Rev. Charles E. Coughlin, the Detroit radio priest who is the founder of the anti-Semitic publication Social Justice, will testify shortly before the special district grand jury investigating foreign propaganda, it was learned here today as L. Perrin Schwartz, editor of Social Justice, appeared before the same jury.
Mr. Schwartz, a husky, pipe-smoking man in his fifties, brought to the jury room in the municipal court building a large suitcase and box containing records of Social Justice. He refused to make a statement to newspaper reporters but posed willingly for photographers. Special Assistant to the Attorney General Edward J. Hickey, Jr. said that Mr. Schwartz will probably be before the jury all day today, tomorrow and possibly again on Monday.
Government attorneys have declined to estimate how long the inquiry would last but have said it would go into every phase of the publication’s connections and various statements it has contained in the past few months, especially since Pearl Harbor.
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