The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-10-14

itleS AT GdIyt tHe noiHc VI Sho vac
steel mills, announced today they
'"ped to have the maker of the Gim-
4 and other bombs which have
: tartled the country in the past year
dnder arrest within a few hours.
Secret service men said they knew
the name, habits and manufacturing
methods of the individual who they
claimed has made most of these
bombs. They announced also they
had uncovered a plot to assassinate
the mayor of Gary. discovered great
stores of dynamite near Gary, and
traced the printing of "red" circulars
to Indianapolis. They said they had
arrested the man who blew up an en-
trance to the Chicago postoffice o
| year ago.
| Gen. Wood Denies.
| Maj Gen. Leonard Wood, COM
mandant of the central department,
and in direct charge of the federal
troops now on duty in the Calumet
steel strike zone, denied today that
one of six men arrested at Gary, Ind,
is the maker of the so-called Gimbel
| 0SIHbb "HtSH W0tV dtStt
through the mails several months ago
to statesmen and prominent men in
several cities.
Col Evan H. Humphrey, Maj. Gen.
Woods chief-of-staff, speaking for
Gen. Wood, said that several men had
been arrested at Gary, but was en-
phatic in denying that they were
implicated in the nationwide bomb
| plot or that they were in any way
connected with the bombing of the
| Chicago postoffice, as reported early
| today.
Col. Humphrey said the reporter
who wrote the bomb story and one
| of the editors of the paper which
first published it had been called be-
| fore Col. Mapes, in Gary today He
said the editor apologlzed for pub
! fishing the story. The reporter was
T., ordered withdrawn from the Gary
| strike district.
No Actual Censorship.
| There is no actual censorship of
the press in Gary" Col. Humphrey
explained. therefore more drastic
means cannot be taken"
In the face of Maj.-Gen. Woods
| statement, six men were reported to
be under arrest in Gary in connection
with the bomb plot, the bomb ex-
! plosion at the Chicago postoffice and
the bombing of the home of Atty
Gen. A. Mitchell Palmer, in Wash
ington, June 3.
One of the prisoners is said to
be Anton Gorski, who is suspected
| of compile in the postoffice ex-
plosion. The names of the other five
| prisoners were closely guarded. ~
Col Mapes, who is in personal
| charge of the troops at Gary, de-
| clared today that premature publi-
| cation of the bomb plot story COM
pletely ruined the plans of the gov
ernment to round up members of q
nationwide gang of dynamiters and
bomb makers. g..
New York Watehful.
New York, Oct. 14-Acting upon
request of Mai. .-Gen. Leonard Wood,
commander of the troops at Gary,
Ind, detectives began watching every
incoming train today for an anar-
chist who was said to be on his way
to this city from Chicago. It was re-
ported that the suspect may have
been involved with the bomb activi-
ties Of terrorism, who have been dis
covered at Gary.
Evidence also has been obtained, it
was said, that revealed the entire
terrorist organization responsible for
the attempts against the lives of law
enforcement officials throughout the
country, who had been active in the
af
The man held in connection with
the Palmer bomb Is believed, it is
said, to have been the manufacturer
of the thirty-six bombs sent through
the mails in boxes wrapped in paper
from the Gimbel Bros, store in
New York and timed to reach their
Intended victims on May i.
The peculiar style of manufacture
with the ingenious contrivance of the
explosive, has linked them unmis-
takably with basement radical
factory raided at Gary by the fed
eral troops, it is said.
Shrouded in Secrecy.
Since the 1000 soldiers of the
Fourth and Sixth divisions took con-
troll of Gary, Investigations have been
shrouded in secrecy.
There have been many arrests
made and a strong stockade was
built to keep the prisoners in.
How many men besides alleged
bomb makers are held in connection
with the nationwide plots, has not
been revealed by the federal author
tiles, civil or military.
A radical leader named Ivanoff,
now known, it is said, as the agent
who carried the Gimbel bombs from
Gary to New York for transmission
through the mails, is being sought
He was last seen in Chicago several
weeks ago when he spoke at an I. w.
w. convention. He is supposed to
have gone east.
Was Violent Agitator.
The guncotton and other high ex-
plosives in the bombs were obtained
from the Aetna Powder works, four
miles east of Gary, it is said.
1t also Is stated the efforts of a
radical to obtain a further supply
of the explosive led to the raiding Of
the cellar bomb factory after federal
operatives had traced him there.
While the federal authorities would
not announce the name of the man
held as the suspected bomb maker,
IL was, stated he was steadily en-
ployed in the steel mills at Gary un-
til he went on strike Sept %, and
that he was one of the most violent