Bavaria Seeking to Re-Open
Approved Restitution Cases
er, or in the relatively few
instances of sales at third and
fourth hand. There is hardly
one of the approximately 100,-
000 _"Aryanizers," howeve r,
who does not pretend to have
acted in "good faith."
MUNICH (JTA)—The Commit-
tee on Petitions of the Bavarian
Parliament has unanimously ap-
proved a motion calling upon the
Bavarian government to reopen
restitution cases that have al-
ready been closed through return
to the original Jewish owner of
the house, real estate or business
involved.
The motion bears the official
endorsement of all five party
delegations in the Landtag: the
Social Democratic Party, the Free
Democratic Party, the BHE re-
fugee party, the Bavarian Party
and the Christian Social Union.
Last November, the Legal Com-
mittee of the Bavarian Parlia-
ment unanimously adopted .a res-
olution describing the mandatory
return principle of restitution
legislation as "contrary to pub-
lic policy and morals" and ask-
ing for its abrogation.
"Surely every judge knows,"
Dr. Wuellner of the BHE refugee
It urges the Federal govern- party told his fellow-legislators
ment to take appropriate meas- at the time, "that the restitution
ures "to avoid cases of obvious law, which has been forced upon
hardship in the future and to us, does not constitute the will
set to rights such cases of of the American people. It eman-
hardship as have occurred in ated from a certain group which
has in the meantime had to take
the past,"
The hardship referred to is not a back seat."
that suffered by the expropriated
and harassed Jews. It is,the hard- The Devil, You Say?
ship complained of by the "Ary--
ariizers," the Germans who took
over the Jewish property and had
to return it after the war.
Where they claim to have pur-
JERUSALEM ( J T A ) — In a
-chased in "good faith," they de-
mand full compensation from the ceremony reminiscent of Euro-
Federal treasury. Within the pean ghetto life, t h e Belser
framework of an imminent Rebbe drove a dybbuk (evil
"equalization of domestic hard- spirit) out of the body of a_
ships" program, their chances young woman here.
The woman, mother of four
are considered good.
The restitution laws promul- children and a recent immigrant
gated by the Allies stipulate that from Turkey, came to the Rebbe
property taken from the Jewish after consulting with a Turkish
owner under Nazi pressure must rabbi in Israel and Israeli physi-
be returned, regardless of the cians. The doctors found that
claimed "good f a i t h" of the she was suffering from "nervous
present holder, but provided the disturbances."
The Belser Rebbe commanded
Jewish restitution claimant pays
back the amount he himself re- the dybbuk to leave. He em-
ployed a Yiddish formula. How-
ceived.
This does cause inequities ever, the rites were translated
where the purchase price was into Turkish since it was as-
confiscated by the Nazis and sumed that a dybbuk in a Turk-
did not reach the Jewish own- ish woman would not under-
stand Yiddish commands.
The Belser Rebbe began the
ceremony by asking the woman
whether she accepted the laws
of the Torah. Weakly she re-
The Beautiful
*plied that she did. After a num-
ber of other questions, the
Rebbe commanded the dybbuk
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BERLIN (JTA)—Heinz Galin-
ski, president of the Berlin Jew-
ish Community since 1948, has
been confirmed in his post at
the first meeting of the new
board of trustees, which the
membership at large elected last
month.
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Honor Miss Hennock
On FCC Retirement
Miss Frieda B. nennock, who
is retiring as a member of the
Federal Communications Corn-
mision, will be honored at a tes-
timonial dinner on Wednesday
evening at the Shoreham Hotel
in Washington, D. C.
Among the sponsors of the din-
ner are former President Harry
S. Truman, Mrs. Eleanor Roose-
velt and Gov. W. Averell Harri-
man of New York.
Miss Hennock,
a sister of Mr.
Jack Hennock
and Mrs . A.
Gerson of De-
troit, h a s been
the subject of
laudatory e d i -
torials and arti-
cles; regretting
the fact that she Miss Hennock
was not reappointed by President
Eisenhower when her term ex-
pired.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch
declared that she "gave the FCC
a spark of imagination and in-
dependence which has seemed
sadly lacking in that agency
regulating radio, television and
other interstate communications.
Nobody could question her devo-
tion to the public interest.
"In fact, the nation would not
now have a system of echication-
al television if it had not been
for Miss Hennock. She fought
commercial telecasting interests
and. official colleagues to get TV
channels set aside and made safe
for education."
Refuse to Give Up
Catholic Youngster
BOSTON (JTA)—With a war-
rant out for their arrest for al-
leged contempt of court, Melvin
B. Ellis, a Jewish businessman of
nearby Brookline, and his wife,
failed to surrender their four-
year-old adopted daughter whom
they had been ordered to give
up -because the child's natural
mother is a Catholic.
The attorney for the Ellises
said that the couple -had. not- come
to court because Mrs. Ellis was
ill from anxiety over the child.
The attorney said the child might
be surrendered later but said
that "we haven't decided yet just
what is to be done." He also said
that the Ellises would "fight to
the finish" to keep the child.
Mr. and Mrs. Ellis have cared
for the girl, Hildy McCoy, since
she was 10 days old. Marjorie
McCoy, the child's mother, was
unwed when the infant was taken
off her hands by the Ellises, but
she has since married.
When Mr. and Mrs. Ellis ap-
plied for adoption papers recent-
ly, Probate Judge James F. Reyn-
olds turned down their petition
on the grounds that, as Jews,
they should not adopt a child of
Roman Catholic parentage.
The child's natural mother has
said that she will turn Hildy
over to a Catholic organization
for placement in a Catholic foster
home. Ellis has said he would
give up the child to her mother
if she will bring her up, rather
than surrender her to the organi-
zation. He has also offered to
raise the child in the Catholic
faith if the court permits him
to keep her.
Germany Pens Loophole
Into New Army Law
Free Labor Zionist Head in Romania
LONDON, (JTA)—Mark Abir,
left-wing Labor Zionist youth
leader in Romania who was sen-
tenced a year ago to 20 years'
imprisonment, has been released
by Romanian authorities, accord-
ing to information received here
by the World Jewish Congress.
Romania and maintaining contact
with the Israel legation.
The Bucharest Military Court
sentenced Abir to 20 years' im-
prisonment, but he . appealed to
the. Supreme
Military Court,
which ordered a new trial.
As a result of the trial, the
court at Bucharest again found
him guilty, and sentenced him to
a prison term of four years, but
ordered him released immediately
since he had already been de-
tained for almost six years.
Abir was brought to trial only
last year, along with 20 other
former leaders of the Hashomer
Hatzair group, on charges of or-
ganizing emigration of Jews from
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