Satisfied that the ghost of mistaken identity has at last been laid, the Jewish Joseph Schuster (not to be confused with the Nazi singing waiter of the same name) has returned to his home at 187-24 Sullivan road, St. Albans, Queens.
Victim of anti-Nazi threats after the riotous Nazi meeting in Ridgewood last Sunday night, Schuster field with his wife to a hotel in New York Wednesday, and left his home under police protection while he was gone. Since that time Schuster, who is a buyer at Lane Bryant, has received no more threats, and he decided yesterday to chance a return to his residence in Queens.
Over-zealous anti-Nazis had confused Schuster, a director of the Jewish Center of St. Albans, with a leader of Nazis in Brooklyn with the same name. Last Monday, while Schuster was away, his wife received the first of a series of threats. Some one phoned and asked for “the Nazi chief,” at which Mrs. Schuster laughed and explained that there was some mistake. At this the voice on the other end of the wire rumbled ominously, “You’ll laugh on the other side of your face soon.”
A day later, Schuster received a postcard in German which read:
“Brother Schuster: Beware, terrible misfortune Friday. Bomb! Heil Hitler. (signed) Carl Umpfer.”
The terrible misfortune, fortunately, did not develop. Schuster declined to comment on the note, refusing to declare whether he thought it had been written by a Nazi or an anti-Nazi. At first, he said, he had thought the whole affair was a practical joke, but the postcard decided him against ignoring the matter entirely. For this reason, he decided to spend a few days in New York, while time and publicity blew the thing over.
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