New-York tribune., 1918-06-04
Yorkville Section Thrown
Into Panic by Raids on
Saloons and Clubs
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Registration Card
Only Pass Accepted
Systematic Alien Clean-Up,
Long Planned, Precipitat-
ed by U-Boat Attacks

thomas D. Mccarthy, United States
Marshal, and Charles F. De Woody,
head OF the local bureau of the De-
partment of Justice, created panic
among the German residents of York
vile last night by raiding German
saloons and cafes and locking up all
Germans who they found had not
registered under the requirements of
the Presidents proclamation.
AT II O'Clock there were fifty prison
ers in the East 104th Street Police
Station, with several groups of raiders
yet to be heard from.
The raiding party, made up of fifty
United States deputy marshals and
twenty-five of De Woody's men, left
the Federal Building in automobiles
and headed north for the district lying
between Fourth Avenue and the East
River, Fifty-sixth and Ninetieth
streets. Each of the groups in the
automobiles had q list of places to
visit.
Big Haul in Labor Temple
AHS oiSSeSI maui was maze IN the
Labor Temple, Eighty~fourth Street
and Second Avenue, long q gathering
place for Germans and Austrians. Here
300 men were lined up against the wall
and permitted to leave one at a time
those that had citizenship papers or
registration cards We're permitted to go
their way. Those with neither were
sent to the East 104th Street station
In all, twenty men were arrested in
this place, all of whom now face in
ternment for the period OF the war
Several of these insisted that they had
complied with the terms of the Presi-
dents proclamation calling upon all
enemy aliens to register, but that they
had left their cards at home. They
will have an opportunity to produce
their cards this morning.
OF the 800 men in this place, there
were many labor men in attendance on
union or committee meetings. These
applauded the efforts of the officials
and gave every assistance to them.
Second Raid on Some Places
The next big haul was in the Bis
maack Cafe, Eighty-sixth Street and
Third Avenue. Here another large
group was rounded up, from which ten
were elected to ride to the police sta
tion.
Most of the raids were upon the
smaller German saloons. In each the
practice was the same-all present were
lined up, asked to prove citizenship
or compliance with the law, and, fail
ing to do so. were locked up. In some
cases there was q disposition on the
part of proprietors or bartenders to
resent the intrusion of the officials,
but In none was the opposition seri-
Gus enough to require the use of much
force.
Some of these places were raided
twice, the second visits yielding larger
results than the first.
U-BOat Precipitates Roundup
German clubs also came in for some
attention, and lunchrooms where aliens
have been in the habit of loafing also
were cleaned up.
The raids are the first systematic
effort to clean the district Of unregis-
tered enemy aliens. This had been
under consideration for some time and
was precipitated by the raids of
u-boats along The coast
1t is expected that more careful
examination cf the men arrested, than
was possible last night, will show
among them some who have been
sought by the authorities of this and
other cities for participation in various
German plots.