Show RESPITE FOR DEBS IS SOUGHT BY FRIENDS Application Received as Preliminary to Pardon Petition By Associated Press WASHINGTON ASIU April 3 3 Application ion tion for a 11 respite preliminary to lo a petition for tor pardon of Eugene V V. Debs Deus the Socialist leader sentenced to ten years cars Imprisonment for Cor violating the espionage act has hns been heen received at atthe atthe the White House and will be referred to Attorney General Palmer The re request request re- re quest Is signed ned by liy I Frank Drank t mk P P. Pal Walsh al h Charles l rl ward Russell and A Alan Ian Benson It has not IOl been brought lothe to lo the attention of oC Wilson ilson It was learned today but the tho att attorney rne general has been en advised ad of or Its Us receipt Should hould a I be granted it would stay the tho of oC Debs' Debs ten year year ten prison sentence until the expiration of ofa a stipulated d time during which consideration consideration consideration con con- would be given gl to 10 a pardon If It Il were ere not granted Debs would he remanded to prison immediately upon certification by the supreme court of oC Its findings upholding his convictiOn con which probably would be he about May Jay 1 The application for clemency to President Wilson is his last appeal |