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ALL MERCHANDISE I ADVERTISED IN THE ?TRIBUNE IS GUARANTEED IVol. LXX?X No. 2(>,7ll [Copy rieht. 19t?, New ?ork Tribune Inc.? First to Last-the Truth: ii.w.rtditnr^. Adver?seZnt's WEATHER Fair and colder to-day; to-morrow fair with slowly rising temperatare; fresh northwest winds. Fall Report ?n Vug* 15 SATURDAY, JANUARY 3, 1920 * * * *: . Tnn r,-v.. S In Greater Xrw York and *"? C**KTS ? with!? ?wauaatlnc ?U?*nee THREE CKSTTS Elsewhere ,000 Arrested in Nation Palmer Directs Raids Wide Round-Up o. ___ in 35 Cities: 650 Seized Here Renate Plans treaty Action l?extWeek ??adere Agree on Com? promise Program, and ll?t&?ock Says Presi jjent Will Approve It Eo3ge Reservations To Serve as Basis Senators to Con 5 ?iidNegot?ations, With Democrats as Sponsors New York Tribune Washington Bureau ? FASHINGTON, Jan. 2.?Definite gctbn for a compromise on the peace treaty with Germany will be taken ?/hen Congress reconvenes next W?|, Republican and Democratic leaders in the Senate predicted to? day after numerous conferences had teen held. *'M the Senators who participated 8 the informal discussions, includ fc? Senator Lodge, chairman of the Fer?gn Relations Committee, and Senator Hitchcock, leader of the Ad tttiniBtration forces in the Senate, as ttrted to-night that prospects for an agreement that will make ratifica? ba of the treaty possible are very ? The Democrats in the Senate will f?ropoae the compromise, but it will fet^onsored by the group of "mild rtservationists'' on the Republican side when it is formally laid before the Senate. Senator Hitchcock said {be "mild reservationists" had been triced to take charge of negotiating fee compromise because "whatever Iroposition they would make would lot smack of partisanship." s Action Nest Week Predicted ?The move for a compromise on res tmiions will be made publicly within ? few days after the Senate meets ??pin, it was said. The Senators who fill make this move stated it could ?? looked for before the end of next wort. ? The plan for launching the proposi? tan for an agreement was worked out ?the informal discussions which have taken place between individual Sen? ator? since the holiday recess of Con P*u began. Should it fail, both Sen? ator Lodge and Senator Hitchcock say, V? ^PP**" to be no possibility of jWiwatton unless President Wilson Wmwlf proposes a compromise. The President will accept any com jWwaiM that the Senate works out, j? the opinion of the Administration go?, but Mr. Wilson's failure to send ?Wo to the Democratic Senators that w?y ?onld go ahead and arrange terms g ? agreement with the Republicans ?"Prevented ratification of the treaty ? ?ate, Senator Hitchcock said. ?Haldent'a Silence Embarrassing t?fc 'tt? ^<en verv embarrassing not *wehad some word from the PreBi *y .*? to how he regards a com ??*"*?. said Senator Hitchcock. "The 2*?**"^? Senators have not known iff"? to feel free to proceed with a ?gWttis?, or if the President would ?9?*tt ratification if they should agree ???UL' ??P??Mieana and get the treaty woaga the Senate. ^belitre that the President will ac "E^y, ???promise that would not F2j*f. .the treaty. His position has 3? ??ply that he signed a contract {???? representatives ?* other na ,v5? v?rsailles and he is not in a 2*2JW? to suggest changes in that 25***t- He would be breaking faith JuLi?"? ?ther signers. He has main ^^that the treaty is still before 2-?***f? .aftd ttt?t it must remain |77 "?W the Senate has acted finally. S-!*T. tb* treaty has received only ""??my votes in the Senat?. . ? ?H?v? the President wants us to SL2* to ?ft in order to get the *oeaa." *? *h* Senate in. any WBy ; "*dte Consents to Pia? at u^l Loi?Kf' *arly to-day conferred O?-?*? Vth S?nator McNary, of ?Wg leader ?i the "mild reserva sZi? , ^"?tor McNary obtained 9*aato* |J7"" ?v.-H?ry ooutmca ?Hh t?L idge? ?*n?*nt to proceed ^w* plan? for launching the corn that tnL*Murin*' the majority leader *?!?* tfe??? * move ,8 wad<> without S?sats tJ ,*r1 ?BOU*b votes in the ?etSa ait. 1<rpl lh" '''?"krwood rt-so I? MbShL* . CTtaiin9 * committee pjJ^iiMwn ta arrange a compru **?*Li?? if AT. ??"f?"-ed with *^fc? ?^ * Wisconsin, another frCsjsJ^*/*!??*1*0?*'*?'''' ??? - W^W?^?^ Ka"?a?. one Of the iSfc^S^li/oup of Republican ^JJPMKratic coHeaga? of Sanator g? ?? the roirrtgn Relations ?? JSSgJ **n??d that there "'BLs^ ?<T *w??son saw Hm. "^STdUsJ?* .????* ** th? J^Jfcgator Htehcock'? Yonkers Legion Open to Malone Half of Crot?n Repre? sented at Rejection, Says Bid for Membership Dudley Field Malone, formerly Col? lector of the Port ?f New York, whose application for membership in the Crot?n Post' of the American Legion re? cently was rejected on the grounds of Mr. Malone's alleged radical opinions, received the following letter yesterday from Cook Post, S21, of the American Leg%>n, in Yonkers : "It was with regret that I read in this morning's Tribune of the action taken by the Westchester County American Legion in indorsing the atti? tude of Fox Post in rejecting your application. This action was taken at a noonday meeting of the county com? mittee, at which less than half the posts in the county were represented, our own being among those missing. "We would be pleased to receive your application for membership and would consider it from the viewpoint of service, ability and sincerity, which, in your case, would, I am sure, be sat? isfactory. "It also occurred to me that you might be willing to come up and ad? dress our post at one of our semi? monthly meetings, which are held on the first and third Thursdays of each month. Any date you might select will be agreeable to us and the topic we would, leave to you. "Hoping that we may have .the pleas? ure of hearing from you op the subject, I am, yours very sincerely, "HARRY R. WILLIAMS, "President." Mr. Williams said last night that some of the membership committee of the post had been talking about Mr. Malone's case and had decided that it would be the fair thing to give him { a chance to address the post. If Mr. Malone was not revolutionary and if his war service entitled him to mem? bership in the legion, Mr. Williams said, the post might decide to elect him a member. The members who suggested writing the letter, he added, were not seeking Mr. Malone or notoriety, but they didn't want Mr. Malone or any one else to think that -$he Legion. was refuse ing a possible member a hearing. The next meeting will be January 16. The post has 300 members. ! Irish Leader Hints at Secret Ocean Passage O'Doherty Says He, Like de Va lera, Crossed Without Boarding a Ship Special Corre*pondence PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 2.?Seamus O'Doherty, one of the leaders of the Irish republican movement and escaped prisoner from Mount Joy prison, Dublin, and who was "President of the Irish Republic," pro tern, while Eamon de Valera was in jail, was arrested in Philadelphia to-day. O'Doherty denied he had crossed tho Atlantic Ocean "by ship, boat or float? ing vessel of any description." Whether he reached America in an airplane, a dirigible or a submarine he refused to disclose. "I came over in the same way de Valera did," O'Doherty said. "Did you ever find out how he crossed the Atlantic?" "No," O'Doherty was told. "And you never will," he said. "At any rate, I will not tell you or any one else. It readily can be seen how that would spoil everything for tho many other Irish republicans, under British suspicion or sentence, who undoubted? ly will follow me." O'Doherty was the leader of a prison riot in Mount Joy early last October. Subdued by the guards and placed in solitary confinement, he and his fifty followers went on a "hunger strike" which, he ?aid, was maintained for seven days. After his temporary release O'Doherty succeeded in escap? ing to America. He arrived in this country less than a week ago. Mrs. Norris Named to Complete Curran's Term Mayor Names Tammany Assist? ant Secretary to $8,000 Position Mr?. Jf^an H. Norris, .who was ap ' pointed a temporary magistrate by i Mayor Hylan two months ago, was ap? pointed yesterday to complete the un explred. term of Henry H. Curran, for? mer city- magistrate, now President of the Borough of Manhattan, which has until April, 1927, to run. The sal? ary is $8,000 a year. Mrs. Norria i? assistant secretary of Tammany Hall (and co-leader with George W. Olva ney, of the 10th Assembly District of j Manhattan. Miss Rose Pedrick, who waa secre? tary to Robert L. Moran, ex-President of the Board of Aldermen, was named '?secretary to Daniel L. Ryan, Deputy ? Transit Commissioner. Her salary will be $3,000 a year. District Attorney Swann appointed J. Krank Wheuton and Thomas F. Mc : Outre/Deputy Assistant District Attor Iney?; Their salaries 'have not been iflxed. Mr. McGuire, until his recent ?admission to the bar, was a drafts? man in the District Attorney's office, j Wheaton is a negro lawyer, who, bi? ff ore coming to this city fifteen years ago, nerved as a legislator in Minne? sota. Planter'? Wife Like? Cigars Smoked Them All the Way on Rough Voyage Th? Vnited Stat*?, of the Scandina viftfi-Amrrican Lin*, which docked yes? terday at Hoboken, had a rough p**?*ge from Copenhagen, but Mrs. Carl Hereupon, on? of the passenger?, didn't mind it a bit. Sh? nmoked cigars all the way, "Other women smoke cigarette?," ?he ??id; "i ptetet eig?r?." Bh# wan accompanied by her ho? Hirsch Quits Rent Board; Warns Hylan Chairman of Mayor's Committee on Profiteer? ing-Says Promise to Sup? ply Funds Was Broken] Poor Will Suffer, His Parting Fear Urges Continuation of Campaign Against Goug? ing Landlords in City Nathan Hirsch, chairman of the Mayor's Committee on Rent Profiteer? ing, yesterday charged Mayor Hylan with refusing to provide money for the work of the committee and ten? dered his resignation. In announcing his resignation Mr. Hirsch made public correspondence which passed between him and the Mayor during the last six weeks, show ign that he had on two other occa? sions tendered his resignation be? cause of the Mayor's neglect to pro? vide the committee with money. "My most earnest wish," said Mr. Hirsch last night, "is that the Mayor will move immediately to provide funds so that the work of the rent i profiteering committee will be con? tinued. It would be a calamity to take ! away from the poor the only agency which has stood between them and ex? tortion by unscrupulous landlords. Poor To Be Sufferers "What has been accomplished by the committee easily can be undone. The principal sufferers in that event would be the poor, and I do not believe the Mayor wants to take that responsi? bility." Mr. Hirsch was at, a loss, he said, to ; explain the Mayor's failure to give his ! committee an appropriation, likewise his failure t^ reply to his letter of December 28, in which he for the third time tendered his resignation and in which he reminded the Mayor of his broken promises. "On December 14 last the Mayor at-j tended the benefit performance given j at the Century Theater to add to a contingent fund to be used to alleviate distress caused by evictions among the I poor," read a statement issued last night at Mr. Hirsch's office. "Between the acts the Mayor caused Captain Charles A. Goldsmith, of the committee, to announce on his behalf that a part of the $300,000 fund gained by the city through overcharg? ing for army food would be used to further the work of the Rent Profiteer? ing Committee. "In spite of the Mayor's public promise, Mr. Hirsch was told that the poor he represented would get no part of the fund." Blame Put on Mayor . This phase of the situation was elaborated on in Mr. Hirsch'? letter to the Mayor of December 26. In his letter Mr. Hirsch ?ays the failure on the part of the Mayor to make good his promise "places us, and may I sug ! gest, even your honor, in a most \ awkward and humiliating position." Then the Jetter continued: "As a matter of altruism and civic duty, it seems to me that it is obliga? tory on the members of the Board of Estimate and Apportionment for the O'Malley committee to give, us money whereby we can properly continue work equally, if not more, important than distributing coal, ice and milk." After reviewing the entire situation, Mr. Hirsch declared that if $80,000 was not appropriated he would resign as he had no desire to be associated with anything that is doomed to be recorded in the annals of failures. He asked for a reply before January 1, go that he could guide himself accordingly. None boing forthcoming, Mr. Hirsch last night mad? public announcement of his resignation and gave out copie? of his correspondence with the Mayor. Settled Many Dispute* From the time of his appointment last spring up to November 1 Mr. ' Hirsch personally met all the cxnenwos of the committee. The amount he de? clined to reveal. Since then the Board of Estimate appropriated $10,600, of which $7,600 has been spent. The bal? ance is needed to pay extra help hired during the rent strikes of last fall. Mr. Hirsch said the committee has adjusted more then 80,000 rent dis? putes, has saved over $1,000,000 for j that number of families, and caused the land sharks and the tax lien sharks to disgorge cash or realty in excess of : $6,000,000? to their victims. Mr. Hirsch declared there was a large ' amount of work yet to be done, and i that there were now pending before the | committee scores of cases. Italian Recognition Sought by Bolsheviki "Black Sea Coast Capture Im? minent," Soviet Minister Declare? in Note LONDON, Jan. 2.?M. Tchitcherin, Bolshevik Foreign Minister, has pro ? tosed to Italy a resumption of rela? tons between that country and Soviet Russia, pointing out that the "immi? nent capture of the Black Sea coast by the Soviet? will open the Black Sea route to Italy," says a Moscow wireless meaoaf*, xee?Iv?d ?era?^ New York Leads in Radical Arrests Incomplete reports from raid? ers of radical headquarters all over the country last night indicated that about 3,000 had been arrested. Reports from the larger cities follow: New York City. 650 Detroit.,. 300 Buffalo._250 Philadelphia . 208 Chicago. 200 Newark '. 150 Nashua, N. H. 150 Boston. 100 Springfield, Mass. 100 Cleveland. ?. 100 Trenton, N. J. 75 Bayonne, N. J. 75 Passaic . 50 Worcester. 50 Lynn, Mass. 46 Manchester, N. H. 45 Berlin, Conn. 40 Milwaukee . 30 Lowell, Mass. ...'... 30 Jersey City . 25 Maeterlinck's English Fails Him on Stage Poet Tries Vainly to Make Himself Understood at Carnegie Hall and Aids Can't Read His 'Phonetics' Maurice Maeterlinck's English broke down completely under the test of his first public lecture last night at Car? negie Hall. Dr. Merle St. Croix Wright jumped into the breach and translated the Belgian poet's words as he spoke them, for the benefit of an audience which scarcely knew whether to be amused, indignant or sympathetic. After half an hour of this "duet," as the poet himself laughingly termed it, a messenger arrived breathless with a copy of the address in English, which Dr. Wright read. The remaining lectures of Maeter? linck's American tour will be given in French, it was stated last night by his friend, Henry Russell. Carnegio Hall i has already been sold out for next; Tuesday night. Mr. Russell also said ! that Maeterlinck was "very cross" with J. B. Pond, of the Pond Lyceum Bureau, j who had persuaded him to speak in' English against his own better judg- i ment. Carnegie Hall Packed Carnegie Hall was filled to the top? most gallery with friends and admirers of the poet. This audience was toi- j erant of the Maeterlinck accent per- j haps longer than the average American : audience would have bean, but it was ! only a few moments before there were ! cries from the audience, "En Fran- ' ?aise!" and "We can't understand a' word!" Dr. Wright took a look over the poet's Rhoulder when he began to have difficulty making himself understood, intending to read the manuscript of the lecture for him, then shrugged his shoulders and said: "It's the queerest looking jargon 1 ever saw. Looks like Chinese to me. Mr. Maeterlinck says it's 'phonetic, English.' 1 can't read it." Maeterlinck tried again, but in vain. Finally, with the aid of most of the distinguished diplomats and authors and financiers who sat in an imposing row on the platform, a system was evolved by which Mr. Maeterlinck pro? nounced slowly and cautiously to Dr. Wright the,words of his lecture, and Dr. Wright then repeated them to the audience. His System Fails The system of ''phonetic FJngiish" seemed to have been developed in the following method: The poet had writ? ten his lecture in French ? it had then been translated into English and writ? ten out by a secretary; the typewritten copy had then been read aloud to the poet, who had written it down in the French equivalent of the English sounds. As an example, Dr. Wright explained to the much amused audience that the word "issues" was spelled in the poet's language "ichiouse." and "ended" was "ainedide." ? -, Even when the real EngltBh manu? script and the real French manuscript arrived the disturbances in the pro? gram were not ended. "Let the public have its choice as to whether Mr. Maeterlinck will read in French or I in English," cried out one ?of the many assistant masters of cere? monies on the platform. The French aide of the house raised up loud voices, but they were drowned out by the Eng? lish-speaking three-quarters of the meeting, who pounded on the floor and yelled and roared their preference for something they could understand. A little; woman in the front of the house then rose. "Please," she hegged, "we are no anxious to h$ar Mr. Maeterlinck's won? derful French; just let him speak in French for a littl?." ? English Finally Wins So thei-f* was another ps.go of Maeter? linck in French, and then tho evening was Dr. Wright's. Throughout the course of the lecture, however, the poet stood at his side, listening care? fully to hi? pronunciation as he fol? lowed it page by page on his 'phonetic manuscript, maintaining all the whtle s calm and unperturbed demeanor, Continued on page three __- ^ Revolution Declared Aim Of Radicals! _ . i All Seized Are Aliens Charged With Advocat? ing Overthrow of U. S. j Government by Force j Prisoners Belong to j Commuiiist Parties Propaganda to Organize, Negroes Is Revealed; and Trouble Is Feared j New York Tribune Washington Bureau WASHINGTON, Jan. 2.?A. Mitchell Palmer, Attorney General, personally directed the raids made to-night in rad? ical centers throughout the country. The round-up had been carefully i planned for three months. Promptly at 9 o'clock agents of the department swooped down upon nests of the radi? cals simultaneously in nearly 60 cities in all parts of the country. They were armed with warrants issued in ad? vance. All of those arrested were aliens, and* all were members of the Com? munist party or the Communist Labor party of this country. They were charged with advocating and teaching the overthrow of the United States government by force and violence. Both the Communist party arid tho Communist Labor party subscribed to the manifesto of the Third Interna- ! tional, which was organized by L?nine ? ai-1 Trotzky in Moscow, March 2 to 6, > 1919, for the purpose of advocating a world revolution, according to depart? ment officials. All Slated for Deportation Russians, Germans and Austrian?, predominated among the aliens caught in the dragnet to-night, although nearly every nationality was repre? sented. They will be turned over to the immigration officials of the De? partment of Labor for deportation; j together with the proof of their activ? ities, obtained by William J. Flynn and his agents in the Division of In? vestigation of the Department of Jus? tice. Decision relative to .whether the j radicals will be deported rests with the immigration officials. Only the alien radicals could be i gathered in by the Department of Jus- i tice, it was explained, under the pres? ent law. Several states have laws tak- ? ing care of radicals who are American I citizens, and the arrests made in Chi- I cago this week were made under an ? | Illinois law, it was explained. j Government's Overthrow Advocated The Department of Justice issued i the following statement soon after the \ raids started. "Agents of the Department of Jus? tice took into custody to-night several hundred members of the Communist : party and the Communist Labor party of this country, located in thirty-five ! cities, on the charge that these organi- 1 zations advocate and teach the over-! throw of the United States government j by force and violence. The only dif- ! ference between the Communist party j and the Communist Labor party is one ; of leadership. Both of these parties, i since their organization early last Sep tember, have been endeavoring to ? ! bring about the establishment of a ; Soviet form of government in this | country similar to that which now ; obtains in Russia." Revolutionary Plot Charged i Francis T. Garvan, Assistant Attor j ney General, in discussing the raids, j i held that, the two parties had been I i working hand in hand to gain the same | end and planned eventually to unite in j | revolution. To show the effort of the ' | party leaders to strengthen their influ- ' j ence, Mr. Garvan revealed attempts ? ! made by the radicals to organize the ! i negro population of the United States; | to assist in establishing the Soviet gov-? eminent. He held that as a result of j j this propaganda some disorders among. negroes might be expected. Amongthej documents seized by Federal agents bearing on the effort to organize the j negroes was the following: "In close connection with the un j skilled workers is the problem.of the I negro.. The negro presents a political I and economic problem. The racial op ! pression of the negro is simply the expression of his economic bondage and oppression, each intensifying the other. This complicates the negro problem, but does not alter its prole? tarian character. The Communist party will carry on ajritation among the negro workers to unite them with all class-conscious workers." "Proposes to End Capitalism" An example of the kind* of propa-1 ganda used by the radicals among the working classes is the following pam? phlet issued by the Communist party and made public by the Department of Justice: "The Communist party of America is the party of the working class. The Communist party of America proposas to end capitalism and organize a work? ers' industrial republic. "The workers must control industrry and dispose of the products of indus? try. The Communist party is a party realizing tho limitations of all existing workers' organizations and proposes to develop th? revolutionary movement necessary to free the workers from the oppression of capitalism. The Com? munist party insists that the problems of American workers are identical with tho problems of the workers of the world. "The Communist party is the con j Continued on neast page \ i ?m?g?m??mftrnm??w?r?w? i.mi?, He Directs "Red" Raids SBfFT c-x - - ' - "?<*?} MM .a. Mitchell Palmer United States Attorney General, who is directing a nation-wide round-up of radicals. U. S. Rail Loss In 23 Months Is 548 Millions November Deficit of $64,-j 500,000 Brings High To tal; Net Operating Income Estimated Under $20, 000*000 WASHINGTON. Jan. 2.- The govern- j ment deficit from railroad operation | during November will be approxi- j mately $64,500,000. a low record for ! the year, according to figure? compiled ' and made public to-night by the bureau j of railway economics. Net operating j income for the month was estimated i to have fallen below $20,000,000, which1 the bureau of economics declared to j be the lowest in thirty years when computed on a basis of percentage of j investment. Gross revenues for the month were | estimated at close to $436,000,000. This figure is only slightly below the high mark of a year ago, but the heavy J expenses, due in part to the coal strike, ? which also reduced the revenues, left j as net little of the operating revenues. ? The government's net loss, the i bureau estimated, on the basis of j Interstate Commerce Commission fig- J ures, has reached $543,000,000 in the j twenty-threo months of railroad ? operation. The bureau placed the loss ) for the eleven months of 1919 at more than $380,000,000. December returns on the rail opera? tion were forecast as bringing another decline in the statement issued a few days ago by Director General Hines, who pointed to the inevitable loss in revenuet? incident to the coal strike. The November earnings, as com? puted by the bureau with compara- ! tive figures for the corresponding ( month in 1918, follow: 1919. 1918. Revenues .?436,000,000 $140,400,000 Expenses and Uses. 417.000.000 383.900.000 | Net income. IW.000.000 56,500,000 While the November revenues were, said by the bureau to show an increase! of $149,200,000 as compared with the ! average for the month in the three-: year test ?eriod before the war, ex-1 penses and taxes have also increased more than $213,000,000. The increase in opeiating revenues was traceable j largely to the heavy passenger traffic, which was represented to have been about 10 per cent higher than the November average of the test period. Freight traffic, however, was estimated tu have dropped several per cent. The Eastern roads, which in other months have offset losses accumulated by lines in. other sections, were un? able to meet their actual operating ex? penses and taxes for the month, the bureau of economics figures revealed. Expenses and taxes of the Eastern lines were shown to have been $4,200,000 in excess of operating revenues. Lines in the West, however, did bet? ter in' earnings than in most previous months, owing to the heavy grain movement and also to the fact that they did not suffer from loss of revenue through the closing of mines. Their earnings were placed at, about $20,000,000. ? s Five Die in Explosion At du Pont Powder Mill Wilmington and Country /or Thirty Miles Around Shaken; Many Houses Damaged WILMINGTON Del., Jan. 2.?One of the grinding mills of the Hagley. plant of the du Pont Powder Company blew up this morning. Five workmen were killed ?n8 one was injux*ed. The build? ing was of flimsy construction. The plant is on Brandywinc Creek, three miles from here. Wilmington and the ?surrounding country for thirty miles were violently shaken. Some houses in the immediate vicinity of the plant were badly dam? aged. The home of former Federal Judge Edward G. Bradford, about half a mile from the mill, was partially wrecked. All ef the doors and windows were broken and other damage was done, Judge Bradford was recovering froistsW?Wf ?UJ|?a%_.__._ > -.-1 1,530 Warrants Issued in New York City and Vicinity; Plans for Gigantic Drive Under Way Three Months 150 Seized in Brooklyn Drive Seventy-five Police Aid Chief Flynn in Round-Up; Newark and Jersey Gty Jails Are Crowded With Suspects The Department of Justice., after three months of preparation? launched last night a nation-wide round-up of members of the Communist and Communist Lalpr parties. In New York City alone 880 warrants were issued for leaders amona; those who are attempting to introduce a soviet government in the United States. By 2 o'clock this morning 650 men and women had been taken from various parts of the greater city to Department of Justice headquar? ters at 21 Park Row. A. Mitchell Palmer, Attorney General, is in charge of this, tho greatest offensive ever instituted by the government against radicals. 1?* .scope extends from coast to coast. Three thousand arrests were reported during the evening. More than three thousand warrants had been issued. Chief William J. Flynn is directing the activities of the 115 Federal agents and police charged with serving warrants and arresting all suspects here. . ' Score of Cities Are Raided in the East In the East the government forces moved against the "Reds" in a score of cities at 9 o'clock last evening. The agents in Jersey City were armed with 410 warrants. In Newark they were charged with serving 320. Raids also were carried on in Paterson, Passaic, New Brunswick, Trenton, Camden and a half dozen smaller communities in Jersey. Prisoners were likewise taken in New Haven, Hartford, Springfield. New London and other New England towns. Every known headquarter? of the Communist and Communist Labor parties was visited. It is understood all aliens named in the warrants will be deported as soon as possible. Citizens arrested are to be turned over to the county nrnsu?pnt.r?va fnr trial. 500'Reds'Seized In New England \ _ Large Quantities of Lit-\ etature Taken in U. S, j Raids in Many'Townsi BOSTON, Jan. 2.?Nearly five hun? dred "Reds" had been arrested in New ! England at midnight to-night, in raids carried out by agents of the Depart- ; ment of Justice assisted by the police in twenty cities. Among the places in which arrests j were made and the number of prisoners , taken were: Nashua, N. H., 150; Manchester, N. H., 65; Springfield, Mass., 100; Lynn, I Mass., 46; Holyoke, 20; Worcester, 65; j Lowell, 30; Lawrence, 8; Boston 75; j Haverhill, 21; Providence, 50; Water bury, Conn., 7; Bridgeport, 16; Berlin, N. H., 40; Chicopee, Mass., 16. In all the raids large quantities of' literature were seized. Many more j arrests were expected before morning. In Nashua where the greatest num? ber of pi'isoners was taken, the al? leged radicals were captured in a raid on a Communist meeting. Among them were 23 women. The principal speaker of the evening was arrested by the Federal agents be? fore the meeting began the officers said. The president of the local organ- ' ization was reported to have been "tipped otf" that the raid was coming, as he left the hall on the run just be? fore the Department of Justice agents arrived and was captured only after a chase. When the prisoners were taken to police headquarters the women joined in singing "My Country 'Tin of Thee" and Russian songs. In Lawrence, the dragnet caught se - eral persons who took a prominent part j ! in the textile strike last spring. Among | : these were Ime Kaplan, who had pre- ; vioualy been arrested on a charge of I distributing radical literature; Frank j Coco, Solerno and Frank Szjna, an j organizer for the Amalgamated Textile j Workers of America < In Holyoke most of the raids were made on private homes, where it was i known that the "Reds" had gathered | ?frequently. Quantities of papers and j i books were taken to the police station. | j In Boston twenty-four were arrested t ! at the Communist party headquarters 1 and thirty, all Russians, in one group in a Staniford Street hall. Among the : j leaders imprisoned were Anafros Kara- ' I lius, of Chicago, a Communist party j organizer, who was supposed to have i addressed the meeting at Nashua, and j j Adam Dulski, secretary of the Cam bridge branch of the party. ' In Springfield several women were arrested. The Federal agents con-1 j fined their attentions chiefly to pri- ; i vate % residences and carried out the, j raids without meeting resistance. Sev- j eral patrol wagon loads of prisoners : I were carried away from the headquar- j | ters of the Russian Club in Liberty I Hall. ? Bryan's Michigan Friends ! To Enter Him in Primary j ! "Musi Be a Mistake; Tve Heard j Nothing of It," Commoner Says at Miami, Fla. DETROIT, Jan. 2.?William Jennings Bryan will be entered in Michigan's Presidential preference primary as a candidate for indorsement as Demo? cratic nominee for President, accord? ing to local friends of the former Sec? retary of State. Petition? in his favor, which will re? quire only 100 names, will be in circu i lation shortly, it Etas said. The pri? maries will be hel^April 5. MIAMI, Fla., Jan. 2.?"It must be a mistake, for I hnve heard nothing of it," William Jennings Bryan said to? day regarding the statement from De? troit that his name would be entered in the Michigan Presidential prefer^-1 ence primaries. Mr. end Mr?. Bryan are span ding the winter ?t their home > Forty agents of the Department ot Justice, assisted by seventy-five police? man in civilian clothes, conducted the raids in greater New York. They were | directed by William J. Flynn, chief of the department's bureau o? investiga tion; George F. Lamb, local superin? tendent of the bureau, and Charles F. Scully, head of the Federal bomb squad. Four Hundred Arrested Here Within an hour after the raiders had left Mr. Flynn's office at 15 Park Row in army trucks and automobiles thev reported that, out of 800 for whom warrants had been iasucd 400 had been taken into custody. Mr. Flynn said the number taken into custody would ex? ceed 800 before the round-up was com? pleted. Conspicuous among those taken vs. the raids was a man who said he was a city employee and that he believed in the overthrow of the government by force.* He gave bis name as Julius Codkind, of 1333 East Ninety-seventh Street, Brooklyn, and declared he worked in the bureau of collections of the De? partment of Assessments and Arrears, in Brooklyn. His association with the Communist party began yesterday, he declared, when he was elected secre? tary of the Harlem branch of the or? ganization. According to Federal agents tMa man asserted: "I was born in the. United States. I believe in the over? throw of this government by force, if necessary. I believe the time soon will come when the whole United States will be under Bolshevik rule." Mr. Flynn said the man will be held for the state authorities. All night long, the process ot ques? tioning and sorting out the captives went on at the office of the Depart? ment of Justice. Early to-day fifty four men had been locked up at Police Headquarters. It is understood that most of these will be sent to Ellis Island this morning. Looking over the heads of the motlej crowd jammed into the offices yf the Department of Justice at midnight Mr Flynn said, "This is the breaking ot the backbone of radicalism in America/ Green light was the prevailing colo) , in the office. It came from a giganti? radium bulb used in photography. Ii' was the first thing that popped int*. the eyes of the startled men and women as they straggled out of the elevator. Women Aged 16 to 60 Sixty to sixteen were the ages given by the women temporarily made pris? oners. Just before midnight six old women, some of them with white hair, appeared umong the file escorted in by agents. Men. women and girls, and with them all the paraphernalia taken from the places where they were found, were crowded into the elevator and quickly carried upward. The paraphernalia consisted of red banners, books, papers and large framed portraits of Marx, Trotaky, Bebe! and other radical leader?. One hundred, or about 20 per cent of those detained, were released after they had been examined in Mr. Flynn's office. It was found there was no evi? dence on which to hold them. Many Destroyed Cards Some of those taken are declared to? have destroyed their membership cards in the Communist party whil? the government agents were entering the meeting places. In a number o:' instances, it was said, the cards were found crumpled up in shoes, lining? of coats and other place? of conceal? ment. These cards, when identified as be? longing to the persons who held them, were taken as sufficient evidence to warrant deportation or criminal an? archy proceedings against those who held them. Plans for the raids had been in preparation for more than a month. Printed instructions sent from Wash ; ington were read to eaeh raider. These i specified that no violence was to be used. Squads of agent* were sent to each place designated for a raid so that all the raids would take place simuN taneouely. Promptly "at 8:80 o'clock eaeh squad walked into the place ap? pointed for it? scene of action. AU the occupants of the place were Hnedj up against a wall and searched. The* were then eseerteoi to an army truck and taken to the Department of Jut tlee heedquartertv to Park .Row. i Mm ?? Wm frkn obriwwly wer?