Charges that the F. W. Woolworth Company is selling German-made goods and is violating the State Wald Act which prohibits the sale of merchandise with the name and place of manufacture erased, were dismissed yesterday by Judge George B. DeLuca in Bronx Magistrates Court for lack of evidence.
The charges were brought by a Bronx Jewish girl, Thelma Grossman, and by her attorney, Samuel H. Reis. Miss Grossman said in court that she was a member of the Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi yeague. She stated that she purchased in a Woolworth store three cans of Golden Harvest fish food and that one of the cans was marked “Made in Germany”.
Philip S. Goldshall of the Brook-man Manufacturing Company appeared as a witness and testified that the cans of fish food were marketed by his company. He assured the court that his firm has not bought anything from Germany since the beginning of the Jewish persecutions in the Reich under the Hitler regime.
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