The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-06-09
HUNT FOR PLOTTERS
SHOWS PROGRESS
Chief Flynn Predicts Definite
Action in Bomb Cases
Soon.
FIREMEN JOIN SEARCH
City Being Combed for Hidden
Stocks of Explosives and
Plan Will Be Extended.

Distinct progress has been made in
the hunt for the anarchists who ex-
ploded ten bombs in eight cities week
ago tonight. William J. Flynn, head
Of the Department Of Justices investi-
gators and in general charge of the
hunt, made this statement yesterday
after a conference with William M.
ofhey of the local office. George e.
Kelleher, head Of the Boston bureau and
q number OF operatives.
1--WE have made excellent progress"
Mr.. Flynn said as he left the depart
ments Offices in the Park Row Building.
1--WE are better of to-day than we were
yesterday. There may be some definite
action very soon.''
In reply to a question he stated that
the new developments which encouraged
him were the result OF work on the
Washington explosion before the home
of Attorney-Ge Palmer He did
not say whether or not this meant that
further steps had been taken toward the
identification of the anarchist who was
blown to pieces by his own internal ma
chine there.
Both Chief Flynn and Mr.. offley
denied that there had been any new de-
velopments toward the identification OF
the man who placed the bomb on the
doorstep Of Judge Charles c. Mott, Jr,
in East Sixty-first street here.
Firemen Take q Hand.
II was also learned yesterday that
TNAx.a ~ AV1N
have been requsitioned in the bomb
hunt. Commissioner brennan has or
dered that a minute inspection OF all
barns, lofts and other places. especially
In the foreign quarters, be made. Its
real object is to learn Of the presence
of any stores of explosives or OF ma
terial for making explosives or of any
machines or material for machines OF a
dangerous character.
The firemen will start their hunt sys-
tematically in each fire district in all the
boroughs this week. In some respects
they have broader powers in the course
Of their inspections than have the police
for entry into and observation OF sus-
picious property, and the other agencies
engaged in the hunt are welcoming this
step 1t Is stated that the plan will be
extended to other cities.
Chief Flynn had intended to &c to
Philadelphia yesterday to look at the
. shell found in the subway there. Infor-
nation was received in the morning.
however, that the shell was what the
soldiers call a "dud.'' one that does not
explode. II has been sent to the Frank
fort Arsenal at Philadelphia for inspec-
ton and analysis. Chief Flynn indi-
Gated that he would make his headquar-
tiers in New York This does not mean
that he believes that New York is the
home OF all the bomb plotters. but I've
does believe that most OF them have con-
nections here and that here he will be
nearer the centre of the problem than no
would be in Philadelphia.
The local office OF the Department of
Justice is being deluged with letters
containing tips on the bomb outrages.
Some of them allude to addresses found
to be vacan: lots, but all are being care
fully run down. Even those letters
which are palpably false clues are not
considered wholly useless, as II may be
that they are sent by those interested
in the explosions in an effort to take up
the time of the Department with useless
work. Every effort is made In each in
Stance TO locate and question the sender.
Despite the extra work the Department
welcomes these letters.
Gov. Smith came to New York yester-
day and among his other engagements
he included a conference with Senator
Charles d. Newton of the Senate COM
mittee investigating radical propaganda.
Woman Radical Elected.
In addition to the large force Of uni
formed police at Madison Square Gar
den yesterday afternoon agents OF the
Department of Justice were scattered
. ~ -. 4
afterward that these men believed that
none of the violent radicals upon whose
movements a close check is being made
ventured into the Garden.
In fact an effort was made by the
managers of the meeting to keep the
violent radicals away. One young girl
apparently a Russian. was elected from
the lobby at the request OF representa-
tives of Julius Gerber. in charge of the
meeting for the Socialist party. She
went protesting that the organizers OF
the meeting were practising the very
thing we are all fighting against
They are running their meeting for
profit" she said. land because l want
to distribute brain food inside the doors
they put me out"
The young lady's brain food was a
small pamphlet which she sold at 10
cents a copy. 1t was entitled THE
Grimes OF BolsheYism. This, the young
lady and her coworkers admitted. was
a bit OF camouflage.
The volume contained a series Of pic
lures with text explaining how the Boil
sheviki had routed all such evils as
rich ladies commanding their maids to
bring them cigarettes. child labor, over
driven factory people, and gentlemen In
rich fur coats, who in the bad old days
could order their Wallets to scratch their
backs in their bath tubs. The crimes
of the Bolsheviki were humorously
described as the eradication OF the rich
lady. the emancipation of the maid, who
under Bolshevism had the proud privi-
lege OF "sassing' her one time mistress
the election OF the bosses from the fac
tories and placing the gentleman in the
fur coat in the horrible dilemma of hav-
ing either to hang or hoe. Nothing was
said about what tho Bolsheviki would
IN he hat fth