Evening star., 1920-01-06
STEPS T0BE TAKEN
RETURN
OF DEPORTED REDS
Immigrants and Visitors to
Be Closely Watched by
US. Officials.

Close watch is to be kept on immi
grants and European visitors to this
country 20 see that none of the radi-
| cal aliens. now en- route to Russia on
the Buford, or those to be deported
as a result of nationwide raids last
week, find their way back to this
| country.
Officials of the State and Labor de-
partments said today that, while
few might slip back through the net
during the coming months. their num-
4 ber would be negligible. At Ellis
! Island all aliens deported are being
photographed and their pictures Will
be kept on file. No system of identi-
| flying incoming aliens in general has
ever been put in practice in this coun-
try, but any suspicious character
whose passport appeared irregular
may be checked up even if his name
has been changed.
Must Have Passport.
| Undersecretary Polk of the State
Department said today that every per-
| son coming to the United States from
abroad must have Il passport issued
by friendly country, and those who
come to the United States from Russia
now or while recent conditions obtain
over there must be approved by
agents Of the Denikine government or
some official we'll known to American
government officials.
| He said he did not believe passports
to this country could be procured by
radicals in Russia except in unusual
circumstances, and added that the
State Department, through its foreign
representatives. would keep close
watcn on persons coming to America.
| Await Result OF BufOrd's Trip.
| No further deportation of radical
| aliens will be undertaken until the
experiment with the transport Bu-
ford the first soviet ark" is COM
plete, it was said today by Anthony
| Caminett. commissioner general of
/ immigration.
The Buford is now en- route to
northern Europe with 249 radical
| aliens destined for Russia, but
land her passengers has not yet
been determined. 1t is not possible
for the ship to go to soviet Russia,
and if the radicals are sent into
that country they must be trans
ported across one of the adjacent
countries.
The Department of Labor has not
asked for the use of any military
camp said the commissioner gem
erals statement nor has it made
ship for use in deporting aliens held
for deportation in cases arising under
, the anarchistic provisions of the i'm
migration law. AS to the former, 1t
| is believed that. with the proposed
Ireopening of Ellis Island station in
its entirety. the department will be
able to provide for all immigration
| cases as well as for all aliens held
in custody in the cases above named.
This is preferable to opening an ad-
ditional station. as it would cause
large duplication of overhead ex-
pense.
| OF course. should necessity require
use of additional space at New York
| or in the districts. steps will be taken
| to secure the same from the War or
| other departments that may have
| suitable accommodations. AS to the
! latter. while the subject has been CIV
en- consideration, it Is awaiting the re-
| suit of the deportations made through
| the Buford. Until such results are
| known nothing definite, will be at
| tempted in this line.
The large number Of cases that
| have been presented in the last thirty
| days have overwhelmed the depart
| ment with work and with force here
| and in the field. much too small to ex-
| peditiously attend to this huge UNDER
taking.
! Each case will be taken up and
considered in the district in which it
! has arisen. and the hearing, when
icompleted, will be transmitted to the
department at Washington in due
course. whereupon the examinatio
; Ol the TecOTu Will take pldCe anu a
,memora ndum prepared for the action
of the department.
! ALIENS, when ordered deported. will
! be taken to the port from which it is
more practicable to deport to the
country to which they belong. Nat
| urally. the port of New York. being
jthe greatest distributing port. will
| receive large majority of the cases
/ for deportation"
! Mr.. Palmer Reiterates Contention.
Attorney General Palmer today said
that the Department Of Justice would
maintin before the immigration in
! spectors and the courts to which the
legal fight might be carried that mem
| bership in the communist party or the
communist labor party was grounds
for deporting an alien. He held to this
opinion, he said. on the ground that
| these two named organizations
preached open anarchy"
| The nationwide roundup of COM
i munist and communist labor party
members will continue for at least a
week more. Instructions went out
/ from the Department of Justice today
| to all of it's agents to permit no loss
| of time in the work of hunting down
the radicals whom the government
has determined to drive out of the
| country.
| In every city of Importance in the
country. federal agents have their nets
/
the general dragnet last Friday night.
| Information gathered in that big
! cleanup involved the activities Of
persons who were said to have given
! the radicals moral and financial sup
port"
! Two of Maj. Pullman's detectives
took to the Department of Justice
man thought to be c. A. K. Martens,
reputed bolshevik leader. They found
| him emerging from a room in a hotel
that was supposed to be occupied by
Martens and when the Department Of
Justice was reached the man was
found to have in his possession. boil
shevik publications. He established
! his identity and was not detained.
SENATOR DIAL SCORES
D. c. RAILWAY LINES
| The street railway lines of the Dis
trict of Columbia were roundly criti-
cised in the Senate today by Senator