THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
German Police Cancel Neo-Nazi Rally
BONN (JTA) —
Frankfurt police cancelled
the permit granted earlier
to the neo-Nazi National
Democratic Party (NPD) to
hold its convention that was
scheduled to open there on
June 16. A police spokes-
man said the permit was re-
voked for security reasons.
The NPD planned to
bring some 6,000 delegates
to the convention but
counter-demonstrations
were announced by several
anti-Nazi groups.
Although not mentioned
in the official announce-
ment, the cancellation order
followed a clash last week
between a gang of 15-20
NPD youths and a Czechos-
lovakian television team
that had been given official
permission to shoot a film at
the NPD's youth training
camp in Kamen.
Czech TV correspondent
Cyril Smolik, his wife and
cameraman were beaten by
the NPD gang and their
cameras and film were de-
stroyed. Police are inves-
tigating but no arrests have
been made.
Iii a related develop-
ment, a West German
government agency
banned from public dis-
play eight books and re-
cords on the grounds that
they glorified the Nazi
regime. West German law
bans the display of Nazi
symbols.
Meanwhile, the West
German Justice Ministry
rejected charges that it was
too easy on neo-Nazis and
right-wing extremists who
Labor Leader Koenig Dies
Louis Koenig, a labor
union leader who acted on
behalf of waiters and wait-
resses, died May 18 at age
91.
Born in Austria, Mr.
Koenig lived most of his life
in Detroit. Previously, he
worked in New York where
he was a member of the New
York Waiters Union, Local
1.
He came to Detroit in
1916 and was a waiter at the
Detroit Athletic Club. In
1921 he started his 40-year
career as secretary-
treasurer of Local 705 of the
Detroit Hotel and Restau-
rant Employees Union.
Knesset Nixes
Move to Debate
Broadcast Issue
JERUSALEM (JTA) —
The coalition exercised its
majority in the Knesset to
defeat a Labor Alignment
motion to debate the
politicization of the Israel
Broadcasting Authority
(IBA). The vote was 45-35.
The immediate issue is
the IBA Board's decision not
to reappoint Mordechai
Kirschenbaum, director of
Hebrew programming. A
petition signed by more
than 100 television and
production staff members,
circulated before today's
Knesset session, called the
decision a "witch-hunt" di-
rected against Kirschen-
baum because of his alleged
"leftist" views.
Kirschenbaum had been
the producer of a popular
satirical program that
Likud politicians and reli-
gious elements frequently
found offensive.
Reuvan Yaron, chair-
man of the IBA's man-
agement committee, de-
fended the dismissal.
He said that the replace-
ment of Kirschenbaum had
been under discussion dur-
ing the tenure of the prev-
ious director general and
claimed it was untenable
that employees who had
Known political views
should enjoy professional
immunity. But many IBA
staffers charge that the new
administration is penaliz-
ing employees for their
ideas.
glorify the Third Reich,
spread anti-Jewish prop-
aganda and claim the
Holocaust never took place.
The ministry said that a
study of 20 recent cases
showed that there were
more convictions than
commonly assumed and
that sentences ranged from
a 300 mark fine to two years
in jail.
At the same time, the
Justice Minister of North
Rhine-Westphalia an-
nounced a full pardon for
anti-Nazi fighter Beate
Klarsfeld.
She received a two-month
jail sentence in Cologne in
1974 for inflicting bodily
harm and duress on former
SS security officer Kurt
Lischka who was the Ges-
tapo chief in Paris during
World War II.
Lischka has been accused
of responsibility for the
murder of at least 22,000
French Jews. Mrs.
Klarsfeld, 40, and several
French friends, attempted
to drag him into a car in
1971 to bring him to France
for trial. The kidnapping
failed and Mrs. Klarsfeld,
who returned to France,
was tried and sentenced by
a Cologne court in absentia.
M. Jakubovitch,
Yiddish Novelist
LOUIS KOENIG
In a 1960 photo
During the next 40
years he built the local's
membership from 200 to
11,000.
In 1928, he brought black
waiters into the union, al-
though in a separate local.
However, the union found
segregation to be
detrimental and in 1937
allowed persons of all races
In 1925, Mr. Koenig
helped merge the waitres-
ses union with the waiters
union.
He retired in 1960.
Mr. Koenig is survived
by a brother, Jose. Inter-
ment Miami, Fla.
Landau Named
to OPIC Board
WILLIAM LANDAU
WASHINGTON (JTA) —
William Landau, president
of the Jewish Telegraphic
Agency, has been nomi-
nated by President Carter
to fill an unexpired term on
the Board of Directors of the
Overseas Private Invest-
ment Corporation (OPIC),
an independent federal
agency that takes its policy
guidance from the State
Department.
RIO DE JANIERO (JTA)
— Marcos Jakubovitch, the
oldest Yiddish novelist in
Brazil, has died at age 82.
Born in Poland, he came
to Brazil 50 years ago. He
contributed to various Yid-
dish newspapers, including
"Di Presse" in Buenos Aires
in which he serialized his
novels.
An arrest warrant
against her was sus-
pended after angry criti-
cism of the sentence
abroad.
It was learned that Dutch
war criminal and former SS
member Jan Pattist, 59, liv-
ing in Oviedo, Spain, told a
Madrid newspaper he "al-
most died with laughter"
upon learning that Holland
has asked Spain for his ar-
rest and extradition.
William Roth
William Roth, one of
Michigan's most prominent
industrialists, an active
leader in many Detroit
Jewish movements, died
Wednesday night.
Services will be held at
Ira Kaufman Chapel at 1
p.m. today.
Friday, May 25, 1919 21
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