New-York tribune., 1919-10-09
Club Heads and Scatter a
Crowd That Undertakes
Soviet Anti Blockade
Parade Without Permit
Riot Call Brings
Out 25O Reserves
Of Eight Arrested, All
Are Foreigners Except
Anthony Tepolsk k i

IWO tnOuSallu persons carrying
banners proclaiming the cause of Soviet
Russia attempted to march in military
formation up Fifth Avenue from Wash
ington Square yesterday afternoon.
They were dispersed by 250 policemen,
twenty-five of them mounted. who
charged the crowd and used their
clubs. The police came in response
to q riot call
Eight persons. one OF them a woman,
were held at Police Headquarters last
night, charged with leading the crowd
end defying the police. If it is dis
covered that the literature they are
said to have distributed urged the
overthrow of the government they will
be prosecuted for criminal anarchy,
according to Assistant District At
torney Alexander I. Rorke.
Most of the paraders appeared to be
Russians. They were led by twenty
men in the uniform of United States
soldiers. Only one Of the eight pris-
oners, Anthony Topolski, is United
States citizen.
Eighty Garry Banners
Detective Sergeant James Gegan
acting chiet of the bomb squad learned
at O'Clock in the afternoon that the
parade would be attempted. He hur-
red with his squad. consisting of
Aigf teen men, to the Russian People !:
House, 1873 East Fifteenth Street, where
he found about a hundred men and
women gathered in the street. Eighty
Of them carried furled banners
f,rn nV ~,
khaki, formed in a column of twos and
marched toward Washington Square.
Hundreds Of men joined them on the
way, and another large detachment
waited for them at the square.
At Washington Square the mon in
uniform organized the crowd into a
column of fours and unfurled their
banners. Some Of them read:
"Open the jails and free political
prisoners"
"Deport us all to Soviet Russia.
Wall he free there
"America a-1hc masters are masters.
Russia The people are masters
"WilsOn-T am a friend Of Russia.
Rnssiss ,God save US from our
friends''
Eve demand the lifting OF the block
ade'
Turns in Riot Call
Sergeant Gegan asked the leaders if
they had a permit to parade
"Some of those fellows further back
have it, they replied.
The detectives asked several other
marchers and then discovered that the
rear of the line was proceeding around
Washington Square on its way up Fifth
Avenue. The leaders also began TO
march ahead. declaring that permit or
thaN IN ho,
their parade.
One of the detectives turned in a
riot call The reserves from every
precinct on the west side from the
Battery to Macdougal Street, as we'll
as twenty-five mounted men from the
traffic squad, rushed to Washington
Square.
The mounted men grouped them
selves in the side streets on both sides
of Fifth Avenue. AS the head of the
parade marched past Tenth Street
they charged from the east and west
swinging their clubs.
The crowd scattered Immediately
The mounted policemen rode down the
avenue and into Washington Squar,
Park, with men and women lodging the
hoofs of their horses and running il
all directions.
to require an ambulance call one
woman became hysterical and fell un.
conscious at Tenth Street and Fifth
Avenue.
<Oster of the Prisoners
The styss prisoners at Police Head
quarters described themselves as fol
lows:
Dora Libkin. twenty-five vears old
.fo+bipo onorotOr livrn 22u
Twentieth Street; born in Russia anC
not naturalized.
Abe Brooks, twentysix years old, o.
90 Norfolk Street, q machinist: alsc
a Russian.
Nicita Zafronia, thirtJ-six years Old
a Russian laborer, Of 157 Ferry Street
Maspeth, l.. L.; in the United States
for five years and has wife in Rus
sia.
Karl Schuka, twenty-eight years old
of 231 East Seventeenth Street: IL
the United States for four years. ant
has wife in Russia.
John Kozlick, thirty years old. o
Bridgeport. Conn, also a Russian.
Dave Kipper, a Ukranan. twenty
one years old. living at SAG East Seven
teenth Street.
Sam Simon, Pole. twenty sever
years old, of 80 East Seventh Street
cloak and suit operator.
Anthony Tepolski. twenty-five year.
old, of 260 Franklin Street: born il
the United States and unemployed.
Dudley Field Malone, former Collec
tor of the Port of New York, and Rob
/ ert Minor. war spondent an,
radical, addressed liberal meeting a
the Central Opera House last night
Several groups in the audience wer
said to have been followed to the hal
from the scene of the Washington
/ Square disturbance by agents of tn