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ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, JUNE 27, 1958
NO. 26
American Express Company Agrees Jewisll GrOUpS Seek CoHgreSS
To Improve Israel Representation Aetion To Check Bombings
JERUSALEM, (JTA) — The
American Express Company,
which had been charged by
Israeli officials with closing its
offices in Israel under the pres
sure of the Arab anti-Israel boy
cott, agreed this week to provide
a full range of services in Israel
to local and foreign customers.
A joint announcement by the
Israel Government Tourist Corp
oration and the American Ex
press Company reported agree
ment on a joint promotion cam
paign of Israel’s tourist attrac
tions. In order to improve ser
vices, the company, which had
previously cut down on staff,
undertook to “improve” its rep
resentation in Israel. The joint
promotion campaign will stress
the traditional values of Israel
as well as newly developed sun-
and-sea attractions.
NEW YORK, (JTA) — After
reading the joint statement of
the American Express Company
and the Israel Government Tour
ist Corporation, the presidents
of the 17 major American Jew
ish organizations who several
months ago mentioned American
Express in their pamphlet “A
Report on the Arab Boycott
Against Americans,” made the
following comment this week.
“We are confident that the
new joint plans of the Israel
Government Tourist Corporation
and the American Express Com
pany will be as beneficial to
American Express as it will to
the development of Israel tour
ism. The action of American Ex
press exemplifies the best tradi
tions of the American business
community. It strengthens the
unhampered flow of internation
al trade and commerce free of
any extraneous considerations.”
WASHINGTON, (JTA) — Six
major national Jewish organiza
tions and 42 local, state and re
gional Jewish community rela
tions agencies this week called
for the enactment at this ses
sion of the Congress of a bill to
establish a “jurisdictional basis”
for action by the FBI in cases of
bombings, by prohibiting the
illegal transportation or use of
explosives.
Will Maslow, counsel for the
American Jewish Congress, testi
fied at hearings on three identi
cal bills being held by a Sub
committee of the Judiciary Com
mittee of the House of Repre
sentatives. He appeared at the
hearing on behalf of his own
organization and of the Jewish
Labor Committee, Jewish War
Veterans of the U.S., Union of
American Hebrew Congregations,
Union of Orthodox Jewish Con
gregations of America, United
Synagogue of America and 42
Jewish community relations
agencies in cities throughout the
United States. All the organiza
tions are affiliated in the Na
tional Community Relations Ad
visory Council.
“This issue of law and order
is not a sectional problem,” the
Jewish organizations declared.
Arthukovic Charged at U.S. Hearing
With Murder of 200,000
LOS ANGELES, (JTA) — A
picture of mass murder of 200,
000 Jewish and Serbian men,
women and children in the Nazi
puppet state of Croatia was
Artist Joins Faculty of Ga.
Institute of Judaism
With the acceptance of Mrs.
Joseph Albert, noted ceramist,
artist and lecturer, a special
feature has been introduced to
the curriculum of the second
Georgia Institute of Judaism, it
was announced by Mrs. Bernard
Facher, co-chairman of the In
stitute. Mrs. Albert will discuss
“Jewish Art and Artists,” illus
trating her lectures with her li
brary of slides.
The Institute of Judaism, spon
sored by the Georgia B’nai B’rith
Association will be held at
Jekyll Island, Ga., on July 27
through the morning of July 31.
The theme of the Institute is
“Great Conflicts in Jewish Life.”
Dr. Ellis Rivkin, Professor of
Jewish History at Hebrew Union
College-Jewish Institute of Re
ligion and Dr. Lou H. Silberman,
Hillel Professor of Jewish Litera
ture and Thought in the School
of Religion at Vanderbilt Uni
versity, the other two faculty
members will discuss Jewish
views on origins of Christianity:
the controversy over Maimonid-
des, and Mystics versus the Scho
lars.
Mrs. Joseph Albert was born
in Atlanta, educated at Agnes
Scott College, studied art at the
Atlanta Art Institute and ceram
ics at Alfred University in New
York. She was formerly a teach
er in the Atlanta public schools
and is a designer of prize-win
ning ceramic dinnerware and
home accessories exhibited in
American and European mus-
drawn in Federal Court here
this week as the Yugoslav Gov
ernment opened presentation of
the case on which it based its
demand for the extradition of
Andrija Arthukovic, onetime
Minister for Interior of Croatia.
George F. Danielson, an attor
ney representing the Belgrade
Government promised to pro
duce documentary evidence link
ing Arthukovic, who has been
living in the United States as
a “political refugee,” with the
butchery of 48 Jewish religious
leaders, 47 Greek Orthodox
priests and others.
Artukovic’s attorney, Edward
J. O’Connor, in his opening re
marks presented the Croat Nazi
official as a simple administra
tor who had no responsibility
for the killings and no control
over either the local army or
police. Extradition has been
sought for nearly seven years.
H. Sol Clark Named Jewish
Man of Year in Savannah
MRS. J. ALBERT
eums. In addition she v 1s a Phi
Beta Kappa, Trustee of the At
lanta Art Festival, and Lecturer
on Jewish Art at the Atlanta
Adult Jewish Education Insti
tute.
Full tuition for the Institute
is $25,00 per person and the total
for the four days will be $65.00,
Mrs. Facher added. Registration
will be limited to the first 65
men and women who apply.
Applications and brochures can
be secured by contacting Mrs.
Barnard Facher, 1665 Noble Dr.,
N. E., Atlanta, TR. 2-3564.
SAVANNAH—Selection of at
torney H. Sol Clark as “Savan
nah’s Jewish Man of the Year”
was announced last week.
This award is made annually
by the Martin E. Kirschbaum
Jr. Post 320 of the Jewish War
Veterans.
Meyer E. Shensky, chairman
of the committee and state de
partment commander of the
Jewish War Veterans, said Clark
was given a plaque at a
banquet of the organization’s
state convention at the Manger
Hotel on June 22. This function
was open to the public to
permit friends of Clark to par
ticipate in this formal recogni
tion of his activities.
Previous winners have been
William A. Wexler for 1955 and
Albert Tenenbaum for 1956.
In making the award the com-
cittee slated that emphasis is
given in their consideration to
work done in past years rather
than limiting study of records
to the calendar year alone. In
the instance of Clark, however,
the committee pointed out that
in 1957 he was given national
recognition by being selected for
publication in “Who’s Who in
America,” was awarded the 33rd
degree in Masonry and a medal
lion by the American Heart
Association for meritorious serv
ice, and that he had continued
leadership of many state and
local civic enterprises.
Clark has long been active in
civic, Jewish and fraternal work.
Among his many activities he
has served as president of the
Savannah Bar Assn., member of
the Georgia Industrial Loan Ad
visory Commission, chairman of
the Legal Aid Committe of Geor
gia, president of the First Dis
trict chapter of the Georgia
Heart Assn., assistant city attor
ney, chairman of the Board of
Public Welfare, chairman of the
March of Dimes, He organized
the first law forum series and
he was founder of the Savannah
Legal Aid office.
Referring to the dynamitting
and attempts to dynamite Jew
ish Community Centers, syna
gogues and public schools in
Chattanooga, Jacksonville, Miami
and Nashville, their testimony
said “there are strong indica
tions that the outrages are link
ed and are the work of one or
more criminal gangs.” They
urged as “an urgent necessity
enactment of legislation em
powering federal law enforce
ment officials to take effective
action against an apparently
interstate conspiracy of violence
and terror.”
The bills under consideration
would add a new section to the
United States Criminal Code
making it a federal crime pun
ishable by imprisonment by not
more than one year or by a fine
of not more than $1,000 or by
both: (1) To import into the
United States or to transport in
interstate commerce any ex
plosive “with the knowledge pr
intent” that it will be used m
violation of Federal or State
law; and (2) To possess, in vio
lation of any Federal or state
law, any explosive imported into
the United States or transported
in interstate commerce.
Thus, any persons who carried
dynamite across a state line in
order to detonate it in violation
of a state law would also be
violating a Federal law. Similar
ly, any person found in posses
sion of dynamite within a state
in violation of its law would
likewise be guilty of a Federal
crime if the explosive was car
ried across state lines.
WASHINGTON, (JTA) —- A
plea for broader legislation
against hate groups, including a
specific anti-conspiracy bill, aim
ed at preventing further syna
gogue bombings in the South
was voiced here this wek by
Rep. Kenneth Keating of New
York. He testified before House
Judiciary Subcommittee which
opened hearings on bills to tight
en Federal laws controlling the
interstate shipment of explosives.
Herman Edelsberg, Wasmng-
ton representative of the Anti-
Defamation League of B ^ ai
B’rith, told the subcommittee
that such legislation would clari
fy Federal authority in future
attacks on minority institutions
and put Congress on the record
against such terrorism. The AUL
leader noted that the legislation
had the support of Southern
Congressmen.
Denver Rabbi Warns of Drive
For Stricter Sunday Blue Law
DENVER, (JTA) —A church
movement for adoption of a Sun
day closing law which may af
fect kosher markets which are
closed on Saturdays and open on
Sundays is underway, Rabbi
SOUTHERN JEWS ARE CAUGHT IN SQUEEZE BY NEGROES, WHITES
By BORIS SMOLAR
(Editor, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.)
Jewish communities in the
South are caught in the present
squeeze between the White Citi
zens council and the potential of
Negro anti-Semitism expressed
economically. . . . On the one
hand, the forces in the South
opposing desegregation produce
elements which indulge in bomb
ing of synagogues in retaliation
for Jewish support of the de
segregation decision of the U.S.
Supreme Court ... On the other
hand, some of the Negro people
in the South consider their boy
cotting of Jewish stores as a
more or less acceptable form of
aggression against the one vul
nerable element within the white
community . . .
Actually the Jews are but a
small minority in the South, and
their stand on the so-called “seg
regation Issue" could hardly in
fluence the situation ... It is
sufficient to point out that,
while the Jews in the nation
comprise 3.1 percent of the en
tire population, they constitute
only 0.6 percent of the South . .
Out of a population of 43,500,000
in the South, the Jews number
approximately 225,000 . . . only
four cities in the South have
more than 10,000 Jews . . . These
are: Miami, Atlanta, Dallas and
Houston . . . The remainder are
scattered in smaller Jewish com
munities, many of which do not
count even 100 Jews . . .
In Alabama, there are less
than 10,000 Jews in the entire
state . . . The largest number
of Jews there—about 4,000—can
be found in Birmingham . . The
two other Jewish communities
of importance are those in Mont
gomery and Mobile, and each of
them counts no more than 1,800
Jews ... In Mississippi, where
there is a total population of
about 2,200,000, there are less
than 4,000 Jews in the entire
state . . . The Jews do not com
prise there even 0.2 percent of
the entire population . . .
The largest Jewish community
in Mississippi is in Greenville,
and it is composed of about 500
Jews. ... In Tennessee, there
are about 16,000 Jews and they
constitute less than one-half of
one percent of the entire popu
lation . . . About a half of all
Jews in Tennessee reside in Mem
phis, about 3,000 live in Nash
ville, where a synagogue was
bombed recently, and the third
largest Jewish community is in
Chattanooga, with 2,500 Jews . .
In Georgia, Louisiana, Ken
tucky and other Southern states,
the Jews similarly do not com
prise even one-half of one per
cent of the entire population . .
Only in Texas do Jews reach
about three-quarter of one per
cent; this includes Dallas with
its 16,000 Jews, Houston with
15,000 Jews and San Antonio
with 7,000 Jews . . .
Manuel Laderman, president of
the Denver Rabbinical Council,
warned this week.
Rabbi Laderman said he had
discussed the problem with lead
ers of the Denver Council of
Churches, which has organized
a campaign for a stricter clos
ing law. He said he hoped ex
ceptions would be made for
Jewish businessmen who ob
serve their own Sabbath by clos
ing their places of business on
Saturdays. He said it was de
plorable that so few Jewish
shopkeepers closed their stores
on Saturday.
The spiritual leader also criti
cized Brandeis University for
playing football on Saturday,
contrasting that policy with the
refusal of Brigham Young Uni
versity, a Mormon Church-spon
sored school, to play baseball on
Sunday in the regional college
tournament at Omaha.
Rabbi Laderman said it would
be no great loss to Jewish pres
tige if Brandeis University
would cancel its football pro
gram rather than ptay on Sat
urday, parti<i)Jaxiy> in view of
the Jewislvsponsored university’s
ummpressive gridiron record.