Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-05-01
No VIOLENCE: ID bE EXPECTED TO-DAY,
 PALMER DE:tL. Department of Justice How ever, RenewS it's Warn-
 ings ASSASSINATION PLOTS ARE BLOCKED

THINK ASSASSINATION
 PLOTS ARE BLOCKED Propaganda Demonstrations in Many Cities and the Taking of Holiday by Scores of Work men is Forecast
 Washington, April 30.-Afte, checking over their reports from all ports of the country government officials expressed confidence that threatened May Day demonstrations by radical would not result in any nation wide attempt at violence.
 While taking that view of the sim ation the department of iustics re- newed it's warning to local au.hori- ties everywhere that if the radical elements were to be kept under con- trol every law enforcing agency state and federal, must be awake and equal to the dangers, real and fan cied.
 Assistant Attorney General Gar van, who directed raids on commu- mist and communist labor parties' or ganizations in January declared as he went home for the night that late reports indicated that whatever vioI- ence might occur would be sporadic.
 Most of these reports showed that the radicals were preparing pipan- tic propaganda demonstra tions. Meet lngs are scheduled in many places. and 1t is at these that trouble may develop, according to Mir. Garvan. The department, he said, would al low these gatherings to talk them selves blue" but government agents would observe the tenor of agitatjon Agents have been instructed "not to incite or excite trouble in any such assembly,"
 1t was disclosed by MT. Garvan that several members of congress. three federal judges and an attorney recently active in Investigating radi- calls disturbances had been marked for assassination. With the early dis covery of the plots, however. Mr. Garvan believed the officials against whose lives the plots were directed now are amply protected.
 Many May Lay Off.
 Appeals of the communist labor leaders for May day strikes appear not to have met with a kindly re- sponse although there were threats of strikes in some sections. Thou sands of workers may lay down their tools tomorrow, but Mr. Garvan be- lieved this would be more in the na- ture of declaration of holiday than with a malicious intent to cause a great interruption to industry.
 Mr. Garvan called attention to the apparent ultimate amount of money employed by the communist-I labor party in fomenting disorders, declar- Ing that, at no time in history. had radical movement been so plenti- fully financed. He traced the source Of these funds to Amsterdam and thence to Russia.
 The amount of radical literature circulated within the last week was described by MT. Garvan as "amaz- ing" as he pointed to scores of periodicals, pamphlets, and circu- lars together with special editions of radical newspapers, piled in his office, all appealing for a "May day show of power"
 Combat Overt Act.
 Chicago, April 30.-Federal, state and city forces tonight were prepar ed to combat any overt act that might grow out of the various demon- strations planned tomorrow in cele- bration of May day.
 Sixty more suspects were round- ed up by the police today in a con- tinuation of the drive that resulted in the arrest of more than 300 men and several women last night. One of the men, who gave his name as John luck. was arrested while dis tributing handbills announcing May day meeting. Some of the bills urg. ed revolt by "the revolutionary pro- letariat," the police said. Huge quantities of radical literature was distributed throughout the west side today.
 A May day strike of clothing work CTS was said to have been called by the Amalgamatal Clothing Workers of America; the International Ladies' Sailors union and the International Association of Machinists Gin protest against the Imprisonment of Eugene V. Debbs, Kate Richards O'Hare, Tom Mooney and other prisoners confined as a result of political and other disturbances"
 Asserting the May day bomb plot was "manufactured in Attorney Gen eral A. Mitchell Palmer's own mind" the national socialist committee in a statement asserted that whatever disorder might occur tomorrow would be caused by the "insane and criminal discovery of MT. Palmer's dime novel plot" Socialists were advised to carry out their plans for meetings and "to refuse to be stam- peded by the anarchistic outburst."