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Appendix
Newspaper accounts pertaining to the case of Francis Parker Yockey
San Francisco Chronicle Thursday June 9 1960
MYSTERY 1AN SEIZED WITH 3 PASSPORTS
A L7-year-old man of rrany names was held here yesterday in a passport
fraul case that apparently baffled even the FBI and the State Department
Pure chance brought his arrest His suitcase bad gone astray am airline
employees seeking to identify it found it contained three different passgtorts-shy
all with the sare photograph
He was booked as Frarcis Parker Yockey a cum laude law graduate of
Notre Dame ani held here [hile Federal officials sOl~ght to have an exceptionally
high bail of $50000 set There are lots of unanswered questions and ve
want to be sure he III be arouni to answer them It one official said
He had aJr eady made one violent attempt to escape when first being
questioned at the home of an unidentified friend in Oakland FBI agents
reported
The case of the straying suitease began on Sunday when Yockey arrived
in Oakland to visit his friend--unnamed because FBI agents believe he was
not involved in any fraud
Yockey discovered one bag was missing fran his luggage ani telephoned
the airline Airline employees in Fort forth Texas meanwhile had fourrl tlJe
missing bag ani opened it to identify it
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Inside were three passports One issued to Edward ~1ax Price in Salinas
in 195L had been altered later to read uampiward Nax Briceman FBI agentB and
State Department officials said They refused to reveal the names on the
bother two passports but all three bore Yockeys own photograph they said
The airline notified the FBI which sent agents to return the bag to
Yockey on r10nday at the Oakland address of his friend Yockey tried to flee
FBI agent Edward Cunningham said at yesterdays bail hearirJg before US
Co~missioner Joseph Karesh
FBI agent Robert Leonard tried to restrain Yockey Cunnihgham said but
Yockey eluded him--and slaTInned a door violently on Leonards restraining hand
gashing its 0 badly many stiches weTe required to close the cut Yockey fled
fran the hause but agents recaptured him in the street outside
Held on a temporary charge of failing to have registered for the draft
Yockey was transferred to custody in San Francisco yesterday on a pass~ort
fram change filed by State Department agents
FBI agents said Yockey clairr~ to be a writer but wont give any address
When agents first sought to question him middot1oniay they said he gave his name
as Richard Hatch
Yockey interrupted yesterdays bail hearing time--once to Shout that
FBI testimony was a lie and again to insist that I know my rights because
he was a 2raduate of Notre Dame lew School in 19b1 lt)
The FBI later confirmed
this
Commissioner Karesh said he would continue the bail hearing at 10 a m
~cxiay At one point in yesterday1 s proceedings he made it clear he was as
puzzled as anyone else by the unusual case
111 dont know what you may- have in your mirrlsn he cautioned the
government agents but to justify this kim of bail you1l8 going to
have to make a case--on the record 1t
Assistant U S Attorney William P Clancy- Jr had explained that the
high bail was necessary tlbecause of the unusual circUlns tances of this case
(His office later told reporters that the staff had been instructed nby
~vashingtonn not to discuss the case fur ther )
state Department officials here said that the l=Sssport bearing the
name uBriceman DmIl showed its holder had traveled extensively in Engl ani
GerITany and BelgiUl1l
At the time of his arrest Yockey had $2300 in cash in his pockets ani
was also Carrying press credentials from a Gerrr~n magazine they said-shy
credentials bearing his own picture but still anbther alias
Richard Auerbach special agent in charge of the FBI here said last
night
nyou tbink its a mystifying case Well we just wish we knew more
about it too
San Francisco Chronicle Friday June 10 1960
I NSANITY PLEA IN PAS PORT CASE HINTED
Fra ncis Parker Yockey the nan of many names held here on Federal
charges may have been operating an illegal passport factory a Federal
prosecutor said yesterday
Yockeys own att orney Carl Hoppe insisted at first that the only
pr oblem las that his client was insane--but he later Iithdre1f the suggesti OD
ending fur llier private conversations
bullAs sistant UD Attorney William P Clancy Jr t al nelvs mGO yesteroay
that Yockey had used at least 15 aliases duri ng Ilwhat ap ars to be a
systematic and we] - planned operatl on in passports the plllpose of whioh we
do not mov-T u
Yockeys trouble be gan Su1day--accidentally He arrived in Oakland to
visit a friend ani foond that a bag was miss ing from h i s Iu ga ge Yockey
phoned the airline
Mea1while the suitcas e turned up in Fort orth and an airline official
opened it to identify the Grmer Imide were three pas sports Though each
bore a different name Yockey s photo~as im all three 0
The FBI arrested him in Oaklani after he had tnjured an agent in an
attempt to escape Yockey 47 was identified by fingerprints on his
service record
State Department officials here said yesterday that Yockey had been a
War DepartnElrrt employee in Europe in 19b6 and other sources reportal he JaS
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active at that tilne in the Nuernberg war crirres trials in Germany but
las fired
A friend and former classmate of Yockey told The Chronicle last light
that Yockey had been ll[ fla pro-daziH Hhile attending Georgetown University
lashin ton D C in 1937-38
Georgetorm University confirmed that Yockey had attended its chool)f
Foreign ervice as a member ~middotf the class of 1939 but lad ~ri thdrawn before
completing the course His hornetmm at that time Has listed as Roxana Ill
He was kncrun to have practiced la in Illinois at one time and to have
served as an assistant district attorney in Detroit
Yockey glowering and silent appeared before U S Comrr1issioner Joseph
Karesh at 1030 am yesterday ostensibly to plead for a reduction in the
$50000 bail demanded by the Government
With him was Attorney H pe--a ape cialist in ~ tent and c opyri ght law
Id like to have Mr Yockey examined by a )sychiatrist to determine
wh8t~er he is sa1ett Ho e told Commissione r Iaresh
Yockey erupted in a sibilant resouniing whisper Thats a dirty tricld
ihen he spoke clearly Im sorry--Id like to dismiss the attorney
This con13S as a complete surprise to me
Karesh allowed a 2G-minute recess so Hoppe could confer fwther with his
client s Yockey and the attorney left for their conference Yockey a gain
muttered Its a dirty trick1l and spat on the floor
attorney J W Ehrlich p resent rnth Hoppe and Hoppes associate Victor
lobe told reporters III talked to Mr Yockey at Mr Hoppes request but 11m
not associated with the defense 1I
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After the private c onferance bett-reen Yockey and hi attorneys hop e
and Victor lobe Hoppe asked Karesh to continue the hearing--ostensibly
call~ to deter1l1ine gt-hether lt50000 bail ~las too high--to 1030 amo today
IM now pressing my motion to reduce bail and Im not nmT pressing
my moti on for an exami nation by an alienist II Hoppe explained I want to
colier further in th 1ro Yockeyo
Karesh asked Yocke3T if he agreed that Hoppe should continue to represent
him and Yockey nal ed Raresh thereup on continued t he hearing until this morning
San Francisco Chronicae SaturdalJ June 11 1960
PASSPORT FRAUD MISTER Y NFOLDS FACIST LINKS
A long background involving activity lith extreme right-wing political
groups in the United S tates and Europe began to emerge yesterday in the case
of the mysterious Francis Parker Yockey
He appeared briefly before United States Commissioner Joseph Karesh at
1030 am and had his rearing set over until 1030 am 1onday
Yockeys seryice record shows he las born in 1917 in imiddotichigan He
graduated cum lame f ran Notre Dame am atterded a number of U S universities
He was honorahly discharged fran too Army in 1943 gtnth a medical disability
The discharge carried the notation dementia praecox paranoid type II
Stanley Jacobs of the Anti-Defamation Leagoo here said their files shm-red
Yockey had a ~ared wi th Gerald L K Smith head of the Christian National
Party in St Louis in 19500
He said he is the a uhhor of II Imperi1IDl n a bomk published in London
which Yockey described as lIa master thesis of Fascist strategy based on
three rinciples anti-Americanism a neutral Germany avoidance of antishy
Russian acti vity tI
Colunmist Drew Pearson Vote of him in 195~ He identified him as one
of three known U S a en ts for Rlrl ol h Aschenauer a neo-Nazi of Frankfurt
Germany He said Yockey wrote unier the name of Ulick Varange
Yockey is known to have used the aliases of Francis Downey Frenz Yockey
Franz Downey Frank Healy and Frank Downey
U Sl43sistantAttorney ~ P ClancyJro said he COJld be charge with
making false statemant to obtain a passport and tilth assault on a Federal
officer
Yockey was arrested by agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
Honday at the home of Alexcharf former director of educatLon for the
Temple Beth Abraham in akland
Scharf was not available to explain why Yockey should be in his homeo
His brest TJas picked up after his luggage had ~one astray and HoUrrl up in an
airpCl~t in Fort 1lorth Texas
Employees opened too luggage ani found three passports--one American
one Canadian and one British--seven birth certificates and a set of German
press credentialso
fuen arrested Yockey tried to escape He slammed a door on the hand of
FBI agent Robert Leonard It required 20 xtbduut stitches to sew up the ~lOundo
Since then he has been held in lieu of ~50ooo bail while authorities
attempted to discover the pattern of his life and the reason he was carrying
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$2300 in cash and 850 in travelers checks Ii th him
We are interested in where he gets his money Clancy said lWe know
he has been associated wi th some anti-Semitic groups and that he is enga ged
in a systematic and well-planned operation in passports tt
In his a earance befare Kresh Yockey was stiff and a n gr y
This is practically assault and batteryt he told Kar esh He braced
hilnself ani folded his hanis as the COIlmussioner talked Tith his lawyer
Carl Ho pe about a continuance pending the arrival of his sis t er
She is illiam D Coyne wife of a Navy c OT1II1amer of Bethesda m
Hop pe said hel needed time to discuss the entire situation li th firs 0
Coyne and he asked if she could visit Yockey 17 in jail tcxiayo
You want an order far Saturday for your boytI asked Karesh
111 beg yCJUJ paroohlI Yockey snapped Im no boy II
nYotlUg man toon1t purred Karesh
IINo no young man either1t said Yockey
Then defe niant said Karesh I think we can 3 gree on that Ill
see you Monday
San Francisco Chronicle 1c1orrlay June 13 1960
PASSPORT BAIL PLEA DUB IODA Y
Francis P Yockey the man of mystery and passports is scheduled to
aDnear befltre U0 3 Commissioner Joseph Karesh tcxlay to plead for lesser baH
Yockey accused of fraud in traveling in ~ estern Europe on spurious
passports has been held in lieu of 50000 bail since his arrest last week
Here to help him was a sister Mrs lvilliam Coyne 1-life of a Navy
commander from Bethesda Yrlo
The 43-year-old laryer was picked up in Oaklarrl at the llltX apartment of
Alex B Scharf ~~til recently principal of the Jewish school at Temple Beth
Abraham
Scharf in his early 30s disa peared after Yockey was arrested It
developed that Yockey given a midical di scharg~ from the Army in 1943 for
dementia praecox paranoid type had engaged in pro-lt3zi anti-Semitic
activities
San rancisco Chronicle Tuesday June lL 1960
amp41L PLEA DEIA YEn
PASSPORT STTSPE CT CA LLED TOP FASCIST
Francis Parker Yockey mysterious collector of spurious passports was
described hEr e yesterday as a sj_gnificant Fascist wi th international
connect ons n
Yockey 43 held under 50000 bail for passport fraud was so classified
by Stanley Jacobs regional director of the Anti-Defamation Lea 3ueo
He Has one of the sever al unoffidal observ8rs yesterday at Yockeys
stormy hearing before U s Connnissioner Joseph Karesh
Jacobs said Yockey is considered lias i mportant a world fi~ure in fascism
as we now kncn n
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Assistant U0 S Attorney Wi lliam P Clancy Jr said the Yockey case
will be given to the Federal Grand Jury later this month
In the meantime Clancy said the GJvernment will file a request t Qmorrow
that the TI S District Court oroer a psychiatric exainira tion for Yockey
Karesh may join in the motion basing his request on Yockeys behavior
in hearings before him
Yockeys lawyer Carl Hoppe came into court yesterday prepared to ask
a reduction in bail Acti on however was ~ostponed until this morninG to
enable a new lawyer to enter the tangled case
Ho _e a fe tent attorney s aid he wished to Jtthdraw n favor of a
l awyer with criminal experience
Present during yesterdays hearing was Emmet F Hagerty who may represent
Yockey during future hearings
Yookey whose name has been closely linked with numerous nea-Nazi
organizations am whose many passports under assumed names s u ggested international
intrigue was arrested last 1ieek on a charge of p as sport fraud after his
suitcase went astray in Fort Worth Texas The sQttcase was found to contain
three false)8ssports all carrying Yockeys picture but phony names
Yockey complained during yesterdays ~oceedings that he had been refused
permission to see his two sisters Alice Spurlock hos ital I-ray technician
in Gilroy and -h-s 11illiam Coyne of Bethesda vB
The Conmlissio~r recessed court for 40 minutes to allow Yockey to confer
vith his sisters in the Marshals officeo
Yockey as asked during the recess whether he had traveled extensively in
Russia in 1957 ar~ the questioning reporter was dismissed with the order
Get out of here you filthy swine
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San Francisco Chronicle Wednesday June 15 1960
IJ I~ PLOT TOLD IN PASSPORT CASE
A bold jailbraak plot en ~ineered by Francis P Yockey the passport
mystery man was revealed yesterday along 1-ith alle ged threats of suicide
Yockey a 43-year-old ex-laryer from Detroit had a npeared before U S
COlIDllissioner Joseph Karesh to plead for a reduction in his 50000 ba il on
a 9assport-fraud char ge
Tcrrard the eni 0 that p-roceeding which was intersession Assistant
U S Attorney William P Clancy Jr mentioned rithdramatic casualness the
purported escape plot am the suicide threats
AEguing against bail reduction he said uThere I S an extreme risk of
flight bull bull a gra-IJe ris k of injury to hirns elf am others II
The escape plan Clancy said was relayed to him by the FBI It ~ent
he said like this
Yockey on Monday approached two other Federal prisoners being held at the
county jail He offered to post S1000 bail far one who is a wai ting sentence
This man would then get a car a nd guns - en the Federal orisoners were
marched into the U S Marshals van in DW1bar ~lley behind the Hall of Justice
the second accomplice would start a kIZIId brawl
The man Hi th the guns would then love in slip a gun to Yockey am all
three would escape in the car parked nearby
The plan went awry Clancey said when the bail posting fell through and
one of the prisoners tipped off the FBI
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Yockey spoke up lTot a HOrd of truth in that If
KadIsh turned to Ennne t F Hagerty who replaced Carl Ho e as Yockeys
attorney I1If such a thing is true Im sure youll agree the bail s et Xx
is not excess i ire II
III a gree n said Hagerty if its true
lWe ve goed r eas on to believe so It said Clancey
Plt8gerty said it might rove otherwise ii the other prisoners were produced
for cross-questioning am Clancey said he might disclooe their identity tcday
Jail s uperintendent Frank Smith later disclosed the other two prisoners
were Philip Galati 21 of Brooklyn awai ting sentence on a check charge and
held in lieu of $1000 bail and Jack Fambrough 27 of 619 39th street Oaklarrl
Jho has pleaded g1lilty to the S9LLI robbery of an Oakhnd Arrrry Terninal PX
service station llt1here he warlred
Fallbrough ras to have been sentenced by Judge Sweigert yesterday but
the case was p03 t poned until tcrlay
~iidway in the bail discussion the case abruptly moved into ~ ederal J uige
iilial) T Sweigerts coort Where Clancey requested a psychiatric exarrination
for Yockey sa ng he as t1 unable to comprehend thb siuilationt and thus c ould
not assist in his defense
Yockey familiar iod th Nazi and Fascist elements in t his country and Eur ope
stood before tre court v1 th anna folded across his chest while Hagerty objected
to a mental examination o
This JTe n has an intellect equal of any in this courtroom with all
deference to Your Honor n Hagerty said He is a member of the bar i n Illinois
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and Michigan a graduate of Notre Darle GeoIl~etown t1ichigan an lItDx author
of books was a Deputy istrict Attorney of Detroit and a rosecutor at the
Nuernberg trials That doesnt Trean he is incompetent to ass ist in his defense
C18ncey countered He was dischar~8d fron the army in 1943 as a dementia
pr a ecox--paranoid type and his conduct before th~ U S CoJltll issioner has
been bizarre II
He then related reports tllhat Yockey rJ8d twice threatened suicide--once
ih the Oakland jail after his arrest am a gain in the jail here Yockey
prom Uy denied that then tossed in a little SOB sensation of his own
He said that lex Scharf in whose Oaklarrl apartment he was arrested and mo
has since disappeared had been taken into custooy by the FBI
uHe JaS arrested in my presence1 Yockey said
The F I promptly denied that
Jui ge Sweigert said he 1ould rule at 11 am today on middotrhether to direct
that Yockey be given a pychiatric test and Karesh held up the bail l1atter
until after that
Sall Francisco Chronicle Thursday J una 16 1960
MENTAL EXAM ORDERED IN S F PASSPORT NYST RY
Francis P Yockey 43 passport mystery man Tas ordered held for
psychiatric examination yesterday by Federal Jud ge (yilliam T Sweigert
The order as Tlade on Government motion aLrl over t he strenuous obj ections
of Yockey hims elf an attorney ani his law--je r Enunet F Ha gerty
Judge SIeigert said he would receive the psychiatric reports on hly 11
am a motion to reduce Yockeys 50000 b8il was vJithdrcnm untn that date
Yockey was arrested in Oaklarrl last lleek after a piece of his l u ga ge
that went astray was frond to contain three passports bearing false names and
spurious identification dccuments He is known to have been closely identified
wi th Nazis and Fascists in this country am Europe
u S Commissioner Joseph Karesh before horn Yockey has appeared in
several stOlTlY hearings was called yesterday by Assistant U S Attorney
WIlliam P ClaJlcey Jr
Karesh testified that he had closely observed Yockey am descrived his
actions as lIthe most unusual of arry accused person who has ever a ppeared
before me II
With per~ission of the cmrrt Yockey undertook to cross eX8~ine Kareshe
He accused the Commissioner of being prejudiced because he had read Yockey
as II anti-J e-lish II
Judge Sweigert halted Yockey in mid-sentence That will ce enough of
thatn he saaIlped
Two EI agents ELliV2rd Ij Cunningham ani Keith G Teeter subnitted affidavits
that Yockey had received a psychiatric discharge fran the Army in 19w3
One affidavit said Army records show that Yockey suffered marked delusions
of persecutions had ideas of gramellr and Ias given a disability dischar ge
due to dementia praecox paranoi d type Cause urrletermined u
Anothe r a ff idavit said Yockey told two unnamed cell TIates in the County
Jail he intended to commit suicide by sharpening a canb into a lethal weapon
Tuesday it was revealed in a hearing before Karesh that Yockey had alle gedly
attempted to engineer a daring escape from 11e County Jail 0 One of the
Clri soners wh om he solidted to aid in t he getaway plan transrnitted the
inforation to the FBI
Yockey in c p3ssionate statemont to the court charQeurod that the GoverT1rnent
was depriving him of his defense by subjecting him to psychiatric examinationo
He said that use of his Army medical recoro violated his r i LtS
San Francisco Chronicle Saturday June 18 1960
PASSPORT DEFENDAN T
MYSTERY MAN yOCKEY KILIS SElF IN bull F JAIL CELL
by Tom Ma thews
Neo-Nazi Francis P Yockey took a leaf from the notebook of HerT~ann
Goering Hitlers air rrarshI31 and poisoned himself in jail yesterday
He left behind him a furious set of Federal officials and a note defying
anyone to find out who supplied him rith the cyanide he used to end his life
The Federal Bureau of Investi gation the State Department and the United
States Attorneys office were left hohl ing a top-secret file on Yockey and
no Yockey to prosecute
The file arrived lastvlednesday One official saj_d it ms loaded rith
dynamite
Yockey 43 was arrested June 6 for investiga tion of passport fraud FBI
agents caught bp 1Tith hi m when he checked on a suitcase that had ~JOne astray
dcentng a plane flight
The suitcase contained three false passp orts Gerrran press credentials
and seven birth certHicates
A ents found him in the apartment of Alex Scharf u65 Bellevue avenue
Cakland Scharf a fo r mer teacher at the Te mple Beth Abraham school
imrre diately disappeared
He has been subpoenaed by the Federal Gram JillS but so far has not
turned up
A warrant for arrest of Scharf was issued late yesterday afternoon Bail
Jas set at $5000
The mysterirus aspect of the case -Jas compounded by Yockeys behavior
and by tlJe insistence of authorities that he be held in the surprisingly high
bail of $50 000
Yockey b q an talking of suicide the day he was arrested He made one
elaborate escape attempt In his court appearances his grandiose manner am
c onte t for proceedings led to an order for a psychiatric exami_nation
The U S Assistant Attorney William P Clancey iolOuld say of Yockey only
that he seemed to be dealing in passports and that current inforrra tion shomd
him to have traveled extensively in Europe
Stanley Jacobs of the Anti-Defarration League was more specific He said
Yockey was associated with the tap figures in extreme right-wing and antishy
Semitic movements
Yockey is known to have been closely connected fl th the resurgent Nazi
movement in West Germany
Somehow he obtained the poison crystals he used ThJmsday night Just as
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Goering the No 2 Nazi did at Nuernberg hours before he was to be ha nged
in 19L5 Yockey used potassium cyanide
No one knoHs haw he got it He played checkers tn th his fellow inmate
Adam Nienan a mapmaker of 1703 Arcadia street until lights were turned out
in their County Jail cell at 9 pm
Nieman then held o~ charges of gram theft which were dismissed yesterday
said ~ Yockey gave si gns of what was in his mind during the evening
tlHe told me he was the No1 leader of some SOlltt of organization Nieman
said He said he had kn owledge of people he loved and he thought hed be
farced to reveal it
The night before he discussed killing himself I-rith heavy weaghts on his
throat The last rernark he rnade to me was Youll sleep all ni ht of course
After lights were out he kept looking over the ledge of the bunk Bt me
r got quite concerned but finally r fell asleep1t
Apparently that was what Yockey had been waiti1S for He took his capsuleo
His baiy was found at 725 amo rigid on the bed hands folded across his
chest He s till had his boots on
Tucked into the folds of a blanket he us ed for a pillow was the follovdng
note
til shall write no messages which r know will never be delivered--only
this which will be
You rJi11 never discover who helped me for he is to be fmurl in your
own multitudinous ranks at least outwardlyo
Jail Su erintendent Frank Swith at first reported Yockey had died of
nat ural causes Cleser examination shoHed the inside of his mouth aand throat
were seared as one might exp~ct from swallming c~nide
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The ne~re brought Sheriff Btt Carberry b us tling to the ~il
We heard he las planniD5 suicide or esca e last TuesdayI he said
I e moved him f rom an upper tier to cell 20 on the grourrl floor where he
could be watched c onstantly by the guard on duty
Im satisfied that suf i cient pr ecautions Here taken
Sheriff Carberrys satisfaction was not shared by Clancey James B
Cavana J gh special arent for the security division of the State Department
or a handfuJ of a ents of the FBI who had been working on the case
Grim-faced they all shm-fed up at the jail and tried to _ind out hm-r
their Tnan had cheated justice and deprived them of possible i nformation
The investigation itself was taken up by the Homicide Bureau of the
Police Department and b~T Carberry
In Yockeys pels onal effects left Hi th tJ-j e jailer a second note was
fourrl It was addressed to Keith G Teeter an FBI a gent It read
Ny dear riro Teeter
I ask you as a favor in the same of humanity wh ich we share to
notify ny sister of this or her husband Lieutenant Cornrna nier or Jrs William
D Coyne Bethesda Md o
tlili thailk you
FrarlCis Yockey
Hrs Coyne nel1ed the body in the Coroners office Hi th Emmet F Hagerty
Yockeys attorney
Y keyg epitaph ras reJITided by an acquaintance and admirer Willis Carta
secretary of the Congress of Freeeol here and fourrier of the San Francisco
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Conservative Republican Headquarters set up during the GOP convention here
in 1956 Carto visited Yockey in jail June 100
Although I do not a ee with all his ideas I feel he Jas an authentic
creative genius I feel that those individuals uho are res onsible for
driving him to his death should feel a rreat sense of guil te
liThe world has lost a great man whose ideas will be r emembered until
estern Civilization is exter minated Carta saido
San Francisco Chronicle Satunlay June l8 l 1960
SISTER CALLS SttICIDE TRAGIC
PHI1 CS OPHER NOT PRO- NAZI SHE SA YS
By George Draper
The suicide of Francis Parker Yockey mystery man with many passports
was described as at a tragedy k yesterday by one of his sisters
All that talent all that brilliance is now gone sighed Mrs Hilliam
P Coyne of Bethesda 11i wife of a U S Navy commander
Mrs Coyne a handsome blonde with ~le blue eyes said Yockey spent his
adult life scrutinizing the JOrld from the exalted station of a true philosopher
No she said he wasnrt anti-Semitic he Jasnrt anti-Zionist No
he wasnrt pro-Nazi He never idolized Hitler In fact he thought Hitler
made one mistake after another n
Likerise Hrs Coyne said Yockey was neither pro-Russian nor anti-Russian
He merely felt that Russia had a role to play in world historytt she said
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~~S Coyne proudly recited the titles of six books written by Yockey
all of which lere privately published in London and one of which has been
called a blueprint of Fascist strategy1I
No publisher in the United States iTould to uch them II she said
Irs Coyne intervievled in t he office of Attorney Emmet Ha gerty said
she had been close to her brother rmen they grew up in Chicago but that in
the last 10 years she had seldom heard from him
He 1-1old telephone me once in a while but never say where he was I
think it was because he loJaS in some kind of tr ouble with the FBI she said
Hrs Coyne said she received a telephone call from Yockey early last
1reek informing her that Im in the Oakland jail
The sister imFtediately flew here from Maryland to help him
She said she talked to him in jail abolt the United States passport he
obtainoo in Salinas in 1954 lKder t1e name of Edward Tax Price
(This same passp ort Tas fourd among Yockeys belongings b3aring Yockeys
photograph with the name changed to Eduard flax Briceman)
liRe couldnt have changed that name on the nassport That Eequires special
techpique she said
Yockey told her she said that he still carried the passport because bhe
State Department had tl~rned him down seven times nen he applied for a new
passport
Jhy did Yockey also carry Canadian and British passports -with his photoshy
graph but different nares
Maybe he thought three passports were better than one Mrs Coyne replied
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The sister said S- e had no idea how Yockey had earned his living in
recent years or where he had b 8m living
Ny sister aro I gave him some money to bave a book published but that
was qcite a few years ago she said
Finally virs Coyne was asked why she thou ght Yockey committed sui cide
Has it been established that it was a sui cidert she replied
Re l 71inded that Yockey penned a suicide note before he died she added
I Oh thats right He did Probably he felt he -lasnt going to have
a fair trial
She he3itated a momen t and added
tIredica ted upon r-rha t happened he was completely justified in feeling
tha t way
San Francisco Chr onicle Sunday June 19 1960
VICTIH OF NAZIS LI TO YOCKE Y
by Geor ge Draper
Alex B Scharf tattooed sUvivor of the Auschlitz concentration camp
in World 7Jar II as being sought for questioning yesterday about the mysterious
activities of nea-Fascist Francis P Yockey
Yockey 43 killed hims elf with potassium cyanide in County Jail No1
early Friday lThile being held on passport fratrl charges
He was arrested in Scharfs Oakland apartment tvlO 1l euroeks ago l i t h three
fake Dassoorts- and seven birth certificates
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I rmned iately following Yockeys arrest Scharf 31 abandoned his j dJ
as princi al- of Tern le Beth Abraham school and disa peared
Both Government officials and Jewish leaders Here puzzled by the associashy
tion between Scharf and Yockey
Seymour Froroor director of Jewish iducation in Oaskland said Scharf
wears the German tatoo on his arm that proves he was a prisoner at Ausch~-litz
where more than t m million J eHS were cremated by Hi tIer
I am sure charf believed in Israel and Zionism n said Fromer
Stanley S Jacobs chief of the Anti-Defaro~tion Leag~ehere declared
I am loath to believe Scharf was e n ga ged in Neo-Fascist activities
wi th Yockey
Yockey is known to have been anti-Zionist if not anti-Semitic and in
liaison ith various extreme right--nng lea ers incluiing former followers
of Hitler
Yockeys former -dfe Alice Yockey of San Antonio Tex told this reporter
that Yockey thou ght reports of Jewish genocide in orld middotjar II were eXd ggerated
Investigators hope to question Scharf about his original explanation for
harring Yockey in his Oakland apartment
After Yockeys arrest Scharf is said to have told a lents he met Yockey
for the first time a few days earlier at the gambling tables in Reno
At poundhat time he said he invited Yockey a stranger to come to Oaklarrl
and stay at his apartrrent
Assistant United States Attorney W P Caancy said yesterday however that
Scharf had known Yockey for nearly a year
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In 1959 Clancy said Yockey applied f or an Irish passport
Either Yockeys application or an attached affidavit said Clancy bears
the name of Alex B Scharf and his former address at 2bol Sacramento street
Scharf was born in Czechoslovakia in 1928 am after Torld a1 II lived
in Paraguay a rrl Ar gentina e
He studied at GolUJ11bia Univergtity and at the Jewish Teachers Institute
in New York and then he returned to Paraguay as a teacher
Scharf came to San Francisco in late 1958 looking for a job teaching
Hebrew and las employed by the Bureau of Jewish Ed ucation
In June 1959 he viaS assigned to Te le Be th Abraham in Oakland as
eciucational director 0
Shortly before Scharf disappeared two weeks a go he t as not ified t ba t h O s
c otrac t at the t emple w-auld not be r enewed
Yockey has b een l eadi ng a lif e of myst ery for t he pas t 10 year s
Hi s sister Mrs Wi lliam bull Coyne of Bethesda r1l said she has no
knmJledge of where he ha s been or wha t he has been d oingo
She said mail for tockey has been deli~ed to her h ome over the years
but she has been forced to thrm it away not knDwing his whereabouts
Mrs Coynes husband is a commander in the Navy
Yockeys difficu lties arose when he lost a suitcase while flying to San
FrcmcLsco aboard an American Airlines Dlane
Tbe s itcase was subsequmtly fourrl in Fort Worth Texas Airline officials
08ned it to verify its Oinership am found a United States a British am a
Canadian passo crt -- each hri th Yockeys photograph ani each bearing a d ifferent
name The FBI Bas notified
San Fra nc isco Chronicle ~~ndaYJ June 20 1960
PUZZLING TRAI L OF YO CKE YS FRI ~ND
by Denne Petitclerc
Federa l a uthorities y estp-rday so ght to solve the ridd l e f what linked
Nazi concentration camp victim Alex B Scharf to neo-Fascist Francis P Yockey
But even Scharfs closest friJmis including the pre tty dark-haired
girl he once asked to marry hLm rere lmafule to ex l ain the strange r e lationship
Yockey Fascist philosopher and t-rriter and associate of former Hi tle r
followers co~~tted suicide in the GOQnty Jail here early Friday while being
held on a passp ort frau charge
Scharf 31-year-old former principal of Temple Beth b raham school in
Oakland a nd victim of Na z i bruta lity a t Auschwitz c oncentrati on camp in
i or lrl ar II has disappeared
It was in charfs Oakland apartnent t hat FBI a gents f0111d Yockey two
weeks ago Scharf since dro ood from s ight and i s DOli) being sought by Federal
authori t i e s for questioning
III know he didnt ha ve any money It sam Mrs Ezra Cohen-Sitt of IlS
Beulah stree t San Francisco
Mrs S i tt met her husband Ezra whi le da ting Scharf last year Sitt -laS
Scharfs roonnnate Ilm a tea cher t Temple Beth Abr aham sc1ool Scharf had once
asked Mrs Sitt to marry (l im He served as a n usher at her iedd i n in J a nuary
ani r emained a friend
Al ex was not the kirri of person you could get close tol she said He ijaS
ver-J sad and very seri ous~ and eve n though he Has likable he vIas alway s distant
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She said Scbarf -Jas t ntelligent and sensitive Hith a eep feeling f or
Orthcdox Jewry and a man fh o kept himself remote as a result of lon years
of f ear under brutal Nazi treatment in Eurone
UHis meetinr Hi th Yockey must have come fr om some thing aut of Europe
years a go II she said T1 He ras a boy of 18 and he Wande red for many years
after the Hal It
Scharf led a mcdest bachelor schoolteacher I s life in axklarri she said
He n fre uently dated one girl wh 0 as employed at a Reno gambling cas ino
she said
Scharf never mentioned Yockey to any of his acquaintances here yen~s
Stit t (sic) said
Assistant Unj ted t ates Attorney bull 2 Clancey said Scharfs battered
1956 yell orJ and black Mercury sedan has not b een fourrl but that the California
Highway Patrol has been alerted
San Francisco Chronicle Tuesday June 21 1960
D MA Y BE ON ISRA EL-BOUND SHIP
by Denne Petitclerc
_ lex B Scharf still sougtlt as a key ~ritness in th2 puzzling case of
nea-Fascist Francis P Yockey may be ab oard a sb~p en route to Israel
The Chronicle learned yesterday
Federal authorities here said they Here checking the possibility that
Scharf may have boarded a ship in e York last I-Teek or that he is still
waiti ng in Ne-J York t o eave the country
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Yockey wa s arr e s ted i n Scharf s apartment on J une 8 ~las ques tioned
by Federal officers a m then vanis hed bull Aut h ori ties are s t ill p uzz led about
Hha t bond cOlld have existed bet wee n a Naz i philos ophe r like Yockey am
Scharf a one-time principal of Oaklands Temple Beth Abraham school and an
inmate of German conentration c amps in Uor1d ~Jar II
Yockey 43 killed himself Hith potassill1fl cyanide in his County Jail No1
cell early last Friday whi le being held on passport violation charges
The first possible clue to Scharfs whereabouts came yesterday in checkJ_ng
a former San Jose court reporter described as charf s closest friend
The reporter William Sloffibvich 35 left his job in San Jose about three
months ago -lorked until last month in Los -ngeles and then left far New York
The Chronicle learned that Slomovich s name apueared on the passenger
list of the Atlantic an American Export Lines ship which sailed from ew
York last Thursday bound for P~ifa Israel
lthough cparfs name did not aprear on the passe er list Federal
authorities said it is possible he rr~y have used an ass umed name since he is
not a citizen of the United States
Assistant United States Attorney il1iam P Clancey said t~at American
offmcials in Israel 1i11 be alerted to question Slornovich--and to be on the
lookout for Scharf--when the ship berths in Haifa on June 29
Clancy (sic) nEamlhile said that evidence Dr irrlicates that Scharf had
known Yockey for more t han a year
Yockey made an application for an Irish passport in an Francisco in 1959
under t he name of Michael Taylor usi ng Scharf as a referenceo
Clancy s j d a handwriting ex-pert is aIlCtlyzin the docurn-nt to d e terrni ne
-hether charfs signature las forgedo
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liieanwhile it Jas learned tha t Yockey asked a f e11ovI-prisoner tvJO
days befClte he committed suicide in the C01lllty Jail here where he c ould
ootain some poison
Federal author ities refused to identify the prisoner but said that he
has been transf erred to another institution He Jill be questioned tcrlay
about the conversation officials said
Sherriff Matthew Carberry whohms San F ancisco s CODnty J ail co~ ented
last night that no Federal official had rnentioned to him the existence of a
county jail prisoner with such a story
Authori ties are puzzled as to T here Yockey obtained the deadl y poison
and haw it reached his cello
At too same time the coroners office announced that a toxologists
report s h mfs that Yockey took one-fifth of a am of potassi urn cyanide which
is double the lethal dose f or a man of his size
Yockey left a note defying anyone to discover h ow he obtained the poison
Frierris said t1at Scharf fled the ay Area in a battered 1956 yellow and
black l1e rcury sedan apparently with little money in his possession
Mrs Ezra Cohen-Sitt of 115 Beulah street a friend of charf said
yesterday she wan ted to correct an impression given in an intervieH with
The Chronicle Sunday that Scharf had at one ti~e asked her to marry him
He did not she said I did not intem to be quoted on any Hatter
rela ted to Hr Scharf II
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San Francisco Chronicle Wednesday June 22 1960
u S PRESSES SEARCH F YOCKEYS AL
The search for Alex B Scharf mysterio11S pal of neo-Fascist Francis
P Yockey settled down to a game of fox and houms yesterday
Scharf rho departed from Oaklarrl so quickly after Yockeys arrest that
he even left his clothes behind was in the role of the fox The hounds are
agents of the State Department vih ose security officials in ian Franc isco
said s impl
lIvere trying to blanket all escape routes and He re hoping for the bestI
Yockey cormnitted suicide with cyanide in the County Jail last Friday
while being held on a passport charge
Scharf is being sought to rim out what he knoHS abolt Yockeys multiple
passports
Authorities are betuldered about the association of the two Scharf who
is 33 is a forroor principal of Oaklands Temple Beth Abraham School and an
inmate of Nazi concentration camps
Yockey L13 was a racist neo-Nazi of considerable infamy when he accidentally
fell into the hands of Federal authorities on June 6 Yockey had complained to
an airline about the loss of a bag It had already been opened in Fort middot orth
fex as unclaimed and was fourrl to contain three different passports all
bearing Yockeys pictuces
The FBI picked up Yockey in Scharf I s apartTEnt 8t 165 Bellevue avenue
Oakland but when t h ey went back later to talk to - charf he was gone
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Inside were three passports One issued to Edward ~1ax Price in Salinas
in 195L had been altered later to read uampiward Nax Briceman FBI agentB and
State Department officials said They refused to reveal the names on the
bother two passports but all three bore Yockeys own photograph they said
The airline notified the FBI which sent agents to return the bag to
Yockey on r10nday at the Oakland address of his friend Yockey tried to flee
FBI agent Edward Cunningham said at yesterdays bail hearirJg before US
Co~missioner Joseph Karesh
FBI agent Robert Leonard tried to restrain Yockey Cunnihgham said but
Yockey eluded him--and slaTInned a door violently on Leonards restraining hand
gashing its 0 badly many stiches weTe required to close the cut Yockey fled
fran the hause but agents recaptured him in the street outside
Held on a temporary charge of failing to have registered for the draft
Yockey was transferred to custody in San Francisco yesterday on a pass~ort
fram change filed by State Department agents
FBI agents said Yockey clairr~ to be a writer but wont give any address
When agents first sought to question him middot1oniay they said he gave his name
as Richard Hatch
Yockey interrupted yesterdays bail hearing time--once to Shout that
FBI testimony was a lie and again to insist that I know my rights because
he was a 2raduate of Notre Dame lew School in 19b1 lt)
The FBI later confirmed
this
Commissioner Karesh said he would continue the bail hearing at 10 a m
~cxiay At one point in yesterday1 s proceedings he made it clear he was as
puzzled as anyone else by the unusual case
111 dont know what you may- have in your mirrlsn he cautioned the
government agents but to justify this kim of bail you1l8 going to
have to make a case--on the record 1t
Assistant U S Attorney William P Clancy- Jr had explained that the
high bail was necessary tlbecause of the unusual circUlns tances of this case
(His office later told reporters that the staff had been instructed nby
~vashingtonn not to discuss the case fur ther )
state Department officials here said that the l=Sssport bearing the
name uBriceman DmIl showed its holder had traveled extensively in Engl ani
GerITany and BelgiUl1l
At the time of his arrest Yockey had $2300 in cash in his pockets ani
was also Carrying press credentials from a Gerrr~n magazine they said-shy
credentials bearing his own picture but still anbther alias
Richard Auerbach special agent in charge of the FBI here said last
night
nyou tbink its a mystifying case Well we just wish we knew more
about it too
San Francisco Chronicle Friday June 10 1960
I NSANITY PLEA IN PAS PORT CASE HINTED
Fra ncis Parker Yockey the nan of many names held here on Federal
charges may have been operating an illegal passport factory a Federal
prosecutor said yesterday
Yockeys own att orney Carl Hoppe insisted at first that the only
pr oblem las that his client was insane--but he later Iithdre1f the suggesti OD
ending fur llier private conversations
bullAs sistant UD Attorney William P Clancy Jr t al nelvs mGO yesteroay
that Yockey had used at least 15 aliases duri ng Ilwhat ap ars to be a
systematic and we] - planned operatl on in passports the plllpose of whioh we
do not mov-T u
Yockeys trouble be gan Su1day--accidentally He arrived in Oakland to
visit a friend ani foond that a bag was miss ing from h i s Iu ga ge Yockey
phoned the airline
Mea1while the suitcas e turned up in Fort orth and an airline official
opened it to identify the Grmer Imide were three pas sports Though each
bore a different name Yockey s photo~as im all three 0
The FBI arrested him in Oaklani after he had tnjured an agent in an
attempt to escape Yockey 47 was identified by fingerprints on his
service record
State Department officials here said yesterday that Yockey had been a
War DepartnElrrt employee in Europe in 19b6 and other sources reportal he JaS
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active at that tilne in the Nuernberg war crirres trials in Germany but
las fired
A friend and former classmate of Yockey told The Chronicle last light
that Yockey had been ll[ fla pro-daziH Hhile attending Georgetown University
lashin ton D C in 1937-38
Georgetorm University confirmed that Yockey had attended its chool)f
Foreign ervice as a member ~middotf the class of 1939 but lad ~ri thdrawn before
completing the course His hornetmm at that time Has listed as Roxana Ill
He was kncrun to have practiced la in Illinois at one time and to have
served as an assistant district attorney in Detroit
Yockey glowering and silent appeared before U S Comrr1issioner Joseph
Karesh at 1030 am yesterday ostensibly to plead for a reduction in the
$50000 bail demanded by the Government
With him was Attorney H pe--a ape cialist in ~ tent and c opyri ght law
Id like to have Mr Yockey examined by a )sychiatrist to determine
wh8t~er he is sa1ett Ho e told Commissione r Iaresh
Yockey erupted in a sibilant resouniing whisper Thats a dirty tricld
ihen he spoke clearly Im sorry--Id like to dismiss the attorney
This con13S as a complete surprise to me
Karesh allowed a 2G-minute recess so Hoppe could confer fwther with his
client s Yockey and the attorney left for their conference Yockey a gain
muttered Its a dirty trick1l and spat on the floor
attorney J W Ehrlich p resent rnth Hoppe and Hoppes associate Victor
lobe told reporters III talked to Mr Yockey at Mr Hoppes request but 11m
not associated with the defense 1I
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After the private c onferance bett-reen Yockey and hi attorneys hop e
and Victor lobe Hoppe asked Karesh to continue the hearing--ostensibly
call~ to deter1l1ine gt-hether lt50000 bail ~las too high--to 1030 amo today
IM now pressing my motion to reduce bail and Im not nmT pressing
my moti on for an exami nation by an alienist II Hoppe explained I want to
colier further in th 1ro Yockeyo
Karesh asked Yocke3T if he agreed that Hoppe should continue to represent
him and Yockey nal ed Raresh thereup on continued t he hearing until this morning
San Francisco Chronicae SaturdalJ June 11 1960
PASSPORT FRAUD MISTER Y NFOLDS FACIST LINKS
A long background involving activity lith extreme right-wing political
groups in the United S tates and Europe began to emerge yesterday in the case
of the mysterious Francis Parker Yockey
He appeared briefly before United States Commissioner Joseph Karesh at
1030 am and had his rearing set over until 1030 am 1onday
Yockeys seryice record shows he las born in 1917 in imiddotichigan He
graduated cum lame f ran Notre Dame am atterded a number of U S universities
He was honorahly discharged fran too Army in 1943 gtnth a medical disability
The discharge carried the notation dementia praecox paranoid type II
Stanley Jacobs of the Anti-Defamation Leagoo here said their files shm-red
Yockey had a ~ared wi th Gerald L K Smith head of the Christian National
Party in St Louis in 19500
He said he is the a uhhor of II Imperi1IDl n a bomk published in London
which Yockey described as lIa master thesis of Fascist strategy based on
three rinciples anti-Americanism a neutral Germany avoidance of antishy
Russian acti vity tI
Colunmist Drew Pearson Vote of him in 195~ He identified him as one
of three known U S a en ts for Rlrl ol h Aschenauer a neo-Nazi of Frankfurt
Germany He said Yockey wrote unier the name of Ulick Varange
Yockey is known to have used the aliases of Francis Downey Frenz Yockey
Franz Downey Frank Healy and Frank Downey
U Sl43sistantAttorney ~ P ClancyJro said he COJld be charge with
making false statemant to obtain a passport and tilth assault on a Federal
officer
Yockey was arrested by agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
Honday at the home of Alexcharf former director of educatLon for the
Temple Beth Abraham in akland
Scharf was not available to explain why Yockey should be in his homeo
His brest TJas picked up after his luggage had ~one astray and HoUrrl up in an
airpCl~t in Fort 1lorth Texas
Employees opened too luggage ani found three passports--one American
one Canadian and one British--seven birth certificates and a set of German
press credentialso
fuen arrested Yockey tried to escape He slammed a door on the hand of
FBI agent Robert Leonard It required 20 xtbduut stitches to sew up the ~lOundo
Since then he has been held in lieu of ~50ooo bail while authorities
attempted to discover the pattern of his life and the reason he was carrying
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$2300 in cash and 850 in travelers checks Ii th him
We are interested in where he gets his money Clancy said lWe know
he has been associated wi th some anti-Semitic groups and that he is enga ged
in a systematic and well-planned operation in passports tt
In his a earance befare Kresh Yockey was stiff and a n gr y
This is practically assault and batteryt he told Kar esh He braced
hilnself ani folded his hanis as the COIlmussioner talked Tith his lawyer
Carl Ho pe about a continuance pending the arrival of his sis t er
She is illiam D Coyne wife of a Navy c OT1II1amer of Bethesda m
Hop pe said hel needed time to discuss the entire situation li th firs 0
Coyne and he asked if she could visit Yockey 17 in jail tcxiayo
You want an order far Saturday for your boytI asked Karesh
111 beg yCJUJ paroohlI Yockey snapped Im no boy II
nYotlUg man toon1t purred Karesh
IINo no young man either1t said Yockey
Then defe niant said Karesh I think we can 3 gree on that Ill
see you Monday
San Francisco Chronicle 1c1orrlay June 13 1960
PASSPORT BAIL PLEA DUB IODA Y
Francis P Yockey the man of mystery and passports is scheduled to
aDnear befltre U0 3 Commissioner Joseph Karesh tcxlay to plead for lesser baH
Yockey accused of fraud in traveling in ~ estern Europe on spurious
passports has been held in lieu of 50000 bail since his arrest last week
Here to help him was a sister Mrs lvilliam Coyne 1-life of a Navy
commander from Bethesda Yrlo
The 43-year-old laryer was picked up in Oaklarrl at the llltX apartment of
Alex B Scharf ~~til recently principal of the Jewish school at Temple Beth
Abraham
Scharf in his early 30s disa peared after Yockey was arrested It
developed that Yockey given a midical di scharg~ from the Army in 1943 for
dementia praecox paranoid type had engaged in pro-lt3zi anti-Semitic
activities
San rancisco Chronicle Tuesday June lL 1960
amp41L PLEA DEIA YEn
PASSPORT STTSPE CT CA LLED TOP FASCIST
Francis Parker Yockey mysterious collector of spurious passports was
described hEr e yesterday as a sj_gnificant Fascist wi th international
connect ons n
Yockey 43 held under 50000 bail for passport fraud was so classified
by Stanley Jacobs regional director of the Anti-Defamation Lea 3ueo
He Has one of the sever al unoffidal observ8rs yesterday at Yockeys
stormy hearing before U s Connnissioner Joseph Karesh
Jacobs said Yockey is considered lias i mportant a world fi~ure in fascism
as we now kncn n
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Assistant U0 S Attorney Wi lliam P Clancy Jr said the Yockey case
will be given to the Federal Grand Jury later this month
In the meantime Clancy said the GJvernment will file a request t Qmorrow
that the TI S District Court oroer a psychiatric exainira tion for Yockey
Karesh may join in the motion basing his request on Yockeys behavior
in hearings before him
Yockeys lawyer Carl Hoppe came into court yesterday prepared to ask
a reduction in bail Acti on however was ~ostponed until this morninG to
enable a new lawyer to enter the tangled case
Ho _e a fe tent attorney s aid he wished to Jtthdraw n favor of a
l awyer with criminal experience
Present during yesterdays hearing was Emmet F Hagerty who may represent
Yockey during future hearings
Yookey whose name has been closely linked with numerous nea-Nazi
organizations am whose many passports under assumed names s u ggested international
intrigue was arrested last 1ieek on a charge of p as sport fraud after his
suitcase went astray in Fort Worth Texas The sQttcase was found to contain
three false)8ssports all carrying Yockeys picture but phony names
Yockey complained during yesterdays ~oceedings that he had been refused
permission to see his two sisters Alice Spurlock hos ital I-ray technician
in Gilroy and -h-s 11illiam Coyne of Bethesda vB
The Conmlissio~r recessed court for 40 minutes to allow Yockey to confer
vith his sisters in the Marshals officeo
Yockey as asked during the recess whether he had traveled extensively in
Russia in 1957 ar~ the questioning reporter was dismissed with the order
Get out of here you filthy swine
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San Francisco Chronicle Wednesday June 15 1960
IJ I~ PLOT TOLD IN PASSPORT CASE
A bold jailbraak plot en ~ineered by Francis P Yockey the passport
mystery man was revealed yesterday along 1-ith alle ged threats of suicide
Yockey a 43-year-old ex-laryer from Detroit had a npeared before U S
COlIDllissioner Joseph Karesh to plead for a reduction in his 50000 ba il on
a 9assport-fraud char ge
Tcrrard the eni 0 that p-roceeding which was intersession Assistant
U S Attorney William P Clancy Jr mentioned rithdramatic casualness the
purported escape plot am the suicide threats
AEguing against bail reduction he said uThere I S an extreme risk of
flight bull bull a gra-IJe ris k of injury to hirns elf am others II
The escape plan Clancy said was relayed to him by the FBI It ~ent
he said like this
Yockey on Monday approached two other Federal prisoners being held at the
county jail He offered to post S1000 bail far one who is a wai ting sentence
This man would then get a car a nd guns - en the Federal orisoners were
marched into the U S Marshals van in DW1bar ~lley behind the Hall of Justice
the second accomplice would start a kIZIId brawl
The man Hi th the guns would then love in slip a gun to Yockey am all
three would escape in the car parked nearby
The plan went awry Clancey said when the bail posting fell through and
one of the prisoners tipped off the FBI
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Yockey spoke up lTot a HOrd of truth in that If
KadIsh turned to Ennne t F Hagerty who replaced Carl Ho e as Yockeys
attorney I1If such a thing is true Im sure youll agree the bail s et Xx
is not excess i ire II
III a gree n said Hagerty if its true
lWe ve goed r eas on to believe so It said Clancey
Plt8gerty said it might rove otherwise ii the other prisoners were produced
for cross-questioning am Clancey said he might disclooe their identity tcday
Jail s uperintendent Frank Smith later disclosed the other two prisoners
were Philip Galati 21 of Brooklyn awai ting sentence on a check charge and
held in lieu of $1000 bail and Jack Fambrough 27 of 619 39th street Oaklarrl
Jho has pleaded g1lilty to the S9LLI robbery of an Oakhnd Arrrry Terninal PX
service station llt1here he warlred
Fallbrough ras to have been sentenced by Judge Sweigert yesterday but
the case was p03 t poned until tcrlay
~iidway in the bail discussion the case abruptly moved into ~ ederal J uige
iilial) T Sweigerts coort Where Clancey requested a psychiatric exarrination
for Yockey sa ng he as t1 unable to comprehend thb siuilationt and thus c ould
not assist in his defense
Yockey familiar iod th Nazi and Fascist elements in t his country and Eur ope
stood before tre court v1 th anna folded across his chest while Hagerty objected
to a mental examination o
This JTe n has an intellect equal of any in this courtroom with all
deference to Your Honor n Hagerty said He is a member of the bar i n Illinois
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and Michigan a graduate of Notre Darle GeoIl~etown t1ichigan an lItDx author
of books was a Deputy istrict Attorney of Detroit and a rosecutor at the
Nuernberg trials That doesnt Trean he is incompetent to ass ist in his defense
C18ncey countered He was dischar~8d fron the army in 1943 as a dementia
pr a ecox--paranoid type and his conduct before th~ U S CoJltll issioner has
been bizarre II
He then related reports tllhat Yockey rJ8d twice threatened suicide--once
ih the Oakland jail after his arrest am a gain in the jail here Yockey
prom Uy denied that then tossed in a little SOB sensation of his own
He said that lex Scharf in whose Oaklarrl apartment he was arrested and mo
has since disappeared had been taken into custooy by the FBI
uHe JaS arrested in my presence1 Yockey said
The F I promptly denied that
Jui ge Sweigert said he 1ould rule at 11 am today on middotrhether to direct
that Yockey be given a pychiatric test and Karesh held up the bail l1atter
until after that
Sall Francisco Chronicle Thursday J una 16 1960
MENTAL EXAM ORDERED IN S F PASSPORT NYST RY
Francis P Yockey 43 passport mystery man Tas ordered held for
psychiatric examination yesterday by Federal Jud ge (yilliam T Sweigert
The order as Tlade on Government motion aLrl over t he strenuous obj ections
of Yockey hims elf an attorney ani his law--je r Enunet F Ha gerty
Judge SIeigert said he would receive the psychiatric reports on hly 11
am a motion to reduce Yockeys 50000 b8il was vJithdrcnm untn that date
Yockey was arrested in Oaklarrl last lleek after a piece of his l u ga ge
that went astray was frond to contain three passports bearing false names and
spurious identification dccuments He is known to have been closely identified
wi th Nazis and Fascists in this country am Europe
u S Commissioner Joseph Karesh before horn Yockey has appeared in
several stOlTlY hearings was called yesterday by Assistant U S Attorney
WIlliam P ClaJlcey Jr
Karesh testified that he had closely observed Yockey am descrived his
actions as lIthe most unusual of arry accused person who has ever a ppeared
before me II
With per~ission of the cmrrt Yockey undertook to cross eX8~ine Kareshe
He accused the Commissioner of being prejudiced because he had read Yockey
as II anti-J e-lish II
Judge Sweigert halted Yockey in mid-sentence That will ce enough of
thatn he saaIlped
Two EI agents ELliV2rd Ij Cunningham ani Keith G Teeter subnitted affidavits
that Yockey had received a psychiatric discharge fran the Army in 19w3
One affidavit said Army records show that Yockey suffered marked delusions
of persecutions had ideas of gramellr and Ias given a disability dischar ge
due to dementia praecox paranoi d type Cause urrletermined u
Anothe r a ff idavit said Yockey told two unnamed cell TIates in the County
Jail he intended to commit suicide by sharpening a canb into a lethal weapon
Tuesday it was revealed in a hearing before Karesh that Yockey had alle gedly
attempted to engineer a daring escape from 11e County Jail 0 One of the
Clri soners wh om he solidted to aid in t he getaway plan transrnitted the
inforation to the FBI
Yockey in c p3ssionate statemont to the court charQeurod that the GoverT1rnent
was depriving him of his defense by subjecting him to psychiatric examinationo
He said that use of his Army medical recoro violated his r i LtS
San Francisco Chronicle Saturday June 18 1960
PASSPORT DEFENDAN T
MYSTERY MAN yOCKEY KILIS SElF IN bull F JAIL CELL
by Tom Ma thews
Neo-Nazi Francis P Yockey took a leaf from the notebook of HerT~ann
Goering Hitlers air rrarshI31 and poisoned himself in jail yesterday
He left behind him a furious set of Federal officials and a note defying
anyone to find out who supplied him rith the cyanide he used to end his life
The Federal Bureau of Investi gation the State Department and the United
States Attorneys office were left hohl ing a top-secret file on Yockey and
no Yockey to prosecute
The file arrived lastvlednesday One official saj_d it ms loaded rith
dynamite
Yockey 43 was arrested June 6 for investiga tion of passport fraud FBI
agents caught bp 1Tith hi m when he checked on a suitcase that had ~JOne astray
dcentng a plane flight
The suitcase contained three false passp orts Gerrran press credentials
and seven birth certHicates
A ents found him in the apartment of Alex Scharf u65 Bellevue avenue
Cakland Scharf a fo r mer teacher at the Te mple Beth Abraham school
imrre diately disappeared
He has been subpoenaed by the Federal Gram JillS but so far has not
turned up
A warrant for arrest of Scharf was issued late yesterday afternoon Bail
Jas set at $5000
The mysterirus aspect of the case -Jas compounded by Yockeys behavior
and by tlJe insistence of authorities that he be held in the surprisingly high
bail of $50 000
Yockey b q an talking of suicide the day he was arrested He made one
elaborate escape attempt In his court appearances his grandiose manner am
c onte t for proceedings led to an order for a psychiatric exami_nation
The U S Assistant Attorney William P Clancey iolOuld say of Yockey only
that he seemed to be dealing in passports and that current inforrra tion shomd
him to have traveled extensively in Europe
Stanley Jacobs of the Anti-Defarration League was more specific He said
Yockey was associated with the tap figures in extreme right-wing and antishy
Semitic movements
Yockey is known to have been closely connected fl th the resurgent Nazi
movement in West Germany
Somehow he obtained the poison crystals he used ThJmsday night Just as
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Goering the No 2 Nazi did at Nuernberg hours before he was to be ha nged
in 19L5 Yockey used potassium cyanide
No one knoHs haw he got it He played checkers tn th his fellow inmate
Adam Nienan a mapmaker of 1703 Arcadia street until lights were turned out
in their County Jail cell at 9 pm
Nieman then held o~ charges of gram theft which were dismissed yesterday
said ~ Yockey gave si gns of what was in his mind during the evening
tlHe told me he was the No1 leader of some SOlltt of organization Nieman
said He said he had kn owledge of people he loved and he thought hed be
farced to reveal it
The night before he discussed killing himself I-rith heavy weaghts on his
throat The last rernark he rnade to me was Youll sleep all ni ht of course
After lights were out he kept looking over the ledge of the bunk Bt me
r got quite concerned but finally r fell asleep1t
Apparently that was what Yockey had been waiti1S for He took his capsuleo
His baiy was found at 725 amo rigid on the bed hands folded across his
chest He s till had his boots on
Tucked into the folds of a blanket he us ed for a pillow was the follovdng
note
til shall write no messages which r know will never be delivered--only
this which will be
You rJi11 never discover who helped me for he is to be fmurl in your
own multitudinous ranks at least outwardlyo
Jail Su erintendent Frank Swith at first reported Yockey had died of
nat ural causes Cleser examination shoHed the inside of his mouth aand throat
were seared as one might exp~ct from swallming c~nide
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The ne~re brought Sheriff Btt Carberry b us tling to the ~il
We heard he las planniD5 suicide or esca e last TuesdayI he said
I e moved him f rom an upper tier to cell 20 on the grourrl floor where he
could be watched c onstantly by the guard on duty
Im satisfied that suf i cient pr ecautions Here taken
Sheriff Carberrys satisfaction was not shared by Clancey James B
Cavana J gh special arent for the security division of the State Department
or a handfuJ of a ents of the FBI who had been working on the case
Grim-faced they all shm-fed up at the jail and tried to _ind out hm-r
their Tnan had cheated justice and deprived them of possible i nformation
The investigation itself was taken up by the Homicide Bureau of the
Police Department and b~T Carberry
In Yockeys pels onal effects left Hi th tJ-j e jailer a second note was
fourrl It was addressed to Keith G Teeter an FBI a gent It read
Ny dear riro Teeter
I ask you as a favor in the same of humanity wh ich we share to
notify ny sister of this or her husband Lieutenant Cornrna nier or Jrs William
D Coyne Bethesda Md o
tlili thailk you
FrarlCis Yockey
Hrs Coyne nel1ed the body in the Coroners office Hi th Emmet F Hagerty
Yockeys attorney
Y keyg epitaph ras reJITided by an acquaintance and admirer Willis Carta
secretary of the Congress of Freeeol here and fourrier of the San Francisco
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Conservative Republican Headquarters set up during the GOP convention here
in 1956 Carto visited Yockey in jail June 100
Although I do not a ee with all his ideas I feel he Jas an authentic
creative genius I feel that those individuals uho are res onsible for
driving him to his death should feel a rreat sense of guil te
liThe world has lost a great man whose ideas will be r emembered until
estern Civilization is exter minated Carta saido
San Francisco Chronicle Satunlay June l8 l 1960
SISTER CALLS SttICIDE TRAGIC
PHI1 CS OPHER NOT PRO- NAZI SHE SA YS
By George Draper
The suicide of Francis Parker Yockey mystery man with many passports
was described as at a tragedy k yesterday by one of his sisters
All that talent all that brilliance is now gone sighed Mrs Hilliam
P Coyne of Bethesda 11i wife of a U S Navy commander
Mrs Coyne a handsome blonde with ~le blue eyes said Yockey spent his
adult life scrutinizing the JOrld from the exalted station of a true philosopher
No she said he wasnrt anti-Semitic he Jasnrt anti-Zionist No
he wasnrt pro-Nazi He never idolized Hitler In fact he thought Hitler
made one mistake after another n
Likerise Hrs Coyne said Yockey was neither pro-Russian nor anti-Russian
He merely felt that Russia had a role to play in world historytt she said
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~~S Coyne proudly recited the titles of six books written by Yockey
all of which lere privately published in London and one of which has been
called a blueprint of Fascist strategy1I
No publisher in the United States iTould to uch them II she said
Irs Coyne intervievled in t he office of Attorney Emmet Ha gerty said
she had been close to her brother rmen they grew up in Chicago but that in
the last 10 years she had seldom heard from him
He 1-1old telephone me once in a while but never say where he was I
think it was because he loJaS in some kind of tr ouble with the FBI she said
Hrs Coyne said she received a telephone call from Yockey early last
1reek informing her that Im in the Oakland jail
The sister imFtediately flew here from Maryland to help him
She said she talked to him in jail abolt the United States passport he
obtainoo in Salinas in 1954 lKder t1e name of Edward Tax Price
(This same passp ort Tas fourd among Yockeys belongings b3aring Yockeys
photograph with the name changed to Eduard flax Briceman)
liRe couldnt have changed that name on the nassport That Eequires special
techpique she said
Yockey told her she said that he still carried the passport because bhe
State Department had tl~rned him down seven times nen he applied for a new
passport
Jhy did Yockey also carry Canadian and British passports -with his photoshy
graph but different nares
Maybe he thought three passports were better than one Mrs Coyne replied
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The sister said S- e had no idea how Yockey had earned his living in
recent years or where he had b 8m living
Ny sister aro I gave him some money to bave a book published but that
was qcite a few years ago she said
Finally virs Coyne was asked why she thou ght Yockey committed sui cide
Has it been established that it was a sui cidert she replied
Re l 71inded that Yockey penned a suicide note before he died she added
I Oh thats right He did Probably he felt he -lasnt going to have
a fair trial
She he3itated a momen t and added
tIredica ted upon r-rha t happened he was completely justified in feeling
tha t way
San Francisco Chr onicle Sunday June 19 1960
VICTIH OF NAZIS LI TO YOCKE Y
by Geor ge Draper
Alex B Scharf tattooed sUvivor of the Auschlitz concentration camp
in World 7Jar II as being sought for questioning yesterday about the mysterious
activities of nea-Fascist Francis P Yockey
Yockey 43 killed hims elf with potassium cyanide in County Jail No1
early Friday lThile being held on passport fratrl charges
He was arrested in Scharfs Oakland apartment tvlO 1l euroeks ago l i t h three
fake Dassoorts- and seven birth certificates
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I rmned iately following Yockeys arrest Scharf 31 abandoned his j dJ
as princi al- of Tern le Beth Abraham school and disa peared
Both Government officials and Jewish leaders Here puzzled by the associashy
tion between Scharf and Yockey
Seymour Froroor director of Jewish iducation in Oaskland said Scharf
wears the German tatoo on his arm that proves he was a prisoner at Ausch~-litz
where more than t m million J eHS were cremated by Hi tIer
I am sure charf believed in Israel and Zionism n said Fromer
Stanley S Jacobs chief of the Anti-Defaro~tion Leag~ehere declared
I am loath to believe Scharf was e n ga ged in Neo-Fascist activities
wi th Yockey
Yockey is known to have been anti-Zionist if not anti-Semitic and in
liaison ith various extreme right--nng lea ers incluiing former followers
of Hitler
Yockeys former -dfe Alice Yockey of San Antonio Tex told this reporter
that Yockey thou ght reports of Jewish genocide in orld middotjar II were eXd ggerated
Investigators hope to question Scharf about his original explanation for
harring Yockey in his Oakland apartment
After Yockeys arrest Scharf is said to have told a lents he met Yockey
for the first time a few days earlier at the gambling tables in Reno
At poundhat time he said he invited Yockey a stranger to come to Oaklarrl
and stay at his apartrrent
Assistant United States Attorney W P Caancy said yesterday however that
Scharf had known Yockey for nearly a year
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In 1959 Clancy said Yockey applied f or an Irish passport
Either Yockeys application or an attached affidavit said Clancy bears
the name of Alex B Scharf and his former address at 2bol Sacramento street
Scharf was born in Czechoslovakia in 1928 am after Torld a1 II lived
in Paraguay a rrl Ar gentina e
He studied at GolUJ11bia Univergtity and at the Jewish Teachers Institute
in New York and then he returned to Paraguay as a teacher
Scharf came to San Francisco in late 1958 looking for a job teaching
Hebrew and las employed by the Bureau of Jewish Ed ucation
In June 1959 he viaS assigned to Te le Be th Abraham in Oakland as
eciucational director 0
Shortly before Scharf disappeared two weeks a go he t as not ified t ba t h O s
c otrac t at the t emple w-auld not be r enewed
Yockey has b een l eadi ng a lif e of myst ery for t he pas t 10 year s
Hi s sister Mrs Wi lliam bull Coyne of Bethesda r1l said she has no
knmJledge of where he ha s been or wha t he has been d oingo
She said mail for tockey has been deli~ed to her h ome over the years
but she has been forced to thrm it away not knDwing his whereabouts
Mrs Coynes husband is a commander in the Navy
Yockeys difficu lties arose when he lost a suitcase while flying to San
FrcmcLsco aboard an American Airlines Dlane
Tbe s itcase was subsequmtly fourrl in Fort Worth Texas Airline officials
08ned it to verify its Oinership am found a United States a British am a
Canadian passo crt -- each hri th Yockeys photograph ani each bearing a d ifferent
name The FBI Bas notified
San Fra nc isco Chronicle ~~ndaYJ June 20 1960
PUZZLING TRAI L OF YO CKE YS FRI ~ND
by Denne Petitclerc
Federa l a uthorities y estp-rday so ght to solve the ridd l e f what linked
Nazi concentration camp victim Alex B Scharf to neo-Fascist Francis P Yockey
But even Scharfs closest friJmis including the pre tty dark-haired
girl he once asked to marry hLm rere lmafule to ex l ain the strange r e lationship
Yockey Fascist philosopher and t-rriter and associate of former Hi tle r
followers co~~tted suicide in the GOQnty Jail here early Friday while being
held on a passp ort frau charge
Scharf 31-year-old former principal of Temple Beth b raham school in
Oakland a nd victim of Na z i bruta lity a t Auschwitz c oncentrati on camp in
i or lrl ar II has disappeared
It was in charfs Oakland apartnent t hat FBI a gents f0111d Yockey two
weeks ago Scharf since dro ood from s ight and i s DOli) being sought by Federal
authori t i e s for questioning
III know he didnt ha ve any money It sam Mrs Ezra Cohen-Sitt of IlS
Beulah stree t San Francisco
Mrs S i tt met her husband Ezra whi le da ting Scharf last year Sitt -laS
Scharfs roonnnate Ilm a tea cher t Temple Beth Abr aham sc1ool Scharf had once
asked Mrs Sitt to marry (l im He served as a n usher at her iedd i n in J a nuary
ani r emained a friend
Al ex was not the kirri of person you could get close tol she said He ijaS
ver-J sad and very seri ous~ and eve n though he Has likable he vIas alway s distant
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She said Scbarf -Jas t ntelligent and sensitive Hith a eep feeling f or
Orthcdox Jewry and a man fh o kept himself remote as a result of lon years
of f ear under brutal Nazi treatment in Eurone
UHis meetinr Hi th Yockey must have come fr om some thing aut of Europe
years a go II she said T1 He ras a boy of 18 and he Wande red for many years
after the Hal It
Scharf led a mcdest bachelor schoolteacher I s life in axklarri she said
He n fre uently dated one girl wh 0 as employed at a Reno gambling cas ino
she said
Scharf never mentioned Yockey to any of his acquaintances here yen~s
Stit t (sic) said
Assistant Unj ted t ates Attorney bull 2 Clancey said Scharfs battered
1956 yell orJ and black Mercury sedan has not b een fourrl but that the California
Highway Patrol has been alerted
San Francisco Chronicle Tuesday June 21 1960
D MA Y BE ON ISRA EL-BOUND SHIP
by Denne Petitclerc
_ lex B Scharf still sougtlt as a key ~ritness in th2 puzzling case of
nea-Fascist Francis P Yockey may be ab oard a sb~p en route to Israel
The Chronicle learned yesterday
Federal authorities here said they Here checking the possibility that
Scharf may have boarded a ship in e York last I-Teek or that he is still
waiti ng in Ne-J York t o eave the country
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Yockey wa s arr e s ted i n Scharf s apartment on J une 8 ~las ques tioned
by Federal officers a m then vanis hed bull Aut h ori ties are s t ill p uzz led about
Hha t bond cOlld have existed bet wee n a Naz i philos ophe r like Yockey am
Scharf a one-time principal of Oaklands Temple Beth Abraham school and an
inmate of German conentration c amps in Uor1d ~Jar II
Yockey 43 killed himself Hith potassill1fl cyanide in his County Jail No1
cell early last Friday whi le being held on passport violation charges
The first possible clue to Scharfs whereabouts came yesterday in checkJ_ng
a former San Jose court reporter described as charf s closest friend
The reporter William Sloffibvich 35 left his job in San Jose about three
months ago -lorked until last month in Los -ngeles and then left far New York
The Chronicle learned that Slomovich s name apueared on the passenger
list of the Atlantic an American Export Lines ship which sailed from ew
York last Thursday bound for P~ifa Israel
lthough cparfs name did not aprear on the passe er list Federal
authorities said it is possible he rr~y have used an ass umed name since he is
not a citizen of the United States
Assistant United States Attorney il1iam P Clancey said t~at American
offmcials in Israel 1i11 be alerted to question Slornovich--and to be on the
lookout for Scharf--when the ship berths in Haifa on June 29
Clancy (sic) nEamlhile said that evidence Dr irrlicates that Scharf had
known Yockey for more t han a year
Yockey made an application for an Irish passport in an Francisco in 1959
under t he name of Michael Taylor usi ng Scharf as a referenceo
Clancy s j d a handwriting ex-pert is aIlCtlyzin the docurn-nt to d e terrni ne
-hether charfs signature las forgedo
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liieanwhile it Jas learned tha t Yockey asked a f e11ovI-prisoner tvJO
days befClte he committed suicide in the C01lllty Jail here where he c ould
ootain some poison
Federal author ities refused to identify the prisoner but said that he
has been transf erred to another institution He Jill be questioned tcrlay
about the conversation officials said
Sherriff Matthew Carberry whohms San F ancisco s CODnty J ail co~ ented
last night that no Federal official had rnentioned to him the existence of a
county jail prisoner with such a story
Authori ties are puzzled as to T here Yockey obtained the deadl y poison
and haw it reached his cello
At too same time the coroners office announced that a toxologists
report s h mfs that Yockey took one-fifth of a am of potassi urn cyanide which
is double the lethal dose f or a man of his size
Yockey left a note defying anyone to discover h ow he obtained the poison
Frierris said t1at Scharf fled the ay Area in a battered 1956 yellow and
black l1e rcury sedan apparently with little money in his possession
Mrs Ezra Cohen-Sitt of 115 Beulah street a friend of charf said
yesterday she wan ted to correct an impression given in an intervieH with
The Chronicle Sunday that Scharf had at one ti~e asked her to marry him
He did not she said I did not intem to be quoted on any Hatter
rela ted to Hr Scharf II
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San Francisco Chronicle Wednesday June 22 1960
u S PRESSES SEARCH F YOCKEYS AL
The search for Alex B Scharf mysterio11S pal of neo-Fascist Francis
P Yockey settled down to a game of fox and houms yesterday
Scharf rho departed from Oaklarrl so quickly after Yockeys arrest that
he even left his clothes behind was in the role of the fox The hounds are
agents of the State Department vih ose security officials in ian Franc isco
said s impl
lIvere trying to blanket all escape routes and He re hoping for the bestI
Yockey cormnitted suicide with cyanide in the County Jail last Friday
while being held on a passport charge
Scharf is being sought to rim out what he knoHS abolt Yockeys multiple
passports
Authorities are betuldered about the association of the two Scharf who
is 33 is a forroor principal of Oaklands Temple Beth Abraham School and an
inmate of Nazi concentration camps
Yockey L13 was a racist neo-Nazi of considerable infamy when he accidentally
fell into the hands of Federal authorities on June 6 Yockey had complained to
an airline about the loss of a bag It had already been opened in Fort middot orth
fex as unclaimed and was fourrl to contain three different passports all
bearing Yockeys pictuces
The FBI picked up Yockey in Scharf I s apartTEnt 8t 165 Bellevue avenue
Oakland but when t h ey went back later to talk to - charf he was gone
111 dont know what you may- have in your mirrlsn he cautioned the
government agents but to justify this kim of bail you1l8 going to
have to make a case--on the record 1t
Assistant U S Attorney William P Clancy- Jr had explained that the
high bail was necessary tlbecause of the unusual circUlns tances of this case
(His office later told reporters that the staff had been instructed nby
~vashingtonn not to discuss the case fur ther )
state Department officials here said that the l=Sssport bearing the
name uBriceman DmIl showed its holder had traveled extensively in Engl ani
GerITany and BelgiUl1l
At the time of his arrest Yockey had $2300 in cash in his pockets ani
was also Carrying press credentials from a Gerrr~n magazine they said-shy
credentials bearing his own picture but still anbther alias
Richard Auerbach special agent in charge of the FBI here said last
night
nyou tbink its a mystifying case Well we just wish we knew more
about it too
San Francisco Chronicle Friday June 10 1960
I NSANITY PLEA IN PAS PORT CASE HINTED
Fra ncis Parker Yockey the nan of many names held here on Federal
charges may have been operating an illegal passport factory a Federal
prosecutor said yesterday
Yockeys own att orney Carl Hoppe insisted at first that the only
pr oblem las that his client was insane--but he later Iithdre1f the suggesti OD
ending fur llier private conversations
bullAs sistant UD Attorney William P Clancy Jr t al nelvs mGO yesteroay
that Yockey had used at least 15 aliases duri ng Ilwhat ap ars to be a
systematic and we] - planned operatl on in passports the plllpose of whioh we
do not mov-T u
Yockeys trouble be gan Su1day--accidentally He arrived in Oakland to
visit a friend ani foond that a bag was miss ing from h i s Iu ga ge Yockey
phoned the airline
Mea1while the suitcas e turned up in Fort orth and an airline official
opened it to identify the Grmer Imide were three pas sports Though each
bore a different name Yockey s photo~as im all three 0
The FBI arrested him in Oaklani after he had tnjured an agent in an
attempt to escape Yockey 47 was identified by fingerprints on his
service record
State Department officials here said yesterday that Yockey had been a
War DepartnElrrt employee in Europe in 19b6 and other sources reportal he JaS
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active at that tilne in the Nuernberg war crirres trials in Germany but
las fired
A friend and former classmate of Yockey told The Chronicle last light
that Yockey had been ll[ fla pro-daziH Hhile attending Georgetown University
lashin ton D C in 1937-38
Georgetorm University confirmed that Yockey had attended its chool)f
Foreign ervice as a member ~middotf the class of 1939 but lad ~ri thdrawn before
completing the course His hornetmm at that time Has listed as Roxana Ill
He was kncrun to have practiced la in Illinois at one time and to have
served as an assistant district attorney in Detroit
Yockey glowering and silent appeared before U S Comrr1issioner Joseph
Karesh at 1030 am yesterday ostensibly to plead for a reduction in the
$50000 bail demanded by the Government
With him was Attorney H pe--a ape cialist in ~ tent and c opyri ght law
Id like to have Mr Yockey examined by a )sychiatrist to determine
wh8t~er he is sa1ett Ho e told Commissione r Iaresh
Yockey erupted in a sibilant resouniing whisper Thats a dirty tricld
ihen he spoke clearly Im sorry--Id like to dismiss the attorney
This con13S as a complete surprise to me
Karesh allowed a 2G-minute recess so Hoppe could confer fwther with his
client s Yockey and the attorney left for their conference Yockey a gain
muttered Its a dirty trick1l and spat on the floor
attorney J W Ehrlich p resent rnth Hoppe and Hoppes associate Victor
lobe told reporters III talked to Mr Yockey at Mr Hoppes request but 11m
not associated with the defense 1I
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After the private c onferance bett-reen Yockey and hi attorneys hop e
and Victor lobe Hoppe asked Karesh to continue the hearing--ostensibly
call~ to deter1l1ine gt-hether lt50000 bail ~las too high--to 1030 amo today
IM now pressing my motion to reduce bail and Im not nmT pressing
my moti on for an exami nation by an alienist II Hoppe explained I want to
colier further in th 1ro Yockeyo
Karesh asked Yocke3T if he agreed that Hoppe should continue to represent
him and Yockey nal ed Raresh thereup on continued t he hearing until this morning
San Francisco Chronicae SaturdalJ June 11 1960
PASSPORT FRAUD MISTER Y NFOLDS FACIST LINKS
A long background involving activity lith extreme right-wing political
groups in the United S tates and Europe began to emerge yesterday in the case
of the mysterious Francis Parker Yockey
He appeared briefly before United States Commissioner Joseph Karesh at
1030 am and had his rearing set over until 1030 am 1onday
Yockeys seryice record shows he las born in 1917 in imiddotichigan He
graduated cum lame f ran Notre Dame am atterded a number of U S universities
He was honorahly discharged fran too Army in 1943 gtnth a medical disability
The discharge carried the notation dementia praecox paranoid type II
Stanley Jacobs of the Anti-Defamation Leagoo here said their files shm-red
Yockey had a ~ared wi th Gerald L K Smith head of the Christian National
Party in St Louis in 19500
He said he is the a uhhor of II Imperi1IDl n a bomk published in London
which Yockey described as lIa master thesis of Fascist strategy based on
three rinciples anti-Americanism a neutral Germany avoidance of antishy
Russian acti vity tI
Colunmist Drew Pearson Vote of him in 195~ He identified him as one
of three known U S a en ts for Rlrl ol h Aschenauer a neo-Nazi of Frankfurt
Germany He said Yockey wrote unier the name of Ulick Varange
Yockey is known to have used the aliases of Francis Downey Frenz Yockey
Franz Downey Frank Healy and Frank Downey
U Sl43sistantAttorney ~ P ClancyJro said he COJld be charge with
making false statemant to obtain a passport and tilth assault on a Federal
officer
Yockey was arrested by agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
Honday at the home of Alexcharf former director of educatLon for the
Temple Beth Abraham in akland
Scharf was not available to explain why Yockey should be in his homeo
His brest TJas picked up after his luggage had ~one astray and HoUrrl up in an
airpCl~t in Fort 1lorth Texas
Employees opened too luggage ani found three passports--one American
one Canadian and one British--seven birth certificates and a set of German
press credentialso
fuen arrested Yockey tried to escape He slammed a door on the hand of
FBI agent Robert Leonard It required 20 xtbduut stitches to sew up the ~lOundo
Since then he has been held in lieu of ~50ooo bail while authorities
attempted to discover the pattern of his life and the reason he was carrying
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$2300 in cash and 850 in travelers checks Ii th him
We are interested in where he gets his money Clancy said lWe know
he has been associated wi th some anti-Semitic groups and that he is enga ged
in a systematic and well-planned operation in passports tt
In his a earance befare Kresh Yockey was stiff and a n gr y
This is practically assault and batteryt he told Kar esh He braced
hilnself ani folded his hanis as the COIlmussioner talked Tith his lawyer
Carl Ho pe about a continuance pending the arrival of his sis t er
She is illiam D Coyne wife of a Navy c OT1II1amer of Bethesda m
Hop pe said hel needed time to discuss the entire situation li th firs 0
Coyne and he asked if she could visit Yockey 17 in jail tcxiayo
You want an order far Saturday for your boytI asked Karesh
111 beg yCJUJ paroohlI Yockey snapped Im no boy II
nYotlUg man toon1t purred Karesh
IINo no young man either1t said Yockey
Then defe niant said Karesh I think we can 3 gree on that Ill
see you Monday
San Francisco Chronicle 1c1orrlay June 13 1960
PASSPORT BAIL PLEA DUB IODA Y
Francis P Yockey the man of mystery and passports is scheduled to
aDnear befltre U0 3 Commissioner Joseph Karesh tcxlay to plead for lesser baH
Yockey accused of fraud in traveling in ~ estern Europe on spurious
passports has been held in lieu of 50000 bail since his arrest last week
Here to help him was a sister Mrs lvilliam Coyne 1-life of a Navy
commander from Bethesda Yrlo
The 43-year-old laryer was picked up in Oaklarrl at the llltX apartment of
Alex B Scharf ~~til recently principal of the Jewish school at Temple Beth
Abraham
Scharf in his early 30s disa peared after Yockey was arrested It
developed that Yockey given a midical di scharg~ from the Army in 1943 for
dementia praecox paranoid type had engaged in pro-lt3zi anti-Semitic
activities
San rancisco Chronicle Tuesday June lL 1960
amp41L PLEA DEIA YEn
PASSPORT STTSPE CT CA LLED TOP FASCIST
Francis Parker Yockey mysterious collector of spurious passports was
described hEr e yesterday as a sj_gnificant Fascist wi th international
connect ons n
Yockey 43 held under 50000 bail for passport fraud was so classified
by Stanley Jacobs regional director of the Anti-Defamation Lea 3ueo
He Has one of the sever al unoffidal observ8rs yesterday at Yockeys
stormy hearing before U s Connnissioner Joseph Karesh
Jacobs said Yockey is considered lias i mportant a world fi~ure in fascism
as we now kncn n
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Assistant U0 S Attorney Wi lliam P Clancy Jr said the Yockey case
will be given to the Federal Grand Jury later this month
In the meantime Clancy said the GJvernment will file a request t Qmorrow
that the TI S District Court oroer a psychiatric exainira tion for Yockey
Karesh may join in the motion basing his request on Yockeys behavior
in hearings before him
Yockeys lawyer Carl Hoppe came into court yesterday prepared to ask
a reduction in bail Acti on however was ~ostponed until this morninG to
enable a new lawyer to enter the tangled case
Ho _e a fe tent attorney s aid he wished to Jtthdraw n favor of a
l awyer with criminal experience
Present during yesterdays hearing was Emmet F Hagerty who may represent
Yockey during future hearings
Yookey whose name has been closely linked with numerous nea-Nazi
organizations am whose many passports under assumed names s u ggested international
intrigue was arrested last 1ieek on a charge of p as sport fraud after his
suitcase went astray in Fort Worth Texas The sQttcase was found to contain
three false)8ssports all carrying Yockeys picture but phony names
Yockey complained during yesterdays ~oceedings that he had been refused
permission to see his two sisters Alice Spurlock hos ital I-ray technician
in Gilroy and -h-s 11illiam Coyne of Bethesda vB
The Conmlissio~r recessed court for 40 minutes to allow Yockey to confer
vith his sisters in the Marshals officeo
Yockey as asked during the recess whether he had traveled extensively in
Russia in 1957 ar~ the questioning reporter was dismissed with the order
Get out of here you filthy swine
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San Francisco Chronicle Wednesday June 15 1960
IJ I~ PLOT TOLD IN PASSPORT CASE
A bold jailbraak plot en ~ineered by Francis P Yockey the passport
mystery man was revealed yesterday along 1-ith alle ged threats of suicide
Yockey a 43-year-old ex-laryer from Detroit had a npeared before U S
COlIDllissioner Joseph Karesh to plead for a reduction in his 50000 ba il on
a 9assport-fraud char ge
Tcrrard the eni 0 that p-roceeding which was intersession Assistant
U S Attorney William P Clancy Jr mentioned rithdramatic casualness the
purported escape plot am the suicide threats
AEguing against bail reduction he said uThere I S an extreme risk of
flight bull bull a gra-IJe ris k of injury to hirns elf am others II
The escape plan Clancy said was relayed to him by the FBI It ~ent
he said like this
Yockey on Monday approached two other Federal prisoners being held at the
county jail He offered to post S1000 bail far one who is a wai ting sentence
This man would then get a car a nd guns - en the Federal orisoners were
marched into the U S Marshals van in DW1bar ~lley behind the Hall of Justice
the second accomplice would start a kIZIId brawl
The man Hi th the guns would then love in slip a gun to Yockey am all
three would escape in the car parked nearby
The plan went awry Clancey said when the bail posting fell through and
one of the prisoners tipped off the FBI
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Yockey spoke up lTot a HOrd of truth in that If
KadIsh turned to Ennne t F Hagerty who replaced Carl Ho e as Yockeys
attorney I1If such a thing is true Im sure youll agree the bail s et Xx
is not excess i ire II
III a gree n said Hagerty if its true
lWe ve goed r eas on to believe so It said Clancey
Plt8gerty said it might rove otherwise ii the other prisoners were produced
for cross-questioning am Clancey said he might disclooe their identity tcday
Jail s uperintendent Frank Smith later disclosed the other two prisoners
were Philip Galati 21 of Brooklyn awai ting sentence on a check charge and
held in lieu of $1000 bail and Jack Fambrough 27 of 619 39th street Oaklarrl
Jho has pleaded g1lilty to the S9LLI robbery of an Oakhnd Arrrry Terninal PX
service station llt1here he warlred
Fallbrough ras to have been sentenced by Judge Sweigert yesterday but
the case was p03 t poned until tcrlay
~iidway in the bail discussion the case abruptly moved into ~ ederal J uige
iilial) T Sweigerts coort Where Clancey requested a psychiatric exarrination
for Yockey sa ng he as t1 unable to comprehend thb siuilationt and thus c ould
not assist in his defense
Yockey familiar iod th Nazi and Fascist elements in t his country and Eur ope
stood before tre court v1 th anna folded across his chest while Hagerty objected
to a mental examination o
This JTe n has an intellect equal of any in this courtroom with all
deference to Your Honor n Hagerty said He is a member of the bar i n Illinois
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and Michigan a graduate of Notre Darle GeoIl~etown t1ichigan an lItDx author
of books was a Deputy istrict Attorney of Detroit and a rosecutor at the
Nuernberg trials That doesnt Trean he is incompetent to ass ist in his defense
C18ncey countered He was dischar~8d fron the army in 1943 as a dementia
pr a ecox--paranoid type and his conduct before th~ U S CoJltll issioner has
been bizarre II
He then related reports tllhat Yockey rJ8d twice threatened suicide--once
ih the Oakland jail after his arrest am a gain in the jail here Yockey
prom Uy denied that then tossed in a little SOB sensation of his own
He said that lex Scharf in whose Oaklarrl apartment he was arrested and mo
has since disappeared had been taken into custooy by the FBI
uHe JaS arrested in my presence1 Yockey said
The F I promptly denied that
Jui ge Sweigert said he 1ould rule at 11 am today on middotrhether to direct
that Yockey be given a pychiatric test and Karesh held up the bail l1atter
until after that
Sall Francisco Chronicle Thursday J una 16 1960
MENTAL EXAM ORDERED IN S F PASSPORT NYST RY
Francis P Yockey 43 passport mystery man Tas ordered held for
psychiatric examination yesterday by Federal Jud ge (yilliam T Sweigert
The order as Tlade on Government motion aLrl over t he strenuous obj ections
of Yockey hims elf an attorney ani his law--je r Enunet F Ha gerty
Judge SIeigert said he would receive the psychiatric reports on hly 11
am a motion to reduce Yockeys 50000 b8il was vJithdrcnm untn that date
Yockey was arrested in Oaklarrl last lleek after a piece of his l u ga ge
that went astray was frond to contain three passports bearing false names and
spurious identification dccuments He is known to have been closely identified
wi th Nazis and Fascists in this country am Europe
u S Commissioner Joseph Karesh before horn Yockey has appeared in
several stOlTlY hearings was called yesterday by Assistant U S Attorney
WIlliam P ClaJlcey Jr
Karesh testified that he had closely observed Yockey am descrived his
actions as lIthe most unusual of arry accused person who has ever a ppeared
before me II
With per~ission of the cmrrt Yockey undertook to cross eX8~ine Kareshe
He accused the Commissioner of being prejudiced because he had read Yockey
as II anti-J e-lish II
Judge Sweigert halted Yockey in mid-sentence That will ce enough of
thatn he saaIlped
Two EI agents ELliV2rd Ij Cunningham ani Keith G Teeter subnitted affidavits
that Yockey had received a psychiatric discharge fran the Army in 19w3
One affidavit said Army records show that Yockey suffered marked delusions
of persecutions had ideas of gramellr and Ias given a disability dischar ge
due to dementia praecox paranoi d type Cause urrletermined u
Anothe r a ff idavit said Yockey told two unnamed cell TIates in the County
Jail he intended to commit suicide by sharpening a canb into a lethal weapon
Tuesday it was revealed in a hearing before Karesh that Yockey had alle gedly
attempted to engineer a daring escape from 11e County Jail 0 One of the
Clri soners wh om he solidted to aid in t he getaway plan transrnitted the
inforation to the FBI
Yockey in c p3ssionate statemont to the court charQeurod that the GoverT1rnent
was depriving him of his defense by subjecting him to psychiatric examinationo
He said that use of his Army medical recoro violated his r i LtS
San Francisco Chronicle Saturday June 18 1960
PASSPORT DEFENDAN T
MYSTERY MAN yOCKEY KILIS SElF IN bull F JAIL CELL
by Tom Ma thews
Neo-Nazi Francis P Yockey took a leaf from the notebook of HerT~ann
Goering Hitlers air rrarshI31 and poisoned himself in jail yesterday
He left behind him a furious set of Federal officials and a note defying
anyone to find out who supplied him rith the cyanide he used to end his life
The Federal Bureau of Investi gation the State Department and the United
States Attorneys office were left hohl ing a top-secret file on Yockey and
no Yockey to prosecute
The file arrived lastvlednesday One official saj_d it ms loaded rith
dynamite
Yockey 43 was arrested June 6 for investiga tion of passport fraud FBI
agents caught bp 1Tith hi m when he checked on a suitcase that had ~JOne astray
dcentng a plane flight
The suitcase contained three false passp orts Gerrran press credentials
and seven birth certHicates
A ents found him in the apartment of Alex Scharf u65 Bellevue avenue
Cakland Scharf a fo r mer teacher at the Te mple Beth Abraham school
imrre diately disappeared
He has been subpoenaed by the Federal Gram JillS but so far has not
turned up
A warrant for arrest of Scharf was issued late yesterday afternoon Bail
Jas set at $5000
The mysterirus aspect of the case -Jas compounded by Yockeys behavior
and by tlJe insistence of authorities that he be held in the surprisingly high
bail of $50 000
Yockey b q an talking of suicide the day he was arrested He made one
elaborate escape attempt In his court appearances his grandiose manner am
c onte t for proceedings led to an order for a psychiatric exami_nation
The U S Assistant Attorney William P Clancey iolOuld say of Yockey only
that he seemed to be dealing in passports and that current inforrra tion shomd
him to have traveled extensively in Europe
Stanley Jacobs of the Anti-Defarration League was more specific He said
Yockey was associated with the tap figures in extreme right-wing and antishy
Semitic movements
Yockey is known to have been closely connected fl th the resurgent Nazi
movement in West Germany
Somehow he obtained the poison crystals he used ThJmsday night Just as
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Goering the No 2 Nazi did at Nuernberg hours before he was to be ha nged
in 19L5 Yockey used potassium cyanide
No one knoHs haw he got it He played checkers tn th his fellow inmate
Adam Nienan a mapmaker of 1703 Arcadia street until lights were turned out
in their County Jail cell at 9 pm
Nieman then held o~ charges of gram theft which were dismissed yesterday
said ~ Yockey gave si gns of what was in his mind during the evening
tlHe told me he was the No1 leader of some SOlltt of organization Nieman
said He said he had kn owledge of people he loved and he thought hed be
farced to reveal it
The night before he discussed killing himself I-rith heavy weaghts on his
throat The last rernark he rnade to me was Youll sleep all ni ht of course
After lights were out he kept looking over the ledge of the bunk Bt me
r got quite concerned but finally r fell asleep1t
Apparently that was what Yockey had been waiti1S for He took his capsuleo
His baiy was found at 725 amo rigid on the bed hands folded across his
chest He s till had his boots on
Tucked into the folds of a blanket he us ed for a pillow was the follovdng
note
til shall write no messages which r know will never be delivered--only
this which will be
You rJi11 never discover who helped me for he is to be fmurl in your
own multitudinous ranks at least outwardlyo
Jail Su erintendent Frank Swith at first reported Yockey had died of
nat ural causes Cleser examination shoHed the inside of his mouth aand throat
were seared as one might exp~ct from swallming c~nide
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The ne~re brought Sheriff Btt Carberry b us tling to the ~il
We heard he las planniD5 suicide or esca e last TuesdayI he said
I e moved him f rom an upper tier to cell 20 on the grourrl floor where he
could be watched c onstantly by the guard on duty
Im satisfied that suf i cient pr ecautions Here taken
Sheriff Carberrys satisfaction was not shared by Clancey James B
Cavana J gh special arent for the security division of the State Department
or a handfuJ of a ents of the FBI who had been working on the case
Grim-faced they all shm-fed up at the jail and tried to _ind out hm-r
their Tnan had cheated justice and deprived them of possible i nformation
The investigation itself was taken up by the Homicide Bureau of the
Police Department and b~T Carberry
In Yockeys pels onal effects left Hi th tJ-j e jailer a second note was
fourrl It was addressed to Keith G Teeter an FBI a gent It read
Ny dear riro Teeter
I ask you as a favor in the same of humanity wh ich we share to
notify ny sister of this or her husband Lieutenant Cornrna nier or Jrs William
D Coyne Bethesda Md o
tlili thailk you
FrarlCis Yockey
Hrs Coyne nel1ed the body in the Coroners office Hi th Emmet F Hagerty
Yockeys attorney
Y keyg epitaph ras reJITided by an acquaintance and admirer Willis Carta
secretary of the Congress of Freeeol here and fourrier of the San Francisco
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Conservative Republican Headquarters set up during the GOP convention here
in 1956 Carto visited Yockey in jail June 100
Although I do not a ee with all his ideas I feel he Jas an authentic
creative genius I feel that those individuals uho are res onsible for
driving him to his death should feel a rreat sense of guil te
liThe world has lost a great man whose ideas will be r emembered until
estern Civilization is exter minated Carta saido
San Francisco Chronicle Satunlay June l8 l 1960
SISTER CALLS SttICIDE TRAGIC
PHI1 CS OPHER NOT PRO- NAZI SHE SA YS
By George Draper
The suicide of Francis Parker Yockey mystery man with many passports
was described as at a tragedy k yesterday by one of his sisters
All that talent all that brilliance is now gone sighed Mrs Hilliam
P Coyne of Bethesda 11i wife of a U S Navy commander
Mrs Coyne a handsome blonde with ~le blue eyes said Yockey spent his
adult life scrutinizing the JOrld from the exalted station of a true philosopher
No she said he wasnrt anti-Semitic he Jasnrt anti-Zionist No
he wasnrt pro-Nazi He never idolized Hitler In fact he thought Hitler
made one mistake after another n
Likerise Hrs Coyne said Yockey was neither pro-Russian nor anti-Russian
He merely felt that Russia had a role to play in world historytt she said
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~~S Coyne proudly recited the titles of six books written by Yockey
all of which lere privately published in London and one of which has been
called a blueprint of Fascist strategy1I
No publisher in the United States iTould to uch them II she said
Irs Coyne intervievled in t he office of Attorney Emmet Ha gerty said
she had been close to her brother rmen they grew up in Chicago but that in
the last 10 years she had seldom heard from him
He 1-1old telephone me once in a while but never say where he was I
think it was because he loJaS in some kind of tr ouble with the FBI she said
Hrs Coyne said she received a telephone call from Yockey early last
1reek informing her that Im in the Oakland jail
The sister imFtediately flew here from Maryland to help him
She said she talked to him in jail abolt the United States passport he
obtainoo in Salinas in 1954 lKder t1e name of Edward Tax Price
(This same passp ort Tas fourd among Yockeys belongings b3aring Yockeys
photograph with the name changed to Eduard flax Briceman)
liRe couldnt have changed that name on the nassport That Eequires special
techpique she said
Yockey told her she said that he still carried the passport because bhe
State Department had tl~rned him down seven times nen he applied for a new
passport
Jhy did Yockey also carry Canadian and British passports -with his photoshy
graph but different nares
Maybe he thought three passports were better than one Mrs Coyne replied
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The sister said S- e had no idea how Yockey had earned his living in
recent years or where he had b 8m living
Ny sister aro I gave him some money to bave a book published but that
was qcite a few years ago she said
Finally virs Coyne was asked why she thou ght Yockey committed sui cide
Has it been established that it was a sui cidert she replied
Re l 71inded that Yockey penned a suicide note before he died she added
I Oh thats right He did Probably he felt he -lasnt going to have
a fair trial
She he3itated a momen t and added
tIredica ted upon r-rha t happened he was completely justified in feeling
tha t way
San Francisco Chr onicle Sunday June 19 1960
VICTIH OF NAZIS LI TO YOCKE Y
by Geor ge Draper
Alex B Scharf tattooed sUvivor of the Auschlitz concentration camp
in World 7Jar II as being sought for questioning yesterday about the mysterious
activities of nea-Fascist Francis P Yockey
Yockey 43 killed hims elf with potassium cyanide in County Jail No1
early Friday lThile being held on passport fratrl charges
He was arrested in Scharfs Oakland apartment tvlO 1l euroeks ago l i t h three
fake Dassoorts- and seven birth certificates
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I rmned iately following Yockeys arrest Scharf 31 abandoned his j dJ
as princi al- of Tern le Beth Abraham school and disa peared
Both Government officials and Jewish leaders Here puzzled by the associashy
tion between Scharf and Yockey
Seymour Froroor director of Jewish iducation in Oaskland said Scharf
wears the German tatoo on his arm that proves he was a prisoner at Ausch~-litz
where more than t m million J eHS were cremated by Hi tIer
I am sure charf believed in Israel and Zionism n said Fromer
Stanley S Jacobs chief of the Anti-Defaro~tion Leag~ehere declared
I am loath to believe Scharf was e n ga ged in Neo-Fascist activities
wi th Yockey
Yockey is known to have been anti-Zionist if not anti-Semitic and in
liaison ith various extreme right--nng lea ers incluiing former followers
of Hitler
Yockeys former -dfe Alice Yockey of San Antonio Tex told this reporter
that Yockey thou ght reports of Jewish genocide in orld middotjar II were eXd ggerated
Investigators hope to question Scharf about his original explanation for
harring Yockey in his Oakland apartment
After Yockeys arrest Scharf is said to have told a lents he met Yockey
for the first time a few days earlier at the gambling tables in Reno
At poundhat time he said he invited Yockey a stranger to come to Oaklarrl
and stay at his apartrrent
Assistant United States Attorney W P Caancy said yesterday however that
Scharf had known Yockey for nearly a year
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In 1959 Clancy said Yockey applied f or an Irish passport
Either Yockeys application or an attached affidavit said Clancy bears
the name of Alex B Scharf and his former address at 2bol Sacramento street
Scharf was born in Czechoslovakia in 1928 am after Torld a1 II lived
in Paraguay a rrl Ar gentina e
He studied at GolUJ11bia Univergtity and at the Jewish Teachers Institute
in New York and then he returned to Paraguay as a teacher
Scharf came to San Francisco in late 1958 looking for a job teaching
Hebrew and las employed by the Bureau of Jewish Ed ucation
In June 1959 he viaS assigned to Te le Be th Abraham in Oakland as
eciucational director 0
Shortly before Scharf disappeared two weeks a go he t as not ified t ba t h O s
c otrac t at the t emple w-auld not be r enewed
Yockey has b een l eadi ng a lif e of myst ery for t he pas t 10 year s
Hi s sister Mrs Wi lliam bull Coyne of Bethesda r1l said she has no
knmJledge of where he ha s been or wha t he has been d oingo
She said mail for tockey has been deli~ed to her h ome over the years
but she has been forced to thrm it away not knDwing his whereabouts
Mrs Coynes husband is a commander in the Navy
Yockeys difficu lties arose when he lost a suitcase while flying to San
FrcmcLsco aboard an American Airlines Dlane
Tbe s itcase was subsequmtly fourrl in Fort Worth Texas Airline officials
08ned it to verify its Oinership am found a United States a British am a
Canadian passo crt -- each hri th Yockeys photograph ani each bearing a d ifferent
name The FBI Bas notified
San Fra nc isco Chronicle ~~ndaYJ June 20 1960
PUZZLING TRAI L OF YO CKE YS FRI ~ND
by Denne Petitclerc
Federa l a uthorities y estp-rday so ght to solve the ridd l e f what linked
Nazi concentration camp victim Alex B Scharf to neo-Fascist Francis P Yockey
But even Scharfs closest friJmis including the pre tty dark-haired
girl he once asked to marry hLm rere lmafule to ex l ain the strange r e lationship
Yockey Fascist philosopher and t-rriter and associate of former Hi tle r
followers co~~tted suicide in the GOQnty Jail here early Friday while being
held on a passp ort frau charge
Scharf 31-year-old former principal of Temple Beth b raham school in
Oakland a nd victim of Na z i bruta lity a t Auschwitz c oncentrati on camp in
i or lrl ar II has disappeared
It was in charfs Oakland apartnent t hat FBI a gents f0111d Yockey two
weeks ago Scharf since dro ood from s ight and i s DOli) being sought by Federal
authori t i e s for questioning
III know he didnt ha ve any money It sam Mrs Ezra Cohen-Sitt of IlS
Beulah stree t San Francisco
Mrs S i tt met her husband Ezra whi le da ting Scharf last year Sitt -laS
Scharfs roonnnate Ilm a tea cher t Temple Beth Abr aham sc1ool Scharf had once
asked Mrs Sitt to marry (l im He served as a n usher at her iedd i n in J a nuary
ani r emained a friend
Al ex was not the kirri of person you could get close tol she said He ijaS
ver-J sad and very seri ous~ and eve n though he Has likable he vIas alway s distant
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She said Scbarf -Jas t ntelligent and sensitive Hith a eep feeling f or
Orthcdox Jewry and a man fh o kept himself remote as a result of lon years
of f ear under brutal Nazi treatment in Eurone
UHis meetinr Hi th Yockey must have come fr om some thing aut of Europe
years a go II she said T1 He ras a boy of 18 and he Wande red for many years
after the Hal It
Scharf led a mcdest bachelor schoolteacher I s life in axklarri she said
He n fre uently dated one girl wh 0 as employed at a Reno gambling cas ino
she said
Scharf never mentioned Yockey to any of his acquaintances here yen~s
Stit t (sic) said
Assistant Unj ted t ates Attorney bull 2 Clancey said Scharfs battered
1956 yell orJ and black Mercury sedan has not b een fourrl but that the California
Highway Patrol has been alerted
San Francisco Chronicle Tuesday June 21 1960
D MA Y BE ON ISRA EL-BOUND SHIP
by Denne Petitclerc
_ lex B Scharf still sougtlt as a key ~ritness in th2 puzzling case of
nea-Fascist Francis P Yockey may be ab oard a sb~p en route to Israel
The Chronicle learned yesterday
Federal authorities here said they Here checking the possibility that
Scharf may have boarded a ship in e York last I-Teek or that he is still
waiti ng in Ne-J York t o eave the country
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Yockey wa s arr e s ted i n Scharf s apartment on J une 8 ~las ques tioned
by Federal officers a m then vanis hed bull Aut h ori ties are s t ill p uzz led about
Hha t bond cOlld have existed bet wee n a Naz i philos ophe r like Yockey am
Scharf a one-time principal of Oaklands Temple Beth Abraham school and an
inmate of German conentration c amps in Uor1d ~Jar II
Yockey 43 killed himself Hith potassill1fl cyanide in his County Jail No1
cell early last Friday whi le being held on passport violation charges
The first possible clue to Scharfs whereabouts came yesterday in checkJ_ng
a former San Jose court reporter described as charf s closest friend
The reporter William Sloffibvich 35 left his job in San Jose about three
months ago -lorked until last month in Los -ngeles and then left far New York
The Chronicle learned that Slomovich s name apueared on the passenger
list of the Atlantic an American Export Lines ship which sailed from ew
York last Thursday bound for P~ifa Israel
lthough cparfs name did not aprear on the passe er list Federal
authorities said it is possible he rr~y have used an ass umed name since he is
not a citizen of the United States
Assistant United States Attorney il1iam P Clancey said t~at American
offmcials in Israel 1i11 be alerted to question Slornovich--and to be on the
lookout for Scharf--when the ship berths in Haifa on June 29
Clancy (sic) nEamlhile said that evidence Dr irrlicates that Scharf had
known Yockey for more t han a year
Yockey made an application for an Irish passport in an Francisco in 1959
under t he name of Michael Taylor usi ng Scharf as a referenceo
Clancy s j d a handwriting ex-pert is aIlCtlyzin the docurn-nt to d e terrni ne
-hether charfs signature las forgedo
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liieanwhile it Jas learned tha t Yockey asked a f e11ovI-prisoner tvJO
days befClte he committed suicide in the C01lllty Jail here where he c ould
ootain some poison
Federal author ities refused to identify the prisoner but said that he
has been transf erred to another institution He Jill be questioned tcrlay
about the conversation officials said
Sherriff Matthew Carberry whohms San F ancisco s CODnty J ail co~ ented
last night that no Federal official had rnentioned to him the existence of a
county jail prisoner with such a story
Authori ties are puzzled as to T here Yockey obtained the deadl y poison
and haw it reached his cello
At too same time the coroners office announced that a toxologists
report s h mfs that Yockey took one-fifth of a am of potassi urn cyanide which
is double the lethal dose f or a man of his size
Yockey left a note defying anyone to discover h ow he obtained the poison
Frierris said t1at Scharf fled the ay Area in a battered 1956 yellow and
black l1e rcury sedan apparently with little money in his possession
Mrs Ezra Cohen-Sitt of 115 Beulah street a friend of charf said
yesterday she wan ted to correct an impression given in an intervieH with
The Chronicle Sunday that Scharf had at one ti~e asked her to marry him
He did not she said I did not intem to be quoted on any Hatter
rela ted to Hr Scharf II
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San Francisco Chronicle Wednesday June 22 1960
u S PRESSES SEARCH F YOCKEYS AL
The search for Alex B Scharf mysterio11S pal of neo-Fascist Francis
P Yockey settled down to a game of fox and houms yesterday
Scharf rho departed from Oaklarrl so quickly after Yockeys arrest that
he even left his clothes behind was in the role of the fox The hounds are
agents of the State Department vih ose security officials in ian Franc isco
said s impl
lIvere trying to blanket all escape routes and He re hoping for the bestI
Yockey cormnitted suicide with cyanide in the County Jail last Friday
while being held on a passport charge
Scharf is being sought to rim out what he knoHS abolt Yockeys multiple
passports
Authorities are betuldered about the association of the two Scharf who
is 33 is a forroor principal of Oaklands Temple Beth Abraham School and an
inmate of Nazi concentration camps
Yockey L13 was a racist neo-Nazi of considerable infamy when he accidentally
fell into the hands of Federal authorities on June 6 Yockey had complained to
an airline about the loss of a bag It had already been opened in Fort middot orth
fex as unclaimed and was fourrl to contain three different passports all
bearing Yockeys pictuces
The FBI picked up Yockey in Scharf I s apartTEnt 8t 165 Bellevue avenue
Oakland but when t h ey went back later to talk to - charf he was gone
San Francisco Chronicle Friday June 10 1960
I NSANITY PLEA IN PAS PORT CASE HINTED
Fra ncis Parker Yockey the nan of many names held here on Federal
charges may have been operating an illegal passport factory a Federal
prosecutor said yesterday
Yockeys own att orney Carl Hoppe insisted at first that the only
pr oblem las that his client was insane--but he later Iithdre1f the suggesti OD
ending fur llier private conversations
bullAs sistant UD Attorney William P Clancy Jr t al nelvs mGO yesteroay
that Yockey had used at least 15 aliases duri ng Ilwhat ap ars to be a
systematic and we] - planned operatl on in passports the plllpose of whioh we
do not mov-T u
Yockeys trouble be gan Su1day--accidentally He arrived in Oakland to
visit a friend ani foond that a bag was miss ing from h i s Iu ga ge Yockey
phoned the airline
Mea1while the suitcas e turned up in Fort orth and an airline official
opened it to identify the Grmer Imide were three pas sports Though each
bore a different name Yockey s photo~as im all three 0
The FBI arrested him in Oaklani after he had tnjured an agent in an
attempt to escape Yockey 47 was identified by fingerprints on his
service record
State Department officials here said yesterday that Yockey had been a
War DepartnElrrt employee in Europe in 19b6 and other sources reportal he JaS
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active at that tilne in the Nuernberg war crirres trials in Germany but
las fired
A friend and former classmate of Yockey told The Chronicle last light
that Yockey had been ll[ fla pro-daziH Hhile attending Georgetown University
lashin ton D C in 1937-38
Georgetorm University confirmed that Yockey had attended its chool)f
Foreign ervice as a member ~middotf the class of 1939 but lad ~ri thdrawn before
completing the course His hornetmm at that time Has listed as Roxana Ill
He was kncrun to have practiced la in Illinois at one time and to have
served as an assistant district attorney in Detroit
Yockey glowering and silent appeared before U S Comrr1issioner Joseph
Karesh at 1030 am yesterday ostensibly to plead for a reduction in the
$50000 bail demanded by the Government
With him was Attorney H pe--a ape cialist in ~ tent and c opyri ght law
Id like to have Mr Yockey examined by a )sychiatrist to determine
wh8t~er he is sa1ett Ho e told Commissione r Iaresh
Yockey erupted in a sibilant resouniing whisper Thats a dirty tricld
ihen he spoke clearly Im sorry--Id like to dismiss the attorney
This con13S as a complete surprise to me
Karesh allowed a 2G-minute recess so Hoppe could confer fwther with his
client s Yockey and the attorney left for their conference Yockey a gain
muttered Its a dirty trick1l and spat on the floor
attorney J W Ehrlich p resent rnth Hoppe and Hoppes associate Victor
lobe told reporters III talked to Mr Yockey at Mr Hoppes request but 11m
not associated with the defense 1I
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After the private c onferance bett-reen Yockey and hi attorneys hop e
and Victor lobe Hoppe asked Karesh to continue the hearing--ostensibly
call~ to deter1l1ine gt-hether lt50000 bail ~las too high--to 1030 amo today
IM now pressing my motion to reduce bail and Im not nmT pressing
my moti on for an exami nation by an alienist II Hoppe explained I want to
colier further in th 1ro Yockeyo
Karesh asked Yocke3T if he agreed that Hoppe should continue to represent
him and Yockey nal ed Raresh thereup on continued t he hearing until this morning
San Francisco Chronicae SaturdalJ June 11 1960
PASSPORT FRAUD MISTER Y NFOLDS FACIST LINKS
A long background involving activity lith extreme right-wing political
groups in the United S tates and Europe began to emerge yesterday in the case
of the mysterious Francis Parker Yockey
He appeared briefly before United States Commissioner Joseph Karesh at
1030 am and had his rearing set over until 1030 am 1onday
Yockeys seryice record shows he las born in 1917 in imiddotichigan He
graduated cum lame f ran Notre Dame am atterded a number of U S universities
He was honorahly discharged fran too Army in 1943 gtnth a medical disability
The discharge carried the notation dementia praecox paranoid type II
Stanley Jacobs of the Anti-Defamation Leagoo here said their files shm-red
Yockey had a ~ared wi th Gerald L K Smith head of the Christian National
Party in St Louis in 19500
He said he is the a uhhor of II Imperi1IDl n a bomk published in London
which Yockey described as lIa master thesis of Fascist strategy based on
three rinciples anti-Americanism a neutral Germany avoidance of antishy
Russian acti vity tI
Colunmist Drew Pearson Vote of him in 195~ He identified him as one
of three known U S a en ts for Rlrl ol h Aschenauer a neo-Nazi of Frankfurt
Germany He said Yockey wrote unier the name of Ulick Varange
Yockey is known to have used the aliases of Francis Downey Frenz Yockey
Franz Downey Frank Healy and Frank Downey
U Sl43sistantAttorney ~ P ClancyJro said he COJld be charge with
making false statemant to obtain a passport and tilth assault on a Federal
officer
Yockey was arrested by agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
Honday at the home of Alexcharf former director of educatLon for the
Temple Beth Abraham in akland
Scharf was not available to explain why Yockey should be in his homeo
His brest TJas picked up after his luggage had ~one astray and HoUrrl up in an
airpCl~t in Fort 1lorth Texas
Employees opened too luggage ani found three passports--one American
one Canadian and one British--seven birth certificates and a set of German
press credentialso
fuen arrested Yockey tried to escape He slammed a door on the hand of
FBI agent Robert Leonard It required 20 xtbduut stitches to sew up the ~lOundo
Since then he has been held in lieu of ~50ooo bail while authorities
attempted to discover the pattern of his life and the reason he was carrying
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$2300 in cash and 850 in travelers checks Ii th him
We are interested in where he gets his money Clancy said lWe know
he has been associated wi th some anti-Semitic groups and that he is enga ged
in a systematic and well-planned operation in passports tt
In his a earance befare Kresh Yockey was stiff and a n gr y
This is practically assault and batteryt he told Kar esh He braced
hilnself ani folded his hanis as the COIlmussioner talked Tith his lawyer
Carl Ho pe about a continuance pending the arrival of his sis t er
She is illiam D Coyne wife of a Navy c OT1II1amer of Bethesda m
Hop pe said hel needed time to discuss the entire situation li th firs 0
Coyne and he asked if she could visit Yockey 17 in jail tcxiayo
You want an order far Saturday for your boytI asked Karesh
111 beg yCJUJ paroohlI Yockey snapped Im no boy II
nYotlUg man toon1t purred Karesh
IINo no young man either1t said Yockey
Then defe niant said Karesh I think we can 3 gree on that Ill
see you Monday
San Francisco Chronicle 1c1orrlay June 13 1960
PASSPORT BAIL PLEA DUB IODA Y
Francis P Yockey the man of mystery and passports is scheduled to
aDnear befltre U0 3 Commissioner Joseph Karesh tcxlay to plead for lesser baH
Yockey accused of fraud in traveling in ~ estern Europe on spurious
passports has been held in lieu of 50000 bail since his arrest last week
Here to help him was a sister Mrs lvilliam Coyne 1-life of a Navy
commander from Bethesda Yrlo
The 43-year-old laryer was picked up in Oaklarrl at the llltX apartment of
Alex B Scharf ~~til recently principal of the Jewish school at Temple Beth
Abraham
Scharf in his early 30s disa peared after Yockey was arrested It
developed that Yockey given a midical di scharg~ from the Army in 1943 for
dementia praecox paranoid type had engaged in pro-lt3zi anti-Semitic
activities
San rancisco Chronicle Tuesday June lL 1960
amp41L PLEA DEIA YEn
PASSPORT STTSPE CT CA LLED TOP FASCIST
Francis Parker Yockey mysterious collector of spurious passports was
described hEr e yesterday as a sj_gnificant Fascist wi th international
connect ons n
Yockey 43 held under 50000 bail for passport fraud was so classified
by Stanley Jacobs regional director of the Anti-Defamation Lea 3ueo
He Has one of the sever al unoffidal observ8rs yesterday at Yockeys
stormy hearing before U s Connnissioner Joseph Karesh
Jacobs said Yockey is considered lias i mportant a world fi~ure in fascism
as we now kncn n
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Assistant U0 S Attorney Wi lliam P Clancy Jr said the Yockey case
will be given to the Federal Grand Jury later this month
In the meantime Clancy said the GJvernment will file a request t Qmorrow
that the TI S District Court oroer a psychiatric exainira tion for Yockey
Karesh may join in the motion basing his request on Yockeys behavior
in hearings before him
Yockeys lawyer Carl Hoppe came into court yesterday prepared to ask
a reduction in bail Acti on however was ~ostponed until this morninG to
enable a new lawyer to enter the tangled case
Ho _e a fe tent attorney s aid he wished to Jtthdraw n favor of a
l awyer with criminal experience
Present during yesterdays hearing was Emmet F Hagerty who may represent
Yockey during future hearings
Yookey whose name has been closely linked with numerous nea-Nazi
organizations am whose many passports under assumed names s u ggested international
intrigue was arrested last 1ieek on a charge of p as sport fraud after his
suitcase went astray in Fort Worth Texas The sQttcase was found to contain
three false)8ssports all carrying Yockeys picture but phony names
Yockey complained during yesterdays ~oceedings that he had been refused
permission to see his two sisters Alice Spurlock hos ital I-ray technician
in Gilroy and -h-s 11illiam Coyne of Bethesda vB
The Conmlissio~r recessed court for 40 minutes to allow Yockey to confer
vith his sisters in the Marshals officeo
Yockey as asked during the recess whether he had traveled extensively in
Russia in 1957 ar~ the questioning reporter was dismissed with the order
Get out of here you filthy swine
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San Francisco Chronicle Wednesday June 15 1960
IJ I~ PLOT TOLD IN PASSPORT CASE
A bold jailbraak plot en ~ineered by Francis P Yockey the passport
mystery man was revealed yesterday along 1-ith alle ged threats of suicide
Yockey a 43-year-old ex-laryer from Detroit had a npeared before U S
COlIDllissioner Joseph Karesh to plead for a reduction in his 50000 ba il on
a 9assport-fraud char ge
Tcrrard the eni 0 that p-roceeding which was intersession Assistant
U S Attorney William P Clancy Jr mentioned rithdramatic casualness the
purported escape plot am the suicide threats
AEguing against bail reduction he said uThere I S an extreme risk of
flight bull bull a gra-IJe ris k of injury to hirns elf am others II
The escape plan Clancy said was relayed to him by the FBI It ~ent
he said like this
Yockey on Monday approached two other Federal prisoners being held at the
county jail He offered to post S1000 bail far one who is a wai ting sentence
This man would then get a car a nd guns - en the Federal orisoners were
marched into the U S Marshals van in DW1bar ~lley behind the Hall of Justice
the second accomplice would start a kIZIId brawl
The man Hi th the guns would then love in slip a gun to Yockey am all
three would escape in the car parked nearby
The plan went awry Clancey said when the bail posting fell through and
one of the prisoners tipped off the FBI
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Yockey spoke up lTot a HOrd of truth in that If
KadIsh turned to Ennne t F Hagerty who replaced Carl Ho e as Yockeys
attorney I1If such a thing is true Im sure youll agree the bail s et Xx
is not excess i ire II
III a gree n said Hagerty if its true
lWe ve goed r eas on to believe so It said Clancey
Plt8gerty said it might rove otherwise ii the other prisoners were produced
for cross-questioning am Clancey said he might disclooe their identity tcday
Jail s uperintendent Frank Smith later disclosed the other two prisoners
were Philip Galati 21 of Brooklyn awai ting sentence on a check charge and
held in lieu of $1000 bail and Jack Fambrough 27 of 619 39th street Oaklarrl
Jho has pleaded g1lilty to the S9LLI robbery of an Oakhnd Arrrry Terninal PX
service station llt1here he warlred
Fallbrough ras to have been sentenced by Judge Sweigert yesterday but
the case was p03 t poned until tcrlay
~iidway in the bail discussion the case abruptly moved into ~ ederal J uige
iilial) T Sweigerts coort Where Clancey requested a psychiatric exarrination
for Yockey sa ng he as t1 unable to comprehend thb siuilationt and thus c ould
not assist in his defense
Yockey familiar iod th Nazi and Fascist elements in t his country and Eur ope
stood before tre court v1 th anna folded across his chest while Hagerty objected
to a mental examination o
This JTe n has an intellect equal of any in this courtroom with all
deference to Your Honor n Hagerty said He is a member of the bar i n Illinois
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and Michigan a graduate of Notre Darle GeoIl~etown t1ichigan an lItDx author
of books was a Deputy istrict Attorney of Detroit and a rosecutor at the
Nuernberg trials That doesnt Trean he is incompetent to ass ist in his defense
C18ncey countered He was dischar~8d fron the army in 1943 as a dementia
pr a ecox--paranoid type and his conduct before th~ U S CoJltll issioner has
been bizarre II
He then related reports tllhat Yockey rJ8d twice threatened suicide--once
ih the Oakland jail after his arrest am a gain in the jail here Yockey
prom Uy denied that then tossed in a little SOB sensation of his own
He said that lex Scharf in whose Oaklarrl apartment he was arrested and mo
has since disappeared had been taken into custooy by the FBI
uHe JaS arrested in my presence1 Yockey said
The F I promptly denied that
Jui ge Sweigert said he 1ould rule at 11 am today on middotrhether to direct
that Yockey be given a pychiatric test and Karesh held up the bail l1atter
until after that
Sall Francisco Chronicle Thursday J una 16 1960
MENTAL EXAM ORDERED IN S F PASSPORT NYST RY
Francis P Yockey 43 passport mystery man Tas ordered held for
psychiatric examination yesterday by Federal Jud ge (yilliam T Sweigert
The order as Tlade on Government motion aLrl over t he strenuous obj ections
of Yockey hims elf an attorney ani his law--je r Enunet F Ha gerty
Judge SIeigert said he would receive the psychiatric reports on hly 11
am a motion to reduce Yockeys 50000 b8il was vJithdrcnm untn that date
Yockey was arrested in Oaklarrl last lleek after a piece of his l u ga ge
that went astray was frond to contain three passports bearing false names and
spurious identification dccuments He is known to have been closely identified
wi th Nazis and Fascists in this country am Europe
u S Commissioner Joseph Karesh before horn Yockey has appeared in
several stOlTlY hearings was called yesterday by Assistant U S Attorney
WIlliam P ClaJlcey Jr
Karesh testified that he had closely observed Yockey am descrived his
actions as lIthe most unusual of arry accused person who has ever a ppeared
before me II
With per~ission of the cmrrt Yockey undertook to cross eX8~ine Kareshe
He accused the Commissioner of being prejudiced because he had read Yockey
as II anti-J e-lish II
Judge Sweigert halted Yockey in mid-sentence That will ce enough of
thatn he saaIlped
Two EI agents ELliV2rd Ij Cunningham ani Keith G Teeter subnitted affidavits
that Yockey had received a psychiatric discharge fran the Army in 19w3
One affidavit said Army records show that Yockey suffered marked delusions
of persecutions had ideas of gramellr and Ias given a disability dischar ge
due to dementia praecox paranoi d type Cause urrletermined u
Anothe r a ff idavit said Yockey told two unnamed cell TIates in the County
Jail he intended to commit suicide by sharpening a canb into a lethal weapon
Tuesday it was revealed in a hearing before Karesh that Yockey had alle gedly
attempted to engineer a daring escape from 11e County Jail 0 One of the
Clri soners wh om he solidted to aid in t he getaway plan transrnitted the
inforation to the FBI
Yockey in c p3ssionate statemont to the court charQeurod that the GoverT1rnent
was depriving him of his defense by subjecting him to psychiatric examinationo
He said that use of his Army medical recoro violated his r i LtS
San Francisco Chronicle Saturday June 18 1960
PASSPORT DEFENDAN T
MYSTERY MAN yOCKEY KILIS SElF IN bull F JAIL CELL
by Tom Ma thews
Neo-Nazi Francis P Yockey took a leaf from the notebook of HerT~ann
Goering Hitlers air rrarshI31 and poisoned himself in jail yesterday
He left behind him a furious set of Federal officials and a note defying
anyone to find out who supplied him rith the cyanide he used to end his life
The Federal Bureau of Investi gation the State Department and the United
States Attorneys office were left hohl ing a top-secret file on Yockey and
no Yockey to prosecute
The file arrived lastvlednesday One official saj_d it ms loaded rith
dynamite
Yockey 43 was arrested June 6 for investiga tion of passport fraud FBI
agents caught bp 1Tith hi m when he checked on a suitcase that had ~JOne astray
dcentng a plane flight
The suitcase contained three false passp orts Gerrran press credentials
and seven birth certHicates
A ents found him in the apartment of Alex Scharf u65 Bellevue avenue
Cakland Scharf a fo r mer teacher at the Te mple Beth Abraham school
imrre diately disappeared
He has been subpoenaed by the Federal Gram JillS but so far has not
turned up
A warrant for arrest of Scharf was issued late yesterday afternoon Bail
Jas set at $5000
The mysterirus aspect of the case -Jas compounded by Yockeys behavior
and by tlJe insistence of authorities that he be held in the surprisingly high
bail of $50 000
Yockey b q an talking of suicide the day he was arrested He made one
elaborate escape attempt In his court appearances his grandiose manner am
c onte t for proceedings led to an order for a psychiatric exami_nation
The U S Assistant Attorney William P Clancey iolOuld say of Yockey only
that he seemed to be dealing in passports and that current inforrra tion shomd
him to have traveled extensively in Europe
Stanley Jacobs of the Anti-Defarration League was more specific He said
Yockey was associated with the tap figures in extreme right-wing and antishy
Semitic movements
Yockey is known to have been closely connected fl th the resurgent Nazi
movement in West Germany
Somehow he obtained the poison crystals he used ThJmsday night Just as
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Goering the No 2 Nazi did at Nuernberg hours before he was to be ha nged
in 19L5 Yockey used potassium cyanide
No one knoHs haw he got it He played checkers tn th his fellow inmate
Adam Nienan a mapmaker of 1703 Arcadia street until lights were turned out
in their County Jail cell at 9 pm
Nieman then held o~ charges of gram theft which were dismissed yesterday
said ~ Yockey gave si gns of what was in his mind during the evening
tlHe told me he was the No1 leader of some SOlltt of organization Nieman
said He said he had kn owledge of people he loved and he thought hed be
farced to reveal it
The night before he discussed killing himself I-rith heavy weaghts on his
throat The last rernark he rnade to me was Youll sleep all ni ht of course
After lights were out he kept looking over the ledge of the bunk Bt me
r got quite concerned but finally r fell asleep1t
Apparently that was what Yockey had been waiti1S for He took his capsuleo
His baiy was found at 725 amo rigid on the bed hands folded across his
chest He s till had his boots on
Tucked into the folds of a blanket he us ed for a pillow was the follovdng
note
til shall write no messages which r know will never be delivered--only
this which will be
You rJi11 never discover who helped me for he is to be fmurl in your
own multitudinous ranks at least outwardlyo
Jail Su erintendent Frank Swith at first reported Yockey had died of
nat ural causes Cleser examination shoHed the inside of his mouth aand throat
were seared as one might exp~ct from swallming c~nide
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The ne~re brought Sheriff Btt Carberry b us tling to the ~il
We heard he las planniD5 suicide or esca e last TuesdayI he said
I e moved him f rom an upper tier to cell 20 on the grourrl floor where he
could be watched c onstantly by the guard on duty
Im satisfied that suf i cient pr ecautions Here taken
Sheriff Carberrys satisfaction was not shared by Clancey James B
Cavana J gh special arent for the security division of the State Department
or a handfuJ of a ents of the FBI who had been working on the case
Grim-faced they all shm-fed up at the jail and tried to _ind out hm-r
their Tnan had cheated justice and deprived them of possible i nformation
The investigation itself was taken up by the Homicide Bureau of the
Police Department and b~T Carberry
In Yockeys pels onal effects left Hi th tJ-j e jailer a second note was
fourrl It was addressed to Keith G Teeter an FBI a gent It read
Ny dear riro Teeter
I ask you as a favor in the same of humanity wh ich we share to
notify ny sister of this or her husband Lieutenant Cornrna nier or Jrs William
D Coyne Bethesda Md o
tlili thailk you
FrarlCis Yockey
Hrs Coyne nel1ed the body in the Coroners office Hi th Emmet F Hagerty
Yockeys attorney
Y keyg epitaph ras reJITided by an acquaintance and admirer Willis Carta
secretary of the Congress of Freeeol here and fourrier of the San Francisco
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Conservative Republican Headquarters set up during the GOP convention here
in 1956 Carto visited Yockey in jail June 100
Although I do not a ee with all his ideas I feel he Jas an authentic
creative genius I feel that those individuals uho are res onsible for
driving him to his death should feel a rreat sense of guil te
liThe world has lost a great man whose ideas will be r emembered until
estern Civilization is exter minated Carta saido
San Francisco Chronicle Satunlay June l8 l 1960
SISTER CALLS SttICIDE TRAGIC
PHI1 CS OPHER NOT PRO- NAZI SHE SA YS
By George Draper
The suicide of Francis Parker Yockey mystery man with many passports
was described as at a tragedy k yesterday by one of his sisters
All that talent all that brilliance is now gone sighed Mrs Hilliam
P Coyne of Bethesda 11i wife of a U S Navy commander
Mrs Coyne a handsome blonde with ~le blue eyes said Yockey spent his
adult life scrutinizing the JOrld from the exalted station of a true philosopher
No she said he wasnrt anti-Semitic he Jasnrt anti-Zionist No
he wasnrt pro-Nazi He never idolized Hitler In fact he thought Hitler
made one mistake after another n
Likerise Hrs Coyne said Yockey was neither pro-Russian nor anti-Russian
He merely felt that Russia had a role to play in world historytt she said
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~~S Coyne proudly recited the titles of six books written by Yockey
all of which lere privately published in London and one of which has been
called a blueprint of Fascist strategy1I
No publisher in the United States iTould to uch them II she said
Irs Coyne intervievled in t he office of Attorney Emmet Ha gerty said
she had been close to her brother rmen they grew up in Chicago but that in
the last 10 years she had seldom heard from him
He 1-1old telephone me once in a while but never say where he was I
think it was because he loJaS in some kind of tr ouble with the FBI she said
Hrs Coyne said she received a telephone call from Yockey early last
1reek informing her that Im in the Oakland jail
The sister imFtediately flew here from Maryland to help him
She said she talked to him in jail abolt the United States passport he
obtainoo in Salinas in 1954 lKder t1e name of Edward Tax Price
(This same passp ort Tas fourd among Yockeys belongings b3aring Yockeys
photograph with the name changed to Eduard flax Briceman)
liRe couldnt have changed that name on the nassport That Eequires special
techpique she said
Yockey told her she said that he still carried the passport because bhe
State Department had tl~rned him down seven times nen he applied for a new
passport
Jhy did Yockey also carry Canadian and British passports -with his photoshy
graph but different nares
Maybe he thought three passports were better than one Mrs Coyne replied
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The sister said S- e had no idea how Yockey had earned his living in
recent years or where he had b 8m living
Ny sister aro I gave him some money to bave a book published but that
was qcite a few years ago she said
Finally virs Coyne was asked why she thou ght Yockey committed sui cide
Has it been established that it was a sui cidert she replied
Re l 71inded that Yockey penned a suicide note before he died she added
I Oh thats right He did Probably he felt he -lasnt going to have
a fair trial
She he3itated a momen t and added
tIredica ted upon r-rha t happened he was completely justified in feeling
tha t way
San Francisco Chr onicle Sunday June 19 1960
VICTIH OF NAZIS LI TO YOCKE Y
by Geor ge Draper
Alex B Scharf tattooed sUvivor of the Auschlitz concentration camp
in World 7Jar II as being sought for questioning yesterday about the mysterious
activities of nea-Fascist Francis P Yockey
Yockey 43 killed hims elf with potassium cyanide in County Jail No1
early Friday lThile being held on passport fratrl charges
He was arrested in Scharfs Oakland apartment tvlO 1l euroeks ago l i t h three
fake Dassoorts- and seven birth certificates
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I rmned iately following Yockeys arrest Scharf 31 abandoned his j dJ
as princi al- of Tern le Beth Abraham school and disa peared
Both Government officials and Jewish leaders Here puzzled by the associashy
tion between Scharf and Yockey
Seymour Froroor director of Jewish iducation in Oaskland said Scharf
wears the German tatoo on his arm that proves he was a prisoner at Ausch~-litz
where more than t m million J eHS were cremated by Hi tIer
I am sure charf believed in Israel and Zionism n said Fromer
Stanley S Jacobs chief of the Anti-Defaro~tion Leag~ehere declared
I am loath to believe Scharf was e n ga ged in Neo-Fascist activities
wi th Yockey
Yockey is known to have been anti-Zionist if not anti-Semitic and in
liaison ith various extreme right--nng lea ers incluiing former followers
of Hitler
Yockeys former -dfe Alice Yockey of San Antonio Tex told this reporter
that Yockey thou ght reports of Jewish genocide in orld middotjar II were eXd ggerated
Investigators hope to question Scharf about his original explanation for
harring Yockey in his Oakland apartment
After Yockeys arrest Scharf is said to have told a lents he met Yockey
for the first time a few days earlier at the gambling tables in Reno
At poundhat time he said he invited Yockey a stranger to come to Oaklarrl
and stay at his apartrrent
Assistant United States Attorney W P Caancy said yesterday however that
Scharf had known Yockey for nearly a year
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In 1959 Clancy said Yockey applied f or an Irish passport
Either Yockeys application or an attached affidavit said Clancy bears
the name of Alex B Scharf and his former address at 2bol Sacramento street
Scharf was born in Czechoslovakia in 1928 am after Torld a1 II lived
in Paraguay a rrl Ar gentina e
He studied at GolUJ11bia Univergtity and at the Jewish Teachers Institute
in New York and then he returned to Paraguay as a teacher
Scharf came to San Francisco in late 1958 looking for a job teaching
Hebrew and las employed by the Bureau of Jewish Ed ucation
In June 1959 he viaS assigned to Te le Be th Abraham in Oakland as
eciucational director 0
Shortly before Scharf disappeared two weeks a go he t as not ified t ba t h O s
c otrac t at the t emple w-auld not be r enewed
Yockey has b een l eadi ng a lif e of myst ery for t he pas t 10 year s
Hi s sister Mrs Wi lliam bull Coyne of Bethesda r1l said she has no
knmJledge of where he ha s been or wha t he has been d oingo
She said mail for tockey has been deli~ed to her h ome over the years
but she has been forced to thrm it away not knDwing his whereabouts
Mrs Coynes husband is a commander in the Navy
Yockeys difficu lties arose when he lost a suitcase while flying to San
FrcmcLsco aboard an American Airlines Dlane
Tbe s itcase was subsequmtly fourrl in Fort Worth Texas Airline officials
08ned it to verify its Oinership am found a United States a British am a
Canadian passo crt -- each hri th Yockeys photograph ani each bearing a d ifferent
name The FBI Bas notified
San Fra nc isco Chronicle ~~ndaYJ June 20 1960
PUZZLING TRAI L OF YO CKE YS FRI ~ND
by Denne Petitclerc
Federa l a uthorities y estp-rday so ght to solve the ridd l e f what linked
Nazi concentration camp victim Alex B Scharf to neo-Fascist Francis P Yockey
But even Scharfs closest friJmis including the pre tty dark-haired
girl he once asked to marry hLm rere lmafule to ex l ain the strange r e lationship
Yockey Fascist philosopher and t-rriter and associate of former Hi tle r
followers co~~tted suicide in the GOQnty Jail here early Friday while being
held on a passp ort frau charge
Scharf 31-year-old former principal of Temple Beth b raham school in
Oakland a nd victim of Na z i bruta lity a t Auschwitz c oncentrati on camp in
i or lrl ar II has disappeared
It was in charfs Oakland apartnent t hat FBI a gents f0111d Yockey two
weeks ago Scharf since dro ood from s ight and i s DOli) being sought by Federal
authori t i e s for questioning
III know he didnt ha ve any money It sam Mrs Ezra Cohen-Sitt of IlS
Beulah stree t San Francisco
Mrs S i tt met her husband Ezra whi le da ting Scharf last year Sitt -laS
Scharfs roonnnate Ilm a tea cher t Temple Beth Abr aham sc1ool Scharf had once
asked Mrs Sitt to marry (l im He served as a n usher at her iedd i n in J a nuary
ani r emained a friend
Al ex was not the kirri of person you could get close tol she said He ijaS
ver-J sad and very seri ous~ and eve n though he Has likable he vIas alway s distant
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She said Scbarf -Jas t ntelligent and sensitive Hith a eep feeling f or
Orthcdox Jewry and a man fh o kept himself remote as a result of lon years
of f ear under brutal Nazi treatment in Eurone
UHis meetinr Hi th Yockey must have come fr om some thing aut of Europe
years a go II she said T1 He ras a boy of 18 and he Wande red for many years
after the Hal It
Scharf led a mcdest bachelor schoolteacher I s life in axklarri she said
He n fre uently dated one girl wh 0 as employed at a Reno gambling cas ino
she said
Scharf never mentioned Yockey to any of his acquaintances here yen~s
Stit t (sic) said
Assistant Unj ted t ates Attorney bull 2 Clancey said Scharfs battered
1956 yell orJ and black Mercury sedan has not b een fourrl but that the California
Highway Patrol has been alerted
San Francisco Chronicle Tuesday June 21 1960
D MA Y BE ON ISRA EL-BOUND SHIP
by Denne Petitclerc
_ lex B Scharf still sougtlt as a key ~ritness in th2 puzzling case of
nea-Fascist Francis P Yockey may be ab oard a sb~p en route to Israel
The Chronicle learned yesterday
Federal authorities here said they Here checking the possibility that
Scharf may have boarded a ship in e York last I-Teek or that he is still
waiti ng in Ne-J York t o eave the country
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Yockey wa s arr e s ted i n Scharf s apartment on J une 8 ~las ques tioned
by Federal officers a m then vanis hed bull Aut h ori ties are s t ill p uzz led about
Hha t bond cOlld have existed bet wee n a Naz i philos ophe r like Yockey am
Scharf a one-time principal of Oaklands Temple Beth Abraham school and an
inmate of German conentration c amps in Uor1d ~Jar II
Yockey 43 killed himself Hith potassill1fl cyanide in his County Jail No1
cell early last Friday whi le being held on passport violation charges
The first possible clue to Scharfs whereabouts came yesterday in checkJ_ng
a former San Jose court reporter described as charf s closest friend
The reporter William Sloffibvich 35 left his job in San Jose about three
months ago -lorked until last month in Los -ngeles and then left far New York
The Chronicle learned that Slomovich s name apueared on the passenger
list of the Atlantic an American Export Lines ship which sailed from ew
York last Thursday bound for P~ifa Israel
lthough cparfs name did not aprear on the passe er list Federal
authorities said it is possible he rr~y have used an ass umed name since he is
not a citizen of the United States
Assistant United States Attorney il1iam P Clancey said t~at American
offmcials in Israel 1i11 be alerted to question Slornovich--and to be on the
lookout for Scharf--when the ship berths in Haifa on June 29
Clancy (sic) nEamlhile said that evidence Dr irrlicates that Scharf had
known Yockey for more t han a year
Yockey made an application for an Irish passport in an Francisco in 1959
under t he name of Michael Taylor usi ng Scharf as a referenceo
Clancy s j d a handwriting ex-pert is aIlCtlyzin the docurn-nt to d e terrni ne
-hether charfs signature las forgedo
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liieanwhile it Jas learned tha t Yockey asked a f e11ovI-prisoner tvJO
days befClte he committed suicide in the C01lllty Jail here where he c ould
ootain some poison
Federal author ities refused to identify the prisoner but said that he
has been transf erred to another institution He Jill be questioned tcrlay
about the conversation officials said
Sherriff Matthew Carberry whohms San F ancisco s CODnty J ail co~ ented
last night that no Federal official had rnentioned to him the existence of a
county jail prisoner with such a story
Authori ties are puzzled as to T here Yockey obtained the deadl y poison
and haw it reached his cello
At too same time the coroners office announced that a toxologists
report s h mfs that Yockey took one-fifth of a am of potassi urn cyanide which
is double the lethal dose f or a man of his size
Yockey left a note defying anyone to discover h ow he obtained the poison
Frierris said t1at Scharf fled the ay Area in a battered 1956 yellow and
black l1e rcury sedan apparently with little money in his possession
Mrs Ezra Cohen-Sitt of 115 Beulah street a friend of charf said
yesterday she wan ted to correct an impression given in an intervieH with
The Chronicle Sunday that Scharf had at one ti~e asked her to marry him
He did not she said I did not intem to be quoted on any Hatter
rela ted to Hr Scharf II
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San Francisco Chronicle Wednesday June 22 1960
u S PRESSES SEARCH F YOCKEYS AL
The search for Alex B Scharf mysterio11S pal of neo-Fascist Francis
P Yockey settled down to a game of fox and houms yesterday
Scharf rho departed from Oaklarrl so quickly after Yockeys arrest that
he even left his clothes behind was in the role of the fox The hounds are
agents of the State Department vih ose security officials in ian Franc isco
said s impl
lIvere trying to blanket all escape routes and He re hoping for the bestI
Yockey cormnitted suicide with cyanide in the County Jail last Friday
while being held on a passport charge
Scharf is being sought to rim out what he knoHS abolt Yockeys multiple
passports
Authorities are betuldered about the association of the two Scharf who
is 33 is a forroor principal of Oaklands Temple Beth Abraham School and an
inmate of Nazi concentration camps
Yockey L13 was a racist neo-Nazi of considerable infamy when he accidentally
fell into the hands of Federal authorities on June 6 Yockey had complained to
an airline about the loss of a bag It had already been opened in Fort middot orth
fex as unclaimed and was fourrl to contain three different passports all
bearing Yockeys pictuces
The FBI picked up Yockey in Scharf I s apartTEnt 8t 165 Bellevue avenue
Oakland but when t h ey went back later to talk to - charf he was gone
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active at that tilne in the Nuernberg war crirres trials in Germany but
las fired
A friend and former classmate of Yockey told The Chronicle last light
that Yockey had been ll[ fla pro-daziH Hhile attending Georgetown University
lashin ton D C in 1937-38
Georgetorm University confirmed that Yockey had attended its chool)f
Foreign ervice as a member ~middotf the class of 1939 but lad ~ri thdrawn before
completing the course His hornetmm at that time Has listed as Roxana Ill
He was kncrun to have practiced la in Illinois at one time and to have
served as an assistant district attorney in Detroit
Yockey glowering and silent appeared before U S Comrr1issioner Joseph
Karesh at 1030 am yesterday ostensibly to plead for a reduction in the
$50000 bail demanded by the Government
With him was Attorney H pe--a ape cialist in ~ tent and c opyri ght law
Id like to have Mr Yockey examined by a )sychiatrist to determine
wh8t~er he is sa1ett Ho e told Commissione r Iaresh
Yockey erupted in a sibilant resouniing whisper Thats a dirty tricld
ihen he spoke clearly Im sorry--Id like to dismiss the attorney
This con13S as a complete surprise to me
Karesh allowed a 2G-minute recess so Hoppe could confer fwther with his
client s Yockey and the attorney left for their conference Yockey a gain
muttered Its a dirty trick1l and spat on the floor
attorney J W Ehrlich p resent rnth Hoppe and Hoppes associate Victor
lobe told reporters III talked to Mr Yockey at Mr Hoppes request but 11m
not associated with the defense 1I
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After the private c onferance bett-reen Yockey and hi attorneys hop e
and Victor lobe Hoppe asked Karesh to continue the hearing--ostensibly
call~ to deter1l1ine gt-hether lt50000 bail ~las too high--to 1030 amo today
IM now pressing my motion to reduce bail and Im not nmT pressing
my moti on for an exami nation by an alienist II Hoppe explained I want to
colier further in th 1ro Yockeyo
Karesh asked Yocke3T if he agreed that Hoppe should continue to represent
him and Yockey nal ed Raresh thereup on continued t he hearing until this morning
San Francisco Chronicae SaturdalJ June 11 1960
PASSPORT FRAUD MISTER Y NFOLDS FACIST LINKS
A long background involving activity lith extreme right-wing political
groups in the United S tates and Europe began to emerge yesterday in the case
of the mysterious Francis Parker Yockey
He appeared briefly before United States Commissioner Joseph Karesh at
1030 am and had his rearing set over until 1030 am 1onday
Yockeys seryice record shows he las born in 1917 in imiddotichigan He
graduated cum lame f ran Notre Dame am atterded a number of U S universities
He was honorahly discharged fran too Army in 1943 gtnth a medical disability
The discharge carried the notation dementia praecox paranoid type II
Stanley Jacobs of the Anti-Defamation Leagoo here said their files shm-red
Yockey had a ~ared wi th Gerald L K Smith head of the Christian National
Party in St Louis in 19500
He said he is the a uhhor of II Imperi1IDl n a bomk published in London
which Yockey described as lIa master thesis of Fascist strategy based on
three rinciples anti-Americanism a neutral Germany avoidance of antishy
Russian acti vity tI
Colunmist Drew Pearson Vote of him in 195~ He identified him as one
of three known U S a en ts for Rlrl ol h Aschenauer a neo-Nazi of Frankfurt
Germany He said Yockey wrote unier the name of Ulick Varange
Yockey is known to have used the aliases of Francis Downey Frenz Yockey
Franz Downey Frank Healy and Frank Downey
U Sl43sistantAttorney ~ P ClancyJro said he COJld be charge with
making false statemant to obtain a passport and tilth assault on a Federal
officer
Yockey was arrested by agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
Honday at the home of Alexcharf former director of educatLon for the
Temple Beth Abraham in akland
Scharf was not available to explain why Yockey should be in his homeo
His brest TJas picked up after his luggage had ~one astray and HoUrrl up in an
airpCl~t in Fort 1lorth Texas
Employees opened too luggage ani found three passports--one American
one Canadian and one British--seven birth certificates and a set of German
press credentialso
fuen arrested Yockey tried to escape He slammed a door on the hand of
FBI agent Robert Leonard It required 20 xtbduut stitches to sew up the ~lOundo
Since then he has been held in lieu of ~50ooo bail while authorities
attempted to discover the pattern of his life and the reason he was carrying
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$2300 in cash and 850 in travelers checks Ii th him
We are interested in where he gets his money Clancy said lWe know
he has been associated wi th some anti-Semitic groups and that he is enga ged
in a systematic and well-planned operation in passports tt
In his a earance befare Kresh Yockey was stiff and a n gr y
This is practically assault and batteryt he told Kar esh He braced
hilnself ani folded his hanis as the COIlmussioner talked Tith his lawyer
Carl Ho pe about a continuance pending the arrival of his sis t er
She is illiam D Coyne wife of a Navy c OT1II1amer of Bethesda m
Hop pe said hel needed time to discuss the entire situation li th firs 0
Coyne and he asked if she could visit Yockey 17 in jail tcxiayo
You want an order far Saturday for your boytI asked Karesh
111 beg yCJUJ paroohlI Yockey snapped Im no boy II
nYotlUg man toon1t purred Karesh
IINo no young man either1t said Yockey
Then defe niant said Karesh I think we can 3 gree on that Ill
see you Monday
San Francisco Chronicle 1c1orrlay June 13 1960
PASSPORT BAIL PLEA DUB IODA Y
Francis P Yockey the man of mystery and passports is scheduled to
aDnear befltre U0 3 Commissioner Joseph Karesh tcxlay to plead for lesser baH
Yockey accused of fraud in traveling in ~ estern Europe on spurious
passports has been held in lieu of 50000 bail since his arrest last week
Here to help him was a sister Mrs lvilliam Coyne 1-life of a Navy
commander from Bethesda Yrlo
The 43-year-old laryer was picked up in Oaklarrl at the llltX apartment of
Alex B Scharf ~~til recently principal of the Jewish school at Temple Beth
Abraham
Scharf in his early 30s disa peared after Yockey was arrested It
developed that Yockey given a midical di scharg~ from the Army in 1943 for
dementia praecox paranoid type had engaged in pro-lt3zi anti-Semitic
activities
San rancisco Chronicle Tuesday June lL 1960
amp41L PLEA DEIA YEn
PASSPORT STTSPE CT CA LLED TOP FASCIST
Francis Parker Yockey mysterious collector of spurious passports was
described hEr e yesterday as a sj_gnificant Fascist wi th international
connect ons n
Yockey 43 held under 50000 bail for passport fraud was so classified
by Stanley Jacobs regional director of the Anti-Defamation Lea 3ueo
He Has one of the sever al unoffidal observ8rs yesterday at Yockeys
stormy hearing before U s Connnissioner Joseph Karesh
Jacobs said Yockey is considered lias i mportant a world fi~ure in fascism
as we now kncn n
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Assistant U0 S Attorney Wi lliam P Clancy Jr said the Yockey case
will be given to the Federal Grand Jury later this month
In the meantime Clancy said the GJvernment will file a request t Qmorrow
that the TI S District Court oroer a psychiatric exainira tion for Yockey
Karesh may join in the motion basing his request on Yockeys behavior
in hearings before him
Yockeys lawyer Carl Hoppe came into court yesterday prepared to ask
a reduction in bail Acti on however was ~ostponed until this morninG to
enable a new lawyer to enter the tangled case
Ho _e a fe tent attorney s aid he wished to Jtthdraw n favor of a
l awyer with criminal experience
Present during yesterdays hearing was Emmet F Hagerty who may represent
Yockey during future hearings
Yookey whose name has been closely linked with numerous nea-Nazi
organizations am whose many passports under assumed names s u ggested international
intrigue was arrested last 1ieek on a charge of p as sport fraud after his
suitcase went astray in Fort Worth Texas The sQttcase was found to contain
three false)8ssports all carrying Yockeys picture but phony names
Yockey complained during yesterdays ~oceedings that he had been refused
permission to see his two sisters Alice Spurlock hos ital I-ray technician
in Gilroy and -h-s 11illiam Coyne of Bethesda vB
The Conmlissio~r recessed court for 40 minutes to allow Yockey to confer
vith his sisters in the Marshals officeo
Yockey as asked during the recess whether he had traveled extensively in
Russia in 1957 ar~ the questioning reporter was dismissed with the order
Get out of here you filthy swine
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San Francisco Chronicle Wednesday June 15 1960
IJ I~ PLOT TOLD IN PASSPORT CASE
A bold jailbraak plot en ~ineered by Francis P Yockey the passport
mystery man was revealed yesterday along 1-ith alle ged threats of suicide
Yockey a 43-year-old ex-laryer from Detroit had a npeared before U S
COlIDllissioner Joseph Karesh to plead for a reduction in his 50000 ba il on
a 9assport-fraud char ge
Tcrrard the eni 0 that p-roceeding which was intersession Assistant
U S Attorney William P Clancy Jr mentioned rithdramatic casualness the
purported escape plot am the suicide threats
AEguing against bail reduction he said uThere I S an extreme risk of
flight bull bull a gra-IJe ris k of injury to hirns elf am others II
The escape plan Clancy said was relayed to him by the FBI It ~ent
he said like this
Yockey on Monday approached two other Federal prisoners being held at the
county jail He offered to post S1000 bail far one who is a wai ting sentence
This man would then get a car a nd guns - en the Federal orisoners were
marched into the U S Marshals van in DW1bar ~lley behind the Hall of Justice
the second accomplice would start a kIZIId brawl
The man Hi th the guns would then love in slip a gun to Yockey am all
three would escape in the car parked nearby
The plan went awry Clancey said when the bail posting fell through and
one of the prisoners tipped off the FBI
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Yockey spoke up lTot a HOrd of truth in that If
KadIsh turned to Ennne t F Hagerty who replaced Carl Ho e as Yockeys
attorney I1If such a thing is true Im sure youll agree the bail s et Xx
is not excess i ire II
III a gree n said Hagerty if its true
lWe ve goed r eas on to believe so It said Clancey
Plt8gerty said it might rove otherwise ii the other prisoners were produced
for cross-questioning am Clancey said he might disclooe their identity tcday
Jail s uperintendent Frank Smith later disclosed the other two prisoners
were Philip Galati 21 of Brooklyn awai ting sentence on a check charge and
held in lieu of $1000 bail and Jack Fambrough 27 of 619 39th street Oaklarrl
Jho has pleaded g1lilty to the S9LLI robbery of an Oakhnd Arrrry Terninal PX
service station llt1here he warlred
Fallbrough ras to have been sentenced by Judge Sweigert yesterday but
the case was p03 t poned until tcrlay
~iidway in the bail discussion the case abruptly moved into ~ ederal J uige
iilial) T Sweigerts coort Where Clancey requested a psychiatric exarrination
for Yockey sa ng he as t1 unable to comprehend thb siuilationt and thus c ould
not assist in his defense
Yockey familiar iod th Nazi and Fascist elements in t his country and Eur ope
stood before tre court v1 th anna folded across his chest while Hagerty objected
to a mental examination o
This JTe n has an intellect equal of any in this courtroom with all
deference to Your Honor n Hagerty said He is a member of the bar i n Illinois
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and Michigan a graduate of Notre Darle GeoIl~etown t1ichigan an lItDx author
of books was a Deputy istrict Attorney of Detroit and a rosecutor at the
Nuernberg trials That doesnt Trean he is incompetent to ass ist in his defense
C18ncey countered He was dischar~8d fron the army in 1943 as a dementia
pr a ecox--paranoid type and his conduct before th~ U S CoJltll issioner has
been bizarre II
He then related reports tllhat Yockey rJ8d twice threatened suicide--once
ih the Oakland jail after his arrest am a gain in the jail here Yockey
prom Uy denied that then tossed in a little SOB sensation of his own
He said that lex Scharf in whose Oaklarrl apartment he was arrested and mo
has since disappeared had been taken into custooy by the FBI
uHe JaS arrested in my presence1 Yockey said
The F I promptly denied that
Jui ge Sweigert said he 1ould rule at 11 am today on middotrhether to direct
that Yockey be given a pychiatric test and Karesh held up the bail l1atter
until after that
Sall Francisco Chronicle Thursday J una 16 1960
MENTAL EXAM ORDERED IN S F PASSPORT NYST RY
Francis P Yockey 43 passport mystery man Tas ordered held for
psychiatric examination yesterday by Federal Jud ge (yilliam T Sweigert
The order as Tlade on Government motion aLrl over t he strenuous obj ections
of Yockey hims elf an attorney ani his law--je r Enunet F Ha gerty
Judge SIeigert said he would receive the psychiatric reports on hly 11
am a motion to reduce Yockeys 50000 b8il was vJithdrcnm untn that date
Yockey was arrested in Oaklarrl last lleek after a piece of his l u ga ge
that went astray was frond to contain three passports bearing false names and
spurious identification dccuments He is known to have been closely identified
wi th Nazis and Fascists in this country am Europe
u S Commissioner Joseph Karesh before horn Yockey has appeared in
several stOlTlY hearings was called yesterday by Assistant U S Attorney
WIlliam P ClaJlcey Jr
Karesh testified that he had closely observed Yockey am descrived his
actions as lIthe most unusual of arry accused person who has ever a ppeared
before me II
With per~ission of the cmrrt Yockey undertook to cross eX8~ine Kareshe
He accused the Commissioner of being prejudiced because he had read Yockey
as II anti-J e-lish II
Judge Sweigert halted Yockey in mid-sentence That will ce enough of
thatn he saaIlped
Two EI agents ELliV2rd Ij Cunningham ani Keith G Teeter subnitted affidavits
that Yockey had received a psychiatric discharge fran the Army in 19w3
One affidavit said Army records show that Yockey suffered marked delusions
of persecutions had ideas of gramellr and Ias given a disability dischar ge
due to dementia praecox paranoi d type Cause urrletermined u
Anothe r a ff idavit said Yockey told two unnamed cell TIates in the County
Jail he intended to commit suicide by sharpening a canb into a lethal weapon
Tuesday it was revealed in a hearing before Karesh that Yockey had alle gedly
attempted to engineer a daring escape from 11e County Jail 0 One of the
Clri soners wh om he solidted to aid in t he getaway plan transrnitted the
inforation to the FBI
Yockey in c p3ssionate statemont to the court charQeurod that the GoverT1rnent
was depriving him of his defense by subjecting him to psychiatric examinationo
He said that use of his Army medical recoro violated his r i LtS
San Francisco Chronicle Saturday June 18 1960
PASSPORT DEFENDAN T
MYSTERY MAN yOCKEY KILIS SElF IN bull F JAIL CELL
by Tom Ma thews
Neo-Nazi Francis P Yockey took a leaf from the notebook of HerT~ann
Goering Hitlers air rrarshI31 and poisoned himself in jail yesterday
He left behind him a furious set of Federal officials and a note defying
anyone to find out who supplied him rith the cyanide he used to end his life
The Federal Bureau of Investi gation the State Department and the United
States Attorneys office were left hohl ing a top-secret file on Yockey and
no Yockey to prosecute
The file arrived lastvlednesday One official saj_d it ms loaded rith
dynamite
Yockey 43 was arrested June 6 for investiga tion of passport fraud FBI
agents caught bp 1Tith hi m when he checked on a suitcase that had ~JOne astray
dcentng a plane flight
The suitcase contained three false passp orts Gerrran press credentials
and seven birth certHicates
A ents found him in the apartment of Alex Scharf u65 Bellevue avenue
Cakland Scharf a fo r mer teacher at the Te mple Beth Abraham school
imrre diately disappeared
He has been subpoenaed by the Federal Gram JillS but so far has not
turned up
A warrant for arrest of Scharf was issued late yesterday afternoon Bail
Jas set at $5000
The mysterirus aspect of the case -Jas compounded by Yockeys behavior
and by tlJe insistence of authorities that he be held in the surprisingly high
bail of $50 000
Yockey b q an talking of suicide the day he was arrested He made one
elaborate escape attempt In his court appearances his grandiose manner am
c onte t for proceedings led to an order for a psychiatric exami_nation
The U S Assistant Attorney William P Clancey iolOuld say of Yockey only
that he seemed to be dealing in passports and that current inforrra tion shomd
him to have traveled extensively in Europe
Stanley Jacobs of the Anti-Defarration League was more specific He said
Yockey was associated with the tap figures in extreme right-wing and antishy
Semitic movements
Yockey is known to have been closely connected fl th the resurgent Nazi
movement in West Germany
Somehow he obtained the poison crystals he used ThJmsday night Just as
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Goering the No 2 Nazi did at Nuernberg hours before he was to be ha nged
in 19L5 Yockey used potassium cyanide
No one knoHs haw he got it He played checkers tn th his fellow inmate
Adam Nienan a mapmaker of 1703 Arcadia street until lights were turned out
in their County Jail cell at 9 pm
Nieman then held o~ charges of gram theft which were dismissed yesterday
said ~ Yockey gave si gns of what was in his mind during the evening
tlHe told me he was the No1 leader of some SOlltt of organization Nieman
said He said he had kn owledge of people he loved and he thought hed be
farced to reveal it
The night before he discussed killing himself I-rith heavy weaghts on his
throat The last rernark he rnade to me was Youll sleep all ni ht of course
After lights were out he kept looking over the ledge of the bunk Bt me
r got quite concerned but finally r fell asleep1t
Apparently that was what Yockey had been waiti1S for He took his capsuleo
His baiy was found at 725 amo rigid on the bed hands folded across his
chest He s till had his boots on
Tucked into the folds of a blanket he us ed for a pillow was the follovdng
note
til shall write no messages which r know will never be delivered--only
this which will be
You rJi11 never discover who helped me for he is to be fmurl in your
own multitudinous ranks at least outwardlyo
Jail Su erintendent Frank Swith at first reported Yockey had died of
nat ural causes Cleser examination shoHed the inside of his mouth aand throat
were seared as one might exp~ct from swallming c~nide
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The ne~re brought Sheriff Btt Carberry b us tling to the ~il
We heard he las planniD5 suicide or esca e last TuesdayI he said
I e moved him f rom an upper tier to cell 20 on the grourrl floor where he
could be watched c onstantly by the guard on duty
Im satisfied that suf i cient pr ecautions Here taken
Sheriff Carberrys satisfaction was not shared by Clancey James B
Cavana J gh special arent for the security division of the State Department
or a handfuJ of a ents of the FBI who had been working on the case
Grim-faced they all shm-fed up at the jail and tried to _ind out hm-r
their Tnan had cheated justice and deprived them of possible i nformation
The investigation itself was taken up by the Homicide Bureau of the
Police Department and b~T Carberry
In Yockeys pels onal effects left Hi th tJ-j e jailer a second note was
fourrl It was addressed to Keith G Teeter an FBI a gent It read
Ny dear riro Teeter
I ask you as a favor in the same of humanity wh ich we share to
notify ny sister of this or her husband Lieutenant Cornrna nier or Jrs William
D Coyne Bethesda Md o
tlili thailk you
FrarlCis Yockey
Hrs Coyne nel1ed the body in the Coroners office Hi th Emmet F Hagerty
Yockeys attorney
Y keyg epitaph ras reJITided by an acquaintance and admirer Willis Carta
secretary of the Congress of Freeeol here and fourrier of the San Francisco
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Conservative Republican Headquarters set up during the GOP convention here
in 1956 Carto visited Yockey in jail June 100
Although I do not a ee with all his ideas I feel he Jas an authentic
creative genius I feel that those individuals uho are res onsible for
driving him to his death should feel a rreat sense of guil te
liThe world has lost a great man whose ideas will be r emembered until
estern Civilization is exter minated Carta saido
San Francisco Chronicle Satunlay June l8 l 1960
SISTER CALLS SttICIDE TRAGIC
PHI1 CS OPHER NOT PRO- NAZI SHE SA YS
By George Draper
The suicide of Francis Parker Yockey mystery man with many passports
was described as at a tragedy k yesterday by one of his sisters
All that talent all that brilliance is now gone sighed Mrs Hilliam
P Coyne of Bethesda 11i wife of a U S Navy commander
Mrs Coyne a handsome blonde with ~le blue eyes said Yockey spent his
adult life scrutinizing the JOrld from the exalted station of a true philosopher
No she said he wasnrt anti-Semitic he Jasnrt anti-Zionist No
he wasnrt pro-Nazi He never idolized Hitler In fact he thought Hitler
made one mistake after another n
Likerise Hrs Coyne said Yockey was neither pro-Russian nor anti-Russian
He merely felt that Russia had a role to play in world historytt she said
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~~S Coyne proudly recited the titles of six books written by Yockey
all of which lere privately published in London and one of which has been
called a blueprint of Fascist strategy1I
No publisher in the United States iTould to uch them II she said
Irs Coyne intervievled in t he office of Attorney Emmet Ha gerty said
she had been close to her brother rmen they grew up in Chicago but that in
the last 10 years she had seldom heard from him
He 1-1old telephone me once in a while but never say where he was I
think it was because he loJaS in some kind of tr ouble with the FBI she said
Hrs Coyne said she received a telephone call from Yockey early last
1reek informing her that Im in the Oakland jail
The sister imFtediately flew here from Maryland to help him
She said she talked to him in jail abolt the United States passport he
obtainoo in Salinas in 1954 lKder t1e name of Edward Tax Price
(This same passp ort Tas fourd among Yockeys belongings b3aring Yockeys
photograph with the name changed to Eduard flax Briceman)
liRe couldnt have changed that name on the nassport That Eequires special
techpique she said
Yockey told her she said that he still carried the passport because bhe
State Department had tl~rned him down seven times nen he applied for a new
passport
Jhy did Yockey also carry Canadian and British passports -with his photoshy
graph but different nares
Maybe he thought three passports were better than one Mrs Coyne replied
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The sister said S- e had no idea how Yockey had earned his living in
recent years or where he had b 8m living
Ny sister aro I gave him some money to bave a book published but that
was qcite a few years ago she said
Finally virs Coyne was asked why she thou ght Yockey committed sui cide
Has it been established that it was a sui cidert she replied
Re l 71inded that Yockey penned a suicide note before he died she added
I Oh thats right He did Probably he felt he -lasnt going to have
a fair trial
She he3itated a momen t and added
tIredica ted upon r-rha t happened he was completely justified in feeling
tha t way
San Francisco Chr onicle Sunday June 19 1960
VICTIH OF NAZIS LI TO YOCKE Y
by Geor ge Draper
Alex B Scharf tattooed sUvivor of the Auschlitz concentration camp
in World 7Jar II as being sought for questioning yesterday about the mysterious
activities of nea-Fascist Francis P Yockey
Yockey 43 killed hims elf with potassium cyanide in County Jail No1
early Friday lThile being held on passport fratrl charges
He was arrested in Scharfs Oakland apartment tvlO 1l euroeks ago l i t h three
fake Dassoorts- and seven birth certificates
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I rmned iately following Yockeys arrest Scharf 31 abandoned his j dJ
as princi al- of Tern le Beth Abraham school and disa peared
Both Government officials and Jewish leaders Here puzzled by the associashy
tion between Scharf and Yockey
Seymour Froroor director of Jewish iducation in Oaskland said Scharf
wears the German tatoo on his arm that proves he was a prisoner at Ausch~-litz
where more than t m million J eHS were cremated by Hi tIer
I am sure charf believed in Israel and Zionism n said Fromer
Stanley S Jacobs chief of the Anti-Defaro~tion Leag~ehere declared
I am loath to believe Scharf was e n ga ged in Neo-Fascist activities
wi th Yockey
Yockey is known to have been anti-Zionist if not anti-Semitic and in
liaison ith various extreme right--nng lea ers incluiing former followers
of Hitler
Yockeys former -dfe Alice Yockey of San Antonio Tex told this reporter
that Yockey thou ght reports of Jewish genocide in orld middotjar II were eXd ggerated
Investigators hope to question Scharf about his original explanation for
harring Yockey in his Oakland apartment
After Yockeys arrest Scharf is said to have told a lents he met Yockey
for the first time a few days earlier at the gambling tables in Reno
At poundhat time he said he invited Yockey a stranger to come to Oaklarrl
and stay at his apartrrent
Assistant United States Attorney W P Caancy said yesterday however that
Scharf had known Yockey for nearly a year
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In 1959 Clancy said Yockey applied f or an Irish passport
Either Yockeys application or an attached affidavit said Clancy bears
the name of Alex B Scharf and his former address at 2bol Sacramento street
Scharf was born in Czechoslovakia in 1928 am after Torld a1 II lived
in Paraguay a rrl Ar gentina e
He studied at GolUJ11bia Univergtity and at the Jewish Teachers Institute
in New York and then he returned to Paraguay as a teacher
Scharf came to San Francisco in late 1958 looking for a job teaching
Hebrew and las employed by the Bureau of Jewish Ed ucation
In June 1959 he viaS assigned to Te le Be th Abraham in Oakland as
eciucational director 0
Shortly before Scharf disappeared two weeks a go he t as not ified t ba t h O s
c otrac t at the t emple w-auld not be r enewed
Yockey has b een l eadi ng a lif e of myst ery for t he pas t 10 year s
Hi s sister Mrs Wi lliam bull Coyne of Bethesda r1l said she has no
knmJledge of where he ha s been or wha t he has been d oingo
She said mail for tockey has been deli~ed to her h ome over the years
but she has been forced to thrm it away not knDwing his whereabouts
Mrs Coynes husband is a commander in the Navy
Yockeys difficu lties arose when he lost a suitcase while flying to San
FrcmcLsco aboard an American Airlines Dlane
Tbe s itcase was subsequmtly fourrl in Fort Worth Texas Airline officials
08ned it to verify its Oinership am found a United States a British am a
Canadian passo crt -- each hri th Yockeys photograph ani each bearing a d ifferent
name The FBI Bas notified
San Fra nc isco Chronicle ~~ndaYJ June 20 1960
PUZZLING TRAI L OF YO CKE YS FRI ~ND
by Denne Petitclerc
Federa l a uthorities y estp-rday so ght to solve the ridd l e f what linked
Nazi concentration camp victim Alex B Scharf to neo-Fascist Francis P Yockey
But even Scharfs closest friJmis including the pre tty dark-haired
girl he once asked to marry hLm rere lmafule to ex l ain the strange r e lationship
Yockey Fascist philosopher and t-rriter and associate of former Hi tle r
followers co~~tted suicide in the GOQnty Jail here early Friday while being
held on a passp ort frau charge
Scharf 31-year-old former principal of Temple Beth b raham school in
Oakland a nd victim of Na z i bruta lity a t Auschwitz c oncentrati on camp in
i or lrl ar II has disappeared
It was in charfs Oakland apartnent t hat FBI a gents f0111d Yockey two
weeks ago Scharf since dro ood from s ight and i s DOli) being sought by Federal
authori t i e s for questioning
III know he didnt ha ve any money It sam Mrs Ezra Cohen-Sitt of IlS
Beulah stree t San Francisco
Mrs S i tt met her husband Ezra whi le da ting Scharf last year Sitt -laS
Scharfs roonnnate Ilm a tea cher t Temple Beth Abr aham sc1ool Scharf had once
asked Mrs Sitt to marry (l im He served as a n usher at her iedd i n in J a nuary
ani r emained a friend
Al ex was not the kirri of person you could get close tol she said He ijaS
ver-J sad and very seri ous~ and eve n though he Has likable he vIas alway s distant
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She said Scbarf -Jas t ntelligent and sensitive Hith a eep feeling f or
Orthcdox Jewry and a man fh o kept himself remote as a result of lon years
of f ear under brutal Nazi treatment in Eurone
UHis meetinr Hi th Yockey must have come fr om some thing aut of Europe
years a go II she said T1 He ras a boy of 18 and he Wande red for many years
after the Hal It
Scharf led a mcdest bachelor schoolteacher I s life in axklarri she said
He n fre uently dated one girl wh 0 as employed at a Reno gambling cas ino
she said
Scharf never mentioned Yockey to any of his acquaintances here yen~s
Stit t (sic) said
Assistant Unj ted t ates Attorney bull 2 Clancey said Scharfs battered
1956 yell orJ and black Mercury sedan has not b een fourrl but that the California
Highway Patrol has been alerted
San Francisco Chronicle Tuesday June 21 1960
D MA Y BE ON ISRA EL-BOUND SHIP
by Denne Petitclerc
_ lex B Scharf still sougtlt as a key ~ritness in th2 puzzling case of
nea-Fascist Francis P Yockey may be ab oard a sb~p en route to Israel
The Chronicle learned yesterday
Federal authorities here said they Here checking the possibility that
Scharf may have boarded a ship in e York last I-Teek or that he is still
waiti ng in Ne-J York t o eave the country
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Yockey wa s arr e s ted i n Scharf s apartment on J une 8 ~las ques tioned
by Federal officers a m then vanis hed bull Aut h ori ties are s t ill p uzz led about
Hha t bond cOlld have existed bet wee n a Naz i philos ophe r like Yockey am
Scharf a one-time principal of Oaklands Temple Beth Abraham school and an
inmate of German conentration c amps in Uor1d ~Jar II
Yockey 43 killed himself Hith potassill1fl cyanide in his County Jail No1
cell early last Friday whi le being held on passport violation charges
The first possible clue to Scharfs whereabouts came yesterday in checkJ_ng
a former San Jose court reporter described as charf s closest friend
The reporter William Sloffibvich 35 left his job in San Jose about three
months ago -lorked until last month in Los -ngeles and then left far New York
The Chronicle learned that Slomovich s name apueared on the passenger
list of the Atlantic an American Export Lines ship which sailed from ew
York last Thursday bound for P~ifa Israel
lthough cparfs name did not aprear on the passe er list Federal
authorities said it is possible he rr~y have used an ass umed name since he is
not a citizen of the United States
Assistant United States Attorney il1iam P Clancey said t~at American
offmcials in Israel 1i11 be alerted to question Slornovich--and to be on the
lookout for Scharf--when the ship berths in Haifa on June 29
Clancy (sic) nEamlhile said that evidence Dr irrlicates that Scharf had
known Yockey for more t han a year
Yockey made an application for an Irish passport in an Francisco in 1959
under t he name of Michael Taylor usi ng Scharf as a referenceo
Clancy s j d a handwriting ex-pert is aIlCtlyzin the docurn-nt to d e terrni ne
-hether charfs signature las forgedo
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liieanwhile it Jas learned tha t Yockey asked a f e11ovI-prisoner tvJO
days befClte he committed suicide in the C01lllty Jail here where he c ould
ootain some poison
Federal author ities refused to identify the prisoner but said that he
has been transf erred to another institution He Jill be questioned tcrlay
about the conversation officials said
Sherriff Matthew Carberry whohms San F ancisco s CODnty J ail co~ ented
last night that no Federal official had rnentioned to him the existence of a
county jail prisoner with such a story
Authori ties are puzzled as to T here Yockey obtained the deadl y poison
and haw it reached his cello
At too same time the coroners office announced that a toxologists
report s h mfs that Yockey took one-fifth of a am of potassi urn cyanide which
is double the lethal dose f or a man of his size
Yockey left a note defying anyone to discover h ow he obtained the poison
Frierris said t1at Scharf fled the ay Area in a battered 1956 yellow and
black l1e rcury sedan apparently with little money in his possession
Mrs Ezra Cohen-Sitt of 115 Beulah street a friend of charf said
yesterday she wan ted to correct an impression given in an intervieH with
The Chronicle Sunday that Scharf had at one ti~e asked her to marry him
He did not she said I did not intem to be quoted on any Hatter
rela ted to Hr Scharf II
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San Francisco Chronicle Wednesday June 22 1960
u S PRESSES SEARCH F YOCKEYS AL
The search for Alex B Scharf mysterio11S pal of neo-Fascist Francis
P Yockey settled down to a game of fox and houms yesterday
Scharf rho departed from Oaklarrl so quickly after Yockeys arrest that
he even left his clothes behind was in the role of the fox The hounds are
agents of the State Department vih ose security officials in ian Franc isco
said s impl
lIvere trying to blanket all escape routes and He re hoping for the bestI
Yockey cormnitted suicide with cyanide in the County Jail last Friday
while being held on a passport charge
Scharf is being sought to rim out what he knoHS abolt Yockeys multiple
passports
Authorities are betuldered about the association of the two Scharf who
is 33 is a forroor principal of Oaklands Temple Beth Abraham School and an
inmate of Nazi concentration camps
Yockey L13 was a racist neo-Nazi of considerable infamy when he accidentally
fell into the hands of Federal authorities on June 6 Yockey had complained to
an airline about the loss of a bag It had already been opened in Fort middot orth
fex as unclaimed and was fourrl to contain three different passports all
bearing Yockeys pictuces
The FBI picked up Yockey in Scharf I s apartTEnt 8t 165 Bellevue avenue
Oakland but when t h ey went back later to talk to - charf he was gone
6
After the private c onferance bett-reen Yockey and hi attorneys hop e
and Victor lobe Hoppe asked Karesh to continue the hearing--ostensibly
call~ to deter1l1ine gt-hether lt50000 bail ~las too high--to 1030 amo today
IM now pressing my motion to reduce bail and Im not nmT pressing
my moti on for an exami nation by an alienist II Hoppe explained I want to
colier further in th 1ro Yockeyo
Karesh asked Yocke3T if he agreed that Hoppe should continue to represent
him and Yockey nal ed Raresh thereup on continued t he hearing until this morning
San Francisco Chronicae SaturdalJ June 11 1960
PASSPORT FRAUD MISTER Y NFOLDS FACIST LINKS
A long background involving activity lith extreme right-wing political
groups in the United S tates and Europe began to emerge yesterday in the case
of the mysterious Francis Parker Yockey
He appeared briefly before United States Commissioner Joseph Karesh at
1030 am and had his rearing set over until 1030 am 1onday
Yockeys seryice record shows he las born in 1917 in imiddotichigan He
graduated cum lame f ran Notre Dame am atterded a number of U S universities
He was honorahly discharged fran too Army in 1943 gtnth a medical disability
The discharge carried the notation dementia praecox paranoid type II
Stanley Jacobs of the Anti-Defamation Leagoo here said their files shm-red
Yockey had a ~ared wi th Gerald L K Smith head of the Christian National
Party in St Louis in 19500
He said he is the a uhhor of II Imperi1IDl n a bomk published in London
which Yockey described as lIa master thesis of Fascist strategy based on
three rinciples anti-Americanism a neutral Germany avoidance of antishy
Russian acti vity tI
Colunmist Drew Pearson Vote of him in 195~ He identified him as one
of three known U S a en ts for Rlrl ol h Aschenauer a neo-Nazi of Frankfurt
Germany He said Yockey wrote unier the name of Ulick Varange
Yockey is known to have used the aliases of Francis Downey Frenz Yockey
Franz Downey Frank Healy and Frank Downey
U Sl43sistantAttorney ~ P ClancyJro said he COJld be charge with
making false statemant to obtain a passport and tilth assault on a Federal
officer
Yockey was arrested by agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
Honday at the home of Alexcharf former director of educatLon for the
Temple Beth Abraham in akland
Scharf was not available to explain why Yockey should be in his homeo
His brest TJas picked up after his luggage had ~one astray and HoUrrl up in an
airpCl~t in Fort 1lorth Texas
Employees opened too luggage ani found three passports--one American
one Canadian and one British--seven birth certificates and a set of German
press credentialso
fuen arrested Yockey tried to escape He slammed a door on the hand of
FBI agent Robert Leonard It required 20 xtbduut stitches to sew up the ~lOundo
Since then he has been held in lieu of ~50ooo bail while authorities
attempted to discover the pattern of his life and the reason he was carrying
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$2300 in cash and 850 in travelers checks Ii th him
We are interested in where he gets his money Clancy said lWe know
he has been associated wi th some anti-Semitic groups and that he is enga ged
in a systematic and well-planned operation in passports tt
In his a earance befare Kresh Yockey was stiff and a n gr y
This is practically assault and batteryt he told Kar esh He braced
hilnself ani folded his hanis as the COIlmussioner talked Tith his lawyer
Carl Ho pe about a continuance pending the arrival of his sis t er
She is illiam D Coyne wife of a Navy c OT1II1amer of Bethesda m
Hop pe said hel needed time to discuss the entire situation li th firs 0
Coyne and he asked if she could visit Yockey 17 in jail tcxiayo
You want an order far Saturday for your boytI asked Karesh
111 beg yCJUJ paroohlI Yockey snapped Im no boy II
nYotlUg man toon1t purred Karesh
IINo no young man either1t said Yockey
Then defe niant said Karesh I think we can 3 gree on that Ill
see you Monday
San Francisco Chronicle 1c1orrlay June 13 1960
PASSPORT BAIL PLEA DUB IODA Y
Francis P Yockey the man of mystery and passports is scheduled to
aDnear befltre U0 3 Commissioner Joseph Karesh tcxlay to plead for lesser baH
Yockey accused of fraud in traveling in ~ estern Europe on spurious
passports has been held in lieu of 50000 bail since his arrest last week
Here to help him was a sister Mrs lvilliam Coyne 1-life of a Navy
commander from Bethesda Yrlo
The 43-year-old laryer was picked up in Oaklarrl at the llltX apartment of
Alex B Scharf ~~til recently principal of the Jewish school at Temple Beth
Abraham
Scharf in his early 30s disa peared after Yockey was arrested It
developed that Yockey given a midical di scharg~ from the Army in 1943 for
dementia praecox paranoid type had engaged in pro-lt3zi anti-Semitic
activities
San rancisco Chronicle Tuesday June lL 1960
amp41L PLEA DEIA YEn
PASSPORT STTSPE CT CA LLED TOP FASCIST
Francis Parker Yockey mysterious collector of spurious passports was
described hEr e yesterday as a sj_gnificant Fascist wi th international
connect ons n
Yockey 43 held under 50000 bail for passport fraud was so classified
by Stanley Jacobs regional director of the Anti-Defamation Lea 3ueo
He Has one of the sever al unoffidal observ8rs yesterday at Yockeys
stormy hearing before U s Connnissioner Joseph Karesh
Jacobs said Yockey is considered lias i mportant a world fi~ure in fascism
as we now kncn n
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Assistant U0 S Attorney Wi lliam P Clancy Jr said the Yockey case
will be given to the Federal Grand Jury later this month
In the meantime Clancy said the GJvernment will file a request t Qmorrow
that the TI S District Court oroer a psychiatric exainira tion for Yockey
Karesh may join in the motion basing his request on Yockeys behavior
in hearings before him
Yockeys lawyer Carl Hoppe came into court yesterday prepared to ask
a reduction in bail Acti on however was ~ostponed until this morninG to
enable a new lawyer to enter the tangled case
Ho _e a fe tent attorney s aid he wished to Jtthdraw n favor of a
l awyer with criminal experience
Present during yesterdays hearing was Emmet F Hagerty who may represent
Yockey during future hearings
Yookey whose name has been closely linked with numerous nea-Nazi
organizations am whose many passports under assumed names s u ggested international
intrigue was arrested last 1ieek on a charge of p as sport fraud after his
suitcase went astray in Fort Worth Texas The sQttcase was found to contain
three false)8ssports all carrying Yockeys picture but phony names
Yockey complained during yesterdays ~oceedings that he had been refused
permission to see his two sisters Alice Spurlock hos ital I-ray technician
in Gilroy and -h-s 11illiam Coyne of Bethesda vB
The Conmlissio~r recessed court for 40 minutes to allow Yockey to confer
vith his sisters in the Marshals officeo
Yockey as asked during the recess whether he had traveled extensively in
Russia in 1957 ar~ the questioning reporter was dismissed with the order
Get out of here you filthy swine
lle
San Francisco Chronicle Wednesday June 15 1960
IJ I~ PLOT TOLD IN PASSPORT CASE
A bold jailbraak plot en ~ineered by Francis P Yockey the passport
mystery man was revealed yesterday along 1-ith alle ged threats of suicide
Yockey a 43-year-old ex-laryer from Detroit had a npeared before U S
COlIDllissioner Joseph Karesh to plead for a reduction in his 50000 ba il on
a 9assport-fraud char ge
Tcrrard the eni 0 that p-roceeding which was intersession Assistant
U S Attorney William P Clancy Jr mentioned rithdramatic casualness the
purported escape plot am the suicide threats
AEguing against bail reduction he said uThere I S an extreme risk of
flight bull bull a gra-IJe ris k of injury to hirns elf am others II
The escape plan Clancy said was relayed to him by the FBI It ~ent
he said like this
Yockey on Monday approached two other Federal prisoners being held at the
county jail He offered to post S1000 bail far one who is a wai ting sentence
This man would then get a car a nd guns - en the Federal orisoners were
marched into the U S Marshals van in DW1bar ~lley behind the Hall of Justice
the second accomplice would start a kIZIId brawl
The man Hi th the guns would then love in slip a gun to Yockey am all
three would escape in the car parked nearby
The plan went awry Clancey said when the bail posting fell through and
one of the prisoners tipped off the FBI
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Yockey spoke up lTot a HOrd of truth in that If
KadIsh turned to Ennne t F Hagerty who replaced Carl Ho e as Yockeys
attorney I1If such a thing is true Im sure youll agree the bail s et Xx
is not excess i ire II
III a gree n said Hagerty if its true
lWe ve goed r eas on to believe so It said Clancey
Plt8gerty said it might rove otherwise ii the other prisoners were produced
for cross-questioning am Clancey said he might disclooe their identity tcday
Jail s uperintendent Frank Smith later disclosed the other two prisoners
were Philip Galati 21 of Brooklyn awai ting sentence on a check charge and
held in lieu of $1000 bail and Jack Fambrough 27 of 619 39th street Oaklarrl
Jho has pleaded g1lilty to the S9LLI robbery of an Oakhnd Arrrry Terninal PX
service station llt1here he warlred
Fallbrough ras to have been sentenced by Judge Sweigert yesterday but
the case was p03 t poned until tcrlay
~iidway in the bail discussion the case abruptly moved into ~ ederal J uige
iilial) T Sweigerts coort Where Clancey requested a psychiatric exarrination
for Yockey sa ng he as t1 unable to comprehend thb siuilationt and thus c ould
not assist in his defense
Yockey familiar iod th Nazi and Fascist elements in t his country and Eur ope
stood before tre court v1 th anna folded across his chest while Hagerty objected
to a mental examination o
This JTe n has an intellect equal of any in this courtroom with all
deference to Your Honor n Hagerty said He is a member of the bar i n Illinois
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and Michigan a graduate of Notre Darle GeoIl~etown t1ichigan an lItDx author
of books was a Deputy istrict Attorney of Detroit and a rosecutor at the
Nuernberg trials That doesnt Trean he is incompetent to ass ist in his defense
C18ncey countered He was dischar~8d fron the army in 1943 as a dementia
pr a ecox--paranoid type and his conduct before th~ U S CoJltll issioner has
been bizarre II
He then related reports tllhat Yockey rJ8d twice threatened suicide--once
ih the Oakland jail after his arrest am a gain in the jail here Yockey
prom Uy denied that then tossed in a little SOB sensation of his own
He said that lex Scharf in whose Oaklarrl apartment he was arrested and mo
has since disappeared had been taken into custooy by the FBI
uHe JaS arrested in my presence1 Yockey said
The F I promptly denied that
Jui ge Sweigert said he 1ould rule at 11 am today on middotrhether to direct
that Yockey be given a pychiatric test and Karesh held up the bail l1atter
until after that
Sall Francisco Chronicle Thursday J una 16 1960
MENTAL EXAM ORDERED IN S F PASSPORT NYST RY
Francis P Yockey 43 passport mystery man Tas ordered held for
psychiatric examination yesterday by Federal Jud ge (yilliam T Sweigert
The order as Tlade on Government motion aLrl over t he strenuous obj ections
of Yockey hims elf an attorney ani his law--je r Enunet F Ha gerty
Judge SIeigert said he would receive the psychiatric reports on hly 11
am a motion to reduce Yockeys 50000 b8il was vJithdrcnm untn that date
Yockey was arrested in Oaklarrl last lleek after a piece of his l u ga ge
that went astray was frond to contain three passports bearing false names and
spurious identification dccuments He is known to have been closely identified
wi th Nazis and Fascists in this country am Europe
u S Commissioner Joseph Karesh before horn Yockey has appeared in
several stOlTlY hearings was called yesterday by Assistant U S Attorney
WIlliam P ClaJlcey Jr
Karesh testified that he had closely observed Yockey am descrived his
actions as lIthe most unusual of arry accused person who has ever a ppeared
before me II
With per~ission of the cmrrt Yockey undertook to cross eX8~ine Kareshe
He accused the Commissioner of being prejudiced because he had read Yockey
as II anti-J e-lish II
Judge Sweigert halted Yockey in mid-sentence That will ce enough of
thatn he saaIlped
Two EI agents ELliV2rd Ij Cunningham ani Keith G Teeter subnitted affidavits
that Yockey had received a psychiatric discharge fran the Army in 19w3
One affidavit said Army records show that Yockey suffered marked delusions
of persecutions had ideas of gramellr and Ias given a disability dischar ge
due to dementia praecox paranoi d type Cause urrletermined u
Anothe r a ff idavit said Yockey told two unnamed cell TIates in the County
Jail he intended to commit suicide by sharpening a canb into a lethal weapon
Tuesday it was revealed in a hearing before Karesh that Yockey had alle gedly
attempted to engineer a daring escape from 11e County Jail 0 One of the
Clri soners wh om he solidted to aid in t he getaway plan transrnitted the
inforation to the FBI
Yockey in c p3ssionate statemont to the court charQeurod that the GoverT1rnent
was depriving him of his defense by subjecting him to psychiatric examinationo
He said that use of his Army medical recoro violated his r i LtS
San Francisco Chronicle Saturday June 18 1960
PASSPORT DEFENDAN T
MYSTERY MAN yOCKEY KILIS SElF IN bull F JAIL CELL
by Tom Ma thews
Neo-Nazi Francis P Yockey took a leaf from the notebook of HerT~ann
Goering Hitlers air rrarshI31 and poisoned himself in jail yesterday
He left behind him a furious set of Federal officials and a note defying
anyone to find out who supplied him rith the cyanide he used to end his life
The Federal Bureau of Investi gation the State Department and the United
States Attorneys office were left hohl ing a top-secret file on Yockey and
no Yockey to prosecute
The file arrived lastvlednesday One official saj_d it ms loaded rith
dynamite
Yockey 43 was arrested June 6 for investiga tion of passport fraud FBI
agents caught bp 1Tith hi m when he checked on a suitcase that had ~JOne astray
dcentng a plane flight
The suitcase contained three false passp orts Gerrran press credentials
and seven birth certHicates
A ents found him in the apartment of Alex Scharf u65 Bellevue avenue
Cakland Scharf a fo r mer teacher at the Te mple Beth Abraham school
imrre diately disappeared
He has been subpoenaed by the Federal Gram JillS but so far has not
turned up
A warrant for arrest of Scharf was issued late yesterday afternoon Bail
Jas set at $5000
The mysterirus aspect of the case -Jas compounded by Yockeys behavior
and by tlJe insistence of authorities that he be held in the surprisingly high
bail of $50 000
Yockey b q an talking of suicide the day he was arrested He made one
elaborate escape attempt In his court appearances his grandiose manner am
c onte t for proceedings led to an order for a psychiatric exami_nation
The U S Assistant Attorney William P Clancey iolOuld say of Yockey only
that he seemed to be dealing in passports and that current inforrra tion shomd
him to have traveled extensively in Europe
Stanley Jacobs of the Anti-Defarration League was more specific He said
Yockey was associated with the tap figures in extreme right-wing and antishy
Semitic movements
Yockey is known to have been closely connected fl th the resurgent Nazi
movement in West Germany
Somehow he obtained the poison crystals he used ThJmsday night Just as
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Goering the No 2 Nazi did at Nuernberg hours before he was to be ha nged
in 19L5 Yockey used potassium cyanide
No one knoHs haw he got it He played checkers tn th his fellow inmate
Adam Nienan a mapmaker of 1703 Arcadia street until lights were turned out
in their County Jail cell at 9 pm
Nieman then held o~ charges of gram theft which were dismissed yesterday
said ~ Yockey gave si gns of what was in his mind during the evening
tlHe told me he was the No1 leader of some SOlltt of organization Nieman
said He said he had kn owledge of people he loved and he thought hed be
farced to reveal it
The night before he discussed killing himself I-rith heavy weaghts on his
throat The last rernark he rnade to me was Youll sleep all ni ht of course
After lights were out he kept looking over the ledge of the bunk Bt me
r got quite concerned but finally r fell asleep1t
Apparently that was what Yockey had been waiti1S for He took his capsuleo
His baiy was found at 725 amo rigid on the bed hands folded across his
chest He s till had his boots on
Tucked into the folds of a blanket he us ed for a pillow was the follovdng
note
til shall write no messages which r know will never be delivered--only
this which will be
You rJi11 never discover who helped me for he is to be fmurl in your
own multitudinous ranks at least outwardlyo
Jail Su erintendent Frank Swith at first reported Yockey had died of
nat ural causes Cleser examination shoHed the inside of his mouth aand throat
were seared as one might exp~ct from swallming c~nide
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The ne~re brought Sheriff Btt Carberry b us tling to the ~il
We heard he las planniD5 suicide or esca e last TuesdayI he said
I e moved him f rom an upper tier to cell 20 on the grourrl floor where he
could be watched c onstantly by the guard on duty
Im satisfied that suf i cient pr ecautions Here taken
Sheriff Carberrys satisfaction was not shared by Clancey James B
Cavana J gh special arent for the security division of the State Department
or a handfuJ of a ents of the FBI who had been working on the case
Grim-faced they all shm-fed up at the jail and tried to _ind out hm-r
their Tnan had cheated justice and deprived them of possible i nformation
The investigation itself was taken up by the Homicide Bureau of the
Police Department and b~T Carberry
In Yockeys pels onal effects left Hi th tJ-j e jailer a second note was
fourrl It was addressed to Keith G Teeter an FBI a gent It read
Ny dear riro Teeter
I ask you as a favor in the same of humanity wh ich we share to
notify ny sister of this or her husband Lieutenant Cornrna nier or Jrs William
D Coyne Bethesda Md o
tlili thailk you
FrarlCis Yockey
Hrs Coyne nel1ed the body in the Coroners office Hi th Emmet F Hagerty
Yockeys attorney
Y keyg epitaph ras reJITided by an acquaintance and admirer Willis Carta
secretary of the Congress of Freeeol here and fourrier of the San Francisco
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Conservative Republican Headquarters set up during the GOP convention here
in 1956 Carto visited Yockey in jail June 100
Although I do not a ee with all his ideas I feel he Jas an authentic
creative genius I feel that those individuals uho are res onsible for
driving him to his death should feel a rreat sense of guil te
liThe world has lost a great man whose ideas will be r emembered until
estern Civilization is exter minated Carta saido
San Francisco Chronicle Satunlay June l8 l 1960
SISTER CALLS SttICIDE TRAGIC
PHI1 CS OPHER NOT PRO- NAZI SHE SA YS
By George Draper
The suicide of Francis Parker Yockey mystery man with many passports
was described as at a tragedy k yesterday by one of his sisters
All that talent all that brilliance is now gone sighed Mrs Hilliam
P Coyne of Bethesda 11i wife of a U S Navy commander
Mrs Coyne a handsome blonde with ~le blue eyes said Yockey spent his
adult life scrutinizing the JOrld from the exalted station of a true philosopher
No she said he wasnrt anti-Semitic he Jasnrt anti-Zionist No
he wasnrt pro-Nazi He never idolized Hitler In fact he thought Hitler
made one mistake after another n
Likerise Hrs Coyne said Yockey was neither pro-Russian nor anti-Russian
He merely felt that Russia had a role to play in world historytt she said
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~~S Coyne proudly recited the titles of six books written by Yockey
all of which lere privately published in London and one of which has been
called a blueprint of Fascist strategy1I
No publisher in the United States iTould to uch them II she said
Irs Coyne intervievled in t he office of Attorney Emmet Ha gerty said
she had been close to her brother rmen they grew up in Chicago but that in
the last 10 years she had seldom heard from him
He 1-1old telephone me once in a while but never say where he was I
think it was because he loJaS in some kind of tr ouble with the FBI she said
Hrs Coyne said she received a telephone call from Yockey early last
1reek informing her that Im in the Oakland jail
The sister imFtediately flew here from Maryland to help him
She said she talked to him in jail abolt the United States passport he
obtainoo in Salinas in 1954 lKder t1e name of Edward Tax Price
(This same passp ort Tas fourd among Yockeys belongings b3aring Yockeys
photograph with the name changed to Eduard flax Briceman)
liRe couldnt have changed that name on the nassport That Eequires special
techpique she said
Yockey told her she said that he still carried the passport because bhe
State Department had tl~rned him down seven times nen he applied for a new
passport
Jhy did Yockey also carry Canadian and British passports -with his photoshy
graph but different nares
Maybe he thought three passports were better than one Mrs Coyne replied
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The sister said S- e had no idea how Yockey had earned his living in
recent years or where he had b 8m living
Ny sister aro I gave him some money to bave a book published but that
was qcite a few years ago she said
Finally virs Coyne was asked why she thou ght Yockey committed sui cide
Has it been established that it was a sui cidert she replied
Re l 71inded that Yockey penned a suicide note before he died she added
I Oh thats right He did Probably he felt he -lasnt going to have
a fair trial
She he3itated a momen t and added
tIredica ted upon r-rha t happened he was completely justified in feeling
tha t way
San Francisco Chr onicle Sunday June 19 1960
VICTIH OF NAZIS LI TO YOCKE Y
by Geor ge Draper
Alex B Scharf tattooed sUvivor of the Auschlitz concentration camp
in World 7Jar II as being sought for questioning yesterday about the mysterious
activities of nea-Fascist Francis P Yockey
Yockey 43 killed hims elf with potassium cyanide in County Jail No1
early Friday lThile being held on passport fratrl charges
He was arrested in Scharfs Oakland apartment tvlO 1l euroeks ago l i t h three
fake Dassoorts- and seven birth certificates
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I rmned iately following Yockeys arrest Scharf 31 abandoned his j dJ
as princi al- of Tern le Beth Abraham school and disa peared
Both Government officials and Jewish leaders Here puzzled by the associashy
tion between Scharf and Yockey
Seymour Froroor director of Jewish iducation in Oaskland said Scharf
wears the German tatoo on his arm that proves he was a prisoner at Ausch~-litz
where more than t m million J eHS were cremated by Hi tIer
I am sure charf believed in Israel and Zionism n said Fromer
Stanley S Jacobs chief of the Anti-Defaro~tion Leag~ehere declared
I am loath to believe Scharf was e n ga ged in Neo-Fascist activities
wi th Yockey
Yockey is known to have been anti-Zionist if not anti-Semitic and in
liaison ith various extreme right--nng lea ers incluiing former followers
of Hitler
Yockeys former -dfe Alice Yockey of San Antonio Tex told this reporter
that Yockey thou ght reports of Jewish genocide in orld middotjar II were eXd ggerated
Investigators hope to question Scharf about his original explanation for
harring Yockey in his Oakland apartment
After Yockeys arrest Scharf is said to have told a lents he met Yockey
for the first time a few days earlier at the gambling tables in Reno
At poundhat time he said he invited Yockey a stranger to come to Oaklarrl
and stay at his apartrrent
Assistant United States Attorney W P Caancy said yesterday however that
Scharf had known Yockey for nearly a year
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In 1959 Clancy said Yockey applied f or an Irish passport
Either Yockeys application or an attached affidavit said Clancy bears
the name of Alex B Scharf and his former address at 2bol Sacramento street
Scharf was born in Czechoslovakia in 1928 am after Torld a1 II lived
in Paraguay a rrl Ar gentina e
He studied at GolUJ11bia Univergtity and at the Jewish Teachers Institute
in New York and then he returned to Paraguay as a teacher
Scharf came to San Francisco in late 1958 looking for a job teaching
Hebrew and las employed by the Bureau of Jewish Ed ucation
In June 1959 he viaS assigned to Te le Be th Abraham in Oakland as
eciucational director 0
Shortly before Scharf disappeared two weeks a go he t as not ified t ba t h O s
c otrac t at the t emple w-auld not be r enewed
Yockey has b een l eadi ng a lif e of myst ery for t he pas t 10 year s
Hi s sister Mrs Wi lliam bull Coyne of Bethesda r1l said she has no
knmJledge of where he ha s been or wha t he has been d oingo
She said mail for tockey has been deli~ed to her h ome over the years
but she has been forced to thrm it away not knDwing his whereabouts
Mrs Coynes husband is a commander in the Navy
Yockeys difficu lties arose when he lost a suitcase while flying to San
FrcmcLsco aboard an American Airlines Dlane
Tbe s itcase was subsequmtly fourrl in Fort Worth Texas Airline officials
08ned it to verify its Oinership am found a United States a British am a
Canadian passo crt -- each hri th Yockeys photograph ani each bearing a d ifferent
name The FBI Bas notified
San Fra nc isco Chronicle ~~ndaYJ June 20 1960
PUZZLING TRAI L OF YO CKE YS FRI ~ND
by Denne Petitclerc
Federa l a uthorities y estp-rday so ght to solve the ridd l e f what linked
Nazi concentration camp victim Alex B Scharf to neo-Fascist Francis P Yockey
But even Scharfs closest friJmis including the pre tty dark-haired
girl he once asked to marry hLm rere lmafule to ex l ain the strange r e lationship
Yockey Fascist philosopher and t-rriter and associate of former Hi tle r
followers co~~tted suicide in the GOQnty Jail here early Friday while being
held on a passp ort frau charge
Scharf 31-year-old former principal of Temple Beth b raham school in
Oakland a nd victim of Na z i bruta lity a t Auschwitz c oncentrati on camp in
i or lrl ar II has disappeared
It was in charfs Oakland apartnent t hat FBI a gents f0111d Yockey two
weeks ago Scharf since dro ood from s ight and i s DOli) being sought by Federal
authori t i e s for questioning
III know he didnt ha ve any money It sam Mrs Ezra Cohen-Sitt of IlS
Beulah stree t San Francisco
Mrs S i tt met her husband Ezra whi le da ting Scharf last year Sitt -laS
Scharfs roonnnate Ilm a tea cher t Temple Beth Abr aham sc1ool Scharf had once
asked Mrs Sitt to marry (l im He served as a n usher at her iedd i n in J a nuary
ani r emained a friend
Al ex was not the kirri of person you could get close tol she said He ijaS
ver-J sad and very seri ous~ and eve n though he Has likable he vIas alway s distant
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She said Scbarf -Jas t ntelligent and sensitive Hith a eep feeling f or
Orthcdox Jewry and a man fh o kept himself remote as a result of lon years
of f ear under brutal Nazi treatment in Eurone
UHis meetinr Hi th Yockey must have come fr om some thing aut of Europe
years a go II she said T1 He ras a boy of 18 and he Wande red for many years
after the Hal It
Scharf led a mcdest bachelor schoolteacher I s life in axklarri she said
He n fre uently dated one girl wh 0 as employed at a Reno gambling cas ino
she said
Scharf never mentioned Yockey to any of his acquaintances here yen~s
Stit t (sic) said
Assistant Unj ted t ates Attorney bull 2 Clancey said Scharfs battered
1956 yell orJ and black Mercury sedan has not b een fourrl but that the California
Highway Patrol has been alerted
San Francisco Chronicle Tuesday June 21 1960
D MA Y BE ON ISRA EL-BOUND SHIP
by Denne Petitclerc
_ lex B Scharf still sougtlt as a key ~ritness in th2 puzzling case of
nea-Fascist Francis P Yockey may be ab oard a sb~p en route to Israel
The Chronicle learned yesterday
Federal authorities here said they Here checking the possibility that
Scharf may have boarded a ship in e York last I-Teek or that he is still
waiti ng in Ne-J York t o eave the country
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Yockey wa s arr e s ted i n Scharf s apartment on J une 8 ~las ques tioned
by Federal officers a m then vanis hed bull Aut h ori ties are s t ill p uzz led about
Hha t bond cOlld have existed bet wee n a Naz i philos ophe r like Yockey am
Scharf a one-time principal of Oaklands Temple Beth Abraham school and an
inmate of German conentration c amps in Uor1d ~Jar II
Yockey 43 killed himself Hith potassill1fl cyanide in his County Jail No1
cell early last Friday whi le being held on passport violation charges
The first possible clue to Scharfs whereabouts came yesterday in checkJ_ng
a former San Jose court reporter described as charf s closest friend
The reporter William Sloffibvich 35 left his job in San Jose about three
months ago -lorked until last month in Los -ngeles and then left far New York
The Chronicle learned that Slomovich s name apueared on the passenger
list of the Atlantic an American Export Lines ship which sailed from ew
York last Thursday bound for P~ifa Israel
lthough cparfs name did not aprear on the passe er list Federal
authorities said it is possible he rr~y have used an ass umed name since he is
not a citizen of the United States
Assistant United States Attorney il1iam P Clancey said t~at American
offmcials in Israel 1i11 be alerted to question Slornovich--and to be on the
lookout for Scharf--when the ship berths in Haifa on June 29
Clancy (sic) nEamlhile said that evidence Dr irrlicates that Scharf had
known Yockey for more t han a year
Yockey made an application for an Irish passport in an Francisco in 1959
under t he name of Michael Taylor usi ng Scharf as a referenceo
Clancy s j d a handwriting ex-pert is aIlCtlyzin the docurn-nt to d e terrni ne
-hether charfs signature las forgedo
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liieanwhile it Jas learned tha t Yockey asked a f e11ovI-prisoner tvJO
days befClte he committed suicide in the C01lllty Jail here where he c ould
ootain some poison
Federal author ities refused to identify the prisoner but said that he
has been transf erred to another institution He Jill be questioned tcrlay
about the conversation officials said
Sherriff Matthew Carberry whohms San F ancisco s CODnty J ail co~ ented
last night that no Federal official had rnentioned to him the existence of a
county jail prisoner with such a story
Authori ties are puzzled as to T here Yockey obtained the deadl y poison
and haw it reached his cello
At too same time the coroners office announced that a toxologists
report s h mfs that Yockey took one-fifth of a am of potassi urn cyanide which
is double the lethal dose f or a man of his size
Yockey left a note defying anyone to discover h ow he obtained the poison
Frierris said t1at Scharf fled the ay Area in a battered 1956 yellow and
black l1e rcury sedan apparently with little money in his possession
Mrs Ezra Cohen-Sitt of 115 Beulah street a friend of charf said
yesterday she wan ted to correct an impression given in an intervieH with
The Chronicle Sunday that Scharf had at one ti~e asked her to marry him
He did not she said I did not intem to be quoted on any Hatter
rela ted to Hr Scharf II
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San Francisco Chronicle Wednesday June 22 1960
u S PRESSES SEARCH F YOCKEYS AL
The search for Alex B Scharf mysterio11S pal of neo-Fascist Francis
P Yockey settled down to a game of fox and houms yesterday
Scharf rho departed from Oaklarrl so quickly after Yockeys arrest that
he even left his clothes behind was in the role of the fox The hounds are
agents of the State Department vih ose security officials in ian Franc isco
said s impl
lIvere trying to blanket all escape routes and He re hoping for the bestI
Yockey cormnitted suicide with cyanide in the County Jail last Friday
while being held on a passport charge
Scharf is being sought to rim out what he knoHS abolt Yockeys multiple
passports
Authorities are betuldered about the association of the two Scharf who
is 33 is a forroor principal of Oaklands Temple Beth Abraham School and an
inmate of Nazi concentration camps
Yockey L13 was a racist neo-Nazi of considerable infamy when he accidentally
fell into the hands of Federal authorities on June 6 Yockey had complained to
an airline about the loss of a bag It had already been opened in Fort middot orth
fex as unclaimed and was fourrl to contain three different passports all
bearing Yockeys pictuces
The FBI picked up Yockey in Scharf I s apartTEnt 8t 165 Bellevue avenue
Oakland but when t h ey went back later to talk to - charf he was gone
He said he is the a uhhor of II Imperi1IDl n a bomk published in London
which Yockey described as lIa master thesis of Fascist strategy based on
three rinciples anti-Americanism a neutral Germany avoidance of antishy
Russian acti vity tI
Colunmist Drew Pearson Vote of him in 195~ He identified him as one
of three known U S a en ts for Rlrl ol h Aschenauer a neo-Nazi of Frankfurt
Germany He said Yockey wrote unier the name of Ulick Varange
Yockey is known to have used the aliases of Francis Downey Frenz Yockey
Franz Downey Frank Healy and Frank Downey
U Sl43sistantAttorney ~ P ClancyJro said he COJld be charge with
making false statemant to obtain a passport and tilth assault on a Federal
officer
Yockey was arrested by agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
Honday at the home of Alexcharf former director of educatLon for the
Temple Beth Abraham in akland
Scharf was not available to explain why Yockey should be in his homeo
His brest TJas picked up after his luggage had ~one astray and HoUrrl up in an
airpCl~t in Fort 1lorth Texas
Employees opened too luggage ani found three passports--one American
one Canadian and one British--seven birth certificates and a set of German
press credentialso
fuen arrested Yockey tried to escape He slammed a door on the hand of
FBI agent Robert Leonard It required 20 xtbduut stitches to sew up the ~lOundo
Since then he has been held in lieu of ~50ooo bail while authorities
attempted to discover the pattern of his life and the reason he was carrying
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$2300 in cash and 850 in travelers checks Ii th him
We are interested in where he gets his money Clancy said lWe know
he has been associated wi th some anti-Semitic groups and that he is enga ged
in a systematic and well-planned operation in passports tt
In his a earance befare Kresh Yockey was stiff and a n gr y
This is practically assault and batteryt he told Kar esh He braced
hilnself ani folded his hanis as the COIlmussioner talked Tith his lawyer
Carl Ho pe about a continuance pending the arrival of his sis t er
She is illiam D Coyne wife of a Navy c OT1II1amer of Bethesda m
Hop pe said hel needed time to discuss the entire situation li th firs 0
Coyne and he asked if she could visit Yockey 17 in jail tcxiayo
You want an order far Saturday for your boytI asked Karesh
111 beg yCJUJ paroohlI Yockey snapped Im no boy II
nYotlUg man toon1t purred Karesh
IINo no young man either1t said Yockey
Then defe niant said Karesh I think we can 3 gree on that Ill
see you Monday
San Francisco Chronicle 1c1orrlay June 13 1960
PASSPORT BAIL PLEA DUB IODA Y
Francis P Yockey the man of mystery and passports is scheduled to
aDnear befltre U0 3 Commissioner Joseph Karesh tcxlay to plead for lesser baH
Yockey accused of fraud in traveling in ~ estern Europe on spurious
passports has been held in lieu of 50000 bail since his arrest last week
Here to help him was a sister Mrs lvilliam Coyne 1-life of a Navy
commander from Bethesda Yrlo
The 43-year-old laryer was picked up in Oaklarrl at the llltX apartment of
Alex B Scharf ~~til recently principal of the Jewish school at Temple Beth
Abraham
Scharf in his early 30s disa peared after Yockey was arrested It
developed that Yockey given a midical di scharg~ from the Army in 1943 for
dementia praecox paranoid type had engaged in pro-lt3zi anti-Semitic
activities
San rancisco Chronicle Tuesday June lL 1960
amp41L PLEA DEIA YEn
PASSPORT STTSPE CT CA LLED TOP FASCIST
Francis Parker Yockey mysterious collector of spurious passports was
described hEr e yesterday as a sj_gnificant Fascist wi th international
connect ons n
Yockey 43 held under 50000 bail for passport fraud was so classified
by Stanley Jacobs regional director of the Anti-Defamation Lea 3ueo
He Has one of the sever al unoffidal observ8rs yesterday at Yockeys
stormy hearing before U s Connnissioner Joseph Karesh
Jacobs said Yockey is considered lias i mportant a world fi~ure in fascism
as we now kncn n
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Assistant U0 S Attorney Wi lliam P Clancy Jr said the Yockey case
will be given to the Federal Grand Jury later this month
In the meantime Clancy said the GJvernment will file a request t Qmorrow
that the TI S District Court oroer a psychiatric exainira tion for Yockey
Karesh may join in the motion basing his request on Yockeys behavior
in hearings before him
Yockeys lawyer Carl Hoppe came into court yesterday prepared to ask
a reduction in bail Acti on however was ~ostponed until this morninG to
enable a new lawyer to enter the tangled case
Ho _e a fe tent attorney s aid he wished to Jtthdraw n favor of a
l awyer with criminal experience
Present during yesterdays hearing was Emmet F Hagerty who may represent
Yockey during future hearings
Yookey whose name has been closely linked with numerous nea-Nazi
organizations am whose many passports under assumed names s u ggested international
intrigue was arrested last 1ieek on a charge of p as sport fraud after his
suitcase went astray in Fort Worth Texas The sQttcase was found to contain
three false)8ssports all carrying Yockeys picture but phony names
Yockey complained during yesterdays ~oceedings that he had been refused
permission to see his two sisters Alice Spurlock hos ital I-ray technician
in Gilroy and -h-s 11illiam Coyne of Bethesda vB
The Conmlissio~r recessed court for 40 minutes to allow Yockey to confer
vith his sisters in the Marshals officeo
Yockey as asked during the recess whether he had traveled extensively in
Russia in 1957 ar~ the questioning reporter was dismissed with the order
Get out of here you filthy swine
lle
San Francisco Chronicle Wednesday June 15 1960
IJ I~ PLOT TOLD IN PASSPORT CASE
A bold jailbraak plot en ~ineered by Francis P Yockey the passport
mystery man was revealed yesterday along 1-ith alle ged threats of suicide
Yockey a 43-year-old ex-laryer from Detroit had a npeared before U S
COlIDllissioner Joseph Karesh to plead for a reduction in his 50000 ba il on
a 9assport-fraud char ge
Tcrrard the eni 0 that p-roceeding which was intersession Assistant
U S Attorney William P Clancy Jr mentioned rithdramatic casualness the
purported escape plot am the suicide threats
AEguing against bail reduction he said uThere I S an extreme risk of
flight bull bull a gra-IJe ris k of injury to hirns elf am others II
The escape plan Clancy said was relayed to him by the FBI It ~ent
he said like this
Yockey on Monday approached two other Federal prisoners being held at the
county jail He offered to post S1000 bail far one who is a wai ting sentence
This man would then get a car a nd guns - en the Federal orisoners were
marched into the U S Marshals van in DW1bar ~lley behind the Hall of Justice
the second accomplice would start a kIZIId brawl
The man Hi th the guns would then love in slip a gun to Yockey am all
three would escape in the car parked nearby
The plan went awry Clancey said when the bail posting fell through and
one of the prisoners tipped off the FBI
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Yockey spoke up lTot a HOrd of truth in that If
KadIsh turned to Ennne t F Hagerty who replaced Carl Ho e as Yockeys
attorney I1If such a thing is true Im sure youll agree the bail s et Xx
is not excess i ire II
III a gree n said Hagerty if its true
lWe ve goed r eas on to believe so It said Clancey
Plt8gerty said it might rove otherwise ii the other prisoners were produced
for cross-questioning am Clancey said he might disclooe their identity tcday
Jail s uperintendent Frank Smith later disclosed the other two prisoners
were Philip Galati 21 of Brooklyn awai ting sentence on a check charge and
held in lieu of $1000 bail and Jack Fambrough 27 of 619 39th street Oaklarrl
Jho has pleaded g1lilty to the S9LLI robbery of an Oakhnd Arrrry Terninal PX
service station llt1here he warlred
Fallbrough ras to have been sentenced by Judge Sweigert yesterday but
the case was p03 t poned until tcrlay
~iidway in the bail discussion the case abruptly moved into ~ ederal J uige
iilial) T Sweigerts coort Where Clancey requested a psychiatric exarrination
for Yockey sa ng he as t1 unable to comprehend thb siuilationt and thus c ould
not assist in his defense
Yockey familiar iod th Nazi and Fascist elements in t his country and Eur ope
stood before tre court v1 th anna folded across his chest while Hagerty objected
to a mental examination o
This JTe n has an intellect equal of any in this courtroom with all
deference to Your Honor n Hagerty said He is a member of the bar i n Illinois
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and Michigan a graduate of Notre Darle GeoIl~etown t1ichigan an lItDx author
of books was a Deputy istrict Attorney of Detroit and a rosecutor at the
Nuernberg trials That doesnt Trean he is incompetent to ass ist in his defense
C18ncey countered He was dischar~8d fron the army in 1943 as a dementia
pr a ecox--paranoid type and his conduct before th~ U S CoJltll issioner has
been bizarre II
He then related reports tllhat Yockey rJ8d twice threatened suicide--once
ih the Oakland jail after his arrest am a gain in the jail here Yockey
prom Uy denied that then tossed in a little SOB sensation of his own
He said that lex Scharf in whose Oaklarrl apartment he was arrested and mo
has since disappeared had been taken into custooy by the FBI
uHe JaS arrested in my presence1 Yockey said
The F I promptly denied that
Jui ge Sweigert said he 1ould rule at 11 am today on middotrhether to direct
that Yockey be given a pychiatric test and Karesh held up the bail l1atter
until after that
Sall Francisco Chronicle Thursday J una 16 1960
MENTAL EXAM ORDERED IN S F PASSPORT NYST RY
Francis P Yockey 43 passport mystery man Tas ordered held for
psychiatric examination yesterday by Federal Jud ge (yilliam T Sweigert
The order as Tlade on Government motion aLrl over t he strenuous obj ections
of Yockey hims elf an attorney ani his law--je r Enunet F Ha gerty
Judge SIeigert said he would receive the psychiatric reports on hly 11
am a motion to reduce Yockeys 50000 b8il was vJithdrcnm untn that date
Yockey was arrested in Oaklarrl last lleek after a piece of his l u ga ge
that went astray was frond to contain three passports bearing false names and
spurious identification dccuments He is known to have been closely identified
wi th Nazis and Fascists in this country am Europe
u S Commissioner Joseph Karesh before horn Yockey has appeared in
several stOlTlY hearings was called yesterday by Assistant U S Attorney
WIlliam P ClaJlcey Jr
Karesh testified that he had closely observed Yockey am descrived his
actions as lIthe most unusual of arry accused person who has ever a ppeared
before me II
With per~ission of the cmrrt Yockey undertook to cross eX8~ine Kareshe
He accused the Commissioner of being prejudiced because he had read Yockey
as II anti-J e-lish II
Judge Sweigert halted Yockey in mid-sentence That will ce enough of
thatn he saaIlped
Two EI agents ELliV2rd Ij Cunningham ani Keith G Teeter subnitted affidavits
that Yockey had received a psychiatric discharge fran the Army in 19w3
One affidavit said Army records show that Yockey suffered marked delusions
of persecutions had ideas of gramellr and Ias given a disability dischar ge
due to dementia praecox paranoi d type Cause urrletermined u
Anothe r a ff idavit said Yockey told two unnamed cell TIates in the County
Jail he intended to commit suicide by sharpening a canb into a lethal weapon
Tuesday it was revealed in a hearing before Karesh that Yockey had alle gedly
attempted to engineer a daring escape from 11e County Jail 0 One of the
Clri soners wh om he solidted to aid in t he getaway plan transrnitted the
inforation to the FBI
Yockey in c p3ssionate statemont to the court charQeurod that the GoverT1rnent
was depriving him of his defense by subjecting him to psychiatric examinationo
He said that use of his Army medical recoro violated his r i LtS
San Francisco Chronicle Saturday June 18 1960
PASSPORT DEFENDAN T
MYSTERY MAN yOCKEY KILIS SElF IN bull F JAIL CELL
by Tom Ma thews
Neo-Nazi Francis P Yockey took a leaf from the notebook of HerT~ann
Goering Hitlers air rrarshI31 and poisoned himself in jail yesterday
He left behind him a furious set of Federal officials and a note defying
anyone to find out who supplied him rith the cyanide he used to end his life
The Federal Bureau of Investi gation the State Department and the United
States Attorneys office were left hohl ing a top-secret file on Yockey and
no Yockey to prosecute
The file arrived lastvlednesday One official saj_d it ms loaded rith
dynamite
Yockey 43 was arrested June 6 for investiga tion of passport fraud FBI
agents caught bp 1Tith hi m when he checked on a suitcase that had ~JOne astray
dcentng a plane flight
The suitcase contained three false passp orts Gerrran press credentials
and seven birth certHicates
A ents found him in the apartment of Alex Scharf u65 Bellevue avenue
Cakland Scharf a fo r mer teacher at the Te mple Beth Abraham school
imrre diately disappeared
He has been subpoenaed by the Federal Gram JillS but so far has not
turned up
A warrant for arrest of Scharf was issued late yesterday afternoon Bail
Jas set at $5000
The mysterirus aspect of the case -Jas compounded by Yockeys behavior
and by tlJe insistence of authorities that he be held in the surprisingly high
bail of $50 000
Yockey b q an talking of suicide the day he was arrested He made one
elaborate escape attempt In his court appearances his grandiose manner am
c onte t for proceedings led to an order for a psychiatric exami_nation
The U S Assistant Attorney William P Clancey iolOuld say of Yockey only
that he seemed to be dealing in passports and that current inforrra tion shomd
him to have traveled extensively in Europe
Stanley Jacobs of the Anti-Defarration League was more specific He said
Yockey was associated with the tap figures in extreme right-wing and antishy
Semitic movements
Yockey is known to have been closely connected fl th the resurgent Nazi
movement in West Germany
Somehow he obtained the poison crystals he used ThJmsday night Just as
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Goering the No 2 Nazi did at Nuernberg hours before he was to be ha nged
in 19L5 Yockey used potassium cyanide
No one knoHs haw he got it He played checkers tn th his fellow inmate
Adam Nienan a mapmaker of 1703 Arcadia street until lights were turned out
in their County Jail cell at 9 pm
Nieman then held o~ charges of gram theft which were dismissed yesterday
said ~ Yockey gave si gns of what was in his mind during the evening
tlHe told me he was the No1 leader of some SOlltt of organization Nieman
said He said he had kn owledge of people he loved and he thought hed be
farced to reveal it
The night before he discussed killing himself I-rith heavy weaghts on his
throat The last rernark he rnade to me was Youll sleep all ni ht of course
After lights were out he kept looking over the ledge of the bunk Bt me
r got quite concerned but finally r fell asleep1t
Apparently that was what Yockey had been waiti1S for He took his capsuleo
His baiy was found at 725 amo rigid on the bed hands folded across his
chest He s till had his boots on
Tucked into the folds of a blanket he us ed for a pillow was the follovdng
note
til shall write no messages which r know will never be delivered--only
this which will be
You rJi11 never discover who helped me for he is to be fmurl in your
own multitudinous ranks at least outwardlyo
Jail Su erintendent Frank Swith at first reported Yockey had died of
nat ural causes Cleser examination shoHed the inside of his mouth aand throat
were seared as one might exp~ct from swallming c~nide
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The ne~re brought Sheriff Btt Carberry b us tling to the ~il
We heard he las planniD5 suicide or esca e last TuesdayI he said
I e moved him f rom an upper tier to cell 20 on the grourrl floor where he
could be watched c onstantly by the guard on duty
Im satisfied that suf i cient pr ecautions Here taken
Sheriff Carberrys satisfaction was not shared by Clancey James B
Cavana J gh special arent for the security division of the State Department
or a handfuJ of a ents of the FBI who had been working on the case
Grim-faced they all shm-fed up at the jail and tried to _ind out hm-r
their Tnan had cheated justice and deprived them of possible i nformation
The investigation itself was taken up by the Homicide Bureau of the
Police Department and b~T Carberry
In Yockeys pels onal effects left Hi th tJ-j e jailer a second note was
fourrl It was addressed to Keith G Teeter an FBI a gent It read
Ny dear riro Teeter
I ask you as a favor in the same of humanity wh ich we share to
notify ny sister of this or her husband Lieutenant Cornrna nier or Jrs William
D Coyne Bethesda Md o
tlili thailk you
FrarlCis Yockey
Hrs Coyne nel1ed the body in the Coroners office Hi th Emmet F Hagerty
Yockeys attorney
Y keyg epitaph ras reJITided by an acquaintance and admirer Willis Carta
secretary of the Congress of Freeeol here and fourrier of the San Francisco
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Conservative Republican Headquarters set up during the GOP convention here
in 1956 Carto visited Yockey in jail June 100
Although I do not a ee with all his ideas I feel he Jas an authentic
creative genius I feel that those individuals uho are res onsible for
driving him to his death should feel a rreat sense of guil te
liThe world has lost a great man whose ideas will be r emembered until
estern Civilization is exter minated Carta saido
San Francisco Chronicle Satunlay June l8 l 1960
SISTER CALLS SttICIDE TRAGIC
PHI1 CS OPHER NOT PRO- NAZI SHE SA YS
By George Draper
The suicide of Francis Parker Yockey mystery man with many passports
was described as at a tragedy k yesterday by one of his sisters
All that talent all that brilliance is now gone sighed Mrs Hilliam
P Coyne of Bethesda 11i wife of a U S Navy commander
Mrs Coyne a handsome blonde with ~le blue eyes said Yockey spent his
adult life scrutinizing the JOrld from the exalted station of a true philosopher
No she said he wasnrt anti-Semitic he Jasnrt anti-Zionist No
he wasnrt pro-Nazi He never idolized Hitler In fact he thought Hitler
made one mistake after another n
Likerise Hrs Coyne said Yockey was neither pro-Russian nor anti-Russian
He merely felt that Russia had a role to play in world historytt she said
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~~S Coyne proudly recited the titles of six books written by Yockey
all of which lere privately published in London and one of which has been
called a blueprint of Fascist strategy1I
No publisher in the United States iTould to uch them II she said
Irs Coyne intervievled in t he office of Attorney Emmet Ha gerty said
she had been close to her brother rmen they grew up in Chicago but that in
the last 10 years she had seldom heard from him
He 1-1old telephone me once in a while but never say where he was I
think it was because he loJaS in some kind of tr ouble with the FBI she said
Hrs Coyne said she received a telephone call from Yockey early last
1reek informing her that Im in the Oakland jail
The sister imFtediately flew here from Maryland to help him
She said she talked to him in jail abolt the United States passport he
obtainoo in Salinas in 1954 lKder t1e name of Edward Tax Price
(This same passp ort Tas fourd among Yockeys belongings b3aring Yockeys
photograph with the name changed to Eduard flax Briceman)
liRe couldnt have changed that name on the nassport That Eequires special
techpique she said
Yockey told her she said that he still carried the passport because bhe
State Department had tl~rned him down seven times nen he applied for a new
passport
Jhy did Yockey also carry Canadian and British passports -with his photoshy
graph but different nares
Maybe he thought three passports were better than one Mrs Coyne replied
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The sister said S- e had no idea how Yockey had earned his living in
recent years or where he had b 8m living
Ny sister aro I gave him some money to bave a book published but that
was qcite a few years ago she said
Finally virs Coyne was asked why she thou ght Yockey committed sui cide
Has it been established that it was a sui cidert she replied
Re l 71inded that Yockey penned a suicide note before he died she added
I Oh thats right He did Probably he felt he -lasnt going to have
a fair trial
She he3itated a momen t and added
tIredica ted upon r-rha t happened he was completely justified in feeling
tha t way
San Francisco Chr onicle Sunday June 19 1960
VICTIH OF NAZIS LI TO YOCKE Y
by Geor ge Draper
Alex B Scharf tattooed sUvivor of the Auschlitz concentration camp
in World 7Jar II as being sought for questioning yesterday about the mysterious
activities of nea-Fascist Francis P Yockey
Yockey 43 killed hims elf with potassium cyanide in County Jail No1
early Friday lThile being held on passport fratrl charges
He was arrested in Scharfs Oakland apartment tvlO 1l euroeks ago l i t h three
fake Dassoorts- and seven birth certificates
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I rmned iately following Yockeys arrest Scharf 31 abandoned his j dJ
as princi al- of Tern le Beth Abraham school and disa peared
Both Government officials and Jewish leaders Here puzzled by the associashy
tion between Scharf and Yockey
Seymour Froroor director of Jewish iducation in Oaskland said Scharf
wears the German tatoo on his arm that proves he was a prisoner at Ausch~-litz
where more than t m million J eHS were cremated by Hi tIer
I am sure charf believed in Israel and Zionism n said Fromer
Stanley S Jacobs chief of the Anti-Defaro~tion Leag~ehere declared
I am loath to believe Scharf was e n ga ged in Neo-Fascist activities
wi th Yockey
Yockey is known to have been anti-Zionist if not anti-Semitic and in
liaison ith various extreme right--nng lea ers incluiing former followers
of Hitler
Yockeys former -dfe Alice Yockey of San Antonio Tex told this reporter
that Yockey thou ght reports of Jewish genocide in orld middotjar II were eXd ggerated
Investigators hope to question Scharf about his original explanation for
harring Yockey in his Oakland apartment
After Yockeys arrest Scharf is said to have told a lents he met Yockey
for the first time a few days earlier at the gambling tables in Reno
At poundhat time he said he invited Yockey a stranger to come to Oaklarrl
and stay at his apartrrent
Assistant United States Attorney W P Caancy said yesterday however that
Scharf had known Yockey for nearly a year
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In 1959 Clancy said Yockey applied f or an Irish passport
Either Yockeys application or an attached affidavit said Clancy bears
the name of Alex B Scharf and his former address at 2bol Sacramento street
Scharf was born in Czechoslovakia in 1928 am after Torld a1 II lived
in Paraguay a rrl Ar gentina e
He studied at GolUJ11bia Univergtity and at the Jewish Teachers Institute
in New York and then he returned to Paraguay as a teacher
Scharf came to San Francisco in late 1958 looking for a job teaching
Hebrew and las employed by the Bureau of Jewish Ed ucation
In June 1959 he viaS assigned to Te le Be th Abraham in Oakland as
eciucational director 0
Shortly before Scharf disappeared two weeks a go he t as not ified t ba t h O s
c otrac t at the t emple w-auld not be r enewed
Yockey has b een l eadi ng a lif e of myst ery for t he pas t 10 year s
Hi s sister Mrs Wi lliam bull Coyne of Bethesda r1l said she has no
knmJledge of where he ha s been or wha t he has been d oingo
She said mail for tockey has been deli~ed to her h ome over the years
but she has been forced to thrm it away not knDwing his whereabouts
Mrs Coynes husband is a commander in the Navy
Yockeys difficu lties arose when he lost a suitcase while flying to San
FrcmcLsco aboard an American Airlines Dlane
Tbe s itcase was subsequmtly fourrl in Fort Worth Texas Airline officials
08ned it to verify its Oinership am found a United States a British am a
Canadian passo crt -- each hri th Yockeys photograph ani each bearing a d ifferent
name The FBI Bas notified
San Fra nc isco Chronicle ~~ndaYJ June 20 1960
PUZZLING TRAI L OF YO CKE YS FRI ~ND
by Denne Petitclerc
Federa l a uthorities y estp-rday so ght to solve the ridd l e f what linked
Nazi concentration camp victim Alex B Scharf to neo-Fascist Francis P Yockey
But even Scharfs closest friJmis including the pre tty dark-haired
girl he once asked to marry hLm rere lmafule to ex l ain the strange r e lationship
Yockey Fascist philosopher and t-rriter and associate of former Hi tle r
followers co~~tted suicide in the GOQnty Jail here early Friday while being
held on a passp ort frau charge
Scharf 31-year-old former principal of Temple Beth b raham school in
Oakland a nd victim of Na z i bruta lity a t Auschwitz c oncentrati on camp in
i or lrl ar II has disappeared
It was in charfs Oakland apartnent t hat FBI a gents f0111d Yockey two
weeks ago Scharf since dro ood from s ight and i s DOli) being sought by Federal
authori t i e s for questioning
III know he didnt ha ve any money It sam Mrs Ezra Cohen-Sitt of IlS
Beulah stree t San Francisco
Mrs S i tt met her husband Ezra whi le da ting Scharf last year Sitt -laS
Scharfs roonnnate Ilm a tea cher t Temple Beth Abr aham sc1ool Scharf had once
asked Mrs Sitt to marry (l im He served as a n usher at her iedd i n in J a nuary
ani r emained a friend
Al ex was not the kirri of person you could get close tol she said He ijaS
ver-J sad and very seri ous~ and eve n though he Has likable he vIas alway s distant
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She said Scbarf -Jas t ntelligent and sensitive Hith a eep feeling f or
Orthcdox Jewry and a man fh o kept himself remote as a result of lon years
of f ear under brutal Nazi treatment in Eurone
UHis meetinr Hi th Yockey must have come fr om some thing aut of Europe
years a go II she said T1 He ras a boy of 18 and he Wande red for many years
after the Hal It
Scharf led a mcdest bachelor schoolteacher I s life in axklarri she said
He n fre uently dated one girl wh 0 as employed at a Reno gambling cas ino
she said
Scharf never mentioned Yockey to any of his acquaintances here yen~s
Stit t (sic) said
Assistant Unj ted t ates Attorney bull 2 Clancey said Scharfs battered
1956 yell orJ and black Mercury sedan has not b een fourrl but that the California
Highway Patrol has been alerted
San Francisco Chronicle Tuesday June 21 1960
D MA Y BE ON ISRA EL-BOUND SHIP
by Denne Petitclerc
_ lex B Scharf still sougtlt as a key ~ritness in th2 puzzling case of
nea-Fascist Francis P Yockey may be ab oard a sb~p en route to Israel
The Chronicle learned yesterday
Federal authorities here said they Here checking the possibility that
Scharf may have boarded a ship in e York last I-Teek or that he is still
waiti ng in Ne-J York t o eave the country
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Yockey wa s arr e s ted i n Scharf s apartment on J une 8 ~las ques tioned
by Federal officers a m then vanis hed bull Aut h ori ties are s t ill p uzz led about
Hha t bond cOlld have existed bet wee n a Naz i philos ophe r like Yockey am
Scharf a one-time principal of Oaklands Temple Beth Abraham school and an
inmate of German conentration c amps in Uor1d ~Jar II
Yockey 43 killed himself Hith potassill1fl cyanide in his County Jail No1
cell early last Friday whi le being held on passport violation charges
The first possible clue to Scharfs whereabouts came yesterday in checkJ_ng
a former San Jose court reporter described as charf s closest friend
The reporter William Sloffibvich 35 left his job in San Jose about three
months ago -lorked until last month in Los -ngeles and then left far New York
The Chronicle learned that Slomovich s name apueared on the passenger
list of the Atlantic an American Export Lines ship which sailed from ew
York last Thursday bound for P~ifa Israel
lthough cparfs name did not aprear on the passe er list Federal
authorities said it is possible he rr~y have used an ass umed name since he is
not a citizen of the United States
Assistant United States Attorney il1iam P Clancey said t~at American
offmcials in Israel 1i11 be alerted to question Slornovich--and to be on the
lookout for Scharf--when the ship berths in Haifa on June 29
Clancy (sic) nEamlhile said that evidence Dr irrlicates that Scharf had
known Yockey for more t han a year
Yockey made an application for an Irish passport in an Francisco in 1959
under t he name of Michael Taylor usi ng Scharf as a referenceo
Clancy s j d a handwriting ex-pert is aIlCtlyzin the docurn-nt to d e terrni ne
-hether charfs signature las forgedo
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liieanwhile it Jas learned tha t Yockey asked a f e11ovI-prisoner tvJO
days befClte he committed suicide in the C01lllty Jail here where he c ould
ootain some poison
Federal author ities refused to identify the prisoner but said that he
has been transf erred to another institution He Jill be questioned tcrlay
about the conversation officials said
Sherriff Matthew Carberry whohms San F ancisco s CODnty J ail co~ ented
last night that no Federal official had rnentioned to him the existence of a
county jail prisoner with such a story
Authori ties are puzzled as to T here Yockey obtained the deadl y poison
and haw it reached his cello
At too same time the coroners office announced that a toxologists
report s h mfs that Yockey took one-fifth of a am of potassi urn cyanide which
is double the lethal dose f or a man of his size
Yockey left a note defying anyone to discover h ow he obtained the poison
Frierris said t1at Scharf fled the ay Area in a battered 1956 yellow and
black l1e rcury sedan apparently with little money in his possession
Mrs Ezra Cohen-Sitt of 115 Beulah street a friend of charf said
yesterday she wan ted to correct an impression given in an intervieH with
The Chronicle Sunday that Scharf had at one ti~e asked her to marry him
He did not she said I did not intem to be quoted on any Hatter
rela ted to Hr Scharf II
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San Francisco Chronicle Wednesday June 22 1960
u S PRESSES SEARCH F YOCKEYS AL
The search for Alex B Scharf mysterio11S pal of neo-Fascist Francis
P Yockey settled down to a game of fox and houms yesterday
Scharf rho departed from Oaklarrl so quickly after Yockeys arrest that
he even left his clothes behind was in the role of the fox The hounds are
agents of the State Department vih ose security officials in ian Franc isco
said s impl
lIvere trying to blanket all escape routes and He re hoping for the bestI
Yockey cormnitted suicide with cyanide in the County Jail last Friday
while being held on a passport charge
Scharf is being sought to rim out what he knoHS abolt Yockeys multiple
passports
Authorities are betuldered about the association of the two Scharf who
is 33 is a forroor principal of Oaklands Temple Beth Abraham School and an
inmate of Nazi concentration camps
Yockey L13 was a racist neo-Nazi of considerable infamy when he accidentally
fell into the hands of Federal authorities on June 6 Yockey had complained to
an airline about the loss of a bag It had already been opened in Fort middot orth
fex as unclaimed and was fourrl to contain three different passports all
bearing Yockeys pictuces
The FBI picked up Yockey in Scharf I s apartTEnt 8t 165 Bellevue avenue
Oakland but when t h ey went back later to talk to - charf he was gone
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$2300 in cash and 850 in travelers checks Ii th him
We are interested in where he gets his money Clancy said lWe know
he has been associated wi th some anti-Semitic groups and that he is enga ged
in a systematic and well-planned operation in passports tt
In his a earance befare Kresh Yockey was stiff and a n gr y
This is practically assault and batteryt he told Kar esh He braced
hilnself ani folded his hanis as the COIlmussioner talked Tith his lawyer
Carl Ho pe about a continuance pending the arrival of his sis t er
She is illiam D Coyne wife of a Navy c OT1II1amer of Bethesda m
Hop pe said hel needed time to discuss the entire situation li th firs 0
Coyne and he asked if she could visit Yockey 17 in jail tcxiayo
You want an order far Saturday for your boytI asked Karesh
111 beg yCJUJ paroohlI Yockey snapped Im no boy II
nYotlUg man toon1t purred Karesh
IINo no young man either1t said Yockey
Then defe niant said Karesh I think we can 3 gree on that Ill
see you Monday
San Francisco Chronicle 1c1orrlay June 13 1960
PASSPORT BAIL PLEA DUB IODA Y
Francis P Yockey the man of mystery and passports is scheduled to
aDnear befltre U0 3 Commissioner Joseph Karesh tcxlay to plead for lesser baH
Yockey accused of fraud in traveling in ~ estern Europe on spurious
passports has been held in lieu of 50000 bail since his arrest last week
Here to help him was a sister Mrs lvilliam Coyne 1-life of a Navy
commander from Bethesda Yrlo
The 43-year-old laryer was picked up in Oaklarrl at the llltX apartment of
Alex B Scharf ~~til recently principal of the Jewish school at Temple Beth
Abraham
Scharf in his early 30s disa peared after Yockey was arrested It
developed that Yockey given a midical di scharg~ from the Army in 1943 for
dementia praecox paranoid type had engaged in pro-lt3zi anti-Semitic
activities
San rancisco Chronicle Tuesday June lL 1960
amp41L PLEA DEIA YEn
PASSPORT STTSPE CT CA LLED TOP FASCIST
Francis Parker Yockey mysterious collector of spurious passports was
described hEr e yesterday as a sj_gnificant Fascist wi th international
connect ons n
Yockey 43 held under 50000 bail for passport fraud was so classified
by Stanley Jacobs regional director of the Anti-Defamation Lea 3ueo
He Has one of the sever al unoffidal observ8rs yesterday at Yockeys
stormy hearing before U s Connnissioner Joseph Karesh
Jacobs said Yockey is considered lias i mportant a world fi~ure in fascism
as we now kncn n
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Assistant U0 S Attorney Wi lliam P Clancy Jr said the Yockey case
will be given to the Federal Grand Jury later this month
In the meantime Clancy said the GJvernment will file a request t Qmorrow
that the TI S District Court oroer a psychiatric exainira tion for Yockey
Karesh may join in the motion basing his request on Yockeys behavior
in hearings before him
Yockeys lawyer Carl Hoppe came into court yesterday prepared to ask
a reduction in bail Acti on however was ~ostponed until this morninG to
enable a new lawyer to enter the tangled case
Ho _e a fe tent attorney s aid he wished to Jtthdraw n favor of a
l awyer with criminal experience
Present during yesterdays hearing was Emmet F Hagerty who may represent
Yockey during future hearings
Yookey whose name has been closely linked with numerous nea-Nazi
organizations am whose many passports under assumed names s u ggested international
intrigue was arrested last 1ieek on a charge of p as sport fraud after his
suitcase went astray in Fort Worth Texas The sQttcase was found to contain
three false)8ssports all carrying Yockeys picture but phony names
Yockey complained during yesterdays ~oceedings that he had been refused
permission to see his two sisters Alice Spurlock hos ital I-ray technician
in Gilroy and -h-s 11illiam Coyne of Bethesda vB
The Conmlissio~r recessed court for 40 minutes to allow Yockey to confer
vith his sisters in the Marshals officeo
Yockey as asked during the recess whether he had traveled extensively in
Russia in 1957 ar~ the questioning reporter was dismissed with the order
Get out of here you filthy swine
lle
San Francisco Chronicle Wednesday June 15 1960
IJ I~ PLOT TOLD IN PASSPORT CASE
A bold jailbraak plot en ~ineered by Francis P Yockey the passport
mystery man was revealed yesterday along 1-ith alle ged threats of suicide
Yockey a 43-year-old ex-laryer from Detroit had a npeared before U S
COlIDllissioner Joseph Karesh to plead for a reduction in his 50000 ba il on
a 9assport-fraud char ge
Tcrrard the eni 0 that p-roceeding which was intersession Assistant
U S Attorney William P Clancy Jr mentioned rithdramatic casualness the
purported escape plot am the suicide threats
AEguing against bail reduction he said uThere I S an extreme risk of
flight bull bull a gra-IJe ris k of injury to hirns elf am others II
The escape plan Clancy said was relayed to him by the FBI It ~ent
he said like this
Yockey on Monday approached two other Federal prisoners being held at the
county jail He offered to post S1000 bail far one who is a wai ting sentence
This man would then get a car a nd guns - en the Federal orisoners were
marched into the U S Marshals van in DW1bar ~lley behind the Hall of Justice
the second accomplice would start a kIZIId brawl
The man Hi th the guns would then love in slip a gun to Yockey am all
three would escape in the car parked nearby
The plan went awry Clancey said when the bail posting fell through and
one of the prisoners tipped off the FBI
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Yockey spoke up lTot a HOrd of truth in that If
KadIsh turned to Ennne t F Hagerty who replaced Carl Ho e as Yockeys
attorney I1If such a thing is true Im sure youll agree the bail s et Xx
is not excess i ire II
III a gree n said Hagerty if its true
lWe ve goed r eas on to believe so It said Clancey
Plt8gerty said it might rove otherwise ii the other prisoners were produced
for cross-questioning am Clancey said he might disclooe their identity tcday
Jail s uperintendent Frank Smith later disclosed the other two prisoners
were Philip Galati 21 of Brooklyn awai ting sentence on a check charge and
held in lieu of $1000 bail and Jack Fambrough 27 of 619 39th street Oaklarrl
Jho has pleaded g1lilty to the S9LLI robbery of an Oakhnd Arrrry Terninal PX
service station llt1here he warlred
Fallbrough ras to have been sentenced by Judge Sweigert yesterday but
the case was p03 t poned until tcrlay
~iidway in the bail discussion the case abruptly moved into ~ ederal J uige
iilial) T Sweigerts coort Where Clancey requested a psychiatric exarrination
for Yockey sa ng he as t1 unable to comprehend thb siuilationt and thus c ould
not assist in his defense
Yockey familiar iod th Nazi and Fascist elements in t his country and Eur ope
stood before tre court v1 th anna folded across his chest while Hagerty objected
to a mental examination o
This JTe n has an intellect equal of any in this courtroom with all
deference to Your Honor n Hagerty said He is a member of the bar i n Illinois
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and Michigan a graduate of Notre Darle GeoIl~etown t1ichigan an lItDx author
of books was a Deputy istrict Attorney of Detroit and a rosecutor at the
Nuernberg trials That doesnt Trean he is incompetent to ass ist in his defense
C18ncey countered He was dischar~8d fron the army in 1943 as a dementia
pr a ecox--paranoid type and his conduct before th~ U S CoJltll issioner has
been bizarre II
He then related reports tllhat Yockey rJ8d twice threatened suicide--once
ih the Oakland jail after his arrest am a gain in the jail here Yockey
prom Uy denied that then tossed in a little SOB sensation of his own
He said that lex Scharf in whose Oaklarrl apartment he was arrested and mo
has since disappeared had been taken into custooy by the FBI
uHe JaS arrested in my presence1 Yockey said
The F I promptly denied that
Jui ge Sweigert said he 1ould rule at 11 am today on middotrhether to direct
that Yockey be given a pychiatric test and Karesh held up the bail l1atter
until after that
Sall Francisco Chronicle Thursday J una 16 1960
MENTAL EXAM ORDERED IN S F PASSPORT NYST RY
Francis P Yockey 43 passport mystery man Tas ordered held for
psychiatric examination yesterday by Federal Jud ge (yilliam T Sweigert
The order as Tlade on Government motion aLrl over t he strenuous obj ections
of Yockey hims elf an attorney ani his law--je r Enunet F Ha gerty
Judge SIeigert said he would receive the psychiatric reports on hly 11
am a motion to reduce Yockeys 50000 b8il was vJithdrcnm untn that date
Yockey was arrested in Oaklarrl last lleek after a piece of his l u ga ge
that went astray was frond to contain three passports bearing false names and
spurious identification dccuments He is known to have been closely identified
wi th Nazis and Fascists in this country am Europe
u S Commissioner Joseph Karesh before horn Yockey has appeared in
several stOlTlY hearings was called yesterday by Assistant U S Attorney
WIlliam P ClaJlcey Jr
Karesh testified that he had closely observed Yockey am descrived his
actions as lIthe most unusual of arry accused person who has ever a ppeared
before me II
With per~ission of the cmrrt Yockey undertook to cross eX8~ine Kareshe
He accused the Commissioner of being prejudiced because he had read Yockey
as II anti-J e-lish II
Judge Sweigert halted Yockey in mid-sentence That will ce enough of
thatn he saaIlped
Two EI agents ELliV2rd Ij Cunningham ani Keith G Teeter subnitted affidavits
that Yockey had received a psychiatric discharge fran the Army in 19w3
One affidavit said Army records show that Yockey suffered marked delusions
of persecutions had ideas of gramellr and Ias given a disability dischar ge
due to dementia praecox paranoi d type Cause urrletermined u
Anothe r a ff idavit said Yockey told two unnamed cell TIates in the County
Jail he intended to commit suicide by sharpening a canb into a lethal weapon
Tuesday it was revealed in a hearing before Karesh that Yockey had alle gedly
attempted to engineer a daring escape from 11e County Jail 0 One of the
Clri soners wh om he solidted to aid in t he getaway plan transrnitted the
inforation to the FBI
Yockey in c p3ssionate statemont to the court charQeurod that the GoverT1rnent
was depriving him of his defense by subjecting him to psychiatric examinationo
He said that use of his Army medical recoro violated his r i LtS
San Francisco Chronicle Saturday June 18 1960
PASSPORT DEFENDAN T
MYSTERY MAN yOCKEY KILIS SElF IN bull F JAIL CELL
by Tom Ma thews
Neo-Nazi Francis P Yockey took a leaf from the notebook of HerT~ann
Goering Hitlers air rrarshI31 and poisoned himself in jail yesterday
He left behind him a furious set of Federal officials and a note defying
anyone to find out who supplied him rith the cyanide he used to end his life
The Federal Bureau of Investi gation the State Department and the United
States Attorneys office were left hohl ing a top-secret file on Yockey and
no Yockey to prosecute
The file arrived lastvlednesday One official saj_d it ms loaded rith
dynamite
Yockey 43 was arrested June 6 for investiga tion of passport fraud FBI
agents caught bp 1Tith hi m when he checked on a suitcase that had ~JOne astray
dcentng a plane flight
The suitcase contained three false passp orts Gerrran press credentials
and seven birth certHicates
A ents found him in the apartment of Alex Scharf u65 Bellevue avenue
Cakland Scharf a fo r mer teacher at the Te mple Beth Abraham school
imrre diately disappeared
He has been subpoenaed by the Federal Gram JillS but so far has not
turned up
A warrant for arrest of Scharf was issued late yesterday afternoon Bail
Jas set at $5000
The mysterirus aspect of the case -Jas compounded by Yockeys behavior
and by tlJe insistence of authorities that he be held in the surprisingly high
bail of $50 000
Yockey b q an talking of suicide the day he was arrested He made one
elaborate escape attempt In his court appearances his grandiose manner am
c onte t for proceedings led to an order for a psychiatric exami_nation
The U S Assistant Attorney William P Clancey iolOuld say of Yockey only
that he seemed to be dealing in passports and that current inforrra tion shomd
him to have traveled extensively in Europe
Stanley Jacobs of the Anti-Defarration League was more specific He said
Yockey was associated with the tap figures in extreme right-wing and antishy
Semitic movements
Yockey is known to have been closely connected fl th the resurgent Nazi
movement in West Germany
Somehow he obtained the poison crystals he used ThJmsday night Just as
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Goering the No 2 Nazi did at Nuernberg hours before he was to be ha nged
in 19L5 Yockey used potassium cyanide
No one knoHs haw he got it He played checkers tn th his fellow inmate
Adam Nienan a mapmaker of 1703 Arcadia street until lights were turned out
in their County Jail cell at 9 pm
Nieman then held o~ charges of gram theft which were dismissed yesterday
said ~ Yockey gave si gns of what was in his mind during the evening
tlHe told me he was the No1 leader of some SOlltt of organization Nieman
said He said he had kn owledge of people he loved and he thought hed be
farced to reveal it
The night before he discussed killing himself I-rith heavy weaghts on his
throat The last rernark he rnade to me was Youll sleep all ni ht of course
After lights were out he kept looking over the ledge of the bunk Bt me
r got quite concerned but finally r fell asleep1t
Apparently that was what Yockey had been waiti1S for He took his capsuleo
His baiy was found at 725 amo rigid on the bed hands folded across his
chest He s till had his boots on
Tucked into the folds of a blanket he us ed for a pillow was the follovdng
note
til shall write no messages which r know will never be delivered--only
this which will be
You rJi11 never discover who helped me for he is to be fmurl in your
own multitudinous ranks at least outwardlyo
Jail Su erintendent Frank Swith at first reported Yockey had died of
nat ural causes Cleser examination shoHed the inside of his mouth aand throat
were seared as one might exp~ct from swallming c~nide
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The ne~re brought Sheriff Btt Carberry b us tling to the ~il
We heard he las planniD5 suicide or esca e last TuesdayI he said
I e moved him f rom an upper tier to cell 20 on the grourrl floor where he
could be watched c onstantly by the guard on duty
Im satisfied that suf i cient pr ecautions Here taken
Sheriff Carberrys satisfaction was not shared by Clancey James B
Cavana J gh special arent for the security division of the State Department
or a handfuJ of a ents of the FBI who had been working on the case
Grim-faced they all shm-fed up at the jail and tried to _ind out hm-r
their Tnan had cheated justice and deprived them of possible i nformation
The investigation itself was taken up by the Homicide Bureau of the
Police Department and b~T Carberry
In Yockeys pels onal effects left Hi th tJ-j e jailer a second note was
fourrl It was addressed to Keith G Teeter an FBI a gent It read
Ny dear riro Teeter
I ask you as a favor in the same of humanity wh ich we share to
notify ny sister of this or her husband Lieutenant Cornrna nier or Jrs William
D Coyne Bethesda Md o
tlili thailk you
FrarlCis Yockey
Hrs Coyne nel1ed the body in the Coroners office Hi th Emmet F Hagerty
Yockeys attorney
Y keyg epitaph ras reJITided by an acquaintance and admirer Willis Carta
secretary of the Congress of Freeeol here and fourrier of the San Francisco
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Conservative Republican Headquarters set up during the GOP convention here
in 1956 Carto visited Yockey in jail June 100
Although I do not a ee with all his ideas I feel he Jas an authentic
creative genius I feel that those individuals uho are res onsible for
driving him to his death should feel a rreat sense of guil te
liThe world has lost a great man whose ideas will be r emembered until
estern Civilization is exter minated Carta saido
San Francisco Chronicle Satunlay June l8 l 1960
SISTER CALLS SttICIDE TRAGIC
PHI1 CS OPHER NOT PRO- NAZI SHE SA YS
By George Draper
The suicide of Francis Parker Yockey mystery man with many passports
was described as at a tragedy k yesterday by one of his sisters
All that talent all that brilliance is now gone sighed Mrs Hilliam
P Coyne of Bethesda 11i wife of a U S Navy commander
Mrs Coyne a handsome blonde with ~le blue eyes said Yockey spent his
adult life scrutinizing the JOrld from the exalted station of a true philosopher
No she said he wasnrt anti-Semitic he Jasnrt anti-Zionist No
he wasnrt pro-Nazi He never idolized Hitler In fact he thought Hitler
made one mistake after another n
Likerise Hrs Coyne said Yockey was neither pro-Russian nor anti-Russian
He merely felt that Russia had a role to play in world historytt she said
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~~S Coyne proudly recited the titles of six books written by Yockey
all of which lere privately published in London and one of which has been
called a blueprint of Fascist strategy1I
No publisher in the United States iTould to uch them II she said
Irs Coyne intervievled in t he office of Attorney Emmet Ha gerty said
she had been close to her brother rmen they grew up in Chicago but that in
the last 10 years she had seldom heard from him
He 1-1old telephone me once in a while but never say where he was I
think it was because he loJaS in some kind of tr ouble with the FBI she said
Hrs Coyne said she received a telephone call from Yockey early last
1reek informing her that Im in the Oakland jail
The sister imFtediately flew here from Maryland to help him
She said she talked to him in jail abolt the United States passport he
obtainoo in Salinas in 1954 lKder t1e name of Edward Tax Price
(This same passp ort Tas fourd among Yockeys belongings b3aring Yockeys
photograph with the name changed to Eduard flax Briceman)
liRe couldnt have changed that name on the nassport That Eequires special
techpique she said
Yockey told her she said that he still carried the passport because bhe
State Department had tl~rned him down seven times nen he applied for a new
passport
Jhy did Yockey also carry Canadian and British passports -with his photoshy
graph but different nares
Maybe he thought three passports were better than one Mrs Coyne replied
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The sister said S- e had no idea how Yockey had earned his living in
recent years or where he had b 8m living
Ny sister aro I gave him some money to bave a book published but that
was qcite a few years ago she said
Finally virs Coyne was asked why she thou ght Yockey committed sui cide
Has it been established that it was a sui cidert she replied
Re l 71inded that Yockey penned a suicide note before he died she added
I Oh thats right He did Probably he felt he -lasnt going to have
a fair trial
She he3itated a momen t and added
tIredica ted upon r-rha t happened he was completely justified in feeling
tha t way
San Francisco Chr onicle Sunday June 19 1960
VICTIH OF NAZIS LI TO YOCKE Y
by Geor ge Draper
Alex B Scharf tattooed sUvivor of the Auschlitz concentration camp
in World 7Jar II as being sought for questioning yesterday about the mysterious
activities of nea-Fascist Francis P Yockey
Yockey 43 killed hims elf with potassium cyanide in County Jail No1
early Friday lThile being held on passport fratrl charges
He was arrested in Scharfs Oakland apartment tvlO 1l euroeks ago l i t h three
fake Dassoorts- and seven birth certificates
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I rmned iately following Yockeys arrest Scharf 31 abandoned his j dJ
as princi al- of Tern le Beth Abraham school and disa peared
Both Government officials and Jewish leaders Here puzzled by the associashy
tion between Scharf and Yockey
Seymour Froroor director of Jewish iducation in Oaskland said Scharf
wears the German tatoo on his arm that proves he was a prisoner at Ausch~-litz
where more than t m million J eHS were cremated by Hi tIer
I am sure charf believed in Israel and Zionism n said Fromer
Stanley S Jacobs chief of the Anti-Defaro~tion Leag~ehere declared
I am loath to believe Scharf was e n ga ged in Neo-Fascist activities
wi th Yockey
Yockey is known to have been anti-Zionist if not anti-Semitic and in
liaison ith various extreme right--nng lea ers incluiing former followers
of Hitler
Yockeys former -dfe Alice Yockey of San Antonio Tex told this reporter
that Yockey thou ght reports of Jewish genocide in orld middotjar II were eXd ggerated
Investigators hope to question Scharf about his original explanation for
harring Yockey in his Oakland apartment
After Yockeys arrest Scharf is said to have told a lents he met Yockey
for the first time a few days earlier at the gambling tables in Reno
At poundhat time he said he invited Yockey a stranger to come to Oaklarrl
and stay at his apartrrent
Assistant United States Attorney W P Caancy said yesterday however that
Scharf had known Yockey for nearly a year
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In 1959 Clancy said Yockey applied f or an Irish passport
Either Yockeys application or an attached affidavit said Clancy bears
the name of Alex B Scharf and his former address at 2bol Sacramento street
Scharf was born in Czechoslovakia in 1928 am after Torld a1 II lived
in Paraguay a rrl Ar gentina e
He studied at GolUJ11bia Univergtity and at the Jewish Teachers Institute
in New York and then he returned to Paraguay as a teacher
Scharf came to San Francisco in late 1958 looking for a job teaching
Hebrew and las employed by the Bureau of Jewish Ed ucation
In June 1959 he viaS assigned to Te le Be th Abraham in Oakland as
eciucational director 0
Shortly before Scharf disappeared two weeks a go he t as not ified t ba t h O s
c otrac t at the t emple w-auld not be r enewed
Yockey has b een l eadi ng a lif e of myst ery for t he pas t 10 year s
Hi s sister Mrs Wi lliam bull Coyne of Bethesda r1l said she has no
knmJledge of where he ha s been or wha t he has been d oingo
She said mail for tockey has been deli~ed to her h ome over the years
but she has been forced to thrm it away not knDwing his whereabouts
Mrs Coynes husband is a commander in the Navy
Yockeys difficu lties arose when he lost a suitcase while flying to San
FrcmcLsco aboard an American Airlines Dlane
Tbe s itcase was subsequmtly fourrl in Fort Worth Texas Airline officials
08ned it to verify its Oinership am found a United States a British am a
Canadian passo crt -- each hri th Yockeys photograph ani each bearing a d ifferent
name The FBI Bas notified
San Fra nc isco Chronicle ~~ndaYJ June 20 1960
PUZZLING TRAI L OF YO CKE YS FRI ~ND
by Denne Petitclerc
Federa l a uthorities y estp-rday so ght to solve the ridd l e f what linked
Nazi concentration camp victim Alex B Scharf to neo-Fascist Francis P Yockey
But even Scharfs closest friJmis including the pre tty dark-haired
girl he once asked to marry hLm rere lmafule to ex l ain the strange r e lationship
Yockey Fascist philosopher and t-rriter and associate of former Hi tle r
followers co~~tted suicide in the GOQnty Jail here early Friday while being
held on a passp ort frau charge
Scharf 31-year-old former principal of Temple Beth b raham school in
Oakland a nd victim of Na z i bruta lity a t Auschwitz c oncentrati on camp in
i or lrl ar II has disappeared
It was in charfs Oakland apartnent t hat FBI a gents f0111d Yockey two
weeks ago Scharf since dro ood from s ight and i s DOli) being sought by Federal
authori t i e s for questioning
III know he didnt ha ve any money It sam Mrs Ezra Cohen-Sitt of IlS
Beulah stree t San Francisco
Mrs S i tt met her husband Ezra whi le da ting Scharf last year Sitt -laS
Scharfs roonnnate Ilm a tea cher t Temple Beth Abr aham sc1ool Scharf had once
asked Mrs Sitt to marry (l im He served as a n usher at her iedd i n in J a nuary
ani r emained a friend
Al ex was not the kirri of person you could get close tol she said He ijaS
ver-J sad and very seri ous~ and eve n though he Has likable he vIas alway s distant
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She said Scbarf -Jas t ntelligent and sensitive Hith a eep feeling f or
Orthcdox Jewry and a man fh o kept himself remote as a result of lon years
of f ear under brutal Nazi treatment in Eurone
UHis meetinr Hi th Yockey must have come fr om some thing aut of Europe
years a go II she said T1 He ras a boy of 18 and he Wande red for many years
after the Hal It
Scharf led a mcdest bachelor schoolteacher I s life in axklarri she said
He n fre uently dated one girl wh 0 as employed at a Reno gambling cas ino
she said
Scharf never mentioned Yockey to any of his acquaintances here yen~s
Stit t (sic) said
Assistant Unj ted t ates Attorney bull 2 Clancey said Scharfs battered
1956 yell orJ and black Mercury sedan has not b een fourrl but that the California
Highway Patrol has been alerted
San Francisco Chronicle Tuesday June 21 1960
D MA Y BE ON ISRA EL-BOUND SHIP
by Denne Petitclerc
_ lex B Scharf still sougtlt as a key ~ritness in th2 puzzling case of
nea-Fascist Francis P Yockey may be ab oard a sb~p en route to Israel
The Chronicle learned yesterday
Federal authorities here said they Here checking the possibility that
Scharf may have boarded a ship in e York last I-Teek or that he is still
waiti ng in Ne-J York t o eave the country
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Yockey wa s arr e s ted i n Scharf s apartment on J une 8 ~las ques tioned
by Federal officers a m then vanis hed bull Aut h ori ties are s t ill p uzz led about
Hha t bond cOlld have existed bet wee n a Naz i philos ophe r like Yockey am
Scharf a one-time principal of Oaklands Temple Beth Abraham school and an
inmate of German conentration c amps in Uor1d ~Jar II
Yockey 43 killed himself Hith potassill1fl cyanide in his County Jail No1
cell early last Friday whi le being held on passport violation charges
The first possible clue to Scharfs whereabouts came yesterday in checkJ_ng
a former San Jose court reporter described as charf s closest friend
The reporter William Sloffibvich 35 left his job in San Jose about three
months ago -lorked until last month in Los -ngeles and then left far New York
The Chronicle learned that Slomovich s name apueared on the passenger
list of the Atlantic an American Export Lines ship which sailed from ew
York last Thursday bound for P~ifa Israel
lthough cparfs name did not aprear on the passe er list Federal
authorities said it is possible he rr~y have used an ass umed name since he is
not a citizen of the United States
Assistant United States Attorney il1iam P Clancey said t~at American
offmcials in Israel 1i11 be alerted to question Slornovich--and to be on the
lookout for Scharf--when the ship berths in Haifa on June 29
Clancy (sic) nEamlhile said that evidence Dr irrlicates that Scharf had
known Yockey for more t han a year
Yockey made an application for an Irish passport in an Francisco in 1959
under t he name of Michael Taylor usi ng Scharf as a referenceo
Clancy s j d a handwriting ex-pert is aIlCtlyzin the docurn-nt to d e terrni ne
-hether charfs signature las forgedo
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liieanwhile it Jas learned tha t Yockey asked a f e11ovI-prisoner tvJO
days befClte he committed suicide in the C01lllty Jail here where he c ould
ootain some poison
Federal author ities refused to identify the prisoner but said that he
has been transf erred to another institution He Jill be questioned tcrlay
about the conversation officials said
Sherriff Matthew Carberry whohms San F ancisco s CODnty J ail co~ ented
last night that no Federal official had rnentioned to him the existence of a
county jail prisoner with such a story
Authori ties are puzzled as to T here Yockey obtained the deadl y poison
and haw it reached his cello
At too same time the coroners office announced that a toxologists
report s h mfs that Yockey took one-fifth of a am of potassi urn cyanide which
is double the lethal dose f or a man of his size
Yockey left a note defying anyone to discover h ow he obtained the poison
Frierris said t1at Scharf fled the ay Area in a battered 1956 yellow and
black l1e rcury sedan apparently with little money in his possession
Mrs Ezra Cohen-Sitt of 115 Beulah street a friend of charf said
yesterday she wan ted to correct an impression given in an intervieH with
The Chronicle Sunday that Scharf had at one ti~e asked her to marry him
He did not she said I did not intem to be quoted on any Hatter
rela ted to Hr Scharf II
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San Francisco Chronicle Wednesday June 22 1960
u S PRESSES SEARCH F YOCKEYS AL
The search for Alex B Scharf mysterio11S pal of neo-Fascist Francis
P Yockey settled down to a game of fox and houms yesterday
Scharf rho departed from Oaklarrl so quickly after Yockeys arrest that
he even left his clothes behind was in the role of the fox The hounds are
agents of the State Department vih ose security officials in ian Franc isco
said s impl
lIvere trying to blanket all escape routes and He re hoping for the bestI
Yockey cormnitted suicide with cyanide in the County Jail last Friday
while being held on a passport charge
Scharf is being sought to rim out what he knoHS abolt Yockeys multiple
passports
Authorities are betuldered about the association of the two Scharf who
is 33 is a forroor principal of Oaklands Temple Beth Abraham School and an
inmate of Nazi concentration camps
Yockey L13 was a racist neo-Nazi of considerable infamy when he accidentally
fell into the hands of Federal authorities on June 6 Yockey had complained to
an airline about the loss of a bag It had already been opened in Fort middot orth
fex as unclaimed and was fourrl to contain three different passports all
bearing Yockeys pictuces
The FBI picked up Yockey in Scharf I s apartTEnt 8t 165 Bellevue avenue
Oakland but when t h ey went back later to talk to - charf he was gone
Yockey accused of fraud in traveling in ~ estern Europe on spurious
passports has been held in lieu of 50000 bail since his arrest last week
Here to help him was a sister Mrs lvilliam Coyne 1-life of a Navy
commander from Bethesda Yrlo
The 43-year-old laryer was picked up in Oaklarrl at the llltX apartment of
Alex B Scharf ~~til recently principal of the Jewish school at Temple Beth
Abraham
Scharf in his early 30s disa peared after Yockey was arrested It
developed that Yockey given a midical di scharg~ from the Army in 1943 for
dementia praecox paranoid type had engaged in pro-lt3zi anti-Semitic
activities
San rancisco Chronicle Tuesday June lL 1960
amp41L PLEA DEIA YEn
PASSPORT STTSPE CT CA LLED TOP FASCIST
Francis Parker Yockey mysterious collector of spurious passports was
described hEr e yesterday as a sj_gnificant Fascist wi th international
connect ons n
Yockey 43 held under 50000 bail for passport fraud was so classified
by Stanley Jacobs regional director of the Anti-Defamation Lea 3ueo
He Has one of the sever al unoffidal observ8rs yesterday at Yockeys
stormy hearing before U s Connnissioner Joseph Karesh
Jacobs said Yockey is considered lias i mportant a world fi~ure in fascism
as we now kncn n
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Assistant U0 S Attorney Wi lliam P Clancy Jr said the Yockey case
will be given to the Federal Grand Jury later this month
In the meantime Clancy said the GJvernment will file a request t Qmorrow
that the TI S District Court oroer a psychiatric exainira tion for Yockey
Karesh may join in the motion basing his request on Yockeys behavior
in hearings before him
Yockeys lawyer Carl Hoppe came into court yesterday prepared to ask
a reduction in bail Acti on however was ~ostponed until this morninG to
enable a new lawyer to enter the tangled case
Ho _e a fe tent attorney s aid he wished to Jtthdraw n favor of a
l awyer with criminal experience
Present during yesterdays hearing was Emmet F Hagerty who may represent
Yockey during future hearings
Yookey whose name has been closely linked with numerous nea-Nazi
organizations am whose many passports under assumed names s u ggested international
intrigue was arrested last 1ieek on a charge of p as sport fraud after his
suitcase went astray in Fort Worth Texas The sQttcase was found to contain
three false)8ssports all carrying Yockeys picture but phony names
Yockey complained during yesterdays ~oceedings that he had been refused
permission to see his two sisters Alice Spurlock hos ital I-ray technician
in Gilroy and -h-s 11illiam Coyne of Bethesda vB
The Conmlissio~r recessed court for 40 minutes to allow Yockey to confer
vith his sisters in the Marshals officeo
Yockey as asked during the recess whether he had traveled extensively in
Russia in 1957 ar~ the questioning reporter was dismissed with the order
Get out of here you filthy swine
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San Francisco Chronicle Wednesday June 15 1960
IJ I~ PLOT TOLD IN PASSPORT CASE
A bold jailbraak plot en ~ineered by Francis P Yockey the passport
mystery man was revealed yesterday along 1-ith alle ged threats of suicide
Yockey a 43-year-old ex-laryer from Detroit had a npeared before U S
COlIDllissioner Joseph Karesh to plead for a reduction in his 50000 ba il on
a 9assport-fraud char ge
Tcrrard the eni 0 that p-roceeding which was intersession Assistant
U S Attorney William P Clancy Jr mentioned rithdramatic casualness the
purported escape plot am the suicide threats
AEguing against bail reduction he said uThere I S an extreme risk of
flight bull bull a gra-IJe ris k of injury to hirns elf am others II
The escape plan Clancy said was relayed to him by the FBI It ~ent
he said like this
Yockey on Monday approached two other Federal prisoners being held at the
county jail He offered to post S1000 bail far one who is a wai ting sentence
This man would then get a car a nd guns - en the Federal orisoners were
marched into the U S Marshals van in DW1bar ~lley behind the Hall of Justice
the second accomplice would start a kIZIId brawl
The man Hi th the guns would then love in slip a gun to Yockey am all
three would escape in the car parked nearby
The plan went awry Clancey said when the bail posting fell through and
one of the prisoners tipped off the FBI
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Yockey spoke up lTot a HOrd of truth in that If
KadIsh turned to Ennne t F Hagerty who replaced Carl Ho e as Yockeys
attorney I1If such a thing is true Im sure youll agree the bail s et Xx
is not excess i ire II
III a gree n said Hagerty if its true
lWe ve goed r eas on to believe so It said Clancey
Plt8gerty said it might rove otherwise ii the other prisoners were produced
for cross-questioning am Clancey said he might disclooe their identity tcday
Jail s uperintendent Frank Smith later disclosed the other two prisoners
were Philip Galati 21 of Brooklyn awai ting sentence on a check charge and
held in lieu of $1000 bail and Jack Fambrough 27 of 619 39th street Oaklarrl
Jho has pleaded g1lilty to the S9LLI robbery of an Oakhnd Arrrry Terninal PX
service station llt1here he warlred
Fallbrough ras to have been sentenced by Judge Sweigert yesterday but
the case was p03 t poned until tcrlay
~iidway in the bail discussion the case abruptly moved into ~ ederal J uige
iilial) T Sweigerts coort Where Clancey requested a psychiatric exarrination
for Yockey sa ng he as t1 unable to comprehend thb siuilationt and thus c ould
not assist in his defense
Yockey familiar iod th Nazi and Fascist elements in t his country and Eur ope
stood before tre court v1 th anna folded across his chest while Hagerty objected
to a mental examination o
This JTe n has an intellect equal of any in this courtroom with all
deference to Your Honor n Hagerty said He is a member of the bar i n Illinois
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and Michigan a graduate of Notre Darle GeoIl~etown t1ichigan an lItDx author
of books was a Deputy istrict Attorney of Detroit and a rosecutor at the
Nuernberg trials That doesnt Trean he is incompetent to ass ist in his defense
C18ncey countered He was dischar~8d fron the army in 1943 as a dementia
pr a ecox--paranoid type and his conduct before th~ U S CoJltll issioner has
been bizarre II
He then related reports tllhat Yockey rJ8d twice threatened suicide--once
ih the Oakland jail after his arrest am a gain in the jail here Yockey
prom Uy denied that then tossed in a little SOB sensation of his own
He said that lex Scharf in whose Oaklarrl apartment he was arrested and mo
has since disappeared had been taken into custooy by the FBI
uHe JaS arrested in my presence1 Yockey said
The F I promptly denied that
Jui ge Sweigert said he 1ould rule at 11 am today on middotrhether to direct
that Yockey be given a pychiatric test and Karesh held up the bail l1atter
until after that
Sall Francisco Chronicle Thursday J una 16 1960
MENTAL EXAM ORDERED IN S F PASSPORT NYST RY
Francis P Yockey 43 passport mystery man Tas ordered held for
psychiatric examination yesterday by Federal Jud ge (yilliam T Sweigert
The order as Tlade on Government motion aLrl over t he strenuous obj ections
of Yockey hims elf an attorney ani his law--je r Enunet F Ha gerty
Judge SIeigert said he would receive the psychiatric reports on hly 11
am a motion to reduce Yockeys 50000 b8il was vJithdrcnm untn that date
Yockey was arrested in Oaklarrl last lleek after a piece of his l u ga ge
that went astray was frond to contain three passports bearing false names and
spurious identification dccuments He is known to have been closely identified
wi th Nazis and Fascists in this country am Europe
u S Commissioner Joseph Karesh before horn Yockey has appeared in
several stOlTlY hearings was called yesterday by Assistant U S Attorney
WIlliam P ClaJlcey Jr
Karesh testified that he had closely observed Yockey am descrived his
actions as lIthe most unusual of arry accused person who has ever a ppeared
before me II
With per~ission of the cmrrt Yockey undertook to cross eX8~ine Kareshe
He accused the Commissioner of being prejudiced because he had read Yockey
as II anti-J e-lish II
Judge Sweigert halted Yockey in mid-sentence That will ce enough of
thatn he saaIlped
Two EI agents ELliV2rd Ij Cunningham ani Keith G Teeter subnitted affidavits
that Yockey had received a psychiatric discharge fran the Army in 19w3
One affidavit said Army records show that Yockey suffered marked delusions
of persecutions had ideas of gramellr and Ias given a disability dischar ge
due to dementia praecox paranoi d type Cause urrletermined u
Anothe r a ff idavit said Yockey told two unnamed cell TIates in the County
Jail he intended to commit suicide by sharpening a canb into a lethal weapon
Tuesday it was revealed in a hearing before Karesh that Yockey had alle gedly
attempted to engineer a daring escape from 11e County Jail 0 One of the
Clri soners wh om he solidted to aid in t he getaway plan transrnitted the
inforation to the FBI
Yockey in c p3ssionate statemont to the court charQeurod that the GoverT1rnent
was depriving him of his defense by subjecting him to psychiatric examinationo
He said that use of his Army medical recoro violated his r i LtS
San Francisco Chronicle Saturday June 18 1960
PASSPORT DEFENDAN T
MYSTERY MAN yOCKEY KILIS SElF IN bull F JAIL CELL
by Tom Ma thews
Neo-Nazi Francis P Yockey took a leaf from the notebook of HerT~ann
Goering Hitlers air rrarshI31 and poisoned himself in jail yesterday
He left behind him a furious set of Federal officials and a note defying
anyone to find out who supplied him rith the cyanide he used to end his life
The Federal Bureau of Investi gation the State Department and the United
States Attorneys office were left hohl ing a top-secret file on Yockey and
no Yockey to prosecute
The file arrived lastvlednesday One official saj_d it ms loaded rith
dynamite
Yockey 43 was arrested June 6 for investiga tion of passport fraud FBI
agents caught bp 1Tith hi m when he checked on a suitcase that had ~JOne astray
dcentng a plane flight
The suitcase contained three false passp orts Gerrran press credentials
and seven birth certHicates
A ents found him in the apartment of Alex Scharf u65 Bellevue avenue
Cakland Scharf a fo r mer teacher at the Te mple Beth Abraham school
imrre diately disappeared
He has been subpoenaed by the Federal Gram JillS but so far has not
turned up
A warrant for arrest of Scharf was issued late yesterday afternoon Bail
Jas set at $5000
The mysterirus aspect of the case -Jas compounded by Yockeys behavior
and by tlJe insistence of authorities that he be held in the surprisingly high
bail of $50 000
Yockey b q an talking of suicide the day he was arrested He made one
elaborate escape attempt In his court appearances his grandiose manner am
c onte t for proceedings led to an order for a psychiatric exami_nation
The U S Assistant Attorney William P Clancey iolOuld say of Yockey only
that he seemed to be dealing in passports and that current inforrra tion shomd
him to have traveled extensively in Europe
Stanley Jacobs of the Anti-Defarration League was more specific He said
Yockey was associated with the tap figures in extreme right-wing and antishy
Semitic movements
Yockey is known to have been closely connected fl th the resurgent Nazi
movement in West Germany
Somehow he obtained the poison crystals he used ThJmsday night Just as
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Goering the No 2 Nazi did at Nuernberg hours before he was to be ha nged
in 19L5 Yockey used potassium cyanide
No one knoHs haw he got it He played checkers tn th his fellow inmate
Adam Nienan a mapmaker of 1703 Arcadia street until lights were turned out
in their County Jail cell at 9 pm
Nieman then held o~ charges of gram theft which were dismissed yesterday
said ~ Yockey gave si gns of what was in his mind during the evening
tlHe told me he was the No1 leader of some SOlltt of organization Nieman
said He said he had kn owledge of people he loved and he thought hed be
farced to reveal it
The night before he discussed killing himself I-rith heavy weaghts on his
throat The last rernark he rnade to me was Youll sleep all ni ht of course
After lights were out he kept looking over the ledge of the bunk Bt me
r got quite concerned but finally r fell asleep1t
Apparently that was what Yockey had been waiti1S for He took his capsuleo
His baiy was found at 725 amo rigid on the bed hands folded across his
chest He s till had his boots on
Tucked into the folds of a blanket he us ed for a pillow was the follovdng
note
til shall write no messages which r know will never be delivered--only
this which will be
You rJi11 never discover who helped me for he is to be fmurl in your
own multitudinous ranks at least outwardlyo
Jail Su erintendent Frank Swith at first reported Yockey had died of
nat ural causes Cleser examination shoHed the inside of his mouth aand throat
were seared as one might exp~ct from swallming c~nide
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The ne~re brought Sheriff Btt Carberry b us tling to the ~il
We heard he las planniD5 suicide or esca e last TuesdayI he said
I e moved him f rom an upper tier to cell 20 on the grourrl floor where he
could be watched c onstantly by the guard on duty
Im satisfied that suf i cient pr ecautions Here taken
Sheriff Carberrys satisfaction was not shared by Clancey James B
Cavana J gh special arent for the security division of the State Department
or a handfuJ of a ents of the FBI who had been working on the case
Grim-faced they all shm-fed up at the jail and tried to _ind out hm-r
their Tnan had cheated justice and deprived them of possible i nformation
The investigation itself was taken up by the Homicide Bureau of the
Police Department and b~T Carberry
In Yockeys pels onal effects left Hi th tJ-j e jailer a second note was
fourrl It was addressed to Keith G Teeter an FBI a gent It read
Ny dear riro Teeter
I ask you as a favor in the same of humanity wh ich we share to
notify ny sister of this or her husband Lieutenant Cornrna nier or Jrs William
D Coyne Bethesda Md o
tlili thailk you
FrarlCis Yockey
Hrs Coyne nel1ed the body in the Coroners office Hi th Emmet F Hagerty
Yockeys attorney
Y keyg epitaph ras reJITided by an acquaintance and admirer Willis Carta
secretary of the Congress of Freeeol here and fourrier of the San Francisco
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Conservative Republican Headquarters set up during the GOP convention here
in 1956 Carto visited Yockey in jail June 100
Although I do not a ee with all his ideas I feel he Jas an authentic
creative genius I feel that those individuals uho are res onsible for
driving him to his death should feel a rreat sense of guil te
liThe world has lost a great man whose ideas will be r emembered until
estern Civilization is exter minated Carta saido
San Francisco Chronicle Satunlay June l8 l 1960
SISTER CALLS SttICIDE TRAGIC
PHI1 CS OPHER NOT PRO- NAZI SHE SA YS
By George Draper
The suicide of Francis Parker Yockey mystery man with many passports
was described as at a tragedy k yesterday by one of his sisters
All that talent all that brilliance is now gone sighed Mrs Hilliam
P Coyne of Bethesda 11i wife of a U S Navy commander
Mrs Coyne a handsome blonde with ~le blue eyes said Yockey spent his
adult life scrutinizing the JOrld from the exalted station of a true philosopher
No she said he wasnrt anti-Semitic he Jasnrt anti-Zionist No
he wasnrt pro-Nazi He never idolized Hitler In fact he thought Hitler
made one mistake after another n
Likerise Hrs Coyne said Yockey was neither pro-Russian nor anti-Russian
He merely felt that Russia had a role to play in world historytt she said
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~~S Coyne proudly recited the titles of six books written by Yockey
all of which lere privately published in London and one of which has been
called a blueprint of Fascist strategy1I
No publisher in the United States iTould to uch them II she said
Irs Coyne intervievled in t he office of Attorney Emmet Ha gerty said
she had been close to her brother rmen they grew up in Chicago but that in
the last 10 years she had seldom heard from him
He 1-1old telephone me once in a while but never say where he was I
think it was because he loJaS in some kind of tr ouble with the FBI she said
Hrs Coyne said she received a telephone call from Yockey early last
1reek informing her that Im in the Oakland jail
The sister imFtediately flew here from Maryland to help him
She said she talked to him in jail abolt the United States passport he
obtainoo in Salinas in 1954 lKder t1e name of Edward Tax Price
(This same passp ort Tas fourd among Yockeys belongings b3aring Yockeys
photograph with the name changed to Eduard flax Briceman)
liRe couldnt have changed that name on the nassport That Eequires special
techpique she said
Yockey told her she said that he still carried the passport because bhe
State Department had tl~rned him down seven times nen he applied for a new
passport
Jhy did Yockey also carry Canadian and British passports -with his photoshy
graph but different nares
Maybe he thought three passports were better than one Mrs Coyne replied
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The sister said S- e had no idea how Yockey had earned his living in
recent years or where he had b 8m living
Ny sister aro I gave him some money to bave a book published but that
was qcite a few years ago she said
Finally virs Coyne was asked why she thou ght Yockey committed sui cide
Has it been established that it was a sui cidert she replied
Re l 71inded that Yockey penned a suicide note before he died she added
I Oh thats right He did Probably he felt he -lasnt going to have
a fair trial
She he3itated a momen t and added
tIredica ted upon r-rha t happened he was completely justified in feeling
tha t way
San Francisco Chr onicle Sunday June 19 1960
VICTIH OF NAZIS LI TO YOCKE Y
by Geor ge Draper
Alex B Scharf tattooed sUvivor of the Auschlitz concentration camp
in World 7Jar II as being sought for questioning yesterday about the mysterious
activities of nea-Fascist Francis P Yockey
Yockey 43 killed hims elf with potassium cyanide in County Jail No1
early Friday lThile being held on passport fratrl charges
He was arrested in Scharfs Oakland apartment tvlO 1l euroeks ago l i t h three
fake Dassoorts- and seven birth certificates
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I rmned iately following Yockeys arrest Scharf 31 abandoned his j dJ
as princi al- of Tern le Beth Abraham school and disa peared
Both Government officials and Jewish leaders Here puzzled by the associashy
tion between Scharf and Yockey
Seymour Froroor director of Jewish iducation in Oaskland said Scharf
wears the German tatoo on his arm that proves he was a prisoner at Ausch~-litz
where more than t m million J eHS were cremated by Hi tIer
I am sure charf believed in Israel and Zionism n said Fromer
Stanley S Jacobs chief of the Anti-Defaro~tion Leag~ehere declared
I am loath to believe Scharf was e n ga ged in Neo-Fascist activities
wi th Yockey
Yockey is known to have been anti-Zionist if not anti-Semitic and in
liaison ith various extreme right--nng lea ers incluiing former followers
of Hitler
Yockeys former -dfe Alice Yockey of San Antonio Tex told this reporter
that Yockey thou ght reports of Jewish genocide in orld middotjar II were eXd ggerated
Investigators hope to question Scharf about his original explanation for
harring Yockey in his Oakland apartment
After Yockeys arrest Scharf is said to have told a lents he met Yockey
for the first time a few days earlier at the gambling tables in Reno
At poundhat time he said he invited Yockey a stranger to come to Oaklarrl
and stay at his apartrrent
Assistant United States Attorney W P Caancy said yesterday however that
Scharf had known Yockey for nearly a year
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In 1959 Clancy said Yockey applied f or an Irish passport
Either Yockeys application or an attached affidavit said Clancy bears
the name of Alex B Scharf and his former address at 2bol Sacramento street
Scharf was born in Czechoslovakia in 1928 am after Torld a1 II lived
in Paraguay a rrl Ar gentina e
He studied at GolUJ11bia Univergtity and at the Jewish Teachers Institute
in New York and then he returned to Paraguay as a teacher
Scharf came to San Francisco in late 1958 looking for a job teaching
Hebrew and las employed by the Bureau of Jewish Ed ucation
In June 1959 he viaS assigned to Te le Be th Abraham in Oakland as
eciucational director 0
Shortly before Scharf disappeared two weeks a go he t as not ified t ba t h O s
c otrac t at the t emple w-auld not be r enewed
Yockey has b een l eadi ng a lif e of myst ery for t he pas t 10 year s
Hi s sister Mrs Wi lliam bull Coyne of Bethesda r1l said she has no
knmJledge of where he ha s been or wha t he has been d oingo
She said mail for tockey has been deli~ed to her h ome over the years
but she has been forced to thrm it away not knDwing his whereabouts
Mrs Coynes husband is a commander in the Navy
Yockeys difficu lties arose when he lost a suitcase while flying to San
FrcmcLsco aboard an American Airlines Dlane
Tbe s itcase was subsequmtly fourrl in Fort Worth Texas Airline officials
08ned it to verify its Oinership am found a United States a British am a
Canadian passo crt -- each hri th Yockeys photograph ani each bearing a d ifferent
name The FBI Bas notified
San Fra nc isco Chronicle ~~ndaYJ June 20 1960
PUZZLING TRAI L OF YO CKE YS FRI ~ND
by Denne Petitclerc
Federa l a uthorities y estp-rday so ght to solve the ridd l e f what linked
Nazi concentration camp victim Alex B Scharf to neo-Fascist Francis P Yockey
But even Scharfs closest friJmis including the pre tty dark-haired
girl he once asked to marry hLm rere lmafule to ex l ain the strange r e lationship
Yockey Fascist philosopher and t-rriter and associate of former Hi tle r
followers co~~tted suicide in the GOQnty Jail here early Friday while being
held on a passp ort frau charge
Scharf 31-year-old former principal of Temple Beth b raham school in
Oakland a nd victim of Na z i bruta lity a t Auschwitz c oncentrati on camp in
i or lrl ar II has disappeared
It was in charfs Oakland apartnent t hat FBI a gents f0111d Yockey two
weeks ago Scharf since dro ood from s ight and i s DOli) being sought by Federal
authori t i e s for questioning
III know he didnt ha ve any money It sam Mrs Ezra Cohen-Sitt of IlS
Beulah stree t San Francisco
Mrs S i tt met her husband Ezra whi le da ting Scharf last year Sitt -laS
Scharfs roonnnate Ilm a tea cher t Temple Beth Abr aham sc1ool Scharf had once
asked Mrs Sitt to marry (l im He served as a n usher at her iedd i n in J a nuary
ani r emained a friend
Al ex was not the kirri of person you could get close tol she said He ijaS
ver-J sad and very seri ous~ and eve n though he Has likable he vIas alway s distant
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She said Scbarf -Jas t ntelligent and sensitive Hith a eep feeling f or
Orthcdox Jewry and a man fh o kept himself remote as a result of lon years
of f ear under brutal Nazi treatment in Eurone
UHis meetinr Hi th Yockey must have come fr om some thing aut of Europe
years a go II she said T1 He ras a boy of 18 and he Wande red for many years
after the Hal It
Scharf led a mcdest bachelor schoolteacher I s life in axklarri she said
He n fre uently dated one girl wh 0 as employed at a Reno gambling cas ino
she said
Scharf never mentioned Yockey to any of his acquaintances here yen~s
Stit t (sic) said
Assistant Unj ted t ates Attorney bull 2 Clancey said Scharfs battered
1956 yell orJ and black Mercury sedan has not b een fourrl but that the California
Highway Patrol has been alerted
San Francisco Chronicle Tuesday June 21 1960
D MA Y BE ON ISRA EL-BOUND SHIP
by Denne Petitclerc
_ lex B Scharf still sougtlt as a key ~ritness in th2 puzzling case of
nea-Fascist Francis P Yockey may be ab oard a sb~p en route to Israel
The Chronicle learned yesterday
Federal authorities here said they Here checking the possibility that
Scharf may have boarded a ship in e York last I-Teek or that he is still
waiti ng in Ne-J York t o eave the country
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Yockey wa s arr e s ted i n Scharf s apartment on J une 8 ~las ques tioned
by Federal officers a m then vanis hed bull Aut h ori ties are s t ill p uzz led about
Hha t bond cOlld have existed bet wee n a Naz i philos ophe r like Yockey am
Scharf a one-time principal of Oaklands Temple Beth Abraham school and an
inmate of German conentration c amps in Uor1d ~Jar II
Yockey 43 killed himself Hith potassill1fl cyanide in his County Jail No1
cell early last Friday whi le being held on passport violation charges
The first possible clue to Scharfs whereabouts came yesterday in checkJ_ng
a former San Jose court reporter described as charf s closest friend
The reporter William Sloffibvich 35 left his job in San Jose about three
months ago -lorked until last month in Los -ngeles and then left far New York
The Chronicle learned that Slomovich s name apueared on the passenger
list of the Atlantic an American Export Lines ship which sailed from ew
York last Thursday bound for P~ifa Israel
lthough cparfs name did not aprear on the passe er list Federal
authorities said it is possible he rr~y have used an ass umed name since he is
not a citizen of the United States
Assistant United States Attorney il1iam P Clancey said t~at American
offmcials in Israel 1i11 be alerted to question Slornovich--and to be on the
lookout for Scharf--when the ship berths in Haifa on June 29
Clancy (sic) nEamlhile said that evidence Dr irrlicates that Scharf had
known Yockey for more t han a year
Yockey made an application for an Irish passport in an Francisco in 1959
under t he name of Michael Taylor usi ng Scharf as a referenceo
Clancy s j d a handwriting ex-pert is aIlCtlyzin the docurn-nt to d e terrni ne
-hether charfs signature las forgedo
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liieanwhile it Jas learned tha t Yockey asked a f e11ovI-prisoner tvJO
days befClte he committed suicide in the C01lllty Jail here where he c ould
ootain some poison
Federal author ities refused to identify the prisoner but said that he
has been transf erred to another institution He Jill be questioned tcrlay
about the conversation officials said
Sherriff Matthew Carberry whohms San F ancisco s CODnty J ail co~ ented
last night that no Federal official had rnentioned to him the existence of a
county jail prisoner with such a story
Authori ties are puzzled as to T here Yockey obtained the deadl y poison
and haw it reached his cello
At too same time the coroners office announced that a toxologists
report s h mfs that Yockey took one-fifth of a am of potassi urn cyanide which
is double the lethal dose f or a man of his size
Yockey left a note defying anyone to discover h ow he obtained the poison
Frierris said t1at Scharf fled the ay Area in a battered 1956 yellow and
black l1e rcury sedan apparently with little money in his possession
Mrs Ezra Cohen-Sitt of 115 Beulah street a friend of charf said
yesterday she wan ted to correct an impression given in an intervieH with
The Chronicle Sunday that Scharf had at one ti~e asked her to marry him
He did not she said I did not intem to be quoted on any Hatter
rela ted to Hr Scharf II
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San Francisco Chronicle Wednesday June 22 1960
u S PRESSES SEARCH F YOCKEYS AL
The search for Alex B Scharf mysterio11S pal of neo-Fascist Francis
P Yockey settled down to a game of fox and houms yesterday
Scharf rho departed from Oaklarrl so quickly after Yockeys arrest that
he even left his clothes behind was in the role of the fox The hounds are
agents of the State Department vih ose security officials in ian Franc isco
said s impl
lIvere trying to blanket all escape routes and He re hoping for the bestI
Yockey cormnitted suicide with cyanide in the County Jail last Friday
while being held on a passport charge
Scharf is being sought to rim out what he knoHS abolt Yockeys multiple
passports
Authorities are betuldered about the association of the two Scharf who
is 33 is a forroor principal of Oaklands Temple Beth Abraham School and an
inmate of Nazi concentration camps
Yockey L13 was a racist neo-Nazi of considerable infamy when he accidentally
fell into the hands of Federal authorities on June 6 Yockey had complained to
an airline about the loss of a bag It had already been opened in Fort middot orth
fex as unclaimed and was fourrl to contain three different passports all
bearing Yockeys pictuces
The FBI picked up Yockey in Scharf I s apartTEnt 8t 165 Bellevue avenue
Oakland but when t h ey went back later to talk to - charf he was gone
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Assistant U0 S Attorney Wi lliam P Clancy Jr said the Yockey case
will be given to the Federal Grand Jury later this month
In the meantime Clancy said the GJvernment will file a request t Qmorrow
that the TI S District Court oroer a psychiatric exainira tion for Yockey
Karesh may join in the motion basing his request on Yockeys behavior
in hearings before him
Yockeys lawyer Carl Hoppe came into court yesterday prepared to ask
a reduction in bail Acti on however was ~ostponed until this morninG to
enable a new lawyer to enter the tangled case
Ho _e a fe tent attorney s aid he wished to Jtthdraw n favor of a
l awyer with criminal experience
Present during yesterdays hearing was Emmet F Hagerty who may represent
Yockey during future hearings
Yookey whose name has been closely linked with numerous nea-Nazi
organizations am whose many passports under assumed names s u ggested international
intrigue was arrested last 1ieek on a charge of p as sport fraud after his
suitcase went astray in Fort Worth Texas The sQttcase was found to contain
three false)8ssports all carrying Yockeys picture but phony names
Yockey complained during yesterdays ~oceedings that he had been refused
permission to see his two sisters Alice Spurlock hos ital I-ray technician
in Gilroy and -h-s 11illiam Coyne of Bethesda vB
The Conmlissio~r recessed court for 40 minutes to allow Yockey to confer
vith his sisters in the Marshals officeo
Yockey as asked during the recess whether he had traveled extensively in
Russia in 1957 ar~ the questioning reporter was dismissed with the order
Get out of here you filthy swine
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San Francisco Chronicle Wednesday June 15 1960
IJ I~ PLOT TOLD IN PASSPORT CASE
A bold jailbraak plot en ~ineered by Francis P Yockey the passport
mystery man was revealed yesterday along 1-ith alle ged threats of suicide
Yockey a 43-year-old ex-laryer from Detroit had a npeared before U S
COlIDllissioner Joseph Karesh to plead for a reduction in his 50000 ba il on
a 9assport-fraud char ge
Tcrrard the eni 0 that p-roceeding which was intersession Assistant
U S Attorney William P Clancy Jr mentioned rithdramatic casualness the
purported escape plot am the suicide threats
AEguing against bail reduction he said uThere I S an extreme risk of
flight bull bull a gra-IJe ris k of injury to hirns elf am others II
The escape plan Clancy said was relayed to him by the FBI It ~ent
he said like this
Yockey on Monday approached two other Federal prisoners being held at the
county jail He offered to post S1000 bail far one who is a wai ting sentence
This man would then get a car a nd guns - en the Federal orisoners were
marched into the U S Marshals van in DW1bar ~lley behind the Hall of Justice
the second accomplice would start a kIZIId brawl
The man Hi th the guns would then love in slip a gun to Yockey am all
three would escape in the car parked nearby
The plan went awry Clancey said when the bail posting fell through and
one of the prisoners tipped off the FBI
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Yockey spoke up lTot a HOrd of truth in that If
KadIsh turned to Ennne t F Hagerty who replaced Carl Ho e as Yockeys
attorney I1If such a thing is true Im sure youll agree the bail s et Xx
is not excess i ire II
III a gree n said Hagerty if its true
lWe ve goed r eas on to believe so It said Clancey
Plt8gerty said it might rove otherwise ii the other prisoners were produced
for cross-questioning am Clancey said he might disclooe their identity tcday
Jail s uperintendent Frank Smith later disclosed the other two prisoners
were Philip Galati 21 of Brooklyn awai ting sentence on a check charge and
held in lieu of $1000 bail and Jack Fambrough 27 of 619 39th street Oaklarrl
Jho has pleaded g1lilty to the S9LLI robbery of an Oakhnd Arrrry Terninal PX
service station llt1here he warlred
Fallbrough ras to have been sentenced by Judge Sweigert yesterday but
the case was p03 t poned until tcrlay
~iidway in the bail discussion the case abruptly moved into ~ ederal J uige
iilial) T Sweigerts coort Where Clancey requested a psychiatric exarrination
for Yockey sa ng he as t1 unable to comprehend thb siuilationt and thus c ould
not assist in his defense
Yockey familiar iod th Nazi and Fascist elements in t his country and Eur ope
stood before tre court v1 th anna folded across his chest while Hagerty objected
to a mental examination o
This JTe n has an intellect equal of any in this courtroom with all
deference to Your Honor n Hagerty said He is a member of the bar i n Illinois
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and Michigan a graduate of Notre Darle GeoIl~etown t1ichigan an lItDx author
of books was a Deputy istrict Attorney of Detroit and a rosecutor at the
Nuernberg trials That doesnt Trean he is incompetent to ass ist in his defense
C18ncey countered He was dischar~8d fron the army in 1943 as a dementia
pr a ecox--paranoid type and his conduct before th~ U S CoJltll issioner has
been bizarre II
He then related reports tllhat Yockey rJ8d twice threatened suicide--once
ih the Oakland jail after his arrest am a gain in the jail here Yockey
prom Uy denied that then tossed in a little SOB sensation of his own
He said that lex Scharf in whose Oaklarrl apartment he was arrested and mo
has since disappeared had been taken into custooy by the FBI
uHe JaS arrested in my presence1 Yockey said
The F I promptly denied that
Jui ge Sweigert said he 1ould rule at 11 am today on middotrhether to direct
that Yockey be given a pychiatric test and Karesh held up the bail l1atter
until after that
Sall Francisco Chronicle Thursday J una 16 1960
MENTAL EXAM ORDERED IN S F PASSPORT NYST RY
Francis P Yockey 43 passport mystery man Tas ordered held for
psychiatric examination yesterday by Federal Jud ge (yilliam T Sweigert
The order as Tlade on Government motion aLrl over t he strenuous obj ections
of Yockey hims elf an attorney ani his law--je r Enunet F Ha gerty
Judge SIeigert said he would receive the psychiatric reports on hly 11
am a motion to reduce Yockeys 50000 b8il was vJithdrcnm untn that date
Yockey was arrested in Oaklarrl last lleek after a piece of his l u ga ge
that went astray was frond to contain three passports bearing false names and
spurious identification dccuments He is known to have been closely identified
wi th Nazis and Fascists in this country am Europe
u S Commissioner Joseph Karesh before horn Yockey has appeared in
several stOlTlY hearings was called yesterday by Assistant U S Attorney
WIlliam P ClaJlcey Jr
Karesh testified that he had closely observed Yockey am descrived his
actions as lIthe most unusual of arry accused person who has ever a ppeared
before me II
With per~ission of the cmrrt Yockey undertook to cross eX8~ine Kareshe
He accused the Commissioner of being prejudiced because he had read Yockey
as II anti-J e-lish II
Judge Sweigert halted Yockey in mid-sentence That will ce enough of
thatn he saaIlped
Two EI agents ELliV2rd Ij Cunningham ani Keith G Teeter subnitted affidavits
that Yockey had received a psychiatric discharge fran the Army in 19w3
One affidavit said Army records show that Yockey suffered marked delusions
of persecutions had ideas of gramellr and Ias given a disability dischar ge
due to dementia praecox paranoi d type Cause urrletermined u
Anothe r a ff idavit said Yockey told two unnamed cell TIates in the County
Jail he intended to commit suicide by sharpening a canb into a lethal weapon
Tuesday it was revealed in a hearing before Karesh that Yockey had alle gedly
attempted to engineer a daring escape from 11e County Jail 0 One of the
Clri soners wh om he solidted to aid in t he getaway plan transrnitted the
inforation to the FBI
Yockey in c p3ssionate statemont to the court charQeurod that the GoverT1rnent
was depriving him of his defense by subjecting him to psychiatric examinationo
He said that use of his Army medical recoro violated his r i LtS
San Francisco Chronicle Saturday June 18 1960
PASSPORT DEFENDAN T
MYSTERY MAN yOCKEY KILIS SElF IN bull F JAIL CELL
by Tom Ma thews
Neo-Nazi Francis P Yockey took a leaf from the notebook of HerT~ann
Goering Hitlers air rrarshI31 and poisoned himself in jail yesterday
He left behind him a furious set of Federal officials and a note defying
anyone to find out who supplied him rith the cyanide he used to end his life
The Federal Bureau of Investi gation the State Department and the United
States Attorneys office were left hohl ing a top-secret file on Yockey and
no Yockey to prosecute
The file arrived lastvlednesday One official saj_d it ms loaded rith
dynamite
Yockey 43 was arrested June 6 for investiga tion of passport fraud FBI
agents caught bp 1Tith hi m when he checked on a suitcase that had ~JOne astray
dcentng a plane flight
The suitcase contained three false passp orts Gerrran press credentials
and seven birth certHicates
A ents found him in the apartment of Alex Scharf u65 Bellevue avenue
Cakland Scharf a fo r mer teacher at the Te mple Beth Abraham school
imrre diately disappeared
He has been subpoenaed by the Federal Gram JillS but so far has not
turned up
A warrant for arrest of Scharf was issued late yesterday afternoon Bail
Jas set at $5000
The mysterirus aspect of the case -Jas compounded by Yockeys behavior
and by tlJe insistence of authorities that he be held in the surprisingly high
bail of $50 000
Yockey b q an talking of suicide the day he was arrested He made one
elaborate escape attempt In his court appearances his grandiose manner am
c onte t for proceedings led to an order for a psychiatric exami_nation
The U S Assistant Attorney William P Clancey iolOuld say of Yockey only
that he seemed to be dealing in passports and that current inforrra tion shomd
him to have traveled extensively in Europe
Stanley Jacobs of the Anti-Defarration League was more specific He said
Yockey was associated with the tap figures in extreme right-wing and antishy
Semitic movements
Yockey is known to have been closely connected fl th the resurgent Nazi
movement in West Germany
Somehow he obtained the poison crystals he used ThJmsday night Just as
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Goering the No 2 Nazi did at Nuernberg hours before he was to be ha nged
in 19L5 Yockey used potassium cyanide
No one knoHs haw he got it He played checkers tn th his fellow inmate
Adam Nienan a mapmaker of 1703 Arcadia street until lights were turned out
in their County Jail cell at 9 pm
Nieman then held o~ charges of gram theft which were dismissed yesterday
said ~ Yockey gave si gns of what was in his mind during the evening
tlHe told me he was the No1 leader of some SOlltt of organization Nieman
said He said he had kn owledge of people he loved and he thought hed be
farced to reveal it
The night before he discussed killing himself I-rith heavy weaghts on his
throat The last rernark he rnade to me was Youll sleep all ni ht of course
After lights were out he kept looking over the ledge of the bunk Bt me
r got quite concerned but finally r fell asleep1t
Apparently that was what Yockey had been waiti1S for He took his capsuleo
His baiy was found at 725 amo rigid on the bed hands folded across his
chest He s till had his boots on
Tucked into the folds of a blanket he us ed for a pillow was the follovdng
note
til shall write no messages which r know will never be delivered--only
this which will be
You rJi11 never discover who helped me for he is to be fmurl in your
own multitudinous ranks at least outwardlyo
Jail Su erintendent Frank Swith at first reported Yockey had died of
nat ural causes Cleser examination shoHed the inside of his mouth aand throat
were seared as one might exp~ct from swallming c~nide
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The ne~re brought Sheriff Btt Carberry b us tling to the ~il
We heard he las planniD5 suicide or esca e last TuesdayI he said
I e moved him f rom an upper tier to cell 20 on the grourrl floor where he
could be watched c onstantly by the guard on duty
Im satisfied that suf i cient pr ecautions Here taken
Sheriff Carberrys satisfaction was not shared by Clancey James B
Cavana J gh special arent for the security division of the State Department
or a handfuJ of a ents of the FBI who had been working on the case
Grim-faced they all shm-fed up at the jail and tried to _ind out hm-r
their Tnan had cheated justice and deprived them of possible i nformation
The investigation itself was taken up by the Homicide Bureau of the
Police Department and b~T Carberry
In Yockeys pels onal effects left Hi th tJ-j e jailer a second note was
fourrl It was addressed to Keith G Teeter an FBI a gent It read
Ny dear riro Teeter
I ask you as a favor in the same of humanity wh ich we share to
notify ny sister of this or her husband Lieutenant Cornrna nier or Jrs William
D Coyne Bethesda Md o
tlili thailk you
FrarlCis Yockey
Hrs Coyne nel1ed the body in the Coroners office Hi th Emmet F Hagerty
Yockeys attorney
Y keyg epitaph ras reJITided by an acquaintance and admirer Willis Carta
secretary of the Congress of Freeeol here and fourrier of the San Francisco
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Conservative Republican Headquarters set up during the GOP convention here
in 1956 Carto visited Yockey in jail June 100
Although I do not a ee with all his ideas I feel he Jas an authentic
creative genius I feel that those individuals uho are res onsible for
driving him to his death should feel a rreat sense of guil te
liThe world has lost a great man whose ideas will be r emembered until
estern Civilization is exter minated Carta saido
San Francisco Chronicle Satunlay June l8 l 1960
SISTER CALLS SttICIDE TRAGIC
PHI1 CS OPHER NOT PRO- NAZI SHE SA YS
By George Draper
The suicide of Francis Parker Yockey mystery man with many passports
was described as at a tragedy k yesterday by one of his sisters
All that talent all that brilliance is now gone sighed Mrs Hilliam
P Coyne of Bethesda 11i wife of a U S Navy commander
Mrs Coyne a handsome blonde with ~le blue eyes said Yockey spent his
adult life scrutinizing the JOrld from the exalted station of a true philosopher
No she said he wasnrt anti-Semitic he Jasnrt anti-Zionist No
he wasnrt pro-Nazi He never idolized Hitler In fact he thought Hitler
made one mistake after another n
Likerise Hrs Coyne said Yockey was neither pro-Russian nor anti-Russian
He merely felt that Russia had a role to play in world historytt she said
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~~S Coyne proudly recited the titles of six books written by Yockey
all of which lere privately published in London and one of which has been
called a blueprint of Fascist strategy1I
No publisher in the United States iTould to uch them II she said
Irs Coyne intervievled in t he office of Attorney Emmet Ha gerty said
she had been close to her brother rmen they grew up in Chicago but that in
the last 10 years she had seldom heard from him
He 1-1old telephone me once in a while but never say where he was I
think it was because he loJaS in some kind of tr ouble with the FBI she said
Hrs Coyne said she received a telephone call from Yockey early last
1reek informing her that Im in the Oakland jail
The sister imFtediately flew here from Maryland to help him
She said she talked to him in jail abolt the United States passport he
obtainoo in Salinas in 1954 lKder t1e name of Edward Tax Price
(This same passp ort Tas fourd among Yockeys belongings b3aring Yockeys
photograph with the name changed to Eduard flax Briceman)
liRe couldnt have changed that name on the nassport That Eequires special
techpique she said
Yockey told her she said that he still carried the passport because bhe
State Department had tl~rned him down seven times nen he applied for a new
passport
Jhy did Yockey also carry Canadian and British passports -with his photoshy
graph but different nares
Maybe he thought three passports were better than one Mrs Coyne replied
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The sister said S- e had no idea how Yockey had earned his living in
recent years or where he had b 8m living
Ny sister aro I gave him some money to bave a book published but that
was qcite a few years ago she said
Finally virs Coyne was asked why she thou ght Yockey committed sui cide
Has it been established that it was a sui cidert she replied
Re l 71inded that Yockey penned a suicide note before he died she added
I Oh thats right He did Probably he felt he -lasnt going to have
a fair trial
She he3itated a momen t and added
tIredica ted upon r-rha t happened he was completely justified in feeling
tha t way
San Francisco Chr onicle Sunday June 19 1960
VICTIH OF NAZIS LI TO YOCKE Y
by Geor ge Draper
Alex B Scharf tattooed sUvivor of the Auschlitz concentration camp
in World 7Jar II as being sought for questioning yesterday about the mysterious
activities of nea-Fascist Francis P Yockey
Yockey 43 killed hims elf with potassium cyanide in County Jail No1
early Friday lThile being held on passport fratrl charges
He was arrested in Scharfs Oakland apartment tvlO 1l euroeks ago l i t h three
fake Dassoorts- and seven birth certificates
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I rmned iately following Yockeys arrest Scharf 31 abandoned his j dJ
as princi al- of Tern le Beth Abraham school and disa peared
Both Government officials and Jewish leaders Here puzzled by the associashy
tion between Scharf and Yockey
Seymour Froroor director of Jewish iducation in Oaskland said Scharf
wears the German tatoo on his arm that proves he was a prisoner at Ausch~-litz
where more than t m million J eHS were cremated by Hi tIer
I am sure charf believed in Israel and Zionism n said Fromer
Stanley S Jacobs chief of the Anti-Defaro~tion Leag~ehere declared
I am loath to believe Scharf was e n ga ged in Neo-Fascist activities
wi th Yockey
Yockey is known to have been anti-Zionist if not anti-Semitic and in
liaison ith various extreme right--nng lea ers incluiing former followers
of Hitler
Yockeys former -dfe Alice Yockey of San Antonio Tex told this reporter
that Yockey thou ght reports of Jewish genocide in orld middotjar II were eXd ggerated
Investigators hope to question Scharf about his original explanation for
harring Yockey in his Oakland apartment
After Yockeys arrest Scharf is said to have told a lents he met Yockey
for the first time a few days earlier at the gambling tables in Reno
At poundhat time he said he invited Yockey a stranger to come to Oaklarrl
and stay at his apartrrent
Assistant United States Attorney W P Caancy said yesterday however that
Scharf had known Yockey for nearly a year
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In 1959 Clancy said Yockey applied f or an Irish passport
Either Yockeys application or an attached affidavit said Clancy bears
the name of Alex B Scharf and his former address at 2bol Sacramento street
Scharf was born in Czechoslovakia in 1928 am after Torld a1 II lived
in Paraguay a rrl Ar gentina e
He studied at GolUJ11bia Univergtity and at the Jewish Teachers Institute
in New York and then he returned to Paraguay as a teacher
Scharf came to San Francisco in late 1958 looking for a job teaching
Hebrew and las employed by the Bureau of Jewish Ed ucation
In June 1959 he viaS assigned to Te le Be th Abraham in Oakland as
eciucational director 0
Shortly before Scharf disappeared two weeks a go he t as not ified t ba t h O s
c otrac t at the t emple w-auld not be r enewed
Yockey has b een l eadi ng a lif e of myst ery for t he pas t 10 year s
Hi s sister Mrs Wi lliam bull Coyne of Bethesda r1l said she has no
knmJledge of where he ha s been or wha t he has been d oingo
She said mail for tockey has been deli~ed to her h ome over the years
but she has been forced to thrm it away not knDwing his whereabouts
Mrs Coynes husband is a commander in the Navy
Yockeys difficu lties arose when he lost a suitcase while flying to San
FrcmcLsco aboard an American Airlines Dlane
Tbe s itcase was subsequmtly fourrl in Fort Worth Texas Airline officials
08ned it to verify its Oinership am found a United States a British am a
Canadian passo crt -- each hri th Yockeys photograph ani each bearing a d ifferent
name The FBI Bas notified
San Fra nc isco Chronicle ~~ndaYJ June 20 1960
PUZZLING TRAI L OF YO CKE YS FRI ~ND
by Denne Petitclerc
Federa l a uthorities y estp-rday so ght to solve the ridd l e f what linked
Nazi concentration camp victim Alex B Scharf to neo-Fascist Francis P Yockey
But even Scharfs closest friJmis including the pre tty dark-haired
girl he once asked to marry hLm rere lmafule to ex l ain the strange r e lationship
Yockey Fascist philosopher and t-rriter and associate of former Hi tle r
followers co~~tted suicide in the GOQnty Jail here early Friday while being
held on a passp ort frau charge
Scharf 31-year-old former principal of Temple Beth b raham school in
Oakland a nd victim of Na z i bruta lity a t Auschwitz c oncentrati on camp in
i or lrl ar II has disappeared
It was in charfs Oakland apartnent t hat FBI a gents f0111d Yockey two
weeks ago Scharf since dro ood from s ight and i s DOli) being sought by Federal
authori t i e s for questioning
III know he didnt ha ve any money It sam Mrs Ezra Cohen-Sitt of IlS
Beulah stree t San Francisco
Mrs S i tt met her husband Ezra whi le da ting Scharf last year Sitt -laS
Scharfs roonnnate Ilm a tea cher t Temple Beth Abr aham sc1ool Scharf had once
asked Mrs Sitt to marry (l im He served as a n usher at her iedd i n in J a nuary
ani r emained a friend
Al ex was not the kirri of person you could get close tol she said He ijaS
ver-J sad and very seri ous~ and eve n though he Has likable he vIas alway s distant
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She said Scbarf -Jas t ntelligent and sensitive Hith a eep feeling f or
Orthcdox Jewry and a man fh o kept himself remote as a result of lon years
of f ear under brutal Nazi treatment in Eurone
UHis meetinr Hi th Yockey must have come fr om some thing aut of Europe
years a go II she said T1 He ras a boy of 18 and he Wande red for many years
after the Hal It
Scharf led a mcdest bachelor schoolteacher I s life in axklarri she said
He n fre uently dated one girl wh 0 as employed at a Reno gambling cas ino
she said
Scharf never mentioned Yockey to any of his acquaintances here yen~s
Stit t (sic) said
Assistant Unj ted t ates Attorney bull 2 Clancey said Scharfs battered
1956 yell orJ and black Mercury sedan has not b een fourrl but that the California
Highway Patrol has been alerted
San Francisco Chronicle Tuesday June 21 1960
D MA Y BE ON ISRA EL-BOUND SHIP
by Denne Petitclerc
_ lex B Scharf still sougtlt as a key ~ritness in th2 puzzling case of
nea-Fascist Francis P Yockey may be ab oard a sb~p en route to Israel
The Chronicle learned yesterday
Federal authorities here said they Here checking the possibility that
Scharf may have boarded a ship in e York last I-Teek or that he is still
waiti ng in Ne-J York t o eave the country
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Yockey wa s arr e s ted i n Scharf s apartment on J une 8 ~las ques tioned
by Federal officers a m then vanis hed bull Aut h ori ties are s t ill p uzz led about
Hha t bond cOlld have existed bet wee n a Naz i philos ophe r like Yockey am
Scharf a one-time principal of Oaklands Temple Beth Abraham school and an
inmate of German conentration c amps in Uor1d ~Jar II
Yockey 43 killed himself Hith potassill1fl cyanide in his County Jail No1
cell early last Friday whi le being held on passport violation charges
The first possible clue to Scharfs whereabouts came yesterday in checkJ_ng
a former San Jose court reporter described as charf s closest friend
The reporter William Sloffibvich 35 left his job in San Jose about three
months ago -lorked until last month in Los -ngeles and then left far New York
The Chronicle learned that Slomovich s name apueared on the passenger
list of the Atlantic an American Export Lines ship which sailed from ew
York last Thursday bound for P~ifa Israel
lthough cparfs name did not aprear on the passe er list Federal
authorities said it is possible he rr~y have used an ass umed name since he is
not a citizen of the United States
Assistant United States Attorney il1iam P Clancey said t~at American
offmcials in Israel 1i11 be alerted to question Slornovich--and to be on the
lookout for Scharf--when the ship berths in Haifa on June 29
Clancy (sic) nEamlhile said that evidence Dr irrlicates that Scharf had
known Yockey for more t han a year
Yockey made an application for an Irish passport in an Francisco in 1959
under t he name of Michael Taylor usi ng Scharf as a referenceo
Clancy s j d a handwriting ex-pert is aIlCtlyzin the docurn-nt to d e terrni ne
-hether charfs signature las forgedo
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liieanwhile it Jas learned tha t Yockey asked a f e11ovI-prisoner tvJO
days befClte he committed suicide in the C01lllty Jail here where he c ould
ootain some poison
Federal author ities refused to identify the prisoner but said that he
has been transf erred to another institution He Jill be questioned tcrlay
about the conversation officials said
Sherriff Matthew Carberry whohms San F ancisco s CODnty J ail co~ ented
last night that no Federal official had rnentioned to him the existence of a
county jail prisoner with such a story
Authori ties are puzzled as to T here Yockey obtained the deadl y poison
and haw it reached his cello
At too same time the coroners office announced that a toxologists
report s h mfs that Yockey took one-fifth of a am of potassi urn cyanide which
is double the lethal dose f or a man of his size
Yockey left a note defying anyone to discover h ow he obtained the poison
Frierris said t1at Scharf fled the ay Area in a battered 1956 yellow and
black l1e rcury sedan apparently with little money in his possession
Mrs Ezra Cohen-Sitt of 115 Beulah street a friend of charf said
yesterday she wan ted to correct an impression given in an intervieH with
The Chronicle Sunday that Scharf had at one ti~e asked her to marry him
He did not she said I did not intem to be quoted on any Hatter
rela ted to Hr Scharf II
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San Francisco Chronicle Wednesday June 22 1960
u S PRESSES SEARCH F YOCKEYS AL
The search for Alex B Scharf mysterio11S pal of neo-Fascist Francis
P Yockey settled down to a game of fox and houms yesterday
Scharf rho departed from Oaklarrl so quickly after Yockeys arrest that
he even left his clothes behind was in the role of the fox The hounds are
agents of the State Department vih ose security officials in ian Franc isco
said s impl
lIvere trying to blanket all escape routes and He re hoping for the bestI
Yockey cormnitted suicide with cyanide in the County Jail last Friday
while being held on a passport charge
Scharf is being sought to rim out what he knoHS abolt Yockeys multiple
passports
Authorities are betuldered about the association of the two Scharf who
is 33 is a forroor principal of Oaklands Temple Beth Abraham School and an
inmate of Nazi concentration camps
Yockey L13 was a racist neo-Nazi of considerable infamy when he accidentally
fell into the hands of Federal authorities on June 6 Yockey had complained to
an airline about the loss of a bag It had already been opened in Fort middot orth
fex as unclaimed and was fourrl to contain three different passports all
bearing Yockeys pictuces
The FBI picked up Yockey in Scharf I s apartTEnt 8t 165 Bellevue avenue
Oakland but when t h ey went back later to talk to - charf he was gone
lle
San Francisco Chronicle Wednesday June 15 1960
IJ I~ PLOT TOLD IN PASSPORT CASE
A bold jailbraak plot en ~ineered by Francis P Yockey the passport
mystery man was revealed yesterday along 1-ith alle ged threats of suicide
Yockey a 43-year-old ex-laryer from Detroit had a npeared before U S
COlIDllissioner Joseph Karesh to plead for a reduction in his 50000 ba il on
a 9assport-fraud char ge
Tcrrard the eni 0 that p-roceeding which was intersession Assistant
U S Attorney William P Clancy Jr mentioned rithdramatic casualness the
purported escape plot am the suicide threats
AEguing against bail reduction he said uThere I S an extreme risk of
flight bull bull a gra-IJe ris k of injury to hirns elf am others II
The escape plan Clancy said was relayed to him by the FBI It ~ent
he said like this
Yockey on Monday approached two other Federal prisoners being held at the
county jail He offered to post S1000 bail far one who is a wai ting sentence
This man would then get a car a nd guns - en the Federal orisoners were
marched into the U S Marshals van in DW1bar ~lley behind the Hall of Justice
the second accomplice would start a kIZIId brawl
The man Hi th the guns would then love in slip a gun to Yockey am all
three would escape in the car parked nearby
The plan went awry Clancey said when the bail posting fell through and
one of the prisoners tipped off the FBI
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Yockey spoke up lTot a HOrd of truth in that If
KadIsh turned to Ennne t F Hagerty who replaced Carl Ho e as Yockeys
attorney I1If such a thing is true Im sure youll agree the bail s et Xx
is not excess i ire II
III a gree n said Hagerty if its true
lWe ve goed r eas on to believe so It said Clancey
Plt8gerty said it might rove otherwise ii the other prisoners were produced
for cross-questioning am Clancey said he might disclooe their identity tcday
Jail s uperintendent Frank Smith later disclosed the other two prisoners
were Philip Galati 21 of Brooklyn awai ting sentence on a check charge and
held in lieu of $1000 bail and Jack Fambrough 27 of 619 39th street Oaklarrl
Jho has pleaded g1lilty to the S9LLI robbery of an Oakhnd Arrrry Terninal PX
service station llt1here he warlred
Fallbrough ras to have been sentenced by Judge Sweigert yesterday but
the case was p03 t poned until tcrlay
~iidway in the bail discussion the case abruptly moved into ~ ederal J uige
iilial) T Sweigerts coort Where Clancey requested a psychiatric exarrination
for Yockey sa ng he as t1 unable to comprehend thb siuilationt and thus c ould
not assist in his defense
Yockey familiar iod th Nazi and Fascist elements in t his country and Eur ope
stood before tre court v1 th anna folded across his chest while Hagerty objected
to a mental examination o
This JTe n has an intellect equal of any in this courtroom with all
deference to Your Honor n Hagerty said He is a member of the bar i n Illinois
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and Michigan a graduate of Notre Darle GeoIl~etown t1ichigan an lItDx author
of books was a Deputy istrict Attorney of Detroit and a rosecutor at the
Nuernberg trials That doesnt Trean he is incompetent to ass ist in his defense
C18ncey countered He was dischar~8d fron the army in 1943 as a dementia
pr a ecox--paranoid type and his conduct before th~ U S CoJltll issioner has
been bizarre II
He then related reports tllhat Yockey rJ8d twice threatened suicide--once
ih the Oakland jail after his arrest am a gain in the jail here Yockey
prom Uy denied that then tossed in a little SOB sensation of his own
He said that lex Scharf in whose Oaklarrl apartment he was arrested and mo
has since disappeared had been taken into custooy by the FBI
uHe JaS arrested in my presence1 Yockey said
The F I promptly denied that
Jui ge Sweigert said he 1ould rule at 11 am today on middotrhether to direct
that Yockey be given a pychiatric test and Karesh held up the bail l1atter
until after that
Sall Francisco Chronicle Thursday J una 16 1960
MENTAL EXAM ORDERED IN S F PASSPORT NYST RY
Francis P Yockey 43 passport mystery man Tas ordered held for
psychiatric examination yesterday by Federal Jud ge (yilliam T Sweigert
The order as Tlade on Government motion aLrl over t he strenuous obj ections
of Yockey hims elf an attorney ani his law--je r Enunet F Ha gerty
Judge SIeigert said he would receive the psychiatric reports on hly 11
am a motion to reduce Yockeys 50000 b8il was vJithdrcnm untn that date
Yockey was arrested in Oaklarrl last lleek after a piece of his l u ga ge
that went astray was frond to contain three passports bearing false names and
spurious identification dccuments He is known to have been closely identified
wi th Nazis and Fascists in this country am Europe
u S Commissioner Joseph Karesh before horn Yockey has appeared in
several stOlTlY hearings was called yesterday by Assistant U S Attorney
WIlliam P ClaJlcey Jr
Karesh testified that he had closely observed Yockey am descrived his
actions as lIthe most unusual of arry accused person who has ever a ppeared
before me II
With per~ission of the cmrrt Yockey undertook to cross eX8~ine Kareshe
He accused the Commissioner of being prejudiced because he had read Yockey
as II anti-J e-lish II
Judge Sweigert halted Yockey in mid-sentence That will ce enough of
thatn he saaIlped
Two EI agents ELliV2rd Ij Cunningham ani Keith G Teeter subnitted affidavits
that Yockey had received a psychiatric discharge fran the Army in 19w3
One affidavit said Army records show that Yockey suffered marked delusions
of persecutions had ideas of gramellr and Ias given a disability dischar ge
due to dementia praecox paranoi d type Cause urrletermined u
Anothe r a ff idavit said Yockey told two unnamed cell TIates in the County
Jail he intended to commit suicide by sharpening a canb into a lethal weapon
Tuesday it was revealed in a hearing before Karesh that Yockey had alle gedly
attempted to engineer a daring escape from 11e County Jail 0 One of the
Clri soners wh om he solidted to aid in t he getaway plan transrnitted the
inforation to the FBI
Yockey in c p3ssionate statemont to the court charQeurod that the GoverT1rnent
was depriving him of his defense by subjecting him to psychiatric examinationo
He said that use of his Army medical recoro violated his r i LtS
San Francisco Chronicle Saturday June 18 1960
PASSPORT DEFENDAN T
MYSTERY MAN yOCKEY KILIS SElF IN bull F JAIL CELL
by Tom Ma thews
Neo-Nazi Francis P Yockey took a leaf from the notebook of HerT~ann
Goering Hitlers air rrarshI31 and poisoned himself in jail yesterday
He left behind him a furious set of Federal officials and a note defying
anyone to find out who supplied him rith the cyanide he used to end his life
The Federal Bureau of Investi gation the State Department and the United
States Attorneys office were left hohl ing a top-secret file on Yockey and
no Yockey to prosecute
The file arrived lastvlednesday One official saj_d it ms loaded rith
dynamite
Yockey 43 was arrested June 6 for investiga tion of passport fraud FBI
agents caught bp 1Tith hi m when he checked on a suitcase that had ~JOne astray
dcentng a plane flight
The suitcase contained three false passp orts Gerrran press credentials
and seven birth certHicates
A ents found him in the apartment of Alex Scharf u65 Bellevue avenue
Cakland Scharf a fo r mer teacher at the Te mple Beth Abraham school
imrre diately disappeared
He has been subpoenaed by the Federal Gram JillS but so far has not
turned up
A warrant for arrest of Scharf was issued late yesterday afternoon Bail
Jas set at $5000
The mysterirus aspect of the case -Jas compounded by Yockeys behavior
and by tlJe insistence of authorities that he be held in the surprisingly high
bail of $50 000
Yockey b q an talking of suicide the day he was arrested He made one
elaborate escape attempt In his court appearances his grandiose manner am
c onte t for proceedings led to an order for a psychiatric exami_nation
The U S Assistant Attorney William P Clancey iolOuld say of Yockey only
that he seemed to be dealing in passports and that current inforrra tion shomd
him to have traveled extensively in Europe
Stanley Jacobs of the Anti-Defarration League was more specific He said
Yockey was associated with the tap figures in extreme right-wing and antishy
Semitic movements
Yockey is known to have been closely connected fl th the resurgent Nazi
movement in West Germany
Somehow he obtained the poison crystals he used ThJmsday night Just as
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Goering the No 2 Nazi did at Nuernberg hours before he was to be ha nged
in 19L5 Yockey used potassium cyanide
No one knoHs haw he got it He played checkers tn th his fellow inmate
Adam Nienan a mapmaker of 1703 Arcadia street until lights were turned out
in their County Jail cell at 9 pm
Nieman then held o~ charges of gram theft which were dismissed yesterday
said ~ Yockey gave si gns of what was in his mind during the evening
tlHe told me he was the No1 leader of some SOlltt of organization Nieman
said He said he had kn owledge of people he loved and he thought hed be
farced to reveal it
The night before he discussed killing himself I-rith heavy weaghts on his
throat The last rernark he rnade to me was Youll sleep all ni ht of course
After lights were out he kept looking over the ledge of the bunk Bt me
r got quite concerned but finally r fell asleep1t
Apparently that was what Yockey had been waiti1S for He took his capsuleo
His baiy was found at 725 amo rigid on the bed hands folded across his
chest He s till had his boots on
Tucked into the folds of a blanket he us ed for a pillow was the follovdng
note
til shall write no messages which r know will never be delivered--only
this which will be
You rJi11 never discover who helped me for he is to be fmurl in your
own multitudinous ranks at least outwardlyo
Jail Su erintendent Frank Swith at first reported Yockey had died of
nat ural causes Cleser examination shoHed the inside of his mouth aand throat
were seared as one might exp~ct from swallming c~nide
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The ne~re brought Sheriff Btt Carberry b us tling to the ~il
We heard he las planniD5 suicide or esca e last TuesdayI he said
I e moved him f rom an upper tier to cell 20 on the grourrl floor where he
could be watched c onstantly by the guard on duty
Im satisfied that suf i cient pr ecautions Here taken
Sheriff Carberrys satisfaction was not shared by Clancey James B
Cavana J gh special arent for the security division of the State Department
or a handfuJ of a ents of the FBI who had been working on the case
Grim-faced they all shm-fed up at the jail and tried to _ind out hm-r
their Tnan had cheated justice and deprived them of possible i nformation
The investigation itself was taken up by the Homicide Bureau of the
Police Department and b~T Carberry
In Yockeys pels onal effects left Hi th tJ-j e jailer a second note was
fourrl It was addressed to Keith G Teeter an FBI a gent It read
Ny dear riro Teeter
I ask you as a favor in the same of humanity wh ich we share to
notify ny sister of this or her husband Lieutenant Cornrna nier or Jrs William
D Coyne Bethesda Md o
tlili thailk you
FrarlCis Yockey
Hrs Coyne nel1ed the body in the Coroners office Hi th Emmet F Hagerty
Yockeys attorney
Y keyg epitaph ras reJITided by an acquaintance and admirer Willis Carta
secretary of the Congress of Freeeol here and fourrier of the San Francisco
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Conservative Republican Headquarters set up during the GOP convention here
in 1956 Carto visited Yockey in jail June 100
Although I do not a ee with all his ideas I feel he Jas an authentic
creative genius I feel that those individuals uho are res onsible for
driving him to his death should feel a rreat sense of guil te
liThe world has lost a great man whose ideas will be r emembered until
estern Civilization is exter minated Carta saido
San Francisco Chronicle Satunlay June l8 l 1960
SISTER CALLS SttICIDE TRAGIC
PHI1 CS OPHER NOT PRO- NAZI SHE SA YS
By George Draper
The suicide of Francis Parker Yockey mystery man with many passports
was described as at a tragedy k yesterday by one of his sisters
All that talent all that brilliance is now gone sighed Mrs Hilliam
P Coyne of Bethesda 11i wife of a U S Navy commander
Mrs Coyne a handsome blonde with ~le blue eyes said Yockey spent his
adult life scrutinizing the JOrld from the exalted station of a true philosopher
No she said he wasnrt anti-Semitic he Jasnrt anti-Zionist No
he wasnrt pro-Nazi He never idolized Hitler In fact he thought Hitler
made one mistake after another n
Likerise Hrs Coyne said Yockey was neither pro-Russian nor anti-Russian
He merely felt that Russia had a role to play in world historytt she said
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~~S Coyne proudly recited the titles of six books written by Yockey
all of which lere privately published in London and one of which has been
called a blueprint of Fascist strategy1I
No publisher in the United States iTould to uch them II she said
Irs Coyne intervievled in t he office of Attorney Emmet Ha gerty said
she had been close to her brother rmen they grew up in Chicago but that in
the last 10 years she had seldom heard from him
He 1-1old telephone me once in a while but never say where he was I
think it was because he loJaS in some kind of tr ouble with the FBI she said
Hrs Coyne said she received a telephone call from Yockey early last
1reek informing her that Im in the Oakland jail
The sister imFtediately flew here from Maryland to help him
She said she talked to him in jail abolt the United States passport he
obtainoo in Salinas in 1954 lKder t1e name of Edward Tax Price
(This same passp ort Tas fourd among Yockeys belongings b3aring Yockeys
photograph with the name changed to Eduard flax Briceman)
liRe couldnt have changed that name on the nassport That Eequires special
techpique she said
Yockey told her she said that he still carried the passport because bhe
State Department had tl~rned him down seven times nen he applied for a new
passport
Jhy did Yockey also carry Canadian and British passports -with his photoshy
graph but different nares
Maybe he thought three passports were better than one Mrs Coyne replied
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The sister said S- e had no idea how Yockey had earned his living in
recent years or where he had b 8m living
Ny sister aro I gave him some money to bave a book published but that
was qcite a few years ago she said
Finally virs Coyne was asked why she thou ght Yockey committed sui cide
Has it been established that it was a sui cidert she replied
Re l 71inded that Yockey penned a suicide note before he died she added
I Oh thats right He did Probably he felt he -lasnt going to have
a fair trial
She he3itated a momen t and added
tIredica ted upon r-rha t happened he was completely justified in feeling
tha t way
San Francisco Chr onicle Sunday June 19 1960
VICTIH OF NAZIS LI TO YOCKE Y
by Geor ge Draper
Alex B Scharf tattooed sUvivor of the Auschlitz concentration camp
in World 7Jar II as being sought for questioning yesterday about the mysterious
activities of nea-Fascist Francis P Yockey
Yockey 43 killed hims elf with potassium cyanide in County Jail No1
early Friday lThile being held on passport fratrl charges
He was arrested in Scharfs Oakland apartment tvlO 1l euroeks ago l i t h three
fake Dassoorts- and seven birth certificates
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I rmned iately following Yockeys arrest Scharf 31 abandoned his j dJ
as princi al- of Tern le Beth Abraham school and disa peared
Both Government officials and Jewish leaders Here puzzled by the associashy
tion between Scharf and Yockey
Seymour Froroor director of Jewish iducation in Oaskland said Scharf
wears the German tatoo on his arm that proves he was a prisoner at Ausch~-litz
where more than t m million J eHS were cremated by Hi tIer
I am sure charf believed in Israel and Zionism n said Fromer
Stanley S Jacobs chief of the Anti-Defaro~tion Leag~ehere declared
I am loath to believe Scharf was e n ga ged in Neo-Fascist activities
wi th Yockey
Yockey is known to have been anti-Zionist if not anti-Semitic and in
liaison ith various extreme right--nng lea ers incluiing former followers
of Hitler
Yockeys former -dfe Alice Yockey of San Antonio Tex told this reporter
that Yockey thou ght reports of Jewish genocide in orld middotjar II were eXd ggerated
Investigators hope to question Scharf about his original explanation for
harring Yockey in his Oakland apartment
After Yockeys arrest Scharf is said to have told a lents he met Yockey
for the first time a few days earlier at the gambling tables in Reno
At poundhat time he said he invited Yockey a stranger to come to Oaklarrl
and stay at his apartrrent
Assistant United States Attorney W P Caancy said yesterday however that
Scharf had known Yockey for nearly a year
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In 1959 Clancy said Yockey applied f or an Irish passport
Either Yockeys application or an attached affidavit said Clancy bears
the name of Alex B Scharf and his former address at 2bol Sacramento street
Scharf was born in Czechoslovakia in 1928 am after Torld a1 II lived
in Paraguay a rrl Ar gentina e
He studied at GolUJ11bia Univergtity and at the Jewish Teachers Institute
in New York and then he returned to Paraguay as a teacher
Scharf came to San Francisco in late 1958 looking for a job teaching
Hebrew and las employed by the Bureau of Jewish Ed ucation
In June 1959 he viaS assigned to Te le Be th Abraham in Oakland as
eciucational director 0
Shortly before Scharf disappeared two weeks a go he t as not ified t ba t h O s
c otrac t at the t emple w-auld not be r enewed
Yockey has b een l eadi ng a lif e of myst ery for t he pas t 10 year s
Hi s sister Mrs Wi lliam bull Coyne of Bethesda r1l said she has no
knmJledge of where he ha s been or wha t he has been d oingo
She said mail for tockey has been deli~ed to her h ome over the years
but she has been forced to thrm it away not knDwing his whereabouts
Mrs Coynes husband is a commander in the Navy
Yockeys difficu lties arose when he lost a suitcase while flying to San
FrcmcLsco aboard an American Airlines Dlane
Tbe s itcase was subsequmtly fourrl in Fort Worth Texas Airline officials
08ned it to verify its Oinership am found a United States a British am a
Canadian passo crt -- each hri th Yockeys photograph ani each bearing a d ifferent
name The FBI Bas notified
San Fra nc isco Chronicle ~~ndaYJ June 20 1960
PUZZLING TRAI L OF YO CKE YS FRI ~ND
by Denne Petitclerc
Federa l a uthorities y estp-rday so ght to solve the ridd l e f what linked
Nazi concentration camp victim Alex B Scharf to neo-Fascist Francis P Yockey
But even Scharfs closest friJmis including the pre tty dark-haired
girl he once asked to marry hLm rere lmafule to ex l ain the strange r e lationship
Yockey Fascist philosopher and t-rriter and associate of former Hi tle r
followers co~~tted suicide in the GOQnty Jail here early Friday while being
held on a passp ort frau charge
Scharf 31-year-old former principal of Temple Beth b raham school in
Oakland a nd victim of Na z i bruta lity a t Auschwitz c oncentrati on camp in
i or lrl ar II has disappeared
It was in charfs Oakland apartnent t hat FBI a gents f0111d Yockey two
weeks ago Scharf since dro ood from s ight and i s DOli) being sought by Federal
authori t i e s for questioning
III know he didnt ha ve any money It sam Mrs Ezra Cohen-Sitt of IlS
Beulah stree t San Francisco
Mrs S i tt met her husband Ezra whi le da ting Scharf last year Sitt -laS
Scharfs roonnnate Ilm a tea cher t Temple Beth Abr aham sc1ool Scharf had once
asked Mrs Sitt to marry (l im He served as a n usher at her iedd i n in J a nuary
ani r emained a friend
Al ex was not the kirri of person you could get close tol she said He ijaS
ver-J sad and very seri ous~ and eve n though he Has likable he vIas alway s distant
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She said Scbarf -Jas t ntelligent and sensitive Hith a eep feeling f or
Orthcdox Jewry and a man fh o kept himself remote as a result of lon years
of f ear under brutal Nazi treatment in Eurone
UHis meetinr Hi th Yockey must have come fr om some thing aut of Europe
years a go II she said T1 He ras a boy of 18 and he Wande red for many years
after the Hal It
Scharf led a mcdest bachelor schoolteacher I s life in axklarri she said
He n fre uently dated one girl wh 0 as employed at a Reno gambling cas ino
she said
Scharf never mentioned Yockey to any of his acquaintances here yen~s
Stit t (sic) said
Assistant Unj ted t ates Attorney bull 2 Clancey said Scharfs battered
1956 yell orJ and black Mercury sedan has not b een fourrl but that the California
Highway Patrol has been alerted
San Francisco Chronicle Tuesday June 21 1960
D MA Y BE ON ISRA EL-BOUND SHIP
by Denne Petitclerc
_ lex B Scharf still sougtlt as a key ~ritness in th2 puzzling case of
nea-Fascist Francis P Yockey may be ab oard a sb~p en route to Israel
The Chronicle learned yesterday
Federal authorities here said they Here checking the possibility that
Scharf may have boarded a ship in e York last I-Teek or that he is still
waiti ng in Ne-J York t o eave the country
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Yockey wa s arr e s ted i n Scharf s apartment on J une 8 ~las ques tioned
by Federal officers a m then vanis hed bull Aut h ori ties are s t ill p uzz led about
Hha t bond cOlld have existed bet wee n a Naz i philos ophe r like Yockey am
Scharf a one-time principal of Oaklands Temple Beth Abraham school and an
inmate of German conentration c amps in Uor1d ~Jar II
Yockey 43 killed himself Hith potassill1fl cyanide in his County Jail No1
cell early last Friday whi le being held on passport violation charges
The first possible clue to Scharfs whereabouts came yesterday in checkJ_ng
a former San Jose court reporter described as charf s closest friend
The reporter William Sloffibvich 35 left his job in San Jose about three
months ago -lorked until last month in Los -ngeles and then left far New York
The Chronicle learned that Slomovich s name apueared on the passenger
list of the Atlantic an American Export Lines ship which sailed from ew
York last Thursday bound for P~ifa Israel
lthough cparfs name did not aprear on the passe er list Federal
authorities said it is possible he rr~y have used an ass umed name since he is
not a citizen of the United States
Assistant United States Attorney il1iam P Clancey said t~at American
offmcials in Israel 1i11 be alerted to question Slornovich--and to be on the
lookout for Scharf--when the ship berths in Haifa on June 29
Clancy (sic) nEamlhile said that evidence Dr irrlicates that Scharf had
known Yockey for more t han a year
Yockey made an application for an Irish passport in an Francisco in 1959
under t he name of Michael Taylor usi ng Scharf as a referenceo
Clancy s j d a handwriting ex-pert is aIlCtlyzin the docurn-nt to d e terrni ne
-hether charfs signature las forgedo
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liieanwhile it Jas learned tha t Yockey asked a f e11ovI-prisoner tvJO
days befClte he committed suicide in the C01lllty Jail here where he c ould
ootain some poison
Federal author ities refused to identify the prisoner but said that he
has been transf erred to another institution He Jill be questioned tcrlay
about the conversation officials said
Sherriff Matthew Carberry whohms San F ancisco s CODnty J ail co~ ented
last night that no Federal official had rnentioned to him the existence of a
county jail prisoner with such a story
Authori ties are puzzled as to T here Yockey obtained the deadl y poison
and haw it reached his cello
At too same time the coroners office announced that a toxologists
report s h mfs that Yockey took one-fifth of a am of potassi urn cyanide which
is double the lethal dose f or a man of his size
Yockey left a note defying anyone to discover h ow he obtained the poison
Frierris said t1at Scharf fled the ay Area in a battered 1956 yellow and
black l1e rcury sedan apparently with little money in his possession
Mrs Ezra Cohen-Sitt of 115 Beulah street a friend of charf said
yesterday she wan ted to correct an impression given in an intervieH with
The Chronicle Sunday that Scharf had at one ti~e asked her to marry him
He did not she said I did not intem to be quoted on any Hatter
rela ted to Hr Scharf II
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San Francisco Chronicle Wednesday June 22 1960
u S PRESSES SEARCH F YOCKEYS AL
The search for Alex B Scharf mysterio11S pal of neo-Fascist Francis
P Yockey settled down to a game of fox and houms yesterday
Scharf rho departed from Oaklarrl so quickly after Yockeys arrest that
he even left his clothes behind was in the role of the fox The hounds are
agents of the State Department vih ose security officials in ian Franc isco
said s impl
lIvere trying to blanket all escape routes and He re hoping for the bestI
Yockey cormnitted suicide with cyanide in the County Jail last Friday
while being held on a passport charge
Scharf is being sought to rim out what he knoHS abolt Yockeys multiple
passports
Authorities are betuldered about the association of the two Scharf who
is 33 is a forroor principal of Oaklands Temple Beth Abraham School and an
inmate of Nazi concentration camps
Yockey L13 was a racist neo-Nazi of considerable infamy when he accidentally
fell into the hands of Federal authorities on June 6 Yockey had complained to
an airline about the loss of a bag It had already been opened in Fort middot orth
fex as unclaimed and was fourrl to contain three different passports all
bearing Yockeys pictuces
The FBI picked up Yockey in Scharf I s apartTEnt 8t 165 Bellevue avenue
Oakland but when t h ey went back later to talk to - charf he was gone
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Yockey spoke up lTot a HOrd of truth in that If
KadIsh turned to Ennne t F Hagerty who replaced Carl Ho e as Yockeys
attorney I1If such a thing is true Im sure youll agree the bail s et Xx
is not excess i ire II
III a gree n said Hagerty if its true
lWe ve goed r eas on to believe so It said Clancey
Plt8gerty said it might rove otherwise ii the other prisoners were produced
for cross-questioning am Clancey said he might disclooe their identity tcday
Jail s uperintendent Frank Smith later disclosed the other two prisoners
were Philip Galati 21 of Brooklyn awai ting sentence on a check charge and
held in lieu of $1000 bail and Jack Fambrough 27 of 619 39th street Oaklarrl
Jho has pleaded g1lilty to the S9LLI robbery of an Oakhnd Arrrry Terninal PX
service station llt1here he warlred
Fallbrough ras to have been sentenced by Judge Sweigert yesterday but
the case was p03 t poned until tcrlay
~iidway in the bail discussion the case abruptly moved into ~ ederal J uige
iilial) T Sweigerts coort Where Clancey requested a psychiatric exarrination
for Yockey sa ng he as t1 unable to comprehend thb siuilationt and thus c ould
not assist in his defense
Yockey familiar iod th Nazi and Fascist elements in t his country and Eur ope
stood before tre court v1 th anna folded across his chest while Hagerty objected
to a mental examination o
This JTe n has an intellect equal of any in this courtroom with all
deference to Your Honor n Hagerty said He is a member of the bar i n Illinois
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and Michigan a graduate of Notre Darle GeoIl~etown t1ichigan an lItDx author
of books was a Deputy istrict Attorney of Detroit and a rosecutor at the
Nuernberg trials That doesnt Trean he is incompetent to ass ist in his defense
C18ncey countered He was dischar~8d fron the army in 1943 as a dementia
pr a ecox--paranoid type and his conduct before th~ U S CoJltll issioner has
been bizarre II
He then related reports tllhat Yockey rJ8d twice threatened suicide--once
ih the Oakland jail after his arrest am a gain in the jail here Yockey
prom Uy denied that then tossed in a little SOB sensation of his own
He said that lex Scharf in whose Oaklarrl apartment he was arrested and mo
has since disappeared had been taken into custooy by the FBI
uHe JaS arrested in my presence1 Yockey said
The F I promptly denied that
Jui ge Sweigert said he 1ould rule at 11 am today on middotrhether to direct
that Yockey be given a pychiatric test and Karesh held up the bail l1atter
until after that
Sall Francisco Chronicle Thursday J una 16 1960
MENTAL EXAM ORDERED IN S F PASSPORT NYST RY
Francis P Yockey 43 passport mystery man Tas ordered held for
psychiatric examination yesterday by Federal Jud ge (yilliam T Sweigert
The order as Tlade on Government motion aLrl over t he strenuous obj ections
of Yockey hims elf an attorney ani his law--je r Enunet F Ha gerty
Judge SIeigert said he would receive the psychiatric reports on hly 11
am a motion to reduce Yockeys 50000 b8il was vJithdrcnm untn that date
Yockey was arrested in Oaklarrl last lleek after a piece of his l u ga ge
that went astray was frond to contain three passports bearing false names and
spurious identification dccuments He is known to have been closely identified
wi th Nazis and Fascists in this country am Europe
u S Commissioner Joseph Karesh before horn Yockey has appeared in
several stOlTlY hearings was called yesterday by Assistant U S Attorney
WIlliam P ClaJlcey Jr
Karesh testified that he had closely observed Yockey am descrived his
actions as lIthe most unusual of arry accused person who has ever a ppeared
before me II
With per~ission of the cmrrt Yockey undertook to cross eX8~ine Kareshe
He accused the Commissioner of being prejudiced because he had read Yockey
as II anti-J e-lish II
Judge Sweigert halted Yockey in mid-sentence That will ce enough of
thatn he saaIlped
Two EI agents ELliV2rd Ij Cunningham ani Keith G Teeter subnitted affidavits
that Yockey had received a psychiatric discharge fran the Army in 19w3
One affidavit said Army records show that Yockey suffered marked delusions
of persecutions had ideas of gramellr and Ias given a disability dischar ge
due to dementia praecox paranoi d type Cause urrletermined u
Anothe r a ff idavit said Yockey told two unnamed cell TIates in the County
Jail he intended to commit suicide by sharpening a canb into a lethal weapon
Tuesday it was revealed in a hearing before Karesh that Yockey had alle gedly
attempted to engineer a daring escape from 11e County Jail 0 One of the
Clri soners wh om he solidted to aid in t he getaway plan transrnitted the
inforation to the FBI
Yockey in c p3ssionate statemont to the court charQeurod that the GoverT1rnent
was depriving him of his defense by subjecting him to psychiatric examinationo
He said that use of his Army medical recoro violated his r i LtS
San Francisco Chronicle Saturday June 18 1960
PASSPORT DEFENDAN T
MYSTERY MAN yOCKEY KILIS SElF IN bull F JAIL CELL
by Tom Ma thews
Neo-Nazi Francis P Yockey took a leaf from the notebook of HerT~ann
Goering Hitlers air rrarshI31 and poisoned himself in jail yesterday
He left behind him a furious set of Federal officials and a note defying
anyone to find out who supplied him rith the cyanide he used to end his life
The Federal Bureau of Investi gation the State Department and the United
States Attorneys office were left hohl ing a top-secret file on Yockey and
no Yockey to prosecute
The file arrived lastvlednesday One official saj_d it ms loaded rith
dynamite
Yockey 43 was arrested June 6 for investiga tion of passport fraud FBI
agents caught bp 1Tith hi m when he checked on a suitcase that had ~JOne astray
dcentng a plane flight
The suitcase contained three false passp orts Gerrran press credentials
and seven birth certHicates
A ents found him in the apartment of Alex Scharf u65 Bellevue avenue
Cakland Scharf a fo r mer teacher at the Te mple Beth Abraham school
imrre diately disappeared
He has been subpoenaed by the Federal Gram JillS but so far has not
turned up
A warrant for arrest of Scharf was issued late yesterday afternoon Bail
Jas set at $5000
The mysterirus aspect of the case -Jas compounded by Yockeys behavior
and by tlJe insistence of authorities that he be held in the surprisingly high
bail of $50 000
Yockey b q an talking of suicide the day he was arrested He made one
elaborate escape attempt In his court appearances his grandiose manner am
c onte t for proceedings led to an order for a psychiatric exami_nation
The U S Assistant Attorney William P Clancey iolOuld say of Yockey only
that he seemed to be dealing in passports and that current inforrra tion shomd
him to have traveled extensively in Europe
Stanley Jacobs of the Anti-Defarration League was more specific He said
Yockey was associated with the tap figures in extreme right-wing and antishy
Semitic movements
Yockey is known to have been closely connected fl th the resurgent Nazi
movement in West Germany
Somehow he obtained the poison crystals he used ThJmsday night Just as
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Goering the No 2 Nazi did at Nuernberg hours before he was to be ha nged
in 19L5 Yockey used potassium cyanide
No one knoHs haw he got it He played checkers tn th his fellow inmate
Adam Nienan a mapmaker of 1703 Arcadia street until lights were turned out
in their County Jail cell at 9 pm
Nieman then held o~ charges of gram theft which were dismissed yesterday
said ~ Yockey gave si gns of what was in his mind during the evening
tlHe told me he was the No1 leader of some SOlltt of organization Nieman
said He said he had kn owledge of people he loved and he thought hed be
farced to reveal it
The night before he discussed killing himself I-rith heavy weaghts on his
throat The last rernark he rnade to me was Youll sleep all ni ht of course
After lights were out he kept looking over the ledge of the bunk Bt me
r got quite concerned but finally r fell asleep1t
Apparently that was what Yockey had been waiti1S for He took his capsuleo
His baiy was found at 725 amo rigid on the bed hands folded across his
chest He s till had his boots on
Tucked into the folds of a blanket he us ed for a pillow was the follovdng
note
til shall write no messages which r know will never be delivered--only
this which will be
You rJi11 never discover who helped me for he is to be fmurl in your
own multitudinous ranks at least outwardlyo
Jail Su erintendent Frank Swith at first reported Yockey had died of
nat ural causes Cleser examination shoHed the inside of his mouth aand throat
were seared as one might exp~ct from swallming c~nide
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The ne~re brought Sheriff Btt Carberry b us tling to the ~il
We heard he las planniD5 suicide or esca e last TuesdayI he said
I e moved him f rom an upper tier to cell 20 on the grourrl floor where he
could be watched c onstantly by the guard on duty
Im satisfied that suf i cient pr ecautions Here taken
Sheriff Carberrys satisfaction was not shared by Clancey James B
Cavana J gh special arent for the security division of the State Department
or a handfuJ of a ents of the FBI who had been working on the case
Grim-faced they all shm-fed up at the jail and tried to _ind out hm-r
their Tnan had cheated justice and deprived them of possible i nformation
The investigation itself was taken up by the Homicide Bureau of the
Police Department and b~T Carberry
In Yockeys pels onal effects left Hi th tJ-j e jailer a second note was
fourrl It was addressed to Keith G Teeter an FBI a gent It read
Ny dear riro Teeter
I ask you as a favor in the same of humanity wh ich we share to
notify ny sister of this or her husband Lieutenant Cornrna nier or Jrs William
D Coyne Bethesda Md o
tlili thailk you
FrarlCis Yockey
Hrs Coyne nel1ed the body in the Coroners office Hi th Emmet F Hagerty
Yockeys attorney
Y keyg epitaph ras reJITided by an acquaintance and admirer Willis Carta
secretary of the Congress of Freeeol here and fourrier of the San Francisco
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Conservative Republican Headquarters set up during the GOP convention here
in 1956 Carto visited Yockey in jail June 100
Although I do not a ee with all his ideas I feel he Jas an authentic
creative genius I feel that those individuals uho are res onsible for
driving him to his death should feel a rreat sense of guil te
liThe world has lost a great man whose ideas will be r emembered until
estern Civilization is exter minated Carta saido
San Francisco Chronicle Satunlay June l8 l 1960
SISTER CALLS SttICIDE TRAGIC
PHI1 CS OPHER NOT PRO- NAZI SHE SA YS
By George Draper
The suicide of Francis Parker Yockey mystery man with many passports
was described as at a tragedy k yesterday by one of his sisters
All that talent all that brilliance is now gone sighed Mrs Hilliam
P Coyne of Bethesda 11i wife of a U S Navy commander
Mrs Coyne a handsome blonde with ~le blue eyes said Yockey spent his
adult life scrutinizing the JOrld from the exalted station of a true philosopher
No she said he wasnrt anti-Semitic he Jasnrt anti-Zionist No
he wasnrt pro-Nazi He never idolized Hitler In fact he thought Hitler
made one mistake after another n
Likerise Hrs Coyne said Yockey was neither pro-Russian nor anti-Russian
He merely felt that Russia had a role to play in world historytt she said
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~~S Coyne proudly recited the titles of six books written by Yockey
all of which lere privately published in London and one of which has been
called a blueprint of Fascist strategy1I
No publisher in the United States iTould to uch them II she said
Irs Coyne intervievled in t he office of Attorney Emmet Ha gerty said
she had been close to her brother rmen they grew up in Chicago but that in
the last 10 years she had seldom heard from him
He 1-1old telephone me once in a while but never say where he was I
think it was because he loJaS in some kind of tr ouble with the FBI she said
Hrs Coyne said she received a telephone call from Yockey early last
1reek informing her that Im in the Oakland jail
The sister imFtediately flew here from Maryland to help him
She said she talked to him in jail abolt the United States passport he
obtainoo in Salinas in 1954 lKder t1e name of Edward Tax Price
(This same passp ort Tas fourd among Yockeys belongings b3aring Yockeys
photograph with the name changed to Eduard flax Briceman)
liRe couldnt have changed that name on the nassport That Eequires special
techpique she said
Yockey told her she said that he still carried the passport because bhe
State Department had tl~rned him down seven times nen he applied for a new
passport
Jhy did Yockey also carry Canadian and British passports -with his photoshy
graph but different nares
Maybe he thought three passports were better than one Mrs Coyne replied
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The sister said S- e had no idea how Yockey had earned his living in
recent years or where he had b 8m living
Ny sister aro I gave him some money to bave a book published but that
was qcite a few years ago she said
Finally virs Coyne was asked why she thou ght Yockey committed sui cide
Has it been established that it was a sui cidert she replied
Re l 71inded that Yockey penned a suicide note before he died she added
I Oh thats right He did Probably he felt he -lasnt going to have
a fair trial
She he3itated a momen t and added
tIredica ted upon r-rha t happened he was completely justified in feeling
tha t way
San Francisco Chr onicle Sunday June 19 1960
VICTIH OF NAZIS LI TO YOCKE Y
by Geor ge Draper
Alex B Scharf tattooed sUvivor of the Auschlitz concentration camp
in World 7Jar II as being sought for questioning yesterday about the mysterious
activities of nea-Fascist Francis P Yockey
Yockey 43 killed hims elf with potassium cyanide in County Jail No1
early Friday lThile being held on passport fratrl charges
He was arrested in Scharfs Oakland apartment tvlO 1l euroeks ago l i t h three
fake Dassoorts- and seven birth certificates
22
I rmned iately following Yockeys arrest Scharf 31 abandoned his j dJ
as princi al- of Tern le Beth Abraham school and disa peared
Both Government officials and Jewish leaders Here puzzled by the associashy
tion between Scharf and Yockey
Seymour Froroor director of Jewish iducation in Oaskland said Scharf
wears the German tatoo on his arm that proves he was a prisoner at Ausch~-litz
where more than t m million J eHS were cremated by Hi tIer
I am sure charf believed in Israel and Zionism n said Fromer
Stanley S Jacobs chief of the Anti-Defaro~tion Leag~ehere declared
I am loath to believe Scharf was e n ga ged in Neo-Fascist activities
wi th Yockey
Yockey is known to have been anti-Zionist if not anti-Semitic and in
liaison ith various extreme right--nng lea ers incluiing former followers
of Hitler
Yockeys former -dfe Alice Yockey of San Antonio Tex told this reporter
that Yockey thou ght reports of Jewish genocide in orld middotjar II were eXd ggerated
Investigators hope to question Scharf about his original explanation for
harring Yockey in his Oakland apartment
After Yockeys arrest Scharf is said to have told a lents he met Yockey
for the first time a few days earlier at the gambling tables in Reno
At poundhat time he said he invited Yockey a stranger to come to Oaklarrl
and stay at his apartrrent
Assistant United States Attorney W P Caancy said yesterday however that
Scharf had known Yockey for nearly a year
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In 1959 Clancy said Yockey applied f or an Irish passport
Either Yockeys application or an attached affidavit said Clancy bears
the name of Alex B Scharf and his former address at 2bol Sacramento street
Scharf was born in Czechoslovakia in 1928 am after Torld a1 II lived
in Paraguay a rrl Ar gentina e
He studied at GolUJ11bia Univergtity and at the Jewish Teachers Institute
in New York and then he returned to Paraguay as a teacher
Scharf came to San Francisco in late 1958 looking for a job teaching
Hebrew and las employed by the Bureau of Jewish Ed ucation
In June 1959 he viaS assigned to Te le Be th Abraham in Oakland as
eciucational director 0
Shortly before Scharf disappeared two weeks a go he t as not ified t ba t h O s
c otrac t at the t emple w-auld not be r enewed
Yockey has b een l eadi ng a lif e of myst ery for t he pas t 10 year s
Hi s sister Mrs Wi lliam bull Coyne of Bethesda r1l said she has no
knmJledge of where he ha s been or wha t he has been d oingo
She said mail for tockey has been deli~ed to her h ome over the years
but she has been forced to thrm it away not knDwing his whereabouts
Mrs Coynes husband is a commander in the Navy
Yockeys difficu lties arose when he lost a suitcase while flying to San
FrcmcLsco aboard an American Airlines Dlane
Tbe s itcase was subsequmtly fourrl in Fort Worth Texas Airline officials
08ned it to verify its Oinership am found a United States a British am a
Canadian passo crt -- each hri th Yockeys photograph ani each bearing a d ifferent
name The FBI Bas notified
San Fra nc isco Chronicle ~~ndaYJ June 20 1960
PUZZLING TRAI L OF YO CKE YS FRI ~ND
by Denne Petitclerc
Federa l a uthorities y estp-rday so ght to solve the ridd l e f what linked
Nazi concentration camp victim Alex B Scharf to neo-Fascist Francis P Yockey
But even Scharfs closest friJmis including the pre tty dark-haired
girl he once asked to marry hLm rere lmafule to ex l ain the strange r e lationship
Yockey Fascist philosopher and t-rriter and associate of former Hi tle r
followers co~~tted suicide in the GOQnty Jail here early Friday while being
held on a passp ort frau charge
Scharf 31-year-old former principal of Temple Beth b raham school in
Oakland a nd victim of Na z i bruta lity a t Auschwitz c oncentrati on camp in
i or lrl ar II has disappeared
It was in charfs Oakland apartnent t hat FBI a gents f0111d Yockey two
weeks ago Scharf since dro ood from s ight and i s DOli) being sought by Federal
authori t i e s for questioning
III know he didnt ha ve any money It sam Mrs Ezra Cohen-Sitt of IlS
Beulah stree t San Francisco
Mrs S i tt met her husband Ezra whi le da ting Scharf last year Sitt -laS
Scharfs roonnnate Ilm a tea cher t Temple Beth Abr aham sc1ool Scharf had once
asked Mrs Sitt to marry (l im He served as a n usher at her iedd i n in J a nuary
ani r emained a friend
Al ex was not the kirri of person you could get close tol she said He ijaS
ver-J sad and very seri ous~ and eve n though he Has likable he vIas alway s distant
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She said Scbarf -Jas t ntelligent and sensitive Hith a eep feeling f or
Orthcdox Jewry and a man fh o kept himself remote as a result of lon years
of f ear under brutal Nazi treatment in Eurone
UHis meetinr Hi th Yockey must have come fr om some thing aut of Europe
years a go II she said T1 He ras a boy of 18 and he Wande red for many years
after the Hal It
Scharf led a mcdest bachelor schoolteacher I s life in axklarri she said
He n fre uently dated one girl wh 0 as employed at a Reno gambling cas ino
she said
Scharf never mentioned Yockey to any of his acquaintances here yen~s
Stit t (sic) said
Assistant Unj ted t ates Attorney bull 2 Clancey said Scharfs battered
1956 yell orJ and black Mercury sedan has not b een fourrl but that the California
Highway Patrol has been alerted
San Francisco Chronicle Tuesday June 21 1960
D MA Y BE ON ISRA EL-BOUND SHIP
by Denne Petitclerc
_ lex B Scharf still sougtlt as a key ~ritness in th2 puzzling case of
nea-Fascist Francis P Yockey may be ab oard a sb~p en route to Israel
The Chronicle learned yesterday
Federal authorities here said they Here checking the possibility that
Scharf may have boarded a ship in e York last I-Teek or that he is still
waiti ng in Ne-J York t o eave the country
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Yockey wa s arr e s ted i n Scharf s apartment on J une 8 ~las ques tioned
by Federal officers a m then vanis hed bull Aut h ori ties are s t ill p uzz led about
Hha t bond cOlld have existed bet wee n a Naz i philos ophe r like Yockey am
Scharf a one-time principal of Oaklands Temple Beth Abraham school and an
inmate of German conentration c amps in Uor1d ~Jar II
Yockey 43 killed himself Hith potassill1fl cyanide in his County Jail No1
cell early last Friday whi le being held on passport violation charges
The first possible clue to Scharfs whereabouts came yesterday in checkJ_ng
a former San Jose court reporter described as charf s closest friend
The reporter William Sloffibvich 35 left his job in San Jose about three
months ago -lorked until last month in Los -ngeles and then left far New York
The Chronicle learned that Slomovich s name apueared on the passenger
list of the Atlantic an American Export Lines ship which sailed from ew
York last Thursday bound for P~ifa Israel
lthough cparfs name did not aprear on the passe er list Federal
authorities said it is possible he rr~y have used an ass umed name since he is
not a citizen of the United States
Assistant United States Attorney il1iam P Clancey said t~at American
offmcials in Israel 1i11 be alerted to question Slornovich--and to be on the
lookout for Scharf--when the ship berths in Haifa on June 29
Clancy (sic) nEamlhile said that evidence Dr irrlicates that Scharf had
known Yockey for more t han a year
Yockey made an application for an Irish passport in an Francisco in 1959
under t he name of Michael Taylor usi ng Scharf as a referenceo
Clancy s j d a handwriting ex-pert is aIlCtlyzin the docurn-nt to d e terrni ne
-hether charfs signature las forgedo
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liieanwhile it Jas learned tha t Yockey asked a f e11ovI-prisoner tvJO
days befClte he committed suicide in the C01lllty Jail here where he c ould
ootain some poison
Federal author ities refused to identify the prisoner but said that he
has been transf erred to another institution He Jill be questioned tcrlay
about the conversation officials said
Sherriff Matthew Carberry whohms San F ancisco s CODnty J ail co~ ented
last night that no Federal official had rnentioned to him the existence of a
county jail prisoner with such a story
Authori ties are puzzled as to T here Yockey obtained the deadl y poison
and haw it reached his cello
At too same time the coroners office announced that a toxologists
report s h mfs that Yockey took one-fifth of a am of potassi urn cyanide which
is double the lethal dose f or a man of his size
Yockey left a note defying anyone to discover h ow he obtained the poison
Frierris said t1at Scharf fled the ay Area in a battered 1956 yellow and
black l1e rcury sedan apparently with little money in his possession
Mrs Ezra Cohen-Sitt of 115 Beulah street a friend of charf said
yesterday she wan ted to correct an impression given in an intervieH with
The Chronicle Sunday that Scharf had at one ti~e asked her to marry him
He did not she said I did not intem to be quoted on any Hatter
rela ted to Hr Scharf II
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San Francisco Chronicle Wednesday June 22 1960
u S PRESSES SEARCH F YOCKEYS AL
The search for Alex B Scharf mysterio11S pal of neo-Fascist Francis
P Yockey settled down to a game of fox and houms yesterday
Scharf rho departed from Oaklarrl so quickly after Yockeys arrest that
he even left his clothes behind was in the role of the fox The hounds are
agents of the State Department vih ose security officials in ian Franc isco
said s impl
lIvere trying to blanket all escape routes and He re hoping for the bestI
Yockey cormnitted suicide with cyanide in the County Jail last Friday
while being held on a passport charge
Scharf is being sought to rim out what he knoHS abolt Yockeys multiple
passports
Authorities are betuldered about the association of the two Scharf who
is 33 is a forroor principal of Oaklands Temple Beth Abraham School and an
inmate of Nazi concentration camps
Yockey L13 was a racist neo-Nazi of considerable infamy when he accidentally
fell into the hands of Federal authorities on June 6 Yockey had complained to
an airline about the loss of a bag It had already been opened in Fort middot orth
fex as unclaimed and was fourrl to contain three different passports all
bearing Yockeys pictuces
The FBI picked up Yockey in Scharf I s apartTEnt 8t 165 Bellevue avenue
Oakland but when t h ey went back later to talk to - charf he was gone
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and Michigan a graduate of Notre Darle GeoIl~etown t1ichigan an lItDx author
of books was a Deputy istrict Attorney of Detroit and a rosecutor at the
Nuernberg trials That doesnt Trean he is incompetent to ass ist in his defense
C18ncey countered He was dischar~8d fron the army in 1943 as a dementia
pr a ecox--paranoid type and his conduct before th~ U S CoJltll issioner has
been bizarre II
He then related reports tllhat Yockey rJ8d twice threatened suicide--once
ih the Oakland jail after his arrest am a gain in the jail here Yockey
prom Uy denied that then tossed in a little SOB sensation of his own
He said that lex Scharf in whose Oaklarrl apartment he was arrested and mo
has since disappeared had been taken into custooy by the FBI
uHe JaS arrested in my presence1 Yockey said
The F I promptly denied that
Jui ge Sweigert said he 1ould rule at 11 am today on middotrhether to direct
that Yockey be given a pychiatric test and Karesh held up the bail l1atter
until after that
Sall Francisco Chronicle Thursday J una 16 1960
MENTAL EXAM ORDERED IN S F PASSPORT NYST RY
Francis P Yockey 43 passport mystery man Tas ordered held for
psychiatric examination yesterday by Federal Jud ge (yilliam T Sweigert
The order as Tlade on Government motion aLrl over t he strenuous obj ections
of Yockey hims elf an attorney ani his law--je r Enunet F Ha gerty
Judge SIeigert said he would receive the psychiatric reports on hly 11
am a motion to reduce Yockeys 50000 b8il was vJithdrcnm untn that date
Yockey was arrested in Oaklarrl last lleek after a piece of his l u ga ge
that went astray was frond to contain three passports bearing false names and
spurious identification dccuments He is known to have been closely identified
wi th Nazis and Fascists in this country am Europe
u S Commissioner Joseph Karesh before horn Yockey has appeared in
several stOlTlY hearings was called yesterday by Assistant U S Attorney
WIlliam P ClaJlcey Jr
Karesh testified that he had closely observed Yockey am descrived his
actions as lIthe most unusual of arry accused person who has ever a ppeared
before me II
With per~ission of the cmrrt Yockey undertook to cross eX8~ine Kareshe
He accused the Commissioner of being prejudiced because he had read Yockey
as II anti-J e-lish II
Judge Sweigert halted Yockey in mid-sentence That will ce enough of
thatn he saaIlped
Two EI agents ELliV2rd Ij Cunningham ani Keith G Teeter subnitted affidavits
that Yockey had received a psychiatric discharge fran the Army in 19w3
One affidavit said Army records show that Yockey suffered marked delusions
of persecutions had ideas of gramellr and Ias given a disability dischar ge
due to dementia praecox paranoi d type Cause urrletermined u
Anothe r a ff idavit said Yockey told two unnamed cell TIates in the County
Jail he intended to commit suicide by sharpening a canb into a lethal weapon
Tuesday it was revealed in a hearing before Karesh that Yockey had alle gedly
attempted to engineer a daring escape from 11e County Jail 0 One of the
Clri soners wh om he solidted to aid in t he getaway plan transrnitted the
inforation to the FBI
Yockey in c p3ssionate statemont to the court charQeurod that the GoverT1rnent
was depriving him of his defense by subjecting him to psychiatric examinationo
He said that use of his Army medical recoro violated his r i LtS
San Francisco Chronicle Saturday June 18 1960
PASSPORT DEFENDAN T
MYSTERY MAN yOCKEY KILIS SElF IN bull F JAIL CELL
by Tom Ma thews
Neo-Nazi Francis P Yockey took a leaf from the notebook of HerT~ann
Goering Hitlers air rrarshI31 and poisoned himself in jail yesterday
He left behind him a furious set of Federal officials and a note defying
anyone to find out who supplied him rith the cyanide he used to end his life
The Federal Bureau of Investi gation the State Department and the United
States Attorneys office were left hohl ing a top-secret file on Yockey and
no Yockey to prosecute
The file arrived lastvlednesday One official saj_d it ms loaded rith
dynamite
Yockey 43 was arrested June 6 for investiga tion of passport fraud FBI
agents caught bp 1Tith hi m when he checked on a suitcase that had ~JOne astray
dcentng a plane flight
The suitcase contained three false passp orts Gerrran press credentials
and seven birth certHicates
A ents found him in the apartment of Alex Scharf u65 Bellevue avenue
Cakland Scharf a fo r mer teacher at the Te mple Beth Abraham school
imrre diately disappeared
He has been subpoenaed by the Federal Gram JillS but so far has not
turned up
A warrant for arrest of Scharf was issued late yesterday afternoon Bail
Jas set at $5000
The mysterirus aspect of the case -Jas compounded by Yockeys behavior
and by tlJe insistence of authorities that he be held in the surprisingly high
bail of $50 000
Yockey b q an talking of suicide the day he was arrested He made one
elaborate escape attempt In his court appearances his grandiose manner am
c onte t for proceedings led to an order for a psychiatric exami_nation
The U S Assistant Attorney William P Clancey iolOuld say of Yockey only
that he seemed to be dealing in passports and that current inforrra tion shomd
him to have traveled extensively in Europe
Stanley Jacobs of the Anti-Defarration League was more specific He said
Yockey was associated with the tap figures in extreme right-wing and antishy
Semitic movements
Yockey is known to have been closely connected fl th the resurgent Nazi
movement in West Germany
Somehow he obtained the poison crystals he used ThJmsday night Just as
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Goering the No 2 Nazi did at Nuernberg hours before he was to be ha nged
in 19L5 Yockey used potassium cyanide
No one knoHs haw he got it He played checkers tn th his fellow inmate
Adam Nienan a mapmaker of 1703 Arcadia street until lights were turned out
in their County Jail cell at 9 pm
Nieman then held o~ charges of gram theft which were dismissed yesterday
said ~ Yockey gave si gns of what was in his mind during the evening
tlHe told me he was the No1 leader of some SOlltt of organization Nieman
said He said he had kn owledge of people he loved and he thought hed be
farced to reveal it
The night before he discussed killing himself I-rith heavy weaghts on his
throat The last rernark he rnade to me was Youll sleep all ni ht of course
After lights were out he kept looking over the ledge of the bunk Bt me
r got quite concerned but finally r fell asleep1t
Apparently that was what Yockey had been waiti1S for He took his capsuleo
His baiy was found at 725 amo rigid on the bed hands folded across his
chest He s till had his boots on
Tucked into the folds of a blanket he us ed for a pillow was the follovdng
note
til shall write no messages which r know will never be delivered--only
this which will be
You rJi11 never discover who helped me for he is to be fmurl in your
own multitudinous ranks at least outwardlyo
Jail Su erintendent Frank Swith at first reported Yockey had died of
nat ural causes Cleser examination shoHed the inside of his mouth aand throat
were seared as one might exp~ct from swallming c~nide
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The ne~re brought Sheriff Btt Carberry b us tling to the ~il
We heard he las planniD5 suicide or esca e last TuesdayI he said
I e moved him f rom an upper tier to cell 20 on the grourrl floor where he
could be watched c onstantly by the guard on duty
Im satisfied that suf i cient pr ecautions Here taken
Sheriff Carberrys satisfaction was not shared by Clancey James B
Cavana J gh special arent for the security division of the State Department
or a handfuJ of a ents of the FBI who had been working on the case
Grim-faced they all shm-fed up at the jail and tried to _ind out hm-r
their Tnan had cheated justice and deprived them of possible i nformation
The investigation itself was taken up by the Homicide Bureau of the
Police Department and b~T Carberry
In Yockeys pels onal effects left Hi th tJ-j e jailer a second note was
fourrl It was addressed to Keith G Teeter an FBI a gent It read
Ny dear riro Teeter
I ask you as a favor in the same of humanity wh ich we share to
notify ny sister of this or her husband Lieutenant Cornrna nier or Jrs William
D Coyne Bethesda Md o
tlili thailk you
FrarlCis Yockey
Hrs Coyne nel1ed the body in the Coroners office Hi th Emmet F Hagerty
Yockeys attorney
Y keyg epitaph ras reJITided by an acquaintance and admirer Willis Carta
secretary of the Congress of Freeeol here and fourrier of the San Francisco
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Conservative Republican Headquarters set up during the GOP convention here
in 1956 Carto visited Yockey in jail June 100
Although I do not a ee with all his ideas I feel he Jas an authentic
creative genius I feel that those individuals uho are res onsible for
driving him to his death should feel a rreat sense of guil te
liThe world has lost a great man whose ideas will be r emembered until
estern Civilization is exter minated Carta saido
San Francisco Chronicle Satunlay June l8 l 1960
SISTER CALLS SttICIDE TRAGIC
PHI1 CS OPHER NOT PRO- NAZI SHE SA YS
By George Draper
The suicide of Francis Parker Yockey mystery man with many passports
was described as at a tragedy k yesterday by one of his sisters
All that talent all that brilliance is now gone sighed Mrs Hilliam
P Coyne of Bethesda 11i wife of a U S Navy commander
Mrs Coyne a handsome blonde with ~le blue eyes said Yockey spent his
adult life scrutinizing the JOrld from the exalted station of a true philosopher
No she said he wasnrt anti-Semitic he Jasnrt anti-Zionist No
he wasnrt pro-Nazi He never idolized Hitler In fact he thought Hitler
made one mistake after another n
Likerise Hrs Coyne said Yockey was neither pro-Russian nor anti-Russian
He merely felt that Russia had a role to play in world historytt she said
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~~S Coyne proudly recited the titles of six books written by Yockey
all of which lere privately published in London and one of which has been
called a blueprint of Fascist strategy1I
No publisher in the United States iTould to uch them II she said
Irs Coyne intervievled in t he office of Attorney Emmet Ha gerty said
she had been close to her brother rmen they grew up in Chicago but that in
the last 10 years she had seldom heard from him
He 1-1old telephone me once in a while but never say where he was I
think it was because he loJaS in some kind of tr ouble with the FBI she said
Hrs Coyne said she received a telephone call from Yockey early last
1reek informing her that Im in the Oakland jail
The sister imFtediately flew here from Maryland to help him
She said she talked to him in jail abolt the United States passport he
obtainoo in Salinas in 1954 lKder t1e name of Edward Tax Price
(This same passp ort Tas fourd among Yockeys belongings b3aring Yockeys
photograph with the name changed to Eduard flax Briceman)
liRe couldnt have changed that name on the nassport That Eequires special
techpique she said
Yockey told her she said that he still carried the passport because bhe
State Department had tl~rned him down seven times nen he applied for a new
passport
Jhy did Yockey also carry Canadian and British passports -with his photoshy
graph but different nares
Maybe he thought three passports were better than one Mrs Coyne replied
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The sister said S- e had no idea how Yockey had earned his living in
recent years or where he had b 8m living
Ny sister aro I gave him some money to bave a book published but that
was qcite a few years ago she said
Finally virs Coyne was asked why she thou ght Yockey committed sui cide
Has it been established that it was a sui cidert she replied
Re l 71inded that Yockey penned a suicide note before he died she added
I Oh thats right He did Probably he felt he -lasnt going to have
a fair trial
She he3itated a momen t and added
tIredica ted upon r-rha t happened he was completely justified in feeling
tha t way
San Francisco Chr onicle Sunday June 19 1960
VICTIH OF NAZIS LI TO YOCKE Y
by Geor ge Draper
Alex B Scharf tattooed sUvivor of the Auschlitz concentration camp
in World 7Jar II as being sought for questioning yesterday about the mysterious
activities of nea-Fascist Francis P Yockey
Yockey 43 killed hims elf with potassium cyanide in County Jail No1
early Friday lThile being held on passport fratrl charges
He was arrested in Scharfs Oakland apartment tvlO 1l euroeks ago l i t h three
fake Dassoorts- and seven birth certificates
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I rmned iately following Yockeys arrest Scharf 31 abandoned his j dJ
as princi al- of Tern le Beth Abraham school and disa peared
Both Government officials and Jewish leaders Here puzzled by the associashy
tion between Scharf and Yockey
Seymour Froroor director of Jewish iducation in Oaskland said Scharf
wears the German tatoo on his arm that proves he was a prisoner at Ausch~-litz
where more than t m million J eHS were cremated by Hi tIer
I am sure charf believed in Israel and Zionism n said Fromer
Stanley S Jacobs chief of the Anti-Defaro~tion Leag~ehere declared
I am loath to believe Scharf was e n ga ged in Neo-Fascist activities
wi th Yockey
Yockey is known to have been anti-Zionist if not anti-Semitic and in
liaison ith various extreme right--nng lea ers incluiing former followers
of Hitler
Yockeys former -dfe Alice Yockey of San Antonio Tex told this reporter
that Yockey thou ght reports of Jewish genocide in orld middotjar II were eXd ggerated
Investigators hope to question Scharf about his original explanation for
harring Yockey in his Oakland apartment
After Yockeys arrest Scharf is said to have told a lents he met Yockey
for the first time a few days earlier at the gambling tables in Reno
At poundhat time he said he invited Yockey a stranger to come to Oaklarrl
and stay at his apartrrent
Assistant United States Attorney W P Caancy said yesterday however that
Scharf had known Yockey for nearly a year
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In 1959 Clancy said Yockey applied f or an Irish passport
Either Yockeys application or an attached affidavit said Clancy bears
the name of Alex B Scharf and his former address at 2bol Sacramento street
Scharf was born in Czechoslovakia in 1928 am after Torld a1 II lived
in Paraguay a rrl Ar gentina e
He studied at GolUJ11bia Univergtity and at the Jewish Teachers Institute
in New York and then he returned to Paraguay as a teacher
Scharf came to San Francisco in late 1958 looking for a job teaching
Hebrew and las employed by the Bureau of Jewish Ed ucation
In June 1959 he viaS assigned to Te le Be th Abraham in Oakland as
eciucational director 0
Shortly before Scharf disappeared two weeks a go he t as not ified t ba t h O s
c otrac t at the t emple w-auld not be r enewed
Yockey has b een l eadi ng a lif e of myst ery for t he pas t 10 year s
Hi s sister Mrs Wi lliam bull Coyne of Bethesda r1l said she has no
knmJledge of where he ha s been or wha t he has been d oingo
She said mail for tockey has been deli~ed to her h ome over the years
but she has been forced to thrm it away not knDwing his whereabouts
Mrs Coynes husband is a commander in the Navy
Yockeys difficu lties arose when he lost a suitcase while flying to San
FrcmcLsco aboard an American Airlines Dlane
Tbe s itcase was subsequmtly fourrl in Fort Worth Texas Airline officials
08ned it to verify its Oinership am found a United States a British am a
Canadian passo crt -- each hri th Yockeys photograph ani each bearing a d ifferent
name The FBI Bas notified
San Fra nc isco Chronicle ~~ndaYJ June 20 1960
PUZZLING TRAI L OF YO CKE YS FRI ~ND
by Denne Petitclerc
Federa l a uthorities y estp-rday so ght to solve the ridd l e f what linked
Nazi concentration camp victim Alex B Scharf to neo-Fascist Francis P Yockey
But even Scharfs closest friJmis including the pre tty dark-haired
girl he once asked to marry hLm rere lmafule to ex l ain the strange r e lationship
Yockey Fascist philosopher and t-rriter and associate of former Hi tle r
followers co~~tted suicide in the GOQnty Jail here early Friday while being
held on a passp ort frau charge
Scharf 31-year-old former principal of Temple Beth b raham school in
Oakland a nd victim of Na z i bruta lity a t Auschwitz c oncentrati on camp in
i or lrl ar II has disappeared
It was in charfs Oakland apartnent t hat FBI a gents f0111d Yockey two
weeks ago Scharf since dro ood from s ight and i s DOli) being sought by Federal
authori t i e s for questioning
III know he didnt ha ve any money It sam Mrs Ezra Cohen-Sitt of IlS
Beulah stree t San Francisco
Mrs S i tt met her husband Ezra whi le da ting Scharf last year Sitt -laS
Scharfs roonnnate Ilm a tea cher t Temple Beth Abr aham sc1ool Scharf had once
asked Mrs Sitt to marry (l im He served as a n usher at her iedd i n in J a nuary
ani r emained a friend
Al ex was not the kirri of person you could get close tol she said He ijaS
ver-J sad and very seri ous~ and eve n though he Has likable he vIas alway s distant
25
She said Scbarf -Jas t ntelligent and sensitive Hith a eep feeling f or
Orthcdox Jewry and a man fh o kept himself remote as a result of lon years
of f ear under brutal Nazi treatment in Eurone
UHis meetinr Hi th Yockey must have come fr om some thing aut of Europe
years a go II she said T1 He ras a boy of 18 and he Wande red for many years
after the Hal It
Scharf led a mcdest bachelor schoolteacher I s life in axklarri she said
He n fre uently dated one girl wh 0 as employed at a Reno gambling cas ino
she said
Scharf never mentioned Yockey to any of his acquaintances here yen~s
Stit t (sic) said
Assistant Unj ted t ates Attorney bull 2 Clancey said Scharfs battered
1956 yell orJ and black Mercury sedan has not b een fourrl but that the California
Highway Patrol has been alerted
San Francisco Chronicle Tuesday June 21 1960
D MA Y BE ON ISRA EL-BOUND SHIP
by Denne Petitclerc
_ lex B Scharf still sougtlt as a key ~ritness in th2 puzzling case of
nea-Fascist Francis P Yockey may be ab oard a sb~p en route to Israel
The Chronicle learned yesterday
Federal authorities here said they Here checking the possibility that
Scharf may have boarded a ship in e York last I-Teek or that he is still
waiti ng in Ne-J York t o eave the country
26
Yockey wa s arr e s ted i n Scharf s apartment on J une 8 ~las ques tioned
by Federal officers a m then vanis hed bull Aut h ori ties are s t ill p uzz led about
Hha t bond cOlld have existed bet wee n a Naz i philos ophe r like Yockey am
Scharf a one-time principal of Oaklands Temple Beth Abraham school and an
inmate of German conentration c amps in Uor1d ~Jar II
Yockey 43 killed himself Hith potassill1fl cyanide in his County Jail No1
cell early last Friday whi le being held on passport violation charges
The first possible clue to Scharfs whereabouts came yesterday in checkJ_ng
a former San Jose court reporter described as charf s closest friend
The reporter William Sloffibvich 35 left his job in San Jose about three
months ago -lorked until last month in Los -ngeles and then left far New York
The Chronicle learned that Slomovich s name apueared on the passenger
list of the Atlantic an American Export Lines ship which sailed from ew
York last Thursday bound for P~ifa Israel
lthough cparfs name did not aprear on the passe er list Federal
authorities said it is possible he rr~y have used an ass umed name since he is
not a citizen of the United States
Assistant United States Attorney il1iam P Clancey said t~at American
offmcials in Israel 1i11 be alerted to question Slornovich--and to be on the
lookout for Scharf--when the ship berths in Haifa on June 29
Clancy (sic) nEamlhile said that evidence Dr irrlicates that Scharf had
known Yockey for more t han a year
Yockey made an application for an Irish passport in an Francisco in 1959
under t he name of Michael Taylor usi ng Scharf as a referenceo
Clancy s j d a handwriting ex-pert is aIlCtlyzin the docurn-nt to d e terrni ne
-hether charfs signature las forgedo
27
liieanwhile it Jas learned tha t Yockey asked a f e11ovI-prisoner tvJO
days befClte he committed suicide in the C01lllty Jail here where he c ould
ootain some poison
Federal author ities refused to identify the prisoner but said that he
has been transf erred to another institution He Jill be questioned tcrlay
about the conversation officials said
Sherriff Matthew Carberry whohms San F ancisco s CODnty J ail co~ ented
last night that no Federal official had rnentioned to him the existence of a
county jail prisoner with such a story
Authori ties are puzzled as to T here Yockey obtained the deadl y poison
and haw it reached his cello
At too same time the coroners office announced that a toxologists
report s h mfs that Yockey took one-fifth of a am of potassi urn cyanide which
is double the lethal dose f or a man of his size
Yockey left a note defying anyone to discover h ow he obtained the poison
Frierris said t1at Scharf fled the ay Area in a battered 1956 yellow and
black l1e rcury sedan apparently with little money in his possession
Mrs Ezra Cohen-Sitt of 115 Beulah street a friend of charf said
yesterday she wan ted to correct an impression given in an intervieH with
The Chronicle Sunday that Scharf had at one ti~e asked her to marry him
He did not she said I did not intem to be quoted on any Hatter
rela ted to Hr Scharf II
28
San Francisco Chronicle Wednesday June 22 1960
u S PRESSES SEARCH F YOCKEYS AL
The search for Alex B Scharf mysterio11S pal of neo-Fascist Francis
P Yockey settled down to a game of fox and houms yesterday
Scharf rho departed from Oaklarrl so quickly after Yockeys arrest that
he even left his clothes behind was in the role of the fox The hounds are
agents of the State Department vih ose security officials in ian Franc isco
said s impl
lIvere trying to blanket all escape routes and He re hoping for the bestI
Yockey cormnitted suicide with cyanide in the County Jail last Friday
while being held on a passport charge
Scharf is being sought to rim out what he knoHS abolt Yockeys multiple
passports
Authorities are betuldered about the association of the two Scharf who
is 33 is a forroor principal of Oaklands Temple Beth Abraham School and an
inmate of Nazi concentration camps
Yockey L13 was a racist neo-Nazi of considerable infamy when he accidentally
fell into the hands of Federal authorities on June 6 Yockey had complained to
an airline about the loss of a bag It had already been opened in Fort middot orth
fex as unclaimed and was fourrl to contain three different passports all
bearing Yockeys pictuces
The FBI picked up Yockey in Scharf I s apartTEnt 8t 165 Bellevue avenue
Oakland but when t h ey went back later to talk to - charf he was gone
Judge SIeigert said he would receive the psychiatric reports on hly 11
am a motion to reduce Yockeys 50000 b8il was vJithdrcnm untn that date
Yockey was arrested in Oaklarrl last lleek after a piece of his l u ga ge
that went astray was frond to contain three passports bearing false names and
spurious identification dccuments He is known to have been closely identified
wi th Nazis and Fascists in this country am Europe
u S Commissioner Joseph Karesh before horn Yockey has appeared in
several stOlTlY hearings was called yesterday by Assistant U S Attorney
WIlliam P ClaJlcey Jr
Karesh testified that he had closely observed Yockey am descrived his
actions as lIthe most unusual of arry accused person who has ever a ppeared
before me II
With per~ission of the cmrrt Yockey undertook to cross eX8~ine Kareshe
He accused the Commissioner of being prejudiced because he had read Yockey
as II anti-J e-lish II
Judge Sweigert halted Yockey in mid-sentence That will ce enough of
thatn he saaIlped
Two EI agents ELliV2rd Ij Cunningham ani Keith G Teeter subnitted affidavits
that Yockey had received a psychiatric discharge fran the Army in 19w3
One affidavit said Army records show that Yockey suffered marked delusions
of persecutions had ideas of gramellr and Ias given a disability dischar ge
due to dementia praecox paranoi d type Cause urrletermined u
Anothe r a ff idavit said Yockey told two unnamed cell TIates in the County
Jail he intended to commit suicide by sharpening a canb into a lethal weapon
Tuesday it was revealed in a hearing before Karesh that Yockey had alle gedly
attempted to engineer a daring escape from 11e County Jail 0 One of the
Clri soners wh om he solidted to aid in t he getaway plan transrnitted the
inforation to the FBI
Yockey in c p3ssionate statemont to the court charQeurod that the GoverT1rnent
was depriving him of his defense by subjecting him to psychiatric examinationo
He said that use of his Army medical recoro violated his r i LtS
San Francisco Chronicle Saturday June 18 1960
PASSPORT DEFENDAN T
MYSTERY MAN yOCKEY KILIS SElF IN bull F JAIL CELL
by Tom Ma thews
Neo-Nazi Francis P Yockey took a leaf from the notebook of HerT~ann
Goering Hitlers air rrarshI31 and poisoned himself in jail yesterday
He left behind him a furious set of Federal officials and a note defying
anyone to find out who supplied him rith the cyanide he used to end his life
The Federal Bureau of Investi gation the State Department and the United
States Attorneys office were left hohl ing a top-secret file on Yockey and
no Yockey to prosecute
The file arrived lastvlednesday One official saj_d it ms loaded rith
dynamite
Yockey 43 was arrested June 6 for investiga tion of passport fraud FBI
agents caught bp 1Tith hi m when he checked on a suitcase that had ~JOne astray
dcentng a plane flight
The suitcase contained three false passp orts Gerrran press credentials
and seven birth certHicates
A ents found him in the apartment of Alex Scharf u65 Bellevue avenue
Cakland Scharf a fo r mer teacher at the Te mple Beth Abraham school
imrre diately disappeared
He has been subpoenaed by the Federal Gram JillS but so far has not
turned up
A warrant for arrest of Scharf was issued late yesterday afternoon Bail
Jas set at $5000
The mysterirus aspect of the case -Jas compounded by Yockeys behavior
and by tlJe insistence of authorities that he be held in the surprisingly high
bail of $50 000
Yockey b q an talking of suicide the day he was arrested He made one
elaborate escape attempt In his court appearances his grandiose manner am
c onte t for proceedings led to an order for a psychiatric exami_nation
The U S Assistant Attorney William P Clancey iolOuld say of Yockey only
that he seemed to be dealing in passports and that current inforrra tion shomd
him to have traveled extensively in Europe
Stanley Jacobs of the Anti-Defarration League was more specific He said
Yockey was associated with the tap figures in extreme right-wing and antishy
Semitic movements
Yockey is known to have been closely connected fl th the resurgent Nazi
movement in West Germany
Somehow he obtained the poison crystals he used ThJmsday night Just as
170
Goering the No 2 Nazi did at Nuernberg hours before he was to be ha nged
in 19L5 Yockey used potassium cyanide
No one knoHs haw he got it He played checkers tn th his fellow inmate
Adam Nienan a mapmaker of 1703 Arcadia street until lights were turned out
in their County Jail cell at 9 pm
Nieman then held o~ charges of gram theft which were dismissed yesterday
said ~ Yockey gave si gns of what was in his mind during the evening
tlHe told me he was the No1 leader of some SOlltt of organization Nieman
said He said he had kn owledge of people he loved and he thought hed be
farced to reveal it
The night before he discussed killing himself I-rith heavy weaghts on his
throat The last rernark he rnade to me was Youll sleep all ni ht of course
After lights were out he kept looking over the ledge of the bunk Bt me
r got quite concerned but finally r fell asleep1t
Apparently that was what Yockey had been waiti1S for He took his capsuleo
His baiy was found at 725 amo rigid on the bed hands folded across his
chest He s till had his boots on
Tucked into the folds of a blanket he us ed for a pillow was the follovdng
note
til shall write no messages which r know will never be delivered--only
this which will be
You rJi11 never discover who helped me for he is to be fmurl in your
own multitudinous ranks at least outwardlyo
Jail Su erintendent Frank Swith at first reported Yockey had died of
nat ural causes Cleser examination shoHed the inside of his mouth aand throat
were seared as one might exp~ct from swallming c~nide
180
The ne~re brought Sheriff Btt Carberry b us tling to the ~il
We heard he las planniD5 suicide or esca e last TuesdayI he said
I e moved him f rom an upper tier to cell 20 on the grourrl floor where he
could be watched c onstantly by the guard on duty
Im satisfied that suf i cient pr ecautions Here taken
Sheriff Carberrys satisfaction was not shared by Clancey James B
Cavana J gh special arent for the security division of the State Department
or a handfuJ of a ents of the FBI who had been working on the case
Grim-faced they all shm-fed up at the jail and tried to _ind out hm-r
their Tnan had cheated justice and deprived them of possible i nformation
The investigation itself was taken up by the Homicide Bureau of the
Police Department and b~T Carberry
In Yockeys pels onal effects left Hi th tJ-j e jailer a second note was
fourrl It was addressed to Keith G Teeter an FBI a gent It read
Ny dear riro Teeter
I ask you as a favor in the same of humanity wh ich we share to
notify ny sister of this or her husband Lieutenant Cornrna nier or Jrs William
D Coyne Bethesda Md o
tlili thailk you
FrarlCis Yockey
Hrs Coyne nel1ed the body in the Coroners office Hi th Emmet F Hagerty
Yockeys attorney
Y keyg epitaph ras reJITided by an acquaintance and admirer Willis Carta
secretary of the Congress of Freeeol here and fourrier of the San Francisco
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Conservative Republican Headquarters set up during the GOP convention here
in 1956 Carto visited Yockey in jail June 100
Although I do not a ee with all his ideas I feel he Jas an authentic
creative genius I feel that those individuals uho are res onsible for
driving him to his death should feel a rreat sense of guil te
liThe world has lost a great man whose ideas will be r emembered until
estern Civilization is exter minated Carta saido
San Francisco Chronicle Satunlay June l8 l 1960
SISTER CALLS SttICIDE TRAGIC
PHI1 CS OPHER NOT PRO- NAZI SHE SA YS
By George Draper
The suicide of Francis Parker Yockey mystery man with many passports
was described as at a tragedy k yesterday by one of his sisters
All that talent all that brilliance is now gone sighed Mrs Hilliam
P Coyne of Bethesda 11i wife of a U S Navy commander
Mrs Coyne a handsome blonde with ~le blue eyes said Yockey spent his
adult life scrutinizing the JOrld from the exalted station of a true philosopher
No she said he wasnrt anti-Semitic he Jasnrt anti-Zionist No
he wasnrt pro-Nazi He never idolized Hitler In fact he thought Hitler
made one mistake after another n
Likerise Hrs Coyne said Yockey was neither pro-Russian nor anti-Russian
He merely felt that Russia had a role to play in world historytt she said
20
~~S Coyne proudly recited the titles of six books written by Yockey
all of which lere privately published in London and one of which has been
called a blueprint of Fascist strategy1I
No publisher in the United States iTould to uch them II she said
Irs Coyne intervievled in t he office of Attorney Emmet Ha gerty said
she had been close to her brother rmen they grew up in Chicago but that in
the last 10 years she had seldom heard from him
He 1-1old telephone me once in a while but never say where he was I
think it was because he loJaS in some kind of tr ouble with the FBI she said
Hrs Coyne said she received a telephone call from Yockey early last
1reek informing her that Im in the Oakland jail
The sister imFtediately flew here from Maryland to help him
She said she talked to him in jail abolt the United States passport he
obtainoo in Salinas in 1954 lKder t1e name of Edward Tax Price
(This same passp ort Tas fourd among Yockeys belongings b3aring Yockeys
photograph with the name changed to Eduard flax Briceman)
liRe couldnt have changed that name on the nassport That Eequires special
techpique she said
Yockey told her she said that he still carried the passport because bhe
State Department had tl~rned him down seven times nen he applied for a new
passport
Jhy did Yockey also carry Canadian and British passports -with his photoshy
graph but different nares
Maybe he thought three passports were better than one Mrs Coyne replied
210
The sister said S- e had no idea how Yockey had earned his living in
recent years or where he had b 8m living
Ny sister aro I gave him some money to bave a book published but that
was qcite a few years ago she said
Finally virs Coyne was asked why she thou ght Yockey committed sui cide
Has it been established that it was a sui cidert she replied
Re l 71inded that Yockey penned a suicide note before he died she added
I Oh thats right He did Probably he felt he -lasnt going to have
a fair trial
She he3itated a momen t and added
tIredica ted upon r-rha t happened he was completely justified in feeling
tha t way
San Francisco Chr onicle Sunday June 19 1960
VICTIH OF NAZIS LI TO YOCKE Y
by Geor ge Draper
Alex B Scharf tattooed sUvivor of the Auschlitz concentration camp
in World 7Jar II as being sought for questioning yesterday about the mysterious
activities of nea-Fascist Francis P Yockey
Yockey 43 killed hims elf with potassium cyanide in County Jail No1
early Friday lThile being held on passport fratrl charges
He was arrested in Scharfs Oakland apartment tvlO 1l euroeks ago l i t h three
fake Dassoorts- and seven birth certificates
22
I rmned iately following Yockeys arrest Scharf 31 abandoned his j dJ
as princi al- of Tern le Beth Abraham school and disa peared
Both Government officials and Jewish leaders Here puzzled by the associashy
tion between Scharf and Yockey
Seymour Froroor director of Jewish iducation in Oaskland said Scharf
wears the German tatoo on his arm that proves he was a prisoner at Ausch~-litz
where more than t m million J eHS were cremated by Hi tIer
I am sure charf believed in Israel and Zionism n said Fromer
Stanley S Jacobs chief of the Anti-Defaro~tion Leag~ehere declared
I am loath to believe Scharf was e n ga ged in Neo-Fascist activities
wi th Yockey
Yockey is known to have been anti-Zionist if not anti-Semitic and in
liaison ith various extreme right--nng lea ers incluiing former followers
of Hitler
Yockeys former -dfe Alice Yockey of San Antonio Tex told this reporter
that Yockey thou ght reports of Jewish genocide in orld middotjar II were eXd ggerated
Investigators hope to question Scharf about his original explanation for
harring Yockey in his Oakland apartment
After Yockeys arrest Scharf is said to have told a lents he met Yockey
for the first time a few days earlier at the gambling tables in Reno
At poundhat time he said he invited Yockey a stranger to come to Oaklarrl
and stay at his apartrrent
Assistant United States Attorney W P Caancy said yesterday however that
Scharf had known Yockey for nearly a year
23
In 1959 Clancy said Yockey applied f or an Irish passport
Either Yockeys application or an attached affidavit said Clancy bears
the name of Alex B Scharf and his former address at 2bol Sacramento street
Scharf was born in Czechoslovakia in 1928 am after Torld a1 II lived
in Paraguay a rrl Ar gentina e
He studied at GolUJ11bia Univergtity and at the Jewish Teachers Institute
in New York and then he returned to Paraguay as a teacher
Scharf came to San Francisco in late 1958 looking for a job teaching
Hebrew and las employed by the Bureau of Jewish Ed ucation
In June 1959 he viaS assigned to Te le Be th Abraham in Oakland as
eciucational director 0
Shortly before Scharf disappeared two weeks a go he t as not ified t ba t h O s
c otrac t at the t emple w-auld not be r enewed
Yockey has b een l eadi ng a lif e of myst ery for t he pas t 10 year s
Hi s sister Mrs Wi lliam bull Coyne of Bethesda r1l said she has no
knmJledge of where he ha s been or wha t he has been d oingo
She said mail for tockey has been deli~ed to her h ome over the years
but she has been forced to thrm it away not knDwing his whereabouts
Mrs Coynes husband is a commander in the Navy
Yockeys difficu lties arose when he lost a suitcase while flying to San
FrcmcLsco aboard an American Airlines Dlane
Tbe s itcase was subsequmtly fourrl in Fort Worth Texas Airline officials
08ned it to verify its Oinership am found a United States a British am a
Canadian passo crt -- each hri th Yockeys photograph ani each bearing a d ifferent
name The FBI Bas notified
San Fra nc isco Chronicle ~~ndaYJ June 20 1960
PUZZLING TRAI L OF YO CKE YS FRI ~ND
by Denne Petitclerc
Federa l a uthorities y estp-rday so ght to solve the ridd l e f what linked
Nazi concentration camp victim Alex B Scharf to neo-Fascist Francis P Yockey
But even Scharfs closest friJmis including the pre tty dark-haired
girl he once asked to marry hLm rere lmafule to ex l ain the strange r e lationship
Yockey Fascist philosopher and t-rriter and associate of former Hi tle r
followers co~~tted suicide in the GOQnty Jail here early Friday while being
held on a passp ort frau charge
Scharf 31-year-old former principal of Temple Beth b raham school in
Oakland a nd victim of Na z i bruta lity a t Auschwitz c oncentrati on camp in
i or lrl ar II has disappeared
It was in charfs Oakland apartnent t hat FBI a gents f0111d Yockey two
weeks ago Scharf since dro ood from s ight and i s DOli) being sought by Federal
authori t i e s for questioning
III know he didnt ha ve any money It sam Mrs Ezra Cohen-Sitt of IlS
Beulah stree t San Francisco
Mrs S i tt met her husband Ezra whi le da ting Scharf last year Sitt -laS
Scharfs roonnnate Ilm a tea cher t Temple Beth Abr aham sc1ool Scharf had once
asked Mrs Sitt to marry (l im He served as a n usher at her iedd i n in J a nuary
ani r emained a friend
Al ex was not the kirri of person you could get close tol she said He ijaS
ver-J sad and very seri ous~ and eve n though he Has likable he vIas alway s distant
25
She said Scbarf -Jas t ntelligent and sensitive Hith a eep feeling f or
Orthcdox Jewry and a man fh o kept himself remote as a result of lon years
of f ear under brutal Nazi treatment in Eurone
UHis meetinr Hi th Yockey must have come fr om some thing aut of Europe
years a go II she said T1 He ras a boy of 18 and he Wande red for many years
after the Hal It
Scharf led a mcdest bachelor schoolteacher I s life in axklarri she said
He n fre uently dated one girl wh 0 as employed at a Reno gambling cas ino
she said
Scharf never mentioned Yockey to any of his acquaintances here yen~s
Stit t (sic) said
Assistant Unj ted t ates Attorney bull 2 Clancey said Scharfs battered
1956 yell orJ and black Mercury sedan has not b een fourrl but that the California
Highway Patrol has been alerted
San Francisco Chronicle Tuesday June 21 1960
D MA Y BE ON ISRA EL-BOUND SHIP
by Denne Petitclerc
_ lex B Scharf still sougtlt as a key ~ritness in th2 puzzling case of
nea-Fascist Francis P Yockey may be ab oard a sb~p en route to Israel
The Chronicle learned yesterday
Federal authorities here said they Here checking the possibility that
Scharf may have boarded a ship in e York last I-Teek or that he is still
waiti ng in Ne-J York t o eave the country
26
Yockey wa s arr e s ted i n Scharf s apartment on J une 8 ~las ques tioned
by Federal officers a m then vanis hed bull Aut h ori ties are s t ill p uzz led about
Hha t bond cOlld have existed bet wee n a Naz i philos ophe r like Yockey am
Scharf a one-time principal of Oaklands Temple Beth Abraham school and an
inmate of German conentration c amps in Uor1d ~Jar II
Yockey 43 killed himself Hith potassill1fl cyanide in his County Jail No1
cell early last Friday whi le being held on passport violation charges
The first possible clue to Scharfs whereabouts came yesterday in checkJ_ng
a former San Jose court reporter described as charf s closest friend
The reporter William Sloffibvich 35 left his job in San Jose about three
months ago -lorked until last month in Los -ngeles and then left far New York
The Chronicle learned that Slomovich s name apueared on the passenger
list of the Atlantic an American Export Lines ship which sailed from ew
York last Thursday bound for P~ifa Israel
lthough cparfs name did not aprear on the passe er list Federal
authorities said it is possible he rr~y have used an ass umed name since he is
not a citizen of the United States
Assistant United States Attorney il1iam P Clancey said t~at American
offmcials in Israel 1i11 be alerted to question Slornovich--and to be on the
lookout for Scharf--when the ship berths in Haifa on June 29
Clancy (sic) nEamlhile said that evidence Dr irrlicates that Scharf had
known Yockey for more t han a year
Yockey made an application for an Irish passport in an Francisco in 1959
under t he name of Michael Taylor usi ng Scharf as a referenceo
Clancy s j d a handwriting ex-pert is aIlCtlyzin the docurn-nt to d e terrni ne
-hether charfs signature las forgedo
27
liieanwhile it Jas learned tha t Yockey asked a f e11ovI-prisoner tvJO
days befClte he committed suicide in the C01lllty Jail here where he c ould
ootain some poison
Federal author ities refused to identify the prisoner but said that he
has been transf erred to another institution He Jill be questioned tcrlay
about the conversation officials said
Sherriff Matthew Carberry whohms San F ancisco s CODnty J ail co~ ented
last night that no Federal official had rnentioned to him the existence of a
county jail prisoner with such a story
Authori ties are puzzled as to T here Yockey obtained the deadl y poison
and haw it reached his cello
At too same time the coroners office announced that a toxologists
report s h mfs that Yockey took one-fifth of a am of potassi urn cyanide which
is double the lethal dose f or a man of his size
Yockey left a note defying anyone to discover h ow he obtained the poison
Frierris said t1at Scharf fled the ay Area in a battered 1956 yellow and
black l1e rcury sedan apparently with little money in his possession
Mrs Ezra Cohen-Sitt of 115 Beulah street a friend of charf said
yesterday she wan ted to correct an impression given in an intervieH with
The Chronicle Sunday that Scharf had at one ti~e asked her to marry him
He did not she said I did not intem to be quoted on any Hatter
rela ted to Hr Scharf II
28
San Francisco Chronicle Wednesday June 22 1960
u S PRESSES SEARCH F YOCKEYS AL
The search for Alex B Scharf mysterio11S pal of neo-Fascist Francis
P Yockey settled down to a game of fox and houms yesterday
Scharf rho departed from Oaklarrl so quickly after Yockeys arrest that
he even left his clothes behind was in the role of the fox The hounds are
agents of the State Department vih ose security officials in ian Franc isco
said s impl
lIvere trying to blanket all escape routes and He re hoping for the bestI
Yockey cormnitted suicide with cyanide in the County Jail last Friday
while being held on a passport charge
Scharf is being sought to rim out what he knoHS abolt Yockeys multiple
passports
Authorities are betuldered about the association of the two Scharf who
is 33 is a forroor principal of Oaklands Temple Beth Abraham School and an
inmate of Nazi concentration camps
Yockey L13 was a racist neo-Nazi of considerable infamy when he accidentally
fell into the hands of Federal authorities on June 6 Yockey had complained to
an airline about the loss of a bag It had already been opened in Fort middot orth
fex as unclaimed and was fourrl to contain three different passports all
bearing Yockeys pictuces
The FBI picked up Yockey in Scharf I s apartTEnt 8t 165 Bellevue avenue
Oakland but when t h ey went back later to talk to - charf he was gone
attempted to engineer a daring escape from 11e County Jail 0 One of the
Clri soners wh om he solidted to aid in t he getaway plan transrnitted the
inforation to the FBI
Yockey in c p3ssionate statemont to the court charQeurod that the GoverT1rnent
was depriving him of his defense by subjecting him to psychiatric examinationo
He said that use of his Army medical recoro violated his r i LtS
San Francisco Chronicle Saturday June 18 1960
PASSPORT DEFENDAN T
MYSTERY MAN yOCKEY KILIS SElF IN bull F JAIL CELL
by Tom Ma thews
Neo-Nazi Francis P Yockey took a leaf from the notebook of HerT~ann
Goering Hitlers air rrarshI31 and poisoned himself in jail yesterday
He left behind him a furious set of Federal officials and a note defying
anyone to find out who supplied him rith the cyanide he used to end his life
The Federal Bureau of Investi gation the State Department and the United
States Attorneys office were left hohl ing a top-secret file on Yockey and
no Yockey to prosecute
The file arrived lastvlednesday One official saj_d it ms loaded rith
dynamite
Yockey 43 was arrested June 6 for investiga tion of passport fraud FBI
agents caught bp 1Tith hi m when he checked on a suitcase that had ~JOne astray
dcentng a plane flight
The suitcase contained three false passp orts Gerrran press credentials
and seven birth certHicates
A ents found him in the apartment of Alex Scharf u65 Bellevue avenue
Cakland Scharf a fo r mer teacher at the Te mple Beth Abraham school
imrre diately disappeared
He has been subpoenaed by the Federal Gram JillS but so far has not
turned up
A warrant for arrest of Scharf was issued late yesterday afternoon Bail
Jas set at $5000
The mysterirus aspect of the case -Jas compounded by Yockeys behavior
and by tlJe insistence of authorities that he be held in the surprisingly high
bail of $50 000
Yockey b q an talking of suicide the day he was arrested He made one
elaborate escape attempt In his court appearances his grandiose manner am
c onte t for proceedings led to an order for a psychiatric exami_nation
The U S Assistant Attorney William P Clancey iolOuld say of Yockey only
that he seemed to be dealing in passports and that current inforrra tion shomd
him to have traveled extensively in Europe
Stanley Jacobs of the Anti-Defarration League was more specific He said
Yockey was associated with the tap figures in extreme right-wing and antishy
Semitic movements
Yockey is known to have been closely connected fl th the resurgent Nazi
movement in West Germany
Somehow he obtained the poison crystals he used ThJmsday night Just as
170
Goering the No 2 Nazi did at Nuernberg hours before he was to be ha nged
in 19L5 Yockey used potassium cyanide
No one knoHs haw he got it He played checkers tn th his fellow inmate
Adam Nienan a mapmaker of 1703 Arcadia street until lights were turned out
in their County Jail cell at 9 pm
Nieman then held o~ charges of gram theft which were dismissed yesterday
said ~ Yockey gave si gns of what was in his mind during the evening
tlHe told me he was the No1 leader of some SOlltt of organization Nieman
said He said he had kn owledge of people he loved and he thought hed be
farced to reveal it
The night before he discussed killing himself I-rith heavy weaghts on his
throat The last rernark he rnade to me was Youll sleep all ni ht of course
After lights were out he kept looking over the ledge of the bunk Bt me
r got quite concerned but finally r fell asleep1t
Apparently that was what Yockey had been waiti1S for He took his capsuleo
His baiy was found at 725 amo rigid on the bed hands folded across his
chest He s till had his boots on
Tucked into the folds of a blanket he us ed for a pillow was the follovdng
note
til shall write no messages which r know will never be delivered--only
this which will be
You rJi11 never discover who helped me for he is to be fmurl in your
own multitudinous ranks at least outwardlyo
Jail Su erintendent Frank Swith at first reported Yockey had died of
nat ural causes Cleser examination shoHed the inside of his mouth aand throat
were seared as one might exp~ct from swallming c~nide
180
The ne~re brought Sheriff Btt Carberry b us tling to the ~il
We heard he las planniD5 suicide or esca e last TuesdayI he said
I e moved him f rom an upper tier to cell 20 on the grourrl floor where he
could be watched c onstantly by the guard on duty
Im satisfied that suf i cient pr ecautions Here taken
Sheriff Carberrys satisfaction was not shared by Clancey James B
Cavana J gh special arent for the security division of the State Department
or a handfuJ of a ents of the FBI who had been working on the case
Grim-faced they all shm-fed up at the jail and tried to _ind out hm-r
their Tnan had cheated justice and deprived them of possible i nformation
The investigation itself was taken up by the Homicide Bureau of the
Police Department and b~T Carberry
In Yockeys pels onal effects left Hi th tJ-j e jailer a second note was
fourrl It was addressed to Keith G Teeter an FBI a gent It read
Ny dear riro Teeter
I ask you as a favor in the same of humanity wh ich we share to
notify ny sister of this or her husband Lieutenant Cornrna nier or Jrs William
D Coyne Bethesda Md o
tlili thailk you
FrarlCis Yockey
Hrs Coyne nel1ed the body in the Coroners office Hi th Emmet F Hagerty
Yockeys attorney
Y keyg epitaph ras reJITided by an acquaintance and admirer Willis Carta
secretary of the Congress of Freeeol here and fourrier of the San Francisco
190
Conservative Republican Headquarters set up during the GOP convention here
in 1956 Carto visited Yockey in jail June 100
Although I do not a ee with all his ideas I feel he Jas an authentic
creative genius I feel that those individuals uho are res onsible for
driving him to his death should feel a rreat sense of guil te
liThe world has lost a great man whose ideas will be r emembered until
estern Civilization is exter minated Carta saido
San Francisco Chronicle Satunlay June l8 l 1960
SISTER CALLS SttICIDE TRAGIC
PHI1 CS OPHER NOT PRO- NAZI SHE SA YS
By George Draper
The suicide of Francis Parker Yockey mystery man with many passports
was described as at a tragedy k yesterday by one of his sisters
All that talent all that brilliance is now gone sighed Mrs Hilliam
P Coyne of Bethesda 11i wife of a U S Navy commander
Mrs Coyne a handsome blonde with ~le blue eyes said Yockey spent his
adult life scrutinizing the JOrld from the exalted station of a true philosopher
No she said he wasnrt anti-Semitic he Jasnrt anti-Zionist No
he wasnrt pro-Nazi He never idolized Hitler In fact he thought Hitler
made one mistake after another n
Likerise Hrs Coyne said Yockey was neither pro-Russian nor anti-Russian
He merely felt that Russia had a role to play in world historytt she said
20
~~S Coyne proudly recited the titles of six books written by Yockey
all of which lere privately published in London and one of which has been
called a blueprint of Fascist strategy1I
No publisher in the United States iTould to uch them II she said
Irs Coyne intervievled in t he office of Attorney Emmet Ha gerty said
she had been close to her brother rmen they grew up in Chicago but that in
the last 10 years she had seldom heard from him
He 1-1old telephone me once in a while but never say where he was I
think it was because he loJaS in some kind of tr ouble with the FBI she said
Hrs Coyne said she received a telephone call from Yockey early last
1reek informing her that Im in the Oakland jail
The sister imFtediately flew here from Maryland to help him
She said she talked to him in jail abolt the United States passport he
obtainoo in Salinas in 1954 lKder t1e name of Edward Tax Price
(This same passp ort Tas fourd among Yockeys belongings b3aring Yockeys
photograph with the name changed to Eduard flax Briceman)
liRe couldnt have changed that name on the nassport That Eequires special
techpique she said
Yockey told her she said that he still carried the passport because bhe
State Department had tl~rned him down seven times nen he applied for a new
passport
Jhy did Yockey also carry Canadian and British passports -with his photoshy
graph but different nares
Maybe he thought three passports were better than one Mrs Coyne replied
210
The sister said S- e had no idea how Yockey had earned his living in
recent years or where he had b 8m living
Ny sister aro I gave him some money to bave a book published but that
was qcite a few years ago she said
Finally virs Coyne was asked why she thou ght Yockey committed sui cide
Has it been established that it was a sui cidert she replied
Re l 71inded that Yockey penned a suicide note before he died she added
I Oh thats right He did Probably he felt he -lasnt going to have
a fair trial
She he3itated a momen t and added
tIredica ted upon r-rha t happened he was completely justified in feeling
tha t way
San Francisco Chr onicle Sunday June 19 1960
VICTIH OF NAZIS LI TO YOCKE Y
by Geor ge Draper
Alex B Scharf tattooed sUvivor of the Auschlitz concentration camp
in World 7Jar II as being sought for questioning yesterday about the mysterious
activities of nea-Fascist Francis P Yockey
Yockey 43 killed hims elf with potassium cyanide in County Jail No1
early Friday lThile being held on passport fratrl charges
He was arrested in Scharfs Oakland apartment tvlO 1l euroeks ago l i t h three
fake Dassoorts- and seven birth certificates
22
I rmned iately following Yockeys arrest Scharf 31 abandoned his j dJ
as princi al- of Tern le Beth Abraham school and disa peared
Both Government officials and Jewish leaders Here puzzled by the associashy
tion between Scharf and Yockey
Seymour Froroor director of Jewish iducation in Oaskland said Scharf
wears the German tatoo on his arm that proves he was a prisoner at Ausch~-litz
where more than t m million J eHS were cremated by Hi tIer
I am sure charf believed in Israel and Zionism n said Fromer
Stanley S Jacobs chief of the Anti-Defaro~tion Leag~ehere declared
I am loath to believe Scharf was e n ga ged in Neo-Fascist activities
wi th Yockey
Yockey is known to have been anti-Zionist if not anti-Semitic and in
liaison ith various extreme right--nng lea ers incluiing former followers
of Hitler
Yockeys former -dfe Alice Yockey of San Antonio Tex told this reporter
that Yockey thou ght reports of Jewish genocide in orld middotjar II were eXd ggerated
Investigators hope to question Scharf about his original explanation for
harring Yockey in his Oakland apartment
After Yockeys arrest Scharf is said to have told a lents he met Yockey
for the first time a few days earlier at the gambling tables in Reno
At poundhat time he said he invited Yockey a stranger to come to Oaklarrl
and stay at his apartrrent
Assistant United States Attorney W P Caancy said yesterday however that
Scharf had known Yockey for nearly a year
23
In 1959 Clancy said Yockey applied f or an Irish passport
Either Yockeys application or an attached affidavit said Clancy bears
the name of Alex B Scharf and his former address at 2bol Sacramento street
Scharf was born in Czechoslovakia in 1928 am after Torld a1 II lived
in Paraguay a rrl Ar gentina e
He studied at GolUJ11bia Univergtity and at the Jewish Teachers Institute
in New York and then he returned to Paraguay as a teacher
Scharf came to San Francisco in late 1958 looking for a job teaching
Hebrew and las employed by the Bureau of Jewish Ed ucation
In June 1959 he viaS assigned to Te le Be th Abraham in Oakland as
eciucational director 0
Shortly before Scharf disappeared two weeks a go he t as not ified t ba t h O s
c otrac t at the t emple w-auld not be r enewed
Yockey has b een l eadi ng a lif e of myst ery for t he pas t 10 year s
Hi s sister Mrs Wi lliam bull Coyne of Bethesda r1l said she has no
knmJledge of where he ha s been or wha t he has been d oingo
She said mail for tockey has been deli~ed to her h ome over the years
but she has been forced to thrm it away not knDwing his whereabouts
Mrs Coynes husband is a commander in the Navy
Yockeys difficu lties arose when he lost a suitcase while flying to San
FrcmcLsco aboard an American Airlines Dlane
Tbe s itcase was subsequmtly fourrl in Fort Worth Texas Airline officials
08ned it to verify its Oinership am found a United States a British am a
Canadian passo crt -- each hri th Yockeys photograph ani each bearing a d ifferent
name The FBI Bas notified
San Fra nc isco Chronicle ~~ndaYJ June 20 1960
PUZZLING TRAI L OF YO CKE YS FRI ~ND
by Denne Petitclerc
Federa l a uthorities y estp-rday so ght to solve the ridd l e f what linked
Nazi concentration camp victim Alex B Scharf to neo-Fascist Francis P Yockey
But even Scharfs closest friJmis including the pre tty dark-haired
girl he once asked to marry hLm rere lmafule to ex l ain the strange r e lationship
Yockey Fascist philosopher and t-rriter and associate of former Hi tle r
followers co~~tted suicide in the GOQnty Jail here early Friday while being
held on a passp ort frau charge
Scharf 31-year-old former principal of Temple Beth b raham school in
Oakland a nd victim of Na z i bruta lity a t Auschwitz c oncentrati on camp in
i or lrl ar II has disappeared
It was in charfs Oakland apartnent t hat FBI a gents f0111d Yockey two
weeks ago Scharf since dro ood from s ight and i s DOli) being sought by Federal
authori t i e s for questioning
III know he didnt ha ve any money It sam Mrs Ezra Cohen-Sitt of IlS
Beulah stree t San Francisco
Mrs S i tt met her husband Ezra whi le da ting Scharf last year Sitt -laS
Scharfs roonnnate Ilm a tea cher t Temple Beth Abr aham sc1ool Scharf had once
asked Mrs Sitt to marry (l im He served as a n usher at her iedd i n in J a nuary
ani r emained a friend
Al ex was not the kirri of person you could get close tol she said He ijaS
ver-J sad and very seri ous~ and eve n though he Has likable he vIas alway s distant
25
She said Scbarf -Jas t ntelligent and sensitive Hith a eep feeling f or
Orthcdox Jewry and a man fh o kept himself remote as a result of lon years
of f ear under brutal Nazi treatment in Eurone
UHis meetinr Hi th Yockey must have come fr om some thing aut of Europe
years a go II she said T1 He ras a boy of 18 and he Wande red for many years
after the Hal It
Scharf led a mcdest bachelor schoolteacher I s life in axklarri she said
He n fre uently dated one girl wh 0 as employed at a Reno gambling cas ino
she said
Scharf never mentioned Yockey to any of his acquaintances here yen~s
Stit t (sic) said
Assistant Unj ted t ates Attorney bull 2 Clancey said Scharfs battered
1956 yell orJ and black Mercury sedan has not b een fourrl but that the California
Highway Patrol has been alerted
San Francisco Chronicle Tuesday June 21 1960
D MA Y BE ON ISRA EL-BOUND SHIP
by Denne Petitclerc
_ lex B Scharf still sougtlt as a key ~ritness in th2 puzzling case of
nea-Fascist Francis P Yockey may be ab oard a sb~p en route to Israel
The Chronicle learned yesterday
Federal authorities here said they Here checking the possibility that
Scharf may have boarded a ship in e York last I-Teek or that he is still
waiti ng in Ne-J York t o eave the country
26
Yockey wa s arr e s ted i n Scharf s apartment on J une 8 ~las ques tioned
by Federal officers a m then vanis hed bull Aut h ori ties are s t ill p uzz led about
Hha t bond cOlld have existed bet wee n a Naz i philos ophe r like Yockey am
Scharf a one-time principal of Oaklands Temple Beth Abraham school and an
inmate of German conentration c amps in Uor1d ~Jar II
Yockey 43 killed himself Hith potassill1fl cyanide in his County Jail No1
cell early last Friday whi le being held on passport violation charges
The first possible clue to Scharfs whereabouts came yesterday in checkJ_ng
a former San Jose court reporter described as charf s closest friend
The reporter William Sloffibvich 35 left his job in San Jose about three
months ago -lorked until last month in Los -ngeles and then left far New York
The Chronicle learned that Slomovich s name apueared on the passenger
list of the Atlantic an American Export Lines ship which sailed from ew
York last Thursday bound for P~ifa Israel
lthough cparfs name did not aprear on the passe er list Federal
authorities said it is possible he rr~y have used an ass umed name since he is
not a citizen of the United States
Assistant United States Attorney il1iam P Clancey said t~at American
offmcials in Israel 1i11 be alerted to question Slornovich--and to be on the
lookout for Scharf--when the ship berths in Haifa on June 29
Clancy (sic) nEamlhile said that evidence Dr irrlicates that Scharf had
known Yockey for more t han a year
Yockey made an application for an Irish passport in an Francisco in 1959
under t he name of Michael Taylor usi ng Scharf as a referenceo
Clancy s j d a handwriting ex-pert is aIlCtlyzin the docurn-nt to d e terrni ne
-hether charfs signature las forgedo
27
liieanwhile it Jas learned tha t Yockey asked a f e11ovI-prisoner tvJO
days befClte he committed suicide in the C01lllty Jail here where he c ould
ootain some poison
Federal author ities refused to identify the prisoner but said that he
has been transf erred to another institution He Jill be questioned tcrlay
about the conversation officials said
Sherriff Matthew Carberry whohms San F ancisco s CODnty J ail co~ ented
last night that no Federal official had rnentioned to him the existence of a
county jail prisoner with such a story
Authori ties are puzzled as to T here Yockey obtained the deadl y poison
and haw it reached his cello
At too same time the coroners office announced that a toxologists
report s h mfs that Yockey took one-fifth of a am of potassi urn cyanide which
is double the lethal dose f or a man of his size
Yockey left a note defying anyone to discover h ow he obtained the poison
Frierris said t1at Scharf fled the ay Area in a battered 1956 yellow and
black l1e rcury sedan apparently with little money in his possession
Mrs Ezra Cohen-Sitt of 115 Beulah street a friend of charf said
yesterday she wan ted to correct an impression given in an intervieH with
The Chronicle Sunday that Scharf had at one ti~e asked her to marry him
He did not she said I did not intem to be quoted on any Hatter
rela ted to Hr Scharf II
28
San Francisco Chronicle Wednesday June 22 1960
u S PRESSES SEARCH F YOCKEYS AL
The search for Alex B Scharf mysterio11S pal of neo-Fascist Francis
P Yockey settled down to a game of fox and houms yesterday
Scharf rho departed from Oaklarrl so quickly after Yockeys arrest that
he even left his clothes behind was in the role of the fox The hounds are
agents of the State Department vih ose security officials in ian Franc isco
said s impl
lIvere trying to blanket all escape routes and He re hoping for the bestI
Yockey cormnitted suicide with cyanide in the County Jail last Friday
while being held on a passport charge
Scharf is being sought to rim out what he knoHS abolt Yockeys multiple
passports
Authorities are betuldered about the association of the two Scharf who
is 33 is a forroor principal of Oaklands Temple Beth Abraham School and an
inmate of Nazi concentration camps
Yockey L13 was a racist neo-Nazi of considerable infamy when he accidentally
fell into the hands of Federal authorities on June 6 Yockey had complained to
an airline about the loss of a bag It had already been opened in Fort middot orth
fex as unclaimed and was fourrl to contain three different passports all
bearing Yockeys pictuces
The FBI picked up Yockey in Scharf I s apartTEnt 8t 165 Bellevue avenue
Oakland but when t h ey went back later to talk to - charf he was gone
The suitcase contained three false passp orts Gerrran press credentials
and seven birth certHicates
A ents found him in the apartment of Alex Scharf u65 Bellevue avenue
Cakland Scharf a fo r mer teacher at the Te mple Beth Abraham school
imrre diately disappeared
He has been subpoenaed by the Federal Gram JillS but so far has not
turned up
A warrant for arrest of Scharf was issued late yesterday afternoon Bail
Jas set at $5000
The mysterirus aspect of the case -Jas compounded by Yockeys behavior
and by tlJe insistence of authorities that he be held in the surprisingly high
bail of $50 000
Yockey b q an talking of suicide the day he was arrested He made one
elaborate escape attempt In his court appearances his grandiose manner am
c onte t for proceedings led to an order for a psychiatric exami_nation
The U S Assistant Attorney William P Clancey iolOuld say of Yockey only
that he seemed to be dealing in passports and that current inforrra tion shomd
him to have traveled extensively in Europe
Stanley Jacobs of the Anti-Defarration League was more specific He said
Yockey was associated with the tap figures in extreme right-wing and antishy
Semitic movements
Yockey is known to have been closely connected fl th the resurgent Nazi
movement in West Germany
Somehow he obtained the poison crystals he used ThJmsday night Just as
170
Goering the No 2 Nazi did at Nuernberg hours before he was to be ha nged
in 19L5 Yockey used potassium cyanide
No one knoHs haw he got it He played checkers tn th his fellow inmate
Adam Nienan a mapmaker of 1703 Arcadia street until lights were turned out
in their County Jail cell at 9 pm
Nieman then held o~ charges of gram theft which were dismissed yesterday
said ~ Yockey gave si gns of what was in his mind during the evening
tlHe told me he was the No1 leader of some SOlltt of organization Nieman
said He said he had kn owledge of people he loved and he thought hed be
farced to reveal it
The night before he discussed killing himself I-rith heavy weaghts on his
throat The last rernark he rnade to me was Youll sleep all ni ht of course
After lights were out he kept looking over the ledge of the bunk Bt me
r got quite concerned but finally r fell asleep1t
Apparently that was what Yockey had been waiti1S for He took his capsuleo
His baiy was found at 725 amo rigid on the bed hands folded across his
chest He s till had his boots on
Tucked into the folds of a blanket he us ed for a pillow was the follovdng
note
til shall write no messages which r know will never be delivered--only
this which will be
You rJi11 never discover who helped me for he is to be fmurl in your
own multitudinous ranks at least outwardlyo
Jail Su erintendent Frank Swith at first reported Yockey had died of
nat ural causes Cleser examination shoHed the inside of his mouth aand throat
were seared as one might exp~ct from swallming c~nide
180
The ne~re brought Sheriff Btt Carberry b us tling to the ~il
We heard he las planniD5 suicide or esca e last TuesdayI he said
I e moved him f rom an upper tier to cell 20 on the grourrl floor where he
could be watched c onstantly by the guard on duty
Im satisfied that suf i cient pr ecautions Here taken
Sheriff Carberrys satisfaction was not shared by Clancey James B
Cavana J gh special arent for the security division of the State Department
or a handfuJ of a ents of the FBI who had been working on the case
Grim-faced they all shm-fed up at the jail and tried to _ind out hm-r
their Tnan had cheated justice and deprived them of possible i nformation
The investigation itself was taken up by the Homicide Bureau of the
Police Department and b~T Carberry
In Yockeys pels onal effects left Hi th tJ-j e jailer a second note was
fourrl It was addressed to Keith G Teeter an FBI a gent It read
Ny dear riro Teeter
I ask you as a favor in the same of humanity wh ich we share to
notify ny sister of this or her husband Lieutenant Cornrna nier or Jrs William
D Coyne Bethesda Md o
tlili thailk you
FrarlCis Yockey
Hrs Coyne nel1ed the body in the Coroners office Hi th Emmet F Hagerty
Yockeys attorney
Y keyg epitaph ras reJITided by an acquaintance and admirer Willis Carta
secretary of the Congress of Freeeol here and fourrier of the San Francisco
190
Conservative Republican Headquarters set up during the GOP convention here
in 1956 Carto visited Yockey in jail June 100
Although I do not a ee with all his ideas I feel he Jas an authentic
creative genius I feel that those individuals uho are res onsible for
driving him to his death should feel a rreat sense of guil te
liThe world has lost a great man whose ideas will be r emembered until
estern Civilization is exter minated Carta saido
San Francisco Chronicle Satunlay June l8 l 1960
SISTER CALLS SttICIDE TRAGIC
PHI1 CS OPHER NOT PRO- NAZI SHE SA YS
By George Draper
The suicide of Francis Parker Yockey mystery man with many passports
was described as at a tragedy k yesterday by one of his sisters
All that talent all that brilliance is now gone sighed Mrs Hilliam
P Coyne of Bethesda 11i wife of a U S Navy commander
Mrs Coyne a handsome blonde with ~le blue eyes said Yockey spent his
adult life scrutinizing the JOrld from the exalted station of a true philosopher
No she said he wasnrt anti-Semitic he Jasnrt anti-Zionist No
he wasnrt pro-Nazi He never idolized Hitler In fact he thought Hitler
made one mistake after another n
Likerise Hrs Coyne said Yockey was neither pro-Russian nor anti-Russian
He merely felt that Russia had a role to play in world historytt she said
20
~~S Coyne proudly recited the titles of six books written by Yockey
all of which lere privately published in London and one of which has been
called a blueprint of Fascist strategy1I
No publisher in the United States iTould to uch them II she said
Irs Coyne intervievled in t he office of Attorney Emmet Ha gerty said
she had been close to her brother rmen they grew up in Chicago but that in
the last 10 years she had seldom heard from him
He 1-1old telephone me once in a while but never say where he was I
think it was because he loJaS in some kind of tr ouble with the FBI she said
Hrs Coyne said she received a telephone call from Yockey early last
1reek informing her that Im in the Oakland jail
The sister imFtediately flew here from Maryland to help him
She said she talked to him in jail abolt the United States passport he
obtainoo in Salinas in 1954 lKder t1e name of Edward Tax Price
(This same passp ort Tas fourd among Yockeys belongings b3aring Yockeys
photograph with the name changed to Eduard flax Briceman)
liRe couldnt have changed that name on the nassport That Eequires special
techpique she said
Yockey told her she said that he still carried the passport because bhe
State Department had tl~rned him down seven times nen he applied for a new
passport
Jhy did Yockey also carry Canadian and British passports -with his photoshy
graph but different nares
Maybe he thought three passports were better than one Mrs Coyne replied
210
The sister said S- e had no idea how Yockey had earned his living in
recent years or where he had b 8m living
Ny sister aro I gave him some money to bave a book published but that
was qcite a few years ago she said
Finally virs Coyne was asked why she thou ght Yockey committed sui cide
Has it been established that it was a sui cidert she replied
Re l 71inded that Yockey penned a suicide note before he died she added
I Oh thats right He did Probably he felt he -lasnt going to have
a fair trial
She he3itated a momen t and added
tIredica ted upon r-rha t happened he was completely justified in feeling
tha t way
San Francisco Chr onicle Sunday June 19 1960
VICTIH OF NAZIS LI TO YOCKE Y
by Geor ge Draper
Alex B Scharf tattooed sUvivor of the Auschlitz concentration camp
in World 7Jar II as being sought for questioning yesterday about the mysterious
activities of nea-Fascist Francis P Yockey
Yockey 43 killed hims elf with potassium cyanide in County Jail No1
early Friday lThile being held on passport fratrl charges
He was arrested in Scharfs Oakland apartment tvlO 1l euroeks ago l i t h three
fake Dassoorts- and seven birth certificates
22
I rmned iately following Yockeys arrest Scharf 31 abandoned his j dJ
as princi al- of Tern le Beth Abraham school and disa peared
Both Government officials and Jewish leaders Here puzzled by the associashy
tion between Scharf and Yockey
Seymour Froroor director of Jewish iducation in Oaskland said Scharf
wears the German tatoo on his arm that proves he was a prisoner at Ausch~-litz
where more than t m million J eHS were cremated by Hi tIer
I am sure charf believed in Israel and Zionism n said Fromer
Stanley S Jacobs chief of the Anti-Defaro~tion Leag~ehere declared
I am loath to believe Scharf was e n ga ged in Neo-Fascist activities
wi th Yockey
Yockey is known to have been anti-Zionist if not anti-Semitic and in
liaison ith various extreme right--nng lea ers incluiing former followers
of Hitler
Yockeys former -dfe Alice Yockey of San Antonio Tex told this reporter
that Yockey thou ght reports of Jewish genocide in orld middotjar II were eXd ggerated
Investigators hope to question Scharf about his original explanation for
harring Yockey in his Oakland apartment
After Yockeys arrest Scharf is said to have told a lents he met Yockey
for the first time a few days earlier at the gambling tables in Reno
At poundhat time he said he invited Yockey a stranger to come to Oaklarrl
and stay at his apartrrent
Assistant United States Attorney W P Caancy said yesterday however that
Scharf had known Yockey for nearly a year
23
In 1959 Clancy said Yockey applied f or an Irish passport
Either Yockeys application or an attached affidavit said Clancy bears
the name of Alex B Scharf and his former address at 2bol Sacramento street
Scharf was born in Czechoslovakia in 1928 am after Torld a1 II lived
in Paraguay a rrl Ar gentina e
He studied at GolUJ11bia Univergtity and at the Jewish Teachers Institute
in New York and then he returned to Paraguay as a teacher
Scharf came to San Francisco in late 1958 looking for a job teaching
Hebrew and las employed by the Bureau of Jewish Ed ucation
In June 1959 he viaS assigned to Te le Be th Abraham in Oakland as
eciucational director 0
Shortly before Scharf disappeared two weeks a go he t as not ified t ba t h O s
c otrac t at the t emple w-auld not be r enewed
Yockey has b een l eadi ng a lif e of myst ery for t he pas t 10 year s
Hi s sister Mrs Wi lliam bull Coyne of Bethesda r1l said she has no
knmJledge of where he ha s been or wha t he has been d oingo
She said mail for tockey has been deli~ed to her h ome over the years
but she has been forced to thrm it away not knDwing his whereabouts
Mrs Coynes husband is a commander in the Navy
Yockeys difficu lties arose when he lost a suitcase while flying to San
FrcmcLsco aboard an American Airlines Dlane
Tbe s itcase was subsequmtly fourrl in Fort Worth Texas Airline officials
08ned it to verify its Oinership am found a United States a British am a
Canadian passo crt -- each hri th Yockeys photograph ani each bearing a d ifferent
name The FBI Bas notified
San Fra nc isco Chronicle ~~ndaYJ June 20 1960
PUZZLING TRAI L OF YO CKE YS FRI ~ND
by Denne Petitclerc
Federa l a uthorities y estp-rday so ght to solve the ridd l e f what linked
Nazi concentration camp victim Alex B Scharf to neo-Fascist Francis P Yockey
But even Scharfs closest friJmis including the pre tty dark-haired
girl he once asked to marry hLm rere lmafule to ex l ain the strange r e lationship
Yockey Fascist philosopher and t-rriter and associate of former Hi tle r
followers co~~tted suicide in the GOQnty Jail here early Friday while being
held on a passp ort frau charge
Scharf 31-year-old former principal of Temple Beth b raham school in
Oakland a nd victim of Na z i bruta lity a t Auschwitz c oncentrati on camp in
i or lrl ar II has disappeared
It was in charfs Oakland apartnent t hat FBI a gents f0111d Yockey two
weeks ago Scharf since dro ood from s ight and i s DOli) being sought by Federal
authori t i e s for questioning
III know he didnt ha ve any money It sam Mrs Ezra Cohen-Sitt of IlS
Beulah stree t San Francisco
Mrs S i tt met her husband Ezra whi le da ting Scharf last year Sitt -laS
Scharfs roonnnate Ilm a tea cher t Temple Beth Abr aham sc1ool Scharf had once
asked Mrs Sitt to marry (l im He served as a n usher at her iedd i n in J a nuary
ani r emained a friend
Al ex was not the kirri of person you could get close tol she said He ijaS
ver-J sad and very seri ous~ and eve n though he Has likable he vIas alway s distant
25
She said Scbarf -Jas t ntelligent and sensitive Hith a eep feeling f or
Orthcdox Jewry and a man fh o kept himself remote as a result of lon years
of f ear under brutal Nazi treatment in Eurone
UHis meetinr Hi th Yockey must have come fr om some thing aut of Europe
years a go II she said T1 He ras a boy of 18 and he Wande red for many years
after the Hal It
Scharf led a mcdest bachelor schoolteacher I s life in axklarri she said
He n fre uently dated one girl wh 0 as employed at a Reno gambling cas ino
she said
Scharf never mentioned Yockey to any of his acquaintances here yen~s
Stit t (sic) said
Assistant Unj ted t ates Attorney bull 2 Clancey said Scharfs battered
1956 yell orJ and black Mercury sedan has not b een fourrl but that the California
Highway Patrol has been alerted
San Francisco Chronicle Tuesday June 21 1960
D MA Y BE ON ISRA EL-BOUND SHIP
by Denne Petitclerc
_ lex B Scharf still sougtlt as a key ~ritness in th2 puzzling case of
nea-Fascist Francis P Yockey may be ab oard a sb~p en route to Israel
The Chronicle learned yesterday
Federal authorities here said they Here checking the possibility that
Scharf may have boarded a ship in e York last I-Teek or that he is still
waiti ng in Ne-J York t o eave the country
26
Yockey wa s arr e s ted i n Scharf s apartment on J une 8 ~las ques tioned
by Federal officers a m then vanis hed bull Aut h ori ties are s t ill p uzz led about
Hha t bond cOlld have existed bet wee n a Naz i philos ophe r like Yockey am
Scharf a one-time principal of Oaklands Temple Beth Abraham school and an
inmate of German conentration c amps in Uor1d ~Jar II
Yockey 43 killed himself Hith potassill1fl cyanide in his County Jail No1
cell early last Friday whi le being held on passport violation charges
The first possible clue to Scharfs whereabouts came yesterday in checkJ_ng
a former San Jose court reporter described as charf s closest friend
The reporter William Sloffibvich 35 left his job in San Jose about three
months ago -lorked until last month in Los -ngeles and then left far New York
The Chronicle learned that Slomovich s name apueared on the passenger
list of the Atlantic an American Export Lines ship which sailed from ew
York last Thursday bound for P~ifa Israel
lthough cparfs name did not aprear on the passe er list Federal
authorities said it is possible he rr~y have used an ass umed name since he is
not a citizen of the United States
Assistant United States Attorney il1iam P Clancey said t~at American
offmcials in Israel 1i11 be alerted to question Slornovich--and to be on the
lookout for Scharf--when the ship berths in Haifa on June 29
Clancy (sic) nEamlhile said that evidence Dr irrlicates that Scharf had
known Yockey for more t han a year
Yockey made an application for an Irish passport in an Francisco in 1959
under t he name of Michael Taylor usi ng Scharf as a referenceo
Clancy s j d a handwriting ex-pert is aIlCtlyzin the docurn-nt to d e terrni ne
-hether charfs signature las forgedo
27
liieanwhile it Jas learned tha t Yockey asked a f e11ovI-prisoner tvJO
days befClte he committed suicide in the C01lllty Jail here where he c ould
ootain some poison
Federal author ities refused to identify the prisoner but said that he
has been transf erred to another institution He Jill be questioned tcrlay
about the conversation officials said
Sherriff Matthew Carberry whohms San F ancisco s CODnty J ail co~ ented
last night that no Federal official had rnentioned to him the existence of a
county jail prisoner with such a story
Authori ties are puzzled as to T here Yockey obtained the deadl y poison
and haw it reached his cello
At too same time the coroners office announced that a toxologists
report s h mfs that Yockey took one-fifth of a am of potassi urn cyanide which
is double the lethal dose f or a man of his size
Yockey left a note defying anyone to discover h ow he obtained the poison
Frierris said t1at Scharf fled the ay Area in a battered 1956 yellow and
black l1e rcury sedan apparently with little money in his possession
Mrs Ezra Cohen-Sitt of 115 Beulah street a friend of charf said
yesterday she wan ted to correct an impression given in an intervieH with
The Chronicle Sunday that Scharf had at one ti~e asked her to marry him
He did not she said I did not intem to be quoted on any Hatter
rela ted to Hr Scharf II
28
San Francisco Chronicle Wednesday June 22 1960
u S PRESSES SEARCH F YOCKEYS AL
The search for Alex B Scharf mysterio11S pal of neo-Fascist Francis
P Yockey settled down to a game of fox and houms yesterday
Scharf rho departed from Oaklarrl so quickly after Yockeys arrest that
he even left his clothes behind was in the role of the fox The hounds are
agents of the State Department vih ose security officials in ian Franc isco
said s impl
lIvere trying to blanket all escape routes and He re hoping for the bestI
Yockey cormnitted suicide with cyanide in the County Jail last Friday
while being held on a passport charge
Scharf is being sought to rim out what he knoHS abolt Yockeys multiple
passports
Authorities are betuldered about the association of the two Scharf who
is 33 is a forroor principal of Oaklands Temple Beth Abraham School and an
inmate of Nazi concentration camps
Yockey L13 was a racist neo-Nazi of considerable infamy when he accidentally
fell into the hands of Federal authorities on June 6 Yockey had complained to
an airline about the loss of a bag It had already been opened in Fort middot orth
fex as unclaimed and was fourrl to contain three different passports all
bearing Yockeys pictuces
The FBI picked up Yockey in Scharf I s apartTEnt 8t 165 Bellevue avenue
Oakland but when t h ey went back later to talk to - charf he was gone
170
Goering the No 2 Nazi did at Nuernberg hours before he was to be ha nged
in 19L5 Yockey used potassium cyanide
No one knoHs haw he got it He played checkers tn th his fellow inmate
Adam Nienan a mapmaker of 1703 Arcadia street until lights were turned out
in their County Jail cell at 9 pm
Nieman then held o~ charges of gram theft which were dismissed yesterday
said ~ Yockey gave si gns of what was in his mind during the evening
tlHe told me he was the No1 leader of some SOlltt of organization Nieman
said He said he had kn owledge of people he loved and he thought hed be
farced to reveal it
The night before he discussed killing himself I-rith heavy weaghts on his
throat The last rernark he rnade to me was Youll sleep all ni ht of course
After lights were out he kept looking over the ledge of the bunk Bt me
r got quite concerned but finally r fell asleep1t
Apparently that was what Yockey had been waiti1S for He took his capsuleo
His baiy was found at 725 amo rigid on the bed hands folded across his
chest He s till had his boots on
Tucked into the folds of a blanket he us ed for a pillow was the follovdng
note
til shall write no messages which r know will never be delivered--only
this which will be
You rJi11 never discover who helped me for he is to be fmurl in your
own multitudinous ranks at least outwardlyo
Jail Su erintendent Frank Swith at first reported Yockey had died of
nat ural causes Cleser examination shoHed the inside of his mouth aand throat
were seared as one might exp~ct from swallming c~nide
180
The ne~re brought Sheriff Btt Carberry b us tling to the ~il
We heard he las planniD5 suicide or esca e last TuesdayI he said
I e moved him f rom an upper tier to cell 20 on the grourrl floor where he
could be watched c onstantly by the guard on duty
Im satisfied that suf i cient pr ecautions Here taken
Sheriff Carberrys satisfaction was not shared by Clancey James B
Cavana J gh special arent for the security division of the State Department
or a handfuJ of a ents of the FBI who had been working on the case
Grim-faced they all shm-fed up at the jail and tried to _ind out hm-r
their Tnan had cheated justice and deprived them of possible i nformation
The investigation itself was taken up by the Homicide Bureau of the
Police Department and b~T Carberry
In Yockeys pels onal effects left Hi th tJ-j e jailer a second note was
fourrl It was addressed to Keith G Teeter an FBI a gent It read
Ny dear riro Teeter
I ask you as a favor in the same of humanity wh ich we share to
notify ny sister of this or her husband Lieutenant Cornrna nier or Jrs William
D Coyne Bethesda Md o
tlili thailk you
FrarlCis Yockey
Hrs Coyne nel1ed the body in the Coroners office Hi th Emmet F Hagerty
Yockeys attorney
Y keyg epitaph ras reJITided by an acquaintance and admirer Willis Carta
secretary of the Congress of Freeeol here and fourrier of the San Francisco
190
Conservative Republican Headquarters set up during the GOP convention here
in 1956 Carto visited Yockey in jail June 100
Although I do not a ee with all his ideas I feel he Jas an authentic
creative genius I feel that those individuals uho are res onsible for
driving him to his death should feel a rreat sense of guil te
liThe world has lost a great man whose ideas will be r emembered until
estern Civilization is exter minated Carta saido
San Francisco Chronicle Satunlay June l8 l 1960
SISTER CALLS SttICIDE TRAGIC
PHI1 CS OPHER NOT PRO- NAZI SHE SA YS
By George Draper
The suicide of Francis Parker Yockey mystery man with many passports
was described as at a tragedy k yesterday by one of his sisters
All that talent all that brilliance is now gone sighed Mrs Hilliam
P Coyne of Bethesda 11i wife of a U S Navy commander
Mrs Coyne a handsome blonde with ~le blue eyes said Yockey spent his
adult life scrutinizing the JOrld from the exalted station of a true philosopher
No she said he wasnrt anti-Semitic he Jasnrt anti-Zionist No
he wasnrt pro-Nazi He never idolized Hitler In fact he thought Hitler
made one mistake after another n
Likerise Hrs Coyne said Yockey was neither pro-Russian nor anti-Russian
He merely felt that Russia had a role to play in world historytt she said
20
~~S Coyne proudly recited the titles of six books written by Yockey
all of which lere privately published in London and one of which has been
called a blueprint of Fascist strategy1I
No publisher in the United States iTould to uch them II she said
Irs Coyne intervievled in t he office of Attorney Emmet Ha gerty said
she had been close to her brother rmen they grew up in Chicago but that in
the last 10 years she had seldom heard from him
He 1-1old telephone me once in a while but never say where he was I
think it was because he loJaS in some kind of tr ouble with the FBI she said
Hrs Coyne said she received a telephone call from Yockey early last
1reek informing her that Im in the Oakland jail
The sister imFtediately flew here from Maryland to help him
She said she talked to him in jail abolt the United States passport he
obtainoo in Salinas in 1954 lKder t1e name of Edward Tax Price
(This same passp ort Tas fourd among Yockeys belongings b3aring Yockeys
photograph with the name changed to Eduard flax Briceman)
liRe couldnt have changed that name on the nassport That Eequires special
techpique she said
Yockey told her she said that he still carried the passport because bhe
State Department had tl~rned him down seven times nen he applied for a new
passport
Jhy did Yockey also carry Canadian and British passports -with his photoshy
graph but different nares
Maybe he thought three passports were better than one Mrs Coyne replied
210
The sister said S- e had no idea how Yockey had earned his living in
recent years or where he had b 8m living
Ny sister aro I gave him some money to bave a book published but that
was qcite a few years ago she said
Finally virs Coyne was asked why she thou ght Yockey committed sui cide
Has it been established that it was a sui cidert she replied
Re l 71inded that Yockey penned a suicide note before he died she added
I Oh thats right He did Probably he felt he -lasnt going to have
a fair trial
She he3itated a momen t and added
tIredica ted upon r-rha t happened he was completely justified in feeling
tha t way
San Francisco Chr onicle Sunday June 19 1960
VICTIH OF NAZIS LI TO YOCKE Y
by Geor ge Draper
Alex B Scharf tattooed sUvivor of the Auschlitz concentration camp
in World 7Jar II as being sought for questioning yesterday about the mysterious
activities of nea-Fascist Francis P Yockey
Yockey 43 killed hims elf with potassium cyanide in County Jail No1
early Friday lThile being held on passport fratrl charges
He was arrested in Scharfs Oakland apartment tvlO 1l euroeks ago l i t h three
fake Dassoorts- and seven birth certificates
22
I rmned iately following Yockeys arrest Scharf 31 abandoned his j dJ
as princi al- of Tern le Beth Abraham school and disa peared
Both Government officials and Jewish leaders Here puzzled by the associashy
tion between Scharf and Yockey
Seymour Froroor director of Jewish iducation in Oaskland said Scharf
wears the German tatoo on his arm that proves he was a prisoner at Ausch~-litz
where more than t m million J eHS were cremated by Hi tIer
I am sure charf believed in Israel and Zionism n said Fromer
Stanley S Jacobs chief of the Anti-Defaro~tion Leag~ehere declared
I am loath to believe Scharf was e n ga ged in Neo-Fascist activities
wi th Yockey
Yockey is known to have been anti-Zionist if not anti-Semitic and in
liaison ith various extreme right--nng lea ers incluiing former followers
of Hitler
Yockeys former -dfe Alice Yockey of San Antonio Tex told this reporter
that Yockey thou ght reports of Jewish genocide in orld middotjar II were eXd ggerated
Investigators hope to question Scharf about his original explanation for
harring Yockey in his Oakland apartment
After Yockeys arrest Scharf is said to have told a lents he met Yockey
for the first time a few days earlier at the gambling tables in Reno
At poundhat time he said he invited Yockey a stranger to come to Oaklarrl
and stay at his apartrrent
Assistant United States Attorney W P Caancy said yesterday however that
Scharf had known Yockey for nearly a year
23
In 1959 Clancy said Yockey applied f or an Irish passport
Either Yockeys application or an attached affidavit said Clancy bears
the name of Alex B Scharf and his former address at 2bol Sacramento street
Scharf was born in Czechoslovakia in 1928 am after Torld a1 II lived
in Paraguay a rrl Ar gentina e
He studied at GolUJ11bia Univergtity and at the Jewish Teachers Institute
in New York and then he returned to Paraguay as a teacher
Scharf came to San Francisco in late 1958 looking for a job teaching
Hebrew and las employed by the Bureau of Jewish Ed ucation
In June 1959 he viaS assigned to Te le Be th Abraham in Oakland as
eciucational director 0
Shortly before Scharf disappeared two weeks a go he t as not ified t ba t h O s
c otrac t at the t emple w-auld not be r enewed
Yockey has b een l eadi ng a lif e of myst ery for t he pas t 10 year s
Hi s sister Mrs Wi lliam bull Coyne of Bethesda r1l said she has no
knmJledge of where he ha s been or wha t he has been d oingo
She said mail for tockey has been deli~ed to her h ome over the years
but she has been forced to thrm it away not knDwing his whereabouts
Mrs Coynes husband is a commander in the Navy
Yockeys difficu lties arose when he lost a suitcase while flying to San
FrcmcLsco aboard an American Airlines Dlane
Tbe s itcase was subsequmtly fourrl in Fort Worth Texas Airline officials
08ned it to verify its Oinership am found a United States a British am a
Canadian passo crt -- each hri th Yockeys photograph ani each bearing a d ifferent
name The FBI Bas notified
San Fra nc isco Chronicle ~~ndaYJ June 20 1960
PUZZLING TRAI L OF YO CKE YS FRI ~ND
by Denne Petitclerc
Federa l a uthorities y estp-rday so ght to solve the ridd l e f what linked
Nazi concentration camp victim Alex B Scharf to neo-Fascist Francis P Yockey
But even Scharfs closest friJmis including the pre tty dark-haired
girl he once asked to marry hLm rere lmafule to ex l ain the strange r e lationship
Yockey Fascist philosopher and t-rriter and associate of former Hi tle r
followers co~~tted suicide in the GOQnty Jail here early Friday while being
held on a passp ort frau charge
Scharf 31-year-old former principal of Temple Beth b raham school in
Oakland a nd victim of Na z i bruta lity a t Auschwitz c oncentrati on camp in
i or lrl ar II has disappeared
It was in charfs Oakland apartnent t hat FBI a gents f0111d Yockey two
weeks ago Scharf since dro ood from s ight and i s DOli) being sought by Federal
authori t i e s for questioning
III know he didnt ha ve any money It sam Mrs Ezra Cohen-Sitt of IlS
Beulah stree t San Francisco
Mrs S i tt met her husband Ezra whi le da ting Scharf last year Sitt -laS
Scharfs roonnnate Ilm a tea cher t Temple Beth Abr aham sc1ool Scharf had once
asked Mrs Sitt to marry (l im He served as a n usher at her iedd i n in J a nuary
ani r emained a friend
Al ex was not the kirri of person you could get close tol she said He ijaS
ver-J sad and very seri ous~ and eve n though he Has likable he vIas alway s distant
25
She said Scbarf -Jas t ntelligent and sensitive Hith a eep feeling f or
Orthcdox Jewry and a man fh o kept himself remote as a result of lon years
of f ear under brutal Nazi treatment in Eurone
UHis meetinr Hi th Yockey must have come fr om some thing aut of Europe
years a go II she said T1 He ras a boy of 18 and he Wande red for many years
after the Hal It
Scharf led a mcdest bachelor schoolteacher I s life in axklarri she said
He n fre uently dated one girl wh 0 as employed at a Reno gambling cas ino
she said
Scharf never mentioned Yockey to any of his acquaintances here yen~s
Stit t (sic) said
Assistant Unj ted t ates Attorney bull 2 Clancey said Scharfs battered
1956 yell orJ and black Mercury sedan has not b een fourrl but that the California
Highway Patrol has been alerted
San Francisco Chronicle Tuesday June 21 1960
D MA Y BE ON ISRA EL-BOUND SHIP
by Denne Petitclerc
_ lex B Scharf still sougtlt as a key ~ritness in th2 puzzling case of
nea-Fascist Francis P Yockey may be ab oard a sb~p en route to Israel
The Chronicle learned yesterday
Federal authorities here said they Here checking the possibility that
Scharf may have boarded a ship in e York last I-Teek or that he is still
waiti ng in Ne-J York t o eave the country
26
Yockey wa s arr e s ted i n Scharf s apartment on J une 8 ~las ques tioned
by Federal officers a m then vanis hed bull Aut h ori ties are s t ill p uzz led about
Hha t bond cOlld have existed bet wee n a Naz i philos ophe r like Yockey am
Scharf a one-time principal of Oaklands Temple Beth Abraham school and an
inmate of German conentration c amps in Uor1d ~Jar II
Yockey 43 killed himself Hith potassill1fl cyanide in his County Jail No1
cell early last Friday whi le being held on passport violation charges
The first possible clue to Scharfs whereabouts came yesterday in checkJ_ng
a former San Jose court reporter described as charf s closest friend
The reporter William Sloffibvich 35 left his job in San Jose about three
months ago -lorked until last month in Los -ngeles and then left far New York
The Chronicle learned that Slomovich s name apueared on the passenger
list of the Atlantic an American Export Lines ship which sailed from ew
York last Thursday bound for P~ifa Israel
lthough cparfs name did not aprear on the passe er list Federal
authorities said it is possible he rr~y have used an ass umed name since he is
not a citizen of the United States
Assistant United States Attorney il1iam P Clancey said t~at American
offmcials in Israel 1i11 be alerted to question Slornovich--and to be on the
lookout for Scharf--when the ship berths in Haifa on June 29
Clancy (sic) nEamlhile said that evidence Dr irrlicates that Scharf had
known Yockey for more t han a year
Yockey made an application for an Irish passport in an Francisco in 1959
under t he name of Michael Taylor usi ng Scharf as a referenceo
Clancy s j d a handwriting ex-pert is aIlCtlyzin the docurn-nt to d e terrni ne
-hether charfs signature las forgedo
27
liieanwhile it Jas learned tha t Yockey asked a f e11ovI-prisoner tvJO
days befClte he committed suicide in the C01lllty Jail here where he c ould
ootain some poison
Federal author ities refused to identify the prisoner but said that he
has been transf erred to another institution He Jill be questioned tcrlay
about the conversation officials said
Sherriff Matthew Carberry whohms San F ancisco s CODnty J ail co~ ented
last night that no Federal official had rnentioned to him the existence of a
county jail prisoner with such a story
Authori ties are puzzled as to T here Yockey obtained the deadl y poison
and haw it reached his cello
At too same time the coroners office announced that a toxologists
report s h mfs that Yockey took one-fifth of a am of potassi urn cyanide which
is double the lethal dose f or a man of his size
Yockey left a note defying anyone to discover h ow he obtained the poison
Frierris said t1at Scharf fled the ay Area in a battered 1956 yellow and
black l1e rcury sedan apparently with little money in his possession
Mrs Ezra Cohen-Sitt of 115 Beulah street a friend of charf said
yesterday she wan ted to correct an impression given in an intervieH with
The Chronicle Sunday that Scharf had at one ti~e asked her to marry him
He did not she said I did not intem to be quoted on any Hatter
rela ted to Hr Scharf II
28
San Francisco Chronicle Wednesday June 22 1960
u S PRESSES SEARCH F YOCKEYS AL
The search for Alex B Scharf mysterio11S pal of neo-Fascist Francis
P Yockey settled down to a game of fox and houms yesterday
Scharf rho departed from Oaklarrl so quickly after Yockeys arrest that
he even left his clothes behind was in the role of the fox The hounds are
agents of the State Department vih ose security officials in ian Franc isco
said s impl
lIvere trying to blanket all escape routes and He re hoping for the bestI
Yockey cormnitted suicide with cyanide in the County Jail last Friday
while being held on a passport charge
Scharf is being sought to rim out what he knoHS abolt Yockeys multiple
passports
Authorities are betuldered about the association of the two Scharf who
is 33 is a forroor principal of Oaklands Temple Beth Abraham School and an
inmate of Nazi concentration camps
Yockey L13 was a racist neo-Nazi of considerable infamy when he accidentally
fell into the hands of Federal authorities on June 6 Yockey had complained to
an airline about the loss of a bag It had already been opened in Fort middot orth
fex as unclaimed and was fourrl to contain three different passports all
bearing Yockeys pictuces
The FBI picked up Yockey in Scharf I s apartTEnt 8t 165 Bellevue avenue
Oakland but when t h ey went back later to talk to - charf he was gone
180
The ne~re brought Sheriff Btt Carberry b us tling to the ~il
We heard he las planniD5 suicide or esca e last TuesdayI he said
I e moved him f rom an upper tier to cell 20 on the grourrl floor where he
could be watched c onstantly by the guard on duty
Im satisfied that suf i cient pr ecautions Here taken
Sheriff Carberrys satisfaction was not shared by Clancey James B
Cavana J gh special arent for the security division of the State Department
or a handfuJ of a ents of the FBI who had been working on the case
Grim-faced they all shm-fed up at the jail and tried to _ind out hm-r
their Tnan had cheated justice and deprived them of possible i nformation
The investigation itself was taken up by the Homicide Bureau of the
Police Department and b~T Carberry
In Yockeys pels onal effects left Hi th tJ-j e jailer a second note was
fourrl It was addressed to Keith G Teeter an FBI a gent It read
Ny dear riro Teeter
I ask you as a favor in the same of humanity wh ich we share to
notify ny sister of this or her husband Lieutenant Cornrna nier or Jrs William
D Coyne Bethesda Md o
tlili thailk you
FrarlCis Yockey
Hrs Coyne nel1ed the body in the Coroners office Hi th Emmet F Hagerty
Yockeys attorney
Y keyg epitaph ras reJITided by an acquaintance and admirer Willis Carta
secretary of the Congress of Freeeol here and fourrier of the San Francisco
190
Conservative Republican Headquarters set up during the GOP convention here
in 1956 Carto visited Yockey in jail June 100
Although I do not a ee with all his ideas I feel he Jas an authentic
creative genius I feel that those individuals uho are res onsible for
driving him to his death should feel a rreat sense of guil te
liThe world has lost a great man whose ideas will be r emembered until
estern Civilization is exter minated Carta saido
San Francisco Chronicle Satunlay June l8 l 1960
SISTER CALLS SttICIDE TRAGIC
PHI1 CS OPHER NOT PRO- NAZI SHE SA YS
By George Draper
The suicide of Francis Parker Yockey mystery man with many passports
was described as at a tragedy k yesterday by one of his sisters
All that talent all that brilliance is now gone sighed Mrs Hilliam
P Coyne of Bethesda 11i wife of a U S Navy commander
Mrs Coyne a handsome blonde with ~le blue eyes said Yockey spent his
adult life scrutinizing the JOrld from the exalted station of a true philosopher
No she said he wasnrt anti-Semitic he Jasnrt anti-Zionist No
he wasnrt pro-Nazi He never idolized Hitler In fact he thought Hitler
made one mistake after another n
Likerise Hrs Coyne said Yockey was neither pro-Russian nor anti-Russian
He merely felt that Russia had a role to play in world historytt she said
20
~~S Coyne proudly recited the titles of six books written by Yockey
all of which lere privately published in London and one of which has been
called a blueprint of Fascist strategy1I
No publisher in the United States iTould to uch them II she said
Irs Coyne intervievled in t he office of Attorney Emmet Ha gerty said
she had been close to her brother rmen they grew up in Chicago but that in
the last 10 years she had seldom heard from him
He 1-1old telephone me once in a while but never say where he was I
think it was because he loJaS in some kind of tr ouble with the FBI she said
Hrs Coyne said she received a telephone call from Yockey early last
1reek informing her that Im in the Oakland jail
The sister imFtediately flew here from Maryland to help him
She said she talked to him in jail abolt the United States passport he
obtainoo in Salinas in 1954 lKder t1e name of Edward Tax Price
(This same passp ort Tas fourd among Yockeys belongings b3aring Yockeys
photograph with the name changed to Eduard flax Briceman)
liRe couldnt have changed that name on the nassport That Eequires special
techpique she said
Yockey told her she said that he still carried the passport because bhe
State Department had tl~rned him down seven times nen he applied for a new
passport
Jhy did Yockey also carry Canadian and British passports -with his photoshy
graph but different nares
Maybe he thought three passports were better than one Mrs Coyne replied
210
The sister said S- e had no idea how Yockey had earned his living in
recent years or where he had b 8m living
Ny sister aro I gave him some money to bave a book published but that
was qcite a few years ago she said
Finally virs Coyne was asked why she thou ght Yockey committed sui cide
Has it been established that it was a sui cidert she replied
Re l 71inded that Yockey penned a suicide note before he died she added
I Oh thats right He did Probably he felt he -lasnt going to have
a fair trial
She he3itated a momen t and added
tIredica ted upon r-rha t happened he was completely justified in feeling
tha t way
San Francisco Chr onicle Sunday June 19 1960
VICTIH OF NAZIS LI TO YOCKE Y
by Geor ge Draper
Alex B Scharf tattooed sUvivor of the Auschlitz concentration camp
in World 7Jar II as being sought for questioning yesterday about the mysterious
activities of nea-Fascist Francis P Yockey
Yockey 43 killed hims elf with potassium cyanide in County Jail No1
early Friday lThile being held on passport fratrl charges
He was arrested in Scharfs Oakland apartment tvlO 1l euroeks ago l i t h three
fake Dassoorts- and seven birth certificates
22
I rmned iately following Yockeys arrest Scharf 31 abandoned his j dJ
as princi al- of Tern le Beth Abraham school and disa peared
Both Government officials and Jewish leaders Here puzzled by the associashy
tion between Scharf and Yockey
Seymour Froroor director of Jewish iducation in Oaskland said Scharf
wears the German tatoo on his arm that proves he was a prisoner at Ausch~-litz
where more than t m million J eHS were cremated by Hi tIer
I am sure charf believed in Israel and Zionism n said Fromer
Stanley S Jacobs chief of the Anti-Defaro~tion Leag~ehere declared
I am loath to believe Scharf was e n ga ged in Neo-Fascist activities
wi th Yockey
Yockey is known to have been anti-Zionist if not anti-Semitic and in
liaison ith various extreme right--nng lea ers incluiing former followers
of Hitler
Yockeys former -dfe Alice Yockey of San Antonio Tex told this reporter
that Yockey thou ght reports of Jewish genocide in orld middotjar II were eXd ggerated
Investigators hope to question Scharf about his original explanation for
harring Yockey in his Oakland apartment
After Yockeys arrest Scharf is said to have told a lents he met Yockey
for the first time a few days earlier at the gambling tables in Reno
At poundhat time he said he invited Yockey a stranger to come to Oaklarrl
and stay at his apartrrent
Assistant United States Attorney W P Caancy said yesterday however that
Scharf had known Yockey for nearly a year
23
In 1959 Clancy said Yockey applied f or an Irish passport
Either Yockeys application or an attached affidavit said Clancy bears
the name of Alex B Scharf and his former address at 2bol Sacramento street
Scharf was born in Czechoslovakia in 1928 am after Torld a1 II lived
in Paraguay a rrl Ar gentina e
He studied at GolUJ11bia Univergtity and at the Jewish Teachers Institute
in New York and then he returned to Paraguay as a teacher
Scharf came to San Francisco in late 1958 looking for a job teaching
Hebrew and las employed by the Bureau of Jewish Ed ucation
In June 1959 he viaS assigned to Te le Be th Abraham in Oakland as
eciucational director 0
Shortly before Scharf disappeared two weeks a go he t as not ified t ba t h O s
c otrac t at the t emple w-auld not be r enewed
Yockey has b een l eadi ng a lif e of myst ery for t he pas t 10 year s
Hi s sister Mrs Wi lliam bull Coyne of Bethesda r1l said she has no
knmJledge of where he ha s been or wha t he has been d oingo
She said mail for tockey has been deli~ed to her h ome over the years
but she has been forced to thrm it away not knDwing his whereabouts
Mrs Coynes husband is a commander in the Navy
Yockeys difficu lties arose when he lost a suitcase while flying to San
FrcmcLsco aboard an American Airlines Dlane
Tbe s itcase was subsequmtly fourrl in Fort Worth Texas Airline officials
08ned it to verify its Oinership am found a United States a British am a
Canadian passo crt -- each hri th Yockeys photograph ani each bearing a d ifferent
name The FBI Bas notified
San Fra nc isco Chronicle ~~ndaYJ June 20 1960
PUZZLING TRAI L OF YO CKE YS FRI ~ND
by Denne Petitclerc
Federa l a uthorities y estp-rday so ght to solve the ridd l e f what linked
Nazi concentration camp victim Alex B Scharf to neo-Fascist Francis P Yockey
But even Scharfs closest friJmis including the pre tty dark-haired
girl he once asked to marry hLm rere lmafule to ex l ain the strange r e lationship
Yockey Fascist philosopher and t-rriter and associate of former Hi tle r
followers co~~tted suicide in the GOQnty Jail here early Friday while being
held on a passp ort frau charge
Scharf 31-year-old former principal of Temple Beth b raham school in
Oakland a nd victim of Na z i bruta lity a t Auschwitz c oncentrati on camp in
i or lrl ar II has disappeared
It was in charfs Oakland apartnent t hat FBI a gents f0111d Yockey two
weeks ago Scharf since dro ood from s ight and i s DOli) being sought by Federal
authori t i e s for questioning
III know he didnt ha ve any money It sam Mrs Ezra Cohen-Sitt of IlS
Beulah stree t San Francisco
Mrs S i tt met her husband Ezra whi le da ting Scharf last year Sitt -laS
Scharfs roonnnate Ilm a tea cher t Temple Beth Abr aham sc1ool Scharf had once
asked Mrs Sitt to marry (l im He served as a n usher at her iedd i n in J a nuary
ani r emained a friend
Al ex was not the kirri of person you could get close tol she said He ijaS
ver-J sad and very seri ous~ and eve n though he Has likable he vIas alway s distant
25
She said Scbarf -Jas t ntelligent and sensitive Hith a eep feeling f or
Orthcdox Jewry and a man fh o kept himself remote as a result of lon years
of f ear under brutal Nazi treatment in Eurone
UHis meetinr Hi th Yockey must have come fr om some thing aut of Europe
years a go II she said T1 He ras a boy of 18 and he Wande red for many years
after the Hal It
Scharf led a mcdest bachelor schoolteacher I s life in axklarri she said
He n fre uently dated one girl wh 0 as employed at a Reno gambling cas ino
she said
Scharf never mentioned Yockey to any of his acquaintances here yen~s
Stit t (sic) said
Assistant Unj ted t ates Attorney bull 2 Clancey said Scharfs battered
1956 yell orJ and black Mercury sedan has not b een fourrl but that the California
Highway Patrol has been alerted
San Francisco Chronicle Tuesday June 21 1960
D MA Y BE ON ISRA EL-BOUND SHIP
by Denne Petitclerc
_ lex B Scharf still sougtlt as a key ~ritness in th2 puzzling case of
nea-Fascist Francis P Yockey may be ab oard a sb~p en route to Israel
The Chronicle learned yesterday
Federal authorities here said they Here checking the possibility that
Scharf may have boarded a ship in e York last I-Teek or that he is still
waiti ng in Ne-J York t o eave the country
26
Yockey wa s arr e s ted i n Scharf s apartment on J une 8 ~las ques tioned
by Federal officers a m then vanis hed bull Aut h ori ties are s t ill p uzz led about
Hha t bond cOlld have existed bet wee n a Naz i philos ophe r like Yockey am
Scharf a one-time principal of Oaklands Temple Beth Abraham school and an
inmate of German conentration c amps in Uor1d ~Jar II
Yockey 43 killed himself Hith potassill1fl cyanide in his County Jail No1
cell early last Friday whi le being held on passport violation charges
The first possible clue to Scharfs whereabouts came yesterday in checkJ_ng
a former San Jose court reporter described as charf s closest friend
The reporter William Sloffibvich 35 left his job in San Jose about three
months ago -lorked until last month in Los -ngeles and then left far New York
The Chronicle learned that Slomovich s name apueared on the passenger
list of the Atlantic an American Export Lines ship which sailed from ew
York last Thursday bound for P~ifa Israel
lthough cparfs name did not aprear on the passe er list Federal
authorities said it is possible he rr~y have used an ass umed name since he is
not a citizen of the United States
Assistant United States Attorney il1iam P Clancey said t~at American
offmcials in Israel 1i11 be alerted to question Slornovich--and to be on the
lookout for Scharf--when the ship berths in Haifa on June 29
Clancy (sic) nEamlhile said that evidence Dr irrlicates that Scharf had
known Yockey for more t han a year
Yockey made an application for an Irish passport in an Francisco in 1959
under t he name of Michael Taylor usi ng Scharf as a referenceo
Clancy s j d a handwriting ex-pert is aIlCtlyzin the docurn-nt to d e terrni ne
-hether charfs signature las forgedo
27
liieanwhile it Jas learned tha t Yockey asked a f e11ovI-prisoner tvJO
days befClte he committed suicide in the C01lllty Jail here where he c ould
ootain some poison
Federal author ities refused to identify the prisoner but said that he
has been transf erred to another institution He Jill be questioned tcrlay
about the conversation officials said
Sherriff Matthew Carberry whohms San F ancisco s CODnty J ail co~ ented
last night that no Federal official had rnentioned to him the existence of a
county jail prisoner with such a story
Authori ties are puzzled as to T here Yockey obtained the deadl y poison
and haw it reached his cello
At too same time the coroners office announced that a toxologists
report s h mfs that Yockey took one-fifth of a am of potassi urn cyanide which
is double the lethal dose f or a man of his size
Yockey left a note defying anyone to discover h ow he obtained the poison
Frierris said t1at Scharf fled the ay Area in a battered 1956 yellow and
black l1e rcury sedan apparently with little money in his possession
Mrs Ezra Cohen-Sitt of 115 Beulah street a friend of charf said
yesterday she wan ted to correct an impression given in an intervieH with
The Chronicle Sunday that Scharf had at one ti~e asked her to marry him
He did not she said I did not intem to be quoted on any Hatter
rela ted to Hr Scharf II
28
San Francisco Chronicle Wednesday June 22 1960
u S PRESSES SEARCH F YOCKEYS AL
The search for Alex B Scharf mysterio11S pal of neo-Fascist Francis
P Yockey settled down to a game of fox and houms yesterday
Scharf rho departed from Oaklarrl so quickly after Yockeys arrest that
he even left his clothes behind was in the role of the fox The hounds are
agents of the State Department vih ose security officials in ian Franc isco
said s impl
lIvere trying to blanket all escape routes and He re hoping for the bestI
Yockey cormnitted suicide with cyanide in the County Jail last Friday
while being held on a passport charge
Scharf is being sought to rim out what he knoHS abolt Yockeys multiple
passports
Authorities are betuldered about the association of the two Scharf who
is 33 is a forroor principal of Oaklands Temple Beth Abraham School and an
inmate of Nazi concentration camps
Yockey L13 was a racist neo-Nazi of considerable infamy when he accidentally
fell into the hands of Federal authorities on June 6 Yockey had complained to
an airline about the loss of a bag It had already been opened in Fort middot orth
fex as unclaimed and was fourrl to contain three different passports all
bearing Yockeys pictuces
The FBI picked up Yockey in Scharf I s apartTEnt 8t 165 Bellevue avenue
Oakland but when t h ey went back later to talk to - charf he was gone
190
Conservative Republican Headquarters set up during the GOP convention here
in 1956 Carto visited Yockey in jail June 100
Although I do not a ee with all his ideas I feel he Jas an authentic
creative genius I feel that those individuals uho are res onsible for
driving him to his death should feel a rreat sense of guil te
liThe world has lost a great man whose ideas will be r emembered until
estern Civilization is exter minated Carta saido
San Francisco Chronicle Satunlay June l8 l 1960
SISTER CALLS SttICIDE TRAGIC
PHI1 CS OPHER NOT PRO- NAZI SHE SA YS
By George Draper
The suicide of Francis Parker Yockey mystery man with many passports
was described as at a tragedy k yesterday by one of his sisters
All that talent all that brilliance is now gone sighed Mrs Hilliam
P Coyne of Bethesda 11i wife of a U S Navy commander
Mrs Coyne a handsome blonde with ~le blue eyes said Yockey spent his
adult life scrutinizing the JOrld from the exalted station of a true philosopher
No she said he wasnrt anti-Semitic he Jasnrt anti-Zionist No
he wasnrt pro-Nazi He never idolized Hitler In fact he thought Hitler
made one mistake after another n
Likerise Hrs Coyne said Yockey was neither pro-Russian nor anti-Russian
He merely felt that Russia had a role to play in world historytt she said
20
~~S Coyne proudly recited the titles of six books written by Yockey
all of which lere privately published in London and one of which has been
called a blueprint of Fascist strategy1I
No publisher in the United States iTould to uch them II she said
Irs Coyne intervievled in t he office of Attorney Emmet Ha gerty said
she had been close to her brother rmen they grew up in Chicago but that in
the last 10 years she had seldom heard from him
He 1-1old telephone me once in a while but never say where he was I
think it was because he loJaS in some kind of tr ouble with the FBI she said
Hrs Coyne said she received a telephone call from Yockey early last
1reek informing her that Im in the Oakland jail
The sister imFtediately flew here from Maryland to help him
She said she talked to him in jail abolt the United States passport he
obtainoo in Salinas in 1954 lKder t1e name of Edward Tax Price
(This same passp ort Tas fourd among Yockeys belongings b3aring Yockeys
photograph with the name changed to Eduard flax Briceman)
liRe couldnt have changed that name on the nassport That Eequires special
techpique she said
Yockey told her she said that he still carried the passport because bhe
State Department had tl~rned him down seven times nen he applied for a new
passport
Jhy did Yockey also carry Canadian and British passports -with his photoshy
graph but different nares
Maybe he thought three passports were better than one Mrs Coyne replied
210
The sister said S- e had no idea how Yockey had earned his living in
recent years or where he had b 8m living
Ny sister aro I gave him some money to bave a book published but that
was qcite a few years ago she said
Finally virs Coyne was asked why she thou ght Yockey committed sui cide
Has it been established that it was a sui cidert she replied
Re l 71inded that Yockey penned a suicide note before he died she added
I Oh thats right He did Probably he felt he -lasnt going to have
a fair trial
She he3itated a momen t and added
tIredica ted upon r-rha t happened he was completely justified in feeling
tha t way
San Francisco Chr onicle Sunday June 19 1960
VICTIH OF NAZIS LI TO YOCKE Y
by Geor ge Draper
Alex B Scharf tattooed sUvivor of the Auschlitz concentration camp
in World 7Jar II as being sought for questioning yesterday about the mysterious
activities of nea-Fascist Francis P Yockey
Yockey 43 killed hims elf with potassium cyanide in County Jail No1
early Friday lThile being held on passport fratrl charges
He was arrested in Scharfs Oakland apartment tvlO 1l euroeks ago l i t h three
fake Dassoorts- and seven birth certificates
22
I rmned iately following Yockeys arrest Scharf 31 abandoned his j dJ
as princi al- of Tern le Beth Abraham school and disa peared
Both Government officials and Jewish leaders Here puzzled by the associashy
tion between Scharf and Yockey
Seymour Froroor director of Jewish iducation in Oaskland said Scharf
wears the German tatoo on his arm that proves he was a prisoner at Ausch~-litz
where more than t m million J eHS were cremated by Hi tIer
I am sure charf believed in Israel and Zionism n said Fromer
Stanley S Jacobs chief of the Anti-Defaro~tion Leag~ehere declared
I am loath to believe Scharf was e n ga ged in Neo-Fascist activities
wi th Yockey
Yockey is known to have been anti-Zionist if not anti-Semitic and in
liaison ith various extreme right--nng lea ers incluiing former followers
of Hitler
Yockeys former -dfe Alice Yockey of San Antonio Tex told this reporter
that Yockey thou ght reports of Jewish genocide in orld middotjar II were eXd ggerated
Investigators hope to question Scharf about his original explanation for
harring Yockey in his Oakland apartment
After Yockeys arrest Scharf is said to have told a lents he met Yockey
for the first time a few days earlier at the gambling tables in Reno
At poundhat time he said he invited Yockey a stranger to come to Oaklarrl
and stay at his apartrrent
Assistant United States Attorney W P Caancy said yesterday however that
Scharf had known Yockey for nearly a year
23
In 1959 Clancy said Yockey applied f or an Irish passport
Either Yockeys application or an attached affidavit said Clancy bears
the name of Alex B Scharf and his former address at 2bol Sacramento street
Scharf was born in Czechoslovakia in 1928 am after Torld a1 II lived
in Paraguay a rrl Ar gentina e
He studied at GolUJ11bia Univergtity and at the Jewish Teachers Institute
in New York and then he returned to Paraguay as a teacher
Scharf came to San Francisco in late 1958 looking for a job teaching
Hebrew and las employed by the Bureau of Jewish Ed ucation
In June 1959 he viaS assigned to Te le Be th Abraham in Oakland as
eciucational director 0
Shortly before Scharf disappeared two weeks a go he t as not ified t ba t h O s
c otrac t at the t emple w-auld not be r enewed
Yockey has b een l eadi ng a lif e of myst ery for t he pas t 10 year s
Hi s sister Mrs Wi lliam bull Coyne of Bethesda r1l said she has no
knmJledge of where he ha s been or wha t he has been d oingo
She said mail for tockey has been deli~ed to her h ome over the years
but she has been forced to thrm it away not knDwing his whereabouts
Mrs Coynes husband is a commander in the Navy
Yockeys difficu lties arose when he lost a suitcase while flying to San
FrcmcLsco aboard an American Airlines Dlane
Tbe s itcase was subsequmtly fourrl in Fort Worth Texas Airline officials
08ned it to verify its Oinership am found a United States a British am a
Canadian passo crt -- each hri th Yockeys photograph ani each bearing a d ifferent
name The FBI Bas notified
San Fra nc isco Chronicle ~~ndaYJ June 20 1960
PUZZLING TRAI L OF YO CKE YS FRI ~ND
by Denne Petitclerc
Federa l a uthorities y estp-rday so ght to solve the ridd l e f what linked
Nazi concentration camp victim Alex B Scharf to neo-Fascist Francis P Yockey
But even Scharfs closest friJmis including the pre tty dark-haired
girl he once asked to marry hLm rere lmafule to ex l ain the strange r e lationship
Yockey Fascist philosopher and t-rriter and associate of former Hi tle r
followers co~~tted suicide in the GOQnty Jail here early Friday while being
held on a passp ort frau charge
Scharf 31-year-old former principal of Temple Beth b raham school in
Oakland a nd victim of Na z i bruta lity a t Auschwitz c oncentrati on camp in
i or lrl ar II has disappeared
It was in charfs Oakland apartnent t hat FBI a gents f0111d Yockey two
weeks ago Scharf since dro ood from s ight and i s DOli) being sought by Federal
authori t i e s for questioning
III know he didnt ha ve any money It sam Mrs Ezra Cohen-Sitt of IlS
Beulah stree t San Francisco
Mrs S i tt met her husband Ezra whi le da ting Scharf last year Sitt -laS
Scharfs roonnnate Ilm a tea cher t Temple Beth Abr aham sc1ool Scharf had once
asked Mrs Sitt to marry (l im He served as a n usher at her iedd i n in J a nuary
ani r emained a friend
Al ex was not the kirri of person you could get close tol she said He ijaS
ver-J sad and very seri ous~ and eve n though he Has likable he vIas alway s distant
25
She said Scbarf -Jas t ntelligent and sensitive Hith a eep feeling f or
Orthcdox Jewry and a man fh o kept himself remote as a result of lon years
of f ear under brutal Nazi treatment in Eurone
UHis meetinr Hi th Yockey must have come fr om some thing aut of Europe
years a go II she said T1 He ras a boy of 18 and he Wande red for many years
after the Hal It
Scharf led a mcdest bachelor schoolteacher I s life in axklarri she said
He n fre uently dated one girl wh 0 as employed at a Reno gambling cas ino
she said
Scharf never mentioned Yockey to any of his acquaintances here yen~s
Stit t (sic) said
Assistant Unj ted t ates Attorney bull 2 Clancey said Scharfs battered
1956 yell orJ and black Mercury sedan has not b een fourrl but that the California
Highway Patrol has been alerted
San Francisco Chronicle Tuesday June 21 1960
D MA Y BE ON ISRA EL-BOUND SHIP
by Denne Petitclerc
_ lex B Scharf still sougtlt as a key ~ritness in th2 puzzling case of
nea-Fascist Francis P Yockey may be ab oard a sb~p en route to Israel
The Chronicle learned yesterday
Federal authorities here said they Here checking the possibility that
Scharf may have boarded a ship in e York last I-Teek or that he is still
waiti ng in Ne-J York t o eave the country
26
Yockey wa s arr e s ted i n Scharf s apartment on J une 8 ~las ques tioned
by Federal officers a m then vanis hed bull Aut h ori ties are s t ill p uzz led about
Hha t bond cOlld have existed bet wee n a Naz i philos ophe r like Yockey am
Scharf a one-time principal of Oaklands Temple Beth Abraham school and an
inmate of German conentration c amps in Uor1d ~Jar II
Yockey 43 killed himself Hith potassill1fl cyanide in his County Jail No1
cell early last Friday whi le being held on passport violation charges
The first possible clue to Scharfs whereabouts came yesterday in checkJ_ng
a former San Jose court reporter described as charf s closest friend
The reporter William Sloffibvich 35 left his job in San Jose about three
months ago -lorked until last month in Los -ngeles and then left far New York
The Chronicle learned that Slomovich s name apueared on the passenger
list of the Atlantic an American Export Lines ship which sailed from ew
York last Thursday bound for P~ifa Israel
lthough cparfs name did not aprear on the passe er list Federal
authorities said it is possible he rr~y have used an ass umed name since he is
not a citizen of the United States
Assistant United States Attorney il1iam P Clancey said t~at American
offmcials in Israel 1i11 be alerted to question Slornovich--and to be on the
lookout for Scharf--when the ship berths in Haifa on June 29
Clancy (sic) nEamlhile said that evidence Dr irrlicates that Scharf had
known Yockey for more t han a year
Yockey made an application for an Irish passport in an Francisco in 1959
under t he name of Michael Taylor usi ng Scharf as a referenceo
Clancy s j d a handwriting ex-pert is aIlCtlyzin the docurn-nt to d e terrni ne
-hether charfs signature las forgedo
27
liieanwhile it Jas learned tha t Yockey asked a f e11ovI-prisoner tvJO
days befClte he committed suicide in the C01lllty Jail here where he c ould
ootain some poison
Federal author ities refused to identify the prisoner but said that he
has been transf erred to another institution He Jill be questioned tcrlay
about the conversation officials said
Sherriff Matthew Carberry whohms San F ancisco s CODnty J ail co~ ented
last night that no Federal official had rnentioned to him the existence of a
county jail prisoner with such a story
Authori ties are puzzled as to T here Yockey obtained the deadl y poison
and haw it reached his cello
At too same time the coroners office announced that a toxologists
report s h mfs that Yockey took one-fifth of a am of potassi urn cyanide which
is double the lethal dose f or a man of his size
Yockey left a note defying anyone to discover h ow he obtained the poison
Frierris said t1at Scharf fled the ay Area in a battered 1956 yellow and
black l1e rcury sedan apparently with little money in his possession
Mrs Ezra Cohen-Sitt of 115 Beulah street a friend of charf said
yesterday she wan ted to correct an impression given in an intervieH with
The Chronicle Sunday that Scharf had at one ti~e asked her to marry him
He did not she said I did not intem to be quoted on any Hatter
rela ted to Hr Scharf II
28
San Francisco Chronicle Wednesday June 22 1960
u S PRESSES SEARCH F YOCKEYS AL
The search for Alex B Scharf mysterio11S pal of neo-Fascist Francis
P Yockey settled down to a game of fox and houms yesterday
Scharf rho departed from Oaklarrl so quickly after Yockeys arrest that
he even left his clothes behind was in the role of the fox The hounds are
agents of the State Department vih ose security officials in ian Franc isco
said s impl
lIvere trying to blanket all escape routes and He re hoping for the bestI
Yockey cormnitted suicide with cyanide in the County Jail last Friday
while being held on a passport charge
Scharf is being sought to rim out what he knoHS abolt Yockeys multiple
passports
Authorities are betuldered about the association of the two Scharf who
is 33 is a forroor principal of Oaklands Temple Beth Abraham School and an
inmate of Nazi concentration camps
Yockey L13 was a racist neo-Nazi of considerable infamy when he accidentally
fell into the hands of Federal authorities on June 6 Yockey had complained to
an airline about the loss of a bag It had already been opened in Fort middot orth
fex as unclaimed and was fourrl to contain three different passports all
bearing Yockeys pictuces
The FBI picked up Yockey in Scharf I s apartTEnt 8t 165 Bellevue avenue
Oakland but when t h ey went back later to talk to - charf he was gone
20
~~S Coyne proudly recited the titles of six books written by Yockey
all of which lere privately published in London and one of which has been
called a blueprint of Fascist strategy1I
No publisher in the United States iTould to uch them II she said
Irs Coyne intervievled in t he office of Attorney Emmet Ha gerty said
she had been close to her brother rmen they grew up in Chicago but that in
the last 10 years she had seldom heard from him
He 1-1old telephone me once in a while but never say where he was I
think it was because he loJaS in some kind of tr ouble with the FBI she said
Hrs Coyne said she received a telephone call from Yockey early last
1reek informing her that Im in the Oakland jail
The sister imFtediately flew here from Maryland to help him
She said she talked to him in jail abolt the United States passport he
obtainoo in Salinas in 1954 lKder t1e name of Edward Tax Price
(This same passp ort Tas fourd among Yockeys belongings b3aring Yockeys
photograph with the name changed to Eduard flax Briceman)
liRe couldnt have changed that name on the nassport That Eequires special
techpique she said
Yockey told her she said that he still carried the passport because bhe
State Department had tl~rned him down seven times nen he applied for a new
passport
Jhy did Yockey also carry Canadian and British passports -with his photoshy
graph but different nares
Maybe he thought three passports were better than one Mrs Coyne replied
210
The sister said S- e had no idea how Yockey had earned his living in
recent years or where he had b 8m living
Ny sister aro I gave him some money to bave a book published but that
was qcite a few years ago she said
Finally virs Coyne was asked why she thou ght Yockey committed sui cide
Has it been established that it was a sui cidert she replied
Re l 71inded that Yockey penned a suicide note before he died she added
I Oh thats right He did Probably he felt he -lasnt going to have
a fair trial
She he3itated a momen t and added
tIredica ted upon r-rha t happened he was completely justified in feeling
tha t way
San Francisco Chr onicle Sunday June 19 1960
VICTIH OF NAZIS LI TO YOCKE Y
by Geor ge Draper
Alex B Scharf tattooed sUvivor of the Auschlitz concentration camp
in World 7Jar II as being sought for questioning yesterday about the mysterious
activities of nea-Fascist Francis P Yockey
Yockey 43 killed hims elf with potassium cyanide in County Jail No1
early Friday lThile being held on passport fratrl charges
He was arrested in Scharfs Oakland apartment tvlO 1l euroeks ago l i t h three
fake Dassoorts- and seven birth certificates
22
I rmned iately following Yockeys arrest Scharf 31 abandoned his j dJ
as princi al- of Tern le Beth Abraham school and disa peared
Both Government officials and Jewish leaders Here puzzled by the associashy
tion between Scharf and Yockey
Seymour Froroor director of Jewish iducation in Oaskland said Scharf
wears the German tatoo on his arm that proves he was a prisoner at Ausch~-litz
where more than t m million J eHS were cremated by Hi tIer
I am sure charf believed in Israel and Zionism n said Fromer
Stanley S Jacobs chief of the Anti-Defaro~tion Leag~ehere declared
I am loath to believe Scharf was e n ga ged in Neo-Fascist activities
wi th Yockey
Yockey is known to have been anti-Zionist if not anti-Semitic and in
liaison ith various extreme right--nng lea ers incluiing former followers
of Hitler
Yockeys former -dfe Alice Yockey of San Antonio Tex told this reporter
that Yockey thou ght reports of Jewish genocide in orld middotjar II were eXd ggerated
Investigators hope to question Scharf about his original explanation for
harring Yockey in his Oakland apartment
After Yockeys arrest Scharf is said to have told a lents he met Yockey
for the first time a few days earlier at the gambling tables in Reno
At poundhat time he said he invited Yockey a stranger to come to Oaklarrl
and stay at his apartrrent
Assistant United States Attorney W P Caancy said yesterday however that
Scharf had known Yockey for nearly a year
23
In 1959 Clancy said Yockey applied f or an Irish passport
Either Yockeys application or an attached affidavit said Clancy bears
the name of Alex B Scharf and his former address at 2bol Sacramento street
Scharf was born in Czechoslovakia in 1928 am after Torld a1 II lived
in Paraguay a rrl Ar gentina e
He studied at GolUJ11bia Univergtity and at the Jewish Teachers Institute
in New York and then he returned to Paraguay as a teacher
Scharf came to San Francisco in late 1958 looking for a job teaching
Hebrew and las employed by the Bureau of Jewish Ed ucation
In June 1959 he viaS assigned to Te le Be th Abraham in Oakland as
eciucational director 0
Shortly before Scharf disappeared two weeks a go he t as not ified t ba t h O s
c otrac t at the t emple w-auld not be r enewed
Yockey has b een l eadi ng a lif e of myst ery for t he pas t 10 year s
Hi s sister Mrs Wi lliam bull Coyne of Bethesda r1l said she has no
knmJledge of where he ha s been or wha t he has been d oingo
She said mail for tockey has been deli~ed to her h ome over the years
but she has been forced to thrm it away not knDwing his whereabouts
Mrs Coynes husband is a commander in the Navy
Yockeys difficu lties arose when he lost a suitcase while flying to San
FrcmcLsco aboard an American Airlines Dlane
Tbe s itcase was subsequmtly fourrl in Fort Worth Texas Airline officials
08ned it to verify its Oinership am found a United States a British am a
Canadian passo crt -- each hri th Yockeys photograph ani each bearing a d ifferent
name The FBI Bas notified
San Fra nc isco Chronicle ~~ndaYJ June 20 1960
PUZZLING TRAI L OF YO CKE YS FRI ~ND
by Denne Petitclerc
Federa l a uthorities y estp-rday so ght to solve the ridd l e f what linked
Nazi concentration camp victim Alex B Scharf to neo-Fascist Francis P Yockey
But even Scharfs closest friJmis including the pre tty dark-haired
girl he once asked to marry hLm rere lmafule to ex l ain the strange r e lationship
Yockey Fascist philosopher and t-rriter and associate of former Hi tle r
followers co~~tted suicide in the GOQnty Jail here early Friday while being
held on a passp ort frau charge
Scharf 31-year-old former principal of Temple Beth b raham school in
Oakland a nd victim of Na z i bruta lity a t Auschwitz c oncentrati on camp in
i or lrl ar II has disappeared
It was in charfs Oakland apartnent t hat FBI a gents f0111d Yockey two
weeks ago Scharf since dro ood from s ight and i s DOli) being sought by Federal
authori t i e s for questioning
III know he didnt ha ve any money It sam Mrs Ezra Cohen-Sitt of IlS
Beulah stree t San Francisco
Mrs S i tt met her husband Ezra whi le da ting Scharf last year Sitt -laS
Scharfs roonnnate Ilm a tea cher t Temple Beth Abr aham sc1ool Scharf had once
asked Mrs Sitt to marry (l im He served as a n usher at her iedd i n in J a nuary
ani r emained a friend
Al ex was not the kirri of person you could get close tol she said He ijaS
ver-J sad and very seri ous~ and eve n though he Has likable he vIas alway s distant
25
She said Scbarf -Jas t ntelligent and sensitive Hith a eep feeling f or
Orthcdox Jewry and a man fh o kept himself remote as a result of lon years
of f ear under brutal Nazi treatment in Eurone
UHis meetinr Hi th Yockey must have come fr om some thing aut of Europe
years a go II she said T1 He ras a boy of 18 and he Wande red for many years
after the Hal It
Scharf led a mcdest bachelor schoolteacher I s life in axklarri she said
He n fre uently dated one girl wh 0 as employed at a Reno gambling cas ino
she said
Scharf never mentioned Yockey to any of his acquaintances here yen~s
Stit t (sic) said
Assistant Unj ted t ates Attorney bull 2 Clancey said Scharfs battered
1956 yell orJ and black Mercury sedan has not b een fourrl but that the California
Highway Patrol has been alerted
San Francisco Chronicle Tuesday June 21 1960
D MA Y BE ON ISRA EL-BOUND SHIP
by Denne Petitclerc
_ lex B Scharf still sougtlt as a key ~ritness in th2 puzzling case of
nea-Fascist Francis P Yockey may be ab oard a sb~p en route to Israel
The Chronicle learned yesterday
Federal authorities here said they Here checking the possibility that
Scharf may have boarded a ship in e York last I-Teek or that he is still
waiti ng in Ne-J York t o eave the country
26
Yockey wa s arr e s ted i n Scharf s apartment on J une 8 ~las ques tioned
by Federal officers a m then vanis hed bull Aut h ori ties are s t ill p uzz led about
Hha t bond cOlld have existed bet wee n a Naz i philos ophe r like Yockey am
Scharf a one-time principal of Oaklands Temple Beth Abraham school and an
inmate of German conentration c amps in Uor1d ~Jar II
Yockey 43 killed himself Hith potassill1fl cyanide in his County Jail No1
cell early last Friday whi le being held on passport violation charges
The first possible clue to Scharfs whereabouts came yesterday in checkJ_ng
a former San Jose court reporter described as charf s closest friend
The reporter William Sloffibvich 35 left his job in San Jose about three
months ago -lorked until last month in Los -ngeles and then left far New York
The Chronicle learned that Slomovich s name apueared on the passenger
list of the Atlantic an American Export Lines ship which sailed from ew
York last Thursday bound for P~ifa Israel
lthough cparfs name did not aprear on the passe er list Federal
authorities said it is possible he rr~y have used an ass umed name since he is
not a citizen of the United States
Assistant United States Attorney il1iam P Clancey said t~at American
offmcials in Israel 1i11 be alerted to question Slornovich--and to be on the
lookout for Scharf--when the ship berths in Haifa on June 29
Clancy (sic) nEamlhile said that evidence Dr irrlicates that Scharf had
known Yockey for more t han a year
Yockey made an application for an Irish passport in an Francisco in 1959
under t he name of Michael Taylor usi ng Scharf as a referenceo
Clancy s j d a handwriting ex-pert is aIlCtlyzin the docurn-nt to d e terrni ne
-hether charfs signature las forgedo
27
liieanwhile it Jas learned tha t Yockey asked a f e11ovI-prisoner tvJO
days befClte he committed suicide in the C01lllty Jail here where he c ould
ootain some poison
Federal author ities refused to identify the prisoner but said that he
has been transf erred to another institution He Jill be questioned tcrlay
about the conversation officials said
Sherriff Matthew Carberry whohms San F ancisco s CODnty J ail co~ ented
last night that no Federal official had rnentioned to him the existence of a
county jail prisoner with such a story
Authori ties are puzzled as to T here Yockey obtained the deadl y poison
and haw it reached his cello
At too same time the coroners office announced that a toxologists
report s h mfs that Yockey took one-fifth of a am of potassi urn cyanide which
is double the lethal dose f or a man of his size
Yockey left a note defying anyone to discover h ow he obtained the poison
Frierris said t1at Scharf fled the ay Area in a battered 1956 yellow and
black l1e rcury sedan apparently with little money in his possession
Mrs Ezra Cohen-Sitt of 115 Beulah street a friend of charf said
yesterday she wan ted to correct an impression given in an intervieH with
The Chronicle Sunday that Scharf had at one ti~e asked her to marry him
He did not she said I did not intem to be quoted on any Hatter
rela ted to Hr Scharf II
28
San Francisco Chronicle Wednesday June 22 1960
u S PRESSES SEARCH F YOCKEYS AL
The search for Alex B Scharf mysterio11S pal of neo-Fascist Francis
P Yockey settled down to a game of fox and houms yesterday
Scharf rho departed from Oaklarrl so quickly after Yockeys arrest that
he even left his clothes behind was in the role of the fox The hounds are
agents of the State Department vih ose security officials in ian Franc isco
said s impl
lIvere trying to blanket all escape routes and He re hoping for the bestI
Yockey cormnitted suicide with cyanide in the County Jail last Friday
while being held on a passport charge
Scharf is being sought to rim out what he knoHS abolt Yockeys multiple
passports
Authorities are betuldered about the association of the two Scharf who
is 33 is a forroor principal of Oaklands Temple Beth Abraham School and an
inmate of Nazi concentration camps
Yockey L13 was a racist neo-Nazi of considerable infamy when he accidentally
fell into the hands of Federal authorities on June 6 Yockey had complained to
an airline about the loss of a bag It had already been opened in Fort middot orth
fex as unclaimed and was fourrl to contain three different passports all
bearing Yockeys pictuces
The FBI picked up Yockey in Scharf I s apartTEnt 8t 165 Bellevue avenue
Oakland but when t h ey went back later to talk to - charf he was gone
210
The sister said S- e had no idea how Yockey had earned his living in
recent years or where he had b 8m living
Ny sister aro I gave him some money to bave a book published but that
was qcite a few years ago she said
Finally virs Coyne was asked why she thou ght Yockey committed sui cide
Has it been established that it was a sui cidert she replied
Re l 71inded that Yockey penned a suicide note before he died she added
I Oh thats right He did Probably he felt he -lasnt going to have
a fair trial
She he3itated a momen t and added
tIredica ted upon r-rha t happened he was completely justified in feeling
tha t way
San Francisco Chr onicle Sunday June 19 1960
VICTIH OF NAZIS LI TO YOCKE Y
by Geor ge Draper
Alex B Scharf tattooed sUvivor of the Auschlitz concentration camp
in World 7Jar II as being sought for questioning yesterday about the mysterious
activities of nea-Fascist Francis P Yockey
Yockey 43 killed hims elf with potassium cyanide in County Jail No1
early Friday lThile being held on passport fratrl charges
He was arrested in Scharfs Oakland apartment tvlO 1l euroeks ago l i t h three
fake Dassoorts- and seven birth certificates
22
I rmned iately following Yockeys arrest Scharf 31 abandoned his j dJ
as princi al- of Tern le Beth Abraham school and disa peared
Both Government officials and Jewish leaders Here puzzled by the associashy
tion between Scharf and Yockey
Seymour Froroor director of Jewish iducation in Oaskland said Scharf
wears the German tatoo on his arm that proves he was a prisoner at Ausch~-litz
where more than t m million J eHS were cremated by Hi tIer
I am sure charf believed in Israel and Zionism n said Fromer
Stanley S Jacobs chief of the Anti-Defaro~tion Leag~ehere declared
I am loath to believe Scharf was e n ga ged in Neo-Fascist activities
wi th Yockey
Yockey is known to have been anti-Zionist if not anti-Semitic and in
liaison ith various extreme right--nng lea ers incluiing former followers
of Hitler
Yockeys former -dfe Alice Yockey of San Antonio Tex told this reporter
that Yockey thou ght reports of Jewish genocide in orld middotjar II were eXd ggerated
Investigators hope to question Scharf about his original explanation for
harring Yockey in his Oakland apartment
After Yockeys arrest Scharf is said to have told a lents he met Yockey
for the first time a few days earlier at the gambling tables in Reno
At poundhat time he said he invited Yockey a stranger to come to Oaklarrl
and stay at his apartrrent
Assistant United States Attorney W P Caancy said yesterday however that
Scharf had known Yockey for nearly a year
23
In 1959 Clancy said Yockey applied f or an Irish passport
Either Yockeys application or an attached affidavit said Clancy bears
the name of Alex B Scharf and his former address at 2bol Sacramento street
Scharf was born in Czechoslovakia in 1928 am after Torld a1 II lived
in Paraguay a rrl Ar gentina e
He studied at GolUJ11bia Univergtity and at the Jewish Teachers Institute
in New York and then he returned to Paraguay as a teacher
Scharf came to San Francisco in late 1958 looking for a job teaching
Hebrew and las employed by the Bureau of Jewish Ed ucation
In June 1959 he viaS assigned to Te le Be th Abraham in Oakland as
eciucational director 0
Shortly before Scharf disappeared two weeks a go he t as not ified t ba t h O s
c otrac t at the t emple w-auld not be r enewed
Yockey has b een l eadi ng a lif e of myst ery for t he pas t 10 year s
Hi s sister Mrs Wi lliam bull Coyne of Bethesda r1l said she has no
knmJledge of where he ha s been or wha t he has been d oingo
She said mail for tockey has been deli~ed to her h ome over the years
but she has been forced to thrm it away not knDwing his whereabouts
Mrs Coynes husband is a commander in the Navy
Yockeys difficu lties arose when he lost a suitcase while flying to San
FrcmcLsco aboard an American Airlines Dlane
Tbe s itcase was subsequmtly fourrl in Fort Worth Texas Airline officials
08ned it to verify its Oinership am found a United States a British am a
Canadian passo crt -- each hri th Yockeys photograph ani each bearing a d ifferent
name The FBI Bas notified
San Fra nc isco Chronicle ~~ndaYJ June 20 1960
PUZZLING TRAI L OF YO CKE YS FRI ~ND
by Denne Petitclerc
Federa l a uthorities y estp-rday so ght to solve the ridd l e f what linked
Nazi concentration camp victim Alex B Scharf to neo-Fascist Francis P Yockey
But even Scharfs closest friJmis including the pre tty dark-haired
girl he once asked to marry hLm rere lmafule to ex l ain the strange r e lationship
Yockey Fascist philosopher and t-rriter and associate of former Hi tle r
followers co~~tted suicide in the GOQnty Jail here early Friday while being
held on a passp ort frau charge
Scharf 31-year-old former principal of Temple Beth b raham school in
Oakland a nd victim of Na z i bruta lity a t Auschwitz c oncentrati on camp in
i or lrl ar II has disappeared
It was in charfs Oakland apartnent t hat FBI a gents f0111d Yockey two
weeks ago Scharf since dro ood from s ight and i s DOli) being sought by Federal
authori t i e s for questioning
III know he didnt ha ve any money It sam Mrs Ezra Cohen-Sitt of IlS
Beulah stree t San Francisco
Mrs S i tt met her husband Ezra whi le da ting Scharf last year Sitt -laS
Scharfs roonnnate Ilm a tea cher t Temple Beth Abr aham sc1ool Scharf had once
asked Mrs Sitt to marry (l im He served as a n usher at her iedd i n in J a nuary
ani r emained a friend
Al ex was not the kirri of person you could get close tol she said He ijaS
ver-J sad and very seri ous~ and eve n though he Has likable he vIas alway s distant
25
She said Scbarf -Jas t ntelligent and sensitive Hith a eep feeling f or
Orthcdox Jewry and a man fh o kept himself remote as a result of lon years
of f ear under brutal Nazi treatment in Eurone
UHis meetinr Hi th Yockey must have come fr om some thing aut of Europe
years a go II she said T1 He ras a boy of 18 and he Wande red for many years
after the Hal It
Scharf led a mcdest bachelor schoolteacher I s life in axklarri she said
He n fre uently dated one girl wh 0 as employed at a Reno gambling cas ino
she said
Scharf never mentioned Yockey to any of his acquaintances here yen~s
Stit t (sic) said
Assistant Unj ted t ates Attorney bull 2 Clancey said Scharfs battered
1956 yell orJ and black Mercury sedan has not b een fourrl but that the California
Highway Patrol has been alerted
San Francisco Chronicle Tuesday June 21 1960
D MA Y BE ON ISRA EL-BOUND SHIP
by Denne Petitclerc
_ lex B Scharf still sougtlt as a key ~ritness in th2 puzzling case of
nea-Fascist Francis P Yockey may be ab oard a sb~p en route to Israel
The Chronicle learned yesterday
Federal authorities here said they Here checking the possibility that
Scharf may have boarded a ship in e York last I-Teek or that he is still
waiti ng in Ne-J York t o eave the country
26
Yockey wa s arr e s ted i n Scharf s apartment on J une 8 ~las ques tioned
by Federal officers a m then vanis hed bull Aut h ori ties are s t ill p uzz led about
Hha t bond cOlld have existed bet wee n a Naz i philos ophe r like Yockey am
Scharf a one-time principal of Oaklands Temple Beth Abraham school and an
inmate of German conentration c amps in Uor1d ~Jar II
Yockey 43 killed himself Hith potassill1fl cyanide in his County Jail No1
cell early last Friday whi le being held on passport violation charges
The first possible clue to Scharfs whereabouts came yesterday in checkJ_ng
a former San Jose court reporter described as charf s closest friend
The reporter William Sloffibvich 35 left his job in San Jose about three
months ago -lorked until last month in Los -ngeles and then left far New York
The Chronicle learned that Slomovich s name apueared on the passenger
list of the Atlantic an American Export Lines ship which sailed from ew
York last Thursday bound for P~ifa Israel
lthough cparfs name did not aprear on the passe er list Federal
authorities said it is possible he rr~y have used an ass umed name since he is
not a citizen of the United States
Assistant United States Attorney il1iam P Clancey said t~at American
offmcials in Israel 1i11 be alerted to question Slornovich--and to be on the
lookout for Scharf--when the ship berths in Haifa on June 29
Clancy (sic) nEamlhile said that evidence Dr irrlicates that Scharf had
known Yockey for more t han a year
Yockey made an application for an Irish passport in an Francisco in 1959
under t he name of Michael Taylor usi ng Scharf as a referenceo
Clancy s j d a handwriting ex-pert is aIlCtlyzin the docurn-nt to d e terrni ne
-hether charfs signature las forgedo
27
liieanwhile it Jas learned tha t Yockey asked a f e11ovI-prisoner tvJO
days befClte he committed suicide in the C01lllty Jail here where he c ould
ootain some poison
Federal author ities refused to identify the prisoner but said that he
has been transf erred to another institution He Jill be questioned tcrlay
about the conversation officials said
Sherriff Matthew Carberry whohms San F ancisco s CODnty J ail co~ ented
last night that no Federal official had rnentioned to him the existence of a
county jail prisoner with such a story
Authori ties are puzzled as to T here Yockey obtained the deadl y poison
and haw it reached his cello
At too same time the coroners office announced that a toxologists
report s h mfs that Yockey took one-fifth of a am of potassi urn cyanide which
is double the lethal dose f or a man of his size
Yockey left a note defying anyone to discover h ow he obtained the poison
Frierris said t1at Scharf fled the ay Area in a battered 1956 yellow and
black l1e rcury sedan apparently with little money in his possession
Mrs Ezra Cohen-Sitt of 115 Beulah street a friend of charf said
yesterday she wan ted to correct an impression given in an intervieH with
The Chronicle Sunday that Scharf had at one ti~e asked her to marry him
He did not she said I did not intem to be quoted on any Hatter
rela ted to Hr Scharf II
28
San Francisco Chronicle Wednesday June 22 1960
u S PRESSES SEARCH F YOCKEYS AL
The search for Alex B Scharf mysterio11S pal of neo-Fascist Francis
P Yockey settled down to a game of fox and houms yesterday
Scharf rho departed from Oaklarrl so quickly after Yockeys arrest that
he even left his clothes behind was in the role of the fox The hounds are
agents of the State Department vih ose security officials in ian Franc isco
said s impl
lIvere trying to blanket all escape routes and He re hoping for the bestI
Yockey cormnitted suicide with cyanide in the County Jail last Friday
while being held on a passport charge
Scharf is being sought to rim out what he knoHS abolt Yockeys multiple
passports
Authorities are betuldered about the association of the two Scharf who
is 33 is a forroor principal of Oaklands Temple Beth Abraham School and an
inmate of Nazi concentration camps
Yockey L13 was a racist neo-Nazi of considerable infamy when he accidentally
fell into the hands of Federal authorities on June 6 Yockey had complained to
an airline about the loss of a bag It had already been opened in Fort middot orth
fex as unclaimed and was fourrl to contain three different passports all
bearing Yockeys pictuces
The FBI picked up Yockey in Scharf I s apartTEnt 8t 165 Bellevue avenue
Oakland but when t h ey went back later to talk to - charf he was gone
22
I rmned iately following Yockeys arrest Scharf 31 abandoned his j dJ
as princi al- of Tern le Beth Abraham school and disa peared
Both Government officials and Jewish leaders Here puzzled by the associashy
tion between Scharf and Yockey
Seymour Froroor director of Jewish iducation in Oaskland said Scharf
wears the German tatoo on his arm that proves he was a prisoner at Ausch~-litz
where more than t m million J eHS were cremated by Hi tIer
I am sure charf believed in Israel and Zionism n said Fromer
Stanley S Jacobs chief of the Anti-Defaro~tion Leag~ehere declared
I am loath to believe Scharf was e n ga ged in Neo-Fascist activities
wi th Yockey
Yockey is known to have been anti-Zionist if not anti-Semitic and in
liaison ith various extreme right--nng lea ers incluiing former followers
of Hitler
Yockeys former -dfe Alice Yockey of San Antonio Tex told this reporter
that Yockey thou ght reports of Jewish genocide in orld middotjar II were eXd ggerated
Investigators hope to question Scharf about his original explanation for
harring Yockey in his Oakland apartment
After Yockeys arrest Scharf is said to have told a lents he met Yockey
for the first time a few days earlier at the gambling tables in Reno
At poundhat time he said he invited Yockey a stranger to come to Oaklarrl
and stay at his apartrrent
Assistant United States Attorney W P Caancy said yesterday however that
Scharf had known Yockey for nearly a year
23
In 1959 Clancy said Yockey applied f or an Irish passport
Either Yockeys application or an attached affidavit said Clancy bears
the name of Alex B Scharf and his former address at 2bol Sacramento street
Scharf was born in Czechoslovakia in 1928 am after Torld a1 II lived
in Paraguay a rrl Ar gentina e
He studied at GolUJ11bia Univergtity and at the Jewish Teachers Institute
in New York and then he returned to Paraguay as a teacher
Scharf came to San Francisco in late 1958 looking for a job teaching
Hebrew and las employed by the Bureau of Jewish Ed ucation
In June 1959 he viaS assigned to Te le Be th Abraham in Oakland as
eciucational director 0
Shortly before Scharf disappeared two weeks a go he t as not ified t ba t h O s
c otrac t at the t emple w-auld not be r enewed
Yockey has b een l eadi ng a lif e of myst ery for t he pas t 10 year s
Hi s sister Mrs Wi lliam bull Coyne of Bethesda r1l said she has no
knmJledge of where he ha s been or wha t he has been d oingo
She said mail for tockey has been deli~ed to her h ome over the years
but she has been forced to thrm it away not knDwing his whereabouts
Mrs Coynes husband is a commander in the Navy
Yockeys difficu lties arose when he lost a suitcase while flying to San
FrcmcLsco aboard an American Airlines Dlane
Tbe s itcase was subsequmtly fourrl in Fort Worth Texas Airline officials
08ned it to verify its Oinership am found a United States a British am a
Canadian passo crt -- each hri th Yockeys photograph ani each bearing a d ifferent
name The FBI Bas notified
San Fra nc isco Chronicle ~~ndaYJ June 20 1960
PUZZLING TRAI L OF YO CKE YS FRI ~ND
by Denne Petitclerc
Federa l a uthorities y estp-rday so ght to solve the ridd l e f what linked
Nazi concentration camp victim Alex B Scharf to neo-Fascist Francis P Yockey
But even Scharfs closest friJmis including the pre tty dark-haired
girl he once asked to marry hLm rere lmafule to ex l ain the strange r e lationship
Yockey Fascist philosopher and t-rriter and associate of former Hi tle r
followers co~~tted suicide in the GOQnty Jail here early Friday while being
held on a passp ort frau charge
Scharf 31-year-old former principal of Temple Beth b raham school in
Oakland a nd victim of Na z i bruta lity a t Auschwitz c oncentrati on camp in
i or lrl ar II has disappeared
It was in charfs Oakland apartnent t hat FBI a gents f0111d Yockey two
weeks ago Scharf since dro ood from s ight and i s DOli) being sought by Federal
authori t i e s for questioning
III know he didnt ha ve any money It sam Mrs Ezra Cohen-Sitt of IlS
Beulah stree t San Francisco
Mrs S i tt met her husband Ezra whi le da ting Scharf last year Sitt -laS
Scharfs roonnnate Ilm a tea cher t Temple Beth Abr aham sc1ool Scharf had once
asked Mrs Sitt to marry (l im He served as a n usher at her iedd i n in J a nuary
ani r emained a friend
Al ex was not the kirri of person you could get close tol she said He ijaS
ver-J sad and very seri ous~ and eve n though he Has likable he vIas alway s distant
25
She said Scbarf -Jas t ntelligent and sensitive Hith a eep feeling f or
Orthcdox Jewry and a man fh o kept himself remote as a result of lon years
of f ear under brutal Nazi treatment in Eurone
UHis meetinr Hi th Yockey must have come fr om some thing aut of Europe
years a go II she said T1 He ras a boy of 18 and he Wande red for many years
after the Hal It
Scharf led a mcdest bachelor schoolteacher I s life in axklarri she said
He n fre uently dated one girl wh 0 as employed at a Reno gambling cas ino
she said
Scharf never mentioned Yockey to any of his acquaintances here yen~s
Stit t (sic) said
Assistant Unj ted t ates Attorney bull 2 Clancey said Scharfs battered
1956 yell orJ and black Mercury sedan has not b een fourrl but that the California
Highway Patrol has been alerted
San Francisco Chronicle Tuesday June 21 1960
D MA Y BE ON ISRA EL-BOUND SHIP
by Denne Petitclerc
_ lex B Scharf still sougtlt as a key ~ritness in th2 puzzling case of
nea-Fascist Francis P Yockey may be ab oard a sb~p en route to Israel
The Chronicle learned yesterday
Federal authorities here said they Here checking the possibility that
Scharf may have boarded a ship in e York last I-Teek or that he is still
waiti ng in Ne-J York t o eave the country
26
Yockey wa s arr e s ted i n Scharf s apartment on J une 8 ~las ques tioned
by Federal officers a m then vanis hed bull Aut h ori ties are s t ill p uzz led about
Hha t bond cOlld have existed bet wee n a Naz i philos ophe r like Yockey am
Scharf a one-time principal of Oaklands Temple Beth Abraham school and an
inmate of German conentration c amps in Uor1d ~Jar II
Yockey 43 killed himself Hith potassill1fl cyanide in his County Jail No1
cell early last Friday whi le being held on passport violation charges
The first possible clue to Scharfs whereabouts came yesterday in checkJ_ng
a former San Jose court reporter described as charf s closest friend
The reporter William Sloffibvich 35 left his job in San Jose about three
months ago -lorked until last month in Los -ngeles and then left far New York
The Chronicle learned that Slomovich s name apueared on the passenger
list of the Atlantic an American Export Lines ship which sailed from ew
York last Thursday bound for P~ifa Israel
lthough cparfs name did not aprear on the passe er list Federal
authorities said it is possible he rr~y have used an ass umed name since he is
not a citizen of the United States
Assistant United States Attorney il1iam P Clancey said t~at American
offmcials in Israel 1i11 be alerted to question Slornovich--and to be on the
lookout for Scharf--when the ship berths in Haifa on June 29
Clancy (sic) nEamlhile said that evidence Dr irrlicates that Scharf had
known Yockey for more t han a year
Yockey made an application for an Irish passport in an Francisco in 1959
under t he name of Michael Taylor usi ng Scharf as a referenceo
Clancy s j d a handwriting ex-pert is aIlCtlyzin the docurn-nt to d e terrni ne
-hether charfs signature las forgedo
27
liieanwhile it Jas learned tha t Yockey asked a f e11ovI-prisoner tvJO
days befClte he committed suicide in the C01lllty Jail here where he c ould
ootain some poison
Federal author ities refused to identify the prisoner but said that he
has been transf erred to another institution He Jill be questioned tcrlay
about the conversation officials said
Sherriff Matthew Carberry whohms San F ancisco s CODnty J ail co~ ented
last night that no Federal official had rnentioned to him the existence of a
county jail prisoner with such a story
Authori ties are puzzled as to T here Yockey obtained the deadl y poison
and haw it reached his cello
At too same time the coroners office announced that a toxologists
report s h mfs that Yockey took one-fifth of a am of potassi urn cyanide which
is double the lethal dose f or a man of his size
Yockey left a note defying anyone to discover h ow he obtained the poison
Frierris said t1at Scharf fled the ay Area in a battered 1956 yellow and
black l1e rcury sedan apparently with little money in his possession
Mrs Ezra Cohen-Sitt of 115 Beulah street a friend of charf said
yesterday she wan ted to correct an impression given in an intervieH with
The Chronicle Sunday that Scharf had at one ti~e asked her to marry him
He did not she said I did not intem to be quoted on any Hatter
rela ted to Hr Scharf II
28
San Francisco Chronicle Wednesday June 22 1960
u S PRESSES SEARCH F YOCKEYS AL
The search for Alex B Scharf mysterio11S pal of neo-Fascist Francis
P Yockey settled down to a game of fox and houms yesterday
Scharf rho departed from Oaklarrl so quickly after Yockeys arrest that
he even left his clothes behind was in the role of the fox The hounds are
agents of the State Department vih ose security officials in ian Franc isco
said s impl
lIvere trying to blanket all escape routes and He re hoping for the bestI
Yockey cormnitted suicide with cyanide in the County Jail last Friday
while being held on a passport charge
Scharf is being sought to rim out what he knoHS abolt Yockeys multiple
passports
Authorities are betuldered about the association of the two Scharf who
is 33 is a forroor principal of Oaklands Temple Beth Abraham School and an
inmate of Nazi concentration camps
Yockey L13 was a racist neo-Nazi of considerable infamy when he accidentally
fell into the hands of Federal authorities on June 6 Yockey had complained to
an airline about the loss of a bag It had already been opened in Fort middot orth
fex as unclaimed and was fourrl to contain three different passports all
bearing Yockeys pictuces
The FBI picked up Yockey in Scharf I s apartTEnt 8t 165 Bellevue avenue
Oakland but when t h ey went back later to talk to - charf he was gone
23
In 1959 Clancy said Yockey applied f or an Irish passport
Either Yockeys application or an attached affidavit said Clancy bears
the name of Alex B Scharf and his former address at 2bol Sacramento street
Scharf was born in Czechoslovakia in 1928 am after Torld a1 II lived
in Paraguay a rrl Ar gentina e
He studied at GolUJ11bia Univergtity and at the Jewish Teachers Institute
in New York and then he returned to Paraguay as a teacher
Scharf came to San Francisco in late 1958 looking for a job teaching
Hebrew and las employed by the Bureau of Jewish Ed ucation
In June 1959 he viaS assigned to Te le Be th Abraham in Oakland as
eciucational director 0
Shortly before Scharf disappeared two weeks a go he t as not ified t ba t h O s
c otrac t at the t emple w-auld not be r enewed
Yockey has b een l eadi ng a lif e of myst ery for t he pas t 10 year s
Hi s sister Mrs Wi lliam bull Coyne of Bethesda r1l said she has no
knmJledge of where he ha s been or wha t he has been d oingo
She said mail for tockey has been deli~ed to her h ome over the years
but she has been forced to thrm it away not knDwing his whereabouts
Mrs Coynes husband is a commander in the Navy
Yockeys difficu lties arose when he lost a suitcase while flying to San
FrcmcLsco aboard an American Airlines Dlane
Tbe s itcase was subsequmtly fourrl in Fort Worth Texas Airline officials
08ned it to verify its Oinership am found a United States a British am a
Canadian passo crt -- each hri th Yockeys photograph ani each bearing a d ifferent
name The FBI Bas notified
San Fra nc isco Chronicle ~~ndaYJ June 20 1960
PUZZLING TRAI L OF YO CKE YS FRI ~ND
by Denne Petitclerc
Federa l a uthorities y estp-rday so ght to solve the ridd l e f what linked
Nazi concentration camp victim Alex B Scharf to neo-Fascist Francis P Yockey
But even Scharfs closest friJmis including the pre tty dark-haired
girl he once asked to marry hLm rere lmafule to ex l ain the strange r e lationship
Yockey Fascist philosopher and t-rriter and associate of former Hi tle r
followers co~~tted suicide in the GOQnty Jail here early Friday while being
held on a passp ort frau charge
Scharf 31-year-old former principal of Temple Beth b raham school in
Oakland a nd victim of Na z i bruta lity a t Auschwitz c oncentrati on camp in
i or lrl ar II has disappeared
It was in charfs Oakland apartnent t hat FBI a gents f0111d Yockey two
weeks ago Scharf since dro ood from s ight and i s DOli) being sought by Federal
authori t i e s for questioning
III know he didnt ha ve any money It sam Mrs Ezra Cohen-Sitt of IlS
Beulah stree t San Francisco
Mrs S i tt met her husband Ezra whi le da ting Scharf last year Sitt -laS
Scharfs roonnnate Ilm a tea cher t Temple Beth Abr aham sc1ool Scharf had once
asked Mrs Sitt to marry (l im He served as a n usher at her iedd i n in J a nuary
ani r emained a friend
Al ex was not the kirri of person you could get close tol she said He ijaS
ver-J sad and very seri ous~ and eve n though he Has likable he vIas alway s distant
25
She said Scbarf -Jas t ntelligent and sensitive Hith a eep feeling f or
Orthcdox Jewry and a man fh o kept himself remote as a result of lon years
of f ear under brutal Nazi treatment in Eurone
UHis meetinr Hi th Yockey must have come fr om some thing aut of Europe
years a go II she said T1 He ras a boy of 18 and he Wande red for many years
after the Hal It
Scharf led a mcdest bachelor schoolteacher I s life in axklarri she said
He n fre uently dated one girl wh 0 as employed at a Reno gambling cas ino
she said
Scharf never mentioned Yockey to any of his acquaintances here yen~s
Stit t (sic) said
Assistant Unj ted t ates Attorney bull 2 Clancey said Scharfs battered
1956 yell orJ and black Mercury sedan has not b een fourrl but that the California
Highway Patrol has been alerted
San Francisco Chronicle Tuesday June 21 1960
D MA Y BE ON ISRA EL-BOUND SHIP
by Denne Petitclerc
_ lex B Scharf still sougtlt as a key ~ritness in th2 puzzling case of
nea-Fascist Francis P Yockey may be ab oard a sb~p en route to Israel
The Chronicle learned yesterday
Federal authorities here said they Here checking the possibility that
Scharf may have boarded a ship in e York last I-Teek or that he is still
waiti ng in Ne-J York t o eave the country
26
Yockey wa s arr e s ted i n Scharf s apartment on J une 8 ~las ques tioned
by Federal officers a m then vanis hed bull Aut h ori ties are s t ill p uzz led about
Hha t bond cOlld have existed bet wee n a Naz i philos ophe r like Yockey am
Scharf a one-time principal of Oaklands Temple Beth Abraham school and an
inmate of German conentration c amps in Uor1d ~Jar II
Yockey 43 killed himself Hith potassill1fl cyanide in his County Jail No1
cell early last Friday whi le being held on passport violation charges
The first possible clue to Scharfs whereabouts came yesterday in checkJ_ng
a former San Jose court reporter described as charf s closest friend
The reporter William Sloffibvich 35 left his job in San Jose about three
months ago -lorked until last month in Los -ngeles and then left far New York
The Chronicle learned that Slomovich s name apueared on the passenger
list of the Atlantic an American Export Lines ship which sailed from ew
York last Thursday bound for P~ifa Israel
lthough cparfs name did not aprear on the passe er list Federal
authorities said it is possible he rr~y have used an ass umed name since he is
not a citizen of the United States
Assistant United States Attorney il1iam P Clancey said t~at American
offmcials in Israel 1i11 be alerted to question Slornovich--and to be on the
lookout for Scharf--when the ship berths in Haifa on June 29
Clancy (sic) nEamlhile said that evidence Dr irrlicates that Scharf had
known Yockey for more t han a year
Yockey made an application for an Irish passport in an Francisco in 1959
under t he name of Michael Taylor usi ng Scharf as a referenceo
Clancy s j d a handwriting ex-pert is aIlCtlyzin the docurn-nt to d e terrni ne
-hether charfs signature las forgedo
27
liieanwhile it Jas learned tha t Yockey asked a f e11ovI-prisoner tvJO
days befClte he committed suicide in the C01lllty Jail here where he c ould
ootain some poison
Federal author ities refused to identify the prisoner but said that he
has been transf erred to another institution He Jill be questioned tcrlay
about the conversation officials said
Sherriff Matthew Carberry whohms San F ancisco s CODnty J ail co~ ented
last night that no Federal official had rnentioned to him the existence of a
county jail prisoner with such a story
Authori ties are puzzled as to T here Yockey obtained the deadl y poison
and haw it reached his cello
At too same time the coroners office announced that a toxologists
report s h mfs that Yockey took one-fifth of a am of potassi urn cyanide which
is double the lethal dose f or a man of his size
Yockey left a note defying anyone to discover h ow he obtained the poison
Frierris said t1at Scharf fled the ay Area in a battered 1956 yellow and
black l1e rcury sedan apparently with little money in his possession
Mrs Ezra Cohen-Sitt of 115 Beulah street a friend of charf said
yesterday she wan ted to correct an impression given in an intervieH with
The Chronicle Sunday that Scharf had at one ti~e asked her to marry him
He did not she said I did not intem to be quoted on any Hatter
rela ted to Hr Scharf II
28
San Francisco Chronicle Wednesday June 22 1960
u S PRESSES SEARCH F YOCKEYS AL
The search for Alex B Scharf mysterio11S pal of neo-Fascist Francis
P Yockey settled down to a game of fox and houms yesterday
Scharf rho departed from Oaklarrl so quickly after Yockeys arrest that
he even left his clothes behind was in the role of the fox The hounds are
agents of the State Department vih ose security officials in ian Franc isco
said s impl
lIvere trying to blanket all escape routes and He re hoping for the bestI
Yockey cormnitted suicide with cyanide in the County Jail last Friday
while being held on a passport charge
Scharf is being sought to rim out what he knoHS abolt Yockeys multiple
passports
Authorities are betuldered about the association of the two Scharf who
is 33 is a forroor principal of Oaklands Temple Beth Abraham School and an
inmate of Nazi concentration camps
Yockey L13 was a racist neo-Nazi of considerable infamy when he accidentally
fell into the hands of Federal authorities on June 6 Yockey had complained to
an airline about the loss of a bag It had already been opened in Fort middot orth
fex as unclaimed and was fourrl to contain three different passports all
bearing Yockeys pictuces
The FBI picked up Yockey in Scharf I s apartTEnt 8t 165 Bellevue avenue
Oakland but when t h ey went back later to talk to - charf he was gone
San Fra nc isco Chronicle ~~ndaYJ June 20 1960
PUZZLING TRAI L OF YO CKE YS FRI ~ND
by Denne Petitclerc
Federa l a uthorities y estp-rday so ght to solve the ridd l e f what linked
Nazi concentration camp victim Alex B Scharf to neo-Fascist Francis P Yockey
But even Scharfs closest friJmis including the pre tty dark-haired
girl he once asked to marry hLm rere lmafule to ex l ain the strange r e lationship
Yockey Fascist philosopher and t-rriter and associate of former Hi tle r
followers co~~tted suicide in the GOQnty Jail here early Friday while being
held on a passp ort frau charge
Scharf 31-year-old former principal of Temple Beth b raham school in
Oakland a nd victim of Na z i bruta lity a t Auschwitz c oncentrati on camp in
i or lrl ar II has disappeared
It was in charfs Oakland apartnent t hat FBI a gents f0111d Yockey two
weeks ago Scharf since dro ood from s ight and i s DOli) being sought by Federal
authori t i e s for questioning
III know he didnt ha ve any money It sam Mrs Ezra Cohen-Sitt of IlS
Beulah stree t San Francisco
Mrs S i tt met her husband Ezra whi le da ting Scharf last year Sitt -laS
Scharfs roonnnate Ilm a tea cher t Temple Beth Abr aham sc1ool Scharf had once
asked Mrs Sitt to marry (l im He served as a n usher at her iedd i n in J a nuary
ani r emained a friend
Al ex was not the kirri of person you could get close tol she said He ijaS
ver-J sad and very seri ous~ and eve n though he Has likable he vIas alway s distant
25
She said Scbarf -Jas t ntelligent and sensitive Hith a eep feeling f or
Orthcdox Jewry and a man fh o kept himself remote as a result of lon years
of f ear under brutal Nazi treatment in Eurone
UHis meetinr Hi th Yockey must have come fr om some thing aut of Europe
years a go II she said T1 He ras a boy of 18 and he Wande red for many years
after the Hal It
Scharf led a mcdest bachelor schoolteacher I s life in axklarri she said
He n fre uently dated one girl wh 0 as employed at a Reno gambling cas ino
she said
Scharf never mentioned Yockey to any of his acquaintances here yen~s
Stit t (sic) said
Assistant Unj ted t ates Attorney bull 2 Clancey said Scharfs battered
1956 yell orJ and black Mercury sedan has not b een fourrl but that the California
Highway Patrol has been alerted
San Francisco Chronicle Tuesday June 21 1960
D MA Y BE ON ISRA EL-BOUND SHIP
by Denne Petitclerc
_ lex B Scharf still sougtlt as a key ~ritness in th2 puzzling case of
nea-Fascist Francis P Yockey may be ab oard a sb~p en route to Israel
The Chronicle learned yesterday
Federal authorities here said they Here checking the possibility that
Scharf may have boarded a ship in e York last I-Teek or that he is still
waiti ng in Ne-J York t o eave the country
26
Yockey wa s arr e s ted i n Scharf s apartment on J une 8 ~las ques tioned
by Federal officers a m then vanis hed bull Aut h ori ties are s t ill p uzz led about
Hha t bond cOlld have existed bet wee n a Naz i philos ophe r like Yockey am
Scharf a one-time principal of Oaklands Temple Beth Abraham school and an
inmate of German conentration c amps in Uor1d ~Jar II
Yockey 43 killed himself Hith potassill1fl cyanide in his County Jail No1
cell early last Friday whi le being held on passport violation charges
The first possible clue to Scharfs whereabouts came yesterday in checkJ_ng
a former San Jose court reporter described as charf s closest friend
The reporter William Sloffibvich 35 left his job in San Jose about three
months ago -lorked until last month in Los -ngeles and then left far New York
The Chronicle learned that Slomovich s name apueared on the passenger
list of the Atlantic an American Export Lines ship which sailed from ew
York last Thursday bound for P~ifa Israel
lthough cparfs name did not aprear on the passe er list Federal
authorities said it is possible he rr~y have used an ass umed name since he is
not a citizen of the United States
Assistant United States Attorney il1iam P Clancey said t~at American
offmcials in Israel 1i11 be alerted to question Slornovich--and to be on the
lookout for Scharf--when the ship berths in Haifa on June 29
Clancy (sic) nEamlhile said that evidence Dr irrlicates that Scharf had
known Yockey for more t han a year
Yockey made an application for an Irish passport in an Francisco in 1959
under t he name of Michael Taylor usi ng Scharf as a referenceo
Clancy s j d a handwriting ex-pert is aIlCtlyzin the docurn-nt to d e terrni ne
-hether charfs signature las forgedo
27
liieanwhile it Jas learned tha t Yockey asked a f e11ovI-prisoner tvJO
days befClte he committed suicide in the C01lllty Jail here where he c ould
ootain some poison
Federal author ities refused to identify the prisoner but said that he
has been transf erred to another institution He Jill be questioned tcrlay
about the conversation officials said
Sherriff Matthew Carberry whohms San F ancisco s CODnty J ail co~ ented
last night that no Federal official had rnentioned to him the existence of a
county jail prisoner with such a story
Authori ties are puzzled as to T here Yockey obtained the deadl y poison
and haw it reached his cello
At too same time the coroners office announced that a toxologists
report s h mfs that Yockey took one-fifth of a am of potassi urn cyanide which
is double the lethal dose f or a man of his size
Yockey left a note defying anyone to discover h ow he obtained the poison
Frierris said t1at Scharf fled the ay Area in a battered 1956 yellow and
black l1e rcury sedan apparently with little money in his possession
Mrs Ezra Cohen-Sitt of 115 Beulah street a friend of charf said
yesterday she wan ted to correct an impression given in an intervieH with
The Chronicle Sunday that Scharf had at one ti~e asked her to marry him
He did not she said I did not intem to be quoted on any Hatter
rela ted to Hr Scharf II
28
San Francisco Chronicle Wednesday June 22 1960
u S PRESSES SEARCH F YOCKEYS AL
The search for Alex B Scharf mysterio11S pal of neo-Fascist Francis
P Yockey settled down to a game of fox and houms yesterday
Scharf rho departed from Oaklarrl so quickly after Yockeys arrest that
he even left his clothes behind was in the role of the fox The hounds are
agents of the State Department vih ose security officials in ian Franc isco
said s impl
lIvere trying to blanket all escape routes and He re hoping for the bestI
Yockey cormnitted suicide with cyanide in the County Jail last Friday
while being held on a passport charge
Scharf is being sought to rim out what he knoHS abolt Yockeys multiple
passports
Authorities are betuldered about the association of the two Scharf who
is 33 is a forroor principal of Oaklands Temple Beth Abraham School and an
inmate of Nazi concentration camps
Yockey L13 was a racist neo-Nazi of considerable infamy when he accidentally
fell into the hands of Federal authorities on June 6 Yockey had complained to
an airline about the loss of a bag It had already been opened in Fort middot orth
fex as unclaimed and was fourrl to contain three different passports all
bearing Yockeys pictuces
The FBI picked up Yockey in Scharf I s apartTEnt 8t 165 Bellevue avenue
Oakland but when t h ey went back later to talk to - charf he was gone
25
She said Scbarf -Jas t ntelligent and sensitive Hith a eep feeling f or
Orthcdox Jewry and a man fh o kept himself remote as a result of lon years
of f ear under brutal Nazi treatment in Eurone
UHis meetinr Hi th Yockey must have come fr om some thing aut of Europe
years a go II she said T1 He ras a boy of 18 and he Wande red for many years
after the Hal It
Scharf led a mcdest bachelor schoolteacher I s life in axklarri she said
He n fre uently dated one girl wh 0 as employed at a Reno gambling cas ino
she said
Scharf never mentioned Yockey to any of his acquaintances here yen~s
Stit t (sic) said
Assistant Unj ted t ates Attorney bull 2 Clancey said Scharfs battered
1956 yell orJ and black Mercury sedan has not b een fourrl but that the California
Highway Patrol has been alerted
San Francisco Chronicle Tuesday June 21 1960
D MA Y BE ON ISRA EL-BOUND SHIP
by Denne Petitclerc
_ lex B Scharf still sougtlt as a key ~ritness in th2 puzzling case of
nea-Fascist Francis P Yockey may be ab oard a sb~p en route to Israel
The Chronicle learned yesterday
Federal authorities here said they Here checking the possibility that
Scharf may have boarded a ship in e York last I-Teek or that he is still
waiti ng in Ne-J York t o eave the country
26
Yockey wa s arr e s ted i n Scharf s apartment on J une 8 ~las ques tioned
by Federal officers a m then vanis hed bull Aut h ori ties are s t ill p uzz led about
Hha t bond cOlld have existed bet wee n a Naz i philos ophe r like Yockey am
Scharf a one-time principal of Oaklands Temple Beth Abraham school and an
inmate of German conentration c amps in Uor1d ~Jar II
Yockey 43 killed himself Hith potassill1fl cyanide in his County Jail No1
cell early last Friday whi le being held on passport violation charges
The first possible clue to Scharfs whereabouts came yesterday in checkJ_ng
a former San Jose court reporter described as charf s closest friend
The reporter William Sloffibvich 35 left his job in San Jose about three
months ago -lorked until last month in Los -ngeles and then left far New York
The Chronicle learned that Slomovich s name apueared on the passenger
list of the Atlantic an American Export Lines ship which sailed from ew
York last Thursday bound for P~ifa Israel
lthough cparfs name did not aprear on the passe er list Federal
authorities said it is possible he rr~y have used an ass umed name since he is
not a citizen of the United States
Assistant United States Attorney il1iam P Clancey said t~at American
offmcials in Israel 1i11 be alerted to question Slornovich--and to be on the
lookout for Scharf--when the ship berths in Haifa on June 29
Clancy (sic) nEamlhile said that evidence Dr irrlicates that Scharf had
known Yockey for more t han a year
Yockey made an application for an Irish passport in an Francisco in 1959
under t he name of Michael Taylor usi ng Scharf as a referenceo
Clancy s j d a handwriting ex-pert is aIlCtlyzin the docurn-nt to d e terrni ne
-hether charfs signature las forgedo
27
liieanwhile it Jas learned tha t Yockey asked a f e11ovI-prisoner tvJO
days befClte he committed suicide in the C01lllty Jail here where he c ould
ootain some poison
Federal author ities refused to identify the prisoner but said that he
has been transf erred to another institution He Jill be questioned tcrlay
about the conversation officials said
Sherriff Matthew Carberry whohms San F ancisco s CODnty J ail co~ ented
last night that no Federal official had rnentioned to him the existence of a
county jail prisoner with such a story
Authori ties are puzzled as to T here Yockey obtained the deadl y poison
and haw it reached his cello
At too same time the coroners office announced that a toxologists
report s h mfs that Yockey took one-fifth of a am of potassi urn cyanide which
is double the lethal dose f or a man of his size
Yockey left a note defying anyone to discover h ow he obtained the poison
Frierris said t1at Scharf fled the ay Area in a battered 1956 yellow and
black l1e rcury sedan apparently with little money in his possession
Mrs Ezra Cohen-Sitt of 115 Beulah street a friend of charf said
yesterday she wan ted to correct an impression given in an intervieH with
The Chronicle Sunday that Scharf had at one ti~e asked her to marry him
He did not she said I did not intem to be quoted on any Hatter
rela ted to Hr Scharf II
28
San Francisco Chronicle Wednesday June 22 1960
u S PRESSES SEARCH F YOCKEYS AL
The search for Alex B Scharf mysterio11S pal of neo-Fascist Francis
P Yockey settled down to a game of fox and houms yesterday
Scharf rho departed from Oaklarrl so quickly after Yockeys arrest that
he even left his clothes behind was in the role of the fox The hounds are
agents of the State Department vih ose security officials in ian Franc isco
said s impl
lIvere trying to blanket all escape routes and He re hoping for the bestI
Yockey cormnitted suicide with cyanide in the County Jail last Friday
while being held on a passport charge
Scharf is being sought to rim out what he knoHS abolt Yockeys multiple
passports
Authorities are betuldered about the association of the two Scharf who
is 33 is a forroor principal of Oaklands Temple Beth Abraham School and an
inmate of Nazi concentration camps
Yockey L13 was a racist neo-Nazi of considerable infamy when he accidentally
fell into the hands of Federal authorities on June 6 Yockey had complained to
an airline about the loss of a bag It had already been opened in Fort middot orth
fex as unclaimed and was fourrl to contain three different passports all
bearing Yockeys pictuces
The FBI picked up Yockey in Scharf I s apartTEnt 8t 165 Bellevue avenue
Oakland but when t h ey went back later to talk to - charf he was gone
26
Yockey wa s arr e s ted i n Scharf s apartment on J une 8 ~las ques tioned
by Federal officers a m then vanis hed bull Aut h ori ties are s t ill p uzz led about
Hha t bond cOlld have existed bet wee n a Naz i philos ophe r like Yockey am
Scharf a one-time principal of Oaklands Temple Beth Abraham school and an
inmate of German conentration c amps in Uor1d ~Jar II
Yockey 43 killed himself Hith potassill1fl cyanide in his County Jail No1
cell early last Friday whi le being held on passport violation charges
The first possible clue to Scharfs whereabouts came yesterday in checkJ_ng
a former San Jose court reporter described as charf s closest friend
The reporter William Sloffibvich 35 left his job in San Jose about three
months ago -lorked until last month in Los -ngeles and then left far New York
The Chronicle learned that Slomovich s name apueared on the passenger
list of the Atlantic an American Export Lines ship which sailed from ew
York last Thursday bound for P~ifa Israel
lthough cparfs name did not aprear on the passe er list Federal
authorities said it is possible he rr~y have used an ass umed name since he is
not a citizen of the United States
Assistant United States Attorney il1iam P Clancey said t~at American
offmcials in Israel 1i11 be alerted to question Slornovich--and to be on the
lookout for Scharf--when the ship berths in Haifa on June 29
Clancy (sic) nEamlhile said that evidence Dr irrlicates that Scharf had
known Yockey for more t han a year
Yockey made an application for an Irish passport in an Francisco in 1959
under t he name of Michael Taylor usi ng Scharf as a referenceo
Clancy s j d a handwriting ex-pert is aIlCtlyzin the docurn-nt to d e terrni ne
-hether charfs signature las forgedo
27
liieanwhile it Jas learned tha t Yockey asked a f e11ovI-prisoner tvJO
days befClte he committed suicide in the C01lllty Jail here where he c ould
ootain some poison
Federal author ities refused to identify the prisoner but said that he
has been transf erred to another institution He Jill be questioned tcrlay
about the conversation officials said
Sherriff Matthew Carberry whohms San F ancisco s CODnty J ail co~ ented
last night that no Federal official had rnentioned to him the existence of a
county jail prisoner with such a story
Authori ties are puzzled as to T here Yockey obtained the deadl y poison
and haw it reached his cello
At too same time the coroners office announced that a toxologists
report s h mfs that Yockey took one-fifth of a am of potassi urn cyanide which
is double the lethal dose f or a man of his size
Yockey left a note defying anyone to discover h ow he obtained the poison
Frierris said t1at Scharf fled the ay Area in a battered 1956 yellow and
black l1e rcury sedan apparently with little money in his possession
Mrs Ezra Cohen-Sitt of 115 Beulah street a friend of charf said
yesterday she wan ted to correct an impression given in an intervieH with
The Chronicle Sunday that Scharf had at one ti~e asked her to marry him
He did not she said I did not intem to be quoted on any Hatter
rela ted to Hr Scharf II
28
San Francisco Chronicle Wednesday June 22 1960
u S PRESSES SEARCH F YOCKEYS AL
The search for Alex B Scharf mysterio11S pal of neo-Fascist Francis
P Yockey settled down to a game of fox and houms yesterday
Scharf rho departed from Oaklarrl so quickly after Yockeys arrest that
he even left his clothes behind was in the role of the fox The hounds are
agents of the State Department vih ose security officials in ian Franc isco
said s impl
lIvere trying to blanket all escape routes and He re hoping for the bestI
Yockey cormnitted suicide with cyanide in the County Jail last Friday
while being held on a passport charge
Scharf is being sought to rim out what he knoHS abolt Yockeys multiple
passports
Authorities are betuldered about the association of the two Scharf who
is 33 is a forroor principal of Oaklands Temple Beth Abraham School and an
inmate of Nazi concentration camps
Yockey L13 was a racist neo-Nazi of considerable infamy when he accidentally
fell into the hands of Federal authorities on June 6 Yockey had complained to
an airline about the loss of a bag It had already been opened in Fort middot orth
fex as unclaimed and was fourrl to contain three different passports all
bearing Yockeys pictuces
The FBI picked up Yockey in Scharf I s apartTEnt 8t 165 Bellevue avenue
Oakland but when t h ey went back later to talk to - charf he was gone
27
liieanwhile it Jas learned tha t Yockey asked a f e11ovI-prisoner tvJO
days befClte he committed suicide in the C01lllty Jail here where he c ould
ootain some poison
Federal author ities refused to identify the prisoner but said that he
has been transf erred to another institution He Jill be questioned tcrlay
about the conversation officials said
Sherriff Matthew Carberry whohms San F ancisco s CODnty J ail co~ ented
last night that no Federal official had rnentioned to him the existence of a
county jail prisoner with such a story
Authori ties are puzzled as to T here Yockey obtained the deadl y poison
and haw it reached his cello
At too same time the coroners office announced that a toxologists
report s h mfs that Yockey took one-fifth of a am of potassi urn cyanide which
is double the lethal dose f or a man of his size
Yockey left a note defying anyone to discover h ow he obtained the poison
Frierris said t1at Scharf fled the ay Area in a battered 1956 yellow and
black l1e rcury sedan apparently with little money in his possession
Mrs Ezra Cohen-Sitt of 115 Beulah street a friend of charf said
yesterday she wan ted to correct an impression given in an intervieH with
The Chronicle Sunday that Scharf had at one ti~e asked her to marry him
He did not she said I did not intem to be quoted on any Hatter
rela ted to Hr Scharf II
28
San Francisco Chronicle Wednesday June 22 1960
u S PRESSES SEARCH F YOCKEYS AL
The search for Alex B Scharf mysterio11S pal of neo-Fascist Francis
P Yockey settled down to a game of fox and houms yesterday
Scharf rho departed from Oaklarrl so quickly after Yockeys arrest that
he even left his clothes behind was in the role of the fox The hounds are
agents of the State Department vih ose security officials in ian Franc isco
said s impl
lIvere trying to blanket all escape routes and He re hoping for the bestI
Yockey cormnitted suicide with cyanide in the County Jail last Friday
while being held on a passport charge
Scharf is being sought to rim out what he knoHS abolt Yockeys multiple
passports
Authorities are betuldered about the association of the two Scharf who
is 33 is a forroor principal of Oaklands Temple Beth Abraham School and an
inmate of Nazi concentration camps
Yockey L13 was a racist neo-Nazi of considerable infamy when he accidentally
fell into the hands of Federal authorities on June 6 Yockey had complained to
an airline about the loss of a bag It had already been opened in Fort middot orth
fex as unclaimed and was fourrl to contain three different passports all
bearing Yockeys pictuces
The FBI picked up Yockey in Scharf I s apartTEnt 8t 165 Bellevue avenue
Oakland but when t h ey went back later to talk to - charf he was gone
28
San Francisco Chronicle Wednesday June 22 1960
u S PRESSES SEARCH F YOCKEYS AL
The search for Alex B Scharf mysterio11S pal of neo-Fascist Francis
P Yockey settled down to a game of fox and houms yesterday
Scharf rho departed from Oaklarrl so quickly after Yockeys arrest that
he even left his clothes behind was in the role of the fox The hounds are
agents of the State Department vih ose security officials in ian Franc isco
said s impl
lIvere trying to blanket all escape routes and He re hoping for the bestI
Yockey cormnitted suicide with cyanide in the County Jail last Friday
while being held on a passport charge
Scharf is being sought to rim out what he knoHS abolt Yockeys multiple
passports
Authorities are betuldered about the association of the two Scharf who
is 33 is a forroor principal of Oaklands Temple Beth Abraham School and an
inmate of Nazi concentration camps
Yockey L13 was a racist neo-Nazi of considerable infamy when he accidentally
fell into the hands of Federal authorities on June 6 Yockey had complained to
an airline about the loss of a bag It had already been opened in Fort middot orth
fex as unclaimed and was fourrl to contain three different passports all
bearing Yockeys pictuces
The FBI picked up Yockey in Scharf I s apartTEnt 8t 165 Bellevue avenue
Oakland but when t h ey went back later to talk to - charf he was gone