June 6, 1919
BOMB PLOTTERS SOUGHT ON SHIPS BY N.Y. OFFICIALS
Immigration Men Warned to Watch for "Dynamite Louise" Berger.
Port officials of New York since the bomb outrages on Monday night have put the movement of men and
women in and out of the United States under strict scrutiny. Owing to the known entrance into the country of French anarchists and Russian Reds on Scandinavian ships, boats from these countries are being searched with great care.
It was learned today that during the last four months anarchistic literature and propaganda sent from foreign countries, especially from political refugees living in Scandinavia, had been intercepted.
Connection of the most recent outrages with a woman known to have been active in dynamite and bomb
plots before the war may also be established. The immigration officials have been warned to watch for Louise Berger, known as "Dynamite Louise." She went to Russia in 1917.
"Dynamite Louise" was known to advocate the use of violence, and her half brother, Hans Berg, was one of the three men killed at 104th Street and Lexington Avenue on July 4, 1914 when a bomb exploded. The bomb was to have been used in an attempt on the life of John D. Rockefeller.
William J. Flynn, new head of the Bureau of Investigation of the Department of Justice, today in New York opened a campaign against radicals that is without precedent in the country's history. In the effort to round up the plotters responsible for Monday night's bomb outrages, he is to "borrow" any man anywhere in the country if he needs him.
