Salt Lake Telegram | 1937-09-10 | Page 17 | Salt Lake Nazi Rumors Spiked

SALT LAKE NAZI RUMORS SPIKED a Probers Discover -No Trace of Camp If, as charged In an article In the Chicago Dally Times, an American nasi camp exists In Salt Lake City, nobody has been able to find it. Joeeph Weldner, president of the German-American Citlsens' league, said that after talking with officers of tha organisation ha was certain no one of German descent was connected con-nected with such a camp here. "I know there ia none," he said. Charge Mad The Times' article, based on an Investigation by staff reporters, charged a "rapidly growing American Amer-ican nasi force Is preparing to seise control of tha United Statea," and named Salt Lake City aa one of mora than 60 site ef posts of uniformed uni-formed men resembling Hitler's storm troopers. In a special dispatch to Tha Telegram, Tele-gram, the Times Friday reported that Salt Lake City was listed in a magazine published by the Amer-ikadeutscher Amer-ikadeutscher Volksbund, an organisation organ-isation which, according to the article, ar-ticle, maintains tha reputed nail posts. Hermann Neuman, president of the Germania Athletic club, Friday said regarding the article: "The Germania Athletic club la just what the name Implies ... an athletic club and nothing more. We have no political or religious connections con-nections either in Germany or America.'