Colda Meir Deplores `Adventurers' in Congo (Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News) JERUSALEM—Mrs. Golda Meir, Israel's foreign minister, casti- gated Tuesday "mercenaries and adventurers in the Congo who sell their honor and carry arms for gain." She spoke at a meeting of the African envoys called to dispel rumors that Israelis were serving as mercenaries in the Congo-. Mrs. Meir expressed "revulsion" oxer such mercenary activities and said that Israeli aid programs in construction, farm and administra- tive training, which were started during Premier Adoula's admin- istration, were being continued. The rumors were sparked by the death of Joseph Eshet, 29, an Israeli airman who was killed last Friday in the crash of a Belgian plane carrying munitions. The air- man was reported to have been an employe of Sabena, the Belgian airline which assigned him to its subsidiary, Air Congo. - - MORTGAGES APPLICATIONS FOR VA or FHA ARE NOW BEING TAKEN On New or Existing Homes QUICK SERVICE Phone Us Today FRANKLIN MORTGAGE CORP. Approved FHA Mortqagee 915 First National Bldg., , Det. 26 WO 3-4890 • E. Germany Abolishes Witnesses Tell of Atrocities Statute of Limitations in Testimony at German Trials for Nazi Criminals JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News) (Direct 'Witnesses at war crimes trials in Germany continued to pour out stories of sadism on the part of Nazi officers at AuschWitz and in other parts of occupied Europe during World War II. In Munich. a witness at the trial fof former SS Gen. Karl Wolfe testified Monday that an SS man casually shot an elderly Jew in the Warsaw ghetto to give a "corpse collector" something to do. Wolfe is on trial on charges of aiding in the killing of 300.000 Jews in War- saw during the Nazi occupation. Ladek Frajman. now a Munich salesman. said in his testimony that once while smuggling food into the Warsaw ghetto he dis- guised himself as a corpse collector pushing a barrow used to carry corpses. The SS man, noting that the barrow was empty, stopped him and asked him if he had no work to do. The witness testified that when he replied in the negative, the SS man took him to the elderly Jew, shot the Jew on the spot and then said to the witness "Now you have some." In Frankfurt. one of the de- fendants in the Auschwitz camp personnel war crimes trial once beat a Jewish prisoner to death to demonstrate to a camp trusty how it was done. a Polish former clerk at the camp testified. Erwin Bartel. _41, the former clerk. said that, one day in 1942. defendant Hans Stark. a Gestapo THE CALL OF THE SHOFAR man, took him to one of the JeWish barracks. Bartel said the Gestapo guard selected two Jews and told them to kneel. Then Stark told the chief bar- racks trusty to kill them. Bartel said that the trusty asked how it was done, and Stark picked up a chair leg and smashed away at the neck of one of the Jewish prisoners until he was dead. Bartel testified that Stark then said to the trusty "Now you know how." The court also heard testimony that the horrors of Auschwitz once proved more than even an SS man could stand. Tadeus Szewczuk, a Polish witness, testified that a non- commissioned SS officer suffered a nervous breakdown while select- ing victims for gassing on the Bir- kenau ramp of the camp. The witness, now a Krakow! pharmacist, testified that the offi- cer walked away from his post, yelling "do with me what you like but I won't do any more ramp duty." He said the officer stripped off•his belt, gun and steel helmet and threw them away. Kurt Becher, a former Nazi SS colonel who is now a prosper- ous Bremen merchant, told a Frankfurt court that Hermann Krumey, a wartime aide of mass murderer Adolf Eichmann, had sought to rescue as many Jews as possible from the Nazi's an- nihilation program. Testifying at the trial of Krumey and Otto Hunsche, another former SS officer. on charges of complicity in the murder of 430,000 Hungar- ian Jews, Becher related an inci- dent in which SS chief Heinrich Himmler ordered the release of 1.700 Jews to Switzerland in 1944, as a "token of SS goodwill" in negotiations with the Allies. He said that Krumey blocked attempts by Eichmann to have the trainload of Jews rerouted to Ber- gen-Belsen death camp. Becher also told the court that he held secret talks with a per- sonal representative of President Roosevelt in 1944, to try to arrange for an exchange of Hungarian Jews for shipments of Allied goods. He identified the representative as Ross McClelland, an American Quaker. He said he met him in . Awake, ,ye slumberers, from your sleep, examine your deeds and humbly return to God, the source of justice and truth. All ye who are absorbed in foolishness and forget yourselves, ye who pass your day in empti- ness, remember your Creator, look into your soul, and amend your ways. Forsake your impure thoughts and your wicked deeds, and follow kindness and righteousness. — Ma i mon ides ( 1 1 35-1204 ) mrizr ;ftizim ,awe To The Entire Community and Our Many Friends. Mr. and Mrs. Irving Hermelin and Family Mr. and Mrs. David B Hermelin & Family 13625 W. 8 Mile Rd., Detroit The Hermelin Agency and Office Staff Extend Greetings for a Happy and Prosperous New Year 13625 W. 8 Mile Road Detroit Switzerland, along with a repre4 sentative of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. Aussie Court Reduces Neo-Nazis' Sentence (Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish Netts) SYDNEY, Australia — The Syd- ney Appeals Court Wednesday re- duced to six months a 12-month sentence imposed on a member of the Australian Nazi Party. • Joseph Facer, 21, who was sen- tenced on June 26. together with three other neo - Nazis after a po- lice raid on the party's headquar- ters, appealed the sentence. Police found him in illegal possession - of a revolver during the raid. He said his job was to see to it that no' Jews entered the headquarters. Pillar of Fire and Sinai From Otzar Midrashim Between Passover and Shavuot God did unto Israel what He did in the six days of Creation. On the first day He created dry land out of the sea; thus did ,He do when He turned the Red Sea into dry land. On the second day He created the expanse; thus also did He create the clouds of glory and s pread them out over Israel. On the third day He created food- bearing plants; thus for Israel He sent down the manna. On the fourth day He made the great lights, and thus for Israel He "made the Pillar of Fire. On the fifth day He created the birds, and for Israel He sent down the quails. On the sixth day He spoke with Adam, and with all Israel He spoke at Sinai. THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS 6 Friday, September 4,1964 Formerly we used to canonize our heroes. The modern method is to vulgarize them. Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are LONDON (JTA)—The East Ger- absolutely detestable. man government approved a bill —Oscar Wilde to abolish the statute of limitations for Nazis and war criminals, ac- cording to cable dispatches receiv- Like GIN V ? ed here. The penal code, at present, is similar to West Germany's, which ;Pica u /illy Cocktail's got it! provides that prosecution of crimes 2. $1 . 4 9 must be begun with 20 years. The statute of limitations covering war UNITED BRANDS • DETROIT . U S A crimes expires next May 8. • : gsrael 13ond Congregational and Ag it Wol y ay Konor SYNAGOGUE PARTICIPATING CONGREGATIONS RABBI PRESIDENT Adis Shalom .... Jacob E. Segal Norman Allan Adis Yeshurun Ahavos Achim Seymour M. Ponitz Jonas Dworin Beth Aaron Benjamin H. Gorrelick Meyer Millman Beth Abraham Israel I. Halpern Dr. Harry Newman Beth Joseph Anshey Ruzhin Manuel Neiman Hyman H. Karp Beth Moses A. Irving Schnipper Dr. Manuel Feldman Beth Shalom Mord2coi Halpern Edward Gordon Beth Tefiloh Emanuel Tikvah Leizer Levin Morris Dorn Birmingham Temple-... Sherwin T. Wine . Harry A. Velick Beth Yehudah Joshua Spiro Meyer Levin B'nai David Hayim Donin Charles N. Shere B'nai Israel Israel Flam Ernest L. Citron B'nai Jacob I. Isaac Charles Vikser B'nai Moshe Moses Lehrman Nathan Sharon B`nai Zion Solomon H. Gruskiis Morris Snow Chesed Shel Emes Israel I. Rockove Morris Dorn David Ben Nuchim Chaskel Grubner Joseph Bornstein Ezros .Achim Turover Temple Isidore Sosnick Isaac Agree Noah M. Gamze Downtown Gemiluth Chassodim Joel Litke Benoit Gorge Livonia Jewish Congregation Dr. Sylvan J. Ginsburgh Stanley Finkelstein Mishkan Israel- Nusoch Harie—.. Isaac Stollmon Isadore Starr Lubavitcher Center Mogen Abraham Solomon P. Wohlgelernter Shaorey Shomayim Leo Y. Goldman Joseph Balbero Shoorey Zedek Morris Adler and Irwin Groner .. . .. — _. David M. Miro Shomrey Emunoh Sholem Flam Isadore Levin Temple Beth Am David Jesse! Lewis Kent Temple Beth El .Richard C. Hertz Sidney J. Korb-el Temple Emanuel Milton Rosenbaum Walter M. Stark Temple Israel Leon From and M. Robert Syme Julian S. Tobias Young Israel Greenfield .... Joshua Sperka Abe Seksny Young Israel Northwest Samuel H Prero Harry L. Blitz Young Israel Ook Woods James I Gordon ........... Sol Lessmon GUEST SPEAKERS ABBIE BEN ARI ROBERT LURIE GENERAL AHARON DORON DR. ARIEH PLOTKIN MAURICE SAMUEL Hillel L. Abrams, Harold Berke, David I. Berris, David J. Cohen, Hy Crystal, Rabbi Abram Gardin, Dr. Jacob Goldman, Rabbi Benjamin Gorrelick, Rabbi Morris Greenes, Rabbi Eugene Greenfield, Berl Heorshen, William Hordes, Rabbi Mox Kepustin, =Erry. Loewenthal, Emanuel Mark, Irving Schlussel, David Schoichit, Max Schulzinger, Rabbi Jacob E. Segal, A. M. Silverstein, Mox Sosin, Isidore Sosnick, Rabbi Joshua Sperka, Isadore Starr, Zvi Tomkiewicz., Melvin Weisz. HOLY DAY COUNCIL Chairman NORMAN ALLAN . . Co-Chairman JUDGE NATHAN J. KAUFMAN Co-Chairman In addition to Speakers, Presidents, and Rabbis of participating congre- CONGREGATIONAL AND HIGH PHILLIP STOLLMAN gations, the committee includes: Hyman Aaron, Cantor Shabtai Ackerman, Rev. Hyman J. Adler, Reuben Axelrod, Norman Blake, Harry L. Blitz, David Bodzin, Jay Bodzin, Morris J. Brandwine, Harry Citrin, Harry Cohen, Hy Crystal, Jonas Dworin, Harry Eskin, Isaac M. Faxstein, Dr. Manuel Feldman, Mrs. Ben Z. 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