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Argentinian Government Assures
Non-Repetition of Anti-Semitic
Attacks; Non-Jews Join Protests
Israel to Drop Charges in
Yossele Case: Boy Is in Israel
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JERUSALEM—Israel's Minister of the Interior, Moshe Haim Shapiro.
will propose to the cabinet on Sunday that the state drop all further prosecu-
tion of persons involved in the abduction of Yosef Schumacher, a source
close to the Minister said Tuesday.
NEW YORK—Yossele Schumacher publicly identified himself Tues-
day morning when he told a group of newspapermen at the Israeli
Consulate here: "Ich, Yossele Schumacher, bin zer tzifriden tzi zayn mit
meyn mamme un shwester un meyn tatten."
Yotsele made this statement in the office of Israel's Acting Consul
General, Shlomo Argov, immediately after he was formally turned over
to his mother, Mrs. Ida Schumacher, by Peter Esperdy; District Director
of the United States Immigration Service in New York.
Seated neat to Yossele was his beaming mother and his 15-year-old
sister, Zine, who came here Monday night to take the boy home to
Israel. The entire family returned Tuesday to Israel.
Mrs. Schumacher, speaking in Yiddish, told the newsmen she was
certain immediately after she saw Yossele Monday night that the child
was her son. She said, in answer to a question, that she made doubly
certain that the boy was her Yossele by examining his head and finding
there the scar of an injury he suffered when he was a baby. Mrs.
Schumacher said that the only thing she wants to do now is to return
as quickly as possible with her recovered son and with her daughter to
the Schumacher home at Holon, a suburb of Tel Aviv.
Asked what kind of education Yossele would receive in Israel. she
replied: "He will go to a religious school. She (indicating Zina) also
goes to a religious school."
Esperdy told the newsmen that the United States authorities know
that Yossele • came to this country on March 13. He stated that the
United States "is still investigating various matters in connection with
the boy's presence in this country."
Asked whether any action would be taken against persons in this
country who brought Yossele here and harbored him, he replied: "No
decision has yet been made."
Argov stated: "I want to express our very, very deep appreciation
for the way in which Mr. Esperdy and his staff assisted in making this
reunion possible. The family is leaving for home, directly to Israel,
a little later Tuesday. The main object has been accomplished in a
satisfactory manner."
A statement on behalf of the Satmar Rebbe, whose name was
connected by Israeli circles in Israel with the case of Yossele. was
issued to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency Monday. The statement said:
"The Satmar Rebbe personally stated that he had nothing to do at
all with the abduction of Yossele Schumacher from the beginning of
the case until Saturday night, when he was apprehended by the Immi-
gration Department. Neither did the Satmar Rebbe's Hassidim have
anything to do with the case.
"At the same time, the Satmar Rebbe declares that those who hid
Yossele from anti-religious upbringing comported themselves in accord-
ance with the judgment of the late Chief Rabbi Zvi Pesach Frank of
Jerusalem. who was recognized by the government of Israel, and other
rabbinical authorities."
Yossele was abducted in Israel in 1959. He is about 10 years old
now. Israeli authorities have searched for him on three continents. His
grandfather, in Israel, was jailed for refusing to reveal the boy's where-
abouts. His uncle, Nachman Shtarkes, is in jail England, awaiting
a court ruling on Israel's petition that he be extradited for kidnaping
the boy. Israeli authorities have contended since he had been missed
by his parents in 1959 that ultra-Orthodox persons abducted him for
fear that his parents might not give him a sufficiently Orthodox education.
Recently, Israeli authorities found that a youth in Israel was
receiving mail from a woman in the United States who seemed to
have Yossele in her custody. Israeli officials traced her address and
notified American authorities who, then, located Yossele in this country.
It is understood that the woman who had charge of Yossele had
traveled with him in various countries. using various false names for
the boy. She had brought him to this country under the name of
"Yaacov Gertner."
BUENOS AIRES, (JTA) — Dr. Carlos Adrogue, Argentine Minister
of the Interior, declared here, after a conference with Dr. Isaac Golden-
berg, president of DAIA, the central organization of Argentine Jewry,
that the government is deeply worried about the racist problem. "I
shall attempt to contact all personalities who can contribute toward peace
in this field," he said.
Dr. Adrogue made that statement after summoning Dr. Goldenberg
to his home and conferring with the Jewish leader for an hour. Dr.
Goldenberg told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, after the conference
with the Minister: "The Jewish community maintains serenity, even under
the pressure of the present tensions. I trust that Dr. Adrogue will fulfill
his words—and the facts will demonstrate if that is so."
Meanwhile, criticisms continued to be voiced against police officials
who have been accused of laxity in probing the series of recent events.
Outstanding among these events has been the branding of Miss Graciela
Sirota, 19-year-old Jewish medical student at Buenos Aires University,
who was abducted by hooligans who engraved a swastika on her body.
Jewish and many non-Jewish Argentine leaders, including in-
fluential sections of the press, declared that the police chief, Capt.
Horacio Enrique Green, has been underplaying the anti-Semitic atroci-
ties, charging a "Communist plot," denying anti-Semitism was involved,
and blaming the Jewish community for inflaming the atmosphere
through a half-day business stoppage carried out June 28 in protest
against anti-Semitism.
Dr. Adrogue, to whose Ministry Capt. Green's department is re-
sponsible, has taken over personal conduct of the entire series of anti-
Semitic acts, although he was reported to have refused to accept Capt.
Green's offered resignation. However, Capt. Raul V. Angelini, a Naval
officer like Capt. Green, who has been in charge of the police depart-
ment's "anti-democratic activities" division, resigned.
Capt. Angelini's division had issued a statement, just before he
resigned, that a group of Jewish youths who had been guarding a syna-
gogue in the suburb of Casaros were holding "a Communist meeting."
The Jewish self-defense group exchanged shots with policemen, before
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Senate Asked to Act in Disapproval of
Court: Anti-Semites Make Threats
WASHINGTON, (JTA) — Senator A. Willis Robertson. Virginia Democrat,
introduced a joint resolution expressing the opposition of the entire Congress to the
Supreme Court ruling of a week ago, barring official prayers in public schools.
Sen. Robertson wants that a resolution be adopted jointly by the Senate and the
House of Representatives on the prayer issue. His draft would express the full Congress
disapproval of the High Court's decision, and go on record as favoring a prescribed,
nonsectarian prayer in public schools on a voluntary basis as a practice which does
not infringe on the principle of state-church separation.
The hearings on the proposed constitutional amendments are scheduled by Sen.
Janes 0. Eastland, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. In the House, where
similar draft amendments have been proposed, Rep. Emanuel Celler, of New York,
chairman of the Judiciary Committee, said he would not give priority to these pro-
posals. He characterized all the resolutions on this subject as "dangerous in that they
would serve as an entering wedge to destroy one of the most important tenets of our
democratic faiths—separation of church and state."
Lewis H. Weinstein, chairman of the National Community Relations Advisory
Council, coordinating agency for national Jewish religious and civic orpanizations, said
that the school prayers ruling "has reaffirmed the strength of religion to enlist hearts
and minds without the intervention of the political authority." He issued a statement
saying that "every American who has properly read the Supreme Court's ruling on
prescribed prayers in public school classrooms" will welcome President Kennedy's
statement reminding families that they can "pray a good deal more at home and
attend churches with more fidelity."
Anti-Semitic Threats Reported by Prayer's Contestants
NEW YORK, (JTA) — The Supreme Court's historic decision banning official
prayers in public schools touched off a nationwide reaction which included an increase
in inter-religious debate on the issue.
Included in the first public reaction was unanimous acclaim for the decision
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