Strange Devices

The great doors of the nation's most famed Catholic edifice, St. Patrick's Cathedral in Manhattan, dripped with painted hammer-&-sickles last week. Two of the bright red symbols faced fine-feathered Fifth Avenue; two shone from doors on the side, and two from the walls. The sacristan found them there in the morning as he prepared to open the cathedral for early Mass, and called police. Same morning the same red symbols were splotched on the walls of two other Catholic churches in the city. (Several Manhattan synagogues had previously blossomed with swastikas.)

City detectives sent ori a man hunt could find nobody who had seen the vandals at work. Mayor LaGuardia posted a $500 reward. The State Secretary of the Communist Party damned the daubing as "Fascist vandalism directed against the unity of the United Nations and the American people."

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