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THE JEWISH POST

Friday, August 4, 1944

1 Guilty, 2 Freed In Dorchester By ROBERT L. GREEN Jewish Post Correspondent BOSTON—Six young Boston shipyard workers were summoned into Dorchester District Court Wednesday to show cause why they shouldn’t be held in contempt of court for the alleged attack they made upon a witness to the beating given three Jewish boys last May by a group of their fellow high school students. The summoning of the shipyard workers came as an anti-climax to the three months old trial of nine Dorchester High School students charged with the vicious assault on the three Jwish youths last May 12. Two of the war workers were released with a warning when there was found insufficient evidence to hold them. The other four, however, were severely lectured and had their cases put over until Dec. 26 when the court will act on the complaint they assaulted one of the witnesses to the riot on a Boston elevated train which resulted in the Jewish boys being severely beaten. Jewish Lawyer Asks Leniency In the cases of two of the four remaining students on trial, the court accepted the plea for leniency made in their behalf by attorney Jacob Levy, counsel for the Good Neighbor Association, one of several organizations fighting anti-Semitism in Dorchester. Levy told the court that the parents of these two boys had expressed sincere regrets over the participation of their sons in the train rioting. Their cases were placed on file for six months and if no new incident develops within that time their records will be eliminated entirely. A third boy was found guilty but without exten-

uating circumstances. He was released in $100 nominal bail to his parents. His attorney said he would appeal the District Court deeds i n in Superior Court. The court said that it would not grant leniency to the fourth student because of the nature of his defense, but agreed to withold its verdict until further investigation is made. Formed Riot Patrol Appointed to conduct the investigation was Rabbi S. I. Korff and Henry R. McLaughlin, assistant headmaster of Dorchester High School. McLaughlin had previously described in court the tension that had gripped the big high school on May 12 and the precautions he and headmaster Albert Reed had taken to prevent rioting from breaking out at the school itself. Police were called he said and a patrol of eight teachers was organized. He said that the antireligious writings found on school walls and which were given as the reason for the attack on the Jewish boys were undoubtedly the work of the ringleaders of th<j gang who made the attack. It had been claimed that a certain Jewish boy had scribbled the scur-anti-Christian remarks. The court declared: “This writing was definitely placed there by subversive elements who planned this attack as o. part of the scheme to destroy the democratic way of life.”

Many Jews in the German concentration camp of Vittel in France attempted to commit suicide when they learned that they were to be deported to Poland instead of being exchanged for Germans in Allied countries.

A movement has been started in Algiers to establish a Hebrew chair in the Algiers university. The Hebrew University will be asked to assist in the necessary arrangements.

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Moseley, Not Under Indictment, May Be Key Figure As Sedition Trial Proceeds

By J. L. MARTIN WASHINGTON, D. C.---The name of Major General George Van Horn Mosely will loom larger and larger as the sedition trial in Chief Justice Edward C. Eicher's District Court progi’esses further. The general is not on trial, yet before the prosecution rests its case, it will be shown that many of the defendants worshiped at Moseley’s feet and were willing to act as leaders of a united Fascist movement with the ultimate goal of establishing a dictatorship in America and placing Moseley—their man on horseback— in the White House. Last week newspaper accounts of the sedition trial differed greatly from previous reports. Until then, uninformed newspaper readers gained the impression from these reports that the trial was but a maze of legalistic arguments. Now it is apparent that the prosecution has sensational evidence, which at one and the same time is most damaging to the defendants and will reveal the technique used by the enemies of this country to destroy our form of government. One of the letters put in evidence showed that William Dudley Pelley, goateed Silver Shirt leader, wrote that he could “alter the course of American history” if he could bolster his program with the “glamour” of Charles A. Lindbergh, the “wealth” of Henry Ford, the “prestige” of Senator Burton K, Wheeler and the “interest” of General George Van Horn Moseley. Moseley’s Background In April, 1939, Moseley delivered a speech in Philadelphia in which he openly announced his Fascist stand. One month later he appeared before the Dies Committee and testified about an allegedly existing plot by radicals and Communists to take over the country. The information he offered was so 1’idiculous that even the Dies Committee—which has often accepted unsubstantiated accusations at face value—refused to print it. The secret plot of which Mosely spoke was manufactured by Nazi propagandist Mrs. Leslie Fry, who then resided in Southern California, and is now a guest of Uncle Sam at Ellis Island. (She was named in the second sedition indictment, but not in the third.) Once Moseley showed his Fascist ideology, Nazi elements throughout the nation swarmed to his banner. Denounced by Secretary of War Woodring for “flagrant disloyalty,” he allied himself openly with advocates of alien ideologies by establishing contact with practically every branded Nazi-Fascist agitator in the United States. Moseley Welcomed Fascists In letters addressed to various “Trojan Horse” groups, Moseley welcomed their willingness to

become his backers and fellow-travelers. Defendants Robert Edward Edmondson, James True, Charles B. Hudson, as well as Mrs. Fry and former Bund leader Fritz Kuhn, united in praise of Moseley and hailed him as the Fascist “white hope of America.” (James True’s case was severed recently from the sedition trial due to illness. He will be tried later.) Edmondson in his special circular praising Moseley, embraced him as a man who “has burned his bridges” and declared that “soldierpatriots like yourself have saved Germany, Italy, Japan and Spain from annihilation.” Pattern Repeats Itself Moseley was not the first high-ranking United States military man chosen by the enemies of this country as their man on horseback. In 1933 several men planned to create a vast Fascist movement of which the late Major General Smedley D. Butler (retired) was to be the leader. General Butler Approached The famous general was contacted by one Gerald C. MacGuire, employed at that time by Grayson M.-P. Murphy & Company of New York City. He approached General Butler in behalf of R. S. Clark, a banker. Clark and MacGuire planned to use Butler to gain control of the American Legion and to convert it into a Fascist organization. According to Butler’s testimony given in December, 1934, before the Congressional Committee on Un-American Activities, Clark said to Butler: “You understand just how we are fixed. I have got $30,000,000. I don’t want to lose it. I am willing to spend half of this $30,000,000 to saVe the other half.” Clark outlined to Butler a scheme by which he was to gain control of the Legion and wanted Butler to appear before the American Legion to propose changes in the existing laws, providing that the President of the United States was to be relieved of most of his responsibilities and that his work be done by a “Secretary of General Affairs.” The newly created “Secretary of General Affairs” was to be one of Clark’s men who would push the President completely aside and become America’s first dictator. General Butler would have nothing to do with the plot. He was a good American. When the plot was made public, the nation gasped. As the sedition trial proceeds, the public will learn the details of the second plot involving General Moseley. It will be shown that the leaders of the second plot were Mrs. Fry and defendants Pelley, Deatherage, Edmondson and Hudson.

Overton Pledges Palestine Support By H. W. BIERHORST Jewish Post Correspondent NEW ORLEANS, La. — Announcement was made here this week that Louisiana’s senior Senator John H. Overton has pledged the American Palestine committee his support of Senate resolution No. 247, which demands abrogation of the Chamberlain White Paper, prohibiting Jewish immigration into Palestine. “The terrible and inhuman persecution beggaring all description to which the Jewish people have been subjected renders it not only just and equitable but inescapably necessary that a national home for them should be established in

Palestine,” the senator said. “All lovers of humanity should join this great movement. The Balfour declaration with all of its recommendations should be adhered to.”

Palestine Invites 15,000 Laborers From Egypt By Jewish Telegraphic Ajgvney JERUSALEM — The Palestine Government has invited 16,000 laborers from Egypt to come here to build a series of public works, it was reported in the press this week. The report said that the Egyptian Government is planning to send a special committee to Jerusalem to examine the conditions under which the Egyptians will have to work.

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State of Indiana, Marlon County, s*: In the Superior Court of Marion County in the State of Indiana. No. H-3310(>. Claude Keanier vs. I.ela Marie Reamer. Be it known, that on the 1st day of August, 1944. the above named plaintiff, by his attorney, filed In the office of the clerk of the Superior Court of Marlon County, In the Slate of Indiana, his complaint against the shore named defendant. Lela Marie Reamer, and the said plaintiff having also filed in said clerk’s office the affidavit of a competent person showing that the residence of the defendant, upon diligent Inquiry, is unknown, and the defendant. Lela Marie Reamer, Port Knox. Ky., is not a resident of the State of Indiana, and that said cause of action Is for divorce, and that the defendant, Lela Marie Reamer, is a necessary party thereto, and whereas said plaintiff having by endorsement on said complaint required said defendant to appear in said court and answer or demur thereto on the 28th day of September. 1944. Now, therefore, by order of said court, said defendant last above named Is hereby notified of the filing and pendency of said complaint against her and that unless she appear and answer or demur thereto at the calling of said cause on the 28th day of September. 1944. the same being the twenty-first judicial day of a term of said court to be begun and held at the Courthouse In the City of Indianapolis on the first Monday in September, 1944, said complaint and the matters and things therein contained and alleged will be heard and determined in her absence. A. JACK TILSON. 8-4 3 Clerk.

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