A card-carrying member of the reportedly defunct American Nazi Party was arraigned here today on a technical charge of failing to register explosives. His intention, according to Assistant District Attorney Stuart Stillman, was to blow up the Israeli luxury liner Shalom, a ship that has not existed since 1967.
Mr. Stillman said that Charles S. Schofer was arrested after he turned over 10 sticks of dynamite and two blasting caps to an undercover agent whom he tried to enlist in the plot. What Schofer did not know was that the Shalom, a money-loser, was sold by Israel’s Zim Lines to the German-Atlantic Line of Hamburg which took her over in November, 1967. The former Israeli liner is now the Hanseatic, flying the German flag. Schofer was held for grand jury action.
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