Team to Play Here Feb. 14

ilympic Quintet to Oppose
Michigan All Stars at U. D.

Detroit Jewry and the com-
munity at large will have an
opportunity, on Feb. 14, to see
'Isr a e l's Olympic basketball
squad in action, when the 12-
man Israeli team arrives in De-

NATHAN LURIE

troit to play a game against the
"Michigan All Stars" at Uni-
versity of Detroit's fieldhouse.
The Israeli team's appearance
here is one o f several (N e w
York, Boston, Baltimore, Los
A n g e l e s, San Francisco and
Pittsburgh are the others) being
made around the country under
the joint auspices of the Hearst
Newspapers (Detroit Times and
Sports Editor Edgar Hayes
here) and the United States
Committee for Sports in Israel.
The Hearst organization has
underwritten the entire expense
of Israel's team coming to the
United States for this tour,
and proceeds from this series
of basketball games will go to
Israeli sports activities for
youth.
Col. Harry D. Henshel, of
New York, chairman of the
United. States Committee for
Sports in Israel and chairman
of. the United States Olympia
basketball committee, has ap-
- pointed Detr oi ter Nathan
Lurie, chairman of the Board
of ACF-Wrigley Stores, Inc.,
as local head of the drive.
Lurie, in accepting the post,
said: "These youngsters have
traveled thousands of miles from
Israel to show their wares .. .
and isn't it gratifying that it
is sports they come armed
with . . . not weapons of war."
He continued, "this is a won-
derful opportunity to see Israel's
youth in action, not lobbing
grenades at tanks, but lobbing
basketballs on a public court,
before Detroit's citizenry."
Aiding Mr. Lurie are Lou
Luckoff, prominent Detroit ad-
vertising executive who • h a s
been named
head of the
publicity a n d
proinotion
group; Herman
Fishman, f o r-
mer six-letter
athlete a t the
Universi t y of
Michigan in
basketball and
baseball, and
H. Fishman well known in
Detroit insurance circles, and
Robert Morrison, Detroit book
executive and member of the
United States' 1952 Olympic
track squad. The latter two will
supervise ticket sales.
Elmer Ripley, who has coach-
ed Yale, Columbia and Notre
Dame basketball squads, has
been in Israel over a year work-
ing with the team, and is the
Israeli cagers' coach for their
tour of the United States.
Ripley was quoted in New
York, on the team's. arrival:
"Unfortunately c i r cumstances
did not permit the team's com-
peting in the Olympics, but I'm
sure that they would have taken

a 4th . at the very least, since
we beal Bulgaria in pre-Olym-
pic warmups twice, and they
(Bulgaria) finished 4th in
Olympic competition."
By American standards of
player size, the Israeli team is
short in the height department
.. the team's tallest member is
only 6'-4". However, one ob-
server, watching the squad work
out at Jennie Grossinger's up-
state New York resort said:
"Did you notice the spring those
boys have? They can outjump
players who stand 3 to 4 inches
taller than themselves. They'll
do okay in this country."
J6e Lapchick, coach o f S t.
John's College, Brooklyn, and
one-time head coach of the
famed professional New York
Knickerbockers said: "I never
expected to see these fellows
shoot so well. They certainly are
w e 11-grounded i n basketball
fundamentals and show more
savvy and drive than many col-
legiate teams I've seen M this
country."
With about 9,500 seats avail-
able at U. of D's fieldhouse, an
early sell-out is anticipated.
A plus-attraction will be an
exhibition • match between
members of the Detroit Lions
football squad, who play bas-
ketball in the off-season for
physital conditioning, and a
similar group, composed of
major league ball players,
many of them from the roster
of the Detroit Tigers.
It is hoped that, at half-time,
a shot-making exhibition may
be offered, featuring many well-
known Detroiters, who have
long since retired from active
participation in basketball,
The Israeli squad will take
the floor at 8:15 p.m., to oppose
the "Michigan All Stars" whose
head coach is University of De-
troit's Bob Calihan. He will be
assisted by Bill Perigo of the
University of Michigan, Fordy
Anderson of Michigan- State
University, and Joel Mason of
Wayne State University.
While the entire composition
of the Michigan All Stars has
not yet been announced by Cali-
han, the team
will include
three former
University o
Detroit
"greats."
They include
Sam Taub, an
outstanding
guard for the
Titans and a -
graduate o f
Taub
Central High
School; Ralph Goldstein, an-
other U. of D. guard who cap-
tained the 1955-56 team and de-
veloped into the highest scoring
guard in U. of D. history; and
Norman Swanson, 6-6 center
who made the All-Missouri con-
ference team and set a school
scoring record which was sub-
sequently broken by Guy Spar-
row.
Tickets, priced at $5, $3 and
$2, are available at the Davison
and 10-Mile-Oak Park Jewish
Centers, Grinnell's and the Uni-
versity of Detroit Fieldhouse
ticket office.

Coptic Church Head
in Israel Arrested;
Called Egyptian Spy

JERUSALEM, (JTA)—Israeli
authorities have arrested Mor-
cos el Antony, head of the Cop-
tic Church in Israel, on charges
of spying for Egypt, his • native
country, the Jerusalem Post re-
ported. "
The arrest was made last
week, the Post dispatch said,
after Rev. el Antony, who re-
sides in Jaffa, returned to Israel
from a visit to Jordan. It is ex-
pected that the head of the
Christian ohurch will be tried
in camera.

Israel's Hoop Stars

Two Egyptians Play on Tour

By HAROLD U. RIBALOW

(Copyright, 1957, JTA, Inc.)

the U. S. Olympic Basketball
Committee. Charles Kahaner,
Philadelphia philanthropist, i s
chairman for the current tour.
Elmer Ripley will coach the
Israel team. He says that there
are two Egyptians on the squad
and fans in Boston, Baltimore,
Pittsburgh, Detroit, L o s An-
' geles, San Francisco and other
cities (to be named later, prob-
ably because arrangements
haven't yet been completed),
will . see the Egyptians play a
major role in the Israeli attack
(basketball, that is). Marcel

Hefez, team captain and Zach-
aria Ofri are the Egyptians,
Jewish ones, naturally. Hefez'
mother is still in Nasser's Egypt,
unable to leave because s h e
owns property there and hopes
to salvage it. Ripley believes
that the best set-shot on the
team is Danny Erez and a big
boy, Hemmo (6-4), usually is
top scorer. His size, no doubt,
helps h i m. Socky Peled and
Erez Lustig \ are first in catch-
ing on to the jump shot, but all
in all, the Israel team is be-
hind latest American tactics.

Weeks ago, we pointed out
that Israel's national basketball
team, which did not perform
in the Olympic Games, will visit
the United States. Since that
time there has been comparative
silence on most sports fronts.
Now, however, with the an-
nouncement that the first game
will be played with Yeshiva
University at Madison Square
Garden on Sunday, Feb. 3, and
a later game with the Brandeis
Judges, a new power on the na-
tional basketball scene, sports
columnists are busily filling up
their space with accounts about
Israel's players.
The trans-continental tour is
sponsored by the Hearst news-
A Digest of World Jewish Happenings, from
papers and the State Commit- Dispatches of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency and
tee for Sports in Israel. The
Committee's chairman is Col. Other News Gathering Media.
Harry Henshel, a dedicated
United States
sports fan and chairman also of
NEW YORK—Of the 18,000 Jewish refugees from Hungary
who have reached Austria thus far, 75 per cent have been or are
in the process Of being settled in 122 communities in 18 states in
the U. S., United Hies Service reported. The Joint Distribution
Committee has allocated $1,500,000 to ORT for its 1957 vocational
training program. ... An "Anne Frank Memorial" to assist young
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
Israeli writers, has been added to the expanding scholarship pro-
to The Jewish News)
WASHINGTON — President gram of the America-Israel Cultural Foundation (AICF), for-
Eisenhower told a press con- merly American Fund for Israel Institutions. The memorial was
ference here Wednesday that established through the AICF by a gift from Frances Goodrich
he deplored any discourtesy and Albert Hackett, authors of the hit drama, "The Diary of Anne
shown a visitor like King Saud Frank." . . Moses A. Leavitt, JDC executive vice-chairman, was
reelected chairman of the American Council of Voluntary Agen-
of Arabia.
The President said that an cies for Foreign Service . . . Bnai Akiva of North America, reli-
official reception for the king gious Zionist youth movement, at its three-day conference here,
-did not necessarily imply any endorsed a scholarship institute in Israel to provide a year-long
approval of internal actions work and rabbinical study program.
within another country. The - WASHINGTON—A proposal to eliminate the national origins
president has been asked of quota requirements from the present immigration law was made
his views of criticism of Saud. in Congress by 28 Democratic Congressmen, headed by Rep.
In the President's view it Emanuel Celler.
did not promote the cause of
Canada
peace by talking only with
MONTREAL — A shipment of 375,000 bushels of Canadian
those with whom you agree. wheat worth $950,000 left from Vancouver aboard the S.S. Pan-
Mr. Eisenhower said you must egos, it was announced by the Canada-Israel Corporation, bring-
at times talk with people -with ing to $8,500,000 the total value of Canadian wheat shipments to
whom you disagreed to elimi- Israel.
nate misunderstandings a n d
TORONTO — The government of Ontario was told by the
work towards peace.
Canadian Jewish Congress that the worst fears it entertained 11
In this light, said the Presi- years ago before the introduction of religious instruction in the
dent, he was obliged to any public schools of the province have been realized in the interven-
head of estate who, was willing ing years...
to come to talk to him and who
realized the President's diffi-
Europe -
culty of visiting abroad.
PARIS—The Joint Distribution Committee has given the
The President was asked if Association for the Establishment of Foreign Refugees a check
he intended to take up with for 10,000,000 francs in recognition of its aid to Jewish expellees
Saud questions of slavery in from Egypt.
Saudi Arabia and racial and
THE HAGUE—There are 65 Jews among the 5,000 Hungarian
religious discrimination. Mr. refugees admitted into Holland, and 27 of them hope eventually ._
Eisenhower said he was not to enter the United States, Canada and Australia.
going to be discourteous to the
FRANKFURT—Edmund Weiss, a 15-year-old machinist's ap-
king by saying in advance
what he would discuss. But, prentice, was sentenced to 20 hours work to repairs damages
said, the President, he had in when he persuaded four friends to join in smashing 30 tomb-
the past pleaded for equal stones in the Jewish cemetery of qickenhofen, near Darmstadt.
BRUSSELS — Belgian authorities are assisting 30 Jewish
treatment for all Americans.
Hungarian refugees to settle here.
ISTANBUL — The historian and world famous Sephardic
New York City Bars
leader, Prof. Abraham Galante, was honored here on his 74th
Reception to Saud
birthday. He is the author of 59 books on Ottoman Jewish history
and is a former member of the Turkish Parliament.
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)
LONDON—The Jewish Colonization Association has made
NEW YORK — The City of special grants to assist Jewish refugees from Hungary and Egypt
New made it clear Tuesday that ... Jewish communities in Poland have decided- . to accept the offer
King Saud of Saudi Arabia, of the Rabbinical Council of America to provide Polish Jewry
while being the guest of Presi- with a gift of 100 tons of matzoth and 5 tons of ,Matzoh flour, it-
dent Eisenhower is not the guest was reported here from Warsaw.
of the city. No hospitality what-
KIEL — Carl Clauberg, Nazi gynecologist who subjected
soever was extended by the city
to the Arab ruler when he ar- thousands of Jewish woman to agonizing sterilization tests in
Nazi concentration camps, was indicted here, 13 months after
rived Tuesday morning.
M o r e than 100 policemen his arrest.
were assigned to keep the
Israel
crowds away from the pier
TEL
AVIV—Habimah
Theater
has announced that it will
where the king's party landed
and a motorcycle escort pro- sponsor the planting of an Anne Frank . Forest in Israel to honor
tected the king on his way to the memory of the adolescent Dutch Jewish girl who died at the
the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, but hands of the Nazis and the memory of other Netherlands Jews
unprecedented orders were is- who died at the hand of the Nazis. "The Diary of Anne Frank"
sued by the police department had its premiere in Jerusalem on Jan. 31. . . . Two ships with
to the escort to observe all traf- 1,100 immigrants, including 600 Egyptian Jews, landed in Haifa
fic regulations, including speed Sunday.
JERUSALEM—Mayor Gershon Agron told a Rotary Club
limits and traffic lights.
While New York ignored King meeting that whole sections of Israel's capital have been marked
Saud's arrival, a squadron of for demolition as part of a campaign to modernize the city. . . .
Navy Destroyers gave a 21 gun The ultra-orthodox Neturei Karta, which regularly requires po-
salute, a military band and a lice attention, sent blessings to Yehiel Langer, retiring assistant
marine guard of honor greeted police superintendent who had a farewell party here. . . . A pro-
the Arab ruler on behalf of the posal to insure women against accidents in the home was made
United States Government. The here by Mapai Knesset member Mrs. D. Netzer during discussion
king proceeded to Washington on amending the national insurance law. . . . Haifa and Tel Aviv
where he was met at the air- are vying for the site of a major observance of ISrael's tenth
anniversary.
port by President Eisenhower.

Afround the

Eisenhower Asks
Courtesy for Saud