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In Georgia, South Carolina Redemption of Israel Bonds Continue Heavy Israel Bonds purchased In 1951 man of the Georgia-South Caro- are now being redeemed at a lina Region. very fast rate, it was announced The bonds introduced in the by A J. Weinberg, general chair- United States by Israel in May of 1951 are now being redeemed as they fall due each month, at a rate of 90 to 180 bonds per month In Georgia and South Ca rolina, Mr. Weinberg revealed. By the end of 1983 Georgia and South Carolina will share In the $24,000,000 that Israel will repay by that period. “Because of the redemption of Israel Bond*,” Mr. Weinberg stated, Israel is meeting its obli gation to the people who have Invested in the future of Israel. “It is most encouraging,” Mr. Weinberg continued, ‘that during the year of redemption Banking institutions, Trade Union# and various Funds have found Israel Bonds a good source of Invest ment. It is also most pleasing that sales of Israel Bonds nationally and locally are running at the highest rate of sales since the in ception of the bond campajp 1 - This shows faith in the '~ Israel has floated 1 try and in 49 other the Free world.” 1 •o0 The Southern Israelite A Weekly Newspaper for Southern Jewry — Established 1925 Vol. XXXVIII ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1963 No. 88 Humphrey Lauds UJA UN Assembly Opens Perpetual At Three-Day Parley Arab, Israeli Issues on Agenda NEW YORK (JTA)— Senator Hubert H. Humphrey of Minne sota, a ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Com mittee, hailed the United Jewish Appeal this week as “one of the greatest voluntary instruments for life saving and life building ever created by Americans.” In a deeply moving address that was the highlight of a three- day gathering of 400 Young Jew ish leaders attending the Third UJA “a supreme expression of man’s acceptance of the concept that he is, and must be, his bro ther’s keeper.” Speaking at the banquet session of the Conference, which was presided over by Alan Sagner, of Newark, N. J., chairman of the UJA Young Leadership Cabinet and the Conference, the Minne sota Senator called on the young Jewish leaders, most of them be tween 25 and 40, to complete the tasks of Jewish rescue and re construction “begun by your elders,” and also to “fight con stantly $or human rights and peace.” The three-day gathering of young leaders, drawn from major communities across the country, and members of a Young Leader ship Council of 8,500, also heard major addresses by Avraham Harman, Israel Ambassador to the United States, Rabbi Herbert A. FYiedman, UJA executive vice- chairman, and Mr. Sagner. At the same time detailed presentations of Middle East problems, along with immigrant absorption needs in Israel and urgent refugee re quirements In Europe and else where were made by authorita tive speakers at various confer ence sessions. UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., (J- TA)—The 18th session of the United Nations General Assem bly opens here with the per petual Arab-Israeli issues among the 77 items on its agenda. It was confidently predicted here Tuesday that the three UN bodies dealing with Arab-Israel problems will continue their existence at the present levels into 1964. These bodies are: 1. The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, which has more than 1,000,000 Arab refugees on its relief rolls; 2. The United Na tions Truce Supervision Organ ization, which maintains its headquarters in Jerusalem’s No- Man’s Land; 3. The United Na tions Emergency Force, which guards the Israel-Gaza Strip border as well as the Egyptian shores of the Gulf of Akaba. There was no doubt In highest World Socialist Parley Appeals to USSR For Equal Treatment of Russ Jewry AMSTERDAM (JTA)—An ap peal to the Soviet Union to erase “any trace of anti-Jewish dis crimination” in Russia was unan imously approved this week by delegates from 20 countries at the World Congress of the Social ist International. The delegates acted after hear ing a severe condemnation of the Soviet Union on that issue from Moshe Sharett, chairman of the Jewish Agency executive and chairman of the Israeli delega tion to the meeting. The delegates also urged the Great Powers and the United Na tions to act to halt the escalation of arms capacity in the Middle East aimed at Israel. They called for direct peace talks between the Arab countries and Israel and condemned the shipment of Soviet arms into the Middle East and Egypt’s use of former Nazis for advanced weapons development. The resolution on Russia urged Moscow Rejects Appeal of Matzo Convicted Trio LONDON (JTA) — A Moscow Appeals Court has rejected an ap peal by three Moscow Jews from convictions of selling matzoth, it was reported here this week from the Soviet capital. The three defendants were Golio Bogomoiny, a Jewish ritual butcher, sentenced to one year; Klavdiya Blyakman, 52, six months; and Malka Brio, 59, six months. The Soviet authorities have refu*ed for the past two years to allow state bakeries to bake matozh for Passover. The prison sentences Imposed last July by a People’s Court, are being appeal ed to the Supreme Court of the Russian Federated Republic. the Soviet Government to extend to the Jewish community “equal treatment accorded to other re ligious groups and nationalities in the Soviet society,” to consider reunion of families separated by “fascist persecution and war” and allow Jews to join their relatives in Israel and other countries. The Dutch delegation, in intro ducing the Soviet resolution, said that the Dutch Socialist party did so in the hope the resolution “may help alleviate the position of the Jews in Russia.” The Middle East resolution, introduced by the British delegation, called the con tinued Middle East tensions “a source of instability” which ham pered the area’s social and eco nomic development. The resolution condemned “the renewed threats to destroy Israel” and urged a new initiative by the Great Powers for peace in the area. The Congress also urged the European Economic Community and the European Trade Associa tion to act for speedy signing of a Euromart agreement with Is rael. Harold Wilson, leader of the British Labor party, told the del egates that on his recent visit to Moscow, he had raised the issue of the disabilities of Soviet Jews and that there were already “some results.” He added that they were “certainly insufficient,” particularly in reference to spec ial cases of elderly Jews seeking to rejoin relatives outside of Russia. diplomatic and Secretariat cir cles here this week that the necssary budgets will be voted for all three groups. Israel will come to the Assem bly this year with a delegation composed largely of experts who are well known here. Mrs. Golda Meir, Israel’s Foreign Minister, will head the delegation after her arrival here, scheduled now for September 24. During her absence, Ambassador Michael S. Comay, Israel’s permanent rep resentative, will carry on his duties as delegation chairman. Other members of the delega tion will be Ambassador Arthur Lourie, coming here from his post as Israeli envoy to London; a group of leading Foreign Min istry officials; and three mem bers of the Knesset, Israel’s Parliament. Israel will participate in the debates on a number of general matters, not directly connected with the Middle East, Including several agenda items dealing with various phases of disarma ment. Another important group of items on the agenda concerns African affairs, on which Israel is also expected to be heard. These items include South Afri ca’s policy of apartheid. One issue on which Israel is expected to play an articulate role concerns human rights. Is rael is expected to show parti cular interest in resolutions ban ning racial discrimination and religious intolerance. These reso lutions will involve considera tion of the Soviet Union’s dis crimination policies against Jews in the USSR Israel will pursue that subject vigorously when it comes up for debate. UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., (J- TA)—Israel Monday reaffirmed its support for United Nations resolution condemning South Africa’s policy of apartheid, and assured the UN that it has taken steps to bar the shipment of Israeli arms, amunition or strategic materials t> South Af rica, “directly or indirectly.’’ The Israeli Government’s posi tion was stated in reply to a letter sent to all member-states by the UN’s Special Committee on the Policies of Apartheid. The letter requested govern mental statements on the general issue. Israel’s Government, the re ply stated, “has noted with deep concern the further deterioration in the situation** la Booth Africa. The Israeli letter noted that “the people of ji horrence of all a deep ab- of dis crimination on grounds ot race, color or religion, deriving from age-old spiritual yiTnao SM wail as from lengthy and tragic his torical experience." In addition to barring Israeli arms to South Africa, the letter declared, the Israel Government is “at present actively consider ing the taking of further meas ures as part of the general ef fort of member states of the United Nations, aimed at bring ing about the abandonment of the policies of apartheid by the Government of South Africa.” Refugee Problem Arabs Reported Ready toNegotiateLiquidation JERUSALEM (JTA)—The Jor danian daily El Jihad this week reported that several Arab Gov ernments have informed the United Nations and certain Wes tern Powers that they would ac cept large scale financial com pensation in return for a liquida tion of the “Palestine refugee problem,” The development, the paper said, was first revealed In the course of debate in the Lebanese Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee headed by Foreign Minister Philip Takla. According to the report, mem bers of the committee said they received “most accurate informa tion on the matter” and that some Arab Governments proposed the liquidation of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency services and the striking off of the item from the agenda of the UN Gen eral Assembly In exchange for annual financial compensation or a lump sura to the host coun tries. (Arab League efforts to set up some form of Palestinian state were deadlocked this weekend when the League’s Political Com mittee in Cairo voted to turn the Issue over to an Arab Foreign Ministers Meeting scheduled for next February. Observer* at the meeting said that the Jordanian delegates demanded that the question be handled by the for eign ministers.) Ex-Nazi Tells Of Gassing Of23,000 HANNOVER (JTA)—A former Nazi police officer, appearing as a prosecution witness in the trial of two former Nazis accused of helping to murder 233,000 Lodz ghetto Jews in 1942, testified this weekend that he thought the Kulmbach extermination camp was a recreation center for sick Jews. The prosecution witness, Ott- mar Roese, testified that he had been told there was an old castle at Kulmbach “where ailing Jaws —tarn to page i, .1