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Show MORE POWER FOR THE PRESIDENT: Senate Favors Bill Giving Authority to Commandeer Timber or Lumber as Needed. WASHINGTON, March 1. President Presi-dent Wilson would be empowered to commandeer timber or lumber needed for the army, navy or shipping board, under a bill ordered favorably reported report-ed today by the senate military committee. com-mittee. Difficulty encountered particularly by tho shipping board In securing lumber lum-ber for ship building and by the army aviation service in getting spruce for airplanes, aro the immediate situations situa-tions which the bill Is designed to remedy. rem-edy. Senator Chamberlain of Oregon, chairman of the military committee, Introduced the bill. It received the committee's unanlmpuB approval. An amendment added by the gom-mlttee gom-mlttee would authorize the president to delegate his authority in commandeering comman-deering either timber or lumber to any department or agency he might designate. |