Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 267, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 November 1920 — SAMOA GOVERNOR KILLS SELF [ARTICLE]

SAMOA GOVERNOR KILLS SELF

Naval Commander Terhune Commit? Suicide, Washington Is Informed by Dispatch. Washington, Nov. 8. —Commander J. Terhune, naval governor of Samoa, shot and killed himself at noon November 3, said a dispatch received at the navy department. Knows Nothing of Mission in Peril, Washington, Nov. B.—State and war department officials said they had no knowledge of any official American mission being within the'wur zone in southern Russia. Neither had any report been received by the two departments of a mission's falling into the hands of the soviet forces. The suggestion was made unofficially that the “Gen. Morel,” reported by the Mossow newspaper Pravda as having been captured by the Bolsheviki, might be French.