Outbreaks between Jews and anti-Semites in this summer resort have resulted in property damage and several arrests, Chief of Police Floyd Gerrard announced today.
Chief Gerrard said that the violence was a result of racial propaganda spread by anti-Semitic factions. On Thursday evening of last week, he said, a crowd of at least 3,000 people was attempting to congregate at main intersections of this village, apparently anticipating some sort of action. Violence was avoided by keeping the crowds in motion, and refusing to allow the troublemakers to assemble. A similar situation existed on Friday and until about two o’clock on Saturday morning, when one man was arrested on the charge of resisting an officer.
Early this week, however, plate glass windows of a Jewish-owned store and a hotel were kicked in and the place invaded by a mob of men and boys from the late ‘ teens to about 30 and 35 years. Shelves were wrecked and demonstrators danced on the counters. Jewish youths at the resort offered considerable resistance to the hooligans, but were outnumbered, the police chief stated.
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