After a five-month investigation in all boroughs of 50 cases of anti-Semitic violence and vandalism, Commissioner of Investigation Herlands has found no evidence of co-ordinated anti-Jewish activities, it was reported here today.
The full report on the “various acts of vandalism and physical violence which have been inspired by persons seeking to stir up racial and religious disunity” will be completed shortly and made public, it was learned. The investigation, orderes by Mayor LaGuardia last November, had the cooperation of the Police Dept. It reveals that the cases of assault on Jewish wardens, the firing of synagogues, and defacing of patriotic exhibits in the Horace Greely Junior High School in Long Island City, were individual acts of terrorism organized mainly by small bands of teen-age boys.
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