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Cotton in Israel
Becoming King

By NURA LASKY

Copyright, 1955, JTA

JERUSALEM, JTA—All over
Israel thousands of people are at-
t..nding the cotton harvest, which
will yield an estimated 6,500,000
pounds of fiber, a sufficient
amount to cover about 40 per
cent of the country's lOcal cotton
needs.
This year, the treasury will
save between $2,000,000 and $2,-
500,000 in foreign exchange by
importing only 60 per cent of
the country's raw cotton require-
ments, and next year or the year
after it will save about $6,000,000
—and all the necessary cotton
will come from Israel's own soil.
Pests, ',Which this year have
been bothering neighboring Syria
and , Egypt, did not affect the
Israel plantations. The climate
and the water were just right.
In the Beisan Valley in the
north, in the Sharon Shomron
Plains along the coast, and in
the vast flatlands of the South,
the cotton thrived, bringing in
a record average of 1,100 pounds
per. acre (compared with 1,040
in Arizona which, we are told,
is one of the best cotton areas in
the United States.).
What is more, even sober for-
eign experts who don't get senti
mental over "firsts" in Israel,
assert that the quality of the
ginned fiber is among the finest
in the world as regards strength,
character and color. It is one of
the crops to which Israelis have
taken—or rather, which has taken
to Israel's soil—with a rare speed.
Problems of production and
machinery are still to be solved.
When cotton areas are again
doubled next year, the question
of introducing picking machines
will become acute. Even though
hand pickers this year have done
wonderfully—a couple of young
girls have raised the record to
220 pounds in an eight-hour day
—it was difficult to round up
enough of them, and in many
areas pickers had to be brought
over long distances.
Production ,costs will also drop
with more experience, as man-
power, machinery and transpor-
tation costs drop, so that it 'can
be expected that, in 1956, import
prices plus premiums for above-
_average quality . will leave the
growers a profit that will make
it worth their while to continue
raising this crop:

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Nazi Camp Commander
Sentenced to Life Term

HANOVER (JTA) — Ernst
Heinrich Pramer, Nazi comman-
der. of a Jewish forced labor
camp near Tarnopol, Poland, was
sentenced to life imprisonment
at hard labor by a German court
at Oldenburg following his con-
viction on charges of murder,
manslaughter and attempted mur-
der of Jewish prisoners under
hi._ command. The court meted
out the severest penalty allowed
under German law.

Pramer was charged specifi-
cally with the killing of 184 Jews.
Among the 29 witnesses who tes-
tified to his crimes were several
surviving Jewish prisoners who
had come from Israel and the
United States to give testimony.

Seminary Publishes Tosefta Edition

Publication of the first three
volumes of the Tosefta in a new
edition, edited by Dr. Saul Lie-
berman, was announced by Dr.
Louis Finkelstein, Chancellor of
the Jewish Theological Semin-
ary of America, where Dr. Lie-
berman is professor of Talmud.
The Tosefta, second in im-
portance only to the Mishnah
in the field of Talmudic Law,
consists of six orders, or tracts,
of which the present volumes
contain the' first. It is estimated
that upon completion, this first
definitive edition will extend to
18 volumes.
An advance copy of the Tos-
efta, which is the first publica-
tion of the Louis M. Rabinowitz
Research Institute in Rabbinics,

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Windsor to Honor
Reuben. Madoff at
Negev Fete Dec. 4

was presented to Mr. Rabinow-
itz, chairman of the Seminary's
library committee, at the open-
ing convocation of the Semin-
ary, Sept. 11. Four days later,
The • Windsor Jewish Com-
a second advance copy was pre- munity Council will honor one
sented to Israeli President Ben of its distinguished leaders,
Zvi by Edward Lawson, Ambas- Reuben Madoff, at a "Negev
sador to Israel. '
Dinner," Dec. 4, at the Shaar
The Tosefta is., available Hashomayim Synagogue.
through the Bloch Publishing
Mr. Madoff, a former cam-
Co., 31 W. 31st St., New York 1. paign chairman and a leader in
his Community's school, will be
given recognition at this dinner
Dissolve Jewish Masons
LONDON; (JTA) — The Grand for his many years of service to
Masonic Lodge of Egypt and the Jewish causes. Proceeds of the
Arab countries has decided to dinner will be used to redeem
dissolve all local Jewish lodges a Nachlah in Israel in his honor.
"in conformity with the Arabs'
aspirations," it was reported here DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
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by the Reuter news agency here.
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Jews File Charges
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DUSSELDORF, (JTA) — The
Central Council of Jews in Ger-
'many has filed a complaint
against Dr. Karl Clauberg, for-
mer major general in the SS,
who headed a "medical experi-
mental center" at the Auschwitz
extermination camp.
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hero's welcome given by the gov-
ernment and population to re-
turned prisoners, a $1,500 grant
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vas
- tigation.
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many, gave an interview to the
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ments he had conducted on
Jewish women at the Auschwitz
center. The Jewish group called
upon surviving victims of his
experiments to be available as
witnesses for the prosecution.

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approved by the steering com-
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