THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, March 3, 1918 45
Skokie Nazi Ordinances Overturned, Called Unconstitutional
CHICAGO (JTA) — Fed-
eral Judge Bernard Decker
ruled unconstitutional a
• series of village ordinances
in Skokie, Ill., intended to
bar a planned march by
swastika-wearing Ameri-
can Nazis through that
heavily Jewish-populated
suburb of Chicago:
The ordinances over-
turned by Judge Decker
banned the wearing of
military-style uniforms in
,m-arches of a demonstrative'
\ire and the dissemina-
of_"offensive material"
such as hate literature.
They also required heavy
insurance for damages that
might result from demonst-
rations. An estimated
50,000 Jews live in Skokie,
some 7,000 of them sur-
vivors of Nazi death camps.
So far, Illinois courts have
been unaimous in uphold-
ing the constitutional right
of the Nazis to march in
Skokie. The village au-
thorities have pledged to
carry the case to the Sup-
reme Court.
Sol Goldstein, of
Skokie, a Holocaust sur-
vivor and chairman of
the PAC. committee on
individual liberty and
Jewish security, who in-
itiated a private suit
which was rejected by
Illinois Supreme
Court, seeking a perma-
nent injunction against
the proposed march,
made a second bid for the
injunction by filing in the
State Supreme Court.
In San Francisco, Geof-
frey Fisher, managing
editor of the San Francisco
Jewish Bulletin, said he had
been served with a notice of
a suit for damages totalling
$28 million filed in federal
district court by the local
National Socialist White
People's Party.
Fisher said the suit grew
out of the destruction last
April of a Rudolph Hess
bookstore set up by the Nazi
Party opposite a synagogue.
The building in which the
store was opened is owned
by a JeW, Nathan Green,
who said he had not known
at the time that the renters
were Nazis who intended to
open a Nazi bookstore.
Fisher said that he was
charged in the suit with de-
famation of the Nazi group,
based on editorials he had
written about the party in
connection with the
bookstore. He said the Nazis
also were -seeking damages
from James Ruderman, di-
rector of the northern
California regional office of
the Anti-Defamation
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League Of Bnai Brith; and
Joel Brooks, director of the
regional American Jewish
Congress office here.
The suit also names
Mayor Geroge Moscone;
Diane Feinstein, a
member of the board of
supervisors of San Fran-
cisco city and county;
and Joseph Freitas, the
United States Attorney,
for alleged failure to pro-
tect the Nazi property
and to prosecute those
who had wrecked the
bookstore.
The suit seeks general
damages of $2 million;
punitive damages of $1.5
million; $15 million for
threats on the life of the
plaintiff, Allen L. Vincent,
head of the -Nazi group; and
the balance for miscellane-
ous damages. Altogether,
12 defendants are named in
the suit, most of them local
political figures, Fisher
said.
The subpoena requires an
answer within 20 days and
May 25 has been set as the
date for initial hearings in
the District Court for the
Northern District \. of
California:
In a related development,
George L. Rosenblatt, .a
Jewish 68-year-old
naturalized American citi-
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zen, residing in New York services last week for
City, will be the recipient of convicted war criminal
the first award by the U.S. Herbert Kappler, were
Foreign Claims Settlement charged byb police with
Commission against the "using the emblems of an
German Democratic Repub- unconstitutional organi-
lic (GDR) for property ex- zation."
propriated by the Nazis and
The Association for
later taken over by the East Christian-Jewish Coopera-
German Communist re- tion has filed charges with
gime.
the Dusseldorf prosecutor
Under a federal statute against a group of men and
adopted in 1976, the women in that city who,dis-
commission is empo- tributed Nazi literature
wered • to adjudicate outside the regional court
claims 'by American citi- during hearings in the cur-
zens for such property rent trial of Maidanek con-
and determine the centration camp guards.
amounts to be paid.
In Tel Aviv, the Associa-
Rosenblatt, who became tion of Fighters and Sur-
a citizen in 1943, filed his
claim with the Commis-
sion last May 31 for loss of
a family home in Gotha,
East Germany.
The commission awarded (Continued from Page 5)
him $20,000. It also of the Jewish Community
awarded Rosenblatt in- Center.
terest at six percent from
Rabbi Ernest J. Conrad is
September, 1952 when the chairman and Rabbi Israel
East German authorities I. Halpern, adviser, of the
took over his property, until section.
such time as funds for pay-
That evening Mrs.
ment are made available by Borenstein will address a
the GDR. The principal and dinner meeting of the De-
interest are both subject to ntists Section at Adat
negotiations between the Shalom Synagogue. The
U.S. and the GDR.
evening will begin with a
More than 1,000 claims cocktail reception at 6:30
have been filed with the p.m.
commission since the filing
Dr. Joseph M. Jacobson is
period began on May 15, chairman of the section.
1977. The deadline for filing Drs. Eli V. Berger, Jack M.
under the present program Jackson, John D. Marx,
is May 16, 1978. Prospective Sheldon M. Mintz and Leo
claimants should contact Shipko are co-chairmen.
the Foreign Claims Settle-
Associate chairmen are
ment Commission at 1111 Drs. Ellsworth Levine,
20th St. NW, Washington, Maurice S. Opperer, Ber-
D.C. 29579 for claim forms. nard J. Shapiro, Arnold
In Bonn, increased Winshall, Richard D. Wil-
neo-Nazi activity in West liams and Arnold Zuroff.
Germany and the alarm-
Drs. Burton D. Faudem,
ing proliferation of leaf- Elliott Folbe, Steven M.
lets, Nazi era symbols Lash, Alden M. Leib,
and artifacts in public Richard Lezell and Donald
places has led to a dis- B. Sherman are vice chair-
pute between the Federal men.
Minister of Justice,
Members of the section
Hans-Jochen Vogel and cabinet are Drs. Myron - L.
the Justice Minister of at Attenson, Robert Becker,
least one state — North Seymour D. Berman, Eric
Rhirie-Westphalia — on Billes, Aaron Blake, Her-
the need for new, tighter bert J. Bloom, Simon L.
laws to combat the Cook, David L. Edgar,
spread of Nazi prop-
aganda.
Vogel said the increasing Melody Musicale
circulation of Nazi emblems
Group to Gather
and propaganda called for
Melody Musicale will
new laws "if it should meet 8 p.m. Wednesday in
emerge that adequate
the home of Celia D'zodin,
punishment is not possible
21901 Beverly, Oak Park.
under existing law."
Ms. .D'zodin will perform
Westphalia Justice
on piano while alto Helen
Minister Diether Posser,
Koblanski will entertain
who is chairman of the
with songs. Refreshments -
Coordinating Committee
will be served, and guests
of State Justice Minis-
are invited.
ters, rejected Vogel's
proposal. He said on a
Meshel in Spain
television interview that
tougher measures should for Trade Talks
be considered only if
BRUSSELS (JTA) —
there was "convincing Yeruham Meshel, secretary
evidence" that there
general of Hisadrut, will
were loopholes in exist- pay an official visit to Spain
ing laws that ban Nazi
next month as the guest of
propaganda.
Spanish Socialist trade
Meanwhile, West Ber- union movement.
lin police broke up a
Meshel, who will be ac-
meeting of the outlawed
companied by Aharon
neo-Nazi NSDAP. The 17 Barnea, Histadrut's Euro-
participants, some carry-
pean representative, is ex-
ing swastikas, were re- pected to confer with
leased after questioning. Socialist leaders and try to
In Soltau, north Ger-
further develop relations
many, two men who gave
between the labor move-
the Nazi salute at funeral ments of Israel and Spain.
vivors of Nazism has asked
Premier Menahem Begin to
take up the problem of Nazi
propaganda material that
is circulating throughout
the world. The association is
seeking action against both
the United States and the
West German governments,
the countries from which
this material originates.
It also was reported that
the city of St. Louis has re-
fused to give the Jewish De-
fense League a permit to
march at the same time and
place as the March 11 Nazi
parade, JDL national direc-
tor Bonnie Pechter re-
ported. •
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Nine Meetings in Two Weeks
for Allied Jewish Campaign
Manuel Feldman, Jack J.
Freedland, Arthur Preed-
man, Robert M. Galin,
Jason A. Goode and Jo _ seph
E. Goodstein.
Also Drs. Jerome B. Kur-
tis, Alvin B. Lezell, Ronald
E. Michaelson, Jerry B.
Morof, Martin Naimark,
Michael S. Rosenfeld, Joel
P. Schaumberg, Edwin C.
Schneider, Murray A. Shek-
ter, Sidney 0. Siegan,
Franklin Solway, Sheldon
Sonkin, Alan J. Warnick,
David Weine and S. S. Wil-
lis.
British Jews
Clash on Emigres
LONDON (JTA) — A
' sizzling row has broken out
between leading Jewish
politicians following an at-
tempt to involve the Jewish
community in the latest ar-
guments about immigra-
tion between the Labor gov-
ernment and the opposition
Conservative Party.
The row was touched off
by Sir Keith Joseph, the
foremost Jew in the Conser-
vative Party, whd tried to
enlist Jewish support for his
party's tough new line
against colored immigra-
tion. Sir Keith, chief policy
adviser to Mrs. Margaret
Thatcher, cautioned British
Jews against identifying
themselves with present-
day immigrants simply be-
cause their own families
had been immigrants to
Britain.
He said that whereas the
Jews had assimilated suc-
cessfully by their own ef-
forts, the present immig-
rants, from different cul-
tures were far too numerous
to do so.
The protests sparked off
by Sir Keith's appeal were
on two levels — first,
against the policies he was
preaching, and second,
against his attempt to enlist
a distinct Jewish vote.
Diamond Exports
Shatter Record
.
JERUSALEM (ZINS) --
Israel's diamond industry
exported $1 billion worth of
polished diamonds in 1977,
a 40 percent increase over
the previous record.
Diamonds represent more
than half of Israel's indust-
rial exports.