The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-05-24
 Spotlighting of Anti Jewish Plot Is Climax of Exciting Yokohama
Committee Nips Plan to Spread Hate by Mail
BY BRUCE CATION Democrat Washington
 C0rreSnOndent

Washington, May 24.-Benlnd the Dies committees revelation of a plot to spread anti-Semitism in Amer ica, there is a strange and exciting melodrama, including such things as midnight conferences behind drawn shades, hurried airplane trips, secret raids, and the smuggling" to Wash ington of sacks full of important documentary evidence.
 While the story the committee has revealed is fantastic, it is not in the least farcical. What has been uncovered is an amazingly effective system for creating and spreading anti-Semitism. There is more than hint that preparations had been made to erect Fascist type of organization on this foun- dation.
 The excitement began several weeks ago when committee in- vestigator was told by James F. Cook, department commander of the American Legion in Kentucky, that James Erwin Campbell, in OwenSboro, was spreading strange information about a Jewish plot" to overthrow the government. The investigator looked into things, got a glimpse of the amazing grape vine system by which the story of this alleged plot was being spread, and called Dies in Washington, long distance. BEHIND DRAWN
 SHADES
 Dies ordered him to come to the capital at once. The investigator flew to Dies house and sat with him behind drawn curtains. Several weeks of careful investigation fol- lowed.
 The committee decided to raid Campbell's office in Owensboro- held under the name of Business Engineering Associates"-and si- simultaneously to descend on Dud- ley P. Gilbert, wealthy New Yorker from whom Campbell was getting the information he was disseminating.
 Agents timed the raids to take place together. A telephone wire between Owensboro and New York was kept open. The agents descended on Campbell's office, seizing all of its records and cor respondence and Campbell him. self; one of them took the phone and said, Were ready"-and the agents in New York made 8 Simi- lar descent on Gilbert.
 The material seized in Owens boro was voluminous. Dies and his colleagues realized that it was full of dynamite, and refused to trust it to the mails. Instead, committee agent stuffed it into two fat mail bags and conducted it personally to Washington by train.
 Study of this material which they have been able to make to date has convinced them that this is no farce-comedy stunt. On the contrary, they look on 1t as an extremely clever, ably directed and well-f1nanced plan to spread all across the land the conviction that "big Jews" are reaching out their hands to take control of the government.
 CAMPAIGN
 WAS CRAFTY
 The plan was clever and effective, they point out, because-in the first place-it apparently carried its own proof. Gilbert, in New York, would mail to Campbell an account of a conversation supposed to have been overheard at the Jewish club. In this conversation the conspirators would be represented as having said something like this: We have just persuaded Roosevelt to move the fleet to the west coast"
 Gilbert would mimeograph the material and send it out to a mail- ing list on which were army off, cers, bankers, Legion officials, and other prominent people. A week or so later Roosevelt actually would move the fleet to the west coast.
 Naturally, man who had, in advance, read this report of the supposed conversation would be- gin to think that he was getting straight, authentic dope. And it happened over and over again. Each time the mimeographed bull letin would represent the conspira- tors as saying: We have persuaded Roosevelt" to do something which, after a week or so, would really happen.
 Another element of its effective ness lay in the way it was broad cast. The people on Campbell's mailing list were just prominent people who = persuaded that they were getting secret news of 8 dia- bolical plot - would quietly tell their friends about it. Without at tracting newspaper attention or