Several Syrian Jews Are Reported Out of Jail; Beirut Leader Not Among Them German Seeks to Honor Country's Resisters PARIS (JTA)—Several Syrian the reports he confirmed, it would not prepared to confirm or corn- Jews were released from prison appear that their release was par- ment on the report when it was by the Syrian authorities Monday tially due to these interventions. queried here by the Jewish Tele- according to unconfirmed reports The Syrian Embassy in Paris was ' graphic Agency. reaching Paris. Some of these reports said all the detained Jews with the excep- tion of former Beirut Jewish com- munity leader Albert Elias were suddenly set free and allowed to return to their homes. Elias was kidnapped in broad Dr. Sidney Edelstein. New Louis Berry has been reappoint- daylight last autumn in downtown ed chairman of the cash mobiliza- York, national cash mobilization Beirut while on his way from his tion committee of the Jewish Wel- chairman for the United Jewish home to the local community build- fare Federation, Alan E. Schwartz. Appeal, will speak at the meet- ing. Though the Syrians have de- president, announced. ing on the urgent appeal of /s- nied holding him or even knowing rael's leaders for immediate Berry. who was the recipient of payment of pledges to assure where he was detained, persistent reports said that Elias was being the 1971 Fred M. Butzel Memorial a constant flow of money. Award, was appointed to the chair- held in a Syrian military prison The United Jewish Appeal is manship of the large committee on the outskirts of Damascus. seeking 5300,000,000 in its cash col- last year. Jewish organizations in Paris, He has called a committee meet- , lection nationally, and has keyed which refuse to be named, con- ing for 8 p.m. Tuseday in the, the collection program to "Six firmed these reports. According board room of United Hebrew Days in June" on the fifth anniN er- to the reports, nine Syrian Jews, Schools, 21550 12 Mile, to consider sary of the Six-Day War. including three women, were set The expected immigration to Is- the desperate need for cash in Is- , free by the Syrians. Some of rael front Russia is 20,000 more rael. them have spent over a year in -.- than originally anticipated and jail. budgeted for by the Jewish Agency The organizations explain that Soviet Olim Protest and actual immigration figures so the Syrians did not release Elias far this year are hearing out the because of their former claims that May Day Festivities estimate. they do not hold him. JERUSALEM (ZINS) — Thou- This means an immediate in- Among those set free are two sands of newcomers from the former teachers at the Alliance Soviet Union expressed deep re- crease of $132,700,000 in the Jew- Israelite UniverseIle School in sentment and protest over the fly - 1 ish Agency budget for this year. Damascus. Jacques Ariel and ing of red flags from rooftops of "Every day the immigrants ar- Jacques Attar. Ifistadrut buildings and other left- rive, and every day the bills must The Alliance confirmed this re- wing institutions. The banner Of be paid. The. price of default is hu- port here. It is not known yet the Soviet Union is a red flag. ' man suffering," Dr. Edelstein said. whether the released men will be Chairman Berry called on all Leadership of the United Labor allowed to leave the country. contributors to the 1972 Allied Party and of the flistadrut. who A number of non-Jewish person. had proclaimed May 1 a holiday. Jewish Campaign-Israel Emer- alities, including French Senate were visibly upset by these reac- gency Fund for full or partial president Alain Poher, have re- tions. An anti-May Day demon- payment of their pledges so that peatedly intervened in the past to stration by Soviet Jews took place Detroit could continue to "Keep secure the release of the Jewish in Jerusalem in front of the the Promise" to help Lsrael with detainees in Syrian prisons Should Knesset building. The protestors its burden of social welfare ser- vices. carried placards reading - May Day is not our holiday. - and "The At the same time. Samuel Fran- Marshall Goldman's Lel. campaign chairman, called on Red Flag is not our flag." The demonstrators expressed the few remaining people who have shock on learning that the Knesset • not made their 1972 pledges to itself, and all its departments. had submit them "because we need been closed in celebration of May every person and every dollar to 4 Of4 r, f W4', S P007,201 Day. be able to say that our 1972 cam- Protests also were lodged by paign was successful." Letters asking for voluntary Ilerut the Liberal Party and against those who organized the pledges from contributors who May Day celebrations and their have not yet been reached w ill he followers. loaded nest week, Frankel said Berry Re-Named Cash Collection Chairman; Mobilization Meeting Tuesday to Spur Detroit Action rtO3F:iTS THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Friday, May 19, 1972-5 BONN (JTAI—West Germany's' people's duty to express recogoi- i interior minister, flans-Dieter Gen• l tion of their deeds. scher, has proposed honoring those - ! 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