Six youths aged 20 to 25 have been arrested here in connection with acts of vandalism committed in the Homestead Hebrew Cemetery recently. Damage was estimated at $20,000. The arrested men denied there had been any anti-Semitic intent in their vandalism and said the episode had followed a bout of heavy drinking.
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