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VOL. XXXI
The Southern Israelite
A Weekly Newspa per for Southern Jewry —
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5,
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NO. 39
vent Israel’s
Participation in UN Suez Debate
GENERAL CO-CHAIRMAN JOSEPH K. HEYMAN. well-known mem
ber of the Atlanta Jewish Community, is shown receiving congratula
tions from Mayor William Ilartsficld upon the opening of the Current
Community Chest campaign for $2,100,000.
Minna Hoffman Dies in Hollywood
Word has been received in At
lanta of the death of Mrs. Minna
Hoffman, a beloved and promi
nent figure in the music world,
on Yom Kippur night in Holly
wood.
Mrs. Hoffman is survived by
her husband, Adolph Hoffman, to
whom she had been married 38
years; two daughters, Evelyn and
Gloria, and a son Stanley, a well
known composer. She is also sur
vived by her mother, Mrs. Bessie
Sheingold, and two sisters, Mrs.
Fannie Rackson and Mrs. Sadie
Menkin, all of New York.
Mrs. Hoffman was a skilled
musician. She was prominent as
a singer, and was a capable vi
olinist and teacher as well. While
living in Chattanooga her talents
came to the attention of the late
Adolph S. Ochs, then the publish
er of the New York Times. Mr.
Ochs arranged auditions with the
two major networks and Mrs.
Hoffman was urged to remain in
New York and pursue her career.
She preferred instead to return
to Atlanta and her family.
In Atlanta she was a frequent
soloist over Station WSB and
WGST, singing operatic minia
tures and ballads. She also made
annual guest solo appearances
over WSOD in Miami whenever
she went to that Florida city on
a vacation.
She was a dominating force in
the career of her son Stanley who
has risen to fame as Tommy
Lane. She was his first teacher.
He won the first prize on the
Atlanta Journal School of the Air
and accompanied him to New
York to appear on the Major Bowes
talent show and the late Pasquale
Amato, of the Metropolitan Op
era, urged Stanley’s parents to
bring him to Hollywood. The con
tract to appear with Joe Penner
over CBS and a number of other
national hook-up series followed.
The son is now devoting his time
to composing popular songs.
Through the help of her hus
band, she had taken a leading
part in bringing the legendary
musical figure, Richard Tauber
to America in 1946, for his ap
pearance in Franz Lehar’s ‘‘Yours
Is My Heart” at the Shubert
Theater in New York.
She also influenced her hus
band’s decision to film “Singing
in the Dark,” starring Moishe
Oysher and co-staring Joey
Adams. Her son also had a part
in the film which will soon be
released for a tour of the large
cities of the U. S.
MINNA IIOFFMAN
WASHINGTON, Sept. 30 (JTA)
The State Department is anxious
to prevent Israel’s participation
in the discussion of the Suez
Canal issue at the United Nations
Security Council, it was learned
here today. The discussion is
scheduled to start this Friday with
Foreign Ministers from the Unit
ed States, Britain, France and the
Soviet Union attending. Israel has
applied to the Security Council
for the right to speak in view
of Egypt’s blockade of the > Suez
Canal against Israeli shipping.
The feeling at the State De
partment is that Israel’s entrance
at this juncture into the conflict
between the Western Powers and
Egypt would confuse the basic
issue and constitute a handicap
for the West. The opinion is ex
pressed in State Department
circles that Israel should at this
time rely on the Western Powers
to safeguard her long-range Suez
interest and should stay in the
background.
It was indicated in U. S. of
ficial circles that Israel should
be content with the fact that both
President Eisenhower and Secre
tary of State John Foster Dulles
last week voiced disapproval of
Egypt’s blockade of the Suez
Canal against Israel. Israel’s pre
sentation at the Security Council
of its own viewpoint, would bring
all the Arab countries into the
case on Egypt’s side and create a
united front behind Col. Nasser,
one American official asserted.
Israel Ambassador Abba Eban
said during the week-end that he
noted with satisfaction the state
ment by President Eisenhower in
which the President expressed
disapproval of Egypt’s anti-Israel
Suez blockade. Mr. Eban made
this comment after a meeting with
Secretary Dulles. He revealed
that the Suez blockade situation
was discussed in the meeting with
Dulles. Ambassador Eban had
been scheduled to return to Is
rael for consultations this week,
but may be delayed by the meet
ing of the Security Council.
President Eisenhower was the
target of a bitter attack this
week-end in the Egyptian Gov
ernment newspaper “A1 Gomhou-
ria.” Referring to Mr. Eisenhow
er’s condemnation of Egypt’s
Suez blockade against Israel ship
ping, the paper said it was the
United States and not Egypt which
had “dark spots” on its history.
It asserted that Israel was “crea
ted by America and Britain, and
charged “Israel aggression is car
ried out by American weapons
purchased with American dol
lars.”
LONDON, (JTA) — Israel’s
right to free passage through the
Suez Canal were discussed here
last week-end by British Foreign
Secretary Selwyn Lloyd and Is
rael Ambassador Eliahu Elath on
the eve of Mr. Lloyd’s departure
for New York to participate in
the UN Security Council’s dis
cussions on Egypt’s seizure of the
Suez Canal.
PARIS, (JTA) — Premier Guy
Mollet confirmed, in an inter
view with Israel Ambassador
Yaakov Tsur, his previously an
nounced position advocating full
liberty of navigation for Israeli
shipping through the Suez Canal.
The Premier’s declaration came
at a 45-minutc meeting with the
Israel diplomat during which
“economic questions” concerning
Israel and France were discussed.
Hammarskjold Reports on
Israel-Arab Difficulties
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y.,
(JTA) — The need for establish
ing “freedom of navigation for
Israel ships in the Suez Canal,”
was stressed by United Nations
Secretary General Dag Hammar
skjold in a report he submitted
last week-end to the UN Security
Council. The report emphasized
that Egypt continues to ignore
the resolution adopted by the Se
curity Council exactly five years
ago.
Mr. Hammarskjold devoted his
report to the “unsatisfactory im
plementation” by Israel and the
Arab states of the cease-fire
agreements which he obtained
during his visits to these coun
tries. He did not ask for a Se
curity Council meeting to act on
the situation, nor did he offer
new recommendations for im
proving conditions in the area.
However, in more forceful terms
than ever before, he took the
Howard and Kuniansky Will Head
57 Welfare Fund Drive in Atlanta
Two dynamic young Atlantans
were named to head the 1957
campaign of the Atlanta Jewish
Welfare Fund when Ben J. Mas-
sell, president, announced that
Bernard Howard and Max L. Kun
iansky had been selected at a
meeting this week of the officers
of the Welfare Fund and the Com
mittee on Campaign Leadership
and Strategy.
It was also announced that
Stanford Makover and Morton L.
Weiss, 1956 General Chairmen,
had agreed to continue in top
leadership positions as Co-Chair
men of the Advance Gifts Di
vision.
Bernard Howard, who recently
turned forty, was bom in New
York City. After completing his
preparatory schooling, he attend
ed the University of Miami in
Coral Gables where he graduated
with a degree in Business Ad
ministration. Mr. Howard served
three and a half years in the
Medical Administration Corps of
the Armed Forces and was hon
orably discharged with the rank
of First Lieutenant. Associated
with the Lovable Brassiere Co.,
Mr. Howard is concerned with the
internal administration of the
company’s production at its fac
tories, both in the U. S. as well
as in Puerto Rico. He has been
with the organization since 1946.
He has also been active in Wel-
BERNARD HOWARD
fare Fund campaigning for the
past ten years and has served in
all branches of the organization
from General Solicitation through
Advance Gifts II.
Mr. Howard is married to the
former Joy Garson. They have
four children: Jackie, 12; Gary,
9; Neal, 7; Clark, 1-plus.
He is a member of the Hebrew
Benevolent Congregation and
serves on the Temple Board. He
is a member of the executive
MAX L. KUNIANSKY
committee of the Atlanta Jewish
Community Council and is sec
tion chairman of the Atlanta
Community Chest. He maintains
membership in the Mayfair, Pro
gressive, and Standard Clubs.
Max L. Kuniansky is a native
product having been born in At
lanta in February, 1917. He was
educated in the Atlanta Public
Schools and graduated from Boys’
High in 1933. After studying
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Arab governments and Israel to
task for not checking border vi
olence, and for not forestalling
frontier incidents.
“If the cease-fire is permitted
continuously to be challenged by
the actual events,” he told the
Council, “ it will lose its sanctity
and become a dead letter which is
not respected by any of thp
parties although still existing as
a legal obligation. This will hap
pen even when these events can
not be interpretated as indicating
an Intention of a government to
repudiate its cease-fire assurance,
for example, because the govern
ment contends that it h^s acted
in self-defense.” He made it plain
that by “self-defense” he meant
the policy of retaliation pursued
by Israel.
While affixing no blame to eith
er side, the report touched on
many specific points in apparent
answer to Israeli contentions.
The Secretary General countered
Israel’s arguments for the “indi
visibility” of the armistice agree
ments. The specific aspect of the
latter point he touched on was
Israel’s contention that Egypt’s
Suez blockade justified Israel’s
unwillingness to evoke Articles 7
and 8 of the Israel-Egyptian
Armistice Agreement, with their
references to the Nitzana demil
itarized zone, where the Israel-
Egyptian Mixed Armistice Com
mission is supposed to have its
headquarters and the lack of
which headquarters has further
led to the suspension of MAC
meetings.
Also countered was Israel con
tention that border police in that
area could not be pulled back
because they were needed to pro
tect farmers .and that Israeli fort
ifications at two points near the
Syrian border were justified by
the receipt by the Syrians of
quantities of offensive arms. The
Secretary General closed his
lengthy report with a statement
that the possibilities for peace
“are still there, and the United
Nations must continue to impress
on the governments in the region
their serious duty to use them.”
JERUSALEM, (JTA) — The
Israel Government has criticized
the report of UN Secretary Gen
eral Dag Hammarsjkold to the
Secretary Council as an indica
tion that the United Nations had
not merely failed to put an end
to the Arab campaign of hostility
to peace in the past year, but
that it apparently failed even to
understand the nature of the
threat. It characterized the Arab
campaign as one opposed to a
peaceful settlement or the estab
lishment of tranquility along Is
rael’s borders.