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

United • States

WASHINGTON—A spokesinan for the Costa Rican embassy

here refuted charges by the World Jewish Congress that there was

an anti-Jewish campaign in progress in his country, explaining

that there have been. "certain particular issues" in which Jews
have allegedly "taken advantage of the hospitality extended
them" in Costa Rica . . . Rep. Emanuel Celler introduced a resolu-
tion calling for an investigation by the House foreign affairs com-
mittee on the collapse of the denazification program in Germany.
NEW YORK—Eleven Jewish organizations joined in filing a
brief in a case which will test whether, under New York's Sunday
law, stores which close for Sabbath observances on Saturday may
remain open on Sunday. The case involves two Kosher butchers
from Manhattan's lower East Side, both Orthodox Jews, who
were convicted and fined for selling meat on Sunday .. . Rabbi
Moses C. Weiler, president of the Jewish Reform movement of
South Africa, arrived here for an extended tour of American re-
ligious, cultural and educational institutions, under the auspices
of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations . . . As the 1950
campaign of the women's division of the United Jewish Appeal
of Greater New York got under way at a luncheon addresSed by
Henry Morgenthau, Jr., Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt and Harry Green-
stein, it was revealed that Mrs. Roosevelt contributed $3,500 to
the UJA last year. '
ATLANTIC CITY—The American Association of School Ad-
ministrators adopted a resolution opposing the use of public funds
for the support of parochial schools.

Israel

TEL AVIV—A delegation of the Manufacturers' Association of

Israel left for New York where it will open an office to serve as

a purchasing center for raw materials and machinery required

by Israel industrialists .. • Dr. Leon Kobowitzki, addressing the
Israel Council of the World Jewish Congress, valued Jewish prop-
erty in the American and British zones of Germany at $300,000,000.
. . . Brig. Yigal Yadin, Israel Army chief of staff, issued an order
of the day cdmmemorating the 30th anniversary of the defense
of the Tel Hai colony against Arab attackers and the first anni-
versary of the liberation of Eilat by the Israel army . . . El Al, Is-
rael national airlines, is inaugurating weekly air service to An-
kara and Athens. Air agreements are being arranged with South
African officials. Regular passenger flights from Lydda to Elath
have begun . . . The first group of 44 Histadrut-sponsored work-
ers from various trades will leave for the United States to study
the latest technical improvements and efficiency methods. An-
other group will leave shortly for Switzerland and Britain . . .
Persons visiting Israel may bring in 25 pounds in one-pound Israel
notes instead of five pounds as previously announced. Travellers
whose planes or ships touch Israel for a short time in transit
may tour the country for not more than 4 hours without a regu-
lar. visa.
- JERUSALEM—Cost of transferring the offices of the Israel
government, including the Parliament, from Tel Aviv to Jerusa-
lem, will be $1,027,600 ... The central immigration office of the
Ministry of Interior opened its new headquarters here. Other
- departments, and the offices of the Ministry of Police will be
transferred later this week . . Forty-nine Arab women crossed
into Israel to be reunited with their families. Visits of sick per-
sons from Jordan to medical specialists in Israel are being ar-
ranged through the International Red Cross. Until equipment for
bed patients can be brought from Hadassah Hospital, only walk-
ing patients will be accepted . . . 2600 persons are now being
trained in the Diaspora for pioneering work in Israel . . . The
initiation of a joint Israel-Jordan anti-malaria campaign in the
Old City and Jewish sector of Jerusalem was discussed by Jewish
and Arab physicians . . • The news service of Kol Israel moved
from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem . . . The Israel Cabinet decided to
distribute relief to the needy during Passover . . . The Cabinet
also has, decided to hold a referendum on education to permit
parents to choose the type of school they wish their children to
attend.
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Aramaic Documents Date from 401 B.C.E.,
Give New Data on Persian Rule in Egypt

Historians have been mistaken in believing that Persian
sovereignty over Egypt ended in 404 B. C. E., according to Prof.
Emil G. Kraeling, Biblical scholar and Orientalist.
Prof. Kraeling delivered an illustrated lecture on ancient
Aramaic documents from an Egyptian colony of 2400 years ago
at the Jewish Museum in New York City. These texts, he said,
show that Persian rule was<'
acknowledged by residents of other Egyptian papyri on his
Elephantine, an island in the yacht "The House of the Seven
Nile river, in 401 B.C.E.
Hathors," on which he spent
The new texts are of special his winters cruising up and
importance because of the light down the Nile. The trunk came
they shed on ancient slavery. to the Brooklyn Museum by be-
They show that a person could quest of his daughter and was
be legally a slave and yet own opened a year ago.
property and dispose of it with
apparent freedom. Dr. Kraeling
was of the opinion that these keep April 3 0 Open
Jews of Elephantine did not For Israel Celebration
follow Hebrew law, but were
Sidney M. Shevitz and Dr.
governed by old Oriental law.
Shmarya Kleinman, c o -
The marriage of a hand-
chairmen of the. joint Jewish
maiden to a "minister of the
Community-Council - Zionist
God JehoVah" is recorded in one
Council Committee for the
document. .
annual Israel independence .
Divorce seems to have been
celebration, have asked that
very common in this commun-
all organizations refrain
ity. All you had to do was to
from scheduling events on
get up and say "I have taken a
April 30 in order that there
dislike to my husband or wife"
and then the conditions which may be city-wide participa-
tion in the communal cele-
had been laid down for this
bration of Israel's independ-
eventuality in the marriage
ence on that date.
document went into effect.
The affair will be held at
Dr. Kraeling stated that the
the State Fair Coliseum and
papyri had been stored for half
plans are being made for
a century in a . New York ware-
participation by large num-
house, after they were pur-
chased from Arab women by bers of community groups.
Charles Edwin Wilbour, Ameri-
can Egyptologist in 1893. He
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had kept them in a trunk with
Friday, March 10, 1950

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Europe

LONDON—Two young Britons charged with setting off smoke

bombs during the showing of "Sword in the Desert" went on trial
in Magistrate's Court. After part of the testimony was heard.
hwever, the trial was postponed until March 15 . . . Levi Eshkol,
Jewish Agency treasurer, left for the United States to confer on
the purchase of agricultural machinery for Israel . . . Rudolph
.Feigle, a community leader in the Czechoslovak Jewish commun-
ity, has "disappeared" according to reports from Prague.
OSLO—Dr. Raphael Lamkin of Yale University, who authored
the UN convention outlawing genocide was nominated for the
1950 Nobel Peace Prize.
BELGRADE—Premier Marshall Tito of Yugoslavia lauded the
Joint Distribution Committee for the successful conclusion of its
. rehabilitation program in that country and for
aiding in the emigration of Yugoslav Jews wish- -,*:<•:*
ing to go to Israel. Frederick C. White, JDC
director for Yugoslavia, who was decorated with
the order of the Yugoslav Banner, third degree,
had high praise for the "generous cooperation
and sympathy received from Yugoslav author-
ities."
BUCHAREST—The Romanian Supreme Court
turned down an appeal submitted by Iosub
• Traverse or Regular
Duca, a Jewish war criminal, who had been
sentenced to 10 years imprisonment and loss of
• 81 Inch Long - 90 Inch Base
Civil rights for acting as a police informer during
the war.
• Mitered Corners on Bottom Hems
MUNICH—A new group of mass graves in
• Bottom Hems Weighted
which the remains of some 5,000 Belgian and Marshall Tito •
Polish Jews are buried has been discovered near Hersbruk, Ba-
• White, Oyster, Stone Grey, Red Rose,
varia. The Jews were murdered in November, 1944 . . . Local
Christian-Jewish societies in various cities of west Germany have
Rose Orchid, Forest Green or Chartreuse
decided to form a coordinating body for the entire area now
. a new and beautiful heavy quality fabric designed by
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Occupied by Britain, France and the United States.
ATHENS—Following strong pressure by the Jewish community,
the Celanese Corporation for decorators (NOT a taffeta) . . .
the Greek government arranged for Salonika Jews to vote in
made in our own shops expressly for you. Also available in
polling places instead of the two to which they have been re-
sizes . . . just bring us the width and length of your
other
stricted since 1946.
GENEVA—The World Council of Churches is seeking a guar-
windows. Every pair fashioned with all the care that makes
antee, from the Israel government, of prompt recognition of own-
A. Pupko's custom drapes so superior.
ership of all church and mission property in Israel, without dis-
;Unction as to religion; race or nationality, and that the govern-
znent facilitate measures to recover the property. Definitive action Open Evenings
In this direction has been held up pending action by the Israel
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Parliament on a measure dealing with former German church Thurs., Fri.,
and mission property.
CASABLANCA—A vital slum-clearance project involving the & Sat. to 9
evacuation of 1,500 Jews from the overcrowded Mellah (ghetto ►
Was decided upon by top government officials and Jewish com-
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