THE DETROIT JEWIS HNEWS—Friday, August 19, 1960-32
Bernard Baruch Marks 00th Birthday
:/lround the fr/ 7 61-ld...
A ,Digest of World Jewish Happenings, • from
Dispatches of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency and Other
News-Gathering Media.
Europe
LONDON
A serene smile is char-
acteristic of him.
As a N. Y. City college
student, Baruch was
quite an athlete and
scrapper. Bob Fitz-
simmons told him, "The
prize ring is losing a
good man in you."
\\IV , \N‘sc ,IWU
s„.
During World War II he became
known as an adviser with a park
bench office. Still likes park sitting.
A chat Avith President Eisenhower. Baruch has
\ been friend of Presidents and statesmen since Wilson.
Bernard M. Baruch, friend and
adviser of Presidents, one of America's
leading financiers, marks his 90th
birthday today. His father was a
physician and was financially com-
fortable, but Bernard started life as a
$3-a-week office boy on Wall Street, and
became a millionaire at 35. With great
faith in our country, he always advised:
"Don't sell America short." He still -
leads an active life in his New York
neighborhood and office. On the eve of
his birthday, he said he would not issue
statements or have interviews because,
as a "private citizen with no responsi-
bilities," he does not feel he should
comment on world affairs at a critical
time.
Knesset Called Into Special Session
to Deal with High Excise Taxes Issue
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)
will probably be held before
will be called back from its
summer recess for a special
session to deal with the deci-
sion by the Treasury to impose
higher customs duties and ex-
cise taxes on a variety of con-
sumer goads, it was reported
here Tuesday.
The special session, which
quested by four opposition par-
ties; Herut, the General Zion-
ists, the Communists and
Agudat Israel.
Opposition deputies charged
that the Treasury broke its
pledge of the higher taxes to
be made a f ter the Knesset
adjourned last week.
The government thus attempt-
JERUSALEM — The Knesset the end of the month, was re- ed to impose the new levies
025)1•1 4
*74
2
without discussion in the par-
liament, opposition members
charged.
The higher taxes announced
last week apply to such items
as cooking gas, electrical ap-
pliances, alcoholic beverages
and automotive spare parts.
They were imposed for the pur-
pose of increasing state reve-
nues
and were expected to yield
1;p7 n;pri
- an additional 10,000,000 pounds
($5,600,000) annually for the
Treasury.
A Treasury spokesman said
last week that the government
, »70-17
hoped the new levies would not
raise the cost of living index
1YR.
PrIT.? by more than one-quarter of a
iiRlyz 840 point.
—
Israel is now working on an "original" execu-
tive-type, two engine, passenger jet plane intended chiefly
for export to the United States and slated for first delivery
in 1963, according to a report by the Anglo-Israel Trade Journal
. A report on juvenile delinquency in Israel was given at
the second United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime
and the Treatment of Offenders by Yehuda Prag, chief of the
criminal investigation branch of the Israel police, who said
that a new form of criminality is now noticed which consists of
"gang behavior" involving crimes committed "for the fun of it"
and not material gain. . . . The United Arab Republic has sent
a military mission to Ghana for the purpose of discussing the
formation of a joint high command and the possibility of form-
ing an all:African army . . . Five hundred United Arab Republic
troops landed in Leopoldville from Cairo this week upon request
of UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold that President
Nasser dispatch the troops to help implement the Security Coun-
cil's resolution on the Congo.
BERLIN — The West Berlin Senate has decided to grant
20,000 deutschemarks ($4,694) from its budget to help the He-
brew University build up its library.
FRANKFURT — Former police major Franz Lechthaler, 69,
and Willy Papenkort, 51-year-old ex-chief of police in Kassel,
have confessed to the shooting of "several hundreds of Jews"
in Slutzk, Byelorussia, on Oct. 27, 1941, during the Nazi occupa-
tion, it was disclosed here.
MUNICH—The Munich District Court opened proceedings
to recover 64,580 marks from Mrs. Erika Heyde, wife of a Nazi
doctor arrested last fall and facing trial next ,September on
charges that he administered death medications to prisoners
in concentration camps during World War II (the prosecution
charges - that Mrs. Heyde received the ;unds as a "widow's"
pension, althoUgh she knew that her huSband was still alive).
ROME—The Italian Jewish Youth Federation has joined
the Federal Council of the Resistance, a confederation of parties
and organizations opposing the resurgence of facism which was
established during the short-lived Tambroni government, it was
announced here by Roberto Piperno, the youth federation's
representative on the Council.
United States
HOUSTON, Tex.—Bnai Brith, the Knights of Columbus
and the Knights of the Round Table will sponsor the first
inter-faith charity sports event ever held here to aid charities
of the Jewish, Protestant and Catholic faiths with proceeds
from the contest between the Denver Broncs and the Houston
Oilers of the newly-created American Football League at the
33,000-seat Jeppsen Stadium on Aug. 20.
UTICA, N. Y. Three teen-age vandals were placed on three
years' probation by Oneida County Judge John J. Walsh and
ordered to pay $560 each in damages for defacing Temple
Emanu-El with swastikas and anti-Semitic inscriptions last April.
NEW YORK — United Artists announced that it has estab-
lished its own branch in Israel for distribution of its films there.
. . . Miron J. Sheskin has been elected president of the United
Zionists-Revisionists of America and will also serve as chairman
of the organization's administrative committee.
STARLIGHT, Pa.—"Upper Level" discrimination against
Jews in this country is a "major danger" because it would
exclude Jews from power and influence in the general com-
munity, • Sol. Rabkin, director of the law department of the
Bnai Brith Anti-Defamation League, warned the teen-age
regional officers of the Bnai Brith Youth Organization attend-
ing the group's annual leadership training institute here.
—
Israel
JERUSALEM—One hundred and twenty acres of pyrethrum
(a raw material for insectides for local crops) flowers will be
planted in immigrant settlements in the Jerusalem and Galilee
areas to be processed by the new Plantex factory in Natanya,
-the world's second largest factory specializing in chemical com-
pounds made out of vegetable raw materials .. . A total of 10,-
000,000 persons visited Israel pavilions in 18 international fairs
and exhibitions last year, according to J. Dayan, general manager
of the Government Fairs and Exhibitions Company, who said that
Arab threats to boycott fairs or exhibitions in which Israel par-
ticipated had "little effect" . . . Two American census experts
and a Swiss geologist have been assigned by the United Nations
Technical Assistance Board to assist the Israel government . . .
The Israel government announced a sharp rise in customs
duties and excise taxes on a variety of consumer goods and
automotive spare parts, and at the same time, the Treasury
decided to ease import restrictions on what it considers luxury
items for which higher customs duties are normally imposed
. . . An additional 10,000,000 pounds ($5,600,000) in annual
revenue is expected to result from increased taxes. . . . A four-
man arbitration committee, headed by Minister of Finance Levi
Eshkol, has decided in favor of awarding Israeli workers a cost-
of-living increase to be paid retroactive from July 15 ... Marek
Mask°, the prominent young Polish non-Jewish writer who
gained fame through his novel "The Eighth Day of the Week,"
has applied for Israel citizenship. . .. A loan of $8,400,000 to
Nigeria for goods and services acquired by the Federal Govern-
ment of Nigeria from Israel was formally voted this week by the
Israel Cabinet . . • Plans for the expansion of Israel's petroleum
by-products industries, involving - the investment of 32,000,000
pounds ($18,000,000), were announced by Pinhas Sapir, minister
of commerce and industry. ;
marnRi
at 7
;IV??? r') ;
1471 1 :P,1';:l -"P11 ; tr1r4
litrt174
Hebrew Corner
•.•
•
nirY7P 1'0k; ,114.e? 5iiar;
1,10 171173
:- Bazalel Museum/
ni71114 nirPli? '4Yr:3 P'?
l's?;:i 7n r4tg Published
Translation of Hebrew column
by Brit Ivrit Olamit.
15ptil
t3',7.1174
Ml.r.r?%1 wrlki7 ,7 short
In a cidiet Jerusalem street a
froin • the Knesset
rrtpy 2t n' 131»
lies -the Bezalel. museum.
.Tiwy.inr1 .5 ? . r) building - distance
Whoever visits the museum . im-
the . great differ-
- mediately -
n7;1 1'4 1 :1 7. 12
ence betwen the life of a modern
city - and the specific atmosphere
r3 121HZ .insv
135117 mrr that exists within the walls of the
museum.
irtir x1.1 '?p44
1 71P
Each - room of the museum is a
-Trq; world
of its own. in' one hall can be
rains -'n4
seen
silver Hanuka lamps . and -
-
nivitpv.
7'4
candelabra, covers for sabbath and
festival p r a y . e r books, arks for
17 . 1t.3? t3v
IPt mrT - pp'?
,tylirrp'?i
scrolls of. the Law, cups and crowns
—the work of Jewish artists in the
countries of Europe, North . AfriCa
Ery trinn trirna ,;fin
and the Middle East. Articles from
the thirteenth to the nineteenth
.rtg.oniz
5tli lorry- vim
centuries can be found there. In an
adjoining hall the visitor sees paint-
of a modern Jewish artist and
rit.r. onri
n1s1x4 tiro 1' ings
artistic /Passover Haggadas from all
parts of the world.
(2000)
nVorr ripy ,ipx It is not only Jewish art that has
found its place- in this house, but
also paintings from medieval to
ntpx .mhrp y ► i modern
717 1P rP tr 051 P n'?
times, ceramics ware of an-
Canada -
cient cultures in the world as a
mpTiTT
trpl (3 5 .0190) - 015tp ra.3.74ri
TORONTO — A. U.S. study group, including prominent
tr);
whole and even the productions of
primitive tribes in Africa can be Jews, will recommend the Canadian pre-schechita method, a
- 17ten7 rapp5
"P'4
rrps? found in the museum.
kosher device of restraining animals before slaughter, be
The Bezalel museum is the oldest adopted in America.
museum
in
Israel.
It
was
founded
rash
117p77
n'Ta
, t4 .72tp fifty years ago by Professor Boris
1 1;?t.
crIt? ninF3'
MONTREAL —Appreciation to the Shah of Iran for his
reaffirmation of the de facto recognition of Israel was expressed
(25,00 ' 0) 17; l' 1:s 5v
117n»7 Shatz.
Today the museum possesses 2,000 here in a joint communication addressed by the Canadian Jewish
paintings and over 35,000 pages of Congress and the Zionist Organization of Canada to. the Envoy
th*?11, .nnFt rr-R, ntwrtv
graphic art! The library of the mu-
T
••:
T •
•
T.
seum contains 25,000 books as welt.
Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of Iran in Ottawa.