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Southern Israelite
A Weekly Newspaper for Southern Jewry
Established 1925
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, MARCH 28, 1952
NO. 11
Parley Asks German
for $500,000,000
THE HAGUE (JTA)
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delegation representing the Con
ference on Jewish Material
Claims Against Germany at the
current reparations negotiations
here Monday requested that
West Germany pay $500,000,000
for the benefit of surviving Jew
ish victims of Naziism outside
Israel, m addition to the payment
of all individual claims and the
return of all stolen property to
original Jewish owners.
The demand was made at a
session Mon. afternoon which fol
lowed a three-hour meeting be
tween the Israeli and German
delegations at the suburb of
Wassenaar this morning. A Con
ference spokesman stressed that
the statement last Friday by the
Germans dealing with German’s
ability to pay the claims was
“not a proper” subject for this
meeting.
the Israelis asked th<
to explain specifically what they
had meant in their opening state
ment last Friday when they said
that the settlement must “align”
Israel’s claims with the work of
the London conference—of some
30 nations—on Germany’s pre
war external debts. The Israelis
also questioned the German dele
gation’s raising the point of their
country’s ability to pay the Is
raeli demands.
Before the session began the
members of the Israeli delega
tion sent a message of condolence
to the widow of Itzhak Besner.
Mr. Besner was killed in the
crash of a Dutch K. L. M. air
craft at Frankfort this week-end.
He was en route to this city to
serve the delegation as a finan
cial advisor.
Germans Will Contest
Israeli Refugee Figures
THE HAGUE (JTA) — The
German delegation to the repar
ations negotiations here intends
to contest the Israeli claim that
over 450,000 Jewish victims of
Nazi persecution have been given
refuge in the Jewish State, it
was indicated here by a member
of the German delegation.
He revealed that the Ger -*;„n
delegation will claim that not all
of the 450,000 were victims of
Rabbis’ Pleas
For Murder
Clues Fail
NEW YORK CITY (AJP) —
Pleas by rabbis here to members
of their congregations to coop
erate with attempts to track
down the killer of Jewish hero
Arnold Schuster by turning any
information in the case over to
the authorities went unanswered
this week.
Dozens of rabbis, especially in
the Erooklyn sections bordering
the scene of the slaying, devoted
sermons last week-end to the
importance of the citizenry aid
ing police in the probe by sup
plying any information which
might lead to the apprehension
of the killer. Schuster was mur
dered three weeks after spot
ting bank robber Willie Sutton..
Fewer Immigrants
TEL AVIV (JTA)—The ab
sorption department of the Jew
ish Agency today dismissed 500
employees as a result of the de
crease in immigration during the
last few months.
German persecution, but that
many of them entered German
DP camps at the end of the war,
having fled from the East to
escape Communism. For this rea
son, he indicated, the Germans
will claim that the figure of
450,000 as set forth by the Is
raelis in their note of March 12,
1951 to the Big Four Powers, is
not valid as far as the Germans
are concerned.
It was learned also that the
talks on March 21 opened in a
cold and formal atmosphere.
When the Israeli delegates en
tered the conference room to
find the Germans already pres
ent, there was no handshaking or
any other form of greeting. The
Israeli delegation head introduc
ed each member of his group by
naming him and, at the same
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i_,ea rreecienthal and Jticnard
Heiman have accepted the posts
of co-chairmen of the Youth Di
vision of the Atlanta Jewish
Welfare Fund’s 1952 campaign,
it has been announced by M, |
William Breman and Dr. Irving 1
L. Greenberg, general campaign [
chairmen.
Miss Freedenthal, a most at- |
tractive member of Atlanta’s j
younger contingent, is a grad- '
uate of Washington Seminary
and is now attending Oglethorpe
University, where she is a mem
ber of the Oglethorpe Players
and secretary of the freshman
class. Despite a full scholastic
schedule, Lea has found time to
take an adequate part in Jewish
community life. She was corres
ponding secretary of Junior Ha-
dassah, member Inter-collegiate
Zionist Federation of America,
Young Zionists of Atlanta, Pres
ident, Girls’ Service Organiza
tion—Jewish Welfare Board Jun
ior Hostess and record secretary,
Council of Jewish Women Eve
ning Group.
Co-chairman Richard Heiman
is an Atlanta boy who started
making his mark in the commun
ity when he became a member of
the “B Club”—highest honorary
society of Bass Junior High. He
was class president for two years.
Heiman also attended Riverside
Military Academy for two years
where he held a commission and
frequently made the honor roll.
He graduated from Henry Grady
High where he was elected to
the Beta Club. An active partici
pant in athletics. Richard is cur
rently in his sophomore year at
Emory where he is a member of
Tau Epsilon Phi, Hillel, and an
Emory inter-fraternity council
representative.
Richard has also been active
in Jewish youth activities. He
has served as vice-president of
LEA FREEDENTHAL
AZA 134, helped make it the
largest AZA chapter in the na
tion. He is a recipient of the A.
L. Feldman Best-All-Around
Medal and was presented the
Alexander Triest Trophy for his
work in AZA.
Both Lea and Richard have
plunged into their Welfare Fund
Campaign assignments with their
- RICHARD HEIMAN
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typical enthusiasm. They are al
ready organizing the Youth Di
vision and two meetings have
already been held.
To assist them with the suc
cessful completion of the tre
mendous task that lies before
them the Chairman have invited
the following Vice-Chairman to
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State B’nai B’rith Lodges
Parley Set for Savannah
The annual convention of the
Georgia Association of B’nai
B’rith Lodges will be held Satur
day night and Sunday, March
29 and 30, at the DeSoto Hotel
in Savannah.
Feature of the two-day session
will be an address by Rabbi Ar
thur Lelyveld, national director
of B’nai B’riih Hillel Founda
tions.
Saturday evening’s schedule of
events includes executive com
mittee dinner and meeting at 7
Welfare Fund Honors Weinstein
for Long Years of Leadership
By ADOLPH ROSENBERG
Atlanta Jewry Wednes
day night gave special plau
dits to a man who for more
than a quarter century has
been a colossus in commu
nal leadership and service.
Community leaders and
friends assembled at the Pro
gressive Club to pay honor
to I. M. Weinstein who ach
ieved a superlative record of
communal devotion and example
during a span of years reaching
back into the 1930’s.
He came forward into front
rank leadership of the newly
formed Welfare Fund at a time
when the influence and interest,
of the old guard leaders were
flagging. He supplied much
needed vigor and insporation
when the community would have
suffered otherwise. • He held
many top offices.
Not only did he possess and
exert the capacity of filling the
post of leader himself but he was
able to rally others around him
and spur them on to acceptance
of responsibility and perform
ance of leadership when their
Non-Jewish South Carolinian
Gives Jewish Home $1,000
By ADOLPH
Soon there’ll be a plaque
in the Jewish Home for the
hangs *a cordial story of inter
faith goodwill.
It began several weeks ago in
the office of Butler Shoes, Inc.,
when a hosiery manufacturer
was conferring with President
Dave Slann.
There were several interrup
tions on the phone as Mr. Slann
ROSENBERG
honoring a non-Jewish woman
aged in Atlanta—and thereby
completed calls regarding mem
berships in the Jewish Home.
During the phone conversations
he had occasion to boost the
cause of the Jewish Home, tel
ling of its services and needs . . .
C. W. Anderson was a rapt
listener . . . “Dave,” he said,
“I’d like to give something for a
Jewish charity . . .”
Mr. Slann was not too encour
aging, feeling that support for
Jewish -institutions should right
ly come from Jews themselves.
Besides, he did not want to ap
pear to be suggesting that Mr.
Anderson make a gift . . .
Another phone call . . . Mr.
Slann's secretary had reached
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I. M. WEINSTEIN
turn came.
He believed that giving should
be based on a personal feeling of
rightness ... on the hqart and
feeling of responsibility of the
individual—not on what the
other fellow gave.
Year in and year out, he sat
at the helm of the Atlanta Wel-
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p.m., followed by a reception at
10 p.m.
Registration will begin at 9
a.m. Sunday, March 30. Myer O.
Sigal, president of the State as
sociation, will give his annual re
port at the first morning session,
at which time lodge reports from
throughout the State will also be
presented.
A luncheon will be held at
1:00 p.m. Sunday, during which
Rabbi Samuel Glasner of Athens
will give a Hillel report. Melvin
Harris, Columbia, president of
the Grand Lodge, District 5, will
be guest speaker at the luncheon.
Philip Boblasky, state A.D.L.
chairman, Judge Emanuel Lewis
and Arthur Levin will present
an A.D.L. panel as a part of the
afternoon’s program. Also on the
rnda for the day are the regu-
• business session and election
officers at 3:30 p.m., a cock-
il party at 5:30 p.m., and a din
er and open public meeting in
le evening, when distinguished
nests will be introduced and
tabbi Lelyveld will speak.
Boston Advocate
Editor Dies
BOSTON (JTA)—Dr. Joseph
C. Brin, associate publisher of
The Jewish Advocate and Pro
fessor of Semantics at the Bos
ton University, died March 23
at his home in Brookline of a
heart attack. He was 54 years
old.
Although he came to the Unit
ed States at the age of 12 with
no knowledge of English, he be
came an expert in the language
and was the author of several
books on semantics and public
speaking. He was trained in law
at Boston University wkere he
received his degrees. He was a
member of the Massachusetts
Federal Bar and was admitted
to practice before the United
States Supreme Court.