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The Southern Israelite
A Weekly Newspaper for Southern Jewry — Established 1925
Vol. XLIV Atlanta, Georgia, March 28, 1969 No. 13
Kluxer Stoner Seeks Israelis 4 Search QfZZS'V A QN't y’
New Trial for Ray Policy Troubles .'Is
Savannah attorney J. B. Stoner,
who claims to represent James
Earl Ray in a bid for a new trial
in the slaying of Dr. Martin
Luther King Jr., has a long his
tory of anti-Jewish, anti-Negro
activities.
Stoner, attorney for the
staunchly segregationist' National
States Rights Party, was its vice
presidential candidate in 1964.
His involvement in anti-Jewish
activities and the Ku Klux Klan
go way back, however. Some of
his public activities include for
mation of the “Stoner Anti-Jew
ish party” in 1945 for which he
mailed out pamphlets urging re
moval of the Jews. Later, his
Christian Anti-Jewish party was
formed and urged deportation of
Jews and confiscation of their
property for distribu t i o n to
“Christian Americans.” In a foray
into authorship, he wrote a book
called “The Gospel of Jesus
Christ Versus the Jews.”
Stoner appears as the third at
torney in the Ray case being pre
ceded by Birmingham Mayor Art
Hanes and renowned criminal
lawyer Percy Foreman of Houston.
Though Ray had pleaded guilty
to the slaying of King and was
sentenced to 99 years, he has ap
parently turned to Stoner in an
attempt to win a new trial. Were
he to succeed in this effort and
receive a life sentence rather than
the electric chair, he would be eli
gible for parole for 30 years.
WASHINGTON (JTA)— State
Department officials said that
they did not share the view of
Israel’s Foreign Minister Abba
Eban that there was no real crisis
threatening the outbreak of a
general Arab-Israeli war. They
said the United States remained
convinced that a “powder-keg”
situation exists, and voiced con
cern over Israeli and Egyptian
“escalation.”
The officials referred to Israel’s
newly announced. “search and
destroy” policy in which pre J
emptive strikes are made against
terrorist bases and to the Suez
situation. In the officials’ view,
this new strategy increases the
risk of general war and compli
cates U. S. diplomacy on the eve
New York Starts Pilot Project
On Kosher Meals in Hospitals
NEW YORK (JTA)—The first
program of kosher food service
for Jewish patients in a New
York City municipal hospital was
scheduled to begin at Coney Is
land hospital in Brooklyn.
The experimental program Is
being funded with a municipal
appropriation of $100,000 for the
coming 12 months. William Ciner,
a former president of Young Is
rael of Bensonhurst in Brooklyn,
sponsor of the project, said the
appropriation will cover the cost
Of the kosher food, two new
ovens installed for the new proj
ect, new dishes and serving carts
and the salaries of two special
dietary aides for the program.
Mr. Ciner, a former manpower
consultant to the New York City
Human Resources Commission
who is now executive director of
the Hebrew Academy of North
Queens, reported that if the Con
ey Island Hospital program is
successful, it is expected to serve
as the basis for an expansion to
set up similar programs in all
It! city hospitals.
Coney Island hospital admits
about 200 Jewish patients each
week. Rabbi Bernard Berzon,
tlie Jewish chaplain at the hos
pital, has informed Jewish pa
tients that they can specify
kosher meals. Rabbi Berzon, who
visits all Jewish patients on ad
mission, will routinely inform
them of the option of kosher
food service. Under the plan, the
patients must ask for the kosher
diets.
Mr. Ciner said arrangements
had been made to provide spec
ial kosher meals for patients who
are on diets by order of their
doctors, such as salt free or
starch free diets. Because the
patients will be served pre-pack
ed complete kosher dinners, no
cooking or other preparations will
be necessary and no resident rab
binical supervisor will be re
quired. Mr. Ciner added that
meals certified as kosher for
Passover will be provided to ob
servant patients during the Pass-
over holiday. The program will
provide about 1,000 kosher meals
a week.
Mr. Ciner said that he had re
ceived close cooperation in plan
ning the project from Dr. Sandor
Smith, the hospital administra
tor. He noted that at Dr. Smith’s
suggestion, a freezer had been in
stalled to store the pre-packaged
meals, until they are heated in
the new ovens for the patients.
He reported also that Rabbi
Ralph Pelcovitz, former president
of the Rabbinical Alliance of
America, had served as a rab
binical advisor in bringing the
project to fulfillment. He noted
also that when Hospitals Com
missioner Joseph V. Terenzio had
been approached last year on the
idea, he endorsed it and suggest
ed both that the two special aides
be added to the hospital staff and
that the city buy 200 new cups
for use by the Jewish patients.
Asks Ban on NPD
BONN (JTA)— Interior Mini
ster Ernst Benda told the Bun
destag (lower house) that he
would submit material gathered
on the extreme right-wing Na
tional Democratic Party (NPD)
to the government shortly and
ask it to approach the Constitu
tional High Court at Karlsruhe
for a ban on the NPD. Mr. Ben
da’s ministry conducted an ex
haustive investigation of the
NPD which is reputedly neo-Nazi.
Observers here however saw lit
tle chance that the government
would take action to ban it.
Chancellor Kurg Georg Kiesinger
and a majority of the cabinet are
opposed to such a move.
Southern Communities Campaign Scoreboard
SPRING CAMPAIGN - PROGRESS REPORT NO. 1
(Combined data for Regular & IEF Campaign as of March 15)
Percent of
City
Jewish
Population
1968
1969
Percent
Increase
1968 Campaign
Results Completed
Atlanta
16,000
$1,297,000
$1,898,000
46.3
64.7
Birmingham
4,040
$456,000
$612,000
34.3
34.3
Charleston
2,720
$86,000
$254,000
194.1
53.1
Houston
20,000
$1,061,000
$1,331,00
25.4
87.7
Miami
130,000
$1,323,000
$2,040 000
54.2.
45.3
New Orleans
10,150 ’
$660,000
$816,000
23.5
58.8
Savannah
3,500
$94,000
$128,000
37.2
48.0
Other Communities
Chicago
269,000
$2,277,000
$3,167,000
39.1
16.9
Philadelphia
330,000
$3,921,000
$5,057,000
29.0
46.0
St. I^OULS
57,500
$959,000
$1,326,000
38.3
30.2
Toronto
90.000
$1,445,000
$2,098,000
45.2
25.0
Hartford
26,000
$910,000
$1,266,000
39.1
41.6
Milwaukee
23,900
$1,354,000
$1,754,000
29.5
41.0
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of the visit of Jordan „ aus-
sein to Washington as President
Nixon’s guest.
Egyptian artillery barrages
across the Suez Canal were also
condemned as an “escalation”
bringing closer the specter of
general conflict. Officials said
Egypt was employing the same
philosophy that underlies the
“search and destroy” air attacks.
Egypt has claimed that its shell
ing is a form of “preventive” ac
tion to forestall Israeli “aggres
sive” preparations along the
canal. Officials disagreed with
Mr. Eban’s recently expressed
views here which they said min
imized the chances of general
war. On the contrary, they re
garded the situation as having
further deteriorated. State De
partment sources could not say
precisely when the proposed Big
Four conference at the United
Nations would be held. While
they were not aware of a fixed
date as yet, officials said that
despite Israel’s objections, the
talks would, sooner or later, be
held. To reinforce their argument
that the Mideast was on the brink
of open warfare, officials cited a
statement submitted March 19 by
Defense Secretary Melvin R.
Laird to the Senate Armed Serv
ices Committee. Secretary Laird
said that “in the Middle East the
almost daily clashes indicate
that the Arab-Israeli conflict
verges on a active state of war,
with the imminent threat of ex
pansion. This situation is compli
cated by the continuing flow of
Soviet arms to their Arab cli
ents.” The Defense Secretary
cautioned that “the Soviets are
increasing their naval capabilities
in the Mediterranean, as well as
increasing their involvment in
Middle East affairs.”
• TEL AVIV (JTA)—A new ar
tillery and tank battle erupted
between Israeli and Egyptian
forces on the Suez Canal early
Monday and spread over almost
the entire length of the water
way before it ended shortly aft
er noon. Each side blamed the
other for starting the battle, the
first in six days, which raged
for nearly four hours.
An Israeli military spokesman
said the Egyptians fired a single
shell at Israeli positions in the
Small Bitter Lake area at 6:30
a. m. local time.
He said Israeli gunners did not
return the fire until two hours
later when massed Egyptian ar
tillery opened up from Port Tew-
fik in the south to Kantara near
the canal’s northern entrance. No
Israeli casualties were reported.
The spokesman said Israeli
tanks battered Egyptian oil re
fineries but did not say which
refineries were hit. In recent
fighting, Israeli guns blasted the
refineries at Port Suez destroying
an estimated 300,000 tons of oil
and setting fires that lasted sev
eral days. The spokesman said
Israeli gunners observed a UN
cease-fire order at noon but the
Egyptians continued sporadic
shelling for nearly a half hour
more. An Egyptian military com
munique said that the Panaman
ian flag ship Khalida was hit with
an Israeli shell in Port Suez but
gave no other details.
The communique did not men
tion new hits on the Suez oil
refineries but claimed that Egyp
tian “counter-fire” destroyed nine
Israeli tanks and a large amount
of other equipment including
rockets. It also claimed “heavy
casualties” on the Israeli side and
put Egyptian losses as one kill
ed, nine wounded and one ve
hicle destroyed.
New fighting broke out along
the Israel-Jordan border where a
70-minute machinegun duel was
fought south of the Sea of Gal
ilee. No casualties were report
ed.
Former Nazi Officers
Get Sentences for
Wartime Murders
BONN (JTA) — Two former
SS officers drew relatively mild
sentences Friday for the war
time murders of slave laborers in
Poland and Soviet Russia who
were used to destroy evidence of
Nazi mass murders. Two other
defendants were acquitted after a
three-month trial in a Stuttgart
court.
A sentence «1 four years at
hard labor was passed on Hans
Sohns, 61, a former SS majoi
w bo was convicted of having,
abetted the murders of 390 flaw
laborers after using them to ex
hume and bum the remains of
other Nazi victims buried in mass
graves.
Fritz Zietlow, 66, a former SS
captain, got a two-and-a-half
year sentence for his role in the
murder of 30 slave laborers.
Slain Writer’s Daughter
Publishes His Works
LONDON (JTA)—The daugh
ter of Alter Kaczizne, a well
known Warsaw Yiddish writer
who wns beaten to death by Po
lish Nazi collaborators during
World War II, is sponsoring the
publication of her father’s works.
The first volume was published
some time ago.
The second volume is now
being prepared for publication
by the J. L. Peretz publishing
house of Tel Aviv. Two more
volumes will be published later.
They include several players,
poems, essays and humorous
pieces. Mr. Kaczizne was bom
in Vilna and achieved promin
ence for his writing between the
world wars. His wife was killed
by the Nazis but his only child,
Shulamit, was rescued by the
Italian Embassy in Poland. Today
she is Mrs. Eugenio Reale, the
wife of a prominent Italian pol
itician and makes her home In
Rome
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