sales. One salesman, stationed conspicuously before a gate, said he disposed of only two flags all evening.
LITTLE MENTION OF FUEHRER
Speakers concentrated on delivering eulogies and made sparing mention of Hitler and none at all of the Jews. Applause was a missing element, the conclusion of each speech being followed by dead silence.
A torchlight parade near the end met with disaster when fumes from Roman candles in the hands of 1,500 storm troops, who with 250 Stahlhelmers and 250 men from the American Legion had marched down the aisle to the dais, settled over the audience, while the hot cinders fell back on the storm troopers. Numerous persons choked and gasped and hundreds of the troops were scorched.
FRIEND EMERSON AGAIN
The chief speakers were Dr. Hubert Schnuch, national leaders of the Friends; Col. Edwin Emerson, anti-Semitic journalist and author; G. A. Miller, German vice consul at New York; Louis Zahne, head of the New York chapter of the Friends; and the Rev. Dr. Herman Brueckner, pastor of the German Seamen’s Mission in Hoboken. Col. James Fitzmaurice, transatlantic flier, who was also on the program, failed to put in an appearance.
The playing of the Star-Spangled Banner was greeted with the Nazi salute. Other selections heard were Beethoven’s Egmont Overture and Ich hatt’ ein Camerad, a noted German World War song, Deutschlund Weher Alles and America.
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