THE DETROIT EWISH NEWS — Fri day, June 27, 1958-38

Jewish News on the World Scene

Brand Romania

`Inhuman' for Halting
Migration to Israel

NEW YORK, (JTA) The Ro-
manian government's arbitrary
halting of emigration of Jews
from Romania to Israel was de-
nounced by Itzhak Korn, presi-
dent of the Association of Ro-
manian Jews in Israel, who is
now visiting the United States.
Korn emphasized that though
the Romanian authorities per-
mitted 40,206 Jews to leave for
Israel in 1951, in subsequent
years the number was reduced
to a trickle of a few hundred.
This ban on emigration has
inflicted inhuman hardships on
families, of which some mem-
bers were permitted to emigrate
while others were forced to
stay behind, Korn stated. The
emigration policy followed by
the Romanian Government even
in the years of considerable
emigration has resulted in split-
ting tens of thousands of fam-
ilies, he explained.
In response to applications
for passports and exit permits
made on behalf of entire fam-
ilies, passports and exit permits
were issued that failed to in-
clude certain members of the
family, he reported.
It is estimated that some
11,000-12,000 families in Roma-
nia and Israel have been split
in 1949-1951 emigration. These
are husbands separated from
their wives, aged and to a great
extent sick parents from their
children, and other close rela-
tives dependent on each other
striving and yearning to be re-
united in Israel. The Romanion
Legaion in Israel and the gov-
ernment offices in Romania are
flooded with thousands of appli-
cations and petitions to let
spouses, parents and children,
brothers and sisters, be reunited
with their dear ones in Israel,
Korn stated.
In January 1955 the Romanian
government gave assurances
that prompt action would be
taken to let relatives rejoin
their kin in Israel. Similar as-
surances ha v e subsequently
been given to many delegations
which addressed themselves to
R o m a n i an representatives
abroad. As indicated by the im-
migration figues, only a few
families have since . been re-
united in Israel.

Israel Stamp Exhibit in
Chicago; Touring Midwest

CHIC A G 0—An exhibition,
"Israel Through Its Stamps,"
now touring the Middle West,
opened at the Chicago Public
Library for a month. The ex-
hibit, which has had successful
showings in St. Paul, Minneap-
olis, Kansas City and Cleveland,
shows the stamps of 'Israel from
the first set in May 1948, to
current issues.

Center-Program Stresses
Sanctity of the Sabbath

Programming in the Jewish
Community Center on the Jew-
ish Sabbath "should be in keep-
ing with the spirit of the day,"
the National Jewish Welfare
Board recommended to its 353
affiliated Cent e r s and YM-
YWHAs throughout the country.
In a document called "Guide to
the Sabbath Policy of Jewish
Community Centers," JWB de-
clared that "to achieve a more
positive expression of the re-
sponsibility of the Jewish Com-
munity Center to support and
give meaning to the spirit of the
Sabbath." the following other
points should also be stressed:
"1. Sanctity of the Sabbath in
Jewish life; 2. Responsibility of
the Jewish Community Center
to support the concept of the
Sabbath; 3. The Center can
make a significant contribution
to the enrichment of the Sab-
bath in Jewish life."

British Group Recovers
Large Restitution Sum

ALEXANDER D. GOODE

As the USS Dorchester was
LONDON (JTA) — The Brit- sinking in the North Atlantic
during World War II, Chaplain
ish Trust Corp, successor or- Alexander D. Goode and his fel-
ganization set up to recover low chaplains, Poling, Fox and
heirless and communal Jewish Washington, administered to
property in the former British the needs of the sick and dying.
zone of West Germany, has re- Having given their own life
preservers to men who had
covered nearly 100,000,000 none, they were last seen on
marks worth of assets, it was the deck of the stricken vessel
reported at the seventh annual locked arm in arm, deep in
meeting of the group. Sir Henry prayer, as the ship disappeared
d'Avigdor Goldsmit presided.
beneath the icy waters.
Four organizations acting on
Courtesy of the "Hall of Heroes,"
behalf of the trust received the National Shrine for the Jewish War
Dead, Washington, D.C.
following sums up to December
31, 1957: Joint Distribution
Committee, 10,950,000 marks; Swastikas Deface
Central British Fund, 12,320,000
marks; Jewish Agency, 21,896,- German University
000 marks, and Leo Baeck Char-
GOETTINGEN, Germany,
itable Trust, 4,833,000 marks. (JTA) — Anti-Semitism made
In addition, assets valued at another appearance at world
12,300,000 marks were assigned famous Goettingen University
to individuals who had missed when Nazi swastikas were
deadlines for filing of restitu- smeared all over a student bul-
tion claims.
letin board on which a group
of students had posted a notice
Wurzweiler Foundation of a series of lectures on anti-
The lecturer will be
Gives Bar-Ilan $250,000 Semitism.
Prof. Peter Josef Kessler, a
A grant of $250,000 by the prominent Protestant theolo-
Wurzweiler Foundation to Bar: gian.
lian University in Israel was
An Essen court sentenced a
announced by Rabbi Joseph H.
Lookstein, chairman of the uni- German to four months in pris-
on, but suspended sentence and
versity's Academic Council.
placed
him on parole, for hav-
The grant was made for the
erection of a library building on ing insulted a Jew. The defend-
the Bar-Ilan University campus ant told the wife of a Jew that
in memory of the late Gustav "All Jews should have been
Wurzweiler, founder of the gassed. That one probably was
Foundation and an Orthodox overlooked."
Jew who came to this country
An East German court at Ro-
as a fugitive from Nazi terror. stock has sentenced a leading
This the second grant by the German scientist for defaming
Wurzweiler Foundation to the the Communist state and for
University, the sum of $50,000 making anti-Semitic remarks, it
having previously been awarded was reported here today. The
court imposed a year's sentence,
fol• general purposes.
subsequently s u s p en d e d, on
Prof. Franz von Stockert, direc-
tor of the Neurological Clinic
at the University of Rostock.
Though he went to East Ger-
many to take the post, Prof. von
Stockart maintained his West
German citizenship.

Mark 9th Year of

U.S. Ambassador
Edward B. Lawson
(left) and Israel
Minister of Religion
Moshe Shapiro in-
spect some of the
carpenter's tools in-
cluded in the more
than $48,000 worth
of CARE Self-Help
farm and workshop
equipment for the
new Youth Farm
and Regional Train-
ing School at Even
Ha'Ezer. Dedication
of the school coin-
cided with the ninth
anniversary of
CARE aid to Israel,
which has averaged
more than $1,000,-
000 a year.

GALLERY OF
GALLANTRY

Israel to Back Rogosin's
$20 Million Venture

NEW YORK (JTA) — Am-
bassador Abba S. Eban told a
stockholders meeting of Rogo-
sin Industries, Ltd., that the
government of Israel stood
fully behind Israel Rogosin's
venture in establishing a rayon
plant at Ashdot Yam with an
investment of $20,000,000. Is-
rael regards its success as "vital
to the national interest," the
Ambassador added.
Rogosin presented an encour-
aging report on the financial
position and prospects of the
Rayon plant and pointed out
that it could be adapted to all
the probable developments in
the production and sales of
synthetic fibers.

Israeli . Tourism
Rises 200% in April

April's tourist traffic to Is-
rael reached the highest peak
of any month in the past ten
years, with 13,087 visitors ar-
riving in the country. This
marked an increase of 204%
over April 1957, and 141% over
April 1956. In the first four
months of 1958, traffic to Is-
rael rose by 145% as follows:

1958

January 2,388
February 3,262
March
7,152
April
13,087

1957 Increase

1,558
53.2%
1,944
67.8%
2,744 160.6%
4,308 204. %

TOTAL 25,889 10,554 145.4%

Israel expects 86,000 tourists
in the course of 1958.
Alitalia has made an ad-
ditional increase in its flights
to Israel, and now has three fre-
Jordan Refuses 'With
quencies a week. Following is
Thanks' Israel Offer
a list of airlines with their in-
of Salk Vaccine
creased frequencies from the
JERUSALEM, (JTA)—An Is- United States to Israel:
rael offer, through diplomatic
El Al Israel Airlines
5
Air France
5
channels, to supply Jordan with
Alitalia
3
Salk vaccine in the face of a
5
BOAC/BEA
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines 2
rising polio rate in Western
2
SWISSAIR
Jordan has been refused "with
2
SABENA
4
TWA
thanks." The Israel offer was
made after reports that the
Tourists arriving in Israel are
Jordan government had re- whisked through the Passport
quested an American airlift to and Customs controls in a mat-
rush vaccine.
te• of minutes. They no longer
At the same time, Israel and need to fill out a written. dec-
Jordan concluded a broad laration of the contents of their
agreement for the control of baggage; under a new system,
malari a-breeding mosquitoes only an oral statement is re-
along the entire length of their quired.
common border. The agreement,
reached in a medical subcom- Bar-Ilan Scholarships
mittee of the Mixed Armistice Given to 13 U.S. Students
Commission, provides for Is-
NEW YORK — Thirteen first
raeli and Jordanian teams, ac-
companied by UN observers, to and second year college stu-
spray DDT and other insecti- dents and high school seniors
cides in six major danger areas in a number of American cities
have been awarded scholarships
along the border.
for one year's study at Bar-Ilan
University, the American uni-
Franco-Israel Pact
versity in Israel, according to
Authorizes Censorship an announcement by Dr. Ber-
PARIS (JTA) — A new nard Lander, chairman of the
Franco-Israel cultural p a c t, American Admissions Commit-
granting Israel the right to re- tee of the University.
quest deletion of anti-Jewish
material from French textbooks, Lehman Fund Created
has been reached between the at Brandeis University
two states.
New York's former senator,
David Catarivas, new cultural Herbert H. Lehman, has cre-
counsellor at the Israel Em- ated a new fund to bolster the
bassy here, told the Jewish salaries of political scientists
Telegraphic Agency that the on the Brandeis University fac-
pact empowers Israel to ask for ulty.
Sen. Lehman established the
removal from school books and
other educational material ref- new fund on the occasion of
erences to Israel or the Jewish his 80th birthday to be used in
people which might be prejudi- the form of a salary supple-
mentation grant with a portion
cial to their good name.
France is given similar rights of the principle added each year
in reference to educational ma- to the salary of a faculty mem-
ber in the political science field.
terial in use in Israel.

AYENU

BY HENRY LEONARD

CARE Aid

Reject Appeal of Nazi
Serving Life Sentence

FRANKFURT (JTA)
The
West Berlin Appeals Court re-
jected an appeal from a former
Nazi guard who sought to set
aside a life sentence imposed on
him for the torture and murder
of seven JewiSh prisoners at
Auschwitz. The ex-guard is Otto
Locke.
A report that Ludwig Zind,
the school teacher sentenced re-
cently to a year in prison for
anti-Semitic remarks, had been
offered a job by a German
school in Hamburg is not true,
West German Foreign Minister
Heinrich von Brenta no de-
clared.

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"How can I go to sleep, Molly, when I know my
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competitor, Beryl, is awake scheming , • .

Copr.1958, Leonard Pritikin

