Judge Warlick overruled a motion to quash the bill of the indictment and the trial proceeded on the original indictment of sixteen counts.
Most of the day was spent in picking the jury to try the case.
Pelley and his associates were indicted last May by the County Grand Jury and were immediately released on $2,500 bail.
Receivership proceedings are still pending against the Gallahad Pres, publishers of Pelley’s virulently anti-Jewish paper, Liberation.
Pelley has since undertaken the publication of a new organ, Pelley’s Weekly, in which he charges the Jews of the United States with having deliberately plotted his undoing. He once was a well-known author and Y. M. C. A. worker, later bobbing up as an anti-Semite. His organization was investigated by the Congressional Committee investigating subversive activities in the United States.
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