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Show WILL VISIT PRISON TO NOTIFY DEBS OF NOMINATION i ATLANTA, Ga., May 28. In a small room at the Atlanta federal penitentiary and under the watchful watch-ful eyes of a guard, Eugene V. Debs, serving a ten-year term for violation of the espionage act, will be formally notified tomorrow morning that the Socialist party has nominated him for president. Warden Zerbst stated the notification noti-fication committee, which left New York today, would bo allowed allow-ed to communicate with the prls-I prls-I oner. The usual time limit for visitors is thirty minutes, but Mr. Zerbst said this had been extended on occasions oc-casions when "there was real business" busi-ness" to transact. Ho indicated the notification that Debs had again been selected for tho highest high-est honors his party can offer would be considered of that nature. na-ture. ABked If the presidential candi- , date would receive his notification committee in his prison garb of blue denim, the warden replied that so far as he knew he would. |