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A digest of current news reported by the Jewish Telegraphic

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THE JEWISH NEWS-5

Friday, May 12, 1950

Acting ZOD President

The United States

WASHINGTON—A bi-partisan group of representatives in-
troduced a House resolution calling for a Presidential commission

•

Canada

Urgent Needs of Israel TB Hospital,
Clinics Outlined by Visiting Nurse

In an informal session with a
group of Detroit doctors, at the
home of her hosts, Mr. and Mrs.
William Hordes of Calvert Ave.,
Mrs. Z. Katznelson, head nurse
of the Neven-On General TB
Hospital at Bnei Brak, Israel,
told of the need for expanding
facilities for tubercular patients
in Israel.
Mr. Katznelson, who is in this
country on a brief visit, to study
hospital conditions and routines,
told the doctors that there are
700 beds in Israel for TB• pa-
tients but that the need has
grown for more than 4,000 beds.
"There is need for instruments
and for binocular microscopes,"

Agency, the Israel Service of Information and the World
Jewish Affairs News Service.

of inquiry on Germany, identical to a measure entered in the
Senate . . . The State Department was advised from Bucharest
that Marcel Pohne, JTA correspondent in Bucharest, and Leonard
Kirschner, Associated Press representative there, have been ex-
pelled from the Foreign Correspondents Association in Romania
because of their alleged "subversive activity as Anglo-American
spies." Both are under arrest.
NEW YORK—Most displaced persons- who entered this country
as immigrants are "making goad Americans," Ruth Safran, public
relations officer of the American office of the InternatiOnal Refu-
gee Organization declared, - after a 60-day tour of 22 states, in
which she surveyed 5,000 former DPs . • . "The near-sighted and
intransigent campaign of the State Department and elements in
the U. S. High CoMmissioner for Germany's office to thwart any
responsible and objective review of occupation policy in the West-
ern zone of Germany," was scored by Rabbi Irving Miller, president
of the American Jewish Congress, at the AJC national executive
meeting.
LOS ANGELES—Six men have been charged with a new in-
dictment for conspiracy to export arms and ammunition to Israel,
through Mexico, in 1948, without a U. S. government license.
PHILADELPHIA—A group of eight Philadelphia teen-agers
were convicted of charges of hooliganism against a group of Jew-
ish girls. The ringleader, aged 16, was sentenced- to the reforma-
tory . . . Over 2,500 pieces of athletic equipment and bicycles were
collected for Israel in a city-wide drive conducted by the Bnai Brith
Organization.
CHARLESTON, S. C.—Extensive plans are being formulated for
a series of celebrations this fall, marking the 200th anniversary
of the founding of the Jewish community of Charleston. Cong. Beth
Elohim was inaugurated in 1750.
LAKE SUCCESS—The United Nations Human Rights- Com-
mission adopted the principle of setting up a permanent inter-
national body to handle complaints submitted by states and
tentatively 'decided to include in the covenant of human rights
a limitation of the right of appeal to ratifying governments. The
Commission turned down proposals made by Jewish organizations
to permit appeals by non-governmental bodies and by individuals.
. . . The Commission has also postponed consideration until its
next session of a Secretariat legal opinion that the multilateral
system of minority rights established after World War I has
ceased to exist.
NEWARK—Governor Alfred Driscoll addressed a meeting
marking formal presentation to Israel of 50 Scrolls of the Law,
collected from synagogues throughout the state by the New
Jersey region of Hapoel Hamizrachi,

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DR. LOUIS KAZDAN

Leon Kay, president of the
Zionist Organization of Detroit,
on Tuesday, on the eve of his
departure for Israel, named Dr.
Louis Kazden, fir•st vice-presi-
dent, as acting president of the
organization during his absence
from this country.

Mrs. Katznelson said. "Our fa-
cilities need improvement. We
hope to learn from American
methods in order to fulfill the
important task of caring for the
ill and healing those who come
to us with the dreaded tubercu-
lar germ."
The Joint Distribution Com-
mittee is cooperating with the
Neveh-On Hospital, especially in
cases involving the children of
new settlers, Mrs. Katznelson.
stated. She expressed the hope
that some assistance will be
given to the Anti-TB League,
the independent group which
sponsors the hospital at Bnei
Brak and six clinics.

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FARBAND CAMP

Senate Restricts
Ballot Bill to '50

The State Senate on May 3
passed Senator Charles S. Blon-
dy's bill to authorize absentee
voting privileges "to any quali-
fied or registered elector who
cannot attend the polls on ac-
count of the tenets of his reli-
gion." •
The measure was amended to
make it effective for 1950 only.
If passed by the House, as is
expected, it will make absentee
ballots for this fall's primary
election, which falls on the first
day of Rosh Hashanah, avail-
able to Orthodox Jews who
might otherwise lose their
franchise for that occasion.

WINNIPEG — Terming the state of Israel one of the greatest
potential customers of Canadian products, M. A. Gray of the
The American Legion was or-
provincial legislature asked the government of Manitoba to send ganized
in Paris, France, in
a trade delegation to Israel to take advantage of the Jewish
1919.
state's growing market.

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JERUSALEM—The world-wide conference of Agudas Israel

has been postponed to Dec. 12. The Agudah-sponsored World
Rabbinical Council has been reorganized under the presidency
of Rabbi I. Z. Melcer . Israel and Jordan army commanders
will meet May 15 to resume plans for setting up joint posts along
the southern border to prevent further infiltration and thievery
. . . Minister of Justice Pinhas Rosen has informed the Knesset of
the government's intention to introduce legislation abolishing
the death penalty.
TEL AVIV—A UN plane was forced down by an Israel fighter,
after it was well beyond the established "air corridor" near Haifa.
After his breach of regulations was registered at Lydda, the UN
pilot was permitted to proceed to his destination, the Kalandia
airport in Arab Jerusalem . . . Seventy-six per cent of the 355,108
immigrants who arrived in Israel between May, 1948, and the end
of January, 1950, have been absorbed. Only 754 returned from
immigrant camps to countries abroad ... An enthusiastic audience
heard Leonard Bernstein, young American composer-conductor,
conduct the Israel Philharmonic orchestra in the first performance
of his work "The Age of Anxiety" . . . Three new moshavim were
settled by immigrants from Yemen, Cyrenaica and Turkey this week
• . French General Zionists will open a summer resort in - Israel
for Jewish children from France and Belgium ... President Chaim
Weizmann is permitted by his doctors to take short walks in his
garden. The president, who was indisposed for several days, was
reported fully recovered.

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King George and Queen Elizabeth at a presentation party at
Buckingham Palace . . Police measures were taken to prevent
Sir Oswald Moseley and his fascist Union Movement from parad-
ing through the East End of London last. Sunday. The ban on
such parades has been extended to -July 2.
MUNICH—Protests from all sections of German Jewry fol-
lowed the second acquittal of Veit Harlan, producer of the anti-
Semitic film "Jew . Suess."
BUCHAREST—Three former members of the anti-Semitic
Iron Guard have been sentenced to heavy prison terms by a
Bucharest criminal court which convicted them of "savage ex-
termination of Jews."
HAMBURG—Two Jews who were sentenced to death by a
British military court for attempting to blow up -a British troop
transport were released on condition that they leave Germany
for Israel within 24 hours.
ATHENS—The Greek Government agreed to release five Jews
Who were condemned to death and 21 Greek Jews imprisoned on
a Greek island, providing that they renounce their citizenship and
leave for Israel.

Australia

MELBOURNE—Anti-Semitic leaflets containing excerpts from
the notorious "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" and illustrations
similar to those that appeared in the Nazi newspaper, Der
Stuermer, have been circulated in coal fields in various parts of
Australia.

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Europe

LONDON—Members of the Israel legation were presented to

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inenths
o f 1949

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Israel Denies Rumored Special Exchange Rates

TEL AVIV, (JTA)—The Israel
Government officially denied
reports here and abroad that
special exchange rates were be-
itag offered for the transfer of
toreian currency to Israel. The

official statement declared that
the Government does not apply
any special rates for-investment
of foreign capital in Israel or for
any other purposes,

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