Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 78, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 December 1920 — 24 COMMUNISTS DEPORTED [ARTICLE]

24 COMMUNISTS DEPORTED

Russians &all From New York Bearing Presents for Friends at Home. • New York, Dec. 24.—Twenty-four confessed Russian communists, with the demeanor of pleasure tourists, were deportation passengers on a liner sailing today for England, where they will be reshipped to Russia. The deportees, who were rounded up in raids last winter and released on ball allowed by Louis F. Post, assistant secretary of labor, surrendered Wednesday. Extra suits of clftthes, overcoats, heavy woolen underwear and other heavy garments helped swell their baggage. They were preparing, they said, for the rigors of a Russian winter. Many of them carried toys and other Christmas presents for relatives tn Russia. '