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Dr. Mengele, Notorious Nazi,
Seeks Restoration of License
FRANKFURT (JTA)—Dr. Josef
Meagele, the notorious physician
at the Auschwitz annihilation
camp—who is missing from
among the 22 Nazis now on trial
here as leading members of the
personnel of the Auschwitz death
camp — filed a formal appeal
against the cancellation of his
medical degree in 1961 by the
Frankfurt University.
The “selection doctor,” as Dr.
Mengele was known among the
camp inmates for picking victims
for the gas ovens, filed his appeal
with the state authorities through
a South American lawyer. He did
not indicate his whereabouts, but
he was last reported hiding in
Argentina. He named his wife as
his representative. West German
authorities have been unsuccess
ful in efforts to find him for ex
tradition.
The trial of the 22 ethers in the
Auschwitz case continued, with
one defendant refusing to testify
and two others denying complic
ity in any murders. All 22 are
accused of participating in the
murder of several million Ausch
witz inmates, most of the victims
having been Jews. Carl Hoecker,
a former Auschwitz adjutant,
denied guilt, although he con
ceded also that he had "passed
on” four of five execution orders
issued by his chiefs. Wilhelm
Boger, former senior guard at
Auschwitz, told the court he
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The Southern Israelite
A Weekly Newspaper for Southern Jewry — Established 1925
VoLrXXXViu.y^Yy (
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 1964
NO. 3
Trial of Soviet Jews
Conducted in Camera
LONDON (JTA)—The trial of
two Soviet Jews, accused of being
members of a group which com
mitted 4 'economic crimes” by “ex
ploiting mental patients” to pro
duce knitwear which yielded an
“illegal profit” of about $2,500,000
has been going on secretly .for
about two weeks, although it was
previously indicated in the Soviet
press that the accused will be put
on a “show trial,” it was learn
ed here from Moscow.
No correspondents representing
the Western press are admitted
to the trial which is expected to
last about a month, the report
from Moscow said. The two Jews
had been identified by the Mos
cow newspaper Izvestia as Roif-
man and Shakerman, without
giving their first names.
When the men were arrested
last October, Izvestia pointed out
it was mentioning the “Jewish
names” of the suspects “because
we do not pay attention to ma
licious slanders aroused in the
Western press from time to time.
Being tried are criminals — not
Jews, Russians Tartars or Ukrain-
Nashville Jewish
Women Join in
Mental Aid Project
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (JTA) —
The Nashville section of the Na
tional Council of Jewish Women
has approved sponsorship of a
community project to restore
mentally ill patients to normal
life. The section joined with the
Tennessee Department of Mental
Health and the Division of Vo
cational Rehabilitation of the
Tennessee Department of Educa
tion in the project, to be called
the “Half-Way House.”
Under the plan a new technique
will be used to help rehabilitate
persons who have been trained
vocationally for a return to nor
mal life in the community. The
project will use the property of
the Convalescent Home in Nash
ville. Volunteers will be trained
for the project by the Department
of Mental Health. Mrs. Gilbert
Fox, Jr., and Mrs. Joel Morris
were chairmen of a Nashville
Section Community Study Com
mittee which investigated
need for such a service and the
Israel Discusses Counter-Action
To Arab Summit Meeting
JERUSALEM (JTA)— Israel’s
Cabinet discussed Sunday, at its
regular weekly meeting, the de
velopments surrounding Israel’s
project for drawing waters from
the Jordan River and Lake Tib
erias to the Negev, in the light
of the summit conference of Arab
heads of state convening in Cairo.
Mrs. Golda Meir, the Foreign
Minister, reported to the Cabinet
about sieps taken by the Govern
ment to counteract the Arab
propaganda campaign, aimed at
distorting the nature of Israel’s
water project.
While political quarters dis
count Arab threats against Israel,
and view the Cairo summit parley
as motivated chiefly by Arab
manuevering for leadership of the
Arab bloc, it is feared neverthe
less that the situation may en
danger the peace of the Middle
East. r
No details of the “measures” re-
,ported by Mrs. Meir were dis
ect, and emphasizing that the de
velopment is purely an internal
matter, calling for no interference
on the part of outside powers or
international bodies.
LONDON (JTA)—The summit
conference of Arab kings and
presidents, convoked by Egyptian
President Nasser, opens here
Tuesday with plans prepared by
a technical committee of Arab
League to divert the waters of
Jordan River to the Negev
through Lake Tiberias. Thirteen
Arab countries are participating
in the parley,
The plans to be laid before the
heads of the Arab states will pro
pose a three--pronged construc
tion project involving: 1. Building
two storage dams in Jordan to
take the waters of the Yarmuk
River, which is the chief tribu
tary ogthe Jordan River; 2. Build
ing a storage dam in Lebanon,
Pope s Cable of Thanks to Shazar
Sent to Tel Aviv, Not Jerusalem
JERUSALEM, (JTA) — The
message of thanks sent by Pope
Paul VI to President Shazar of
Israel after the Pope’s unprece
dented pilgrimage was addressed
to the President at Tel Aviv, a
clear reminder that the Vatican
had not dropped its support for
a 1948 United Nations resolution
calling for the internationaliza
tion of Jerusalem.
The Pope expressed apprecia
tion for the facilities he had
been given and for the welcome
he received from the various
Israeli officials he met. Prime
Minister Eshkol declared in a
statement that the people of
Israel had been “deeply im
pressed by the lofty personality
of the Pope and by his emphasis
on the need for peace, reconcilia
tion and friendship.”
The Israeli press agreed that
the visit was an event of great
importance for Israel but they
questioned the Popje’s defense
of the late Pope Pius XII who
has been accused of failing to
speak out against the Nazi geno
cide of European Jewry.
Haaretz, the independent daily
newspaper, said that the visit
confronted Israel with three
tests: organizational, political
and historical, and that the first
was passed ‘with flying colors.”
Politically speaking, the daily
added, the very fact of the visit
to a country which the Vatican
does not recognize was an
achievement of great import
ance. t
Commenting on the refusal of
Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Nissim to
attend the welcoming cere-
..... i—.. mis. ncn wcic uu- containing the waters of another
-jj^^closed following her report to the Jordan River tributary, the Has-
Cabinet. It was assumed, how- bani River; 3. Building of canals
ever, that Israel is in contact with ir, Syria eastward and westward
i ole which NCJW members could other governments, restating its of a third Jordan River .tributary,
have in implementing it. position regarding the water proj- the Baniyas River.
Through these projects, the
principal tributaries ot the Jordan
River wculd be diverted into vast
; torage and irrigation develop
ments in Jordan, Syria and Leb
anon. At the same time, the Jor
dan River inside Israel, which
flows into Israel’s Lake Tiberias,
would be left with a mere trickle
of water. According to Arab fig
ures, about 77 per cent of the
Jordan River water sources would
thus be trapped on the Arab side.
Although Egypt is not touched
cither by the Jordan River or by
any of that waterway’s tributaries,
the Egyptian Government is a
member of the technical commit-
tce which finalized these plans.
The other members of the com
mittee are representatives of the
three Arab states containing the
Jordan River headwaters and the
i iver’s more imporant tributaries
Syria, Jordan and Lebanon.
Only one Jordan River tribu-
monies for the Pontiff, Haaretz
indicated it was possible that
the Chief Rabbi acted wisely
because the faith of Israel was
justified in demanding equal
status with every Christian
church. Discussing the Pontiffs
defense of the late Pope Pius,
Haaretz said “his is the opinion
of one who is no more than
mortal and historical research
will not be halted because of
this,”
The newspaper Hatzofe,- Orth
odox daily, asked whether Pope
Pius did indeed do all that such
a religious leader should have
done, even to the point of en
dangering his position. The or
gan of the Religious Party added
that the Jewish people would
not jump to over-optimistic con
clusions in connection with the
Pope’s visit. It said there were
two practical tests of the ulti
mate meaning of the visit. One
was that the Catholic Church
should actively fight anti-Semi
tism in Catholic countries and
the other that it should recogn
ize Israel.
Lamerhav, organ of Achdut
Avodah, labor group, noted that
the Pope had said in both He
brew and English "Shalom” sev
eral times during his visit and
called this “a clear strong voice
of grace and wisdom which for
the moment spoke louder than
the voices of enmity which have
been sounding around us for
years.” It added that the very
meeting of the Pope with Israeli
officials was a de facto recogni
tion of the existence of Israel.
It was revealed here that .16
Jordanian Arabs were drivers
of automobiles in the Papal con
voy throughout its 12-hour trip
on Israel soil. A high ranking
Catholic prelate said here that
the unprecedented arrangement
was made with the agreement of
Israeli authorities. It was be
lieved that the Jordanian driv
ers were used on the Israeli trip
because the cars were scheduled
to return to Jordan and the Arabs
feared that bombs timed to ex
plode after the return might be
planted In the cars unless Arab
drivers were in control of the
vehicles.
Chief Rabbi Nissim rejected
a Papal invitation to join Sin-
gehe Cardinal Tisserant, Dean
of the Sacred College of Cardi
nals, in tribute to the millions
of Jews murdered during the
Nazi era. While the Pope was
touring the Galilee Sunday, he
sent a message to Israeli authori
ties saying he had asked Cardi
nal Tisserant to visit the Cham
ber of the Martrys on Mount
Zion and that the Pope hoped
the Chief Rabbi would attend.
When the Cardinal was told
Rabbi Nissim had declined the
invitation, he went on with the
papal group to two Christian
Holy Places in Jerusalem but
later, he returned to the Cham
ber of the Martyrs and lighted
six candles, one for each million
Jewish men, women and chil
dren murdered by the Nazis.
This gesture was favorably com
mented on in Israel both publicly
and privately.
tary, the Dan River, is in Israel.
But Lake Tiberias, which re
ceives the main flow of the Jor
dan from the Arab areas In the
north, is entirely within Israeli
territory. It is from this lake that
Israel has planned a project to
carry the waters about 100 miles
southward, through pipes, canals
and tunnels, to the northern
reaches of the Negev Desert.
Tuesday’s summit meeting, ac
cording to Nasser’s pl»n», is in
tended to solidify Arab actions
in opposition to Israel’s project.
While there is wide disagreement
among most of the Arab states on
most political issues, they all
agree in their opposition to Is
rael.
The technical plan to be laid
before the heads of the Arab
States was seen here as the al
ternative to the only other choice
open to the Arab states opposed
to Israel’s development That
choice would involve military ac
tion — and it was conceded by
Cairo dispatches received here
that Nasser is not ready for
unified Arab military action
against Israel at this time.
Among the heads of state at the
summit meeting, some of whom
were reported to have already ar
rived at Cairo, will be King Hus
sein of Jordan, and King Hassan
II of Morocco; Major General
Amin El-Hafez, President of the
Syrian National Revolutionary
Council, whom Nasser has called
“a practicing Fascist”; Marshal
Abdullah El-Sallal, President of
the Yemeni Republic, who is sup
ported in his battle against Yem
enite royalists by about 40,000
Egyptian troops stationed in his
country; President Habib Bour-
guiba, of Tunis; Lt. Gen. Ibrahim
Abboud, of Sudan; Fuad Shehab,
President of Lebaron; Salam
Aref, President of Iraq; Sheik
Abdullah el-Salem el-Sabah,
Emir of Kuwait; and Crown
Prince Hassan Rida, representing
his father, King Idris, of Libya
King Saud of Saudi Arabia will
also be represented.
French Court Sentences Two
For Selling Non-Kosher Meat
PARIS (JTA)—A French crim
inal court established a precedent
in religious jurisprudence by ruling
that cheating in kosher provision
ing was equivalent to a criminal
.swindle in the quality of publicly
offered merchandise.
The court found two Tunisian
butchers guilty and fined each 100
francs ($20) on charges of having
sold nonkosher meat as kosher.
The Paris Jewish Consistory was
granted one franc symbolic of
damages in the case. The ruling
marked the first time in France
that such misrepresentations was
considered a criminal offense.
Until the ruling, the only defense
of the Chief Rabbinate against
such abuses was publication of
the names of offenders on a black
list.
RIO E JANEIRO (JTA)—Three
Russians accused of murdering
2,000 Jews at Krasnodar, in the
Soviet Union, during the Nazi «n
cupation of parts of the USSR,
were reported in a dispatch
ceived from Moscow aa hl<Wn|
in this country. One of the
Gregory Yakovievitch Timoshen
ko, is said to be living in a *u-
burb of Sao Paulo. The two oth
ers, bearing the same last
were identified as
Gusschenko and Napoleon
chenko. Both of the latter,
ming originally from the
are reportedly in hiding in
them Brazil.