Honor Composer Polish Court Sentences Erich Koch,
Nazi Butcher, to Death Penalty -

Israel Rejoins Armistice Group;
MAC Dismisses 1,700 Complaints

JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel
resumed its participation in the
Israel-Jordan, Mixed Armistice
Commission, and the imme-
diate result, at Monday's full
meeting of the Commission,
was an agreement to wipe off
the docket about 1,700 com-
plaints from both sides accumu-
lated since Israel suspended
its MAC participation in the
middle of 1956.
At that time, Israel an-
nounced it would not sit in
the commission—which is com-
posed of two Israelis, two

Jordanians, and a chairman
representing the United Na-
tions Truce Supervision Or-
ganization.
Israel's refusal to continue
sitting in the Commission was
due to its contention that the
Commission was "totally in-
effective" when it came to
halting Arab infiltration into
Israel or marauding by Arab
gangs coming into Israel from
the Jordanian side of the
frontier.
After voting to quash the
1,700 complaints and counter-
complaints from both sides, the
full Commission decided to
attempt to implement the prin-
ciple forbidding both sides to
fire at persons crossing the
frontiers if those persons are
unarmed.

Israel May Resume
Rationing in Face
of Increasing Prices

JERUSALEM (JTA)—Ration-
ing of consumer commodities,
suspended in the last month,
may have to be resumed, Pin-
has Saphir, Minister of Trade
and Industry, warned. He
issued a statement calling on
Israelis not to throw away
their old ration books because
"you might be needing them
again."
The government is giving in-
tensive study to the problem
of increased prices that have
followed the increase in various
taxes and customs duties, and
the abolition of subsidies- for
some basic foodstuffs. There is
a possibility that special sugar
allowances for children may
be reinstated.
The government studies of
the price structure have be-
come necessary as a result of
higher price increases on com-
modities than expected as a
result of the recent economic
changes.
Some of the taxes imposed
on certain commodities like
sugar and coffee may be re-
laxed, and some of the new
income taxes imposed on Is-
raelis
may be lightened; es-
..
pecially -those that affect wage-
earners in thee lower-income
bracket. These changes in
fiscal policy were indicated in
Tel Aviy at a public meeting
by Finance Minister Levi Esh-
kol.
Protests against "suffocat-
.ing taxes" were voiced at the
meeting, and Eshkol conceded
that some "relaxation" might -
be necessary.
The government meanwhile
appointed a parliamentary com-
mittee to recommend retrench-
ments in government expen-

ditures.

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Germans Exposed as
Having Interfered
with Reparations

Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News

BONN — Herbert Blanken-
horn, West German Ambassa-
dor to France and to NATO,
testified Tuesday that the West
German Foreign Ministry
learned in 1952 that Dr. Hans
Strack, who is suing the Ambas-
sador for alleged libel, had
admitted to confidential meet-
ings with a businessman active
in opposing reparations talks
with Israel.
Dr. Strack is suing Blanken-
horn, Walter Hallstein, presi-
dent of the European Common
Market, and Baron Vollrath
Von Maltzen. The former head
of the Bonn Economic Minis-
try's Middle East department
contends that the three de-
fendants slandered him by
making reports allegedly ac-
cusing him of having accepted a
bribe from the Egyptians to
help kill reparations and resti-
tution legislation.
The businessman -named by
Blankenhorn, A. Hertglet,
promptly asked the public pros-
ecutor for admission as a co-
plaintiff with Dr. Strack. Hert-
slet asserted he too had been
slandered and falsely accused.
After hearing Blankenhorn's
testimony, the court adjourned
until Thursday, when Prof.
Ludwig Erhard, West German
Minister of Economics, was to
testify.
HaIlstein, who also is the
former head of the West
German Foreign Ministry, told
the court that the Israel-
German Reparations Agreement
is an "essential pillar of the
Federal Government's policy."
On the other hand. Dr. Hall-
stein revealed, at the time the
pact was being negotiated, it
was opposed not only by former
Nazis and by the Arab states
but also "by members of the
government coalition, by some
of the Ministries, and by. Ger-
man business circles with inter-
ests in .the Middle East."

.

RICHARD RODGERS, -Pulit-
zer Prize winning composer
of "South Pacific," "Okla-
homa" and other musical hits,
holds the Human Relations
Award presented him by the
National Conference of Chris-
tians and Jews at a banquet
in Hartford, Conn.

Mussolini Kin
Loses Appeal

Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News

ROME — The Court of Ap-
peals here on Tuesday con-
firmed a lower court ruling
finding Vanni Teodorani,
nephew of the late Benito

Mussolini, guilty of the . crime
of having published an article
which recalled with "pride"
the Nazi and Fascist practices
of burning Jews in the con
centration camps during World
War Two.
The court also confirmed the
lower . jurisdiction's sentence
against Teodorani, who had
been sentenced to imprison-
ment for a term of eight
months and 15 days. The
former dictator's nephew- is
editor of a neo-Faseist maga- •
zine, Asso di Bastant_ He an-
nounced prior to Tuesday's
decision that he plans on ap-
pealing to a still higher court.
The complaint against Teo-

dorani. had been brought- by
three Jews, all former con-
centration camp victims who
had lost relatives in the death
camps. They sued for an
apology for the crime and for -
"moral damages." The plain-
tiffs were backed by the Union
of Italian Jewish Communities.

Israelis to Train
Ghani- ans in Flying

Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News

JERUSALEM = A group of
air- force officers are leaving
soon for -Ghana to establish a
flying school for training
Ghanians to handle both mili-
tary and civilian aircraft, it
was disclosed here Tuesday.
Brig. A. - A. Limon, former
commander of the Israel Navy
Pope Meets Israeli;
and now. top Defense Ministry
Better Relations Seen
official, has left for Ghana- on
JERUSALEM, (JTA) — A a- brief business _visit, it was
meeting- between the Pope and also announced:
an Israel Foreign Ministry offi-
cial led Observers here to pre- 2,000 Sephardim in. Congo,
dict that relations between Is- Reports- Times Writer
rael and the Vatican were like- -NEW YORK; (AJP) — Re-
ly to improve. Diplomatic rela- porting from Elisabethville, the
tions, however, were considered Belgian Congo, N.Y. Times cor-
unlikely in the Immediate fu- respondent Milton Bracker has
ture.
revealed that a community of
The meeting, between the over 2,000 Sephardic Jews is ac-
Pope and Maurice Fisher, Dep- tive in this Congo city. "A mass-
uty Director of the Israel For- ive house of worship," he writes,

eign Ministry, was described as
one of several recent contacts.
Sources here indicated that the
relationship between the Jewish
state and the Catholic state was
discussed at the Fisher meeting
in a way that was "franker and
more 'practical than ever be-
fore."

"dominates the flower-rimmed
avenue Tadora here. It is the
Sephardic synagogue, one of the
most impressive synagogues in
Africa." Bracker pointed out
that a Rabbi Moise M. Levy is
spiritual leader of the congre-
gation the majority of whose
members speak Spanish."

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VIENNA (JTA)—Erich Koch,
Nazi gauleiter for parts of
Poland and the Ukraine, con-
victed in a court at Warsaw
last week as a war criminal
responsible for the killing of
at least 400,000 people, most
of them Jews, was sentenced
by the Warsaw court to death
on Monday.
Koch's sensation filled trial,
during which he denied any
complicity in the many mur-
ders, and, at the same time,

sneered and jeered at his ac-
cusers, lasted four months.
Anrong the many witnesses
brought by the Polish govern-
ment to testify against him
were Jewish survivors from
Nazi death camps who came
from a number of foreign
countries, including Israel.

I. HURRAY JACOBS, 3310
Berkshire, Birmingham, has
been named president of the
new Triad Container Corp.,
which is located in Packard,
Properties, Inc., the old Pack-
ard Motor Co. plant at 1580 E.
Grand Blvd. ROBERT COLE,
a former screen writer, is a
partner in the firm.

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