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VOL. 14—NO. 6
THE JEWISH NE, S
of Jewish Events
A Weekly Review
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Air Force Gets Levin Portrait:
"We foreign born Americans
have a debt that we owe to this great country. We have been allowed to live -as we like and worship
as we like. Our son was allowed the privilege of helping to pay that debt. He gave his all so that this
country could stay free and he died to maintain this American way of life. We are proud that our
son was given this privilege. And I, too, am ready to serve my country in any -way she sees fit, and
to make any sacrifice to keep this country free.'
Delegates to the 53rd Annual Encampment of the Jewish War Veterans of the United States stood
in hushed tribute as these words were spoken by Samuel Levin of Brooklyn, N. Y., father of the Jewish
air _hero, Sgt. Meyer Levin. Mr. Levin addressed his remarks to. W : . Stuart Symington, Secretary of the
Department of the Air Force, who accepted a portrait of Meyer Levin for diSplaY among a gallery of
American air heroes at Air Force headquarterS inWashington: The Levin portrait. will be the first
painting of a Jewish airman to go . on exhibit in the Air Force gallery. • -
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- In the pliofo,above, Secretary Symington at left accepts the portrait from Mr. Levin while Mrs.
Levin looks on At right is Henry - Simon of Brooklyn, commander of a Jewish War Vqterans Post
named
in
honor of Meyer Levin.
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PARIS.—The UN Security Council Tuesday ordered
an "immediate and effective cease fire" ill the Negev. The
vote was unanimous. The Council also ordered Israelis
and Egyptians to negotiate on, three specific points raised
by acting mediator Dr. Ralph Bunche. The vote in this
case was nine for, none against, and two abstentions.—
USSR and Ukraine. Issues which must be negotiated
under council order are: 1.) WithdraWal of both parties
from positions not held prior to the latest outbreak of
fighting • in the Negev; 2.) Acceptance of conditions set
forth in the truce supervisory order of last month, Which
• provided- that Jews :arid Egyptia:ns would each have six
hours daily use of specific roadS into the Negev which
were partially controlled by both parties, and, 3.) Settle-
ment Of outstanding problems in the Negev and perman-
ent stationing of observers- throughOut the. area. The last
point may be negotiated, either directly or through a UN
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intermediary.
The Security Council also adopted a procedural reso-
lution offered by the British and CEinese. to facilitate
work of the truce 'commission. However, before it was
voted, its authors accepted two - ainendments. The first,
sponsored by the Soviet Union, advised the mediator on
the "advisability of an equal distribution of paren truce
supervision, unparen " personnel through territories of
both parties:" The second, suggested by Israeli repre-
sentative Abba Eben, asked that a request for a report
on the investigation into the - assassination of Count Folke
Bernadotte be omitted, since Eben already had reported
on progress thus far and since judicial proceedings were
in progress in I§raeli. _
Israel Warns Against Gas Attacks
TEL
AVIV.—An official communique reports Israeli
bombing of Gaza, Faluja, Beit Jebin. Several waves of
planes crossed the targets with ,good results.
Egyptians bombed Niram • Doroth.
Ben Gurion gave his first official report to President
Meizinann today, in the presence of the cabinet members
and other prominent personalities.
Israel warned Egypt against the use of poison gas
or "secret weapons" in the Negev fighting. An Israeli
spokesman, commenting on a Cairo broadcast threatening
he use of gas and other "secret weapons," said that if
the Egyptians force the Jews to retaliate to such means
of warfare, he would not "envy the Egyptian troops."
An Israeli military spokesman reemphasized the gov-
ernment's viewpoints that activities in the' Negev, which
are on a wide basis, do not mean an end of the truce and
resumption of. war. He stressed the limited objectives of
the Israeli ' forces which he said were riot to capture
Egyptian positions but to compel the Egyptians to cease
attacking the Jewish settlements and convoys.'
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1, 0 0 0 Volunteers to Help
Collect SOSLifts Oct. 31
—International News Photo
Faith and Statehood:
The combination of religious faith and political deter-
mination, backed by a well-trained and inspired army, which culminated in the creation of the State
of Israel, is symbolized by these pictures from the Holy Land. At left, DR. CHAIM WEIZMANN,
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world famous scientist, who devoted the greater part of his life to the cause of Zionism, is shown
reviewing a guard of honor in Tel Aviv, on his arrival in Israel to assume the post of Provisional Presi-
--- _dent. The photo on the right shows members of the Ist;eli army escorting a Sefer Torah—the Scrolls
synagogue in their camp. An armed guard
- of the Law—in traditional fashion, under a canopy, to
accompanied this procession.
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Final plans for Detroit's one-day SOS drive on Sun-
day, Oct. 31 reveal that over 1,000 volunteers will be par-
ticipating, according to Mandell Berman, chairman of the
SOS committee in Detroit.
In this year's one-day drive, over 500,000 pounds of
canned food (high protein value) , layettes, medicines,
household grid comfort items, foreign language books, re-
ligious articles, recreation materials and toys are schedul-
ed to be picked up from Jewish homes, packed and ship-
ped- to New York for final shipment overseas.
Twenty thousand SOS storage bags have been mailed
to Jewish homes so that families may gather their 'canned
food and other materials which will be picked up Oct. 31.
Fraternal groups, Zionist groups and congregations
have contributed personnel for drivers, jumpers, ware-
house helpers, packers' and sorters for the single-day all-.
out effort.
The SOS steering committee consists of: Honorary
chairman, Julian, H. Krolik; chairman, M. L. Berman; co-
chairman, Mrs. Helen Singer; executive secretary, Helen
Alpert; intensive area, Norman Naimark; non-intensive
•arm, Goldie Levinstein; men's organization, Ruben Gold;
women's organizations, Mrs. S. Danto; mechanical proces-
sing, Paul Zuderman and Theodore Mandel; trades and
industry, Irving Blumberg and Lawrence Fleischman;
outstate, Dr. Martin Naimark; publicity, Doris Moss arid
Arthur Schurgiri; trucks, William Stone; reCording sec-
retary, Tillie Feinbloom.