The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-01-03
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(Continued from Page One) 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 many places where radicals for whom warrants were issued had not been 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 totalled about 50.
 The latest reports gave the totals of arrests:
 Boston 60; Springfield 65; worces- | ter 65; Chicopee 16; Holyoke 20; Fitchburg 20; Cambridge 26; Lynn 54; Haverhin 21; Chelsea 24; Lowell 40; Lawrence 15; Wellesley 2. In New Hampshire, Nashua 161; Clare mont 25; Manchester 65; Portsmouth T; Berlin 40; Lincoln 20. In Rhode Island, Providence IS; Central Falls 10; Woonsocket ?; Olneyville 2.
 The first and largest single raid was
 
 136 men and p women, who had as- sembled for the formation of a local branch Of the Communist party, were arrested. The first important indi- vfdual arrested was AnafiOS Karaliua of Chicago, a communist party organ. ! izer who had been advertised to speak l at the meeting last night but was 1 taken into custody before he reached the hall.
 
 was that of Frank Mack, a Roxbury window washer and communist party 1 organizer, who was taken with 19 oth- i CTS at Lincoln, N. H. IIlla kaplan, a leader in the textile strike last spring and several of his associates were taken at Lawrence.
 i All the alien undesirables rounded | up last night and today in New Eng l land except those taken in Connecti- cut. will be concentrated at Deer l Island in Boston harbor. A new l prison there which. during the war, was used to conffne enemy aliens, 1 will be made the radical detention | pen, Henry SEiff1ngton. commissioner | of immigration said today. The radi- | calls will be guarded by an armed l force to be recruited from service ! veterans.
 4 Soviet Ark was arranged for l today to transport the arrested ones down the harbor, and her first trip was set for this afternoon. Commis- sioner Skifnngton estimated that of 1 the 500 persons gathered in by fed | eral agents, between 400 and 500 would be sent to Deer Island as D. ob- ! ably subject to deportation. Only 1 those believed to be aliens will be in l cluded. Hearings for them will be-
  | timated it would be three weeks or a month before the cases were dispos- | ed of.
 New York. Jan. 3-Department of Justice agents, armed with 300 war rants continued today their search for radicals begun in Q series of raids conducted last night.
 The transfer to Ellis Island of POI radicals, held for deportation pro ceedings after being questioned all night by department agents, was be- gun today. More than 400 persons | arrested last night wtre released for 1 lack of evidence to connect them with revolutionary doctrines. l Warrants still held by the Depart ment of Justice will be served t'as expeditiously as human effort can ac- icomplish,' according to William J. Flynn, Chief of the Bureau of In- lvestigation of the Department of Jus tice, who directed last nights nation wide arrests from this city. Persons }arrested last night have been watched closely day and night, he said, since the communist party convention in Chicago, June 6, 1919.
 In addition to examining the per sons arrested, department of justice agents glanced over tons of litera- rnre. records and photographs seized 1 in the raids. It would appear from 1 some of the evidence seized at the of fee of the Novy Mir, they said, that 5ailors plying between shis country and Europe had been engaged as se- cret messeneers. to convey core