The Pittsburgh Press (January 11, 1941)
JUDGE BURNS ‘SUBVERSIVE SYMBOL’
A Nazi Swastika flag is burned by Judge Ida Mae Adams in San Pedro, Cal., during a trial in which it was testified a woman was wounded with a pocket knife for refusing to remove the flag from a mantel in her home. The judge said she burned the flag “not as an overt act against Germany, but rather as a protest against subversive activities.”
Reading Eagle (February 16, 1941)
JUDGE DELAYS REPORT ON NAZI FLAG BURNING
Los Angeles, Feb. 16 (UP) –
Municipal Judge Ida May Adams, who burned a Nazi flag in her courtroom, said today that she would not make the report which Secretary of State Cordell Hull requested until the case involving the swastika was adjudicated.
The flag was burned in the preliminary hearing of Pedro V. Rodriguez, 39, charged with cutting his landlady because she would not remove it from her house.
The German consulate protested, and Hull asked Gov. Culbert Olson for a complete report. Judge Adams replied that:
The case to which you refer is still pending in the courts. For this reason, as a judge of a court of record, until the final disposition of the matter in the courts, I find myself unable to discuss or comment on the matter.
She had refused to apologize.
Way to go Judge 
There’s a picture of it at the very beginning of this thread.