As an aftermath of the riot here yesterday between Nazi and anti Nazi sympathizers, Director of Public Safety Edward Balentine today announced the banning of all Nazi or anti-Nazi meetings in this town.
This is a blow to the Nazi cells in Irvington, which has been a hotbed of Nazi activity.
Sixty people are in various hospitals as a result of the riot a checkup today revealed. The most seriously injured is Jack Aronowitz, of Newark, who is in the Newark Beth Israel Hospital with concussion of the brain. He is out on $25 bail, charged with disorderly conduct. Robert Michelis, a Nazi, is in the Irvington General Hospital with a torn arm, having been hit with a claw hammer.
Five of the New Yorkers held following the riot are out on bail of $1,000 each. They were among the forty to fifty Nazis who came to Irvington in a bus to take part in a pro-Hitler meeting. They are booked on open charges and will be arraigned Friday night before Police Recorder Thomas J. Holleran.
Of the Jews arrested, two who were charged with disorderly conduct are out on $25 bail. They are Harry Schwartz and Louis Halper. Jerome Rodberg, charged with having smashed a photographer’s camera, is out on $500 bail.
A secret service investigation into the riot is going on here now under the direction of F. W. Morris of the Department of Justice Mr. Morris has been conferring with Director of Public Safety Ballentine and with acting police chief Ruban, in an endeavor to find out whether the Nazi activities here were part of a studied policy of the Hitler government in Berlin.
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