Max M. Varon,. Counsul of Is-
rael in New York, will speak at
the first fund-raising meeting
of the 1958 Allied Jewish Cam-
paign, announces Mrs. Eugene
J. Arnfeld, pre-campaign chair-
man of the Women's Division.
The meeting, for women who
contribute $500 or more, will be
held at the home of Mrs. Aaron
Gershenson, 1700 Wellesley
Drive, 1:30 Thursday.
"In the 1957 Campaign, 269
women in the pre-campaign di-
vision raised $366,753. In view
of most urgent overseas rescue
needs, and the absolute neces-
sity of maintaining local and
national agencies at their pres-
ent levels, at the very least, we
plan to do even better this
year," said Mrs. Arnfeld.
Varon is a former director of
the Jewish National Fund and
was a World War II officer in
the Jewish Brigade of the Brit-
ish Army.
Special events chairman Mrs.

MAX M. VARON

Abraham Srere,, and her vice-
chairmen, Mrs. Harry Jacobson
and Mrs. Jack J. Wainger, have
charge of arrangements for
Thursday's meeting.

Three Israelis Sentenced to
Life Imprisonment for Murder
of Dr. Rudolph Kastner

Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News

TEL AVIV—Three men were
convicted Tuesday by the dis-
trict court of intentional mur-
der in the 1957 slaying of
Dr. Rudolph Kastner, central
figure in the controversial trial
involving charges of collabora-
tion with Nazis, and were sen-
tenced to life imprisonment.
Those sentenced were Joseph
Mankes, Zeev Eckstein and
Dan Shemer, the court holding
all three guilty, despite con-
: fessions by Eckstein and She-
mer that they alone did the
• actual killing. The court found
that Menkes had been the'plan-,
ner of the slaying, as the other
two contended during the trial,
and that Eckstein was the
killer while Shemer was the
driver of the stolen jeep in
which he took Eckstein to the

scene of the killing.
Menkes' defense counsel said
'he would not ask for commu-
tation of the sentence but that
he would file an appeal. The
attorneys for the other de-
fendants asked for communta-
tion.
Dr. Kastner was killed March
3, 1957, when he was returning
from his work as night editor
of the local Hungarian lan-
guage daily. He had been the
subject of a widespread two-
year public debate on whether
he had collaborated with the
Nazis when he arranged for
the emigration of more than
600 Jews from Nazi-occupied
Hungary during World War II.
Dr. Kastner was accused by
an Israeli court in a libel suit
with "selling his soul to the
Nazi satan" during the Nazi
occupation of Hungary.

Maparn About-Face Noted in Its
Call for USSR Fairness to Jews

Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News

TEL AVIV
The once
strongly pro-Soviet Mapam
ended its annual conference
Monday night with resolutions
demanding that the Soviet
Union permit a renewal of
Jewish cultural and national
life, according Russian Jews
freedom of expression and
education and permit them to
emigrate to Israel as well as
to allow Russian Jewry to
maintain ties with world
Jewry.

Delegates, who ended their
deliberations in a more cheer-
ful mood than that in which
the convention began, reiter-
ated the party's standing de-
mand for a neutralist Israel

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policy of non-alignment and
non-identification with either
side in the cold war. The re-
newal of a coalition govern-
ment in which Mapam retained
participation was responsible
for a more confident closing
mood.
The conference stressed the
need to change the present
system of taxation which, the
delegates asserted, was a bur-
den mainly on Israel's working
class. They urged the imposi-
tion of a more "progressive"
system, including taxes on
luxury apartments. They also
asked that tax payment be in-
cluded in determination of the
cost of living index.

Stage Star Gives
Polish Jewry Leaves Doors Open
Reason for Conversion for Affiliation with WJ Congress

NEW YORK, (AJP)—In an
interview published in the cur-
rent issue of the National Po-
lice Gazette conducted by Bob
Hartford ; the famous Broadway
and night club star Sammy
Davis gave his main reasons
for accepting the Hebrew faith.
"I found the Jewish faith has
a basic simplicity and a refresh-
ing freedom," Davis told his in-
terviewer Hartford who is an
old friend of his. "It isn't regi-
mented," he said. "The more I
studied it the more I liked it.
Now I go to the synagogue
whenever I have time and I
consider myself a Jew."
Asked how he had become a
Jew, Davis told Hartford:
"People seem to think that
there must be some kind of
ritual involved in converting to
the Jewish faith—but there just
isn't. All I did was to study
the Jewish religion and accept
it as something that I believe
in. I attend Jewish services and,
as far as possible, I observe the
Jewish holidays and celebra-
tions. And Jewish people ac-
cept me as one of them. It is
as simple as that."

LONDON (JTA)—The Cul: outlined at the plenary session
tural Association of the Jews of the Association in Novem-
in Poland, representative body ber. World Jewish Congress
of Polish Jewry, in a statement leaders asserted that the reso-
issued in Warsaw, reiterated lution adopted at the plenary
its stand on the possibility of session contradicted the spirit
its joining the World Jewish of the negotiations which had
Congress and emphasized that been conducted in Warsaw be-
such a possibility exists and tween representatives of the
that "a mutual understanding Association and a delegation
can be reached."
of the World Jewish Congress.
The statement was issued in
connection with the conditions
Variety is the mother of en-
for affiliation with the WJC joyment.—Disraeli

JOHNNY LEBOW

IS NOW
GENERAL MANAGER
OF

HANLEY DAWSON

UN 4-2300

14501 W. 7 MILE RD.
(1 BI. W. of Couzens Hwy.)

AMERICAN SAVINGS

ASSOCIATION

AND LOAN

FINANCIAL STATEMENT as of Dec. 31, 1957

OFFICERS

Authorized Capital $100,000,000.00

ADOLPH DEUTSCH

President

SAMUEL HECHTNLAN

rict-President
and Chairman of the Board

ASSETS

JACK SYLVAN

$ 3,089,678.08
Cash on Hand and in Banks
4,936,718.76
United States Government Bonds
1,005,348.78
Other Investment Securities
Stock in Federal Home Loan Bank.. • • • 1,085,000.00
54,492,306.66
First Mortgage Loans

(F.H.A. and V.A. Government
Insured Mortgages included)

Vice-President

ALFRED L. DEUTSCH

Treasurer

NATHAN I. GOLDIN

Secretary

FRED J. RUELLE

Assistant Vice-President

GEORGE M. ZELTZER

Assistant Vice-President

ALEX PRUJANSKY

Assistant Treasurer

14,300.00
...
Loans on Savings Accounts
2,255,913.38
Land Contracts Purchased
80,516.27
Real Estate held for Redemption
23,720.65
Real Estate Owned
Furniture, Fixtures and Equipment
164,661.32
less Depreciation
53,313.39
Accounts Receivable
383,704.36
Deferred Charges and other Assets
$67,585,181.65
TOTAL

MRS. F. W. MAURER

Assistant Secretary

EDWARD D. ELLIS

Assistant Secretary

DIRECTORS

CHARLES CANVASSER

Vice-President

State Plumbing Supplies
ADOLPH DEUTSCH

ALFRED L. DEUTSCH

Treasurer

CHARLES L. DODGE

Vice-President

Standard Cotton Products Co.
STANLEY N. EARP

LIABILITIES

President

$62,150,430.80

Savings Accounts

(All Accounts insured up to $10,000.00)

Advances from Federal Home
1,587,500.00
Loan Bank
28,081.84
Loans in Process
14,249.92
Accounts Payable
Advance Payments by Borrowers
for Insurance and Taxes. . • •,• • • •1•
592,621.23
Unearned Profit on Land
Contracts Purchased •
113,525.11
Unearned Discount on Loans
324,033.43
Purchased
..• • •••,.
Uncollected Interest on Loans
46,075.36
and Contracts ......
.......
308.87
Other
2,728,355.09
Reserves
TOTAL.
$67,585,181.65

go

Citizens Mortgage Corp.
SAMUEL N..GERSHENSON

President

Devonshire Management Co;
NATHAN I. GOLDIN

Secretary

SAMUEL S. GREENBERG

Attorney-at-Law

SAMUEL HECHTMAN

Vice-President

and Chairman of the Board
MAXWELL JOSPEY

President

Production Steel Coil, Inch
GRAHAM A. ORLEY

•

LONDON, (JTA) — Radio
Moscow unleashed an attack on
Israeli Premier David Ben-Gur-
ion, charging him with "work-
ing quite overtly to transform
Israel into a bridgehead for
the offensive of the imperialist
powers against the free and in-
dependent countries of the Mid-
dle East."
The Moscow radio charged
that information from Israel
clarified "the real meaning of
the ambiguous statements made
in the communique issued after
the Paris meeting of the NATO
Thuncil about the situation in
the Near and Middle East hav-
ing been discussed." A similar
attack on Israel was made in
the Moscow newspaper Red

Star, organ of the Red Army.

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DEXTER OFFICE:

Vice-President

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JACK SYLVAN

Vice-President

JOSEPH WARREN

President

Warren Fibre Products Co.

600 Woodward Ave. at Congress St., Detroit 26, Michigan

6060 W. Fort St. at Military, Detroit 9, Michigan

19100 Livernois Ave. at W. Seven Mile Rd., Detroit 21, Michigan

VAN DYKE OFFICE;

OAK PARK OFFICE:

President

Famous Cleaners & Dyers
JACK S. ROSS

12246 Dexter Blvd. at Cortland Ave., Detroit 6, Michigan

FORT ST. OFFICE:

LIVERNOIS OFFICE:

President

Algonquin Corps
HARRY ROSMAN .

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Moscow Radio Attacks
Premier Ben-Gurion

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President

19040 Van Dyke at E. Seven Mile Rd., Detroit 34, Michigan

13700 W. Nine Mile Rd. nr. Coolidge Hwy.; Oak Park 37, Ailichigao

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3-THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS—Friday, January 1 0, 1958

Max M. Varon, Israel Consul,
to Address AJC Women's Event

