Evening star., 1944-06-12
i. ). Officers
Propagandized, ,
Court Is Told
Nozis' Material
Seized on Coast,
Sedition Jury Hears
BY CARTER BROOKE JONES.

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BY CARTER BROOKE JONES.
Members of the armed force
were among those named on /,
mailing list slated In 1941 to re-
ceive Nazi propaganda which tn,
collector Of customs at Los Angelo
confiscated, the Government brough
out today at the mass sedition tria
In District Court.
A digest briefed by the Govern.
ent from a voluminous mailing lis
compiled by German propagandists
including names of certain defend
ants, was admitted In evidence pro
visionally by Chief Justice Edward
G. Eicher over vigorous defense OBJ.
jections.
The exhibit, which defense coun.
sci called "the little black book" wa.
allowed to go before the jury with
the understanding that it later
would be connected directly by the
prosecution with the alleged sedi-
tious conspiracy.
High OfIicers Listed.
Army officers ranging in rank
from general to corporal and Navy
personnel were listed.
conspiring with Nazi leaders to un-
dermine the morale of the armed
forces, incite mutiny and set up a
national socialist government in
this country.
Special Prosecutor Joseph w.
Burns said the only purpose of the
exhibit was to show the Cocoon
spirators in Germany tried to MAIN
tain contact with certain defend
ants by continuing to mail them
printed matter and also had ad-
dressed this propaganda to MEM
bers of the armed forces. Obvious
", he pointed out, they did not re-
ceive this particular material, since.
after March, 194l, 1t was seized
under Postoffice Department rul-
Ing. MIR. Burns said the Govern
nent would have no objection If the
defense wanted to put in the entire
mailing list or any part of it. The
OF schools, newspapers, libraries, Su-
preme Court justices, members of
Congress and other public officials.
IA Volumes Identified.
Henry j. Nord, deputy collector of
customs at Los Angeles, identified
the IA bulky volumes describing the
confiscated propaganda and the ad-
dresses and the code digest made
under his direction.
The matter came to San Fran
cisco and San Pedro, Calf, from
Germany by way of Siberia, after
Na1 mails across the Atlantic were
cut OF, the Government brought
out.
Mr.. Nord said certain Army and
Navy addresses were identified by
officers of the armed services as
signed to this task. @
Asked by DEFENSE Counsel j..
Austin Latimer to name TIE officers
and say who assigned them, Mr..
Nord said he could not do this
without permission of the branches
of 1ervices affected. The court
sustained the refusal of the wit
ness to give this information.
Many of the seized documents
were shown to have been sent out
by World Service" In Germany, de-
scribed previously by Chief Prose-
cutor o. John Rogge as leading
source Of anti-Senitic, anti Com
munist propaganda.
Defense Moves Blocked.
Defense attorneys sought in vain
to block evidence of the confiscated
material. One of them, Ben Lindas,
contended such evidence assumed
there was something improper
merely in receiving such propa-
ganda, If those to whom it was ad-
dressed happened to include de-
PENDANTS. He also objected on the
ground that 1t assumed there was q
conspiracy, which the Government
had not yet proved.
Objecting to such partial evil
dence, Defense Attorney William J
Powers argued you could as vel
show the Library of Congress was
engaged in subversive activities be.
cause 1t sometimes received subvers-
i've literature. On the other hand
the whole picture of all the materia
which the library had received
would prove otherwise, he pointed
out.
Laurence Dennis, a defendant
representing himself, suggested that
in the interest of fair play, the de-
tense be allowed to put In a mailing
list OF respectable Names" includ-
ing Senators and Supreme Court
justices, along with the Govern
ment's "hand-picked list" including
names OF defendants, to which the
German propaganda had been ad-
dressed.
German Conference Recalled.
The Government hopes to prove
that Ernest F. Eimhurst, a defend
ant, attended congress at Erfurt
Germany, under the supervision OF
World Service" and Rogge prom
ised the jury that the evidence
would show Elmhurst took part In
this conference, with representa-
ttves from other countries, because
he was part of the worldwide Naz
movement"
Another defendant, Robert e
Edmondson, sent his American pub
Hcations to World Service" through
the German consulate service, on
German ships, according to other
evidence which the Government,
plans to produce.
'Worid Service" the Govern
mems exhibits indicate bore down
on anti-Semitism and anti-Com
munism, fuel for the alleged cam.
paign of hate which the defendants
are accused of waging in the United
States.
Propaganda Reported Used.
Among the defendants who re.
ceived this propaganda regularly
and put it to good use, according tt
the prosecution, were Gerald B
Winrod, George E. Deatherase
james True, Elizabeth DiIling