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Show OiFTLSWiBIl ARGUMENTS FINISHED Treasonable to Urge Evasion Eva-sion of Act Upon Ignorant, Ignor-ant, Prosecution Asserts. YVASIirNGTON-. rer. 1 4. Solictor General Gen-eral r;iviH. appeaJ'bi? today for the srov-(rurnant srov-(rurnant iu 1 1 1 r- casfts before thf supremo court to UL the const.it u! ionality of the Helnr-tl vn act, declared t bat the acta of thopf) who prey upon the mhulH of tho iiruoi-f) ti l to ovadf? the la w approached tnasoti. Argument of the c;iseH was ron-"bnii-fi today, but no indications were Rlvfii when a decision would be handed down. Mr. Pavls Hiarp-rtorized as "frivolous" t bo aiKum-'ntH made against t lie law's coiiHt i t utionality arid said It was only bc- uho I h'-ne art; n men Is had been spread broadcast 1 hroiiKh t he count ry that the S"V(rnnn-nl considered It Incumbent to appear a tid refute thent. He then recited re-cited history to show that the nation had made list; of eompulsnry military service in times of ein;rymey and declared that those wiio seek to Impair the conn try's defense by opposing the draft law should be Rive ii tho maximum punishment provided pro-vided by the art, f-iarry "Weinbercrer of New York asked for the dismissal of the Judgment against his clients, Km ma Goldman and Alexander Alex-ander ! Jerk man. on the ground that the I government bad failed to prove a conspiracy con-spiracy to violate tho law. |