Nitrates Poisoning
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Hikes Expected to Follow'Surprise Tax on Fuel
TEL AVIV (JTA)—The surprise vented from rising by treasury
tax on fuel in Israel that went into subsidies to the industry.
But the average Israeli is not
HAIFA — Identification of th effect at midnight Sunday brought
(From the files of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
cause and a possible solution to e no immediate price hikes for in- subsidized. Today he was paying
40 Years Ago This Week: 1931
the rapid ecological deterioration dustrial and agricultural products, from 10 to 140 per cent more for
but increases are expected never-
The Nazis demanded the removal of Jewish doctors and employes of the Sea of Galilee has been dis- theless in the cost of transporta- . gasoline, kerosene and domestic
heating and cooking fuels.
from German hospitals.
covered after three years of re- tion and for
certain manufactured
Officials say no further taxes are
Julius Rosenwald, whose $50,000,000 in philanthropic projects search.
goods.
contemplated.
or this year, deny-
included the Rosenwald Library in Luxor, Egypt, gave $1,000,000 for
The Sea of Galilee is fed by the
Government officials said the ing the implication that new taxes
a children's dental clinic in Berlin.
Jordan River and is the reservoir price hike was to bring Israel into are under consideration. for 1972.
Nazi Reichstag member M. Ley called Jews "economic parasites, for one-third of Israel's fresh wa- line with world market prices that
vampires and attackers of Christian women" who "use Christian blood ter supply.
have risen in the past year.
Dr. Yoram Avnimelech, head of
not only for ritual purposes but also for their own racial preservation."
Bus companies are expected to
Jacob Goldschmidt, who rose from office boy to "wizard banker the soils and fertilizer laboratory be allowed to raise their fares be-
of Germany," gave up nearly $8,750,000 in shares to enable the trou- at the Technion-Israel Institute of ginning in September and taxis
Technology, blames the deteriora- will most certainly follow the
bled Darmstaedter and National Bank to reopen..
tion directly on the annual inflow
Lewis Milestone, once a penniless immigrant from Kishinev, wa of 2,000 to 5,000 tons of naturally buses, owing to the increased cost
named Ainerica's top film director of 1930-31 in a critics' poll fo r preesent nitrates that flow down of gasoline, business circles said. -
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Nazi editor Wolfgang Bergeman was sentenced to two months fo r dan River.
mand for higher prices made al-
blasphemy in writing "Jehovah is not God but a businessman."
In the sea, the nitrates poison ready by truck owners who haul
Prof. Emil Warburg, physicist and father of botanist Otto War _ the water.
building materials.
burg, died near Bayreuth at 85.
The pollution is caused by drain-
Although bakeries use fuel, the
Bechor Chajim Bejeranu, chief rabbi of Turkey for eight years ing the land and allowing the soil basic cost of bread
died in Istanbul at 75.
, direct contact with air. This
The Nazi paper in Berlin was suspended for three days for causes decomposition to acceler-
urging the assassinations of Lion F.euchtwanger, Heinrich Mann ate and poisonous accumulations
, of nitrates to develop in the top
Arnold Zweig, Alfred Kerr and other German Jewish writers.
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"Hitler's Second Book," the previously secret sequel to "Mein
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pheric oxygen or that a sprink-
David Edward Goitein, Israeli Supreme Court justice and former
ling system be used to wash the
minister to the U.S., died in Jerusalem at 60.
nitrates to lower levels, where
Israel absorbed its 1,000,000th immigrant. From 79 countries
the denitrification process could
take place.
in 13 years, 450,000 came from Europe, 280,000 from Asia, 250,000
from Africa.
Scientists working on the proj-
A London Jewish family sued Egypt for $33,600,000 for expro- ect predict that the Sea of Galilee
priation of properties during the 1956 Suez campaign.
will "die" in three to 10 years if
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The National Catholic Welfare Conference stated: "Far from mental issue has not captured the
condoning the outrages against the Jews under Nazi Germany, the interest of the government or the
Catholic Church took a strong part against such acts. Catholic groups public despite the scientists' warn-
were among the • few agencies that opposed the Nazis' efforts to ing, it was reported.
exterminate Jews."
The Eichmann trial was postponed another week because of the
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