Restaurant Again Cancels Neo-Nazis’ Dinner Reservation

For the second time in four weeks, a militant Jewish group has persuaded the owner of a German restaurant in San Fernando to cancel a dinner reservation made by a neo-Nazi group.

An employee of the Alpine Haus restaurant confirmed Saturday that its owner, Bob Harman, canceled reservations for Saturday night made by the White Aryan Resistance because of the possibility of violence or picketing by the Jewish Defense League.

Harman canceled a similar reservation for April 19, the day before Adolf Hitler’s birthday, after JDL members told him they would demonstrate at the restaurant if the White Aryan Resistance showed up.

Irv Rubin, JDL national director, said he spoke with Harman earlier this week and repeated his warnings of picketing if members of the neo-Nazi group held a dinner at the Alpine Haus. Rubin said the reservations were for 50 people.

Before the previous cancellation, Rubin warned that he “could not guarantee that violence would not occur” if he saw the Aryan group entering the restaurant.

At that time, an Alpine Haus hostess said a private room had been rented by men who said they were holding “a birthday party, and they would be talking about old World War II memories.” When a reporter from The Times called a telephone number left by one of the men, it was answered by a recording of the “Horst Wessel Lied,” the Nazi Party song.

The White Aryan Resistance, formerly the White American Political Assn., was established by Tom Metzger about two years ago. Metzger, former director of the Southern California Ku Klux Klan, could not be reached for comment.