Evening star., 1933-10-23
NAzASM APPEARS.
|NMAYORALTy RACE
Mayor O'Brien Orders Can.
collation. of German Day
Celebration in New York.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, October 23-The bois-
ferrous progress of New York Citys
rough h-and-ready mayoral campaign.
already accelerated by anti-SemitiSm
charges and national political ramif1-
cations. ran up against Nazi-ism today.
Mayor John P. OBrien, Tammany
candidate, has acted in his official Ca
pacity to order cancellation OF Ger
man day celebration on the ground
that it was to be turned into forum
on Nazi anti-Semitic propaganda. He
previously had refused to speak at the
meeting, scheduled for next Sunday
night.
Jewish leaders applauded his action,
and a quartet of New York's most
prominent Jews issued statement de-
nouncing the intrusion of racial and
religious antagonism in the campaign.
All citizens should unite in stopping
in its inception that un-American,
poisonous growth-religious and racial
intolerance the statement said.
Gov. Lehman One of Signers.
1t was signed by Gov. Herbert Leh-
man, Rabbi Jonah B. Wise, Henry Nor
genthau and Felix M. Warburg of the
banking house of Kuhn, Loeb & Co.
Bernard S. Deutsch, president Of the
American Jewish Congress and can
didate for president of the Board OF
Aldermen on the ticket headed by Jo-
seph V. Mckee, independent Demo-
cratic candidate for mayor. charged
that a Brown International under
Hitler was operating in America for
disseminating Hitler propaganda.
The German DAY meeting, celebrating
the 25Oth anniversary of German immi-
no
United German Societies Principal
Luther, German Ambassador, and Heinz
Spanknoebel, leader of the Stahlhelm
(Steel HelmetS) and NaZl represent
ative in the United States.
Thanked by DIR. Rosenbaum.
Mayor O'Brien was thanked also by
DR. Robert Rosenbaum, president OF the
Federation of German Jewish Societies,
which have fought the Nazi influence
in the United States since it started.
Fear of trouble at the meeting grew
out of information that Spanknoebel
planned to have a guard of 400 men on
hand at the celebration as shock
troops" to meet anticipated disorders.
With Tammany banking on victory
from it's support in home relet ana
patronage groups, regular Tammany
machine voters and those with personal
interest in the Hall, the virtually Ger
tain added support growing out OF the
NaN and anti-Semitic issues can De re-
garded as so much reserve strengtn'
political observers said.
Tammany strategy has successfully
led the mayor through the maze OF
racial debate without injecting 1t IN
his campaign. Thus. his ultimatum on
the German day celebration enters him
against anti-Semitism in a definitely
favorable light his advisers believe
Bishop Backs La Guardia.
The three.l1an struggle fOr tne
ayeg fth sais last srsw fortniehe he51er 'ooaS a
Fiorello H La Guardia, the fusion
nominee. gained an important support
er in Right Rev. William T. Manning
Protestant Episcopal Bishop OF Ne"
York.
crat. running on the recovery ticket,
whaled away at each other and at Tam
many. Mckee called the city's educa-
tional system "a scandal and a dis
grace" .
Harry M. burning, McKee's campaign
manager. called on the voters IN
statement to make the Hoose'ei1-
Lehman-McKee trinity complete" by
electing Mckee.
Referring to La Guardia as a Red
Republican," he declared:
1.-THE same old gang that almost
ruined the country, the old guard OF
the Republican party that rode with
the famous Black Horse Cavalry. Is
now bent on destroying the City OF New
York by supporting red Republican Tor
mayor, man they had all repudiated
"The Hoover gang has again been
modified 1t is about ready to start
another raid, led by that stalwart HOO
yer lieutenant Ogden Mills"
McKee's defeat was urged by group f!
of college professors banding themselves
together in the Emergency Committee
on Defense of Schools. McKee's candi-
dacy was termed "a grave menace" to
the city school system, which might |
result in repetition of "the Chicago
school chaos"
Mckee characterized the attack made |
on his candidacy by the Emergency !
Committee on Defense of Schools as "a
covert act to drag in the religious issue |
again"