The burning of a cross this week-end on the grounds here of a building recently acquired by the Jewish Sanitarium of New England was today seen as the first evidence of the work of the Ku Klux Klan in this area.
Maurice Caro of Brookline, honorary president of the Sanitarium, refused to accept a statement by fire department officials that the burning of the cross was the work of children, insisting that it was the product of “depraved minds importing racial bigotry from the South.” He pointed out that tire marks on the grounds indicated that the heavy eight-foot cross was brought to the grounds in a truck and driven into the ground by grown men.
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