JSG to Have 'Mock
Trial' on Oct. 10
52—THE JEWISH NEWS
Ilse Koch's Case Closed;
Congress May Investigate
Friday, October 1, 1948
Helen Traubel Concert
In Detroit on Oct. 14-
WASHINGTON, (JTA) — The articles made of human skin,"
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decision of the European C orn - I Gen Clay added.
Commutation Protested by
inland to commute the life sen- Members of Court
tence of use Koch to four years
Among the new protests are
is considered final by the Army those of Gen. Emil C. Keil, com-
Department and cannot now be mandant of Scott Field, who was
increased, Secretary of the Army president of the eight-man mili-
Kenneth C. Royall said in a letter tary court which originally sen-
to Senator Raymond Baldwin of tenced Frau Koch. Gen Kiel, who
Connecticut. Frau Koch was con- said he was "surprised" and
victed. of charges of torturing "rather shocked" at the com-
prisoners at the Buchenwald mutation, revealed that Col. Ed-
death camp, being responsible for ward Walker, another member of
the death of many and of having the court, felt the same way.
Lt. Col. Othmar Erichmann,
some executed in order to obtain
human skins for lampshades, former chief of the Evidence and
Investigation Center of the U. S.
book covers and other objects.
War Crimes Commission, who
Senators Baldwin, Charles W. collected and translated the evi-
Tobey of New Hampshire, Lev- dence against use Koch, said he
erett Saltonstall of Massachusetts„ was "speechless" with amazement
and Congressman Emanuel Gel- at the action. William D. Denson
ler of New York wrote Secretary and Robert Kunzig, chief and
Royall asking him to explain why deputy chief prosecutor, respec-
General Lucius D. Clay, Com- tively, at the Koch trial, have
manding General of the European protested the =commutation as a
Command, had signed the corn- "travesty on justice."
mutation order. Royall also .told
the members of Congress that Dr. Mandelbaum Named
while he had not personally seen Instructor at Wayne U.
the record in the Koch and 12
Dr. Hugo Mandelbaum, for-
similar cases, he was "convinced merly a member of the faculty
that all of the convictions and of Yeshivath Beth Yehudah, has
sentences therein were carefully been appointed instructor in
considered by the European Com- mathematics and geology at
mand and that the result repre- Wayne University.
sents their best judgment — a
judgment which in other matters
I 'have found exceedingly sound,
Best Wishes
and certainly not erring on the
--side of softness toward German
For A
criminals."
Congress Miy Investigate
Happy New Year
The possibility of a Congres-
sional investigation of the com-
mutation mounted 'ks the wave of
protests against the easement of
sentence by Gen. Clay grew in
intensity. Sen. Homer Ferguson
of Michigan, chairman of the
Senate Investigations Sub-Com-
mittee, stated that there was a
definite possibility of a Senatorial
Mrs. Julian A. Grace,
investigation if the Army does
President
not provide a satisfactory ex-
planation of the action.
, The Army released a message
from Gen. Clay giving as the
; reasons for the commutation, that
: "evidence of her participation"
in the atrocities and murders
committed at Buchenwald, which
was once commanded by her late
husband, did not warrant so
severe a punishment. "There is
no convincing evidence that she
selected immates for exiermina- Wishes All Its Members
Lion in order to secure tattooed
and Their Families a Happy
skin or that she possessed any
Helen Traubel, leading Wag-
nerian soprano of the Metropol-
itan Opera association, who will
appear here on Oct. 14 at the
Masonic A u d i-
torium, recently
was named
"Miss Sympho-
nic Matinee of
1947" by a New
York radia sta-
tion.
The facetious
title was given
to her when the
Ne 'W York Yan-
kees took over Miss Traubel
the sponsorship of an hour pro-
gram of symphonic music heard
daily over the station. The so-
prano was so impressed that she
immediately accepted when Col-
onel Larry MacPhail asked her
if she would say a few words
to help launch, the series.
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Detroit's Jewish community
will be "on trial" at the opening
meeting of the Junior Service
Group of the Jewish Welfare Fed-
eration, Sunday, Oct. 10, at 2:30
p.m., in the main auditorium of
the Jewish Community Center.
Featured at the meeting will be
a mock trial, in which speakers
for the community will answer
charges of failure to solve such
problems as the 'need for a Jew-
ish hospital and other total-com-
munity concerns.
Sam Krohn, program chairman,
will act as judge at the trial, while
other participants include Sol. J.
Schwartz, attorney for the de-
fense, Jerome Kelman, prosecut-
ing attorney and Lawrence A.
Fleischman, clerk. Community
leaders will appear as witnesses
and on the jury.
Following the program, there
will be dancing to the music of
.
fecords.
Although the meeting is open
only to Junior Service Group
members, any-young Jewish adult
may attend by joining the JSG
at the door. Dues for the year
are one dollar.
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