Around the World.. A Digest of World Jewish Happenings, from Dispatches of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency and Other News-Gathering Media. Canada MONTREAL--Mendel Ladsky, national director of the Israel Maritime League in Canada, announces the establishment of a maritime training school in Israel, to be located at Dor, 11 miles south of Haifa, to be known as. Canada Center, for the training of officers and seamen. TORONTO—A residence which the local Jewish philan- thropist, Sigmund Samuel, donated to the provincial government will become the official residence of the Lieutenant Governor of Ontario. Samuel also donated to the province a large collection of Canadian historical manuscripts and art works and made gifts to science and research in Toronto. United States Half of U.S. Population Living in States with Anti-Bias Legislation *The majority of Americans now live in states with enforce- able laws barring racial and re- ligious discrimination, it was reported this week by the Amer- ican Jewish Congress. Michigan is among the states which have enacted such legis- lation, the survey showed. The 26-page Congress report, prepared by its commission of law and social action, establish- ed that 16 states have created specialized agencies empowered to administer and enforce laws prohibiting discrimination based on race, religion and national origin. Two other states have created anti - discrimination agencies without enforcement powers. The 16 states with enforce- able anti-bias laws have 50.32 percent of the country's total population, according to the Census Bureau's 1958 popula- tion estimate. Residents of these states com- prised 23.59 percent of the total Negro population' in the U.S., 5925 percent of other non- whites and 82.29 percent of the total estimated Jewish popula- tion, the study _noted. NEW YORK—In view of the proximity of the meeting of the Zionist General Council in Jerusalem, the third national as- sembly of the American Jewish League was postponed from the originally scheduled date of Dec. 5-6, Ezra Z. Shapiro, president of the League, announced . . . A memorial meeting for the late Gedalia Zakiff, secretary general of the Jewish Agency in Jeru- salem, was held in the New York office of the Jewish Agency, with Dr. Nahum Goldmann delivering the eulogy . . . Dr. Grayson Kirk, president of Columbia University, accepted a gift of books from the Israeli Defense Forces made in appreciation of the university's contribution to education of Israeli veterans, the presentation having been made by Col. A. Yariv, Military, Naval and Air Attache at the Israeli Embassy in Washington . . . The International Synagogue, sponsored at Idlewild International Airport by the New York Board of Rabbis, will contain a Jewish Museum which will have a section on religious art in the U. S. and a section with contemporary objects and documents salvaged after the Nazi occupation of East Europe, construction of the synagogue, on a site leased from the Port of. New York, to begin next year, to cost $300,000. Classified ads bring fast results! WASHINGTON—Secretary of State Christian Herter told a press conference that the United States now enjoys improved • relations with both the United Arab Republic and Iraq and added that this country is making constructive moves in the direction of Arab-Israel relations. TRENTON—New Jersey's ban against business on Sundays in 12 of the State's 21 counties, inclUding the most populous regions in the northern sections of the State, went into effect temporarily. The State Supreme Court, highest tribunal in New Jersey, refused at an extraordinary session to halt enforcement of the new Sunday closing law even while arguments against the law are to be reviewed at a session of the court scheduled for Dec. 22. DENVER—$1,250,000 research facilities were dedicated at National Jewish Hospital here and named in honor of Walter Neustadt, Ardmore, Okla., independent oil operator and philan- thropist. Neustadt, a trustee of the free, non-sectarian institution, is a native of New York City who moved to Oklahoma in 1917. He is a board member of the American Council of Judaism, the Oklahoma University Foundation, and the Oklahoma University Medical Research Foundation. He has made numerous contribu- tions to education. • Israel to Issue New Currency, Jan. 1 JERUSALEM, (JTA) — All present banknotes at par value Israel postage stamps and air- exchange. letters will be withdrawn Jan. 1, when new ones are issued fol- lowing the start of circulation WO 3-5301 this week of new Israel money. The new legal tender is based on a division of tin Israel pound into 100 agorot instead of 1,000 prutot. The pruta has been the smallest unit of Is- rael currency since the estab- lishment of Israel. Designer and Manufacturer of Fine Jewelry The new banknotes became A Detroit Pioneer in legal tender this week but will the Jewelry Industry not enter circulation through 35 W. GRAND RIVER t:A: banks until Sunday when 8th Floor they will progressively replace I. WIDENBAUM & SON DIAMONDS FOR THE BEST DEAL ON THE LEADER FOR 1960 — THE "WIDE TRACK" PONTIAC. See HARVEY GELLER General Sales Manager BAFtNETT Sales 5524 SCHAEFER PONTIAC Service TI 6-1122 Between Ford Rd. & Mich. Ave., Dearborn Europe PARIS—An appeal to the French government to act against the notoriously anti-Semitic "Jeune Nation" magazine was made by 16 French Jewish organization . . . An agreement for the con- struction in a French shipyard of a new, 10,000-ton passenger vessel, was signed here between representatives of the Zim- Shoham Israel Navigation Company and a leading French ship- building firm, Ateliers & Chantiers de Bretagne. LONDON—Baghdad Radio reported that West German Am- bassador Herbert Ernst Richter has told Iraqi . Foreign Minister Hashim Jawad that West Germany is no longer buying arms from Israel, that a previous arms deal expired and no new nego- tiations are under way. BIELEFELD—Herbert - Zimmerman, prominent attorney who served as a Gestapo and Security Service chief in Bialystok, Poland, was acquitted on charges that he had ordered the shoot- ing of 100 Jewish prisoners just before the city was liberated by the Soviet army 15 years ago, Zimmerman having pleaded not ' guilty on grounds that he acted under orders, but the prosecutor claimed that the victims would not have been killed if Zimmer- man had not ordered the executions. Israel TEL AVIV—Members of the Yiddish State Theater of War- saw, named after the noted actress Esther-Rochel Kaminska, were given an ovation when they arrived in Israel for two weeks of performances. Japanese MD Learns About Asthma Interested i n learning the most modern methods in allergy, espe- cially bronchial asthma, Dr. Mi- nors Umehara, of University Hos- pital, Tokyo, Ja- pan, has come for a year's train- ing to the inter- nationally- famous Jewish National Home f o r Ashmatic Children at Den- ver. Here, young- sters, like the one shown at right, are given free treatment a n d care for intracta- ble asthma. This label tells you the whole story: ea-49 It says the beans inside the can are Heinz Vegetarian Beans. Meaning, of course, the best-tasting beans in all the land ! The label also says these beans are strictly Kosher — because it carries the O seal of approval of THE UNION OF ORTHODOX JEWISH CONGREGATIONS OF AMERICA. About all it doesn't say is about some ... tonight?" Well how about it?