The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-25
Under Cover
BY JOHN ROY CARLSON
:, rland vietig, Mrs. Faber I'm
va ntant Workers in National Work.
pu 'a league setup in Detroit; Laura
tie Ingalls, Quoted.
CHAPTER IL

pO. eague setup in Detroit; Laura
e'' Ingalls, Quoted.
CHAPTER II
Cortland Alderman spoke to me
~ Uncommon candor during GU,
%tY+ nb hours together He barred the
l0- arets of the N.W.L. while sitting
Se'- tho lawn o., on raining DAYS
vi bis car and told me how as
III LYMAN of the Pontiac chapter
G. AZ had used the America First
ne r,1r,ittee to do the dirty work
NJ the League,
u 81 u used the anti-Semitic stuff
.. onf nv The League, and turned
p". , v TO America First members
IL 'dis+ribution. he said.
" Garland loved flattery and
had no difficulty in pumping"
tan for information. From Gar
land I learned that Roberts most
ia aaf+.hle customer was large
g gau-ish manufacturing conce r n.
g Tsntfr1l1v | asked Roberts if this
was true TIA,
.,.Taing them twice the money
I'u would charge others"
uere was the strange spectacle
Il an important Jewish concern
, y. promoting Roberts an
sSen9itism But Roberts had con-
..;rod 10 keep nis underground Sc
u ao+ co vel. that few knew of his
VI Connections with the N W. L. Gar
land loaned to me overnight copy
~ Saoe's financial statement of
N ,be League. enabling me to have
:. rbotostateo Oh one of my daily
N r;, its 10 Detroit. From Garland
1eamed ira, boto he and Sage
b,d associated witt. Max Stephan,
t tSo Detroit Nazl ard member of
AMERICA FIRST. who at this writ
mo is under death sentence for
hayine alded in the escape Of a
rarnan aAator from Canada ear
" in 1912. From Garland I learn
Cd that during the past month
sIone Roberts had purchased 1000
nipces Of patriotic literature and
turned eve. most of it to him for
distribution.
corland VA, impre ssionable and
extremely ell.iale--an ideal and
tvnicsl too. Of fascist operators.
Hp had been graduated from Ohio
State Univr s'tv in 1886 with
rs degree in agric uiture, but he
nermitted aIm5et t. be used as
a dupe. In off moments he con-
lessed MS fear at the publicity
following his Indictment, and how
neighbors II Pontiac W h e r e he
lived stunned him. Thoroughly op-
posed 10 his views. his German
American wife ii 4 threatened:
If one more FIJI man comes
10 my house III go back to moth
en-" As to mis- in-lawc-also fine,
patriotic German Americans
Garland sad. laughing:
They went 10 the draft board
and told ybem they q take care
Of my wife and KID If they'd put
me in the amy. They said pa
tloac guy like he ought to be
in The army
asked Garland how he had got
bis Start Felley Liberation and
Coughl1's Social Justice had been
his primers and he had attended
special lecture courses given dur
ing the winter months by Father
CoughLn. He had become involved
With The N " l. a year ago and
become its secretary while serv-
ng cOncurrently as chairman OF
lie Pontiac chapter OF America
Fust
Garland arc drove over to see
Robert Vietg, former chairman OF
the Detroit chapter ol the A.F.C.,
and supervisor to many nearby
chapters He tad worked closely
with Garland. Garland recounted
that while speaking for the Pom
tao chapter Vietis had advised
his audience TO buy gun and
keep it well oiled because they
would need it some day
How does he hve?" l asked
Garland.
He is an insurance salesman,
AS We locked Oh the door of
Fletlss home, ne came out strip
ped to the waist. Athletic and in
Dis late thirties, VietIg welcomed
Us INTO MS home He told us how
lew months ago Parker Sage
mad come 70 him for advice. Vie
ag mad urged him to lay low. But
cage had insisted or sticking out
his neck.
Look where he is now," Vietig
asked him if the America First
committee was dead.
You caG't take Americanism
ouV OF the hearts and minds of
he people, he said sharply. He
nao placed in vault a set of the
al ta-.4eflca First membership lists
tor future Uae. Vieug told US of
l-S ambition. It was to found a
political unit in Michigan with suf-
heu1Nr n~,-.