Around the World .
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A digest of current news reported by the Jewish Telegraphic
Agency, the Israel Service of Information and the. World
Jewish Affairs News Service.
The United States
NEW YORK—More than 12,000 victims of Nazism now living
in the United States have filed indemnification claims amounting
to over $15,000,000 against four German provinces in the United
- State zone of Germany ... An invaluable collection of 8,000 He-
- brew and Yiddish volumes stolen by the notorious Julius Streiciler
- has been turned over to Yeshiva University.
BOSTON—Sixty-nine tombstones in the Cong. Hadrath Israel
.Cemetery were overturned by unknown vandals. Six of the mon-
uments were completely smashed.
HOLLYWOOD—Attorney Herbert T. Silverberg left for Israel
to scout possibilities for the production of motion pictures by
American producers who have large sums of money frozen in the
Jewish state from film rentals.
SANTA MONICA, Calif.—The Bay Cities Star, .organ of the
Bay Cities Jewish Community Council, made its first presentation
in its fight against the released time system for religious classes
in Santa Monica schools.
PORTLAND, Ore.—An ordinance prohibiting discrimination in
*places of public accommodation against persons because of race,
eolor, religion, ancestry or national origin" will be one of the
major questions to be decided by Portland voters this November.
. The ordinance, which provides fines or prison terms for violators,
was adopted by the municipal council but a petition forced a ref-
; erendum.
SUFFOLK, Va.—The City Council is expected to adopt an or-
' .dinance against cross-burning this week, following the burning of
: a cross by a Klan-like group near the home of Al Ruden, leading
: citizen and former department commander of the - Jewish War
- Veterans.
Elyachar to Address
Segall's Testimonial
Col. J. R. Elyadhar, president
of the American Technion So-
ciety, will be the guest speaker
at the• testimonial dinner to be
esteem in which they hold him
at the May 28 dinner.
Col. Elyachar, the recently-
elected national president of
the Technion Society, is one of
the country's most prominent
construction engineers.
Reservations for the dinner in
honor of Mr. Segall may be
made by calling Mr. Wilk or
other members of- the' Detroit
Technion.
,
The number of steps from the
ground to the top of the Statue
of Liberty's torch is 598.
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Canada
MONTREAL—The provinces of Ontario and Manitoba have
enacted legislation making it illegal for a person to place any
racial or religious restrictions in property deeds.
WINNIPEG—A department of Judiac studies has been estab-
lished at the University of Manitoba with Rabbi Arthur A. Chiel,
director of the University Hillel Fountation, as its head. The new
_ department will offer courses in modern Hebrew and Jewish his-
tory, and is the first of its kind in a Canadian university.
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KARL SEGALL
given on Sunday evening, May
28, at the Belcrest, in honor of
Karl Segall, former president of
the Detroit Technion Society.
Announcing the dinner, 'Ben
Wilk, president , of the Detroit
society, said that Mr. Segall has
for years taken an active in-
terest in efforts in behalf of the
Technion—the Hebrew Techni-
cal Institute at Haifa, Israel,
and that the local members are
anxious to give evidence of the
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JERUSALEM—An appeal for books for the central library of
the Israel Army's military training command has been issued .. .
The Ministry of Religion denied Jordan's charges that it had
"desecrated" a Moslem Cemetery in Jerusalem by ordering a
20-year accumulation of refuse to be cleared out of the grounds.
. . . The Knesset concluded three months of debate on whether
and when to draft a state constitution, but no vote was taken.
Debate showed that all opposition parties, as well as the Pro-
gressives, Sephardim and WIZO, favor immediate drafting. The
Orthodox Blocs were solidly opposed, and the ranks of Mapai were
divided. .
TEL AVIV—Radio Beirut, monitored here, reported that the
Arab League has decided to open a publicity office in New York.
. .. Premier David -Ben Gurion signed an order restoring legal
status to the Brith Trumpeldor Youth Federation, Revisionist
youth group . . . Ration coupons for meat for the first two weeks
of a tourist's visit to Israel will be given him immediately upon
arrival, new rationing regulations specified . . . A three-member
Israel Davis Cup team left for Poland, by way of Vienna, to enter
the second round of European competition. . . . El Al,' Israel's
' national air line, will have landing rights in the U. S., under an
agreement soon to ;be signed in Washington. The line now owns
nine aircraft and 10 more will be purchased soon . . . In accord-
ance with the decision taken at the UNESCO conference in Paris
to eliminate prejudicial and mistaken concepts in history books,
the Israel government and the World Jewish Congress will suggest
to UNESCO improvements in the presentation of Jewish history
in textbooks . . . The Iraqi government has invited 40 railway ex-
perts from Pakistan to replace Jewish specialists who are emigrat-
e ing to Israel.
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Europe
LONDON—Joseph Kahn, London Town councillor, was fined
five pounds for "obstructing the police at a Mosley open air meet-
ing in the East End. Kahn was arrested when he attempted to
eopy the license number of the car in which the fascist leader
rode . . . Louis Neidhardt, leader of the anti-Semitic South Africa
Gentile National Socialist Movement, announced that he will join
the Nationalist Party of South Africa, and called on members of
his organization to do the same.
BERLIN—A West Berlin 'court condemned to death Erich
Bauer, former Nazi official, who is believed to have participated
in the mass gas extermination of at least 250,1100 Jews.
MUNICH—The Bavarian provincial legislature adopted a
measure providing severe penalties for persons apprehended dese-
crating cemeteries. . . . Dr. Erwin Stein, minister of justice, made
public an order to all local prosecutors to bring to justice the per-
petrators of all anti-Semitic "incidents." ... A report from Ham-
burg stated that Protestant leaders are actively organizing a
Christian-Jewish Society in the British zone.
BRUSSELS—Agudas Israel will enter the enlarged executive
of the Jewish Agency on condition that the latter "is converted
into a representative, non-political movement not concerned with
cultural and religious aspects, and in which ZiOnists, non-Zionists
and Agudists would work together for the welfare of Israel," H. A.
Goodman, chairman of the European executive of the Agudah,
declared.
Africa
ALGIERS—The Israel ship Akko was attacked by several hun-
dred Moslems in the harbor of Bizerte. The mob stoned the ship
and cut er hawsers.
JOHANNESBURG—A license to' export 400 head of cattle to
Israel for breeding purposes has been issued by the South African
Government.
CAPETOWN—The South African Parliament passed a bill
which provides for the classification of the entire population into
three separate racial groups, defined as (1) a person European in
appearance or generally accepted as a European; (2) members of
a race indigenous to South Africa, or generally accepted as such;
(3) a colored person, considered neither European or native.
Asia
PRA
HONG KONG—The' International Refugee Organization and
JDC have chartered a vessel to make regular runs between Tien-
tsin, only port of exit in China, and Hong' Kong, for refugees who
wish to leave China.
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