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The Southern Is**
A Weekly Newspaper for Southern Jewry -
XXXVI
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, MARCH 10, 1901
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NO. 10
Coalition Groups Ask Mapai
To By-Pass Ben-Gurion
Senate Body Confirms Meriwether
To Bank Post; Vote,is 5-4
JERUSALEM, (JTA)—Leaders
of the coalition parties which
were represented in the Ben-
Gurion Cabinet were still hope
ful today that the Mapai party,
of which Mr. Ben-Gurion is the
leader, will resolve the deadlock
which developed over the forma
tion of a new Cabinet by nam
ing a leader other than Mr. Ben-
Gurion for the Premiership,
thereby averting national elec
tions. ’
Should Mr. Ben-Gurion agree
to serve as Defense Minister,
Levi Eshkol would become the
Prime Minister of a rebuilt Cabi
net simultaneously retaining bis
post as Finance Minister. Other
wise, there is the possibility that
Moshe Sharett, former Premier
and Foreign Minister, would be
named to the Premiership by
Mapai.
President Izhak Ben-Zvi this
week resumed his consultations
with leaders of various political
parties on the formation of a
new Cabinet. This time he con
fined his talks to leaders of the
General Zionists and the Herut,
the two opposition parties which
have not been represented in the
Ben-Gurion Cabinet. The leaders
of both groups reiterated their
requests for new elections.
A prospective new party crisis
in Mapai apparently was ended
by-A Statement of Pyjbas Lavon,
ousted secretary-general of the
Histadrut, Israel’s Labor Fed
eration, that he had withdrawn
his candidacy for election to the
Knesset, Israel’s Parliament.
Mr. Lavon gave notice of his
withdrawal from national elec
tions to resolve Israel’s Govern
ment crisis in a letter to the
Mapai secretariat. In it, he re
ferred to Prime Minister David
Ben-Gurion’s statement opposing
Baltimore Hospitals
To Offer Kosher Foods
BALTIMORE, (JTA) — Ar
rangements have been completed
to make it possible for a Jew de
siring Kosher food to get it in
every hospital in Baltimore.
Rabbi Jacob A. Max, chairman
of the Hospital Committee of the
seaboard region of the Rabbini
cal Council of America, An
nounced the arrangements. He
said under the plan a local kosh
er caterer will prepare foods
which will be kept in the hos
pital freezer until requested.
cials of the Southeast ZOA Re
gion have launched a $d0,000
fund to construct a dormitory at
Kfar Silver in Israel in honor of
Mortimer May, Nashville indus
trialist and former national ZOA
president.
Israel Feiden, St. Augustine,
Fla., is chairman of the fund
campaign.
In announcing the campaign,
he stated, “Mortimer May is a
former president of our own Re
gion and one of the most disting
uished national presidents the
ZOA has had. It is in recognition
of the inspiration and service
which Mr. May brought to our
movement and to the upbuilding
of the State of Israel that we
want to honor him in this way."
ZOA members of the Region,
comprising South Carolina, Miss
issippi, Georgia, Florida, Alaba
ma, Tennessee, have been asked
Mr. Lavon’s name b^.ing added
to the Mapai list of candidates.
In his letter, Mr. Lavon served
qotice he would fight back if
Mr. Ben-Gurion attacked him in
the ejection campaign. Referring
to a secretariat announcement
that Mr. Ben-Gurion was plan
ning to publish a “summing up”
of his battle against the Hista
drut leader, Mr. Lavon said that
if the contents of the “summing
up” required comment from him,
he will comment, “It is an ele
mentary right and I reject) the
party’s authority to deny it,” he
stated.
In reference to the plan to
name a committee to determine
a list of Mapai candidates for
the Knesset, Mr. Lavon com
mented that “if anybody had
bothered to consult me, I would
have informed him I am not
ready to be a candidate.” He
added: “I am not ready to be
repeatedly victimized by the
Premier who is trying to drive
me out of public life.”
Delegates and- visitor; to the
forthcoming Southeast regional
conclave of Orthodox Jews, to
be held in Birmingham on March
10-12, will hear top national rab
binic and lay spokesmen of the
American tradtional Jewish com
munity and an array of south
eastern Jewish leaders. The
event is the 16th Annual South
east Regional Convention of the
Union of Orthodox Jewish Con
gregations of America.
Delivering major addresses
will be Moses I. FeUerstein of
Brookline, MasA., national presi
dent of the Union, and Rabbi
Charles Weinberg of Malden,
Mass., president of the Rabbini
cal Council of America, the coun
try’s largest rabbinic organiza
tion, it has been announced by
Sam S. Margolin of Memphis,
Tenn., president of the South
east Region of the Orthodox
Union. The two presidents will
address the banquet session on
to aid the fund. Contributions
can be made as well by the pub
lic to Mr. Feiden, Box 495, St.
Augustine.
France Honors Unkown
Jewish Martyrs
PARIS, (WUP) — An eternal
memorial light was officially
switched on the tomb of the un
known Jewish martyr here this
week in honor of the six mil
lion Jewish victims of Nazi per
secutions Leading French offi
cials, including the minister of
ex-servicemen, M. Raymond Tri-
boulet, attended the ceremonies.
Letters of sympathy were re
ceived from Prime Minister Mi
chel Debre, Cardinal Feltin and
former Presidents Rene Coty and
Vincent AurioL
WASHINGTON, (JTA) — The
Senate Banking and Currency
Committee Voted this week by
five to four to confirm the nom
ination of Charles Meriwether,
of Alabama, as a director of the
United States Export-Import
Bank after a heated hearing in
which Mr. Meriwether denied
anti-Semitism but proclaimed
that he still favored the racial
segregation of Negroes. The nom
ination, which President Ken
nedy is continuing to support,
now faces a fight on the Senate
floor.
Mr. Meriwether admitted ac
cepting the political support of
the Ku Klux Klan in political
campaigning he helped direct.
He was questioned about his
personal connection with R. M
Shelton, Grand Dragon of the
Alabama Ku Klux tflan, and his
work for retired Admiral John
Crommelin, an anti-Jewish agi
tator.
Mr. Meriwether indicated, in
Monday evening, March t* ' *' ' r
Heading the host congregation,
Knesseth Israel, are its spiritual
leader, Rabbi Seymour Atlas,
and its president, Sol Shapiro.
Co-chairmen of the convention
are Harry Asm an and Joseph
Brown of Birmingham. Attend
ing the convention will be dele
gates and visitors from communi
ties in North Carolina, South
Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Miss
issippi, Louisiana, Tennessee and
Alabama.
Addressing a public assembly
on Saturday evening will be Dr.
William W. Brickman, professor
of educational history and com
parative education at New York
University who has visited So
viet Russia three times and will
report on “Jews Behind the Iron
Curtain,” and Dr. Samson R.
Weiss, executive vice president
of the Orthodox Union, who will
speak on “The Search For Pur
pose.” Reuben E. Gross, Staten
Island, N.Y. attorney who heads
the Union’s Commission on Re
gions and Councils, will lead a
luncheon discussion on “Ortho
dox Jewry and Public Issues.”
Rabbi Pinchas Stolper, direc
tor of the National Conference
of Synagogue Youth, and Mrs.
Nathan Greenspan of Bridgeport,
response to examination, that
Admiral Crommelin’s anti-Semi
tism was not the basis for their
break. Other political moves by
the retired admiral were re
sponsible, he testified. Mr. Meri
wether said he did not share
KKK views on Jews and Catho
lics but that he did advocate the
segregation of Negroes in public
schools.
Senate sources revealed that
the four votes cast against Mr.
Meriwether were those of Sena
tors Maurice Neuberger of Ore
gon; Joseph Clark of Pennsyl
vania; William Proxmire of Wis
consin; all Democrats, and Sena
tor Jacob Javits of -New York,
a Republican. Interrogated at
length by Committee members,
Mr. Meriwether denied the ac
curacy *of documents including
an assertion that he once stated
that “We ought to run all the
damn Jews into the Atlantic
Ocean.”
Mr. Meriwether told the Com-
nattoeal ^tMMssbtf
Women’s Branch, will address
special sessions devoted to these
areas of activity.
Among topics of the conven
tion sessions will be the com
munity role of the Synagogue,
relationships between rabbis and
laity, religious education, ad
vancement of personal religious
observance and community reli
gious standards and the develop
ment of synagogue programming,
membership and administration.
Attending from Atlanta will
be Rabbi Emanuel Feldman,
Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Krieger,
Mr. and Mrs. Ben Qolden, Cy
Polan, Morris Sim berg, Can
tor Phillip Rosenblatt, Mr.
and Mrs. Sol Abrams.
Ways to gfhde teenagers and col
lege students towards a mean
ingful religious life will be ex
plored.
Rabbi Zalman I. Posner of
Congregation Shearith Israel,
Nashville, will deliver the ser
mon at the Sabbath morning
services. Religious study groups
will be led on Saturday and
Sunday mornings by Rabbi Na
than Greenblatt of Memphis.
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mittee that he had never any
“problem of anti-Semitism” and
was “friendly toward Jews” and
the “colored race.” Sen. Prox
mire wanted to know what the
nominees attitude would be to
ward Israel and Africa and
other nations. Mr. Meriwether
said he would “make a great ef
fort to work with them in a co
operative manner if the busi
ness was in the interest of the
United States.”
Senator Neuberger questioned
Mr. Meriwether’s basic qualifica
tions as a director of the Export-
Import Bank and drew from
him admissions that he was un
familiar with such important
fiscal legislaton ias the Cooley
amendment.
Senator Paul H. Douglas, of
Illinois, asked Mr. Meriwether
to pledge “without any mental
reservation” that he repudiated
KKK religious bias. Mr. Meri
wether said he repudiated anti-
Semitism and anti-Catholicism
but ‘T believe in segregation in
public schools.”
Early Elections
Mean Postponement
Eichmann Trial
mtlt^UM, (Wtol ■»«
possibility that the trial of Nazi
leader /Adolf Eichmann, which
is scheduled to start oh April 11,
may have to be postponed U a
majority of the Knesset, brash
Parliament, should vote in favor
of holding national elections in
Israel at one of the earty dates
by the opposition parties, was
seen here this week.
Meanwhile, a termer leader of
the Jewish underground in Po
land during the Nazi occupation,
Yitzhak Zukerman, warned that
evidence to be presented in the
trial of Eichmann was “so full
of horror it might cause mass
nervous breakdowns in Israel
unless the people are prepared
for it."
JWV 112 Dinner
Program Features
Sen. Morse, Cuba
Atlantans assembled Sun
day for the annual command
er’s banquet of Poet 112, Jew
ish War Veterans, will hear a
talk by U.S. Wayne Morse,
one of the most controversial
figures ever to appear on the
national political scene..
The Oregon senator began
in Washington on the Repub
lican side of this law making
chamber. In 1954 he became
an Independent and the fol
lowing year cast his lot with
the Democrats. He was easily
reelected on this slate in his
home state.
Banquet Chairman Coleman
Medintz has announced that
another feature of the even
ing will be the presentation
of the Post’s “Outstanding
Citizen’s Award” to Max Cu
ba, for several decades a lead
er on the Atlanta business,
communal, religious and civic
scene.
Irving Shaw will be install
ed as new commander of the
Post. Reservations for the ban
quet at 6:30 p.m. at the Pro
gressive Club at $5 a person
can be made at JA. 4-0428 or
TR. 4-419T.
SE Zionists to Name Dormitory
In Israel for Mortimer May
ST AUGUSTINE, FLA.—Ofli-
National Leaders to Address
S. E. Orthodox Union Convention