Evening star., 1943-01-05
Conspiracy Trial
Of Set
This Month
MoIoney Secures
30-Doy Extension
Of Grand Jury

Of Grand Jury
Thirty-three persons indicted by
the District grand jury yesterday for
alleged conspiracy to undermine the
and discipline of the armed
forces will be brought to trial this
month, William Power Maloney. spe.
cial assistant to the Attorney Gen.
eral, said today.
At the same time, Mr.. Maloney
announced that the case of Mrs
Myrtle L. Flowers on perjury
charge in connection with the in
vestigation of the asserted Nation
wide conspiracy will face a jury on
January IL.
The 80 persons charged with con-
spiracy included % named in an
earlier indictment by another grand
jury on July 81 and one corporation.
Prosecutor Maloney pointed out
that of the original % persons in
dicted, all but three had been ar
here and these three would
be arraigned within the next 10 days.
Griffin Loses Fight.
They are William Griffin, pub
Usher of the New York Evening
Enquirer. Inc, which was named
along with its publisher in yester-
days indictment: Ellis o. Jones and
Robert Noble Of Los Angeles.
Mr.. Griffin lost in New York
yesterday bitter fight against re-
moval to Washington. United States
Commissioner Garrett w. Cotter or
dered the removal after hearings
that lasted several weeks. The de-
fendant contended he had heart
condition which prevented him from
giving protracted testimony. Char
acter witnesses who testified in his
behalf included former Gov Alfred
E. Smith, former New York Police
Commissioner Edward Mulroony and
the Rev. Richard Blackburn WASH
ington of Hot Springs, Va, who de-
scribed himself as a collateral de-
scendant of the First President.
Mr.. Maloney said today that Mr..
Griffin would be brought to WASH
ington within a week.
The new indictment was returned
as the term of the District grand
jury was extended sc days by JUS
tice Matthew P. Mcclure on motion
of the prosecutor. This extension,
he assured the court, will not delay
the trial. In explaining his request,
Mr.. Maloney said there was "unfin-
ished business" before the jury con-
corning the same investigation"
He did not elaborate
Other New Defendants.
In addition to the New York En-
quirer, the new defendants named
in the new bill were George E.
Deatherage, st. Adams, w. Va;
Mrs. Lois de Lafayette Washburn,
alias 1T. N. T." Chicago and Sc
attic; Frank w. Clark, alias &c. p"
Tacoma, Wash: Frank w. Ferenz,
Los Angeles; Paquita de Shishma-
ref, alias Paquita de Shishmarova,
alias Mrs. Leslie Fry, Glendale.
Calf, and New York City. Named
as co-conspirator but not as a de-
fendant was Ulrich Fleischhauer Of
Erfut, Germany.
Defendants were charged with
conspiracy to impair the loyalty,
morality and discipline, and cause
disloyalty, mutiny and refusal of
duty in the armed forces.
Though the indictment parallelled
the charges made against the %
persons named in the indictment
returned last July. yesterdays bill
contained additional allegations
concerning the scope and extent of
the conspiracy, and presented new
evidence.
According to July's indictment the
conspiracy to undermine the mo-
rale of the armed forces had been
carried on by the defendants since
June %, 1910. Yesterdays indict-
ment alleged that the conspiracy
began in, 1888 and has contintinued
to present
The new indictment lists various
overt acts" by the defendants not
included in the earlier document.
Among these are letters exchanged
between Hans Diebel, one of the %
persons indicted last July. and
World Service, a Nazi propaganda
bulletin published in Erfurt, Ger
many.
Described as Organizer.
Deatherage, one Of the new per-
sons indicted, was described by the
Justice Department as organizer of
the Knights of the White Camellia
and the American Nationalist Con-
federation.
Mrs. Washburn was identified as
of the National Liberty
Party and the National Gentle
League and distributor for Yankee
Freemen.
Clark, according to the depart.
ment, Is an organizer of the National
Liberty Party and commander in
chief OF the League Of War Vet
Grams Guardsmen.
Paquita de Shishmareff is pub
Usher of the Christian Free Press
and organizer Of the Militant Chris
tian Patriots.
Ferenz, who is now serving a SEN
tence for violation of the California
Tenney (anti-subversive) Act, was
said by the department to have been
active In the Friends Of Progress
and in the distribution of Nazi films.
The indictment returned yester-
day. Attorney General Biddle point
ed out, was the result of intensive
investigation by the present grand
jury, covering period of several
On motion Of Mr.. Maloney, the
court extended for 80 DAYS the life
OF the present grand jury, which
was to have expired yesterday.
Representative Cochran