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Show G-MEN WORKING t ON NAZI PROBE WASHINGTON, Sept 10 A disclosure that the Justice depart-i ment already la investigating reported re-ported nasi activities In the United 8 tales followed fresh demand to- 1 day for a congressional Inquiry. i J. Edgar Hoover, chief of the federal fed-eral bureau of investigation, aaid at I Portland, Ore., tWat Attorney General Gen-eral Homer S. Cumminga ordered an Investigation sis weeks -age and it was begun at once. "We expect to make an extended report on the nasi matter, but I can't say when we will be ready to give this report to the attorney gen-, era!," Hoover said. "It will be several sev-eral weeks, because we are going into this matter very thoroughly." Inquiry Wanted Two senators Joined in proposing a congressional inquiry. Senator Burke (D., Neb I ssid hs would in-I trodure a resolution proposing one' Immediately upon reconvening of congress. Senator Borah R., Ida.) expressed the opinion an Investigation Investiga-tion was warranted. "There isn't any doubt of th fact that such organisation (of groups' advocating nasi principles) is going on In this country." Borah aaid. "But to what extent I do not know " A copyright article In the Chicago Daily Times of yesterday saying American nasis were planning toi seise control of th government "when the communists' revolution starts" stirred the senators to comment. com-ment. The paper aaid Its information was obtained by three reporters and investigators who worked for many' months to learn secreta of the Amerikadeutscher Volksbund (German-American Bund) and th Deutscher Volksbund. I Charge Denied The statements quickly were denied de-nied by representatives of th organisations. or-ganisations. August Klapprott. head of an Amerikadeutscher Volksbund camp in Sussex county. New Jersey, de-; scribed it as a Joke, "nothing but a big lie and a lot of hooey." ' Dr. Emil L. Baer. German consul In Chicago, said the Idea anyone. was attempting to form a nasi army In America was "ridiculous." 1 The Times said th Amerika-I Amerika-I deutscher Volksbund had an Inner jorganisation known as th "Ord-nungs "Ord-nungs Dienst" and described It as "an exact replica" of Hitler's atorm troopers. Denying this. Klapprott said there was no resemblance. At the German embassy her officials of-ficials said there could be no discussion dis-cussion in th absence of official i information. j Idea Scouted Dispatches from Berlin aald the report was received there with mixed amusement and irritation, although al-though ignored by German newspapers. news-papers. A foreign office spokesman was represented as scouting th idea. A congressional Investigation also was suggested by John J. Crlm. legislative chairman of th Army and Navy union. He said his organization organ-ization had learned that bund j camps displayed the swastika above the American flag and that every bund member pledged allegiance to Hitler. The Times aaid the bund maintained main-tained at least IS camps and estimated esti-mated th membership of the Amerikadeutscher Volksbund at 20.000. scattered through 17 states and the District of Columbia. Th Newark Ledger said on of th camps at Andover. N. J . would break ground September 2 for a (40.000 "vacation house." I Probe Debated ' An Investigation of un-American and subversive activities was debated debat-ed several times in th last congress session. Its chief advocate. Representative Repre-sentative Dlckstein (D. N. Y. ), charged repeatedly that foreign spies were attempting to set up a fascist slate in America and that 350.000 nasi atorm troopers had organised or-ganised In this country. He one suggested th United States quit diplomatic relations with Germany. His resolution for an Investigation Investiga-tion was voted down by the house ' amid cries ot "witch hunt." |