South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-01-10
CLAIM FEDERAL
COMMISSION is
VICTIM OF REDS
Member of Trade Body Init
mates That Packing Inter-
eStS Backed Movement.
SENATE HOLDS INVESTIGATION

WASHINGTON. Jan. 9.-Charges
that arrests of federal trade COM
mission employees made IN the re
cent department of justice cam
paign against reds" have been the
result OF "frame-ups designed to
build the theory that the commits
sion is a hot bed of bOlshevism"
were made Friday by w. B. COlver,
Of that body, before the senate agri-
culture committee. Colver left the
intimation that the larger Chicago
packing concerns had connived in
some degree to attain that result,
and involved Ludwig c. A. X. Mar
tens self-styled ambassador OF the
Russian soviet republic to the
| United States. and s. Nuorteva,
Martens seer retary, in his account
| Of instances TO prove the point
] Given a whole day before the COM
mittee, which tonight announced it's
hearings ended, Colver likewise
voiced a vigorous demand for legis-
/ lation TO regulate the industry,
need or which was proved. he said,
| by the recent agreement between
the packers and the department Of
/ justice in settlement OF antitrust
! proceedings
To this testimony the commits
sioner added a critical analysis Of
statements and motives Of witnesses
who have opposed packer regula-
ton during the prolonged hearings
I of the agriculture committee on the
Kenyon and Kendrick bills last
year. concluding with the assertion
that in the meat industry "compe-
tition is continuing to lessen and
monopoly TO increase even though
we exhaust the powers OF present
federal laws intended to re-
strain It."
Gives Instances.
The first instance. the commits
/ siOner said Of the "frame-up," had
/ resulted I'm the arrest OF Rafael Nal
| lin, a former clerk for the trade
! commission. in raids last week at
Chicago communist centers by the
/ department of justice. II. J. Cla-
| baugh. head of the secret service
/ at Chicago. and his assistant. "a
man named Barry" Colver said,
both of whom have since resigned,
were responsible. and Barry now
was . special agent for Swift &
! Co. Mallin was later released.
JOhanne OhsoI, another emplOye
of the commission. Colver said. was
| arrested in a Washington hotel dur
/ ing the present week while on a
visit TO S. Nuorteva, having been
pointed out to police officers as
/ Martens. who Is being sought by the
| secret service. Reading an alleged
claim Of NuOrteva and Martens
! that purchase OF large meat sup
| plies from an unnamed Chicago
packer had been arranged with the
object OF getting It into Russia
through the allied blockade, COlver
said he considered this connection
between meat packers and the So
Wet representatives Significant as
it concerned OhsOrs arrest, espe-
cially since the latter had been
taken into custody when ne came
to see Nuorteva in answer TO a spe-
I cihc telephone call.
Colver referred to the fact that
"a senate subcommittee was ap-
pointed this week 70 investigate
charges made by Sen Watson. In
diana, that employees Of the com
/ mission are engaged I'm bolshevik
activity. Six weeks ago c. s. Miller.
formerly United States district at
torney at Indianapolis. and Clarence
I Martin. formerly "A major in the in
telligence service, questioned fed
eral trade commission employees. he
said. They explained that they
were working for the senate sub
/ committee which. Colver added,
had not yet been appointed.