A 22-year-old Winnipeg Beach man was fined $500 today by Magistrate Wally Darichuk, in the Selkird police court, for shouting anti-Semitic remarks over a loudspeaker he set up June 30 at Winnipeg Beach. The man, Brian Isfeld, was given until a week to pay the fine, plus costs, or go to jail for six months.
Winnipeg Beach had been the scene of repeated anti-Semitic manifestations and swastika smearings earlier this summer, but the Royal Canadian Mounted Police acted vigorously, arresting a number of anti-Semites. Meanwhile, Winnipeg Beach held municipal elections in which a leading Jewish resident, Lawrence E. Tapper, was chosen Mayor. Mr. Tapper attributed his triumph to the reaction “by the non-Jewish element” in the community against the anti-Semitic manifestations.
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