The Governors of Illinois and Minnesota were called on today by the Jewish War Veterans of the United States of America to utilize all available “resources” to apprehend those responsible for recent anti-Semitic incidents in Chicago and Minneapolis.
The veterans group sent identical telegrams to Illinois Governor Otto Kerner and Minnesota Chief Executive Elmer I; Anderson, labeling the dynamiting of a Chicago synagogue last week and the swastika-daubing of several Minneapolis synagogues a few days later, “despicable acts.”
The messages urged enactment of “appropriate legislation to deter activities of this nature” and offered the services of local JWV posts in assisting “in every endeavor to get under way a program to educate American citizens to the danger of these actions as dividing our nation.” JWV volunteers in Minneapolis were standing guard at several synagogues and Jewish schools following the incident.
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