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•** A Weekly Newspaper for Southern Jewry XXXVI " 'ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1961 • oO ^ .xZ5 MO. 88 Arab-Jewish Tensions Explode in Algerian Fight By EDWIN EYTAN JTA Correspondent ORAN, Algeria, (JTA)—Arab- and French security police, this NCJW SCHOLARS ARRIVE FROM ISRAEL. Just arrived in New York aboard the S.S. Atlantic, for graduate study in the United States through the Overseas Scholarship Program of the National Council of Jewish Women are (1. to r.): Joseph Ritter, Tel Aviv Welfare De partment supervisor, who will study at Western Reserve U., School of Applied Social Sciences, Cleveland; Rafael Lewy, English teacher at Hebrew U. High School, Jerusalem, to University of Minnesota;. Mrs. Ben-Ztn, sole teacher in a school for deaf children in Beersheba, to Central Institute for the Deaf, St. Louis; Abraham Zalkin, Secondary School Inspector in southern Israel, to Columbia University Teachers College; Miss Rivca Kostrinsky, psychologist and educational counselor for the Jerusalem child guidance clinic, to University of Chicago; Mordecai Gonen, Assistant District Inspector for the Israel Ministry of Education Haifa, to University of Michigan; and Shraga Adiel, assistant Director General for elementary educa tion for the Israel Ministry of Education, to Columbia University Teachers College, New York. Jewish tensions exploded week in Oran in two days of Wild attacks by Moslems on Jews which were successfully beaten off by Jewish commando units. It was the first time in the his tory of North Africa that Jews were ready for such attacks and trained to repulse them. Not a single Jew was reported killed in the fighting which took place on the two days of Rosh Hash- onah. The fighting began on the first day of the New Year in the heart of the Jewish quarter, the Mellah, when an Arab terrorist sneaked up on a Jewish barber, Menahem Schroun, who was walking to the synagogue with his children, and knifed him in the back repeatedly. Instantly a group of Jewish young men sprang into action, sealing off the Mellah and pur suing the knife-wielder. Other Jews attacked Arab passersby and broke into Moslem shops on the boulevard separating the Jewish and Moslem sections. The terrorist was found hiding in an Arab shop and he and the shopkeeper were lynched. A few hours later, a reprisal unit tried to storm the Jewish quarter, screaming “death 1 to the Jews.” After a short but bloody clash with the waiting Jewish defense units, the attackers retreated. Services were resumed at the synagogue in the afternoon un der the protection of a strong Jewish guard. Arabs trying to penetrate the Mellah were again beaten off and in the evening more Arabs were chased from the area by the Jewish commandos Georgians Honored by TEP’s; Gerson is National President NEW YORK—At the 51st An niversary International Conven tion of Tau Epsilon Phi Frater- ni ty. held last week at the Con cord Hotel, Kiamesha Lake, New York, several Atlanta men were elected to leading positions. Also receiving recognition was the University of Georgia’s Nu Chap ter winner of the Chapter of Merit Trophy, symbolic of the fraternity’s best all-around chap ter during the past year, and the Pllfme Trophy signifying excell ence of stories and pictures sub mitted to the national fraternity magazine, “The Plume.” Legal Sorority Chooses Beulah Leiter for Top Post Mrs. Beulah G. Leiter, promi nent Atlanta attorney, has been elected international supreme dean of Iota Tau Tau, interna tional legal sorority. This distinction was accorded her in absentia at the sorority’s c o n v e ntion in Oklahoma Cityi on July 29, the! first „t i m e the! group has so| selected its top| officer. She was in- stalled in thel new, office dur-| ing the can Bar Associa-I tion Convention |ai| ||a in St. Louis on August I and later was guest of honor at a luncheon tendered by the St. Louis Bar Association. Admitted to the bar in 1945, Mrs. Leiter is in private practice with her husband, Bobt P. Leiter. A native df Chicago, she has lived in Atlanta for approximate ly 16 years and Is tM Btatbfcr of two children, Darryl, who is cur rently studying for his doctorate in physics at Brandeis Univer sity on a fellowship grant, and Paula, a freshman at the Uni versity of Georgia. Widely known in legal circlea in Atlanta and Georgia, she has worked vigorously in behalf of the Georgia Association of Wom en Lawyers, of which she is 9 past vice president and secretary. She has worked as well with a national and international group of women lawyers, serving on numerous committees for both. She has been active as well with the American Bar Associa tion, the American Judicature Society, Georgia Bar Association, Atlanta Bar Association, the Equity Club, the Old War Hone Lawyers Club, National Con gress of Parents and Teachers, National Womans Committee of Brandeis University and many other legal organisations, She has served in several offi ces Of Iota Tau Tau before her recent eleCtfcM. *' JOE H. GERSON Joe H. Gerson of Atlanta was elected president of the Tau Ep silon Phi Ftaternity. Mr. Gerson, an insurance executive, has been a prominent figure in the frater nity for several year*. During the past two seasons, he served as TUP'S first vice president Chosen second vice president of the fraternity was Mendel ROsnm Early the next morning, the Arabs tried again and again were repulsed. Jewish younger child ren, enraged by the repeated Moslem actions and threats, broke into Arab shops in the Mel lah. In one of the attacks, an Arab was killed by the Jewish defenders. The area between the two sec tors was thereafter patrolled by steelhelmeted French troops, with the sectors completely isolated from each other. Jews who had either shops or homes in the Arab sector moved into the Mel lah. Arabs in the Mellah moved into the Arab section. / In an effort to keep the con tinued tension from erupting in to new fighting, the French Gov ernment broadcast hourly warn ings over Radio Algiers that_ curity forces had received to fire on unruly mobs in any new violence. One effect of the furious Arab attacks was to have finally per suaded many of Oran’s Jews to leave Algeria as soon as possible. Some left for France to make ar rangements there for emigration to Israel. Some applied to Hiss for resettlement in Latin Amer ica. Southern Israel Bond Workers Reported Not Involved in Strike Now Settled Southern Israel Bond office personnel were not involved in the recent strike of professional staffers in the New York and large-city Eastern areas. Officials informed The Sou thern Israelite that none of the Atlanta staff of three participat ed in the strike called in New York by Local 1707 of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Em ployees. Tha stsihans had' demanded fib increase in the minimum salaries now being paid to the profession al employees. The four-day walkout was terminated in time continu ance of the High Ho* Day ap peals for the sale of Israel bonds, with a new agreement. It was also pointed out that not a single Bond office manager throughout the country was in volved in the strike which con- Jr., also of Atlanta. Mr. Romm formerly served as honorary na tional secretary. He, like Mr. Ger son, is an insurance executive and .a University of Georgia graduate. Sylvan Meyer, of Gainesville, Ga., received the top alumni award presented at the conven tion by his selection as the out standing “TEP Man of the Year.” Meyer, editor of the Gainesville newspaper, was chosen for his outstanding achievement in com munal, charitable, and profes sional activities. He is a graduate of the University of North Caro lina. Harris Jacobs, Atlanta, was named as a member-at-large to the Grand Chapter of the Fra ternity. By his election to National President, Gerson will head the Grand Council, the fraternities’ executive and judicial body. He will work as president for two years until the next national con vention. Another Atlantan, Isadore Hei- man, previously acted as the na tional president for Tau Epsilon Phi, 1955-56. Heim an for the past two years was president of the trustees of the Tau Epsilon Phi Scholarship and Student Aid Fund. The purpose of this fund, originally organized by the At lanta Alumni Club Of the fra ternity, is to aid needy college students regardless of race, color, creed, or membership in the fra ternity to complete their educa tions. Other Atlantans acting as trus- . cerned professionals. None of the Bond office per- sonhel throughout the Soqth participated in the walkout, The Southern Israelite learned. Carla Refugees Find Haven FT. SAM HOUSTON, Tex.—A group of 60 Jewish. ^ _ ing the fury of hurricane in Texas towns, found a haven here in the Jewiah chapel on this base thanks to the efforts of the National Jewish Welfare Board (JWB. The refugees, who were di rected to the chapel by the mili tary authorities, attended the New Year services of Chaplain Oscar Lifshutr. With the help of the local JWB Armed Serv ices Committee and USO-JWB staffer Rabbi Emanuel Kumin, the arrivals from Bee villa, Vic toria, Galveston and Corpus Christi were fed during Jboth days of Rosh Hashonah by the local JWB Armed Services Com mittee. The committee also pro vided extensive hospitality in San Antonio. Aging Jews Crowd Central Red Shule LONDON, (JTA) — Moscow’s Central Synagogue, the principal Jewish house of worship in the entire Soviet Union, was jam med with more than 1,000 per sons for, the Rosh Hashonah serv ices while hundreds of other Jews crowded the street outside the synagogue, according to dis patches from Mb—aar. The ma jority of the waraUpbars were reported to be over the age of 50. Seated in a special section near the Ark, separated from the rest of the congregation, was Is rael’s Ambassador to the Soviet Union, Arieh HareL With him were his young son and several other male members of Israel’s mission here. Ambassador Harel said he had contemplated staying away from the synagogue In protest agaiqst being thus separated from tbs rest tof the worshipers. However, he changed his mind and did came. Chief Rabbi Yehuda L. Levina said the special section allocated to the Israeli Ambassa dor had been built to honor tor- eign visitors, and not to Isolate them. The lack of Ratal Hsshnnah FW books noticed the — - largest in the