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Show IPiTISl LEAGUE ORGANIZERS IRE IRRESTED POCATELLO. Idaho', Oct. 22 Two moro Nonpartisan league organizers In this . state are in-the tolls for making mak-ing seditious utterances, according to information from Moscow. Carl H. Davis, district manager and organizer with headquarters in Lowlston, has been arrested on a charge of violating the espionage law, on a warrant Issued Is-sued by United Slates Commissioner H. R. Smith upon complaint of L. F. Parsons, chairman of the Latah county council of defense. Davis attacked the Libert' loan principally, and is alleged to have said that big business interests inter-ests of America met in Berlin and framed the war and he also took a rap at the Red Cross, j R. W. Bignell, also a Nonpartisorr leaguo organizer, is under arrest as a result of having violated tho espionage law, and was arrested at the instigation instiga-tion of L. F. Parson of the Latah county council of defense. Bignell repeatedly referred to tho Liberty loan drive as a "profiteering of big business concerns con-cerns and banks and that they arc the ones that make tho final rakeoff." The two arrests were made by a deputy United States marshal and the men will be given a hearing before United States Commissioner Smith in the near future. |