Jewish Community Relations Council, Boston, Massachusetts

              of the Andover Township
Committee. To»V spent the night
in the Count? Jail here and were
released the next day In $1,000 bail
pB.<-h. A "warrant for the arrest of
Clatk also was issued, but he could
not  be found.
Tha agrarian chairman of tha
Township Committer. Charles Bar-
bay, who has been fighting tha
Bund since It opened the camp three
years ago, hailed the indictments aa
sustaining "our efforts, after our
long, hard fight, to rid this township and county of the Fifth Column."
"If there hadn't been an Indictment," he added, "I'm mighty
afraid that the good citizens of
Sussex County would have taken
the law in their own handa and
gone ln there with clubs."
Sheriff Denton J. Quick, who
gathered much of the evidence presented to the grand Jury, said the
jury had "paved the way for similar effective aotlon by other grand
Juries throughout the nation."
Nona of the defendants was present when tha Indictments were
handed up. nor were they represented by counsel. It was said at
the office of Prosecutor Charles T.
Downing that they would be notified by mall of tha grand Jury's
action.
Ke«gan Laughs at Chargea
O. WUhelm Kunze. successor to
Frits Kuhn as head of tha Oerman-
Amerlcan Bund, had no comment
here yesterday at the bund headquarters. 178 East Eighty-fifth
Street, when informed he had been
indicted ln New Jersey for "promoting hatred against persons of the
Jewish religion." His counsel, Wilbur V. Keegan. also indicted,
laughed heartily and said it did not
make sense and that ha would wait
and see.
LEADERS OF BUND
INDICTED IN JERSEY
Kunia,   National   Fuehrer,   Is
Among; Ten Accused of Inciting Race Hatred
NORDLANDTALKSINVOLVED
Sussex   Jury   Charges   1935
State Law Violation—Lawyer for Croup Laughs
Spttlal lo Tm New Toxa Turn.
NEWTON. N. J., Oct. 10-Eight
members of the German-American
Bund, including national Bundes-
fuehrer G. WUhelm Kunze. and two
men who have been associated with
the organization, were indicted today by the Sussex County grand
Jury for violation of the 1935 New
Jersey statutes prohibiting the In-
citation of racial or religious hatred
by persons making speeches or permitting such speeches to be made.
The indictment*, the result of an
Investigation of activities at Camp
Nordland. Bund recreation center
In Andover Township, were returned by a Jury of sixteen men
and seven women to Common Pleas
Judge John Losey, who set Oct. 18
for the arraignment of the defendants. The maximum penalty on
conviction is three years ln prison
and a $5,000 fine.
1 Separate Indictments were returned against August Klapprott,
Eastern district leader of the Bund
and manager of Camp Nordland;
Matthias Kohler ot 1022 Grove
Street, Irvlngton, N. J., New Jersey treasurer of the Bund; Leonard
D. Clark of 178 East Eighty-fifth
Street, New York City, said to be
a writer for Bund newspapers, and
Wilbur V. Keegan of 22 Twenty-
third Street, West New York, N. J.,
attorney for the Bund in New Jersey.
These four were accused of making speechea "promoting and advocating hatred and hostility against
people of the Jewish religion" at
Camp Nordland. Kohler's speech is
alleged to have been made on Jur.e
16 and those of the others on June
9. Keegan is not a member of the
Bund and Clark's present status
was not made clear.
Klapprott and Kohler also were
Indicted with Kunze and five other
members of the board ot trustees
of tha German-American Bund.
Inc., of New Jersey, on the ground
they permitted "the use of a structure for a meeting whereat persons,
in tha presence of two or mora persons, were to make speeches promoting and advocating hatred and
hostility against people of the
Jewish religion." The others named
nn this count were listed aa tha
Rev. John C. Fitting of 518 Forty-
seventh Street, Union City, secretary; Carl Schlphorst of 54 Grand
View Place, Glen Rock; George
Neuppert of 233 Washington Place,
Cliffside Park; Paul Schaarschmldt
of 299 Vernon Avenue, Paterson,
and Richard Schlele, no address.
Kunze's address was given aa 178
East Eighty-fifth Street, New York
City.
Kunze, Klapprott and Kohler were
arrested at the camp during an Independence    Day    celebration    by
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