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THE JEWISH NEWS

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VOLUME XXXIV—No. 1..9 loo hued in s a 17100 W. 7 Mile Rd.—VE 8-9364—Detroit 35, January 9, 1959 $5 Per Year; Single Copy 15c

Tension Subsides Among Havana
Jews; Many Stores Looted; Castro
Reported Free of Anti-Semitism

Improved Relations
Reported in Talks of
Hammarskjold and 13-G

JERUSALEM, (JTA)—Prime Minister David Ben-
Gurion reported to the Cabinet on his talks with United
Nations Secretary General Dag Hammarskj old during the
week-end. It is understood that the closer and less offi-
cial contacts established between Hammarskjold and
Ben-Gurion—particularly the day which the UN Secre-
tary General spent at Sdeh Boker—have improved rela-
tions between the former and Israeli leaders.
The question now is whether such improved relations
will stand up to the test of political realities. One of the
major subjects discussed at Sdeh Boker was the imple-
mentation of Article VIII of the Israel-Jordan armistice
agreement which provides for arrangements to assure un-
impeded access of Israel to the Mt. Scopus area—now
held by. Jordan — where the Hebrew University and Ha-
das. sah HOsPital • are .located.
It was learned here that when Hammarskjold raised
this question with the authorities in Jordan, after his
visit to Israel, the Jordanians told him that they would
continue to refuse to implement Article VIII. The Israelis
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-Jewish merchants in Havana are beginning to breathe sighs of relief with the
restoration of normalcy, after the many trying days during which many stores were
looted.

The Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported that between 125 and 150 Jewish-owned shops in
Havana were sacked by the mob in the rioting in the Cuban capital that followed the collapse
of the Batista regime. Most of the affected stores, according to the JTA report, were in the Prado
section of Havana where the roving mobs turne d their wrath against those they believed to be
identified with the Batista government.
The JTA report from Miami states that a number of Havana Jewish families who arrived
there with their children by air reported that the atmosphere in Havana was tense and that Jews
feared the effects of actions by Castro partisans who accused a number of prominent Jews with
backing the Batista regime. An early JTA report from_Miami was to the effect that representa-
tives of Castro who were active in Florida soliciting aid for the revolutionary forces had left for
Havana and would act to check any anti-Jewish action on the part of uncontrolled elements during
the chaotic period. Castro supporters are said to have sought contributions from_ leading Jews
in Havana during the civil war and received no response.
But a later JTA report received in Miami from Santiago, where Fidel Castro's anti-Batista
revolutionary movement enjoyed its greatest support, established that a number of Jews in Santi-
ago were among Castro's supporters and an undetermined number of Jewish youths were enlisted
in his revolutionary movement that began on July 26. One Jewish volunteer in Castro's brigades
was reported killed in action against the former government.
While numerous shops owned by Jews in Havana were smashed and looted, there seemed to
be no evidence of organized anti-Semitism as a factor. Castro's supporters were reported to have
facilitated the departure through strife-torn streets of hundreds of American Jews.
Abe Aronovitz, former Mayor of Miami and one of the Americans who witnessed the battles
in Havana and later was evacuated to the United States, told the JTA that he was very conscious
of the dangerous potentialities facing Jews in the chaos. He expressed relief at the absence of
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Israel Establishes 16-Inch
Oil Pijpeline; First Atomic -
Reactor Due by End of Year

Acceptable ,

U.S. Commissioner of Immigra-
tion and Naturalization Joseph M. Swing (left) examines a few of the some one
million Jewish immigration files in the Wilhelm Hall of Records at United Hias
Service Headquarters in New York, following a dedication ceremony in which
the permanent Hall of Records was officially opened. The ceremony was the first
official function of a year-long celebration of the 75th Anniversary of United
Hias Service (the worldwide Jewish migration agency), a beneficiary of UlA
funds and Detroit's Allied Jewish Campaign. Comm. Swing said data in the
United Hias files will be accepted by the Immigration and Naturalization Service
as definite proof. Shown with Comm. Swing are the agency's president, Carlos
L. lsraels (right), New York attorney, and Ben Touster, chairman of the organi-
zation's 75th anniversary committee. The Weinberg Hall of Records was named
after the late Wilhelm Weinberg, a refugee financier who immigrated to the
U.S. during the Hitler era. Funds for the Hall of Records project came from
Weinberg's residual estate.

Direct JTA Teletype Wires to The Jewish News
JERUSALEM,—The disclosure Monday by Finance Minister
Levi Eshkol that the eight-inch pipeline between Elath and Beer-
sheba would be replaced with a 16-inch line was seen Tuesday
as an indication of the success of secret talks in the United
States and Europe to raise 525,000,000 for the larger pipeline:
Lord Rothschild and the Rothschild family were reported to
have been instrumental in bringing together the American and
European investors for the project. They included Ampal, the
American -Bank, the Israel Discount Bank . and its connected
group in Switzerland and the Rothschild Bank as well.
The Beersheba to Haifa section is already, 16 inches, experts
noted, adding that with completion of the 16-inch line from Elath
to Haifa, Israel will become a serious alternative' to the SueZ
Canal for oii transport. The experts said that the full 16-inch line,
expected to be completed in about 18 months, will fill all of Is-
rael's needs and permit the export of 3,000,000 tons of oil annually.
(Finance Minister Levi kshkol of Israel is due to arrive in the
United States today to confer with Israel Bond leaders on plans
for the 1959 Israel bond drive, it was announced by Dr. Joseph
• J. Schwartz, vice president of the Israel Bond Organization. Esh-
kol will report on Israel's financial needs for economic devolpment
at an extraordinary three-day meeting of the board of governors
and community leadership of the Israel bond campaign, which
will take place at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York this
week-end).

Complete Work on Atomic Reactor

TEL AVIV,—Israel's first atomic reactor will be completed
by the end of this year, Yedioth Aharonoth reported Tuesday.
The newspaper said the reactor, which will be a small one, will
serve for study of the uses of atomic energy for peaceful pur-
poses.
The Israel Atomic Energy Commission, it was reported, has
already circulated a letter to scientific institutes in Israel asking
them to indicate fields in which the reactor might serve them.
Israel also was reported to be widening her cooperation with
foreign countries in nuclear research, in addition to France with
which Israel has had such ties for several years. Israel is now
cooperating with Britain and the Scandinavian countries, it was
reported.

