Arizona republican., 1920-01-06
LACK 0F FUNDS. AND LAW HAMPER ANT|-RED FIGHT
Immediate Needs For Ac- ton By Congress Pointed Out By Officials - Say Radicals Have Gigantic Fund To Fight Deporta- ton Proceedings
Republican A. p. Leased WireJ

WASHINGTON, Jan. 5.-The gov ernment's campaign to rid the nation of more than 5000 aliens. members of the communist and communist labor parties arrested in recent raids. prom ises to be long drawn -out fight. de partment of justice officials declared tonight. With the radicals fortified by strong legal talent and a "slush fund to finance their opposition to de- portation and the immigration ser vice inadequately supplied, either with the men or the means to handle the sit uation. the help of congress was con sidered absolutely necessary by offi cials.
 Anthony Caminetti. commissioner general of immigration. appeared be- fore the house appropriations commit tee today with an appeal for funds to allow expansion of his force to deal with the details of deportation proceed ings. The commissioner asked for at least 10 more lawyers.
 Radicals To Delay Actions
 Officials also explained that through out the country the work Of perfect ing cases against the radicals held would be slow because of the small number of immigration inspectors. Added to this was the fact that the radicals have been instructed to make use of every form of delay known to the legal world.
 The problem of prison facilities en- gagged the attention of officials of both the department of justice and immigra tion authorities at Ellis Island, New York, is overcrowded.
 Secretary Baker announced he had instructed Major General Bullard, com manding the department of the east 10 provide a detention camp for the use of the department of justice. It was understood this would be Camp Upton Officials believed that a second camp might also he necessary as concen- tration point. This would be in the middle west. it was stated.
 Federal agents in the border districts were instructed to guard closely against attempts of the radicals to escape into either Mexico or Canada
 It was apparent that officials had information that the reds" weSe in flight in many sections. only three or four attempts have been made since he raids started Friday
 More arrests are planned in Chicago, New York, Detroit and Boston and several smaller cities in the east. Fed eral agents have trailed many persons said to be red" ring leaders, and to- night the arrest of several of these was regarded only as matter of hours
 Resume Radical Raids
 NEW YORK, Jan 5.-The sweeping raids against reds by federal agents which netted nearly 700 prisoners last Friday night were resumed at d:30 to- night when 10 large automobiles ana two army transport wagons left the local headquarters of the department Of justice to round up communists and other sedition mongers, who escaped the first dragnet-
 Chief Flynn announced that New York raids were part of another na- tion- wide sweep which he expected 10 briNe as important results as the raIdS of 8 cities conducted last Friday.
 Arrest "Chief of Staff"
 With the arrest on deportation warrant of Gregory weinstein, "chief of stair of soviet Russia's ambas- sador' l.. c. A. K. Martens. the de- partment of justice announced tonig ht 1t was hunting "big game in it's et- fort to rid the country of the most dangerous alien arachists plotting the overthrow of the. government by violence.
 Rated as Trotzky's best friend here and a co-worker with him on the Russian language radical paper Novy Mir Wenstein's position in the soviet bureau ranked virtually on par with Martens. it was stated. Victor Wolodin former manager of the Novy Mir, ana said to have been another co-owerker with TrotZky. was swept into the gov ernment's dragnet late today and sent 10 Ellis Island in the wake of Vein stein. Neither of the two men would talk.
 Attempts to oDtain release rom fills Island of many Of the radicals held there started today when attorneys be- gan applying for writs of habeas corpus in their behalf.
 The federal agents and police were armed with 500 warrants. many of which were issued it was stated, on in formation obtained from rIds already under arrest.
 The first person taken into custody was Edward Fibre. editor of d Hun 1 garian daily paper. He was imme- diately sent to Ellis Island.