Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-01-04
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|N.ii'Ulis' CUSTODY BY
FEDERAL OFF F|CERs
Three Ships Are Being Pre-
pared in Which to Deport
Anarchists; Big Assortment
of Weapons Seized.

New York. Jan 3.-Armed with
more than 800 warrants, federal
| agents and police detectives continued
their search tonight for radicals ac-
cused of plotting to overthrow the
government. who escaped the gov
ernments dragnet which has netted
| 700 prisoners in the past twenty-four
| hours In Greater New York
Throughout the day. under heavy
escorts of coast guards, police and
government agents, the radicals cap
tured in this city together with hum
dreds brought in from northern New
Jersey sections, were transported to
| Ellis Island. AS result the immigra-
ton station is swamped tonight with
its record jam OF alien anarchists held
! for deportation proceedings.
While boatload after boatload of
Russian, Finnish and other alleged
alien communists We're being shipped
TO the immigration pens on the island
it was reported that three steamers
were being put in readiness to follow
the soviet ark" Buford to soviet
Russia with hundreds more of "un-
desirables."
The army transport Fitzpatrick,
which has been overhauled at the
army base in Brooklyn for the past
fortnight, it was announced at the
federal building, probably will be
soviet ark No. 2. The vessel is ex-
pected to sail this month.
In addition to the Fitzpatrick the
army transports America and Presi-
dent Grant. among the largest of the
troop transports during the war. are
also reported to be making ready for
similar voyages.
Assortment of Arms Seized.
Bombs. rifles. pistols, bayonets,
knives and ammunition seized in raids
on radical centers in Newark and
Elizabeth. N. j., lent sinister air to
the reported activities of radicals cap
tured by government agents there,
and in other northern New Jersey
sections. Tons of seized propaganda
literature. which Is alleged to have
urged the overthrow of the govern
ment by violence, were being sytem-
atically sorted and studied by federal
agents here tonight.
The department of justice head
quarters here was swamped with an
enormous amount of red banners,
communist and communist labor party
papers. l. w. w. membership cards
and pictures of Lenine. Trotzky, Lieb-
knecht Emma Goldman, Alex Berk-
man and Rosa Luxembourg, that were
seized in the wholesale raids last
night. Agents of the bureau Of in
vestigation under Chief William j.
Flynn were engaged all day and night
in hunting through this great mass
for evidence connecting L. C. A. X.
Martens, Russian soviet Ambassador"
to the United States. with participa-
tion in promoting communist actlvi-
ties in the United States.
May Deport Martens.
If Martens. who has constantly de-
fled attempts of investigators to OBJ
tain information concerning his activi-.
ties for Trotzky and Lenine, is shown
to be connected with the communist
activity in America. he will be re-f
ported to the congressional committee
investigating radicalism for deporta-
tion, Chief Flynn announced. Evil
dence of connection with the COM
munst party is sufficient to warrant
Martens deportation, he added.
Meanwhile, federal agents are re-
ported to be keeping close track of
the soviet "envoy" whose whereabouts
have been mystery for several days.
Determination of the communists to
continue their work for the over
throw of the government was voiced
today by Harry Winitsky. secretary OF
the New York communist party,
taken in last nights raids. He was
released on his own recognizance by
order of Chief Flynn and given until
Tuesday TO prove his citizenship.
Declaring that the communist party
has no connection with the union OF
Russian workers, the socialists or an
archists, Winitsky asserted the COM
munist party and the communist
mn
ed efforts despite the nationwide
raids" He added that it was "a legal
party and we will take the case to the
supreme court, if necessary. to de-
termine this legality"
Special Boards of Inquiry.
Special boards of inquiry were or
ganized at Ellis Island TO handle ex-
,pedltiouslv the crowds OF alien radi-
Gals shipped there from New York and
New Jersey points, BY nightfall more
than 800 reds" had been corralled
on the island, making total, includ-
ing old anarchistic cases. OF 422 held
for deportation proceedings. Among
those sent there during the day were
six children and twenty-four women.
With 700 immigrants on the island
awaiting examination and more than
/ 900 others held on ships, the immf-
grafton forces are completely swamp
ed and was working overtime tonight
in checking up the reds and ar
ranging for deportation hearings.
They were aided by forty husky
guards who were sent to the island
today to help handle the newcomers.
The first hearings will be started
Monday Deportation proceedings
will be held on the island for all those
arrested in New York and vicinity.
Radicals arrested in other districts
will be given hearings by the immi-
grafton Inspectors in those districts
and when the findings of the inspect
ors are approved by the department
of labor, they will be sent here to
await deportation, 1t was stated.