UNITED STATES v. McWILLIAMS

Cr. No. 73086.

54 F.Supp. 791 (1944)

UNITED STATES v. McWILLIAMS et al.

District Court of the United States for the District of Columbia.

February 28, 1944.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

O'John Rogge and Joseph W. Burns, Sp. Assts. to Atty Gen., for the United States.

Harry A. Grant, of Washington, D. C., for Garland L. Alderman.

W. Hobart Little, of Washington, D. C., for David Baxter.

Ira Chase Koehne and M. Edward Buckley, both of Washington, D. C., for Howard V. Broenstrupp and Frank W. Clark.

John T. Bonner and J. Austin Latimer, both of Washington, D. C., for George E. Deatherage.

Frank J. Kelly, of Washington, D. C., for Prescott F. Dennett.

Jos. C. Turco, of Washington, D. C., and Floyd Lanham, of Chicago, Ill., for Lawrence Dennis.

Claude A. Thompson and Wm. A. Gallagher, both of Washington, D. C., for Hans Diebel.

Dellmore Lessard, of Portland, Or., and W. Hobart Little, of Washington, D. C., for Elizabeth Dilling.

Ethelbert B. Frey, of Washington, D. C., for Robert E. Edmondson.

Ira Chase Koehne and James J. Laughlin, both of Washington, D. C., for Ernest F. Elmhurst.

Rees B. Gillespie and Joseph H. Bilbrey, both of Washington, D. C., for Franz K. Ferenz.

Marvin F. Bischoff, of Washington, D. C., for Elmer J. Garner.

Frank H. Myers and Elizabeth R. Young, both of Washington, D. C., for Charles B. Hudson.

Ellis O. Jones, in pro. per.

Chas. E. Morganston, of Washington, D. C., for August Klapprott.

P. Bateman Ennis, of Washington, D. C., for Gerhard W. Kunze.

Frank H. Myers and Elizabeth R. Young, both of Washington, D. C., for William R. Lyman, Jr.

Maximilian St. George, of Chicago, Ill., and W. Hobart Little, of Washington, D. C., for Joseph E. McWilliams.

J. Austin Latimer, of Washington, D. C., for Robert Noble.

Herbert S. Ward, of Washington, D. C., for William Dudley Pelley.

Harry A. Grant, of Washington, D. C., for E. J. Parker Sage.

Henry H. Klein, of New York, and James J. McLaughlin, of Washington, D. C., for Eugene N. Sanctuary.

Claude Thompson and Wm. A. Gallagher, both of Washington, D. C., for Herman M. Schwinn.

James J. Laughlin, of Washington, D. C., for Edward J. Smythe.

L. J. H. Herwig, of Washington, D. C., for Peter Stahrenberg.

J. Austin Latimer, of Washington, D. C., for James True.

Ben Lindas, of Washington, D. C., for George S. Viereck.

Ira Chase Koehne and M. Edward Buckley, both of Washington, D. C., for Lois DeLafayette Washburn.

John W. Jackson & E. Hilton Jackson, of Washington, D. C., for Gerald B. Winrod.


EICHER, Chief Justice.

For the purposes of this memorandum, the following résumé of the indictment before the court is believed sufficient to make understandable the conclusions herein announced:

First, the indictment avers that there began in Germany in 1933 a movement to substitute for the existing form of government in the United States a National Socialist form by causing insubordination, disloyalty, mutiny, and refusal of duty by members of...

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