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VOL. XXXI
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1956
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One-Day Active Duty Fatal for Retired
Navy Officer E. S. Moses, Columbus
COLUMBUS — Edward S.
Moses, a member of a prominent
pioneer Columbus family, was
killed October 6 in a New Orleans
ship explosion which also injured
eleven other persons.
Mr. Moses was port engineer
aboard the SS Alcoa Cosair only
for the night. He was 69 and was
on active duty as a reserve of
ficer just for the one day. A
quantity of fuel oil exploded, tak
ing his life on the passenger-
freighter which was docked at a
New Orleans pier. The explosion
took place when a fireman at
tempted to fire up one of the
boilers in preparation to depart
ure of the ship.
Relatives said Mr. Moses had
planned to leave New Orleans
during the afternoon to Columbus
for the funeral of his aunt, Mrs.
Adeline Moses Levy, who died
October 4. A bus ticket for Col
umbus was in his pocket.
Mr. Moses was a great-grand
son of Raphael J. Moses, a Civil
War figure and a close associate
of Robert E. Lee. A desendant
established the famous Esqueline
Plantation, now a historic Colum
bus landmark. The great-grandson
had lived in one of the small
homes on the plantation for a
number of years since retiring
from the Navy. A graduate of
Annapolis, he was a retired lieu
tenant commander and had serv
ed in the Navy during World War
1 and in the Merchant Marines
in World War II.
He is survived by three daugh
ters, Mrs. Ralph Lacassagne, Mrs.
George Rezou, Mrs. Edward Crist,
all of New Orleans, fifteen grand
children; an aunt, Dr. Alice
Moses, Phoenix City, and two
uncles, I. I. Moses, Phoenix City,
and Capt. Charles C. Moses, Bluff-
ton, S. C.
Funeral services were held in
Columbus. Interment was in the
family cemetery in Esqueline.
Israel Warns It Will . ^or Permit
Iraqi Troops to Remain in Jordan
Israel Actress Highlight
Of Bond Tea Oct. 23
Orna Porat, Israel’s leading act
ress and guest of honor at next
Tuesday’s Tea celebrating the
70th Birthday of Prime Minister
David Ben-Gurion, is a prime ex
ample of a person who refused
to permit adversity and danger
to deter her in the achievement
of her ambition.
Miss Porat was barely in her
teens when she mapped her fu
ture as an actress, but she never
Mrs. Frank Garson declared,
“we want to Invite all the
women of Atlanta to attend
this tea and meet our guest of
honor ‘without any obligations’.”
suspected ,that she would attain
her present stature thousands of
miles from her native Cologne.
Actually, by the time she was
eighteen, Orna was a leading lady
in the Schleswig Provincial Re
pertory Theatre, an affiliation she
continued up to the early days of
Gurion’s 70th Birthday which will
be held at the Mayfair Club,
she comes to Atlanta as the Na
tional Sponsor Chairman of the
Women’s Division of the Israel
Bond Organization as well as Na
tional Israel Bond Chairman of
Hadassah.
In charge of all arrangements
for the October 23 tea at the May-
fair Club is Mrs. Frank Garson,
sponsors chairman of the Atlanta
Women’s Division for State of
Israel Bonds. Her co-chairmen
are Mrs. J. L. Saul and Mrs. I. M.
Weinstein.
Officers of the Women’s Divis
ion are Mrs. Anne G. Hopkins,
general chairman; Miss Rose Sug-
arman, organizations chairman;
Dr. Rose A. Lahman, Business
and Professionals chairman, and
Miss Celia Hoffman and Mrs. Cy
rus Polan, co-chairmen of CHEN.
JERUSALEM, (JTA) — Foreign
Minister Golda Meir announced
today that Israel’s envoys to
Washington, London, Paris and
Moscow had been urgently sum
moned home for consultations
which are expected to get under
way Wednesday and will deal with
the question of the threatened en
trance of Iraqi troops into Jordan.
Mrs. Meir reported on the situa
tion to President Itzhak Ben Zvi
this morning and then attended
the Cabinet meeting which was
devoted to study of the situation.
The Foreign Minister publicly
confirmed this morning that the
Israel Government was officially
notified by the British Embassy
on Friday that units of the Iraqi
Army were about to enter Jordan
and would be stationed there for
an indefinite period. She declared
in a statement that this Iraqi
move “represents a direct threat
to Israel’s territorial integrity
and the Israel Government is de
termined to meet the test in ful
fillment of its obligations to its
people.”
Sunday afternoon, Mrs. Meir
received Peter Westlake, British
charge d’affaires, for the second
time within 48 hours. The Briton
reportedly informed her of the
number of Iraqi troops it was
planned to dispatch into Jordan
and sought to convince her that
the move would be a limited op
eration giving Israel no grounds
for apprehension.
Dispatches received in London
from Cairo reported that Iraqi
Army forces in division strength,
had already entered Jordan or
would do so soon. The command
ers-in-chief of the Iraqi and Jor
danian armies were reportedly
meeting today in Amman to work
out plans for the Iraqi occupa
tion.
Meanwhile, the Israel Cabinet
reacted sharply to British pres
sure on this issue. The official
communique on the Cabinet meet
ing stated that the Government
had received “with concern and
amazement” the British Foreign
Office threat to implement the
British-Jordanian treaty in the
event that Israel resisted the en
try of Iraqi troops into Israel—
which would mean war on Israel.
The Cabinet heard reports from
Premier Ben Gurion and Mrs.
Meir and voted approval of Mrs.
Meir’s statement rejecting settle
ment proposals advanced by
Nuri es-Said Pasha of Iraq on
the basis of the 1947 partition
plan. The Cabinet also dealt with
the questions of freedom of pas
sage of the Suez Canal and Red
Sea and measures to safeguard
the populace against border at
tacks.
Previously, Mrs. Meir had met
with the American and French
ambassadors here and is under
stood to have warned them of
the grave consequences which
might result from the entry of
Iraqi troops into Jordan, pointing
out it would jeopardize the ar
mistice agreement itself. She was
understood to have stressed Is
rael’s determined opposition to
the presence of Iraqi troops on
Jordan soil. In view of the tense
ness of the situation, most em
bassies had their full staffs stand
ing by over the week-end.
Minister of Health Israel Bar-
zilai, addressing a conference of
his Mapam Party, a member of the
Government coalition, called yes
terday for action by Israel to ac
quaint the United Nations Se
curity Council with the nature of
the grave threat to Israel inherent
in any movement of Iraqi troops
into Jordan.
The news of the impending
Iraqi move is the chief topic of
discussion in all circles here. It
is recalled that Iraq had refused
to negotiate an armistice agree
ment with Israel in 1948 and
that the withdrawal of Iraqi troops
from Jordan was a condition of
the Jordan-Israel armistice. A
Foreign Office spokesman noted
this week-end that ‘‘Iraq’s entry
now would undermine the (ar
mistice) agreement in far-reach
ing respects. It would mean that
she is sending military f o rc e s
again into the territory of a state
adjacent to Israel and this after
deliberately refusing to conclude
an armistice agreement with Is
rael.”
Atlanta Institute of Jewish Studies
Opens 4th Season Wed. Oct. 24
William B. Schwartz, Jr., Chair
man of the Atlanta Bureau of
Jewish Education announces the
opening of the Atlanta Institute
of Jewish Studies on Wednesday
night, October 24.
This is the fourth year of the
Institute which is dedicated to
the purpose of offering educa
tional opportunities to the mem
bers of the community, Mr.
Schwartz said.
All Institute classes will meet
at the Atlanta Jewish Community
Center. The Fall term will end
December 19. Two courses will
be given on each Wednesday
night; the first from 8:10 to 9
Putting- Two and Two Together by Rinna Grossman
Retaliation Only Language Arabs Understand
Orna Porat
World War II - - acting, by day
and serving as a secret agent for
British Intelligence when off the
stage. A courier, she engaged in
many dangerous missions, smug
gling letters out of prisoner of
war camps and aiding in the es
cape of captured Allies.
It was in the performance of
her underground activities that
she met her husband, an Israeli,
then serving as an officer with
British Intelligence. Following
VE Day, they were married and
Orna went with her husband to
make a new life in the Jewish
State.
Mrs. Alexander Simson, Fanny
to her thousands of friends in
. Hadassah, has been one of the
most active women in the Is
rael Bond effort since its incep
tion in 1951.
Tuesday afternoon, as a speak
er at the Atlanta Sponsors So
ciety celebration of David Ben
JERUSALEM, (AJP)—Violence strained Israel’s
borders again this month. It has never receded
far. Since the Israel-Jordan cease-fire of April, 44
Israeli have met with death, another fifty have
been wounded. But however steady the toll, a
nation, like a family, does not habituate itself to
sudden death and the man in the street in Israel
—trying not to let the ever-present tension draw
him away from today’s routine or tomorrow’s
commitments—has found the past weeks a grim
and mournful time.
The most recent of the depredations took place
on September 23. A group of archaeologists, ama
teur and professionals, had gathered at the site
of the excavations at Ramat Rahel, southwest of
Jerusalem. The afternoon was clear and sunny.
The mood was a little festive. The atmosphere
was one of concentration. Here and there, an un
easy member of the crowd looked over the Jordan
border and wondered if the tranquil autumn scene
could shift to one of tragedy. People saw soldiers
moving in their posts, only a stone’s throw away
and someone wondered out loud if they might
shoot. It was the kind of question no one in Israel
answers these days. Then suddenly, conjecture sol
idified into truth. A spray of machine-gun bullets
hit the little group on the top of the hills, and
when the firing ended there were four dead, seven
teen injured.
Mrs. Meir, Israel’s Foreign Minister, received
UN’s General Burns the next day. Jordan had
issued a preposterous story, something about a
soldier run amuck. But there had been too many
witnesses for once, some of them non-Jews, some
of them members of the clergy, and they had seen
the soldiers on the other side of the border taking
aim. The responsibility is Jordan’s, Mrs. Meir
declared.
But the horror had another day to run. And in
the morning, violent death came again in Israel.
A girl in an olive grove was one target. A man
working a field was another. General Burns went
again to see Mrs. Meir. But all Israel knew that
this time retaliation would come fast, and when
it did, at Husan with a striking blow at a Jordan
ian post, it came openly. The Army issued a com
munique in which it used the word “retaliation."
But the Jordanians were still on a lethal kick.
And even after the punitive action at Husan, they
continued their path of murder. A car was ambush
ed on the Sdom Beersheba road. Five passengers
were killed.
By now, Israel had left the Israel-Jordan Mixed
Armistice Commission. The Un’s springtime cease
fire had broken down completely. The MAC had
turned into what one Israeli called a traffic court
where complaints were listed and casualties-count
ed but no action taken. After the outrage at Ramat
Rahel and following the Israeli Army counter
attack at Husan, the chairman of the Israel-Jordan
MAC divided the blame neatly and equally. Every
one has done a bad thing, he said, and that was
that. There was not even a public probing into
the qualitative differences betwen totally unpro
voked assault on innocent by-standers and the re
taliatory action of troops against troops. There
seemed to be nothing else to say at the sessions
of the MAC, and in more than a small measure,
the situation there was equal to the situation at
the UN in New York.
The sorely needed firm stand against eight and
a half years of Arab aggression had still not been
taken. Reprimands were issued with the frequency
which events demanded and somehow they were
invariably allotted to each government in turn.
The man in the street in Israel wondered last week
how long this could go on and where it might end.
And most of all, he wondered when the UN would
flex their collective muscles clearly on the side of
those attacked.
p.m. and the second from 9:05 to
10 p.m. The sessions will be fol
lowed by a brief discussion period
and social hour.
Irving Libowsky, chairman of
the Atlanta Institute Committee,
reports that twelve stimulating
courses will be offered during the
Fall term: Archaeology; Bible;
Elementary, Intermediate and Ad
vanced Hebrew; A Bird’s Eye
View of Jewish History; Crises
in Jewish Life; Great Jewish
Books; What Jews Believe and
Practice and Basic Principles of
Teaching.”
Members of the Institute facul
ty include: Asher Arnan, Rabbi
Joseph Cohen, Rabbi Harry H.
Epstein, Rabbi Emanuel Feldman,
Mr. Irving Fried, Dr. Joseph
Golden, Mr. Alex Kaminetsky,
Mr. Judah Katz, Mr. Harry Kos-
ansky, Mr. Harry Kruger, Dr.
Avigdor Lewin, Mr. Joseph Mar-
golis, Rabbi Sydney K. Mossman,
Mrs. Marie Mostow, Mr. Benj. M.
Parker, Mr. Samuel H. Rosenberg,
Rabbi Jacob M. Rothschild, Jack
W. Salz, Mr. Leon Steinberg, Dr.
Charles Wall. Some of the faculty
will teach during the Fall term
and some will teach in the Win
ter term which will start Janu
ary 9 and continue thru March
19.
The registration fee for the In
stitute Is $3.00 for a single person
and $5.00 for a couple. Registra
tion yill begin at 7 p.m. on the
night of the first session, October
24, and regular classes will begin
immediately.
A minimum of 10 students will
be required for any course, not
including language courses. The
maximum number of students in
any one course will be limited
to 35. Mr. Samuel H. Rosenberg,
Executive Director of the Atlanta
Bureau of Jewish Education, will
be available for consultation on
the selection of courses.
Early registration is urged as
students can be assured of the
classes of their choice. Further
information can be secured from
the Atlanta Bureau of Jewish
Education - JAckson 5-4825