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ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, APRIL 11, 1952
NO. 13
25 KRKers'Hit With
45 N. C. Indictments
Atlanta Welfare Fund Campaign
Goitein, Goldberg Honored Guests
April 13 at Advance Gifts Function
DAVID GOITEIN
CAPT. GOLDBERG
The long drawn out legal bat
tle against the hooded hoodlums
of the Ku Klux Klan began this
week in North Carolina where
45 bills of indictment were re
turned against 25 persons in
connection with four flogging
cases attributed to members of
the hate order.
Meanwhile, there were no new
developments by Federal author
ities in the six-month-old Flor-
WASHINGTON (JTA). —The
four-day annual convention of
the American Council for Judism
closed there Sunday with the
adoption of a resolution to notify
the Republican and Democratic
Party national committees, the
respective national conventions
of the parties and their candi
dates for public office this year
that there is no such thing as a
“Jewish vote.” Lessing J. Rosen-
wald was re-elected president of
the Council.
The anti-Zionist group also
called attention to the “co
mingling of charitable and politi
cal causes in the existing struc
ture of United Jewish Appeal,”
and urged the U. J. A. leaders
to correct this situation.” Still
another resolution declared that
it is “presumptuous” to suggest
that because an American citizen
is of the Jewish faith he has a
“unique duty” to purchase Is
raeli bonds. It added that the
Council was “deeply disturbed”
by the promotion of Israel bond
sales in synagougues and religi
ous schools.
Earlier, the Council announc
ed that it plans the experimental
establishment of a Jewish reli
gious school project designed to
emphasize “non - nationalistic
Judaism.” The announcement
was made by Bernard S. Grad-
wohl, chairman of the Council’s
religious and synagogue com
mittee, at the Council’s second
day session. The Council’s pro
ject also includes the use of new
textbooks and the encourage-
Brooklyn Clubs
Boom Lehman
for Presidency
NEW YORK CITY (AJP) —
The first Jew in recent years was
being talked aboutand in one
part of the city, boomed—for the
Democratic nomination in the
1952 Presidential elections.
The potential candidate in the
eyes of a number of Brooklyn
Democratic clubs is Sen. Herbert
Lehman, former governor of
New York and an active leader
in Jewish affairs.
If unable to win the Demo
cratic nomination for the Jewish
senator and it appears unlikely—
tjie Brooklyn clubs urged that
state delegates to the party’s
forthcoming national convention
cast their first ballots for Leh
man as a “favorite son.”
In the event that Lehman does
get the nomination, the same
clubs urged that Rep. Franklin
D. Roosevelt, Jr., be chosen to
seek Lehman’s present post in
the Senate.
ida bombings. Not a single in
dictment has been returned there
despite active investigations un
dertaken by agents of the Federal
Bureau of Investigation and state
and local police authorities.
The North Carolina indict
ed on the evidence uncovered
by the state police also face
charges of kidnapping filed by
the Federal Bureau of Investi
gation.
ment of “non-nationalistic Jew
ish students in preparation for
the American rabbinate.”
The problems of the Middle
East will be solved only if the
area is considered as a whole,
without disproportionate bene-
fts being offered to any one
country at the expense of the
others, Dr. Harry N. Howard,
U. S. State Department expert
on Near Eastern Affairs, de
clared at the Council session.
“Attempts to solve these prob
lems,” Dr. Howard said, “de
mand perspective on the part of
the American people, balanced
undertaking, and a fundamental
realization of all the difficulties
involved in these questions.
They also require maintenance
of our faith in the ultimate
values which have made our
people great.”
Former Dalton
Rabbi Dies
in Honolulu
DR. FRANCIS HEVESI
NEW YORK (JTA) — Word
was received here of the death
in Honolulu of Dr. Francis
Hevesi. former chief rabbi of
Budapest. He was 53 years old.
Dr. Hevesi, who succeeded his
father, the late Dr. Simon Hevesi,
in the Budapest chief rabbinate,
fled from the Communist regime
in 1947 and came to this country.
His body is being flown to Wash
ington for interment.
David Goitein, Minister Pheno-
potentiary of Israel to the United
States, and a former judge of
Isreal’s Supreme Court, and
Captain Joshua L. Goldberg, the
U. S. Navy's highest-ranking
Jewish clergyman and district
chaplain of the Third Naval Dis
trict, will be the guests of honor
at an Advanced Gifts function
of the 1952 Welfare Fund Cam
paign to be held at the Standard
Club on Sunday, April 13.
The division in charge of this
function is headed by Abe Gold
stein as chairman with Louis
Aronstam, Frank Garson, Ben J.
Massell, Thomas Makover and
David Slann as co-chairmen.
This group comprises top bracket
givers to the Welfare Fund. .
Upon the establishment of the
State of Israel in May, 1948, Mr.
Goitein was appointed a justice
of the new state’s Supreme
Court, after a career of outstand
ing practice in civil and criminal
law.
In 1949 he was appointed Con
sul General of Israel to the
Union of South Africa and prior
to his present position was Min
ister of Israel to that country.
Mr. Goitein practiced law in
Jerusalem, and in the last years
of the Britist Mandate defended
members of the Jewish defense
force, charged with the posses
sion of illegal arms. During this
time, he moved to prevent the
deportation of Jewish refugees
arriving on “illegal” shops at the
Holy Land, by taking the cases
to the High Court.
Until he was called to the
Jerusalem Bar in 1932, Mr. Goi
tein edited the “PALESTINE
BULLETIN,” forerunner of 1s-
real’s leading English daily news
paper, “THE JERUSALEM
POST.” Mr. Goitein’s law career
began in London, when in 1922
he was called before the Mid
dle Temple Bar. He continued to
practice there until 1929 when
he settled in Palestien., Mr. Goi
tein also holds an honor degree
from the London School of
Economics.
For many years he was asso
ciated in partnership with a lead
ing Arab lawyer in Jerusalem.
During the 1939 riots an Arab
friend was responsible for
thwarting a scheme whereby Mr.
Goitein was to have been kid
napped by Arab “rebels.”
English born, Mr. Goitein first
visited Palestine as a tourist in
1924. While there he wrote a
series of articles for the English
and American press. A short
story of his, written at the time,
was selected for the 05Brien
anthology of “Best Short Stories
of the Year.” He is author also
of the book “Wonderful Tales of
a Wonderful People.”
Captain Goldberg, the first
rabbi to be commissioned a Navy
chaplain during World War II,
was deeply impressed during his
tour of Israel with the deter
mination of the people of that
new state to continue to live
The first of the 1952 Welfare
Fund functions was held at the
Standard Club last Sunday night
when the Physicians and Den
tists held their annual dinner un-
under a regime of austerity in
order to permit the uninterrupt
ed inflow of tens of thousands
of homeless refugees from East
ern Europe and the Moslem
countries.
For 16 years Captain Goldberg
served as spiritual leader of the
Center of Israel congregation in
Astoria, New York City. He
left that pulpit to accept a Navy
Commission and during World
War II he served overseas in
five major engagements.
der the chairmanship of Dr. Mor
ris Erbesfield. Dr. Abraham
Cohen, well known dental sur
geon of Philadelphia, was guest
speaker. *
The group paid special honor
to one of its members, Dr. Irv
ing L. Greenberg, who is serv
ing as one of the General Chair
men of the 1952 campaign. Dr.
Joseph Yampolsky made the
presentation speech in which he
recalled Dr. Greenberg’s early
adventures as a youth and his
growth and development as a
responsible citizen of the com
munity.
In responding Dr. Greenberg
expressed his appreciation for
the tribute that had been paid
to him. His fellow chairman, M.
William Breman, also spoke
briefly of the importance of the
campaign.
The function proved to be an
outstanding success—all mem
bers of the group not only held
the line, but many increased
their commitments from 10 to
33 U3 percent.
Celler Speaks April 20
Congressman Celler of New
York, outstanding leader and
humanitarian and well known
liberal member of the House of
Representatives, will be the guest
of honor at a function of the Ad
vance Gift Division of the 1952
Welfare Fund Campaign, to be
held at the Mayfair Club on
Sunday, April 20, at 8:15 P. M.
This Division is under the co
chairmanship of Meyer Balser,
Hyman Meltz, Sanford Makover
and Philip Shulhafer.
A member of the House of Re
presentatives since 1923, Con
gressman Celler is Chairman of
the House Committee on the
Judiciary. He has been a lead- the fight to remove discrimina-
ing proponent of the need for tory provisions from the DP law.
liberalized immigration laws, Congressman Celler was one
and was an active suporter of (Continued on page two)
CONGRESSMAN CELLER
Judaism Council Warns Parties
There Is No Jewish-Vote
Men's Special Gift Division
Kick-Off Breakfast April 13
A Campaign opening breakfast will be held at the Pro
gressive Club on Sunday, April 13 at 10:45 a. m. by the Men’s
Special Gift Division of the Atlanta Jewish Welfare Fund
1952 Campaign.
This division was newly created this year for the pur
pose of giving “personalized” attention to those contributors
in the $100 to $500 bracket of giving.
Contributors in this bracket are among the most numer
ous in the community and Fund officials feel that if person-
ized attention were given, or a complete story of the Welfare
Fund objective were told, many of the contributors would
raise their standards of giving. '
%
The Men’s Special Gift Division is under the co-chairman
ship of Barney Medintz, Jos. K. Heyman and Elliott Gold
stein. N.
Physicians, Dentists Stage
“Great” Welfare Fund Event