Evening star., 1944-06-02
Sedition Judge Denies
Move for Dispositions
From KimmeI, Short
BY CARTER BROOKE JONES.

"A SS4SlAoC AlCUlOll Jildp
be taken from Rear Admiral Hus-
band E. Kimmel and Maj. Gen.
Walter c. Short, Hawaiian COM
manders at the time of the japanese
attack on Pearl Harbor, was denied
today by Justice Edward C. Eicher,
presiding at the District Court mass
Sedition trial
The motion was presented yes
terday by James j. Laughlin, at
torney for Edward James Smythe
and Robert Noble. The dispositions
were asked on the ground the
testimony was important to the de-
fense of Smythe and Noble and
unless it were taken at once, it
might be withheld.
Justice Eicher said the motion
had not set out any fact that would
make the testimony of Gen Short
and Admiral Kimmel relevant to
the issues in this case.
Cash Gift Reported.
AS the case proceeded the Gov
ernment offered evidence to show
that Herman Max Schwinn, one of
the 20 defendants, signed, as West
ern Gauleiter" of the bund, mes
sage to Hitler, accompanied by more
than $4,000 in crisp new American
500 bills" which a delegation from
the organization took to the Berlin
Olympic games in 1885,
Several other officers of the bund,
including Fritz Kuhn, then national
leader, signed the greeting from the
German group in the United States,
as published in the Chicago organ of
the bund July %, 1886.
Special Prosecutor Joseph w.
Burns read a translation of the an
nouncement into the record, in the
absence of the jury, preparatory to
offering this excerpt of the news
paper in evidence.
Hitler, the announcement said.
also was to receive "a splendid
er-bound book" containing the
names of contributors to the gift.
Gissibl Published Bund Organ.
Peter Gissibl, former Chicago
leader of the bund, a Government
witness, was president of the Teu-
tcnia Publishing Co., which pub
lished the Deutcher Weckruf und
Becbachter, the bund organ, he tes-
titled. He also identified copies of
the papers.
Gissibl described to the jury how
Children taken to meetings of the
bund's youth movement, three years
before the Pearl Harbor attack,
were paraded in uniforms exactly
like those worn by members of Hit
ler's youth movement in Germany
The bund created the Hitler-style
youth group to train future leaders
of our cause in the United States, y
GiSsibl said.
Asked by Mr.. Burns what he
meant by ''our cause" Gissibl re-
piled:
Teaching the philosophy of Ma
tiona. Socialism in the United
States"
Further Details Expected.
Gissibl testified only briefly re-
garding Nazi activities among chill
dren, but the prosecution was ex-
pected to pursue the matter further
with later witnesses.
GiSSibl told yesterday how the bund
established about seven camps. TO
give members and their friends op-
portunity to spend week ends and
vacation times there" The camps, he
added, also were used for public
meetings. He said he attended Camp
Hindenburg in Wisconsin, Camp Van
Steuben at Richmond. Mich, and
Camp Siegfried on Long Island,
N. Y.
Mr.. Burns read to the jury late
yesterday a circular letter sent to
the Friends of New Germany in 1888,
a few months after Hitler became
Reichschancellor, declaring it was
not enough merely to join the
bund,' but Ito be National Social
ist means to be fighter" and the
organization would expect every
member Ito place himself at our
disposal"
Justice Eicher denied a motion
signed by % of the 27 defense at
torneys asking that the Govern
ment be required to "streamline" it's
case by offering its evidence in log
ical order, establishing the alleged
acts OF conspiracy with which the
accused were charged, the dates
and places, and especially whether
any part of the asserted plan to
undermine the loyalty of the armed
forces took place in Washington.