Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 12, 1919, Page 1

sone ¢ nace THREE SECRETARY OF LW.W.IS TOSSED -FROMBRIDGEWITHROPEAROUND NECK AFTER FIRING ON PARADE Centralia, Wash., Scene of Attack on Armistice Day Parade in Which Three Soldiers Are Shot and Killed by 1. W. W. Shooting from Ambush; Murderers Are Rounded Up WEATHER FORECAST Fair: with rising temperature tonight and ‘Thursday. THE DAILY TRIBUNE. Member of the Associated Press, and served by the United Press. VOLUME IV. LECIONARIES TO MEET NEXT YEAR INGLEVELAND, 0, FOR CONVENTION National Headquarters to, Be Located in Indianap-; olis; Mildred Weber | NUMBER 28 CENTRALIA, Wash., Nov. 12.—The massacre of four American Legion men in an Armis- _tice Day parade here yesterday by firing from I. W. W. headquarters was carefully planned, it ; developed today. ‘Brick’? Smith, I. W. W. leader, before being lynched by a mob, admitted | that the Centralia I. W. W. deliberately planned to kill as many ex-service men in the parade | as they’ Eaenbly. could. They smuggled high powered rifles into headquarters. | CENTRALIA, Wash., Nov: 12.—Forty-four alleged Industrial Workers of the World | were rounded up yesterday and last night after firing on an Armistice Day parade here. Co. F, third regiment of the national guard, arrived today from Tacoma and is quartered at the | Chamber of Commerce. Persons said to be I, W. W. fired on an Armistice Day parade yesterday, killing one mem- | ber of the American Legion outright and wounding two others so that they died soon after. A | fourth Legis member — suffered ;w ine in grappling with ane ot tho é ' ‘ | aceused of firing. ‘Today the body of q . this man ‘Brick’ Smith, secretary of the | W. W. branch, is hanging from 5 {local IL. i idge pear here, from which was thrown by a mob last night arrested ‘in the sweepi W.'s following the is said to have confessed plans} made months ago to “get Warren! Grimm and Arthur McElfresh, two of | those killed, and William Schales and | Captain David Livingston. » four had been active in sunnressing radical + | activities. | Without warning bursts of rifle fire| | swept the ranks of the marching over- | seas veterans, as they paraded past [ | W. W. headquarters. m that build Féatured by Neweaaber: Smith} MACHINISTS MAY. STRIKE IN U. S. A. Vote Taken on Action to. to Be Taken if Con- gress Passes Anti-Strike Bill; Train- ‘inl to ‘The Tri MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Nov. 12.—Cleveland will entertain the next annual convention of the |American Legion to be held: in 1920. _ Wyoming dele- gates voted for San Francisco. Indianapolis was selected for the locn- tion of national headquarters. The Wyoming delegation is continu- ing the fight against the bonus plan for service men, On wuture of Tuesday's session w. the presefitation to the meric legion of the first flag carried “o the top’ by an American soldier. The nan who earried it made the presenta- tion French government will send jing and the roof of « building across ithe street the bullets came. Persons jin the crowds lining the street also | pulled weapons and began firing | ONE KILLED, TWO | MORTALLY WOUNDED | Grimm, leading the company of men ! dropped 1 Ny wounded, Me men in Conference Now (By Unit ed Press) WASHINGTON, Nov. 12.—Three hundred and seventy-five thou- nd union machinists, including 125,000 railway machinists, are bal- loting on whether they shall strike if congress passes the anti-strike afresh, te to every home losing a mar |marching in the ranks, was killed in:| and compulsory arbitration legislation i in connection with settling the om a vicb, Tre World war certificates to Stanty. Hon Cagagranda, ied later ; he delivered by the legion thru its Joca! from wounds. “de, \tailroad problem: The vote is returnable late this month. The ballots — posts, necording to announcement John Earl Watt ,George Stevens, naie ny a French representative in the convention, Miss Mildred Weber of Buffalo, Wy 1 in a pencil sketch in a Min- ieapolis paper today alongside of eodore Roosevelt, Jr., General Haan of the general staff and General Colar- det of the Freach staff as a representa- live delegate of the western staits. Miss Weber served as an enlisted nurse | Jacob Phitzler, Christ Coleman and mi | Eubanks also fell wounded, the | named probably fatally. Stevens | | shot when he attempted to disarm an] tt. W. W. standiag on the street The fourth death was added when| | Dale Hubbard, recently returned over: | seas man, gathered a small band and started after the I. W. W. yr Hubbard and the fugitive grappled after’ | were sent ofit a month ago. ENEMIES DRIVER BACK BY LETTS t William H, Johnston of the . predicted a machinists’ gislation was passed, vote is being taken time when in negotiation with eneral Hines, ) ing their |mands. It ix understood ti offered them a three percent trainmen and conduc: Director wage de “rance. w! my. chase in which Smith fired repeatedly ! | Further conference » scheduled Ly in France, with, the first’ army. Tat. his patch ie fuel, clinched iday. A referendum on Hines’ ans’ CONVENTION CITY GAY | Hubbard received four wounds in the | Will be taken by the trainmen and con WITH NATIONAL COLORS, | body. | ' ductors (Special Mail Correspondence.) Reid in The National Repoblicea | Another pursuer overpowered Smith (By Annociated Prens.) = See ee MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Nov. 8.— 2 s ‘ond he was taken to jail, later to BP ORE br atvehie, Neve, 1e—tat. | J a % moved and hanged after citizens had tish troops in the region o: za at- [Con tseet en Fite SE) silty - Htearned that four of the foffner sol-| tacked the German-Russian forces of ‘FREIGHT SERVICE ON THE |diers had died. An attempt to lynch’ Colonel Bermondt yesterday and push- Smith was m he was lodged ed th back several miles along the A } in’ jail. entire line, free Biga .from the | | he said. 4 t A RECALL ORDER TO BE GIGNORED BY MINERS. fellows can't hang me. or by = sent to do my duty and I did it HIT TOSSED FROM RIVER ND OF ROPE Smith was tossed from a bridge over | the Chehalis river after a rope was tied about his neck, and-a volley of bullets sent into his body, The lynching party | worked silently and in darkness while BRIDG menace of PoE SrDp Hee onilt’s forces. U.S. DELEGATES IN PARIS PLAN : BY SNOWSTORM AND WING Every freight train stern was tied up iets and no attempt w the: North rester ts te to run taking him from jail. Little is known [any but fa Pe nger. tr Pai si » came here a short time | bound storms in ee: He me here a short time | BUR an tea iCad deer states Raut ‘local post of the American Legion. He ; ; 3 | pais Candee ‘ i Belief Is General That Cancellation of Both Operators and returned recently trom siberin and tad | (BY Ansoctated Prewn) Se ate been practising law with his brothe: 2 » Nov. 12.—The American | ,, With ‘snow. ec wan ited During his college days at the Univer-| delegation to the peace conference ; We eae Sl Strike Will Only Result in Partial Miners Will Join [ During hie college cae ee duiréd tamo| hes fafermed the supreme council of |‘000¥-,and some will ave to. he: dus las an athlete, He was 31 years old] its intention to leaye France during | je tracks today Resumption of Work in Coal Mines in Conference land is survived by a wife and daugh-} the first, days of December. The Brit- | sed the sume de- ish delegation exp! The depth of the snow eas ter. be learned as all but mo Lidids Te McK h was 22 years old. He re- ‘sirg. . The general impression .pre-.) cit down A he . casey Sree) lturned from France last May after 16| vails that the conference will con- | ee CHICAGO, Nov. 12.—IIlinois, lowa, Kansas and Oklahoma min-; WASHINGTON, Nov. 12.— |jnonths overseas. Hubbard served with | elude its work by the end of this |G. A. Cullen has returned from « trip ers may refuse to resume work without an increase in wages. Presi-! Chairman Brewster of the coal op-| dent Duncan McDonald of the Illinois Federation of Labor, stated that! crators scale committee, today an-: he did not believe the Illinois miners would obey the strike recall order. | nounced that the mine workers had Vice President Joseph Morris of the lowa mimers said the lowans| | accepted Secretary of Labor Wil- would not return. | son’ 's invitation to meet the repre- Ten thousand miners in the Kansas fields are discontented ‘and | sentatives of the miners Friday to ne- will refuse to work. léased as rapidly as production corre- |fainers new wage ‘ngreement. The Oklahoma and Arkansas miners are spondingly is restored. miners had already accepted. reported sullen and unlikely to resume} There is some Peni, ut with sa inte’ a e: th ver iy Hines sa “but with coa 7 z . ” yd ILL ae PRESSED | Basic . stile | Sency will soon be het. , f aterm Ohiggeiineray appeet Nome Orders also have gone out from the Bieweeerea rete.) IN HIS. FA- THERLAND—Dr. Carl Muck. for- mer Director of the Boston Sym- phony Orchestra who war interned during the war as a dangerous enemy alien photographed in Ber- lin reeently on hisy return ’to Ger- many from the United States. OFFICER NAMED 20th engineers. | the to Cheyenne. U. S. FORCED TO AWAIT “OVERT ACT’ ON PART OF REDS,SAYS PALMER {9 returning. Operators hope for an 9 | SPRINGFIELD, Ul, Nov, 12.—Orig- ‘ : See roe curesea ae ee ty gee ages tec Srsnerge TO ENFORCE DRY —————————— alot hat ethene wit dri bask later. | SEO oN Sean “towards he 0 Wawen. © wachour day and a five LAWS IN OHIO |Propaganda Campaign t to Be Launched at revresnative sounson, nepubiican, | mines, ‘el f hg W whington, as an “‘d ta revolu SOUTHERN INDIANA jerators by mine workers in the joint S ke 6; A d R 1 ti I S tion with bullets and rifles, whieh the MINERS ARE IDLE | scale con ce called Friday in Wash- L oKkane, rime éevoluiton Is seen country has long feared." 7 | \ington, at the instance of Secretary of Gossiatea (Peaues 2 z He sent gram to Mayor Rogers } (By ‘United Pre: Labor, Wilson, according to Frank Far- WASuL GTON, Nov. 12.—John F. | by Congressman . Deportation Due of Centralia daying the country “must “TERRE HAUTE, Nov. 12.—-South- rington, chairman of the miners’ scale, Kramer, attorney of Mansfield, Ohio | , ‘ [be purged of ‘seditionists and revolu orn Indiana miners didnot resume jeommittee, who Ix enroute to Washing-| today was appointed federal prohibi- | SS tionists, to the last one and if this work today. The official text of the | \ ton. | tion commissioner to have’ direct | WASHINGTON, Nov. 12.—Attorney-General Palmer today | ™¢!"* war, the quicker it’ is declared trie recall order had not arrived. How-{ Asked whether the miners would obey} .charge of the enforcement of war- said that no orders were sent department of justice agents to the better.” over, some "Th the strike rescinding order, he sald: | time and constitutional prohibition, t of 5 an fk aati ee pales See ent iel Mae MINES ‘In my judgment the miners will not | Senet prevent an I. W. W. propaganda campaign in the northwest SENATE DEBA ON PEACE = otinted, ; | 2 return to work." | because the department could not act under present laws until PACT TO BE LIMITED } . | He added, | ——_ Towever, that ne spoxe SEN. MARTIN OF | some overt act had been committed. (By Anssocinted Press.) nigins r f only for the Illinois district, of which | Nov. 12.—A i RARE QF \CDAEO | (By Associated Pressi) Maia (ysnetadd ; VIRGINIA DIES SPOKANE, Nov. 12.—That the Industrial Workers of the, the senate debate Pe % PIAA Hy Me yin or }World are preparing to launeh fi m | ton’ of all aliens among ‘the men ; phe spe v (By Associated Press.) fer today declared ma) iw in force | (ny A: 7 x head rters here a propaganda ¢ | rested last night in a raid by the pol ture rule was inangurated today : ; districts of North Dako- ahee «beg epee M IN poss ers re 5 y De: e WASHINGTON, Nov. 12.—Harry_N. " the inleee at \hptadbnpoutas tae cae, York, Nov. Increased FRO TEL ESS) paign thkough the northwest und per-/t,-W. W, headquarters here will -be| by Democratic leaders advertising rates and reduction im the t in the} taken, according to an annour ement A petition requiring but 16 six- ‘Taylor of the National Coal peseciation |S. ine lignite mies of the state t Feld | Te seaceagage” jhaps through the enti today by rnett Goldstein ting natures for submission was’ circu. so accepted ‘Secretary Wilson’s invi- Saad bythe strike. ‘ pis ia Pde ecb alg eee by ‘caaabeerie * Virginia, | near future, was the declaration LNG Mitca & Attorney: y lated by administration leaders and tation re dent of the Atmerioan Neva Dre! Nov. 1-Senster Thomas. Martin, | today: of oficialk of the department of had more than double the nee- ncthe reledine of coal to meet emergency | iss Helen Seott; one of the out-of-| dent oF the american eaten nibsaing ple in tlfe senate, died | justice. \ essary numb ES As 3 s i Director-General! town guests: at’ the officers’ dance’ at} ieiq here to consider the news print; here today ai # brief iliness of sev- | carat tre. | TON, Nov. 12.—The shoot Some Republic: leaders said $i instructed regional “coal the Henning Monday night, returned shortage: eral month. was 72 years of | PORTLAND, Ore., Nov. —Imme- jing of four ex. ice men in the Ar they would support the cloture pro, committees to inerense the quantity re- ito her home at Donglas Nodey. { age. ‘diate proceedings toward the deporta-; mistice Day paride at Centralia, Wash posal. Oo nn aeeeree nanan TRE ETS eT NS