Evening star., 1919-11-14
|AB0UT 2OOL. v. v.
| SUSPECTS HELD IN
PACIFIC NORTHWEST

Roundup Result of Killings
at charlottesville Labor
Paper Heads Arrested.
! By the Associated Press.
| SEATTLE, Wash, November IL
| Nearly 200 men, suspected of being
| members of the Industrial Workers of
| the World were held in jails in
various cities and towns in the Pacific
northwest today as the result of raids
growing out of the shooting at Cen
| tralia, Wash, during an Armistice
day parade last Tuesday, when four
| former service men were killed and
| three others wounded.
In addition twentysix alleged mem
| berS OF the l. w. w. were held in jailS
at Centralia and Chehalis. Wash, in
connection with the shooting.
Raid Seattle Newspaper.
E. B. Ault, editor. and George P.
Listman and Frank A. Rust, members
of the board of directors of the
Seattle Union Record, are at liberty
on bail today following raid by
| federal officers upon the newspaper
| plant, which is owned by the Seattle
| central labor council
| The three were charged with viola
| ton of the espionage act. In addition
Ault was charged with criminal libel
| in connection with editorial comment
| upon the Centralia shooting. After
| taking copies of papers and records
| from the office of the Record, the
paper was permitted to resume pub
! Ication.
Sixty-One in Tacoma Jail.
Sixty-one alleged members of the
I. w. w. were in Jail at Tacoma,
nineteen being taken into custody by
detail of police. deputy sheriffs and
American Legion volunteers upon their
arrival from logging camp at
Mineral. Wash.
after the Centralia shooting fifty
eight were held as I. W. w. members
Three men held in Jail at Olympia
IN connection with the Centralia
shooting were taken to the state re-
form school at Monroe following
l. W. W. planned an attack on the
Jail.
| Probe Centraia Shooting.
| CENTRALIA, Wash, November IA
| Efforts of officers charged with tn,
duty of prosecuting the twenty-si1
| alleged L W. W. members in Jail.
| here and at Chehalis were centeret
| today on learning whether former
soldiers in any degree provoked tn.
attack by leaving the line of marcf
to force their way into the 1. w. W
hall. Testimony given last night a
the inquest over the four victims o.
the shooting differed on this point.
Just after the patriotic parade wa.
| broken up by the l. W. w, fusillades
reports were current that severa
| members of the legion had started
toward the hall used as headquarters
by the radicals before any shots were
fired. This version later was denied
and investigators reported finding
evidence tending to show that the at.
tack by the I. w. w. was prearranged
Says Raid Suggested.
DR.. Frank Bickford, a marcher in the
parade, testified at the inquest that
some one near him in the line suggested
a raid on the l. w. w. hall as the line
came to a halt at the corner where the
building stands. Several took up the
suggestion, he declared, and one man
put his foot against the door of the hall
and forced it open before shower OF
bullets poured into and over the march
ers.
In the opinion Of DR.. Herbert Bell,
another former soldier. the firing of
the first shots and the movement of
the legion men toward the 1. w. w.
hall were "as nearly simultaneous as
any human acts could be-"
The body of Ernest Everetts, who
| han hu r,onh oil 1o
| shooting, was buried in an unmarked
grave yesterday by four of the prisoners
| under guard after undertakers had de-
clined to prepare it for burial.
New York Considers Drastic Law.
| NEW YORK, November 14.-Drastic
legislation to exterminate the 1. w.
! w. may be asked of the next New
| York legislature, if existing statutes
| fail to accomplish the purpose, it is
! stated by state officials active in run
/ ming down the radical element. Mem
bers of the district attorneys staff said
! today special efforts were being made
| to ascertain whether the shootings at
| Centralia were part of a country wide
| conspiracy involving the I. w. w. If
! such is the case New York members
| of the order may be prosecuted under
/ the treason statutes.
Approves Killings; Gets Year.
| PATERSON, N J., November IL
Expression Of approval at the shoot
! ing of ex-service men in the Armi-
stice day parade in Centralia, Wash.
| brought William Bidzenger, a Ger
| man. a sentence of one year in the
! Passaic county Jail yesterday. His
| plea. when arraigned, that he did
not intend his remarks to be taken
| seriously, availed him nothing.
MARYLAND GIRL DRIVES
ROBBER FROM BEDROOM
FREDERICK, Nd, November IL
Miss Irma A. Bradshaw, twenty-year-
old daughter of Mrs. Thomas CobIentz,
Braddock Heights, Wednesday morning
early drove masked burglar from her
bedroom at the point of an unloaded re-
| volver, which she grabbed from her
pillow as the robber dragged her from
| the bed. The man had torn a sheet in
half in preparation to binding and gag