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Bertram Claude Jenkines, 1938

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February 26 1938

Bund Injunction Case To Be Heard March 8Bund 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 ActivitiesGary 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., IndianaCourt 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.


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'til the world understands why Robert J. Fischer criticised the U.S./British and Russian military industry imperial alliance and their own Israeli Apartheid. Sarah Wilkinson explains:

Bobby Fischer, First Amendment, Freedom of Speech
What a sad story Fischer was,” typed a racist, pro-imperialist colonial troll who supports mega-corporation entities over human rights, police state policies & white supremacy.
To which I replied: “Really? I think he [Bob Fischer] stood up to the broken system of corruption and raised awareness! Whether on the Palestinian/Israel-British-U.S. Imperial Apartheid scam, the Bush wars of ‘7 countries in 5 years,’ illegally, unconstitutionally which constituted mass xenocide or his run in with police brutality in Pasadena, California-- right here in the U.S., police run rampant over the Constitution of the U.S., on oath they swore to uphold, but when Americans don't know the law, and the cops either don't know or worse, “don't care” -- then I think that's pretty darn “sad”. I think Mr. Fischer held out and fought the good fight, steadfast til the day he died, and may he Rest In Peace.
Educate yourself about U.S./State Laws --
https://www.youtube.com/@AuditTheAudit/videos
After which the troll posted a string of profanities, confirming there was never any genuine sentiment of “compassion” for Mr. Fischer, rather an intent to inflict further defamatory remarks.

This ongoing work is a tribute to the life and accomplishments of Robert “Bobby” Fischer who passionately loved and studied chess history. May his life continue to inspire many other future generations of chess enthusiasts and kibitzers, alike.

Robert J. Fischer, Kid Chess Wizard 1956March 9, 1943 - January 17, 2008

The photograph of Bobby Fischer (above) from the March 02, 1956 The Tampa Times was discovered by Sharon Mooney (Bobby Fischer Newspaper Archive editor) on February 01, 2018 while gathering research materials for this ongoing newspaper archive project. Along with lost games now being translated into Algebraic notation and extractions from over two centuries of newspapers, it is but one of the many lost treasures to be found in the pages of old newspapers since our social media presence was first established November 11, 2017.

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