THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Demonstrators Stop St. Louis Nazi Parade • ST. LOUIS (JTA) —Local members of the National Socialist Party of America called off a march and rally Saturday after they were pelted with snowballs, rocks, bottles and tomatoes by angry spectators. According to Norman Stack, executive director of the Jewish Community Re- lations Council of St. Louis (JCRC), hundreds of per- sons lined the one-mile route of the planned Nazi march which was to be through a shopping district in a predominantly white working class section. The Nazis had planned to march to Gravois Park and hold a rally. They then planned a convention which would be open to anyone who paid a $10 registration fee. But when the about 40 Nazis arrived aboard a flatbed truck dressed. in various colored Nazi un- iforms and carrying signs saying "White Power" and shouting "sieg heil," the crowd began pelting them, Stack said. He said that among the anti-Nazis present were 20 red-helmeted members of the "Black and White De- fense Committee," a Trotskyite group from Chicago, who shouted "We hate Nazis." Stack said he saw no signs of the Jewish Defense League but was told by the police that some 20 JDL members, mostly young people 15-17 years old, had come from out of town. Also present was Bonnie Pechter, the head of the JDL, and her "security of- ficer," Simon Greenstein. The JDL was unsuccessful in a last-minute effort to secure an injunction to pre- vent the parade. Stack said the St. Louis Jewish community sup- ported the recommenda- tion of the JCRC to "quarantine" the march and not attend. Maj. Joseph Kraft, who commanded the 175 police officers assigned to the de- monstration, said that the decision by the Nazis to can- cel their scheduled events was made by the Nazis themselves. There were several arrests during scuf- fles but no injuries. At what was billed as a national convention in St. Louis, the Nazis claimed to have "united" at the con- vention under the banner of the National Socialist Party of America. Frank Collin of Chicago was chosen to lead the Nazis. The Nazis now plan to hold a parade on April 20 in the predominantly Jewish Chicago suburb of Skokie, march the Jewish groups in a counter-demonstration if the Nazis are permitted to parade in Skokie. Illinois Jewish leaders are hoping to have 50,000 persons in Skokie for a counter-demonstration and the Jewish War Veterans of the U.S. alerted all its units to the possible demonstra- tion. Meanwhile, in New York, Federal Judge Constance Motley has ruled that Boles- lays Maikovskis, a 73- year-old retired carpenter living in Mineola, N.Y., must testify at a deporta- tion hearing in connection with charges he concealed a wartime record of atrocities in his native Latvia when he entered the United States in 1951. Judge Motley rejected Maikovskis' argument he could avoid giving tes- timony by use of the Fifth Amendment. She ruled that deportation was not a criminal liability which would allow the privilege against self- incrimination. In Albany, N.Y., Martin Mendelsohn, the U.S. Im- migration and Naturaliza- tion Service's chief war crimes prosecutor, said here that there is a need for more and better witnesses to Nazi war crimes, and that he be- lieves such witnesses are living in the United States today. "There is a sufficient number of survivor organi- zations here to ferret out these witnesses," he said, "and we shouldn't have to seek our witnesses from Is- rael and other countries." Mendelsohn spoke with the Jewish Telgraphic Agency while in Albany to present the government's case at the deportation hearing of alleged Nazi war criminal Vilis A. Hazners. 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