Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1917-10-18
new War TRADE
BOARD NAMED
BY PRESIDENT
Will Assist in Enforcement of
Trading-With- the-Enemy
Act.
CENSORSHIP IS IN EFFECT
UNDER CONTROL OF CREEL
Post Office Department to License
and Supervise Foreign Language
Press--Power OF Alien Prop
erty Custodians Defined.


WASHINGTON, Oct. 14.--Broad war
powers conferred upon the president
by the trading with the enemy act
were put into operation under AN ex-
ecutive order issued tonight, delegatinls
authority under the law to various,
government departments and to II
newly created war trade board.
This trade board is composed OF
members of the exports administrative
board, which it will replace. with the
addition of representative of the
treasury department. 1t will continue
to license exports, and will exercise: u
similar control over imports as soOn
as the president prOclaims the articles
to be so restricted.
Trading or commercial dealings of
any nature with any enemy company
or agent in this country or abroad is
forbidden, except under license of the
war trade board, which also Is author
lied to license enemy or ";llly OF
enemy" companies doing business
the United States. except Insurance.
companies. whose supervision is ell
trusted to the treasury
cREEL is CENSOR
Censorship OF mails. cables. radio
and telegraph messages. passing out
of the United States. is placed i'll the
hands of a censorship board consisting
of representatives of the war, navy
and postoffice departments the war
trade board and of George Creel.
chairman of the committee on public.
information.
To the treasury is assigned the regu-
latton of transactions in foreign ex-
change and expectation of gold and
silver coin under license. and enforce
ment of the laws provision against
transmission to the enemy OF iufOrina-
tion by any other means than regular
mails. The treasury also is authorized
to license insurance or reinsurance
companies of the enemy doing nusi-
ness within the United States.
Regulation OF the uSe Ut enemy
owned or controlled patents for the.
war and of the granting or publication
of patents containing ,mf"rul,tiun
valuable to the enemy, in gwen To the
federal trade commission
sURLEsoN HAS POWER
The postmaster General In -ntruststs
with supervision over and iicemsii,s
of foreign language newspapers. III an
ticipation of the authority Postmaster
General l1urleson has b..-Ii receiving
applications for licenses and will hegtn
issuing them before Tuesday. Nctober-
III. when this provision i,ecotnes eff
fectirc. All such papers except those
granted licenses are required under
penalty to file with their local post
masters before. publication true trans
lations 0f all matter r..lating to tbs.
United States government or the. gov
ernments OF any other nation ut war.
The same section makes II unia vful
to circulate matter inade unmatlabis+
by any espionage act.
The presidents order defines the+
powers OF the alien property custodian.
to act as trustee fo, ali enemy prop
erty within the United States or to
issue licenses cxcmpting enemy COM
panies FROM his s,.pcrv vision. An ap-
pointment for this position will be.
made soon.
The secretary III state is empowered
to license the transportation Of
enemies to or from the United States
thru the existing passport means. The
secretary of commences. will retain att
thOrity to review the decisions Of col
lectors of customs. refusing c,carat,reS.
to vessels carrying rarSUes tn vtulstttOts
of the act.
TRADE BOARD NAMED
The new war trade hoard ia to- con
sist of Vance C.. Mccormick. chairman.
representing the secretary Of state:
DIR. Alonzo u. Taylor, representing the
secretary OF agriculture: Thomas ~.
Jones, representing tine SECRETARY OF
commerce.; Beaver White. representing
the food administrator: Frank e..
Munson, representing the shipping.
and representative of the secretary
OF the treasury. yet tn he named. Ale
nut the treasury representative artr
now members of the exports admins
tratlVe board. whose work here after
will he done by the bureau 1T exports
of the war trade hoard
The name of the present exports.
council is changed I" war trade cou,,-
Gil, with the secretary OF the treasury
and Chairman Hurley OF the shipping
BOARD. the secretaries Of state. aeri-
culture and commerce. and the foMt'
administrator added to- it's member
snip. This body will act In an advisory
capacity to- the president.
Secretary McAdnu is expected to-
turn over to the federal reserve hoard.
the executive administration Of any
investigation OF any transaction IT.
foreign exchange, by any person IN
the United States" The reserve board
already exercises virtual control over
gold and silver exports.
| Marshfield. Mo.,-The defense in the
trial OF Claude Piersol. charged with
the abduction of baby Lloyd Keet,
rested its case Saturday after the de-
fendant had successfully held to his
story through a gruclling cross-exam-
ination.
| Fargo.-An imitation battleship, pro-
vided by B. f. Ashelman, forms Il spec
tacular and interesting headquarters
Tor workers operating in this city ~,
the second Liberty loan. The structure