Signs reading “This Place Owned by Jews” were pasted over some 35 store windows in this city and in nearby Davenport, Iowa, and Rock Island, Iowa, yesterday.
The signs were printed in ink on strips of paper which also bore rubber stamps proclaiming “Anti-Jew Week, Feb. 21 to 28.” The dates coincide with those of Brotherhood Week which is being observed internationally this week.
Police removed the stickers, but nobody has yet found out who is responsible. The police said some of the stores singled out by the anti-Semites were owned by non-Jews with names that sounded Jewish.
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