New-York tribune., 1919-11-21
Door Closed on
Process Server
By Mrs. Stokes
Socialist Now Under Sem
tence in West, Declines
To Be Witness i'm Com
munist Party Investigation
Warrant May Be Issued
Lusk Committee to Publish
List of |sParlor Bolshevi-
ki'' Who Finance Radicals

Rose Pastor Stokes declined yester-
day to receive q subpoena which called
for her appearance as witness in the
extraordinary grand jury'e investiga-
tion of criminal anarchy charges made
against the Communist party Of Amer
ica. Alexander l. Rorke. Assistant Dis
trict Attorney, said he would determine
toe day whether bench warrant should
be issued for Mrs. Stokes.
Mrs. Stokes's testimony is wanted be-
cause. it is alleged. she was present at
The convention OF the Left Wing So
cialists in Chicago last Septembet
when the Communist party was organ
lied. The manifesto issued by the
party has been declared to constitute
criminal anarchy because it urged the
overthrow of the government by force
Mrs. Stokes is out on bail pending ap
peal from a sentence of ten years i'm
prisonment imposed by the Federal
court in Kansas City on conviction of
VIC alton of the espionage act
Mrs. Stokes lives at 44 Grove Street
Her brass doorknocker is one of the
most highly polished of all the highly
polished brass doorknockers in Green
wich Village.
MIR. Harden Has Visions
When Patrick Harden. an experienced
process server from the District At
torney's office. approached the Stokes
door yesterday and gave the knocker
a resoundng rattle he had visions of
accompanying Mrs. Stokes in taxicab
tc the District Attorneys office. The
subpoena calling for Mrs. Stokes's i'm
mediate appearance before the grand
jrry was tucked in his overcoat pocket
so that he could conveniently reach
for it. He had been told the jurors
were waiting to hear Mrs. Stokes. and
ulness lie urougnC her furtnwith the
business of investigating criminal
anarchy would have to be empcrarily
suspended.
No one answered the first rattle of
the knocker. Harden gave it another
oudhHlS, lCuueT Iuau tHe NrSL. Inc
door opened timidIy and Harden got q
glimpse of Mrs. Stokes's hallway, fur
nished in Colonial style. The head of
maid emerged from behind the door.
SIS Mrs. Stokes in % asked Harden.
Yes" replied the maid. "But she's
9ery busy"
please tell her it's very important.
I've got paper for her,"
Just then, according to Harden. the
maid received message from Mrs.
Stokes, called from he top of the Co o.
Mai stairway, to ask the nature of the
paper.
eve Don't Want 1t"
"ft's subpoena" explained Harden.
"Tell him we don't want it and shut
he door," came the mandate from the
top OF the stairs.
The door closed with an emphatic
snap, giving Harden the impression it
was not to be opened TO him again.
When Harden returned to his office
ne was told to return to the Stokes
home. This time, despite his efforts
with the knocker, the door refused to
open at all. Instead, he said, he was
given to understand if ne persisted in
trying to get into the house he would
ne arrested.
Mr. Rorke said last night that Mrs.
Stokes would be required to appear be-
fore the jury He said he may posi-
bly, apply to o-day to Justice Barlow S.
Weeks, of the Supreme Court, for an
attachment tor her arrest.
Role of "Parlor Bolsheviki"
Evidence that publications issued by
the |. W W., Communist party, Left
Wing Socialists and otkef radical or
yaniZatiOnS are heirc financed hv So
called "parlor Bolsheviki" bias been OBJ
tanned by the Lusk Legisl!, live Commit
tee. About one hundred contributors
including college instructor, several
wealthy women, former government
official and other prominent pers1
who have aided radicalism without
making their names known have been
listed by the committee.
Officials of the committee said yes
terday that complete list of "par.or
Bolsheviki" would be made pubic as
soon as the clerks have finished the
work OF going over books taken in re-
cent raids. 1t was said that no names
will be given out until it has been
gave financial support to the radicals.
THE radicals in New J ork may be
divided into two classes -- those who
50 the talking, but have no money
and those who supply the money and
ia nothing said an official of the
c.ynmittee
ave expect the list will be verified
~ about ten days and then will be
saade public. We expect it will suffi-
ciently answer the charge that the
committee has been too active il,
prosecuting unknown radicals and not
active enough in getting after the