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VOL. XXIII
ATLANTA, GEO„.
Number 42
Czech Lesders Want to Leave Army Stays
Country, Says Woman Writer Death of War
VIENNA. (JTA)—At least 1,-
('00 Czech Jews have fled Czecho
slovakia since the recent change
of government, Gisela Tauber, a
Jewist journalist, declared upon
her arrival here from Prague.
She crossed the border illegally.
Miss Tauber said that the
membership of the Jewish Com
munity Council of Prague and
the Federation of Jewish Com
munities has been cleared of
most persons who “refuse to bow
to the Communists.” She added
that most of the positions on both
bodies have been filled by Com
munists as a majority of the for
mer leaders of the groups fled
the country, mostly to Paris.
Administrative barriers have
virtually halted emigration to all
countries except Israel, Miss
Tauber asserted, adding that as a
result many Jews in Prague have
applied for Israeli visas. The
Jewish communities of many
provincial centers, such as Tep-
litz and Reichenberg, have been
depleted by legal and illegal em
igration, she said. The transfer of
valuable property such as jewels,
silverware, furs and rugs is fre
quently prevented by officials, in
the absence of regulations gov
erning their export, Miss Tauber
reported.
She also said that many Jewish
refugees from other Eastern
European nations arriving in
Prague are “not permitted to re- « • ■
ceive” relief assistance on orders I , 1*1 II1111 f l I C
of Egon Kohn, whom Miss Tau
ber identifies as a leading mem
ber of the Prague Jewish Com
munity and the Communist Party.
She also confirmed that Oscar
Kransnansky, head of the Czech
Zionist movement, has been ar
rested.
Arabs Shell
Jerusalem
JERUSALEM, Oct. 11. (JTA) —
Jerusalem’s war continued today I
with more Arab artillery and!
small arms fire on the southern '
outskirts of the city. It is estimat
ed tha* some 500 shells fell in the j
Jewish areas during the last 24
hours, one hitting and damaging j
the Turkish consulate. No one [
was injured in the consulate. |
A spokesman for the Israeli '
military governor of Jerusalem
today announced special precau
tions to guard foreign consularj
staffs in the city. He stressed that
the measures are not being taken j
because of yesterday's mass pris- j
on break by Sternists in Jaffa.
HE1LDELBERG, (JTA)—With
out any public explanation, U. S.
Army authorities have suspended
the execution of the Nazi war
criminals sentenced to death by
American military tribunals, it
was ascertained here.
As a result, nearly 140 convict
ed war criminals sentenced to
hang—including 15 of Use Koch’s
co-defendants in the Buchenwald
camp trials—are today simply
serving time at Landsberg Prison,
the site of executions in the U. S.
zone.
In the majority of these cases,
the war criminals were convicted
last year and had their sentences
confirmed early in 1948 by Gen.
D- Clay, the United States Euro
pean Theatre commander. Some
of the prisoners, however, have
been awaiting the hangsman’s
noose for as much as 11 months
since Gen. Clay confirmed 1 their
death sentences.
(A special Army commission
has recommended clemency for p
“limited” but undisclosed number
of 139 Nazi war criminals sen
tenced to die, Secretary Royall
admitted in Washington. The
commission has also recommend
ed that a general clemency pro
gram be considered for sentenced
Nazis.)
Shertok, Soviet
Envoys Confer
PARIS, Oct. 11. (JTA)—Members of the Israeli delegation today
disclosed that Foreign Minister Moshe Shertok held a cordial ex
change of views over the weekend with Andrei V. Vishinsky, Soviet
Foreign Minister, and Yakov A. Malik, Soviet chief delegate to the
U. N., over the Palestine proposals of the late U- N. 'mediator Count
Folke Bemadotte. The Israel Foreign Minister was accompanied by
David Livshitz, a member of the Israeli delegation to the General As
sembly.
It was also reported in U. N. circles that the chief question dis
cussed Saturday between Shertok and acting U. N. Palestine mediator
Dr. Ralph Bunche involved the institution of safety measures for U.
N. truce observers stationed in Jerusalem.
U.S. Catholics Gondemn
Spain’s Ban on Movie
Or Ve Shalom Congregation
Consecrates New Synagogue
Atlanta’s Or Ve Shalom Con
gregation last Sunday officially
occupied its new Shule at 1372 N.
Highland Avenue.
The former church was conse
crated Sunday in a congregation
al occasion which saw the Sefri
Torah deposited in the Holy Ark
and the first Jewish szrvicec held
on the premises.
The Sephardic group of Atlanta
assembled at their old Synagogue
on Central Avenue, a site semi-
rondemned for housing large
crowds and hence inadquate to
the Or Ve Shalom schools and
High Holiday services. This con
dition saw the congregation ac
tivities scattered around town in
an effort to use whatever facili
ties were available.
In 1944 a building committee
was organized and only this fall
has the congregation, formed in
1914, been enabled to occupy its
new home. The Highland Avenue
facilities are to be remodeled and
CCNY Students
Vote to Oust
NEW YORK. (JTA)—Students
at New York’s City College have
voted overwhelmingly for the
dismissal of Prof. William E.
Knickerbocker, an instructor
charged with anti-Semitism, it
was announced here.
In the first direct test of opin
ion on the campus the students
voted 4,440 to 564 to petition the
authorities to oust Prof. Knicker
bocker. The vote, held in all
classrooms, was conducted with
permission of the college author
ities and classroom instructors
distributed the ballots.
an official dedication will take
place for the entire community at
the time
| The congregation gathered at
, its old Synagogue and held Min-
j cha afternoon services in farewell.
The Torahs were removed from
their old resting place. With great
reverance, they were transported
in a motorcade with a police and
rabbinical escort across town to
Highland Avenue.
Here the scrolls of the Law,
we.e placed amid professional
> r.ging in the Holy Ark of the
lew synagogue.
The key »o the synagogue was
presented by Building Co-Chair-
nen Mrs. Isaac Benshushan and
r i<’tor Franco. The key was ac
cepted by Ned Cohen, president
>f the Congregation.
The lighting of the perpetual
lamp followed. This honor was
oerformed by Jacob Hanan, in his
late seventies, as the oldest mem
ber and worker in the congrega
tion.
Mrs. Jack Franco, president of
I the sisterhood, and officers of the
congregation made brief talks &s
did Dr. Morris Toronto, Benny
Galenti, Isaac Franco, Frank
| Garson and Louis Schwartzman.
Present as Sephardic guests
j were Rabbi Elias Levy of the Etz
j Hahayiam Sephardic Congrega
tion of Montgomery, Dr. Morris
Capouya, president of the Mont-
j gomery congregation, and Morris
Capouana, also of Montgomery
and founder of the Atlanta Or Ve
Shalom congregation in 1914.
Then came the presentation of
a curtain for the Holy Ark by
Mrs. Behora Franco and after
wards a memorial prayer for de
parted members.
Rabbi Joseph Cohen made the
consecration address. Then came
the Maariv evening services the
first to be held in the new place
of worship.
The Synagogue was ready for
Korn Kippar.
NEW YORK (JPS)—Leading:
Roman Catholic churchmen and i
representative Jewish organiza
tions joined in denouncing the |
anti-Somiitic content of an order
issued by the ecclesiastical mem
ber of the Spanish Film Censor
ship Board in Madrid, banning
the ecclesiastical member of the
Spanish Film Censorship Board
in Madrid, banning the American
film “Gentleman’s Agreement”
from Spain.
According to a New York Times
dispatch from Madrid Thursday
the film, which deals with and
deplores anti-Semitism in Amer
ican “society” circles, was banned
by the cleric because it stated
that there was no difference be
tween Jews and Christans, whch
was “merely so many wordls” and
“that a Christian is not superior
to a Jew.” The ban further stipu
lated that while it as a Christian
duty to “stimulate love among in
dividuals, societies, nations and
peoples,” this duty should not be
extended to Jews. It concluded
with this: “They say that for
many Jews it, is a matter of
pride to be called Jews. Pride of
P
eace in
the ^uccah
The harvest has again been reaped
And in praise our voices sing
To bounteous Nature from whom we’ve seeped
These luscious and goodly things.
Israel in the wilderness did trod
In dire peril, but secure in the boast
That they had unbounded faith in God,
Who proved a kindly Host.
They had no citadels of iron or steel,
No conquerors of air,
But, whate’er their bounty, they did feel
’Twas honorable to share.
We’ve smugly thought, folks in those days
Were barbarous and crude,
While we were mature in wisdom's ways
And by gentler instincts wooed.
But, with all our works of Art,
With the improvements with which we’re shod,
Fear and doubt are in our heart
Uur world has lost its touch with God.
Alas, too late we see the trap
its darkness hides the light,
Mighty arsenals of death o’erlap
The truth—the air—the right.
When will we know content and peace?
When will this irony cease?
That we must recall such scenes as these
When we would think of Peace.
— Elsie Lmdeman
Elberton, Ga.
Bulgarian Plan
Israel Trek
SOFIA, (JTA)—The emigra
tion of Bulgarian Jews to Israel
will be supervised and regulated
by the new central consistory.
The new group is made up of
ten Zionists, ten Communists,
three Socialists and two inde
pendents.
what? The pride of being the
people who put God to death? Ot
being perfidious, as they are
called in the Holy Scripture?”
The Censorship Board is com
posed of representatives of the
armed forces, the “family” and
the Church but, under the voting
procedure, the latter may order
the banning of any film even If
the other members disagree.
In a statement issued from the
Chancery Office of the New York
Archiocese, Francis Cardinal
Spellman said: “I do not know
what was actually said in Spain,
who said it, or why it was said,
| but I do know 1 it is untrue to say
that the ‘Christian attitude’ to
‘stimulate love among individuals,
societies, nations and peoples’
does not extend to people of the
Jewish race and faith.”
The Reverend John LaFarge,
editor of America, national Cath
olic weekly, declared in a state
ment that he felt it his duty as a
Catholic “vigorously to repud
iate” the ideas expressed in the
Censorship Board’s ban. “If the
censors are correctly represented
as saying that the duty of love
should be extended to all but not
the Jews, they are contradicting
plain Christian and Catholic
teaching. . . . Nor is it doctrinally
correct to tell your Jewish neigh
bor that he belongs to the ‘people
who put God to,death,’ ” Father
LaFarge said.
The Anti-Defamation League
of B’nai B’rith characterized the
Censorship Board’s action as.
“the most shocking expression of
anti-Semitism since the death of
Hitler.” The ADL called upon the
“Christian world and particularly
Catholic leadership to repudiate
the libel against the Jews.”
Rabbi William F. Rosenblum,
president of the Synagogue Coun
cil of America, said also that he
hoped the “strongest condemna
tion will came from high Catholic
churchmen in this and other
lands, and that the Vatican it
self will reprimand this bigoted
member of the clergy.”