Court Rules in Favor of Textbook AM. to Religious Schools ALBANY, N.Y. (JTA)—The Appellate Division of the New York State Supreme Court upset a lower court ruling which had declared unconstitutional the state law providing for the loan of textbooks to children in Hebrew schools and other parochial and private schools. The law, which had been declared unconstitutional in the lower court last August by Supreme Court Justice Paul T. Kane, provides for state payments to school districts of $10 to $15 for each pupil annually for the purchase of textbooks to be loaned to pupils of both public and non-public schoOls. The state grants were set for all pupils, public and non-public, in grades 7 through 12. In spite of the lower court ruling declaring the measure unconstitutional, State Education Commissioner James Allen, Jr., was instructed to implement the plan Anti-Semitic Trends in France while State Attorney General Louis Lefkowitz filed an appeal from Justice Kane's ruling. The American Jewish Congress and other secular Jewish groups had vigorously opposed the law while Orthodox Jewish organizations backing Hebrew day schools had supported the measure. All five of the Appellate Division justices who overturned the lower court ruling said they were satisfied that the law was constitutional although three of them based their decision on the contention that the East Greenbush school board in Rensselaer County, which instituted the litigation, had no right to bring suit. Marvin E. Pollock, the attorney representing the East Greenbush school board, said: "We intend to pursue this case to its ultimate conclusion," adding that this would mean going beyond the state courts if necessary. HE JEWISH NEWS The Tragedy of Jack Ruby c) -r Julien Bryan's Israel Message A Weekly Review Commentary Page 2 NIICF—IIGA II f Jewish Events Michigan's Only English-Jewish Newspaper — Incorporating The Detroit Jewish Chronicle Vol. L, No. 20 17100 W. 7 Mile Rd.—VE 8-9364—Detroit 48235—January 6, 1967 Educational Dilemma Our Youth and the Impact of the Elders' Reactions Editorials Page 4 "7 - :-';', } :$6.00 Per Year; This Issue 20c Iaxation o Aid Restrictions PLO, New Syrian . Attacks On Israel F ment New Troubles Dr. Adenauer Is Optimistic While Four Americans Differ on NPD's Role (Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News) BONN—Dr. Konrad Adenauer, West Germany's former chancellor, said here that he did not consider the extremist National Democratic Party as a danger. He expressed con- fidence in German youth and said that parties similar to the NPD had been formed and disappeared without a trace in West Germany in the postwar period. The NPD evoked worldwide concern when it won parliamentary seats last November in state elections in Hesse and Bavaria. The former chancellor expressed his views on the party in an interview with Welt am Sonntag. He suggested that the German people should be more self-confident and could then dispense with extremist nationalism. Dr. Adenauer also said that West Germany had "a certain responsibility for Israel and we must help Israel whenever we can." He called his May 1966 visit to Israel the most interesting trip he had ever made. He declared he could not understand the hatred of the Arabs for Israel, adding that his visit had convinced him that "the Jewish people does not want anything but peace with the Arabs." NEW YORK—Four prominent Americans have refused to join 20 other personalities in signing a statement issued by the American Council on Germany declaring that recent elections in West Germany do not show a rebirth of Nazism and warning against what it described as the "danger" of condemning an entire people for the views of a minority. The four who refused to sign the council's statement . were William J. Vanden Heuvel, president of the Interna- tional Rescue Committee; Jacob Blaustein and Irving Engel, honorary presidents of the American Jewish Committee; and Gen. Lucius Clay, former military commander of the t.T.S. Zone in Germany and honorary president of the council. In recent elections, the National Democratic Party, which has been described as neo-Nazi by the Bonn Interior -'Ministry, won 8 out of 96 seats in Hesse and a larger _1-;ercentage of the seats in the Bavarian legislature. * * * BERLIN—A West Berlin court ordered a 21-year-old garage mechanic to write a 20-page essay on the Hitler era and fined him 100 marks ($25) for appearing in a Jewish shop with a large swastika painted on his overalls. ' The youth, Berndt Ruge, also was given a suspended seven month prison term. Tacit American consent to the financing of the Palestine Liberation Army, which has been formed under the leadership of Ahmed Shukairy, who not only seeks the destruction of Israel but also the overthrow of King Hussein of Jordan, is believed to be the most serious threat to the peace of the Middle East. A temporary lull in snipings and infiltrations into Israel ended last week with a series of Syrian -incursions and attacks on Israeli military and farmers' groups. Revelation of the possibility that an earlier decision not to provide United Nations aid to the Palestine Liberation Organization has been reversed with U. S. consent was made in Wash- ington this week. This information was made known at a time when Ahmed Shukairy announced in Cairo that he had formed a secret revolutionary council of Arabs inside and outside Jordan to plot Hussein's overthrow, while planning Israel's destruction. * * * WASHINGTON (JTA)—The Washington Post reported Monday that the United States government has "quietly and queasily relaxed its pressure on the United Nations to cut off rations to refugees serving in the Palestine Liberation Army, whose stated aims are to destroy Israel and overthrow Jordan's King Hussein." Behind the new American attitude, said the Post, is "a little noted deal announced during the fall of the UN Relief and Works Agency which for 17 years has cared for Palestinians who fled their homes in what now is Israel." UNRWA's chief, Laurence Michelmore, took notice then of American complaints that his agency was subsidizing the PLA. These complaints figured in Congress's decision to cut the U. S. contribution 5 per cent in each of the last two years— down to $22,200,000 in cash and commodities out of the 1967 - UNRWA budget of $39,300,000. "In light of these differences," said Michelmore, "arrangements have been made for special added donations to the amount of $150,000 which meets the total cost of any rations consumed by the young men (PLA soldiers) in question. Contributors to UNRWA . . . may thus be assured that their contributions will not be used to furnish assistance to refugees receiving military training" by the PLA, he said. The "special added donations" were said to come from Syria, Egypt, Lebanon and Jordan. The U. S. government confined its official reaction to a statement that "we believe the General As- sembly should not give the impression that it condones or regards with indifference the involve- ment of a UN agency with an organization (PLA) which avows such purposes" (to attack Israel by armed force). The Washington Post said that "privately, American officials acknowledge that the added donations in effect formalize UN relief to the PLA. The difficulty, they say, is that UNRWA is a pauperized UN stepchild which lacks the political clout to prevent the host Arab countries, or the Palestinians who administer the rations, or the refugees themselves, from diverting rations to the PLA." The Post estimated that 12,000 PLA troops are in the Gaza Strip and others in Syria. — - * * * UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. (JTA)—Israel filed a complaint Monday with the Security Coun- cil over a new series of mine-laying incidents which Israel called a "resumption" of raids. (Continued on Page 15) - Brother Earl Uses Yiddish to Outwit Jack Ruby's Guards (From News Wires to The Jewish News) Earl Ruby of Southfield outwitted security guards around his brother Jack's bed in a Dallas hospital last month, and succeeded in recording the ailing Jack Ruby's story, denying that he had joined in a conspiracy to kill Lee Harvey Os- wald, the assassin of President Kennedy. Ruby, who was suffering from exten- sive cancer, died of a blood clot in the lungs Wednesday, Burial was scheduled for this morning in Chicago. To alert his brother, but not the guards in the room, to the presence of a. tape recorder he had smuggled in, Earl Ruby spoke a few words in Yiddish. "I have a tape recorder in this case," he said. The conversation took place sometime between Dec. 15 and 18 and is now part of an album on President Kennedy's assassination being issued by Capitol Records. Jack Ruby said he could not recollect the shooting of Oswald, that his presence at the Dallas County Jail that morning of Nov. 24, 1963 resulted from his making an "illegal turn behind a bus and winding up in the jail parking lot. "Had I gone the way I was supposed to go—straight down Main Street," he said, "I would never have met this fate." Ruby told his brother he always car- ried a gun with him because of "various altercations I had in my club." The conversation took three minutes. The recording was played publicly for the first time Tuesday at a news conference in the Americana Hotel, New York, - called by officials of the record company. Funeral services for Ruby, 55, were to be held in accordance with Jewish ritual, as he had apparently requested of his family. He was to be buried in Chicago's Westlawn Cemetery, where his parents are interred. Arrangements were made by the Original Weinstein and Sons Chapel. Although Jewish law calls for burial as quickly as possible, the need to transport the body from Dallas was con- sidered extenuating circumstances. About 20 specialists and nurses were attending Ruby when he died. Survivors besides Earl, include four sisters, Mrs.. Harold Kaminsky, Mrs. Norman Carroll and Mrs. Anna Volpert of Chicago and Mrs. Eva Grant of Dallas; and two brothers, Sam Rubenstein of De- troit, and Hyman Rubenstein of Chicago.