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Show SUPREME COURT i SUSTAINS STATE Conviction of Frank Shaffer For Violating Espionage Act Is Upheld. HOUSE INVESTIGATING Delay in Deporting Radicals And Alleged Anarchists From Ellis Island. WASHINGTON Nov. 2 1 Conviction In Washington stnto of Frank Shnffer on rrmrtTs of Violating the espionage Act wns In effcet sustained today by tne supreme su-preme court declining to rovlei? the cajo. Witness Before House i NEW YORK, NOV, 24 Byron H. DMi acting Immigration commissioner, wns the first witness called when the houye committer investigating dr-i-v m deportation deporta-tion of radical aliens opened Its bearing at Kills Island loda Ht testified thai seventy alleged anarchists. Including two women, were being held at tli i3latd md warrants of arrests for nine othM under warrants of deportation. Hearings hive been plven to 31 of the "0 cass, .Mr. l'hl reported of the 6't aliens. 12 of them alleged anarchists, brought hero from Seattle last spring, only sevep wers deported and the majority of the remainder re-mainder released on bond or parole. Commissioner I hi also said that 13 per6ns. mostly (stowaways, had escaped from the Island since June. He attributed attrib-uted this to the shortage of watchmen Mr. L'hl snid that he was unable to furnish fur-nish a record of the anarchists deported the last two years because he bad no I ord of sueh deportations. German Sailors Sail RIO JANEIRO. Sunday. Nov. 23. Former For-mer German merchant sailors who have been interned at southern Brazilian ports 'hirlnt; the war. sailed for Germany today Via Rotterdam on board the steamer Avaregne. Fargo Bank Decision BISlCARCXk N D . Nov. 24 Reports that the recent decision of the state supreme su-preme court permitting the Scandinavian-American Scandinavian-American bank of FarKO to re-open has caused S bitter dispute among nu mbers of tho court, apparently were confirmed today by announcement of the minority j opinion of Chief Justice A. M Chris- J t lanson. He joined with Justice Luther Bird sell In voting against the majority decision. The only proof received In the caso consisted of ex-partite affidavits, said Justice Christ! an son's opinion, which sharply criticized the ruling restraining the state banking loard from Interfering with the Fargo bank's affairs and held that post-date checks were sufficient col- I lateral. "The Judgment of this court as i nnnounced by the majority not only In effect finds the respondents guilty of j wrongful official action, but. for good : measure, pronounces 'condemnation' and mulcts them for costs. The respondents were denied an Opportunity to cross-examine cross-examine .single person .vho made ;.n nffidavi' against them or to produee( or examine r. sincle witness The law in this country must heat before It condemns." con-demns." The state banking board was restrained by the ruling from closing the American-f-enndimvian bank. |