Two Leaders Chosen for Allied Jewish Campaign German Court to Review Case on Hate Leaflet Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News Irwin I. Cohn, 959 Allied Jewish Campaign chair- man, center, announces that Leonard N. Simons, right, will be campaign co-chairman and Paul Zuckerman will be pre-campaign chairman. E " Yugoslavia to Press Fight for Artukovies Extradition By MILTON FRIEDMAN JTA Washington Bureau Chief WASHINGTON, — The gov- ernment of Yugoslavia will ex- plore all legal channels to re- new its seven-year fight to gain extradition of Andrija Artuko- vic, a Croatian Hitler collabora- tor charged with the murder of thousands of Jews and others during World War II. U. S. Commissioner Theodore Hocke ruled in Los Angeles that the charges brought -by Yugo- slavia were political in nature. It was held therefore, that Ar- tukovic was not subject to extra- .) dition. Commenting on the decision, a spokesman for the Yugoslav Embassy said that Artukovic was a common - criminal as well as a political and war criminal. Therefore, Yugoslavia will mus- ter all its legal resources to bring Artukovic to justice. Commissioner Hocke h e 1 d there was "no reasonable cause bo believe Artukovic guilty of the crimes charged." The 58- year-old Croat who served as Interior Minister and police head of the pro-Nazi puppet re- gime. was described as "jubi- lant" when the decision was announced. The World Jewish Congress and Yugoslav Jews now residing in Israel took great interest in Balfour Workers' Victory Dinner Set Wednesday Rabbi Morris Adler, of Cong. Shaarey Zedek, will address the third annual Balfour Workers' Victory Dinner, to be held by the Zionist Organization of De- troit at 6:30 p.m., Wednes- .4' day at Rain- ' bow Terrace. Honors will be accorded to several of the leading mem- bers and work- ers of Z 0 D. The list is headed by Sherman Sha- Borman piro, 1958 Balfour Cone e r t chairman; Abraham Borman, ZOD president; and Harry Co- hen. honorary life chairman. Rabbi M. Robert Syme, of Temple Israel, will be master of ceremonies at the dinner, and entertainment will be pro- vided by Shimon and Elaine Gewirtz, p o p u l a r folk song artists. Dr. Bernard Weston is chair- man of the dinner committee, and is assisted by Mesdames I. Walter Silver and Irving Sni- derman. All workers and con- tributors can make reservations for the dinner by contacting Zionist House, 10424 W. Mc- Nichols. DI 1-8540. , the Artukovic case. They charg- ed that he was among the most extreme Nazi collaborators and personally active in the perSe- cution and murder of Yugoslav Jews. Anti - Semitic statements by Artukovic and orders signed by him for persecution of Jews are a matter of record. The Roman Catholic Church supported Artukovic in the long legal fight. Spokesmen for the church testified in his behalf, certifying his character as excel- lent, and holding that he was an "enemy of Communism" who should not be deported to Com- munist Yugoslavia. KARLSUHE — The Supreme Court of West Germany will review a pamphlet written by Fredrich Nieland and pub- lished by Adolf Heimberg, of Hamburg, to determine whether it violates federal law and shall be confiscated as anti-Semitic propaganda, it was announced here Tuesday by Dr. W. Guede, federal Attor- ney General, after a conference with Hamburg authorities. The refusal of the Hamburg Supreme Court to permit pro- secution of the author and the printer on the grounds that the pamphlet did not violate Bonn legislation against dissemina- tion of material inciting to race hatred has aroused storm of protest in Hamburg and throughout the rest of Ger- many. However, acquittal in - the Hamburg city court bars fur- ther prosecution for Nieland and Heinberg. The main point to be pre- sented to the Federal Supreme Court here will be the passage in the Nieland pamphlet stat- ing: "No Jew must sit in any important position, be it in the government, a political party, banking or elsewhere." The court will be asked to rule whether the passage constitutes violation of the constitutional guarantee of equal rights for all. Music Study Club Co-Sponsors Concert; Feature `Electronic' Music "Electronic" music, a device new to Detroit, will be heard here for the first time at a con- cert of classical and contempo- rary music arranged by the Music Study Club for 8:30 p.m., Wednesday, at the International Institute. Mrs. Marguerite K o z e nn Chajes is chairman of the pro- gram and annotator. Her co- 7N chairman is „..,Mrs. Sylvia Scherr. The new fea- ture, electron- ic music, is written espe- cially for new- , ly - invented musical sounds, which , a r e produced with specially devised instru- ments and mi- crophones. Mrs. Chajes The evening will include also the first Detroit performance of a sonata for two violins and double bass, written by Leopold Mozart, father of the famous composer, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. - More Rains May Prevent Israel Water Rationing Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News TEL AVIV—A heavy down- pour, m i n g 1 e d with hail, brought continued relief Tues- day from the worst drought to hit Israel in decades. Though the rains will not save a good portion of the crop, it will—if it continues— remove the threat of water famine and possible rationing of water. North of Beersheba the new rains brought • hope of saving some crops while in Galilee the rains have assured the crops. ' Damage to citrus groves from the hail was minimal. Other compositions will be a sonata for violin and piano by Dutch composer Leon Orthel and Spanish songs to the text of F. Garcia Lorca, all heard for the first time locally. Works by Ravel and Paul Paray will round out the concert. Participating artists are Reva Reatha Jackson, harp; Lawrence LaGore, piano; Alexander Suc- zek, troubador; Harvey Seigel and Emily Adams, violin; Emile Simonel, viola; Edward Korki- gian, cello; and Frank Sinco, double bass. Co - sponsoring the concert with the Music Study Club are the Music Performance Trust Funds of the Recording Indus, tries as administered by the De- troit Federation of Musicians; t h e Netherlands Information Service, Wayne State University music and music education de- partments a n d International Institute. Mikoyan's Intervention Sought for Youngster NEW YORK, (JTA) — The United Hias Service has fol- lowed up a promise by Soviet Deputy Premier Anastas I. Mikoyan to Philipp Heller, a Czechoslovakian refugee, that he would "look into the case" of Heller's 14-year-old daughter whom he left behind in Prague when he fled to the West in 1948. Heller accosted Mikoyan in San Francisco during the Soviet leader's visit there and appealed to him, in the spirit . of Mr. Mikoyan's goodwill mis- sion ,to help obtain an exit visa for the girl. Subsequently, Heller inform- ed United Hias Service of Mik- oyan's pledge. James P. Rice, executive director, wired Mik- oyan that his agency "stands ready to take responsibility for all transportation arrangements provided your kind interven- tion with the Czechoslovakian authorities would make pos- sible the issuance of an exit permit." . No Jewish Problem in USSR, Says Mikoyan; Denies Plan to Send Jews to Birobidjan UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., (JTA) — Anastas I. Mikoyan, First Deputy Premier of the Soviet Union, asserted that "there is no Jewish problem in the Soviet Union at all. This problem is created by those who wish to impede good rela- tions." The Soviet leader's remarks were made to a crowded press conference at the United Na- tions Thursday in answer to a question posed to him by the correspondent of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. Later, at a private luncheon Soviet Ambassador M i k hail Menshikov tendered to four leaders of the American Jew- ish Committee, Mikoyan des- cribed as unfounded reports that the Soviet authorities in- tended to transfer the Jewish population of the Soviet Union to the Birobidjan region of Siberia. Former Senator Herbert H. Lehman, honorary vice presi- dent of the AJC, made a public statement he was authorized to issue on behalf of Mikoyan. It read: "The reported plans for the re-creation of a Jewish state in Birobidjan and the transfer of the Jewish popu- lation in Russia to that area is without foundation." Senator Lehman, who said he was "gratified" by the state- ment, indicated that other as- pects of Jewish life in the Soviet Union had been touched upon during the luncheon, held in the Soviet Ambassador's suite in a New York hotel. Irving M. Engel, president of the AJC, who attended the function, agreed with the Sen- ator that "we are gratified," but commented that "the ans- wer does not necessarily satisfy us; there is a difference be- tween being satisfied and grati- fied." Jacob Blaustein, honorary president of the AJC, and Ralph Friedman, chairman of its foreign affairs committee, were also guests at the lunch- eon. The JTA correspond- ent raised the question of the treatment of the Jews in the Soviet Union almost as soon as Mikoyan's press conference opened. "Mr. Mikoyan," he said, "dur- ing your current trip in the United States, you have dis- associated yourself from the late Mr. (Lavrenti) Beria (chief of the Soviet secret po- lice). I would like to direct this question to you sir: Mr. Beria was apparently largely responsible for the liquidation of Jewish culture, particularly Yiddish culture, in the Soviet Union. As a member of .the Government, do you contem- plate: any steps in the near future to reinstitute the free exercise of the Yiddish theater, press and other Jewish cul- tural activities in the Soviet Union?" Mikoyan replied to this ques- tion with a long statement on , the general status of the Jews in the Soviet Union, declaring: "In my country all peoples enjoy .freedom, and freedom for the development of their culture. They can have their theaters, their literature, and that includes the Jews. How- ever, the Jewish population has emerged with the Rus- sians in Russian culture so fully that Jews participate in general culture and litera- ture, on the Russian stage and in Russian literature. "There are many Jewish writers who consider them- selves Russian and prefer to write Russian. We cannot in- terfere in that matter. This is a matter of the Jewish in- telligentsia. "We do create all condi- tions in which Jewish and Russian literatures and the literatures of all other Sov- iet peoples should have full opportunities for their devel- opment, writing and creation. "There is no Jewish prob- lem in the Soviet Union at all. This problem is created by those who wish to im- pede good relations." Shortly after this response, Mr. Mikoyan was reminded by another journalist that the Jewish Labor Committee had left a memorandum for him at the headquarters of the USSR delegation to the United Nations, referring specifically to the liquidation of Jewish writers. Mikoyan's reply was: "I am not acquainted with these persons and I cannot comment on the authors of this memorandum. You call them a labor committee; I do not hear anything that smacks of labor in what they have to say. In my country all peoples enjoy freedom and the development of culture and that includes the Jews. I have many friends who are Jews. Many of our most prominent leaders, in fact, have married Jewish girls and they have excellent relations. I would say, let others have relations that are as good." In response to the question about Russia's attitude toward Arab nationalism, the Soviet leader reiterated the well known Soviet attitude on that score, declaring: "We regard Arab nationalism as a pro- gressive force designed to emancipate the Arabs from the colonial yoke which enslaved them, and to achieve independ- ence, and bring about the flow- ering of Arab culture. The unity of the Arab peoples is a progressive phenomenon." `Slow Strangulation' of Judaism in Soviet Union Reported by Rabbi LOS ANGELES, (JTA) — A Los Angeles rabbi, returned from an extensive tour of the Soviet Union reported this week that, despite the resist- ance of Soviet Jews, to the Russian anti-religious drive, they were dying out "as Jews, at a rate unparalleled in his- tory." Rabbi Ephraim F. Einhorn, writing in the California Jew- ish Voice, declared that Jews "eventually will cease to exist in the Soviet Union if the campaign continues unabated. The government's "relentless campaign to eliminate religion" is resulting in the "slow strang- ulation of all faiths and of Judaism in particular," he de- clared. With all Jewish educational institutions shut down, the syn- agogue is virtually the only source of Jewish continuity "but anyone going to a syna- gogue seriously compromises himself, his family and all who associate with him," Rabbi Einhorn stated. The much- publicized "Freedom of Re- ligion" in the Soviet Union and the satellite countries "en- ables the Jews only to bury their dead in a traditional manner," he added. He said that every child is taught six days out of seven in Soviet public schools that "God has been invited by the enemies of the peoples of the Soviet Union for the purpose of exploiting the w o r k i n g masses." The parents trying to give religious education to their child pit themselves "against the power and pres- tige of the school and the Government."