OCR Text |
Show SPIES MUST BE WELLJHiNISHED Military Control of All Espionage Espion-age Cases Is an Absolute Necessity. TROUBLE IS AHEAD Head of Army Intelligence Section Warns the United States Senate. WASHINGTON. April 19. Passage nf tne bill introduced by Senator Chamborlain of Oregon placing under military control all espionage cases Is, Imperative for the protection of aliens la this country. Norman H. White of the army intelligence set lion told tho senate military' committee today. "If you don't come to this bill now." he said, "you'll come to it later and Ilia non-passage of this bill only! moans a few more items in the news-: papers dally telling of the tar and feathering of aliens and ridinc of women on rails and hanging perhaps j innocent aliens." The department of Justice. Mr. White said, is overworked with ordinary ordi-nary criminal work incidental to the war. togotln t with the watchinK of sabotage sa-botage and other cases that daily develop. de-velop. Under the present laws alien enemies must give the United States marshal In the districts where thoy are located their finder prints but in Now York thre are 20.000 aliens, he said. ) who have refused to give their finger, prints and no effort is being made to compel them to do so. The intelligence department lacks the force and the de- , partment of Justice Is too rushed with other work to do it. Alien enemies are beginning to laugh at tho military authorities because be-cause of their lack of authority, Mr. White declared. |