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The Southern Israelite
A Weekly Newspaper for Southern Jewry — Established 1925
XXXII
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1957
Gen. Oberdorfer To Be Honored at JWB-ASD
Conference in Atlanta March 9 and 10
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Brig. Gen. Eugene Oberdorfer,
(GNG, Ret.) Atlanta civic leader
and long active in morale work
for military personnel of all
faiths, will be honored at the
second biennial conference of the
Third Army Area Armed Ser
vices Committee of the National
Jewish Welfare Board (JWB),
it was announced by Dr. Marvin
C. Goldstein, Atlanta, chairman
of the arrangements committee
for the biennial convention. The
meeting will be held at the Pro
gressive Club on March 9 and 10.
Slated to address the two-day
convention will be Chaplain
Joshua L. Goldberg, District
Chaplain of the Third Naval Dis
trict, Lt. Gen. Thomas F. Hickey,
Commanding, Third Army, Ft.
McPherson: Maj. Gen. George B.
Finch, Commander 14th Air Force,
Robins Air Force Base; and Col.
Harry D. Henshel, New York,
chairman of the JWB Armed
Services Division, who served on
Gen. Omar Bradley’s staff in
World War II.
Four workshops, including a
“problem clinic” (Sunday morn
ing, March 10), dealing with a
variety of problems connected
with morale work for military
personnel will be a highlight of
the convention. Subjects to be
considered at the Sunday clinic
are relations of a JWB Armed
Services Committee with chap
lains, financing the national
Armed Services program, local
and national needs for communi
ty funds, JWB responsibility to
Flag Day Rally
February 25 at AJCC
A special Flag Day meeting will
take place at 8:15 p.m. Monday,
Feb. 25, at the Atlanta Jewish
Community Center.
Mrs. Alfred Schwartz, president
of the Auxiliary of Post 112, Jew
ish War Veterans, sponsors of
Flag Day, announced the meeting
will take the form of a rally to
complete plans for Flag Day on
Friday, March 1. The public is
invited. Door prizes and refresh
ments will be offered.
Members of women’s organiza
tions and youth grouph wishing
to volunteer for help on Flag Day
should contact Mrs. Pearl Teper,
TR. 2-7871.
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With Mideast Developments
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DR. MARVIN GOLDSTEIN
Conference Chairman
non-Jewish servicemen and JWB
representation in USO.
Panelists at the “problem clin
ic” include: Col. Henshel, Gen.
Oberdorfer, Herbert Elsas, chair
man of the JWB Atlanta Armed
Services Committee, Rabbi David
Max Eichhord, New York, direct
or of field operations of the JWB
Commission on Jewish Chaplain
cy, Edward M. Kahn, executive
director of the Atlanta Federa
tion of Jewish Social Service, and
Ben Sternberg, director of JWB’s
Armed Services Division.
Attending the biennial conven
tion will be JWB representatives
in Armed Services work from
Alabama, Florida, Georgia, North
and South Carolina, Mississippi
and Tennessee.
WASHINGTON, (JTA)—Presi
dent Eisenhower has cut short his
vacation to fly back from Thom-
asville, Ga., to Washington to deal
with the Gaza-Akaba problem, it
was announced here. At the same
time. White House spokesman
James Hagerty denied a publish
ed report that the President plans
to go before the United Nations
General Assembly to make a dra
matic new proposal.
Senate Majority Leader Lyndon
Johnson said he hopes the ap
parent deadlock over Israel with
drawal from the Gaza and Akaba
areas “does not revive talk about
sanctions or coercion.” He said
the United States interests lie in
keeping discussion going. He
warned that once the contending
nations stopped talking “they will
go ahead and fight.” Sen. John
son is a Texas Democrat.
The Citizens’ Foreign Relations
Committee, a newly organized
group of prominent individuals,
proposed to Secretary of State
Dulles that the Middle East dis
pute be brought before the In
ternational Court. The group said
the U. S. should insist on its
submission to the International
Court unless Israel and Egypt a-
gree to arbitration.
Vice President Richard M. Nix
on has received a delegation of
the Rabbinical Council of Ameri
ca, an Orthodox group. The dele
gation suggested that the United
States recommend to the United
Nations the appointment of a spec
ial commission to study the en
tire Gaza problem. Such a com
mission, the delegation said, would
consider the very complex prob
lems which involve Gaza’s eco
nomic status, the refugees and the
preventing of attacks which have
been launched against Israel from
that area. The rabbis suggested
that the problem of the Gaza
Strip and the Gulf of Akaba be
solved separately. The Orthodox
Rabbis also requested that the ban
placed on U. S. trips to Israel
be removed to permit interested
American Jews to make a Pass-
over pilgrimmage to Israel this
year.
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y.,
(JTA) — The United States hopes
Ambassador Abba Eban is “go
ing back to Israel to get his in
structions changed,” a spokesman
for the American delegation said
here. The spokesman added the
United States Government’s feel
ing is that “Israel’s initial react
ion to the United States aide me-
moire was not responsive.” Re
ports that President Eisenhower
was coming to the United Na
tions in connection with the Is
rael issue were met with the
comment that there are no such
plans.
The General Assembly was
scheduled to meet Thursday with
the U. S. continuing to give its
full support to the, United Na
tions, the American spokesman
said. He emphasized that “if the
General Assembly decides on san
ctions, such a decision will have
a direct bearing on the United
States.”
Meanwhile, Israel circles here
made the following comment on
the Eban negotiations with Sec
retary Dulles: “Israel faces an
acute question: How would Is
rael and any friendly government
feel if Israel were to withdraw
and then the blockade were to be
renewed in the Gulf of Agaba
and fedayeen raids and other
hostilities were to be renewed
from Gaza? In that event there
would be a serious risk of new
hostilities. Surely it is better to
take more time now to see that
everything is done to avoid such
a contingency. It is better to face
and resolve complex diplomatic
positions now than to have block
ades and hostilities later.”
Ben Gurion Summons
Eban To Jerusalem
JERUSALEM, (JTA) Premier
David Ben Gurion, after an ex
traordinary meeting of the Cab
inet Monday, summoned U. S.
Ambassador Edward B. Lawson
Welfare Fund Leaders Named as
Campaign Kickoff Date Approaches
With the approach of the 1957
campaign kick-off date in March,
the completion of the leadership
in both the men’s and women’s
division was announced this week
by Bernard Howard and Max L.
Kuniansky, general chairmen for
Charleston to Climax Bond
Activity With FDR Jr. Dinner
CHARLESTON — Franklin D.
Roosevelt, Jr., prominent attor
ney, and former Congressman
from New York, will be the Hon
or Guest and featured speaker at
a dinner on Sunday night, March
3 at the B’rith Shalom - Beth Is
rael Social Hall in Charleston,
South Carolina.
The dinner is being sponsored
by the Charleston Israel Bond
Committee in behalf of State of
Israel Development Bonds.
“Mr. Roosevelt, the fourth son
of the late President, has added
luster to his beloved family name
by his activity in behalf of all
causes devoted to freedom and
justice. He has made hundreds
of speeches in support of Israel’s
needs, both on the economical
and political fronts,” the dinner
sponsors announced.
Mr. Roosevelt’s appearance in
Charleston will climax a four
weeks’ campaign by the Charles
ton Israel Bond Committee, which
featured two pre-sales meetings.
One was a meeting for women
Sponsors at the home of Mrs. Is
rael H. Jacobson. Another meet
ing for Trustees and Guardians
will be held at the home of Abe
Dumas, where the honor guest
will be Major Mordechai Gurban
of the Army of Israel, who led
the first unit of paratroops into
the Sinai area during the recent
campaign.
The objective of the Charles-
FDR JR.
ton Committee is a minimum of
$75,000 in Israel Bond sales. The
committee is headed by: Honor
ary Chairmen, Rabbis Nachum
Rabinovitch, Allan Tarshish and
Gerald Wolpe; Chairmen, William
Ackermen Israel H. Jacobson, and
Karl Karesh; Co-Chairmen, Mrs.
Leo Applebaum, Mrs. Irving Doo-
brow Mrs. Abe Dumas, and Mrs.
Arthur Williams.
A committee of over fifty ac
tive workers are assisting the
leaders in the campaign.
the men, and Mrs. Sam P. Alter-
man, Mrs. M. William Breman,
Mrs. Harry Gershon and Mrs. A.
A. Weinstein, general chairman
for the women.
The calibre of this year’s di
visional leadership is indicated
by the fact that last year’s gen
eral chairman, Stanford Makover
and Morton L. Weiss, are again
serving in important capacities
and have consented, under this
year’s leadership, to head up Ad
vance Gifts I.
Other divisional chairmen in
the men’s organization are: Sid
ney Feldman and Nathan Lipton
—Advance Gifts II; Sidney Gul
den and Philip Shulhafer—Ad
vance Gifts III; Paul Ginsberg and
Bill Schwartz Jr.—Special Gifts
I; Harold Frank and Merton Lev
in— Special Gifts II; Josiah Ben-
ator, Bernard Gordon, Neils
Jacobson, Raymond Kuniansky,
Mendel Romm, Jr.; and Jerome
Zimmerman—General Solicitation;
Dr. Marvin C. Goldstein and Dr.
Abe S. Velkoff—Physicians &
Dentists; M. William Breman,
Pincus Koplin and Max London
—Scrap Metal.
In the Women’s Division, the
general chairmen are this year
utilizing the know-how and lead
ership of past years’ campaigners
through a Special Campaign Cab
inet consisting only of those who
have served as General Campaign
Chairmen of the Women’s Division
in past years. The Special Cam
paign Cabinet consists of Mes-
dames Frank Garson, Herman
Heyman, J. Kurt Holland, Harold
Marcus, Barney Medintz, J. M.
Rosenfeld, Philip Schwartz, Louis
Smith and I. M. Weinstein.
In other divisions, chairmen
are, Advance Gifts: Mrs. Milton
Rauzin, Mrs. S. J. Steinbach, Mrs.
Harry K. Stern, Mrs. Robert
Weinstein. Special Gifts: Mrs.
Dave Alterman, Mrs. George Al-
terman, Mrs. Bernard Howard,
Mrs. Abner Lichtenstein. Gen
eral Solicitation: Mrs. Lewis Cen-
ker, Mrs. Bernard Gordon, Mrs.
Haskell Harris, Mrs. Dave Le
vin, Mrs. Nathan Lipton, Mrs.
Morton L. Weiss.
Coverall Division: Mrs. Henry
L. Caplan, Mrs. Sidney Marks,
Mrs. Herman Popkin, Mrs. Sol
Spielberg, Mrs. Arthur Streve,
Mrs. David Zeff. Business and
Professional Women: Dr. Regina
Gabler, Mildred Kingloff, Dr.
Rose Lahman, Mrs. Abe Shurgin.
Institute Chairmen: Mrs. Joe
Cuba, Mrs. Robert Goldsmith,
Mrs. Sidney Q. Janus, Mrs. Syd
ney Mossman, Mrs. Jacob M.
Rothschild, Mrs. I. D. Shapiro,
Mrs. Philip Shulhafer.
This year the Women’s Divis
ion which will concentrate on
reviewing present classifications
and categories of giving. This di
vision will also be concerned with
the addition of new prospects.
In announcing the divisional
leadership, the general chairman
stated that this year’s campaign
would be faced with a dual re
sponsibility, for not only must
the continued vital services at
home and abroad be provided
for, but an all-out effort must be
made if Atlanta is to meet its
goal of $750,000 for the Emerg-
and informed him that Israel is
unable to alter its stand on the
Gaza-Akaba issue despite Presi
dent Eisenhower’s statement yes
terday.
Mr. Ben Gurion explained to
the American envoy the reasons
for the Israel Government’s poli
cy and submitted to him new
proposals designed to bridge the
gap between the American and
the Israeli views. Meanwhile, the
Cabinet decided to postpone the
foreign policy statement which
Premier Ben Gurion was sched
uled to make in Parliament.
Immedately after the Cabinet
meeting, Ambassador Abba Eban
was summoned from Washington
to Jerusalem for consultations.
He is to remain here for a week
reporting fully on his talks with
Secretary of State John Foster
Dulles on the requested with
drawals of Israeli troops from
the Gaza and Akaba areas.
The decision to bring Ambas
sador Eban home from Washing
ton was interpreted by observ
ers here as an indication that
the Cabinet does not want to
make the fateful decision without
the fullest possible consideration.
It took Jerusalem political circles
completely by surprise. The of
ficial communique issued after the
Cabinet session revealed that
Mr. Eban had been invited to
Jerusalem on the advice of For
eign Minister Golda Meir, cur
rently in New York.
ency Rescue Fund. This is At
lanta’s share of 750 lives of 100,
000 to be saved at a cost of $1,000
per life. The Welfare Fund cam
paign leadership is determined to
reach this goal.
A JTA EXCLUSIVE
German Businessman Forced Moscow
To Admit Wallenberg’s Arrest
FRANKFURT, (JTA) — The
affidavit of a German business
man incarcerated in the same
Moscow prison where Raoul Wal
lenberg was held apparently was
a key factor in inducing the So
viet Government to admit its ar
rest of the Swedish diplomat, the
Jewish Telegraphic Agency learn
ed this week.
Ernest Wallenstein, who told
the JTA he occupied a cell di
rectly under that of Wallenberg,
said the Swedish diplomat —
who saved 20,000 Hungarian Jews
from Hitler’s furnaces — was alive
four months after July 11, 1947,
the date of his death listed by
the Soviet Government in its re
port to the Swedish Government.
An affidavit Mr. Wallenstein
executed at the request of the
Swedish Government shortly af
ter his return from a Moscow
prison to Germany in 1955 con
tained so many particulars that
when the information was con
veyed to Moscow, the data ap
parently proved instrumental in
inducing the Soviets to abandon
their previous insistence that Wal
lenberg was unknown to them
and had never been in the So
viet Union.
Mr. Wallenstein’s account to
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