Demonstration New. York, Feb. 20.
Violence both inside and outside Madison Square Garden marked the "Americanization" meeting of 20,000 members and sympathizers of the German-American Bund tonight.
While Bund leaders inside the spacious auditorium of. Madison Square Garden were bitterly denouncing the Jews and lauding Nazism, thousands of anti-Nazis swarmed 49th and Seth Streets and 8th Avenue outside the Garden. They were held in check by 1,745 policemen. The police officers pushed back the mobs. Mounted police also helped to keep the crowd from storming the Garden. The police also were equipped with sub-machine-guns and tear-gas bombs.
Attemp: to Attack Leader Mr. Isadore Greentaum of Brooklyn attempted to attack Mr. Fritz Kuhn, leader of the German-American Bund, but succeeded only in receiving a severe beating before being rescued by the police.
Mr. Greenbaum rushed at speakers' platform as Mr. Kuhn was finishing s speech, but he failed to reach the Bund leader. Uniformed Bund Storm Troopers ized him. beating hun with their fists and kicking hím with their heavy boots when he fell under the onslaught. Police officers immediately rushed into the fray and hurried Mr. Greenbaum from the building, escorting him into a police station for safekeeping.
During the struggle with the Bund members, Mr. Greenbaum lost his trousers, At the police station he was entered on a charge of disorderly conduct.
Another incident occurred inside the Madison Square Garden auditorium when police were forced to escort Miss Dorothy Thompson, prominent columnist of the "New York Herald Tribune" and wife of the famous author, Mr. Sinclair Lewis, She was led out of the hall under police protection because the audience objected to her laughing at the comments of the speakers and also because she made audible comments which were not complimentary 1o Germany.
Miss Thompson is known io be a severe critic of the Nazi regime, having been expelled from Germany because of her outburst against the Reich in leading American magazines and newspapers.
Mysterious Broadcaster Long before the meeting started, crowds began gathering near the Garden and hundreds of police were rushed to the area ío control the mobs.
Eerly in the evening the crowds in the streets heard a mysterious booming voice denouncing Chancellor Adolf Hitler. The voice wes heard outside Madison Square Garden. The denunciation of the Fuehrer was followed by the playing of the "Star Spangled Banner," the American national anthem.
Police and detectives rushed wildly about before discovering the "speaker," which proved to be an automatic phonograph planted in a room on the second floor of a building on 49th Street. There was no-Eody in the room when the police broke in.
Mr. G. W. Kunz, national organizer of the German-American Bund, demanded the radio stations. "cease giving the people the trash of the Winchells, Cantors and the like, and give them the voice of one who does not speak the American language with a Jew cent."
Mr. Kunz referred to Mr. Walter Winchell, famous columnist of the "New York Mirror" who has thousands of followers and who also broadcasts hís gossip on a nationwide radio network. Mr. Eddie Can-for, well-known stage and screen comedian, also is a radio artist who appears nightly in radio skits.
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