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.