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A nn Arbor
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The Leo Frank
Horror Story:
The Ignorance
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Judicial Errors
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Two demonstrations are planned for Ann Arbor on Saturday to coun-
teract a Nazi rally in front of the Ann Arbor City Hall.
The Jewish Community Council of Washtenaw County has planned a
rally at 1 p.m. at the Ann Arbor Federal Building, a few blocks from City
Hall where the SS Action Group of Westland plans to demonstrate. The
Jewish Community Council event is billed as a peaceful "affirmation of
human dignity and freedom."
Other groups, however, have planned a militant rally at the City
Hall, beginning at noon, with the intention of blocking the Nazis.
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The Ann Arbor News identified Richard Dunn of Southfield as
Mark Heydrich of the SS Action Group. Dunn told the newspaper
that their Ann Arbor rally will protest activities at the University of
Michigan in support of the guerrillas of El Salvador. Dunn said the
Ann Arbor police have refused to guard the Nazi rally.
The SS Action Group is the same organization which demonstrated at
the Israel Independence -Day celebration in Southfield last spring.
THE JEWISH NEWS
A Weekl\' Review
of Jewish Events
Allied Jewish
Campaign
Revitalized:
Obligations
to Major Causes
and Israel
Soaring
Editorial, Page 4
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VOL. LXXXI, No. 3
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March 19, 1982
Ex-Diplornats Are Demanding
That U.S.Assess UN Status
Atlanta's Jews Seek
to Clear Frank Name
ATLANTA (JTA) — The Jewish community here was
unanimous in expressing the feeling that justice has pre-
vailed in the disclosure last week that a Jew who was
lynched nearly 70 years ago was not guilty of the crime for
which he was found guilty and subsequently murdered by a
frenzied mob.
Leo Frank, a supervisor of a local pencil company, was
convicted in 1913 of killing a 14-year-old girl, Mary Pha-
gan, who worked at the factory. But last week, Jerry
Thompson and Bob Sherborne, reporters for the Nashville
Tennessean, broke the story that Phagan had been killed
by the janitor of the factory, Jim Conley. This information
was provided by 83-year-old Alonzo Mann, who at the time
of the girl's murder was an office boy at the pencil company.
Vida Goldgar, editor of the Southern Israelite,
wrote in this week's edition of the newspaper that the
Jewish community would like to see Frank's name
cleared on the official record in view of Mann's disclo-
sure.
Ted Fischer, chairman of the Atlanta Jewish Federa-
tion's Community Relations Committee's steering commit-
tee, said that even after 70 years, "it is of vital interest to
the Jewish community that an atmosphere of cooperation
and justice prevail and that in a case such as this, where
new and important information has been received, it
should be given due consideration because such informa-
tion allows us to build a better society with justice for all."
Rabbi Alvin Sugarman of the Temple, of which Leo
Frank's uncle, Moses Frank, had been a founder, was
quoted by Ms. Goldgar as saying: "Even though it is years
late in coming, Mann has come forward and shown his
worth as a human being . . . he has chosen not to go to his
grave holding back soh] ething that -Works for justice,
namely, the truth."
Thompson- explained that the story was significant to a
newspaper in Nashville, far removed from Atlanta, be-
cause a number of events were shaped by the tragedy: the
rise of the Ku Klux Klan; the formation of the Anti-
Defamation League of Bnai Brith; Hugh Dorsey, the pro-
secutor of Leo Frank, went on to become governor -of Geor-
gia; and hate-monger Tom Watson's- political power in-
- - -, sed and he rode the wave to a seat in the U.S. Senate.
From the tragedy, Thompson continued, the polit-
ical career of Governor John Slaton, who commuted
(Continued on Page 5)
NEW YORK (JTA) — A group of prominent international affairs experts,
including three former Secretaries of State, issued a report Tuesday calling for
the United States to reassess its policy toward the United Nations within the
framework of American foreign policy goals.
The report, titled "The United States and the United Nations . . . A Policy
for Today," was issued by the Ad Hoc Group on United States Policy Toward
the United Nations. The group, which is headed by Morris Abram, former U.S.
Representative to the UN Commission on Human Rights, first presented its
report to Jeane Kirkpatrick, U.S. Ambassador to the UN, at a private meeting.
It was later made public at a press conference in Abram's office.
While stressing that "our interdependent world needs the UN" and
the principles enunciated in its Charter, and that it continues to be in
MORRIS ABRAM
the American interest to use the UN as a significant foreign policy
forum, the group urged that the U.S. be prepared to "act alone" or with others outside the UN, in
light of deterioration in the capacity-of the world organization to deal impartially and effectively
with questions of world concern.
"The UN system, with some good works in the cause of peace, economic and social betterment and
human rights, also reflects — and occasionally
aggravates — the dangerous international en-
vironment in which the U.S. finds itself," the
report stated. -
It noted that UN activity has been increas-
Another landmark in community services was re-
ingly marked by "politicized behavior" and a
corded here last week with the opening of a fifth home for
"tyranny of the majority" that keeps it from
retarded citizens.
Under sponsorship of the Jewish Association for Re-
functioning effectively in accord with the UN
tarded Citiiens, the new home was opened for six addi-
Charter.
_ tional residents on Normandale Street in Beverly Hills.
In reviewing major substantive areas of UN
Norman Wachler, president of the JARC, in his an-
concern,— international peace and security, the
nouncement of the opening of the new home, said the three
Middle East, international terrorism, human
men and three women residing in the Normandale home
rights,
and arms control — the group of experts
were selected from the 120 additional applicants who are
singled out the "strange failure" of the UN to
still on the waiting list. He said five were removed from
endorse the Camp David agreements and com-
institutions where they spent a number of years until now
plained that the UN agencies and conferences
and the sixth had been living with an elderly, ill father.
were "seriously compromised by the interjec-
Pursuing the policies applied to the residents in
the other group homes, the new group will be pro-
tion of extraneous issues," notably attacks on
vided with jobs in the Jewish Vocational Service
Israel.
workshops in Oak Park, and with recreational ser-
Recalling early hopes that the UN's prog-
vices at the two branches of the Jewish Center.
rams in the health, labor, science, culture
"Since 1972, when the first Haverim Home opened on
and other specialized and technical areas
Evergreen, the Jewish Association for Retarded Citizens
would be insulated from interstate "high
has set a record for progress in a field hitherto ignored,"
politics," the report urged that the U.S. con-
Joyce Keller, executive director of the JARC stated, echo-
sider not attending, or withholding finan-
ing the sense of joy that greeted the opening of the new
cial support from specialized agencies or
home. "We are in the process of planning new homes to
conferences whose purposes have been
provide for the scores who need them. Our dedication to this
compromised by extraneous issues. It sing-
cause is marked by the satisfaction of enrolling increasing
Fifth Home for Retarded
Citizens Opened by JARC
community support."
(Continued on Page 6)
Community Summoned by AJCampaign to Opening
The Detroit Jewish community will renew its pledge to help fellow
Jews here and around the world as the Allied Jewish Campaign launches
an intensive six-week solicitation effort with its annual dinner Wednes-
day, at Adat Shalom Synagogue. It begins with a reception at 6:15.
Jay M. Kogan and Joel D. Tauber, general chairmen of the 1982
Allied Jewish Campaign - Israel Emergency Fund, will preside over the
meeting. Chairmen of the nine Campaign divisions will present progress
reports and Campaign totals to date. Judge Avern Cohn, president of the
Jewish Welfare Federation, will bring greetings, and Rabbi A. Irving
Schnipper of Cong. Beth Abraham Hillel Moses-will lead the invocation.
Guest speaker is Israeli correspondent and political adviser
Dan Pattir, whose recent Cairo meeting with Egyptian President
Mubarak was reported throughout the world. A special adviser to
Israeli Prime Minister Menahem Begin, Pattir was also a member of
the Israel delegation to the 1978 Camp David summit talks, and was
present at the signing of the Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty in March
1979. Currently in the process of writing a book on the Egyptian-
Israeli peace process, Pattir will offer insights on the Mideast.
Wednesday's meeting highlights the intensive activity of hundreds of
dedicated volunteers who will be working during the following weeks to
ensure the success of this year's Campaign. Proceeds are allocated to meet
the needs of 60 agencies locally and worldwide.
Contributors and volunteers who can assist in the Campaign are
asked to call the Jewish Welfare Federation, 965-3939.