Austrian Government Publishes Its
Occupational Therapy for Infirm Residents
Views on Reparations.to Jews
Proves 'Wonder Cure' at Home for Aged
we put
our
VIENNA, (JTA) — The Aus- lead to a mutually satisfactory
trian government issued its agreement.
Informed sources here stated
long - awaited communique on
the progress of its negotiations today that the Social Demo-
with world. Jewish groups for a crats in the government have
lump sum settlement of heirless withdrawn their opposition to
Jewish property and for im- the Jewish demands as a result
p r o v e ment of indemnification of an approach made to them
and restitution legislation for by Jewish Socialists at the re-
individual victims of the Nazi cent meeting of the Socialist In-
ternational at Stockholm.
regime.
The comunique, reviewing the
positive results of the talks Lay Cornerstone for
which have been recessed until
the early part of September, Bar-Ilan University
stressed that Austrian legisla-
and came up with a
TEL AVIV, (JTA) — A block
tion on these matters does not
discriminate against any appli- of granite carved from Mount great new flavor idea
cant for property, restitution or Zion in Jerusalem was laid as
indemnification because of his the cornerstone of the Bar-Ilan
present nationality or present University in a ceremony at the
university site at Ramat-Gan,
residence.
As proof of this attitude, the a Tel Aviv suburb.
communique cited the fact that
Construction of the first five
recently adopted laws restoring buildings of the University is ICE CREAM
certain rights and payments to scheduled to begin this week,
former civil servants and in- and the new institution is ex-
demnifying Nazi victims for im- pected to be ready for student
prisonment, make no distinction admission at the start of the
Mrs. DORA HOFFMAN, a 65-year-old infirmary resident between Austrian residentS and 1954-1955 academic year.
at Detroit's JeWish Home for Aged, is shown with an occupa- non-residents or between per-
The Bar - Ilan University is
tional therapy worker on the Home's staff at work on a loom. sons who have given up their being built in Israel under the
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Austrian citizenship and those auspices of the American Miz-
A fast expanding project in therapy program also includes who retain it.
rachi movement as the first
the occupational therapy pro- a hobby shop, at which articles
The communique revealed American-sponsored, American-
gram of the Home for Aged is are made and then sold, with that a solution to the problem patterned university in Israpl.
the attention now being given profits going to the individual; of unclaimed and heirless prop- President Isaac Ben Zvi was
to infirmed residents of the a sheltered workshop, in which erty, the proceeds of which are among the many dignitaries at-
residents who can work regu- to be used for the benefit of tending the ceremony.
Home.
In recent weeks the activities larly make items on a contract survivors, still has to be found.
Also attending were the Chief
of occupational therapy workers basis and an infirmary program. It said that solutions to un- Rabbinate, representatives of
have been centered on individual
Dr. Benjamin Welling is chair- solved problems will be worked the American and Israeli gov-
attention among the Home's man of the occupational and out when the talks resume in ernments, officials of Ramat Here's a subtle new blend of the
bedridden patients. In the short recreational committee at the the fall and expressed confi- Gan and of Tel Aviv, and lead- coffee bean and the vanilla bean
dence that the negotiations will ers of both the World Mizrachi that's unlike anything you've ever
time the program has been ex- Home.
tasted before unless it reminds
panded, rrigny of the handicap-
Organization and the American
you, perhaps, of the delicate icing
ped residents are regaining the
Mizrachi Organization.
on a French pastry It's light and
use of muscles and joints that
lavish . luxuriously continental
have been immobile for years.
in Barton's famous manner,
The individual attention has
Now's the Time to
AND SIX OTHER FLAVORS
also given' these residents a tre-
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mendous lift psychologically
At all Barton's Detroit/stores
FRANKFURT, (JTA) — Prison a fine for him and also for
and emotionally. Many residents
For the Best Deal
Wolfgang Steege, a Hamburg
19131 Livernois at 7 Mile
sentences
ranging
up
to
18
have even expressed surprise at
7541 W. McNichols cor. Lilac
German banker who aided in
On A '53 Buick
knowing they are still useful, months and fines up to $8,000 carrying out foreign currency
18936 Wyoming at 7 Mile
See
or
Call
which has increased morale sev- were urged for five defendants transactions.
13210 Dexter near Davison
11563 Dexter at Burlingame
eral fold.
in the case of the "Jewish Resti-
In the case of Dr. Hans Erwin
136 W. Lafayette near City Hall
The Home's occupational tution Bank," founded here in W o 1 f f, an ex - concentration
Grand River corner Griswold
1949` with the aim of putting camp inmate who had been ap-
14259 Gratiot at 7 Mile
blocked and non - transferable pointed the bank's custodian in
Famous for
Jewish restitution funds to the summer of 1950, the pro-
secution pleaded for six months'
• Continental
work. -
25th Year With
imprisonment on charges of
OF BOTTLES SOLD
Chocolates and
The demand was made by the bribery.
Continental
prosecution
at
the
conclusion
of
sGES T
For Wilhelm Marrien, a Ger-
an involved nine-month trial.
Ice Cream
The defense will make its final man banker who had been hired
as
the
bank's
technical
advisor
summation this week. A verdict
At Barton's 57 Continental Chocolat«
because it was not known that
is expected about mid-August.
Shops in Detroit, New York,
he had been a friend of Nazi
Philadelphia, and Newark.
The bank, which included on Finance Minister Hj almar
Near G. M. Bldg.
its board of directors many Schacht, the sentence proposed
6164 CASS AVE.
prominent members of the Ger- was ten months in jail and a
TR. 5-9700
man Jewish community as well $1,000 fine.
as the Mayor of the city, was
padlocked by the State of Hesse
in 1950 for alleged violations of
German currency regulations
and other alleged irregulavities.
The bank was closed down at
a time when a member of the
Rothschild banking family was
about to assume the bank's
ownership and management.
The original indictment
charging huge defaults received
extensive publicity in Germany,
but was completely discredited
in the course of the trial. It
was also revealed that the
bank's president and -vice-presi-
dent were permitted to flee
abroad apparently because they
enjoyed the status of displaced
persons and might have de-
manded that the case be tried
in a court of the United States
High Commission rather than
in a German court.
The five defendants played a
CURRENT
subordinate role in the year
RATE
that the bank was open for
business. Best known among
them is Joseph Klibansky, a
prominent attorney who was
counsel for the bank but not an
There's only one practical way to make dreams a reality ... and that's
employee or an officer. The pro-
through a regular savings program. At American, your savings will earn
secution demanded that he be
a big 2%, and be insured to $10,000.00. Open your account by the 10th
sentenced to 18 months in jail
of the month, receive full earnings starting from the 1st.
and fined $8,000 for "being an
accessory to violation of certain
provisions of corporation law
and of foreign currency control
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regulations."
MICHIGAN BONDED WINERY ""
The second Jewish defendant
is Siegfried Frohlich, the bank's
cashier, who is a refugee from
Eastern Germany. The prosecu-
tion contented itself with asking
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beans
together
CHOCOLATE
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"BARTONI
chocolates
Prosecution 'Asks Fines, Sentences
For Alleged Crimes of Bank Officials
MILLIONS
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Friday, July
n,
1953
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