THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS—Friday, March 13, 1959-30

Around the World...

Eban Urges Immediate I
Freedom for Cameroons

UNITED NATIONS, N. Y.,

Digest of World Jewish Happenings, from (JTA)—Israel told the UN Gen-
Dispatches of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency and Other eral Assembly's Trusteeship
Committee that it favors the
News-Gathering Media.

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United States

ALBANY—The State Senate adopted a measure providing,
penalties ranging from 20 to 50 years' imprisonment for "mali-
cious" damage by explosives to churches, synagogues or ceme-
teries, and sent the message to the State Assembly.
ATLANTIC CITY — The Orthodox Rabbinical Council of
America, at its concluding session of the midwinter conference,
adopted resolutions calling on the U.S. Congress to adopt legisla-
tion making it a crime to bomb centers of worship and asking the
Soviet government to permit Jews to emigrate "to lands of
their choice."
NEW YORK—Two members of the Israel Parliament, Joseph
Burg and David Hacohen, former Minister. of Posts and Ambas-
sador to Burma, respectively, arrived here as part of the 18-man
emergency mission of Israel leaders, to assist in the 1959 United
Jewish Appeal campaigns.

Europe

LUDWIGSBURG—The City Council agreed that a tablet
commemorating a synagogue destroyed by the Nazis during the
infamous "Crystal Night" of 1938 should mention the fact,
the wording to be "Here once stood the synagogue built in the
year 1884. Its arbitrary destruction on Nov. 10, 1938, should be
a remainder to our conscience to cherish humanity and justice."
LONDON—Eight thousand British Jewish refugees from
Egypt, including several hundred Jews, will be able to apply for
compensation for property left in Egypt, as a result of the
signing of the Anglo-Egyptian agreement which presumably
settled the financial differences that grew out of the Suez cam-
paign of 1956.
STOCKHOLM—A call for increased contributions from Jew-
ish communities everywhere to enable Israel to absorb the new
waves of immigrants from Romania and other East European
countries was issued by former Israel Prime Minister and For-
eign Minister Moshe Sharett, upon his arrival from Paris, in
the course of his goodwill tour of Jewish communities in Scan-
dinavian countries. Pointing to the immensity of the task, Shar-
ett said that Israelis no longer must pass a single night without
food or housing. For this he thanked all Jews in the free world.
BONN—Deep concern over the resurgence of neo-Nazi and
anti-Semitic incidents in West Germany was expressed by a
delegation of Christians and Jews calling upon President Theo-
dor Heuss of the West German Republic, the delegation having
represented the German Coordinating Council of the Society of
Christians and Jews and Dr. Heuss, a patron of the society,
pledged his support to the delegation for a far-reaching educa-
tional program to acquaint German youth with the crimes of
Nazi Germany. Leopold Goldschmidt, general secretary of the
Council, headed the delegation.

Girls from Beth Yehudah Schools
Receive Book Fair Essay Awards

granting of independence to the
Cameroons, in Africa, without
forcing general elections there
prior to independence.
The Israel government's atti-
tude was presented by Abba
Eban, chairman of its delegation
here. The General Assembly,
which adjourned its overall ses-
sion last December, has been
reconvened this month for a de-
bate of the Cameroons issue.
Forcing the Cameroons to
hold electiOns now, as demand-
ed by some spokesmen in the
Assembly, would amount to in-
terference in the internal affairs
of a territory which is on the
verge of independence and
which is expected to be a mem-
ber of the United Nations with-
in - ten months, Mr. Eban de-
clared.

Will Bequests Annual
Israel Bond Purchase

BILLINGS, M o n t. — Henry
Miller's . will directed his estate
to buy a $1,000 Israel bond each
year. Then present it to the
people of Israel.
Miller was a long-time mem-
ber of Bnai Brith.
Last week, at the request of
the executors, Bnai Brith's
Committee for Israel turned
over the first bond to Ambassa
dor Eban in Washington. The
presentation was made by Mil-
ton Seidenman, of Baltimore,
chairman of Bnai Brith's Israel
Bond campaign.
Miller's executors, the Secur-
ity Trust and Savings Bank of
Billings, did not disclose the
value of his estate or how long
the bond purchases will
continue.

Neo-Fascists Break Up
Municipal Election Meeting

Awards were presented recently to winners of the Jewish
Book Fair essay contest, in which students from the Beth
Yehudah Schools scored high. Shown, left to right, are these
Yeshivah winners: ESTHER ROBERG, winner in the advanced
group; RUTHIE SCHEY, winner in the intermediate group;
REVA HAUSMAN and BARBARA ISBEE. Not shown are
Leslie Weiss, second prize winner in the advanced group,
and Esther Isbee, third prize winner in the intermediate group.

Greek Adviser to Nazis
Sentenced to 25 Years

ATHENS (JTA)—Dr. Maxi-
millian Merten, adviser to the
German military commandant
at Salonika during World War
II, is under a 25-year prison
sentence after conviction here
by a Greek military court
which found him guilty of 13
war crimes.
Among the crimes was the
ruthless deportation of 55,000
Jews who were sent from Sal-
onika to Poland, where they
were exterminated in Nazi con-
centration camps.
Merten was found not guilty
of other charges, including one
accusing him of murdering
46,000 Jews killed in Nazi
camps outside Greece. He had
pleaded not guilty to all the
charges •
In addition to sentencing
him to 25 years' imprisonment,
the court also ordered confis-
cation of his property. Mer-
ten's defense counsel an-
nounced that he will appeal
the conviction to King Paul,
who could either pardon the
man or reduce the sentence.

PARIS (JTA)—Members of
the neo-fascist, anti-Semitic
JERUSALEM—Gary Schwartz, 19, of Far Rockaway, N.Y., movement, Jeune Nation, broke
was fined 10 pounds in magistrate's court after pleading guilty up a campaign meeting organ-
to charges of crossing the Israel-Jordan border illegally, and ized by backers of George
while the judge accepted the youth's plea that he had no malici- Gall, a Jew who is running for
ous motives and was merely adventuring, he warned that his election to the Paris Munici-
leniency to the Hebrew University student, who suffered impris- pal Council on the Radical
onment in Jordan for three weeks when he vas captured, should ticket.
not be considered a precedent . . . The Israel Cabinet voted to
The Jeune Nation gang
set aside the Hebrew calendar date of Nissan 27—this year occur- statrted a fight in the hall,
ing on May 5—as the annual national memorial day honoring the attacking some of Gall's sup-
Jewish heroes who suffered martyrdom under the Nazis . . . porters on the platform. One
The Jewish Agency, Histadrut and the Israel government are Radical candidate of the pro-
considering plans to establish a permanent Israel Institute for Gall group was injured.
economic training of African and Asian leaders, the idea
IRVING HOWE, visiting pro-
having evolved as a result of the great success of several Afro-
Asian seminars held recently in Israel . . . Speaking in the fessor of .American literature at !
Knesset, Israel Minister of Trade and Industry Pinhas Saphir Wayne State University, will
announced that his ministry is planning the establishmet of a discuss "Mass Society and Post-
credit-rating service similar to that provided by Dun & Brad- Modern . Fiction", at 3 p.m.
Wednesday, in the Kresge Sci-
street.
TEL AVIV — Ninety percent of the more than 500 doctors ence Library Auditorium.
who have arrived in Israel during the past two years have been
satisfactorily absorbed, an expert reported in discounting fears
that medical personnel in the current immigration from Ro-
BY HENRY LEONARD
mania and other East European lands might have trouble re-
suming their professions.

Israel

Africa

ALGIERS—Algiers police reported that a hand grenade was
thrown by an unidentified terrorist into a Jewish-owned and
Jewish-frequented cafe here, and four persons, including three
Jews, were wounded.
ACCRA, Ghana—Five members of the Ghana Farmers
Council, who had attended a two-month seminar for Afro-Asian
cooperation, returned home full of praise for Israel and for the
seminar which they attended and said they learned much from
the seminar that will enable them to help solve economic prob-
lems facing farmers. in this country . . . Israeli Ambassador
Ehud Avriel returned here after a three-week visit to Jerusalem,
where he had been summoned for governmental consultations, and
said he reported to his government about the work being done
in this country by Israeli experts called here to aid in many
economic affairs.

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Mo os Hitim Sets
Dis tribution Time
for Passover Aid

This year's Passover aid to
needy families will be dis-
tributed by the Detroit Mo'os
Hitim Organization at the Dav-
ison Jewish Center, Harry M.
Shulman, newly - elected Mo'os
Hitim chairman, announced
this week.
Distribution will be made
from Wednesday, April 15,
through Tuesday, April 21, by
a group of Mo'os Hitim volun-
teers.
Those interested in volun-
teering their help are asked
to call Mrs. Baer Keidan, UN.
3-6194.
Shulman reprinted that 800
families were helped with Pass-
over necessities last year. He
stated that the need is greater
this year than it has been in
several years and he urges that
those desiring to assists in this
work should communicate with
him or send their contributions
in his care to 2641 Woodstock,
Detroit 3.

Sigal Writes Satire
On Detroit and L.A.

Canada

WINNIPEG — The University of Manitoba, the first in Can-
ada to introduce a chair in modern Hebrew, will be the first to
offer a course in Yiddish language and literature with full
credits, the Senate of the University, highest ruling body, having
approved the plan suggested by Rabbi Zalman Schachter, director
of the Bnai Brith Hillel Foundation at the university.
TORONTO — A 10-point "indictment" of the praCtice of
religious instruction in the public schools in the province of
Ontario—which has been in effect 14 years—was voiced here by
Rabbi Abraham L. Feinberg, who emphasized that the practice
"imperils the sacred freedom of the Church, by shifting to the
State the central function of the Church."

HARRY M. SHULMAN

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"What, so few present again? Always a
full house for our religious services and
nobody for our socials!"

Copr. 195$, Leonard Oritikin

Samuel Sigal, well known
Detroit educator and Yiddish
writer, is the author of a
humorous fuielleton in the cur-
rent issue of Der Americaner
(Jewish American) in which
he writes about Los Angeles
as a competitor of Detroit,
some of whose residents are
settling in California.
It is a satire on the west-
ward movement of some De-
troit Jews and on the automo-
bile industry in relation to the
two cities.

