'eater CLIFTON AtIENUE - CINCINNATI 20, 01110 Give to the Allied Jewish Campaign as if your OWN life depended on it! Vol. 52—No. 22 27 The Allied Jewish Campaign Needs YOU Because You Are Not in Need! HRaNZCZE Thursday, June 1, 1950 10c a Copy — $3 Per Year Gov. Williams a Signs Lifting of Arms Embargo Stirs Absentee Ballot Act COniroversy in Middle East TEL AVIV—(Special)—The decision o f the United States, Britain and France to lift the arms embargo to Israel was greeted here as a step toward peace. The three powers took the measure o n condition that the arms supplied would be used for internal defense only, not for aggres sive purposes. The three-power statement de- Glared that "assurances have been received fr om all the states in question ... not to under- take any act of aggression against any other s tate." "Defense of the Middle East" is clearly meant as defense against Soviet aggression. It was pointed out by Israeli spokesmen that Israel wants peace with everyone and is not joining any "# bloc at this time. The spokesman also said that the ''joint three-power declar a- tion signifies the end of the dis- crimination hitherto practiced in the supply of war materials to countries of the Middle East." Gov. G. Mennen Williams signs the Absentee Voting Bill in the prence of Rabbi Leon Frain (left), Rabbi Morris Adler (center) and Julius Weinberg of the Jewish Community Council. • After passage by the house and Adler, vice-president of the Jew- the senate of the state of Michi- ish Community Council, and gan, Gov. G. Mennen Williams ,151 Leon From, member of file approved a bill extending the cutive committee of the Conn- privilege of absentee ballot vot- '', thanked the governor on be- ing to those who because of their half of Detroit Jewry for approv- religious convictions will not be ing the bill. able to vote in the Rosh Hashana The Jewish Community Council primaries this year. Elections soon will undertake to familiar- will be held on Tuesday, Sept. ize Detroit Jews with the steps 12, coinciding with the first day that must be taken by the in- of Rosh Hashana. dividual voter to utilize the ab- At titt. .4eattuatt of the Jewish sentee lollot . .roting - primilege: "1 Coiniiiiiffity Council of Detroit, Dr. Shmarya Kleinman; presi- Williams approved this measure dent of the Council, expressed his after it was passed by the Legis- hope that every Jewish voter will lature at the special ssession re- take advantage of the provisions cently concluded. The bill had in this bill. "It is both our duty the bipartisan indorsement of and privilege to participate in both the Democratic and Repub- every way in the democratic pro- lican parties. cesses our country makes pos- "The purpose of this bill is to sible for all its citizens," he assure to all the citizens of our stated. state their right to vote without The request to the governor for violating the dictates of any re- the legislation was made by the ligious group," stated the gover- Internal Relations Committee of nor when he signed the bill on the Jewish Community Council, May 25 in Lansing. Rabbi Morri;: headed by Louis Rosenzweig. R1 Polio Wave Sweeps Israel; Bar Youth outings Sea Bathing , ,'JERUSALEM — (Special) — Health Minister Moshe Shapiro informed the Knesset that polio is spreading in Israel. He informed the parliament that 191 cases had been reported up to May 24, compared with 83 cases in April. Last January, only 19 cases were recorded. Normally, the number of polio cases per year in Israel ranged from 20 to 60. Most of the victims are chil- dren under five years of age. The minister stated tbat the dis- ease was equally prevalent , z , trnong old settlers and new immigrants. The government has banned sea bathing at Tel Aviv and chil- dren under six are being barred from swimming pools throughout Israel to Indemnify Bernadotte Family TEL AVIV— (Special) —Israel decided to pay an indemnity of $54,000 to the family of Count Folke Bernadotte, UN mediator who was killed in Jerusalem in September, 1949, it was revealed by an authoritative source. It was also reported that the Israeli government intends to pay $3,000 to the United Nations as a special premium on war risk insurance carried by the Swedish mediator and other UN personnel in Israel. the country. Summer camps will not open and youth outings have been banned for two months. Beth Abraham to Close Se on The closing progr m meeting of the season by the Men's Club of Congregation Beth Abraham will feature a return appearance of Max Sosin and his troupe of entertainers. Members have been asked to invite their wives and friends to this social meeting. Willie Opperer and Julius Per- ry are in charge of arrangements. The Club's barn dance and tel- evision night is scheduled for June 21 at Gramer's Hall, lOkster and 11 Mile Road. Edward Rice and William Cen- ser are in charge of the television project, proceeds of which are planned for/the immediate estab- lishment of the Sunday School to hold its classes in the fall of this year. ARAB EXPULSION DENIED TEL AVIV — (ISI) —A recent wire service story out of Beirut which reported that the Israel army drove out 12,000 Arabs from the vicinity of Hebron on May 4 has been rejected by an Israel military spokesman as "a complete distortion of the facts." He reaffirmed that Israel de- sired a "final peace settlement and once again repeats its invita- tion to each and every Arab state to enter into immediate negotia- tions." stattisltuo, including the present armistice boundary lines. Many Arab politicians feel that the western powers, ."under American influence," in effect are abandoning the 1947 partition resolution of the United Nations and recognizing the armistice lines as Israel's frontier. As a rule, the Arabs feel that the decision on arms deliveries has not eased the situation. " zoning of Jerusalem Asked by 285 Lead in g Americans WASHINGTON — (Special) — President Truman was asked by 285 leading Americans to request the United Nations to establish a Jewish and an Arab zone in Jerusalem instead of internation- alizing the city. International control, under this plan, _should be limited to the holy places. "attempt to put 160,000 people, living in an area of 100 square miles, into permanent vassalage, in order to protect 36 holy sites concentrated in an area of less than two square miles." Some political experts see in the declaration a hands-off policy, leaving Israel and the Arab states to work out a settlement among themselves, without UN inter- Sponsoring the proposal were ference. 19 bishops of the Episcopal • * Church, 77 Episcopalian lay-lead- ers, and many other church dig- BEIRUT, LEBANON—(Special) nitaries. Also included in the list Arab observers are speculating LAKE SUCCESS—(Special)— of signers were Walter Reuther, whether the three-power declara- president of the UAW; Sumner Israel submitted a proposal to the tion means a guarantee of the Welles; Dr. Arthur Compton; UN Trusteeship Council suggest- Aliiea " Israel Offers New Solution on Jerusalem ing that the religious shrines of Thomas Mann; Dr. Walter Low- Jerusalem be placed under UN slermilic and 0thetr-- authority. The draft statute was de The Trusteeship Council has nounced as contravening the UN just resumed its deliberations on charter. It was said to be an the Jerusalem question. Israel of- fered its plan as "practical al- ternative" to the internationaliza- tion plan agreed to by the UN Council. The Israeli plan suggested that a special authority be set up by the UN which would derive its powers from the UN and function in Jerusalem independently of MUNICH — (WNS) — Three Israel or Jordan. Germans convicted on charges of Aubrey S. Eban, Israel's repre- having damaged a synagogue at sentative at the UN, submitted the Marktreditz, Bavaria, in Sep- revised plan. He declared that tember, 1949, won reductions in Israel, as another alternative, their sentences on appeal to the would be willing to cooperate in U. S. Appeals Court in Germany, the creation of an international it was disclosed this week. regime in the territory of the holy Two of the men, originally places. • Jordan has declared its opposi- sentenced to serve 10 months each, are to serve four months tion to an internationalization of and another, who was sentenced the old city of Jerusalem. to a four-month term, was given a suspended sentence by the higher court. - Juniors Plan Cleanup Drive U.S. Reduces Junior division workers will assemble for a one-day cleanup drive on Sunday, June 4, in order to cover 1500 outstanding slips for the Allied Jewish Campaign. Two distribution centers will he set up at the Dexter Branch of the Jewish Center and at the Northwest Hebrew Congre- gation where workers yvill re- pbit at 10 a.m, to receive their slips. Thus far the junior division has raised 90 per cent of the money it pledged in 1949 and secured pledges show a 44 per cent increase. Albert M. Colman, chairman of the 1950 campaign tot the juniors, pointed out that if all remaining slips are covered in the one-day drive with the same degree of efficiency, the junior divisipn will go way over the top. Jail Terms for 3 Nazis The decision was made public against the background of a re- port that 28 tombstones In the Jewish cemetery in Hemsbach, near Mannheim, had been dam- aged during the weekend. According to James R. New- man, commissioner for Hesse, more than 200 of the 500 Jewish cemeteries in Germany have been desecrated since the Nazi sur- NEW YORK— (Special) —A render in 1945. statement of the national econ- omy minister of Syria suggest- ing a Soviet-Arab pact received a favorable answer in New Times, Moscow's foreign policy weekly. PARIS — (JWNS) — The He- "The whole democratic (Soviet) brew Theater -ofqsrael is scoring camp," the article says, "has sin- a great success in Paris. cere sympathy for the Arab The French press and radio states." have united in exuberant praise The paper said that the pro- of the Hebrew players who are posal showed "on whose side the performing at the Sarah Bern- sympathy of the Arab peoples lies hardt Theater every night. in the struggle between the camp The company was invited to of democracy and the camp of France by the French national imperialism." theater, Comedie Francaise, after It is reported that the Syrian the orthodox Jewish community minister had stated that he would of London practically forced the prefer to see Arab countries "be- players to leave England because come a Soviet republic rather fall they performed on Friday eve- prey to world Jewry." nings. Russia Ready for Arab Pact Paris Celebrates Hebrew Theater Arab Refugees Attack UN Relief Officer BEIRUT, LEBANON — (Spe- cail)—An area officer of the UN Works and Relief Agency for Palestine was attacked by Arab refugees in the Palestine part of Jordan, it was reported here. The Arabs stoned his automo- bile and beat the driver. The agency has officially in- formed Jordan that if such con- ditions continue it could no longer operate in that part of the king- dom. The disorders have ' been ascribed to the reduction by one- half of the Palestine refugee per- sonnel employed in the relief dis- tribution work by the Interna- tional Red Cross. A delay in the distribution of rations because of Syrian inter- ference with the transit of food- stuffs to Jordan in UN trucks also added to the refugees' irritation. Syrian interference resulted in a tie-up that caused a delay in the distribution of this month's ration.