New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-05-02
More Police Than Ever
Guarding City Watch
in Vain as May Day
Quietly Enters History
One Man Arrested
With Red Handbill
Socialists Hold Manv
Meetings Where Their
Orators Assail Palmer

orators ASSalI faImer
The Red revolution scheduled TO
come to America yesterday must
have missed the boat. With eleven
thousand members of the Police De
partment, legion of Secret Service
agents and countless volunteer de-
tenders Of the nation waiting to re-
ceive it in q manner worthy of the
best American traditions, the guest
from Russia failed to appear. Simi-
larly fortunate conditions prevailed
in other large cities of the country.
In various sections of the city
labor unions and socialistic organiza-
tions held mass meetings in celebra-
tion Of the annual labor holiday. A
lot of inf1ammatory ''literature" of
the familiar type was distributed at
various points, and one arrest was
made in this connection.
Martens Drops In
The Department Of Justice announced
that Ludwig c. A. X. Martens, the Off
cial representative Of the Russian
Soviet government in this country, had
suddenly appeared in New York with
Gregory Weinstein and Santa l. Nuor-
teva, his chief aids, and as suddenly
dropped from sight again
M01I;a
of violation of the espionage act
started from the Tombs to jefferson,
Mo-. where she will begin a fifteen
year sentence. This represents the
sum total of the days activities in 50
far as the Reds were concerned.
Otherwise New York went on about
its business very much as if it had
been June l Or December /, instead Of
the widely advertised date of the IN
auguration of soviet rule in America.
There were more policemen in uniform
and in plain clothes TO the square inch
than the city has ever before seen and
the police protection afforded the
Bushwick home of Mayor Hylan wRs
increased to five, instead of the custom
ary two.
Other men, including j. P. Morgan,
were closely guarded within and with
out by public and private guards and
the public buildings, bridges, ferry
slips, railroad terminals and postoffices
were watched throughout the day.
At the various police precincts men
on reserve waited for the riot cal
which should announce the arrival of
the Bolshevist uprising, and the head
quarters of the Department of Justice.
at Is Park Row, bulged with special
agents listening for the call of duty.
But nothing happened. The perform
ance failed dismally to live up 10 the
advance notices.
Flynn Blames Publicity
William j. Flynn. chief of the De
partment of Justice force, intimated
that it was because the advance notices
had been SO widely circulated and so
drawn that the trouble did
not arrive The Reds we're ready, il
was suggested, but they couldn't dc
a thing.
1t was absolutely correct that many
prominent men had been marked for
destruction by violence on May l. Flynn
asserted, and only the unusual pre-
cautions taken by the authorities had
prevented the plans of the Communists
being successfully. carried through.
Eternal vigilance is the price of safe
ty," the chief quoted, and added thai
that was the kind of vigilance the au-
thorities were dealing in
Fearful of a possible attack on the
loyalty parade which opened Boys
Week, Charles j. Scully, special agent
Of the Department of Justice. detailed
a squad of fifty men to watch the Fifth
Avenue roofs while the parade passed
and Secret Service operatives also
mingled with the audiences at each
IL ~. ioI
took place in various parts of the city,
Detectives at the home Of prominent
men, public buildings and churches will
continue on duty until this morning az
precautionary measure against posi-
Bile deferred plots. The detectives work
in three eight-hour shifts. At night
the force is doubled.
Some of the places watched are st.
Thomas's Church, Fifty-third Street
and Fifth Avenue; St. Patrick's Cathe-
dral, Fiftieth Street and Fifth Avenue;
Attorney General Palmer's home, 56
East Eighty-sixth Street, and Judge Il
bert H. Gary's home, Fifty seventh
Street and Fifth Avenue.
Only One Man Arrested
Morning and afternoon produced on,y
one arrest Frank Cammer, forty
eight, who said he was q native born
American, was caught by Patrolman
Henry Starr, of the West Thirty--ev-
enth Street station, distributing RADICAL
pamphlets in the vicinity of the sta
ton.
Cammer was making a house TO
house distribution, stuifing his hand
bills into letter boxes. He said he had
been given the handbills by q stranger
and asked TO distribute them. To the
handbills seized with the man were
added a number of radical pamphlets
and publications found by the police
in search OF his room, at 3l3 West
Twenty ninth Street. The whole bun
die was taken TO Police Headquarters
where Cammer ~ held
The day was marked by very gen
eral eruption Of revolutionary adver-
tising Thousands of residents %
greater New York found their letter
boxes stuffed and their Railways lit
tered with the trash.
Hail TO the Soviets." one of these Is
headed, which is described as MAY
Day Proclamation by the Central w.