The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-05-01
lieved that this order is general through.

HeVeu 'nat THIS order ID general through
| out the city.
A woman sent a young boy carrying
bundle of handb!lls into the Victory
| Loan headquarters at 111th street and
Lexington avenue last night and in
workers there The boy handed them &c
loan worker. who called Sergeant
Neary of the East 10tth street station
! as soon as he had read ono.
Sergeant Neary followed the woman
to Socialist headquarters at 1874 Lexing.
ton avenue. There he arrested Celia
Strauss, ~. OF 136 East 112th street
who came to the United States from
Austria ak years ago. and Harry Lev
inson. %, who came to this country
from Russia hve years ago. He lives In
llS East l0tth street. The police say
they were distributing handbills which
called on the people 80 throw open the
jails and deliver all political and indus
trial prisoners and conscientious objec-
tors"
In the Brownsville district of Brook
lyn last night the police arrested and
charged with juvenile delinquency. a
boy who gave his name az Abraham
Zeigler aged is. Of 269 New Jersey
avenue. Brooklyn. He was distributing
Bolshevik literature.
HandhilIs Urge Hating Work.
The police last night also came into
possession OF handful circulated by
the Bakers Local Union No 1 OF bS4
Second avenue. which protests against
conditions and calls on the people"
not to work on May /. The bill Is
printed In English on one side and in
German on tho other.
to ha Nf,,t- Of Aa ofp
thorities and OF the police that the plot
tiers hoped to horrfy the whole country
yesterday ard to-day by series Of re-
ports from West, middle West and East
OF the death or nutiiation OF prominent
men-capitalists and offic!als-that have
been traditionauy or positively hostile
TO anarchy and Its new tangled mani
festation. BolshevisnL II Is plain to
the authorities that II was a shrewd
though sickeninsy oowardly effort to
terrorize a nation. after the Russian ex-
ample. by striking down big men--men
opposed to dangerous immigration and
who are trying TO keep the Reds out Of
the country.
Take the list of men to whom bombs
were addressed: Burleson. the Post
master General, mas barred from the
mails much anarchistic literature: jus
tice Holmes sutained the conviction OF
Eugene v. Debs; A. Mitchell Palmer,
first as chief of the Alien Property Blu
reau and then as Attorney General. has
been energetic against bad class OF
aliens: Mr.. Caminetti, Commissioner
of immigration; Mr. Wilson, Secretary
Of Labor, and FSederic c. Howe. I'M
migration Commissioner here. have been
active In deporting aliens and in ad-
yocating restricted immigration: Soil
citor Lamar OF the Post Office Depart
ment has enforced sections Of the
espionage act very hateful to the reds
Mayor Hylan forbade the flying OF the
red nag In this city: Police Commits
sioner Enright has enforced the decree
and sent policemen to keep tab on sus-
pectsd rsdicals
So It goes all through the list. every
man IN II, with the exception of the
Morgan. Rockefeller and
land, In some direct way or another, to
discourage l. w. W.-isn and to pro-
tect the country against tho spreading
poison.
Nobody knew last night-could not
possibly kBow--if the sixteen bombs To-
Gated here, together with tho fourteen
to have been intercepted In San
Francisco and the six delivered else
where. with no harm fortunately to any
one except the wife and servant OF Mr..
Hardwiok Of Georgia, represented all OF
the lethal machines put into the mails
disguised as innocent parcels from the
department store of Gimbel Bros. and
designed for men hated by the American
Soviets.
There may have been more sent out
and tho next few hours should bring the
truth to light, but the possibility was a
cause OF immense worry last night TO the
post office heads and to the police. Their
fear was that few bombs correctly pos
tagged may have been sent out and may
yet reach their destinations undetected
by any such fortunate accident as led to
the discovery of the true wickedness OF
the parcels located in the mails here.
The Burnett case indicates the POSSIBLE
ity that other bombs got out in the
malls
Blanket Warning Sent Out.
SO last night a blanket warning went
from the Post Once Department to every
post Office, big and little. in the country
TO every postmaster and post office in
spector; to every superintendent OF mails
and mail clerk on tho railroad mail cars
to everybody having anything to do
with handling mail-to look
out for parcels marked "Gimbel Bros"
In small black printed letters, Sample
in big red letters and bearing an address
typewritten upon a slip OF white paper.
Moreover, the Postoffice Department
appeals to every man, woman and child
In the country to beware opening to-
day any parcel Of an unknown or sus-
picious nature. no matter how innocent
looking or commonplace II may seem to
be for the authorities are now con-
WINGED OF the deadly nature OF the plot
which appears to have broken down at
the last minute through an act OF Provi-
dence. with such a succession OF fortu-
itous accidents as to make coincidence
and repeated coincidence beyond cre-
denoe.
TT renews ones faith in God" said
Chief Cochran, who is not much given
to tall talk. last night.
They say. and 1t Is a very old copy
book say, that criminals. however as
tute and far planning. almost invariably
make some stupid mistake seemingly
miles below their cunning. committing
some perfectly obvious blunder which