Friday, June 7, 1946
THE JEWISH NEWS
Budapest Jewish Leaders
Oppose Demonstrations
Page Twenfy-one
13 GIs on Michigan Mortgage Corporation Staff
Appeal to Residents Not to Organize Protest Meetings
Following Slaying of Three Jews in Kunmadaras; DP
Group Fights Jailing of 19 at Landsberg
BUDAPEST (JTA)—Jewish leaders appealed to Buda-
pest Jews not to organize any further demonstrations to
protest the killing of three Jews at Kunmadaras last week,
stating that they are satisfied that the government is acting
to punish the participants and to prevent repetition of such
incidents.
A mass meeting was cancelled
following the spontaneous dem-
onstration of 15,000 Jews before
the parliament on May 25, during
which several demonstrators were
injured.
It was revealed that among the
120 persons arrested for partici-
pation in the anti-Jewish riot in
Kunmadaras is- the secretary of
the local branch of the Small Hol-
ders Party, largest political par-
ty in the country. The disturb-
ance has become a political hot
potato, with every party attempt-
ing to pin the responsibility on
its opponents.
Jewish Agency Spent
$16,000,000 During 1945
JERUSALEM (JTA)—The ex-
penditures of the Jewish Agency
for the fiscal year ending Sep-
tember, 1945, totalled more than
$16,000,000, it was reported at a
session of the Inner Zionist Ac-
tions committee.
Left to right, Standing: Harold J. Shine, Saul Schmidt, Leo Seligson, Benjamin. Levinson,
president of Michigan Mortgage Corporation, Al Letvin, Joseph Schmidt and Martin Mattler.
Seated: Kenneth N. Smith, Sanford Hirshfield, Philip O'Neil, Jr., Donald Leila, Larry Guttenberg,
Louis Bindes and Marvin Smith.
The Michigan Mortgage Cor-
poration announces that in the
past six months 13 GIs joined
the organization.
Benjamin Levinson, president
of the corporation, feels that this
is an outstanding record since
his company has been in busi-
ness only a little over a year
and in that short period of time
he has been able to find room
in his organization for these re-
turned veterans. Included in this
group are several attorneys, two
accountants, personnel men and
salesmen.
The photograph of the GIs
was taken at a dinner at the
Detroit Leland Hotel.
Levinson announces that Mich-
igan „Mortgage Corporation is
planning to expand its office
space.
DP Committee Appeals
Sentences of 19 Jews
MUNICH, (JTA)
Expressing
"complete surprise" at the con-
viction and sentencing of 19 of
the 20 displaced Jews accused of
participating in a riot at Lands-
berg, the Central Committee of
Liberated Jews in the U. S. zone
in Germany issued a statement
this week declaring that it would
"avail itself of all lawful means"
to obtain revocation of the sen-
tences ranging from three months
to two years meted out by an
American Military Government
court at Augsburg last Wednes-
day.
The committee pointed out that
the accused persons were all vic-
tims of Nazism and asserted that
since "the principle applied in
every military court is that one
is responsible only for acts com-
mitted by himself, it seems al-
most unbelievable that in this
case an 'example' should . be
Made, as a warning to others."
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Czech Parliament Adopts LaW
Providing for Restitution
PRAGUE, (JTA) — Jewish
property confiscated during the
German occupation or sold under
duress will be returned to its
owners - under legislation adopted
last -week by the Czechoslovak
parliament. All property trans-
fers which were detrimental to
Jews are to be considered invalid,
even if the sale was "legal" ac-
cording to then existing statutes.
Dr. Kurt Wehle, general sec-
retary of the Union of Jewish
Communities, said that the new
law was generally satisfactory,
although there are several bases
on which applications for prop-
erty restitution can be rejected:
applicants must prove their po-
litical reliability, the public in-
terest must not be harmed by the
return of the property, and the
circumstances of the original
transfer will be taken . into ac-
count.
Jewish DP, German Sentenced
To One Year by U. S. Court
MINDELHEIM, Germany,
(JTA) The U. S. military court
trying three displaced Jews and
seven 'Germans on charges of
participating in a disturbance in
the Bavarian village of Ober-.
ammingen meted out sentences
of one year each to Burgomeister
Martin Mayer, who was accused
of leading the villagers in an at-
tack on the Jews, and to David
Barwiner, the leader of the DP's
in Oberramingen.
One other Jew and four Ger-
mans were sentenced to six
months, while one DP and two
Germans were acquitted. All of
Oberammingen's residents were
given an "official reprimand"
for participating in a Nazi-type
riot.
Lt. Col. Marion Beatty, who
presided at the trial, warned
Barwiner that he had "better tell
the truth, or I'll. throw you in
jail." None of the German de-
fendants were so admonished.
Beatty presided over the court
which last week sentenced 19
Landsberg DPs to heavy prison
terms.
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