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Rvseards Offered for Criminals' Apprehension
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The Department of Justice stepped in to investigate the bombing of Jewish centers in Miami and Nashville with
a view to determining whether a violation of Federal laws occurred. The Department is awaiting reportS from regional FBI offices and from the
United States Attorneys in both cities.'
Police throughout the South have been alerted to the possibility of a conspiracy to bomb other Jewish centers and synagogues in Southern
states. Justice Department officials are generally of the opinion that the bombings are matters for local authorities to handle, but they were
concerned with a reported threat to assassinate Federal District Judge William E. Miller of Nashville. Such an action would involve a Federal
official, and it may come under Federal statute.
The threat to Judge Miller came in an anonymous telephone call to Rabbi William B. Silverman, of Nashville, immediately after the dyna-
mite explosion took place in the Jewish Community Center building, smashing the front
doors, ripping down the ceiling of the reception hall and smashing windows in the building.
Bias Against Jews and
The damage was estimated at $6,000. The anonymous caller, who identified himself as "a
Catholics Practiced in
member of the Confederate Union" said over the telephone: •
"We have just dynamited the Jewish community center. Next will be the temple and
U.S. Medical Schools
next will be any other nigger-loving- place or nigger-loving person in Nashville. And we're
going to shoot down Judge Miller in cold blood."
PHILADELPHIA (JTA) — Results of a five-
year study conducted here on what happened to pre-
Rabbi Silverman immediately called Judge Miller about the threat and the judge in-
medical students enrolled in two Philadelphia col-
formed the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Deputy sheriffs and FBI agents were posted at
leges when they applied to medical schools through-
the residence immediately. Judge Miller last f all ordered Negro first graders admitted to
out the United States were made public here. They
some Nashville schools. Their - admission was followed by a blast which wrecked the Hattie
showed that 12 pement of the Jewish and Catholic
Cotton School there.
students with "A" grades were rejected, while 100
percent of Protestant- "A" students were accepted.
The same study disclosed that two-thirds of all
Jewish "B" students, and more than two-thirds of
Catholic "B" students failed to gain acceptance at
any medical school in the fall following their gradu-
ation. Of the Protestant "B" students, only one-
third failed to gain admission.
• "Emphasis on the gifted and on developing one's
talents to the utmost for the benefit of society
sound like mockery to such students," said David L.
Ullman, chairman of the Philadelphia Fellowship
Commission's Committee on Opportunities for
Higher Education, which conducted the study.
The five-year study was based on material gath-
ered by personal interviews with 512 June-graduat-
ing seniors, beginning with the 1951 classes at the
College of the University of Pennsylvania and the
School of Liberal Arts of Temple University.
New Bomb Threat Against Synagogue in' Miami Beach
MIAMI, Fla. (JTA) — A new bomb threat against a synagogue in nearby Miami Beach
was received by a worshipper on the heels of the dynamiting late Sunday of a Jewish cen-
ter in this city, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency learned.
According to Rabbi Tibor :Stern of Congregation Beth Jacob of Miami Beach, a worship-
per was stopped outside the synagogue by an unidentified man who told him that unless the
menorah on the synagogue were pulled down, the building would be bOmbed. The license
plate numbers of the car in which the terrorist drove off were obtained and the Miami
Beach police are believed ready to make an arrest.
Sunday night's blast, heard miles from the scene, blew out the back of the Temple
Beth El Jewish Center, raised its roof off the beams and knocked the structure askew. A
section of iron railing was hurled 150 yards from the building. It is believed that most of
the building will have to be rebuilt. Early 'estimates placed the damage at about $30,000.
No one was injured, though the explosion bounced people about in their beds in houses
near the scene. Police estimate that at least a dozen sticks of dynamite were detonated under
the 'rear wall of the building. •
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Brig. Gen. Dan Tolkowsky to Speak at Rally at
Temple Beth El in Behalf of Drive for $6,200,000
With more than 4,000 volunteer workers already enrolled to
contact the 30,000 prospective contributors to the 1958 Allied Jewish
Campaign, a spirit of enthusiasm is evident in the workers' ranks as
the campaign is readying officially to be set in motion at the opening
rally; next Tuesday evening, at Temple Beth El.
The community is invited to hear Brig. Gen. Dan Tolkowsky,
commander of the Israel Air Force, and Dr .. Richard C. Hertz, rabbi
of Temple Beth El, who will address Tuesday's meeting. Max M.
Fisher, chairman of the campaign, will preside. A report on the
progress made so far in the drive will be submitted by Isidore
Sobeloff, executive vice-president of the Jewish Welfare Federation.
The guest entertainer will be Batya Ostrowski, noted singer and
dramatic star of the Israel Ohel National Theater. The Center Choral
Group also will be on the program.
Detroit's campaign-initiating meeting will mark the 20th anni-
versary of , the United Jewish. Appeal, the major beneficiary of the
Allied Jewish Campaign which supplies funds for the resettlement of
Jews from countries of oppresSion into Israel. "
Many of the campaign divisions—including the Women's Divi-
sion—already have begun their campaign activities, and in • most
instances the responses were accompanied by increases over last
year's gifts.
ThiS year's campaign goal is for a minimum of $6,200,000, in
view of the growing needs abroad, as well as for local and national
agencies, This calls for nearly a 10 per cent increase over last year's
gifts. Campaign leaders believe that the opening campaign meeting
will be , accompanied by contributions approximating at least half the
minimum goal.
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Allocations for more than 50 local, national and overseas causes—
including the United Jewish Appeal, the major fund-raising agency
for rehabilitation and resettlement of tens of thousands of oppressed
Jews in Israel—are made by the Allied Jewish Campaign.
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