New-York tribune., 1920-01-08
Ambassadors Secretary
Tells Palmer He Will
Deliver Message to the
Fugitive Soviet Leader
l6 More Radicals
On Ellis Island
Formal Hearings Begin of
Men and Women Pris-
oners for ssArk'' Cargo

Department Of Justice agents hunted
Ludwig G. A. X. Martens here and in
Washington yesterday to arrest him
on deportation warrant. The "am-
bassador" from Soviet Russia could
not be found, and it was learned that
since Saturday he has eluded success
fully the men seeking him.
The determination of the govern
ment to take Martens into custody was
made after Assistant Attorney General
Frank Garvan had examined evidence
gathered in the recent raids on Com
munist meeting places that had a bear
ing on the activities of the Russian
Soviet Bureau in New York.
Watch Kept on Home
Last night the home of Martens, in
Ocean Avenue, Brooklyn, where his
wife and two children are staying, was
watched on all sides by Department of
Justice agents. Other Federal agents
watched the offices of the Russian
Soviet Bureau. in ITO West Fortieth
Street.
The Department Of Justice an
nounced in Washington during the day
that warrant had been issued for the
arrest and deportation of Martens.
Last night Santeri> Norteva, his sec
retary, made public letter he had
sent to Attorney General A. Mitchell
Palmer, in which he assured Mr. Pal
mer that any information the Depart
ment of Justice desired to transmit
to Martens would be communicated to
him.
Norteva also said that Martens had
established temporary headquarters in
Washington hotel 80 that he would
be available if sub b-committee of the
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
desired him to appear before it. These
temporary headquarters of the "am-
bassador" are less than three blocks
from the Department of Justice in
Washington. The signatures for the
party on the hotel register there were
written by Norteva.
SIS "Reds" on Island
There were SIS "Reds" on Ellis
Island last night, including sixteen
sent there during the day, fifteen of
these having been arrested in a raid
on the offices of "Novy Mir" Rus
sian language newspaper in 113 East
Tenth Street. Tuesday.
immigration inspectors began hear
ings. in the eases of the radicals at de-
tention quarters yesterday Each pris
oner was taken from the main deten-
tlon room to smaller one, where can
questioned him and stenog-
rapher recorded the testimony.
Byron H. Uhl. acting commissioner
of immigration, said the hearings
could be completed in ten days unless
technical objections are encountered.
A hostile witness, he said, could com
pei an inspector to drag out a single
hearing for a day or more. Mr.. Uhl
said he did not expect the present lot
to adopt such tactics. Most of them
have expressed desire to return to
Russia, and, secondly, leaders who
might have advised obstructionist tao
tics, have been segregated.
Sent Back to Germany
Two German members of the I. w.
w. were taken from Ellis Island yester-
day and put aboard the steamship Mon
golia just before she sailed for Ham
burg. These men, George Schwazwal-
der and Ernest Heitmiller, were taken
in a raid on an |. W. w. meeting place
in Seattle about year ago. Since
then they had been held as Federal
prisoners pending an opportunity to
send them back to Germany. They
we're kept in Jail in Cleveland for six
months and for the last two months
had been on Ellis Island. Both came
to the United States shortly before
the war began in 1914.
Charles Recht, attorney for cam
bassador" Martens and many other
Reds" held on Ellis Island, left New
York yesterday for Washington. Be-
fore leaving he issued the following
5 statement:
ut would seem that we are not only
lighting the most deliberate propa-
ganda of falsificabion that has ever
developed. but officiousness and
that in the latest raid on the 'Novy
Mir many things were smashed and
destroyed, that every protection the
law and Constitution afford to in
dividuals has been deliberately vio-
ated.
Surety Bonds Refused
"Not only that. l have just been in
formed that the National Surety Com
oany which has been furnishing most
If the bonds in these deportation
eases, has just decided for patriotic
reasons to issue no bonds, even though
We are Offering them cash and a sub
'tantial premium for each bond.
AT Ellis Island they arc refusing to
accept cash on the ground that. they
ack the facilities for handling il! They
also have refused to permit us to see
people detained. Evidently the Of
icials are not realizing what amount
IT resentment they are arousing among
people generally by these high handed
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