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ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 18, 196.
NO. 33
Army Will (iranf Deferment
To Draftees On Holy Days
NEW YORK — The National
Jewish Welfare Board’s Com
mission on Jewish Chaplaincy
has been officially advised by
the Selective Service Commis
sion that all draft boards have
been asked to give “favorable
consideration, whenever possi
ble” to requests from Jewish
registrants for postponement of
their physical examination or
induction into the Armed Forces
during the fall Jewish High Holy
Days.
This official word was re-
Survey Shows
Eichmann Guilty
NEW YORK, (JTA)—Ameri
cans in 21 cities, questioned in a
sample poll through man-in-the-
street interviews, believe “al
most without a single excepion”
that Adolph Eichmann is guilty
of crimes against the Jewish
people and crimes against hu
manity, The New York Herald
Tribune reported this week.
The poll was conducted by
The Herald Tribune and other
newspapers in various cities, in
cluding Chicago, Detroit, San
Francisco, Washington, Hous
ton, Salt Lake City, Cincinnati,
Dayton, St. Louis, Rochester
(NY), Lop Angeles and Okla
homa City.
Respondents were asked
whether they thought Eichmann
received a fair trial before the
panel .of three judges in Jeru
salem, which have been hearing
the case for four months; what
they thought his sentence should
be if convicted; and what type
of punishment he should receive
if found guilty. Summarizing
the results of the poll, The Her
ald Tribune reported:
“Almost without a single ex
ception, the men and women in
terviewed believed Eichmann
was guilty and that his trial had
proved him to be. The very few
people who disagreed made a
point of Eichmann’s claim that
he was an underling taking
orders from higher-ups.
"The margin was very narrow
between those who thought
Eichmann should be put to death
for his crimes and those who
thought he should be given life
imprisonment. There was a
shade more opinion favoring the
latter.
JWB Mobilizes
USO Effort
NEW YORK — The National
Jewish Welfare Board (JWB)
this week reported to President
John F. Kennedy that it is re
mobilizing all its resources and
manpower to meet additional de
mands for religious and welfare
services to Jewish military per
sonnel and their dependents re
sulting f r qjn the emergency
build-up of Armed Forces
strength.
In a letter to President Ken
nedy, Solomon Litt, New York,
president of JWB, declared that
"on behalf of American Jewry,
which the National Jewish Wel
fare Board has represented since
World War I in serving the reli
gious, welfare and morale needs
of Jewish military personnel and
their dependents, it is my privi
lege to report to you that we
are remobilizing all our re
sources and manpower to meet
whatever needs may arise in the
light of your call for a build-up
of military strength.”
ceived by Rabbi Aaron Blumen-
thal, spiritual leader of Congre
gation Emanu-El, Mt. Vernon,
N.Y., and Commission Chairman,
from Brig. Gen. Lewis B. Her-
shey, director of the Selective
Service System, in the form of
Operations Bulletin 81, amended
as of June 30, 1961, and ad
dressed to draft boards through
out the country.
Bulletin 81 applies to Rosn
Hashanah (Sept. 11 and 12);
Yom Kippur (Sept. 20), and
Sukkoth (Sept. 25-Oct. 3). Since
all the Holy Days commence at
sundown of the day previous to
these dates. Bulletin 81 states
that “normally, the registrant’s
physical examination or induc
tion should be postponed to a
date following the religious holi
day involved.”
A JWB Spokesman said that
Jewish registrants seeking post
ponement of physical examina
tion or induction during the
High Holy Days, should make
their requests directly to their
local draft boards.
Kentucky Offical
Upholds Reading
Bible In Schools
FRANKFORT, #y',' (JTAT* —
Kentucky Attorney General
John Breckenridge was disclosed
this past week to have expressed
an official opinion that the King
James Version of the Bible was
not sectarian and that therefore
it was not unconstitutional for
it to be read in public schools.
He so informed Mrs. E. S.
Wood of Elizabeth, Ky. who had
sought his opinion on such read
ing in public schools. He said
that Kentucky law r^juired the
reading of the Bible in public
schools and that ‘the law had
been upheld by the Kentucky
Court of Appeals. He added that
the United States Supreme Court
has never ruled on the question
of whether such Bible reading
violates the constitutional re
quirement of church-state sepa
ration.
He said a majority of state
courts had upheld such reading,
either alone or accompanied by
a recitation of the Lord’s Prayer
the singing of hymns or both.
The Attorney General said an
other basis for these rulings was
that “any other constitutional
objection is removed by exclud
ing conscientiously obj e c t i n g
pupils from attendance.”
Vandals Desecrate
Friseo Synagogue
SAN FRANCISCO, (JTA) —
Police were investigating this
week the desecration by anti-
Semitic vandals of Congregation
Ner Tamid, in which walls of
the synagogue building were
smeared with swastikas and
anti-Jewiah slogans. The inci
dent, which took place while two
groups were meeting in the
building, was the second to have
occurred to the synagogue.
The vandals, who carried out
the desecration in the early eve
ning while the building was well
lighted, smeared the walls with
such phrases as “We like Hitler
and Eichmann,” and “Hell, Naz
ism will rise again.” That the
daubings were not the work of
small children was evident by
the fact that they were found
six feet above the ground.
"History Week"
To Show Role
Of Jews In U S.
NEW YORK, (JTA)—The lole
of Jewry and Judaism in the
building of America will be
highlighted nationally next
Spring through a Jewish History
Week observance, sponsored by
the American Jewish Historical
Society, Dr. Abram Kanof, presi
dent, announced this week.
The aim of the observance is to
spur an interest in American
Jewish Americana, to broaden
understanding of the relation
ship between Jewish ideals of
democracy and American forms
and concepts, and to throw light
on current Jewish problems
through study of the past, Dr.
Kanof said. Rabbi Philip Good
man of New York a member of
the Society’s executive council,
has been named general chair
man of a broad committee of
historians, educators and religi-
out leaders planning the History
Week.
Oh exposes
Anti-Semitic Hoax
Israel-Bolivia
Aid Program
OK'd By Cabinet
JERUSALEM, (JTA)—The Is
raeli Cabinet has approved a
technical aid program for Bo
livia under which Israel will
send experts to advise the Boli
vian Government on deveolping
under-developed areas in that
country. The agreement, which
was signed last April, also pro
vides for the training of a num
ber of Bolivian students in Is
raeli educational institutions.
The Cabinet also ratified a cul
tural agreement between the two
countries under which Israel and
Bolivia will establish chairs in
universities in the language and
culture of each country.
CINCINNATI, (JTA)—A vici
ous anti-Semitic hoax was
brought to light by the Jewish
Community Relations Committee
here after “The Cincinnati En
quirer” unwittingly reprinted it
As a result of the facts brought
out by the JCRC, the Enquirer
published an editorial retraction,
expressing its regret for “mak
ing use of an erroneous piece
of information.” The hoax con
sists of a statement purportedly
printed in a book, allegedly pub
lished in 1912, entitled “A Racial
Times Urges Life
For Eiehmann
NEW YORK, (WUP) — The
New York Times, in a leading
editorial entitled “The Mark of
the Beast” appearing in the July
27 issue, has suggested that “the
most appropriate fate for Eich
mann would be to keep him im
prisoned for the rest of his na
tural life, looking out on the
new country full of hope and
promise that he did so much—
and so unwittingly—to create.”
Concluding with a question as
to the object and justification of
the trial, the Times states: “It
was and is to do all that can be
done to get an evil thing out of
our civilization—a thing so in
credibly wicked that it would
not have been believable of
modem man if it had not ac
tually occurred. This evil, this
wickedness,” the Times contin
ues, “began with intolerance and
hate in a few men’s hearts. It
spread until it almost wrecked
the world. Now the obligation
is to remember, not in hate, not
in the spirit of revenge, but so
that this spirit cannot ever flur-
ish again so long as man re
mains on earth. And to this end
let us begin, each of us, by look
ing into our own hearts.”
$100 Buys “Complete
Of Anti-Semitic Papers
Set
LOS ANGELES, (WUP) —
Gerald L. K. Smith, the notori
ous anti-Semite who heads the
"Christian Nationalist Crusade”
with headquarters here in Los
Brazil Seeks
Israel Aid,
Scholarships
RIO DE JANEIRO, (JTA) —
President Janio Quadiroe has in
structed Brazil’s newly appoint
ed Ambassador to Israel, Biurreto
Leite Filho, to ask the Israeli
Government for a number of
scholarships for Brazilian stu
dents at the Hebrew University
in Jerusalem and at the Tech-
nion-Israel Institute of Tech
nology in Haifa, the president’s
office announced last week.
The Ambassador was also
asked by President Quadros to
extend an inviation to a num
ber of Israeli agricultural and
irrigation experts to visit Brazil
as guests of the government for
the purpose of advising the Bra
zilian government on the de
velopment of the country’s un
derdeveloped areas.
Angeles, keeps a storehouse
packed with anti-Semitic litera
ture which he sells as "gifts” to
gullible Americans in packages
costing from one dollar to a
hundred.
In his latest communication
sent to his large mailing list,
"Christian” Smith lists five
groups of packages. No. 5 reads;
"If the gift is $26.00 to $100.00
or more, the giver will receive:
(a) "The Jews and Their Lies”
by Martin Luther, (b) ‘The
dates of 28 Papal edicts.” (c)
The red-ribboned Archives
Document.” (d) “The Protocols
of the Learned Elders of Zion.’’
(e) “Zion’s Fifth Column.” (f)
"Twenty Years of Treason” by
U S. Sen. Joseph McCarthy, (g)
"Retreat From Victory” by U.S.
Sen Joseph McCarthy, (h) “The
International Jew” by Henry
Ford, (i) “The Iron Curtain
Over America” by Col. John
Beaty.
Opening his letter, which is
titled “The Jewish Question Is
the Big Question,” Smith says:
“Any man who does not under
stand the mood, purpose and
projects of organized interna
tional Jewry is not mature to
diagnose or solve the
crisis or the world crisis.”
Program for the Twentieth Cen
tury.” The author of the book
was said to have been “an Eng
lish Communist, Israel Cohen.”
The non-existent "book” by
the fictitious Cohen had alleged
ly included these quotations:
"We must realize our party’s
most powerful weapon is racial
tension. In America, we will aim
for a subtle victory. While in
flaming the Negro minority
against the whites, we will en
deavor to instill in the whites a
guilt complex for their exploita
tion of the negroes, and begin
a process which will deliver
America to our cause.”
Declaring the very existence
of the book, its alleged author,
and the quotation, “a piece of
journalistic fakery,” The JCRC
said “the hoax was clearly cal
culated to revive the old *Com-
munist-Jewish plot’ libel, long
used by enemies of American
democracy.”
According to the JCRC, the
report was first submitted to the
Washington Star in 1357 by R.
A. Hester, then chairman of the
Montgomery County chapter of
the Maryland Petition Commit
tee Inc. The Star published the
story in March, 1987, then print
ed a retraction nearly a
later when its own
search, spurred by the i
tion of Herman Edelaberg, di
rector of the Washington office
of ADL, proved that there had
never been any such book, and
that there was no Communist
party leader, philosopher or
pamphleteer named Israel
Cohen.
The Star did establish that the
real Israel Cohen is an Anglo-
Jewish writer who has written
some two dozen books, none of
which deals with Cotnmuniwn
He was secretary of the World
Zionist Organization from 1932
to 1939.
Later in 1957, the Hester letter
was inserted in the Congression
al Record by Rep. Thomas Aber
nathy, of Mississippi. When the
Star asked Mr. Hester to give
the source of the quotation, the
newspaper reported, Mr. Hester
said “he had read it in aosae
newspaper, but could not tt-
member which one.”
Six Receive
Golbus Grant
WASHINGTON— B’nai B’rith
Hillel Foundations announced
this week grants to six univer
sity students from the Staff Ser
geant Robert B. Golbus Memo
rial Scholarship Fund. The
grants are for the 1961-82 aca
demic year.
This year's recipients include
three renewals: Geraline Bell of
Memphis, Tenn. (Kent State
University), Paul D. Lubin of
Chelsea, Mass., (Massachusetts
Institute of Technology), and
Barbara Kaplan of Chicago
(Universitv of Illinois).
New winners—all of Massa
chusetts—are David Behr of
Mattapan (Boston University),
Wilma Bor of New Bedford
(University of Conncticut) and
Ann Barbara Stillerman of
Stoughton (Boston University).
The fund ia named for Robert
Golbus, a Northwestern Uni
versity student who was killed
in action in Germany in 1944.
It was established by hie par
ents and friends in 1346 and ia
administered fay the B’nai B’rith
Hillel Foundations.