New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-01-01
Legion Refuses
Membership to
Dudley Malone
Wesichester Post Promptly
Turns Down Application
of Ex-Colsector Because of
Alleged Aid 10 Radicals

Dudley Field Malone. lawyer. former
Collector Of the Port Of New York, cham
pion of radicals who have incurred the
displeasure Of government authorities
and during the war . Junior lieutenant
in the navy, has been denied member
ship in the Amo rican Legion, it became
known yesterday.
SO far as the records of the war vet
erans' organ .zation reveal the forme c
Collector Of the Port of New York is
the first man of prominence who served
III the war so to be dealt with by his
comrades.
Mr.. Malone had made application for
membership in the Charles IL. Fox Post
Of the Legion, at Croton- on Hudson.
Stevenson, acted promptly and unani-
mously in refusing his application.
Then an appeal vas taken, by whom
it is not known, to the Westchester
County Committee, of which T. II
Duell jr. is chairman. This committee
is composed o. 4 representative fro-a
every post in the county.
Committee Sustains Post
More than 5000 eterans were rep
resented when the committee met in
Mr.. Duell's office in this city late Tues
day afternoon, and after a brief dis
cussion the committee sustained the
Charles II. Fox Post.
At Mr.. Malone's office yesterday it
was said he was in Chicago and would
not return to this city until later this
week.
Mr. Malone's most recent clash with
the authorities was on November 26
last, when he entered the room in City
II II MbiCh tho ,cL 4 too -
legislative body Investigating radical
ism in New York Statc-was holding
its sessions and endeavorcd to dcnounce
that body because Of the manner in
which State Attorney General Charles
d. Newton had examined Ludwig C. A.
K. Martens, head of the Russian Soviet
Bureau, the day before.
Interrupts Hearing
In the examination the Attorney
General had asked Martens whether
the $1,000 which Martens said he had
paid to Malone as counsel fees had not
in reality been paid because of Mr..
Malone's speeches in favor of Soviet
Russia. Mr. Malone's effort to be heard
by the committee was made the follow
ing day. He took a prepared statement
from his pocket and began reading:
81 have come here to denounce the
immoral, cowardly and un-American
conduct of this investigation by your
counsel and Attorney General OF
this state" q
Stop! Stop" Attorney General New
ton interrupted, and after d heated
argument, in which the sergeant at
arms of The committee was called
forward, he left the room with this
parting shdN:
"Youn hear good deal more from
me if any more of these insinuations
take place"
Defended His Course
The prepared statement Mr.. Malone
had tried to read denied emphatically
that he had ever accepted dollar as
pay for a speech, and said those ad-
dresses were merely expressions of his
own sincere political and economic
opinions. He added, however, that he
had gladly given legal advice to "Mr
Martens, the representative Of the Rus
sian people"
Malone also has been active in the
demand that political" prisoners
those convicted under the espionage act
during the war-be released
Mr.. Malone was commissioned lieu
tenant in the navy just before the
armistice was signed and was assigned
to the Navy Overseas Transportation
Bureau under Commander Charles
Boone.