Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-04
Police Comb City
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stolen and used by the bombers here,
Is In the hands Of the police. 1t was
found abandoned In Fairmount Park
after the three explosions Monday night.
A West Philadelphia patrolman has
identified It as one used by the terror
lists when two bombs were exploded at
the church. The police have no de-
scription of the bombers.
All headquarters of groups Of radi-
calls known to be located in this city
are being watched by the police, but no
attempt at general roundup Of the
radicals has been attempted.
Yelled In Secrecy
Government agents In this city are
working behind veil Of secrecy. Mr..
Daniel late last night called confer
ence Of the Investigators working on the
bomb case.
"I can only say that the meeting was
important in proportion to the import
ance Of the case" Mr.. Daniel said
following the meeting. Further than
that he would say nothing.
Special investigators from Washing
ton and New York are in this city.
The authorities of Cleveland, O.,
where the home of the mayor was
dynamited, have at hand positive in :
formation that two nationally known
I. W. W. leaders, one of them from
Philadelphia. arrived in that city Mon
day. The other radical leader for whom
they are searching came from New York
city after spending a week here.
Reds" Meeting Places Watched
Various halls and buildings in scat
tered parts of the city known to be
meeting places of anarchists and
"Reds" have been placed under
surveillance, and extra guards have been
stationed near churches, public build
ings and other structures likely to be
selected for further attack. A system
attic check has been instituted by the
police to ascertain whether any of the
members of anarchistic groups, all OF
whom are known to the authorities,
have disappeared from the city.
Particular attention is being given to
street and Girard avenue; the I. w. w.
Union Of Longshoremen, on Lombard
street near Front; radical group ut
headquarters near Second street AMI
Fairmount avenue; the Spanish radi-
calls. who meet at another place or
Sixth street near Reed, and the Nj.
hilist Russians, who have meeting places
scattered about the city, and principal
headquarters near Fifth and Parrish
streets.
The Italian radicals, however, are
the hardest to locate, the agents say
They meet usually in secret places, ant
there are ten or fifteen of them which
are scattered about the downtown sec
tion, while another Is in Richmond
where the Lithuanians Of radical tend
ences also foregather.
While the city was being swept from
end to end yesterday for the perpe
traitors of Monday nights bomb out
RACES, the Socialist Book Store, 1871
| Arch street, headquarters for Bolshe
visits and other radicals. continued tn
sale of infammatory literature tending
toward the setting of more bombs.
Patrons of the book store openl.
asked for "the latest I. W. W.. litera
ture." Then they carried out witt
them such publications as the Libera
tor, the New Solidarity and the Clas
:. Struggle.
All of these publications were name
| by Solicitor Lamar, of the Postomc
Department, when he appeared befor
the Senate committee that investigate
the Bolshevist movement in the Unite
States. Mr.. Lamar then declared tina
these sheets were melting to revolutio
in the United States that would brin
violence Of the worst type.
Mr.. Daniel is directing the investi
CATION in this city. Following a con
ference with Superintendent of Polio
Robinson yesterday. Mr.. Daniel dis
cussed briefly the preliminary stages {
the investigation.
"It is apparent he said. that tn
terrorist movement is national ia scope
and it is not impossible that it's head
quarters is located in this city. So ia
we have only the partial identifcatio
of the anarchist killed IN Washingto
upon which to base this theory, but hi
full Identification may establish the fac
definitely. In addition to this, we hav
the known fact that there are so man
anarchists in this city and so man
places used by them for meeting places
So far as we have gone now, indica
tions are that the perpetrators of tn
|'0utrages were Italian. This would sug
gest the I. w. W.
at is my belief that the bombing Q
the jewelers. residence was mistak
on the part of some uneducated perso
who got his instructions mixed. Ther
would be no conceivable reason for pick
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