Representatives of 300 Protestant ministers in Greater Boston called on Police Commissioner Joseph Sullivan today to make arrests if further disturbances similar to the assault on 15 members of a veteran’s band by a group of anti-Semitic hoodlums last Friday occur.
Meanwhile, the Anti-Defamation league of B’nai B’rith, New England regional office, commended the Veterans of Foreign Wars, whose Malden (Boston suburb) Post sponsors the band, and the Jewish War Veterans of Malden, for “their determination to investigate the entire affair and its anti-American implications.”
Friday’s incident occurred at the conclusion of the annual Evacuation Day parade here when a group of anti-Semitic youths spied Seaman Albert Cohen, who was marching with a band from the Malden Post of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. After passing several derogatory remarks about Cohen and several other Jewish members of the band, the hoodlums attacked them, severely beating several of the Malden youths.
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