Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-08-14
DIAMOND TRAFFIC
HELDA|D TOREDS
Government Investigators
Find Documents Pushing
BoIshevism in America.

Government investigators are in
clined to believe that the recently
discovered traffic by bolshevist agents
in diamonds was part of the scheme
of furthering the bolshevist move
ment in the United States. Enclosed
about the diamonds taken from the
possession of the Swedish sailor ia
cobsen, whom officials eXonerate from
any completely in the illegal proceed
lnSs, was a quantity of communist
literature, including an appeal of the
executive committee of the Third In
ternationale at Moscow to the /. w.
W.. This manifesto declared:
Labor Revolt Is Urged.
Unless the workers of other coun-
tries rise against their own capitalists
the Russian revolution cannot last"
Introduction of the alleged incrim-
inatory evidence of the traffic in pre-
eious stones between soviet repre-
sentatives in this country and abroad
at the last hearing in the deportation
proceedings against Ludwig Martens.
the soviet ambassador" resulted in
postponement of further hearings un-
til August 80 to enable the sells styled
am bassador to obtain evidence if pos
sible in refutation of the charges.
Among the mass of documents
found on Jacobsen was an envelope
addressed to "Comrade Martens"
which contained in turn another en-
velope marked 'Hilja"; within that
containing the diamonds marked co"
and a typewriter note on tissue
paper. The sailor deposed before the
customs authorities. according to De-
partment of Justice officials. that he
had been engaged in similar mis-
sions for six months, having been
originally approached in Gothenburg.
Sweden, by a Swede named Fogle-
mark. From Foglemark he is said to
have received the promise of SIS for
each package. Each package was de-
livered, it was alleged by a Swedish
customs guard. Erickson. to the sailor
Woman Got Package.
According to officials, Jacobsen on
each trip to the United States deliv-
, cred the packages in New York to a
Mrs. keinanen. who lived first at 113
West S0th street and atferward in
West 129th street. Jacobsen'se depo-
sition recites that she in his presence
turned over the packages to a short,
stout man" This man later was
identified by the sailor as Santeri
Nuorteva, former private secretary to
, Martens. who recently escaped from
the United States and later was de-
ported TO Russia from England. The
Identification, officials said, was
through the means of photograph
| of NuorteVa.
A customs guard dressed as a
sailor, accompanied Jacobsen to the
West 10th street address on July
| 90 to deliver a dummy package to
Mrs. Keinanen. However she had
! removed her residence. but inquiry
! developed that another woman had
been delegated to receive the expected
packages from Jacobsen.
Upon refusal. however. to deliver
| the package to any but the short
stout man. who usually received
them in the presence of Jacobsen the
woman agreed to telephone for him.
The telephone number called, ac-
/ cording to the evidence, was identified
| by officials as a Flatbush number in
| the residence occupied by Ludwig
&c. A. K. Martens. In response to the
| call and in the absence of Nuorteva
from the country. NJ. Saffron, identi-
! fled as a secretary of Martens APP
peared and claimed the package.
| Obtaining a search warrant the
house of Martens was searched. and
among other documents was found a
letter addressed to Esteemed Com
rade Martens" and signed Boris"
! The letter, dated June 21, at Trond-
jena, Norway. contained this para
graph:
He told me he is in the same posi-
ton; that he has no money, but he
| has some stones he will endeayor to
send you at the first opportunity"
The "he" to whom Boris referred
was not identified in the letter