The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 12, 1919, Page 15

TARGET LEGION BLAMES | rel OF SHOT GUN LAXITY OF U.S, Made. for Ex-Hus- | Telegram Sent Convention band of Mrs. Balby Urges Law and Order ed Day wos © the the ansarsination of woldiers during the parade in Centralia largely duc to federal government in and deportation of Who preach sedition This was the substance of gram sent Wednesday John Sullivan teeman from the state of Washing ton to the convention of the Ar can Legion now in at Min polle, Minn attempt on Jena Balby by Nick, Tuesday P her, whe says jm shutting pre nly radicals joor saved . orney for Balby tentity paid her and he att a for Eas Was the pany ant Ki qeeured a divorce hy had t Be Tmony to ever to Cleorta ip have refused te Kienstra to have quarre of the money Getdier Protects, Woman ame to the house Monday and started to beat her up, ey Louls Tore, re “ boarding with Mrs. semsion The telesram was signed by » William M. Inglis and Major GW, acting for the executive ¢ om mittee of the American Legion for the state of Washington The telegram follows The shooting of members of the American Legion at Centralia, Wash, November 11th, by 1. W Ws and rad # in which four ex service men were killed and three eects ne when you are |*¢rioustly wounded, was largely due rene Ralby told her/to the failure of the federal govern Grove him off jment to prosecute or port men night Bathy came to the preaching sedition, We request that . with a shotgun, ahe/the national convention of the ov, again interceded. She {American Legion adopt resolutions ghut the door, she says,/emanding that the federal govern Hany fired. The shot pierced |Ment take immediate steps to put di@ not hit her, Balby |force all taws for the Tee trightened way by Tore Of I. W. Wa and communists wher natable Tom |thruout the nation. Evidence shows jthat the att, at Centralia was [premeditated and ite object was to [KIM exservice men who have been active in the Legion and in the en forcement of law and order.” BT SHIRT ON RENT HOG BILL tauged at Firstbut’ JP IN COUNCIL, Managed 0. K. President Ebert startea to| VOte on Ordinance Watched oe ey by Fitzgerald Weimar, he that several pages were miss He ordered his secretary to fe them, and, being unable to/ he waited for the return | memenger, first standing foot and then upon the his arms and try-/ igh Mi in the wait with nervous | fem which caused laughter the representatives and Cot en hoe would be present “to wateh | ¥ote,” members of the city council jmet at 1:30 p, m. Wednesday to re sume consideration of the mayor's antirent hog ordinance. Action on the ordinance was de |layed last Monday by a vote of 5 to 4, when a majority of the council re fused to go abead with considers: | tion of the measure unless Mayor Pitegerald were present in the flesh |to watch them cast thelr ballots for | lor against the ordinance. STEP DAD HELD FOR KIDNAPING ~:~: as Gardner al and Lad Are! nasans. Ehert realized they were at him. and, looking) , he fourld bis gesticulations ut his colored shirt tet. Nothing daunted. | Bi down his short vest and the chamber: “You cannot | me of trying to be the dude ) Max was, at any rate,” and applause in place of MROAD MEN MIN LOBBY { Emil Gardner and his stepson, Le the! suppression | Assured by Mayor Fitzgerald that! it} FRESH EGGS ARE |" CHEAPER TODAY Dealers Lower “Prices to 83 | Cents Per Dozen The first br ‘ee market day when jobbers began k in the place number local fresh late ‘Tues f Western quoting the beat K at S8 cents per doren, a drop Practtoatty street was 1 Wedn ie un with a cents on the the lower Ie market price cent probable attributed by not much to increased arrivals of fresh CRS as to the dullness of the ese market for the past week The public has shown preference for pullet number of days been get the difference in price has pullet eggs a profitable buy, Deal- era say they have lowered the top quotations on eggs so that they will have none on hand when the| new winter eggs arrive shortly | Butter market ts |with no price change n Re celpts at the local stock yards Tuesday were 354 hogs and 81 head of cattle. Hog market was strong- jor while cattle held steady Local produce hounes are recely- ing heavy shipm of California vegetables in anticipation of the jRoliday demand not two weeks di tant, Arrivala Tuesday were caull- flower, tomatoos, head lettuce and | persimmons. Hing ery at ettiod at reduction The dealers the present | another ts cee for nts i, Local M Markets | Price Paid Whelesale Dealers for Vegetables and Frait Leeal, oe a Dasieh wait head’ nue | Carrote-—New, per sack : |Geulifiower Per box... Cucumbers Per doa — Hot house Plant— Per | Gartio Per & . | Chinese, per 1. Lettuce-—Ver crate | On Per sack Peannt Ba'ter—Per Peppers | Petataee—t or ton— ted Gem, new 62.0007 00 | peompn ohten Leal, per te Kadishes Lon Katabages amg aamuitat: ney. ‘Tati se bv) rnoirs | Beets oN ar Wash. Detictones ... B Warn. Jonathane H Waeh Sipttsenberes Resanee—dvatemaia » it, | Seesbepies 6 Ter box Datew—24 t-o8 phase | Ter tor | Matews, per tug land Hollingsworth, 12, whom he is | Grape Pratt of | drop | fresh | a decided | holding bila! 09 | made . | | | Mene—Live, SATTLE STAR—WEDN JAY, NOV 12, 1919. | PRICES DROPIN. | M Y, EXCHANGE ei YORK © wide open abe a of the New York ock Exchange NEW YORK, continued Nigh at nt hikh rates. wded that r which have fallen very low tn ral romorve aystem, ie & chief tm but it erve per: | bre the | money 1 40 today on i exchang reached of the list wan spared. | te ed 4 morning noonding pri of wtock at 2 | totaled 1,691,200 shares. ral Motors noid below 300 and ble, which had held Up fairly well in the early trading, sold dow 212%. Brokers reported it almont impossible to borrow money at any price and a» a result stocks were thrown overboard without for price, The rails held fairly well, but they have not shared in the general ad | Vance of the year Shortly after 5 per cent. No part The of gradually de United Btaten Bteel opened at up Ms Bethe on 1%) Blade 100% at 99%, off respect otinued ked for until ea Present high level. low ock call money General Mot volume of t ate today and lows ore « made during the first 46 4 | minw These exes have | ng larger conPtantly and | [2 made | pred to 142. Mext- je a new low at 216%, that at 290 « k it was an nounced that the tleker tape record: ing the transactions wax 20 minutes behind the market trading The Dow Jones financial agency Announced at that hour that it was stated on t that prices many instances were below the quo tations which had appeared that ume. carly trading was K males at 21 a, 185,000 shares, Hoth classes of call money continued | [REN early today, early quotations show: lending and renewal rates at 14 per the same as Tuesday's low rate. market continued to sell off dur very hy m, amount! © floor up ‘the grain war Hoard of Trade wan extremely sensitive today, Reporte of fair weather caused am silght decline at opening, but later advanced when local buyers showed thelr anxiety to bay at " Chicago Market Report | Call rate continued at 14 pe noon af AGO, curb, Nov. tn ermpathy with the sen situation, "i was onster second beer on i wenerally down, with % : at the opening but reenined We tn inter tra: December oats, down We at the open- tne of Ti%Ke, Inter gained Te; May onte opened down Me, at T¢%e, and advanced to before the close. |" Frisco Market Statas "| Frisco Market Status | Haywood Scores never | 1. W. W. Murderers | 12.—Batter NE WYORK, Nov. 12.—“Big Bi” | Haywood, president of the I, W. W declared here today that if members | of his organization were guilty of the Centralia outrage, he “hoped they | would get everything that is coming Pto them.” Haywood said, however, aC FRANCISCO, } matren, 65 Ge per Ib | —Ratras, Sle per dow; extra pul-! 46\%e per doz; undersiced pullets, the per dow. | Cheese--Callfornia fata, taney, 360 per th, firete, ee Lad mh “pov. speesseee= , Denver Mi Market Repo Report | | ae ER, Nov. 12—Cattle--Meceipts,| that nothing he had seen proved 6.200 head; market lower Mtears, $9.50 @11.78; come and nettere, $F tee, hat members of the I. W. W. were Mockers and feeders, §8@11; calves, $7.60 | implicated, eu | Hoge-—Mecetpte, 250 head: market ts| strong Top, $16.00; bulk of enles, 516.16 ©1860, Kheep—Recetpta, 12.000 dead: market andy. Lambe, i9@ 14 Th; feeder tains, 113 that he WILKO FLASHES NO. 10 heavy Lave, Ughe . \Geese—Live break ——————-4| had no report from Centralia and| accused of kidnaping, were brought | Maney—cs ——Comed, erate ... bag from Portland Tuesday night | wechieberrice—Per tb. Deputy Sheriff Stewart Campbell | Lemene—Per box. “ placed in the county jail. Ho | Orseges—frer tos— Kftinaped the child from her home| Yslenrias --. 0-0. Sunday night, Mra. Gardner charges. | pearo— “I took the boy because I love) #. Wash. Winter NeMia, bex.. him,” Campbell says Gardner told) D’Anse*. box him, | Gardner will be tried in Justice | Otis W. Brinker's court on a charge | of kidnaping. Leland is her son by & former At- | Biterteiye ea ied 34, vorced husband, Mrs. Gardner says. | Walmute—sott shell, per M... She and Gardner have been having | Peenate- i gph Keystone ®. trouble and another divorce is pend 5 “| ing, aceording to her story. Gardner - Higgins advo-| came to the house and begged for ty Engineer A. giveness’ and another chance Sun- |day night, and when she refused his peace terms, he spirited the boy) away, she sayn. | After searching for the boy and her husband Sunday night, she noti- | . fied the prosecuting attorney Mon any intention to|day, Deputy sheriffs searched for M¥ith property owners or the | them here Monday. They were cap- Sparen oped that it would) tured in Portland Monday night. of the railroads ‘to | Gardner waived all extradition pro- Mtuation, whether ‘direct ceedings, Campbell says. Used against the roads SHOTS SCARE PROWLER to ‘hamstring’ the car-| made.” Pistot shots fired by George Allen frightened away a prowler who was Celebrates attempting to climb thru a window : inday of King into, the Allen home, 902 15th ave.| Nev. 11.—(Delayed)—All | N., shortly after midnight Wednes- the king's birthday | day morning. 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Cheone—Trt SOLDIERS RAID OAKLAND REDS OAKLAND, Cal, Nov, 12-—Nearly | | 400 former soldiers and sallors raided Loring hall, headquarters of th newly organized Communist labor party, here early this morning. « After breaking in the doors of the place, furniture/® radical literature | and red flags were thrown thru the windows into the street, where they | were destroyed in huge bonfires. — | Police authorities say the raid must have been carefully planned | for when they arrived on the scene not one of the 400 men was in sight. | Ca Taken to | Centralia in Auto CENTRALIA, Nov. 12.—After hay- ing been kidnaped by five men, Lee Potter, a “for rent” car driver in Portland, says he was brought to this city by his captors and kept a prisoner for 24 hours. Whon released, he reported to the | chief of police here. “It was the worst night I ever spent,” declared Potter, as he told of his experiences, | He said he was hired in Portland! to Kaul the then to Columbia Beach. | After the car had left Portland, a gun was jammed into his back, and) he was instructed to drive to Cen- tralia. His captors boasted of having recently held up @ number of Port- land citizens, They told Potter they were going to Centralia to “pull another job.” ‘The police believe they were Lw.w Middle West Men Opposing Return CHICAGO, Nov, 12.—Coal miners in Tilinots, Towa, Kansas, Oklahoma und other states may refuse to re turn to work without pay increases, | | according to reports which reached) | here today. | Duncan MeDonald, president of the Illinois Federation of Labor, said at | Springfield, Ill, that he did not be- | Ueve Illinois miners would obey the er cancelling the strike. Sub-dis- ba: officials were reported as back- ing him In the statement. 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