'eider CLIFTON AVENUE - CINCINNATI 20, olllo CHRONICLE Vol. 52—No. 38 -0, 42> 27 Thursday, September 21, 1950 10c a Copy — $3 Per Year Freedom Bell Calls Jews Jordan to Drop UN Complaint, Israel Hears AMMAN, Jordan—(Special)—A spokesman of the Jordan foreign ministry denied reports from Israel that Jordan had decided to drop its complaint to the United Nations that Israel invaded Jordanian territory at the junction of the Jordan and Yarmuk rivers. TEL AVIV — (WNS) — The government of Jordan has asked the United Nations to drop Security Council action .on its recent claim that Israel had unlawfully occupied a strip of land in the Naharayim area, Lieut. Col. Yehoshafat Har- kavy, chief Israel delegate to the Mixed Armistice Commis- sion, told a press conference here. When the Freedom Bell visited Detroit, a delegation from the Jewish Community Council met with Victor G. Reuther, state chairman of the Freedom Crusade, at a public ceremony. Pictured above are, left to right, Harry Nathan, American Jewish Congress; Walter Klein, assistant-direc- tor of the Council; B. M. Joffe, Council executive director; Irving W. Schiussel, Mizrachi; Rabbi Samuel II. Prero, Young Lsrael of Detroit; Reuther; Norman L. Berkley, Jewish War Veterans; Louis Rosenzweig, Bnai Brith; and Sidney M. Shevitz, Labor Zionist Organization. The Executive Committee of the Community Council has endorsed the Council's participation in the "Crusade for Freedom," and Dr. Slunarya Kleinman, president, has been named a member of the Michigan State Committee which is leading the drive in this state to enroll a million signers on the Freedom Scrolls which are being circulated. Spurred by the slogan, "Help Lift the Iron Curtain Every ■ where," the Freedom Crusaders have already launched Radio Free Europe, a new, hard-hitting radio outlet in Western Germany. The Freedom Scrolls are available to individuals or organiza- tions at the Council, or directly from Crusade headquarters, 312 Boulevard Building. TR. 2-7616. U. S. Parley to Discuss Israel's Needs JERUSALEM — ( W N S ) — Representatives of leading Jew- ish organizations in America will meet in national conference next month to discuss the decisions reached at the recent parley here with American Jewish leaders, Eliahu Dobkin, Jewish Agency leader, disclosed. The conference, to be held in New York City on Oct. 24, will deal with the projected floating by Israel of a billion dollar bond issue in the United States, the expansion of the United Jewish Appeal and with measures de- signed to encourage private in- vestment in Israel. Israel Mizrachi May Quit Cabinet NEW YORK — (WNS) — Un- less the present Israel govern- ment meets the series of demands which the Mizrachi movement in Israel has presented to it during the past two weeks, Mizrachi contemplates leaving the coali- tion government, a leader of the World Federation of General Mizrachi Zionists declared this week. Rabbi Dr. I. Solomon Rosen- berg, vice-chairman of the World Federation of General Mizrachi Zionists, who last week returned from Israel, said that the relig- ious-Zionists' demands of the present coalition government in- volve religious and economic re- lationships. VEGETABLE PRODUCTION TEL AVIV (Special) —Mar- keting of vegetables last June totaled 14,885 tons, of which 13,357 tons were supplied • by Jewish farms and 1,528 by Arabs. The supply represents an increase Dr. Neumann Blasts Israel for 'Slighting World Zionists' TEL AVIV — (WNS) — Dr. Emanuel N e u in a n n, former president of the Zionist Organi- zation of America, lashed out here against the Israel govern- ment for its policy of "leading on non-Zionist elements in the Unit- ed States" and "for slighting the World Zionist Organization." Speaking at a General Zionist rally in the overcrowded Mogra- bi Theater here, the American Zionist leader called the Zionist movement Israel's "most loyal ally" while simultaneously cau- tioning that the World Zionist Organization was confronted with the possibility of early liquida- tion. He said Israel's attitude toward the Zionist Organization was one of "de jure recognition but not de facto" and that this situation has created "a state of cold war" between the two. At the same time he charged that the Israel government's un- derestimation of the strength and potential of the Zionist mov6 WASHINGTON — (WNS) — ment throughout the world has led to a waning of Zionist inter- President Truman disclosed that est and to a drop in the yield he had not received any resig- of fund-raising activities. nation from James G. McDonald, America's first ambassador to VALLEY ACQUEDUCT Israel, and that he was therefore JERUSALEM— (ZOA) — The not considering a successor to Jordan Valley Regional Council the post. has set up a company for the The President's statemen t, construction of an aqueduct made at a press conference, came which will permit the irrigation against the background of nu- of 8,000 dunams of abandoned merous unconfirmed reports that land that has lain fallow for McDonald had no intentions of many years. (A dunam is equal returning to his post in Israel. to one-fourth acre). Truman Denies McDonald Quit When Jordan filed its complaint with the United Nations a week ago, its foreign office claimed that the land in dispute belonged to Amman under the armistice terms and that Israel had forged the armistice map in order to justify its seizure of the territory. Jordan's government also threatened military action against Israel. The changed Jordan attitude came against the background of an assertion by Major General William E. Riley, UN chief truce supervisor, that the disputed ter- ritory belonged to Israel. According to Harkavy, the Jor- danians changed their position when they "observed the signa- ture of John Glubb Pasha, Arab Legion commander during the Arab-Israel war, on a map show- ing that the disputed area was awarded to Israel." At the same time he asserted No Danger of Israeli Collapse, Browdy Tells ZOA Executive NEW YORK—(WNS)—Benja- min G. Browdy, president of the Zionist Organization of-America, .deelared that although Isfael is confronted by serious economic difficulties there is no imminence of an economic collapse. He made the assertion at a meeting of the ZOA national ex- ecutive committee at the Hotel Biltmore, where he reported on the recent emergency conference of American Jewish leaders in Jerusalem. He characterized the current situation in Israel as one of grow- ing pains of a new state, adding that he found "no panic whatso- ever" in Israel. At the same time he asserted that the decision of the Israel Government to keep the doors open to unlimited Jewish immi- gration was "irrevocable" despite the serious impact of such an in- flux upon the economic condition of the country. Israel, he said, is prepared if necessary to receive a million im- migrants within the next three years "and certainly a minimum of 600,000." Dwelling on the American scene, Browdy asserted that the tension engendered by the Ko- rean war has given the dark forces in the country a weapon "to intensify their anti-Jewish propaganda." Ridiculing the elements who accuse Jews of both being com- munists and capitalists at the same time, the ZOA president said that "the time for an apolo- Prof. Cook Named Franklin Lecturer Prof. Lloyd A. Cook, chairman of the depart- ment of educational sociology in Wayne Univer- sity's College of Education, has been named the Leo M. Franklin Memorial Professor in Human Relations at the University for the current year. Selection was made by a five man committee designated by Dr. David D. Henry, Wayne presi- dent, under a plan outlined a year ago when the chair was established through action of the board of trustees of Temple Beth El and the Detroit Board of Education. Rabbi Franklin. who had been at Temple Beth El for 42 years before his death in 1948, was known widely for his humanitarianism and understand- ing, and it was thought appropriate by the Tem- ple's board to set up in his honor a program for the advancement of human relations. The estab- - of 0 per cent over the same month last year. lishment of the fund for the purpose was reported that Israel was deeply concerned over the 'intensification recently of incidents along the Egyptian border," adding that a most ener- getic protest will be raised over the issue at the next meeting of the mixed armistice commission. In the meantime, the Israel government filed a complaint , with the United Nations against Egypt and Jordan, accusing those countries of "threatening aggres- sive action" and violating the armistice agreements. The com- plaint-accuses Egypt of "blockade practices" and charges that Jor- dan is blocking the movement of traffic on the Bethlehem and La- trun-Jerusalem roads in violation of the armistice pact. In a counter-move, the Egyp- tian government filed charges with the Security Council that Israel had driven out some 4,000 Arab Bedouins. getic attitude on the part of American Jews is long past," adding ,that "every intelligent person knows that the concepts of Judaism and Zionism are dia- metrically opposed to Commun- ism on the simple issues of be- lief in God and human freedom." M. Rothenberg UPA Head, • Dies at Banquet NEW YORK—(WNS) — Judge Morris Rothenberg, general chairman of the United Palestine Appeal, died here of a heart at- tack after addressing a meeting of the national executive com- mittee of the Zionist Organiza- tion of America at the Hotel Biltmore. He was 65 years old. The former president of the Zionist Organization of America was stricken as he ended a ban- quet speech. As he fell to the floor, his wife and a number of friends ran to his aid, but he was dead before medical aid ar- rived. The subject of his last address was the recent Jeru- salem conference of American Jewish leaders with Prime Min- ister David Ben Gurion. Born in Estonia, he came to the United States with his par. ents in 1893. In 1905 he was graduated from the New York University School of Law. Israel Here to Stay —India to the University by Congregation Beth El's presi- dent, Nate S. Shapero, last October. New Delhi — (Special) — India The professorship carries an annual stipend of $1,000 over and above the professor's salary. Under recognized the government of the plan Wayne will present annually a lecture Israel last Monday. It was pointed out, however, series known as the "Leo M. Franklin Memorial Lectures in Human Relations." The series will in- by officials that the step did not clude addresses by the memorial professor, and indicate any increased friendli- ness toward Israel or any lessen- by four other lecturers selected by him. Dr. Cook came to Wayne from Ohio State Uni- ing in India's sympathy for the versity in 1946, with a distinguished reputation as Arab cause. Diplomatic repre- a consultant, author, and teacher in educational sentatives will not be exchanged sociology. His directorship of the National College at present. The external affairs ministry Study in Intergroup Relations, sponsored by the American Council on Education, has had nation- explained that the recognition wide attention among professional groups. He is was granted on the ground that a consultant to numerous national organizations "Israel is here to stay." Recogni- tion, therefore, is only acceptance and foundations. of an established fact.