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The Southern Israelite
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iGIA, FRIDAY, MAY 5, 1950
Number 17
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Cover Girls” to Canvass Atlanta Sunday
JTA Correspondent
Arrested in Rumania
BV MILTON FRIEDMAN
Jewish Telegraphic Agency Correspondent
WASHINGTON, (JTA)—-The State Department reported that it
has verified the arrest in Rumania of Marcel Pohne, local corres-
Women's Division Seeks to Wind-Up Campaign May 7; Ask
Givers Who Have Not Pledged to Wait at Home for Workers
"Cover-All Day”, a whirlwind dies” will co-operate and take
pondent of the Jewish Telegraphic
Agency, and Leonard Kirscher,
Associated Press correspondent
there.
At the same time, the Ruman-
arrested on charges of having
provided information to the em
ployees of the information ser
vices. The State Department
learned that the Bucharest court
ia Legation here said that the j asked the prosecutor whether or
Government of Rumania has no . „ , , , . . . .
. , not Pohne had been arrested and
official knowledge of the arrest
of a J. T. A. correspondent in I ,hat the Prosecutor’s answer was
Bucharest. A spokesman for the i in the affirmative.
Legation said that "sometimes j It is understood that a represen-
actions are misinterpreted.” He tative of the u. s . Legation in
explained that it is possible that Bucharest is seeking permission
the correspondent was merely
subpoenaed to present testimony
to attend the hearings. Meanwhile
at the current trial of five former | the State Department delivered a
employees of the British and
American information services.
According to the information
received by the State Department,
Messrs. Pohne and Kirscher were
note to the Rumanian Legation
here requesting the Rumanian
(Continued on page two)
one-day drive to take place on
Sunday, May 7, will climax the
campaign of the Women’s Division
of the Jewish Welfare Fund.
On that day, over 400 “cover
girls” will make a house to house
appeal to those women who have
not as yet contributed or pledged
to the fund. The chairmen of the
day, Mrs George Chait, Mrs. Ab
ner Lichtenstein and Mrs. Mau
rice Pepper request that anyone
who is not working, please stay at
home until a solicitor has called.
They also revealed that those
who are visited have a chance at
a drawing for the following
prizes, which will be donated: a
permanent wave by Adolphe, a
silver service piece by Luria, and
a lovely hat by Loretta Bonta.
Sunday schools in Atlanta will
be closed for the day. All "Dad-
Soviet Reverses
Stand On
Jerusalem
LAKE SUCCESS, (JTA)—The
Soviet Union announced a com
plete reversal of its long-held
position in favor of international
izing Jerusalem. Jacob Malik, per
manent U. N. representative of
the U. S. S. R., in a letter to Sec
retary-General Trygve Lie said:
“It has now become clear that
the General Assembly’s resolu
tion of December, 1949, establish
ing a permanent regime for Jeru
salem does not satisfy the Arab
or Jewish populations of either
Jerusalem or Palestine as a whole.
In these circumstances the Gov
ernment of the U.S.S.R. does not
consider it possible to continue its
support of the above-mentioned
resolution. At the same time the
Soviet Government feels certain
that the United Nations will suc
ceed in finding a solution of the
Jerusalem problem acceptable to
both the Arab and the Jewish
sections of the population of that
city.”
Miamians Seek $300,000 from Germany
MIAMI, (JTA)—A total of $300,000 in claims against the German
Government for loss of liberty and loss of health has been filed by
128 claimants in the Miami area, it was reported by the National
Council of Jewish Women office which helped the claimants prepare
the necessary documents. Claimants are forfner displaced persons.
The claims do not cover loss of property or loss of life. Claims for
ifdemnification against the German Government at Bonn for loss of
hdallii were substantiated by certificates issued by Mwiint Sinai hos
pital here, where a number of the applicants were given medical ex
aminations.
JWB, Christian Groups Form New Unit
WASHINGTON, (JTA)—Associated Services for the Armed Forces,
a new national organization to provide for the religious, welfare,
morale and recreational needs of members of the armed forces, has
been jointly formed by the National Jewish Welfare Board, the Young
Men’s Christian Association and the National Catholic Community
Service at the request of the National Military Establishment, it was
announced here by Louis J. Johnson, Secretary of Defense.
The three organizations that have united to establish ASAF have
traditionally been engaged in service to the armed forces and pre
viously worked together for nine years as operating agencies of the
now deactivated United Service Organizations.
House Hears Tribute to Charleston Jewry
over household duties and care
of children while mother is out.
However, if transportation or a
baby sitter is needed, “colonels”
will request young boys and girls
from Youth Council, who will
gladly pitch in, so that work can
start at 9:30 a. m.
After all prospects have been
seen, “cover-girls” will meet at
the Temple at a “report-supper”
between 4 and 6 p. m. Mrs. Joseph
Freilag is in charge of the supper,
and assisting her are Mrs. Jack
Berman, Mrs. Henry Simmons.
Mrs. Fritz Witt, Mrs. Muriel
Berger, Mrs. Max Bogart and
Mrs. Nathan Popkin, have been
in charge of publicity, and Mrs
Joseph Levin of poster publicity,
in New York when 28 communi-
connected with the women’s divi
sion that “Cover-All Day" will
•ulminate the women’s campaign
this year, instead of having it go
on into the summer months, ac
cording to the chairmen. In order
to achieve the over-all goal of
$1,250,000 for Atlanta, it is neces
sary that everyone give the larg
est amount they can possibly give.
Mrs. J. Abelson, Mrs. I. M. Wein
stein, and Mrs. Herman Heyman,
over-all chairmen of the Women’s
Division, expressed the hope that
Atlanta’s goal will be fulfilled
this year, and that everyone will
give more than ever before.
The 1950 campaign will include
a special grant of $25,000 for a
Home for Jewish Aged in Atlanta,
and most of the contributions will
be received by the United Jewish
Appeal, which will help in the
tremendous tasks faced by Israel
in the settlement, housing and
integration of newcomers. And in
the words of Dr. Chaim Weiz-
mann, President of Israel, “these
tasks must be speeded with the
help of American Jewry through
the United Jewish Appeal”.
WASHINGTON, (JTA)—Tribute was paid to the Jewish Commun
ity of Charleston, S. C., on the occasion of its 200th anniversary, in a
speech in the House of Representatives by Rep. L. Mendel Rivers of
South Carolina.
Rep. Rivers said: “The Jewish Community of Charleston is cele
brating its 200th anniversary. This is no accident. The Jewish Com-
, ... .. .. . . . . . .. . „ , action whatsoever on cases report-
munity of this fine city is one of which we are all proud. From its
very beginning it has become an integral and indispensable segment
of our entire community life.’ ’
French Alone Take Steps
In Desecration of Cemetery
DUSSELDORF, (JTA)—Only
in the French zone of Germany
have the occupation authorities
taken prompt and effective meas- The League of German Student
ures to check the desecration of
Jewish cemeteries, it was empha
sized here by Karl Marx, editor
of the German-Jewish newspaper
Juedische Allgemeine Zeitung.
Mr. Marx reported that when a
Jewish cemetery was desecrated
in a small village near Triere, in
the French zone, the French
authorities penalized the entire
population, setting them to work
putting the cemetery in order.
Since then there have been no
desecrations of Jewish cemeteries
in the French zone.
The number of desecrations of
Jewish cemeteries in the Ameican
and British zones of Germany,
Mr. Marx said, is mounting to
such a point that the Jews have
given up reporting them to the
authorities. The British authori
ties have so far taken no decisive
ed to them, he declared. He also
pointed out that not a single Ger
man community offered to rebuild
the synagogues destroyed by the
Nazis during the Hitler regime.
adopted a resolution condemning
the new wave of anti-Semitism in
West Germany. Simultaneously,
German students, meeting at
Mainz, in the French zone, ex
pressed concern over the series of
anti-Semitic "incidents,” and
called for restitution of Jewish
property seized- by the Nazis and
correction of "moral injustices”
done to the Jews.
The latest desecration of a Jew
ish cemetery occurred at Klein-
bardorf, in Frankonia, where 16
tombstones were felled and ten
others damaged by German farm
ers who, according to the local
police, were cutting trees for fire
wood. A protest by Dr. Philip
Auerbach, Bavarian Commission
er for Persecutees, in a letter to
the provincial Premier, Hans
Ehard, asked that the persons re
sponsible be punished. He insisted
that the damage did not result by
accident.
Israel Takes Our Tired, Our Tempest-Tost...
Funds collected in Atlanta through the current Jewish Welfare Fund Campaign
and elsewhere in Southern communities for the United Jewish Appeal help support
Israel’s historic and humane immigration policy of receiving all homeless Jews who
wish to settle there. These pictures show actual arrival of aged, sick and disabled
immigrants .most of them impoverished and affected by the Hitlerian holocaust.
These “hard core" immigrants, many of them stretcher cases, are being cared for
m Israel by me ocwmi agency mr x'uiesune in couaooranon with the Joint Dis
tribution Committee, both of which derive funds from the UJA’s nationwide cam
paign. At right, Mrs. Anna Margulies, 92, formerly of Cracow, Poland, is being
helped by nurses to a waiting ambulance. She was the oldest passenger on the S. S.
Kommemiut. At right, Haya Ostroburska, 25, receives the tender affection of nurses
as she lies on a stretcher. In center, Ephraim Levit, 78, former of Grodno, Poland,
greets his new friends in Israel. v