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The Southern Israelite
A Weekly Newspaper for Sou th ern Jewry
Established 1 9 s / 5
VOL. xxv
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1950
Number C
Disease Basis
For Excluding
Falasha Jews
JERUSALEM, Feb. 6. (JTA)—
The Israel Government has de
cided not to transport Abyssinian
Jews to the Jewish state, it was
learned here today.
Reports were recently received
that the Falasha Jews of Ethiopia
desired to immigrate to Israel.
The Joint Distribution Committee
began consultations with the Is
rael Government on the speediest
manner of transporting the new
immigrants and a medical mission
was dispatched to Ethiopia. The
mission, however, reported that
the bulk of the Falasha Jews were
suffering from an inherited in
fectious disease and the govern
ment decided not to permit the
mass migration.
Ben Massell Donates Property
for Home for Aged in Atlanta
NY Group Visits Israel
NEW YORK, (JTA)—-A 12-man
committee representing the United
Jewish Appeal of Greater New
York left La Guardia Airport last
week for Israel where its members
will conduct an on-the-spot sur
vey of conditions.
BY ADOLPH ROSENBERG
The first real step toward the realization of a Home for
Jewish Aged has been announced in Atlanta.
Frank Garson. chairman of the Central Board on Care of
Jewish Aged, and Mrs. Mcndlc Boorstin as secretary revealed
the acceptance of a deed of gift to a parcel of land on Four
teenth and Holly Street from Ben J. Massell, president of the
RAC Realty Company.
This site has been previously approved for zoning as a home
for the aged by the Zoning Board
of Appeals .the City Council and
the Mayor. The property touches
the boundary line of the Progres
sive Club. It is in an area acces
sible to everybody and everything
in the community.
The study of the Jewish popu
lation made in 1947 pointed up
the problem of the aged. Atlanta
had a growing number and a
higher percentage of aged in the
total population.
But Atlanta lacked facilities for
the care of aged, chronic ill and
convalescent. This applied to all
classes of people .those who were
able to meet the cost of care as
well as to those who became de
pendent upon the community for
assistance.
A study of the problems of the
Jewish aged in Atlanta recom-
Central Board will be enabled to
go forward with its plans for the
aged, Mr. Garson indicated.
Mr. Massell has recently re
ceived recognition in the press of
Atlanta for his progressive spirit
in upbuilding the community.
Mrs. Boorstein, who has been
active in the movement for a
home for the aged, expressed en
thusiasm and excitement over the
gift. "This is the best news that
has come to me in a long time.
Now we can get to work and put
it over.”
Frank Garson, as chairman of
“Silver Shirter’*
Pelley Paroled
WASHINGTON, Feb. 6. (JTA)—
The U. S. Parole Board decided
today to free William Dudley
Pelley, founder of the Silver Shirts
of America and a leading anti-
Semitic rabblerouser. He will be
paroled from the U. S. Peniten
tiary at Terre Haute, Ind., on Feb
ruary 14.
Pelley’s release follows an in
tense propaganda campaign waged
in his behalf by many hate or
ganizations. A U. S. Court con
victed him on 11 counts of crim
inal wartime sedition in 1942. His
sentence was for 15 years’ im
prisonment.
Barkley Denies American Jews
Aiding Israel Have a Dual Loyalty
ST. LOUIS, Feb. 6. (JTA)—
Vice President Alben W. Barkley
last night lashed out at those who
raised the charge of dual loyalty
in relation to American Jewry’s
support of Israel. Speaking here
at an extraordinary conference of
the United Jewish Appeal of St.
Louis, the Vice President declared
that it is “preposterous to believe
that anyone contributing to the
development of Israel was being
disloyal to the United States.”
Mr. Barkley added thaf’nobody,
Jew or Gentile, can truthfully say
that it is disloyal for any American
to try to help a little country
which is being helped by the very
Government of the United States.”
He lauded the state of Israel for
holding out the “one great oppor
tunity for world peace at a time
when the forces of destruction are
rising in the world and the arma
ments race has reached a new
peak.”
First Bank In Negev
TEL AVIV, (JTA)—The Kupat
Milve Bank opened last month in
Beersheba—the first banking of
fice in the Negev—has already
extended 24,000 pounds in loans
to settlers in the southern desert,
it was announced this week. Sixty
percent of the loans were granted
to former veterans who have set
tled in the Negev, while about
4,000 pounds was loaned to Be
douins for the purchase of seed.
BEN J. MASSELL
. . . benefactor of aged
mended the establishment of a
home for the aged as part of a
comprehensive program for serv
ing the aged, which in addition to
institutional care would provide
proper medical service, case work
and personal service.
With the gift of the site, the
Commies Decide to Fight Zionism
in Cominform Countries
FRANK GARSON
. . . leads Central Board
the Central Board, has assumed
the leadership in this effort. He
said that now that legal title has
been acquired to the property, it
will be possible to proceed with
the plans.
He added that the plans for the
building of the home will require
the cooperation of every Jewish
community in Georgia. “We shall
have to raise sufficient funds to
make it a home that will serve all
To Cast for Britain
LONDON, (JTA)—Jacob Ep
stein, world famous Jewish sculp
tor, has just received a commis
sion to execute a bronze figure for
the 1951 “Festival of Britain”
The figure will be that of a man
and will symbolize “man’s urge to
discovery and endeavor.”
Jews in Georgia,” he said. Anyone
interesting in having a part in the
establishment of the Home by
memorializing a dear one should
get in touch with Mr. Garson.
Thomas Makover is serving as
treasurer of the Central Board.
Charles W. Bergman acted as
the counsel who disentangled the
legal problems involved in
clearing the. title. He did this as
a volunteer without any fee.
A. SCHWARTZ
Jewish Telegraphic Agency Correspondent
TEL AVIV, (JTA)—A scries of resolutions aimed at inten
sifying the fight against Zionist was adopted at a conference
of Jewish Communist leaders from East European countries
held early in January in Marien- ‘
bad, Czechoslovakia, it was learn-
•ed here this week.
The conference, which lasted
five days, was attended by ex
perts on Jewish affairs from Mos
cow, headed by Professor V. B.
Lutzky, notorious for his attacks
on Zionism and Israel in the So
viet press and at public lectures
in the U.S.S.R. The resolutions
adopted urged the waging of a
“bitter war to the end’’ against
Zionism in all Cominform coun
tries.
As a result of this conference,
special broadcasts will be launch
ed in Yiddish from Budapest and
Bucharest radio stations appealing
to Jews in Hungary and Rumania
“to boycott Zionism agents and
oppose their propaganda for emi
gration to Israel.” The Communist
Party of Israel was promised at
the conference “better support”
on the condition that it purge its
ranks of “nationalist and Titoist
elements.”
The conference suggested that
the activities of the Communist
party in Israel be devoted pri
marily to the spreading of propa
ganda among the Arabs in the
Jewish state and to the establish
ment of contact with the under
ground Communist groups in
Lebanon and Syria. The Com
munists in Israel have also been
urged by the conference to inten
sify their subversive activities, in
cluding demonstrations, parades
and strikes.
Knesset Downs
Deputy Wilner
JERUSALEM. (JTA)—The Is
rael parliament witnessed another
stormy session this week when
Communist deputy Afreir Wilner
proposed that the Knesset agenda
include discussion of the “situa
tion in several agricultural settle
ments where Communist settlers
have been subjected to economic
and political terror.”
Mr. Wilner also called for a
parliamentary investigation of
police conduct in the quelling of
the Communist demonstration in
Tel Aviv last week-end. Mapai
deputy Shmuel Dayan proposed
that the deputies immediately take
up the items on the agenda, with
out considering inclusion of Mr.
Wilner’s proposals .The Mapai
deputy declared that “each settle
ment has a perfect right to live in
ideological unity,” adding that
“the Aviv’s police conduct was
correct.”
Historic Snow in Israel: Plane
Crashes; Heaviest Since 1870
K. K. K. Groups Merge: Declare War
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., (JTA)—“War” against the B’nai
B’rith, the Federal Council of Churches of Christ of America
and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored
People was declared here this week in a statement issued by
leaders of three Ku Klux Kian groups which were merged
into a united body.
The three groups are: the Federated Klans of Alabama, the
Southern Knights of the Ku Klux Kian and the Association
of Carolina Klans. The only Ku Klux Kian groups which are
still outside the united Kian is the Klavcrn of Atlanta.
TEL AVIV, Feb. 6. (JTA)—A
j Paris-bound Israel passenger plane
crashed at the Lydda airport, near
here, last night during a take-off
iit a blinding snow storm. Only
two of the 46 passengers were in
jured slightly, but it is feared that
the plane is a total loss and' that
there was about $250,000 in dam
ages.
The plane, a Douglas DC-4,
owned by the El A1 airline, a gov
ernment subsidized corporation,
began its normal take-off run, but
trouble developed before it was
airborne and the pilot attempted
to brake, the ship. However, due
to the snow and ice, the four-en
gine plane skidded off the runway
and caught fire. The steward and
stewardesses conducted the pas
sengers to safety in an orderly
manner, according to a statement
issued by the company.
Among the passengers were
Aubrey Eban and a delegation
bound for Rome to discuss a com
munication agreement and an air-
sea transportation pact. The plane
was named the Theodor Herzl, In
honor of the founder of modem
Zionism, whose remains it carried
from Vienna to Tel Aviv last year.
TEL AVIV, Feb. 6. (JTA)—
Jewish Agency officials worked
throughout the night in freezing
temperatures examining condi
tions in immigrant reception
camps in Israel, following the
worst snow-fall that has ever hit
this country. A heavy, snow fell in
the entire Tel Aviv area ior the
first time since 1870, while the
rest of Israel was reported under
a deep blanket of snow.
The city of Tiberias reported
that it is snow-bound. The road
linking Tel Aviv and Jerusalem
has been cut since last night wtyle
the official government radio,
Voice of Israel, cancelled its pro
grams owing to the failure of elec
tric power. Transportation was
reported to have been seriously
cut throughout the country.
The streets, rooftops and trees
in Tel Aviv are glistening white.
Reports reaching here from var
ious parts of Israel say the snow
fall is continuing everywhere. The
snow storm raging in Jerusalem
today made it impossible for the
regularly-scheduled session of the
Israel parliament to take place
since moat deputies reside outside
the city.