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Show Twenty-Six Members of LW.W. Arrive at Leavenworth LEAVENWORTH Has.. Dec. 20 Tw.nty-slx members of the I. W. V.-. OOnviCtod nt Ka n.ar Cfty, of violation of the espionage r.ct and consplra. p.,ui-i the I'nlled State, arrived at the fedqrhl prison this evening from Kuii:j.. '. under guard of fifteen deputy rharshalt The wives of throe f the men. Fhineaa Eastman Joseph Gre3bach and A Blumberir, and the sistei ol Eastinan nc-comp.inied nc-comp.inied them to the prison Th prisoners Joked and sang I. W. W. compositions ns the car carried them toward th- prison "For every one of us who go to the pcn'ientliry. ' icmaiked Paul Malhok. it German enemy alien, fifteen Ihousnrd more will spun" up In Europe." Mrs. Blumbarg is said to be the daugV ter of a Washington, D. C . Insuram e man and t olli g - graduate. She declare jhe did not know her husband was an I. w. W. or that he had been detained until "In months after ids arrest. Y owned our home in Tulsa Oltla. and were prospcnng.' she said "When lh war began 1 Wt til to Washington to Kc a brother In the army off to France. Mr Blumberp in rote mo from August. Kansnr, advising me to remain in Wasn-Inpton Wasn-Inpton until he 6ent for me 1 first learned of his arre9t when I came out to ' Kansas. We have lost our lionic since i his arrest.'' She added that .-he expected to crn to I Wichita, Kansas and there work to briny ' about the release of her husband. oo |