Republican farmer., 1920-01-09


 New Haven, Jan. 3-The roundup of 43 alleged radicals in Connecticut last night was to be continued today and both the police and federal off. ! cers expected the number to be con siderab1y augmented.
 All cities and towns in which there | have been indications of revolution ary propaganda will be combed for men who are on the department of justice list.
 | In the total of arrests last night 1 Bridgeport furnished IS, Ansonia 12. ] Waterbury T, Naugatuck 4, South l Manchester g, Meriden 2. and New 1 London 1.
 Boston, Jan. 3-Approximately 800 alleged radicals were under arrest early today in Massachusetts. Rhode Island and New Hampshire as a re- suit of the raids conducted by agents of the Department of Justice assisted by local police, as part of the nation wide movement against undesirable aliens, launched last night. Twelve Massachusetts cities and towns con- tributed 428 arrests to the New Eng land total, six cities and towns in New Hampshire, SIS, and Providence and nearby Rhode Island places 27. Additional arrests were expected in
 
 whom warrants were issued had not lbeen apprehended during the night. | Most of those arrested were Rus sians. Persons caught in the net who could prove their American citi-
 zenship were generally, released The
 number of women arrested totallet about 50.
 The latest reports gave the total , of arrests:
 Boston 60; Springfield s5; worces : ter 65; Chicopee Is; Holyoke 20
 Fitchburg 20; Cambridge 26; Lynr , 54; Haverhill 21; Chelsea 24; Lowel 4o;; Lawrence 15; Wellesley 2. IT New Hampshire, Nashua 161; Clare . mont 25; Manchester 65; Portsmouth T; Berlin 40: Lincoln 20. In Rhod'
 Island, Providence IS; Central Fall 10; woonsocket 2: Olneyville 3. . The first and largest single raid wa.
 reported from Nashua, N. H., wher . 13S men and 25 women, who had as , sembled for the formation of loca :. branch of the Communist party, wer arrested. The first important indi vidual arrested was Anafios Karaliu
 of Chicago, communist party organ izer who had been advertised to speal at the meeting last night but wa , taken into custody before he reache a the hall.
 s Another arrest considered importan . was that of Frank Mack. a Roxbur window washer and communist part = organizer, who was taken with 19 oth
 CTS at Lincoln, N. H. I1ala Kaplan. Header in the textile strike last sprin and several of his associates wer ' taken at Lawrence.
 All the alien undesirables rounde
 up last night and today in New Ems
 land except those taken in Connect
 cut, will be concentrated at Dee
 Island in Boston harbor A ne N prison there which. during the wa
 was used to confine enemy alien
 will be made the radical detentio 'i 1 pen, Henry Skifingto commissions 'i of immigration said today. The rad v calls widl be guarded by an arme 'e force to be recruited from servic Ia veterans.
 = A Soviet Ark'' was arranged fc |, today to transport the arrested one "a down the harbor, and her first tri "a was set for this afternoon. Commi: to sioner Skifhngton estimated that (
 the 800 persons gathered in by fet
 eral agents, between 400 and 5C
 would be sent to Deer Island as prot
 ably subject to deportation. On
 those believed to be aliens will be II 1 cluded Hearings for them will b' 
 timated it would be three weeks or
 month before the cases were dispo 10 ed of.
 ls New York, Jan. 3-Department
 Justice agents. armed with 300 wa WIe W rants continued today their search f U radicals begun in a series of rai
 iconducted last night.
 ad The transfer to Ellis Island of 2 CT radicals, held for deportation pr lie ceedings after being questioned z as night by department agents, was b ad gun today. More than 400 perso ty arrested last night wtre released he lack of evidence to connect the he with revolutionary doctrines.
 Warrants still held by the Depal
 lment of Justice will be served
 expeditiously as human effort can a
 complish." according to William ,ld Flynn, Chief of the Bureau of mi ivestigation of the Department of Ju ho ttice, who directed last nights natio mt wide arrests from this city Perso ed arrested last night have been watch
 closely day and night, he said, ain
 the communist party convention
 Chicago, June S, 1919.
 In addition to examining the pt ns sons arrested, department of just ni- agents glanced over tons of liter ed ture, records and photographs seiz
 in the raids. It would appear frt re- some of the evidence seized at tho
 fee of the Novy Mir. they said, tf ex. sailors plying between this coun me and Europe had been engaged as
 \ cret messengers to convey cor or spondence between the Reds