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SORE HEADS FOLLOW(NTI-iZI MTTLEt-lettcaio:German-American Bund in Philadelphia Stormedtitinirn*PHILADELPHIA, March 25— (AP)—A riot precipitated when a crowd o£ nearly 100 anti-nazi sympathizers stormed a .meeting [of the German-American -Bund, disrupting it temporarily,left more than a.score of-persons nursing black eyes and bruises today.Fist fighting- raged for several minutes at'the meeting last night before riot squade put an end. to | the hostilities. Later a second clashbroke out along the street fronting the meeting place, where members ' of the Citizen’s Anti-ftazi Committee were picketing.Police Inspector William Scull said he was told the rally was intended as a celebration ot Hitler’s seizure of Austria. Wilhelm Kunze, Bund leader, who spoke after the session was resumed, asserted it was ‘'merely a stated monthly meeting.’'‘'Our principles, Kunze declared, are against atheism, for religious freedom, and against subversive internationalism. The German-American Bund has no definite program at the present.The pickets .arrived shortly before the meeting- was scheduled to start. Carrying signs reading “Down with Hitler and his U. S. followers they paraded in front of the meeting hall. Then they stormed up a flight of stairs to i the assembly.vanei-7
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Jefferson City Post Tribune
Jefferson City, Missouri, US
Fri, Mar 25, 1938
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