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Juke-Box Hit, 'Tzena,' Hits Sour Note

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Co-Composer Starts $100,000 Suit

NEW YORK, (AJP)—The juke
box enthusiasts' pride and joy—
the hit tune "Tzena"—hit an
off-scale high
100 "Cs" note.
this week as the
bespeckled Issa-
char Miron, the,
Israeli compos-
er, was slapped
with a summons
asking $100,000
in damages by
the song's co-
Grossman composer Julius
Grossman, an American.
The suit climaxed a lively de-
bate in which Grossman had
charged Miron had allowed the
public to believe that he was
Tzena's sole composer, thus in-
juring Grossman's reputation.
Miron denied any attempt at
defrauding the U. S. song writer.
A summons was served on Mi-
ron.
Stating that he had warned
Miron against grabbing the en-
tire credit for the song's compo-
sition, Grossman said that "on
four different occasions over a
period of a month while Miron
was getting a tremendous press
I pointed out to him the neces-

Solution Sought by
Council in Issues
Involving Schochtim

THE JEWISH NEWS
_Friday, January 26, 1951

—

Histadrut Honors,
U. S. Labor Leader

Congress, Jewish Agency
Reach Agreement to
Regulate Relationships

Direct JTA Teletype Wire to
The Jewish News

NEW YORK — The American
Section of the Jewish Agency
Executive Tuesday announced
completion of an agreement be-
tween the Jewish Agency and
the World Jewish Congress reg-
ulating relations between the
two bodies with respect to both
organizational work and fund-
raising. The text of the agree-
ment follows:

1. The World Jewish Congress de-
clares that it has always been its basic
asumption that the fields of endeavor
of the World Zionist Organization and
of the World Jewish Congress are fund-
amentally distinct. The Congress will
therefore abstain from any activities in
matters which fall within the jurisdiction
of the World Zionist Organization or the
Jewish Agency, except •where there has
been prior agreement between both
bodies.
2. The Executive of the Jewish Agency
for Palestine appreciates the value of the
program and activity of the World Jewish
Congress in organizing the Jewish people
in the diaspora on a democratic basis
for the defense of its rights and position
and for the strengthening of Jewish life,
these activities being carried out in the
spirit of the unity of the Jewish people
and its solidarity with Israel.
3. The World Jewish Congress reiter-
ates its policy of recognizing the priority
of Israel campaigns with regard to tim-
ing. It is regarded as desirable that the
Congress shall desist from separate fund-
raising campaigns and be included in
United Jewish or Israel campaigns. The
percentage of the allocations to the
Congress in such united campaigns is to
be determined by a joint decision of the
Jewish Agency in Jerusalem and the
Executive of the World Jewish Congress.:
The Congress undertakes to put its
manpower at the disposal of such united
campaigns.

Famous Jewess Fights Cancer

MRS. FIORELLO LaGUARDIA, the Jewish wife of the famous
former New York City mayor and chairman of the Cancer Cru-
sade clubs and organizations division, meets with General JOHN
REED KILPATRICK, president of the New York City Cancer
Committee, to invite Mayor Vincent Impelliterieri to act as
honorary chairman of the 1951 Cancer Fund Campaign which
will begin in April, 1951.

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Pictorial Volume of Hebrew Lore

sity of establishing the co-corn-
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posership of the song."
Grossman claimed that he
had added 16 measures to Mi-
President of the American
ron's original 32 measures to
produce the finished product Federation of Labor, WILLIAM
which for months beckoned the GREEN, holds high the bronze
nickles of anxious juke-box en-
thusiasts. Miron said he was riot
aware of the additions at the
time it was written by Gross-
man. •
He said he had acknowledged
the existence of the addition in
a number of interviews and had
consented to Grossman's shar-
ing in the royalties and receiv-
ing sheet music credits.

Louis Rosenzweig, chairman
of the internal relations com-
mittee of the Jewish Commun-
ity Council, announced this
week that the matter involving
the injunction taken out against
the Schochtim - Union by Isaac
Grajcar has been before it for
some time and that two issues
are being considered:
1. The overall organization of
Schechitah in this community
and 2. the dispute now before
the courts involving a Jewish
issue.
Mr. Rosenzweig reports that
six meetings already have been
held and that a special sub-
committee, selected by the Coun-
cil's internal relations commit-
tee, consisting of Arthur Gould,
Saves Many GIs
Rabbi Max Kapustin and Har-
old Silver, is exploring every
Lt. (Lg.) Morton I. Silver, 25,
phase of the issue. The 'Council of Brooklyn, was credited with
of Orthodox Rabbis is being con- saving the lives
sulted in the matter involving of wounded ma-
Schechitah.
rines during the
According to Mr. Rosenzweig, Korean retreat
the services of the arbitration when the navy::'
and conciliation committee have dent i s t pinch-
been resorted to, but the two hitted as a phy-
parties involved thus far have sician and sur-
been unable to arrive at a sat- geon.
For his brave
isfactory agreement. Mr. Graj-
car's attorney, Harry Nayer, action he has
commenced legal action upon been reco m- Lt. Silver
failure of both parties to agree mended by his commanding of-
on arbitration. An injunction is ficer for the Navy Cross — the
asked to restrain the Schochtim highest honor the navy can be-
Lt. Silver's . brother is in
union from picketing Mr. Graj- stow.
the Air Forces.
car and the Morris Poultry Co.
Expressing regret that the
NEW YORK—The Israel gov-
parties involved did not resort ernment has lifted the restric-
to arbitration, Mr. Rosenzweig tions on the number of CARE
stated in behalf of the Council food packages that may be sent
that his committee is willing to to individuals or families in Is
make its facilities available for irael, Paul Comly French, CARE
adjustment of the differences. I executive director, announced.

Jewish 'Ripley'

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statuette of 'a pioneer, the sym-
bol of the Histadrut, Israel's
General Federation of Workers,
which was presented to him . by
Histadrut leaders at a dinner
in his honor given by the
American Trade Union Council
for Histadrut at • the Waldorf .
Astoria in New York.

Berger Fights Musical
Menorah as Foreign Idea

NEW YORK, (AJP)—A lead-
i n g metropolitan department
store was rapped by a unit of
the anti-Zionist American Coun-
cil for Judaism, it was learned
this week, for - having sold Ha-
tikvah-playing menorahs during
the Hanukah season. -
In reply to its protest, Rabbi
Elmer Berger, executive direc-
tor of the American Council for
Judaism, told the American
Jewish Press that the Couricil's
NeW York executive committee
received "a courteOuS reply and
a promise to investigate the
matter more thoroughly."
Attacking the music box gad-
get, which has proven popular
among children, the New York
executive committee - wrote the
department store, one of the
largest in the city, that "to bind
a relikious symbol with a foreign
national symbol is to pervert a
hallowed object."

A series of two lively vignettes,
each illustrated with a pen and
ink drawing, features "Pictorial
Oddities from Hebraic Litera-
ture" by Solomon Lenchitz, pub-
lished by Exposition Press, 386
Fourth Ave., New York 16.
Lenchitz, who is known as
the "Ripley of Jewish _Folklore,"
describes some of the wonders
and curiosities of ancient He-
brew life as revealed in the
Bible, the Talmud, and other
sacred writings.
We learn that Rabbi Gamliel,
who lived 1500 years before
Galileo, could calculate dis-
tances and heights by looking
through a hollow tube; that
Rabbi Hamnuna Saba the Elder,
1500 years before Columbus dis-
covered America, believed that
the earth was round; that there
were Hebrew sages who prac-
ticed speedwriting, experiment-
ed with flying machines, knew
that germs communicated dis-
ease, and used anesthetics, or
"sleep medicines."
In addition to such evidence
that the early Jews were deely
absorbed in scientific research
and sacred studies, "Pictorial
Oddities from Hebraic Litera-
ture" includes many stories of
a strange and fantastic nature,
such as that of King Solomon's
trained eagle, Aich carried him
at a spe.ed of more than a thou-
sand miles an hour, or of the
prototype of Rip Van Winkle,
Choni Hameaggel, who slept in
a field for 70 years.

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SCARSDALE, N.Y., (JTA) —
Jacob Aronson, former chair-
man of the executive board of
the Union of American Hebrew
Congregations, died at his home
here at the age of 64. He re-
tired on Jan. 4 as vice-president
and chief of the law depart-
ment of the New York . Central
Railroad, a post he had held
since 1933.

JERUSALEM — (JTA) — The
Iraq Government will not hin-
der the emigration of some 90,-
000 Israel - bound Jews, t h e
Baghdad Radio declared in a
broadcast monitored here. The
announcer added that the goy-
eminent has promised to speed
up the movement of those Jews
who have already registered to
leave.
This report reverses last
week's announcement by the
Iraqi Government that emigra-
tion of Jews would end as of
March 1, 1951. At that time it
was feared that most of the
90,000 Jews who have registered
Would be in a dangerous plight
because they surrendered their
Iraq citizenship as a condition
of registering for emigration.

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$100,000 Gift to Expand
Technion Junior College

Alexander Konoff, New Jersey
industrialist and philanthropist,
has donated $100,000 to increase
and expand the
facilities of the
Haifa Technion
Junior College,
also known as
t h e Technical
High School, it
was announced
by the American
Technion Socie-
ty, 154 Nassau
St., Ne,w York.
Konoff
A spokesman for the Society
indicated that the funds would
be used for the addition of new
departments a n d equipment,
which will enable the Israel in-
stitution to double the enroll-
ment of its Junior College from
400 to 800 students. The Tech-
nion, which comprises an Engi-
neering College with branches
for civil, mechanical, electrical,
chemical and aeronautical engi-
neering and architecture, a;
Nautical School and Junior Col-
lege, has a current enrollment
of 1600 students.
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Iraq to Permit 90,000
Jews to Enter Israel

Jacob Aronson Dies

Trees in Israel Honor
Bernstein's Birthday

Honoring the 70th birthday of
Joseph Bernstein, manager of
the Detroit edition of the Jew-
ish Daily Forward, Mr. and Mrs.
Morris Schaver and their son,
Isaac, planted 70 trees in Is-
rael.
The announcement , was made
at the dinner on Jan. 21 in Mr.
Bernstein's honor. Distinguished
local and national leaders par-
ticipated in the program and
praised Mr. Bernstein for h i s
many years' efforts to the De-
troit Jewish community, to the
national labor movement and to
the advancement of Jewish cul-
ture.

Mr. Lenchitz is widely known
for his studies in Jewish history.
A former teacher in New York's
Hebrew schools, he has also
served as principal of a school .'
and a Talmud Torah.
He is at present working on a
book to be entitled "Hebrew
Weapons of Peace." He is em-
loyed in the United States Post
Office in New York City.

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