H. Moritz, a circulation agent for Julius Streicher’s anti-Semitic newspaper the Frankische Tageszeitung, was sentenced today to two months in prison for using strong-arm methods when canvassing for the paper.
Streicher’s agent was trying to compel Jews in Nuremburg and other parts of Franconia to subscribe to the paper and threatened to arrest those who refused.
Herr Moritz is not the only canvasser for Streicher’s organ who uses terroristic methods for obtaining subscriptions for the anti-Semitic paper. A staff of solicitors are now operating all over Franconia in a house-to-house campaign to bolster the dwindling circulation of Streicher’s paper.
Blacklists of Jews as well as non-Jews refusing to subscribe to the Frankische Tageszeitung have been compiled by the canvassers.
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