THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, February 21, 1969--1S
Joe Magidsohn, U of M Halfback, Referee, Was 80
JOE MAGIDSOHN
Joe Magidsohn, who was one of
the great halfbacks on the Univer-
sity of Michigan football teams in
1909 and 1910, and who for 30
years was a chief referee at U. of
M. football games, died last Friday
at age 80. Funeral services were
held Sunday at Kaufman Chapel.
He was the first Jewish foot-
ball star to earn his "M" at the
University of Michigan.
Mr. Magidsohn retired several
years ago from the apartment and
property management. His late res-
idence was at 23521 Kipling, Oak
Park.
He was active in Temple Beth El
and was president of its men's
200,000 New- Israelis Can Tip Scale in Vote
for Knesset Members; Candidates Worried
He is credited with having in-
augurated the intercongregational
men's clubs' dinners here.
His parents brought him from
Russia, at age of 4, to Elkton,
Mich. He attended Alma College
before enrolling in the University
of Michigan, where he earned his
engineering degree in 1911.
Surviving are a son, Dr. Eliot
Magidsohn; a daughter, Mrs. Sam
Becker; four grandchildren, three
great-grandchildren, two brothers,
Sam and Harry, and two sisters,
Mrs. Lee Jacobi and Mrs. Jack
Adler.
club, was an organizer and past
president of Knollwood Country
Club and had been active in Allied
Jewish Campaigns.
Four Powers Expected
to Confer on Mid East
Settlement in Near Future
LONDON (JTA) — Foreign Sec-
retary Michael Stewart told the
House of Commons Monday that
Britain. France, the United States
and Russia were expected to con-
fer soon to discuss a Mid East set-
tlement. Bilateral talks among
them are currently taking place at
the United - Nations.
His statement came against a
background of growing French-
British tensions over France's an-
nouncement that it would boycott
meetings here of the Western Eu-
ropean Union (WEU) Council "un-
apulitical. They do not speak the
language of those who came from
eastern Europe. Two out of four
ball from the Eastern countries.
They view all politicians and
statesmen with suspicion and deri-
sion and keep away from all poli-
tical rallies. Their political views
is meeting with difficulties in its
search for an ambassador candi-
date to replace Rabin, who enjoys
immense popularity and prestige
among the members of the diplo-
matic corps, as well as the govern-
ment of the United States.
• Meanwhile, the United Labor
Party, with an absolute majority
Ida the Knesset (63 deputies), is
flexing her muscles for the elec-
tions.
Israel Can Win Again,
but at High Cost, Writes
Former Kennedy Aide
are unknown.
Eshkol has requested that the
Israeli ambassador to the United
States appear as one of his party's
candidates. Thus two of the most
popular military leaders in Israel,
Moshe Dayan and Itzhak Rabin,
Anatole Ponve, Leader
of DPs Who Fled to China
(Direct -mg. Teletype. Wire
to The Jewish News)
The death of
Anatole Ponve, a Beverly Hills im-
porter and realtor who aided the
Jewish communities of China and
Japan before he came to this coun-
try 15 years ago, was reported
here Tuesday.
Mr. Ponve was a refugee from
Eastern Europe who settled in
China and later established the
first temple in Hong Kong. He
assisted in the development of the
Jewish community in Japan as
well He served as president and
later chairman of Temple Beth El
LOS ANGELES —
in Hollywood.
WASHINGTON (ZINS) — "Israel
able to conquer the Arabs again
should she be provoked into a new
war, but she would have to pay a
high price in casualties and de-
struction, and her losses would
exceed those of the Six-Day War"
—the former director of the de-
partment of information under the
Kennedy administration, said in an
article published in the Washing-
ton Evening Star.
The newspaper also disclosed
that this information was submit-
ted to President Nixon by the U.S.
Intelligence Service. The report
stresses that the Arab countries are
now better armed and are much
stronger than before the Six-Day
War.
The report also warns President
Nixon that Israel has the potential
to produce atomic weapons, among
them atomic rockets, within 6 to
12 months, capable of reaching any
point in any Arab country within
480 miles, with the exception of
Baghdad.
is
The Iraqi Tribunal of Madmen
trol is still its primary function.
Britain has sought to get other
non-European political issues in-
to the WEU on a regular basis,
and France, viewing this as a
move to get around President
de Gaulle's veto on British Com-
mon Market membership, op-
posed last week's meeting.
In a related development, Labo-
rite MP Stanley Henig asked Ste-
wart whether he would propose
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that the UN Security Council con-
duct a special inquiry into the
threat to world peace arising from
the treatment of Jews in Arab
countries. In a written reply, the
foreign secretary said, "I do not
think it would be useful or approp-
riate for the British government to
make such a proposal."
Salpeter, Leader
in U.S. Jewish Life
High Salpeter,
NEW YORE;
Jewish communal leader, former
—
executive director of the Metro-
politan Taxicab Board of Trade
and former director of the Police
Athletic League, died last Satur-
day at age 57.
Mr. Salpeter was long active in
welfare and community work. He
began his career as a member of
the field staff of the old Brooklyn
Federation of Charities and later
became director of the trades and
community division of the United
Jewish Appeal of Greater New
York.
He served on the Intergovern-
mental Refugee Commission, which
rescued refugees from Nazi terri-
tory, including Albert Einstein. He
had been executive vice president
of the American Friends of the He-
brew University and executive di-
rector of the merged fund-raising
arm of the Hebrew U., Weizmann
Institute of Science and the Tech-
nion.
In 1953, he was director of or-
ganization for the American Jew-
ish Congress, and later served as
co-chairman of the American-
Israel Music Alliance, helping
bring the Gadna Youth Symphony
Orchestra of Israel to the United
States on tour.
December Tourism Up
Presiding over this tribunal of madmen who reverted to medieval
brutalities is Iraqi's Col. All Hadi Mokhless. Even the newspapers in
Cairo and Beirut condemned the uncivilized acts in Baghdad.
INCORPORATED
To say that a work of art is
good, but incomprehensible to the
majority of men, is the same as
saying of some kind of food that it
is very good but that most people
- can't eat it.—Leo Tolstey.
TEL AVIV (ZINS)—Among the will appear on one ticket. The
1,750,000 eligible voters to the newspaper Ha'aretz stresses that til further notice."
France's five Common Market
forthcoming Knes set elections, the Israel Ministry of Foreign Af-
there are 200,000 who will use their fairs is already searching for a partners — West Germany, Italy,
Belgium,
The Netherlands and Lux-
dimocratic right for the first time. candidate for the post of ambas-
- Britain, which con-
It is within their power to decide sador to the United States: Political embourg—and
stitute
the
WEU, met last Friday
the fate of 20' mandates to the observers contend that Levi Eshkol to discuss the Mid East crisis. The
Ethesset: to uphold the political will definitely head the party's list. meeting was summoned by Britain,
aligns quo or to transfer the man- A struggle is already under way and France objected and boycotted
uals from one political party to between Moshe Dayan and Yigal it.
Allon for second place on the tic-
A WEU Council meeting Tues-
The sources claim that Itzhak
%Ws has thrown the candidates ket.
day was called to discuss routine
Man all parties to the forthcoming Rabin's candidacy for second
matters.
France denied it was
place is, therefore, a foregone con-
elections into panic, each one fear-
quitting the WEU, which was set
since it offers a conveni-
. big tbat he might become the vic- clusion,
up
in
1954
to control West Ger-
ent and practical solution to the
tim of this new phenomenon on the controversy between Dayan and many's rearmament. Arms con-
Leaeli political horizon:
Allon.
ifbe new voters do not belong to
The same sources also contend
political parties; in fact they are that the ministry of foreign affairs
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JERUSALEM (JTA—Minister of
Tourism Moshe Kol reported in
the Knesset that more than 30,000
tourists visited Israel during De-
cember 1968 — a 14 per cent in-
crease over December 1967. He
said the total was considerably
greater than the number of non-
Arab tourists who used to visit
Jordan in December, the month of
traditional Christmas pilgrimages.
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