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The Southern Israelite
A Weekly Newspaper for Southern Jewry — Established 1925
XXXV] ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1961 No. 49
Graceville, Fla. Chooses
Jewish Merchant as Mayor
and our religion. We observe each
Honor Truman
For Role in
Creating Israel
KANSAS CITY (JTA) — More
thaft 750 persons filled the Grand
Ballroom of the Muehlebach Ho
tel to overflowing Sunday night
at a dinner in honor of former
President Harry S. Truman spon
sored by the Kansas City Com
mittee for State of Israel Bonds
The principal speaker at the
dinner was Abraham A. Ribicoff,
Secretary of Health, Education
and Welfare, who extolled Mr.
Truman’s record as a statesman
and leader. Cabled messages were
received from Israel President
Izhak Ben-Ziv and Prime Min
ister David Ben-Gurion in tribute
to Mr. Truman.
A special plaque bearing the
seal of the State of Israel, and
three gold coins issued in com
memoration of Israel’s Bar Mit-
zvah, were presented to Mr. Tru
man at the dinner.
The plaque honored Mr. Tru
man as a “stalwart champion of
human rights, fearless defender
of the free world, whose vision
and statesmanship as President of
the United States found memora
ble expression in his historic sup
port of the establishment of the
State of Israel, which is now
celebrating its Bar Mitzvah year.’’
TEL AVTV (JTA) — “There is
nothing Israel can do to improve
relations with the Soviet Union
under present circumstances,
Prime Minister David Ben-Gu
rion declared here. “Whatever
Israel does will only be held
against her by Moscow,” he added
Sunday.
The Prime Minister spoke at
the traditional annual dinner
with editors and foreign cor
respondents. The dinner, marking
this year the 14th anniversary of
the adoption of the partition reso
lution by the United Nations, was
also attended by high Govern
ment officials and army officers.
In the course of a question-and-
answer period that followed the
dinner, Mr. Ben-Gurion also stat
ed that:
1. The Syrian coup which sepa
rated that country from Egypt
and ended President Nasser’s
United Arab Republic did not
diminish the Arab threat to Israel
or bring nearer a settlement of
Middle East differences.
2. Israel was not prepared to
accept Prime Minister Nehru of
India as a mediator in the Arab-
Israel dispute because his quali
fications as a neutralist were
doubted.
3. Israel’s stand against the
South African Republic in the
United Nations on the Apartheid
Lodge Relative and
Kibbutznik Married
After Conversion
TEL AVIV (JTA) — Twenty-
three year-old Dolores Ann
Baker, of Cleveland, a relative
of former American United Na
tions chief delegate Henry Cabot
Lodge, and a 27-year-old Israeli
engineer were man and wife this
week after a festive wedding in
the groom’s kibbutz.
Miss Baker, now Mrs. Yuval
Shulmann, was in the interna
tional news once before, on No
vember 10, 1960, when she and
a friend crossed by mistake into
Jordan and were arrested. She
and the friend were released after
eight days of Jordanian captivity
following intervention by the
American consul in the old city
of Jerusalem, which is under Jor
danian control. The Cleveland
girl had been attending an Ulpan
in Givat Haim Kibbutz and there
she fell in love with Shulmann.
She returned to the United
States where she was converted
to Judaism by Orthodox rabbis.
Returning to Israel recently, she
was received hy Chief Rabbi Isar
Untermann of Tel Aviv who ac
cepted her certificate of conver
sion and gave approval to the
marriage. The religious wedding
ceremony was conducted by a Tel
Aviv rabbi.
issue was justified for a variety
of reasons.
4. Dag Hammarskjold, the late
United Nations Secretary-General
was just and reasonable and
there is no justification for a
negative attitude toward him.
5. The best of the eight govern
ments he has headed was the
provisional one which he was
unable to reconstitute after the
elections last August
He said there were two main
factors in the question of Israel-
Soviet relations. One was the fact
that Israel had only one vote in
the United Nations compared
with the 11 Middle East Arab
countries and that there were
70,000,000 Arab voices in the
world as against 2,000,000 He
brew-speaking people. The sec
ond factor was that there are
3,000,000 Jews in Russia whom
the Soviet authorities wanted to
assimilate forcefully, a goal to
which Israel was a barrier.
He hailed Nehru as a leader
who had succeeded in establish
ing a true democracy in India but
he questioned his qualifications as
a “neutralist.” He said that word
could not be genuinely applied to
Nehru. He compared the Indian
leader in that respect with Tito
of Yugoslavia, who greeted Presi
dent Ben-Zvi on his birthday and
who maintains relations with Is-
GRACEVILLE, Fla.—This com
munity of 2,500 Floridans has
elected Morris Rabinowitz, popu
lar Jewish merchant and civic
leader, to the post of mayor with
a three-to-one majority.
His only opponent was almost
a life-long resident of Graceville,
who Mr. Rabinowitz stated is re
lated to practically everybody in
town.
This was the first venture in
politics for Mr. Rabinowitz, who
has lived here for fifteen years
and who is married to the former
Hilda Berman of Savannah. They
have four children.
The Rabinowitz’s are the only
Jews in this small town and are
active members of Temple Eman
uel in Dothan, the nearest or
ganized Jewish community.
One of the most satisfying fac
tors of living in Graceville, the
mayor-elect declared, “is the sin
cere admiration we get from our
Gentile friends because, I feel,
we are proud of our religion and
they respect us for it.
“Just as we admire their
Christmas decorations, the non-
Jews come into our home to ad-
rael. He said Nehru does not
maintain such relations, in spite
of his de facto recognition of Is
rael. The Prime Minister added
that Nehru claimed neutrality
while India maintained member
ship in the British Common
wealth.
Mr. Ben-Gurion stressed that
his visit this month to Burma
meant a renewal of personal con
tact with Premier U Nu and
Former Premier No Win, whom
he described as ardent friends of
Israel. Promising a report on the
meeting when he returned, he
said he was looking forward to
meeting again the two Burmese
leaders who had already visited
Israel.
In reply to a question about
Israel's relations with Communist
China, he said that Israel had
recognized the Peiping regime but
that Red China did not appear to
be eager to reciprocate. He ex
pressed the hope that, consider
ing the good relations between
Burma and Red China, his visit
to Burma might promote rap
prochement between Israel and
Red China.
In his reply to a question about
South Africa, he said that Israel’s
attitude was motivated by three
factors. One was its belief in self-
determination for all peoples. The
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mire our Hanukah decorations.
“In school, our children are
asked to read out of the Old
Testament. We have never re
quested this, but the teachers
have this much respect for us
PARIS, (JTA)—A Christian-
Jewish action group to promote
mutual understanding and better
relations between Catholics and
Jews has been formed in Spain,
it was reported here this week.
The unprecedented new group
includes important Spanish Ca
tholic prelates and lay leaders
and the president of the Madrid
Jewish community, Max Mazin,
and the honorary president,
Louis Blitz.
The formation of the new
group, which held its first meet
ing in Madrid last week, was
Brazil Cemetery
Desecrated, Second
In Month
RIO DE JANEIRO (JTA)—The
second swastika smearing inci
dent, desecrating Jewish ceme
teries in a month, was reported
here this week by Federal of
ficials. The latest outrage took
place over the weekend in the
Jewish cemetery of Porto Alegre,
the third largest Jewish com
munity in Brazil. Police said
several dozen gravestones were
smeared with swastikas, inscribed
with “Heil, Hitler!” and other
stones were overturned.
A month ago, similar ceme
tery desecrations occurred at the
Jewish burial grounds at Curi
tiba. Police authorities said they
have been trying to trace the
vandals with no success.
Israel Hikes Postal,
Telephone Rates;
Other Boosts Due
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A wide
range of price increases for vari
ous services in Israel were an
nounced this week, starting with
a boost in domestic postal rates.
Postal rates for overseas mail will
be increased on January 1.
The increases include a hike in
telephone rates of 17 percent and
range from 14 to 60 percent in
mail, cables and parcel post. Serv
ices not affected include rates for
newspapers, overseas cables and
airmail which will remain un
changed. A series of service price
boosts are due next week, includ
ing transport fares, kindergarten
tuition fees and beauty parlor
prices. An increase in the price
of some farm products also is
expected soon.
Jewish holiday just as though we
were among Jewish Mends. May
be our religion means mors to
us since we are the only Jews in
our town.”
decided on following a public
meeting on the subject of “Jews
and Christians—their mutual re
lations.” Speakers at the meet-
ing included members of the
Catholic church, priests and
Maximon Yagupeky, farmer head
of the South American office of
the American Jewish Committee.
The work of the new group
was expected to be important not
only for the tiny Spanish Jewish
community but eventually also
for South American countries
which have large numbers of
Catholic clergy. The group in
cludes Father Serrano, who rep
resented the Bishop of Madrid
at the first meeting. Father An
tonio Deral of the Arias Moatal
Institute and the Mother Superior
of the Order of Our Lady of
Zion.
Giant Menorah
Lit Starting
Hanukah in Israel
JERUSALEM (JTA) — With
the traditional lignthw at a giant
menorah atop Mount Zion here,
Israel started its week-long cele
bration of Hanukah Marathon
runners belonging to the Maase-
bean sports organisation brmmhft
the torch from Media, the Mqn-
place of Matpfhias the Hasmen-
ean, father of the Msoratiw dy
nasty which defeated the Syrian
defilers of the Second Temple
during a three-year rebellion
(168-165 B.C.E.), ending withlbe
miracle now memorialized in the
annual Feast of Lights.
After the torch brought from
Modin had been used for lighting
the menorah on Mount Zion, the
Maccabean runners brought it
to the home of President Izhak
Ben-Zvi, presenting it to the
Chief of State.
Meanwhile, on Mount Zkm, a
special ceremony was held, hon
oring 2,000 Israeli youths who had
reached their Bar Mitzvah during
the 13th year since the rebirth of
the State of Israel. The ceremony
was conducted by the Ministry
for Religious Affairs. Each of the
Bar Mitzvah boys was awarded
a special confirmation pin struck
for the occasion by the medallion
unit of the Prime Minister’s of
fice.
Israel Can Do Nothing To Improve
Relations With Moscow — B-G
Spanish Catholic, Jewish Leaders
Form Group for Understanding
Eichmann's Lawyer in Israel; Says Will Appeal Guilty Verdict
TEL AVIV, (JTA)—Dr. Robert
Servatius, West German attorney
who handled the defense of Adolf
Eichmann last summer, said this
week he would appeal an ex
pected verdict of guilty for his
client on grounds that the tri
bunal was incompetent to try the
former Gestapo colonel.
DR. SERVATIUS, who is ex
pected to arrive in Israel this
week to begin preparations for
reading of the judgment and the
verdict, nude the statement in
an interview with the Bonn
correspondent of an Israeli news
paper. The three-jndge court
which tried Eichmann will re
sume sitting on December 11 to
read the judgment and the ver
dict against the man charged
with a key role in the Nasi war
time slaughter of (,tN,Nt Euro
pean Jewish men, women and
children.
The West German lawyer said
the appeal would not involve
Eichmann’s deeds as a Gestapo
official which could not be de
nied. He said he would argue
that Eichmann was kidnapped in
another country and brought to
Israel and that the Jerusalem
court was therefore incompetent
in the case. He added that if his
appeal was rejected, he would
ask President Ben-Zvi for clem
ency.
Asked what his client thought
the verdict would be, Dr. Serva
tius replied that Eichmann was
sure he would get the death
sentence. He added that Eich
mann “truly believes the predic
tion of a gypsy fortune teller
who said he would not live to
his 57th birthday.” Eichmann
will be 56 next March.
In another phase of the Eich
mann case, Justice Minister Dov
Joseph disclosed in the Knesset
this week that the Soviet Gov
ernment never acknowledged a
request by the Israel Govern
ment to let Israel know whether
the USSR had any materials that
were relevant to the triaL Mr.
Joseph made the statement in re
ply to a question on the floor of
the House as to whether East
European countries had sent any
materials or had cooperated with
Israel in the case against Eich
mann.
The Justice Minister said that
Poland, Hungary and Czechoslo
vakia did provide Israel with
materials. Bulgaria replied to
the request sent all East Euro
pean countries on this subject
that it had nothing relevant Ru
mania did not send anything. Tbs
Moscow Government ignored the
request
Happy Hanukah from TSI Staff