Leopold Wins Suit NY Yeshiva Pupils Attacked by Mob
Against Levin
of Slum Teen-Agers; Passersby Watch
Nathan Leopold, 59, who spent
32 years in prison for the 1924
slaying of Bobby Franks, has
won damages in a $1,405,000
against Meyer Levin • for the
fictional portrayal of his life
in the book and movie, "Com-
puLsion."
Club Charged
With Bias Here
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efforts to obtain changes in the
spirit of our democratic heritage."
Judge Shifman emphasized that
the League was primarily con-
cerned with the public harm re-
sulting from this particular in-
stance of private discrimination.
The League does not advocate
legislative remedies to problems
arising from discriminatory private
associations.
According to the U.S. Figure
Skating Association rules, skaters
must take tests at an affiliated
club. The Detroit Skating Club is
the only club in Detroit that may
hold official tests for the national
association.
Because Jewish youngsters can-
not join the Detroit Skating Club,
they are disqualified from receiv-
ing figure skating training in De-
troit, from participation in local
and regional competitions, and
ultimately from joining in national
competitions which lead to inter-
national and Olympic events, Shif-
man said.
He added that the relationship
between the national association
and the local club inadvertently
made the U. S. Figure Skating
Association "a party to a grossly
undemocratic practice."
Shifman said, "Youngsters who
are close friends at school and
share common interests, must say
goodby at the door of the Detroit
Skating Club. The efforts of their
families to join the club are met
with evasion, delay or outright
refusal."
In a joint statement, Sol I. Litt-
man, director of the Michigan
ADL office, and Archie Katcher,
ehairman of the League's Michigan
board, said "Clubs have the right
to select 'the best.' But we can
hardly believe that in this day and
age, parents are willing to tell
their children that a person's reli-
gion, the nationality of his par-
ents, or the tint of his skin is the
only worthwhile way of estimating
human merit."
The Jewish Community Council
of Detroit, through Louis Rosen-
zweig, vice president and chairman
of the Council's Community Rela-
tions Committee,joined the League
in protesting the club's discrimi-
natory practices. "Inasmuch as the
club serves a quasi-public function
in qualifying Olympic contestants,
exclusion from such competition
because of religion or race is ob-
jectionable."
A prominent veteran Jewish
skater, who asked • that his name
not be used, said he retains his
honorary membership and con-
tinues to use the club facilities.
He said if it is proved there is
discrimination, he will resign from
the club.
.
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)
NEW YORK—Police protection
on an around-the-clock basis was
in effect at a Brooklyn yeshiva
where 15 pupils were roughed up
this week in two unprovoked at-
tacks by Negro teen-agers who first
taunted the pupils with anti-
Semitic insults.
The attacks, in one of which
50 Negro boys and girls took part,
occurred at the United Lubavitcher
Yeshivoth Hebrew Grammar High
School in the Bedford Stuyvesant
Section, considered one of the
worst slum areas in Brooklyn.
The first encounter occurred
at noon as some 125 students aged
6 to 11 stood outside the school
during their lunch hour. The Ne-
groes, some carrying sticks, bot-
tles, knives and at least one
bicycle chain, came into the street
and began shouting epithets at the
Jewish children, such as "You don't
House for arraignment in Brook-
lyn Children's court on third-de-
gree assault charges.
Later in the afternoon, ten Ne-
gro youths came to the school and
assaulted Samuel Lipsker, 10, and
then ran off.
Rabbi Samuel Schrage, the prin-
cipal, said Rabbi Isidore Kolodny,
an instructor, also was injured in
the first clash. Rabbi Schrage re-
ported Wednesday that one - po-
lice officer had been placed on
duty in the school yard and that
a police car was on constant
patrol.
He added that everything was
"back to normal this morning"
and that there were no absences
because of injuries to the pupils.
Rabbi Schrage said there had
been repeated incidents in the
past, but these had stopped after
a police patrol was placed at the
building at night. He called the
latest attacks the worst that had
belong in this country."
Rabbi Abraham Barnitzky, 46, ever happened to the school.
a teacher, went to the aid of the
Scores of passersby and bus
pupils and was kicked and passengers who alighted when
knocked to the ground. As pu- their buses halted because of the
pils went to his aid and the fighting, watched the attacks with
fighting spread, many of the apparent indifference. Except for
children were cut and bruised. Berkman, none of those who saw
The first clash ended when Leo the clashes came to the aid of
Berkman, 43, a city building in- the pupils.
spector, stopped his car, jumped
out and grabbed one of the as- THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
sailants as the others fled. Berk-
Friday, April 24, 1964
5
man made a citizen's arrest of
Bernard Lane, 15, who was held
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