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Show . ! War Prisoners Are Released by CoslHgfe f V3 III-; plea for amnesty which has S been presented repeatedly to i three national administrations was granted finally by President Presi-dent Coolidge in commuting the sentences sen-tences of all remaining' imprisoned violators of war laws. The action of the President brought about the release of "1 men serving sentences in the federal prison at Leavenworth, Kan., for violation of the espionage act. Two of these men were convicted at Kansas City in 1019 along with 24 I other alleged members of the I. W. W. : nine of them were convicted in Chicago together with William P. (P.ig HMD Haywood, general secretary-treasurer secretary-treasurer of the I. W. Y.. and the others were found guilty in Sacramento Sacramen-to In 1919. Mr. Coolidge acted upon receipt of a recommendation for amnesty from the special committee lie appointed several weeks ago to make a disinterested disinter-ested study of the question of clemency clem-ency for war law violators. This committee com-mittee was composed of Newton D. Raker, secretary of war during i lie war period: Ma.j. Gen. James G. Har-hord. Har-hord. who served overseas as head of the service of supplies of the American Amer-ican army, and Rishop Charles H. Brent of the Episcopal church, who was chief of the army chaplain service during the war. The news was received with gratification gratifi-cation by the American Civil Liberties league and other organizations which have carried on the tight for amnesty and also by Senator Borah ( lep., Idaho) and other members of congress con-gress who have held that inasmuch as the allies had released their war law prisoners the United States should do likewise. The prisoners convicted at Chicago were C. .1 Rourg. Harry Lloyd. Charles H. McKinnon, James P. Thompson. Alexander Cournos . Burt Lorton. .Tames Rowan. Big Bill Haywood, who jumped his hail and fled from the country. Is in Russia, or was at last accounts. Various Vari-ous reports have been published from time to time concernlne ids fnrtnno among the Reds |