Deprived by Anton Haegele’s putsch of the Deutscher Beobachter, erstwhile official Nazi organ in the United States, Dr. Hubert Schnuch, who continues to regard himself as national president of the League of Friends of New Germany, has established a new publication, the Deutscher Weckruf, with headquarters at Broad street and Columbus avenue, Philadelphia, it was learned yesterday.
It was further revealed that Haegele’s clique plans to toss overboard the “Friends of New Germany” title and to form an entirely new organization, to be know as the American National Socialist League.
MAY ABSORB SCHNUCH FORCES
The Haegele group expects to capture a large, if not a major, part of the membership of Schnuch’s League, which already has been reduced to a mere skeleton of its former self by the inroads made in its ranks following the Haegele rebellion.
Observers regarded this latest move with satisfaction yesterday, when it became apparent that the two rival Nazi organizations will be so busy clawing at each other that they will have little time for propagation of anti-Semitism.
HAEGELE GETS PRINT PLANT
Phases of bitterness between the two cliques were aired in Central Jury Court, 30 West Thirty-fifth street, before Judge Joseph S. Rosalsky yesterday, when the Haegele faction brought a dispossess action against the Schnuch adherents in an attempt to establish legal right to possession of Deutscher Beobachter headquarters at 305 East Forty-sixth street.
The action did little to clarify matters, however, since Judge Rosalsky agreed to issue a dispossess warrant against the Germa-
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