THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Former Death Camp Inmate Blamed for Menten Home Fire AMSTERDAM (JTA )— the murder of several hun- Rotterdam police reported dred persons, mostly Jews, that a 53-year-old former in- in the Lemberg region of mate of Dachau claimed Poland during World War II that it was he who set fire when he served as an offi cer in an SS unit. The trial, to the country house of ac- cused Nazi war criminal which opened in May, has been adjourned until Au- Pieter Menten. The man identified only gust. The person being held is by his intials, G.P. Van S. apparently known to the po- was transferred to the Am- lice. He was described as a sterdam police and is being man of no fixed occupation held here. who spent 18 months at The fire, caused by a Dachau and recently has Molotov cocktail tossed on been undergoing psy- the straw-covered roof of chiatric treatment. Two years ago he tried to the 20-room Menten villa in Blaricum, east of Amster- 'set fire to a small pub- dam, destroyed the upper lishing house in Ridder- floor and part of Menten's kerk, a village near Rotter- valuable art treasures. Men- dam, which planned to pub- ten's wife, who was in the lish a Dutch edition of Hit- house at the time, was un- ler's "Mein Kampf." Police hurt. She accused her hus- said he gave them many de- band's enemies of having tails of the Menten home fire that he could not have set the ,fire. Menten, 78, a millionaire learned of from newspaper art dealer, is _on trial for accounts. Weizman Urges 'Hands Off Policy in West Bank Environs Arab mayors there should be allowed to raise funds for their localities. He stressed that it was impor- tant for the Israeli author- ities to refrain as much as possible from interfering in the daily lives of the West Bank Arabs. TEL AVIV (JTA)—De- fense Minister Ezer Weiz- man has instructed the mili- tary government of the West Bank to allow max- imum autonomy to local Arab authorities and to treat them with patience and understanding. Weizman laid down his Weizman also said that policy at the annual meet- the government will decide mg of the military gover- when and where Jewish set- nors and their aides. He tlements, will. be established was accompanied by Chief in those territories, adding of Staff Gen., Mordehai Gur. that there would be more He said the Israeli mili- confusion on that question. tary should adopt a liberal Gen. Gur observed that the stance toward the Arab pop- task of the military govern- ulation in the Judea and Sa- ment was vital to the secu- maria regions and that the rity of Israel. • Pioneer Women Assisting Druze NEW YORK — The - first Pioneer - Women day nur- sery for the children of- working • women in Kfar Yerka was opened recently at this large Druze village in the Galilee. The new addition to the Pioneer Women-Na'amat network of social service fa- cilities serving the Jewish, Arab- and Druze commu- nities was opened in the presence of the Deputy Min- ister of Agriculture, Sheikh Jabar Moadi; the mayor of Yerka, Sheikh Hussein Ramal; Monis Pares, secre- tary of the Druze. Workers Council, and Masha Lu- belsky, chairman of the so- cial educational department of Na'amat. Jewish Cadets to Have Chapel Eight Women Join Israel Knesset Herut member of Likud and Sarah Doron, Liberal Likud member; Shoshana Arbeli-Almozelino, Chaika Grossman-Orkin, Ora Namir and Tamar Eshel, a newcomer. to parliamentary life, members of the Labor movement; Sarah Stern- Katan, -NRP; and Shulamit Aloni, who in 1973 made Knesset history by sub- . mitting her own list and winning three seats. Begin Wants Active President JERUSALEM (JTA )— Premier Menahem Begin in- tends to bring in legislation widening the responsi- bilities of the Israeli Presi- dency in the nation's af- fairs. 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