The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-09-17

| ton of these securities. the officials
said, are non negotiable.
Financial Districts Guarded.
The financial centers of Americas
big cities from coast to coast are
armed camps today. with police and
private sentries posted to gual d
against repetition Of the mysterious
explosion that rocked Wall street yes.
terday.
From Washington, Chicago, Phila.
delphia, Detroit, Baltimore, as far
south as the gulf of Mexico and west
to the Golden Gate, authorities an
nounced heavy patrols ofaplain clothes
men and police reserves in their bus.
mess districts, and feredal agents
worked with state and city officials
to run down reports Of widespread ex-
tremist plots.
Scene Of Blast Roped.
Meanwhile the scene of yesterdays
blast is ropcd off, while the stock ex-
change and allied organizations re-
sumed business at the usual hour this
morning.
Several New York Detectives and
secret service men left the city be-
fore dawn this morning for unan-
nounced destinations on out of town
ends of the investigation of the ex.
plosion.
Troops were held in readiness on
Governors Island today and detach-
ments of the 22nd Infantry were in
barracks subject to instant call.
Prominent Homes Guarded.
All public buildings and the homes
of wealthy and prominent men here
are under special watch, and every
available man is held in reserve or
actively working in federal state, and
city investigation agencies
Between s and 9 o'clock this morn
| ing police lines in the financial dis
trict were relaxed for admission of the
thousands of office workers. During
the same period emergency patrols
were doubled and every doorway and
alley was under constant inspection
Downtown subway stations were kept
cleared by large force of police.
Restore Damage Portions.
During the early hours, public and
| private agencies cleaned up Wall
| Street, sweeping up tons of debris and
washing down blood spattered side
/ walks and buildings.
Repairmen in force started work
lemedying damage to the twisted iron
Office structures in the Morgan build
, ing and glazers by scores began the
| long task of restoring window panes
| in the entire financial hub.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 17.-Attorney
7 General Palmer, and Francis T. Gar
| van, assistant attorney general in
charge of the government anti-radical
| campaign, left here today for New
York to direct the investigation in the
explosion in the financial district there
yesterday.
| 1t was said at the department of
justice that the federal government in
quiry would be directed largely to de-
! termine whether the explosion resulted
! from radical activity.
! Extra precautions were taken also to
guard government property here, par
ticularly the treasury building, as re-
suit Of reports from New York that
the explosion was the result of a
bomb plot.
Won't Discuss Explosion.
Pending receipt of official reports
! from their representatives. officials
/ here declined to discuss probable caus-
es of the explosion.
| A hotel waiter who was reported to
lolice to have told his fellow employees
! that he knew all about the New York
explosion" and that the treasury
will be the next to go was questioned
/ last night by Department of Justice
agents, but was not held.
| NUTLEY, N. j., Sept. 17.-Warning
! to keep opt of Wall street until after
! Sept 16" was received here Sept g.,
| by Joseph T. O'Neill, "a years old, son
of a banknote paper manufacturer, he
| declared here today. O'Neill said he
was on tube train from Newark to
Jersey City and got into conversa-
! tion with a man next to him. The
| stranger said he was a secret service
| agent attached to the high commission
! and was on his way to Buffalo, where
some anarchists were under arrest
! After he learned that O'Neill was EN-.
ployed in a lower Broadway office ne
! warned him to keep away from the
! Wall street district, O'Neill said. The
man said a close watch was being
/ kept on known anarchists, but the plot
might develop successfully in spite Of
| precautions.
GOAT BRINGS $3.50.
SIOUX CITY. Iowa, Sept. 17.-What
is believed to be worlds record high