AFebruary 26 1938
Bund Injunction Case To Be Heard March 8 26 Feb 1938, Sat The St. Louis Star and Times (St. Louis, Missouri) Newspapers.com
Bund Injunction Case To Be Heard March 8
GARY, IND., Feb. 26—(U.P.) A motion to make permanent an injunction banning all activities of the German - American Volksbund in Lake County, Indiana, will be heard March 8 by Superior Judge Bertram C. Jenkines.
He issued a temporary order yesterday restraining the Volksbund from soliciting members or holding any meetings in Lake County. Named as defendants in the application, filed by Attorney Richard S. Kaplan, were Fritz Kuhn and Wilhelm Kunze, Bund officials.
Kaplan charged Bund activities “endanger the happiness, good will, reputation and homes of American citizens.”
He said he acted as a citizen and a member of the Jewish faith. The injunction also prohibits the Bund from attacking or vilifying any member of the Jewish religion, attacking the principles of the United States constitution, or leasing any premises in Lake County.
Gary Court Bans Bund Activities 26 Feb 1938, Sat Evansville Press (Evansville, Indiana) Newspapers.com
GARY COURT BANS BUND ACTIVITIES
GARY, Ind., (AP) Feb 26—Superior Court Judge Bertram C. Jenkines has enjoined the Amerikadeutscher Volksbund, a Nazi organization, from extending into Lake County.
The restraining order was issued on petition of Richard Kaplan, Gary attorney who said he acted for himself as a Jew.
Kaplan's petition said he sought to “prevent bloodshed, riots and attacks on good names, reputations and good will of American churches, schools and racial groups.”
Court Bars Nazi Bund Activities In Lake Co., Indiana 26 Feb 1938, Sat Chicago Tribune (Chicago, Illinois) Newspapers.com
COURT BARS NAZI BUND ACTIVITIES IN LAKE CO., IND.
Meetings, Membership Work Banned by Writ.
A temporary injunction restraining the American Deutscher Volksbund [familiarly known as the Nazi Storm Troopers] from soliciting members or holding any meetings in Lake, county, Ind., was issued yesterday by Judge Bertram C, Jenkines of the Lake County Superior court.
Named as defendants in the application for the injunction, filed by Attorney Richard S. Kaplan of Gary, were Fritz Kuhn and Wilhelm Kunze and two Lake county bund members given as John Doe and Richard Doe. Kuhn was referred to as national president of the bund and Kunze as an organizer.
Says Good Will Periled.
Kaplan said he filed his bill as a citizen and a member of the Jewish faith. The bund, he stated, “endangers the happiness, good will and reputation” of many Americans, and added that if a proposed meeting in Hammond were held Monday night there would be danger of rioting and bloodshed.
Judge Jenkines set March 8 as the date for argument on a motion to make the injunction permanent. Considerable opposition to the German-American bund already had developed in Gary and Hammond. Several German-American organizations had passed resolutions condemning its activities and the Hammond park board, after learning the aims and nature of the bund, had withdrawn its permission for Kuhn and Kunze to use the Hammond municipal auditorium.
Meeting Ends in Disorder.
The Chicago Storm Troopers' meeting Wednesday in the Germania club, attended by about 1,000 persons, broke up in disorder after Kunze had made a speech assailing Jews and praising Nazism.
Two youths who refused to salute the Nazi flag engaged in a scuffle with William Wernicke, a Nazi sympathizer. Wernicke and one of the boys, John Fisher, 2936 North Major avenue, were arrested, so was Emil Horitz, a Glenview member of the bund, who smashed a newspaper man's camera. All the cases are to be heard in the Boys court on March 11.
