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‘Buffalo, N.Yee November. 8, 1940": MENORANDUM FOR THE SPECIAL AGENT IN sana RE: CHUSTER: BRST; - a JANET TAYLOR CALINMLL, Complainant. | Following the recent complaint of JANET TAYLOR CALDWELL, _ (uns. MARCUS REBACK), and her letter to the Bureau, I talked with TN REAR RAE oe et Che pen) gies ne and has prove be a dependable source of information to this . ° _ office. Today advised that he had inquired into’ aaa oS complaints concerning CHESTER BROST and had learned that the whole matter centered around a complaint originating from MRS. MARCUS REBACK. © .He had not been informed by me of “¥his incident. SMP stated that next to MR, BROST'S property, a new lawn had been started and . HRS. REBACK had been in the habit of parking directly in front of this property and getting out on the property side of the car ‘and consequently stepping on the newly seeded grass. BROST'S gardener, to stop this practice, and thinking MRS, REBACK Jewish, made up, from a regular memorandum size sheet of paper, a sign on which he printed "KEEP OFF THE GRASS" and added a drawing of a swastika, This, when - 8een by MRS. REBACK precipitated the commotion which has previously - been related, with MRS. REBACK and the gardener calling each other names, etc. added that the gardener had reported the __ incident immediately to HRS. BROST, who indignantly ordered the removal of the sign, saying such a thing was un-American.