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Show ' of the Novl Mir, a Russian language com-i com-i munlst paper. Included one for fHOO paid by the federation to the communist party at Chicago; $1000 for rental of Madison i Sjuarc Garden for a radical mass meeting to protest the blockade of soviet Russia: i 400 to Martens "on the 'aaie of his piano"; $50 each to Mrs. Ruse Taster Stukes and Dr. MaxImllliHii Oohon, editor of the communist World, "to carry on socialist work," and $120 to S. Stok-lltzky Stok-lltzky for maintenance of the Chicago office of-fice of the Russian federation. Checks totaling 11100. Dr. Mlsleg said, he did not "remember exactly. He i "thought" thev might have been In "exchange "ex-change for cash" at the Nov! Mtr offices. of-fices. "The source of his funds was membership member-ship dues In the federation and money warned by Novl Mir," he testified. The federation maintained a fund to furnish baM and pay counsel fees for its members arrested and charged with treason, an- archy and similar acts which "did not ptease the authorities." he said, add!i,i I that Russian federation members In liayonne. N. J., were Dili on ball furnished by the federation. Mlsleg admitted that he knew Leon Trotxky. although he said he had not : aeen him or communicated with him since be left New York for Russia. He also i acknowledged acquaintance with many J radical workers In this countrv. He said .ie had known Martens for nearly three 1 years and had loaned him 12300. Mlsleg said he would like to see the people of the Un'ted States adopt the soviet form of government as "healthier" man the present one. Police Notified of Activities. NEW YORK. Nov. 26. Police heads In about twenty cities in the United States and Canada, were notified by the government govern-ment today of the addresses In their localities of houses frequented bv members mem-bers wf the Union of Russian Workers, following the discovery here yesterday of high explosive cartridges in the quarters quar-ters of the Union of Russian Workers. Alexander L Rorke. assistant uictrlct attorney, explained tonight that a lit: of meeting places ouulde of New York was seized by ihe poiice "bomb squad" In a raid last March on radical headquarters headquar-ters here, and. In view of the possibility ! that chemicals might bo secreted in other cities, no time was lost in making them j known. CHECKS FIGURE IN PROBE INTO MARTENS' AFFAIRS NEW YORK, Nov. 26. Checks totaling several thousand dollars disbursed by Dr. Michael Mlsleg. treasurer of the Russian federation since Ludwig C. A. K. Martens established his Russian soviet "embassy" here, were Introduced Into evidence today at the hearing of the Joint legislative committee com-mittee investigating Bolshevist activities in New York. Efforts to iearn the source of radical funds and where and for what they are spent occupied virtually the entire' en-tire' session. Examination of Martens was suspended at his request until December 4. to give htm time to consult hi? lawyers. This action followed a clash between committee commit-tee members and Dudley Field Malone, former collector o." the port of New York, who endeavored vainly to read Into the committee record a vigorous denunciation of Attornev General Newton's conduct of the investigation yesterday, when Malone was mentioned as having accepted a $1100 counsel fee from the soviet bureau. Checks issued by Dr. Mlsleg, both as treasurer ofVhe Russian federation and |