William Dudley Pelley, chief of the defunct anti-Semitic Silver Shirt organization, and three of his lieutenants will go on trial here Monday in the Buncombe County Superior Court on charges of violating the State “Blue Sky” laws.
Pelley, who spent “seven minutes in eternity,” and returned to organize an American anti-Semitic organization, is charged with having sold stock in the bankrupt Galahad Press, Inc. , which is now in receivership.
Indicted with the “Chief” were Don K. Kellog, Robert C. Summerville and H. M. Hardwicke, his aides. The men are named on sixteen counts in a bill of indictment sixteen pages long. They have been at liberty on bail of $2,500 each.
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