THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS—Friday, November 6, 1959—S
Higher Payments
for Nazi Victims
Asked of Austria
Direct JTA Teletype Wire
To The Jewish News
GENEVA.—A resolution call-
ing upon the government of
Austria and upon the Austrian
Parliament to set higher stand-
ards of payment to Jewish vic-
tims of Nazism and to include
additional groups among the
beneficiaries was passed here
Tuesday at special meeting
called by the Committee for
Jewish Claims from Austria.
Attending the meeting were
representatives of the Federa-
tion of Austrian Jewish Com-
munities and of the World
Council of Jews from Austria
which includes former Austrian
Jews now residing in the United
States, Britain and Israel.
The committee was estab-
lished in 1953 by representa-
tives of 22 world Jewish or-
ganizations and national Jewish
groups in various countries.
After a long series of negotia-
tions, the Austrian government
signed an agreement undertak-
ing to enact suitable legislation
on behalf of Jewish victims of
Nazism in Austria.
Tuesday's meeting expressed
dissatisfaction over the fact
that "many thousands of needy
victims are ineligible under the
legislation finally passed while
the amounts awarded to those
eligible have been insigni-
ficant."
"More than 20 years have
passed," the resolution noted,
"since the barbaric campaign of
destruction against the Jewish
population in Austria. More
than 14 years have gone by
since Austria was liberated
from the tyrannic regime.
Thousands of victims have al-
ready died without having re-
ceived indemnification. It is
now high time for Austria to
show justice toward the sur-
viving victims."
Congress Protests
Greek Law Ending
Nazi Prosecutions
The World Jewish Congress
has made a strong protest to
the Greek government against
a law, adopted by the Greek
Parliament, providing for the
withdrawal of all prosecutions
of war criminals accused of
acts of terrorism and persecu-
tion of civilians during the
Nazi occupation of Greece.
The World Jewish Congress'
action reinforces an energetic
protest lodged with the Greek
government by the Central
Council of Greek Jewish Com-
munities, an affiliate of the
World. Jewish Congress.
The Congress statement re-
fers to "the profound indigna
tion felt by Jews all over the
world" at the possible libera-
tion—if the law is given Royal
assent—of the notorious war
criminal Max Merten who has
been tried and sentenced to 25
years imprisonment by a Greek
Military Tribunal.
Merten was accused and
found guilty of active com-
plicity in the Nazi deportation
and mass murder of 50,000
Greek Jews out of a total Jew-
ish population of 70,000.
Brandeis University Films Series by Federal Judges
Mrs. Roosevelt for Educational TV Hear Jewish Plea
Against Blue Law
MRS. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT cuts her 75th birthday cake
for participants in the first program of a new television series,
"Prospects of Mankind." Filmed at Brandeis University, the
series will be carried by over 40 educational television
stations across the country. The first program of the nine-part
series was released on her birthday, and features, left to
right, V. K. KRISHNA MENON, Indian Minister of Defense;
Mrs. Roosevelt, ROBERT R. BOWIE, Harvard University
Center for International Affairs; and HARRISON SALISBURY,
of the New York Times.
Polish-Yiddish Troupe
on Six-Week Israel Tour
LONDON, (JTA) — Ida Ka-
minska, star of the State Yid-
dish Theater of Poland, left
Warsaw with her Yiddish com-
pany for a six-week tour of.
Israel, according to a Warsaw
radio announcement. Madame
Kaminska and her troupe are
scheduled to perform in Jeru-
Happiness is only a by-prod-
uct of successful living.
—Austen Fox Riggs
Beth Yehudah Schools
Vol. 7, No. 3
Beth Yehudah Schools, Dexter at Sturtevant
No embe 6, 959
Deadline Nears on Reservations
Ask Confirmation
for N ov .15 Dinner
of Beth Yehudah
Immediate confirmation
of reservations to the an-
nual dinner and show of the
`Youth for One World'
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Is Council's Topic for
Town Hall Meeting,
"Youth Speaks Out for One
World" is the theme - of - the first
Town Hall meeting - sponsored
by the public affairs committee
of the National . Council of Jew-
ish Women at 12:30 p.m., Nov.
16, at Northland Auditorium.
Mrs. Seymour Rowe, chair-
man, has planned a panel dis-:
cussion by exchange students
on the subject "What Oppor-
tunities Your Child Can Gain
from E d u tion Abroad,"'
moderated by Mrs. Rachel
Andresen, director of social
action for the Michigan Council
of Churches, in Lansing.
The panel will include two
students from Wayne State Uni-
versity, one of whom has
studied in France and the other,
an exchange student from
Israel. Other members of the
panel will be an Irish high
school student, now in this
country, and an American stu-
dent who has studied in Hol-
land. -
Other activities planned by
National Council of Jewish
Women include a suburban
branch meeting at the home of
Mrs. Jack Perlman, 26501 Hen-
drie, Huntington Woods, at
12:30 p.m. Wednesday, at which
Maxine Sheldon will speak on
"Creative Living." Mrs. • Morton
J. Barak, suburban branch chair-
man, invites guests to attend.
PHILADELPHIA, (JTA) —
A special three-judge federal
court hearing a suit attacking
the constitutionality of Pennsy-
lvania's recently-amended Sun-
day blue laws was told that
compelling Jews to observe
Sunday as a day of rest was
the equivalent of forcing them
to recognize Christianity.
Testimony to that effect was
presented by Dr. Sidney B.
Hoenig, professor of history at
Yeshiva University as the first
opposition witness. The suit was
started by Two Guys from Har-
rison, a discount store in Allen-
town, Pa.
The court is made up of U.S.
Circuit Judge William H. Hastle
and District Judges George A.
Welsh and John W. Lord, Jr.
The suit charges that the
blue laws, which were recent-
ly stiffened with higher fines,
are unconstitutional, favor one
religion, are arbitrary and have
been enforced in a discrimina-
tory way.
Beth Yehudah Sdhools was re-
quested this week by Allen B.
Kramer, general chairman.
"As planning for the dinner
enters its final week," Kramer
said, "it is imperative that all
reservations be placed immedi-
ately so that plans can be made
for proper seating for all the
guests.
SONNY BLOCH'S CORALAIRS
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Sonny Bloch Returns for Yeshivah;
to Appear Here with His Coralairs
The annual dinner and show of the Beth Yehudah
Schools on Nov. 15 will be a homecoming celebration
for Sonny Bloch, and he's bringing some friends along
to make it a warm welcome. •
Sonny, a former student at the Beth Yehudah
Schools, is the son of Mr. and Mrs. A. Howard Bloch.
Many Detroiters • will re-<>
member • that Sonny re - airs were hurried in to take her
ceived his first real taste of place.. Response to the group
show business at a dinner of the was so enthusiastic that they
Schools some five years ago, were kept over for nine addi-
when he and a few other De- tional weeks to headline the
troit boys, appearing as Sonny show.
Bloch's Quintet, were featured
Their star has continued to
briefly on the stage.
rise in the entertainment skies.
Since then, he attended the They have added Ivan Bloch,
University of Miami - in Coral Sonny's brother, as a fifth mem-
Gables, Fla.; joined with three ber, and have appeared in night
other students and played for clubs throughout the _country,
with
campus shows and as a hobby. enthralling audiences
everything from progressive
Known as the Coralairs, the jazz and Latin rhythms to bal-
boys were only three weeks out lads.
of college when they were
They have recorded many of
signed by an agent and booked their own • songs, have provided
for a minor engagement in the background for many of the
Havana.
fine solo recording artists and
When the star of the show at have done considerable - work in
and television commer-
the
Sans Souci radio
.
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. world-famous
The dinner and show—lOth
annual program sponsored by
the Businessmen's and Syna-
gogue Councils—will take place
on Sunday, Nov. 15, at the beau-
tiful Latin Quarter, beginning
at 6 p.m. with a cocktail hour.
Assisting Mr. Kramer in plan-
ning the evening's program are
Daniel A. Laven and Jack Kor-
man, co-chairmen; David Gold-
berg, treasurer; Joe Lee, secre-
tary; and Peter S. Goldstein, ex-
ecutive chairman.
The following are associate
chairmen, who may be contacted
for reservations:
David I. Berris, David J.
Cohen, Nathan I. Goldin, Meyer
Weingarden, A. Howard Bloch,
John Herman, William Liber-
son, William Schwartz, Morris
Karbal, Hy Beale, Max Biber,
Benjamin Gould, Samuel Hecht-
man, Phillip Stollman, Max
Stollman and Jack Sylvan.
Others are Joseph Benz, Jack
Carmen, Ernest Citron, Isadore
Cohen, Wolf Cohen, Rubin Dub-
rinsky, Philip Dubrinsky, Harry
Fridson, Albert Goodman, Irv-
ing Palman, Alex Saltzman, Abe
Silverstein, Joseph B. Silver,
Morris Snow, Samuel B. Solo-
mon, Norman Sukenic, Julius
Wainer and Sol Wainer.
The annual dinner and show
provides a substantial part of
the yearly operating budget for
the Beth Yehudah Schools. The
public is urged to confirm res-
ervations if not already made,
ARTHUR LEE SIMPKINS
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Noted Tenor
to Headline Show
at Latin Quarter
One of this country's..
most popular entertainers,
Arthur -Lee , Simpkins, will --
headline the entertainment be-
ing presented at the annual din-
ner and show of the Beth
Yehudah Schools.
• A youthful tenor who couples
popular songs with renditions
from opera and the semi-
classics, Simpkins is fluent in
six languages. He has recorded
"Eli, Eli" in Hebrew, and also
sings in Italian, French, Span-
ish and Gaelic:
He first attracted attention
as a vocalist when he was a
music major at Paine Univer-
sity. His first major job was as
featured singer with the Earl
(Fatha') Hines Orchestra.
Simpkins has appeared ogi
many television shows, includ-
ing appearances with Milton
Berle, Jackie Gleason, Kate
Smith and Red Skelton, You
Asked for It and Shomi
Shows;
He also has - been a featured
star in night clubs from New •
York to Las Vegas and Miami tO
London's f am e d Palladium.
Critics have been lavish in their
abilities.