Evening star., 1941-03-02

WheLner Mrs. EIlZaDeCn ElolSe
Kirkpatrick Dilling, author of The
Red Network" was or was not guilty
of disorderly conduct in the Senate
Office Building Friday in an effort
to gain entrance to Senator Glass
Office was argued yesterday before
Police Judge Hobart Newman. The
trial of Mrs. Dilling and Mrs. Clara
Nibberich, accused with her, will be
resumed at 2 pm. tomorrow.
The courtroom was crowded with
colleagues of Mrs. Dilling and Mrs.
Nibberich in the Mothers Move
ment," organized to oppose the
British-aid bill. Mrs. billings hus-
band, Albert Wallrick Dilling, Chi
cago lawyer, sat in front-row seat
and laughed as hard as any one at
amusing exchanges between T. Ed
ward O'Connell, defense counsel,
and Sergt. Frank Lidinsky of the
Capitol police.
The cases are being prosecuted
for the Government by Assistant
Corporation Counsel G. r. Little
haleS.
After the trial was recessed yes
terday, Mrs. Dilling discussed her
organization with a reporter while
women in her group interrupted
with exclamations of dislike for
Senator Glass, veteran Virginia
Democrat.
Reply to Senator Shown.
Mrs. Dilling showed a copy of a
letter she sent to Senator Glass,
informing him she had asked the
Federal Bureau Of Investigation to
investigate the women who, in a
body of 20 or Is. endeavored Friday
to get in his Office to present him
with an American flag. The letter
quoted newspaper accounts OF Mr..
Glass own request that the F. B. l.
investigate the women. Mr.. Glass
was quoted as saying:
IT believe that it would be peril
nent to inquire whether they are
mothers. For the sake of the race,
I devoutly hope not"
If the British-aid bill passes, Mrs.
Billing wrote to the Senator, you
will be known to millions as an
averaged destroyer of youth"
Crusade to Go On.
The women's crusade against the
bill will go on, Mrs. Dilling said.
She does not expect, however, her
followers will go again in a body
to the Senate Office Building.
Friday, according to Sergt. Lid
insky, the women sat and crawled
over the floor of the corridor out
side Senator Glass Office, so block
ing the way that Senator Capper,
Republican, of Kansas had to hop
scotch over their legs" to get by.
The story Mrs. Dilling told about
her organization was an interest
ing description of modern crusade
methods. Mrs. Dilling is an old
crusader, although relatively
young woman. She said trip to
Russia in 1881 with her husband
aroused her fears that a Commu-
nistic state might arise in this coun-
try, and for 10 years she has written
books, articles and bulletins and
spoken on subversive elements.
Mrs. Dilling arrived here the day
before the House passed the British
aid bill. She said she established
temporary headquarters at a hotel
and sent 1000 postcards to women
whose names she recognized as sub-s
scribers to her bulletins. The post
cards announced that our "Nerolike
President" was pushing the British
aid bill, that the bill portended a
dictatorial Government here and
that the women of America should
rally around and communicate
with their Senators and Repre-
sentatives.
Appeal Is to Mothers Fears.
The word spread. The basic aIs
peal of the message from Mrs.
Dilling was to the fears of mothers
lest their sons become victims of
the war. The first, tentative name
for her anti-British-aid bill organ
ization was the Mothers Action
Committee"
Now it has no name. It's members
are told that actually there is no
organization. Mothers are drawn
from countless other organizations
into the Dilling movement to oppose
piece of legislation they consider
dangerous.
Mrs. Dilling moved her head
quarters to another hotel a block
from the Senate Office Building.
Her secretary, Miss Jean Lundgren,
who works with Mrs. Dilling in
! Chicago, went with her. Miss
Lundgren was the one woman in
the group interviewed yesterday who
was not a mother.
Mrs. Dillfng urged that squadrons
! of mothers from all parts of the
country should visit Washington and
their representatives at the Capitol
to try to convince the legislators they
| should vote down the British-aid
bill. The response has been graft
| flying.
Groups of women have been NOV
ing into and out of the city ever since
the bill reached the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee. The women
who accompanied Mrs. Dilling to the
Senate Office Building Friday proba-
bly, will be gone next week. There
were women with her yesterday,
who were here Friday, she said.
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