The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 12, 1919, Page 1

“SRAM RTI gE U0 REDS TAKEN! ENT BILL IS KILLED Tides in Seattle TURSDAY NOY. It Firet Lew Tide 24 am. _ Wiest Mgt mae THURADAY NOV. 18 On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise | TheSeattle Star Batered as Second Class Matter, May 9, 1899, af the Posteffice at Beattie, Wash.. under the Act of Congress March 8, 1879 ESTERDAY morning I wan | dered over to the show | CENTRALIA, Nov. 2.—Four heavily-armed and des- fooma of the Seattle Fine|Perate men, believed to ve taken part in the attack on Afts Society and my soul full of art y door was open and no one Not even a custodian, | | soaked) the American Legion marchers here yesterday afternoon, | were being sought today by a strong posse of war veterans, | jwho guarded all roads and combed the woods for miles/ peat maid to sel! me a cata-/ around the Centralia district. ° | wanderers peeked in, feok about and departed. An delivered a package, r chap. departed without could not be verified. ogre ; at first, about Sot: Ww. Reports of a clash between Thurston county officers and la gang of I. W. W. encamped near Sinclair, six miles from Olympia, were received here this morning. The reports A railroad conductor first brought the report that the W. were encamped along the railroad tracks. trainman said as he passed thru Centralia, that there A had | | been a battle at Sinclair, that several shots had been fired, and that some one had fired at the train as it passed, BY RALPH BENJAMIN impersonistic. have excelled anything Masters ever did. Thave browsed about the Pastures enough to realize ihe artist, to be true to his art, ‘trees things as he sees Whether another human eye Ses single to hin purpose Dale n Po just returned from Franee, EI desire right here to arise oy wer where he served with the en- gineers. ' that some of the ex- faver there on Fourth avenue ni Smith, secretary of the afe not art; they are not “Brick” ‘thromos, and anybody who|!. W. W. local, was hanged from are is mad as a March | Chehalis river bridge last night. He |was lynched by 14 men, who took #s0 hatter, mad as any mad| him from the city jail, be. | ‘The wounded veterans are: Jobn carl Watt, Chehalis, who may die | George Stevens, Centralia, shot thru the leg: Eugene Pfitzer, Chehalis, minor wounds; Emory Coleman, af gobs of cadmiums, of ochres,| shot thru ‘leg; J. Fiscus, Chehalis, he of chrome yellow, of | shot thru ler washes of a mixed palate) «prick gmith ts alleged to have neal aed 1t | Made a confession just before he Z + Reed | was hanged. Jet a fobby daub, no matter | "ryou fellows can't hang me,” he is said to have boasted. “I was sent to DE Kee, 22 and 22 a tot daube, | 2.™y duty gnd did it.” ‘eho did thems or what hia} 2Tom the reported confession OF excuse was. made by Smith, and from the talk of Mire are laws of art as there are|* POY of 16 years, District Attorney grammar and cconomies ana| Herman Allen of Lewis county has |} begun the framework of his murder \conspiracy charge against every man in the I. W. W. hall at the time of the shooting. Allen was busy until morning gatherifig together the numerous threads of evidence and within a few hours a special grand jury will be called to take up the investigation and return indictments. The last words of Smith os he was | strung up to the bridge, two miles | southwest of Centralia, It is allege were boasts of a premeditated pla: for the killings on the part of him self and associates and his only re gret, according to witnesses, was that not enough of the soldiers had | been killed. see the beauty i | | to assert that No. 33 | Utless the crayola scraw! my three-year-old son are art. May be anything. It con anything purporting to be a that defies all rules of per ¥ that violates all laws of on, that has within it no and that is without form Fold is nothing, as sure as the | ravings of some corner Are not statesmentike dis that does not ‘get over” artist who cannot put over it to the average educated, | thoughtful observer is no eee THER pictures there that Would appal the academ- felan appealed to me, but they had sense, Der realism %5, the moonlight mine the artist called it Sertainiy not routine it's good. Bisa portrayni that portray: sweat and grunt of the is within it, M4, an example of the tuturis 4 of color dot b but that meric Planes and full cols 4M example of n 4 as you may crazy with the doty artist who found it easter to splurge on paint with a an to tolifully learn to draw to understand the theory of. form and color, the laws of composition and the rules of perspective. Not only do I refuse to bow down and worship at the mud feet of any such Baal, but 1 advise that you go and do likewise, Mr. Plain Citizen meat in the cocoanut, nine times in ten when you see a picture that means nothing on earth to you you can bet your last kopeck that it is a punk pleture, and its maker is either a faker or a nut And moreover, you monke out of these worshipers of the outr by merely grabbing such and standing him up before one of these daubs, without a chart or a dia gram, or a word of explanation and defying him to tell you what it is about Without knowing what it is sup posed to be there is but one person on earth who could guess what No. 33 and he, poor fish, couldn't fe it. that gues if he keeps on doing those Bawah they truth, /things until they gét sort of mixed! COloseal Mare or equally | in hig memory. drawing, hose t acene is good. expres- and here's the applied in a distance schemes, can make a nelfeosteemed ous IN ART that can be under stood only by the iad who Created it an art that Makes no ait-| ference between a picture med lady wippir And a pile of tht, such \ Alacernahie on the top |a by easentially in cans art | Be those who prate about, iw, ho think who discover ‘The 16-year-old I. W. W's who took part in plan ning and executing the attack are in the hands of the authorities. Fighteen 1. W. W. suspects are in the city jail and two were hurried away to the county jail in Chehalix They are mid to have confessed. | Some one Wednesday cut down the lnody of “Brick” Smith, alleged 1./ W. W., who was lynched late last) night. | ‘The body is lying in 10 feet ot} water. Officers are dragging the river for the body At the same time the sheriff's of-| fice received information that the body had been cut down, it was re-| ported that a man named “Brick” Smith is still om the elty jail, and [that the lynchers hanged a man whose name is not definitely known Some of the special deputies de-| lclared that the man hanged was! Brick” Smith, sometimes known aa “Curly,” a well known Seattle 1. W W. agitator After he was dropped over the bridge railing five shots were fired} into his nbek. He was identified by} American Legion men as the man who shot and fatally wourvied Dale Hubbard when Hubbard was trying to arrest him after the shooting in the «treet Strong cordons of armed war vet erans patrolled the district around Centralia Tuesday night. The shoot ing which resulted in the death of four war veterans and the wounding of five occurred at about 3 o'clock | Tuesday afternoon as the American | Legion paraded past the I. W. W.| hall ‘The battle started about 3 ye |Tuesday afternoon just after the American Legion parade had passed the I. W. W, headquarters and had faced about to march back thru the| city. Witn declare the mare hers) made no move toward the I. W. W.| hall and had paid no attention to the men who gathered at the win dows. They were marching in mili tary formation Suddenly shots rang out from the | » hill west of the railroad track, Eight shots with a high power rifle were |; fired, the bullets flying high over the heads of the marching lines and |, striking in the roofs above them, This was the signal for the fuxilade | that burst out at once from the win dows of the I. W. W. hail and from | a rooming house next door, shots being fired A man whose identity the authori-| | ties say they know but who has not |} | bill could become been located, fired 10 shots at Lieut. | A. F, Comiere, who was mounted and | leading the Centralia division of the | veterans \¢ Comiere’s horse wags struck | shied around, The next instant} Lieut. Warren Grimm was ape down. Arthur Mefifish and Ren Casagranda, who were near Grimm, also were killed. Lieut came from the windows of the 1. W. W. hall and the windows of a \t rooming house next door, He leaped | « joff his horse, plunged into the room- ing house, but the man who did the| : (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) ana|" 1 |t Erickson Lines Up | delivered Jand thus make it immediately effec | would hay jcll chambers when the Comiere said the shooting | feated Per Year, CENTS Final Edition $6.00 to $9.00 THE SEATTLE STAR—WEDNESDAY, NOV. 12, 1919. THE HARVEST It seems to The Star that most of this comment and outburst on the Centralia outrage misses the mark. To us it is apparent that yesterday this country had two significant happenings in the labor world. In the early morning the chiefs of the miners decided to obey the court injunction, and to recall the strike order, “We cannot fight our leaders. country,” said these labor In the afternoon other labor leaders fired from am- bush on marching men who had fought overseas for freedom. There is distinctly drawn the ideals, the motives and | the ultimate end of the two factions in American labor today. The American Federation of Labor, for the most part, is sane i Its Jeaders are conservative, law-abiding In the West there are a number of so-called “labor leaders” who are corroded and corrupted with red senti- ment, revolutionary sentiment, wobbly sentiment-——that is against law, against the nation’s ideals and against, finally, the lives and property of every honest man in §}) the country. | The Centralia drama is the logical result of lawless thinking and lawless leadership. It is the natural re- sponse of weak minds to the Bolshevik preaching and publishing that has spread from the Seattle fountain head over the entire Northwest. . . * . +. © . . Today the issue stands clearly defined not only for labor men but for all men. ; On the one side is the doctrine of law observance as exemplified by the United Mine Workers yesterday- the doctrine on which unionism will continue to grow and develop. On the other side is the doctrine of violence and of hate that is already reacting against decent unionism in this state, and that unless squelched will ruin union- ism not only here but everywhere. ‘ Choose ye, this day, which way you will go—and be sure that the only real sufferers will be those who ally themselves with the Brick Smiths’, and their less des- perate brethren, who may not fire bullets, weak minds with rebellion. but who fire or Against Rent Relief Seattle's city ¢ killed Mayor — Fitzgera anth-rent profiteering ordinance as euetgeney® tecantre Webneetay afternoon taken. No one offered a second to | his motion Veterans Demand Reds Be Punishe Demands that eity votes Counciimen Erickson the death asure was supported by rroll, Drake, Hesketh, Mc ane, Thomson was absent d state and fed. eral authorities bring to justice the traitors” who shot down ex-soldiers Seven votes were required to pass|!M Centralia and that the I, W. W he bill as an emergency measure | Organization be “blotted from the | history of our country,” were made ; tae 8 to 2 by the conferer ommittee repre «Rep proposed | #entlne al An n Legion posts | seed if the six council fl aintinan pi vaganta a4 5 poeaips + to support it. HOW. | the national convention, and to the + In this event It would be 301 coeraia pont. All lenin poste we layn after date of passage before the} Wood to iend their physical and elty law. i moral support to the Centralia vet Haas The viton and ive. J. Arthur Younger of | f Commerce housing ¢ - - | | mt abd peonee is a "| QUEER COINCIDENCE LINKS TWO WEBSTERS ire creating a rent commission that power to make public ac: ual instances of rent profiteering. LONDON, Mayor Fitzgerald was in the coun-|@#0 two men bill was de j but not lated, went from Aberdeen | obtained work ay ship: | yneside, Ree tly th y | | toget sage of | Wrights rgency | died there on the same da 1 were buried together in ident coffins The same minister and undertaker and at each graveside a Nov. 12.—-Fifty years both named Webster He is expected to urge he measure without the em lause. Erickson moved that the clause egulating hotel tariffa be stricken | officiated, from the bill before the vote was woman fainted, "Weather Forecast: 7e7'*h}; rain and warmer; Wednes- day rain; moderate easterly winds ORE LYNCHINGS RE THREATENED CENTRALIA, Nov. 12.—Centralia citizens are forming posses here this afternoon to go to the Mendota ranch of Elmer Smith, who is said to be the attorney for the Centralia I. W. W., where five or six alleged participants in yesterday’ 's shooting are report- ed to be. It is an open secret that if the Industrialists are found there no attempt will be made to bring them back alive. Mendota is 13 miles northeast of here, on a branch of the 'Northern Pacific railroad. Attorney Smith was arrested gees! | afternoon and is in jail here. Thirty war veterans at Centralia. Nine men and additional deputies |sworn in this afternoon to relieve those who have been suede |the county roads about Centralia and Chehalis. One hundred alleged I. W. W. were under arrest in Seattle, Ta-~ ;coma and Portland this afternoon as a result of raids ordered by ‘the authorities of the three cities following the massacre of world one woman were ar- |rested in two raids here, 33 are being held in Tacoma and 57 in |Portland. Only alleged leaders of the organization were taken into cus- |today here, many others, supposedly members, not officials, being turned loose. Much I. W. W. literature was seized. At the conclusion of a long conference between Police Chief Joel F. Warren and Mayor C. B. Fitzgerald this morning, Police | Sergeants G. J. Clark and Ralph Olmstead, . [of eight patrolmen, surrounded secret headquarters of the I. W. W. in a basement at 91 Columbia st., this inside and arrested three alleged secretarie with a picked squad afternoon, swarmed s of the organization. Considerable radical propaganda was seized. Snapping police locks on all doors, the raiders led their three captives to the office of Captain E. L. Hedges in the Public Safety building and questioned them at length. John Murray, alleged sec- |retary of I. W. W. Local 500, is said to have vnothing of the Centra |“reds” were reported to have taken part. as 54, plot and massacre, told Hedges he knew in which Seattle Murray gave his age John Rainey, 59, a antler, 8 id to be secretary of I. W. W. Local '8, and William “Red” Cunningham were the others arrested. Cun- ningham confessed, it is said, that he is a radical, but opposed to “rough stuff.” He is 35. The three had $235 in their pockets. born in the United States. All declared they were A second secret headquarters discovered in rooms 317 and 318 Pioneer building, was raided by a squad of men led by Sergeant Gus Hasselblad. Six men and a woman were arrested. They are Pete Stone, 35, a teamster and alleged secretary of the association; Helen Lowe, 20; Carl Miller, 45, shipyard worker, Russian; George Rainey, 34, laborer; Andrew Berneoff, 34, log- ger, Russian; Art J. Smith, 34, sailor, Ezelle, 23, laborer. Engl: ish; and Frank S. ORGANIZER OF |, W. W. NABBED: CENTRALIA, Nov. 12.—Harold P. aid to be the chief I. W. W. organizer in Southwest Washing: | ton, was arrested this afternoon by | ‘a deputy sheriff at Winlock. According to the arresting officer, | Johnson admitted knew some. | | thing about the Centralia affair, but | aeniea taking part in it CABLE IS COMPLETED | Ww. W. BE! i , Nov. 12. on cable « been completed The laying Not “Brick”? Smith Says Police Chief CENTRALIA, Nov. 12.—Chief of Police A.C. Hughes ared to the United Press at noon that the man who was hanged near here last night was not “Brick” Smith, alleged I, W, W. leader, “We have Smith here in jail,” Hughes added. The chief know the was lynched. Johnson, sald he does not ume of the man who he arrested | suspicion were Waino Marayla, Fred Eller, Francis J, Smith and Harry ©. Smith, It is alleged all carried I. W.| W. cards, |municgtion has been established suc-| Ren F. Hall, former chief of po; cessfully and the venture has led to! lice at Olympia, was also arrested the formulation of plans for exten-| during the afternoon. He vigorously sive telephone-cable lines to other) denied having anything to do with countries. the 1, W. W, and was released. Other alleged I ‘The telephone | here this afternoon betw and ¢ Sweden rmany wag supervised by Germany, Com Slayer of Grimm Not Yet Captured, Declare Comrades CENTRALIA, Wash,, Nov. 12. ~Special.)}—Ex-soldiers early to- day struck out in posses to find the slayer of Warren Grimm, commander of the local American Legion post, who, with three com- rades was assassinated f nh am bush by alleged I. W. W.'s dur- ing the Armistice day parade here yesterday. Four men saw the slayer of Grimm fire,” said an ex-army of- ficer here today. “He is not among the 19 I, W. W. held in jail, The returned soldiers intend to hunt down the murderer today. If be is caught he will undoubted. ly be strung up. The returned soldiers know who he is.” At noon today no reports of disorder had been received, Troops appear to have the situa tion well im hand, ed a Ee