Council Acts to • Secure `Self-Rule'
And Representation in Federation

eration on the basis that these
activities are not properly a
Council function. Likewise, the
Community Calendar was cited
as an example by Dr. Kleinman
who related that without regard
to the recommendations of the
Council's own committee which
supervises this calendar the Fed-
eration has refused to allow any
funds to be spent for it this year
and by such refusal sought to
The resolution seeking to eliminate it.
The fellowship items
achieve proper status for the
Council, presented by William through which funds have
Cohen of the Jewish Congress, been secured to send three De-
calls for the appointment of a troit police officers to a Uni-
committee to study the Federa- versity human relations work-
tion by-laws for the purpose of shop this past summer, "an
framing a proper amendment to accomplishment which won
the Federation constitution at national recognition," was also
the March 4 meeting. The res- eliminated by the Federation,
olution calls upon all Council Dr. Kleinman reported. These
delegates to attend the Federa- and other "unilateral" actions
tion annual meeting and to sup- by the Federation contributed,
port the Council's proposed Dr. Kleinman stated, to a se-
amendment or amendments "as ries of mounting grievances
a measure of peace in the com- which reflected "an unwar-
munity and as a means of great- ranted attempt by Federation
er effectiveness of the Council." to substitute its own judgment

-(Continued from Page One)
During the discussion on
Rabbi Prero's resolution, a
number of delegates enipha-
sized that funds provided by
Federation to the Council are
communal funds secured from
donors who desire to support
the work of the Council and
that the Federation is the ef-
ficient instrument for the col-
lection of these funds.

Supporting this resolution,
Rabbi Morris Adler recalled his
own 13 years of experience
with Council-Federation rela-
tions and saw in the proposal
a chance not only to improve
Council - Federation relation-
ships but to strengthen the
Federation which, he declared,
was an important. instrumen-
tality in the community.

for the judgment of the Coun-
cil's committees and by use of
the budget process to enforce
its decrees."

In his report on current Coun-
cil activities, Boris Joffe, the
Council's executive director,
stated that renewed efforts are
being made in support of an
FEPC laW in Detroit and told
of state action in behalf of such
Harry Yudkoff framed the a measure in Lansing.
resolution for the presentation
Mr. Joffe told of the Coun-
of a slate of Council-sponsored cil's assistance to NCRAC and
candidates for membership on the Jewish press in an effort
the Federation board of gover- to eliminate the unethical ad-
nors. His resolution stated that vertising solici tations that
"the candidates so selected must have been in evidence in re-
be dedicated to the principles of cent months. He urged all
expanding the democratization who received such soliciting
of the Jewish community and to letters and bills to communi-
the vigilance against the trend cate at once •,fith the Council.
leading towards the eventual
A rising vote was given by the
authoritarian structure of cen-
tral Jewish community organi- delegates, upon the conclusion
of the meeting, to a resolution
zations."
(The March 4 Federation proposed by Dr. Kleinman and
annual meeting is scheduled to supported by Rabbi Adler
be held at the Woodward Jew- pledging aid and active par-
ish Center. All contributors ticipation of all organizations
to the Allied Jewish Campaign affiliated with the Council and
are members of the Federation their memberships to the Allied
and are entitled to cast their Jewish Campaigns.

ballots. The nine candidates
selected by the Federation
nominating commit tee are
Louis Berry, David J. Cohen,
Morris Garvett, Harvey Gold-
man, Mrs. H. L. Jackson, Judge
'Theodore Levin, Max Osnos,
Hyman Safran and Abraham
Srere. Council leaders who
prefer not to be named have
indicated that several of these
nominees are acceptable to the
Council. Petitions for addi-
tional candidates must be sub-
mitted 10 days befOre the..an-
nual meeting).

20—THE JEWISH NEWS

Friday, February 8, 1952,

Name Cantor Street
For Jewish Comedian

NEW YORK, (JTA)—Jew-
ish-populated Henry Street,
located in New York's East
Side, was officially renamed
Eddie Cantor Street in honor
of the Jewish actor who cele-
brated his 60th birthday Jan.
31. Cantor was born and rais-
ed on Henry Street.
Mayor Vincent Impellitteri,
congratulating Cantqr at City
Hall, emphasized his services
to various Jewish and non-
Jewish philanthropic causes
and the summer camp which
he maintains for children of
poor families.

Mrs. Cooper and Mrs. Weiner Named
Women's Division Campaign Chairmen

Mrs. Abraham Cooper and Mrs. board member of the Tuesday
Leonard H. Weiner have accept- Musicale of Detroit.
Mrs. Weiner, past president of
ed the chairmanship of the 1952
the Women's Division and now
its representative on the Fed-
eration board of governors, was
a founding board member of the
Division. She serves on the board
of the Jewish Center, was chair-
man of the Twelfth Street Coun-
cil Center, and served on the
board of the Jewish Community
Council. She is a past president
of Detroit Section, Council of
Jewish Women, and has been an
officer in the Sisterhood of
Temple Beth El. She is a na-
tive Detroiter, a graduate of the
University of Michigan and of

Eddie Honored with
$2 Million Bond Sale

NEW YORK, (JTA)—A total
of $2,616,000 in Israel bonds was
sold here at a dinner tendered
to Eddie Cantor on the occasion
of his 60th birthday. More than
1,700 guests attended the affair
at the Hotel Commodore. Ad-
mission was by purchase of $1,-
000 or more in Israeli bonds.
The actual cost of the birth-
day dinner was defrayed by . a
group of Mr: Cantor's personal
friends, enabling all of the $2,-
616,000 realized from the sale of
the bonds to go for the economic
development of Israel, it was
announced by Rudolf G. Sonne-
born, president of the American
Financial and Development Cor-
poration for Israel, which directs
the sale of Israel bonds in the
United States.
Tribute was paid to Mr. Can-
tor for his many humanitarian
activities by Vice President Al-
ben W. Barkley. In behalf of the
Israel bond drive, Vice President
Barkley presented Mr. Cantor
with a gold relief plaque of a
map of Israel.
DaVid Goitein, Acting Israel
Ambassador to the United
States, hailed Mr. Cantor -as a
"builder of Israel." He presented
Mr. Cantor an engraved cable
from Prime Minister David Ben-
Gurion of Israel.

MRS. ABRAHAM COOPER

Allied Jewish Campaign for the
Women's Division of the Jewish
Welfare Federation, Mrs. John
C. Hopp, Division president, an-
nounced. They will head a corps
of 2,000 workers who have se-
cured close to 14,000 pledges in
"plus" money for the Campaign
—or more than a half million.
dollars in each of the past two
years.
, A vice-president of the Wom-
en's Division in its year-round
program, Mrs. Cooper was a
founding member of the Division
board. She is a board member
of North End Clinic, has served
in the same capacity for the
Jewish Community Center and
Resettlement Service, as well as
vice-president of Fresh Air So-
ciety; has been a vice-president
of Hadassah, a board member of
the Sisterhood of Congregation
Shaarey Zedek and Council of
Jewish Women. She is particu-
larly interested in musior-hav-
ing studied piano and voice in
New York City upon graduating
from Detroit public schools—
and has been chairman of the
music department of the Jew-
ish Community Center and a

Eban Blasts Syrian Delegate for Threat
To Use Force in Extinguishing New State

P A R IS, (JTA) The Israel
government submitted a com-
plaint against Syria to the UN
Security Council charging the
Syrian delegation at the United
Nations with violating the UN
Charter by threatening the use
of force to "extinguish the iden-
tity and political independence
of another state."
The complaint was submitted
by Israeli chief delegate Abba S.
Eban who quoted from a speech
delivered by Syrian delegate Ah-
med Shukeiri at the UN Political
Committee on Jan. 22 in which
the Arab declared that he look-
ed forward to the elimination of
Israel from the United Nations.
In that speech the Syrian dele-
gate also warned Israel of a
"storm that would tear the
structure of Israel down to its
foundations."
Emphasizing that the govern-
ment of Israel did not recall any
other instance of a member state
of the United Nations making
such an open threat against the
political independence of anoth-
er state, Eban pointed out that
"Israel will resist any unauthor-
ized traffic across the Israel -
Syrian armistice lines whether
of military forces or of groups of
civilians."
At the same time, Eban dis-
missed the recent charges made
by the Jordan government in a
letter addressed, to the UN Sec-
retary-General. He termed the
allegation that •Israel had vio-
lated the. Israel-Jordan armistice
agreement as "distorted and in-
accurate." • -
He pointed to a series of de-
cisions by t h e Israeli-Jordan
mixed a r mist i c e commission
holding Jordan responsible for 59
violations of the agreement
while Israel was blamed for only
one violation„

The discussions on the pro-
posed resolutions were initiated
by a report of the Council pres-
ident, Dr. Shmarya Kleinman, on
the Council-Federation negoti-
ations. He said that negotia-
tions with Federation, conducted
with the intent to unify the two
organizations, have been sum-
marily terminated by Federa-
tion. He reported that, at the
same time, the Council budget,
which every year has been de-
layed in its approval by the Fed-
eration, was this year drastically
curtailed.
Dr. Kleinman emphasized *that
the resentment of Council offi-
cials was not directed towards
curtailment as such but rather
toward the arbitrary manner in
which Federation took it upon
itself to pass its own judgment
upon the continuance of specific
activities which the Council lay
committees had approved: This,
Dr. Kleinman pointed out,'was
an affront not only to individual
lay members of Council commit-
tees who had given earnest con-
sideration to the various mat-
' ters; but to the entire demo-
cratic structure of the Council.
As examples Of this "arbitrary
action" Dr. Kleinman . referred
the delegates to the Council's
cultural work which has includ-
ed' local TV and radio programs
in observance of Jewish holidays
and festivals as well as the ar-
ranging of hundreds of pro-
grams • for Jewish and non-Jew-
ish groups. Over a period of
years, he said, budget allotments
Syrian's Arrogance
have been sought for this COW"—
Syrian delegate Ahmad. Shu-
Cil" activity but they have been keiri denied he had •threatened
consistently denied: by the Fed- Israel with destruction and said

that the Israel complaint was
full of "misquotations."
Shukeiri said that Israel's ex-
istence was "anyWay melting
away" and that there was no
need of a war to achieve the
new state's downfall. He set the
date for the Jewish State's col-
lapse as 1955, when, he said, the
United Nations will have to "ap-
point a Jewish commissioner" to
administer the country, since it
would be liquidated "economic-
ally and politically."
He carried his prediction one
step further by expressing the
opinion that the UN Commis-
sioner would recommend the
setting up of a "free and inde-
pendent Palestine, where Mos-
lems, Christians and Jews would
be equally represented."

More Murders
Meanwhile, reports from Tel
Aviv ,state a Jewish settler in

the Lake Huleh region was shot
and killed when he and a United
Nations truce observer were
fired upon from ambush as they
approached the Syrian border
in search of a party of Israeli
fishermen believed kidnapped by
the Syrians.
The UN observer who was un-
hurt had been called to the
scene after a search party from
the Jewish settlement of Kfar
Houlata found two empty fish-
ing boats on the eastern shores
of Lake Huleh.
The three fishermen, like the
murdered Man, were Members

Congressional Tribute
To Cantor by Dingell

of Kfar Houlata. The latest re-
ports from the settlement said
that contact had not been es-
tablished with the Syrian forces
in the area.
Israeli troop patrols along the
Jewish State's borders killed 12
Arab infiltrees, wounded two
others and captured 46 • during
the past two weeks, a military
spokesman announced.

Wayne University, This week she
was honored with being selected
as the Central Volunteer Bu-
reau's Red Feather "Volunteer
of the Week."

Israel Court Sentences
6 Arabs to 8 Years

TEL AVIV, (JTA)—A military
court at Beersheba sentenced
six Arab infiltrees, captured after
a gun battle with Israeli forces,
to 8-12 years in jail. This is the
harshest sentence yet meted out
by an Israeli court to infiltrees.
The six were convicted of ille-
gal entry into Israel, carrying
firearms, attempting to steal
livestock from Arab residents of
Israel and firing jon Israeli
forces. The prosecutor demand-
ed the death sentence on the
grounds that 12 Israeli soldiers
had died in clashes with infil-
trees last year. The defense
pleaded for mercy, asking the
court "not to act like Iraq,"
which last week publicly hanged
two Iraqi Jews on charges of
"terrorism."

Prague is Center of Mystery
As 2 Jews Strangely Vanish

Direct JTA Teletype Wire to the Jewish News

TEL AVIV — A veil of mystery
cloaked the strange disappear-
ance of two Jews this week. The
_missing m e n are Mordechai
Oren, a leader of the left-wing
Socialist Mapam Party, and Ed-
ward Goldstucker, former Czech
Minister to Israel.
Mapam circles have begun in-,
quiries into the disappearance
of Oren, who has not been heard
from in four weeks, since his
arrival • in Prague, Czechoslo-
vakia. He was a representative
to t h e Communist - sponsored
Berlin Trade Union Conference.
Oren is a known supporter of
'the Cominfbrin.
Equally perplexing is the case
of the vanishing Czech minis-
ter, Goldstucker, who also 'was
last heard from in Prague. Ap-
pointed Minister to Israel in
1949, .Goldstucker recently
learned that he was . being
transferred to Stockholm, Swe-
den.
Swedish spokesmen stated
that his acceptance as Minister
had been approved, a n d. that
some of his baggage had arrived
in Stockholm. "We don't know
what happened, but he's never
shown tip. Recently another
minister was appointed to re-
place . hint."..'. _ .

.

in a column and a half
"Extension of Remarks" in
the Congressional R e c o r d,
Congressman John D. Dingell
of Detroit last Thursday paid
a glowing tribute to Eddie
Cantor on his 60th birthday.
He praised him for exemplary
family life.

MRS. LEONARD H. WEINER

In London, a former friend of
Goldstucker described him as
"able official with a thOrough
grasp of Marxist philosophy?'
The JTA learned that a major-
ity of Czech Embassy officials.
here, whO over the past two
years have asked the British
government f o r asylum, were
Jews.
Israeli legations in Eastern
Europe have begun investig-a-
ton to determine 'the where-
abouts of Oren. A report that
he had been arrested was denied
by Mapam leader Dr. Moshe .
Sneh.
An account of Oren's disap-
pearance, published in the news-
paper Maariv, said that he left
Paris for Prague four weeks ago,.
after hearing that a cousin,
Shimon Oren, had been arrested.
in Prague during a purge of the
Czechoslovak For e i g n Trade
Ministry. Shimon Oren was for-
merly a deputy trade attache at
the Israel legation in Prague.
Members of Kibbutz Mizra
where Oren lives, insist that his
disappearance is connected with
a family tragedy, and that he
will return soon, The Israel
government is
i not as • hopeful,.

