Five persons who were part of a group of 40 people demonstrating against a Nazi rally in Lansing, III., Friday night were arrested for disorderly conduct. The counterdemonstrators used baseball bats and hurled eggs, firecrackers and stones at the Nazis in an effort to stop the rally.
Frank Collin, the Nazi leader, continued to address some 200 onlookers despite the action of the counterdemonstrators. The rally in the heavily working-class community near Chicago was the first of seven meetings the National Socialist Party of America plans this summer and fall. Collin and his group were involved in a lengthy legal battle to hold a rally in Skokie, III. They failed to do this but finally held a rally in Chicago in July.
During the rally Friday night, some 30 Lansing policemen, two busloads of Illinois state troopers and several policemen from nearby communities maintained order as Collin and 12 of his followers staged their meeting.
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