Evening star., 1944-10-06
PelIey Papers Sent
To Catholic Council
Here, Jury Is Told
Prosecution in Sedition
Trial Seeks to Prove
Overt Acts in D. c.
BY CARTER BROOKE JONES.

by CAh1Ek BhOOhE JONES.
Two magazines published by viii.
liam Dudley Pelley, defendant ir
the sedition case, containing anti
New Deal and anti-Semitic propa-
ganda, were sent unsolicited to the
National Council of Catholic Mer
here, it was brought out by the Gov
ernment in evidence before the jury
yesterday.
The council received Pelleys Lib
Grafton and the Galilean between
1896 and 1912, Henry P. Lefebure OF
the National Catholic Welfare Con-
ference testified,
Mr.. Lefebure said he glanced over
the publications and never read
them thoroughly, but gathered they
were "anti-New Deal and anti
Semitic"
Uncertain of Contents.
Were they pro-Nazi?" the witness
was asked.
He said he didn't recall that.
Did they counsel nsubordination
in the armed forces?" asked Max
imilian j. st. George, attorney for
Joseph E. McWilliams, referring to
the specific offense with which the
26 defendants are charged.
Il don't recall anything of that
sort" Mr.. Lefebure replied.
The witness said he turned over
the Pelley material to the Federal
Bureau of Investigation in June, at
the request of an attorney in the
Justice Department.
Chief Prosecutor o. John Rogge
started this line of testimony as
further evidence of overt acts =
the District in pursuit of the al
legged conspiracy for which the de-
PENDANTS were indicted. The de-
fense repeatedly has challenged the
Jurisdiction of District Court to try
the case.
Addressed to Monsignor.
The Peney publications, Mr.. Lefe-
bure testified, were addressed to
Msgr. Fulton Sheen, although he
never saw them. They were filed
away in the Office, the witness ex-
planned.
Mr.. Lefebure said thousands of
letters and pamphlets of all sorts
reached the National Council Of
Catholic Men in connection with the
Catholic Radio Hour.
do you recall" asked Claude A.
Thompson of counsel for Hans
Diebel and Herman Max Schwinn,
receiving publications from the
CIO condemning these defendants?"
"I recall none," said Mr.. Lefe-
bure.
Questioned further, the witness
remembered getting one publication
recently from the CIO Political
Action Committee.
Further Action Delayed.
Further development of this angle
of the Governments case was de-
ferred until Monday by the abb
sence of Pelley's attorney, William
j. Powers, who was detained in
Chicago
Prosecutor Roege earlier had
sought to bring out from Miss HERNIA
Jefferys, former employe OF Pelley
at Noblesville. Ind, that the Galilean
had II subscribers in Washington
Chief Justice Edward C. Eicher held
that further evidence along this
line should await the return of Mr..
Powers.
Toward the close of the cross
examination of Corpl. Roy H.
Schlote, formerly in the German
American Bund's Youth Movement,
P. Bateman Ennis, attorney for Ger
hard Wilhelm Kunze, elected that
the witness, when he came to Wash.
ington to testify at this trial, was
shown some notes by the FBI which
he did not write and never saw
before. They related to his trip to
Germany in 1898 as guest of the
Reich.
Admits Testimony.
did you testify to matters con-
tanned in those notes?" he was asked.
"Yes, I did," he replied.
The Government planned, pend
ing further evidence of covert acts"
in Washington. to go into another