Mrs. Roger Barnes was re- -
elected chairman of the Wo-
men's Committee of United
Community Services at the or-
ganization's 23rd anniversary
luncheon at the Masonic Tem-
ple.
Sharing executive duties with
Mrs. Barnes will be two new
vice-chairman, Mrs. A. Stansell
Bush and Mrs. Martin L. Butzel.
Other newly-elected officers in-
clude Mrs. Edwin W. Rosen-
thal, Jr., financial secretary,
while new members elected to
the 60-member Women's Com-
mittee governing board in-
eluded Mrs. Oscar M. Zemon.
Dr. William Haber, nationally
noted professor of economics
at University of Michigan, was
principal luncheon speaker.
Drawing from his world-wide
experiences Dr. Haber focused
his address on the increasing
need for social services in the
world today.
A Digest of World Jewish Happenings, from Dis-
patches of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency and Other
News Gathering Media.
Europe
LONDON—Commander A. H. P. Noble, Minister of State
for Foreign Affairs, said in' Commons that the British govern-
ment has no doubt of Israel's ability to defend herself against
one Arab state or a combination of Arab states . . .
STOCKHOLM—Swedish Youth, the youth organization of
Sweden's People's Party, protested against anti-Semitic contents
of leaflets written in Finland and distributed by the anti-Semite
C. E. Carlberg . . .
BONN—Foreign Minister Heinrich von Brentano sent a
memorandum to the Swiss Ambassador, J. Huber, denying
charges in the Swiss press that West Germany's nominee for
Ambassador to Switzerland, Dr. Ernest Guenther Mohr, was
involved in the deportation of Dutch Jews and their death in
concentration camps. The memo said Dr. iVlohr was in Rio de
Janeiro as German Ambassador when the mass deportation of
Jews began in 1941. . . . Bonn's Minister of Finance, Franz
Etzel, publicly pledged that the West German Republic would
honor all its obligations under the Federal Indemnification Law
. . The state of Hesse reported that a total of 186,000,000
marks was paid out in compensation to Nazi victims during
1957 as compared with 141,000,000 in the previous year. The
sum of 469,000,000 marks has been paid out since compensation
payments started, the announcement said. A German mark is
approximately 25 cents . . . Charges that the chairman of
Parliament's Restitution Committee is taking advantage of his
position by acting as attorney for some 30,000 restitution claim-
ants, some of whom are charged fees of as high as 45 percent
of the payments they receive, were made against Social Demo-
cratic deputy Otto Greve by deputy Jacob Diel.
PARIS=Jews in Tunisia have not been affected by the tense
situation now developing between Tunisia and France over the
bombardment by French planes of a Tunisian village which was
considered a stronghold of Algerian rebels against France.
Travelers returning from Tunis said that no anti-Jewish mani-
festations have taken place in Tunis, as reported in a Cairo
broadcast. The Cairo radio is constantly broadcasting anti-Jew-
ish incitement in Arabic to the people of Tunisia trying to
create the impression that Tunisian Jews are siding with France.
SAMUEL ATLIN (left) receives a plaque from ISAAC
HAMLIN, Israel representative of Histadrut, indicating that
a room in a major Israeli hospital will memorialize the late
Mrs. Atlin. Watching the presentation are MORRIS LIEBER-
MAN, chairman of the local Histadrut Campaign, and Mr. and
Mrs. JOSEPH H. SAKE, who, with their brother-in-law, con-
tributed funds for the room. The plaque was returned to
Hamlin to be taken to Israel as a permanent memorial to
Mrs. Atlin.
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While there are still a large memorial meeting this Thurs-
number of campaign cards in day, at the Hayim Greenberg
the hands of workers, the office Center.
of the Histadrut Campaign this
The program will pay tribute
week announced that the drive to Berl Borochov on the 40th
is nearing the $100,000 mark. anniversary of his death, and
The second cash installment also will mark the yahrzeit of
of $25,000 on the 1958 cam- Simon Richardson, D et r o i t
paign was remitted from De- Labor Zionist leader, after
troit Sunday at a roll call whom a memorial center is
conference held in New York. being erected in Kiryat Boro-
As the drive moves into its chov.
Plans also are being formu-
final month, the Labor Zionist
Organization, in conjunction lated for a landsmanshaf ten
with Histadrut, will hold a breakfast on March 2.
Israel
HAIFA—G. Majewsky, head of the Technion Research and
Development Foundation, reported that pigments of excellent
tinting strength and performance can be extracted from the
colored sands of the Negev . . . A group of three French investors
arrived in Israel to negotiate the establishment of medium
luxury hotels in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and Tiberia . . . Neturei
Karta demonstrators clashed with Jerusalem police in a stone-
throwing and howling protest against a nearly-completed open air
swimming pool . . . Newspapers arriving here from Russia indi-
cate that a campaign has been started by the Soviet Union to
stem Jewish feelings on immigration to Israel . . .
JERUSALEM—A Foreign Ministry spokesman announced
that mine-clearing operations near the Syrian border, where
Syrian gunners killed two Israeli police and wounded six,- had
been completed, and that in the last stages of the clearance
operation only a few civilians were at work under the protec-
tion of 66 police. Israel denied Syrian charges that Israeli
military units moved into the demilitarized frontier area . . .
TEL AVIV—A check from the Information Media Guaranty
program for 125,000 pounds, for the construction of a physics
building bearing the name of Abraham Lincoln at Bar-Ilan
University was presented by American Ambassador Edward B.
Lawson to Dr. Tuvia Bar Ilan, acting director general of Bar-
Ilan University . .
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NEW YORK—Representatives of Bank Leumi leIsrael an-
nounced that Americans can open dollar savings accounts with
the bank and that they will be exempt from Israel income or
inheritance taxes . . . Dr. Joseph J. Schwartz, vice president of
the Israel Bond Organization, was informed by Israel Finance
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national chairman of Guardians of Israel, purchasers of a mini-
mum of $1,000 in Israel Bonds .. . Plans for the opening of a
Menorah Institute to provide religious training for teachers
of secular subjects in American yeshivoth were announced here
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Approximately $750,000 in cash was raised at a national "roll
call" conference of the National Committee for Labor Israel
for the Histadrut campaign in this country which has set $5,000,-
000 as its goal for 1958.
WASHINGTON — Israel Ambassador Abba Eban, who with
Mrs. Eban, was among the guests of President Eisenhower at
a White House dinner which also was attended by representa-
titves of Yemen, Jordan and Syria, conferred with C. Douglas
Dillon, U. S. Deputy Under-Secretary of State for Economic
Affairs, and also planned a conference with Acting Secretary
of State Christian A. Herter . . . Reports received by the U. S.
Government from the Middle East reveal the injection of anti-
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Around the World...
UCS Women Elect
Officers at Luncheon
Plaque in Major Israeli Hospital
to Memorialize Mrs. Samuel Atlin