The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1920-01-03
4,500 Radicals Arrested in
Sweeping Drive by U. S.
Agents.
DRAeNET STILL SPREAD
Government Hopes to Fill An
other Soviet Ark" With
Deportees.


Chicago, Jan. 3.--Nationwie raid!
on radicals have bagged 5,4S3 sus,
II pected reds in tifty-one cities, accord
ing to figures reported here up t
noon today. "
The raids may continue for two OF
three days until all of those marked
lor examination and possible depor
tation are caught. according to fed.
) eral officials here
81 New York, with 800 arrests, heads
& the list. Boston and Detroit hay.
each reported 600; Chicago, $50, in.
4 Guiding large number taken by state
officials: 200 in New Hampshire. 164
NJ Philadelphia, 100 each in Cleve.
land, Trenton, Youngstown, O., anG
Brockton, Mass.
Sc Washington, Jan. 3--Arrests in the
Nationwide radical raid last night
and today had exceeded 4,500 at noon,
II was estimated at the department
of justice. More than half of this
number probably will be held for de.
portation, officials sa d. ~
1000 Perfect Cases"
Assistant Atty. Gen. Garvan, in
charge of the raids, said more thar
/. 1000 persons were ke.d on ''perfec,
cases. and that the raid promised tc
he not only the gre e,test in scope, bu,
as, the greatest in results of any in
history.
In every city where the raidins
machinery was set in motion, he said
success attended the efforts. -Four
thoEsand warrants were issued but
tho arrests exceeded that number.
Besides the 1000 perfect cases
Mr. Garvan said federal agents OBJ
tanned sufficient evidence to justify
the arrest of the others.
Mr.. Garvan said that although his
information wass incomplete, it was
reasonably certain the whole edltoria
staifsof most of the communist party
nNwsnapers had been taken by fed
oral agents. He add"d the depart
lnent believed 1t WIS striking at the
root of the menace by destroying the
BEGINNINGS of what promised to he
the greatest propaganda canpa'"n OF
ngi'n radicals yet uncovc,el In
America. o.
Only aliens were included in the
perfect cases." according to officials
Confirmation thn raids for today
WIS ordered by air Garyan wt,Sn II
htcame@ry' 'ent iaht nj hit that Local
raids IN several citi- staged against
the requc@t Of tre attorney general
I'D ro efcctrHlly disrupted plans oi
IT" tederal aFPts. There vas how
% d'sa "intrent at the number
of arrests in Chicago. where II was
tN7orstood that the onartmcnt eX-
pf ed to take nearly 200 persons
DC'atled fGures nhow that approx
eE nrsors rad hern arr s'eo
,u s",te cno ~ .ilent agents were armed
"''' oiE E aIi1na". III r
r, >,o- o OF arms.
= -, aLN, - uepu,ei'iolt agents
'"eS ~ oN'reu cne o.
H., Ia.t ,,,.,,t,, ~ u, ~ roi INSTRUCTOR
Fl and eor,a sn,',s I1u'S n i've IA.
s,yed Tha go - 80 w weI'
si,,i,ar - cloc,n,,c,;l, ~. 80 " =,
ttrnrp,, Tbs ,..i,s - - w r,'"sv sIt'.
Of n,,hIio r,cr Ia. ] ~ nu'iipe'
olso ss.yad voct ot,ontitin. ] Hse..' Sa,.
DnmnhIets apd fora,.r 1919, no
n,,vrsna ners ~ Ne,yorl, "0S
Raids were ord red !, ,b,r+x .+h...
citias over the tJn;ted ststc. .nJ
PROMPTLY at o'clock last niche th.
opefa ives mo ,ed uit. s,f,ckI;Ls ,rs.
cision in the rou,,I-,i, Is cor,,,-,',,;..
workers and svrnpath z9rs E,rI. th;.
morn,no the humber Of arrsat. hsI
risen TO TIE hiohest fioure of ann
sIrniIar raid in 4he historv os ~.
country.
The government homes tn All an.
other "soviet ark" and sand a aoot.
ing across the Atlantic to bolshcvib
RnssIa where tho ro6,cols Mill hS
nermitted IN reioip thaI, Ltth and
kin. THE department of 1iustics .sti.
mated that aOOo ",ndesira hIes,
wouId be caught In the drorne,
snread over the nation and with thei,
denortation II was believed the back.
hone of radicalism in America will
have been broken.
souoLt 20 0rosn;,. N.oroa,
Attemnta IN organize tho neproes
- ,,n,,or,ant 20 o,,asthro,,, ~
in hoVI ,,.' " ui.o" oNei ui.o" Wy
present Poiitlcdi anu economic sys'
tenn OF the United states were dis
closed, officials OF the department
said. and they admitted that 1ht
nrona randa was of such far reacbinp
af-4 ar. ,ro,,k1o 49,. =. - o,-
, =. -ts-.D a -
pecteo ~ soIie nesro conliifssI,it@les' @
tfultiui heios lot the raulcai prop
agandists was found especially among
the ignortant and foreign wor,ing.
mon officials stated A manifesto
..,,,a h,, ,ho non, ,youris+ no ~ st,taf
iSaueu .', - az a.aS,,srie,,
lnat the PeiG was the eoiaeiou,
expression Oh ene class stIusgie "
the workers against capitalism ahC
II proposed to lend capitalism and
organize a workers Industrial re.
nubIic."