American Jewish Periodical Center CLIFTON AVENUE - CINCINNATI 20, OHIO HRONICLE Vol. 53—No. 1 .01-344. 27 Friday, January 5, 1951 JNF, Marking 50th Birthday, Pleads for Aid 10c a Copy — $3 Per Year To Aid Defense Davis, a career diplomat, began ceivably help us more by liking bassador to Panama. Nothing is A number of problems have to known about his approach to be faced by the new ambassador: Near East affairs. MacDonald had won the hearts the rehabilitation of the Arab of all Israelis through his warm refugees in neighboring countries interest in the Jewish state. Bnt and Israel's inability to stand the fact that he was not a career more openly on the side of the man seems to have hurt his mis- west against Russia. sion rather than helped it. This It is well known that in re- sentiment was expressed in an cent years, despite Mapain' s pro- editorial in the Jerusalem Post Soviet policy, Israel has swung to last summer: the west, although this had to "It may be," the Post said, be done under the cover of neu- "that Mr. MacDonald fought our trality. Israel would like to see fight too well and another may the State Department appreciate come in his place who may con- this position. - Corporation Set Up to Float Israeli Bonds NEW YORK—(Special)—For- !nation was announced of the American Financial and Devel- opment Corporation for. Israel which will handle the floating of the Israeli bond issue in the United States as well as sale of the bonds. Henry Montor has been named executive officer of the new cor- poration with headquarters at 2 Park avenue, New York City. Montor stated that the bond drive will get under way not later than May 1, and that the corporation would establish of- fices in every major American city. The amount of the issue will be decided upon by the Am- erican Jewish leaders at the Na- tional Planning Conference in ALBERT SHAPIRO, senior de- tective inspector of the Police Department, has been appoint- ed by President Victor Bloom- field to head the newly formed civilian defense committee of the Greater Detroit Bnai Brith Council. Through this commit- tee, lodges will be contracted for the purpose of registering Bnai Brith members and their friends for training as emerg- ency police in case of war only. The Police Department is setting up traihing courses whcili will be arranged to meet the convenience of the volun- October in WashinYton. They 2 thel t , 4 r =1, iLom. d e. rat - -c-e - —to is *I:000:600.000 over t:k "- : .. form th the _ curse of the waste .._____ into 11.° m"" ra"'". '"""•"`"" 41. "'a . when than to free the blessing of plenty. The Jew- ish National Fund in its second 50 years' span will be the re- deeming hand to win back the soil for the tillers. The Jewish people will share in this under- taking, for the Fund is, and re- mains, their instrument." Syrian Attack Stirs Israel JERUSALEM—(WNS) — The Israel cabinet considered last week Premier David Ben Gur- . ion's report on the security situa- tion in Israel as Syrian troops created a new incident by forc- ing Israeli fisherman to abandon their nets in Israel territorial waters of Lake Tiberias. An Israel protest went to the Israel- Syrian Mixed Armistice Corn- mission. Meanwhile, according to Lon- don reports, Egypt is extending its maritime blockade of Israel to include the Gulf of Akaba. The London Daily Telegraph reported that the Egyptians have mounted a battery near the tip of the Sinai Peninsula and are checking ships entering the gulf. Efforts of the Israel-Jordan mixed survey commission to settle ownership of the disputed Eilath road, scene of a recent Israel-Jordan clash, were blocked when they learned that a small area formerly in Jordan's pos- session, actually belonged to Israel. At Amman, Jordan capital, criticism of the Jordan-Israel Armistice agreement signed at Rhodes under United Nations auspices, was voiced in the par- liament. One deputy demanded revocation of the armstice. Ac- cording to the Arab newspaper Adiffa, the parliament decided to summon for questioning the Jor- dan delegates who signed the agreement. IIETHLEHEM ROAD OPENED JERUSALEM—(ISI)—The road to Bethlehem was opened to pil- grims on Christmas Eve for the first time since the war. bond issue, the United Jewish Appeal and private investment. JUDGES' SALARIES FIXED JERUSALEM— (ISI) —Israel's Supreme Court judges will re- ceive the same salary as cabinet ministers, according to a ruling of the Knesset finance commit- tee. The president of the Su- preme Court will receive the same stipend as the prime min- ister. TEL AVIV—(Special)--The new U. S. ambassador to Israel will be Monnett B. Davis, whose appointment was agreed to by the Israeli government last Wednesday. Davis succeeds James G. MacDonald who has returned to this country. his service in 1917. He is now am- us less." JERUSALEM—(WNS)—The Jewish National Fund cele- brated its 50th anniversary with a manifesto calling on the Jews of the world for continued and increased aid. The jubilee occasion w mark‘ed at the Knesset with an address by Speaker Joseph Sprin- zak, who lauded the accomplish- ments of JNF. The Manifesto reads in part: "We remember in veneration and respect the men who a half- century ago had the wisdom and foresight to give form to this ideal. We remember those who developed the Jewish National Fund into a strong instrument of Zionism. In its work, the Fund brought, step by step, the ancient soil again into Jewish hands and thus, a new life. On JNF land, a generation grew up that would not abandon their estate, when the great test came, and with it the freedom of Israel. "Today we recall the anxieties of the past and the struggle which lies behind us; we are grateful for what has been achieved and proud of those who achieved it—yet only the work which lies ahead will complete our historic mission. • "There is no task more . _ noble U. S. Appoints Monnett Davis Envoy to Israel AM ' ann"° P"'""' "" Israel to Use U. S. Loan for Farm Development JERUSALEM—(WNS) — The new $35,000,000 loan granted to Israel by the Export-Import Bank last week will be used mainly for expansion of Israel's agriculture and development of natural resources. Finance Minister Eliezer Kap- lan told the Knesset that the gov- ernment has earmarked $5,000,- Anti-Bias Groups Plan Own Drive NEW YORK—(Special)--T h e sum of $6,000,000 will be sought b - PORT EXPANSION SLATED JERUSALEM — (ISI) —Antici- pated increase in the volume of cargo to and from Israel will necessitate construction of a deepwater port in the south as well as maximum expansion of existing harbor facilities at Haifa and Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Dov Joseph, minister of communica- tions, stated. n Ttrith 4n rnrrif on their work for 1951. A drive for these funds will begin Feb. 1. One half of the amount will be raised in New York City. For the last four years the groups have been largely sup- ported by the United Jewish Ap- peal of Greater New York but this year the reduction of aid from the UJA has necessitated the separate campaign. Woman, Once Abandoned As Baby Rejoins Her Mother After 50 Years LONDON—(WNS)—The adage that truth is stranger than when a copy of the "Jewish Echo," published in Glasgow, arrived story goes back to the beginning of this century, when a At the age of 15, her custo- Jewish family of a small village dians arranged her engagement in Poland migrated to England to a young man, as was the cus- leaving behind, because of ill- tom in those days. At the age ness, a baby girl of nine months of 16 she married a man 17 years who in the course of years be- her senior. The couple settled came the mother of six children. in Warsaw, where they led a The years passed and the quiet happy family life and where that the family enjoyed in the three sons and three daughters village was pierced by the were added to the family. marching feet of the Ifitlerites. When Hitler marched on Po- War came and pestilence and land in 1939, the Reichman fam- death for Jews. ily tried to escape to Russia. On Like many of her tribe in the way to Russia her husband Poland, the woman ran for safety and one of her sons died. Widow- in Russia. In 1946 she was re- ed and heartbroken, Mrs. Reich- patriated to Poland, escaped to man watched her brood in Russia Germany and later reached Is- for three years. rael on the famed "Exodus" ship. When she and her children She settled in Haifa and finally were repatriated to Poland in went to a visit to England. where 1946, Mrs. Reichman decided she found her mother, whom she there was no other shelter for had not seen for close to five Jews than what was then Pales- decades. tine. And she and her children be- FOR A COUPLE OF WEEKS The woman, T. Reichman, told gan a trek that carried them the "Jewish Echo" reporter that through the borders of Poland, when her parents left for Eng- Czechoslovakia, Austria and Po- land in 1900 they placed her in land until they reached the happy in the custody of her grandmother moment when they embarked on "for a couple of weeks," when, the "Exodus" for the promised they hoped, she would recover land. Time passed and three of her and be brought to England. But her condition worsened children were married off and and, in the meantime, her grand- the little girl who was abandon- mother died. Kind relatives of ed at the age of nine months her father took her under cus- became a grandmother. One of tody and raised her as if she her sons, the youngest, joined the Israeli army, as did one of were their own child. Rokach Again Tel Aviv the American Jewish Cern- TEL .AVIV—(WNS)— A„ t3 jor in the Marine Corps. 000 for development of mineral resources in the Negev. A new company to exploit the Negev's resources is now being establish- ed. The loan will also be used to establish fertilizer plants. Another use of the loan will be to finance 2,500 new farms in older settlements throughout the country. fiction was again demonstrated here this week. the daughters. YEARNING FOR MOTHER And then she was seized by an irresistible yearning to see her mother, who lived in Glasgow. On the trip to see her mother, Mrs. Reichman turned over in her mind the chastisement she would deliver to her mother for abandoning her. At times, she was so possessed by anger that she feared the moment of meet- ing. But then she calmed down. She realized that "the several weeks" that she was to remain in Poland had passed into a half century of torment and horror for the world , and her people. She realized, too, that the young mother who left Poland at the age of thirty, healthy and beautiful and hopeful, was now a broken and old woman of 80. And her anger subsided. When she finally fell into her mother's arms at Glasgow all was forgotten. What thoughts and emotions the mother of 80 and the mother of 50 shared in the privacy of their home must be left to the imagination. Neighbors say they saw the two sitting for hours over a table, the old woman bent in contem- plation like a Rembrandt figure and the younger woman sitting erect like a statue in anticipa- tion. SiSM .,Pi''''',LirCIIC111111",raattliStii , -11611 - wing and religious parties last week re-elected Israel Rokach as mayor of Tel Aviv. Ile received an absolute majority of the votes cast by the new municipal coun- cil. The orthodox bloc and the Herut were each assigned one deputy mayor in the new administration. Election of new administrations in Jerusalem and Petach Tikvah was delayed by deadlocks in the inter-party coalition negotiations made necessary by the failure of any one party to achieve a ma- jority in the recent municipal elections. S. Z. Women Plan Affair for Membership The Sisterhood Shaarey Zedek will hold a dessert luncheon at 1 p.m., Monday in the social hall, honoring the culmination of its membership drive, under the chairmanship of Mesdames Kul- man Sachse and Nathan Shur. Mrs. Irving Lyons and Mrs. Morris Klaus are in chargb of luncheon arrangements. A "Convention in Miniature," presenting a panoramic view of the 1950 convention of the Na- tional Women's League of the United Synagogue of America, recently held in Minneapolis, will be presented by the delegates with Mrs. Morris Adler, national board member, acting as moder- ator. Those participating are Mes- dames Harry Cohen, Aaron Fried- man, Abe Katzman, Charles Rob- inson, Morse Saulson, Leonard Sidlow, Nathan Spevakow and Louis Tatken. Mrs. Louis Tatken, president, announces that dues may be paid at the door. CAREER GUIDE TO ISRAEL JERUSALEM— (ISI)—"Choos- log a Career for Israel," a guide to professions in Israel, has been issued by the Office for Pro- fessional Workers of the Zionist Organization.