Around the World .

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A digest of current news reported by the Jewish Telegraphic
Agency and the Israel Service of Information.

The United States

WASHINGTON — Senator Pat McCarran has agreed to call on

heads of the DP Commission to explain allegations of illegal entry
of thousands of DPs to the US.
NEW YORK — Two hundred items demonstrating Israel crafts
and products are on display at the Hotel Pierre, in an exhibit
sponsored by the Palestine Foundation Fund . . . In Albany, a bill
to ban racial and religious discrimination in publicly-aided private
housing projects built in New York State after July 1 was
introduced in the state legislature and is expected to win approval.
• .. Student delegates from 17 Northeastern colleges and univer-
sities, meeting at Cornell University at Ithaca, announced plans
for the formation of a national organization to promote inter-
racial and interfaith activities, and to break down discrimination
at American college campuses . . . Job competition is becoming,
increasingly keen, and. only a careful appraisal of individual tal-
ents, combined with a realistic choice of a career, will lead to
personal security, more than 500 New York City youths were told
at a Career Conference for Jewish Youth.
LOS ANGELES — Adolph Schwimmer of New York; Leon Gard-
ner, North Hollywood; Ray Selk, Los Angeles, and Service Airways,
Inc., were fined $10,000 each on conviction of smuggling planes
and equipment to Israel in 1947 and 1948, in violation of the
United States Neutrality Act.

Deadline This Thursday for Special
Passover Food Packages for Israel

Orders for the special Pass-
over food packages being offered
by Service for Palestine, Inc.,
will be accepted through Thurs-
day, March 9, it was announced
by the Detroit Zionist office,
agent for the non-profit service.
Special arrangements have
been made with advance ship-
ments of Kosher Passover food.
The packages, which contain
approximately 25 pounds of
Passover foods, and sell for
$18.50, are guaranteed to be de-
livered in time for Passover.
Donors will be refunded in full
for every package not delivered
in time, and for this reason re-
fused by the beneficiary.
Latest information received
from the Israel price controller
indicates the Passover package
will be considered a sepcial don-
ation and will not be counted in
the regular monthly ration of
owe food gift package a month

per member of each family in
Israel.
The Israel Consulate also has
informed the Zionist office that
tourists going to Israel are per-
mitted up to three (3) food
packages for the duration of
their trip. Previous information
stated tourists are permitted
three food packages a month,
which is incorrect.
There is, no deadline on regu-
lar food package and appliance
services. Orders will continue to
be accepted as they come in,
and donors will receive certi-
ficates to be mailed to the bene-
ficiaries in Israel.
For further information, call,
write or visit the Zionist office,
1031 Penobscot Bldg., WO.
5-1484.

10—THE JEWISH NEWS

Friday, March 3, 1950

Hadassah BP Hears
Hrs. Carl Schiller

At the Business and Profes-
sional Division of Hadassah
meeting Wednesday evening,
March 8, at the Pan American
Room of the Book Cadillac Hotel,
Mrs. Carl Schiller, president of
the Central States Region of
Hadassah, who has just returned
from the national mid-winter
conference in New York, will
give a first hand report of Ha-
dassah projects in Israel.
The program also will include
a showing of the latest Hadas-
sah movie "Light of our Land."
An exhibit of Hadassah supplies,
including garments by women
in Detroit, will be displayed, by
courtesy of Mrs. William Nelson
and the region.
Further information may be
obtained from Sophia Blanche
Schwartz, president, TY. 5-6419,
or Mrs. Belle Teal, membership
chairman, TY. 6-9268.

Israel

JERUSALEM—Yugoslavia will send 40 students to the Hebrew
University for a month next summer . .. Finance Minister Eliezer
Kaplan has demanded that the Israel government have a "greater
say" in the business of the Palestine Potash Co., which operates
partly on the Israel side and partly on the Jordan, side of the
Dead Sea ...An Egyptian Army convoy made a round trip from
Gaza to Hebron, to bring back to Egypt the bodies of Egyptian
soldiers killed during the 1948 battles . . . The Israel-Jordan Mixed
Armistice Commission discussed the division of the area of the
former Government House into two parts. The Commission con-
firmed the aggreements of Jan. 25 and Feb. 1 on arms permitted
on light armored vehicles in the Jerusalem area and on artillery
forces on the frontline .
TEL AVIV—$29,000,000 has been set aside for activities of the
Absorption Department of the Jewish Agency for the current
year, to cover upkeep of immigrants in reception camps and
installation of immigrant houses .. . 4,936 immigrants arrived
in Israel during the week ending Feb. 14, from Poland, Romania,
North Africa, and a group of 55 Lebanese Jews . . . A group of
American businessmen is negotiating here for a plant to manu-
facture tires for local needs and export purposes . . . With the
appointment of Sheikh Taher El Tabari as Israel's first Kadi, the
second ranking Moslem religious post has been filled in 'Israel.
The ministry for Religious Affairs has allocated funds for the
repair and furnishing of mosques in many Arab villages . . . New
immigrants and ex-servicemen have set up a cooperative to install
a swimming pool at Beersheba. When completed, the project will
extend over three acres and will contain sports facilities, rest
centers and an amusement hall . . . A dispute between workers in
the mettalurgical industries and the employers' association was
resolved with the signing :of a new contract providing for in-
creases of 30 cents a day for unskilled workers and the institution
of a system of annual increments for skilled workers . . . The
government, Jewish Agency and Histadrut are jointly establishing
a fund of $2,800,000 for the development of cooperatives, including
provisions for coops for 2,400 workers . .,. A Communist-organized
demonstration of unemployed Arabs in Nazareth was dispersed by
local police . • . The Ministry of Religion is collecting data on the
anniversaries of the death of members of destroyed European
communities. The Ministry asks the cooperation of world Jewry
in the project . . . Israel-American club rooms were formally
opened here in the presence of U. S. Ambassador James G. Mc-
Donald.
HAIFA — The Haifa municipality has prepared an $8,400,000
public works program designed to combat unemployment.
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Europe .

BUCHAREST — The Romanian government has scrapped a
1938 law requiring costly - citizenship certificates, which had made

stateless persons of thousands of Jews. Instructions have been
issued for distribution of new citizenship certificates . . . Two
former local officials of the Bukovina Town of Radautzi were
convicted of charges of having carried out a "personal" pogrom
during 1941, under cover of the national fascist campaign against
Jews.
BUDAPEST — The official merger of the Orthodox and modern
Jewish communities took place Feb. 22. No Zionists were present.
VIENNA — The Austrian government postponed the effective
date of three restitution measures from March 31 to June 30. Jew-
ish claimants are hoping that a peace treaty will be signed be-
tween Austria and the Allies before that date.
ATHENS — The Foundation for the Relief and Rehabilitation
of Greek Jews, which administers heirless Jewish property, had
acceded to request that it help support the Jewish communities of
Greece. •
PARIS — Louis Ferdinand Celine, an anti-Semitic French
writer, has been sentenced in absentia to one year's imprisonment
and fined 50,000 francs and loss of civil rights following his con-
viction on charges of having aided the Nazis by his anti-Semitic
propaganda. Celine is now in Denmark.
METZ, France — Former Gernian Captain Friedrich Dietrich
who in 1944 was responsible for brutal treatment of Jews in a
convoy of more than 2,500 deportees to the Dachau death camp,
was sentenced to death. •
FRANKFURT — British occupation authorities have extended
the deadline for filing restitution applications to June 30 . . .
Functions of the American central restitution office at Bad
Nauheiin are being taken over by the Bavarian Indemnification
Office in Munich. All applicatiOns must be filed by Sept. 30.
MUNICH — Police in the Bavarian town of Broebenzell have
seized 450 posters declaring that "Too Few Jews Have Been
Killed." . . . Field Marshall Erich von Mannstein will serve only
12 years in prison instead of the 18 years to which he was sen-
tenced last December .

Africa

CAIRO — The Egyptian Foreign Minister declared that, despite

strong Anglo-American pressure, Egypt will not negotiate directly
with Israel for a peace settlement.

South America

ARGENTINA—The first block of visas issued to Jewish sur-
vivors since the end of the war was issued here when the Argen-
tine government issued 150 permits for the immigration of 402
HIAS-sponsored refugees from Europe.

MINK

MAGIC

By Laurence O'Larry

THOUGHTS WHILE DINING:
Jack Meacham, Statler's gift
to Detroit or vice versa, beaming
all over the Terrace Room . . .
because it's practically. Old Home
Week . . . with
genial Joseph •
Sudy back on
the bandstand.
... Carl Ravaz-
za crooning the
town's favorite
melodies . r .
and the decora-
tive side of the
tune type han-
dled by luscious
Laurence O'Larry
Betty Holt .. .

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PROMISED last week I'd have

some news for you on the
pastel mink front. Here. it is,
with a bit of necessary explana-
tion. To start off . . . there are
two general classes of mink .. .
wild - mink, trapped in their na-.
tive habitat ... and ranch mink,
bred and raised by skilled mink
breeders who have made a busi-
ness and a science of producing
the precious little beasts..

mink, as I've told you
W ILD
before, vary in quality, in

luxuriance of fur, and in beauty
of color, with their habitat. Pel-
tries trapped in northern Can-
ada, or Labrador, for example,
are much finer skins by every
standard than those from Louis-
iana. They're much harder to
get, too, and the price trend,
logically enough, is upward.
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UT ranch mink are a pretty
well controlled commodity.
Ranchers watch over their small
charges like expert baby sitters,
They feed the tiny animals the -
finest of food, makes sure they
get the right minerals and vita-
mins and proteins and all the
rest of the proper food elements.
Frankly, a ranch mink is more
carefully raised . . . than most
youngsters. And the breeders are
so expert that they've developed
a long list of "mutation" types.

B

mink are _ mutation
P ASTEL
mink . . . and by the same

token . . . ranch mink. The pas-
tel strain has been so success-
fully . . . and so numerously
. . • produced in recent months
that the old law of supply and
demand is operating to trim
prices down to new lows.
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S0' MARK this! There is no
reason why top quality pastel
mink creations . . . coats, jack-
ets, capes, stoles . . . cannot be
sold now at the same prices as
the darker, more orthodox
shades of fine ranch mink.
There's plenty of pastel mink
. . and we have them here at
St. .Clair Furs. Our St. Clair
designers have made them up
into ravishingly beautiful St.
Clair Originals. I'd like to have
you drop in at 1567 Broadway
. just to see them.

litc-print ed. - from Detroit. Free Pi' s.

Plan Now

Fur Restyling
by St. Clair's
designers—

Let our expert fur stylists
and designers suggest
new treatments for your
furs. Estimates on re-
quest. We operate our
own fur factory.

