The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-07-14
HIGH-HANDED CENSORSHIP

Douglas, ArlZ., July l3.-lne censorship
 imposed on Associated Press dispatches filed here and in Bisbee yesterday during the deportation of nearly 1900 members
 of the Industrial Workers of the World
 was directed by two officers of the
 Phelps-Dodge corporation-Robert Req,
 general auditor of the corporation, and
 H. H. Stout superintendent of the Cop
 per Queen smeter, here. These men,
 and not an army officer, as reported to the outside world by the Western Union
 office here at the time, were the ones who issued the censorship orders to the tele- graph company
 The report that the military had estab- Ilished the censorship was due, accord ing to Manager Tillotson of the local Western Union office to the fact that MT Stout is generally known as Cap tain," and that his dress is similar to that of an army man. MT. Tillotson told l the Associated Press after the censor ship had been removed and an investiga- ton made that he thought MT. Stout was | a captain in the regular army and that 1 he was bound to obey his censorship or | ders.
 STOUT ADMITS ACTION 1 MT Stout admitted today that he had directed the censorship, but said he had
 acted on instructions from the sheriff s 1 office at Bisbee." Pressed as to who in
 the sheriff office had authority to censor | telegrams, MT. Stout was unable to des- l ignate from what person he had received l his instructions, but persisted that they came from Bisbee Sheriff Harry C. | rhH tn 01 | cattle train on which the men were de l ported, returned to Douglas today. | He denied that he had authorized the 1 imposition of a censorship in Douglas ol | Bisbee yesterday.
 SHERIFF'S STATEMENT
 The sheriff stated to correspondent of the Associated Press that neither ht 1 nor anyone in authority at his temporary 1 headouarters at Bisbee had issued any i order putting censorship into effect. 1 Mr Req, representing the Phelps l Dodge corporation, which controls tht mines affected by the strike at Bisbee and Mir. Stout both discussed the censor l ship while it was in effect, saying they 1 desired no information to reach the out l side world until the deportation had beer l completed satisfactorily to them.
 l The copper company officials also cen 1 sored the leased wire of a brokerage com p2Ty and undertook to censor leiepnont | calls In their telephone censorship the, were only partly successful, for late II l the day a connection was obtained witt | Tucson and brief bulletin transmitted I Although MT Stout said his orders fo 1 the censorship came from the sheriff office at Bisbee, correspondents in tn ! latter place were under the impression that MT. Stout was directing the censor ship of both towns from Douglas On 1cOrraeDOndent whose diSDatcheS were hel in Bisbee reached MT. Stout over the tele phone to obtain a release of his messages but was informed that the censorship
 would be raised when the train carryin
 the deported men had passed throug Douglas and not before Every effort t
 learn by what authority the Phelps-Dodg
 officials imposed the censorship was with . out avail until today when MT. Stout re
 ferred inquirers to the sheriff.
 ,i INVESTIGATION TO FOLLOW L New Yopl July 13-Officials of both tn