City authorities in the neighboring town of Glendale announced today they have refused to allow electricity to be turned on in the home rented there as a headquarters for the American Nazi Party. The step, according to City Manager Perkins, has been taken because the house chosen by the Nazis as “a center of resistance to Communists, Negroes and Zionists” is in a residential zone.
At the same time, Don Razzano, owner of the home, said he would evict Ralph Forbes, local leader of George Lincoln Rockwell’s American Nazi Party, if Forbes tried to conduct Nazi activities on the premises. He said that, when he leased the quarters to Forbes, he did not realize that political activities to be centered in the house would concern Nazism, Forbes retorted that he would fight eviction.
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