THE DETROIT JEWISH NEW S — Friday, October 24, 1958-32
President May Call White House
Parley to Plan Fight on Bigotry
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Rockwell stated bluntly: "We
derive our ideas from Adolf
Hitler. We admire him for his
genius, his ideas." But h2,
added: "We are not German
Nazis and we do not believe
we should exterminate the
Jews."
Scores of threats are report-
ed to have been made to Jew-
ish organizations and syna-
gogues in several parts of the
country, and the past week
was a heyday for anti-Semites,
crackpots and malicious juven-
iles.
In the New York area, the
latest series of incidents in-
cluded five bomb threats: three
against Jewish institutions, one
against a matzo factory and
the last against the offices of
the United Arab Republic. The
Jewish institutions were: the
Stephen Wise Free Synagogue;
the Elizabeth, N.J., Jewish Edu-
cational Center, and the New
York Guild for the Jewish
Blind.
Meanwhile, six boys, ranging
in age from 11 to 13, have been
arrested and have admitted
they smashed six windows in
a Brooklyn Synagogue with
stones. The boys were charged
with juvenile delinquency and
released in their parents' cus-
tody for appearance Monday
in Children's Court.
In Union, N.J., the county
prosecutor announced an inves-
tigation against "Common
Sense," a hate sheet long pub-
lished by Conde McGinley. The
sheet was said to have been
distributed in Atlanta and
Peoria, Ill., in advance of the
synagogue bombings there.
Fourteen windows were
smashed in an attack on Temple
Bnai Abraham in Newark, N. J.,
while bomb threats were re-
ceived by synagogues in three'
other New Jersey cities. The
Newark police are investigating
the attack on the synagogue.
Former Senator Herbert H.
Ex-State ADL
Director to Talk
on Bombings
Nathan Perlmutter, who was
director of the Michigan Re-
gion of Bnai Brith's Anti-Defa-
mation League until he left
Detroit in 1953, will be here
next week to speak on the wave
of bombings in the South.
Perlmutter, now ADL re-
gional director in Florida, with
offices in Mi-
a m i , investi-
gated the
Jackson-
ville and Mi-
ami bombings
for ADL earl-
ier in the
year.
He will be
here primarily
to speak at a
joint meeting
sponsored b y
the ADL corn- ..
Perlmutter
mittees of the
Metropolitan Detroit Bnai Brith
Men's and Women's Councils,
at 8:30 p.m., Thursday, at Cong.
Bnai Moshe.
Other appearances in De-
troit will include a luncheon
c7, for community leaders that af-
ternoon and meeting with local
groups the following day.
Perlmutter will speak on the
wave of violence in relation-
ship to the security of the Jew-
ish community, according to Dr.
Morton Sobel, who succeeded
Perlmutter in the Detroit ADL
office.
Thursday evening's meeting
is open to the community.
Lehman, in a comment on the
wave of synagogue bombings
and threats against Jewish and
Christian religious institutions,
declared that responsibility for
these extremist developments
must be shared by all who
"advocate overt resistance" to
the rule of law. He spoke at
the 14th annual conference of
the Metropolitan Council of
Bnai Brith.
Eisenhower May Call
White House Parley
to Combat Bigotry
NEW YORK, (JTA)—Presi-
dent Eisenhower has pledged
he will give "careful considera-
tion" to the American Jewish
Congress call for a White House
Conference to rally the Ameri-
can people against bigotry, it
was reported by Rabbi Joachim
Prinz, AJC president.
Following the bombing of
the Atlanta synagogue, the
American Jewish Congress
asked President Eisenhower to
summon leaders of religion,
education, social welfare, busi-
ness and labor to a national
conference in the White House.
Replying, the President ex-
pressed his "horror" over the
Atlanta bombing and assured
Rabbi Prinz that "the full
facilities of the Federal Govern-
ment are being used to bring
about the arrest of those people
who are responsible for such
regrettable incidents.
"My associates and I will
give your suggestion for the
convening of a White House
conference to consider this
problem, as well as a special
Governor's conference careful
consideration," President Eisen.
hower stated in his reply.
Confidential Files on Anti-
Semitic Groups Ransacked
WASHINGTON, (JTA) The
files of the national head-
quarters of the Jewish War
Veterans were ransacked over
the week-end, with mounting
evidence leading police to a
theory that the break-in was
motivated by anti-Jewish es-
pionage.
An investigation disclosed
that items of value that would
attract a common thief were
ignored: The intent of intruders
was apparently to study the
confidential records of the
JWV including that • organiza-
tion's files on hate groups.
The FBI is "in touch" with
an extensive investigation
launched by police in nearby
Arlington, Va., following a
bomb threat that forced can-
cellation of services at Arling.
ton Unitarian Church at which
Rabbi Emmet A. Frank, of
Alexandria, was scheduled to
deliver a guest sermon. Rabbi
Frank has been a target of
segregationist wrath because of
a recent sermon in which he
advocated equality for Virginia
Negroes. The rabbi will address
the church next Sunday.
A group of Unitarian minis- .
tens in the District of Colum-
bia area said the bomb threat
was part of "a dangerous
nationwide pattern of lawless-
ness and violence."
(Many West German news-
papers are deliberately playing
down and sometimes suppress-
ing reports of the wave of anti-
Jewish bombings and threats
in the United States. German
publishers were described as
fearing that wide publicity
about American anti-Semitism
might regenerate anti-Semitic
violence in West Germany.)
Rep. Hugh Scott of Pennsyl-
vania made known Tuesday
that 19 U.S. Senators and can-
didates for the Senate have
agreed to join him in co-
sponsoring a bill to make it
a Federal crime to bomb syna-
gogues, schools and churches.
Rep. Scott is Republican can-
didate for U.S. Senator from
Pennsylvania.
Senators who indicated they
\you'd co-sponsor an anti-bomb-
ing bill are J. Glenn Beall,
Maryland; John W. Bricker,
Ohio; Frank Carlson, Kansas;
Homer E. Capehart, Indiana;
Clifford P. Case, New Jersey;
Everett NI. Dirksen, Illinois;
Ralph E. Flanders, Vermont;
John D. Hoblitzell, Jr., West
Virginia; Jacob K. Javits, New
York; William Langer, North
Dakota; Thomas E. Martin,
Iowa; Charles E. Potter, Michi-
gan, and Chapman Revercomb,
West. Virginia. Some of those
named, however, will not be
returning to the Senate when
it reconvenes in January be-
cause of expiration of their
terms.
Rep. Scott said Republican
candidates for the Senate who
would support anti - bombing
legislation if elected included
Hobart F. Atkins, Tennessee;
Byard Ewing, Rhode Island;
Harold W. Handley, Indiana;
Robert W. Kean, New Jersey;
Kenneth B. Keating, New York,
and Winston L. Prouty, Ver-
mont.
According to Rep. Scott, such
legislation "would make avail-
able any of the 6,000 FBI agents
who are stationed throughout
the United States."
As United States postal
inspectors were alerted to
exercise additional vigilance
in combing the mails for in-
citement to violence against
religious and racial minori-
ties a top Post Office Depart-
ment aide revealed that he
will seek a conference with
Justice Department attorneys
to determine whether hate
literature can be barred
from the mails under cur-
rent laws.
Herbert B. Warburton, gen-
eral counsel of the Post Office
Department, indicated that
what the two departments
would have to determine was
whether the Post Office could
refuse to accept hate literature,
leaving the publishers to ini-
tiate court action to force ac-
ceptance, or whether to start
court action against organiza-
tions which mail such propa-
ganda on the grounds that they
have violated the law.
Bombings Condemned by
Virginia's Gov. Almond
asked Virginians to "condemn"
bombings and threats against
synagogues, churches and
schools.
While reiterating his stand
against desegregation, the Vir-
ginia Governor said: "Let us
condemn in no unmistakable
language those among us in
America who feel it is incum-
bent on themselves to threaten
the safety of the people." The
Governor said he believed such
tactics as last Sunday's bomb
threat against an Arlington, Va.;
Unitarian church featuring a
guest sermon by Rabbi Emmet
Frank are "inspired by Com-
ists."
Gov. Almond said that "in
Virginia we have no room, no
feeling, no sympathy for John
Kasper or the Ku Klux Klan."
Kasper, segregationist extrem-
ist, said last week • that "the
American people are realizing
that Jews, not the Negroes, are
the principal cause of the
trouble and they're going to
get it."
The Governor's r em arks
criticizing Kasper and the KKK
were applauded by his audience
of an estimated 700 delegates
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to an annual convention of the
to The Jewish News)
RICHMOND, Va.— Governor Virginia Congress of Parents
J. Lindsay Almond Tuesday and Teachers.
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Crackpots and Their Nazi Pattern
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One of five suspects questioned by Atlanta, Ga., police in connection with the dynamiting
of a Jewish synagogue was Wallace II. Allen, 32, shown (left, above) at the Atlanta police head-
quarters. Found in Allen's home, police say, was anti-Semitic literature and penciled drawings
at right, in which the Nazi swastika is given prominent display in one corner.
In the lower right photo, George Lincoln Rockwell, 40, is shown looking over some anti-
Jewish and anti-integration literature at his home in Arlington, Va., after he was questioned
by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. A "mystery" letter, found in the home of an Atlanta,
Ga., man arrested in connection with the bombing of a synagogue, was traced to Rockwell, an
artist and a pamphleteer. No charge was made against him.
Broken glass in a door demonstrates the force of a homemade black-powder bomb that
exploded inside Anshai Emeth Temple in Peori a, Ill., damaging the interior, is shown in the
lower left photo. The synagogue's rabbi, Joseph Ginsberg said lie thought the bombing was
conceived by a "twisted mind."