Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1920-01-08
UNITING TO RID
U. s. OF every
RADICAL IN IT
Complete Coordination Of
All Government Agencies
Brought About to Over
come Menace.

Washington, Jan. 7.-Complete
coordination of all governmental
agencies, together with an awakened
congress tonight had given the cam
paign to rid the nation of radicals
a broader aspect. While Assistant
Attorney General Caravans force
continued its raids, including a
search for /. c. A. K. Martens, self
styled envoy of the Russian soviet
government, there were evidences of
new activity in all other departments
Of the government.
Congress received a bill intro
duced by Representative Johnson,
republican, Washington, which
would make every government EN-
ploye an agent for ferreting out un-
desirables. Each clerk would be
given the duty of reporting any i'll
formation concerning alien activi-
ties to the Department of Justice
and the immigration authorities.
Representative Johnson said his
bill would have the double purpose
OF Kidding government departments
of trouble breeders" as we'll as pro-
vldlng greater network for the
trapping of all dangerous persons.
Enlist Secret Service.
The treasury secret service. with
its wide ramifcations, was enlisted
in running down persons for whom
the immigration authorities have is
sued warrants. Customs officials
also have been ordered to report any
information they may gather in the
work of inspecting imports, while
the army and navy intelligence serv-
ice will cooperate both in the gath
erng of evidence and searching out
of radicals.
Secretary Baker ordered the va
cation of ali buildings and other
facilities used by the army at Ellis
Island in order to make room for
the hundreds of aliens who are held
there pending deportation proceed
ings. The Department of Justice
has had to deal with a serious prob
lem regarding radicals arrested since
last Friday as Ellis Island already
was over-crowded and an epidemic
of measles was reported to have
broken out among those being held
there.
During the day the Department of
Justice announced that warrant
had been ordered for the arrest and
deportation of Russian Soviet Am
baSsador' Martens. Tonight S. Nu-
1etova, secretary to the ambas-
sador," made public a letter to At
torney General Palmer in which he
assured Mr. Palmer any information
the Department of Justice desired to
transmit to Martens would be com.
municated to him. Nuretova laid
Martens had established temporary
headquarters in Washington, so that
Martens could be able 70 appear be-
fore a senate foreign relations sub
committee when that body desired
to have his testimony.
Martens, Nuretova wrote the at
tcrney general, is not now in his
apartment" in Washington, nor was
he there when two department
agents called last night,
At Services of Anyone.
But I am authorized to assure
the letter continued, that when
called before the senate committee
Mr.. Martens will be at the services
of whoever may have any business
with him"
Department of Justice officials
working on plans for the deporta-
ton of the radicals arrested in the
recent raids decided to request use
of two transports, both Of which
will be larger than the Buford.
which carried the 249 radicals away
before Christmas.
Mr.. Caravan will confer tomorrow
with Miss Helen Todd OF the Amer
lean woman's committee of New
York as to means OF relieving re-
ported distress among the families
OF persons already deported