Shaarey Zedek Commences Centennial Observance 4 Detailed Plans About Ground-Breaking and 100th Anniversary Plans on Page 5 . . . Editorial on Page HE JEWISH NEWS C7E TF? CD I - r A Weekly Review ► IN/I I C F--II GA N1 f Jewish Events Aftermath of the Holocaust and German Jewry's Status Commentary, Pages 2, 20, 21 Michigan's Only English-Jewish Newspaper—Incorporating The Detroit Jewish Chronicle Vol. XXXIX, No. 13 Printed in a 100% Union Shop 17100 W. 7 Mile Rd. — VE 8 - 9364 — Detroit 35, May 26, 1961 — $5.00 per Year; Single Copy 15c Romania Synagogue Burning, Interference with Struma's Sailing Charged to Eichmann (Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News) Rockwell. Troopers New Orleans Jail (From Our Wire Services_) George Lincoln Rockwell, self-styled "commander" of the American Nazi Party, and five of his "storm troopers" were jailed Wednesday in an attempt -to picket the premier showing of the film "Exodus" in New Orleans. Signs they carried. read "Exodus Written by a Communist Jew" and "America for Whites, Africa for Blacks, Gas Chamber for Traitors." Four other "Hate Brigade" members were arrested also when they tried to upset an NAACP meeting the same night. Charges against the men were based on a state statute equivalent to "disturbing the peace." Rockwell earlier sent a telegram to Attorney General Robert Kennedy demanding "protection from Jew and Negro hoodlums." The telegram further stated, "We are sending a hate bus full of Nazis to urge respect for law and legal organizational efforts to preserve the white, Christian republic established by our forefathers." The bus bore . Signs saying "Lincoln Rockwell's Hate Bus— We Do Hate Communism and Race Mixing." Justice Department officials said that while they deplore Rockwell's "intrusion" into the explosive situation, there is _nothing the Federal Government can do to halt his Nazi tour. However, Alabama's Attorney General MacDonald Gallion warned Rockwell to "steer clear" of Alabama. The "hate bus" was met Tuesday by seven cars of Federal officers as it entered Montgomery from the north and was escorted through and out of the citywithout incident. B. Sullivan said he instructed his Police Commissioner force to keep the bus moving "the same as any agitating group." Said Sullivan: "They are not welcome. We don't want them." A spokesman for the men aboard the bus said they had planned to make a speech in Montgomery. They did not because Attorney General Gallion asked them not to, he said. Meanwhile, Arlington County authorities announced adop- tion of a strict ordinance requiring solicitors to be photOgraphed and fingerprinted and to establish "good character and business respectability" with Commonwealth Attorney William J. Hassan. Hassan said the Nazi group would not be granted a permit for solicitation under the "good character and business respectabil- ity" clause of the new ordinance. JERUSALEM. — The widow of the Chief Rabbi of Czernovitz revealed Tuesday, in the trial of Adolf Eichmann, that her husband was forced by the Nazis to watch the desecration and destruction by fire of the Central Synagogue of the Romanian city. Testifying on the first anniversary of the announcement bY . Prirrie Minister David Ben-Gurion that the former Gestapo colonel had been tracked down, cap- tured and brought to Israel, Mrs. Avraham Mark told the court that the forced witness was the heaviest of the burdens borne by the Chief Rabbi and his family after a long series of afflications at the hands of the sadistic Nazi overlords. She said that she saw her 80-year-old father and 74-year-old mother shot to death by SS guards when they were unable to maintain the marching pace of a group of Jews herded into an improvised ghetto. She said 70,000 Czernovitz Jews were rounded up and forced into an area of two blocks which were cordoned off as a sealed ghetto.. From there, she said, the inmates were systemath:ally sent to their deaths in the Transynstria camp. She said most of the deportees, including her closest relatives, succumbed to typhus and starvation. She described how "Operation Czernovitz" began on July 7, 1941, when four SS hoodlums, accompanied by two armed German soldiers, burst into her husband's study and demanded 10;000 trucks -and a list of jewelry and other possessions of the Jews of the community. When he replied that the Chief Rabbi was not in the trucking business and that it was not his function to list possessions of Jews, he was taken to the syna- gogue where he was ordered to give his captors valuables, religious articles and his holy vestments. He was then marched off to the elevator pit of a hotel across the street where he was detained for 24 hours with other Jewish leaders. He and the others were beaten because the Nazi boots they were ordered to polish did not shine satisfactorily. Her voice breaking, Mrs. Mark told how the Nazis rolled up drums of gaso- line into the grand synagogue and poured the fluid over the floor, balconies and the ark containing 60 Holy Scrolls. Before igniting the gasoline, the Nazis dragged the Chief Rabbi on the hotel roof to witness the burning of the synagogue. Before she began her testimony, the prosecution submitted a document in which the Einzatzgruppen Commando headquarters advised Berlin it had liquidated the Jewish leadership in Czernovitz by slaughtering 500 Jewish leaders. The testimony by Mrs. Mark established that operation. Czernovitz was the incident referred to in the document which was exhibit No. 1,000. The Jewish leaders were taken to an abandoned section of the bank of the Prut River and unceremoniously murdered by shooting. Another document dealt with the ill-star red Struma, the refugee ship which sank off the Palestine coast after it was refused permission by the British manda- tory authorities to discharge its- passengers. The Struma was . the subject of a 'report to Eichmann from Karl Richter,. Eiehniatin's : advisor on Jewish probleths in Bucharest. Richter was cited -as having opposed:the 'decision to altow '700 Jews to sail off in the Struma, but that it was done in.his absence. Another document depicted Eichmann was writing to the German Foreign Ministry that in principle he favored the evacuation of Romanian Jewry, but that (Continued On Page 3) Banks in 40 Cities Extend $65,000,000 Liquidation Loan to UJA for Refunding of Jewish Agency Debts (Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News) NEW YORK — Agreements for a $65,000,000 liquidation loan extended by a group of New York banks and banks in some 40 other American cities — including Detroit — to the United Jewish Appeal of Greater New York and local Jewish communities were signed Tuesday in New York City and communities throughout the nation, including Detroit. Representing the Detroit Jewish Welfare Federation at the meet- ing that finalized thearrangements were Max M. Fisher, Paul Zucker- man, Phillip Stollman and Isidore Sobeloff. The loan, a coordinated effort unprecedented in the history of philanthropic organizations, will make possible the refunding and orderly liquidation of debts incurred by the Jewish Agency for Israel, Inc., the UJA of Greater New York and local Jewish communities for rescue and resettlement programs in Israel. Deficit financing of these programs had repeatedly become necessary during the past 13 years to cover mass immigration and rescue expenditures above current, contributed philanthropic income. In a joint statement announcing the signing of the loan agree- ments, Joseph Meyerhoff, general chairman of the UJA and Dewey D. Stone, chairman of the Jewish Agency for Israel, Inc. declared: "This loan agreement represents a milestone in our humanitarian efforts. By stabilizing our debt position, it will free precious philanthropic dollars for human needs in Israel and in Jewish communities around the globe, needs which are as urgent today as they have been at any time during the past decade. This loan program, for which the income of the United Jewish Appeal serves as collateral, represents not only an expression of confidence in this body, but an added spur for all of us to redouble our efforts on behalf of close to 600,000 Jews in Israel and other lands who are dependent on the UJA for basic social and rehabilitation services." (Max M. Fisher, president of the Jewish Welfare Federation of Detroit, who is treasurer of the Jewish Agency for Israel, Inc., played a major role in the completion of the arrangements for the loan.)