Evening Star Newspaper, October 17, 1924, Page 18

18 MEXICAN HOLD-UP LEAVES FOUR DEAD Half a Hundred Bandits Wreck Train, Pillage Ex- press and Rob Passengers. Py the Associated Press. 1ICO CIT exico City October 17.—A passenger train left the border Wednesday morning was wrecked Wednesday night by half a hundred bandits, un- der Dimitrio Torres a few miles south of Saltillo. , The engineer, fire- 1d two soldiers of the military were killed, The express car pillaged and all the passengers were robbed. Press reports of this attack re- ived from Saltillo and San Luls osi have been confirmed by the National Railw, officials. The bandits removed the causing the engine, three cars and one second-class .passenger coach to leave the track, but the P'ullman attached to the train was not damaged. It is not stated elther by the special dispatches or the railway officials whether foreigners were among those robbed. The war department has made no statement relativ according to wpe rails, express to the attack, but ies under orders to £in an energetic pursuit trains carrving more members of the American ation of Traveling Passenger Awents, which left Mexico City early ®his morning, have not yet reached the place of the hold-up. = sdgpe o) Bishop Brown to Speak. Special Dispatch to The Star. 1 R, a., October 17.— iam Cabell Brown of the e is to be the principal A supper here early Sun- the parish house of scopal Churc at which he 1 detail the needs of the 1 for its missionary STARTLING EVIDENCE REVEALED OF “RED” ACTIVITIES IN AMERICA (Continued from First Page.) and wherein the working man -would “come into his own.” in charge of this investigation of radicalism in the Chicago district con- sidered the fountain head of Soviet plots was Jacob Spolansky, who from 1918 was empioyed by the Government to in- vestigate all angles of the “red” movement. It was on his findings and mostly as the result of his efforts that a report was made a few months ago to the Department of Justice in Washington. Among the “reds” Mr. Spolansky is known as the “red terror.” He received numerous warn- Ings to withdraw from the investiga- tion service and several threats have been ‘made against his life. 1,000,000 in Red Ranks. The results of this investigation startled even the Government offi- cials. They proved that what had un- til that time been considered a na- tional bugaboo was in reality & well organized movement with the over- throw of the United States Govern- men as its purpose. They proved that behind this movement Russia—"red” Russia—and that all instructions relating to the conduct of radicals here came direct from Moscow. They proved that the Com- munist International is out to con- quer the world and that through its sinister propaganda communist ranks within three years bulged to a nu- merical strength exceeding a million. Chicago, it developed from this in- vestigation, is the headquarters for all radical activity in the United States. In this city have been held several secret conventions at which the overthrow of the Government vas openly advocated and it was in %0 that the first move was made ablish communism in America. the articles to follow Mr. Spo- lansky will describe the origin of this movement. He will picture its aims, its surprising growth and describe in intimate detail the secret methods of the organization. He will name the men behind it and show to what amazing extent this sinister propa- ganda has spread. CHAPTER 1. BY JACOB SPOLANSKY. It was early afternoon on the 7th of November, 1918, A crushing, screaming mob which milled down the sidewalks and over- flowed into the streets was shouting itself hoarse. The streets were jam- med with traffic. Horns blared. Whistles shrieked. Men and women jostled eavh other hysterically as they waded knee deep through con- fetti and many-colored streamers. They laughed. They cried and waved their arms. Strangers em- braced each other in wild abandon and passed on, singing and shouting. No time, this, for gloom or for pro- prieties. The city was in an ecstasy of celebration, for peace had come at last. Even as far west as Halstead street on Mad! n the crush was as great as a Christmas shoppers' convention on State street. Through this crowd. pressing its way slowly, and with an occastonal rasp of the horn to drive aside the people who hindered its progress, crept a large limousine. It carried a, single oocupant, a distin- guished-looking, moderate sized man, with a firm-set mouth; who, as the machine drew up to the curb before the Mid-City Trust and Savings Bank, looked out unsmiling over the crowd. It was generously sprinkled here with enthusiasts who reeled instead of walked, and %everal immediately seized upon the limousine as an ad- ditional means of support. 'he oc- cupant of the car, however, took no notice. He alighted leisurely, dis- missed the chauffeur with & nod, and, after pausing to light a cigar, picked his way carefully across the sidewalk to the building entrance. Here he paused again and looked about, then opened the door and went quickly inside. Liloyd Leader in Movemen This man was William Bross Lioyd, millionaire socialist, to whom may be attributed in large part the founding of the communist movement in the United States. For on that very aft- ernoon, ironically enough, while the entire city was busied in a frenzy of rejoicing, in a little dark office on the sixth floor of that building, at a meet- ing called by Mr. Lloyd, communism was born in America. At this meeting were indorsed the principles of communism as conceived in Moscow — a truly revolutionary movement having as its object the overthrow of the United States Gov- ernment; a movement whose sponsors pledged themselves to aid in any way possible the uprooting of the Govern- ment. We of the Government who had been assigned to watch for any suspi- cious movements of the radicals had been waiting for many weeks for this meeting to take place.. Ameritan troops were then in Russia, and from various camps there had come re- ports from commanding officers ad- vising the War Department that propaganda was being spread among the soldiers to create unrest, dissatis- faction and revolt. Pamphiets were tossed about the camps during the night telling the doughboy how his more fortunate brethren were belng loaded into ships for home while he was allowed to freese in Russia “to salisfy the whim of capitalists.” He was made to feel that he was being discriminated against, and it was suggested that he ‘demand to go home.” Prepaganda Gets Results. This propaganda brought some lit- tle results. Desertions were numer- ous and courts-martial became more frequent. At any rate, whatever the result of this, it was the Russian propaganda which brought commu- nism directly to the attention of the Government here. 1, along with several others, was di- rected to watch closely all radical operations. Several men were sus- pected of fomenting trouble in the United States, and chief among these were some who attended this meeting on Armistice day. W night and day. We they went, who they met and listened to what they said. Finally there was Intercepted a letter giving us the in- formation for which we had been looking. It was this letter which gave notice of the mesting in the Mid-City Bank Bullding. Mr. Lloyd had been the last to ar- rive, and the others had awaited his coming before proceeding to business. Communism detests. money, yet when one of the milllonaire class is added to the radical ranks an added amount of respect is shown him by his “com- rades.” . . T had been watching for Mr. Lloyd. I followed him into the building, even Eot into the same elevator, then left it one floor higher up to escape notice and walked down to the floor on which the meeting was scheduled to take place. There were two of us watching that meeting, and it was ONCE ONLY Important that we know everything that transpired inside that room. It had been ofir first plan to gain access to the adjoining room, but there was no connecting door and the walls were thick. Therefore, such procedure would accomplish nothin, . Opened Hall Door. Our only hope of gaining any in- formation whatever was to hear it through that door leading into the hall. If our presence were detected we might as well stand out on the street for all the good it would do us. For, knowing that they were watched, they would talk of nothing more exciting than the weather. However. in the end it was all very simple. Waiting until & commotion of unusual intensity occurred on the strect to cover any slight noise, I cautlously turned the knob and open- ed the door some two inches. Just as we had figured, the noise had drawn them to the window and the slight creak of the door as it opened went unnoticed. Nor was it noted through- out the meeting that the door was not securely closed. Alexander Stoklitzky, a Russian sent here for propaganda purpose, was speaking. He was the guiding 8pirit of the meeting throughout and he also was the recognized chairman. They all were standing at the window looking down into the street below, Liloyd a little aloof from the others. “There, my brothers,” Stoklitzky was saying In his droning voice, “there you have an example of the significance of mob outbursts. The mob rules the city on this d. y. Does any one attempt to dissuade them he will be trampled under foot like a dog. It 8 proof of what power is possessed by the people when they care to use it. It should be as an in- spiration to the leaders gathered here —a true vision of what can be ex- pected on the day our cause becomes successful.” Stoklitsky the Leader. There were murmurs of approval and all turned again to the straight- backed chairs which had been pulled about the office desk in the center of the room. Around that table then were sitting the persons who gave communism its first impetus in the United States. For (RS R SR until that time no organization had been perfected or even planned and no movement, however appealing, can grow without ‘some sort of crystallized eftort. There was, first, at the head of the table Stoklitzky, who later became secretary of the Russian Federation of the Communist Party of America. This man had been sent here by Trotsky for the express purpose of spreading propaganda and furthering the communist idea throughout Amer- ica. He had been sent here to work up class hatred, to create unrest in the labor classes, and by any means possible to generate a feeling of ha- tred aguinst the government among the working classes to such a point that revolution would result. Stoklit- zky stayed for a time in New York, moving in the latter part of 1918 to Chicago. Here he lived for several months on South Kedzie avenue near Rooscvelt road. He was later arrested in Detroit, where charges of spread- Ing revolutionary propaganda were brought against him, ending in de- portation to Russia, where he now holds office as head of the emigration department. Others at the Meeting. Sitting next to him was William Bross Lloyd, for many years promi- nent in socialist work. When the Russian revolution broke out he as- sociated himself with the bolshevist or communist movement. The others present were: Dennis Batt, a Detroit man, who later became a member of the executive com- mittee of the Communist party and who iS now lecturing on Communism throughout the country. Issac Ferguson, a Chicago lawyer, who, after serving a year in Sing Sing for advocating revolution, gave up the Communist idea in disgust and s now practicing law in Chicago. Joseph Stilson, another Chicago man, who, after being indicted in Philadelphia for violation of the es- pionage jumped his bond and fled the countr: Joseph Kowalsky, former secretary of the Polish federation of the Social- ist party. Kowalsky was one of the men most prominent in the Com- munist movement. Four years ago he RSAMTIIE Muarson Mavrick In 1322 he was sent back by Com- munist leaders in Russia, was smug- gled into the country and delivered important papers and instructions to red” leaders in New York. Depart- ment of Justice agenct arrested him there and he was sentenced to serve one year in the Federal penitentiary at Atlanta for fraudulent eatry Into the United Stat. He concluded his term some months ago and Is now awaiting deportation a second time. (Copyright, 1924, by Chicago Daily News Ca.} (The next instaliment of this series will_be p tomorrow.) — CHARGES ALIENATION OF DEAD WIFE’S LOVE Man Sues for $250,000, Saying Defendants Got Property From Spouse. By the Associated Press. COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., October 17.—Alleging allenation of the affec- tions of his wife, who died in Torring- ton, Conn., a week ago, John AMe- Mahon, in a suit on file here today, seeks $250,000 damages from Gen. S. H. Wadhams of Torrington, H. C. Atkins, Indianapolis saw manu- facturer; Clara Wadhams and Col. T. B. Dugan of Colorado Springs. McMahon, who owns a hotel and other property here, charged that the four brought about the separation of him and his wife in 1307 and forced her to bequeath to them a half of her property, which included several business blocks here. Mc Mahon is 60 years of age. The fu- neral of his Tuesday. Canadians to Build New Racer. HALIFAX, . October 17.—Ca dians are organizing a company to build a schooner to succeed the Blue | Nose race, which will be held off Glouces- ter in 1925, it was learned on good authority today. W. J. Roue, designer of the Blue Nose, will draw the plans for the new ves: wife was held here | liam cense. 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