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4, 1959 AP WIREPHOTO explosion Saturday tore apart this. wooden Home Shattered bungalow, blasting the bathtub into the street and setting the attic and basement ablaze. Windows over a three-block area where jarred by the 12:45 p.m. blast. Firemen, who estimated damage at $9,000, said the explosion probably was caused by faulty gas pipes.

The house, at 319 Goodrich was unoccupied. It was purchased recently by the Mariano Tallarico family. St. Paul Rabbi's Book Explores the History of Jews in Minnesota By DANIEL J. HAFREY Minneapolis Tribune Staff Writer Why is it that Minneapolis once was known as "America's capital of anti-Semitism" while the Jews in St.

Paul always fared well? Why, on the other hand, was it that the various elements in the Minneapolis Jewish community became unified fairly easily while in St. Paul the gulf between German and Russian Jew remained unbridged much Rabbi Plaut longer? Rabbi Plaut What, finally, is the reason for the division of American Judaism into three distinct branches Orthodox, Conservative and Reform -unknown to the Jewish communities of the Old THESE AND many other provocative questions about one of Minnesota's distinctive minorities are treated with skill, insight and scholarship in the just-published "The Jews in Minnesota," by Dr. W. Gunther Plaut, rabbi of Mt. Zion Hebrew congregation of St.

Paul. Minnesota's history is relatively short. That of the Jews in the state is somewhat shorter yet. This fact adds an extra bit of spice to the story since much it takes place in the near and immediate past. It's so close that many members of the community today have lived it and hardly can view it as "history." Most Twin Cities Jews of middle age are bound to have personal memories of some of the book's many heroes, such as Rabbis Samuel N.

Deinard of Minneapolis and Isaac L. Rypins of St. Paul, of Nina and Emanuel Cohen or Dr. George J. Gordon.

Nor, in most cases, would these memories be confined to Jews because every one of these men and women rubbed elbows with the larger community around them and gave service to city, state and nation. AMONG THE most fascinating stories is that of "the Curious Twins," an appellation Dr. Plaut borrowed from Carey McWilliams. It was the latter, too, who hung the unflattering distinction of "capital of anti-Semitism" on Minneapolis in the 1940s. And, it should be added, it is generally agreed that this title doesn't fit today.

Writing, about the early tion of the book, Dr. Plaut concluding porquotes Rabbi Maurice Lefkovits of Duluth thus: the distinction of Jewry enjoys ing the lowest estimated community in the land sol far as the non-Jewish population is concerned. In this respect, Minneapolis Jewry is way below par of the other communities in the land." DR. PLAUT reports of the period: "No purely social organization in Minneapolis welcomed Jews as members; no Jew belonged at that time to any city or country club; nO Jews were solicited for the boat club or the automobile club; no further Jews were admitted into the Minneapolis Athletic club; fraternal organizations were discriminating against Jews, and this included the Elks, Regents Urged to Convert 2 Ag Schools By CARL T. ROWAN Minneapolis Tribune Staff Writer Two delegations from Crookston and Morris Saturday appealed to University of Minnesota regents to convert agricultural schools in the two communities into college level branches of the university.

They told the regents such a step is acutely needed to give western Minnesota youngsters something closer to equality of educational opportunity. In detailed presentations of the case for more higher education facilities in western Minnesota, the delegations asserted: Only four of state's 34 colleges are in the western half of the state. 1 This means that an area producing 27 per cent of Minnesota's high school graduates has only 7 per cent of its college facilities. Youngsters are cheated of a chance to get college training because of the distance factor. While 46 per cent of city area youngsters go to college (the statewide average is 37 per cent), only 20 per cent of the graduates in the Morris area get higher training.

Money is being wasted on high school courses in the agricultural schools because consolidation has enabled public schools to take over many functions once served exclusively by the university units at Morris and Crookston. Edward J. Morrisson, executive vice president of the West Central Education Development association, told the regents that 1,020 high school students have expressed a desire to enroll at Morris by 1961 should the university set up a collegelevel course. HE URGED regents to enroll first year college students at Morris next fall, estimating that 340 students would attend. The 1959 legislature asked the regents to consider establishing college courses at Morris and Crookston and to report back to the legislature and Jan.

15, 1961. Dr. J. L. Morrill, university president, said he is having the Morris-Crookston situation restudied and that some proposal should be before the regents this winter.

HE SAID he felt some progress would have been made in this area already if the 1959 legislative picture had not been "clouded" by 24 communities all asking establishment of junior colleges. Students Urged to 'Sell' GOP Ed Viehman, Republican state chairman, has called on college Republicans to lead a three-phase party program of "study, salesmanship and survey" in Minnesota college communities. Viehman outlined the program Saturday at a weekend leadership conference at Camp Ihduhapi on Lake Independence. Viehman told they can best serve the GOP by conducting study groups on issues and party principles, serving as articulate salesmen for Republicanism and conducting block in college communities. Other GOP leaders at the conference included Robert Matthews, Indiana state Republican chairman; Minnesota Rep.

Albert Quie; Minneapolis Mayor P. Kenneth Peterson, and Mrs. Elizabeth Heffelfinger, GOP national committeewoman. Twin Cities MRS. HILMA E.

BRISTOL DEATHS Plentywood. MRS. DORA E. PEEK William Paul, Painted Post, N.Y.: two sons, Hubert Chicago, and Sylvester Minneapolis; two brothers, Anton, Hendrum, and Martin, Plentywood, and one sister, Mrs. Amanda Ulland, Services for, Mrs.

Dora E. Peek, 79, 5408 Girard who died Friday, will be at 9 a.m. Monday in Our Lady of Victory Catholic church, with burial in Resurrection cemetery. A Minneapolis resident most of her life, Mrs. Peek was a charter member of Our Lady of Victory's Rosary society.

Survivors include four sons, Leo, Wilfird, George a and Harold, all of Minneapolis, and a sister, Mrs. Gertrude Gladding, Chi- cago. ADELAIDE M. RAICHE Services for Adelaide M. Raiche, 73, 2120 S.

3rd who died Friday, will be at 10 a.m. Monday at St. Stephen's Catholic church, with burial at St. Mary's cemetery. Miss Raiche, a native of Maple Lake, had been a Minneapolis resident 53 years.

She was a member of the Catholic Daughters America and the Altar and Rosary Society of St. Stephen's Catholic church. Survivors include one brother, Zeb, Maple Lake, and four sisters, Marie, Mrs. Nellie Holtby and Mrs. Elizabeth Reichel, all of Minneapolis, and Mrs.

A Ann Bullock, Maple Lake. rosary service will be at 8 p.m. today in Gleason mortu- ary. MRS. RUBY B.

RYLANDER Services for Mrs. Ruby B. Rylander, 63, 4605 S. 44th will be at 1 p.m. Monday at Washburn McReavy mortuary, 405 Central with burial in Fort Snelling National cemetery.

Mrs. Rylander, wife of the recently retired Minneapolis deputy fire chief, Edward G. Rylander, died Friday. Born in Jordan, she had been a Minneapolis resident 39 years. She was a member of Minnehaha Methodist church.

Besides her husband, she is survived by a son, Robert Minneapolis and two sisters, Beda Shook, St. Paul, and Mrs. John Jennings, Tavares, Fla. Memorials to the cancer fund are preferred. CALEB F.

SNODGRASS Services for Caleb F. Snodgrass, 80, 1710 Stanford St. Paul, who died Friday, will be at 1 p.m. Wednesday KesselMaguire mortuary, Paul, with burial at Fort Snelling National cemetery. Mr.

Snodgrass was a retired Great Northern railroad conductor and commander-elect of Worth Bagley War veterans. Survivors include his wife, Margie; two sons, Fred, St. Paul, and George, Jacksonville, and one daughter, Mrs. George Jackson, Minneapolis. MARTIN G.

SWENSON Services for Martin G. Swenson, 77. Navarre, who died Friday, will be at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday in Werness Brothers mortuary, with burial in Lakewood cemetery. Mr.

Swenson had been a resident of the Lake, Minnetonka area 22 years was a retired trucker. Survivors include three daughters, Mrs. William Dickerson, Camarillo, Mrs. Virgil Vegars, Redondo Beach, and Mrs. Gordon Peterson, Hopkins; three sons, Merlin, Excelsior, Donald, Hopkins, and Charles, San Francisco, and one sister, Mrs.

Adrian Woolery, Seattle, Wash. William Bishop, Actor, Dies at 41 HOLLYWOOD, Calif. -(P) -Actor William Bishop died of cancer at his home Saturday after a three-month illness. He was 41. Bishop was a nephew of the late playwright, Charles MacArthur.

His acting career began in New York little theaters and he got his first major role as the juvenile lead in the Broadway production of "Tobacco Road." In recent years, Bishop has played in western films and television shows. Truck Strikes Bus; One Killed, 22 Hurt RED BLUFF, Calif. -(UPI) -A huge truck-trailer slammed into a Greyhound bus carrying 36 passengers on a lonely two- lane highway south of here early Saturday. One woman in the bus was killed and at least 22 persons were injured. BEACON world's BIGGEST WAX wax BARGAIN! Mrs.

Hilma E. Bristol, 68, Deephaven Park, Minnetonka, died Saturday. Born at Evansville, she had lived at Deephaven Park 16 years and was a charter member of Excelsior Covenant church. Survivors include her husband, Grover; a daughter, Mrs. Peterson, Richfield; a son, Eugene, Excelsior; two sisters, Mrs.

Ida Bristol and Mrs. Walter Erickson, and two brothers, Rangnar and David Anderson, all of Excelsior. Services will be at 1 p.m. Monday at Albin mortuary, Minneapolis, and 2 p.m. Tuesday at Evansville, with burial there.

The family prefers memorials to Excelsior Covenant church. WILLIAM J. CARROLL Services for William J. Carroll, 74, 2120 S. Aldrich who died Friday, will be at p.m.

Monday at Albin mortuary, with burial at Lakewood cemetery. lifelong resident of Minneapolis, Mr. Carroll had been employed as a maintenance worker for Hardware Mutual Life Insurance Co. Survivors include his wife, Jane, and two daughters, Mrs. Homer McPherson and' Mrs.

John Raine, both of Minneapolis. MRS. MARY CORRIDAN Services for Mrs. Mary Corridan, 87, 2825 Park who died Friday, will be at 9 a.m. Monday at St.

Shephen's Catholic church, with burial in St. Mary's cemetery, Born in Illinois, Mrs. Corridan had been a member of the America for more than years, Switchmen's Union of, North a past grand lodge officer and past president of the Bainbridge unit of the American Legion Auxiliary. She had been a Minneapolis resident 68 years. Survivors include a son, Timothy Minneapolis; two sisters, Mrs.

Annabelle Wagner, Waterloo, Mrs. Elizabeth Embertson, Des Moines, Iowa; and a brother, Fred Rothermel, Des Moines. A rosary service will be at 8 p.m. today in Gill Brothers mortuary. GUSTAV F.

HAGBERG Services for Gustav F. Hagberg, 62, 2317 NE. Buchanan will be at 2 p.m. Monday at Billman-Hunt mortuary, with burial in Hillside cemetery. Mr.

Hagberg, a Minneapolis resident 25 years, died Friday He was born in Sweden and had been employed in the commissary department of the Radisson hotel for the past 10 years. He was a member of Hotel and Restaurant Employes union 665. Survivors include a brother, Henning, and three sisters, Alice; Mrs. Karin Stanford, and Mrs. Hildur McCollough, all of Minneapolis.

CLARENCE T. KORP Services for Clarence T. Korp, 68, 3424 Park Terrace, who died Friday, will be at 3 p.m. Wednesday in Werness Brothers mortuary, with burial Lakewood cemetery. A lifelong Minneapolis been dent, Mr.

Korp had ployed in the mechanical engineering department of Donald Manufacturing Co. He was a member of Lake Harriet Masonic Lodge 277, the Scottish Rite, the Zuhrah Temple of the Shrine, Selim Grotto of the Shrine and Vanderburgh He survived by his wife, Presbyterian church. Clara. MRS. BERTHA KRIEDBERG Services for Mrs.

Bertha Kriedberg, 68, 1519 Oak Park who died Saturday, be at p.m. Monday at Hodroff and Sons mortuary, 1306 N. Plymouth with burial at United Hebrew Brotherhood cemetery. Mrs. Kriedberg, a Minneapolis resident 55 years, had been a member of Mikro Kodesh gogue and Hadassah.

Survivors include her husband, Julius; two sons, Conrad and Marvin, both of Minneapolis; one daughter, Mrs. Bernard R. Dworsky, Minneapolis, and one sister, Mrs. Adele J. Ganz, Los Angeles, Calif.

The family prefers memorials to the Mount Sinai Hospital Heart fund. THEODORE S. NELSON Services for Theodore S. Nel81, 3236 S. 3rd who died Friday, will be at 4 p.m.

today in Werness Brothers mortuary and at 1 p.m. Monday at Osterdalen Lutheran Free! church, Harwood, N. with burial at Harwood. Mr. Nelson, a native of Hendrum, had been a Minneapolis resident 16 years.

He was a banker at Hendrum for 20 years and also worked in the real estate business in Chicago. He had been retired since 1943. Survivors include his wife. Gina: two daughters, Mrs. Carl Hulbert.

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Square or Money the Blue lodges of the Masonic Rite and few Jews only were admitted to higher degrees in Masonry. Lefkovits knew of no Jew who belonged to Rotary, Kiwanis or the Lions club, and he claimed that there was probably not a single Jewish teacher in any of the high schools of Minneapolis. "Finally, he found it passing strange that few Jews, if any, graced the civic commissions and committees of the community." In St. Paul, on the other hand, "Jews belonged to a number of social clubs, including the downtown Athletic club, as well as the service clubs. Their numbers were not large and often it was evident that there was a 'Jewish quota'; still, Jews belonged, and those who belonged were made welcome.

It was far from an ideal situation, but in comparison to Minneapolis and many other cities it was superior. "IN BUSINESS too there was wider diversification in St. Paul than, across the river. Jews were active in banking circles and even to some degree in heavy industry. Most conspicuous of all, they were prominent in positions of civic leadership, such as the presidency of the socially elite Red Cross or the Community Chest." Some of the reasons Dr.

Plaut gives for this differp ence are the much faster economic growth of Minneapolis with resulting much keener competition and the much larger proportion of top New England stock in Minneapolis which quickly dominated the Minneapolis scene economically, politically and culturally. Jews were comparative newcomers to Minneapolis while in St. Paul they arrived at the very beginning and took part in the city's development alongside pioneers of other stocks, Dr. Plaut points out. THEN, TOO, Minneapolis was overwhelmingly Protestant while the strong Catholic minority in St.

Paul became an early ally of the Jews. The Scandinavian element, clannish in its early days and with little experience with Jews, was much stronger in Minneapolis. In St. Paul, the racial and national composition was different, including a large number of Germans who felt at home with the strongly Germanized central European Jews. Finally, the Jews St.

Paul early scattered throughout the city while in Minneapolis they settled in welldefined ghettos. But while Dr. Plaut analyzes Jewish-Gentile relations in the cities he doesn't spare the shortcomings of the Jewish community. The early Jewish settlers in St. Paul came from Germany, Austria, Alsace-Lor-zations raine, Hungary and Bohemia, were westernized and quick- became assimilated to the surrounding majority.

THESE ELEMENTS, Dr. Plaut recalls, didn't take at all kindly to the influx of Russian, Romanian, Polish and Lithuanian Jews with their Yiddish, their own clannishness and their "strange" Old World ways. A recurrent theme in the book is the disdain the old settlers had for the newcomers who followed them to this country under the pressures of eastern European absolutism and antiSemitism. In Minneapolis and Duluth, where these two groups arrived almost simultaneously, they merged without too much difficulty. In St.

Paul, Dr. Plaut writes, this was a most difficult process. The establishment of Reform temples, with much of the European Jewish tradition discarded, came partly from the desire of the westernized Jews to maintain a distinction. And Rabbi Plaut's own temple, Mt. Zion, was the foremost example of that trend.

The Orthodox synagogues were home to the eastern European Jews, with their much stronger feeling of separation from the outside and self-sufficient identity. The American-born children of these eastern European Jews, to whom Orthodoxy was too foreign, felt a need to introduce some elements from their new surroundings and found a middle ground in the establishments of Conservative synagogues. State Education Head Proposes Improvements DES MOINES, Iowa(UPI) -The Minnesota commissioner of education Saturday outlined a five-point gram for improving education before the Iowa Federation of Teachers. Dr. Paul, Dean M.

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