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Show Anarchistic Plot Has Been Discovered CHICAGO. Oct. 11. Military authorities author-ities and federal investigators assign-i ed to follow the trails of radicals who i have been spreading their propaganda in connection with the strike of tin steel workers announced today their discovery of an anarchistic plot to de-' (stroy abandoned army cantonments and other government property, j The plot is said to have been un earthed in connection with the dis- CO er In Oarv InH nf Anlnn r.nrat t s alleged radical leader, who is said to I j be under surveillance in conneclion (with the explosion of a bomb in the i blcago nostofflce in September PHX. in which four persons wa re killed and ' thirty injured Information gained by the military authorities at Gary, indicated thai the radicals have plotted agalnBt go rn jment property In midlle western (States ranging from West Virginii to I Colorado. During the day 500 of the! federal troops on duty at Oarv en-trained en-trained and it was said they were he- ; ing dispatched to protect endangered l propen Major Oeneral Leonard Wood, com-,manding com-,manding the cen'ral department of the United States army, was in conference I with ( ol W S. Mapes. commande- ol the troops at Gary, today Drastli measures to combat the "red" plots .are said to have been arranged by i h . military leaders. Colonel Mapes announced tonight that no confession had been obtained from Gorski in regard to the Chicago tederal building bomb plot but it was intimated that Gorski would be a fed-leral fed-leral witness. The federal officers are i cow searching for Alexander Hanoff. I jGary steel worker and electrician, who is said to have been implicated by G0r-pki G0r-pki as a maker of the 86 bombs which wore sent to prominent men through-lout through-lout the country In forged wripp'n;;s of Gimbel Brothers store in New I York. Intelligence officers continued their raids at Gary today In search of radl cal literature. They reported finding ing a quantity of radical propaganda, printed in German and a large German flag A platoon of federal troops was sta tloned near the steel mills in oary to oay after reports had been made thai bricks and horseshoes had been thrown through the windows of the plants by strikers. The strike bulletin issued by the aleel workers today disavowed the proclamation issued yesterday by fh "communist party of America." calling on the workingmen to establish a "dictatorship" "dic-tatorship" and wrest control of Gary irom the federal troops. oo |