Evening star., 1944-08-18
Sedition Trial Halls
Until September 5;
New Exhibits Offered
Sheof Of More Than
; $50 New Exhibits
Placed in Record
BY CARTER BROOKE JONES.

ny NAnxEn 0NOOAE JONES.
With a new sheaf of more than
$50 Government exhibits placed in
the record, the sedition trial in Dis
trict Court was adjourned today
until September S.
1t had been planned for the case
to be In recess from tonight until
the day after Labor Day, so that
jurors, attorneys and defendants
could have a brief vacation.
Chief Justice Edward c. Eicher
however, adjourned today's session
out OF respect to the memory of his
associate, Justice Oscar H. Luhring
who died early today.
Edmondson Bulletin Quoted.
The new exhibits, only a portion
OF which were read or shown to the
jury by Chief Prosecutor o. John
Rogge before adjournment, in
cluded a number of the privately
circulated bulletins of Robert E. Ed
mondson, a defendant. One of
these, issued in 1887, said:
LEST we forget! American. yisi-
lanteism is simply militant Ameri-
canism recapturing for we, the peo-
pie, a Government whose official
public servants have been faithiess
TO the Republic. In Italy it is called
Fascism; in Germany, Naziism; in
Japan, Nationalism.
In this bulletin, issued in 1897 one
Iof numerous Government exhibits
ach Mr.. Rogge sifted through to-
dsy and showed or read to the Jury
Edmondson told of visit to the Ma
tional Christian Socialist party in
Montreal, headed by the Canadian
FASCIST, Adrien Arcand. That party,
ne reported, showed that interna-
tlonal Communism stood for q new
world without country, family, prop
erty or religion. It's symbol was "the
destructive fist of hatred; its Orien-
tai aim to destroy Christian ciyili-
zation." On the other hand, he
added:
National fascistic patriotism
stands for world based on coun-
try, family. property, religion. Its
symbol is the Aryan cross, with an
open hand salute of good will and
peace.
Which do you choose?"
Dewey Criticized in Sketch.
A letter included in the exhibits
from Edmondson. to another de-
fendant, Hans Diebel, proprietor of
the Aryan Bookstore in Los Angeles.
said:
Thank you for your kind express
sions. Good stuff, the Jewish army
Make 'em fight each other"
Edmondson circulated, according
to another document, a thumbnail
sketch about Gov. Thomas E.
Dewey, one of a series called "Presi-
dental Pygmies."
This sketch said the Republican
candidate for President was dis
covered and made by Jewish Leader
George z. Medalie," and was sur
rounded as district attorney by over
Is Jewish and Communistic assist
ant district attorneys. =" The
paper added: Dewey accepted a
scroll for distinguished service to
Jewry. Appointed to his. racket
busting job by Jewish Democrat
Gov. Lehman on approval of Jewish
Mayor La Guardia."
Other exhibits showed Diebel cor
responded and exchanged literature
with Fascist leaders in England and
South Africa.
Letter to Diebel.
One one occasion, the Govern
ment brought out, Edmondson wrote
Diebel:
"As you know, we are not selling
hterature-by advice of counsel. All
contributors, however, are entitled
to receive from printer the bulletins
or publications they wish upon max
ing donation that will cover the
cost OF the matter. We bar profit
making Of any kind in this fight
at present, for various good reasons. >
Justice T. Alan Goldsborouph O,
District Court announced he would
signsan order dismissing a writ O,
habeas corpus brought in behalf O,
Robert Noble, a former defendan,