COLORADO CATCH

While Joe McCarthy was listening to other Senators quarrel over the surface glints and somber depths of his own, strange personality, the people whose real business it is to catch Communists quietly went on catching Communists. On a street corner in Denver, FBI agents collared four big wheels of the Colorado and Utah machines. A fifth was picked up at a Denver airport, a sixth in Pueblo, and a seventh, who had underground contacts with the Colorado group, was nabbed in Los Angeles. Last week's coups brought the total of arrests under the Smith Act (conspiracy to advocate the overthrow of the government by force) to 116 since 1948; already convicted: 72.

Biggest fish in the Colorado haul was New York City-born Arthur Bary, 42 (real name: Diamantis Daramparis), who was carrying $1,872.67 in cash when he was seized. J. Edgar Hoover described Bary as "one of the party's outstanding West Coast underground leaders." Bary had won quite an unusual job from the party; his job was to find out how the FBI was able to plant informers and otherwise collect information on underground Reds. He was, apparently, so maladroit at this task that he could not even foresee or forestall his own arrest.

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