THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS -- Friday, February 16, 196Z — 40

Around the World...

A Digest of World Jewish Happenings
from Dispatches of the Jewish Telegraphic
Agency and Other News-Gathering ''Media.

United States

NEW YORK—The headquarters of the World Jewish Con-
gress has mapped a program for coordination among the Jewish
communities of Central America and the Caribbean, according
to an announcement by Yehuda Ebstein, executive director of
the North American Executive of the WJC . . . A $2,500,000
Histadrut Scholarship Fund to aid vocational trainees, graduate
students and research scientists in Israel will be set up by the
National Committee for Labor Israel, it was announced by
Rabbi Jacob J. Weinstein, national chairman of the committee
. . . Attorney General Louis Lefkowitz has filed a complaint
with the State Commission Against Discrimination, against
Northgate Apartments, Inc., a housing cooperative in the Incor-
porated Village of Bronxville, N.Y., charging violation of the
state's anti-discrimination housing law . . . Rep. John W. Mc-
Cormack, Speaker of the House of RepresentativeS, has received
a hand-carved desk made by Israeli students at Boys Town in
Jerusalem in appreciation for his support of an allocation of
50,000 Israeli pounds in U.S. counterpart funds in Israel for
the vocational school's program . . . Total enrollments in all
departments of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of
Religion is at a record high of 819 students, the Reform educa-
tional institution reported . . . A warning that severe setbacks
to Israel's economy would result from the country's exclusion
from trade relations with the European Common Market was
issued here by Rabbi Irving Miller, chairman of the American
Zionist Council, on his return from a conference in Israel with
government and industry leaders . . . Cash contributions of
$1,115,000 were received here at the midwinter conference of
the National Committee for Labor Israel, which was attended
by 800 U.S. and Canadian delegates at the Hotel Commodore
. . . The appointment of Samuel Lemberg, real estate investor
and philanthropist, as a general chairman of the United Jewish
Appeal of Greater New York was announced by President
Monroe Goldwater.
WASHINGTON—Congressman Barratt O'Hara of Illinois
told the House this week that United States aid should be denied
"to countries that seek to enforce upon us their own discrimina-
tions along the lines of religion, race and station" .. . A Torah
which was given to President Kennedy last fall by the Union
of American Hebrew Congregations was presented on loan to
Bnai Brith in White House ceremonies this week for exhibit
at the organization's headquarters here . . . The House Labor
and Education Committee has approved sweeping legislation to
set up a Federal Fair Employment Practices Commission which
if passed would make it a crime for labor unions, private com-
panies and government agencies to discriminate in employment
against anyone on the basis of "race, religion, national origin
or age" . . . The Senate has approved and sent to conference
committee with the House a college aid bill providing for con-
struction loans on which both chambers agreed none of the
funds could be used to build facilities for religious instruction.
MINNEAPOLIS—The Minneapolis City Council's Ordinance
and Legislation Committee took under advisement this week
a proposal for a local Sunday closing law, tendered by down-
town businessmen, Catholic and Protestant clergy, and objected
to by representatives of Jewish and Seventh Day Adventists
interests.
HARTFORD—Ambassador Chester Bowles, former Connecti-
cut governor who is now President Kennedy's advisor on Asian,
African and Latin American affairs, told the Connecticut Jewish
Ledger on a visit here that the Arab countries must recognize
that "Israel is here to stay."
LOS ANGELES—Police Chief William H. Parker told the
Los Angeles City Council this week that anti-Semitism appeared
to' be the motive behind the bombing last week of the homes
of two Protestant clergymen who were speaking at a meeting
of the local American Jewish Congress group when the blasts
took place. -

Latin America

BUENOS AIRES—South American Jewry must remain alert
to counter anti-Semitic manifestations, the South American
Executive of the World Jewish Congress warned here at a recent
conference of the WJC affiliates.

Israel

TEL AVIV—The American-Israel Corporation, AMPAL, has
sold $56,000,000 worth of its stock in its 20 years of existence
and has paid out $5,500,000 in dividends, it was reported here
this week at the 20th anniversary meeting of the AMPAL board
. . . Directors of Solel Boneh, the construction arm of Hista-
drut (Israel Federation of Labor), discussed here the possibility
of letting a contract to an American firm, Fraiser Engineering
Company, which would replace three French companies which
have delayed in the building of the new port of Ashdod . . .
Appi-oximately 30 prominent businessmen serving the board of
the AMPAL-American-Israel Corporation, most of them accom-
panied by their wives, arrived in Israel to take a close look at
the many varied investment projects in which their corporation
holds substantial interests.
JERUSALEM—A decision to raise - $150,000 for a cancer
research foundation at the Hebrew University was adopted here
at the 19th biennial convention of the Canadian Hadassah-Wizo
organization.
Europe
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BERLIN—Government officials, including President Hein-
rich Luebke, and Jewish community leaders visited the Israel
pavilion of an international agricultural exhibit and a stamp
exhibition which both opened here last week.
AMSTERDAM—Queen Juliana has conferred the Order
of the Dutch Lion on Dr. Mauritz Fraenken, vice president of
the Amsterdam High Court, veteran Dutch Zionist leader and
70-year-old survivor of the Theresienstdat concentration camp.

Middle East

ISTANBUL—Isaac Altabev, a former Democratic deputy in
the Turkish National Assembly, who was serving a jail sentence
at Kayseri after his arrest in 1960 when an army coup over-
threw his party, has been released and returned to his family
because of ill health,

Roosevelt's Great Granddaughter Sheds
Light on Pechersky, Imprisoned in Russia

(Direct JTA. Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)

NEW YORK—A great grand-
daughter of President Frank-
lin D. Roosevelt recalled Monday
a photograph taken in the Len-
ingrad synagogue with Gedalia
R. Pechersky on the back of
which the subsequently imprison-
ed Jewish religious lay leader
had written: "Please don't for-
get us."
The story was disclosed by the
New York Herald Tribune which
speculated. that such encounters
with foreign visitors "may well
have constituted a major part"
of the case against Pechersky.
He was tried in semi-secrecy
last fall, convicted on charges
of espionage and sentenced to
12 years imprisonment. He
sent the photograph, taken in
the Leningrad synagogue, to
Miss Kate Roosevelt, new Mrs.
William Haddad.
Mrs. Haddad recalled her

chance visit with Pechersky,
which happened while she was
on a routine vacation tour of
Russia in 1956 with friends. The
group decided to go to Lenin-
grad from Moscow. One of the
items on the group's list of places
to see was the synagogue.
When they arrived, a special
service was in progress. At the
close of the service, they were
surrounded by members of the
congregation and Pechersky took
them into an anteroom for a
few minutes of conversation
where the photograph was taken.
In the fall of 1956, soon after
her return to New York, she
received the photograph. On its
back was written:
"I send you this photo that
will remind you of . the days
when you were in Leningrad
and visited with your friends
at the Central Synagogue. My
best wishes and happiness to

UJA Launches '62 Campaign
with Gifts of $19,303,000

NEW YORK, N. Y. — The
nationwide United Jewish Ap-
peal officially launched its 1962
campaign Sunday, when 300
American Jewish leaders, meet-
ing at the Waldorf-Astoria, con-
tributed or reported initial gifts
totalling $19,303,000, one' of the
largest starting sums attained by
the drive in a decade.
The contributions, which in-
cluded gifts pledged in local
campaigns, were made at UJA's
national inaugural dinner, pre-
sided over by Edward M. M.
Warburg of New York, UJA
honorary chairman and chairman
of the Joint Distribution Com-
mittee. Joseph Meyerhoff, of
Baltimore, general chairman of
this year's UJA which seeks
$95,000,000 was unable to be
present because of illness.
The UJA special fund is .a
$35,000,000 goal sought this
year "over and above" the
contributions with donors make
to the regular campaign goal
of $60,000,000, to finance the
current increased immigration
of Jews to Israel and other
lands.
.
The outpouring of contribu-
tions came as General Chaim
Herzog, the principal speaker
of the evening and former Chief
of Intelligence of the Israel De-
fense Forces, told the gather-
ing that Israel's people are to-
day struggling to receive, house
and absorb one of the largest
immigrations since their coun-
try's first years.
General Herzog called on the
audience to do all in its power
to extend aid swiftly.
The gathering also heard
Moshe Sharett, former Prime
Minister of Israel and chairman
of the Jewish Agency, declare
that the provision of help to to-
day's immigrants is the respons-
ibility of both Israel's people
and the Jews of the free world,
particularly the United States.
The Israel statesman told
his audience that the Muni-
grants now going to Israel
"realize they are in for a dif-
ficult phase of adaptation to
new conditions, new ways of
life, new social patterns, and
that they will have to exert
themselves to meet them."
Approval for UJA's 1962 aims
also came in the form of a taped
message, flown to the dinner,
from General Lucius D. Clay,
Personal Representative of the
President in Berlin and former
Commander-in-Chief of U. S.
forces in Europe.
General Clay was to have
spoken at the meeting, but was
kept in Berlin by the pressure
of events there. In his message

you, Miss Roosevelt, and to
your great grandmother, Mrs.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
"We are proud that we have
such a beloved friend of the
Jewish nation and especially of
the Russian Jews. We are very
thankful for the brave and noble
deeds. Heaven and mankind will
never forget it. And please don't
forget us!"
The Tribune asserted that
Washington experts felt that
"the wholly coincidental, un-
planned and inconsequential en-
counter Pechersky had with Miss
Roosevelt, and scores, perhaps
hundreds of similar encounters,
including Americans, may well
have constituted a major part
of the case against him."
For Mrs. Haddad the encoun-
ter was simply one of the many
routine incidents in the life of
a tourist. When the photograph
arrived, she put it away and for-
got about it until, nearly half
a decade- later, the publicity at-
tending the Pechersky case re-
minded her of it. .

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HEBREW CORNER
he urged UJA's supporters to
do all possible to help speed the National Research and
resettlement of today's immi-
Development Council
grants to free lands.
Israeli scientists and institutes
An award was presented the for The
research and science that were
General in absentia, honoring set up in Israel in the last few years
the State of Israel known as
him for his "compassionate aid —made
state of high scientific efficiency.
and understanding" to the 200,- The scientific. research in Israel is
by the National Council and
000 Jewish Displaced Persons directed
development of the Prime Minister's
in the U. S. Zone of Occupied office. Scientists from the Hebrew
the Technion in Haifa and
Germany when he was Military university,
the Weizmann Institute in Rehovoth,
Commander there, in 1947-'49. and
also representatives of govern-
It consisted of a copy of the went offices and research institutes
in the council. This na-
first Jewish dail y prayerbook participate
council determines what topics
are
import
ant
for the state to investi-
printed in Germany in the post-
te.
Hitler years, and was contained ga The
National Council for Research
in a walnut box On which an and Development makes experiments
all that is connected to agriculture
inscribed silver plaque was in
in the desert, like plants growing in
mounted.
water that do not need earth and the
of salty water. These top-
A number of the chairmen of sweetening
ics are specially important for the
10 C a 1 community campaigns development of the .Negev. They are
also experimenting' in adopting to
which are raising funds for the the
Negev plants from other similar
1962 UJA, were honored for places in the world, to determine
whether they will grow in this cli-
outslanding leadership with spec- mate
and earth.
ial awards presented by War- In the
laboratory for physics of the
they lately developed a motor
burg and Sharett. Each received Council
that is run by sun rays, for use in
a commemorative Israel coin the villages where there is no elec.
struck in honor of Israel's 13th tricity.
The results of these experiments
Independence Anniversary, en- and
research whose aim is to solve
cased in an olive-wood display pressing problems that Israel is
troubled with in its development.
box. Those h onor ed included will be a blessing for all nations of
Paul Zuckerman, chairman of the world that are troubled with
problems.
the Detroit Allied Jewish Cam- similar
Translation of Hebrew Column
paign.
published by Brith Ivrith Olamith,

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