Evening Star Newspaper, December 14, 1921, Page 37

POWER OF “CHEKA" DECLARED POTENT Charge That Commission Bars Foreigners From Rus- sian Trade Exoites Interest. By a Staff Correspondent of Associated Press. MOSCOW, November 1l.—Leslle Ur- quhart’s recent announcement in Lon- jdon that no foreigners will ever be able élo do business in Russia while the Cheka (commission to suppress: counter- revolutions) holds its present power has {become generally known in soviet Rus- sia, and has attracted much attention. Mr. Urquhart was récently in Russia negotiating with the commissariat for { foreign trade to take over extensive mining properties and metal works, many of which he controlled before |the revolution. While the negotia- tions were proceeding a strange man e | appeared in the conference room. Mr. Urquhart inquired who he was. “Oh, that's the representative of the Cheka,” was the reply. “But’ I am not dealing with the Cheka, and I shall not discuss busi- ness before this man,” the English mining man protested. Extra Privileges Conceded. Leonid Krassin, minister of com- merce, and other negotiators ex- plained that the Cheka was privileged to_be represented at all conferences. Mr. Urquhart was oObdurate. The Cheka man refused to leave until telephone instructions from the Cheka withdrew him. selected by the chlefs at the Kremlin to go abroad are passed on by the Cheka, and a large percent- age of the appointments are never confirmed. Bven the crowd which stands at the head of the soviet government and is privileged to live within the historic walls of the Kremlin is reported to be powerless against the super-gov- ernment which has grown up about the Cheka. At one time Djerjinski and Jacob Peters and the other men who fi2- ured as the heads of Cheka actlvities when the red terror took place were regarded as dummies, raised to take blame which the commissars who make up the council or cabinet and members of the central executive committee did not wish to shoulder. But the opinion is now strongly grounded among Russians of all s that the Cheka is a very real 1 ution. The higher personnel in the organization changes frequently, or at least pretends to change. How- ever, Djerjinski and Minjinsky and Peters and other men whose names i | have figured prominently in Cheka . | activities may never bs able to per- suade the average Russian that they have really left the organization. Regarded as Active Head. Umslicht is at the present moment the man who is generally supposed to be the active head of the Cheka. He has his office in the central head- quarters of the organization, which occuples a large office building in the Xmas Gifts That Are Practical and Lasting Ball-Bearing Roller Skates $2.25 Union Hardware Make No. 5§ Foot Balls......sl 50to0 $6.50 For Real Boys * b Air Rifles $1.95 v Stevens and Winchester Rifles From 55.75 Up Wonderful Carving Sets e R .$350 to $12 "Groce’s, 11th & EN.W 5 Gift Footwear Slippers are always acceptable gifts. You will find here a complete assortment of the high-grade sort. Also the newest novelties in boudoir footwear for women, misses and child- ren—very acceptable gifts between members of one’s family. RICH’S 1001 F Street—Corner Tenth = business center\of Moscow, overlook- ing the Kremlin walls. The Cheka bullding is six stories high and is triangular in shape, with a court {n the center. Much of the space facing the court has been turned into cells, and {s the Lubianka prison, where most important politi- cal prisoners are kept. ‘Rumor has it that executions take place in the and pedestrians often report that they have heard shots when walking near the building. Mnac{vitn seldom walk Close enough to the Cheka headquar- ters to hear cannon shots in the cel- lar. The streets adjoining §#t are not popular promenades. Eyduk, the lialson officer whom the bolshevik government has named to be-the go-between for the American rellef administration and the Kremlin, 1s'a Cheka man. Col. Haskell's organization has had no trouble with the Cheka, which is apparently satisfled that the Ameri- cans came to Russia to feed starving children and are not trying to inter« fere with Russian politics. INTERSTATE TAX RULING. Corporations Escape Levy in “An- other State,” Says Judge. Corporations. of one state may carry on legitimate business in an- other state under Interstate Com- merce regulations and are free from a tax in the state to which they-have gone, Justice Van Devanter said in giving the Supreme Court’s opinion in the case involving a tax imposed by the state of Kentucky upon cofpora- tions doing business in that state. 5 Recalling the previous decisions of the court as to what constitutes in- terstate . commerce, Justice Van De- vanter said: “Interstate commerce consists of intercourse and traffic between the citizens or inhabitants of different states and includes not only the transportation of persons and prop- erty and the navigation of public waters for that purpose, but also the || purchase, sale and exchange of com- modities.” - lars a year out of her lotteries. 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