Robert Kennedy Victim of Hatred That Inflames Mid-East Detroit Jewry joined fellow Americans today in expressing shock and grief over the death of New York's Senator Robert Kennedy, the victim of an assassin's bullet in Los Angeles. Upon the news of his death Thursday, President Johnson declared Sunday a national day of mourning for the 42-year-old Presidential candidate, Silo was cut down soon after making a victory speech in the California primary. Sen. Kennedy's accused assassin is Sirhan Bishara Sirhan, 24, a Jordanian Ilailve of Jerusalem, living near Los Angeles since his teens. Although Sirhan was silent upon questioning, he was known to have a deep hatred for Israel and was angered by pro-Israel statements of the senator. JEWISH NEWS World Zionist Congress— Movement's Role No Cause for Jubilation in Israel Editorials Page. 4 Found in Sirhan's possession at the time of arrest were clippings of articles criticizing the senator and outlining his itinerary in California. Sirhan also carried four $100 bills. In New York, Dr. Mohammad T. Mehdi, secretary general of the Action Committee on American-Arab Relations, said the accused "may have been inflamed" by a statement of Sen. Kennedy made in a televised campaign debate Saturday night, urging that the United States honor its commitments to Israel. Sirhan, arraigned and held under $250,000 bail in the Los Angeles County Jail, (Continued on Page 19) Poland's Insane Trend to Perpetuate Anti-Semitism MICHIGAN A Weekly Review f Jewish Events Commentary Page 2 Michigan's Only English-Jewish Newspaper — Incorporating The Detroit Jewish Chronicle 27 V-01. Lill. No. 12 June 7, 1968 17100 W. 7 Mile Rd.—VE 8-9364—Detroit 48235 $7.00 Per Year; This Issue 20c sritiel Air Force Strikes at Jordan Ater 3 Israelis Killed, 7 Wounded (Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News) HIAS Praises State Dept. Readiness to Aid Polish Jews NEW YORK (JTA) — The president of United Hias Service, the Worldwide Jewish migration society, hailed the intention of the State Department to provide visas to Polish Jews wishing to emigrate to the United States. A State Department source was quoted in the May 29 New York Post as saying that the department was prepared t accommodate "any foreseeable demand" -by Jews who seek to emigrate. He gave assurances that enough visa and refugee openings were available to handle as many as could come. Carlos L. Israels, HIAS president, said the agency is "extremely pleased" with the department's humanitarian concern. "As in the past our agency is ready to assist any Jew in Poland who succeeds in leaving that country to come to the United States should he wish tit do so. -_ "Our agency," he said, "is in constant touch with the depart- ment and. other government agencies with respect to working out viable plans and procedures for the admission of oppressed and persecuted Polish Jews. We urge relatives of Polish Jews who wish tat effect family reunion with them in this country to contact United !Has or local cooperating family service agencies for counseling and technical assistance," Israels said. The Post article said that under the current immigration law, the. U.S. could accommodate large numbers of .Polish Jews by using national quotas. A law which takes effect July 1 abolishes these quotas but allows 10,000 visas for refugees to be applied as needed. The State Department source told the Post that should there 13 a mass exodus to the U.S., the department would be willing to seek extraordinary authority under immigration laws to admit the refugees if it was needed. - The department -is apparently not expecting an immediate influx of Polish Jews. The official noted that their big problem is getting out of the country, since, under normal procedures, applications for exit visas take from two to four months to process. Last week, columnist Drew Pearson reported that President Johnson was personally eager to provide a haven in the U.S .for Polish Jews who want to escape the anti-Semitic campaign in their country. Former Ambassador John Kenneth Galbraith and Prof. George Wald, a Nobel Prize winner, headed a 'group of 55 American scho- lars and artists who signed a petition urging the Polish government "to repudiate unequivocally all anti-Semitism, including that dis- guised as anti-Zionism," it was reported this week. (Continued on Page 5) TEL AVIV — Beisan Valley settlements mourned their dead and totaled up the dam- age resulting from Tuesday's ferocious artillery barrage by Jordanian long-range guns that were silenced only after Israeli air force jets went into action against them. The dead were identified as 32-year old Ovadia Beracha, the mother of three small children, who was killed in the shelling of Kibutz Neveh Ur; Chaim Trevis, a student from Jerusalem who was killed as he entered the bomb shelter at Ashdot Yaacov; and a 24-year old member of Kibutz Kineret, whose name was not given. He was killed when shells struck the plywood factory at Sefen. Seven person were injured. The chief of staff of Israel's armed forces. Maj. Gen. Chaim Bar Lev. visited Neveh Ur Tuesday night. Referring to the air strike against the Jordanian gun emplacements, he said he hoped the Amman regime had learned a lesson that Israeli villages cannot be attacked with impunity and that it would restrain itself in the future. According to eye-witness reports, Israeli gunners and pilots scored direct hits on the Jordanian positions. Fires were seen burning for hours, mainly around Jordanian artillery batteries. But Israeli settlements suffered heavy damages, apart from the loss of lives. At least 250 shells struck Ashbob Yaacov, which is not a single settlement but two neigh- boring ones whose members belong to different factions with the Israel Labor. Party. In both, water pipes and electric lines were destroyed, and the dining rooms and cowsheds suffered direct hits. Kibutz Gesher was hit by at least 50 shells which destroy- ed a barn and a fuel storage tank and blasted a fish breeding pond. Several houses were damaged at Beth Joseph. The Sefen plywood factory was closed until the dam- age it sustained is repaired. The Beisan Valley was quiet this morning for the first time in four days. Settlers who spent most of Tuesday in bomb shelters were working their fields Wednesday. Ripening wheat fields and harvested crops representing a full year's work were burned or destroyed by fires set by the shells. A military spokesman said the air force was called to action when Israeli return fire fell short of the Jordanian guns that were dug in around the town of Irbid, about 18 miles east of the Israeli border. The planes pinpointed targets for Israeli artillery and attacked targets that were beyond the range of the Israeli guns. The planes were un- opposed by Jordanian aircraft and all returned safely to their bases, a military spokesman reported. The fighting was reported to have ended at 6:15 p.m. local time. Jordan complained to the United States Embassy in Amman and in the United Na- tions that Israel had used ground-to-ground rockets to "blow up" the city of Irbid. The Jordanians claimed that 30 persons were killed and 60 injured, most of them civilians. The Jordanian complaint to the UN was contained in a letter from Ambassador Muham- med H. El-Farra to Goldberg. Tuesday's battle escalated from a series of shellings started by the Jordanians around midnight Monday and resumed by them between 11 a.m. and noon Tuesday. The initial (Continued on Page 17) Israel Cabinet Members and Educators Honor Stolimans at Bar-Ilan • World Leaders, UJA and American Ambassador Acclaim Detroiters' Generosity; Shazar Receives DHL By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ ._. The Stollman Family with President Zalman Schneour Shazar (center) at the ifecTIcation of the Stollman Administration Building at Bar-Han University in Ramat ai%, May 29. Rabbi and Mrs. Isaac Stollman, who now make their home in Jerusalem, Their children are on the left with Phillip Stollman and Mrs. Max (Frieda) •Stoilman. are interspaced in photo and on the right with Dr. Joseph H. Lookstein, chancellor of Bar-Han, are Max Stollman and Mrs. Shazar. RAMAT GAN. Israel—Prominent world leaders, members of the Israel Cabinet, U.S. Ambassador Walworth Barbour, spokesmen for the United Jewish Appeal and representatives of numerous Israeli groups joined on May 29 in extending honors to the Stollman Family of Detroit for their generosity to numerous pro-Israel causes and for their pioneering efforts which assisted in establishing Bar-Ilan University here. The occasion was the dedication of the Stollman Administration Building on the Bar-Ilan campus here. The dedication was preceded by the ceremony of the awarding of the honorary degree of Doctor of Hebrew Letters to President Zalman Schneour Shazar of Israel. While the occasion marked the completion of another building as part of the rapidly growing Bar-Ilan complex, the event served to call attention to the numerous Stollman Family gifts to the university, their inauguration of many projects which resulted in the enrollment of scores of Detroiters in projects in Bar-Ilan's behalf and the continued labors in support of the school of higher learning under the leadership of Phillip (Continued on Page VP