Less than 250 persons attended a Friends of New Germany mass meeting in the Yorkville Casino Wednesday night, widely advertised as an anti-LaGuardia rally. At the same time, 1,600 persons paid fifty cents admission to attend a Hauptmann defense rally at Schwaben Hall, Brooklyn.
In Yorkville, Louis Zahne, Nazi propagandist, blamed “Einstein and the other elders of Zion” for political corruption in New York politics. He scored the Mayor for his stand favoring the boycott of German goods. Aldermanic President Bernard S. Deutsch, Samuel Untermyer and Rabbi Stephen S. Wise also came in for bitter attacks. Other speakers were Raymond J. Healey, Carl Nicolai and Ralph Dunn.
Meanwhile, in Schwaben Hall, Mrs. Bruno Richard Hauptmann reaffirmed her belief in her husband’s innocence and Johannes Weiss, chairman of the defense fund, assailed newspapers for articles concerning the fund.
Aresene Darmesteter deciphered the difficult and beautiful elegy, preserved in the Vatican, on the burning of the thirteen Jewish martyrs at Troyes in 1288.
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