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LEWISBURG, Pa., (JTA) — been notified by county official s Rockwell and about 10 or 12
Address Histadrut Can-tpaign Here; George
Lincoln Rockwell, leader that he would not be permitt
Lewisburg by
followers
of the American Nazi Party, con- to speak from the steps of t
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Life History Is Already 'Folklore' ducted a brief, 10-minute, open- County Court House. Fede Rockwel
we will storm the ammunition
dump. Whatever happens we
must make them pay dearly."
The Palestinian prisoners
were transshipped to other
camps and in each case they
let the new guards know with
whom they would be dealing.
The guards didn't bother the
prisoners. Finally in August,
1941, the Jewish troops ar-
rived at Stalag Lamsdorf,
one of the largest POW
camps in the Reich.
air rally here Sunday, delivering
an anti-Semitic address which
was booed by most of a crowd
estimated by Chief of Police Gor-
don Hufnagle at between 2,000
and 2,500 persons. A few mem-
bers of the crowd did cheer him,
the police chief said, but "most
of them either laughed or
booed."
The self-styled Nazi leader had
speak he
officials had notified him likewi
that he would be forbidden t ity
use the steps in front of the Post
Office. The Lewisburg Borough
a co
Council had advised him in ad-
vance that "there can be no
guarantee of personal safety for
you and your associates, as the
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Chief Hufnagle, expecting
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tire force of 25 men, while 25
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In addition to the 1,500 Jews,
there were 30,000 other prisoners
from the British Empire. There
the Palestinians spent almost
four years. They were the most
Almogi came to Palestine in perilous and challenging years of
1930, worked as a laborer in his life for Almogi. The manner
plantations and was known as in which he faced them hay
"Yoske, the Horse" because of since become part of Israel
his reputation as the hardest lore.
worker in the area. In his second
Almogi was shrewd
gh to
year in Palestine he was elected recognize that the be
eans of
to the management of his kib- maintaining equal P
status in
butz and was commander of a the eyes of the p
r-conscious
ELaganah unit in Kfar Saba. In Germans was to ontinue to
1934 he was active in a strike assert it. Thus, w
one of his
to get planters to hire Jewish men died of line he demanded
help against low Arab pay scales. a complete milit
funeral, ac-
Almogi and his men won out in cording to the
eva
Conven-
this strike, firmly establishing tion.
the principle of Jewish labor. He
The commande
then persuaded merchants to buy agreed. At the burl:
produce from kibbutzim even recited the Kaddish in He-
though higher in price than brew, the British military
ar
produce coming from planters
band played a solemn requiem
and a German rifle sq
fired a volley into th
The headstone bore t
of David.
"Whenever we h
to work
using Arab labor.
Almogi took part in a building
workers strike in 1937 and later
trained squads in street fighting.
He and his men fought the
British police, strike breakers
and Revisionists while organizing
"Plugot Hapoel" (workers' com-
panies) which established kib-
butzim around Haifa to assure
the town's food supply.
In 1939 Almogi called a gen-
eral strike in Haifa against a
British attempt to choke off
immigration. At the time two
"illegal" ships were in Haifa
harbor and Montgomery, the
British commander in Haifa, was
forced to allow the ships to
remain. •
During World War II, Al-
mogi joined Palestinian units
in_ the British army and was
subsequently taken prisoner
by the Germans in Greece.
He ordered his 1,500 Pales-
tinian fellow prisoners to
destroy their weapons, shave,
wash and be prepared for a
parade in one hour. He
shouted to them, "We are
going to face the enemy like
soldiers and men. If we con-
vince the Germans that we
are soldiers, we can make
them treat us like soldiers.
Remember, we have lived as
Israelites. If necessary, we'll
die like Israelites."
One hour later, three com-
panies of trim, erect Jewish sol-
diers, marching in perfect forma-
tion and singing Hatikvah at the
top of their voices, came to a
halt before the German com-
mander, snapped to attention and
Almogi saluted smartly.
For a moment the German
stared at him,
i 're
"Very impre e,
sive. But i on' elp you. We
are goin to a e sausages of
you Je
Afte aving been lock
a va bal.bed w e • o
Alm instructed
of a we're
no i ormatio
exce that
see
Y, if
Pale- e. Se
ey have ext•ation
that
going to
plans
us, we
f necessary,
make a
IF YOU TURN THE
UPSIDE DOWN YOU WON'T
FIND A FINER WINE THAN
outside the camp,"
ogi said,
"I gave strict ins
tions that
under no circumst es were the
men to speak to G an civilians.
Similarly, I fined y man who
was caught spea g German
among his comrades. erything
we did, in our behav
speech, our songs, had to be
Hebrew and Palestinian. The
more respect we had for our-
selves, the more the Germans
would have for us." And it
worked out that way.
It is well known by now that
during the final stages of the
war in 1945, as the Allies ad-
vanced on Germany, Yosef Al-
mogi planned and executed an
escape for the 4,000 British and
Palestinian prisoners and led
them on a 560-mile march to
safety.
Arab Deputies Raise
Issue in Knesset on
Expropriated Land
JERUSALEM, (JTA) — Two
leftist Arab members of Israel's
parliament challenged plans of
the government to expropriate
some partly Arab owned land for
development of a new town near
the Acre-Safed road.
A motion was submitted b
Communist deputy Emile Habi
and Mapam deputy Y ous
Khamis asking for a full deb
on the proposed expropriati
They argued that marble quarri
on the site provided a livelihoo
for 400 Arab families and that
djacent land could be used for
e development project.
ome 1,300 acres, half of
ich belongs to Arab villages,
1 be used for the new town,
miel.
Finance Minister Levi Eshkol,
replying for the government, said
it was simply a coincidence that
some of the land was partly
Arab-owned. He said Jewish land
was also expropriated for simi-
lar purposes. He explained that
among considerations leading to
selection of the site were topog-
raphy proximity to roads and
supply centers.
He also said that in compensa-
tion, the government had offered
either land or money and that
most of the owners chose cash.
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Kennedy Okays
Import of Israeli
Flour for Matzos
WASHINGTON, ( J T A ) —
President Kennedy signed a
proclamation perinitting the
import of some five tons of
Israeli wheat flour for the
baking of Passover "shemura"
matzo in this country.
The President acted after
three New York members of
Congress — Senator Jacob K.
Javits, Senator Kenneth Keat-
ing and Representative Leonard
Farbstein — had appealed to
him on behalf of their Ortho-
dox Jewish constituents, who
said they were unable to get
the wheat elsew
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ial order permit-
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Japanese 'Purple Code'
Broken by Friedman
A nationally-distributed Sun-
day supplement magazine has
reported that a cryptographer
named William Friedman, in
conjunction with others, broke
the Japanese "purple code" in
If you wish to be perfect, fol- 1942 which enabled the United
low the advice - that you give States to defeat the Japanese
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IT JEWISH NEWS — Friday, February 9, 1962
Israel Cabinet Minister Yosef
Almogi will be the guest of the
Detroit Israel Histadrut campaign,
Sunday, Feb. 18, at a brunch at
the . Hayim Greenberg Center;
Almogi, a big man in his 50's,
was born in Poland in 1910. His
father was a prosperous textile
merchant.
At 15, Almogi left home to
join a Polish road gang and
later labored as a woodcutter for
a Jewish lumberman.
One day he knocked the straw
boss cold with a single blow for
anti-_ Semitic remarks and beat up
Russian laborers who came to
attack him and his group.
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