Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-15
Io Men Jailed in
Faniastic Plot to
Start Revolution
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arraigned. Federal authorities said
they would be brought before Fed
eral Judge Grover NJ. Moscowitz
later
Several thousand people milled in
and around the federal building
Brooklyn. hoping for glimpse of
the prisoners. The men we're hand
cuffed to FBI. agents and shielded
their faces with their hats.
Al the same time. federal agents
revealed that the fantastic plot of
the small ring to stage an uprising
against the government might lead
to an investigation of the New
York national guard to determine
if the bands small arsenal had
Leen obtained from the military.
Harold NJ. Kennedy, U S. attorney
IN Brooklyn, said;
OF course, we believe that this
entire conspiracy. or scheme, was
fantastic, but we could not wait
until these people decided to hang
up bomb"
His reference was 10 the joint in
veStigation OF his office and the
FBI which was said to have re-
vealej the fronts alleged plot to
Getonate bomb in a public place
as part Of the conspiracy to stage
Gn uprising against the govern
ment. He said those arrested were
only part of larger group still
under investigation.
Kennedy said his joint inquiry
with the Federal Bureau of Inves-
tlgation. which resulted in the ar
rest of the Is clerks, statesmen and
manual workers, revealed that the
leaders had threatened immediate
action" as a result of which the
arrests were made earlier than had
been planned He said that evil
dence his men had collected indi-
Gated that the alleged terrorists
planned to start their activities
about Jan. 20. An investigation into
a possible tieup between the group
and the outlawed Irish Republican
army also was under way.
The arrests were disclosed yes
tercay by Hoover He charged that
the suspects had plotted to bomb
Two newspapers, theatre and the
custom house and to stage a cam
paign of terrorism against the Jews
These objectives, it was said, were
set forth in formal plots. In addi-
ton, Hoover charged, they had dis
cussed assassinating IL congress-
men WHO voted for repeal of the
arms embargo Ito teach them a
lesson" seizing power plants. docks.
railroad terminals, the telegraph
and telephone facilities, all the fed
eral reserve banks to get control
OF the gold supply. and the New
ork general post office.
The men numbered ia small
number TO face New York Citys 49,
600 policemen and the regiments
OF army regulars stationed here. But
Hoover said that their first obiec-
tive had been to recruit more men.
He displayed the arsenal seized
when the men Werd arrested Sat-
urday night-l7 rifles, $500 rounds
OF rifle ammunition, number of
pistols, 18 partly made bombs and
explosives for more bombs.
The men, Hoover sale, all be-
longed to an inner-circle of the
Christian Front, a pro-Fascist, anti
Semitic organization. which has
claimed allegiance to Charles E.
Coughlin but which Coughlin has
repudiated. He indicated that its
members were in strong sympathy
with the German Nazis, declaring
that the men addressed their lead
or as "Fuehrer' and that at least
one had been a member of the Ger
man American bund. The govern
ment they planned to set up in
place of the present one was to
have been "a dictatorship similar
10 Hitlers," Hoover said.
Twelve of the men were members
of the New York national guard
one was a captain-or had served
in either the army or navy.