Two suspects are under arrest here today in connection with the bombing of an Orthodox synagogue last weekend, while police authorities have placed a 24-hour guard over all other synagogues on Chicago’s North Side. The names of the suspects have not been revealed by the police.
Mrs. Helen Goodman, wife of the rabbi who officiates at another North Side temple, the Moteler Synagogue, reported to police that she received a telephone call from a man who threatened to blow up her husband’s house of worship. She said the mysterious caller told her: “I am the one who blew up the other synagogue, and all the other synagogues on the North Side will receive the same treatment.”
A housewarming at the bombed temple, Chevra Kadisha Machzikai Hadas Synagogue, which had suffered damage totaling $10,000 as a result of the bombing, has been postponed. The new $100,000 temple was to have held its housewarming next Sunday.
While city police are guarding the synagogues on the North Side, Congressman Roman C. Pucinski, of this city, has filed a request with the Department of Justice, in Washington, calling upon the FBI to enter the investigation of the bombing and the threats against other Jewish houses of worship here.
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