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New Incidents in Latin America,
Montevideo Murder Create Panic

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End of An Era in
Algeria: All Jewish
Leaders Have Fled

By EDWIN EYTAN

A state of near panic developed in Uruguay this week when a survivor
from Nazism, Samuel Zalberg, was. murdered. At least eight other Jews were
attacked, but no arrests have been made. A building occupied by Jews was

damaged by an explosion in Buenos Aires, and other anti-Semitic incidents are
reported in Latin American countries.
Detailed Report from Montevideo on Page 18

Swastika Branding Inspired by 'Nazi Structure'

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ALGIERS — Algiers, the "Pearl Of the Mediter-
ranean," languidly stretches its white suburbs along
the blue sea. •
Algiers, where the persecuted and the persecutors
change places like a game of musical chairs, where
elegant streets are barred by barbed-wire fences,
where real estate firms still acR'ertise "prepare your
future—buy a house here," and where 200,000 Euro-
peans have abandoned their homes. A city in which
the Casba's old synagogue has become the FLN
center, and in which the wild tam-tam beating of
the notes of "Algeria Musulmane" can be heard in
the elegant European suburbs with their chic villas,
spacious patios and concrete swimming pools.
There are two Algiers: one filled with joyous
Arabs celebrating their newly-won independence; the
other, sparsely populated by a few Europeans who,
behind drawn curtains and closed shutters, mourn
their past.
In the Casba, a million multicolored bulbs illumi-
nate the night, hundreds of thousands of celebrating
Moslems overflow into the narrow lanes, dark-skinned
unshaven FLN soldiers, the "moujahids" listen to
old men sing their glory.
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BUENOS AIRES—A new Swastika-branding incident was reported Tuesday to have
occurred in San Juan in Northern Argentina. At the same time, police in Bahai Blanca, a
port city in Southern Argentina, reported the arrest of a juvenile gang of eight youths
charged with trying to bomb a synagogue there several weeks ago.
The victim in San Juan was Humberto Araoz, an 18-year-old Christian naval college
cadet who apparently was mistaken by his attackers for a Jew. He was spending his vaca-
tion in San Juan dressed in civilian clothing. The cadet was attacked Monday by five as-
sailants, who slugged him and then took him to a deserted area where they tortured him
with lighted cigarets and then carved a swastika on his chest and another on his wrist.
After tying him up, they abandoned him.
The anti-Semitic attacks in Argentina and neighboring countries were discussed at the
annual plenary assembly of the DATA, the central body of Argentine Jewry. Dr. Isaac
Goldenberg, DAIA president, told the assembly that the incidents proved that the "Nazi
structure" in Latin America was intact regardless of official declarations to the contrary,
and that the situation required a permanent state of alertness. The outgoing executive
board of DAIA received a vote of approval by acclamation for its activities in recent weeks.

An American anti-Semite took a hand Monday in helping stir anti-Jewish propaganda
in Argentina, by sending threatening letters against Jews to Argentine newspapers. The
letters are signed: Ku-Klux-Klan Dragon Horace Sherman Miller, and the address given is
Post Office Box 5062, Waco, Texas.

Correo de la Tarde, an important afternoon paper here. Monday published a photostat
of the letter which reads: "Very soon, the Argentinue Jews will have to declare a strike

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Role of American Jews in Civil War
Shown in Historical Museum Exhibit

Out of a total Jewish population of 150.000 in the entire
United States, in the period of the Civil War, when the total popu-
lation of this country was 31,000,000, some 10,000 Jews were active
in civic and military roles in the conflict among kinsmen.
There were 181 soldiers of the Jewish faith—an average of
more than one from a family—in Michigan, which, during the civil
strife, had approximately 750 Jewish inhabitants—about 150 families
—out of the state's 1860 population of 751,110. There were then
about 375 Jews, members of 75 to 80 families, in Detroit. Of the 181
Michigan Jewish Civil War fighters, 11 were
commissioned officers and 38 lost their lives
in the war.
These are some of the facts revealed
in the impressive exhibit, "The American
Jew in the Civil War," that opened Monday
night at the Detroit Historical Museum, for
a month's duration. An effort is being made
to secure approval of the sponsors of the
national exhibit to extend its stay here until
after Labor Day, to enable the thousands of
delegates expected at the national conven-
tion of the Jewish War Veterans, to be held
in Detroit, to view the exhibit.
The Jewish Historical Commission
for the U. S. Civil War Centennial gathered
the national material from more than 50
organizations and individuals. The exhibit
first was seen by tens of thousands of
Viewers in the Jewish Museum of New York,
at the Bnai Brith Museum in Washington
and the Civil War Centennial in Richmond.
Detroit is the fourth city selected to wit-
ness this historic compilation of material
about the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln and
Lincoln

the Jewish personalities who played historic parts in that period in
American history. From here the exhibit will go to Los Angeles.
Michigan's role in the Civil War is portrayed in an exhibit of
material gathered by Irving I. Katz, executive secretary of Temple
Beth El and author of the historical account "The Jewish Soldier from
Michigan in the Civil War."
The current Historical Museum exhibit includes material that
describes Jewish participation in both Union and Confederate ranks
—Military and civil. Presented in the Hall of Citizenship, the exhibit
features letters from Abraham Lincoln to his old friend Jonas, deny-
ing that he had ever been a Know-Nothing affiliate; another Lincoln
letter commending the work of his chiropodist, Isachar Zacharie; the
Congressional Medal of Honor awarded to Color Sgt. Leopold Karpeles
for heroism in the Battle of the Wilderness; reference to the Moses
Ambulances, designed by a surgeon in the U. S. Army, Dr. Israel
Moses, illustrating the important roles played by Jewish doctors in
the Civil War, and many other items of like interest.
Emphasis is placed in the exhibit on the major
positions held in the Confederate government by
Judah P. Benjamin, member of the United States
from Louisiana, who bolted the Union to become a
Confederate leader and who became Secretary of
State of the Confederacy. Another Jewish member of
the U.' S. Senate who joined the Confederacy was
David L. Yulee of Florida.
A $2 Confederate note bearing the likeness of
Judah P. Benjamin is one of the unique objects on
display in the exhibit here.
J. P. Benjamin
Among the historic documents on display here is the illustra-
tion of a letter from Col. John A. Rawlins withdrawing Order No. 11,
originally issued by him, under General Grant's direction, which was
interpreted as an anti-Semitic act.

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