Visitors Warned Against i
Asking Aid in Arizona
P H O E N I X, Ariz., (JTA)—A
warning to newly-arrived Jew-
ish families nct to remain in
this state if they are going to
require financial assistance was
issued by Hh'sh Kaplan, execu-
tive director of the Jewish So-
cial Service. His warning fol-
lowed a special 'meeting of the
agency's case committee to con-
sider increasing demands for aid
as employment continued to
slack off here.
Chair of Hebrew and Semitics
Established at Penn University
PHILADELPHIA, (JTA)—Es-
tablishment of the Ellis Chair of
Hebrew and Semitic Languages
and Literatures at the Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania was an-
nounced by President Gaylord P.
Harnwell. A gift from A. M. Ellis,
Philadelphia. philanthropist, has
enabled the university to inau-
gurate the new chair.
The announcement was made
PAUL TALBERG
CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT
ANNOUNCES
THE OPENING OF HIS OFFICES
FOR THE PRACTICE OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTING
AT
415 FOX BUILDING
DETROIT 1, MICHIGAN
WOodward 3 - 1410
Res: TOwnsend 5-3919
Dexter & Cortland
Attending were civic leaders,
representatives of the University
trustees, administration and fa-
culty, and members of the Ellis
family. Mr. Ellis' gift to the Uni-
versity was motivated by a life-
long interest in Biblical studies.
Dr. Ephraim A. Speiser, interna-
tionally known archaeologist,
linguist and chairman of the
University's Department of
Oriental Studies, has been ap-
pointed to the Ellis Professor-
ship.
Dartmouth Students Vote
Against Fraternity Bias
HANOVER, N.H. (JTA)—Stu-
dents of Dartmouth College
voted to outlaw fraternity dis-
crimination on grounds of race,
religion or national origin. The
vote, in which 85 percent of the
student body participated, was
1,128 to 1,120 in favor of the
anti-discrimination clause.
The student governing council
will request the college trustees
to make a ban on fraternity dis-
crimination effective April 1,
1960, giving fraternities six years
to eliminate discriminatory
practices.
Fete Bar Mitzvah
Of Ivan Sol. Bloch
All of the members of the
Board of the Yeshivath Beth
Yehudah, its teachers, students
and officers, extend congratula-
tions to Mr. and Mrs. A. Howard
Bloch on the occasion of the
Bar Mitzvah of their son, Ivan
Sol, at 9 a.m., Saturday, April
10, in the Yeshivah Synagogue.
The Bloch's eldest son, Harry,
was a student in the Yeshivah
Day School for four years, and
also observed his Bar Mitzvah at
the Yeshivah. Ivan was pre-
pared for study at the North-
west Branch of the schools.
Mr. Bloch, long an ardent
worker f o r Beth Yehudah
causes, is a co treasurer of
the new school wing building
fund of the Schools, being con-
structed on Dexter and Sturte-
vant. He also is a member of the
Yeshivah Executive Committee
and was chairman of the 1953
benefit dinner and show co-
sponsored by the Synagogue and
Businessmen's Councils of Beth
Yehudah.
Robert Carnick to Open Ceremony
Invite Public to Cornerstone Laying Program
Council and Building Commit- started just recently, under the
tee. This event is called for 11 guidance of Samuel Hechtman,
a.m., Sunday, at Horowitz Ca- chairman of the Building Com-
The honor Of laying the cor- tering.
mittee, who stated that the proj-
Construction on the annex to ect will be completed in time for
nerstone for the new classroom
building of the Beth Yehudah the Beth Yehudah Schools was the Fall Semester of the Schools.
Schools has been accorded to Mr.
Robert Carnick, a principal ben-
efactor of the expansion ven-
ture, who contributed $10,000 to
the project.
Mr. Carnick, who is founder
and chairman of the board of
the Copco Steel and Engineering
Co., will put the stone in place
at special ceremonies, to which
the public is invited, at 1 p.m.,
Sunday, April 11. The program
except for the cornerstone cere-
mony, will be held at Mogen
Abraham Synagogue, Dexter
and Cortland.
Guest speaker will be Rabbi
Harry I. Wohlberg, spiritual
leader of Cong. Shomrei Emu-
nah, Brooklyn, Faculty Member
of Yeshiva University and a Na-
tional Vice-President of the Miz-
rachi Organization of America.
Before the public ceremonies,
Rabbi Wohlberg will be tendered
a brunch, to be sponsored by the
Yeshivah Boar d, Synagogue
MR. ROBERT CARNICK
Rabbi Harry Wohlberg
To Be Guest Speaker
Friday, April 9, 3954
KARLSRUHE, Germany, (JTA)
West German Republic upheld
I an application of the infamous
Nuremberg racial law and thus
enabled a Dutch Nazi war
criminal to escape extradition
and punishment for murder.
At issue was the present le-
gality of a decree by Hitler in
1943 conferring German nation-
ality on foreigners of German
stock who volunteer6d for serv-
ice with the military Elite
Guard, provided they measured
up to the racial requirements of
the Nuremberg Laws.
German nationality conferred
by this decree was claimed by
W. A. Polak, 38, a Dutch-born
war criminal and S.S. vortmteer.
Polak, who was serving a life
term in Breda, Holland, follow-
ing his conviction with six other
Nazis for the murder of four
Dutch resistance leaders, fled
from prison and escaped to West
Germany. The Dutch authorities
sought his extradition.
Polak, who had never applied
for German citizenship, success-
fully claimed it under the -1943
decree in arguments before the
court. Germany does not permit
extradition of her own nationals,
regardless of the nature of their
crimes.
The Jewish
National Fund
Announces
Sunday, April 1 I
As Pesach 5714
BLUE BOX
CLEARANCE DAY
and Cordially Asks
the Blue Box Holder
to Welcome the Volunteers
Who Will Come
to Clear Your Blue Box
Austrian Leaders Hear
Social Security Protest
VIENNA, (JTA)—The board of
th Austrian Jewish Communi-
April 9, 1954 the
School Celebrates 2 Big Events
MASTER IVAN SOL BLOCH
6—DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
at a luncheon in Mr. Ellis' honor. — The Supreme Court of . the
Beth. Yehudah News
Vol. 1, No. 1
Hitler Decrees Still
Hold in West Germany
ties has protested to Chancellor
Julius Raab, Vice Chancellor
Adolf Schaerf and leaders of the
two parties comprising Austria's
coalition government, against a
draft measure submitted to
Parliament by the government
which would deprive a number
of Austrian Jews whO emigrated
from Austria of social security
benefits.
The draft would provide that
social security benefits due per-
sons who fled Austria after the
Nazi "anschluss' would be can-
celled if at any time between
September 5, 1951 and Decem-
ber 31. 1953 they spent more
than three months in Austria.
While the • government recog-
nizes the _right of refugees from
Nazism to social security bene-
fits due them as Austrians it
asserts in this measure that if
they returned for a period long-
er than three months. they
"could" have remained in Aus-
tria and therefore are not refu-
gees but normal emigrants who
have therefore surrendered their
social security rights.
Bonn Supreme Court Veep
Returns to Regular Post
BONN, (JTA) — Dr. Rudolf
Katz, who for two months served
as Acting Chief Justice of the
German Supreme Constitutional
Court following the death of
the former Chief Justice,
stepped down from the highest
judicial post in West Germany
following the election of Dr.
Joseph Wintrich as Chief Jus-
tice.
Dr. Katz resumed his post as
vice-president of the c o u r t,
which sits at Karlsruhe and is
invested with more power in
the political sphere than ever
before enjoyed by a German
court. In that sense, Dr. Katz
occupied one of the highest gov-
ernment positions ever held by
a Jew in Germany.
"The most recent Arab outrage
against Israel, "the bus massacre,
will not stop us from carrying out
our land-development program in
the Negev, which we began before
the establishment of the State of
Israel and which we are resolved
to continue until the vast area is
dotted with Jewish settlements.
"The Jewish National Fund aims,
through its program of reclama-
tion and afforestation, to convert
the desert into fertile land cop-
able of sustaining a large agri-
cultural population."
DR. HARRIS J. LEVINE,
National President of J.N.F.
Mir
If your Blue Box is not cleared on
or'before Sunday, April 1 1 , please
call the office of the Jewish Na-
tional Fund.
Remind the worker to enter the
amount collected from your Blue
Box into the Blue-White Box ac-
count book. If you haven't' on
account book, ask for it.
Open Restitution Office
For Information
FRANKFURT, (JTA) — The
United Restitution O f f i c e, a
non-profit organization which
provides legal assistance to in-
digent Jewish indemnification
applicants in pressing their
claims before German adminis-
trative agencies and courts, has
opened new German headquar-
ters here.
Honor Late Justice Perlman
NEW YORK, (JTA)—Borough.
President Julan E. Jack of Man-
hattan renamed a two-square
block area in Manhattan in
honor of the late Justice D. Peri-
Man, who died in 1952. Judge
Perlman, one-time Congress-
Editor and Publisher This Edition is a Board Member off tfte Yeshivah Who Appreciates the Ovid- man, was a leader of the Ameri-
an
Zeal and Generosity Mr, Carnick and Mr, Ifoivard „Mach Have Shown toward the Yeshivah, can Jewish Congress.
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