Pelley’s ‘liberation’ Suspends Publication; Press is Bankrupt

Liberation, notorious anti-Semitic paper edited by William Dudley Pelley, commander-in-chief of the Silver Shirts, failed to appear yesterday. It was learned that publication has been suspended pending the disposition of bankruptcy proceedings in the Superior Court and the United States District Court here.

An involuntary petition of bankruptcy was filed in the Federal Court here last week against the Galahad Press, publishers of Liberation. The petition cited numerous debts owed by the Galahad Press and the fact that the firm had been placed in temporary receivership upon the application of creditors. Numerous suits against the Galahad Press are pending in local courts.

Pelley, formerly a writer of popular novels and a Y. M. C. A. secretary in Siberia during the World War, has for the past two or three years been preaching a doctrine of malignant anti-Semitism combined with spiritualism and assertions that orders for these actions came to him from “clairaudient” sources through the ether.

HITS JEWS. PRESIDENT. NEW DEAL

Most of the contents of Liberation were confined to vicious attacks on the Jews, President Roosevelt, the New Deal, the Elders of Zion, combined with preachings on the “Christ Democracy” and revelations from on high through the ether. Most of the articles were couched in a biblical language. Pelley attacked President Roosevelt as being in reality “a Dutch Jew Rosanfeld.” He declared that the NRA. and the entire Roosevelt administration were acting in accordance with orders from the “secret Jewish world government” and even went so far as to blame the assassination of President Lincoln and the Civil War upon the Jews.

Pelley’s kinship and close cooperation with the Nazis was revealed when a post of the Silver Shirts in California revolted against his dictatorship. Pelley published articles from the Hitlerite Deutsch Zeitung in New York and that paper in turn published all of Pelley’s virulent attacks on the Jews.

HITLER ‘REVEALED’ TO PELLEY

Pelley stated that it had been revealed to him from “divine sources” some time ago that “a young house painter in Germany would rise and clear his country of the Jews and that this young man was one of a number of great personalities.” Pelley declared that he had been bidden to cooperate with this “liberator” and that therefore the advent of Hitler did not surprise him.

Most of Pelley’s income seems ## have come from wealthy society women in various parts of the country whom he succeeded interesting through spiritualism and by alleged psychic manifestations in his movement.