Imperial Valley press., 1941-11-19

WASHINGTON Ne; 10 - Grad
uuliy being unioldrd III Washington
now are the amazing 5toriea Of
how master mailing iISt Of half
q milhCN names has been used by
the NaZi propaganda machine oper-
a.ing in the United States. More
than a dozen congressman NAV
have been consciously OF unKnow-
inely used by this propaganda ma
CHINE to distribute prO-Gernan
printed matter through the US.
mails and at government expense.
Strangely enough. the story has
not received the national attention
it deserves. pernart because the
case is rather involved and lost
sight of in a number OF side issues.
or perhaps because there has been
some reluctance to offend the iso-
lationlst congresSme-. nose names
have been involved.
The trail of the master mailing
list. however. can be traced through
all the side issues. 1t. was noticed
a. first b. ordinary people out IN
the country who admirlng and
wishing TO support the sentiments
expressed by an isolatiOnIst sDokes-
man in Congress. would write in 70
endorse the views Shortly there
after. this well-WIsher would receive
isCiationlst mail from other sources,
All of il would be unsolicited.
In many instances. tIiS mail
would take the form Cf an excerpt
from the Congressional Record. II
would be an antI-inJerventiOnist
speech or a pro-aXis argument. II
would be marked Not Printed al
Government Expense, m n ing
that while the original had APP
peared as part Of the Congressional
Record the reprints had been
printed at cost on the order Of some
congressman, though not necessarily
paid for by the cCnresSmen.
The mailing out of these reprints,
however was mct. decidedly at
government expense since they
were mailed Out under the con-
gressional franking privilege which
permits a CONGRESSMAN 20 have ms
signature printed on an envelope
in place Of a postage stamp.
DUMMIES ON THE LIST
Enough Of these enTclOpes fell n
TO the hands Of private, interested
investigators to make quite q co..
lection. Then number Of similari-
ties began 70 appear Documents
from different congressman would
be received with the names and
addresses printed from similar stem
ellis or in similar handwriting. Then
dummy names We're planted on
some Of the lists.
At this stage Of tn" came tho
matter came TO the attention Of
the criminal division OF he Depart
ment of Justice and william Power
Maloncy who handled the wire
tapping investigation. was assigned
to present the case 10 a federal
grand jury This jury went to work
with a will On Oct. "a il indicted
George Hill second assistant TO
Congressman Ham Fish.
When Hill was indicted Prose
cutOr Maloncr declared in open
court that Hill was the Washington
key man for German propaganda
machine. and that Hill mas admit
ted spending at least $4,000 IN this
work IN the last flTc months. Track
Ing down that propaganda machine
is the Job with which the grand
jury is concerned at present, and
the record Of Wl.a' II finds will be
ahoWn by the Indictment, it re-
turns from here on in.
Where Hill got the money or how
he spent II he has refused to dis
close but HIll's activities have been
linked ~ Prescott bennett, Wash
lngton organize: Of the anti-Britlsh
Max Europe Pa and "ISland5
iOy War Debt. mCyementS. Thou
sands Of copies Of Congressional
Record reprints were furnished by
Hill 10 Dcnnett III turn Dennett
has been linked with George Sy.-
Vester VIereck, WaO eOe5 on trial
Jan. II a. registered Nazl agent.
One Of the counts on which VicreCk
vas indicted was that he had sup
piled cOngres smen with material for
speeches. which were printed IN the
Congressional Record Some .!
these speeches were amOnR thc,c
mailed out under Hill'a dircctlon
MAGAZINE OF NAMES
The linking OF all lhIa tangled