In an effort to nip a budding Nazi movement here, Jewish and non-Jewish military groups will stage a rally and parade tomorrow night at the Naval Militia Armory while police are taking precautions to prevent the rumored Nazi meeting on Tuesday night. Frank Birmingham, Chief of Police, yesterday said that no application for a permit to meet has been received from the local Nazis and that none will be issued with out approval of Mayor C. G. Otto. It is unlikely, however, that the Mayor would issue such a permit for he is one of the scheduled speakers at the anti-Nazi meeting.
Chief Birmingham said that special police patrols will be assigned on Tuesday night to enforce the local ordinance against meeting without a permit.
COL. MARTIN TO SPEAK
Among the speakers at the anti-Nazi meeting will be: Colonel Martin, commander of Fort Slocum; Lieutenant Col. Gundelach, commander of the New Rochelle Naval Militia; the Rev. Robert Hartley, the Rev. Father Badecker, of the Blessed Sacrament Church, Army Chaplain Halligan; Mayor Otto, and Sol Rubin, advocate general of the Jewish War Veterans.
Rubin and B. Leo Schwartz, a Mount Vernon lawyer, received phone threats last week to cease anti-Nazi activities. Schwartz, who was investigating the source of Nazi leaflets, received a call at his New York office while he was out. The caller told his secretary to have Schwartz phone Wadsworth 3-5801 upon his return. Schwartz did this and is alleged to have been warned by a Mr. Howard to stop his investigation.
POLICE INVESTIGATING
Schwartz turned the case over to the police who found the phone number registered in the name of P. H. Sussman at 601 W. 185 street. Results of an inquiry by the police have not yet been made public. Schwartz said that the person who called him had a distinctly German accent.
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