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and other non-Jewish groups and
individuals have expressed
shock and repugnance at the
deed. These expressions contrib-
uted to the general feeling in
the local Jewish community that
while the bombing had its anti-
Semitic aspects, it was essenti-
ally a blow at democratic values
and law and order.
The Atlanta Constitution edi-
torially called the bombing the
"harvest of defiance of the
courts by many Southern politi-
cians." The editorial insisted
that while those who opposed
the orderly processes had not
called for bombings of syna-
gogues they had, nevertheless,
"unloosed the flood of hate and
bombing" because once hatred
Atlanta Case May Give Clue
to Southern Rein of Terror
Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News
ATLANTA—Arrest of five men here in connection
with the $200,000 dynamiting of the 90-year-old Temple
of the Hebrew Benevolent Congregation followed the
first break in the series of bombings which have rocked
the entire Southland since last spring.
It was disclosed Wednesday that two of the men
arrested were believed to have participated in Sunday's
successful attempt to dynamite the synagogue. Police
said the plot was conceived last May by an anti-Semitic
and anti-Negro group which has branches in several
states.
Detective Captain R. E. Little
Atlanta police hinted that
if they could solve this case, said the letter. additional con-
they believed they could tents of which were not dis-
had been written before
provide leads to the indi- clOsed.
the dynamite blast Sunday
viduals responsible for an morning. He said it was not
earlier series of bombings of
synagogues in many Southern
cities last spring.
Meanwhile, President Eisen-
hower on Tuesday asked the
FBI to enter the Peoria bomb-
ing case, in addition to the At-
lanta bombing. Eisenhower
again characterized the bomb-
ing of synagogues as "shocking
and deplorable."
Press spokesman James Hag-
gerty told newsmen late Tues-
day that the President had re-
ceived written reports from FBI
Chief J. Edgar Hoover, on both
incidents.
After the Peoria report was
received by the White House,
Hagerty told reporters "the
President just thinks these
bombings of places of worship
are shocking and deplorable
things."
Peoria police ruled out anti-
Semitism as a motive in the
bombing of the Anshe Emet
Synagogue. They said it ap-
peared that young hoodlums
had been responsible for the
dynamiting, apparently on in-
spiration of the attack on the
Atlanta synagogue. No arrests
have been made in the Peoria
attack, which caused relative-
. ly little damage.
The Atlanta arrests came dur-
ing raids on homes of two of
the five suspects. A penciled
draft of an unsigned letter
which threatened Atlanta Jews
with "a terrifying experience"
was seized.
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certain whether any copies of
the letter had been mailed.
The police officer said anoth-
er letter taken in the raids indi-
cated that an Atlanta organiza-
tion involved in the case was
"directly connected, and prob-
ably financed and directed, from
out of state." The second letter
was mailed from •Arlington, Va.
The raids were made at the
homes of Wallace H. Allen and
George Bright. The others in
custody were Robert A. Brown-
ing. Luther Corley and Kenneth
C. Griffin. All are of Atlanta.
The first break in the Atlanta
bombing came when police ob-
tained a confession from a sus-
pect who admitted he helped
in planning the bombing.
The suspect asked that his
name not be disclosed because
he was afraid his accomplices
"will kill me if they find out
I talked." He said the bomb-
ing had been planned last May
by an anti-Semitic group of
which he was a member.
He was one of several sus-
pects who had been detained for
questioning. The suspects in-
cluded members of a group
which recently carried out an
anti-Jewish demonstration in
front of the offices of an Atlanta
newspaper.
The chief suspect said that
one member of the group, who
had worked as an architect,
drew plans of the temple show-
ing exactly where the explosive
charge was to be placed. He
said the dynamite was to have
been obtained from Harlan, Ky.,
and set off by a man brought
from Birmingham, Ala.
Police quoted the informant
as saying he attended the meet-
ing at which bomb plans were
made, but that he objected to
the bombing and he was not in-
vited to attend later sessions.
FBI agents joined with state
and city authorities and police
from neighboring states in in-
vestigating every angle of the
statement.
The name of the anti-Se-
mitic organization was not
made public, but police said
they were told it had several
members in every major
Southern city.
Peoria police described as
homemade the bomb which ex-
plode• early . Tuesday morning
in a stairwell at the Anshe Emet
Synagogue here causing limited
damage.
Rabbi Joseph Ginsberg, spir-
itual leader of the congregation,
said there had been no warning
or any other indication that the
synagogue had been marked as
a bombing target.
He said relations of the con-
gregation with the Peoria com-
munity were excellent, and that
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The Jewish Community Coun-
cil, meeting here in executive
session, decided to issue a pub-
lic statement expressing appre-
ciation to the non-Jewish popu-
lation for the condemnation ex-
pressed through the Mayor,
church leaders and the press.
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The two bombing incidents
left in their wake a rash of
anonymous c a 11 s threatening
Jewish institutions and leaders
in a number of communities.
Synagogue leaders in several
Southern cities asked police
about security measures and
raised the question of engaging
private armed guards on a 24-
hour basis. Police gave full co-
operation and reassurance of
protection, but asked that moves
taken be given no publicity.
However, it was made
known in one city that special
equipment was issued to po-
lice assigned to a synagogue
protection detail. This was de-
scribed as a new method of
electronic surveillance. Orders
were also given to shoot to
kill if saboteurs failed to heed
police.
Police in the Greater Miami
area were guarding over 30
synagogues and Jewish institu-
tions after a bomb threat was
telephoned anonymously to a
rabbi.
The "curt and abrupt" caller
threatened that a synagogue
would be bombed in the Miami
area. All available police offi-
cers were assigned to special
synagogue patrols.
In Knoxville, Tenn., police are
guarding a Jewish temple after
a bomb threat. Police surveil-
lance was undertaken after a
threat was made to bomb a local
temple.
Police in Virginia cities are
taking precautions to protect
Jewish houses of worship.
Rewards offered by the Mayor
of Atlanta, William B. Harts-
field, municipal agencies, local
newspapers and others for find-
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Detectives look over the
wreckage of the Jewish tem-
ple in Atlanta, Ga., in an ef-
fort to find clues to the per-
sons responsible for its dyna-
miting.
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