New information regarding activities of Carl Byoir, mentioned during open hearings of the Congressional committee investigating Nazi activities as being payoff man for Hitlerite publicity in this country, came yesterday with charges by Joe Moss, orchestra leader, that Byoir had discriminated against his orchestra because of its Jewish leadership.
At the same time George Sylvester Viereck, business associate of Byoir who was reported at Congressional hearings as having received funds from both the Byoir office and the German consulate here in connection with publicity for Germany, refused to comment on reports that for some time he had been receiving additional remittances of $500 monthly from the German consulate. Viereck, who had been paid $1,000 monthly and expenses for the upkeep of his office, said that any information he had concerning the reported receipt of an additional $500 monthly from the German deplomatic office would be given to the Congressional committee itself.
CHARGES INJUSTICE
Moss asserted that he had been done an injustice by Byoir when, after having been engaged to play for an annual style show at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel on December 8, 1933, Byoir summarily discharged his orchestra and engaged that of Larry Siry, a non-Jew.
According to Moss, before the event was held, Byoir was forced to deposit a check with the Musician’s Union to the amount
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