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F"hYt:a Price Five Cen OGDEN CITY, UTAH, WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 12, 1919. ' LXST EDITION--3:30 P. m7" 111
?1 Killing of American Legion Boys 1
By I.W.W. Radicals StirsWrath I
of People of Pacific Northwest I
GRIM TASK BEFORE
CENTRALIA AFTER
DAY'SRIOTINC
Citizens Burying Dead, Ascertaining Causes of
Clash With I. W. W. During Armistice Day
5- Parade in Which Three Members of American
Legion Were Killed and Several Others Seri
i ously Wounded, and Finding Men Guilty of
I Starting Trouble and Shooting Down Marchers j
CENTRALIA, Wash., Nov. 2. Nineteen alleged Indus
trial Workers of the World were in jail here at 8 o'clock today.
The men were rounded up yesterday and last night after the
firing on the Armistice day parade.
Company F, Third regiment, national guard of Washing
ton, which arrived here early today from Tacoma, was not
I patrolling the streets today. The guardsmen were billeted in
the chamber of commerce rooms.
Later the national guardsmen went on patrol duty in many
; parts of the city. At 8:30 orclock they were posted on the
; main streets and were guarding all the roads leading into
Centralia.
I CENTRALIA, Wash., Nov. 11 (By
the Associated Press.) The grim task
f of buryinp her dead, ascertaining the
cause of the clash in w hich they were
killed and finding the guilty ones oc
t cupled Centralia today.
Persons said to bo Industrial Work
I era of the World fired on an Arm
I istice dav parade here yesterday, ki 11
- log one member of the American
' Legion outright and rounding two
; cthera so thrtt ;hf. died ?oon alter; a
il lourth legion member sutfered a fatal
vound in grappling with one of those
it accused of the firing Toda the
id body of this man, Brltl Smith, sec
t. retary of the local Industrial Workers
L branch, is hanging from a bridge near
I here, from which Smith was thrown
I by h mob last night.
Three separate in r-stigations are
" undtr way. Two agents of the federal
Idepartment of justice arrived early to
Iday from Seattle to inquire into the
affair.
I A representative of Governor Hart
L ordered here hurriedh from
lOlympia li-t ni-ht for an inquiry and, I
Upon his preliminary report today, the'
I Pernor is expected to make -.ome
j announcement of steps conterupla tei
loy stale officers
Former Service Men Investigate.
A committee of former service men
I Md others al.-o K making an lnv Ml
I gallon and on- member of this an-'
'hounced last nipht it already had ob 1
I telned eid.Qc. unheal ui y i sterday's
I clash had been planned months ago I
j I by the radicals
1W Herman All.-n. an atiornev, who j
r ini3 announcem. nt, said .lame, Lamb, I
I of twenty alleged members of the I
I industrial Workers taken into rustody !
lytsterdav, had made a staiement ells
IQClosinK the premediaiated natun of
f the firing He aleo declared Mf-tram-
I lound In the pockeu of Drill Smith I
I save similar indications
I Captain David Livingston, one of j
ine men named in the alleged confes-M-on
by Lamb, le,l i b.- Armistice civ1
rtf f1 terda lb- was not . "
I ih. ,iDRSlun served in France uithl
'n 161st infantry. William scales a
Eu"' ,h0 oluer' tnarrhmg be
I ' j.rlmm when tin- latter was shot.
P i inL m n nruu"d h;nr' bfr it 'in
Ifvl, !" a f';'mP'iRn conducted by
,i - ntralia citlz, ni agalnsl the 1. W. W
V vi Radical In Jail.
J Nineteen alleged radicals were in
- I vlTf ',xiay v tU" """ l';"
xl, ' havin" ,J"rn rM.d v a mob'
r Tho rf"SU" of th" lofting s. M. rdav
bniiHi'W1 "r'P'Mj 0111 lhr' fro' ol the,
furnl, 3nd m;uie a bonfire of Ih1
L tho anl )ai"'rs f""IHl Among
I ,:D 111 J-'il was Lln.er Smith. Cen
JJlia attorney lor ),, i w w. Smith
GSvumresl;d in hia ffK l'-v W H
and ,)r'na',al "f h high school.
Paced 1' UmK ,h Jalled radicals
, I Jhe ca -V,K klV' 'h"L HliGi i
Cldler n, .,l,"'r socrelarV Former
T ithrrLv d on d'n outside the jail
A the ulk.-d confession, was taken
I
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to the Chehalis jail last night.
Alleged Confession.
One of the men arrested yesterday
and last night in the sweeping search
for L W. W.'s following the attack,
was said to have confessed plans were
made months ago to "get" Warren
Grimm and Arthur McElfresh, two of
those killed, and William S. Schales
and Captain David Livingston.
The four had been active In sup
pressing radical activities in this com
munity. Rifle Fire Sv;epc Ranks.
Without warning, bursts of rifle fire
swept the ranks of marching overseas
eterans as they paraded past I. W W
headquarters. From that building and
tho roof of a building across the
street bullets came Persons in the
crowds that lined the street to honor
the returned heroes also pulled
weapons and began firing.
Grimm, leading a company of men,
dropped mortally wounded. McEl
fresh. marching in the ranks, was
killed instantly. Then Casagranda
died later from his wounds.
John Earl Watt, George Stevens,
Jacob Phltsler, Christ Coleman and
E. Eubanks also fell wounded, th'e Ural
named probably fatally. Stevene wafl
shot when he at t.-nipted to disarm an
I. W. W. standing on the street.
Dale Hubbard Dies.
The fourth death of a parader was
added when Dale Hubbard, recently re
turned overseas man. gathered a small
band and started after the 1. W
secretary Hubbard and the Fugitive
grappled after a chase in which Smith 1
tired repeatedly at his pursuers. As
they clinched Hubbard received four
wounds in the body.
rmther pursuer overpowered Smith
and he was taken to jail, later to be
recoved and hanged alter citizens
learned that four of tb loriner sol 1
diera had died. An attempt to lynch
Smith was made before he was lodged
in jail
"it fellows cant hang me," he
said. "I was sent to do niv duty and
I did It "
Smith was tossed from a bridge over!
the Chehalis river after a rope was
tied about his neck and a volley of j
bullets sent into his body. The lynch
ing party worked silently and in dark
aess while taking him from jail.
Littlo was known of Smiih He
came here a short time ago.
American Legion Commander.
Grimm was commander of the local
post of the American Legion. He re-1
turued recently from Siberia and had
been practicing law with his brother.!
During his college das at the UniVer
ulty of Washington, he acquired fame j
as an athlete. He was 31 years old;
and is survived by a wife and baby
daughter.
McElfresh was 24 years old. He re-j
turned from France last May after
sixteen months overseas.
KubtMCd 3erv?d with rne 20th en
gineers In France. He was married
onlv two months ago.
CENTRALIA, Wash. Nov. 1
Three members of the American Le i
w
20ai7gysj mm
OTTAWA E C. Drury, a
farmer 41 years old, Is likely to
be the new premier of Ontario.
He is the chosen leader of tho
United Farmers and Labor par
ties, r His residence In Stmcoc-co.
glon are dead, two other former serv
ice men are in a precarious condition
and several others were wounded w hen
persons, said to be members of the In
dustrial Workers of the World fired
on an Armistice Day parade here this
afternoon. Another man, said to have
been one of those who fired on the
marchers, is believed to have been
lynched, but confirmation was lacking
At least eight supposed Industrial
Workers of the World are in the local
Jail, guarded from a mob of several
hundred former comrades of the men'
shot down today.
The dead:
Arthur McElfresh. Centralia
Den Casagranda. Centralia.
Warren Grimm, Centralia.
The wounded include:
Dale Hubbard, Centralia, (dying).
John Earl Watt, Chehalis, not ex
pected to live. j
The shooting began when the patadel
drew abreast of the Industrial Workers
oi me voriu nan nere. according to
witnesses, the bullets going over the
heads of the crowds watching the pa
rade. On lookers say shots came from
every direction and that snipers in
the upper windows of the I. W, W.
headquarters building fired into the
line.
McElfresh was killed instantly.
Grimm, formerly a lieutenant, was I
leading a platoon in the parade and
fell at the second brst of fire, mor
talh wounded.
Stevens attempud to disarm an al
leged I W. W. and was shot in the
struggle which ensued Hubbard sus
tained his wound in pursuing a sup-!
posed I. W. W who fired as he ran
I from the group of men headed by
! Hubbard
i Ii was this man. according to re
i ports, who was hanged by a mob to
' night.
I Casagranda was in the ranks and a
rifle bullet struck him In the body j
"They got me this time," he said asi
he doubled up and fell in the street
The crowd, uniformed and un uni
formed, started to chase the reds and,
Hubbard was shot while chasing one
of the leaders.
Gathering up persons suspected of
affiliation with the radical order some i
former service men took them to jail,
while others of the marchers tore out
the front of the building where the i
W. W. headquarters were located, seiz
ed and burned a quantity of radical lit
erature and all the furniture, and dis
tributed among themselves and Cen 1
tralla citizens the arms and ammunl-;
j lion stored in the headquarters
Meanwhile a crowd was gathering;
'about the jail. Former service men.
some of them armed with the seized;
'weapons and others unarmed patrolled I
the ' round near the Jail to prevent fur-
ther violent e.
According to ex-service men who
said they were present. Hubbard's
party caught the man they were chas
ing, after he hud fired at them several
times, on the banks of the Skookum
chuch river, a small stream which iuns
through the town. Hubbard and the
; man grappled, 'hey said, and the sup
posed I W w fired directl Into Hub
bard's body George Stevens, another
jof the crowd chasing the gunman,
kicked the pistol from the L. W. W.'s
hands
A rope then was placed about the
man's neck, thrown over the cross-1
(arm of a telephone pole and he was
hoisted into the air The police p. j
Buaded the crowd to let the man down
before he was dead and he was taken
! to jail.
T. C. Rogers, mayor of Centralia, A.
C Hughes, chief of police here, and
other citizens addressed the crowd In
front of the jail tonight asking the
citizens not to attempt to lynch the
prisoner.
Early tonight a meeting to discuss
the siUiation -.?hh held at a ?oeal ?lub
,.nd immediately afterward the city's
electric lights failed, In the darkness
one man was removed from the Jul I
The best available account said thei
man was placed In an automobile,
i whic h H as waiting in readiness, flank I
RADICAL
HALL IS
RAIDED
Ex-Service Men Furnish
Climax for Armis
tice Day.
BURN UTERATURE
Make Oakland Unsafe
Place for Anti-American
Propagandists.
OAKLAND. Calif., Nov 12 Oak
land's street cleaning department bus
ied itself today with clearing away
the remnants of the Communist La
bor party's office furniture, which was
burned last night in a raid for former
service men as a climax to an Armis
tice day celebration While the furni
ture, radical literature and a red flag
were thrown from the windows of the :
building and consumed In a bice bon
fire, a great crowd gathered and cheer
ed on the raiders Part of the head-,
quarters' equipment destroyed belong
ed to "The World, ' a radical new pa
per
A declaration that Oakland would be
an unsafe place hereafter for radical.;
and anti-American government propa
gandists was made in a note left in
the headquarters by members of the
American legion, who took part In the
raid. The former service men made
the raid, they said today, because
they had confirmed report? that mem
bers of the Communist Labor party
had shrouded the American coolrs1
with red flags and had applauded
speeches advocating thc overthrow of
the government and the substitution
of Soviets.
No arrests were made.
ted by six other cars filled with men
and hurried into a wood near the town I
.This man, reports said later, was
hanged to o bridge It generally was
I believed tonight that the lynching had I
I taken place.
Rumors of additional violence here
were current late tonight More than'
one citizen declared; "There will no'
I be any I. . W.a left in the jail by
; morning." Governor Hart has ordered
one company of the state guard, uum
I bering about 7T nu n, here from Taco
ma. PORTLAND Ore., Nov. 11 Peine
hero tonight raided headquarters of
the Household Workers' Soldiers' and
Sailors' club and look sixty men inlo:
CUStod) The police acted following
a report that those in the club were
meeting lo protest against "persecu
tion" of the I. w. W. at Centralia,
Wash The men were taken to the
police station for investigation.
A quantity of radical literature was
found in the club rooms by the police
I SEATTLE. Wash , Nov. 11 Ac, ord
,ing to reports telephoned here tonight.
tho Centralia mob look the cameras
j from all newspaper correspondents
jand photographers.
SAN FRANCISCO. Nov. If A pre
liminary cmfei em id Republican
I leaders has been called for tomorrow
i in thlse city to begin a campaign to
bring the national Republican conven
tion of 1920 to San Francisco, national
I committeeman William H. Crocker an
1 nouueed today.
CENTRALIA, Wash Nov 11. Dale
Hubbard, who was shot in the breast,
was operated on late tonight and doc
tors said ho had a fiehting chance for
his life
Lieutenant Warren 0 Grimm Who
was kllbd had been elected last.
Thursday night commander of ('.rant
Hodge post, American Legion, here.
LOVETT IN SALT LAKE.
SALT LaiE CITT, t'tan. tfov 12,-
Judge Robert S Lovett, president of
the Union Pacific railroad, arrived in'
Sail Lake City last night on an in-1
spectlon tour of the company's prop
erties. He was accompanied by other
1 officials of the railroad. '
NATION
I MUSI BE
PURGED
Johnson Would Take
Stern Measures With
i Radicals.
sH IN jTON. Nov. 12 The shoot
ing of four ex-service men In an Armis
tice day parade at Centralia, Wrash .
was described in the house today by
Representative Johnson, Republican.
Washington, chairman of the immigru
tlon committee, as "an attempt a' rev
olution with bullets and rifles which
i the country has long feared" Mr.
'Johnson sent a telegram to Mayor
Rogers of Centralia saying the coun-
( try "must be purged of seditiorlsts
and revolutionists to the last one and
if this means war the quicker it is de
clarer! the better."
"We of the Pacific northwest have
long seen It coming," he said. "We
have been patient, have avoided blood
shed under every provocation, only to
see these young men murdered Their
death will arouse the loyal people of'
the United States as nothing else has'
done.
History irfll record these heroes as
among the first to fall in an attempt
nt armed revolution against the United
States and for which every man who
has been preaching syndicalism, com
munism and clas hatred. Is respon
sible." SIOUX CITY, la . Nov li Moris
ban Post of the American Legion Is
to take steps to exclude I. ""V. W. head
quarters trom SlOUX City, wrs the fit
Cislon reached at he annual moet'ng
of tho legion late las ni-M
oo
Allies Displeased With
Attitude of Government
Toward Hungary.
PARIS, Nov. 12 (By the Associat
ed Press) The reply of Rumania to
the allied note in which it was demand
ed that Hungary be evacuated, Is re
garded in peace conference circles as
wholly unsatisfactory.
The note, which was considered by
the supn-rue council today, is charac
Lerlsed as extremely evasive The
Rumanians Indicate B willingness to
retire to the river Theiss, but they
decline to reaped the original armis
tice lines and also decline to comply
with the allie, request that thej name
B member of the interallied commie
sion to compile the value of the goods
seized In Hungary by the Rumanians
so that this amount can be deducted
from the intal of the reparations due
to Rumania. Tho note is held to In
dicate continued defiance of the su-
preme council
The council approved the report of'
the commission which had investigat
ed conditions In Smyrna. Referring
to the incidents which occurred dur
ing the landing ol the Greek troop,
whicb were declared to hav ien
caused b lack ui ui'oututton on the
"jar & the J?reeR military authorities,
the Creek authorities are asked that
order be maintained in the future and
that there be no recurrence ol similar
Incidents, 11 Is pointed out that the
military occupation of Smyrna by the
Greeks must be understood by them
to be merely provisional'. I
GERMAN
ADMIRAL :
I
People Want to Know
Why Submarine Cam
paign Failed.
VON CAPELLFS STORY
Believed They Could
Force Enand to Bring
About "Unsafe Peace."
BERLIN, Tuesday. Nov. 11 (By the
Associated Press) Vice Admiral Ed
uard von Capelle. former minister of
the navy, was bombarded with ques
tions today as to why the submarine
campaign was unsuccessful
Hecklers at the national assembly
Bub-committee's Investigation Into the
war. having failed to fjet much infor
mation as to why the submarine cam
paign was not avoided, changed their
tactics to questioning the former min
ister of the navy on submarine con
struction. The story of his coniribu
Hon to U-boat construction was read
by von Capelle at the start of the ses
sion. Lifht hundred and ten submaiines
wSre built before and during the war."
said the former minister "Of these
15 were constructed before the war,
1 16 rer built during the administra
tion of Admiral von Tirpitz anil 579
were built by me in the two and a
half year3 I was in office
i too:: office in April, 191o. had in
.- nine months remaining in that
c..r I ordered built 90 U-boats In
lrH7 I ordered 269; and In the nine
month - I k. as in Office in 1918 I order
ed 220."
Why Discrepancy in 2 Years.
"Why was there such a discrepancy
between 1916 and the two following
' rs?" demanded Herr (iolhein. Von
Capelle replied sharplv
"Tin re are a number ol reasons why
so -mall a nunibei was ordered In
j 1916 first, the rcichstag took an over
whelming stand against the submarine
and I could not start to build, because
1 saw myself in opposition to the gov
ernment; second. I had been oui of
the naval service and was unaware
of the technical Improvements In l -boat
building, and third, the ,k.:ger
rak battle caused serious damage to
our boats Their repair help up the
construction of other boats "
Germany had decide dto live up to
International law and not sink nier
ichantmen without warning, continued
von Capelle, but he said be thought
that in the fail of 1915 the admiralty
had issue. 1 a second order to attack
IJritish ships because England, "pois
oned against US," had made the work
of U-boats very difficult by mines
which covered the entire North sea.
Ther,. was a demand for mine search
ers, torpedo boats and motor boats
which further reduced I'-boat con
s 1 . u( tion, he added
Herr Sinsheimer attempted to elicit
the exact purpose of the submarine
campaign against England. Von Ca
polio replied:
' e believed we could force Ens
land to a "usabb peace' within live
months."
"Was the submarine warfare plan
ned to make feeding of England im
possible and therefore make tmpossi
ble the reaching by England ol bet
goal?" aske.l Herr David.
"There was no hope In the navy
that food or ammunition cuul.i he kept
from England," replied con Capelle
sarcastically. "We .should have been I
more suspicious of England."
Metal Workers' Strike,
BERLIN. Tuesday. Nov. 11. (Bv
the Associated press) The metal
workers' strike, which had entered
upon its eighth week was virtually
called off last night when the com j
mlttee of fifteen directing it ordered
the strikers to make necessary ar
rangements lor the immediate resump
tion of work
The seven weeks' holiday cost a big
sum lost In wages and also drained;
the strike treasury. I
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MARTIAL i
LAW IN I
DAKOTA 1
Governor Orders Adiu- , l
taut General to Assume ij I
Charge of District.
CITIZENS ARE CALLED l
All Men Necessary Be- I
tween 18 and 45 to j j I
Keep Order in State. J i I
- ;' I
j BISMARCK, N D . Nov. 12 Gov
ernor Lynn J. Frazlor early today de
clared martial law in the mining dis
tricts of North Dakota and announced
he would take over the lignite coai
mines of the state which have been
closed several days by a strike of
I miners. H
In a proclamation, the governor ord
jered Adjutant General Frazier to as
i some charge of the mining industry
I of the state, to see to it that the
i mines were reopened at once and that
the people of the state the supplied
wlh ccal as soon as possible. All
persons interfering with production in
j tho mines are to be arrested and be
jkept undei guard until the operators
land miners reach an agreement in
I their dispute. ' I
Adjutant Geneltil Frazier was in
structed to call all male persons of
the state between the ages of IS and
'45 that he deemed necessary to con
trol the situation and carry out th?
provisions or the proclamation; j l H
Word reached the caphol lu.ee lai
j night thac the miners would noi re
i turn to work, though the strike had
been officially called off by national
'officers, but that they would return to
work under the orders of Governor
j Frazier I ; H
The soldiers Will "not work In the , H
mines but will give miners returning
t'd work protection ironi interfer- H
are I f I
m
Letts Push Back Get-
mano-Russian Forces '(I
And Remove Menace. !
I
DORPAT, Livonia, Nov. 12 - (Qj
the Associated Press.) Lettish troops
in the region near Riga attacked th
Gennano-Russlan forces of Colonel
Berruondt yesterday and pushed them
back several miles along the ontlre
line, the Lettish conferees at the Bal
tic states' conference here were advis
ed tod a .
The attack resulted in Riga being
entirely freed from menace by Colonel
Bennondt's forces.
The Letts, it is added, captured a
battery of heavy guns and numerous
machine guns. i H
OO j IH
And it proved that congress has no
heart and onlv kifty five of ihcru
haven't
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