New-York tribune., 1919-10-16
Red Plot to
Kill Officials
Barred at Gary
Homes of Mayor Hodges and
the Four Heads of Steel
Companies We're To Be
Dynamiied by Radicals

Special Cores pondcnce
CHICAGO, Oct. ia carefully de-
sveloped plan to dynamite the homes of
every steel company head in Gary
and also that of Mayor William +.
Hodges has been frustrated bv a
confession made to the military
authorities.
The revolutionary who made the
confession is held without bail in the
Gary police station and guards have
been placed about the imperilled resi-
dences.
Not until late to-day did it become
known that the new series of raids
carried out late last night and early
day against Red lairs were
launched in swift strokes to break the
back of the conspiracy before it could
be consummated.
Gary by Detectives Litterl and Nc
Corkle, OF the Gary police. Identity
of the man was concealed 1t is under
stood he will be rushed to the Jail at
Crown Point as soon as d cell can be
cleared for him in that already over
crowded prison.
The mans confession disclosed that
the Reds had planned to dynamite the
homes of Mayor William +. Hodges,
Indiana Steel Mill, in Gary; John A.
Gross, president Of the American Sheet
and Tinplate Company; ?. ". Seyl,
manager Of the American Bridge Com
pany, and William C. Lloyd, manager
Of the American Steel and Tinplate
! Company. A concerted bomb attack on
the various mills in the steel town was
also to have been made.
The confession declared the uprising
/ {o n RI of n
general attack by revolutionary ranks
throughout the whole Calumet district
and that it was to have been followed
by attacks on steel centres all over the
country.
Colonel w. S. Mapcs, commanding
regular troops stationed at Gary, sub
mitted to General Leonard Wood re-
port in which he is said to have de-
clarcd he had uncovered Red plot
whereby civil governments of cities in
the strike area were to be seized. Colo
mel Mapes declined to discuss the re-
port, but it was said that it might be
made public later.
The military authorities announced
that seven of the men seized in the
raids are held for deportation. They
are Alex Kiwak, Joe Krasocha, Daniel
Milnichcnao, Sam Yakamuk. Steve
Scravopo, Anton Garzuz and Nicholas
Serzuch
Meanwhile, Federal secret service
men continued to comb Chicago in eff
forts to find the alleged arch bomt
maker, said to have been implicated
in confession made to the military
authorities by a radical leader, hi:
brothcr-inl law.
1t was also said the authorities hat
taken up the hunt for the latter
claimed to have been missing since h'
4
that he would aid in tracking hi
brother-in-law down, but who is re
ported to have vanished along will
his wife and two children directly afte
his release
Three new nests, hcmcs of ALLEGED
rchcllious spirits who have partici
pated in preachmcnts Of violence, wer,
raided. Five alleged members of th
"Red Brotherhood were taken int,
custody
The cryptic phrase, "Rooked for th'
military" was written opposite thei
names. Federal operatives ais,
swooped down on the headquarters o
German society. What was fount
there was not disclosed.
Raids were carried out early to- da,
whcn forty homes in Gary wer
searched and eighteen radicals seized
, More than Il ton Of Red literature wa
taken.
Ins,mations were also thrown out
, following rumors Of the discovery o
an ANARCHIST plot to destroy abandonc,
army cantonmcnts, that the milta1
hal kcen charged with ferrcting ou
4 the secret "rcd inner circle" rcspon
. sib!s far nationwide plans Of dcstruc
. lion That members of this elmer cir
+ Gle" went to Gary to participate in tn
steel strike was a theory on which Fed
Q eral operatives were acting, it WA
Aaid