIES Wl Disease Caused by Conditions in Soviet Russia Kills Young American PORTLAND, Ore., Oct. 18 John' ReSd, magazine writer, died Sunday In Moscow. Russia, of typhus, according accord-ing to a telegram received here by Henrv G R a blether, from l.oiic-Bryant, l.oiic-Bryant, Reed s widow. Reed had made several visits to Russia during the soviet regime Since hlv l itest departure from this count. J last year, relatives here had reeeo d various, conflic ting eports .regarding him. n w:c tn the effect that he had been executed In Finland as a BOViet emlssarj and another that In had been imprisoned In Russia John Reed for the past ten years was prominent as a writer in magazines' maga-zines' and as a war correspondent. In addition he wrote a number of books on the world war and problems arising aris-ing from the conflict In 1915 he was in Russia as a Socialist So-cialist delegate, and upon return It wis announced he hud been appointed Russian consul in New York. He was not accorded recognition Dy the United States government, however, and later dispatches from Petrograd claimed his credentials as consul had been cancelled can-celled OFTEN LRRESTED. Reed's pronounced views on communism com-munism led to his errest on several Oi i i -ions and il was charged he made seditious utterances while the United S; lie: WOS engaged in the war Charges of sedition brought against him were dropped, however, in April, l'O'J. He sailed for Russia during the autumn of the same year, and subsequent subse-quent to that time .vas indicted at Chicago for violation of the state syndicalism syn-dicalism act it appears he later return, re-turn, d lo the United States and once wenl to Europe, it being reported In had been found in the coal bunker of a ship in a Finnish port. The state department at Washington denied he had an American passport, and it was charged b- was trawling with forged papers. SENT TO MOSCOW. Since reaching Finland, Reed has , been reported arrested on two occa- Blons and at one time it was said he had been execute,! On August L'S, it was reported, he' had been smi n, Moscow to represent American communists. John Reeil was bom at Portland,! Ore. on nctobr-r L'J, ISs? Jle re- celved the degree of bachelor of arts' at Harvard university in 1010 and I immediately began Mis career as a Writer He served at various times on the editorial staffs of prominent ma;a-! sslnes. |