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The Southern Israelite!
A Weekly Newspaper for Southern Jewry — Established 1925
DEC 15 ’58
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XXXIII
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1958
NO. 50
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m^ZiuMH 8 Jury Deadlocked, Mistrial
Italian Group Sorry
NEW YORK, (JTA) — Thous
ands of Jewish military person
nel on duty at U.S. missile rock
et, jet and aircraft warning sta
tions in this country joined their
fellow Jews at military posts
round the globe in the celebra
tion of Hanukah. The world
wide Hanukah programs were
conducted by Jewish chaplains
and USO-JWB field men under
the auspices of the National
Jewish Welfare Board—sponsor
of global “Operation Hanukah.”
Programs took place at more
than 600 military posts and vet
erans hospitals in the U.S., and
in 65 overseas lands.
Hanukah candlelighting serv
ices, latke parties, dreidel spins
and children’s programs were
the rule in the U.S. and overseas.
Adding zest to the many pro
grams held in army posts, syna
gogues and USO clubs, were the
gifts furnished by Serve-A com
mittees of JWB’s Women’f Or
ganizations' Division. Some of
these gifts, for example, were
distributed at a Hanukah party
in Nuremberg, Germany, at a
special candlelighting service for
GI Children, when the young
sters were hosts to 20 German
children from the city of Furth.
JWB gifts also found their way
to lonely stations in Germany,
where U.S. GI’s are on patrol
along the Communist East Zone
border.
The story of Hanukah was
told at Vandenberg Missile Base,
Cal., Huntsville Missle Arsenal,
Ala., the Army Chemical Center,
Baltimore—which houses the Nike
Hercules Missle base—and at the
Aberdeen Proving Ground, Balti
more, where scientists are at
work on the Bomarc missile and
the new moon rockets. Chaplains
read the services at the aircraft
warning sites in Kure Beach,
Winston-Salem and Roanoke
Rapids, N.C.
Cadets at the U.S. Air Force
Academy in Colorado Springs
celebrated at a party held at the
school. On the West Coast, Hanu
kah came to such lonely desert
places as Camp Pendleton, larg
est Marine base in the U.S.
Twenty-Nine Palms Marine Base,
Camp Irwin, and George and Ed
wards Air Force Bases, thanks
to the efforts of the Los Angeles
JWB Committee.
ROME, (JTA)—A foundation
named in memory of an Italian
patriot who was arrested and de
ported for helping Italian Jews
flee to Switzerland from the
Nazi-Fascist regime publicly
apologized today for having
awarded a gold medal to a man
who signed Benito Mussolini’s
racial manifesto in 1938. The
manifesto marked the beginning
of the Fascist persecution of the
Jews in Italy.
The apology came after the
Union of Italian Jewish Commu
nities had addressed a protest to
the Bruno Rezzara Foundation
over its award of a gold medal
to Prof. Sabato Visco. Prof. Visco
was a signatory of the racist
manifesto. Bruno Rezzara’s bro
ther, in his apology to the Union,
said that he had not been aware
of Prof. Visco’s Fascist back
ground when the award was de
cided upon.
Ordered in Temple Bomb Case
With the jury deadlocked at 9
and 3, the trial of George Bright
for the bombing of the Temple
in Atlanta Wednesday ended in
a mistrial.
Judge Durwood Pye declared
the mistrial after the jury re
ported it was hung without a
unanimous decision after they
had received the case 86 hours
earlier.
The jurymen, who had been
locked up for the night since the
case began on December 1, re
ceived the case at 11 p.m. Satur
day, They were locked up
through Sunday, when Georgia
law prevents deliberation and be
gan consideration of the case the
morning of Monday, December
15.
Twice during Tuesday, they
filed back into the Superior
courtroom to be recharged. The
judge had delineated their ver
dict into three directions: 1 guilty
with the death penalty, 2 guilty
with recommendation of mercy
which would mean life imprison
ment, and 3 not guilty.
The solicitor was ordered to
re-try Bright, but it was not ex
pected the case would come up
again until the January term of
court. Meanwhile it was expect
ed that his attorney would file a
motion to release the defendant
under bond.
The four other men under in
dictment on the same charges
were released under bond. Rob
ert Bolling, Richard Bolling and
Kenneth Chester Griffin posted
$1,000 bonds. Wallace Allen was
out under $5,000 bond.
Key witness in the state’s case
was Jimmy Dave DeVore, who
occupied the same cell block with
Atlanta Temple "Officially Closes
Campaign, Pledges at $821,302
By ADOLPH ROSENBERG
At a victory dinner Monday
evening for close to two hundred
campaigners and their wives, the
whilrlwind campaign of the Tem
ple in Atlanta came to an “offi
cial close.”
The total of pledges stood at
$821,302—considerable more than
the original goal of $700,000.
Campaign Chairman William
Breman stated the total repre
sented pledges made by approxi
mately 800 of the 1,000-member
Congregation.
Workers have done a terrific
job, Mr. Breman declared, in can
vassing the membership in so
short a time. Hardly fifty cards
are as yet unreported, with
others not accounted for because
some members are out of town
or ill.
Though the drive is officially
over, Congregation President
Williatn B. Schwartz Jr., said
each member will be given an
opportunity to share so that we
can secure as close to 100 percent
participation as possible.
“The Congregation officers
and board are thrilled with the
total results as well as with the
number of participants,” he as
serted. “The 170 workers who
conducted the drive have done a
magnificnt job and are to be con
gratulated for the speed and en
thusiasm with which the cam
paign was conducted.
Efforts of the Temple to se
cure the funds for the projected
remodeling and addition of larg
er and moden school facilities
were of course spurred unexpect
edly by the tragic bombing on
October 12.
Mr. Schwartz explained that
the original figure of $700,000
was primarily an estimate of
what the new building program
would cost. He said.
“We still do not have definite
Talk on All-Day School in School Picture and
Statement of Policy Features of Sunday Meet
“Where Does the Hebrew Aca
demy Fit into the Present Edu
cational Picture?”
This topic will be the basis for
an address by Rabbi Yaakov
Rosenberg, Sunday, Dec. 14 at
the A.J.C.C. at 8 p.m.
Rabbi Rosenberg is the spirit
ual leader of Congregation Beth
David in Miami. He has served
in this position since 1955. Prior
to his present post he was Rabbi
of Temple Beth Zion in Phila
delphia for six years. Rabbi
Rosenberg is in addition to his
Congregational duties Chairman
of South Florida Council of the
American Jewish Congress, a
member of the Board of Jewish
Family Service, American Civil
Liberties Union, and the Dade
Council for Community Rela
tions. He is a graduate of John
Hopkins University, Jewish Theo
logical Seminary of America, and
the Baltimore Hebrew Teachers’
College. Rabbi Rosenberg is
married and has two children.
The sixth grade of the Hebrew
Academy will present a skit
RABBI YAAKOV ROSENBERG
which they have prepared es
pecially for this event. The chil
dren and their parents are ex
cited as this will be one of rare
occasions of a public presenta
tion by the children of the He
brew Academy.
A statement concerning the
policy of the school will be pre
sented by Dr. Irving Greenberg,
president of the Hebrew Aca
demy. It has been felt that due
to the current Public School
crises and the tremendous num
ber of applications for admission
to the Academy, that it is im
portant that the Hebrew Aca-
d e m y inform the public of
changes in admission policy, ca
pacity for taking care of addi
tional children, and to give in
formation as to educational poli
cies.
Joseph Cuba, chairman of the
arrangement committee and his
workers are planning “unusual”
refreshments which are being
provided through the generosity
of fifty sponsors of this pro
gram.
The public is cordially invited.
plans and cost, so that the final
figure may well exceed the $700,
000.
“Topping the goal will enable
the Congregation to do a more
complete job than was original
ly intended, particularly from a
furnishing and decorative view.
“Members can be assured that
none of the amount will be
squandered. It was never intend
ed that the new facilities would
be lavish and the completed
building will be built bearing in
mind ‘adequacy, rather than ‘ex-
travagence’.”
It is quite possible when the
construction is over that the costs
will be even larger than the total
pledged.
On the other hand, Mr. Sch
wartz indicated, if any funds are
left over, it may very well be
come the basis of a sorely need
ed endowment fund. As it is the
Temple operates on almost a
hand-to-mouth basis, often hav
ing to borrow operational funds
against anticipated income from
dues.
The $821,302 does not include
payment of the insurance com
pany for the actual bombing
damage.
“We were very lucky indeed
to have had the insurance to
cover our loses in this respect,”
he added.
Bright for a time in Fulton Tow
er.
DeVore testified that Bright
confided to him in jail that he
“planned and led” the October
12 bombing.
The defense introduced several
witnesses who said DeVore’s
character was bad and they
would not believe him under
oath.
Another key state witness was
L. E. Rogers, who owns a jani
torial service, who testified he
had worked for the Federal Bu
reau of Investigation as an un
dercover informer. The defense
also challenged Rogers’ reliabil
ity with several witnesses who
questioned his character.
Bright himself, in an unsworn
statement, talked for more than
six hours, denying his guilt.
MILITARYm)NORS
FOR UJA LEADER
WASHINGTON, (JTA)—Lewis
E. Spiegler, Washington Jewish
leader who for many years di
rected the United Jewish Appeal
of the Greater Washington area,
was buried with military honors
last week in Arlington National
Cemetery.
Mr. Spiegler, an attorney and
specialist on immigration, died
at 66. A veteran of the first World
War, he was a member of the
Jewish Community Council Exec
utive, a past president of the
Brandeis District of the Zionist
Organization of America, a leader
of the Jewish War Veterans and
active in many other Jewish
causes.
He did much to aid the Hebrew
aged in Washington and provided
much assistance to Jewish immi
grants and refugees in the Dis
trict of Columbia area.
Toynbee Superficial,
Malik Believes
UNITED NATIONS, (AJP)—At
his weekly luncheon with a
rotating group of UN newsmen,
Philosopher-Diplomat Dr. Charles
Malik — President of the 13th
General Assembly — told AP’s
Bill Oatis that the British his
torian Arnold Toynbee was
“superficial” when compared
with the great philosophers such
as Spengel and others. Including
Spinoza among the greats, Dr.
Malik listed Aristotle as his num
ber one choice of world philo
sophers.
Abe Goldberg Selected Atlanta
Man of Year by B’nai B’rith
Abe Goldberg, one of the most
beloved members of the Atlanta
Jewish community, was recently
selected as the recpient of the
Distinguished Service Award by
Gate City Lodge, B’nai B’rith,
according to Ted V. Fisher, presi
dent. Mr. Goldberg will be pre
sented this award at a special
meeting to be held Sunday, Jan.
11, beginning at 6:30 p.m., at the
Mayfair Club.
Also feaured at this meeting
will be Rabbi Balfour Brickner,
spiritual leader of Temple Sinai
of Washington, D. C. Rabbi Brick
ner is one of the most outstand
ing young rabbis on the American
scene, Mr. Fisher said, and will
bring a message of great interest
to his Atlanta audience.
Rabbi Brickner served as chap
lain in the U. S. Navy during
World War II. He has been very
active in civic affairs in Cin
cinnati and Washington for many
years. In 1953 Rabbi Brickner
travelled in Europe and in Israel
and visited with the Jewish com
munities of each of those
countries.
All members of B’nai B’rith,
their families and friends, as well
as all friends of Mr. Abe Gold
berg, are cordially invited and
urged to attend the meeting.
Reservation cards will be mailed
in the very near future to all
members of B’nai B’rith. Others
desiring to attend are urged to
call the office of Sidney Parks,
JA. 3-2965 for reservations.