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Criminal Agitators Permitted to Meet and Plot Treason in New York JBERTY HAS BECOME LICENSE IN AMERICA May Day Was Celebrated as Red Flag Day in Great City By Alien Bolshevists. i :New York, May 1.?The climax of the May day celebration of New - York's [radicals came tonight with a mass meeting at Madison Square Gar den which adopted resolutions advo cating four general strikes, three of fixe days' duration and a fourth of in definite- length -unless Thomas J. Mooney and Warren K. Billings are released from prison or granted new trials before July 4. The meeting tonight was the only one of'a dozen planned for today which was not broken up by soldiers and sailors, who demanded that the American flag be displayed and ' The Star Spangled Banner" sung. It was not the fault of the service men that they did not "clean up" the Garden tonight. They tried hard enough but were overwhelmed by the police. An army of 1,31 S police, under com mand of Chief Inspector Daly, guard ed all approaches to the Garden and held at bay mor,e th^n 1,000 men in uniform, recently returned from France. "lied by a Scotch Canadian soldier and a bugler who repeatedly sounded the assembly, the soldiers and sailors charged the police lines, again and agam hut only to be beaten back. Sack of the officers on foot with night sticks held ready, were outposts of mounted men. They were rein forced by a strong provost guard. ' Not only did the police repel fron tal attacks but they tried strategy .with success. Led by a platoon of mounted officers, several hundred pa trolmen on foot caught a large num ber of soldiers, sailors and marines in 28th Street between Fifth and Madison Avenues, cuttting off every ayenue of escape. The patrolmen charged the crowd, using their night sticks freely and dispersed it. One mounted Officer, chasing the Canadian leader of the crowd and an American soldier pursued them on horseback into the main entrance or the Hotel Latham where. the Ameri can was felled by a blow from a night stick. The Canadian escaped through the bar room. 'The police became more enthusiastic in their work af ' ter .they had been pelted with a show er of bricks. An American soldier, wounded in France and on sick leave from a hos pital in this city, was knocked down and trampled on by mounted police, who charged the crowd, as. he was walking off. He was unconscious when carried away in an ambulance. While the police and service men were battling in the rain outside, the Mooney meeting was proceeding with great enthusiasm but little disorder. Agents of the department of justice were scattered through the huge hali watching the proceedings and now and then taking notes. The strike resolutions, which were adopted after reciting that every legal recourse had been exhausted without obtaining "justice or a new trial" for Mooney or Billings, called on organ- j ized workers to^act as follows: "Unless new (trials or freedom are( granted Mooney and Billings before' July 4, 1919, we will go out on a! general strike to take effect for five days, namely, July 4, f>, C, 7, and 8. "Further, if justice is still denied to \ spite of first protest we will join a general strike to take effect again for five days, beginning Laoor day and be in effect September 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5. "Again, if no relief is forthcoming, we will go out on a third period oi general strike for five days to take! effect beginning November 19, anni-j versary of Mooney's commutation, and be in effect November 19, 20, 21,! 22 and 23. "Following third period, if Mooney and Billings are still in jail We will Join a general strike for an indefinite period at a given date." The soldiers and sailors began their "anti-May day" activities early in the' afternoon and organized a parade with more than 500 men in line. In the course of their march they spied what they termed Bolshevist posters past ed on the front of the building occu pied by the New York Call, a Social ist labor newspaper. Responding to the orders of their leader the service men charged the j building. They destroyed a large quantity of Socialist literature, stop- j ping long enough to eject from doors and windows a dozen employees of the paper who were forced to run the I gauntlet between two lines of men in j uniform who rained blows on them as they fled. Four women wfere car- j ried out of the building fainting. The parade then was resumed. One of the first places on the itinerary! was Madison Square Garden where j some reported a Bolshevist gathering, j Then they marched to the .Soldiers and Sailors Protective Association on } East 23rd Street looking for Bolshe- j vist literature. Next the Rand School j of Socialist Sciences was called upon | and later the offices of Novy Myer. j official organ of the Russian Bolshe-j viki here. At Madjson Square Garden, where r May day was being celebrated by 10,- j 000 workers of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, the pa rading soldiers and sailors were met J at the doors by the police Mho checked them there. The bugle !To Arms'* brought more soldiers a^d sailors hurrying to the already besieged doors of the Garden. CONTINUE MARCH ON BUDAPEST Rumanian Government Refuses to Entertain Offer of Hun garians I I NOT TO BE BOUGHT BY TERRITORY No Peace to Be Made With the Hungarian Bolshevist Gov ernment. Geneva, May 3.?The Rumanian and Czecho-Slovak governments, ac cording to reports here, have refused to entertain the offer of Bela Kun, the Hungarian foreign minister, to accept the territorial conditions of jfered providing that fighting he stop ped all on fronts. Rumanian and Czechs troops continue to march on Budapest. Navy Almost Ready United States Flyers May Yet Get Away Before Impatient British Rivals St. Johns. Ml F., May 2.?The Unit - ed States navy became a real factor in the contest for trans-Atlantic .flight honors when the mine layer Aroos took flying the Stars and Stripes drop ped anchor in British waters at Tres passey Bay. It has on board the crew of the naval air station which will be maintained as the base for the Amer ican flying boats. The arrival of the Aroostook with the hint it brought of the early ar rival of the American naval seaplanes for their start on the trans-Atlantic flight caused noticeable concern to Harry Hawker, Australian, and Capt. Frederick P. Raynham, Englishman, who have been here nearly a month awaiting favorable weather for the trip in their land planes. "The Nancy boats of the United States navy must get here first," com mented Raynham in speaking of the prospects for the navy's N. C. planes. I "Then they must fly to the Azores. Whether we call Portugal or Eng land their finish line, the stops they will make involve time. I think either Hawker or I can give them three days and beat them to England if they follow announced plans. . "If we are held here until the Americans arrived at Trespassey Bay .or even at the Azores, we should still be able to get across before them. As the honor of the first crossing over shadows the London Daily Mail's prize for wheih Hawker and I are racing, I am sure neither of us will decline the issue if the Americans set out from here, whether stormy or fair. ; j New York, May 2.?At 11.30 o'clock "some morning in Newfoundland" the navy's trans-Atlantic seaplanes will "hop oft*" on their flight of not less than 18 1.-2 hours to the Azores, it was learned at the Rockaway Point naval air station today. This means that the three planes, the Ni C. .1, 3 and 4 will travel all of one night and will not alight before r> or 6 o'clock in the morning after they depart from New foundland. Sixty destroyers equipped with powerful searchlights will sweep the heavens with continuous swing ing beams all night so that during the hours of darkness the air pilots can find their way along a path of light with a "lamp post" every 50 miles. For daylight reckoning, huge num bers will be painted on the decks and sides of the vessels, so that observers in the planes may check their 'course regularly on the way overseas. Flying will be at a height of about 1,000 feet according to Commander Towers, >n command of the air squadron. Bolsheviki Forces j Retiring in Disorder I - ! Defeated By Siberian Army Russian Newspaper Say i Helsingsfors, May 3.?Defeated [along tne entire eastern front by Si berian armies, the olsheviki forces are retiring in disorder, according to ; Russian newspapers here. Nashville, May 3?Mrs. Faith Har ris Lee, daughter of Mrs. Corra Har ris, noted southern writer died here this morning. I and then notes heard inside the j building brought instant silence. Up" I to that time greetings had been pro j posed to the "Great and free people j of Russia." and to "Redeemed Ger- j many." together with demands for] '?restoration of free speech, free press and free assembly, repudiation and] ! repeal of all measures of oppression! jand repression, release of industrial ;and political prisoners, immediate ter mination of deportation of aliens and! ! withdrawal of American troops from I j Russia. Shouts from the uniformed men at the doors to "Make the Bolsheviki sing 'The star Spangled Banner' em phasized the silence in the Garden. A hurried conference by those in) charge of the meeting brought the de- i cision to call off the speech making, j The self constituted crusaders ar rived ut the Rand School during a pandemonium of cheering over state ments from the platform that "Amer ica is no better than Russia," ami "there is no freedom here." The soldiers and sailors demanded that the American flag be run up to the top of the school tJag pole. A flap was hastily brought out of Ihe cellar and raised. Federal Officials Start Wholesale Arrest of New ,York Anarchists j INVESTIGATE NATION WIDE CONSPIRACY Peace Delegates in Paris Warn ed by Cable to Watch For Bombs. New York, May 2.?The federal and police officials are expected to round up the radicals here today in connection with the investigation of the nation-wide May day conspiracy to kill prominent men with bombs ad dressed to them through the mails. It is reported . today that a cable message was sent members of the peace delegation in Paris warning them against opening packages. It is declared, howevei, that nothing was learned by the investigators to indicate that any were sent abroad. Paris. May 3.?The Italian issue is still in the balance with the American Ambassador Page and the French am bassador Barrere both making ef forts in Pome to find by conversations with Premier Orlando a formula which will heal the breach caused by the withdrawal of the Italian dele gation. GREAT DANGER UPON COUNTRY Mayor Ole Hanson Urges Im mediate Adoption of Measures to-Exterminate Anarchists i j THIS IS NO TIME FOR LENIENCY Murderous Criminals Are Seek ing to Overthrow Government and Start Reign of Terror. Kansas City, May 1.?Mayor Ole Hanson of Seattle, opponent of the T. W. W. and Bolshevists, tonight ad dressed an appeal to mayors of all cities in the United States urging the closing of all I. W. W. halls, impris | onment of the leaders and the sup I pression of the red flag. j I. W. W.-ism in America today is i the same as Bolshevism in Russia, ! Mayor Hanson declared. j "You may be willing to take the j trouble to deport these traitors," he asserted, "but I am ready to hang them to the first convenient light i pole. I "The cry for food is the first " de j mand of mankind," said Mayor Han json. "Bolshevism is an alluring doc j trine and it is not surprising that it ! appealed to hungry Russians. But it will gain no footing in America un less the injustices under which labor has suffered in the past continue and a period of unemployment and eonse iquent hunger follows." i _ Topeka, Kan., May 1.?In a Victory Loan address today before the To peka Chamber of Commerce, Mayor Ole Hanson of Seattle, denounced the policy pursued by the government to ward anarchists and the I. W. W. as "a skim milk, weak, vacillating ana changeable one, and pronounced a warning of a 'widespread.* national effort to overthrow the government ! and society by violence." He declared the government was "on the wrong track in starting conferences in stead of cemeteries in dealing wlthj the I. W. W.," and in "signing or brotherly love and turning loose these enemies of society." As to the lately revealed bomb plot j in which he himself was one of the intended victims, the mayor said: j "I trust Washington will buck up land clean up, and either hang or in carcerate for life all the anarchists j in the country." Revealing great I emotion in his subject, he added: "If j the government does not clean them ! up, I will. I'll give up my mayor iship and start through the country, j We will hold meetings and have hang I ing places." I Mayor Hanson declared he believed; I the I. W. W. was at the bottom of the recent bomb plot, and that the con-j spiracy "permeates every State in the Union." Consider Credentials Peace Conference Committee Meets Sunday Paris. May ?,.?The credentials com-! mittee of the peace conference will' hold another meeting with the Oer-j man delegates Sunday morning. . _ { Two Aviators Killed I - i Maj. Clark and Lieut Tonkin! Fall to Death at Panama . Panama. May 3.?Major R. M. 1 Clark, of California, and Lieut. R. C.j; Tonkin, of Atlanta, were killed y?s-[j terday when their airplane strio-kj' miraflores.Lock, throwing the men in < the water. Marcel Hutin Outlines Order In Which Treaty Deals With Important Matters GERMAN DELEGATION WILL SIGN PRELIMINARY Preamble Sets Forth Reasons The Several Allies Give For Entering the War Paris, May 2.?The peace treaty comprises from fifteen to twenty chapters according' to Marcel Hutin in the Echo de Paris. The preamble is contained in the first chapter, set ting forth the reason:; why the various contracting parties entered the war and mentioning the necessity for the league of nations. The second chap ter deals with German frontiers and the third contains all clauses connect ed with the alterations of frontiers resulting in changes in sovereignty of territory. The fourth sets forth the military, naval and aerial cUuses and the Jifth takes up the disposition of the German colonies. It is said the other chapters are not yet complet ed. M. Hutin adds there is every reason to believe the German delegation has full powers and will end the negotia tions by signing the preliminaries of the treaty. CARRY ON,' SAYS GLASS Secretary of Treasury Calls On . People to Rally to Victory Loan COUNTRY MUST AROUSE ITSELF AT ONCE Civilians for Whom Soldiers j Fought Should Not Be Slack ers in Victory Bond Campaign Atlanta, May 1.?America must put the same impetus behind the Victory Liberty loan that made the first four J loans a success and must get at the ; task of raising the $4,500,000.000 in j the same spirit that American soldiers j in France today are completing their work, Secretary Glass declared in two addresses here today. The secretary of the treasury ad dressed a gathering of more than 300 bankers and newspaper editors of the Sixth district at a meeting during the morning and in the afternoon spoke again on the loan at a meeting to which the public generally was invit ed. His appearance here was mark ed by announcement from loan head quarters that more than half of the $144,000,000 quota of the Sixth dis trict already had been subscribed. Mr. Glass told in his second ad dress what the raising of the final loan meant to the country, of the ne cessity that it should be taken largely j by popular subscription so that capi tal of the banks should not he tied up I thus preventing financing of various projects which he said was necessary to restore the country to normal con ditions. Some business men, he said, had advised him that the subscribing; of the fifth loan, now that the war is over should be "approached in a cold j blooded spirit." He could not agree to this, he said, and he believed the same spirit of patriotism as in war was necessary. "Let the people of the South con tribute to the Victory Loan or rather loan of thanksgiving in the same American spirit as the hoys of the South shed their blood and risked life and limb in the greatest of all world ( wars." the secretary urged. The appeal brought a storm of cheering that was only halted after! Samuel C. Dobbs, chairman of the Atlanta zone, asked the audience to j rise and by ihis pledge their loyalty! to the loan. The assemblage rose as a unit and the Forty-fifth Infantry Hand broke jn$o "The Star Spangled Banner." which brought another burst of applause. Touching on the comparative slow-1 ness with which many districts are reporting subscriptions. Mr. Glass said! this did not bother him. He had every confidence that the loan would "goI over" and he realized thai it would be j subscribed and oversubscribed, inj "American fashion" with the last two days showing an avalanche of sub scriptions. At the sann- lime he warn ed against depending too much on this final rally. Prophesj of a brilliant, future fori this country which he said Is now the financial center of the world, was! made by the secretary. Tl?- pictured I prosperity for business and for the! working man and because of the; working of the federal reserve sys-j' tem no danger in the future of tinan-j cial panic. United States Senator Moke Smith was another speaker ibis afternoon on 1 behalf of the loan. London. May 3.?The Germans will j bo given fifteen days to accept or re-11 iect the treaty of peace, according to,] a. Paris dispatch to the Exchange ? t Felegraph. There will be no oral dis- ; t missions, the negotiations being eon-.; tucted in writing. i i BUILD A HOME FIRST The human he-art has no affection more enduring or rnore profound than the love of home. Xo normal human being knows the full measure of contentment untii he becomes_a dweller within a homo of his very own. There could he no better time than the present in which to build a home. Compared with the price of other staple com-' modities, the cost of building materials is extremely moderate. BOOTH & McLEOD, Inc., EXTRA SESSION OF CONGRESS President Wilson Will Probably Call Meeting About June First . SEMI-OFFICIAL NEWS FROM WASHINGTON President Will Not Be Able to Return Before End of Month Washington, May 3.?Intimation that a special session -of congress will be called by the president to meet about June first is contained in con J fidential dispatches received here to day from Paris. It was said in au thoritative administration circles that j it was quite probable in case the sit uation in Paris should develop rapidly, a special session might meet even be fore June 1st. In that case the call would be made by cable dispatches and it was made clear the president was confident it would not be possible for him to return before the end of this month. The Salvation Army {Cardinal Gibbons Ur^es Amer icans To Back Army Cam paign i James Cardinal Gibbons, head of the Roman Catholic Cnurch in this country, and one of the best loved preachers and writers in the United j States to-day, in a letter sent to for- I mer Governor Chas. S. Whitman ofj {New York City, National Chairman j j for the coming drive, expressed him- j scjf as entirely behind the work of Salvation Army and asked the citi-1 zehs of this country to rally their sup- j port to gain the thirteen million dol- j lar goal which the Salvation Army has set out to do. This unqualified endorsement com ing froms the lips of a man of Cardi nal Gibbons' type, carries dignity and weight because Cardinal Gibbons very j seldom gives an interview on any na- j ; tional subject outside of the workj j of the Roman Catholic Church. His! letter in full follows: "I have been asked by the local commander of the Salvation Army to address a word to you as the National j Chairman of the Campaign about to I be launched in behalf of the above organization. This I am happy to do and for ihe reason that along with my Fellow American Citizens I rejoice in the splendid service which the Salva tion Army rendered our soldier and sailor boys during the war. Every re turning trooper is a willing witness to the efficient and generous work of the Salvation Army both at the front and in the camps at home. I am j also more happy to commend this or ganization because it is free from sectarian bias. The man in need of j help is the object.of their effort with! never a question of his creed or color. 1 trust therefore your efforts to raise thirteen million dollars for the Sal vation Army will meet with hearty response from our generous public." In his reply to ih?1 distinguished prelate. Governor Whitman said: "Your gracious letter endorsing th?i activities of the Salvation Army here and abroad and drawing attention to it's freedom from a certain bias, is received, expresing as it does, that spirit of broad tolerance and democ racy which has made you beloved and venerated by all Americans, irrespec- ' five of race and creed. It will be a 1 great help to Commander Booth and those associated with her in the ef- j I fort to raise the funds so essential ^ to the efficiency of their labors for 1 humanity. Th<i Salvation Army is ' honored by this recognition of its pur-j< poses and ideals. Our work will be ( the better because of your inspiring words of encouragement." ( _,_i Meeting With Germans ? Under Way < Question of Making Peace With a Austria Taken Up j Paris. May 3.?With the meeting i with the German peace delegation al ready underway at Versailles, the question of making peace with Aus-! tria has been taken up. The Austrian} delegation will be housed at St. Ger-M main. Greensboro. May 3.?An explosion followed by lire destroyed the storage plant of the Texas Oil Company with s ) loss of at least one life. Tradic ^n j p he Southern Railway was interrupted s< rnd windows in houses for miles u i round were broken. Ih Carinthia Orders General Mob ilization to Resist Jugo-Slav Army ? . ' ??? VIENNA CALLED \ ON FOR HELP - I Allies Also Said to Bg Seeking To Settle The Conflict Geneva, May 2.?The government of Carinthia has ordered the mobi lization of twenty military classes.to arrest the invasion of German-Aus tria by the Jugo-Slavs according, to a dispatch received at Bern from re liable sources. 1 The Jugo-Slavs are reported to be j attacking on a fifty mile front fpr^the {purpose of seizing Klagenfurt- and ! Villach, from which they are now i only fifteen miles. .. . I Vienna is said to be preparing to I aid the Carinthian troops and' the [allies are seeking to settle the con jfllCt. . <?;.;-. Budapest Occupied by Roumanians Vienna, May . 2.?King Ferdinand, of Rumania, accompanied by French generals is about to enter Budapest at the head of his troops, a Bucharest dispatch to the Neu Freie Press ;says. Firemen Blown Up, i. - Seventeen Hurt by Explosion on Vessel in Charleston. ! ' __ ..... I Charleston, May 2.?While fighting la blaze on a sub chaser this morning, I at the wharf of the Valk & Murdoch plant. 17 members of the Charleston lire department, including Chief Louis Behrens, who was knocked uncon scious by concussion, were injured,. of them rather seriously, when a tank of gasoline exploded, cuts, burns, broken legs and other injuries result- . ing. The more seriously injured were.. hurried to the hospital for treatment. The sub chaser, blazing fiercely, was towed across the river, and left to be consumed. No other property burned. Ensign John E. Martin of Columbia* commanding the boat, S. C. No. 58, was slightly injured by concussion, as were two seamen, not sufficiently to require hospital treatment, however. Chief Behrens was still partly uncon scious this afternoon, but is expected to recover, and it is believed that there will be no fatalities. Nine of the injured firemep are white and; eight negroes. This is the heaviest '-' casualty list in the history of the local department, so far as. ^can be learned. ' . , Fire broke out this morning ahdut * 9 o'clock in the engine room of sub chaser No. 58. undergoing- repairs at the Valk & Murdoch plant. The fire men were summoned and it was thought the blaze was under control, when the fire reached a gasoline tank on the boat and an explosion occur red almost in the midst of the fire fighters. Most of "the boat's crew were ashore, or engaged in removing am munition from the sub chaser. A ne gro city fireman was blown into the river and rescued after nearly drown- . ing. He had a broken leg. Many of the firemen hurt were burned about the face, others received broken or bruised legs, and other injuries were sustained from the concussion, fumes Dr blows. The tugboat Henry Buck put a line to the burning sub chaser and towed her across the river after the ex plosion. During her trip over a num ber of detonations occurred,, but caused no further injuries. The sub ?baser burned to the water's edge. Some weeks ago Assistant Fire 'hief Myers was injured in a water Yont lire, a leg being broken in two daces. He is still in the hospital. To lay Chief Rehrens. Acting Assistant Thief Wohlers and Foreman Lycas lagne were among those hurt. Fore nan (1. H. Benedikt, second acting Lssistant chief, now has charge of the ire department and is prepared to landle any situation that may arise, n spite of the long list of injured. Less Than Third Victory Loan Subscriptions To tal $1,175,000,000 Washington. May 3.?Total sub criptions to the Victory Loan have assed a billion, one hundred and eventy-fivo millions today. The treas ry department has appealed for ouse to house canvasses n$xt week.