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To belligerent William Power Maloney, special assistant to the Attorney General, Dillard Stokes gave his evidence. For his courage and diligence he has received many a threatening letter. A woman phoned him every Saturday for six weeks, told him each time she was on her way to kill him. But his rewards have been many: he scooped other newsmen because he knew what the grand jury was doing, while they did not; he had the satisfaction of watching as the grand jury handed down 34 indictments based often on evidence Dillard Stokes had dug up; in July 1942 he received the Heywood Broun Memorial award for "persistent, tireless, intelligent" newspaper effort.
Said Casey Jones last week of Dillard Stokes: "He has handled probably the touchiest material we have printed in years, and he has been right all down the line." Another tribute to Stokes came a fortnight ago from Montana's Senator Burton K. Wheeler. Said the Senator, denouncing the prosecution of the alleged plotters as "a disgrace": ". . . You are nothing but a stooge for the Department of Justice, a little newspaper spy; it's a dirty business you are in and the time will come when you will all regret it. . . ."
Stokes published the Senator's remark, as well as pictures of Wheeler being hailed by one Frank F. Ferenz, later convicted as a Nazi agent.