Impoverished Magnate Ailing
Recognition of Israel Permanence Miami Bond Parley
Key to M-E Peace, Hadassah Told to Honor Mrs. Meir
Anglo-Egyptian Talks Hit Snag
Over Property Claim of Family
THE DETRO IT JEW ISH NEWS— Friday, February
at Tribute Dinner
NEW YORK (JTA) — Devel- Foundation. Many Detroiters
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt
opme6ts within the next few already have written "irrevoc-
LONDON (JTA)—Sir Dennis was developed land worth in
weeks will tell whether recent able insurance" with the JNF has accepted the honorary chair-
manship of the Golda Meir Trib- Ricketts, member of the British excess of $56,000 an acre. The
clashes on the Israel-Syrian bor- as beneficiary).
der were isolated incidents or
Former national president ute Dinner in Miami Beach on delegation which negotiated an Smouhas were the richest
"part of a pattern of aggres- Mrs. Edward Jacobs was hon- March 7, it was announced by as yet unsigned financial pact British Jewish family in Egypt.
Smouha's eldest son declared
sion" by Syria, Yaacov Herzog, ored by the convention on the Dr. Joseph J. Schwartz, vice between Britain and the United
Israel Minister in Washington, occasion of her 70th birthday. president of the Israel Bond Arab Republic, returned here here that "the British govern-
Organization.
after a flying visit to Washing- ment has not consulted us
told delegates to the four-day She is among the original 12
The tribute dinner, which will ton where he conferred with about our property. We had
Hadassah mid-winter conference founders of Hadassah and
here.
served as vice-president under highlight the 1959 inaugural Eugene Black, head of the no say in this matter. I am
The Israeli diplomat said Henrietta Szold before becom- conference for Israel Bonds, will World Bank. Black has agreed trying to get information as to
honor Mrs. Meir, Israel's For- to act again as mediator be- what is happening from the
that if international tensions in ing president in 1930.
the Middle East were abated,
The Henrietta Szold Award eign Minister, for 30 years of tween Cairo and London to Foreign Office."
"the Israel-Arab problem might for 1959 was presented to Mrs. historic leadership in the build- resolve a dispute which has
The Smouha fortune was
held up signing of the Anglo-
be capable of settlement far Rachel Yanait Ben-Zvi, wife of ing of the
founded by Joseph Smouha,
UAR
pact.
State
of
Israel,
more easily than is generally Israel's president. in recogni-
who came from Manchester,
imagined." He noted that "in tion of h e r "distinguished Dr. Schwartz
According to informed England, to Egypt in 1917.
said.
the measure that the possibility humanitarian s e r v i c e." The
sources, the major obstacle to Seven years later he bought
Named as
of elimihating Israel by force award was accepted on her be-
the signature is the claim of a 700 acres of marshy land on
will recede, the mental climate half by Mrs. Simcha Pratt. wife conference
family of Jewish refugees who the outskirts of Alexandria
towards a settlement will de- of New York's Israel Consul chairman is
are British
subjects
and have and began reclaiming and de-
lived
in Egypt
for several
velop. Hatred will cease when General. The award carries a Lawrence G.
veloping it. Eventually, it be-
its futility becomes totally ap- gift of S1.000. Former recipients Laskey. of Bos-
decades.
According
to by
these
sources, an "oversight"
the came Alexandria's f 1 as h i e s t
parent. Greater revolutions than include former President Harry ton, chairman
suburb. Now, the 55 members
this have taken place in na- S. Truman and associate Su- of the execu-
British negotiators and "bad of the Smouha family are
preme Court Justice William 0. tive committee
tional and international att
faith" by the Egyptians re- organized into . 16 separate
of the Israel
tudes."
Douglas.
suited in an under-valuation of branches, each of which is
Bond Organi-
Mrs. Mortimer Jacobson. na-
land owned by the Smouha claiming over a million pounds
zation.
tional chairman for Z i o n i s t' Rare Yiddish Volume
family. from the Nasser regime.
The
confer-
affairs, reviewing Middle East 1 .
Joseph Smouha, 81, a British
ence, to take
developments. c a 11 e d .)for a In S em i nary Library
Jew who became a refugee Japan Names Shiro Haga
Laskey
place from
strong United States policy of
The first printed edition in
from Egypt in the aftermath
strengthening the Mid-Eastern Yiddish of a Pentateuch (Five March 6 to 8, at the Fontaine- of the Sinai-Suez campaign New Minister to Israel
TOKYO. (JTA)—Shiro Haga,
countries which have consist- Books of Moses) together with bleau Hotel, will of f i c i a l l y after spending most of his life
ently supported Western inter- the Five Scrolls (Megillot) and launch the 1959 Israel Bond building a fortune reputed to counsellor of the Japanese Em-
ests. She identified them as Prophetical Readings (Haftorat) campaign for a minimum of be in the vicinity of S50,000,000 bassy in the Vatican, will be
$75,000,000 to finance irrigation
srael and Iran. American for-
Israel
was reported to be ill with the ,named minister to Israel short-
eign policy, she said, must not has just been donated to the and new industrial and agricul- flu in an unheated Paris flat. i 137 in a general reshuffling of
tural
enterprises
and
to
provide
1 0 cfik to President Nasser as library
of the Jewish
Theologi-
His financial situation was de- Japanese envoys, Foreign Min-
cal Seminary
of America,
by
champion
of Western
interests M. Zagayski, of New housing and economic absorp- scribed as "desperate" and his inter Aitchiro., Fujiyama an
in
the area.
Michael
tion for tens of thousands of im-
fl
Haga was head of the
York, a collector of rare books migrants from Eastern Europe wife told correspondents that pounced.
The conference adopted a and objects d'art.
they had lost everything when foreign affairs section of the
and other lands.
resolution supporting the Ad-
they fled Egypt. parliamentary library before he
Translated by Michael Adam,
ministration's request for a
The claims of the Smouha became counsellor of the Japan-
supplemental appropriation fora Jew converted to Christianity. Cabinet Gives Approval
the Development Loan Fund and Paul Fagius, the publisher
family, some 55 descendants of I ese Embassy in the Vatican in
d Christian Hebraist. the to Direct Ballot Vote
Joseph Smouha, reportedly ex- 1954. He is 48 years old.
and Mutual Security programs an
JERUSALEM (JTA)—The Is- ceeding 16 million pounds, for
for foreign aid. Another reso- hook was printed in 1544 in
rael Cabinet approved a meas- a large tract of land on which
lution asked liberalization of Constance.
Germany.
Only four
copies are known ure 'sponsored by Premier are located residential, business
DRIVING LESSONS
U. S. immigration laws.
The parley also voted to to exist. The Seminary library's David Ben-Gurion to hold elec- and recreational property, are
1 7 LESSON S 2 0
new acquisition, well-preserved tions of mayors in Israel by believed holding up the signing
COURSE
set up a special endowment
in a leather binding dated 1559, direct ballot. rather than by of the recently negotiated
Dual Controls
fund for future expansion
is the only copy known in the proportional voting for party Anglo-United Arab Republic
No Permit Needed to Start
and emergency need s, the
U.S.
Professional Instructors
pact. The Egyptians listed the
fund to be based on a special
The translation of parts of slates and the election of Smouha holdings as "agricul-
Day or Evening
mayors by municipal councils
life insurance plan under
the Bible into Judeo-German,
Appointments
tural property" valued at about
which individual members of
the German dialect spoken by thus voted into office.
Safeway Driver Training
The measure was seen as en- $300 an acre when the pact
Hadassah would take out
the Jews of Central Europe,
was drawn, but the British sub-
TO. 9-7600 LI. 2-6742
$1,000 life insurance policies
was begun early in the 14th tering wedge of the Ben-Gurion
with Hadassah named as ir- century. These translations were program for eliminating pro- sequently discovered that it
revocable benificiary. T h e
technically known as Teutsch- portional representation in na-
premiums would be tax-
Hummash, or German Penta- tional elections, too, and mov-
For IMMEDIATE DELIVERY and BEST DEAL
deductible and the policies teuch, and were written in He- ing Israel toward the Anglo-
On THE Car — BUICK for '59
would be issued without
American two-party form of
brew characters.
SEE
medical examinations — with
The Seminary copy of the government.
premium payments based on
The left-wing Socialist par-
Pentateuch in Yiddish is the
the insured's age. Hadassah
first printed edition. The book ties in the Cabinet have fought
would be able to borrow
31st veer with Buick
is evidence of the popularity the measure bitterly fearing
against the cash value of the
At The World's Largest Buick Dealer
of the Yiddish dialect in the their submersion within the
policies in case of emergency.
Mapai in a two-party system.
16th century.
Dr. Miriam H. Freund, na-
The five scrolls are the books
tional president, announced
of Canticles, Ruth, Lamenta-
FREDERICK E.
that the plan would be initi-
tions, Ecclesiates and Esther.
ated immediately on the West
Coast.
AARON TOLLIN, president-
(A similar beneficiary pro- elect of Bnai Brith District
FOR
gram is in effect for the Jewish No. 5, has been chosen to help
1W 1-2700
National Fund and has been in head up the Federal Govern- COMMON PLEAS JUDGE
11620 Jos. Campau
VOTE MONDAY, FEB. 16
action for more than 10 years ment's fund drive for volun-
4,
under the direction of the JNF tary health organization.
CHARLES WEINSTOCK
BYR D
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SALES, Inc.
PREFERRED by the Detroit Citizens
ELECT . . .
HAROLD
NORRIS
Common Pleas Judge
Non-Partisan Ballot No. 29
PRIMARY ELECTION
MONDAY, FEB. 16
League
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ENDORSED by Leading Attorneys,
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(Partial List)
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Albert Marble
Walter Nelson
Dr. Melvin Nord
Hon. Patrick H. O'Brien
Councilman Wm. T. Patrick, Jr.
Dean A. Robb
Theodore Sachs
A. Joseph Seltzer
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Edward Turner
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• Practicing Attorney, 10 years.
• Low Degree, Columbia University
Masters Degree, University of Michigan
Graduate, U.S. Army Statistical School,
Harvard University.
• Appointed by Gov. Williams to Commission to
Study the Problem of the Uninsured Motorist
• Member, Detroit Bar Association,
Common Pleas Court Committee.
Negligence Law Committee.
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Constitutional Low Committee.
Negligence Law Section
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Safety, Night Court for Small Claims and -
•
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Father of Two Children.
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ELECT
29 HAROLD NORRIS
COMMON PLEAS JUDGE
PRIMARY ELECTION
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 16th