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The Council will contribute to
the Mayor's fund for the reward
for finding the terrorists.
Meanwhile, the police sta-
tioned around-the-clock guards
at the homes of Rabbi Jacob
M. Rothschild, who heads the
congregation of the bombed
synagogue and William B.
Schwartz Jr., congregation
president, after Mrs. Roths-
child received an anonymous
call from a man who said:
"You had better get out of
the house. It will be dyna-
mited in five minutes." The
rabbi was not at home at the
time.
Another call was received by
a telephone operator at the At-
lanta Journal and Constitution,
after the papers offered a $5,000
reward for information leading
to the arrest of the dynamiters.
The anonymous caller told the
operator: "I have news for you.
This is the Confederate Under-
ground. You nigger-loving. At-
lanta papers, the Negro churches
the Jewish churches-:—we're go-
ing to blow all of you up."
It was reported here that
more than 300 Atlanta police-
men and FBI agents are en-
gaged in searching for and ques-
tioning persons suspected of the
bombing of the synagogue. FBI
agents from Miami, Nashville
and Jacksonville were flown to
Atlanta to aid the local authori-
ties with information they ac-
quired in similar but less dam-
aging synagogue blasts in those
cities earlier this year.
Despite damage to the temple,
prayer services will continue,
Rabbi Rothschild said. Sunday
School classes will be held at
the nearby Jewish center. Some
600 children are enrolled in
Sunday School classes, some
coming from as far as 50 and
75 miles outside the city.
Defense Department sources
reported unofficially that Army
demolition experts had been au-
thorized to aid Federal and lo-
cal authorities. It was reported
that experts were carefully sift-
ing tons of debris for clues.
Damage to the Atlanta temple
was the worst suffered by any"
school or synagogue in the
South since violence erupted
last Spring. The charges, esti-
mated at 40 to 60 sticks of dyna-
mite, blew down the back of the
Temple. It demolished windows
and ceilings and tore apart
walls.
The blast2was felt for a con-
siderable distance. Windows in
the front of the temple were
shattered, as were windows in
an insurance company 600 yards
away and in a Jewish center
five minutes walk distant.
Police and fire officials, who
combed the scene of the dyna-
miting for hours, were con-

nti-Semitic Ring in Atlanta Bombing

vinced that the planting of the
charges were the work of an
expert, possibly someone who
had been trained in military
demolition.
Gov. Marvin Griffin, in an
early reaction, called the bomb-
ing part of an attempt to dis-
credit the South. He demanded
that the culprits be ferreted out.
Rabbi Rothschild and Schwartz
called it the work of godless
men and expressed confidence
that the police and local offi-
cials were doing everything pos-
sible to apprehend the dyna-
miters.
President Eisenhower, con-
tacted immediately after the
bombing took place while he
was ironically speaking at the
cornerstone laying at the Inter-
church Center, in New York,
national headquarters of 37
Protestant, Anglican and East-
ern Orthodox church bodies.
termed the terrorist act "deplor-
able" and said, "We must think
of our self respect."
While hope was expressed
that the FBI would not this
time refuse to join local po-
lice authorities in tracing the
terrorists, as was the case in
earlier Southern synagogue
bombings, it was indicated
that the law • enforcement
agency's role would continue
to be one of "offering assist-
ance."
A spokesman for the Justice
Department pointed out that the
legal restrictions under which
the FBI operated remain in
force. Attorney General Wil-
liam Rogers has previously
stressed that the synagogue
bombings were a matter for lo-
cal authorities and not legally
within the jurisdiction of Fed-
eral prosecution.
Justice Department sources
said there had been no basic
change in the FBI's function as
a result of the President's re-
quest to Hoover. But there was
no doubt that within the frame-
work of its operation presently
designated by Justice Depart-
ment interpretation the FBI
was doing everything possible.

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—A UPI Photo

Special bomb experts and city, state and federal agents staged an all-out hunt
for a mysterious "confederate underground" believed responsible for the wave of
dynamite terrorism of Jewish institutions in the South. Atlanta Mayor William B.
Iltartsfield (left) and Rabbi Jacob M. Rothschild kneel in the rubble of the dynamite-
blasted synagogue on Atlanta's famed Peachtree Rd. One wall of the temple was
completely blasted out.

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Dr. Arieh Altman, former De-
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Oct. 26, for conferences with
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