Jordan Rejects Israel's Call
For Peace Talks; Conciliation
Body Submits Progress Report

Direct JTA Teletype Wire
To The Jewish News
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y.—Re-
liable sources reported that Jor-
dan rejected Israel's proposal for
high level talks about applica-
tion of the Israeli-Jordanian
armistice agreement.
It is understood that the Jor-
dan government informed UN
Secretary General Hammarsk-
jold that such talks should take
place in the Israeli-Jordanian
Mixed Armistice Commission.
Jordan's reply was transmitted
Monday to Hammarskjold who
later received Menahem Kidron,
the acting Israeli representative.
The Palestine Conciliation
Commission, in its 13th progress
report to the United Nations
Secretary General, issued Tues-
day, admitted that it had "no
opportunity of exercising its
general function of conciliation"
during the past year. The com-
mission, following a resolution
adopted here, is available to
both parties to assist them in
reaching agreements. However,
it received no specific request
from either side for such aid.
The main work which the
commission did during 1953 was
in connection with the release
of blocked Arab refugee ac-
counts.
The government of Israel, in
a generous move, agreed to`re-
lease as a first installment the
sum of 1,000,000 pounds — at
the rate of one pound sterling
for one Israeli pound—for these
accounts.
After some hitches which were
overcome, the commission re-
ports that by the end of Sep-
tember the total number of ap-
plications filed had reached
more than 3,000 of which over
half had been approved for pay-
ment. It is estimated that when
all applicants have been - pro-
cessed the total amount of pay-
ments will be approximately
750.000 pounds. The conciliation
commission expressed its gratifi-
cation that "a solution of the
difficulties encountered was ap-
parently reached and that pay-
ment on the first installment of
blocked accounts had been re-
sumed."
The commission said that it
"considers that progress to date
on the block e d accounts has
been reasonably successful in
view of the unique nature of
the operation." It adds that it
is "convinced that the final
liquidation of this question will
remove a constant irritant in the
relations between Israel and the
Arab states."
As far as its other main task,
the identification and evalua-
tion of Arab property in Israel,

Northwest Israel Group
Opens Membership Drive

Gilbert Awerbuch, chairman
of the membership committee of
NOrthwest Israel Synagogue, an-
nounces t h e appointment of
Harry Blitz, Paul Broad, Leo
Brodman, Ben Greenbaum, Sam
Gdren and Norman Sukenic to
his committee in preparation
for an expanded membership
campaign aimed at unaffiliated
segments of the community.
Located at 17376 Wyoming,
Northwest Israel was just or-
ganized in the last few years,
Rabbi Leo Y. Goldman is its
spiritual leader. -
In emphasizing the impor-
tance of all Jews to belong to
a synagogue, Awerbuch stressed
that Northwest Israel demands
no donation for its building fund.
In addition to sabbath and
holiday services, other • activities
include a Sisterhood, • club for
juniors (13 to 17) as story hour
for children (4 to 12) and study
circles for adults. •

Dr. GEORGE S. WISE and
JAMES MARSHALL. have been
elected president and chairman

of the board respectively of the
American Friends of the Hebrew
University until May, 1955.

is concerned, the commission
said it . had found that the rec-
ords were so poor that they
made the work difficult. The
commission had therefore ap-
pointed a former officer of the
mandatory administration, Sami
Hadawi, who is a recognized au-
thority on land values in Pales-
tine, to make investigations.
In connection with the Arab
protest over Israel's disposal of
refugee property, the commis-
sion said it had received two
letters from the Israeli repre-
sentative. Both of them said
that the action which was an in-
ternal one would not impair any
legal claims of the Arab refugees,
and both reaffirmed the govern-
ment of Israel's "policy in -re-
gard to payments of compen-
gation for abandoned Arab land
in Israel.
The commission's report also
records the fact that it sent a
letter of protest to Prime Minis-
ter Ben-Gurion over the Israel
government's action of moving
the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
to Jerusalem.

DETROIT JEWISH NEWS-9 Epstein, Hore-Belisha on British Honor List
Friday, January 8, 1954

UAHC Film Strip
Honors Judah Touro

On Jan: 18, American Jewry
will mark the 100th anniversary
of the death of Judah Touro,
great American Jewish philan-
thropist.
The man who helped under-.
write the Bunker Hill Monu-
ment and gave gifts to churches,
synagogues, and hospitals
throughout his lifetime and
after hi: death, is the "hero" of
a filmstrip recently produced by
the Union of American Hebrew
Congregations.
It was on Jan. 18, 1854, that
the great New Orleans bachelor-
merchant breathed his last.
Shortly thereafter, his will was
made known. In it he bequeath-
ed half a million dollars—an
enormous sum in those days—to
a host of charitable organiza-
tions, Catholic and Protestant
churches and orphanages, virtu-
ally every American synagogue
then in existance, to hospitals
and almshouses in Jerusalem.
Portrayed in the filmstrip is
the manner in which Touro con-
tributed $10,000 to make the
construction of the Bunker Hill
Monument possible and the
events which led to the founding
of famed Touro Hospital in New
Orleans.

FO

LONDON, (JTA) — The eleva-
tion of Leslie Hore-Belisha to
the peerage in the Queen's New
Year's Honors List brings to 13
-the number of Jews in the
House of Lords. This is the
largest . number of Jews to sit
at one time in the Upper House
in the history of that institu-
tion. Baron Leslie was Secretary
of War in the pre-World War
II Cabinet.
Also honored were: Jacob Ep-
stein, the New York-born fam-
ous sculptor, who was named a
knight; Kenneth Cohen of the
Foreign Office, who was ap-

a Commander of the
I pointed
Bath; Dennis Herbert Geffen,

London health official, who was
named an officer of the Order
of the British Empire; Abraham
Lightman, chief executive of-
ficer of the Food Ministry, who
was named an officer of the
OBE; Charles Edward Sebag-
Montefiore, who was named an
officer of the OBE; and P. Gold-
berg, Assistant of the Labor
Ministry, who was named a
Commander of the British Em-
pire.

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