Francis J. Smith, self-professed member of the American Nazi Party, has been arrested here on a criminal, non-Nazi charge, accused by police of shooting a man sitting with a woman in a parked car. When arrested, police said, the man had in his possession a quantity of Nazi literature as well as a revolver and brass knuckles.
Smith is well known to Jewish defense organizations here. He has frequently telephoned the offices of such organizations, boasting he would open a bookstore in South Boston, to specialize in Nazi and other rightwing materials. According to police, George Lincoln Rockwell, leader of the American Nazi Party, has a cknowledged that Smith had visited the Rockwell headquarters at Arlington, Va., recently.
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