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bano C ief Rabbi Reporte
urd red in His Beirut Home

LONDON, (JTA) —A report from Beirut published here said that Rabbi
Lichtman, chief rabbi of Lebanon, was found murdered in his home last week.
According to the Beirut police, the crime had no political significance. About
6,000 Jews, most of them of Sephardic origin, live in Lebanon,

Jordan Kills Five Jewish t i • lers; Bodies Sent to Israel-

Give You Doctrine':

Cpl. BERNARD
BERMAN (right) of Lakewood, N.J., first Jewish soldier re-
patriated in Operation Big Switch, is shown in Jewish Chapel
at Freedom Village taking Torah from hands of Chaplain
MURRAY I. ROTHMAN to recite Birches Hagomel, tradi-
tional prayer of thanks for deliverance from bondage. Chap-
lain Rothman, on special assignment in Freedom Village, is
one . of seven chaplains on duty in Korea, served by the Com-
mission on Jewish Chaplaincy of the National Jewish Wel-
fare Board. Commission is composed of Central Conference
of American Rabbis (Reform) , Rabbinical Assembly of Amer-
ica (Conservative) , and Rabbinical Council of America (Or-
thodox) . Ark and Torah shown here have been all through
Korea, from rear arears right up to combat lines, and are now
in Freedom Village to bring "imperishable message of wis-
dom and welcome to liberated Jewish GIs."

JERUSALEM, (JTA)—The Jordanian authorities turned over the bodies of three
boys and two girls, all about 16 to 17 years of age, who were slain by Jordan troops
while on a hiking trip in the southern Negev. The bodies, now at Elath, have not yet
been identified.
The Jordanians claimed that the five were members of an Israel Army unit found
on Jordan territory by an Arab Legion unit, which promptly opened fire. The Israelis
denied that there were any troops in the area in question and said that the youths were
civilians who had apparently wandered over the border by accident.
It was learned that last Thursday, the five youths appeared at Ein Hotzev and asked
for transportation to the south where they wished to hike. The authorities refused to let
them go through, pointing out that the area was wild and dangerous. The leader of the
group was sent northward in a car, but the other four managed to get a hitch in a
civilian car heading south. Later, the leader headed southward also.
The authorities, learning that the youths had gotten away to the south, alerted
all guard posts to halt them. One car, with five youths, was stopped and ordered to re-
turn northward. It was learned, afterwards, that this was the wrong car. What happen-
ed after that is not known since none of the hikers survived the Arab Legion attack. The
Israelis first learned about their fate from United Nations observers who carried out
the transfer of the bodies.

Austrian Cabinet Invites Goldmann to Resume Reparations Talks

VIENNA, (JTA)—The Austrian Government invited Dr. Nahum Goldmann to reopen on
Sept. 12 the reparations talks started this summer by leaders of world Jewish organizations
and adjourned last month.

German Communists Campaign Against Reparations to Israel

BERLIN, (JTA)—Indirect assistance to the neo-Nazi parties in next Sunday's West German
parliamentary elections is being provided in East Germany by continued Communist attacks on
the payment of reparations by West Germany to Israel.

Milted Jewish Appeaatarts Second Half of 1953 Drive

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NEW YORK, (JTA)
The United Jewish Appeal opened the second half of its 1953
campaign with an emergency drive to raise $25,000,000 in cash, it was announced by
Edward M. NI. Warburg, general chairman of the UJA.
Special appeals in behalf of the UJA will be made in synagogues and temples during
the Rosh Hashanah holidays. The special campaign will be headed by Joseph Holtzman
of Detroit, who this year is serving as a national chairman of the UJA and its national
chairman for cash. The emergency campaign will be opened in 4,500 communities
throughout the country, and an additional 1,500 communities will join the drive later.

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Signs Refugee Act:

Walter H.

Bieringer (standing right) , president of the United Service for
New Americans, a constituent agency of the United Jewish
Appeal, watches President EISENHOWER sign the Refugee
Relief Act of 1953, which authorizes the admission of some
214,000 immigrants to the United States over a three-year
period. It is estimated that from 15,000 to 20,000 Jewish
refugees will be admitted under this law. At right (seated) is
Senator WATKINS of Utah, sponsor of the measure in the
U.S. Senate. In the meantime controversy rages over the new
measure sponsored by Senator Lehman and 31 other Senators
for the complete revision of th McCarron Act. Senator Mc-
Carran expressed doubt whether the President is interested
in pressing for revision of the bill, and Senator Watkins has
arged the President not to seek such revisions.

Editorial On Alien Law on Page I

The photo on the right shows the pouring of the Israel pioneers whose determination to
a new cement foundation for a home in one accomplish the task of building Israel is re-
of the new settlements built in Israel through
flected in the country's accomplishments
the United Israel Appeal, a UJA constit-
and in the establishment of scores of new
uency. The photo on the left shows one of settlements since Israel's rebirth,

