Friday, December 7, 1945 Price Reports Condition Of Jews in Camps Improved President Truman's Special Representative Said He Received No Complaints From Residents; Displaced Persons Free to Come and Go at Will WASHINGTON, (JTA)—The position of Jewish displaced persons in "settlements" in Germany was reported to e adequate by Byron Price, former director of the office of censorship, in a memorandum released by President Truman. _ Price went to Germany as a special representative of the President to study the relationship between the American occupa- tion forces and the German people, and submitted his report to the President on Nov. 9. "These unfortunate people are not living under the best of conditions," he reported, "but I received no com- plaints of physical suffering." (These reports are contradicted by Jewish leaders return- ing- from overseas. Chaplain Marcus charges that conditions have grown increasingly worse for the Jewish displaced persons). Price said that at the special request of Gen. Eisenhower, he visited, during October, several of the centers which house the remaining 400,000 displaced persons in the American zone, four of which were reserved for Jews. These are located at Stuttgart, Feldafing, Wolfratshausen and Deggendorf. Residents Free to Come and Go at Will "None of these is a 'camp' in the ordinary sense," Price declar- ed. "With few exceptions the buildings are of permanent winter- ized construction, mostly stone or brick, equipped with hospitals and community kitchens, and heated. The residents are free to come and go at will. In only one instance did I observe over- crowding and that situation was being remedied." President Truman was urged by the American League, for a Free Palestine to protest the arrest of leaders of displaced. Jews in the Bergen-Belson camp by British military authorities. In a telegram to the President, the League drew his attention to the report by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency of the arrest of leaders of the Central Jewish Committee in Bergen-Belsen on Nov. 16 and of the desecration by British military police of the Zionist flag. "If this is liberation, what was Nazism?" the telegrams asked. Peronistas Renew Attacks On Jews in Buenos Aires Supporters of Col. Peron Use Guns and Bombs in Battle in Jewish Section; Police Arrive But Fail to Arrest Anti-Semitic Terrorists BUENOS AIRES, (JTA)—Using guns and bombs, supporters of Col, Juan Peron again invaded the Jewish section of the city and attacked Jews in the streets. The Jews offered stiff resistance and the Peronistas, who num- bered more than fifty, were compelled to retreat after firing about thirty shots and throwing two bombs. No casualties were reported. As usual, the Peron-controlled police arrived after the disturb- ances had ended and arrested an 18-year-old Jewish youth. The police's persistent refusal to curb anti-Jewish outbreaks, and their arrests of only the Jewish victims, was again attacked this week in the Socialist - newspaper Future. The paper also charged that the police are torturing political prisoners, particularly JewS. THE JEWISH NEWS Page Three Weekly Review of the News of the World (Compiled From Cables of Independent Jewish Press Service) AMERICA Colonel Raymond Kramer, of New York City, Chief of the Economic and Scientific Section of Allied Headquarters in Japan, was presented with the Distinguished Service Medal at a ceremony in Washington. The award was made by Maj. Gen. R. J. Marshall, acting Chief of Staff. An electronic fuse, which detonates a bomb or shell as it nears its target, regarded by U. S. military experts as second in importance only to the atomic bomb among the revolu- tionary weapons which helped win World War Two, was developed for military use by Dean Joseph Weil, of the Engineering Col- lege, University of Florida, and his co-work- er, Dr. Palmer H. Craig. The Rev. Arthur W. Terminiello, self ap- pointed successor to the anti-Semitic radio priest, Father Coughlin, has been removed from his pastorate at Sacred Heart Church, Anniston, Ala., for "having refused to obey the orders of his Bishop to cease sending out literature which . . is detrimental to the Church," Dick ArmStrong reports in the newspaper PM. The Rev. Terminiello's re- moval was announced by the Rt. Rever,.end Thomas J. Toolan, Bishop of the Diocese of Mobile, Ala. Attempts by racial bigots and alien baiters to stir resentment against European refugees . residing in this country by spreading the ru- mor that they are exempt from federal taxes, was deplored by Senator Brien McMahon (R. R.I.) sponsor of a bill to close a loop hole in the Capital Gains Tax law. New York City's four tax supported col- leges are launching independent programs to combat racial and religious intolerance, not only on their own campuses but in areas of the city where racial tension is acute, it was disclosed here by the presidents of three of the colleges and acting president of the fourth, according to announcements by Dr: Harry Noble Wright, president of City College; Dr. Harry D. Gideonse, president of Brooklyn College; Dean Eleanor H, Grady. acting presi- dent of Hunter College. and Dr. Paul Klapper, president of Queens College. Palestine's Federation of Labor, founded here on Hanukah, 25 years ago, with an initial membership of 4,400 and now numbering close to a quarter of a million members, including their families, is being observed throughout Palestine by gala functions, meetings and rallies. Rabbi Jacob Halberstamm, the Hassidic Tchakower Rebbe, arrived from the United States Nov. 28, and was greeted by a large crowd of followers: Students of the Hebrew University in- formed the settlements raided by troops and police Nov. 25-26 that they are prepared to volunteer to repair the damage caused by the raiders. The Tel Aviv Municipal Council held a special session and passed, unanimously, a resolution expressing "vigorous protest against the savagery of killing and wounding of un- armed inhabitants who did not harm the troops; the attacks were intended to forcibly strangulate Jewish Palestine's opposition to the closed gates in the face of their brethern wishing and entitled to enter." The resolu- tion warns: "No acts of violence will halt the struggle for assuring the future of our people in their homeland." The administrative committee of Givat Haim published an announcement, following the Government communique on events there, stating that the Government communique con- tains untruths and fiction. The administra- tive committee asserts that not a single shot was fired from the settlement by its members or by the thousands of Jews who came to, their assistance. But High Commissioner Cun- ninghorn has issued a statement reasserting that Jews fired the first shots. The General Officer in Command of Pal- estine's troops announced the reduction of sentences imposed by a military court last October on 20 youths, the oldest of them 22, for the possession of arms and ammunition found in a clearing near the village of Shuneh. The sentences of two of them, owing to their extreme youth, were decreased to one day's imprisonment, while sentences of three to seven years imprisonment, against 17 others, were reduced to one and two years. A sen- tence of seven years imposed on the eldest was not reduced. Palestine army headquarters announced recently that "on the night of Nov. 26 to Nov. 27, approximately 160 Jews were ap- prehended at the settlement Zichron. Yaakov by the military and police checkpost which had been established there to enforce the curfew." Official Government statements to the -con- trary, Jewish authoritative circles stated that an inquiry has revealed that the allegation that Jews • had fired on the troop and police raiders were "a pack of lies." PALESTINE The Central Committee of the World Miz- rachi Organization, meeting in Jerusalem Nov. 29, voted to request that Dr. Chaim Weizmann resign from the Presidency of the Jewish Agency in protest against British policy in Palestine, and to urge the emergency session of the Jewish Agency Executive to adopt a policy of non-cooperation with the Anglo- American Committee of Inquiry. 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