1958—THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS-8

Friday, April

Aground the World...

A Digest of World Jewish Happenings, from Dis-
patches of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency and Other
News Gathering Media.

United States

NEW YORK—Bias against Jews in areas of employment,
public accommodations and publicly-assisted housing has dropped
substantially in recent years, it was reported by the New York
State Commission Against Discrimination . . An educational
program as the foundation for enforcement of the nation's first
law banning racial and religious discrimination in private
housing will be administered by Dr. Frank S. Horne, executive
director of the Committee on Inter-Group Relations . Rudolph
G. Sonneborn has rejoined the Israel Bond Organization and
became one of its honorary chairmen in New York . . . The
N.Y. State Commission Against Discrimination revealed that
Jews are finding it easier to obtain jobs in the hotel industry
and now hold 10 per cent of the 45,000 positions in hotels in
New York . . • Upon his return from Poland, Rabbi Harry
Bronstein reported that Jews there "are afraid to enter into
organized religious activities, despite the cooperation offered to
religious Jews by the Polish government," and he deplored the
lack of organization among religious Jews in Poland . . .
WASHINGTON—Attorney General Rogers announced that
the United States is considering releasing from a mental hospital
here Ezra Pound, 73-year-old American poet, who was charged
with treason against the U.S. in World War II but was never
tried because of his mental state, and whose poetry is shot
through with anti-Semitic references . . .

Canada

OTTAWA—The Legislative Assembly voted $100,000 for a
commission to recommend improvement of administration of
anti-bias legislation . .

Latin America

Banquet to Fete
Shiol Levin, 80

'A banquet honoring Shiol
Levin on the occasion of his
80th birthday will be tendered
him by his many friends at 6:30
p.m. Sunday at Sammy's in
Oak Park.
Mr. Levin, of 18011 Prevost,
has been associated with the
Workmen's Circle for over 50
years, being an active partici-
pant in such varied functions
as the Circle school board, the
chorus and assistance, to the
women's division, as well as his
devoted efforts on behalf of
Branch III.
A plaque from the Workman's
Circle, expressing their appre-
ciation will be presented at the
banquet, which will be attended
by Mr. Levin's wife, sons, grand-
children and great grandchil-
dren.

Cantor Frankel to Sing
for New Farband Branch

Farband's newest chapter in
the Detroit area will meet at
8:30 p.m. Sunday at the home
of Mr. and Mrs. Norman Rob-
bins, 18930 Littlefield. Cantor
Reuven Frankel and his wife,
Penina, will present a • program
of Israeli and Jewish music.

Lone Matzo Ball
Joins Easter Eggs
at White House

An unprecedented matzo
ball joined the splendidly-
colored ranks of Easter eggs
this Monday at the tradi-
tional egg-rolling event on
the lawn of the White House
in Washington, D.C.
Not to be outdone by the
beautiful shades of pink,
yellow and purple which
adorned the Easter eggs, the
matzo ball was dyed a glori-
ous green color.
The youthful "egg-rolling"
enthusiast who brought a
tray of matzo balls was 15-
year-old Paul Lazar, of Lang-
ley Park, Md., who ex:.
plained, "Well, it's Passover,
too."

Freed U.S. Tourist Tells
Story of 'Biblical Opium'

BERLIN (WJA)—Dr. Walter
Steinberg, first AMerican tour-
ist to have been sentenced by
an East German court, told re-
porters after his premature re-
lease that when asking for a
Bible he had been told: "We
have no opium," reports the
West German News Agency.

Set June 30 Deadline
for Claims Applications

NEW YORK (JTA) — The
deadline date for the filing of
applications to the Conference
on Jewish Material Claims
Against Germany by organiza-
tions, institutions and commu-
nities seeking the allocation of
funds for the year 1959 is June
30, 1958.
' Applications should be sub-
mitted in 20 copies to the Con-
ference on Jewish Material
Claims Against Germany, New
York, and should contain a de-
tailed description of the activi-
ties for which funds are re-
quested.
The organizations submitting
applications should also include
precise budgetary data and in-
formation on other sources of
income which may be available
to the applicants for the pro-
jects in question.
"The Claims Conference, by
the terms of the agreement it
had concluded with the Federal
Republic of Germany, is able
to allocate funds only for those
activities which contribute to
the relief, rehabilitation and
resettlement of Jewish victims
of Nazi persecution, in accord-
ance with the urgency of need,*
the announcement said.

BUENOS AIRES—A new trade and financial agreement
signed here with Israel broadens the exchange of goods and
services between the two states .

Europe

BONN—Two measures stipulating compensation payments
to victims of Nazis who were deprived of pensions authorized as
a result of injuries suffered in World War I were approved by
the Bonn Parliament .. .
PARIS—Under Joint Distribution Committee auspices, a
special committee will supervise the restoration of Jewish
cemeteries which have suffered from neglect during the war
years in the cities of Breslau, Warsaw and Lodz, in Poland . . .
LONDON—Israel's suit against the Soviet oil trust for
unilateral breach of contract was again put off, their second
choice for arbitrator, D. L. Nesterov, having become unavailable
. A group of Conservative Party members, blaming their
own leaders for Britain's "indifferent and makeshift approach
to the refugee question," placed before the British government
a plan for the solution of the problems of 2,000,000 refugees in
Europe, the Middle and Far East, suggesting relaxation of
immigration laws and political settlements .
BRUSSELS—The Conference Olivant de Belgique, an
association of Belgian students, most of them Catholic, will
hold its next convention in Israel in May . . .
VIENNA—An appeal to Jews throughout the world to honor
the memory of the Jewish heroes who fell during the uprising
in the Warsaw Ghetto was issued in Warsaw by the Cultural
Association of Jews in Poland following a conference attended
by representatives of Jewish communities from various parts
of the country .
STUTTGART—A decision of the Baden-Wurttemberg Com-
pensation Court that Hitler's Reich had no responsibility for
the persecution of Jews in Romania set the stage for a final
determination of the issue in the Federal Court at Karlsruhe
on April 23.
MAINZ, Germany—Social Democratic leaders in this Rhine-
land city castigated the provincial Finance Minister, Free
Democratic Party leader Wilhelm Nowack, for trying to make
"scapegoats" of claimants for compensation for damage and
injuries suffered under the Nazis.

Israel

TEL AVIV—An inscribed Torah was presented here to
Minister of Religious Affairs Moshe Shapiro to mark his recovery
from wounds when an Iraqi immigrant threw a bomb in the
Knesset .. .
JERUSALEM—Japan's Industrial Bank has offered Israel five
years' credit for the purchase of industrial equipment at better
terms than those prevailing on the world market . . . The ninth
congress of the International Federation of Children's Com-
munities and the first held in Israel, attended by delegates from
the United States, Britain, France, West Germany and other
European, Asian, African and Latin American countries, con-
cluded four days of discussions here relating to problems of
children . . . The "year of the pilgrimage to Jerusalem" was
formally inaugurated here with a stately procession up the
slope of Mt. Zion led by religious and political leaders of the
State of Israel and representatives of the Jewish communities
of the world . . . Italian Minister of Finance Medici, who is in
Israel on a private visit, called in an unofficial visit, on Mor-
decai Bentov, Minister for Development, and the two men
explored the possibilities of Israeli-Italian trade and coopera-
tion on the development of Israel's mineral resources in the
Negev.

Israel Supreme Court Upholds Pork Sale Ban

JERUSALEM (JTA) — The
Israel Supreme Court rejected
an appeal from a vendor of
pork against a Tel Aviv muni-
cipality ban on the contention
that he should be exempt from
the ban because he did not
sell his products in the city.
He testified that the factory

he represented supplied only
persons living outside Tel
Aviv and contended that the
municipality could only pro-
hibit sales and not production.
The Supreme Court dismissed
the appeal and ordered the
defendant to pay a fine of 100
pounds 'and costs.
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