Eichmann Claim for Aid Rejected by German Court JNF Adopts Plan for Additional (JTA)—The Mun- to clarify basic constitutional focusing overspecifically on 1 000,000 Trees in Israel Annually ster MUNSTER, Eichmann." Superior Administrative questions. , (Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News) JERUSALEM — A commit- tee set up to study the impact of afforestation on Israel's water resources endorsed Wednesday a five-year Jewish National Fund plan to plant 6,500,000 trees annually. The committee which in eludes water forestry and soil conservation experts was estab- lished by agriculture Minister Moshe Dayan. The committee found that wooding of areas, in addition to preVenting soil erosion, increased local water supplies by retaining rainfall. The committee said there was no basis for contentions that forests exhausted Israel's court confirmed a lower court's rejection of the claim of former Nazi colonel Adolf Eichmann for financial aid from the West German Government to help pay the costs of his trial last summer in Jerusalem. The Cologne Administrative court had rejected Eichmann's claim on grounds that the crimes with which he was charged by the Israel prosecution were not committed "in the course of military duty." Dr. Robert Servatius, Eich- mann's chief defense counsel in the four-month trial, said he would appeal to the West Ger- man Federal Administrative court. He said that costs of the defense had amounted until the current stage of the trial to 110,000 marks ($27,000) and that he had received only $20,- 000 from the Israel government. immigration to Israel and the He said that he had accepted absorption of these new people the money "in the hope of being into the social fabric of life in able to pay it back later with a German government grant." Israel." Dr. Servatius has indicated that the expected verdict of guilty will be appealed. (The three-man Israeli court that tried Eichmann will an- nounce the exact date for the verdict on Nov. 21. It is ex- pected that reading of the ver- dict will commence on Dec. 15. (Correspondents from all over the world again are expected to flock, to Jerusalem to cover the culmination of the trial. The verdict, to be read in Hebrew and to be translated simultane- ously into English, French and German, is expected to take six days. Stenographers and trans- lators who are working for the court in preparation of the text of the verdict are being held in; communicado, precautions being taken against revelation of the verdict prior to its delivery.). limited soil and water resources and it rejected arguments ad- vanced by some opponents of heavy tree planting that the JNF afforestation program taxed Israel's water supplies. In support of the findings, the committee cited data col- lected by a special commission of the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization a s well as data from surveys car- ried out in arid parts of the United -States and South Africa. In recent years, the JNF has been planting woods at the rate of 5,500,000 trees a year. The new five-year plan represents a 20 per cent increase in its afforestation program. `Modest' Advances. in Jewish Life Reported in Russia by Label Katz - CHICAGO, (JTA) — Some "very modest" advances in the cultural life of Soviet Jewry have recently been made in the Soviet- Union, it was reported here by Label Katz, internation- al president of Bnai Brith, who led a mission to the Soviet Union last August. "Recently, several concerts of music by Jewish composers in Moscow and Odessa and produc- tions of Yiddish theatre in Mos- cow were oversubscribed," Katz reported. "Tliat they were held at all is a hopeful sign." He also said that a small Yiddish magazine appeared in the Soviet Union recently. Katz contrasted the Jewish culture in the Soviet Union with the limitless oppor- tunity for its expression in the United States. "In the Soviet Union," he said, "there is no Jewish educa- tion. In Moscow, a city with some 500,000 Jews there is just one large synagogue and two small ones. Here, in the United States, we ,recognize Jewish education as the foundation of Jewish life. Educated, knowledgeable, and informed Jews will ensure the continuity of Jewish life." Katz, who serves on the na- tional cabinet of the United Jewish Appeal, told the audi- ence that in 1962 the UJA will require more than $100 million, a minimum 50 per cent increase over its needs in 1961. "The largest portion of the money," he said, "will be ear- marked to meet the costs of Dr. Ravdin, Sees Cancer 'Break' DR. I. S. RAVDIN of the University of Pennsylvania told the National Cancer Con- ference on experimental clini- cal cancer chemotherapy in Washington that a m 4.j o r break-through in cancer treat- ment will be achieved within the coming year He said real progress has been made in the past two yearg, and ef- fective chemical agents al- ready have been found for treatment of special types. Eichmann Trial Seen Having 'Undesirable Effect' On International Law NEW YORK, (JTA)--The al- The report was prepared by Yosal Rogat, a specialist in constitutional law, who last year joined the staff of the Center. Previously he taught in the polit- ical science department of the University of California. In is- suing the report, the Center emphasized that the author is responsible for his statements of fact and expressions of opinion, and the Center is responsible "only for determining that the material should. be presented to the public as a contribution to discussion of the free society." Rogat ,argues that the Eich- mann trial "should have been held before an international tri- bunal, if it should have been held at all." He claims that "the very act of trying Eichmann in an international tribunal would have had desirable consequences for the development of international criminal law. Stich a tribunal, he says, would in some sense have been a successor to the Nurem- berg International Military Tri- bunal; it would, therefore, have been better able to assimilate Eichmann to the other Nurem- berg defendants and to avoid Rogat feels that Israel, after preparing its case against Eich- mann, should have asked for an international tribunal; then, in the event the request was de- nied, Israel would have had a clearer justification for conduct- ing the trial herself. But the Israel Government "neither de- sired, nor even considered, such a solution," declares the report. JDC-financed ORT (Organ- ization for Rehabilitation through Training) schools pro-. vided vocational training for 34,500. VI IA E 23/. ES ETC. Phone WO 3-4096 TY 8-9120 Evenings: LI. 7-3912 KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS 15787 Wyoming Ave. Regular $9.95 DIAMOND NEEDL IRAN .Te S P/SCOUNT PRICED 44 in NO MONEY DowN11 7 - 4 Admiral NITE TV4 PilICE MOTOROLA TION /OW. SERVIC , • Dumont verione stinghouse • Magnovo • V-M iosley .:,--- • Hot Point Olympic • Airline -.4*Webcor s legation that Israel's decision to try Adolf Eichmann in an Is- raeli. court "had an undesirable effect on the development of in- ternational law" is made in a report issued today by the Cen- ter for the Study of Democratic Institutions, which has been set up by the Fund for the Republic TV Rentals ..,.., Virrittin-‘- Dexter Television Co. - Guarantee -13211 Dexter • License No. 216 PHONE ALL YE. 4-2858 OIL Repairs "SINCE 1938- ADL Releases Study Report on Jews in New York Banking , NEW YORK, (JTA) — A study by the Bnai Brith Anti- Defamation League shows only three and one-half per cent of high executive officials of com- mercial banks in New York City are Jews. The city's population is 25 per cent Jewish. The findings were presented at a hearing of a special labor subcommittee of the House Com- mittee on Education and Labor by Moses L. Kove, chairman of the New York regional advisory board of the ADL. - Kove said that the study of eight of the largest commercial banks showed that of a "total roster of 844 officers of the rank of vice-president and above, only 30 were of the Jewish faith." Of the 30, 22 were in two banks and seven in a third. One bank had one Jewish high exec- utive and the remaining four had none, he said. The study found 197 persons on the boards of the eight banks of whom three were Jews. Kove also told the subcommit- tee about an ADL survey which found that discrimination still persisted in the life insurance industry. A ii PfioNo:s TV 's —F — • p AHS • WED • BAR 1 0W*1" vocr -4 29th A our o For Ch e Seats— BALFOU 10424 West Mc TEE CO chols DI 1-854 ATR Sponsor will receive 6 choice tickets; 5 additional tickets I will be given in his name to 0 0 worthy students and sightless I people. " CONTRIBUTOR sis.00 - $10.00 - $5. Per Seat 1,0 4