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South-Southwest Leadership Conference Set
Hy United Jewish Appeal in New Orleans
Edw/ird M. M. Wirtour* io»ph M«y»rhott Herbert A. Friedman
NEW ORLEANS — A Three-
day Leadership Institute here
the weekend of January 18-20
will inaugurate the 25th Anni
versary Year of the United Jew
ish Appeal in the South and
Southwest.
Leaders will assemble for the
conference, to be held at the
Fontainbleau Motor Hotel from
Alabama, Arkansas, Florida,
Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi,
South and North Carolina, Okla
homa, Tennessee and Texaa
Paul Kapelow, prominent com
munal leader of New Orleans, is
serving as conference chairman.
A distinguished array of lead
ers of the American Jewish
community and Israel is sched
uled to address the three-day
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The Southern Israelite
A Weekly
Newspaper for Southern Jewry — Established 1925
Vol XXXV1I1
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 11, 1963
NO. 2
Jerusalem Court Sentences
Shtarkes for Kidnapping
Russia Sentences 9 More Jews
To Death lor‘Economic Crimes’
JERUSALEM (JTA; — Shalom
Shtarkes was sentenced in Jerus
alem District Court Monday to
three years’ imprisonment for
kidnaping his nephew, Yossele
Schumacher, and to two years for
perjury in connection with the
case. The sentences, which will
run concurrently, will be reck
oned from August 1961, when
Shtarkes was first jailed in Lon
don on an extradition request by
the Israeli Government. Thz sen
tences are subject to appeal.
The decisions were handed
down by the three-man court
which included Binyamin Halevi,
president of the Jerusalem Dis
trict Court; and District Court
Justices Aaron Eden and Moshe
Cohen.
Yossele, whose disappearance
for two years stirred a search for
him on three continents, was fin
ally found by United States Se
cret Service men in the home of
a Brooklyn rabbi last summer.
Shtarkes, who went to England
after Yossele disappeared, was
extradited by Israel after lengthy
legal proceedings during which
he remained in a London prison.
The court’s judgment, which
took 90 minutes to read, found
that there was no doubt that it
was the accused who brought Yos
sele to the isolated settlement of
Kommemiut to hide him from his
parents. Although other prosecu
tion witnesses failed to identify
Shtarkes as the one who took the
boy to the' settlement, the judg
ment found that Yosssele, now
almost 11 years old, was clever
for his age and that his clear
statement that it was his uncle
Shalom, the accused, who took
him, was reliable.
By detaining the minor and de
priving the parents of the posses
sion of their child, the court held,
Shtarkes v was clearly guilty of
child-stealing and it did not mat
ter that Yossele cooperated.
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Manitoba Chooses
3 For Legislature
WINNIPEG, Man., Canada,
(JTA)—Three Jews were
elected or re-elected to the
Manitoba Legislature in the
recent provincial elections,
completed tabulations showed
here Monday. They are Saul
Shemiack, a national vice-
president of the Canadian Jew- /
ish Congress; M. A. Gray, a
member of the Manitoba Leg
islature for 20 years, and now
an honorary vice-president, of
the CJC; and Maitland Stein -
kopf.
“PARIS (JTA)—Nine Jews have
been sentenced to death and 10
others were given long prison
terms in two separate mass trials
in the Ukraine, all charged with
"economic crimes,” according to
press dispatches from Moscow re-
I. Light Office
Receives Epistle:
Thanks to PO Men
Lately, the portenting —
now actual rate increase
hasn’t brought many warm
cheers from this paper for the
men who deliver the mail.
Credit ha* to be given
when due, however, and ap
parently, that time is now.
We thank the Post Office
Department for the prompt
delivery of a letter posted in
New York and delivered with
this charming address:
Southern I. Light
News-paper
Atlanta
Georgia
The letter requested five
copies of the November 16
issue, which have been for
warded with great curiosity.
—The Editor
ceived here this week.
Six of the Jews sentenced to
death were charged with "illegal
financial operations,” and three
others with "corruption and han
dling stolen property,” the dis
patch reported.
In one of the cgses,- illegal fi
nancial operations were allegedly
committed in Kharkov, involving
10,000,000 rubles and “large quan
tities of gold, plat.num, diamonds,
watches and other precious ob
jects.”
In the second case, the charges
alleged, five directors of a man
ufacturing plant at Ivano Frank-
ovsk had produced extra merch
andise, valued at more than 2,-
000,000 rubles, selling the stuff
in the black market through as
sistants.
Jewish circles here took a very
grave view of there latest mass
persecutions of Jews, seeing in
the trials another instance in
which Soviet authorities have
made Jews the scapegoats for the
regime's financial difficulties.
(In Washington, National Com
mander Morton London, of the
Jewish War Veterans of the
U.S.A.. made known his organi
zation feels that not enough is
being done in the United States
to challenge rising Soviet action
against Jews. He called for a vig
orous campaign coinciding with
the opening of the new session of
Congress. Mr. London said the
JWV was planning a campaign
against new anti-Semitic manifes
tations in Russia “through all
available means.”)
Israel Apologizes
For Attack on
Missionary School
JERUSALEM, (JTA)—The
Cabinet this week expressed re
gret over the attack on a Fin
ish missionary 9chool by irrespon
sible elements during last week’s,
anti-m i s s i o n demonstrations.
Seven yesihiva students were ar
rested in connection with the
incident. The Cabinet instructed
Israel’s Ambassador in Helsinki
to convey to tSfe Finnish Gov
ernment Israel’s apologies over
the occurrence.
Foreign Minister Go Ida Meir,
meanwhile, received Finnish Am
bassador Risto Solanko an Jan
uary and conveyed to him
the Israel Government’s apology
over the incident The mission
school has 40 pupils of elemen
tary school age, all of them with
parents in Israel, either both
Jewish or one parent Jewish.
Georgia General Assembly Expected to Include Two Jewish Legislators
By Adolph Rosenberg: and Bob Richard
When the sessions of the Georgia General Assembly get
underway in Atlanta next week, it is expected that there will
be two Jewish legislators—one in each of the law-making
chambers.
The two are Joe Isenberg,
Brunswick, elected to represent
Glynn County in the House, and
Harris Slotin, Savannah, chosen
from Chatham County for the
Senate.
Slotin was elected in a run
off and later irt the general
election over a Republican op
ponent. His opponent contested
the election on the grounds that
Slotin’s residence was not in the
Tybee District, that from which
he was chosen.
His selection has been eerti- •
fied by Chatham County authori
ties and it is expected that he
will be seated by the Senate
rules committee on Monday.
Nevertheless, the courts could
declare the election invalid on
technical grounds, though this is
considered unlikely.
While the presence of two
Jewish legislators in the Gen
eral Assembly at the same time
is by no means usual, it Ls not
the most to serve simultaneous
ly either. In 1947 there were
three Jewish law-makers, all in
the same House of Representa
tives.
Of far greater political import
in the 1962 legislature will be
the unprecedented presence of a
Negro Senator—the first of his
race since Reconstruction Days.
Though Jewish faces have
been familiar around the Geor
gia legislature for the past three
decades, they are rarer in the
state’s annals than the twentieth
century record would indicate.
During the state’s entire first
135 years, there was only one
law-maker who was unquestion
ably a Jew—Moses of Colum
bus. His spirited reply to a slur
on'his religion brought forth a
reply which is often referred to
today as a classic distillation of
Jewish pride.
Actually, there was another
legislator, David Emanuel,
around the turn of the Eighteen
th and Nmteenth Century cred
ited in some circles as having
boon of Jewish origin. He was,
however, regarded as an active
Presbyterian at the time of- his
service in the General Assem
bly
Emanuel represented Wilkes
County several times in the sen
ate and was its president for
three terms When the Governor
Jackson resigned in 1801, to
einter the US Senate, David
Emanuel succeeded automatcial-
ly to the post and became the
state's fifth chief executive. He
relinquished the office, after
about eight months, to a new
ly-elected successor. Descendants
of his family refer to him as
Jewish originally.
Brief material about Georgia's
Jewish legislators, past and pres
ent. follows:
Joe Isenberg
Joe Isenberg, widely known
Augusta, Brunswick and Atlanta
businessman, has been an out
standing civic and communal
figure.
Elected as one of the two rep
resentatives from Glynn Coun
ty, where he resides (in Bruns
wick), Representative Isenberg
has been a member of the
Brunswick Ports Authority for
thirteen years, having served as
its chairman for four years.
He Ls a past president of the
Brunswick Merchants Associa
tion, and the Brunswick-Glynn
Chamber of Commerce.
He served as president of the
Brunswick B’nai B’rith Lodge
and of the Georgia Association
of B’nai B’rith Lodges.
He was selected in 1955 as
Brunsw.Ak's “Progressive Man
of the Year.
Mr Isenberg attended Georgia
Tech where he was a member
JOE ISENBERG
of Alpha Epsolon Pi fraternity.
Ho is a member of the Mason,
Shrine and is past exalted ruler
of Elks Ixxige, No. 691, of Bruns
wick.
He ts a past chairman of the
United Jewish Appeal of Bruns
wick and Augusta.
He is married to the former
Edith Wise of Knoxville. They
have three children, Mrs. Davis
(Sandy) Abrams of Atlanta;
Rosalyn, and Marvin Isenberg, a
student at Tulane University.
Harris Slotin
Senator-Elect Slotin, 33, is a
native of Savannah where he
graduated from Benedictine
Military Academy and Arm
strong Junior College.
He interrupted his college
work to join the Armed forces
at a time when this nation was
engaged in the Korean War. He
resigned from the Air Force, in
which he was a chaplain’s assist
ant, to enter the Infantry OCS.
He later commanded a group
of fighters which was cited for
heroic action in Korea
Returning to Savannah, he
went into the electronics ma
chines field and today manages
the Savannah branch of the
Nationwide Tabulating, Oorp. He
has served on several advisory
boards appointed by Savannah
mayors and is a director of the
Jewish Community Council and
of the Jewish Educational Alli
ance. He is a Mason, Scottish
Rite Mason and a Shriner and
holds membership in other com
munal. civic and business groups
He is married to the former
Bernita Hirsh of Atlanta
Jake B. Joel
Jake Brandt Joel. Athens at
torney, was for over ten years
one of Georgia's most influential
lawmakers Bom in Athena,
Ga , in 1890, he received hi*
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