Congress Adjourns Without Passing
Recommended Immigration Changes

WASHINGTON, (JTA) —
Amendments designed to redis-
tribute some 18,000 unused
quota numbers among immi-
grants from countries whose
quotas are over-subscribed
failed of passage as Congress ad-
journed without a vote.
The measure died as a result
of opposition by Rep. Francis
Walter, chairman of the House
immigration subcommittee.
The bill, passed in the Senate,

died in the House later. Among
other provisions which would
have liberalized the McCarran-
Walter Immigration Act was
one which would have ended the
"mortgaging" of quotas.
This practice, which was in-
troduced to permit more DP's
to enter the United States in
the postwar years, has effec-
tively choked off immigration
from some countries for many
years.

,

Germany Appropriates $1,800,000
to Jewish Communal Pensioners

BONN, (JTA)—The sum of
$1,800,000 has been appropriated
by the West German govern-
ment for the annual payment
of pensions to former rabbis and
other officials and employes of
Jewish communities who lost
their positions when the Nazis
came to power.
At the same time, these pen-
sions have been given new legal
status in a directive published in
the Reichsgestzblatt, the Offi-
cial Gazette of the Federal Gov-
ernment.
The new status affects more
than 2,000 •rabbis, cantor s,
teachers, kosher slaughterers,
social workers, nurses, physi-
cians, librarians, field organizer's
a n d administrative employes
who, in the well-organized Jew-
ish life that flourished in Ger-
many prior to Hitler's advent,
were assured of a pension upon
reaching retirement age. Most
of them fled Germany while
there was yet time. Some were
liberated from Nazi camps in
1945.
Because the German State
abolished all Jewish congrega-
tions and associations of com-
munities at the height of the
Nazi cataclysm, and took over
their assets, even those few
small communities which have
been • re-established in present-
•day West Germany are in no
position to discharge the pen-
sion responsibilities of their pre
decessors.
For that reason, West Ger-
many undertook to assume these
pension payments when it signed
the 1952 Luxemburg Agreement
with the Conference on Jewish
Material Clain Against Ger-
many.
Minimum pensions for for-
mer rabbis or communal offi-
cials have been raised from
$59.50 a month to $65.50, while
minimum pensions for their
widows remain at the former
figure. The minimum pension
for minors who are full orphans.,
and whose fathers were entitled
to a pension, has been increased
from $12 to $18.
All payments can be tran-
sferred freely to the pensioner's

'Soviet Writer Babel's
Death Is Conceded

NEW YORK, (JTA) — Isaac
Babel, famed Russian Jewish
writer whose whereabouts have
been a mystery since 19'38, is no
longer alive, it was revealed in
the Soviet periodical Literatur-
naya Gazeta, which has just ar-
rived here.
The literary journal an-
nounced that a committee had
been named to study Mr. Bab-
el's literary legacy and publish
a collection of his works. It did
not indicate how the writer had
died.
It is suspected that Babel was
killed in a purge of writers.
There • are no references to him
in the major Soviet encyclope-
dias or smaller biographical
anthologies.
Born in Odessa 62 years ago
of a Jewish merchant family,
Babel wrote on Jewish themes
in the Russian language. His
most noted work is a collection
of short stories, entitled "Red
Cavalry," which tells of his ex-
periences with Budenny's cav-
alry during the Russian Revolu-
tion and subsequent civil war.

country of residence and amount
to 80 per cent of the last salary
for the rabbi or communal offi-
cial; 48 percent for his widow,
provided that the marriage was
contracted before October 1952;
and 20 percent for full orphans
under the age of 18, or 12 per
cent for minor half-orphans.
Maximum allowances have also
been augmented. Maximum
monthly paynients have been
limited to $286 for the rabbi or
official, $171 for his widow and
$71 for a full 'orphan.
For the first time, permanent
Christian employes of former
Jewish congregations or insitu-
tions, who under normal cir-
cumstances would have been
eligible for a pension, will be
able to receive it under the new
directive.
According to the new law,
pension applications for former
rabbis, congregational or com-
munal officials can be filed with
the Administrative Section of
the Federal Ministry of the
Interior in Bonn until March
31, 1957.
Eligibility' is restricted to for-
mer pensionable rabbis or of-
ficials who were employed by
congregations o r institutions
within the 1937 borders of Ger-
many or in the City of Danzig.
All such pension payments are
computed retroactively to Octo-
ber, 1952.

Mrs. Warburg Gives
Land for N.Y. Center

Heads Osteopaths

been installed as president of

NEW YORK, (JTA)—Dr. Otto the American College of Osteo-
M. Kurschner, an osteopathic pathic Pediatricians at the Col-
NEW YORK, (JTA) — Mrs. physician of Philadelphia, has lege's annual convention here.
Felix M. Warburg has donated
a tract of 150 acres to the
town of Green-
burg, in Low-
er Westchester,
for the use of
the school
authorities.
The esti-
mated value of
the land is
$500,000. T h e
school authori-
ties sought to
buy the land,
but Mrs. War-
burg gave it to
the school dis- Mrs. Warburg
trict instead. • Included in the
deed is a 40-room mansion, two
smaller houses and a polo field.

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Israel Over-Subscribes
Loan to IL 10,000,000

JERUSALEM, (J T A) — A
10,000,000 pound loan offered by
the Keren Hayesod, fund-raising
arm of the Jewish Agency, to
the Israeli public was over-sub-
scribed within a few hours after
it was listed at local balks,
Zalman Shazar, acting chairman
of the Jewish Agency executive,
reported. The bonds offer 6 1/2
percent interest.

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