Evening star., 1944-09-27
Ssdhioa 1ri,I Delay
Until After Election
Sought u Defense
RocioI Animosities
PIoeed Before People in
Testimony, Koshne Soys
Dy CARTER BROOKE JONES

~ CA8TE8 BROOKE JONES.
A defense attorney In the sedition
case moved In District Court today
to defer further sessions Of the mass
trial until after the election, In
compliance with the pledge Of both
political parties to avoid racial and
religious issues IN the interest Of
national harmony.
The attorney, Ira Chase Koehne,
representing three defendants, filed
. written motion pointing out that
much Of the Governments evidence
against the 26 accused persons In
volve anti-Semitism. Continued
publication Of such testimony in the
press, he added. Is placing racial
animosities before the people, in
violation OF the agreement to avoid
such controversies.
Mr.. Koehne referred to q recent
statement by the National Council
Of Christians and Jews reporting the
substance Of the agreement by the
national chairmen Of the Repub.
hcan and Democratic parties and
leaders of both to discourage "the
injection Of religious and racial ani-
mosities into the current campaign
Prosecution Asked to Join.
Government prosecutors were
asked to join the defense In stopping
the trial, at least until after the
election.
Despite the gesture of Chief Jus
tice Edward c. Eicher late yester.
day toward sweeping under the ju.
dicial table . row among three
other defense attorneys not bearing
ON the trial, q fresh motion in re-
taliation to the bitter dispute await.
ed his attention today.
Albert w. Dilling, one Of the at
torneys involved, moved to expunge
from the record the reply OF At
torney M. Edward Buckley, jr., to
the charge Of third defense coun-
sci, william J. Powers, that Mr.,
Buckley was - professional in
former" and "a Government stooge."
Mr.. Buckley, in open court, called
the charge "a deliberate, damnable
lie"
The verbal brawl between Mr..
Buckley and the other two defense
attorneys grew out of the trial Of
James J. Laughlin, formerly a de-
tense lawyer in the sedition case,
In Federal Court at Baltimore. Mr..
Laughlin, charged with obstructing
justice In a robbery case, was &C.
quilted. Mr.. Buckley gave testi-
mony unfavorable to the accused
attorney.
Laughlin Letter Quoted.
In his written motion to expunge,
Mr.. Dilling quoted q letter from Mr.,
Laughltn to Bernard ]. Flynn.
United States attorney at Baltimore,
asking that evidence Of Mr.. Buckleys
false testimony" be presented to
the grand jury.
Mr.. Buckley told the court yester-
day a charge Of perjury against Mr..
Laughltn was impending. Mr..
Powers and Mr.. Dilling gave testi-
mony at the Laughlin trial contra-
dieting certain assertions Of Mr..
buckley.
After the defense feud had fiared
up IN court yesterday, Justice Eicher
refused to take up the dispute. He
expressed regret that attorneys had
used the court as Q place to give
vent to personal spleen in . matter
extraneous to the trial.
Chief Prosecutor o. John Rogge
called . translator back to the stand
to identify translations Of German
letters. The Government planned to
go further into the activities of tho
German-American Bund In connec.
ton with the alleged worldwide
Nazi conspiracy charged in the in
dictment