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Federal Grand Jury Indicts Anti-Semites in Alabama BIRMINGHAM, Ala (JTA) — A number of leading anti-Sem itic agitators, including officials and ex-officials of such groups as the National States Rights Party, the American Nazi Party, and the Christian Anti-Jewish Party were this week indicted by a federal grand jury on United States Government charges of conspiracy to Interfere with fed eral desegregation court orders. Seven agitators were indicted.. Among those were Edward R. Fields, information director of the National Slates Rights Party, Jesse B. Stoner, known anti-Se mitic leader and States Rights Party attorney; James K. Warn er, former national secretary of the American Nazi Party; and David A. Stanley, Barney Car mack Jr., Jack Cash, Ralph Le- wandowskl, and Gerald Q. Dut ton. Stoner Is a one-time Ku Klux Klan organizer, who later form ed the “Stoner Antl-Jewlsh Party,” which became the “Chris tian Anti-Jewish Party.” Fields was secretary of this militant anti-Semitic group. Dutton was president of the "Knights of the Confederacy.” The Southern Israelite A Weekly Newspaper for Southern Jewry Established 1925 Voi XXXV11J ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1963 NO. 39 Jews Throughout the World Celebrates New Year of 5724 NEW YORK, (JTA) — Jews throughout the world ushered in the Jewish New Year 5724 with prayers and hope that the coming year may be marked by intensified action among the world powers for permanent peace and total disarmament, will bring salvation to the Jews in the Soviet Union who are suffering from persecution of their culture and religion, and will strengthen Israel to be able to withstand Arab threats of destruction. Domestically, American Jews rededicated themselves to the perpetuation of values now com monly accepted by the Jewish community of the United States. These included support of lo cal, national and overseas re lief agencies; expansion of Jew ish education; and further strengthening of Jewish culture, including study of the Hebrew tongue. These goals of American Jewry were among others re flected in statements issued by the heads of all the leading Jew ish organizations. Some 100,000 Jewish members of the American armed forces and their dependents debrated Rosh Hashonah at bases in more than 50 oversees localities as well as at military and naval installations across the United States. The GI services were conducted by the 78 full-time and 262 part-time Jwish chap lains in the U.S. Europe, Africa, Alaska, Asia and Latin America. The Jewish Welfare Board field staff in this country and over seas, as well as thousands of volunteers in JWB’s Armed Services Commitee, worked closely with Jewish chaplains in organizing religious services, home hospitality and various celebrations. Joseph Meyerhoff, general chairman of the United Jewish Appeal, issued a Rosh Hashonah message, hoping that for the American Jewish community and the people of Israel, the new year “may again be a year in which we can devote our undivided energies to bring life and hope to all the helpless and downtrodden Jews.” Edward M. M. Warburg, chair man of the Joint Distribution Committee, stressed in his mes sage that today there are still Jewish refugees — as there have been every year since the end of World War II. “Jewish com munities," he said, “are dis appearing from North Africa, and other areas and are multi plying elsewhere. The largest number of refugees, the 100,000 Jews who fled from Algeria last year, will celebrate Rosh Hashonah 5724 in France. In Is rael, this year, as in other years since the war, thousands of new faces will appear at services.” Dewey D. Stone, chairman of the Jewish Agency for Israel, Inc., said: “It is now obvious that tens of thousands of our fellow Jews, who desperately need and want a new home, will have their wish fulfilled this year. For most of them it will mean the realization of their prayers that their next year will be in Jerusalem. For many years, the Jewish Agency has been the major instrument of diaspora Jewry for the rescue and rehabilitation of their bre thren. Dr. Emanuel Neumann, chair man of the Jewish Agency- American Section, declared: “let us remember the thousands and tens of thousands of our breth ren seeking sanctuary in the land of Israel and steaming to its shores in reliance upon our aid and generosity. Let us also bear in mind the fate of Jewish communities in lands of oppres sion and consider our moral re sponsibility toward them. Lei us also give heed to the special problem of 3,000,000 fellow Jews in the Soviet Union who are still denied the right and possi bility to preserve their religious and cultural identity and are threatened with extinction as a Jewish community. Abraham Feinberg, president of the Israel Bond Organiza tion, noted in his New Year message that, while the invest ment capital mobilized through Israel bonds since 1951 “has Continued on pate 4 TEPs Choose Former Durham Mayor Consul At the recently concluded In ternational Convention of Tau Epsilon Phi Fraternity, E. J. Evans, former mayor of Dur ham, N. C., was elected Consul (International President). Mendel Romm Jr., of Atlan ta, was elected First Vice Con sul of the fraternity. Harris Jacobs of Atlanta and Laurence Cohen of Savannah were elect ed members-at-large on the fraternity’s Grand Council. As immediate past president of the fraternity, Joe H. Ger- son of Atlanta becomes ex-of ficio a member of the govern ing board of the organization. US, Britain, Israel Publish 780 Jewish Books in 1963 NEW YORK (JTA)—More than 780 books of Jewish interest pub lished in the United States, Is rael and Great Britain during the year ending May 1963, are listed and briefly described in Volume 21 of the Jewish Book Annual, a yearbook of Jewish literary cre ativity, published by tha Jewish Book Council of the National Jewish Welfare Board. The 243-page volume, unique in that it has articles printed in three languages — English, He brew and Yiddish—is one of the media through which JWB and its Jewish Book Council promote an Interest in and appreciation of following areas: American Jew ish non-fiction; American Jewish fiction; American Jewish books for children; American Hebrew hfcooks; American Yiddish books; Angl-Jewish books, and selected books of Israel. Kennedy Reproaches Moscow On Closing of Synagogues UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. (JTA) — President Kennedy, in his address before the United Nations General Assembly on Friday, indirectly accused the Soviet Union of violating the UN Charter by closing down syna gogues. Without mentioning the Soviet Government by name spe cifically, he stressed that member states of the United Nations “are committed by the Charter to pro mote and respect human rights.” He then added: “Those rights are not respect ed when a Buddhist priest is driven from his pagoda, when a synagogue is shut down, when a Protestant church cannot open a mission, when a Cardinal Amer ica is opposed to discrimination and persecution on grounds of race and religion any-where in the world, including our own na tion,” he emphasized. Through legislation and admin istrative action, through moral and legal commitmeunt, he point ed out, the U. S. Gover nment “has launched a determined effort Cardinal Bea Will Retire LONDON, (JTA) — Augustin Cardinal Bea, president of the Vatican’s Secretariat for Chris tian Unity, and one of the fore most Catholic Church proponents for closer Catholic Jewish rela tions, is about to resign from his post, the press here reported. Ac cording to a Rome dispatch, Car dinal Bea, who is 82, will quit because of his health. to rid our nation of discrimina tion which has existed far too long—in education, in housing, in transportation, in employment, in the Civil Service, in recreation and in places of public accommo dation. And, therefore, in this or any other forum, we do not hes itate to condemn racial or relig ious injustice, whether committ ed or permitted by friend or by foe.” (Widespread approval of Pres ident Kennedy’s reference to the religious discrimination against Soviet Jewry in his United Na tions address was expressed today by the Israeli press which warn ed, however, that Israelis will have to undertake a more active policy in this area to secure In ternational support for a change in the situation. The world will not understand president Kenne dy’s Intervention, “if the Israel delegation does not express its own feelings about the plight of Soviet Jews,” Haboker, General Zionist newspaper declared, re flecting the prevailing opinion in Israel.) LONDON (JTA) — Richard Crossman, Laborlte member of the British Parliament, reporting on a recent visit to the Soviet Union, charged today that “the sufferings of the Jews of Kiev” during the Nazi occupation “have been expunged from Russian his tory as a topic which causes too much discomfort and arouses too much suppressed emotion.” In a broadcast over the BBC, the member of the House of Com mons said that he had wanted to visit Babi Yar, the gully outside of Kiev where the Nazi slaughter ed more than 75,000 Jewish men, women and children in one of the worst massacres of Russian Jews. He said that when he talked to his Russian hosts in Kiev, he had asked whether the Jews of Kiev had not suffered particularly at the hands of the Nazis. He said they replied with anger that the Jews of Russia were no different from anyone else. His temper rising, Crossman re ported, he asked “then why are they the only people who have to put their religion on their Identity papers?” The replay was that “this does not make any different. They have their own republic in Siberia and are represented on the Soviet Council of Ministers, so they are not different from the Georgians or anyone else.” Crossman said he retorted that there was a difference, since the Georgia province was “the home land of the Georgians while the Jews do not want to live in that ( own he realized the Russian Jews bad punged from Russian history. NEW YORK (JTA)—In a spec ial pastoral letter addressed to all members of The Rabbinical As sembly, the international associ ation of Conservative rabbis, Rab bi Theodore Friedman, president of the organization, Sunday call ed on his colleages to devote their Yom Klppur sermons to the situation and problems that con front the Jewish community In Russia. The members of The Rab binical Assembly served hundreds of congregations in the United States, Canada, Latin America, Germany and Israel. Speaking of the threats to the Jewish communities of Soviet Russia today, Rabbi Friedman said: “There is no more suitable occasion for bringing this situa tion to the attention of our peo ple as effectively as we can, than on the High Holy Days, when we discuss the fate and future of our people. Virtually every week brings fresh evidence of the un relenting policy of the Soviet Government to effectuate the ex tinction of Jewish religious prac tices and cultural life.” A sharp protest against die death sentence imposed by a Soviet court against Rabbi B. Gavrilov, of Pyatigorsk, was sent to the Soviet Ambassador in Washington by Rabbi Abraham N. AvRutick, president of the Rabbinical Council of America, an Orthodox group. The letter, voicing the sentiments of the sev eral hundred rabbis who are members of the Council, request ed the Soviet envoy, Anatoly F. Dobrynin, to ask his Government to remit the death sentence and to stop persecuting the Jewish people in the USSR. An officer of the Council de clared that, unless a positive ans wers were received from Ambas sador Dobrynin “in a few days,” the U. S. Government will be Sak- ed to intervene on the issue with the Soviet delegation at die United Nations. Israel Readies for Sukkot MARKET SCENES from Jerusalem and Haifa showing ac tivities surrounding advance sales of “Ksrofim aad Lul- ovim” for Sukkot ceremonies In Israel and synagogues throughout the globe.