A copies ordering that William Dudley Pelley, Silver Shirt leader, be arrested and held in $10,000 bond for appearance in court next month was issued today by Superior Court Judge Zeb Nettles on the ground Pelley had violated the conditions of two suspended sentences by consorting “with known enemies of American institutions,” distributing literature aimed at the overthrow of the Government and leveling “disgusting epithets at the office of the President of the United States.”
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