NEW YORK—Former Presi-
dent Harry S. Truman and
Israel's Prime Minister David
Ben-Gurion will exchange di-
rect greetings with each other
through a two-way radio hook-
up at opening ceremonies of
the State of Israel's 10th anni-
versary celebration in Phila-
delphia's Independence Hall,
April 24, beginning at 2 p.m.
This exchange will be re-
broadcast on the nation-wide
network of the Columbia
Broadcasting Company from
9:30 to 10 p.m.
Former U. S. Senator Her-
bert H. Lehman, general
chairman of the American
Committee for Israel's 10th
Anniversary Celebration, an-
nounced. plans for the two-
way exchange and for the
nation-wide broadcast.
Participants in the Phila-
delphia ceremonies will in-
c l u d e Israel's Ambassador

Abba Eban, Governor George
M. Leader of Pennsylvania,
Mayor Richard Dilworth, of
Philadelphia.
A large turn-out is expected
in Philadelphia at the public
meeting in Independence
Square, as a part of the cere- -
monies.
Arrangements for commu-
nity participation are being
made by a Philadelphia com-
mittee representing all ele-
ments of the community under
the chairmanship of Abraham
L. Freedman.
The City of Philadelphia
will be official host at a
luncheon in honor of former
President Truman and the
American Committee for Is-
rael's 10th Anniversary Cele-
bration preceding the Inde-
pendence Square events, at the
Warwick Hotel.
Fredric R. Marin, Phila-
delphia's City Representative

Ku Klux Klan Losing Power,
But Still 'Breeder of Violence'

A detailed report on the cur-
rent status of the Ku Klux Klan
declared that it has exhibited
a strong capacity for "breeding
violence" but has shown "little
effectiveness socially or politi-
cally" since its re-emergence in
1955 as a result of the tensions
over school desegregation in
the South.
In presenting the report, pub-
lished by the Bnai Brith Anti-
Defamation League, Henry Ed-
ward Schultz, the League's na-
tional chairman, emphasized
that although the Klan, as a
tool of violence, has magnified
the problem of law enforcement
in the South, "the recent recur-
rence of bombings in Nashville
and Miami will only aid in
hastening the KKK's ultimate
doom."
Schultz said "it is not known
what, if any, links the bombings
of the Jewish Community Cen-
ter in Nashville and the Temple
Beth-El school annex in Miami
have to the KKK, but the Klan
has played a strong contribut-
ing role in the creation of a
climate of violence.
The league declared that "the
South has greeted the Klan's
revival with intense hostility
and aversion. In virtually every
Southern community the Klan
has been identified as a tool of
violence and lawlessness and
as a movement that constitutes
more of a police problem than
anything else.
According to the best-in-
formed estimates, the League
said, "The U.S. Klan, Knights
of the Ku Klux Klan, headed
by Eldon Edwards of Atlanta,
has somewhere between twelve
and fifteen thousand members,
while the North Carolina Klan
has two to five thousand mem-
bers. Edwards is said to be a
`loner' and is estranged from
other Klan organizations be-

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cause of his refusal to give an
accounting of the money which
he has collected."
None of the seven other Klan
organizations in the South, ac-
cording to the League, "is be-
lieved to have more than 1,500
members."
"In North Carolina, the Klan
is in its death-throes, brought
on by its excesses of violence
and helped by the Lumbee In-
dians of North Carolina, who
decisively cut the Klan down
to size at Maxton in January."
In South Carolina, Alabama
and Florida, the League said,
the Klan has been torn apart
by bitter factionalism on the
top and lower levels. It quoted
a former top KKK leader as
saying that "so many factions
have sprung up that members
cannot keep track of the pass.
words."
Even as a terror-striking in-
strument, the League added,
"the KKK has become a paper
dragon. Its white sheets have
covered it with ridiculousness.
But as a breeder of violence
and an incitement to the worst
criminal elements in society,
the KKK is not to be dismissed
or taken lightly."

Stollman to Head
Young Israel's 35th
Anniversary Banquet

Hillel L. Abrams, general
chairman of the 35th anniver-
sary committee of Young Israel
of Detroit this week announced
the appointment
of Phillip Stoll-
man as chair-
man of a ban-
quet to, culmin-
ate activities in
celebration of
the 35th anni-
versary year.
The banquet
will he held
Stollman
June 1, at the Latin Quarter,
and is open to the public.
In accepting the appointment,
Stollman called attention to the
fact that Young Israel of Detroit
is the mother branch of the
movement in this city, and
called for "whole-hearted sup-
port of its members, friends
and patrons."
Stollman, president of the
United Religious Zionist move-
ment in Detroit, is also national
chairman of Bar-Ilan University
in Israel and is a past chairman
of State of Israel Bonds in this
city.
Information on tickets and
reservations to the June 1 ban-
quet may be obtained by calling
the Young Israel office, TE
4-4145.

and co-chairman of the com-
mittee on arts of the Ameri-
can committee, is chairman of
the event in Philadelphia.
It is to be followed by a
"Salute to Freedom" rally at
the Polo Grounds in New
York on Sunday afternoon,
April 27. More than 50,000
persons are expected to take
part.
Senator Lehman said that a
series of similar meetings and
dinners have been planned in
hundreds of other American
cities during April and May.
Dr. Israel Goldstein, chair-
man of the committee, who
has just returned from a trip
to Israel where he conferred
with members of the govern-
ment, disclosed the opening of
Mt. Zion in Jerusalem for
year - round pilgrimages by
visitors from all over the
world.
The Pilgrimage Year opened
officially on April 7 during
ceremonies held in Jerusalem.
It will continue until May
1959.
Ever since the days of the
Bible there have been three
occasions during the year in
which Jews have "gone up"
to Jerusalem's Mt. Zion: the
Festivals of Passover, Shevuot
and Sukkot.
Mt. Zion is the closest point
to the site of the Temple,
which was the original goal
of the pilgrims. This is where
the upper town of Jerusalem,
including the fortress of King
David, was situated. The upper
town held out against the
Romans one month after the
destruction of the Temple.

As the April 27 date for the
local celebration of Israel's 10th
anniversary approaches, plans
are moving ahead in high gear
for a community-wide event that
will include maximum partici-
pation by communal organiza-
tions.
A special committee, headed
by- Abe Kasle, president of the
United Hebrew Schools, has
been meeting regularly to put
the frills on the major program,
to be held in the Ford .Audi-
torium in downtown Detroit.
The committee is composed
of representatives of the Jewish
Community Council, Zionist
Council and Jewish Welfare
Federation.
Pageantry, songs and dances
by youth groups and the pres-
entation of colors by units of
the Jewish War Veterans al-
ready have been outlined.
The dramatic pageant which
is planned will feature the com-
munity's leading youth groups
who will demonstrate popular
dances of Israel and sing popu-
lar folk songs of that country.
Principal speaker will be

Yochanan Meroz, counsellor of
the Israel Embassy in Washing-
ton, D. C.
Over the facilities of the Alt-
man Jewish Hour, at 10 p.m.,
Saturday, on radio station
WJLB, Morris Lieberman, chair-
man of the Zionist Council, will
speak on the overall program
and the significance of Israel's
10th anniversary.
All communal organizations
are urged to join in participat-
ing in the festivities on April 27,
and individuals are urged to
mark the date on their calen-
dars.

U.S. Film Gives Work
to 3,000 Israeli 'Extras'

JERUSALEM, (JTA)—Some
3,000 extras participated in mob
scenes for Metro-Goldwyn-May-
er's latest version of "Ben
Hur." The location in the hills
outside this city is one of the
most picturesque in the area.
The extras included immigrants,
students and Israeli Bedouin
with their own camels.

Lawyers Chided on
Biblical Ignorance
by Justice Cheshin

JERUSALEM (JTA)—Lead-
ing Israel attorneys who are
candidates for appointments as
judges have no familiarity with
Jewish Scripture and some do
not even remember names of
the minor prophets, a Supreme
Court Justice told a group of
73 lawyers newly admitted to
the bar.
Justice S. Z.
Cheshin told ..
the attorneys
he was
ashamed of
the fact that
many candi-
dates for the
bar were un-
able to name
a n y Hebrew
book read in
the past t e n
years or any
Hebrew writer
earlier than
B i a 1 i k "al- Justice Cheshin
though they are most familiar
with Greek mythology." The
Justice criticized many of Is-
rael's attorneys for their "in-.
different" attitude to the na-
tion's cultural heritage.
Zalman Shazar, chairman of
the Jewish Agency executive
in Jerusalem, said that while
the Bible was basic study in
Israel, in Jewish communities
abroad "it is only of limited
interest." In an address to the
concluding session of the Israel
Bible Research Society confer-
ence here, he said every child
in Israel receives a "thorough
grounding" in Jewish Scripture,
while abroad only a small minor-
ity studies it and an even
smaller minority studies it in
Hebrew.
Mrs. Miriam Ben-Porat was
named a judge of the District
Court, the highest bench post
ever held by a woman in Israel.
Mrs. Ben-Porat, who will sit on
the Jerusalem bench, is cur-
rently an assistant state attor-
ney.

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Truman and Ben -Gurion to Converse in Israel 10th Anniversary Committee
Two-Way Broadcast in First of Series Plans Stirring Pageantry, Speaker
for Local Celebration on April 27
of U.S.-Israel 10th Anniversary Events

