Pelley Arrives in New York to Form Anti-jewish Front

William Dudley Pelley, anti-Semitic prophet from the South, has at last come to New York!

It became known yesterday that Pelley, clairvoyant communicant with the powers of the Cosmos and organizer of the Silver Legion, whose principal objective is the extermination of American Jewry, is mobilizing his forces for an assault within the walls of the city which contains the greatest Jewish urban population in the world.

In cooperation with the Order of 76, headed by Royal Scott Gulden, another group avowedly working for the destruction of the Jew, Pelley has set up headquarters here, it was said, where for the last ten days he has been busy conferring with henchmen and representatives of the Order of 76. Yesterday it was understood that a long-rumored merger between the two anti-Jewish faction appeared to be in the immediate offing.

ANTI-SEMITE GROUPS GROW

The Silver Shirt organization has recently extended its activities of showing strength throughout the South, and more recently, on the Pacific Coast. The Order of 76, operating in absolute secrecy, is said to have a considerable following throughout the country and is said to number among its members a large number of former army service men.

The Order of 76, which its leader claims, has “captured the Second Bonus Army,” has undertaken a drive for membership through the mails, and is supposed to be enlisting every communicant with an anti-Semitic bias.

Gulden, said to be helped by his aide, Lieutenant Richard Rollins, a military man said to have an excellent record as an organizer, has come more in the open with his organization during the present drive than he has during the three years of its existence. Rollins gained the reputation of being an anti-Semitic orator during early KKK activities throughout the South.

DENIES SILVER SHIRT CONNECTION

Gulden yesterday denied that he had any connection with Pelley’s Silver Shirt movement, and he said he knew nothing of the whereabouts of the Asheville mystic.

“Pelley’s and my organizations,” he said, “are two distinct groups. We have nothing to do with each other.

“The Order of ’76 is not anti-Semitic in the sense that we oppose every Jew in the world. We are merely against those who do not conform with our conceptions of law-abiding citizens. We are striving to maintain the highest American ideals and preserve the Constitution by taking action against those who won’t live up to them,” he concluded.