The daily Alaska citizen., November 14, 1919, Image 1

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ALASKA CITIZEN
N)li , \n |\ FAIRFAX'> \ A SKA. FKlf >A V MORX1XO. Xov. 14. WHOLE XlTM HER 11S4
TA<'OM A. Nov. Id. (/P) ••The federal government
i- ui (1 ( : 1111 \ .arnest in i i - campaign against the radicals
,|, .•! ., ,| I'niici! States district Attorney H. Saunders,
vh,, . i. jv ed Imre late tonighl direct from Seattle to con
er wit' local offici;;Is in the intcrests <>1 the anti-radi' '
oveiieait. 1 le d< cl; i-. s that tlie W ashington . tt 11 loritir
arc aRo hacking him in the -ei/.ure of the I'nion Recor I
Seal 1 le newspaper, which he says has been guilly o
flag ra nl \ iolat ions of the espionage act.
STATE GETS BUSY
OLYMPIA, Nov. Id,. (/P) In a communication mb
dressed to all prosecuting attorneys, sheriffs, and polic<
.ffieers thruout the state. Governor Hart tonight urged
, hem to make prosecution nl the radicals their tirsi busi
Hess. Ibis menace to the lives of ])eaceable citizens and
lie whole government must be wiped out. said the go\
ernor.
INQUEST HELD
CENTRA LI A. Wash., Nov. IT (/P) Thai the
slaughtered soldiers might have had a momenTs waruin
of what was to follow, was indicated tor the first lime to
night in the coroner’s in<|iies1 held over the bodies of 11m
four former soldiers who were killed in 1 tmsdav s oul
In-, ak. After listening to the evidence, ihe .jury returne ;
a verdict ii.--rely stating “four former service men came
to licit- deaths from gunshot wounds fired by persons
unknown.**
Tuslimom was introduced tending to show that the
uiarehers had started towards the I. W. W. hall bel'or
the fir t shots were fired from that building or the top of
the Avalon hotel standing near and it is understood that
this test imotiv was responsible tor the bail tire ol ihe ,jur\
1,1 fix the res] m >u si hi lit y tor the shooting.
Dr. Frank Dick ford, one of the mat hers, testif'yim
as a wit ness, said that t he door 1 o the I. \\ . W . hall w a -
forced open before the shooting began. Dr. Albert DC
who was also a marcher, testified that he, heard a shout
from the ranks ahead of him. during a short rest of tlm
paraders, and saw the first ranks break 1heir alignment
and move toward the I. W. W. hall. Continuin'.: Dr Dell
said: "It was .'(-emingly at the same moment that I heard
the shots.”
MURDER CHARGED
('EXTRA LI A. Wash., Xov. 14, (/P) lustru-tions
received hero toda\ from Federal Attorney Saunders, of
this district, requested the local authorities to see ih d
charges of murder in the first degree are placed again d
all persons against whom evidence has been obtained
showing them to have been in any way coiine dcd with
the murders here Armistice Day. Against all other mem
bers of the 1. \\ . W. w ho have been arrested charges of
ronspiraev will be prosecuted. More than 40 wobblm
have been arrested here. Former soldiers art searching
for four more known to have been implicated in the at -
tack.
GRAB AN EDITOR
SEAT!'EE, Wash., Nov. 1:5. (/P) United States At
torney Saunders at the head of a number of federal offi
cers this afternoon raided-the plant of the Seatl'e Union
Record and arrested E. 15. Ault, ils editor and several
other employees under the espionage act. The officers
saitl that they were acting under specific instructions
from Washington. The Record in a news story last night
and editorially today said that the Uentralia outrage was
caused hy illegal acts of the four dead soldiers them
selves. It attempted to defend the radicals and openly
condoned the acts of the I. \\ . \\ . generally. Tin* Record,
ostensibly a union labor publication, is said to have been
controlled by coast radicals for months.
BURY OWN DEAD
CENTRA LI A. Wash., Nov. 13.—(/P)- In striking
contrast to the public funeral arranged for the four dead
ex-service men was the interment of Everett., the I. W.
W. who was hanged Tuesday by a local mob. After local
undertakers had refused to touch the body, the authori
ties today took four of the I. W. W. confined in jail
charged with implication in the attack and let them bury
the remains of their former comrade. No one was pres
ent at the burial except the four grave diggers and tlieii
guards.
/ LABOR BLAMES BUSINESS MEN
SEATTLE, Wash., Nov. 13. -(/P)—While decrying
violence, the central labor council of this city last night
passed a resolution asking Seattle labor to refrain from
hr !. \Y. \\ . attack upon former soldiers ii
ti Da\ parade. The council, alleged
i i i .di . I . [nit 111 ciitire blame lor 1 lie
■ in : . ( i ii .hi business men. It said that they
hnli and provoked the attack by un
o, i ji< ra- deal oruanizal ion.
: lai• ' I ic" ;on in a messaue
sent to ’ . i ti- ci- till m " the legion now in ses
a i : t1 ; he out break was due
of the government to prosecute1 ai
••:e. -hi• i_ -edition.
FIRE ON PATROL <
v'liN'TKAl.IA Wa ll, Nov. IN (A3)
i • ■«i* m• Paxton, ui Hu- i-ily. a I'orin
- ; soldi- . iv; 1 -d on thi- morning
, • i: - i in Chehalis-Cen
trnlia mud on ij.- lookout for nn m
bt i nl tin mi ora :: , .lion which
ban bi" n inn ing th place lor
month and which killed lour form
er soldier.' participation in the Ann
i.-tit-i 1 Li.i parade in t ntralia last
Tie- day. Pin- -lioi v.a fired from
a point n-ai where tin- mob lynched
Smith Tuesday niaiu. Soldiers
.-•■ai ciied i he vicinity tor iln- person
ilein:- lie . eiin..' but was unable
to discover anyone
l-.uael i i 111 ■ .' w; a lie.-1 ed I his
niornim a y! - ml a . It belies ed
that be fired on tin i , .ule from a
ot ' •' declares t hat he a -a
UarnetH firing at tin- pm ad- .... Fin
ger .pri . In
In ed a! tii t in In- Unit Smith, in
dicate that, lie via.- I.'lie- Kurett, a
radical o: nuiizcr v.has bad Irou
bl with - a, e-veral
SU3PECIS CAUGH i
TACOMA, Wa.k., Now 13. (/P)
1'i.i i i M'i it Mi ( ' ed ,being III
du.-trial Worke s oi lire World who
I--I ;i,,ei ! 1 . • i. I Cell! I . I li lowing ll"
mu1 apjii't lull d tftfla;. ;■ I Morion,
\\ill., and are ! ins !>.■;<I lhere.
T'i ■ • will ! i • i tek io ( ' n
tfalls for identifier.iion.
HAUL AT TACOMA
TACOMA, W- • . Not 13. (/Pi
Ciiv pro!in. oi i inis as-i tsi b\ a
mibi ■ ot tenner soldiei ■ L
boeide'.l a train en lie oui-kirl: of
as !. in- an mb : ' M l W W
organization, <■ In a pebt» are b.
lit vl-u Lo i i lie I in i) '
lie- officials board., d ii. \ posse is
now looking tor liieni in 1 lie eitj liin
its. A seareh revealed that all the
nnn wore unarmed. All of litem cane
Horn -Mineral, Wash.
FIXER A] iMIN ISTRATt HI TO TAKE
PART IN CONFERENCE BE
TWEEN ROAR MINERS AND
OPERATORS IN OPENING OF
WAGE DISCUSSION.
WASHINGTON, Nov. IX (£>) II
war announced In re toduj llial Fuel
Administrator Garl'ield will attend Hie
conference between the cottl miners,
and operators of the mines which
opens in this city tomorrow. Nego
tiations between the owners and em
ploye' - relating to the wage dispute
will he reopened at this meeting.
The government is confident that
the present negotiations will produce
results satisfactory to botli parties.
More than gnu mine operators will be
present and over 100 representatives
el the miner- will al " attend. Sec
retary Wilson, who called the con
tinence, predicts that the subjects
involved in the controversy will be
amicably settled before the confer
ence ends.
W
PROHIBITION GETS
ANOTHER REVERSE
PROHIBITION .s’.fro
PROVIDENCE, R. I , Nov. 13.—
(/p)—War time prohibition got an
other reverse here yesterday when
Judge Arthur L. Brown, of the dis
trict federal court, issued a decree
making operative an injunction
against the enforcement of war
time prohibition. Rhode Island is
the second state in which such
action has been taken, a federal
judge in Kentucky having taken
similar steps earlier this week.
GOVERNMENT IS
STOP SHIPMENT
i NlTED STATES GOVERNMENT
! NDEAVORS TO PREVENT
I.AttGE SHIPMENT OF WAR
Sfl'I'UKS P.EING MADE TO MEX
• i'R'JM AliROAI)
V. ASiilNUTON, Nov. 13. (jp) It
v .i olHcially announced here today
t h.i the government is endeavoring
to prevent the shipment of a large
at.taunt of supplies, consisting most
ly of arms and ammunition, being
in.ale !t uu Europe to Mexico, it has
.11 hi matter up thru diplomatic
rlunn'T with the Belgian govern-j
mi at old hopes that there will be
tin i.oubh in stopping the shipment.
It is known that the Mexican gov
. ni teiii lias purchased outright a big
at 'y of arms and ammunition of
in ny kinds, one large order being
d with a munition company of
.i . , Belgium. Other orders are also
. to have been placed in European
iiintries. The government holds that
[.resent M xican government is
i rti ponsible to be allowed to
. !;•■ these large shipments
HOSTILE INTENT
WASHINGTON, Nov. 13. (/P)
Thai the large orders for arms and
a imuniih'U placed by Mexico in
l-.iimpe was a step in preparation for
ossibllity of an American i ava
il ■ : tin known hen today wiien
• tale department announced that
k. government had taken steps to
in i ie.it tli*- shipments front being
made It is believed that the govern
i tit' action will be effective.
JUDGE HOLDS WAR
TIME PROHIBITION
UNCONSTITUTIONAL
RESTRAINS CUSTOMS OFFICERS
FROM INTERFERING WITH
DISTILLERY SALES
LOUISVILLE, Ky., Nov. 13. (/P)
.lutlv Evans, federal district judge
for this district, today for the second
time held that the enforcement of
war time prohibition laws in uncon
:'itutional. He granted an injunc
tion restraining the collector of in
n rnal revenue from interfering with
whiskey sales by distilleries in this
Mate. The case will be taken to the
supreme court in order to test the
i m t itut ionality of the law.
vac
1 at long talk between President
Wilson and senators accomplished
this much; we have discovered that
i\, ri is such a place as the island
Yap. We understand it is within
a lew miles ol Swat, of whose Ah
nd you have often heard.
«•«
DAKOTA MINERS
ARE TO RETURN
WITHOUT DELAY
UNCOMPROMISING ATTITUDE OF
STATE IN COA1, STRIKE BRINGS
LIGNITE MINERS TO TERMS
WILL RESUME OPERATIONS AT
ONCE.
BISMARCK, Nov. 13.— (;P) —State
j union mine otiicials this morning no
tified Governor Frazier that orders
have been issued to all striking union
lignite miners to return to their
work at once, and the strike
j officially declared to be at an end.
| This action is believed to have been
WASHINGTON. N<>\. Id. (/P) Squareh joining
issue \\ i 111 President W ilson, the senate late this after
noon adopted the reservation qualifying the obligations
of the United Slates under Article 10 of the covenant
of the league of nations h\ a vole of •>•> to Id. The re
publicans lined up solidly for the reservation and were
reinforced by the addition of four democratic senators.
The vote put tin reservation across exactly as ii
came from the foreign relations committee and in virtu
ally the identical language which the President declared
would cut the heart out of the treaty and mean its ab
solute rejection.
The reservation ; s reported by Senator Podge to the
senate on September 10, follows:
“The I’nited States declines to assume, under the
provisions of Article 10, or under am other article, am
obligation to preserve the territorial integrity or political
independence of any ol her < on lit ry. or to interfere in eon
troversies between other nations, members of the league
or not, or to employ Sir military or naval forces of the
I nited States in siieli eo itroversies, or to adopi economic
measures for the prole, i i< g 1 of any other country, wheth
er a member of the hagm or not, against external aggres
sion or for the purpo e of coercing any other country, or
for the purpose of intervention in the internal conflicts
or other controversies which may ar;se in any other conn
try, and no mandate si.all In copied by the I’nited
States under Article gg. Part I, of the treaty of peace
with Germany, except by action of the congress of the
I I’nited States.”
ATTEMPT LIMIT DEBATE
WASHINGTON Nov. 1 •'I. (/P) 1 mp;i1 ient at the
delays imposed In the dilatory tactics of the opposition
leaders, democratic senators are attempting to invoke the
cloture rule to limit the debate on the reservations pro
posed to the treaty by llic ioreign relations committee.
Their efforts in this line loday were completely blocked
by Senator Lodge, chairm n of tin foreign relations com
mittee, who declared that the democrats formerly were
opposed to limiting debate on all reservations.
Failing in the attempt, the democrats then, an
nounced that they will make a proposition for limiting all
debate on the entire treaty. Tiny will urge such action
in order that a final vote nin.\ be obtained at an early
date.
The senate today defeated b\ a vote of on to 41, Sen
ator Walsh’s proposal to amplify the commiltee reserva
tion to Article 10 so that other nations would be under no
obligations to aid America in preserving its territorial
integrity.
caused by the attitude a turned by
the stale in placing the mints a!
itcied under military conti >1 and th.
slate’s determination to work them I
even if It should be necessary to t all
out every able-bodied man of military
age in the state.
Military control has not been re
laxed, but the governor will pi oh
ably recall his mandate as soon u
the union men report for resump
tion of operations. Officials bclievi
that there will be no further i rouble
OPENING MINES
BISMARCK, N. If., Nov. 13. (/P)
According to a statement issued this ^
evening, North Dakota expects to
have 30 union coal mines under its
control and in operation tomorrow.
These mines will be under the guard
of state troops and operated by work
ers employed by the state author!
ties. No union men have returned
to work despite the fact that the of
ficials have issued a formal notifi
cation that tlie strike has been called
off.
--— w»
BULGARIANS READY
SIGN PEACE TERMS
PARIS, Nov. 13—(vP)—The peace
conference this afternoon received
information from official sources
that the Bulgarian government will
sign the peace treaty as altered
by the conference several days
ago. The Bulgarian premier, ac
! cording to advices just received, is
enroute here from Sophia to sign
for the Bulgarians. It is expected
| that the Bulgar treaty will be in
j force within a few days.
NON-PARTISANS
WITH GRANGERS
PLAY POLITICS
NON-PARTISAN LEAGUE, FARM
ERS' GRANGES, AND LABOR
MAY COMBINE AND PLACE A
TICKET IN FIELD IN NATIONAL
ELECTION.
CHICAGO, 111., Nov. 13. (fi>) A
111 i ril party looms up again in the
political field of the United States
in the shape of a combination ol
union labor and agricultural organi
zations all over the country. Ac
toiding to John Fitzpatrick, presi
dent of the Chicago Federation of
l.abor, an agreement has already
been made for such a combination
which will enter the national elec
tions next year.
Mr. Fitzgerald, speaking to news
pilin' men here today, said that a
convention composed of delegates
from the non-partisan league, farm
■ s’ granges from all over the coun
try, and organized labor will hold
a national convention in the near
future. This convention will put a
ticket into the field at the coming
Presidential election.
When the railroads are iun on the
profit-sharing plan, as proposed by
Statesman Plumb, it will be in order
for all of us to save our coupons.