Evening star., 1942-07-30
Pe||ey Seeks Ecc|es,
Lindbergh, Holt as
Defense Witnesses
Other Nationally Known
Men Listed to Appear
At Sedition Trial
1S the Associated Press.


INDIANAPOLIS, July 30.-Wil-
liam Dudley Pelley, former Silver
Shirt leader on trial for sedition
here, yesterday subpoenaed several
outstanding national figures. includ-
Ing Charles A. Lindbergh. as wit
nesses to aid in his defense.
Pelley also requested the calling
of Mariner S. Eccles, chairman of
the Federal Reserve Board, together
with ANY and all statements" show
ing the gross worth of the United
States as of, or as near as possible
to. December 81, 194l, and January
IL, 1912.
The request still required the ap-
proval of Judge Robert c. Baltzell,
but Oscar R. Ewing, special prose-
eutor. said the prosecution would not
oppose 1t If the defense insisted Mr..
Eccles' testimony was necessary.
Others Sought to Testify.
Earlier, Pelley had posted a
financial guarantee of expenses for
the appearance of eight other wit
nesses. Besides Lindbergh, the list
included former Senator Rush Holt,
Weston, w. Va; DR.. Jacob Thorkel-
son, Butte, Mont, former member of
Congress; Maj. Gen. George Van
Horn Moseley, retired, Atlanta, Ga. !;
William Allen White, Emporia,
Kans., editor, described in the re-
quest as chairman Of "the Commit
tee to Defend the Allies; Melvin
johnson, Willapa, Wash; Millner
Shaffer, Oregon City, Greg, and
William Clubine, Seattle, Wash.
The latter three are reported to
have been civilian employees at Pearl
Harbor.
Pelley, together with Miss Agnes
Marian Henderson and Lawrence A.
Brown, both associated with him in
the Fellowship Press, Inc. at Mobiles
vile, Ind, are being tried on u
counts under the 1917 Sedition Act.
Government prosecutors yesterday
read into evidence numerous articles
from purported Pelley publications.
along with excerpts from his auto
biography, The Door to Revela-
ton"
Gen. Moseley, one of the witnesses
listed by Pelley, said in Atlanta that
Il do not know Pelley and 1 can't
understand why I have been men
f{nno1 iyn l. >;
One excerpt from Pelley's auto
biography said it was disclosed to
him during a revery by the voice of
the oracle" that he was to become
the head of national organization
Of 'quasi-military" character when
Adolf Hitler became the German
Chancellor.
Another excerpt said he organized
the anti-Semitic Silver Shirts "in
every State except Delaware" and
that California at one time had
more Silver Shirts than police and
national guardsmen"
Outline Of Program"
Other parts OF the Pelley book
envisioned "the oncoming of Com
nunism" and said he. Pelley, had
to hold the actionists down until
conditions justified reprisal against
the Washington gang" and 'if it
meant force to hurl the scoundrels
from the country-very we'll, it
meant force"
Interspersing its documentary
evidence with witnesses who told
Of receiving the various Pelley
publications, the Government also
introduced copy of the magazine,
Liberation, which included Pelley's
program"
1t called for the segregation of
Jews in one city in each State,
adoption of Southern Negroes as
wards Of the Republic" use of the
pre-l929 wage levels as an economic
guide and had this to say of Presi-
dent Roosevelt:
Il propose to effect conditions
which shall eject and dismiss the
6phardic Jew, Franklin D. ,Roose-
welt, from the office of President of
the United States and to discharge
every agent and attache of the alien
oligarchy he has indicted into Fed
eral Government"