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Show RUSSIAN CHECKS 1 PROVE EFFORTS OF RADICALS NEW YORK. Nov. 26. Check? totaling several thousand dollar? disbursed dis-bursed b- Di i Michai i MIsli . treas urer of the Russian federation since Ludwlg C A. K. Martens established! bin Russian soviet "embassy" herci were introduced into evidence today ai the hearing of the joint lr qlslative I committee investigating bolsfievlsl activities ac-tivities in N' w York. Efforts to learn il ii source of radical funds and where and for what they arc spent occupied vlrtuallj the entire session Examination of Martens was BUB pended al his request until December 1 to give him time to consult his lawyers, law-yers, This acllon followed a clash between committee members and 1 Mid-lev- Kieid Malone, former collector ot the port of New York who endeavored vainly to read into the committee record rec-ord n vigorous denunciation of Attorney Attor-ney General Newton'a conduct of the investigation yesterday when Malone was mentioned as having accepted 8 $1,oOo counsel fee from the soviet bureau. Checks issued by Mr. Mislec. both as treasurer of the Russian federation and of the , Nov! Mir, a Russian language communist paper, included one for $800 paid by the federation to the communist party at Chicago. 1,000 for rental of Madison Square Cardan for a radical mass meeting to protest the blockade of soviet Russia, $400 to Martens, "on the sale of hi:-pinno'; hi:-pinno'; S2.", each to Mrs. lNise Pastor Stokes and Dr Maximilian Cohen editor edi-tor of the Communist Yorld, "to carry on socialist, work," and $120 to S. Stocklitzky, for maintenance of the Chicago olfice of tln Russian federation. federa-tion. Six checks totalling $1,100, Dr. Mis log said, he did not "remember exactly." ex-actly." He "thought ' they might have been in "exchange for cash" at the Xovi Mir offices. |