Because they allegedly used fifty blond Jews as salesmen in order to deceive potential customers, the brothers Karl and Heinrich Heymann, wine dealers, were yesterday arrested by the authorities of Mainz. The brothers are accused of concealing the Jewish ownership of their firm by using the “Aryan” name of one of their employes.
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