The Northside Jewish Center here, which was to be dedicated on July 4, was dynamited last night causing several hundred dollars damages. George Weissbaum, leader of the Center, said he believes “religious intolerance rather than vandalism” was responsible for the explosion, but police found no evidence to suspect the Ku Klux Klan, which was reported to have sent warnings to another Jewish group.
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