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Show 11 'PERFECT' CASES ! FOR OEPORTII SEE! Special Assistant to Attorney General Reports on Recent Roundup of Reds WASHINGTON, Jan. 27. Approximately Approxi-mately 3000 of the 3600 aliens, arrested arrest-ed during recent roundups of radicals are "perfect" cases for deportation as a result of Secretary Wilson's decision that the communist and communist labor la-bor parties are revolutionary within the meaning of the deportntion law, J. D. Hoover, special assistant to Attorney Attor-ney General Palmer, said. Such cases aro "perfect," he said, in that it will be necessary only for department of justice agents to present pre-sent the aliens' membership card in either party to make out proof of deportation. de-portation. In cases of the other 500 or 600 aliens whoso membership cards were not seized, Mr. Hoover said, It waas believed their membership could be proved. Deportation hearings and the shipment ship-ment of the "reds" will be pushed, Mr. Hoover declared. A second, a third and as many other "soviet arks" as are necessary, will be made ready ns convictions proceed, he said, and deportations will not wait for the conclusion con-clusion of all cases. While about three-fourths of the aliens taken were Russians, many other nationalities wero among tho number, including Germans, Aus-trinns, Aus-trinns, Hungarians, Lithuanians, Letts, Finns, and Chinese. The warrant prepared for the arrest . of Ludwig Martens, "ambassador" ofj tho Russian soviet government, Mr. Hoover said would bo served when Martens was released by tho senate sub-committee investigating Bolshevik Bolshe-vik propaganda. nn |