The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-11-14
lid SOLDIERS
ROVOKE SHoTS?.
|deral Agents Probe Charges
Made by !. WI W.
Sympathizers 81
SEATTLE INQUEST
lash Imminent at Tacoma.
Fwo Hundred Suspects Now
4 Held in Various Jails.

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Centraiia. Wash. Nov. 14.--(A. P.)
~Efforts Of officers charged with the
Nty Of prosecuting the twenty -six
Nleged members of the n Industrial
Workers OF the Word held in jails
fre and at Chehalis, in connection
fifth the shooting to death OF. four
american Legion members during an
rmistice day parade Tuesday, were
| entered today en- learning whether
prmer soldiers in any degree pro-
toked the attack by leaving the line
ef march to force their way into the
I. w. w. hall. Testimony given last
hight at the Sinquest over the four
yictims of the shooting differed on
this point. ~
Just after the patriotic parade was
broken up by the I. w. w. fusillades,
reports were current that several
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
attack by the l. w. w. was prear-
ranged.
DR.. Frank Bickford, himself q
marcher In the parade, testified at
the inquest that some one near him
Inn the line suggested raid on the
| + w. w. hall as the line came to q
halt at the corner where the building
stands. Several took up the sugges-
tion, he declared. and one man put
hisNfoot against ahe door of the hall
and forced it open before a shower
of bullets poured into and over the
marchers.
In the opinion of DR.. Herbert Bell,
another former soldier, the firing OF
the first shots and the movements OF
the Legion men toward the |. w. w.
hall were ''as nearly simultaneous as
any human acts could be-"
The body of Ernest Eyeretts, who
was hanged bv a mob following the
shooting, WAS buried in an unmarked
grave yesterday by four Of the pris-
oners under guard after undertakers
had dec cltned " prerare II for burial
- - Clash at Tacoma.
Tacoma, Wash. Ncv. 14.---A clash
between members OF the I. w. w. and
indignant citizens is Imminent, ac-
cording to reports reaching here to-
dav from Olympia and Bordeaux
Wash, where members of the |. w
w. are reported massing in prepara
tion for an attack on the jail at
Olympia to release three of their
comrades.
Citizens are reported ar-ning them
| solyes and serious clash Is eXpecTe1
Should the l. w. w. make an attempt
| to march upon the jail
The prisoners held In the Olympia
HAIL are said to he Elmer Smith. at
I t9rney for tre |. w. W.; John Doe
| Reynolds, said TO be an active !. w
w. organizer, and Commodore Brand
ECO Held in Various Jaiis.
Seattle, Wash. Nov 14.-Nearly
l two hundred men, suspected of being
members of the Industrial Workers
of the World, We're held in jai's ir
various cities and toms in the Pa
! cific northwest today as the result OF
raids growing out of the shooting al
Centralia, Wash, during al armistice
i day parade last Tuesday, when foul
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three others wounded.
In addition twen'y-six alleged
members of the !. w. w. were held
in jails at Centralia ard Chehalis
| Wash, in connection with the shoot
ing.
E. B. Ault, editor, and George Fl
/ Istman and Frank A. Rust, mem
/ bers of the board of directors of the
/ Seattle Union Record, are at liberty
/ on bail today following a raid by
federal officers upon the newspaper
i plant, which is owr ed by the Seattle
l Central Labor Council. The three
1 were charged with violation of The
4 espionage act. In addition Ault wa!
charged with criminal libel in con
| noction with editorial comment upor
the Centralia shooting. After takir
COPIES of papers and records from th'
office of the Record, the paper wa;
| permitted to resume publication.
Sixty one alleged members of thu
IL. w. w. were in Jail at Tacoma
/ nineteen being taken into Gust ody b!
detail of police, deputy sheriffs an'
American Legion volunteers upoi
| their arrival from a logging camp a
Mineral. Wash.
OF eighty nine arrested at Spokan,
l after the Centrala shooting fifty
ueght were held as 1. w. w. mem
4 bers.
Three men held in Jail at Olympii
in connection with the Centrali;
shooting were taken to the state re
form school at Monroe following re
ports that an armed force of I. w. w