Mina Bargrnan Testimonial Luncheon
Produces $90,000 Israel Bond Sales

Portrayal of 'Life of Federation'
.orr,

24—DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Friday, January 22, 1954

Many Greet S-M
On 25th Birthday

Scores of messages of greet-
ings reached the Simons Michel-
son Co. with good wishes on the
firm's 25th anniversary, marked
last week. In his column on
Jan. 14—the day following the
anniversary—John Carlisle made
this interesting comment:

Leading figures at the Mina Bargman Testimonial: left to
right: seated, Mrs. SAMUEL B. DANTO, honorary committee
chairmaa; Mrs. MILTON MAHLER, testimonial chairman; Mrs.
REUVEN SHILOAH, guest speaker; Mrs. JULIUS RING, chair-
man of miscellaneous groups; Mrs. ROBERT .DREWS, publicity
chairman; standing, Miss LILLIAN FISCHER, Detroit women's
director for Israel bonds; Mrs. PHILLIP STOLLMAN, hostess
chairman; Mrs. BENJAMIN BOND; Mr. BARGMAN; Mrs.
MORRIS KURTZMAN, chairman of the day; Mrs. MAX STOLL-
MAN, hostess chairman; and Mrs. ALFRED HECKER, chairman
of the day; Mrs. WILLIAM GOLDBERG, of Grand Rapids, presi-
dent of Central States Region of Hadassah.

An audience of 350 persons
purchased a total of $90,000 in I
vital role. She bock
also received
a
Israel bonds to attend the Mina a leather-bound
which in-
Bargman testimonial luncheon
Tan. 14 at Congregation Shaarey eluded a pictorial history of her
three years of activity in the
Zedek.
The testimonial paid tribute bond drive, a listing of the
to Mrs. Theodore Bargman for honorary sponsoring committee
her leadership activities in the for the testimonial and an honor
bond drive, in which she serves scroll with the names of those
cis Women's Division chairman, at the honor luncheon. The pre-
were made by the
and four other social agencies— sentations
United Community Services of testimonial co-chairmen, Mrs.
United Foundation, Hadassah, Milton Mahler and Mrs. Joseph
Family Service Association of Katchke.
America and Jewish Social Serv- Mrs. Reuven Shiloah, wife of
ice Bureau. She is now president the Israel Minister to the U. S.,
of the latter.
delivered the key address. Mrs.
Mrs. Bargman was presented Shiloah drew a line of corn-
With a gold "Leadership Brace- parison between the women of
let," containing five engraved both democracies, noting that
discs, symbolizing the five or- both were living under demo-
ganizations in which she played cratic forms of government.

Many Organizations Join in Support
Of Jerusalem's 3,000th Anniversary

Many local organizations, rep-
resented by 150 people, were re-
corded last Sunday, at a confer-
ence at the Woodward Jewish
Center, as enlistees in the move-
ment to sponsor the celebration
of Jerusalem's 3,000th anniver-
.sary.
Detroit's celebration will be
held at the Masonic Auditori-
um on Feb. 14.
Explaining that all those
who buy a minimum of a $50
Israel Bond, or sell a minimum
of $250 in bonds, in honor of the
celebration, will receive a free
admission ticket. David Safran,
steering committee chairman,
pointed out that the name of all
the bond buyers will be inscribed
in • a permanent record to be
presented to Michael Simon,
Chief of Protocol for the State
of Israel, during the anniversary
program, to become a part of the
archives of the State of Israel.
Phillip Stollman, celebration
Committee chairman, told the
organizational heads of the seri-
ous overtones of the results of
the Holy City anniversary ob-
servance.
Pledging full-strength coop-
eration of their various groups,
all attending leaders announced
quotas of tickets and bonds they
would secure. Mrs. Samuel Aaron
pledged 1,000 tickets for the
Women's Division of Israel
Bonds, with a similar number
coming from Abe Nusbaum for
Mizrachi and Sam Gottlieb for
several lodges of Bnai Brith. To-
tal sales were estimated at 5,000
bonds in the amount of $250,000.
Rabbi Jacob E. Segal, of Adas
Shalom Synagogue, was guest
speaker at the breakfast meet-
ing.
According to Stollman, the
following organiaztions will par-
ticipate in the 3,000th Anniver-
gary Celebration:

Congregations Adas Shalom, Adas Yes-
hurun, Agudath Israel Ahavas Achim,
Anschey Bcreznitz, Beth Aaron, Beth
Aaron V'Israel, Beth Abraham, Beth
Itzchock, Beth Moses, Beth Shmuel,
Beth Tefilo Emanuel, Beth Tikvah, Beth
'Yehudah, Bnai David, Bnai Israel. Bnai
Jacob, Bnai Moshe, Bnai Zion, Chesed
Shel Emes, Dov Frenkel, Ezras Achitn,
Gemiluth Chassodim, Mishkan Israel,
Mogen Abraham, Nusach Harie, Shaar-
ey Shomaim, Shaarey Zedek, Shaarey
Zion, Young Israel, Downtown Syna-
gogue, Suburban Temple, Talmud Torah
Synagogue, Temple Beth El and Temple
Israel, American Jewish Congress, Bnai
Brith Men, Bnai Brith Women, Farband-
LZO, Hadassah, Hebrew Cultural Soci-
4544 Infant Service Group, Jewish Na-

tional Fund, Jewish War Veterans, Jew-
ish Women European Welfare Organiza-
tion, Landsmanshaften Societies, League
of Jewish Women's Organizations, Miz-
rachi Organization, Mizrachi Synagogues
and Religious Groups Committee, Miz-
rachi Women, National Council of Jew-
ish Women, Ort, Pioneer Women, Poale
Zion-LZO, Synagogue Sisterhoods, Zeda-
kah Club, Zionist Organization of Detroit
troit.

When their friends are dis-
cussing friendship they no
longer refer to Damon and
Pythias. They say, "Leonard
and Larry." Leonard Simons
and Larry Michelson have
been friends for 35 years and
partners in an advertising
agency for 25 years. They have
never had an argument.

Protests Distribution
Of 'Protocols of Zion'

BOSTON, (JTA)—A protest
against distribution in the U.S.
mails of copies of so-called
"Protocols of Learned Elders of
Zion," has been made to Post-
master-General Arthur E. Sum-
merfield by Rep. James A. Burke
of Suffolk District.
Rep. Burke reported receipt of
the pamphlet in the mails in an
envelope without a return ad-
dress. He asked the Postmaster
General to "look into the mail-
ing privileges, if any, of the ad-
dressor and determine whether
or not any of the nation's postal
laws are being violated."
He also asked Mr. Summer-
field to call the matter to the
personal attention of the At-
torney General "To determine
that there is no violation evident
in this mail of the Federal laws,
particularly pertaining to the
spread of Communism."
Copies of the "Protocols" are
being distributed to members of
the Massachusetts legislature by
Conde McGinley, anti-Jewish
publicist, according to the local
office of the Anti- Defamation
League.

A feature of the January Institute of the Women's Division
of the Jewish Welfare Federation held recently was a presenta-
tion, patterned after the TV show, "This is Your Life." Repre-
senting the growth of the Jewish community and the Jewish
Welfare Federation in the past 52 years were the following
members who participated in the dramatization: left to right,
standing: WILLIAM AVRUNIN, associate director of the Feder-
ation; BERNARD ISAACS, superintendant, United Hebrew
Schools; Mrs. JOHN C. HOPP, past president of Women's Divi-
sion, vice-president, National Women's Division, UJA; Mrs. JOHN
FARCUS, a foster mother for Jewish Social Service Bureau; IRWIN
SHAW, director, Jewish Community Center; MARY CAPLAN,
supervisor of Mothers' Clubs of the Center; SAMUEL H. RUBIN-
ER, Federation president; seated, Mrs. JOSEPH L. EHRLICH, a
founder of the Women's Division; and Mrs. MAX FRANK, who
portrayed "Mrs, Federation." Acting as M.C, is Mrs. LEONARD
H. WEINER.

Hillel Progress Outlined, Zwerdling
Honored at Ann Arbor Conference

By JONATHAN SOBELOFF

ANN ARBOR—The 30th anni-

versary of the founding of the
Bnai Brith Hillel Foundation
movement was the occasion here
for honoring Osias Zwerdling, of
Ann Arbor, for his outstanding
contributions to Hillel and to
the community.
Meeting here last weekend to
observe the Hillel anniversary
and pay tribute to Zwerdling
on his 75th birthday, the general
committee of District Grand
Lodge No. 6, Bnai Brith, heard
addresses by Rabbi Arthur J.
Lelyveld, national director of
the Hillel Foundation, and Bnai
Brith President Philip M. Klutz-
nick.

Klutznick cited the great
material achievements of the
American Jewish community
and stressed the need for a

Austria Admits Liability for Heirless Property;
Clarifies Terms, Restitution & Compensation

NEW YORK, (JTA)—A state-
ment admitting that the ques-
tion of Jewish claims for heirless
property in Austria "is still
awaiting final settlement" was
issued by the Austrian Embassy
through its consultate here.
The statement says that "ac-
cording to the records of the
Austrian government not more
than $1,000,000 to $1,500,000
worth of heirless property would
now be available" and • claims
that the rest of the heirless Jew-
ish property was "destroyed
during the war or is still being
administered by so-called 'Ger-
man assets' by the Soviet occu-
pation authorities."
"The Jewish organizations,"
the statement declares, "have
on their part submitted claims
upwards to $40,000,000, based on
a rough estimate not of the
present value of such heirless
property, but on the general
losses suffered by Austrian Jews
under German occupation in the
years of 1938 to 1945.
"The Austrian government
has stated repeatedly that
Austria does not want to en-

rich herself with Nazi loot and
is therefore ready to provide
for the use of the still avail-

able heirless property for the

Nazi victims. The Austrian
government declines, however,
most categorically to pay com-
pensation over and above
these values for wrongs it did
not commit and that it could
not prevent because it was it-
self the victim of the circum-
stances.
"There is, of course, a funda-

mental difference between 'res-
titution,' meaning the return of
the property still in existence,
and 'compensation,' which
means indemnifying for losses, a
distinction not always clearly

conceived by those who com-
ment on that issue. The Aus-
trian government wishes to res-
titute, but refuses to compen-
sate, because it is of course not
responsible for the deeds of the
German Reich," the statement
emphasizes.
Asserting that "the bulk of
Jewish property had already
been returned to the former
owners or their legal heirs" un-
der the existing restitution laws,
the Austrian Embassy statement
declares:
"An obstacle to a speedy dis-
position of the heirless property
which the Jewish organizations
apparently overlooked, but
which is very much in the mind
of the Austrian authorities, is
that under Article 44 of the
present Austrian Treaty Draft
such property, rights and inter-
ests have to 'remain heirless or
unclaimed for six months after
the corning into force of the
present Treaty' before they are
to be handed over to appropri-
ate agencies or organizations to
be designated by the Four HeadS
of Mission in Vienna in agree-
ment with the Austrian govern-
ment."
Taking issue with the fact
that the Austrian negotiations
have been compared to nego-
tiations between the govern-
ments of Germany and Israel
and Jewish organizations, the
statement says:

"Such comparison is mis-
leading. Germany has accept-
ed responsibility f o r t h e
wrongs done to Jews not only
in Germany, but also in coun-
tries under German occupa-
tion and has therefore agreed
to compensate the victims or
their heirs and survivors. Aus-
tria, which was one of the

countries occupied by Ger-

many, has no such obligation,
and the Israeli government
has never approached the
Austrian government in that
respect.

re-emphasis of Jewish cul-
tural and religious strength.

Touring the University of
Michigan's Hillel building later
with local Hillel director, Dr.
Herman Jacobs, Klutznick was
especially impressed by the
modern, functional construction.
Fifty men representing the
189 Bnai Brith lodges in eight
midwestern states and four Ca-
nadian provinces, in addition to
another 50 Ann Arborites and a
Detroit delegation, attended the
meetings.
Attending from Detroit were
Sidney J. Karbel, second vice-
president of the District; Harry
Yudkoff, Samuel W. Leib, Dr.
Lawrence I. Yaffa, Milton M.
Weinstein, Maxwell M. Lowe, Hy
Crystal and Rabbi Max J. Kapu-
stin, director of Hillel at Wayne
University.
The group was greeted for the
University of Michigan by Rev.
DeWitt C. Baldwin, director of
Lane Hall.
At a luncheon meeting Kar-
bel presented Zwerdling a

plaque recognizing Zwerdling
as the father of the Hillel
movement in Ann Arbor.

The 'invocation at the lunch-
eon was given by Dr. Jacobs,
and the closing benediction by
Rabbi Julius Weinberg, of Beth
"Austria has, however, the ob- Israel Community Center.
Zwerdling was cited by
ligation and the desire to re-
turn stolen property, rights and Rabbi Lelyveld as an example
interests and it has carried out of "an authentic Jew." During
this obligation to the general a dynamic talk on "Inau-
satisfaction of all concerned, thentic and Authentic Jews,"
only the question of heirless Rabbi Lelyveld said Zwerdling
property still awaiting final set- typifies the authentic Jew
who "lives out the implications
tlement."
of his Jewishness."
It is reported from Vienna
At a later informal session of
that Dr. Emil Maurer and Wil- students and others in the Hillel
helm Krell, president and gen- building library, Rabbi Lelyveld
eral secretary of the Board of pointed to the library's book-
Jewish Communities in Austria, filled shelves as indications of
have returned from Zurich the kind of resources that are
where they conferred with Dr. helping Jewish young people to
Nahum Goldmann, head of the "turn and return" to Jewish-
Jewish Claims Committee, on ness.
The National Hillel organiza-
the attitude of Austria toward
tion is planning to add to the
the Jewish claims.
stock of such books by publish-
Delegates from Germany, Is- ing a new series of "Little
rael and Australia gathered in Books" as a general guide to
Rome to determine the amount Jewish problems for students.
of compensation which the
First in the series, which will
Jewish State should pay for the be added to each semester, will
holdings left behind by Protes- be Ludwig Lewisohn's "What Is
tant "Templars" when they were the Jewish Heritage?"
deported by the Mandatory Pal-
estine government during the
war, because of avowed Nazi Milton Katz Named to
sympathies.
Harvard Law Faculty

The "Templars" are a Swa-
bian sect who settled in
Palestine during the 19th
century and, after many vi-
cissitudes, prospered as farm-
ers. Almost all of them em-
braced Hitlerism with such
vigor that, at the time of
Rommel's advances in Africa,
the British shipped them to
Australia as a precautionary
measure. About half of them
remain there, the other half
are ,making their way to Ger-

many.

BOSTON, Mass., (JTA)—Mil-
ton Katz, former administrator
of the Marshall Plan in Europe,
more recently associate director
of the Ford Foundation, has
been appointed director of in-
ternational legal studies and
professor of law at Harvard Uni-
versity. A graduate of Harvard
and Harvard Law School, he
previously filled the . chair of
Byrne Professor of Administra-
tive Law at Harvard. He will
remain as program counsellor

to the Ford Foundation.

