Dentists to Build Graduate School in Israel
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MONTREAL — Alpha Omega, the inter-
national dental fraternity, announced plans
Tuesday, at its 54th annual convention here,
for a campaign to raise $250,000 for a grad-
uate school in dentistry in Israel.
The graduate school will be established
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as part of a project to raise standards of
dental care in Israel.
The fraternity has completed a campaign
for $1,000,000 for a dental school and work
on the school building will begin this year,
delegates were told. ,
Dr. John Sherman, of Toronto, a past
president of the fraternity, said there was
" a crying need" for the dental school. He
said that the dentists in Israel are in most
cases immigrants from Europe.
"Their average age is 60," he reporte,d,
"and their methods are now considered out-
moded."
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5 Jews Killed and 40 Wounded in
Oran French-Jewish-Moslem Strife
PARIS, (JTA)—Jewish organizations are watching with concern
the situation of Jews in Oran after a weekend of violence in which
at least five Jews were killed and some 40 wounded in clashes in that
Algerian city. A curfew was imposed on Oran Friday night and
remained in effect.
The organizations have so far been unable to reach their offices
in Algeria in efforts to learn more about the fighting between Jews
with French security forces and with Moslems in some of the
bloodiest intercommunal battles in Oran in several months.
The clashes began, according to French official sources, when
a small group of Jewish youth -marched through the streets of Oran
on Friday shouting the traditional European slogan of "French
Algeria." Some reports said that the demonstration was sparked by
a broadcast of the OAS, the French underground, directed to Oran's
30,000 Jews.
On the outskirts of the Jewish quarter, the marching Jews were
met by security forces who tried to disperse them. No details were
known of the exact circumstances in which the troops opened fire.
Two Jewish youths were killed then. Synagogues were jammed that
evening, and on Saturday morning. The Jewish quarter went on
strike. Shops were closed and workers absented themselves.
- After synagogue services, some Jewish youth massed at various
points of the city where they were soon joined by non-Jewish mem-
bers of the European community. They clashed repeatedly with
Moslem passersby and counter-demonstrators. At other points, the
Jewish youth also battled with security police trying to disperse them.
By the end of the day, at least three additional Jewish victims
were reported, as well as some 20 more wounded. Younger members
of the Jewish community told French newsmen: "We will not leave.
The demonstration should be seen as a gesture of determination on
our part to defend our homes."
FBI May Probe Chicago Bombings
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CHICAGO—Two suspects are under arrest here
today in connection with the bombing of one syna-
gogue, while police authorities have placed a 24-
hour guard over all other synagogues on Chicago's
North Side. The names of the - suspects have not
been revealed by the, police.
Mrs. Helen Goodman, wife of the rabbi who
officiates at North Side Moteler Synagogue, reported
to police that she received a telephone call from a
man who threatened to blow up her husband's
house of worship. She said the mysterious caller
told her: "I am the one who blew up the other
synagogue and all the other synagogues on the
North Side will receive the same treatment."
A housewarming at the bombed Chevra Kadisha
Machzikai Hadas Synagogue, which had suffered
damage totaling $10,000 as a result of the bombing,
has been postponed. The new $100,000 synagogue
was to have held its housewarming next Sunday.
While police are guarding the synagogues on
the North Side, Congressman Roman C. Pucinski
of this city has filed a request with the Department
of Justice in Washington, calling upon the FBI to
enter the investigation of the bombing and the
threats against other Jewish houses of worship here.
U Nu, Nasser Collaboration
Causes Ben-Gurion Surprise
JERUSALEM, (JTA)—Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion told
the Cabinet that he was "unpleasantly surprised" by the joint
statement issued in Cairo by Burmese Premier U Nu and United
Arab Republic President Gamal Abdel Nasser declaring "support
for the full restoration of all rights of the Arab people of Pales-
tine in conformity with the Charter and United Nations resolu-
tions."
The statement was issued by President Nasser and Premier
U Nu at the end of the latter's five-day visit to Cairo and less
than a week after Israeli Premier Ben-Gurion concluded a 16-day
visit to the Burmese Premier in Rangoon.
Observers here noted that the Cairo statement is a verbatim
repetition of the paragraph on Palestine adopted by the neutralist
"summit conference" in Belgrade last September. At that con-
ference, President Nasser had pressed for a sharp anti-Israel
statement but his efforts were thwarted by Premier U Nu who
secured the adoption of the milder version.
Premier Ben-Gurion, who was asked for his reaction to the
Cairo statement after he reported to the Cabinet on his visit to
Burma, said that his appreciation for Premier U Nu remained
unchanged. In his report on the trip, Ben-Gurion stressed the
political, economic and cultural importance of Israel's ties with
Burma, which he described as a powerful factor in Asia and the
spiritual center of Buddhism.
He expressed the hope that there would be an interchange
between Burmese and Israeli scholars and students so that the
Burmese people would know what Judaism and the Jewish people
stand for and in order that Israelis would learn the tremendous
force of Buddhism as a philosophy.
At the same Cabinet meeting, Foreign Minister Golda Meir
reported on the deliberations at the United Nations concerning
the Arab refugee debate. Interior Minister Moshe Shapira, who
had -attended a session of the UN Special Political Committee,
lauded the work of the Israel delegation, citing particularly delega-
tion chairman Michael Comay.
Detectives said that the bombing, which oc-
curred early Sunday morning, was done by two
men who forced open the rear door of the Chevra
Kadisha • Machzikai Hadas synagogue Saturday
night. The detectives, who declined to give the
source of their information about the bombers, also
reported that each bomb contained three sticks of
dynamite.
The blast followed the receipt by Sexton Harry
Yablon of several letters which threatened that he
and the synagogue would be blown up. The sexton
also said that the synagogue had been smeared
with swastikas twice during the past six weeks.
U.S. '61 Aid to Israel Totaled $32,000,000
WASHINGTON, (JTA) — The United States Department of Commerce reports that
Israel received a total of about $32,000,090 in U.S. net foreign aid for 1961.
The total represents the net sums of grants, credits and other assistance—except
military aid—provided by U.S. agencies for the period ending June Kit' 1961, the Com-
merce Department reported.
Israel was the recipient of $8,000,000 in grants under the Mutual Security Act,
foreign currency available under the Agricultural Trade and Development Act, and
agricultural commodities through private agencies; $14,000,000 in net credits utilized
through the Export-Import Bank, Development Loan Fund, Mutual Security and the
Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act, which includes loans to foreign
governments and private individuals and $10,000,000 in other assistance under Mutual
Security and the Agricultural Trade and Development Act.
The report added that the U.S. made collections of some $14,000,000 in principal
collections from Israel during fiscal 1961 to reduce a gross total of $28,000,000 credit
disbursed to • $14,000,000. The report pointed out that net non-military aid to the Near
East area increased over the preceding year, except to Israel and Saudi Arabia.
Extend. Eichmann Appeal One Month
JERUSALEM,' (JTA) — Supreme Court President Yitzhak Olshan Sunday
granted a one-month extension to Adolf Eichmann's defense counsel Robert
Servatius to file an appeal on behalf of his client against the conviction and
death sentence handed down by the Jerusalem District Court last month
against Eichmann for directing the mass killing of Europe's 6,000,000 Jews.
Attorney General Gideon Hausner, who attended the meeting between
Justice Olshan and Dr. Servatius, raised no objection to the extension. Dr.
Servatius explained that he had received suggestions regarding points in the
appeal and would need more time to prepare it.
The West German attorney, noting that his interview with Eichmann
lasted only 30 minutes, asked that more time be given him for consulting with
his client. Justice Olshan said it had not yet been decided how many justices
would hear the appeal.
After another two-hour visit with Eichmann, on Tuesday, Servatius reported that he
found his client to be depressed, that the impassiveness he showed in the court room was
gone and that his face is pallid and deeply lined from worry. He said Eichmann had
completed his 500-page memoirs and he alone knows their contents.