The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-30
Entire Police Force Is Held
Under Orders for May Day.
Foil Plans for General Red Re-
volt Over Sunday.
RADICAL LEADERS CAUGHT
Vast Quantities of Communist
Literature Is Captured.
Patriotic Meetings Planned as
Backfire to Schemes.

New York. April 3O.-New Yorix's
entire police force of eleven thousand
men today was ordered to remain on
duty continuously until Monday morn-
tng-a measure of precaution against
possible May day violence or radical
demonstration. Blue coats were de-
tailed to guard the city's churches.
public buildings and meeting places,
while others were assigned to protect
private residences and individuals be-
lieved to be in danger
Many others were held in station
houses for emergency calls Assign
ments of police to various auditoriums
and halls tomorrow-May day-were
announced and members of the bomb
squad. augmented by regulars wers,
set today to ferret out a number of
radicals believed to be active in the
attempt 10 cause great denomination
here.
Red Chiefs Arrested.
Police today declared that the ar
rest late last night of Abram Jakirt
and Joseph Amter. who were held ON
charges of criminal anarchy had
broken the spirit of communist work
ers who expected to bring about n
demonstration tomorrow. These men,
charged by the police with having sew
eral wagon loads of radical literature
in their possession. We're said to have
been officers of the third internation-
ale and in constant communication
with Moscow.
Jakira and Amter were taken in
custody in the apartment of Mrs.
Helen Ware, daughter of Mrs. Ella
Reeves Bloor, national organizer of
the communist party in this country.
| In the seized literature, the police
said, they found circulars similar to
those scattered here and in various
other large cities calling attention to
| the industrial conditions in the United
States and urging the overthrow of
the government Several loaded re-
voIvers also were found by the police,
| it was reported.
One of the trunks. police said was
filled with maps of the United states
I, containing statistics of the strength
| of the. various revolutionary groups
here. These maps revealed the total
4 membership of the groups in every
| city and community of any size thru
out the United States and disclosed
that more than 95 per cent of the
members of the radical orga nizations
were foreigners.
Hold Counter Meetings.
! Russians. Poles and Italians were
| found to be in the ma jority in the
membership of the red organizations
with which Jakira and Amter were
| affiliated, the police claimed. ana sta
| tistics revealed that in the mining dis
| tricts of Pennsylvania and West Vir-
| ginia, as well as in several other states
| east of Chicago, the percentage of
| radicals was very high.
To offset expected red activities the
American Defense society viii hold a
/ mass meeting tomorrow In Carnegie
!, hall, Newton W. Gilbert, former vice
governor of the Philippines, presiding.
Among the speakers will be Repre-
! sentative Albert johnson of Washing
ton. Representatives of the Chamber
| of ComrEeEfe of New York, the 4 ner-
| lean committee for devastated France,
the American Legion, The American
Security league the American Indian
| league, the American league for con-
! stitutional government and many
| other patriotic and civil bodies will be
present. The meeting will be one of a
series to be held thruout the country.
A letter from President Harding will
| be read.
Big Roundup of Reds.
Chicago. April 30.-A general
roundup OF all reds" suspected of
trying to stage May day revolutionary
| demonstrations, was ordered today by
John Boddi. assistant district attorney.
! Edward J. Brennan, head of the
United States bureau of inyestiga tiou.
has instructed his agents to arrest all
reds" for suspicion and hold them
until after May 1 or longer If their
cases warrant.
According to Boddi one hundred
reds" will be arrested today
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