Police today pressed a sweeping round-up of Christian Fronters, members of the German-American Bund and other anti-British elements as they investigated the killing of two detectives and the wounding of five other police by a bomb taken from the World’s Fair British Pavilion which exploded near the Polish Pavilion while being examined.
First indication that police had any clue came this afternoon when Police Commissioner Lewis J. Valentine expressed the belief that the explosive used was part of the haul of 39 sticks of dynamite stolen on May 29 from a construction shack at the new Free Synagogue building. At the time of the theft the watchman declared one of the thieves was a tall, dark man, “apparently Irish.”
As part of the police round-up, Chief Inspector Louis F. Costuma sent out orders to take into custody any known “Bundists, Fascists or members of the Christian Front” attending open-air meetings at Columbus Circle. Seventeen men were taken from Circle meetings and other gathering places for questioning at headquarters last night. In addition, a detective was sent today to Newton, N.J., where three Bund leaders were being arraigned under the New Jersey “anti-uniform law.”
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