A belated May Day celebration by the local chapter of the Friends of New Germany drew but sixty-five to seventy persons, indicating a sharp decline in the drawing power of this organization.
The usual heils for Hitler and singing of "Deutschland Ueber Alles" were on the program, while as speaker the "Friends" brought Charles Schoenherr, of Chicago, described as a former German communist who became converted to the Nazi cause. Hitler, said Schoenherr, saved Germany from the "red swindle," united its people, and overcame the "disrupting" efforts of the socialists, communists, Jews, etc. He spoke of Soviet Russia as being "kept in slavery" by communist leaders "most of whom are Jews."
For the first time a shield of the stars and stripes, upon which was superimposed the swastika and a band with the words "Freunde des Neuen Deutschland," was displayed.
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