I NEWS I Skinheads Scuffle With Jews, Press To All Our Friends, Customers & Relatives A Happy, Healthy & Prosperous NEW YEAR from The Millen Family "more than just a car wash" You may walk on four You may walk on two Regardless Of That ... , N1 A HAPPY & HEALTHY NEW YEAR TO YOU From all your friends at grcomingtails Bentley Simoni 4&A coney cr =warm irt gum Where the pet set goes. Vancouver, Canada (JTA) — Neo-Nazi skinheads scuffled last week with members of the Jewish Defense League of Canada and assaulted reporters dur- ing a white supremacist "Aryan Fest" at a farm some 279 miles northeast of Calgary, Alberta, near the Saskatchewan border. Some of the racist shaven- headed youth wore jackboots and swastika armbands and carried guns. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police, who had de- scribed the event as peaceful, nevertheless have filed charges against mem- bers of the racist group for theft and pointing firearms at members of the media and the anti-Semitic group. The reporters were cover- ing the annual racist gather- ing sponsored by Terry Long, leader of the Canadian Aryan Nation, and members of the Church of Jesus Christ Aryan, a camp of barbed wire and watchtowers which is headquartered in Caroline, Alberta. The "fest," which was held near the Alberta town of Provost, also attracted dele- gates from Utah and Mon- tana. The Jewish communities of Calgary and Edmonton, both in Alberta province, did not organize counterdemon- strations because the gather- ing took place on Shabbat. About a dozen people pro- tested the gathered Nazis, who sang Nazi songs, chanted "Sieg Heil" and shouted, "Next time 12 mill- ion," in reference to the 6 million Jews killed in the Shoah. Among the protesters were three members of the JDL, represented by Harvey Kane, its national executive director in Canada, David Strauss and Sigmund Sobolewski, a non-Jewish Auschwitz survivor who came with the JDL group. According to Sheldon Alberts, a reporter for the Calgary Herald, "There were about seven or eight armed men at the gate en- trance to the farm owned by Ray Bradley. Several were wearing Nazi uniforms with swastikas, others were in jeans." Mr. Alberts reported that "the words got pretty heavy between Mr. Kane and the skinheads. They taunted the protesters with 'You surviv- ed the Holocaust, see if you can survive me,' and 'why don't you come closer?' "The JDL moved closer and the Nazis pushed them and some reporters away," Mr. Albert continued. At that point, Aryan Nations leader Long ap- peared and challenged Mr. Kane to a public debate about the validity of the Holocaust. "So at the same time there were skinheads with swastikas saying, 'we didn't get rid of all of you,' Terry Long was saying 'it never happened,' " Mr. Alberts noted. Brad Clark, a freelance reporter for the Alberta Report, was grabbed from The reporters were covering the annual racist gathering sponsored by Terry Long, leader of the Canadian Aryan Nation. behind by some Nazis and held at gunpoint while the film was removed from his camera and the tape from his recorder. Mr. Kane was roughed up trying to help him. According to Mr. SoboleWski, 67, a Catholic who was in Auschwitz for five years and bears an Auschwitz number tattooed on his arm, the Nazis ranged from 16 to 30 in age. Mr. Sobolewski, who is co- ordinator of the Auschwitz Awareness Society and a member of the Canadian Council of Christians and Jews, said that when he and Mr. Strauss went to a local newspaper for an interview later, they were followed by a carful of skinheads who blocked their car. "We finally called the RCMP, who came and chas- ed them away so that we could leave town," he said. But according to Mr. Alberts' account, there was no police presence at the gathering. He reported that at night, they burned a cross while about 30 men circled it and gave the Nazi salute. Mr. Alberts said he counted four wearing Klan-like white robes.