A report yesterday that Francis J. Smith, a self asserted member of the American Nazi Party, had been arrested, proved incorrect today. Smith was shot while in a parked car, but had not been arrested as the previous report indicated. When Smith’s car was searched by police after the shooting, the automobile contained, according to the authorities, a revolver, brass knuckles and Nazi literature.
Smith is known to Jewish community relations agencies here as a man who had said he would open a bookstore to specialize in right-wing materials, boasting that he was treasurer of the American Nazi Party.
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