Dayan to Arrive in Detroit;
JWV to Pay Honor General

Henny Littman, state corn- 1953, Gen Dayan was ,,appointed
mander, Department of Michi- Chief of Staff, after attending
gan, Jewish War Veterans of the Senior Officers' School in Great.
United States, announces that
Ma j. Gen. Moshe Dayan, Chief Britain. Gen. Dayan, who speaks
of Staff of the Israel Defense fluent Hebrew, • English and
Forces, will be guest at a JWV !Arabic, is a native of Israel.
At the JWV luncheon on
luncheon in the Pan-American
room of the Sheraton Cadillac Thursday, Gen. Dayan will be
presented with a set of hand-
Hotel, next Thursday.
Gen Dayan is making a tour engraved resolutions bearing on
of American military installa- Israel, passed by the recent JWV
tions and will visit the Ford Mo- convention. The presentation
tor Company plants in Detroit. will be made by Samuel J.
At 39, Gen. Dayan is the young- Rhodes, local attorney, leader in
est Chief of Staff of any coun- JWV and chairman of the com-
try maintaining standing de- munity relations committee of
the Jewish Community Council.
fense forces..
He had a brilliant career in the
British Army, where he was sec- Death Beats Reparations
ond in command to the late In German Slowdown
Brig. Gen. Orde Wingate, famous
for his commando operations Of Financial Payments
during World War II against
NEW YORK, (JTA)—The West
pro-Nazi Arabs and in Burma.
German Federal individual in-
Gen. Dayan lost an eye when demnification program is pro-
he led a Jewish advance force ceeding so slowly that many
of the main body of the British
Jewish victims who apply for its
and Australian forces against
Nazis in Syria. Although a grad- benefits die before their cases are
uate of the Senior Agricultural settled, it was revealed here in
School at Nahalal, Israel, Gen. an analysis of 20,000 pending in-
Dayan, as a youth, joined the demnification cases.
The study, completed by Kurt
Baganah, the Jewish self-de
tense organization in what was Grossman, expert on German
indemnification, disclosed that
then Palestine.
After service in the British 40 per cent of the applicants are
Army, he was successfully com- "priority cases"—aged, ill and
mander of Jerusalem, command- those in need. The average case
er of the southern region and handled by the Federal govern-
Commander of the northern re-1 ment takes between two and four
gion of the Israel Defense Forces ,years before • an applicant gets
after the re-establishthent of even part of his claim, Grossman
the State of Israel. In November, established.
b.
He noted that of the more
than 500,000 cases submitted to
the indemnification offices in
the United States zone of Ger-
man by April 30, 1954, only 136,-
000 had been settled, 70,000 fav-
orably.
He underscored the fact that
the indemnification program,
which is expected to handle 700,-
000 applications before it is corn-
pleted, is not likely to settle its
business by 1962, as it is sup-
posed to, if it takes four years
to settle 136,000 cases.
Stressing the need for speed-
ing up the program, Grossman
pointed out statistically that
many of the applicants will have
died before obtaining any bene-
fits if the program continues to
lag.

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Seek to Protect
Fixity of Sabbath

PARIS, (JTA) — French For-
eign Minister Pierre Mendes-
France has requested Acting
Chief Rabbi Jacob Kaplan of
France to present the views of
French Jewry on a world cal-
endar reform proposal, it was
learned here this week.
Dr. Kaplan pointed out that
the Jews are not opposed to cal-
endar reform per se, they merely
want to guarantee the fixity of
the Sabbath and oppose a n y
scheme which would not pro-
vide for such stability.

PLATT IS QUALIFIED

• Former Assistant Prosecutor
• Z3 Years Practicing Attorney
• 41 Months Active Navy Duty, World
War II
• 27 Months Service, Korean War

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SAMUEL S. PLATT

PROSECUTING ATTORNEY

Republican

ELECT . . JOHN J.

JAKUBIAK

COUNCILMAN

(No. 668 ON THE BALLOT)

For Better Transportation for Detroit, Clean City Government

• World War 11 Veteran
• Member Div. 26, A. F. of L. 13 Years
.11 Endorsed by Labor, ; Civic "off fratTrnal Groups

iReform Jews Creating
A Forest in Israel

U. S. Tercentenary to Be Marked in Jerusalem

JERUSALEM, (WJA) — Three American Tercentenary Commit-
hundred years of Jewish settle- tee and president of the Ameri-
ment in the United States will can Jewish Congress.
The Tercentenary celebration
be marked in Jerusalem by a
public meeting on Monday, with is being arranged by the Israel-
the Prime Minister as principal American Friendship League in
speaker, said Dr. Nahum Gold- Jerusalem. Gershon Agron, its
mann, speaking on behalf of chairman, will preside.
the World Jewish Congress, and
Dr. Israel Goldstein, respond- 10 DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, July 30, 1954
ing as associate chairman of the

—

A forest in Israel will be
planted by Reform Jews with
the help of a check which
JAMES H. MILLER, of Cleve-
land, (right) gives to MENDEL
FISHER, director of the Jewish
National Fund. Dr. MAURICE
EISENDRATH, president of the
Union of American Hebrew Con-
gregations, watches the presen-
tation which took place at an
oneg shabbat at UAHC head-
quarters in New York. Miller is
chairman of the- UAHC project
to build a forest atop Mt. Atz-
mon. in Israel. The check is for
a grove of 500 trees purchased
by children at Euclid Avenue
temple, Cleveland, honoring the
35th anniversary of the ordina-
tion of their rabbi, Dr. Barnett
R. Brickner.

38 Detroit Women
To Attend Hadassah
New York Conference

The Detroit Chapter of Ha-
dassah, women's Zionist organ-
ization of America, will be rep-
resented at the 40th annual
convention in New York City,
Aug. 22 to 25, by 38 delegates
and alternates.
Heading the local contingent
will be Mrs. William B. Isenberg,
president of the Detroit Chap-
ter. The group will leave on
Aug. 21 to join 3,500 other dele-
gates representing Hadassah's
1,100 chapters in each of the 48
states, Alaska and Puerto Rico.
The convention, to be address-
ed by prominent U. S. and Is-
raeli leaders, will map the blue-
print of Hadassah's $9,000,000
program of medical, social wel-
fare, child rescue and rehabilita-
tion, vocational education and
land redemption in Israel, as
well as fostering a creative Jew-
ish life in this country through
Jewish education.
Scheduled to speak at the
parley are Sen. A. S. Monroney,
of Oklahoma, Israel Ambassador
Abba Eban, Mayor Robert Wag-
ner, of New York, Dr. Kalman J.
Mann, director general of Ha-
dassah Medical Organization in
Israel, and Moshe Kol, Jeru-
salem, director of World Youth
Aliyah.
Convention highlights will
include the premiere of a can-
tata, composed by Judith and Ira
Eisenstein in honor of the 20th
anniversary of Youth Aliyah and
an Israel fashion show, featur-
ing clothing designed and made
by Israeli students in Hadassah's
Alice Seligsberg School in Jeru-
salem, which will be narrated by
Tex McCrary and Jinx Falken-
burg.
Among the Detroiters planning
to accompany Mrs. Isenberg to
the parley are:
Mesdames Sam Arkin, Theo-
dore Bargman, Davis Benson,
Allen L. Bernstein, Reuben Bien-
stock, Herman K. Cohen, Morse
M. Colten, A. Cooper, Sam Croll,
Ralph Davidson, Joseph H. Ehr-
lich, Max Frank, Aaron Fried-
man, Lawrence Grushko, George
Kamenow, Alvin B. Lezell, Jack
Milen, Jack W. Perlman, Joseph
Ravit, Maurice Reistman, Jesse
A. Rice, Samuel Sadler, Morse R.
Saulson, David J. Schachter,
Frank Schefman, Carl Schiller,
Harriett Talbot, G. Weingarden,
Irving Weinstein, William Wets-
man, Louis Zeff and Misses
Sadye Garfinkle, Elaine Glenner,
Miriam Goldstein, Bluma Levin
and Goldie Slakter.

CARD OF THANKS
The family of the late Anna
Blatt acknowledges with grate-
ful appreciation the many kind
expressions of sympathy extend-
ed by relatives and friends dur-

ing the family's recent bereave-
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