Probe of Nazis by State Due

to Dr. Schnuch. He also will be asked to hand over money collected as dues from members of the New York branch of the League.

Meanwhile Nazi circles were speculating over the meaning of Louis Zahne’s projected defection from the Schnuch ranks, as disclosed in Sunday’s Jewish Daily Bulletin.

It was learned from a source close to Haegele that the rebel leader will entertain no overtures from Zahne, against whom many of his bitterest barbs have been launched. It was pointed out further that Zahne, whose personal ambitions far outweigh his interest in any cause, would accept no subordinate position in any movement, and that in all likelihood he will attempt to strengthen his German-American Independent Voters League, with a view to causing it to supplant the tottering Friends’ organization in the affections of Nazis here.

EXPLAINS JEWISH STAND

Haegele took issue yesterday with statements that his group represents the more radical wing of American Nazidom. His quarrel with Jews, he said, has never been on religious or racial grounds, but purely on the basis that, in his opinion, some of them “expect special privileges because of their Jewishness.”

In the past few days, he said, he has received 600 letters, only five of which were antagonistic to him.

Although both camps contain more than their share of rabid anti-Semites, Dr. Schnuch’s faction appeared somewhat in the lead on that score yesterday, when it became apparent that Raymond Healey, juvenile, self – appointed scoutmaster of “Fascist” youths, had cast his lot with the League’s national clique.

SCHNUCH AIDS HEALEY

Raymond now “hangs out” in Schnuch’s offices at 205 East Eighty-fifth street, where he is obviously a welcome and even a respected guest. His Irish Weekly is distributed over the counter by Schnuch’s employes.

Today’s legal battle will find Andrew S. Frazer, counsel for Haegele, arrayed against lawyers led by Walter Van Sickle, attorney for Schnuch.

There was little cause for Christmas rejoicing in Nazi hearts yesterday. A promise by Representative Dickstein that he will do everything possible toward helping the pro-Hitlerites ruin their own cause gave them further reason for uneasiness.

GETS LIST OF NEW CITIZENS

The Congressman said he had asked and received from the Department of Labor a list of naturalized Germans who have become citizens since the advent of the Hitler regime.

“Most of them deliberately took an oath which they never intended to carry out,” he charged. He declared that the Friends of New Germany issued orders to German aliens commanding them to become American citizens in order to spread Nazi propaganda in this country. He further charges that most of the German applicants had no real residence in this country and that they did not intend to remain here.

In a drive against the wholesale influx of Hitler agents, his committee will recommend easier deportation laws at the forthcoming session of Congress, he said.

As chairman of the Immigration and Naturalization Committee, Dickstein will ask the Commissioner of Immigration for a survey of immigration certificates issued since the Hitler regime began. He will then conduct an investigation into the departments, courts and clerks where the certificates were issued to the Hitler agents.

MAY ASK SECRET UNIT

The committee is now entertaining a motion, it was learned, to ask Congress to create in the Department of Justice a new branch of the secret service which will carry out and check the activities of perpetrators of un-American activities.

Dickstein expressed the hope that the report will be adopted unanimously. On several of the issues on which the committee may disagree a minority report will be filed in order to bring all the facts and recommendations to the public.

The committee is holding another public hearing in Washington on Saturday at which Albert Christmas, attorney for Robert Sterling Clark, multi-millionaire broker who was involved in an alleged Fascist plot disclosed by General Smedley D. Butler, will testify.