All employes of the New York offices of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency in Manhattan left the premises for about an hour this afternoon while police searched the building after an anonymous warning that a bomb had been planted in the structure. The threat was directed at another agency housed in the same building which contains s about a dozen organizations. After a search police reported no evidence of any explosives and workers in the office, who had been ordered to stay across the street from the building during the search, returned to work.
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