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VOL. XXV
The Southern Israelite
A \vcel<!y Newspaper for Southern Jewry
Established 19*5
ATLANTA. GEORGIA. FRIDAY. MAY 26, 1950
Number 21)
^0 Cemeteries Violated Cologne Torah Guriosi /Vshs Soviets
In Germany Alone
MUNICH. May 23. (JTA)—Two
.’..lied of a total of 500 Jewish
-'.eteries in Germany have been
crated since the Germans sur-
:uiered in 1945, it was reported
v by U. S. Commissioner for
se, James R. Newman. The
:ncrican official also addressed
■quest to Christian Stock, Prime
.uister of the province of Hesse,
take immediate measures
iinst prejudice and religious
• reds.
S. Commissioner for Wuert-
wr-Baden Gen. Charles P.
s sent a special American in-
• .^ator to Hemsbach, located
Mannheim, to check on the
• • k-end desecration of the Jew-
.emetcry there. Hemsbach po-
■ iiii.minted that the vandalism
the work of children ranging
in age from five to 17.
Three young Germans were ar
rested at Wermelskirchen, near
Dusseldorf, in the British zone, tor.
desecrating a memorial to Jewish
victims ot the Nazis and over
turning tombstones in the local
Jewish cemetery, it was reported.
MUNICH. (JTA)—The Bavar
ian Government ordered the Min
ister of Interior to introduce leg
islation necessary to prevent fur
ther cemetery desecrations and
other anti-Sertnitic acts.
m San Francisco
SAN FRANCISCO, (JTA)—The
only surviving Torah of the Jew
ish community of Cologne, is now
in the ark of the chapel at Mai-
monides Health Center for the
Chronic Sick.
It was fpund in 1946 by Rabbi
William Z. Dalin, Jewish Welfare
Board chaplain here, in an old
farmhouse near Weisbaden, Ger
many, where it had been hidden
after it was rescued from the chief
synagogue of Cologne, which was
destroyed in 1938 by the Nazis.
Rabbi Dalin participated in the
ceremonies dedicating the chapel.
Here They Go Again
BERLIN, (JTA)—The Jewish
cemetery in the Soviet-held sector
ol Berlin was desecrated lor the
third time recently. Sixteen tomb
stones were removed.
Native Group Formed to Spread
Jewish Culture in Tokyo
AMBRIDGE, Mass., (JTA) —
■ .vs of the establishment of a
m Israeli Society as successor
the pre-war Judea Japan So-
. has been received by Rabbi
• Mantel of Temple Ashkenaz
rie. In a letter to Rabbi Mantel,
mor U. S. Army chaplain in
Yokohama area, Chaplain
Me>er J. Goldman, stationed in
Tokyo, wrote that its members
a to spread the knowledge of
Jewish culture there.
They are a group of educators,
exporters and merchants, who be-
dine interested in Jewish matters
on ! a committee of 15 of them
oiled on me and asked me to
• la them,” he wrote. “They were
o t ve before the war, but then
' to suspend their activities due
Nazi pressure. Now they want
continue with their work. They
n to spread the knowledge of
■ash culture by establishing
manes of Jewish information,
-a-a eventually they wish to estab-
h cultural and economic rela-
s with Israel. Their founder
os a Japanese consul to Poland
'■fore the war.”
Staff Memorializes
Jewish Reporter
UETROIT, (JTA) — Editorial
'■mployees of The Detroit News,
• fading evening daily here, have
mured the memory of young
'< ws reporter Milton Lipton, by
-t.iWishing a scholarship aid fund
his name at Detroit’s Wayne
University.
Lipton. a 1947 Wayne journal-
m graduate, died in January of
rare blood disease.
Rabbi Mantel saw the printed
constitution of the Judea Japan
Society, its predecessor, which was
founded in the early 1930’s. Its
aims included aiding in the “real
ization of the Messianic era—the
establishment of the state of Is
rael and universal peace.” All the
members were native Japanese.
Ku inanian Pen
Group Ousts
JTA
Agents
WASHINGTON, (JTA) — The
State Department was advised
from Bucharest that Marcel
Pohne, correspondent of the Jew
ish Teletraphic Agency in Buch
arest, and Leonard Kirschner, rep
resentative of the Associated
Press there, have been expelled
from the Foreign Correspondents
Association in Rumania, because
of their alleged “subversive activ
ity as Anglo-American spies.”
Both correspondents have been
under arrest since last week.
The Association is composed
mostly of pro-Soviet journalists
and Rumanian citizens working
as correspondents for foreign
publications. The resolution to ex
pel Mr. Pohne and Mr. Kirschner
from the Association was sup
ported by 17 members, with the
only contrary vote being cast by
the correspondent of France
Presse, a French news agency, the
State Department report said.
Church Group
Criticizes ADL
For Speech Ban
CINCINNATI, May 23. (JTA) —
Criticism of the action taken by
the Anti-Defamation League of
B’nai B’rith in barring an address
by Benjamin J. Buttenwieser, As
sistant U. S. High Commissioner
for Germany, on the progress of
denazification in Germany, was
voiced here by Charles P. Taft,
former president of the Federal
Council of Churches of Christ, in
America, in a talk before the 162
General Assembly of the Presby
terian Church in the U. S.
Advocating restraint and care-
| ful thought to combat racing pre-
! judice, he said: “This is a slow
I process which does not come
either by books on Negroes' which
display intense dislike of white
people or by meetings of Jewish
anti-defamation societies which
cancel speeches of a distinguished
Jew giving unselfish service to the
American Government because
they do not like to hear what he
says about Germany.”
to Permit Emigration
TEL AVIV, May 23. (JTA)—An appeal to the Soviet Government
to permit the emigration of Jews from the Soviet Union to Israel was
voiced by Premier David Ben Gurion at ceremonies at the Afikim
settlement marking the 25th anniversary of the establishment of the
settlement. \
More than 10,000 settlers from the surrounding region, as well as
prominent guests from Jerusalem and Tel Aviv who participated in
the celebration, heard the Israel Premier’s plea. Mr. Ben Gurion re
minded the Soviet Government that it had promised freedom and
equality for all peoples, but said it is not carrying out this promise as
far as Jews of the U.S.S.R. are concerned.
The Jews of Soviet Russia, he said, do not enjoy their own schools
nor do they have Hebrew or Yiddish newspapers. He said there is no
iscrimination in die Soviet Union, but expressed the opinion that the
Soviet Government do?s not understand the special character of the
j Jewish problem. •
Emphazing that Israel is determined not to give up the right of
every Jew to come to the Jewish state, Mr. Ben Gurion addressed
himself to the Jews of the Soviet Union declaring: “Your hopes are
our hopes. They are constantly present in our minds.” He urged the
Soviet Government to permit emigration of those Jews who wish to
go to Israel to participate in the Country’s reconstruction “exactly as
did the first Afikim pioneer who came from Russia.”
Spanish Bishop Raps Zionism;
Links It With Communism
NEW YORK, May 23. (JTA)— |
The Bishop of Teruel, Friar Leon |
Villuendas, writing in a Falange j
publication, has accused the Zion
ists of having established the state
of Israel through “gold, blood and
injustice” and of seeking world
domination and the destruction of
the Christian Church, the New
York Times reported here from
Madrid.
The dispatch said that the Span
ish Bishop lumped the Zionists
and Communists together as anti-
Catholic and said that the Zionists
had organized the Communist re
volution in Russia. The American
Jewish financier and philantrop-
ist Jacob Schiff was accused by
the Bishop of financing the revo
lution. He also attacked the late
Dr. Judah L. Magnes, president of
the Hebrew University.
Police Raid Pro-Nazi
Quarters in Paris
Charleston Jewry Maps Plans
for 200th Anniversary
CHARLESTON, S. C., (JTA)—Extensive plans are being formulated
j r a series of celebrations this fall to mark the 200 anniversary of
' p -e founding of the Jewish community of Charleston, it was reported
•>' Dr. Allan Tarshish, rabbi of Temple Beth Elohim here. .
Although there were Jews living in Charleston as early as 1695, the
1 ‘-tablishment of the community here dates to the inauguration of
Congregation Beth Elohim, which was formally organized in 1750.
; ’; ior to that year, Jews in Charleston worshipped in private homes.
Congregation Beth Elohim counted among its members Moses Lindo
'•o before the Revolutionary War, developed the fabulous Carolina
iigo trade^and Joseph Levy, who fought as a lieutenant against the
nans in the Cherokee War of 1760. Another of the synagogue’s first
mbers was Francis Salvador, probably the first Jewish officer in
America to cast his lot with the Revolutionary cause, who was elected
^ deputy in the Provincial Congress of South Carolina. Salvador lost
1S life during the Revolutionary War.
Charleston’s Jewish population today numbers 2,000. There are four
•nagogues in the city, two of them are Orthodox, one Reform and
J " e Conservative.
PARIS, (JTA)—Three men and
two women were arrested after
police raided the headquarters of
a pro-Hitler group here, and dis
covered a list of prominent Jews
who had been “condemned” to
death by the fascists, and an arms
dump.
The headquarters of the group
was located in a shoemaker’s
store. The cobbler, a former mem
ber of the Vichy militia, is serv
ing a prison term for his activi
ties during the war. His 20-year-
old son, who at the age of 13
joined the fascist militia with his
father, was operating the shop.
Following the raid on the shop,
police in Paris were ordered to
search the homes of some 40 per
sons listed on a membership ros
ter of the organization. Also found
at the headquarters were swas
tikas, pictures of Hitler and Vichy
uniforms. The arms included tom
my guns and revolvers as well as
hand grenades and radio sets, plus
“plans of action.”
Winnipeg Jewry
Paralyzed by
Flood Waters
WINNEPEG, (JTA)—The rising
Red River, which has flooded the
greater part of this city, brought
to a standstill all organized Jewish
activity.
A celebration marking Israel’s
second anniversary, scheduled for
May 9, was called off, as were
other functions due to be address
ed by the Consul General of Is
rael. The United Jewish Appeal
and Histadrut campaigns have
been brought to a standstill, since
their headquarters are unap
proachable
The new Shaare Zadek Syna
gogue, built at a cost of nearly
$1,000,000 is now surrounded by
40,000 sandbags, but may have to
be evacuated due to rising waters
in the vicinity.
Survivors of Nazi Massacre
Testify at Ellis Island Hearing
NEW YORK, (JTA) — Three I machine guns.
“Alianza” Pinched;
Changes Policy
BUENOS AIRES, (JTA)—The
anti-Semitic publication, “Alian
za,” which missed an issue because
of its recent attacks on Jews, re
appeared here without carrying
any of its usual vitriolic anti-
Jewish propaganda.
The paper, however, declared
in two articles that Jews dominate
the theatrical, motion picture and
radio fields in Argentina and that
the “so-called aristocracy,” which
is opposed to the Peron govern
ment. numbers many Jews. ,
Jews, part of a tiny group of 17
who survived a Nazi massacre of
2,000 Jews in the town of Milku-
lince, appeared at Ellis Island this
week to testify against a detained
immigrant, Ivan Martynewycz,
who is charged with having direct
ed the systematic annihilation of
the 2,000.
The three Jewish witnesses
against Martynewycz, a Ukrain
ian, are all former DP’s who en
tered this country as immigrants.
They are: Marion Heliczer and
Mr. and Mrs. Marcus Phal. Ac
cording to the witnesses the for
mer Ukrainian shoemaker ruled
Mikulince for six weeks, as town
judge, chief of police and deputy
in charge of Jewish affairs, after
the Nazis took over the town. In
this capacity he passed death sen
tences on Jews and led groups of
them to the town square where
the Nazis mowed them down with
The American Jewish Congress,
has traced seven survivors of the
massacre who are now in this
country and are willing to testify
against Martnewycz, asked immi
gration officials to permit it to
send observers to the hearing. The
request was denied.
Tel Aviv Widow
Is Israel “Mother”
TEL AVIV, (JTA)—Mrs. Hans
Beyth, widow of a former Youth
Aliyah movement leader, who
died in an Arab ambush two years
ago, was awarded the American
Mothers Committee prize as the
“outstanding mother in Israel.”
The presentation took place at
the American Embassy here. And
among those at the ceremony
were Ambassador James G. Mac
Donald, Mrs. Tamar de Sola Pool,
co-chairman of the American
Mothers Committee, and Mrs.
Moshe Sharett, wife of the Israel
Foreign Minister.