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VOL. XXIX
700 Reported Homeless
In Town Hit by Earthquake
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ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1954
OCT 4 1954
IVERSITY OF GEORGIA
No. 99
PARIS, (JTA) — Most of the
700 Jews of Orleansville, Algeria,
were made homeless by the earth
quake which destroyed a great
portion of the city yid killed over
1,600 people in the city and near
by area, the Jewish Agency office
here reported this week. It was
previously reported that ten Jews
were known to have been killed
in the earthquake.
The Jewish Welfare Committee
here has launched an emergency
appeal for victims of the catas
trophe. Grand Rabbis Jacob Kap
lan and M. Schilli sent messages
of condolence and sympathy to
the victims of the tremor.
Both Grand Rabbis' of France
were named members of a national
committee in behalf of the vic
tims of the Orleansville earth
quake. French President Rene
Coty is chairman of the group.
Premier Mendes-France replied
this week to a message of sym
pathy from Israel Premier Moshe
Sharett dispatched on the oc
casion of the disaster last week.
M. Mendes-France’s message
thanked the Israel Government
and people for their sympathy at
a time when the Algerian earth
quake ‘.has. made us suffer so
profoundly.”
A contribution of 1,900,000
francs for immediate release to
the needy victims of the Orleans-
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Proud of 3C
U. S. Jewry C
o"Ao
history,
is New Year
Atlanta Chest Changes Kick-off
Because of Jewish Conflict
Day
By ADOLPH ROSENBERG
Atlanta’s Community Chest
campaign got off to a running
start this week with a gracious
unplanned gesture and tribute to
the Jewish religion.
The drive, which this .year
seeks a record $1,800,000 for its
multi-agency services to the com
munity, had been scheduled to
get underway officially at a gi
gantic “kjck-off" breakfast for
more than 1500 presidents of At
lanta businesses. These officials
are charged with the responsibility
of arranging for coverage of their
employees for solicitation pur
poses. ,
Date of the breakfast had. been
set for September 27. But let A.
L. Feldman, who is serving as
one of the general chairmen of
the drive this year, tell you in
his own words what happened:
“'Not until a week ago did we
realize that the original date of
this breakfast was the first day
of the Jewish New Year. Had the
breakfast come off as scheduled,
many who actually did attend
would not have been able to do so.
I refer of course to Jewish busi
ness and professional men.
“We advised Mr. Harvey S.
Firestone Jr., who is the notional
president of the United Commun
ity Campaigns and who was
scheduled to make the principal
speech, that the breakfast date
had to be changed to the 27th.
We asked if he could conform
with this schedule. He did— at
great personal inconvenience. He
had a TV and radio date with
Vice President Nixon officially
opening the Community Chest
drives nationally. He arranged
n\ er the objections of the agency-
in charge to record his remarks
in advance and then canceled his
appearance with Nixon. Then he
called off his tyonday dates and
took a private plane to Atlanta
to be «on hand for the talk.
“All business men will under
stand that Monday is hardly the
most convenient day to hold a
meeting such as this one. On Mon
day the average business man is
swamped with work. Tuesday
NEW YORK, (JTA) — Ameri
can Jewry met the Jewish New
Year 5718 this week with jubil
ation over its achievements dur
ing the 300 years of Jewish set
tlement in this country, and with
pride at the contributions which
the Jews have made to the devel
opment of the United States dur
ing these three centuries.
At the same time, concern was
expressed during many Rosh
Hashanah sermons in synagogues
all over the nation at the inten
tion of the State Department to
provide arms for the Arab states
at a time when they refuse to
conclude peace with Israel. Ap
peals were made in some syna
gogues for funds to help Israel
and Jewish communities in Eur
ope and North Africa.
More than 200,000 Jews in the
United States armed services,
stationed in this country and in
about 50 overseas areas, ushered
would have been a better day for
all concerned. But in order that
the Jewish people might attend
the meeting, the date was changed
from Tuesday to Monday.
“This I 'consider a truly beauti
ful gesture on the part not only
of Mr. Firestone, but of my fellow
general chairmen .Edgar J. Forio
and Rease Inge, and everybody
else concerned.”
Mr. Feldman added that “It is
in the tradition and spirit of . the
Jewish Community of Atlanta to
support the annual Community
Chest campaign. This year we
need the same support, and then
some.
“In contributing to the Chest,
we not only lend a hand to non-
Jewish neighbors, but we also
contribute to our own agencies,
such as the Jewish Community
Center and the Federation for
Jewish Social Services.”
Because the “kick-off” breakfast of Atlanta’s Community Chest campaign was changed from Rosh
Hashonah morning to the previous day, National Campaign Chairman Harvey Firestone, Jr. (seen
at far right) had to cancel a national TV and radio date with Vice President Nixon to be present.
Shown with him (L to r.) are Atlanta General Chairmen Edgar J. Forio, vice president of The Co
ca-Cola Co.; Rease Inge of the E. R. Squibb * Co. and A. L. Feldman, president of Puritan Chem
icals, Inc.
in the New Year with services
conducted by a corps of 335 Jew
ish chaplains officiating at Am
erican military posts in Europe,
Asia, the Pacific Islands, Alaska,
the Caribbean area and in the
U. S. Arrangements for these
services have been made by the
National Jewish Welfare Board
which sent tons of religious sup
plies and kosher food to these
bases months before the High
Holy Days.
Rosh Hashanah was observed
by Jewish servicemen at lonely
anti-aircraft stations in the jun
gles of Panama, at secret radar
stations in the Arctic, on maneu
vers, in military hospitals, and at
JWB servicemen’s centers in
Germany; Balboa, Canal Zone;
Tokyo and Fairbanks. Wide-
dispersal of Jewish troops and
the small number of Jewish chap
lains will mean transportation of
Jewish servicemen from Tripoli
across the desert to Sidi Slimane,
French Morocco. In Korea, ser
vicemen traveled by truck, jeep,
rail and plane, were accommo
dated in the tent city set up at I
Corps Headquarters by the mili
tary before the Holy Days. In
EuVope, hundreds headed for
such cities as Paris and Bor
deaux, Wiesbaden, Munich, Hei
delberg and Frankfurt.
In the ice-locked U. S. base
of Thule, Greenland, 800 miles
from the North Pole, a Jewish
chaplain flown by the Air Force
conducted a service. - Between
New Year and Yom Kippur he
will fly for services to Air Force
bases in Greenland, winding up
for Yom Kippur in Goosebay, La
brador. The decks of the mam
moth aircraft carrier, Coral Sea
—stationed somewhere in the
Mediterranean — was the scene
of a New Year service arranged
by the lone Jewish chaplain in
Naples, Italy, who will serve the
Holy Day needs by Navy per
sonnel of the entire 8th Mediter
ranean Fleet.
REUNION AT HI AS FOR ATLANTA FAMILY
Mother, Atlanta Family Are
Reunited After Red Separation
A 56-year-old mother, Mrs.
Maria Jacobi, who was believed
to have perished after she was
abducted by Communist agents
from the streets in the East Sec
tor of Berlin seven years ago, has
told her bizarre story of imprison
ment in Russian labor camps, for
the first time at a press interview
conference held at New York in
the world headquarters of United
HIAS Service, Jewish internation
al migration agency which brought
her to the United States.
With Mrs. Jacobi was her 28-
year-old-son, Helmuth, who along
with his father, Alexander, 65, and
his sister, Ruth, 27, arrived here
as DPs in 1948 and settled in At
lanta.
Ben Touster, President of
United HIAS Service, said that
several similar cases of amnestied
Russian prisoners were being pro
cessed for emigration at the
agency’s office in West Berlin.
This is the story Mrs. Jacobi
told on her arrival in New YQrk:
During the Nazi era and World
War II, the Jacobi family escaped
imprisonment in concentration
camps by hiding with Gentile
families in Berlin. After the war,
they were united, and set up a
bakery in the Western Sector of
Berlin in which they produced
Matzohs (unleavened bread) for
the JeWish Passover holidays. The
matzohs were bought by the
American Joint Distribution Com
mittee, major Jewish relief agency,
and were distributed to Jewish
families. Some went to families
in the East Sector of Berlin and
the Communist officials consider
ed this a hostile act, and frequent
ly accused persons connected with
this welfare project as spies.
Mrs. Jacobi was shopping In
the East Sector of Berlin on
March 26, 1947 when four civilians
who, she later learned, were Com
munist secret police, hustled her
into a car and took her to an
East Zone prison.
The family began a widespread
search. They placarded all of the
West Sector of Berlin, offering
a reward of 20,000 marks for in
formation leading to the solution
of Mrs. Jacobi’s mysterious dis
appearance.
Some false leads offered by re-
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