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’ ai — > esta? c -chooRDs - - oars was RTT CONTAINED 00 Z? 342 - 53 oe oe : pe ; . ; jee £4 a + a4 - ; Pa ~ ‘Office Memorandum + wnrrep states GOVERNMENT ,,' To : Director, FBI DATE: January a, 1948 4S SUBJECT: CLAUDIA VERA SCHOLNICK, was. EXCEPT ithe Siew INTERNAL SECURITY = C -/OTHERWI Sy Bureau fille No. 100~72390 cramp: following is a summary of information relative to the arrest of LAUDTA “JONES et her residence, 504 West 143rd Street, Apartment 64, New York City, by Inspectors JAMES P. CAREY and HAROLD W. RAMSEY of the Immigration and Naturalization Service and Special Agent Monday, Jamary 19, 1948. Im accordance with arrangements made by the Immigration Service, an of this office on , attempt was made to apprehend CLAUDIA JONES at her residence in the forenoon of January 19, 1628, Howsver, information received by thia office revealed that Misa JONES was at work at the National Headquarters of the Communist Party, deemed advisable to apprehend subject at work at the Party headquarters. . By means of a pretext call to the address 504 West 143d Street made by the ‘ arresting agents it was ascertained that Miss JONES would be home at 8:30 pas Lf y A surveillance was maintained on the residence and at 8:40 P.M. Inspector 1° RAMSEY, accompanied by Inspector CAREY and Special Agent — served the 1 Af warrant of arrest on CLAUDIA JONES at her residences. Miss JONES immediately advised that she would not talk without advice of an attorney. She promptly es refused to sign a waiver of search of her, apartment. She was given permission ©- to make two telephone » one to EENRYAWINSTON and the other to City Councilman BENJAMIN VIS, JR., both members of the National Committse of rad the Commmnist Party. STON did not answer the call, DAVIS was advised by = Mies JONES that she was being taken to Ellis Island by the Immigration authoritiehe At 8:55 P.M., CLAUDIA JONES was taken by arresting agents from her *s, residence directly to the Barge Office of the Immigration Service at South Ferry, where she was released to the custody of HARVEY VAN NOSTRAND, Security Officer, and SADIE HAINE, Matron of the Detention Station at Ellis Island. She was placed in the private cabin aboard the Ellis Island boat in the custody of VAN NOSTRAND and HAINE. The boat departed for Ellis Island at 10:45 P.M. En route from her residence to the barge office CLAUDIA JONES admitted being an alien. She atated that she arrived in New York in 1924 accompanied by her aunt and three sisters. She | L) 5~14g 8%, \