Evening star., 1944-07-19
Sedition Jury
Hears Of Plan
.ToFight Jews
Deotheroee Wrote
Reich Conference,
Prosecution Says
BY CARTER BROOKE JONES.

Jewish Communism" in America
will be fought out in the streets
George E. Deatherage. a Defend
ant at the sedition trial, wrote to
an international Nazi conference
held in Germany In 1888, the Dis
trict Court jury was told today.
The letter. reported read at the
conference. was read to the jury by
Special Prosecutor Joseph w. Burns.
Deatherage was commander of the
Knights of the White Camelias and
organizer of the American Nation
alists Confederation.
Earlier Chief Justice Edward c.
Eicher deferred until this afternoon
a ruling on defense motion for
mistrial which he had held under
advisement over night. The motion
was based on the assertion that
newspaper account of a previous
indictment brought against Gecrse
Sylvester Viereck, defendant, had
been exposed to the jury.
Viereck Attorney Sought Mistrial.
The demand to stop the trial be-
cause OF the fatal error" was made
by Viereck's attorney, Ben Llndas
How the German American Bund
used the writings of certain Defend
ants in the case IN support of its
Nazi-directed propaganda in the
United States was described to the
District Court jury today by VILLAIN
Luedtke, former national secretary
jof the organization.
The Government witness said the
bulletins issued by Robert E. Ed
mordson, one of the 26 defendants,
sometimes were reprinted in the
bund newspaper and ofiicers of the
bund units were instructed to dis
tribute them.
The Edmondson bulletins. accord
ing to documentary evidence offered
by Mr.. Burns, included extracts from
articles or books by other defend
ants. including the Rev. Gerald
Whrod. Eugene U. Sanctuary. Eliza
beth Dilling, William Dudley Pelley,
Ernest F. Elmhurst and Howard v.
Broenstrupp. Some of the subjects
were: TO Judas Iscariot," Com
munizing the Constitution" The
Red United States War Plot" Moe
Roosevelt Wins" "Jew-Free Ger
many" "Roosevelts Jewish Ances-
try" and Dewey, Presidential
Impossibinty."
Deatherage Letter Read.
Deatherage's letter, Mr.. Burns
said, was sent to meeting of rep
resentatives from SO nations under
the sponsorship of World Service.
Nazi propaganda outlet, held in
Germany, July IS. 1898.
Deatherage told the delegates:
The U. S. A. is completely domi-
mated by Jews. Jews control the
radio, the press, the cinema, the
Protestant church. the great for
tunes that have been left to educa-
ton and charity, the policies of the
great colleges and universities
Deatherage said that "Bolshevism
has progressed to the point that all
national patriotic leaders agree that
there is no hope in political action
and charged that Roosevelt and
the Jews have secret treaty with
the Soviet Union"
The mistrial motion was made
shortly before adjournment yester-
day. The newspaper, the issue of the
toon and an article to which Burns
called the jury's attention. On the
same page with the article, Mr..
Lindas said, was a report of the in
dictment and arrest of Viereck on a
charge of failing to comply with all
the privisions of the Alien Agent
Registration Act.
| Cites Earlier Agreement.
Mr.. Lindas said the Government
earlier in the trial had agreed to
submit in place of the original a
photostat of this issue of the paper
with all reference to the previous
Viereck indictment deleted. But the
prosecution, he charged, had "delib-
erately" shown the original to the
jury. The jury, he contended, could
not have failed to see the headlines
and the story about Viereck.
1T was fatal error" he told the
court. Ito have introduced anything
showing a previous indictment"
Mr.. Burns conceded that the Gov.
ernment had offered to substitute a
photostat with the indictment news
eliminated, but insisted that Mr..
Lindas had said he had no objection
to having the original 60 to the jury.
He added that he did not think the
jurors saw the Viereck story.