lie Salute Our Con firinands,Conserrants and Graduates The Jewish News dedicates this issue to our youth who have consecrated themselve -s to Jewish studies, with the hope that they will re dedicate List of 1962 Confirmands, Consecrants and Graduates on Page 20 and 21. themselves to uninterrupted consecration to Jewish learning. - THE JEWISH NEWS of Jewish Events A Weekly Review MICHIGAN WEEK MAY 20-26 Vol. XLI, No. 13 a Communal Programming Commentary Michigan's Only English-Jewish Newspaper — Incorporating The Detroit Jewish Chronicle Printed in a 100% Union Shop Capital Punishment Again a Major Issue 17100 W. 7 Mile Rd. — VE 8-9364 — Detroit 35, May 25, 1962 Page 2 $5.00 Per Year; Single Copy 15c Delaying Action Sought by Servatius in Eichmann Case Israel, Arabs Agree on Refugee Funds Release UNITED NATIONS, (JTA)—After long and complex nego- tiations—most of them involving technicalities—four Arab Governments and Israel have agreed on a United Nations plan whereby Israel will release an additional $700,000 of cash deposited in small Israeli banks by Arab refugees. The monies are part of cash: deposits left in Israel by the Arab refugees, covered in an agreement made in 1953 between Israel and the United Nations Palestine Conciliation Commis- sion. Under the 1953 pact for the unfreezing of Arab refugee accounts, to which Egypt, Syria, Lebandn and Jordan agreed with the PCC for the refugees' acceptance of the funds, Israel released $8,400,000 on deposit in Barclays Bank in Israel and in the Ottomon Bank. However, there were additional Arab refugee deposits still frozen in smaller Israeli banks. It is this additional sum, amounting to $700,000, that Israel has now unfrozen. Dr. Joseph E. Johnson, the PCC's special envoy charged with trying to ease the disagreements between the Arab states and Israel regarding the general Arab refugee problem, will return here this week, after five weeks of diScussions he held in the Middle East with the leaders of all the governments concerned. 70 Guests fromn. Arab Countries Had Permit Entries to Israel (Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News) JERUSALEM—Some 70 Arabs from neighboring countries were permitted to enter Israel as visitors for humanitarian reasons during the past year, the government reported Tues- day. Most of them came from Jordan and Lebanon. The visitors came for special medical treatment, attendance at funerals and similar reasons. In the previous year, some 50 requests from Arabs for permission to come into Israel were approved-. COLOGNE, (JTA)—Dr. Robert Servatius, Adolf Eichmann's West German defense attorney, disclosed he had started action in a Cologne court which could have the effect of delaying final disposition of the case of the former Gestapo colonel. The Israel Supreme Court will announce on May 29 its ruling in Eichmann's appeal from a death sentence imposed by a Jerusalem district court last Dec. 15. Dr. Servatius told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that he had filed In the Cologne Administrative Court a complaint against the West German Foreign Office for failing to intervene on Eichmann's 'behalf. The attorney said that, according to the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, kidnaping was a violation of international law. He added that "since the Federal Republic signed the charter and the United Nations condemned Eichmann's abduction. the Foreign Of- fice was asked to i n t e r v en e but refused to do so." He expressed the hope that the court would order the Foreign Office to demand Eich- mann's extradition. However, he acknowledged that it may be difficult, since there are no diplomatic relations between Germany and Israel. He said that, if the Cologne court rejected his complaint. he would file suit in a Federal court. Then, if necessary, he would carry the case to the Council of Europe's Commission on Human Rights. Nazi Who Slew 11,445 Jews Uses 'Eichmann Doctrine' BERLIN, (JTA)—A defense argument which Adolf Eichmann used repeatedly in his Jerusalem trial—that he acted under orders which he could not disobey in transporting millions of European Jews to their doom--was heard again in court here from Albert Filbert. a former Nazi SS officer. Filbert, who has admitted he headed a Nazi cranmando unit which operated in German-occupied areas of Russia in 1941. told the court that "only a few thousand" victims were shot on his orders. He is on trial on charges of participation in the slaughter of 11,445 Russian Jews, and faces a possible life sentence. An SS report was read, indicating Filbert had been recommended for an Iron Cross for his part in the "liquidation of Jews. Communists and guerillas" in the Vilna-Grodno-Vitebsk region. The report said Filbert's unit had the greatest proficiency in shootings committed by his special extermination battalion. Filbert insisted the figure of 11,445 was incorrect. He stressed repeatedly that he had been acting under orders at the time of the slaying. Asked by the judge whether he agreed that 'these were criminal orders, which no "decent citizens" were forced to obey, Filbert replied: "We had no choice. He insisted it was not true that the victims had to remove all their clothes before they were killed. He explained that "all their belongings -were taken from them and sent to Berlin. They had to take off their underclothes. Then they had to lift their shirts over their heads and tie the sleeves across their eyes." Asked whether he had witnessed the shooting of Jewish women and small children on his orders, he said "I attended only two or three shootings of men. That is, nearly all the victims were men." He added that it was "difficult" to find volun- teers to command shooting squads when the victims included women and children. 400 Nuptials, Hundreds of Haircuts in Israel on Lag b'Omer Sefira Intermission Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News) ^ TEL AVIV—Some 400 marriages took place Monday night and Tuesday morning. throughout Israel as the inter- mission of the Sefira ban on weddings was marked on Lag h'Omer. Thirty-five rabbis were recruited to perform 127 mar- riages in Tel Aviv. In Meron, meanwhile, dancing con- tinued through the night around a huge bonfire kindled on the tomb of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yohai. • The rejoicing reached a new peak Tuesday morning with the ceremony of the first haircut for hundreds of children who had reached the age of three. That ceremony began with dancing and singing. Menorah Plaque for the Presidenf:-. a White House visit, during the Bnai Brith convention in Washington last week, BkairAiith president Label A. Katz presented President Kennedy with an ornamental wall plaque containing a Menorah design and other symbols of Judaism. Others in the Bnai Brith delegation at the White House reception were, from the left: Frank Goldman . of Lowell, Mass., honorary president of Bnai Brith; Mrs. Moe Kudler of Los Angeles, president of Bnai Brith Women, and Maurice Bisgyer of Washington, who was honored at the convention on his comple- tion of 25 years as executive vice president of Bnai Brith. The crowd at Meron, the center of the countrywide observance of the holiday, swelled through the night and reached a record total of 400,000 celebrants. They arrived in more tban 3,000 vehicles. Throughout Israel, children kindled bonfires that turned the skies red for much of the night. Toward morn- ing, fire brigades toured the empty lots throughout Tel Aviv to put out still smouldering fires.