Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-05-14
Jap Testifies
Al Trial Of Two
As Alien Agents
Miyozoki Brought
To District Court
From Internment

Kioshi Miyazaki a japanese in
termed at Fort Meade, Md, was
brought to District Court today to
continue testimony linking two
American newspapermen with the
japanese Committee on Trade and
Information at San Francisco.
He said that drafts of articles
written by David Warren Ryder
were read to this propaganda or
ganization, and declared that Fred
erick Vincent Williams attended a
social" meeting as a guest. Both
these San Francisco writer's are
charged with violating the Foreign
Agents Registration Act.
Minutes of the Japanese Commit
tee, translated into English, were
placed in evidence and read to the
jury. These disclosed a plan of
Japanese propaganda through the
medium of radio, movies, photo
graphs, lectures and articles in
magazines and newspapers. The
japanese consul general at San
Francisco attended some of the
gatherings
Concerned Over Boycott.
Miyazaki testified, under cross
examination, that he was the man.
ager in San Francisco of the Mitsui
Co, an importing and exporting
firm. the largest in Japan, doing its
greatest volume of business with the
United States. The firm name,
which was greatly concerned with
the rising feeling of hostility toward
Japan and the Japanese boycott,
Mlyazaki told the jury, brought into
the United States vegetable oils and
other products, while it exported to
Japan Oil, scrap iron and machinery
"a business aggregating many mil
lions OF dollars. He never met Mr..
Ryder and that defendant did not
attend meetings of the committee.
the witness said, explaining that he
never told any one that part of the
committees money came from the
japanese consul. Miyazaki said he
did not even tell this to his San
Francisco lawyer.
The witness said the committee
purchased Mr.. Ryder's pamphlets on
coSt-plus-Service basis, but that
he did not personally know of any
agreement by the committee to paw
Mr.. Ryder salary. The only in
formation he had concerning Mr..
Ryder came to him from a third
party. Miyazah testified.
Further cross-examination de-
veloped that large japanese inter-
ests in San Francisco gave funds to
the committee, as did the Mitsui
company. Re-examined by Gov
eminent counsel, MiyazaH declared
that Mitsui never received any of
Its funds through the Japanese con-
sulate general.
Lawyer Appears TO Testify.
The appearance of John T. Pigott.
lawyer In San Francisco firm that
represented the Mitsui company for
quarter Of a century, caused a
legal argument before Justice T.
Alan Goldsborough. After a con-
ference at the bench, the court ruled
that Mr.. Pigott could testify if he
desired. But when Special Assistant
TO the Attorney General Albert E.
Aren't attempted to introduce a let
ter from Miyazaki to Mr.. Pigott, re-
leasing the lawyer from any con-
f1dential ban, Defense Counsel
Elisha Hanson was on his feet with
an objection, insisting that he
doubted the legality of an informed
japanese, now that the United
States is at war with Japan, being
capable of releasing the lawyer from
secrecy. The Government insisted
that the lawyer can be compelled
to testify and that the privilege of
waving the confidential relation
ship is the clients.