A bill that would “outlaw Nazi and other propaganda tonding to subject any group to prejudice, shame, hatred, ridleule, disgrace or contempt by reason of race, color, religion or manner of worship,” will be introduced in the Maryland General Assembly by State Senator E. Milton Altfeld.
Standing at the head of a series of graves of American soldiers of Jewish faith who were killed in France during the World War and buried in the United Hebrew Cemetery, he was principal speaker at memorial exercises Legion, whose membership is entirely Jewish.
“The deaths on the battlefield under the American flag of these soldiers of Jewish faith who lie here is an unanswerable tribute to those un-American, bigot-minded Nazi representatives who would rip our flag to pieces to substitute the swastika,” he said.
ANTI-NAZI SYMPOSIUM
An anti-Nazi symposium will be held by the West Side Committee to Aid Victims of German Fascism tonight at the True Sisters Building, 150 West Eighty-fifth street. Speakers will include Louis Cibarti, secretary of the world committee; the Rev. Eugene Shrigley, pastor of the Richmond Hill M. E. Church; Therber Neil, and Samuel Richardson.
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