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October 12, 1934
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a street meeting at 125th street and Seventh avenue.

Odovardi, an Italian, who lives at 116 East 109th street, said he was passing by the outdoor rally when he heard Hamid refer to Italians “— spaghetti-slingers.” Attracted by this epithet, he said he listened to Hamid’s speech and heard all the attacks of the Jews alleged by Edgar Burman in his complaint.

Burman charged Hamid had called for a racial campaign against Harlem Jews by Negroes. In his complaint served on Hamid last Sunday, Burman alleged Hamid had told his followers, “If you meet a Jew in the street, pull out his tongue and spit down his throat.”

LANDE PLACED ON STAND

Defense witnesses said Hamid had never mentioned the Jews at his meetings. George S. Boston, self-styled bodyguard to the Sufi, yesterday testified that Hamid never had attacked the Jewish people.

Mr. Lande was placed on the stand by Assistant District Attorney William Margolies, but because of a legal technicality was not permitted to testify as to what he had heard Hamid say at a meeting he had attended.

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