Eichmann Case Moves Toward Court Stage Defense Counsel Servatius Goes Back to Germany without Charges (Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News) TEL AVIV — Dr. Robert Servatius, defense counsel for Nazi mass murder specialist Adolf Eichmann, left Israel Wednesday for West Germany with the ex- planation he was doing so because he still had not been given a charge sheet or a copy of the evidence against his client. He had arrived in Israel Sun- day with announced plans to re- main for the trial, now sched- uled to be started March 15, of the former, Gestapo Colonel who directed the extermination of six million European Jews. Asserting he -should have been informed of . a decision to postpone presentation of the. charge sheet, he told reporters at the airport -that if he had been notified he • would have postponed his arrival earlier this week. A last minute -de- cision by the prosecution to introduce changes in the charge sheet caused delay in its _com- pletion. • about the refusal of Israeli au- thorities to allow him to meet privately with Eichmann. He said the Israelis insisted there should be no direct contact between Eichmann and anyone and that even now his talks with his client were held through a special room- to-room aparatus. He said that during his stay in West Germany he planned to meet with the chairman of the local bar association to discuss with him that refusal. He said he expected to return to Israel soon with his . aides, another West German attorney and a secretary. He said also that he would not agree to the plan of the prosecution to read at the trial only those parts of the 4,000 pages of evidence it intended to introduce during the pro- ceedings. This stand raised the possibility that all 4,000 pages might be read during the- trial. Meanwhile, Prof. Robert M. W. Kempner, noted German- born, American. political scien- tist and international lawyer, who in 1945-46 was American deputy chief counsel for the Nuremberg War Crimes trials, arrived here at the invitation of Attorney General Gideon - Hausner to act as an adviser in the forthcoming Eichmann trial. The statement of charges, it is understood, will contain more than a dozen accusations under various clauses of the ISraeli criminal code. Some of_ the charges, it is understood, will re- late to crimes against the Jewish people, while -other charges will be • concerned with general war Kempner, a Jew, will advise crimes. . The attorney also complained Hausner in regard to documents Purely- mmentary , By, s45 F Hamilton Fish Back in the Limelight and exhibits to be entered before the special Eichmann trial court. Among other posts he held, Kempner was chief prosecutor in the Allied case against Nazi diplo- mats from 1947 to 1949. Dr. Kempner described Dr. Servatius as an "excellent de- fense counsel who is a great legal fighter." He recalled that Serva- tius defended a number of Nazis in Nuremberg, some of whom were later hanged. Dr. Kempner dismissed any possibility that Servatius would succeed in his plan to dispute the validity of Israeli laws against Nazi war criminals. He Said that many courts throughout Europe had overruled objections to try Nazi war criminals under such laws. • hilation of Jews. He asked not to be delivered to Israel where Eichmann is now awaiting trial. (In West Germany, the Frank- furt prosecution office announced it was considering a request to Austria for the extradition of Nowak. It was explained that the request would depend on Nowak's nationality.) Nowak, a printer by profession, was arrested shortly after a radio announcement that a search war- rant for him had been issued in Frankfurt. After the German oc- cupation of Austria, Nowak worked in the headquarters of the Nazi deportation offices for Jews and then was transferred to Berlin in 1939 when' he was as- signed as an "expert on technical questions" in connection with the (A proposal that Israel con- duct only an inquest into the Eichmann case, leaving trial and conviction of the Nazi war criminal to West Germany or to the United Nations, was made in the New York Times by former Brig. Gen. Telford Taylor, an American who was chief prosecutor at the Nurem- berg War Crimes Tribunal in 1947.) It was also reported here that John R. Catchpole, Rhodesia's of- ficial hangman, has offered his services to Israel to hang Adolf Eichmann, if the Nazi leader is found guilty. Catchpole said he had made his offer in "the desire to be of assistance to Israel and to humanity in what is a difficult job." He added he would perform the hanging without charge. Arrested Nazi Admits He Was Eichmann's 'Right Hand' Man VIENNA, (JTA) — Franz No- wak, a former Gestapo officer, who was arrested here as a for- mer aide to Adolf Eichmann, ad- mitted that he had been Eich- mann's 'right hand' in the anni- deportation of Jews. Later he was a member of a special Eichmann unit in Budapest. After the war he lived under a false name in Austria for sev- eral years, but in recent years felt so secure that he lived under his actual name in Langenzersdorf while working in a Vienna print- shop. He was arrested on a tip from an anonymous caller. The report from West Germany had announced that the Frank- furt State Prosecutor had offered 10,000 marks ($2,380) for infor- mation leading to the arrest of Nowak and two other former Eichmann aides, SS Majors Rolf Guenther and Hans Guenther. Nowak said the "G uenther brothers had committed suicide iby gassing themselves in 1945. • Israeli Police Department Special Unit Gathers Evidence on Nazis (Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News) TEL AVIV — Evidence against 70 Nazi war criminals has been prepared by a special department for the investiga- tion of Nazi crimes in the Israeli police department and will be transmitted soon to West German authorities. It .was expected that this ma- terial would help West German officials bring to trial many war criminals who are still at large. The special department 'also provided evidence against five Nazi criminals recently detain- ed in West Germany. Police Inspector Gershon Landsberg, r himself a former inmate of a Nazi concentration camp, inter- viewed 45 Israelis and several tourists mostly from Poland in preparing evidence against the five. They are Dega Richard, com- mander of the Zagrovla Camp; Peter Blum, commander of the Piaski Camp; Richard Rokita, commander of the Tarnopol death camp; Afleh Ernst, com- mander of the Korvitze Camp; and Adolf Kolomko. Aiming the most notorious of the five is. Rokita, a musician who wrote a tune later known as the "Death Tango" which Jewish inmate musicians played during executions. o•am.n.m.,....o...Hmm.K.n...mwo ■ esmmo ■u■o■o■ wo..... ■, oio...o ■ uawo.am. oe■o■wo Boris Smolar's 'Between You .and Me' • When Hamilton Fish was a member of Congress from York, he gained fame as the author of the resolution fav Israel Ambassador • • the establishment of the Jewish National Home in Palestine. • • (Copyright 1961, Some years later, he marred his good record by joining Testifies in Spy Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.) rs ers. His constituents repudiated him and a merica Fit th e A man who could have risen to great heights as a public servant Case; Tells of Agent Israel's "Know-How" TEL AVIV, (JTA) — Walter was relegated to the background. Israel has greatly benefited from American "know-how" .. He 'is baCk in the limelight, however. Last week he wrote 'Eytan, Israel's Ambassador to Now Israel is repaying the United States with its "know:how" a letter to the New York Times, angrily protesting against France and former director- in a field vital for every inhabitant of this country . . . the de- David Ben-Gurion's statement regarding "godlessness." general of the Foreign Ministry, salting of sea water for drinking purposes and for irrigation .. . One can hardly blame Hamilton Fish. If Jews_ who should testified in Haifa district court Little does the average American know of the urgency faced by •have known better, and especially spokesthen for the largest that:a "foreign agent" left 'Israel the United States in finding fresh water . . . American scien- Jewish organizations, could have _fallen prey to a minor item immediately after the arrest of tists who specialize in water sources and water usage all agree Aliaron Cohen, leader of the left- that a water shortage will soon blight the nation's economy unless i_n 'an important speech, why not the former Congressman? There were many people who were so blinded- by a news- wing Mapam who faces trial on remedial steps are undertaken now . .. Government experts paper headline that really misrepresented ' the Israeli Prime espionage charges. are of the opinion that more than 1,000 cities will have to convert Minister and did an injustice not only to him but to all Israel, Eytan testified that a "certain salt and brackish water for drinking purposes within the next that their letters to newspapers reflected a lack of understanding embasSy _urgently requested from ten years . . . Within 15 years, shortages of fresh water will the Foreign Ministry an exit visa affect every region in the country . Because-the supply of _ . of- Jewish values and of- Jewish attitudes. •' Thus, one man writing to the New York Herald Tribune, for one, of its employes acting water is unevenly distributed, there are already shortages in from Paris, said that he found "a great hatred in _Israel for all as secretary to a scientific re- several sectors of the country . . . President Kennedy advo- Jews living out of Israel." Another letter-writer to the New Search, mission which is 'a branch cates a far-reaching expansion of the Government's research on York Herald Tribune saw fit to bring up the matter of dollars of a known academy in the coun- the conversion of sea water into drinking water . . . "The,first donated to Israel by the "godless" American Jews. • A corres- try which the embassy repre- country that will be able to desalt sea water will earn far more pondent to the Philadelphia Jewish Exponent was moved by sented." than we lost by being second in outer space," he said Unlike the typical request, prestige the debate to declare that "the Bill of Rights supersedes the to illustrate the urgency . . . The first country to win the which is usually lodged at least race for desalination Torah." of sea water may be Israel • . . It was It was a heyday for anger—and now those who seek the one week before the departure in Israel that the Zarchin method of desalination of sea water line of least resistance will glory in the demand that Zionism of the diplomats, • Eytan testified, was invented . . In the United States this method is now should be liquidated. Dr. Joachim Prinz, head of the American in this case the request was for being developed and tested . . . The completion of the first Jewish Congress, probably never. dreamt that he Would -be pull- issuance of an exit permit within mass-production type of machine for desalination by the Zarchin two days. Such a request, he process has now been announced jointly in Israel and in this ing chestnuts out of the fire for the Council for Judaism. Like - all similar issues, they blow over, and the fittest sur- added, is regarded as "a most country . . . The Israel government and the American firm pro- vive. Who will dare say that the Zionist idea is not among urgent and irregular departure." ducing this machine have worked together for more than a The diplomat testified that the year . . . Tests were made in Wisconsin and, as a result, the the fittest? It's true: it needs new approaches, it must find a way into the hearts and minds of the youth. But there isn't work of the research mission was Zarchin process was proclaimed the most economical method a movement in Jewish life today that is not devoid of youth not limited to what he considered in desalting known to date . . . Saline water conversion plants participation. When Zionism finds the way, it will no doubt "reasonable limits of scientific are in operation in California and Pennsylvaia, but experiments contribute - towards the elevation of other Jewish movements. research." After Eytan gave his have •shown that conversion at a large scale plant would That's how it's been; that's how it's due to be again. Let the evidence the court heard testi- there cost about $4 per 10,000 gallons . . . The Zarchin process, it is mony from the Israeli Security skeptics- measure our augury ,in the izonalsw, 01.4#00 now believed here, would reduce the cost to - $1 per 10,000 gallons. - Services which was given in * * camera. Dr. Alexander M. Dushkin at 70 Priority Programs Dr. Alexander M. Dushkin dates back his interest in Jewish The prograin of developing young leadership originated by educational planning to the pioneering period when educators Jewish Divorce Rate the Council of JewiSh Federations and -Welfare Funds, is now sought to introduce modern methods of study in contradistinction program in American Jewish commun- Nears' U.S. Averav '15&biflintaNniftbleity" to the old time heder. He was an associate of Dr. Simon Benderly bodies outstanding in this work is the Among the ity life . . . and the group of educators who defied the old ways and introduced . NEW YORK, (JTA)--:-The tra- Jewish Community Council of Essex County, , in Newark, N.J. ditionally low Jewish divorce rate modernism into Jewish schools. Its able executive director, Herman M. Pekarsky, has suc- For a number of years, Dr. Dushkin has been a distinguished has been increasing to a point . . . in stimulating a two-pronged prograth for the develop- member of the staff of the Hebrew University. About a year ago, where it has almost caught up ceeded ment of community responsiblity and leadership among younger with the national average, it was he spent some time in the United States assisting in conducting men and women . . . The program for men is being carried out the survey. of Jewish education, as a result of which it is hoped reported here by Rabbi Bernard through the Young Men's Service Group, while the program for Mandelbaum, director of the women is a part of the work of the Women's Service Group that some of our educational shortcomings will be corrected and more effective ways will be found to advance our educational Religio-Psychiatric Institute of As a result, more than 100 members of each of these two groups the Jewish Theological Seminary are now serving on boards and committees of 'the Jewish - Com- efforts. and Dr. Dushkin has just marked his seventieth birthday. On this of America. munity Council and its local agencies • . . Quantitatively a new "From a relatively low rate of has developed occasion, he has the good wishes of Jewish educators in the United qualitatively the Jewish Community Council of one in 10 marriages point where the States, as well as his associates in Israel. He has rendered impor- divorce the rate is nearing the one out of young leadership — aged 19 to 35 — to a tant services to Jewry, and he has the good wishes of many ad- four national divorce statistic," general chairman of the local United Jewish Appeal was a mirers, who wish him at least another decade of leadership in Rabbi Mandelbaum declared. Service Group "graduate." Jewish educational circles. . •