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New-York tribune., 1919-06-04
Dead Bomber Was
From Philadelphia
Railroad Check Sho,Ued
He Reached " ashington
ut 1890 Monday Night

WASHINGTON, June g. Washing
ton police inspectors early to-day be-
lieved they had identified the man who
was blown to pieces last night IN an
effort to kill Attorney General A.
Mitchell Palmer with bomb, as an
anarchist Of Philadelphia. They also
said they were confident the nation
wide plot against the lives of govern
ment officials and prominent business
men had been laid in that city.
A blood stained conductors idcntif-
cation check, found N -ron7 o. Mr.
Palmers residence, showed that the
anarchist arrived in Washington at
10:3O o'clock last night from Philadel-
phia. He went directly from the
Union Station to the Palmer home ard
only a few minutes before the eN-
ploson he was seen alighting from
streetcar a few blocks away by c. S.
Briggs, of Marion, S. c.
Identity Kept Secret
The plice would not reveal the idcn-
tity of the man, but they felt confident
the facts they had gathered would lead
quickly to the apprehension OF his as
sociates, who they believe also were
responsible for the May Day bomb plot
in which many internal machines ad-
dressed to government officials, mem
bers Of Congress and business men
were placed in the mails.
The anarchist apparently was of
Italian birth or parentage His scalp.
found by the police at daylight, had
upon it hair that was dark and curly.
Included in the heap of tattered.
scorchcd, bloodstained fragments of
clothing and articles belonging to the
man was a much thumbed Italian
American dictionary. indicating its
owner knew little English
According to a description given out
by the police. the man was wearing q
black suit with green stripes, white
shirt with green and yellow stripes,
New-York tribune., 1919-06-04
Call Troops
I'm Toledo; 2
Die In Riot
Ex-Soldier Guards at Ov-
erland Plant Fire Into
Mob of Idle Workers: !:
Three Attacks in Day

TOLEDO, June 3.-Following a riot
in which two men were shot to death
and two others dangerously wounded.
Mayor Schreiber announced that he
had appealed to Governor Cox to send
troops here and that he expected the
Governor would comply with the re-
quest The house adjoining the
Mayors was stoned and it's windows
smashed, presumably by sympathizers
of the $4,000 striking employees of the
WHY'S Overland Automobile Com
pany.
The victims, presumably idle en-
ployes of the company, were killed by
discharged soldiers who are guarding
the plant. The killing was the culmi-
nation of three riots to-day and to-
night which resulted in the injury of
thirteen persons.
The killing Occurred in front of a fire
station near the automobile plant.
whore a discharged soldier guard, with
{. woman companion, had sought refuge
from threatening crowd. The guard
had been walking through a district in
habitated by strikers and fed to the
fire station when crowd of men
hooted him and made menacing re-
marks.
Calls for assistance brought two mo-
tor truck loads of soldier guards from
the automobile plant. When they ar
rived at ehe starlon one of them fired
a pistol into the air. The guards then
fired their rifles and pistols into the
crowd.
The Mayor said all available deputy
sheriffs had been sworn in, but that
he was unable to cope with the situa-
ton"
Violence started early in the day
when a crowd of strikers stormed cars
carrying loyal employees to the plant,
smashed the car windows with stones
and bricks and pulled workers into the
streets, where they were beaten.
The situation famed into a pitched
battle tonight when ide workers
numbering 5000, including many wom-
en-, stormed the entrances of the plant
as the employees were leaving, beat
them with clubs and fellcd them with
shower of stones and bricks. The
streets in front Of the plant we're lit
tered with missiles and broken glass.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-04
Hat of Dead Bomber
andCopies of'Plain
Words Found at
Scene of Explosion
Il. w. w. Leader
Resists Arrest
No Known Radical
Will Be Allowed
to Leave Country

Twentyfour hours of search by De-
partment of Justice agents and
police have brought to light only
two definite clews to the identity
of the band of "reds" whose
bombs exploded in eight cities
early yesterday morning.
Anarchistic handbills, entitled "Plain
Words" identical with that dis
covered in front of the shattered
home of Attorney General Palmer
in Washington, were picked up in
New York City yesterday. The
police are striving to find where
they were printed.
The ether clew is the sweatband of
the hat of the man who was blown
up by the bomb intended for the
Attorney General
This was stamped eDe Luca Broth
ers, 919 South Eighth Street,
Philadelphia" Department of
Justice agents have taken the rem
nants of the hat to Philadelphia.
in the hope that its makers may be
able to identify the dealer to whom
it was sold.
Sixteen men have thus far been ar
rested on suspicion-one in Bos-
ton, fifteen in Pittsburgh and in
Cleveland. A mass of /. w. W.
and similar literature has been
confiscated
The most important arrest thus far
has been Of man calling himself
John Johnston, secretary of
Pittsburgh branch of the Indus
trial Workers Of the World. He
was taken after a fight.
The homes Of Mayor Hylan and
other city officials here are under
heavy police guard. In Washing
ton Department Of Justice men
and police are watching all public
buildings. In Baltimore police
cordons have been thrown about
the home of Cardinal Gibbons and
other men of prominence. 9
New-York tribune., 1919-06-04
Nc1o York Tribune
W1shiu0tOn Bureau


WASHINGTON, June 3.-Congress
stood ready to-day to enact with all
possible expedition any legislation
suggested by the Department of
Justice or the Department of Labor
that will aid in the suppression of
revolutionary and anarchistic actvi-
ties in the United States
Few Senators or Representatives will
oppose the enactment OF any law, how
ever drastic, that is needed by the
executive departments to cope with
and suppress such outragcs as those
that occurred in Washington and other
American cities last night
Congress as d whole was indignant
over the outrage aimed against Attor
ncy General Il. Mitchell Palmer. Only
one member of Congress in any way
condoned the crime. He was Victor
Berger, Socialist Representative from
Milwaukee, whose right to sit in the
House is being contested and who is
under a twenty-ycar prison sentence
for violation of the espionage act.
Natural Result" Says Berger
"The bomb outragcs of the anarch
lists are insane, Of course, but this in
sanity is the natural result and the
logical answer to the insane outraging
of the free press and the right of free
speech by the ruling class" Berger
said
Conscious Of the proposals for dras-
tic legislation that bomb outrages had
called forth, Berger predicted "cata-
clysm such as the world has never seen
before" if oppressive legislation is re-
sorted to in order to combat radicalism.
While many proposals for legislation
were discussed, none was written into
bills and introduced in either house.
they were ready to press "any legisla-
tion the executive departments will
propose and enforce" to quick passage
Privately they expressed the belief
that the laws already on the statute
books are broad enough in scope to per-
nit the government to deal with any
situation that has thus far arisen.
Attention was called to the fact that
under the present immigration laws
the Commissioner of immigration has
authority to exclude from the country
any person who holds anarchistic be-
liefs, advocates the destruction of prop
erty or breaches defiance of law or de-
struction of the existing form Of gov
ernment. Even naturalized citizen
may be deported if he is found to have
violated his oath Of fealtv.
Representative Mondell, Republican
leader of the House, conferred with
the Attorney General to-day. but re-
ceived no suggestions as to new laws
that would assist the Department of
Justice in dealing with the present
situation.
There is no difference of opinion in
the country or in Congress as to the
New-York tribune., 1919-06-04
Congress Ready TO Enact
L0aUs TO Curb Radicals
Members Eager to Pass Any Legislation De-
manded by the Department of Justice; Ber-
ger Puts Blame Repression of Freedom

necessity of apprehending and punish
ing bomb throwers, those guilty of acts
of outrage and violence and those who
preach, approve and encourage such
acts Mr. Mondell said
81 take it for granted that the de-
partmcnts of the government charged
with the enforcement Of the laws and
preservation Of order will do their full
duty in this regard.
Says Congress Is Ready
$50 far as | am at present advised
do not know that any further legis-
| lation is necessary for the appre-
hension and punishment of the perpe-
traitors Of these crimes, but should it
be found necessary and requested by
the department Congress may be de-
pended upon to give prompt considera-
ton to such suggestions and recon-
mendations.
"The appropriate committees of Con-
gress will give prompt consideration
to the suggestions that have been made
for the deportation of undesirable and
criminal aliens"
In some quarters a general round
up of radicals was suggested, and in
others the proposal was made that
martial law be proclaimed in those
quarters where anarchists are known
to reside to continue until the whole
gang involved in last nights outrages
is apprehended. Several representa-
tives invited attention to the fact that
bomb thrown from the open gal
leries into the chamber Of either the
Senate or the House would practically
wipe out either body, and the criminal
could not easily be apprehended.
Would Deport Aliens
A special session Of the House In
migration Committee to consider drast-
c immigration legislation introduced
by it's chairman, Representative Albert
Johnston, Of Washington. has been
called for Thursday. Representative
Johnston advocated the immediate ex-
pulsion from the country of every alien
known to have anarchistic tendencies
and an immediate registration of all
aliens in this country.
81 believe the present bomb outrages
are the beginning of an attempt to
start reign Of the red terror in this
country" Representative Johnston said.
'They are not the efforts of indvid-
uals, but are part Of an organized effort
at terrorization. They are the work
of anarchists, Bolsheviki and I. W.
WIS and are intended to inflame class
consciousness and to bring on the gen.
eral strike at which all these revolt
tionarics are aiming. Since the Social
ist party has seen fit to purge itself
OF 2500o of its members, who were
foreign ngitators and revolutionaries,
! believe the United States should do
likewise"
New-York tribune., 1919-06-04

bn1to. Washington Sunday ExcursIon
via New Jersey Central. June 8, $3.24 round
trip Iva Liberty st. Saturday midnight
--Advt.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-04
l9 Arrested in Terrorist Bomb Plot:
Nationwide Search for Reds Begins
HandbilZs GiDe C2ep 10 Blast Her
Wilson's Ship Ordered
Ready to Sail June 6

pREST, June 3.-The liner George
Washington, in which President
Wilson has three times crossed the
Atlantic, has been ordered to be
ready to sail on twelve hours notice
at any time after midnight, June 5.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-04

Who're others sell
Why don't you buy
LIBERTY BONDS?
Tho bcm $50 and 400 Investments
John Muir y Co., e1 B'way.--Adw
New-York tribune., 1919-06-04

Continued on page four
New-York tribune., 1919-06-04
Palmer Says Plan
Of ':Reds Failed
Terrorist Plot ONLY
SerUes to Increase Ac-
tiuities Of Detectives
NenO York Tribune

Mem York Tribune
Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, June "a Mitchell
Palmer, whose home was partly de-
stroycd by bombs last night, issued the
following statement this evening:
"The outrages Of last night indicate
nothing but the lawlcss attempt of an
anarchistic element in the population
TO terrorizc the country and thus stay
the hand Of the government. This they
have utterly failed to do.
"Thesc attacks by bomb throwcrs
viii only increase and extend the ac-
tivitcs of our crime destroying forces.
We arc determined now as heretofore
that organized crime directed against
organized government in this country
shall be stopped"
New-York tribune., 1919-06-04

Comttmued I'm po0e ed0ht
New-York tribune., 1919-06-04

AR. MERCHANDISE ADVER-
TlSED IN THE TRIBUNE
is GUARANTEED
New-York tribune., 1919-06-04
ga. NJ. Edition

Fair, continued warm to-day and prob.
ably tomorrow; gentle Winds
Full Report on Page 10
New-York tribune., 1919-06-04

TWO CENTS Greater New York and THREE CENTS
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-08-26

the whole pact may hang. II tho
Shantung amendment goes through.
senators predicted. other provisions
VIII be changed, and that, In the
presidents opinion, as expressed to
senators, would spell disaster BY
postponfng for months the day Of
normal things.
Senator McCumber, North Dakota.
the leading republican friend OF the
treaty, planned to open the fight in
the senate today ON Shantung in a
speech attacking the committee ac-4
ton, against which he voted, as un-
Just and Improper.
McCumber's proposition is that it
would be unjust to Japan to turn
over to China the territory Japan
took from Germany by conquest, and
concerning the disposition of which
Japan had treaties with China and
the allies The action was improper,
McCumber holds, because it goes
further than the senate has a right
to go
The foreign relations COMMITTEES
met today to resume voting on
amendments. A block of twenty
three proposed by Senator Fall, New
Mexico, eliminated the United States
from memberships ON various conn
missions supervising European set
Elements, is to be voted on.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-08-26

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service. ]
WASHINGTON, Aug. 26.-The
nation today awaited eagerly for or
ganized labor's answer to President
Wilson's appeal for a truce in indus
trial disputes.
The eyes of labor leaders here
were turned toward Samuel Gompers,
aead of the American Federation of
Labor, who is due to land IN New
York today from Europe Labor off,
cials here hope Gompers VIII come
to Washington at once.
A meeting of the executive council
of the federation is scheduled soon
after GomperS' arrival,
While results Of the presidents
appeal on labor as a whole turned
about Gompers, early Developments
are scheduled from railway shopmen
whose demands were the immediate
cause Of the presidents appeal and
whose leaders are comforting here
today.
The shopmen are to issue a state
ment setting forth their position on
the answer to their demand. This
answer offered them an increase of
four cents an hour instead of the
increase they were asking, ranging
from IL to II cents an hour. 1t was
accompanied by an appear to their
patriotism to forego demands for
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-08-26
WILL ATTEMPT
TO RUN CARS
,Rioting In Street Car Strike is Btam-
ed by Union Heads on SynrPa-
tfrizers and Not Mem
berS

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service. i
PITTSBURGH, Pa, Aug. 26.--Al-
though officials of the Pittsburgh
Railways company refused to Issue a
statement, strike pickets assert prep
aratons are under way for another
attempt to resume trolly service to-
day after yesterdays riotfng during
which scores of persons were injured
by flying missiles and two cars badly
damaged by mobs.
Receivers of the company COM
planned of inadequate police protec-
ton cnd stated several hundred spe-
cial policemen would be sworn In to
protect the company. Sheriff Had
dock has issued proclamation warn
ing the public TO maintain law and
order.
Police were powerless to act vMen
mobs surged upon two cars. their path
blocked by heavy auto trucks in the
down town section yesterday.
Quiet was restored after the crews
imported to man the cars had been
placed in the central police station.
Union heads attribute the riotins
to sympathizers and assert their men
are maintaining order.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-08-26

A truce In the contests over
wages and working conditions
called for by President Wilson to
help the government cut living
costs, would mean the temporary
abandonment OF demands by:
1000 railroad snopmen, de-
manding 25 percent additional.
1877 900 trainmen, seeking in
creases average 20 percent.
10000 railroad ffremen, pfan-
ming wage demands.
$1,000 conductors, asking 35
percent additional.
500, ZOO workers in steel and
allied industries.
100000 workers, some Of whom
now arc on strike In general
trades, Including builders, n1achln-
lists, sailors, fishermen, cigar
makers, street car workers, butch
ers and meat packing employees
and shoe makers.
$4,000 daily 10 being slash
ed from the total value of Ameri-
can production by strikes and
lcck-outs, according to estimates
based on reports to various gov
ernment departments.
"The primary STEP" said the
president, "ls to increase produc-
ton and facilitate transportation
so as to make UP for the destruc-
ton wrought by the war, the ter
ribIe scarcities It created, and SO
soon as possible relieve our people
of the cruel burden Of high
prices. The railways are the very
center of the process"
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-08-26
TRANSPORTATION
IS PARALYzED
Strike of Steam Road Men in
Sympathy With Pacific
Electric Interurban
Men.
TOURISTS MAROONED
lnter City Transportation by Rail in
Southern California Has
Practically Ceased
TOURISTS MAROoNED

United Press Leased Wire Service.
los ANGELES, Cal, Aug 26 -
Inter-city transportation by rail hao
practically ceased in southern Califor
MIA today, as result of strikes OF
steam road men in sympathy with the
Pacific Electric interurban strikers.
Thousands Of tourists in this center
of that industry were marooncd.
The paralysis had reached out until
it touched Fresno on the north aid
Yuma, Ariz., to the southeast.
The effects have been felt through
out the state of California, for north
and south trains, notably the Lark and
the Owl. have been annulled.
Only by means of ocean boats can
tourists leave here, and these boats
have experienced the novelty OF
wealthy people clamoring for steerage
The only appreciate effect Of the
act Of the "big four" leaders ordering
the steam line men back to work was
to spread the strike northward and
southward and an expressed deter
mination of the leaders here to see
1t through to finish"
Whereas the naClOnal oIllceES ol lhe
rail men have refused to sanction the
strike, the strikers have the whole
hearted backing Of the State Fedora
ton of Labor, which processes to be
in exact accord with the A. F. of L.
Daniel c. Murphy. president of the
California State Federation of Labor,
in a, statement to the United Press, de
clared that "Los Angeles is the
battle-ground Of labor in California.
He said the strikers here would be
given every possible support of or
ganized labor"
With food piled up in the railroad
yards. but no one TO move It, Los An
geles could see hunger in the offing
if the strike continues.
Meanwhile officials of the Los
Angeles Railway company and of the
Pacific Electric claim that full normal
daylight service is being given, al
though cars are crowded to the steps
every morning and evening.
No night service is given on either
line
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-08-26
TO OPEN RETAIL STORES
FOR LOW PRICED GOODS

in other large cities throughout the
country.
War department experts are now
preparing catalogues of goods to be
put on sale. These will be made avail
able at every postoffice and postal sub
station in the country. The postoffice
department has been requested to es-
tablish parcel post sub-stations in each
of the stores, so that mail orders may
be handled promptly.
Goods will be distributed evenly
throughout the country. All goods will
he sold at fixed prices. Mail order
goods will be sold at regular prices,
plus cost of delivery.
The new plan for disposition OF
crmy surplus is even broader than the
plan by which surplus food was sold
through the parcel post. Under this
plan orders were handed to postmas-
ters who sent them to zone supply OF
fices and distributed them to con-
sumers. Under the new plan the post
masters will be eliminated and com
,umers will order by mail q frox
the army direct ~
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-08-26
POLAND
CRUSHED
BY HUNS
Germany Charged With Being
Guilty of Same Practices
as Used in Bel
GUM.
rs ORGANIZED CRIME
Prussians Acted Exactly as Anybody
Familiar with Their History
Would Fore
SEQ.
ORGANIZED CRIME
Prussians Acted Exactly as Anybody
Familiar with Their History
Would Fore

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.
LONDON, Aug. 26.-Charging that
the Germans are guilty Of the same
practices in Upper Silesia as in Bel
GUM in 1914, the Times and Morning
Post correspondents in Poland cabled
combined appeal to Great Britain to
come to the aid of the Poles.
The dispatches, which appear in
today's paper, accuse the Germans OF
masacres and wholesale deportations
Of able-bodied men for reparation
work in the devastated areas of
France and Belgium. There also
have been systematic efforts, the
correspondents charged, to discredit
the Poles and drive them out of ST.
lesia, thus insuring plebiscite IA
vorable to Germany
The Morning Post comments on
what it describes as organized
crime" committed under the nose of
the victorious allies, who are to be
held responsible for the rassacres-
particularly President Wilson and
Lloyd George The latter, according
to the Post, imposed the plebiscite
policy on Upper Silesia.
"They ought to have known" the
paper declares, ''that such a policy
would provide the Germans with
temptation and incentive to crime. 1t
is a hellish conspiracy. We regret
to say We believe several of the al
lied statesmen have fallen too easily
prey to German cunning. The plebl.
scite is now mockery Of justice.
The situation demands prompt action
and punishment
"The Poles should be empowered
to take possession OF Upper Silesia
and the Germans Informed that they
have forfeited all claim to the ter
ritory.
what does Wilson thinh-he who
boasted in Boston that the Poles
were his special care? What does
he think of the manner in which the
Germans have shown contempt for
his democratic institutions?
The correspondents give the de-
tails of five shootings at Mystowitz,
forty executions at Grossdonlbrowka
and forty at Fredienshutte.
The Times, in an editorial, asserts
the Germans have acted exactly as
ANYBODY familiar with their history
and character would have foreseen.
"The Silesian plan was in accord
ance with the best traditions Of the
Wilhelmstrasse," the Times said to-
day. Ebert, Bauer and Erzberger
have no more scruples than the
Maohiavellian statesmen of old"
A News Agency dispatch from Co
penhagen reports that the Poles suf-
fered heavy losses Sunday night in