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VOL. XXIV
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, JUNE 10, 1949
IMufti-Syrian Accord
NEW YORK, (JTA)—The ex-
Mufti of Jerusalem and Syrian
Premier Husni Zayim have reach
ed an agreement on military coop
eration, the New York Times re
ported this week from Beirut. The
dispatch said that a special regi
ment of Mufti followers will be
formed and attached to the regular
Syrian Army.
Hold Murderers
JERUSALEM, (JTA)—Trans
jordan authorities have notified
the mixed Israeli-Transjondan
armistice commission that they
have apprehended the murderers
of two Israeli soldiers, who were
slain last week while being es
corted to their own lines. The Is
raeli Army has demanded a joint
board of inquiry.
Five Years Ago . . .
BUCHAREST, (JTA) — The
town of Targu-Mures, in Transyl
vania, this week marked the fifth
anniversary of the deportation of
its entire Jewish population to the
Auschwitz death camp by the pro-
Nazi authorities. The ceremony
was sponsored by the Jews of the
town.
Denazification Talk
WASHINGTON, (JTA)—A res
olution demanding an inquiry into
the failure of the denazification
program in the American zone of
Germany will be introduced in the
Senate Foreign Relations Com
mittee, the American Jewish Con
gress was promised this week. The
pledge was made by Sen. Claude
Pepper of Florida to members of
an A. J, C. delegation.
Golda Myerson to Talk
In Atlanta June 22
Golda Myerson, Israeli Minister
of Labor, Housing and Public
Works, will be the guest of the
Atlanta Jewish Community on
Wednesday, June 22, according to
Barney Medintz, chairman of At
lanta’s drive for $1,150,000.
She will talk at 9 p. m. at the
Ahavath Achim Educational Cen
ter, under auspices of the Jewish
Welfare Fund.
Admission will be by ticket only
since Srcchi Hall has a seating
capacity for only five or six hun
dred persons. Tickets tfiay be se-
sured by calling AL. 2985 or writ
ing to the Fund at 614 Chamber
of Commerce Building.
Shortly after her arrival from
Israel in New York earlier this
week, she revealed that the popu
lation of the Jewish state has just
reached the million mark, About
900,000 are Jewish.
Rumania Slaps
Huge Fine on
Two Zionists
BUCHAREST, (JTA) — Leon
Itzkar and Enicu Cohn, represen
tatives in Rumania of the Jewish
National Fund and the Keren
Hayesod, were this week sentenced
to four months’ imprisonment each
and were fined a total of 500,000
by a^Bucharest court which found
them guilty of violating currency
regulations in connection with
fund-raising activities which they
conducted in this country in be
half of the Zionist funds.
The defendants will not serve
the prison terms since they have
already been detained more than
four months. Last month the Ru
manian Finance Minister, with
drew charges of alleged violations
of currency regulations against the
two men, but they were still ac
cused on secondary charges of tax
evasion. The Zionist officials, who
were arrested last October, were
released from prison on May 16.
Number 24
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Plartfor
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., (JTA)
—The Near East should receive
high priority in the United Na
tions program of technical assist
ance to underdeveloped areas, U.N.
Secretary-General Trygve Lie de
clared here this week at the Uni
versity of Chattanooga.
Mr. Lie stated that he believed
that the “time has come when the
members of the United Nations
should do something” about de
veloping regional and national
projects for the Jordan Valley and
other areas of the Near East.
Turning to Israel, he asserted that
the interests of the new state
“coincide in respect to economic
development with the interests of
the neighbors with whom she has
been in conflict.” Lasting peace in
Palestine and the whole Near East,
he stated, “cannot be achieved by
any possible political settlement
Ivri Out in Budapest School;
Jewish Teachers Replaced
BUDAPEST, (JTA) — Hebrew
is no longer being taught at the
Tarbut Hebrew school here, which
Wexler Heads B. B. District 5;
Convention HearsCeller,Sachar
SAVANNAH—The eyes of the
world are on Israel, “first national
baby with an international birth
certificate,” Representative Eman
uel Celler from Brooklyn told the
recent District 5 convention of
B’nai B’rith here.
The City of Savannah itself was
all dyked out to receive the dele
gates to this oldest of Georgia
cities, giant welcoming signs being
strategically located at various
spectacular points.
Rev. Celler’s talk was but one
of several highlights before the
convention. Another was the talk
of Dr. A. L. Sachar, president of
Brandeis University, who said that
“the founding of Israel established
a new self-reliance and dignify of
the Jews.” Dr. Sachar termed the
founding of Brandeis school as a
definite sign of maturity on the
part of the Jewish people.
Other features of the conven
tion were:
1. Election of William Wexler
of Savannah as District 5 presi
dent.
2. Discussion by Ralph L. Crol-
lick, director of the Middle At
lantic Area, of the National Jewish
Hospital in Denver.
3. Consideration of the non
sectarian character of B'nai B’rith
by Sidney G. Kusworm, Dayton,
O., national treasurer of B’nai
B’rith and chairman of the Ameri
canism and civic affairs advisory
committee.
4. Sessions of B’nai B’rith Wo
men, with Mrs. Hymrian C. Weis-
man of St. Louis, president of the
Women’s Supreme Council, as
guest speaker.
5. An Anti-Defamation League
panel, at which Max Kroloff of
Atlanta presided.
6. Reelection of Mrs. Nat H.
Levy of Washington as president
of the B’nai B’rith Women of the
District.
The following were initated into
Savannah Lodge No. 74 by a de
gree team from Dan Lodge at
Charleston during the sessions:
Ben Bergrin, Harry Gingsberg,
Benjamin K. Victor, Louis Mirsky,
Abe Rabhan, I. J. Osterwell, Isa-
dore Karpf, Dan Dieman, Saul
Wolf, Reuben Seigal, Ramon B.
Rosenzweig, Martin Sussman,
Gary Lubar, J. W. Alpern, Hyman
Friedman, Marx Lipsey, Irving
Alperin, Norman Robinson, Bar
ney Sadler, Phillip Friediman, Lar
ry Elman, Jake Fine, Jr., Louis
j Goldberg and Simon Golden.
Elected with Mrs. Levy were:
' Mrs. Beverly Beeker of Miami
Beach, Mrs. E. Meyer of Balti
more, Mrs. Joseph Pintchuck of
Atlanta and Mrs. Abe Wolf of Mt.
Ranier, Md., vice presidents: Miss
Edna Blomberg of Washington,
treasurer; Miss Esther Snyder of
Baltimore, historian.
Other district officers selected
by the men were: H. Schowal of
Lynchburg, Va., Melvin Harris of
I Columbia and Howard Burman of
| Baltimore, vice presidents; Julius
j Fisher of Roanoke, secretary; Ar
thur Rittenburg, of Charleston,
president. Edward Rosenblum,
I past president of District Grand
Lodge No. 5, installed the newly
j elected officers. Mrs. Weisman in
ducted the women officers.
was recently included in the gov
ernment’s school nationalization
program. Although all the chil
dren attending the school are
Jewish, many of the Jewish teach
ers have been replaced by Chris
tian instructors.
The number of Jewish children
who will be afforded opportunity
by the Joint Distribution Commit
tee to spend several weeks at a
summer camp during the next
few months will be greater than
that of last year, it was revealed
here. More than 2,000 youngsters
will be included in this year’s pro
gram as compared with some 1,500
who were sent by the J.D.C. to
summer rest areas in 1948.
In addition, this year the Ortho
dox groups will run their own
camps. Each child staying in an
Orthodox resort will remain ap
proximately four weeks and will
receive 2,000 calories daily. The
J.D.C., meanwhile, is selecting the
children who will be sent to its
camps with great care and will al
low only those whose parents are
in dire economic straits or who
require mountain air to be sent to
summer resorts.
New Rules In Italy
ROME, (JTA)—The checking
of identity papers and the legal
status of displaced Jews living
outside the regular camps and in
Hachsharah training centers in
Italy will begin this week.
sTVA
earEast
alone.”
Holding up the Tennessee Val
ley Authority as an example of
“boldness and imaginative plan
ning,” Mr. Lie insisted that such
development in the Near East
would improve living conditions
and “provide the necessary eco
nomic and social basis for the full
reconcilliation in the area of Mos
lem, Jew and Christian, of Israeli
and Arab.”
JTA and Yearbook
Editors Are
Given Awards
NEW YORK, (JTA)—Harry
Schneiderman, editor of the
American Jewish Year Book for
the past 40 years, received an
award of appreciation this week
for his “sincere devotion to Jew
ish literature” at the annual meet
ing of the Jewish Book Council of
America, held at the Jewish Mu
seum. The award was conferred
on Mr. Schneiderman by Dr.
Mordecai Soltes, executive direc
tor of Yeshiva University.
• * * * *
NEW YORK, (JTA)—The Na
tional Conference of Christians
and Jews this week presented an
award to Boris Smolar, editor-in-
chief of the Jewish Telegraphic
Agency, “in recognition of out
standing assistance in the further
ance of brotherhood.” The docu
ment was signed by President
Truman, honorary president of
the N.C.C.J.; Nelson A. Rocke
feller, national chairman; Everett
R. Clinchy, president; T. E. Bran-
iff, C. E. Wilson and Roger W.
Strauss, co-chairmen.
S. A. Congress
Lauds Policy
of Nationalists
JOHANNESBURG, (JTA)—The
17th biennial congress of the
Squth African Jewish Board of
Deputies closed here last week
with a resolution expressing grat
ification at the Nationalist Gov
ernment’s policy of non-discrimi
nation against the Jews. However,
the resolution scored the policy of
the Transvaal Nationalist Party of
excluding Jews from membership.
FOR THESE WE GIVE—As Atlanta and other Southern communities rally to the cause
of the United Jewish Appeal, here is an inside view of one facet of the terrific
need for which much of the fund contributions is intended—the plight of the new
ly arrived former DP inmates in Israel. Here are shown typical tent dwellings at^
Pardese Hmm, one of the many reception camps which have had to be hurriedly
set up for the waves of new arrivals. Ten newscomen from Turkey share one
small tent (at left), all their limited possessions Jammed into the limited spajee
available. At right, other immigrants while away the long, monotonous hours of
inactivity by comparing notes on their personal experiences.