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. APRIL 2, 1954 ^ No . 13
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New Phone: Elgin 8249
Atlanta 3, Ga.
Border
Tense
Sniping Tightens
Mid-East Status
Women’s Gifts Group
French Underground
to Hear
Leader
The Middle East cauldron boiled j
to the point of extreme danger
.within the past fortnight with a
series of events tightening already
the tense situation to the near
breaking point. In review these
events included:
1. —Stoppage of an Israeli bus
in the Negev by Arab ambush and
the slaying of eleven passengers.
2. —Slaying of a Jewish watch
man at the Israeli village of Kis-
ealon by Arabs believed to have
taken refuge in Nahalin, famous
for its role in the anti-Jewish
riots of 1929, during which many
Jews were massacred by Arabs.
3. —A retaliatory raid by Is
raelis on Nahalin in which 10
Arabs were said to have been
killed and 16 wounded. The report
said that United Nations truce
supervision chief Gen. Vagn Ben-
nike sent four UN observers to the
FELDMAN COMPANY
PRODUCES FILM FOR
GA. STATE C. OF C.
A. L. Feldman, co-chairman of
the 1954 Atlanta Jewish Welfare
Fund, is used to sharing the helm
in civic and communal projects.
He is co-chairman of the Geor
gia State Chamber of Commerce
group responsible for producing
an educational film strip called
“Catfishin’ Is For Saturdays.” The
color-sound film, intended for ed
ucational purposes, illustrates the
value of education.
The film was previewed by a
group of business, civic and edu
cational leaders last week at a
luncheon — you’ve guessed it—
co-sponsored by four men, includ
ing Mr. Feldman and Richard
Rich.
Ben Massell was one of the
sponsors who made possible the
production of this film.
scene of the incident.
4. —The Soviet Government
Monday used its veto rights in the
United Nations to veto a resolu
tion in the UN Security Council
calling upon Egypt to abandon its
anti-Israel blockade of the Suez
Canal.
5. —Request by Israel Premier
and Foreign Minister Moshe
Sharett to the Western Big Three
to call an immediate United Na
tions Security Council session to
deal with Israel-Jordan tension.
History Week in May
NEW YORK (JTA)—American
Jewish History Week will this
year be observed from May 1st to
May 7th, it was announced here
by Prof. Salo W. Baron, president
of the American Jewish Histori
cal Society. “During the past five
years American Jewish History
Week has been accepted by hun
dreds of congregations and Jewish
community centers as an essential
part of their program,” Prof. Baron
pointed out.
Frat Bias Outlawed
On Dartmouth Campus
HANOVER, New Hampshire,
(JTA)—The students of Dart
mouth College voted last week
end to outlaw fraternity discrimi
nation on grounds of race, religion
or national origin. The vote, in
which 85 percent of the student
body participated, was 1,128 to
1,120 in favor of the anti-discrimi
nation clause.
The student governing council
will request the college trustees to
make a ban on fraternity discrimi
nation effective April 1, 1960,
giving fraternities six years to
eliminate discriminatory practices.
Beyond that date discrimination
will cause a fraternity to be ex
pelled from the campus.
ADL Aids in Apprehension of
Two Vandals Held for Bias Drive
DAVENPORT, IOWA—Detailed
information from the Anti-Defa
mation League of B’nai B’rith en
abled police here to apprehend
two young vandals who last month
had plastered anti-Semitic stickers
on more than 50 business estab
lishments in this city and in the
neighboring Illinois towns of Rock
Island and Moline.
Robert A. Milner, 19, and Ed
ward R. Fields, 21, of Atlanta,
both chiropractic students, were
taken into custody last week after
ADL informed police that they
were “logical suspects.”
Both confessed, although Fields
admitted only to participating in
Rock Island. He denied placing
any stickers in Davenport.
Police Magistrate Edmund Car-
roll ordered Milner to apologize
to 14 Davenport merchants whose
stores he admitted defacing with
the stickers, or face a 30-day jail
sentence. No charges were made
against Fields.
Rock Island authorities said
they could take no action against
the pair because the offense is a
misdemeanor and not extraditable.
(Continued on page 7)
MORE DUPLICATION
AJC, ADL Leave Southwest
Community Relations Council
HOUSTON, Tex. (JTA)—Action
by the American Jewish Commit
tee and the Anti-Defamation
League of B’nai B’rith in an
nouncing their withdrawal from
the Southwest Jewish Community
Relations Council and their in
tention to establish local regional
ofices have brought demands that
the two national agencies recon
sider the situation.
Marcus Ginsburg, chairman of
the Council, has notified the fed
erations and community councils,
affiliated with it of receipt of
notice from the two agencies “that
they have decided to sever their
relationships with our organiza
tion in 1954 and that each national
agency plans to open a functional
regional office in the Southwest.”
The nine-year-old council has as
it members 15 comunities in Tex
as, Oklahoma and Louisiana, along
with the two national agencies. It
(Continuued on page 7)
Special to The Southern Israelite
Madame Paulette Oppert, French
wartime underground leader per
sonally responsible for saving the
lives of thousands of Jewish chil
dren in Occupied Europe, who has
traveled extensively to Israel,
North Africa and the Moslem
countries, wil speak to a group
of invited guests of the Advance
Gifts group of the Women’s Di
vision of the 1954 Atlanta Jewish
Welfare Fund campaign, at a
luncheon to be held at the Pro-
gresive Club, Tuesday, April 6, at
12:30 p. m.
On her recent visit to the Jew
ish State, Mme. Oppert was ap
palled by the desperate plight of
thousands of newcomers, living
in tents and tin huts while they
await badly needed funds from
America to provide them with the
decencies of life. “One vast
ghetto” is the way she describes
the Jewish communities of North
Africa, where stifling social and
economic inequality combined with
political oppression to make life
unbearable.
She was an eye witness to “Op-
Meetings are scheduled for the
coming week by both the 2nd Ad
vance Gifts group and the General
Solicitation group of the 1954 At
lanta Jewish Welfare Fund cam
paign, it was announced by A. L.
Feldman and David L. Slann,
general chairmen.
The Second Advance Gifts
MAQAME OPPERT
eration Magic Carpet" by which
resettlement of the more than a
hand witness to the continuing
need for relief, rehabilitation, and
Moslem countries to Israel. She is,
of course, an authority and first-
UJA-chartered planes were flying
Jewish refugees from inaccessible
Joshua L. Goldberg will be prin
cipal speaker and guest of honor.
The General Solicitation group
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million Jews still left in France.
Mme. Oppert and her husband,
both of whom joined the Maquis
when the Blitzkrieg hit France,
were not equally lucky, for he was
captured by the Nazis and died a
hero’s death rather than betray '
his associates, but his courageous
wife paid the goose-steppers back
in full for their barbarity to her
people and her country. Not only
did she help to establish 11 JDC-
supported children’s homes in
France, where thousands of home
less waits were cared for, but she
kept them suplied by spiriting
away the babies from under the
very nose of the Nazi wolf.
Born and educated in Franca,
where she became a registered
nurse, she headed the nursing
staff of a French war hospital
during the first year of World War
II, earlier doing social work in a
children’s home in Tours. She is
herself the mother of two children.
Despite her wartime sacrifice for
her people, she continues the
noble work by speaking through
out the United States in behalf of
the UJA, a major beneficiary of
the Atlanta Jewish Welfare Fund
campaign.
Arrangements for the meeting
were under the supervision of Ad
vance Gifts co-chairmen: Mrs,
Frank Garson, Mrs. Abe Goldstein,
Mrs. Jos. K. Heyman and Mrs. L
M. Weinstein. The co-chairmen re
ceived the cooperation of the gen
eral chairmen of the Women’s
Division: Mrs. Harold E. Marcus,
Mrs. Barney Medintz and Mrs. S. J.
Steinbach.
Large Delegation of Southerners
Expected to Attend JWB Biennial
Men s Division Groups
Schedule Early Meetings
group, under the chairmanship of
Dan Garson, Max Kuniansky, Hy
man Meltz and Milton Weinstein,
will meet with colonels and cap
tains at a luncheon to be held at
the Mayfair Club on Monday,
April 15, at 12:30 p. m., for the
purpose of distributing assign
ments and to make preparations
for a dinner meeting to be held on
April 14th, at which Captain
the United States, Canada and Is
rael will meet at the Biennial Con
vention of the National Jewish
Welfare Board (JWB) on April
8-11, 1954, at the Statler Hotel in
Cleveland, Ohio. The Convention
will concern itself with the greatly
expanded work of Jewish Com
munity Centers and JWB Armed
Services Committees.
Dr. Marvin Goldstein to Be Installed
Commander of Atlanta JWV April 7
Dr. Marvin Goldstein, well
known Atlanta dentist, will be in
stalled as the new commander of
Atlanta Post 112, Jewish War Vet
erans, at the annual installation
dinner at 7 p. m. Wednesday,
April 7.
Taking office with him will be
Harold Frank, senior vice presi
dent; A1 Singer, junior vice com
mander, and Dr. Irving Zabner,
Judge Advocate.
Principal speaker at the dinner
will be Bernard Trager, chairman,
National Community Relations
Advisory Council. The NCRAC is
known as the effort of major Jew
ish organizations^ to coordinate
their community relations activi
ties
Another feature of the program
will be presentation of a certifi
cate to Sam E. Levy, former JWV
commander, and chairman of the
Funds Appeal and former presi
dent of the Atlanta Jewish Com
munity Council tor two years.
Da. .riAuvin uul ...1
New JWV Commander
Dr. Goldstein is a past president
of Atlanta Lodge, B’nai B’rith and
active in many community func
tions.
Gen. Matthew B. Ridgeway,
Chief of Staff of the U. S. Army;
Admiral Lewis L. Strauss, Chair
man of the U. S. Atomic Energy
Comission, and Dr. Salo W. Baron,
noted historian, will be among the
featured speakers. Sam Levenson
will entertain the delegates at the
Jewish Community Center Cea-
tennial celebration, which will lM
held during the Biennial. He will
recount his experiences as a youth
at the 92nd Street YMHA in New
York.
Included in the delegation from
the South are: Herbert Elsas,
Chairman Armed Services Com
mittee, Atlanta; Max Estroff and
Sidney Rosen of Augusta, Herbert
Luria III of Birmingham, Dr. Wil
liam Wexler and Raymond Rosen
of Savannah; Irv Levkoff of
Charleston, Mrs. W. W. Michalove
of Asheville; A. M. Fleishman and
Mrs. Oscar Vatz of Fayetteville;
Leon Kaplan, President of the
Southern Section-JWB, Sam Seit-
lin and Efraim H .Gale of Miami,
Jay Markowitz of Tampa; Louis
Marks and George Berke of Chat
tanooga, Julian Zander and Harold
E. Katzof of Nashville; Aaroi
Brenner of Memphis; Dr. Nate
Goldstein and Harry Nowalsky of
New Orleans; Dan Schlanger,
David H. White, Jake Zuber, Mrs.
Joe Robinowitz, Mrs. I. B. Maltz
and Jack Dauber of Houston;
William Alter of San Antonio; A.
Robert Beer and Eugene Berlatsky
of Dallas, Rabbi E. Kumin, San
Antonio; Irwin Giffen, Savannah;
Dave Pearlman and R. L. Strifling,
Asheville.