Allied Jewish Campaign Leaders Submit Reports at Victory Dinner Marking Philanthropic Triumph • S'"•*.'"• •::r',"-,' • " At the victory dinner of the Allied Jewish Campaign-Israel Emergency Fund, at the Jewish Center, May 9, hundreds of volunteer workers heard heartening reports on Detroit Jewry's response to Israel's needs and the local and national agencies' roles in the great local philanthropic tasks. In the upper photo, seated, from left at the long table on stage in the Aaron DeRoy Jewish Center Auditorium, were: associate chairmen Arthur Howard and Richard Sloan; UJA executive vice chairman Irving Bernstein, the guest speaker; co-chairman of the campaign, Paul M. Handleman; Mrs. Morris J. Brandwine, who was reporting for the women's division; Samuel Frankel, general At the Victory White House Clarifies Nixon's Capital Punishment Position; Meeting Says 'First Monday' Does Not Necessarily Speak for President At the triumphant Allied Jewish Campaign victory meet- ing at the Jewish Center, May 9, the audience in the DeRoy Auditorium included Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Hechtman, sit- ting in front of Mr. and Mrs. Max Stollman, and Phillip Stollm an. Shestack Again Heads JPS; Feinberg Named on Board PHILADELPHIA—At the 85th meeting of the Jewish Publication Society of Ameri- ca, Jerome J. Shestack, prom- inent Philadelphia lawyer and civic leader, was re-elected president of the society. Other officers, vice presi- dents Isaac L. Auerbach, Myer Feldman, Mitchell E. Panzer, Justice Samuel J. Roberts and Philip D. Sang were re-elected as were treasurer Robert P. Abrams and secretary Dr. Edward B. Shils. Dr. Chaim Potok was elect- ed to an eighth term as edi- tor of the society. David C. Gross was named to his first full term as executive vice president, succeeding Lesser Zussman, who is retiring af- 48 Friday, May 18, 1973 — co-chairman; William Avrunin, Jewish Welfare Federation executive vice president; William M. Davidson, associate chairman; Lewis S. Grossman, chairman of trades and professional divisions. In lower photos were the reporters for the various campaign divisions, from left: Robert M. Rubin, junior division; John Nemon, metropolitan; Graham A. Orley, real estate and building trades; Marvin Goldman, industrial and automotive; Norman Wachler, mercantile; Tom Klein, food; Sherwood Colburn, services-arts and crafts; Jack A. Robinson, professional. ter 23 years with the society. Eleven trustees of the so- c•ty, whose terms were ex- piring, were re-elected, and four vacancies on the board were filled by the election of the following for three-year terms: Judge Arlin M. Adams of Philadelphia, Charles Fein- berg of Detroit, Robert S. Rifkind of New York and Edward E. Elson of Atlanta. Elie Wiesel was guest speaker for the meeting on "Dare We Forget." Since its beginning 85 years ago, the Jewish Publication Society of America has pub- lished nearly 8,000,000 vol- umes divided among 800 titles and distributed these through- out the world. Its headquar- ters are in Philadelphia. Political party organs do not necessarily speak for the President, a White House spokesman told The Detroit Jewish News this week. Ken W. Clawson, deputy director of communications for the executive branch, writing from the White House, made this assertion in reply to The Jewish News commentator's article, in the issue of April 20, on the ques- tion of capital punishment. The JN Purely Commen- tary pointed out, in relation to an article in "First Mon- day," the publication of the National Republican Commit- tee, that Jewish tradition does not approve of the death penalty, contrary to the views expressed in "First Monday." The article in the latter had criticized a New York Times editorial oppos- ing the death penalty. The Jewish News commentator indicated the error in "First Monday" 's resort to Scrip- ture to uphold the President's viewpoint. Clawson's letter regarding the President's attitude on the subject states: "On behalf of the Presi- dent, I want to, thank you for your letter of April 18. While we are, of course, interested in your viewpoint regarding a recent article which ap- peared in 'First Monday,' the publication of the Repub- lican National Committee, I would like to correct one of your impressions: 'F i r s t Monday' does not necessarily speak for President Nixon. "For your information, I am enclosing the transcript of some remarks by Presi- dent Nixon which relate to the article you have pre- pared. I think you will agree with me that it is important to distinguish between the President's statement and any interpretation of such statements offered by other groups, regardless of their affiliation." President Nixon's view on capital punishment, as sub- mitted by Clawson, was in- cluded in the address from the White house, on the sub- ject "Law Enforcement and Drug Abuse Prevention," March 10. The President then said: "I am . . . proposing that the death penalty be restored for certain Federal crimes. At my direction, the Attor- ney General has drafted a statute consistent with the Supreme Court's recent de- cision on the death penalty. This statute will provide cap- ital punishment for cases of murder over which the Fed- eral Government has juris- diction, and for treason and other war-related crimes. "Contrary to the views of some social theorists, I am convinced that the death pen- alty can be an effective de- terrent against specific crimes. The death penalty is not a deterrent so long as there is doubt whether it can be applied. The law I will propose would remove this doubt. "The potential criminal will know that if his intended victims die, he may also die. the hijacker, the kidnaper, the man who throws a fire bomb, the convict who at- tacks a prison guard, the person who assaults an offi- cer of the law, all will know that they may pay with their own lives for any lives that they take. "This statute will be a part of my proposed reform of the Federal Criminal Code. However, because there is an immediate need for this sanction, I have di- rected the Attorney General to submit a death penalty statute as a separate pro- posal so that the Congress can act rapidly on this single provision." JWF Women Draw Up Meeting On 2nd Thought • • . Then Again You can't even be friendly these days without being misunderstood, the Chinese ambassador to Greece learned the other day. Chou Po-Ping arrived with his interpreter at the Athens home of Israel's ambassador to Greece, Yehuda Gaulan, who was hosting a reception for Israel's 25th anniversary. Inevitably, tongues started wagging. Did this mean that China was considering establishing diplomatic relations with Israel? Chou responded to such conjecture with "Our position is very clear: we do not recognize Israel. Your question is bizarre, very bizarre." But thinking it over, Chou realized that his presence could be interpreted to the contrary. So, he and his inter- preter shook hands with Gaulan and promptly exited. "It was a technical error," Chou explained later. "I thought I was visiting the Kuwait Embassy . . . It was all a very regrettable error." There is no Kuwait Embassy in Athens. THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Even while another meeting was going on, plans fe - the annual meeting of the Jewish Welfare Federation's women's division set for Wednesday at Cong. Adat Shalom were being discussed by, from left, Mesdames Milton Bar- nett, N. Brewster Broder and Norman Rosenfeld. The noon luncheon meeting, at which division officers will be elected for the coming year, will feature "Israel at 25," an informal slide-film presentation by Rabbi Jacob Segal. Mrs. Barnett, co-chairman of hostesses, Mrs. Rosenfeld, general chairma•; and Mrs. Broder, adviser, are shown at the victory meeting of the Allied Jewish Campaign-Israel Emergency Fund. Reservations for the May 23 meeting may be made by calling the women's division, WO 5-3939.