Supreme Court Justice Louis A. Valente yesterday took under advisement injunction proceedings under which the Schnuch faction of the League of Friends of New Germany is seeking to recapture the Deutscher Beobachter, erstwhile national organ of Nazism in this country, from the rebellious Haegele forces.
Sensational charges against Dr. Hubert Schnuch, national president of the League, are contained in affidavits submitted by Andrew S. Fraser, counsel for Anton Haegele, in answer to the Schnuch clique’s demand that the rebel chieftain surrender the Beobachter’s headquarters and printing plant, and turn over all dues collected from members of the New York branch of the Nazi organization.
Among other things Schnuch is accused of attempting to exercise “the right of life and death over members”; of importing Chicago gangsters to seize the Beobachter property; and of conducting “an anarchistic, terroristic and illegal attempt to transmute this peaceful and idealistic group (the Friends of New Germany) into a weapon of evil.”
The injunction suit was brought by Henry Woisin, national treasurer of the Nazi organization and a leader in the Schnuch camp, who is represented by John Holley Clark Jr.
Woisin insists Haegele was acting as an agent of the League when he signed a lease to property occupied by the Beobachter, and that his rights in the newspaper were terminated when Schnuch dismissed him from his League offices.
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