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ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1957
NO. 49
German Jewry Protest Return
Of Leading Nazis To Key Posts
Sunday, Dec. 15 Set For
Israel Cash Day in Atlanta
DUSSELDORF, (JTA) — The
Central Council of Jews in Ger
many this week blasted the re
turn of leading Nazis to public
office and high placess in West
German life. At the concluding
session of a two - day meeting,
Heinz Galinski, president of the
Council’s board, urged close watch
on the return of former Nazis to
public office and wide campaign
of publicizing such developments.
The council also urged coordi
nation of restitution procedures
among the West German states
and West Berlin. Complaints were
voiced that this state of affairs
had caused delays in implement
ation of restitution legislation. It
was decided to ask Parliament to
permit the establishment of an
advisory commission on restitu
tion consisting of Jewish com
munity representatives.
Mr. Galinski reported to the
parley that there were some 30,-
000 Jews now living in Germany
with about 2,000 returning an
nually, chiefly from South Amer
ican countries and Israel. All the
Jews live in West Germany, ex-
US Student Gives
Blood to Shapira
MILWAUKEE, (JTA( — A for
mer member of the Milwaukee
Young Judaea, now on a year’s
study visit in Israel, was reveal
ed this week to have donated
blood to Moshe Shapira, the Min
ister of Religions, in his fight for
recovery from the critical wounds
he suffered in the October Knes
set bombing.
Harvey L. Altshul, in a letter
to his parents here, Mr. and Mrs.
Morris Altshul, wrote that when
physicians determined that the
injured minister needed blood, it
developed that it was blood type
B, a relatively rare type, which
was required.
Hospital authorities, running
into difficulties in obtaining blood
for Minister Shapira, who under
went several operations, issued
a public appeal for persons to
come in for blood typing. The
Milwaukee student volunteered
and was discovered to have blood
type O, which is a universal type
for transfusion purposes.
DENVER, (JTA) — Jewish pro
fessionals in the Anti-Defama
tion League, the American Jewish
Congress and other defense agen
cies have hurt the position of
Southern Jewish communities by
pro-integration statements and ac
tions taken without consulting
their Southern constituents, a
leading Southern Jewish publish
er and communal leader has as
serted.
David W. White, publisher of
the Houston Jewish Herald Voice
and of the Jewish Digest, made
this observation in an address to
the Beth Joseph Men’s Club here.
He also warned that the plight
of Southern Jewish businessmen,
torn by conflicting economic, so
cial, ethnical and anti-Semitic
pressures in the school desegrega
tion issue, was bouncing too much
for some of them. A few, he said,
were giving up their homes and
businesses to move North.
Mr. White said he was fully in
support of law and obedience to
the Supreme Court school desegra-
cept 1,200 in Berlin and 800 in
various cities of East Germany,
HAGEN, Germany, (JTA) — A
German court in this Westpha
lian city has sentenced Paul Tho-
manek, onetime S.S. leader and
concentration camp commandant
to 15 years’ imprisonment for the
murder of five Jews.
When he heard the verdict, the
defendant said he had made a
victim of an “organized conspiracy
of te Jew's.” Several Jews now
living in the United States travel
led to Germany to testify to the
murder of hundreds of prisoners
at the camp which they had wit
nessed.
Georgia’s Junior United States
Senator Herman Talmadge paced
a Bonds for Israel dinner Sunday
night when Atlantans and visitors
KNESSET UPHOLDS
GURION IN ROW
OVER ANTHEMS
JERUSALES, (JTA) — The
Israel Parliament decided this
week that no insult to Israel was
involved in the playing of the
“Star Spangled Banner” before
Hatikvah when the orchestra at
the recent dedication of the
Frederick Mann Auditorium in
Tel Aviv played both the Ameri
can and the Israeli national an
thems.
A motion to reprimand Pre
mier David Ben Gurion, charg
ed with responsibility for the
alleged insult to President Ben
Zvi who was in the audience
when the anthems were played,
was moved by Communist depu-
tie. It was turned down. The
Premier, who caustically refer
red to the “super-patriotism” of
the Communists, held that on
such occasions it was customary
to play the foreign anthem
first.
tion decision but he pleaded for
time and tolerance, asserting that
the South needs to be understood,
rather than criticized.
Asserting that not all Jews were
liberals and not all liberals were
Jews, the publisher charged that
the liberals wanted Southern Jew
ry to fight and die for liberal
causes, while in the North the
same liberals move out when Ne
groes buy homes in their neigh
borhood.
He said many Jewish families,
having lived in the South for de
cades, have taken on the thinking
and views of their non-Jewish
neighbors. Many Jews, he said,
have knuckled under pressure and
joined the White Citizens Coun
cil against their convictions.
When ADL, American Jewish
Congress or other Jewish organi
zations take a stand in New York
on the race issue, local Southern
newspapers and anti-Semitic agi
tators use such material to the
chargin and dicomfort of South
ern Jews, White said.
Sunday, December 15 is being
designated “Cash Day For Is
rael,” by the Atlanta Israel Bond
Committee — a one-day, intensi
fied effort to sell a maximum of
bonds in Atlanta, via a house-to-
house canvass by volunteer work
ers.
Mrs. Israel D. Shapiro, Chair
man of the Women’s Division, will
serve as Grand Marshal, with
Berry Rittenbaum as Co-Grand
Marshal. Volunteer workers will
meet for “brunch” at the Pro
gressive Club, Sunday morning,
purchased a total close to $90,000.
Senator Talmadge spoke with
a unique knowledge of conditions
in Israel, lauding the democracy
of the Jewish state and compar
ing it with "our own United
States.”
He has backed up his under
standing and sympathy for Israel
by speeches on the floor of the
U.S. Senate and by actually be
coming a Guardian of Israel
through purchase of a $1,000 bond
at an Israel Bond dinner earlier
this fall in Macon.
Elliott Goldstein, a classmate of
Senator Talmadge at the Univer
sity of Georgia, served as master
of ceremonies for the evening.
Dr. James Heller, spiritual lead
er of the Isaac M. Wise Temple
in Cincinnati, reviewed the need
for investment dollars in Israel.
Mrs. Israel Shapiro, chairman
of the Women’s Bond Committee,
told of the efforts of her group
in behalf of the year’s fall cam-
Memphis Baptist
Hospital Provides
Kosher Food
MEMPHIS, (JTA) — The Bap
tist hospital here has arranged to
provide kosher food trays to ob
servant Jewish patients through
the efforts of three Memphis rab
bis.
Rabbis Morton S. Baum, Isa-
dore Goodman and Philip Gold
man said that the hospital not
only would make the kosher trays
available but would also cover
extra charges for the accommoda
tion.
The dinners will be frozen, and
will include a choice of roast
beef, pot roast and turkey. The
dinners will be sold to the hos
pital by a local Kosher delicates
sen.
at 10:00 o’clock, when last min
ute instructions will be issued.
At 10:30, a “telephone confer
ence” will be held with messages
to the Atlanta Jewish community
coming from Prime Minister,
David Ben-Gurion, Foreign Min
ister Golda Meir and Finance
Minister, Levi Eshkol. The tele
phoned messages from the Israeli
leaders are being relayed from
the national Israel Bond office
in New York City.
About 100 volunteer workers
are expected to be enrolled in this
paign to sell Israel Bonds.
She cited the “enthusiasm of
several women’s organizations”
which actively campaigned to sell
bonds and announced that the At
lanta Hadassah Chapter had amas
sed the highest record of sales
this season. Mrs. Dora Smith
president, will receive the lead
ership plaque, at a function to be
held later for the women and
their organizations.
Mrs. Shapiro also announced
that Mrs. Philip Schwartz has
been selected the “Bond’s Woman
of the year for 1957.” Runner-up
is Mrs. Joseph M. Jacobs .Both re
ceived special jewelry brought
back from Israel by Berry Rit
tenbaum, donor of the awards in
this competition.
Mrs. Henrietta Longwater, pres
ident of Atlanta B’nai B’rith
Women, was also cited for the
activities of her organization in
behalf of Israel Bonds.
Largest Orthodox
Synagogue in U. S.
Dedicated; Memphis
MEMPHIS, (JTA) — The
Baron Hirsch Synagogue of this
city, the largest Orthodox syna
gogue in the United States, was
dedicated here last week-end with
a series of events which began
with a religious service Friday
night and ended with a dinner.
The $1,600,000 structure, which
took seven years to complete, has
a seating capacity of 2,000 and
an ability to take an additional
1,000 sets for special occasions.
Besides the huge auditorium, the
building includes 26 classrooms,
an assembly hall, a children’s
synagogue, a Beth Medrash, sev
eral kitchens, a canteen, a youth
room and 11 offices. Its spiritual
leader is Rabbi Isadore Goodman.
all-out, one-day sales drive with
an attempt made to reach a max
imum number of homes of friends
and neighbors.
“This one-day drive must pro
duce a record sum in Atlanta to
maintain Israel’s economic
strength during the present period
of tension in the Middle East,”
Mrs. Shapiro and Mr. Rittenbaum
said in a joint statement, “Israel
Bond dollars expand industry and
agriculture and provide homes and
jobs for nearly 100,000 immigrants
entering this year.”
Rickety UN Truce
Machinery Patched
by Hammarskjold
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., (JTA)
— United Nations Secretary Gen
eral Dag Hammarskjold managed
last week, during a personal peace
mission to the quivering Middle
East, to do some patchwork re
pairs on the rickety UN truce ma
chinery on Israel’s borders with
Jordan and Syria.
Specifically, he inducted prop
aganda-inflamed Jordan to end
a blockade of a fortnightly Is
rael supply convoy to Mount Sco
pus and he persuaded Syria to
put its signature on a statement
of agreement on the need to re
inforce “the authority of the UN
Truce Supervisory Organization
and of the Mixed Armistice Com
mission” with Israel “with a view
to the effective application of the
General Armistice Agreement.”
The agreements were achieved
during a series of shuttle visits
between Jerusalem, Amman and
Damascus. Of the two agreements,
the one with Jordan seemed more
likely to endure, a speculation
underscored by a new attack by
Syrian gunners on a settlement in
the upper Galilee. The shooting
occurred less than 24 hours after
announcement of the agreement
with Syria was made simultane
ously at UN headquarters and
Damascus.
The impasse at Amman was
created by three Jordanian de
mands. Jordan insisted that the
regular Israel convoy which ap
peared at the Mandelbaum gate
checkpoint between old and new
Jerusalem on November "20 could
not go on to Israel’s Mount Sco
pus enclave behind Jordanian
lines if Israel did not remove
nine drums of gasoline which was
intended for use in machinery to
fortify the abandoned Hadassah
Hospital and Hebrew University
buildings on Mount Scopus. Is
rael denied this.
The second Jordanian demand
was for regular UN inspection of
the Israel garrison on Mount
Scopus. Mr. Hammarskjold ap
parently induced Israel to permit
Lt. Col. George Flint, chairman
of the Jordan-Israel Mixed Ar
mistice Commission, to inspect
Mount Scopus this week.
The third Jordanian demand
was for the ouster of Col. Byron
Leary as acting chief of staff of
the UN Truce Supervisory Or
ganization. Jordan had charged
that Col. Leary had displayed fa
voritism toward Israel in ruling
that the gasoline shipment was
not in violation of the armistice
agreement. What arguments Mr.
Hammarskjold used to persuade
Jordan to switch position on this
issue, and the exact status of Col.
Leary’s relations with Jordan re
mained secrets.
Psychiatrist (Jails Reform
More Mature Than Orthodoxy
WORCHESTER, Mass., (JTA)
A Massachusetts psychiatrist, be
lieves that Reform Judaism as a
system of thought is more mature
than Orthodox Judaism which ap
peals more to the immature on
the basis of its authoritative ap
proach and emphasis on ritual
and dogma.”
This view was expressed by
Dr. Myer Asekoff, director of psy
chiatry at the Metropolitan State
Hospital in Waltham. He spoke of
the New England Council of the
Union of American Hebrew Con
gregations.
He said Reform Judaism “pro
motes the concepts of good men
tal health by its respect for the
individual, by its element of free
choice, rationality and its compat
ibility with modern western cul
ture.”
Publisher Says Groups Hurt
South s Jews By School Stands
Talmadge Lauds Israel, Record;
Dinner's Bond Sales Reach $90,000
By ADOLPH ROSENBERG