orld... Around the A Digest of World Jewish Happenings; from Dispatches of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency and Other News Gathering Media. Hebrew Schools to Graduate 16 Students from High School; to Erect New Building United States WASHINGTON—A Department of Immigration spokesman told the American Association of Jews from Egypt that the ad- ministration does not plan to use the parolee section of immigra- tion laws for cases other than Hungarian refugees. The associa- tion appealed to the State and Justice Departments to extend the same treatment to Jewish refugees from Egypt. . . NEW YORK — New York University officials, explaining impossibility to make any o,ther change, "because of commit- ments for services and equipment, has postponed for 24 hours the university's 1957 graduation exercises, inadvertently set last fall for the first day of Shevuot. • .. At a cost of $300,000,000, Israel will admit in the next 10 months the largest amount of immigrants since 1949, 100,000 refugees from behind the Iron Curtain, Egypt and North Africa, Dr. Dov Joseph, Jewish Agency treasurer, announced here . A parchment scroll Of the Book of Esther was presented to Mayor Robert F. Wagner to mark the 45th anniversary of the founding of Hadassah . . The York Times reports that the Catholic Church has thrown its influence into the fight against anti-Semitism in Poland. The weekly Tygodnik Powszechny, which represents the views of the Polish Catholic Primate, declared: "Anti-Semitism is corn- ,pletely pagan in essence," It's graduation time for 16 young men and women in the high school division of the United Hebrew Schools. The graduates, pic- tured here with their instructors, are, left to right, seated: ARELLA BARLEY, CHAR- LOTTE HYAMS, SANDRA KUTNICK, AL- BERT ELAZAR, superintendent of UHS; ADA ROTHENBERG, MARSHA KUTNICK and MYRA COHEN; standing, STEPHEN ROD- Europe ROME—A group of center and leftist Chamber of Deputy members called on the Ministers of Interior and Justice to take action against the "Paper of the Fascist Revolution" and curb its anti-Jewish agitation. STUTTGART—The German District Court here has imposed a three-month prison term on Erich Teich, a former county leader in the Nazi party who sold a Jew-baiting book on Hitler, .despite a government ban on it. HAMBURG—Die Welt, a leading Hamburg newspaper, pro- tested government application of a 16 percent "amusement" tax on admissions to a movie house here showing the French • docu- mentary "Night and Fog," which deals with the Nazi concentra- tion camps of the Hitler regime and was boycotted by most West German film distributors. GENOA—Dr. Vittorio Pertusio, mayor of Genoa, apologized to the president of the Genoa Jewish Community after hoodlums, for the second time in two years, desecrated a memorial here to Jewish victims of Nazism by covering it with red paint and Nazi symbols. LONDON—To insure against the sale of securities which may have been sequestered from Jews in Egypt, the government has suspended permission to trade in securities by or in behalf of residents of the Egyptian monetary area. BERCHTESGADEN—U. S. Jewish soldiers held a religious .retreat here at the former hunting lodge of Hermann Goering. GENEVA—Eran Laor, European representative of the Jewish Agency, arrived from Israel to arrange for transportation of ref- of the World ugees to Israel .. . Max Braude, director from- North African ORT Union, reported here upon- his return fro/ma tour that there are jobs for-every skilled mechanic graduated from ORT vocational schools in Tunisia and Morocco. STOCKHOLM—Swedish Foreign Minister Osten Unden told Parliament the United Nations Emergency Force must remain in Gaza until calm and order is restored, and pledged that Swedish troops would be kept in UNEF. More than usual attention is being given the United Hebrew Schools' high school graduation, scheduled for 8:15 p.m., Wed- nesday, at Beth Aaron Syna- gogue, because of an effort now being inaugurated for the erec- tion of a building to house all Hebrew High School activities. Plans for such a building are expected to materialize soon. Sixteen young men and wo- men who have completed the required four-year course of study will receive their Hebrew diplomas. A highlight of the commencement will be the pre- sentation of a cantata, "Shir Hashirim" (The Song of Songs), under the direction of Mrs. Chana Stiebel and Shimon Gewirtz. The graduates, who studied Bible in the original. Hebrew language and composition, Jew- ish history, Mishna and current events, will qualify to enroll in the Midrasha in time for the Latin America BUENOS AIRES—A national educational council to coordi- nate educational activities of all political movements within the Jewish community was set up by 400 delegates from 120 schools and institutions throughout Argentina. Israel TEL AVIV—Minister for Development Mordecai ben Toy said Israel is extracting a "fair amount" of uranium needed for atomic research in this country . Minister of Trade Pinchas Saphir reported that Israel has granted the request of the new State of Ghana to provide it with economic and technical advice. An economic delegation from Ghana is expected here soon, and Israel's West African trade representatives are now in Accra, the Ghana capital, surveying Ghana-Israel trade possibilities. . . . JERUSALEM—The cost of living index continued its unin- terrupted climb last month and reached a new high of 259. It rose from 250 in December to 254 in January, and if it is not stemmed • by April 15 a new series of wage increases will go in to effect. . . . The Israel Treasury announced. completion of long-term financ- ing arrangements for the purchase of 200 passenger buses from the British Leland Company at a cost of $2,100,000. • Two Israeli Officers, 9 Border Police Stand Trial for Massacre of 47 Arabs (Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News) JERUSALEM — Two Israeli officers and nine border police- men killed 47 Arab vilagers in -Kafar Kassem last Oct. 2 ,9 in violation of orders from superior echelons, the prosecutor told a military court trying the men Tuesday. The prosecutor charged that . the ranking officer in the unit, Maj. S. Malinski, had instructed Lt. G. Dehan and his nine men to shoot villagers returning from the fields after a curfew deadline had been set in their absence. The prosecutor said that Lt. Dehan and his men knew that the orders were illegal, and - cited the fact that two other police squads under Maj. Malin- ski's command had received the same Orders but did not act on them in imposing curfews on neighboring villages. The prosecutor further charged that after his men had killed 14 Arabs returning from the field, Lt. Dehan rode through Kafar Kassem firing at - Arabs and personally killed three others. The • president of the three- man court, Judge Benjamin Halevy, dismissed a defense mo- tion demanding that he dis- qualify himself because he had conferred with Maj. Gen. Moshe Dayan, Army Chief of Staff, before the trial. In open tes- timony, Gen. Dayan testified that the aspects of the case they discussed were- whether, in the interests of national security, the case should be tried in open court or in camera. Haifa Refineries Fire 12 Leftists (Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News) TEL AVIV — Four Arab and eight Jewish workers have been dismissed by- the Haifa Oil Re- fineries because of their affilia- tions with extreme leftist and Communist organizations, refin- ery officials announced Wednes- day. The dismissals were ordered by the Defense Ministry which called the workers security risks. The dismissed workers have appealed to the Knesset and to the Histadrut executive for re- instatement. ZIN, MICHAEL WEINSTEIN, ANDREW KOHEN, I R VIN G SORSCHER, MARK EICHNER, A. J. LACHOVERM, instructor; Dr. MAURICE M. SHUDOFSKY, principal; JOSEPH HAGGAI, instructor; ME L VIN SCHMITTEL, DAVID ELAZAR, LEONARD ROSENTHAL, SANFORD F I N K E L and JERRY KUTNICK, Ceremonies are planned for this Wednesday evening. prayer. The public is invited to spring quarter of this year. Lawrence W. Crohn, chair- attend. man of the UHS education com mittee, will present the diplo- mas, and Mrs. Charles A. 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