Continuing his anti-Jewish propaganda from Asheville, N. C., but dating his anti-Semitic leaflets from “Somewhere – in – the – United States” to avoid a possible investigation by the Post Office authorities into his use of the mails to spread anti – Semitism, William Dudley Pelley, leader of the Silver Shirt organization, yesterday sent out a new blast of anti-Jewish allegations in what he terms “a message of the utmost importance.”
The “message,” which consists of five long mimeographed sheets, is accompanied by a commentary proclamation by Robert Summerville, dated from Asheville, and asking that funds be sent to Pelley’s Weekly, Box 1,776, Asheville, N. C.
“The Jews think that they are fooling the Gentile public and getting away with their racial strategy,” Mr. Pelley writes in his message. “As a matter of fact, they are succeeding in doing little else than actually setting in motion a national tide of anti-Semitism that is beginning to evince itself as tangible and real,”
Reporting his impressions during a visit which he made in Cleveland, Mr. Pelley states that “anti-Semitism is growing faster in Cleveland than in any other city of its size and character in the United States.”
Mr. Pelley concludes his “message” with an appeal for money to be sent to Asheville, N. C.
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