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100 Witnesses to Testify Against
I Nazi Murderer Karl Chmielewski

(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)

BONN—More than 100 wit-
nesses from Austria and Poland
were expected Tuesday to be
called during the trial of Karl
Chmielewski, a former SS cap-
tain accused of causing the death
of 297 inmates of the Mauth-
ausen concentration camp, which
opened in the Ansbach Assisses
Monday.
Chmielewski was accused by
the prosecution of inventing a
number of means of quick dis-
patch of inmates, including the
"death baths" in which prisoners
were stripped in midwinter in
the outdoors and hosed down
with icy water until they col-
lapsed and died. If the trial lasts
through April, as is expected,
it will be one of the biggest of
its kind yet held in West Ger-
many.
Chmielewski, who was found
in 1958 hiding under an as-
sumed name near Ansbach,
where he had earned his living
since the end of World War II
as a rabbit breeder, denied re-
sponsibility during preliminary
investigations for the killings in
Gusen, a IVIauthausen sub-camp.

Kennedy Asks
Report on Arabs

WASHINGTON, (JTA) —
President Kennedy indicated in-
terest in the Arab refugee situa-
tion and asked the Right Rev.
Francis B. Sayre, dean of the
Washington Cathedral, who re-
turned recently from the Near
EaSt, to send the White House
a written report. .
Rev. Sayre called at the White'
House, at Mr. Kennedy's invita-
tion, • to report on an "explora-
tory trip" to the Near East spe-
cifically to survey the Arab
refugee issue. A leader of a
group of clergymen and others
concerned about the' fate - of the
Arabs who once lived in Pales-
tine, Rev. Sayre said he could
not divulge exactly what Mr.
Kennedy said, but made known
that the President wanted a
written report to augment their
discussion.
Seeking to evaluate chances
for a solution of the Arab refu-
gee issue, Rev. Sayre visited the
United Arab Republic, Jordan,
Lebanon, and Israel. He com-
mented that sometimes he found
the situation rather discourag-
ing and thought "the human
problem" had become enmeshed
in "politics and economics." He
indicated that it might have been
his special role to attempt to
learn what was behind the im-
passe on Arab refugees.

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According to the prosecution,
the number of deaths at Gusen
during Chmielewski's administra-
tion rose from 300 a month to
2,000 through application of the
death bath and other methods
devised by the former SS cap-
tain.
According to evidence from
camp records now held bY the
prosecution, a total of 10,000
victims perished between 1940
and 1942 while Chmielewski was
at the camp.
Walter Junge, one of his as-
sistants and working overseers,
also was awaiting trial on simi-
lar charges.
Chmielewski, now 56, joined
Himmler's general staff near the
end of the war after service at
the Orieanienburg and Mauth-
ausen death camps.

Austria Defends
Actions on Nazis

VIENNA, (JTA) — The Aus-
trian government declared, in
reply to a charge from the
Vienna Jewish community that
scores of Austrian Nazi . war
criminals were free in Austria,
that legal action had been taken
on every known or reported
case of war crimes.
The charge had been made at
a press conference at which a
Jewish community spokesman
asserted that Austrian authori-
ties had received the names of
40 to 50 such criminals, all of
whom were guilty of multiple
murde - s. One of the names was
that of Franz :purer, who was
captured by the British Army,
turned over to the Russians,
and sentenced to 25 years on
charges of responsibility for the
slaying of 80,000 Jews in Vilna.

Yeshiva University
Seeks Oldest Student

The response to Yeshiva Uni-
versity's public appeal for in-
formation leading to discovery of
the institution's oldest living
alumnus has been quick and
varied. The university, born as
Yeshiva Eitz Chaim in 1886 and
planning its 75th anniversary
celebration for 1961-62, had
Started with names of three early
students.
It now has six.
Shortly after the appeal was
sounded, Solomon Green sug-
gested it might be his brother,
H. L. Green, 77, of Los Gatos,
Calif. Julius Yavarskovsky volun-
teered his father, Joseph, - 75, of
New York City. Mason Padgug,
71. of New York City, called to
say, "it might be me." All at-
tended Yeshiva Eitz Chaim be-
fore the turn of the century.

BY HENRY LEONARD

"And now that our Shabbas services are over, I should
like to present and thank the members of our temple
choir . . . Mr. Haggarty, Miss Johnson, Mrs. O'Conner
and Mrs. Whitney."
Copr. 1959, Leonard TritikIn

Capital to lase
Reform Center

Ben-Gurion Resigns from Literary
Body in Dispute Over Lavon Issue

The establishment of a social
action center in the nation's
capital to implement the ethical
principles of Reform Judaism
has been announced by the
Union of American Hebrew
Congregations.
Judge Emil N. Baar, of New
York, chairman oi the UAHC's
Board of Trustees, .stated that
the religious body this fall will
open the Emily R. and • Kivie
Kaplan Center for Religious
Action, a three-story building
just purchased at 2027 Massa-
chusetts Avenue in Washing-
ton, D. C.
The building will house the
first social action center 'in that
city established under the au-
spices of any branch of Juda-
ism. The center will serve as
an arm of the Commision on
Social Action which is the joint
body of the UAHC and the
Central Conference of Ameri-
can Rabbis and affiliated re-
form bodies.
Opposition to the planned
center was voiced in a state-
ment by Dr. Norman Gersten-
feld, reform rabbi of the Wash-
ington Hebrew Congregation,
who declared: "We don't want
anything that speaks for Juda-
ism. Let the pulpit speak for
itself and the . people for them-
selves."
`Judge Baar observed that the
center was being opened as the
result of an overwhelming vote
of reform Jewish leaders at the
1959 biennial assembly of the
TJAHC. The organization also
noted that many Christian
groups had offices in Washing-
ton. D.C. and that every effort
would be made to cooperate
with these bodies, as well as
with other Jewish agencies.
Commenting on the establiSh-
ment of the center, Rabbi Ber-
nard Bamberger, President of
the Central Conference of
American Rabbis, _hailed it as
a means for advancing "the
cause of righteousness in pub-
lic affairs." The new center was
expected to express the inter-
est of the Social Action Corn-
mission in such issues as world
peace, the ending of various
forms of discrimination, civil
liberties, and interfaith rela-
tions.

JERUSALEM, (JTA) — David warning that the methods of Ben-
Ben-Gurion has withdrawn his Gtirion's supporters in the fight
membership from a committee to against Lavon, the Histadrut sec-
translate world classics into He- retary-general, constituted a clan-
brew as a by-product of his battle ger to Israel's democracy.
Bergman said he hoped that
against Pinhas Lavon.
Professor Hugo Bergman, chair- the resignation was not final be-
man of the committee, said that cause he felt there was no con-
the reason for the withdrawal ap- nection between membership on
peared to be the attitude of Pro- the committee and political af-
fessor Martin Buber, a former fairs. Buber also indicated he
president of the committee, in could see no such relationship
and pointed out that the commit-
the dispute.
Buber was one of the signa- tee was made up of individuals -
tories of a manifesto signed by i holding diverse views on the
a group of Israel intellectuals t Lavon affair.

Greet Meyerhoff's
Selection as UJA's
National Chairman

Responding to the news that
Joseph Meyerhoff, president of
the Associated Jewish Charities
of Baltimore, was named gen-
eral chairman of the United
Jewish Appeal, leading figures
in Israel's government and in
the Jewish Agency cabled warm-
est greetings to the UJA's new
top officer-
Meyerhoff was unanimously
elected to UJA'S top national
post at the 1961 national inaug-
ural conference in Miami Beach
on Feb. 5. He succeeded Philip
M. Klutznick, of Park Forest,
Ill., who resigned the UJA
office in order to accept the
appointment by President Ken-
nedy as a key member of the
U.S. Mission to the United Na-
tions.
Among scores of messages
from Israel received at UJA
national headquarters in New
York were cables from Levi
Eshkol, Israel'S Minister of
Finance, and from Moshe Shar-
rett, former Prime Minister who
is a leading member of the
Jewish Agency Executive in
Jerusalem. Both Israeli lead-
ers expressed confidence that
Meyerhoff and the entire UJA
would press forward with the
humanitarian program of aiding
320,000 of Israel's still unab-
sorbed immigrants to become
self-sustaining, creative citizens
in the land in which they found
haven.

Sharett on Aliyah: Taboo in USSR,
Morocco; Encouraged Elsewhere

(Direct JTA Teletype Wire"
to The Jewish News)

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JERUSALEM — The existence
of anti-Semitism in the Soviet
Union, with official acquiescence,
was reiterated Monday by Moshe
Sharett, former Prime Minister
and now a member of the Jewish
Agency Executive.
Speaking at a radio press con:
ference, Sharett cited "anti-
Semitic articles in the Soviet
press which are official plat-
forms."
Sharett, replying to questions
on Aliyah, said there were coun-
tries on two continents where the
masses of Jews wanted to leave
but were forbidden by authorities
to do so. This was understood to
be a reference to the Soviet
Union and Morocco.
He said that on two other con-
tinents Jews were considering
Aliyah not because of persecution
or the threat persecution but
because of existing or incipient
social changes in those countries,
presumably a reference to South
Africa and some Latin American
nations.
He reported that an emissary
had just been despatched from

American Firm Gets
Prospecting Rights for
Phosphate in Israel

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to The Jewish News) -

JERUSALEM — The Alumina
Corporation, an American firm,
Was disclosed Wednesday to be
the first foreign company to ob-
tain prospecting rights in Israel
for a resource other than oil.
The Israel government ap-
proved a contract signed several
months ago in the United States
by Dr. Menahem Bader, director
general of the Israel Develop-
ment Ministry, with the corpora-
tion for prospecting phosphate
deposits in the Negev.
The corporation is setting up
a subsidiary to be called the
Israel American Phosphates Co.
to exploit the prospecting rights
obtained by the parent firm in
three large Negev areas. The
corporation plans to invest 500,-
000 pounds ($280,000) in the
project.
If workable deposits are found,
the corporation will establish a
refining plant with an annual
capacity of 500,000 tons. The
government has guaranteed that
royalties paid by the American
firm will not exceed those paid
by the Israel National Phosphates
Co., and in any case the royalties
will not exceed more than seven
and one-hall per cent.

`Christian Century'
Asks _UN Probe Plight
of Jews in Morocco

Israel to the United States carry-
ing a list of 500 jobs open for
experts and technicians. He
quipped that "until now we
sought jobs for immigrants. Now
we have begun to seek immi-
grants for jobs."
In an evaluation of the 25th
World -Zionist Congress, he said
there had been. a narrowing of
positions on the question of
Aliyah. One side, he said, gave
up the extremist thesis that all
Zionists must come to Israel, a
comment referring to Prime
Minister Ben-Gurion. On the
other hand, he said representa-
tives from Western countries in
the Zionist movement did not
disassociate themselves com-
pletely from the demand . for
Aliyah from their countries.

Toby Robins to Have
Stratford Play Role

STRATFORD, Ontario—Toby
Robins, one of Canada's most
popular television personalities
and stage actresses, has been
signed for the role of Rosaline
in Michael Langham's produc-
tion of "Love's Labour's Lost."
The c o e d y, one of three
Shakespearean plays to be pre-
sented at the 1961 Stratford
Festival, will have its first per-
formance on June 21 and for
the balance of the summer will
be seen in repertory with
"Coriolanus" and "Henry VIII."
Later in the season, this trio
of plays will be joined by
Donald Lamont Jack's new
Canadian comedy, "The Canvas
Barricade," first contemporary
play to be presented on the
Festival theater stage.
This will be Miss Robins"
second appearance at the Strat-
ford Festival. In 1954, she was
seen as Mariana in "Measure for
Measure." That, however, was
during the days of the tent
theater. This will be her first
performance on the stage of
the permanent theater, except
for a one-evening appearance
last year as star of the revue,
"Spring Thaw."
Known from coast to coast as
the pretty and vivacious per-
manent panelist of the CBC's
popular quiz show, "Front Page
Challenge," Miss Robins has an
equally-envied reputation as an
actress.
Her record on the stage is
just as impressive. She has been
seen as the addled heroine of
"Visit to a Small Planet" and
as the jaded neurotic in "Two
For the Seesaw," opposite
George McCowan, at Toronto's
Crest theater. She has also seen
duty in "School For Scandal,"
"Dream Girl" and "The Rose
Tattoo." Once she "flew" as
Peter Pan.
Married to William Freeman,
Toronto stage producer and
motion picture exhibitor, Toby
Robins is the Mother of two
children, who will be 'spending
the summer in Stratford with
her.

WASHINGTON, (JTA) — The
magazine Christian Century, im-
portant organ of Pr ot e st ant
groups, called for a United Na-
tions investigation of the plight
of Jews in Morocco.
In an editorial, the magazine
said "The United Nations should
investigate the deterioration of
human rights in Morocco and act Gurfein Again Voted
so as to remind the authorities
of that country that their position President of Hias
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be strengthened by repeating the I. Gurfein has been re-elected
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