The weekly Alaska citizen., 1919-11-17
FULL CONFESSION MADE
 BY l.WW; 60,000 UNDER
 SURVEILLANCE OF GOVT

CENTRALIA, Wash, Nov. 15.-(P) The silence of the imprisoned l. w. w. broken here today when Lauren Roberts, of the wobbles charged with mur der made full confession of the attack on the march CTS in the Armistice Day parade last Tuesday, The confession was made formally to the prosecuting at tonev and other officials and will be used in the trials against the accused men.
 Roberts said that the radicals planned the shoot- ing three weeks ago. He said they expected the former soldiers in the parade to make attack the l. ". W. hall and the radicals got ready for trouble. Guns and ammunition assembled at the hall and men posted at points which would give them full com naud of the line of march. He implicated 1tal of rhe i. w. W. in the actual shooting annd admitted that he with tNc others fired irto the parade with high power rifles from point Seminary hill near town. He said la Wesley Everetts the who was lynched by mob here last Tuesday night directed the activi ties of the 1. w. w. ill preparing the attack.
 ASKS LEGISLATION
 WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 15-Q49-Mayor Baker of Portland chairman of the league of mayors today teegraphod Vive-President Marshall urging inn mediate enactment of federal legislation to meet the situation resulting from the radical activities in the Northwest. He says that the public is highly nflamed against the radicals and the situation is most serious
 FEDERAL ACTION
 TACOMA, Wash, Nov. 15-(P)-Th first federal ac- ton agains la N:bbes following the Centrala ere was taken today when Federal Commissioner E. B. Broadway issued warrants charging S8 men arrested in Tacoma and Centrala with conspirng to overthrow the American government This charge will be prosecuted with vigor by federal attorneys.
 MAY BE FALSE
 SPOKANE, Wash. Nov. 15-N9-Evidence is lacking to support reports regarding the alleged mobi izaon of Industrial Workers of the World for descent this city, Despite the of the reports, the city officials taking chances of outbreak here similar to that of Centraa Two companies of national guards have been mobized and more than 100 former soldiers depuzed support the regular police force
 SEARCH NARROWs DOWN
 CENTRALLY, Wash, Nov. >15-(H9-The Ameri- can Legion members have stopped making wholesale arrests of l. w. w. and seeking four wobblies who believed to have been directly connected with the conspiracy here. Centraa is quetng down to mal Mayor Rogers declines to place any credence in Dr. Bckfod's testimony and says that it is best to wait for the decision of trail jury Four of the prisoners will probably be charged with criminal conspiracy in ad dton to the ten charged with first degree murder.
 storm last night put all the lights out in Gen. tralia for half hour just after midnight This created considerable alarm in the town, the lights went out just prior to Tuesday nights lynching The I. w. w. prisoners in jail extremely quiet during the half hour of darkness.
 UNITE IN PROSECUTION
 TACOMA, Wash. Nov. 15.(P)-An announcement made here tonight says that the federal will cooperate with the prosecuting attorneys of Western Washington in the prosecution of wobbes held in jail here All evidence secured by agents of the government will be turned to the authorities of the Western Washington counties.
 SEATTLE Wash. Nov. 15.-(P0-R. O. Saunders, federal district attorney announced this evening that all the l. w. w. leaders arrested the result of the Gen. raa murders will probably be brought to Seattle for trial federal charges against them. The government has filed charges against nearly every radical arrested in this federal district. These will be considered by the federal grand jury next Tuesday, said MT. Saunders
 TACOMA Wash, Nov. 15-(P-Fighting in the radical outbreak renewed again tonight when the wobbes fought pitched battle with ex-servce in Xallc1z d. 1aoirt raos