William Dudley Pelley, chief of the Silver Shirts, national anti-Semitic organization, and two of his aides, were indicted by the Buncombe County Grand Jury today on charges of fraudulent stock sales.
The two aides are Robert C. Summerville and Don D. Kellog. The men are named on sixteen counts and the bill of indictment is fourteen pages long.
Receivership proceedings against Pelley’s outfit, the Galahad Press, Inc., publishers of Liberation, the Silver Shirts’ weekly organ, began April 15 when Pelley and his two aides were ordered to appear before the Buncombe County Superior Court within ten days. At that time W. Bowen Henderson Asheville accountant, was appointed temporary receiver for the press. Summerville admitted to investigators that the company “has no property and does not even have a sheet of paper.”
At the same time, it was revealed that more than 200 persons in all sections of the country have stock in the paper many of them prominent socialites.
On April 23, an order signed by Federal Judge Yates Webb directed United States Marshall Charles Price to take possession of all property of the press, pending action of the company that the company be adjudged bankrupt.
Judge Webb declared the Galahad Press bankrupt on May 2, and George Craig was named referee to hear claims of the creditors.
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