$6;000 Fund Honors Hordes' 60th
Birthday With. Trees in Negev
A gathering of close to 300, a
number of them representing
local organizations and congre-
gations, including a number of
rabbis and prominent commun-
ity leaders, on Tuesday evening
honored William Hordes at a
dinner on his 60th birthday.
Under the toastmastership of
James I. Ellmann, who was
chairman of the Hordes Testi-
monial Committee, high honors
were paid to both Mr. and Mrs.
Hordes for their untiring com-
munity efforts, but especially to
the Jewish National Fund, under
whose auspices the dinner was
arranged.
Mr. Ellmann, in his opening
remarks, evaluated Mr.
Hordes' activities in behalf of
the JNF, the Allied Jewish
Community Council, congrega-
tional life and many other
activities.
After the dinner, Mr. Ell-
mann announced that a Mile
of Trees will be planted in Mr.
and Mrs. Hordes' honor in the
Negev in Israel. While $4,000
is needed to achieve this task,
the sum of $6,000 was con-
tributed by those attending
the dinner.
Greetings were extended to
the Hordeses- by Sidney Shevitz,
Irving Schiussel, and Mrs. Jules
Kraft, in behalf, respectively, of
the Jewish Community Council,
Jewish Welfare Federation and
Ladies' Auxiliary of the JNF. In
his invocation, in Hebrew, Rabbi
Jacob Chinitz bjessed Mr.
Hordes with good wishes for
continued community service.
There were touching mo-
ments when Mrs. Hordes spoke
words of affection to her hus-
band, expressing the hope that
he will have the strength to
continue his work for Israel.
Mrs. Hordes presented to the
JNF a $500 Israel bond as her
gift towards the Mile of Trees
gift in her husband's honor.
Earl Hordes, the elder son,
also greeted his father in
brief remarks and read mes-
sages of greetings from many
organizations and congrega-
tions and from leaders in this
country and in Israel.
Especially acclaimed was the
messages from the Hordes
children, Herbert and Nessia
Hordes, from Jerusalem. The
daughter and son-in-law, Mr.
and Mrs. Edward (Evelyn)
Wishnetsky, a n d grandson,
Richard Wishnetsky, and Mrs.
Earl Hordes, were among those
on the dais.
The principal guest speaker,
Mendel Fisher, national JNF
director, spoke in glowing terms
of the Hordes' efforts for the
JNF and -Israel. He presented
Mr. Hordes with a certificate
especially engraved for him in
Israel to indicate the planting
of the Mile of Trees. Sidor
Belarsky was guest soloist, ac-
companied by Bella Goldberg.
In his remarks to the gather-
ing, Mr. Hordes, expressing grat-
itude for the honors given him,
told of his major interest—
Zionism. He related the difficul-
ties for Zionism in Russia at the
hands of the Communists, con-
demned Communism as a mur-
derous movement and pointed to
it as proof that only the end of
Jewish. homelessness in Israel
could solve the Jewish problem.
Friday, March 19, 1954
Prof. Chain Honored in
Germany; Fled Nazis
FRANKFURT, (JTA) —P r o f.
Ernst Boris Chain. co-discoverer
of penicillin and world renowned
scientist, who was driven from
Germany a refugee of Nazism,
was presented with the Paul
Ehrlich Prize for Medical Re-
search for 1954, at a ceremony
opening the centennary celebra-
tion of the birth of Dr. Ehrlich.
_ Dr. Chain, son of Russian
Jewish parents who settled in
Berlin, is currently head of the
department of research in
chemical microbiology at Rome's
Instituto Superiore di Sanita. At
47, Dr. Chain is chairman of the
experts committee on anti-
biotics of the World Health Or-
ganization, UN affiliate. A Nobel
Prize winner, Dr. Chain recently
became a member of the board
of governors of the Weizmann
Institute of ' Science at Reho-
voth.
The ceremony was held in St.
Paul's' Cathedral, now a German
secular shrine, and was witness-
ed by West German President
Prof. Theodor Heuss. half-a-
dozen Nobel Prize winners and
high German government offi-
cials. Also present were two
daughters of Prof. Ehrlich, who
journeyed here from New York
and Los Angeles.
Putting Two & Two Together
• By
RINNA GROSSMAN
An American Jewish Press Feature
This week I am going to tell
you a story—not an ordinary
one but a rousing adventure
yarn, packed with action and'
suspense, and set in an exotic
foreign capital, celebrated in
fiction for centuries as a site of
intrigue and excitement. But
this story is a present-day one
and unlike most adventure stor-
ies—it has a moral.
It all started a few weeks ago,
on January 3, when a British
civil aircraft enroute from Nic-
osia, Cyprus, to Teheran, Iran,
made an emergency landing in
Bagdad. There were three Is-
raelis aboard the plane. Two of
them were women. One, in ad-
dition to her Israeli passport,
was also in possession of a Dutch
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passport.
All three were taken into cus-
tody and detained. They are
still in detention. No informa-
tion has been vouchsafed by the
Iraqi government as to their
welt ar e or whereabouts. No
'queStibr4s, regarding these three
abdusCtetl , Israelis have been
ans4red by the Iraqis.
A !Strange, stony silence has
greeted queries made by the
Secretary-General of the United
Nations, the International Red .
Cross and t h e International
Civil Aviation Organization. The
only statement made at all runs
somewhat- as follows: the three
Israelis are citizens of an "en-
emy" country
What are the facts?
1. There are no Iraqis held
in Israel. All questions relat-
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ing to Israeli or Arab prisoners
to make their Seder,
of war were settled over five
more than the ration allows...
years ago.
2. The government of Israel
see that your Israel friends
has always (with not a single
get the food we take
example to the contrary) per-
for granted,
mitted nationals of Arab
strictly kosher for Passover...
countries to proceed on their
journeys under similar cir-
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cumstances.
$10, $15, $20, $25 or $50
3. The captain of the Bri-
and let them shop themselves...
tish plane raised no objection
or give your choice of
to the Israelis being forcibly
removed from his aircraft
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nor did the British Embassy,
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which insisted that the plane
itself be released, make any
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of all the passengers.
4. The arrest and detention
of passengers in transit is a
flagrant defiance of interna-
tional procedure — and a ges-
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DETROIT JEWISH NEWS-17
Austria's New Offer on Jewish
Claims Considered Unacceptable
VIENNA, (JTA)—An offer by
Chancellor Julius Raab of Aus-
tria to pay 30,000,000 schillings
($1,200,000.) to the Vienna Jew-
ish Community on account of
the Jewish claims for restitution
and heirless Jewish property was
regarded in Jewish circles as a
sign of - goodwill but as unac-
ceptable in the present circum-
stances.
Chancellor a a b announced
his offer at a Cabinet meeting.
He said it had been made to the
Committee on Jewish Claims on
Austria as an advance install-
ment on world Jewish claims—
to be used to support aged and
needy members of the Jewish
community in Austria—pending
a final settlement.
Austrian government sources
stated that the Chancellor's
letter, addressed to Dr. Na-
hum Goldmann, head of the
Jewish claims committee, said
that the Austrian government
would a d d to this whatever
further value might be agreed
to in a final settlement. On
the other hand, a government
spokesman said, the govern-
ment rejects Jewish demands
for compensation on other
Jewish losses which cannot be
restored.
It was considered doubtful
that the world Jewish organiza-
tions banded together in the
claims committee would accept
the offer. They had stipulated
an advance payment of 50,000,-
000 schillings on a lump sum
settlement of heirless property
and the additional sum of 100,-
000,000 schillings as compensa-
tion for other losses which can-
not be restored. The Vienna'
Jewish Community whose rela-
tions with the claims commit-
tee are of the best, is consider-
ed certain to declare Chancellor
Raab's offer unacceptable.
The Austrian government's
latest proposal, foreign observ-
ers believe, is a result of the
government's uncertainty over
what the next move of the
Jewish claims committee will
be and as a result of diplo-
matic intervention by the Is-
real government which has
called for an early settlement.
Dr. Goldmann said in N e w
York this week, that no offer
had been received from the Aus-
trian government. He said:
"Our demands are simple. We
are requesting only a fraction
of the actual amount of o u r
losses under Nazi rule. An insig-
nificant token amount, however,
would neither help the victims
nor cancel the moral obligation.
Present Austrian legislation for
Nazi victims is inadequate. We
can settle for nothing less than
reasonable advance payment for
heirless property to hard core
cases."
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