connection with the anti-Semitic stickers found pasted on telegraph poles in this district last weekend. Local police officials claim that they were unaware of the situation until their attention was called to it by Jewish residents.
A meeting has been called by the Jewish organizations of this city, including the Irvington B’nai B’rith, to form a central committee to fight such anti-Semitic propaganda. The conference will probably be held next week.
Irvington is reputed to be a hotbed of Nazi activity. The Friends of New Germany are said to hold regular meetings at a hall here. The movements of a local Protestant minister are being watched by investigators, it is said.
The current campaign for the town commissioners’ election, to take place on May 8, also has a bearing on the Nazi situation here. The German-American League of Essex County, which represents the major German societies of Irvington, Newark and North Jersey, has thrust itself into the political campaign by endorsing four of the thirty candidates. The four endorsed candidates are Charles H. Schroeder, Elmer Hausmann, Edward Ballentine and Percy Miller.
In commending the efforts of a German-American committee to form a solid bloc of German votes, the league declared that only thus could the German-American element find its “place in the sun.” At the last such election, held four years ago, no such endorsement was given. The campaign committee of the endorsed candidates is headed by William Heuer.
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