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The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1953-06-26
REHIND CLOSED DOORS
AN EDITORIAL

fact that Israel accepted partition but that it was
forced to spill blood in war that was fought to
maintain a United Nations decision. That gentle
man also forgot to remind the committee that Is
rael was more than charitable in applying the
adage about the victor and the spoils.
The gentleman also sought to minimize ISraers
accomplishments by claiming that cultivation in
the land had diminished considerably since the
exodus of the Arab refugees. The records are not
now before us. But if cultivation has been cur
tailed, the fault lies with the Arabs and their
friends. The hand that carries the sword cannot
simultaneously carry the pillow.
The House committee, with small exception
was obviously not impressed If the Gardiner view
prevailed the House Foreign Affairs Committee
would not have approved aid to Israel under the
Mutual Security legislation.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1953-06-26
ANTI-SEMITIC
PROPAGANDA MAILED IN
JAX. DISSEMINATED IN
MIAMI

MIAMI, (JTA) = An investi-
cation was being made of the
transmission through the mails
of quantities Of anti-Semitic
propaganda addressed to resi-
dents of this city.
The material, postmarked in
Jacksonville, included leaflets
which carried Post Office box
numbers in Atlanta and Biz
mingham. It bore the name OF
the christian Anti-Jewish
Party" and called for enroll
ment in the organization to
"free America from the Jews"
and to destroy Communism"
The party is run by Jesse B.
Stoner, a former Klan official
and has failed to attract much
support.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1953-06-26

Following conclusion of Mr..
Sharett's speech, the Knesset
voted the Foreign Ministry bud
get of two and a half million
pounds.
In obvious reference to recent
recommendations by Secretary of
State John Foster Dulles, Mr..
Sharett declared that Israel does
not see any solution of the Arab
refugee problem in returning a
portion of them to the Jewish
State. Zone must not feed the
refugee on false hopes" he added.
He said that as long as there
was no peace Israel would oppose
shipment of arms to states which
refused to make peace with Is
rael. 1--WE will oppose the arming
If the Arabs since the arms are
aimed at us and for no other pur-
pose," he declared.
In a comment on Jerusalem by
which Mr.. Dulles had also refer
red Mr.. Sharett insisted that
there was no change in Jeru-
salem's status as the capital of
Israel. THE sacredness of Jeru-
salem is deeply rooted and we are
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1953-06-26
SAVANNAH AGED TO BE
RECEIVED BY ATLANTA
HOME

ATLANTA, - (JTA) Jewish
aged from Savannah who require
institutional care will, in future
be accepted into the Jewish Home
for the Aged here under a COM
munity support agreement be-
tween the home and the Savan-
nah Jewish Council.
The Atlanta institution, which
recently observed its first ami
versary, is one of the most mod
ern homes in the country. Under
present plans, community support
agreements will be entered into
with other Jewish communities
throughout the State for the care
of their aged in this home. A
similar agreement exists with the
Augusta community.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1953-06-26

ready to die for it. Jerusalem is
dearer to us than anything in the
world" he stressed. AT the same
time. he stated. that there is no
discrepancy between Israel's SOW
ereigntY over Jerusalem and in
ternational.. requests. concerning
the Holy Places within the city.
eve are ready at any time for
the Decentralization Of the
Holy Places on condition that it
should not undermine Israeps
sovereignty" he emphasized. He
said Jordan had also promised to
internationalize the Holy Places
in its territory He said Jordan
had violated the armistice agree
ment provisions guaranteeing the
Jews free access to the Wailing
Wall and other Jewish Holy
Places in the Old City.
No Signs of Arab Desires
For Peace
In presenting his ministry's
budget to Parliament, Mr.. Sharett
said the governments foreign
policy was based on three factors:
Israels wide international ties
evidenced by her recognition by
SO countries; Israel's tempo of
development dependent to some
extent on foreign aid and loans
and contributions from Jews
abroad, and Israeps living ties
with Jewish communities
throughout the world.
Mr.. Sharett declared that not
all of Israel's international prob
lens had yet been solved. Some
of these problems were clearly
defined. he pointed out. but
others were vaguely hanging in
the air" Israel has not yet reach
ed a peace settlement and il was
hard to foretell when the Arabs
would come around TO bridging
the gap between the Jewish State
and its neighbors. he stated.
He underlined the fact that
Israel is still "besieged" on three
sides and therefore is obliged to
seek the closest ties of friendship
with far-off countries. The Arab
conflict ''haunts us throughout
the world and we must mobilize
understanding and sympathy in
world opinion" Mr.. Sharett
warned.
In the debate which ensued
deputies of all parties partici-
pated. Representatives of the gov
eminent Mapai and Progressive
parties objected to the suggestion
by Mr.. Dulles that Israel accept
some of the Arab refugees. Pro-
gressive deputy Izhar Harari spe-
Gifted that such action was inpos-
sible without the return Of those
areas to Israel where the refugees
dwell.
Right-wing Herut leader, DR..
Arieh Altman demanded a more
vigorous policy toward Arab ag-
erosion along the frontiers. Left
CONTINUED on Page 81
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Sharett Outlines Israel'S FOREIGN
Policy

JERUSALEM (JTA) Foreign Minister Mohe Sharett told the
Israel Parliament this week that between Israel and the Arab
States possible only and demo-
graphical status quo Winding twodaY debate Israers for
policy reiterated ael friendship the United STATES
of diplo
relations Russia"
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1953-06-26
PLAIN TALK
LADY WANTS ANCESTORS
BY ALFRED SEGAL


It was at cocktail party where
there was practically no end of
Martins Manhattans and old
fashioneds. and the big room was
buzzing louder and louder with
the freest speech.
AS I strolled about the room.
martini in hand, came upon the
Jewish lady whom this piece is
all about. At the moment she was
in earnest converse with a scion
of one of our first families, as
they are called. She invited me
into their talk. The scion seemed
to welcome me breaking in on
them that way. You might say
that he pushed her into my hands
and left us there while he made
straight for a pretty young thing
on the other side of the room.
So I was left alone with the
Jewish lady who proceeded to
give me an earful II was just
being thrilled by what Mr.. ...-.~.
was telling me about the perfectly
fabulous history of his family. Il
all goes back to the Mayflower
and the American Revolution. He
had an ancestor at Valley Forge.
II must be wonderful to have such
a history"
She said she herself, as a Jew
ish person, feels at a loss when it
comes to counting up ancestors
=. 1--WE as Jews are so lacking
in that" she said. "No background
to speak Of"
While Mr.. A......... knew ances-
tors by name as far back as the
MaYflower. she herself knew of
no ancestor to speak of beyond
her great-grandfather who came
over here from Germany in the
1865 and he was a peddleT to
start with.
And what had he ever contri-
buted to American history? she
asked. From having been a ped
dler he did manage to establish
quite wholesale line, but that
wasn't at all like having some
body from off the Mayflower.
1.-THE fact is that the consider
able estate he left has multiplied
in the years since his death and
keeps his descendants in Cadil-
1acs.)
After another Martini Il had
had but two) I felt fortified
enough to speak up boldly to the
lady +. $50 you aren't a May
flower descendant or a Daughter
of the American Revolution, but
your ancestors do date back in
the records of history a hell of a
lot farther, please excuse the ex-
preston, than anybody that was
on the Mayflower. And, between
you and me, you should be
ashamed the way you make prac-
tically nothing at all of your own
ancestors"
I took her back as far as Sinai
and. in a way of speaking. walked
up, that hill with her to meet
Moses coming down with the tab
lets Your ancestors were
there" I said. They saw Moses
with the Commandments. They
didn't get their feet frozen at
Valley Forge but they heard God
in the thunder and lightning at
CONTINUED on Page 81
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JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA, JUNE 26, 1853
, 1953-06-30
Borehurn Accuses
VICORP Of Boosting
Street Light Cost

ST. THOMAS. Donald S.
Boreham, Superintendent of
Public Works, has charged
that the Virgin Islands Cor
poration went ahead without
any authority from us or any
notification to US and in
creased the wattage Of nearly
all street lights so watts to
100, and charged US accord
ingly," according to the Home
Journal.
As a result Of this action by
the Corporation our street
lighting costs have been in
creased by over 80 per cent,
Mr.. Boreham stated.
The annual cost Of street
lighting was $1,000. It was es-
timated that the cost will now
be closer to $4,000. The in
crease in the number of
street lights was also a factor
in the increased cost, it was
stated.
, 1953-06-30
Municipal Council
To Meet With Wdsh.
Officials Today

The Municipal Council Of.
st. Croix is scheduled to meet
in extra ordinary session to-
day at 5 o'clock, it was an
nounced by the Chairman, the
Honorable Henry E. Rohlsen.
The emergency session is
for the purpose Of meeting
W i t h Territorial Director
Strand, Chief Of the Carib-
bean Division Mason Barr,
and other officials of the de-
paftment and Governor de
Castro.
An extra ordinary meeting
is also scheduled to be held
on Thursday, July 2 at 10
o'clock. Only one item is on
the Order Of the Day, Council
Bill No. 43, Introduction Of
and first discussion on Draft
Of Budget for the Municipali-
ty for the fiscal year 1953-54.
A second bill, No. 46, was
not placed on the order Of the.
day but calls for construction
of a Public Comfort Station
in and paving of the Chris
tiansted Public Market.
, 1953-06-30
Indiun Ambulance
Unit Leaves Kored
Battlefield for Home

An Indian field ambulance
unit Of 1863 members will
leave Korea shortly for India
after spending two and a half
years on the battlefelds. They
were part of a Parachute
Field Ambulance Group at
tached to the First British
Commonwealth Division and
the Indian hospital at Taegu.
The Indians will board the
SIS. Eastern Queen for Cal
cutta on July 2.
Requirements for the Group
will arrive within the next
feWdays, the British Common
wealth Office indicates.
, 1953-06-30
Chinese Diplomut
Pruises DR.. Rhee for
Service to West

DR.. K. c. WI, former, Gov
ernor of Formosa, now minis
ter without portfolio in the
in the Chinese Nationalist
government, said in New York
recently that President Syng-
man Rhee of South Korea may
be doing good for the cause of
the free world in spite Of his
apparent foolhardiness."
DR.. WI addressed prominent
residents of Chinatown. Dur
ing the course of his talk he
CONTINUED on Page -
, 1953-06-30
rs Virgin Isl0nd
Soldiers to Participate
In 4th Of July Porude

Fort Brooke, P~.R.-Approxi
mately 70 Virgin Island sol
diers will take part in the
Of July celebration at
Christiansted. Saint Croix.
Twenty-seven men in this
group are Crucians, the others
are from st. Thomas and
st. John.
The men will arrive in st.
Croix early Saturday morn
ing. They will march in the
parade which is scheduled to
start at $50 am, and take
part in t Ii e flag raising
ceremony.
Five Army officers will ac-
company the soldiers coming
from Puerto Rico. In charge
of the troops will be Capt.
Benjamin Javier-Boscio, Com
CONTINUED on Page Al
, 1953-06-30
Former Pres. Tru1ndn
Visiting IN New York:
Tukes Usudl Wdlk

Former President Harry s.
Truman is visiting in New
York and is reported to have
been taking his usual morning
walks. On Sunday morning he
was observed at Z o'clock. He
travelled both Park and Fifth
Avenues.
His companion on the stroll
was Matthew j. Connolly
who was one of his former
secretaries.
Nh Truman was recognized
everywhere he went a n d
many rushed forward to greet
him and to give his reassur-
ance that were he to run
again they would vote, for him.
, 1953-06-30
Rep. Add1n Pow Ii
Asks U.N. Tuka Up
African Problems

Representative Adam Po-
well, Jr. Of New York recently
urged the United States to
cut off aid to Kenya and also
that the United Nations take
up he African problem in he
wake Of what he termed
"massacres" of the African
Negroes by the Britis b
Government.
Mr.. Powell addressed a
meeting in the st. James
Presbyterian Church in New
York.
Washington officials sad
that Kenya received a COM
paritively small amount Of
aid, channelled through the
general program of assistance
to the United Kingdom.
Representative Powell is
also pastor Of the Abyssinian
Baptist Church, said to be the
largest colored congregation.
, 1953-06-30
Communists Turn
Down Truce Without
Rhee's Approved

The Chinese communists
have turned down General
Mark Clark's offer Of signing
an immediate armistice with
or without President Syng-
man Rhee's approval The pro
posal was contained in a letter
sent the Reds yesterday at
Pan munjom.
General Clark said that
while he does not control the
South Korean government he
is commander Of It's army,
and promised to do his best
to get Rhee's cooperation but
if he failed a truce would be
signed and he promised to use
the UN armed forces to as
sure observance Of a truce.
The communists said that
the letter is not acceptable
and showed no sincerity and
is inconsistent with facts. The
letter gives no guarantee, the
Reds said il a broadcast, on
the future conduct Of the
South Korean government and
thus it was not acceptable.
, 1953-06-30
b G. Duvis.
Noted Lecturer.
Visits ST. Croix

Robert G. Davis, Cinemato-
grapher arrived in st. Croix
yesterday morning and spent
the day Photographic the Is
land He is from Kansas City
and IS known on TV as the
poor mans Burton Homes, the
noted traveller and lecturer.
Mr.. Davis lectures through
out the middle west and
, 1953-06-30
Baseball Association
To Sponsor Dunce ut
Jungle July 3rd

The st. Croix Baseball AS
ISOLATION will sponsor a dance
at the Jungle Casino on Fri
day night, July 3, it was an
nounced 0 ay. Complete
plans and arrangements were
made at a meeting held last
night.
Special feature Of the dance
is a new and hard-hitting or
chestra that is rapidly making
a name for itself known as the
Calypso Kats Combo led by
the versatile Will Finch, a real
hot saxophonist.
Proceeds from the dance
will be to used in connection
with the coming 1854 base
ball season.
Evening star., 1953-03-03
The Cast.

ing off now and then and Miss
Harris and Director Van Druten
have to run fetch it back for
Playwright Van Druten. Miss
Harris, especially, manages this
both effectively and fetchingly.
She even manages to avert
awareness that the play seems to
devote more time than the law
requires to what is essentially q
set of small vignettes.
Isherwood's version of "Of
Human Bondage" is no dark trag-
edy. Nobody is dragged to any
depths and there is no overpow-
ering physical attraction linked
with shame and revulsion. 1t is
simply the story of a man and
woman who meet, share a warm
friendship (including lively
rows) for awhile, then, each
changed a little but not enough,
go their separate ways.
With Miss Harris present, it is
thoroughly delightful evening
in the theater. Sally is a role
which demands a virtuoso per-
formance and it has met its
match in this shining new Cor
comparatively new star. Sally's
maddening opportunism and less
than admirable morals take her
quickly from high comedy to the
tragedy of unWed motherhood
and back to comedy again. Miss
Harris is just the girl to take
you along and never lose you.
The players surrounding her
are a competent lot, too, The
sherwood role is also a demand
ing one and Copper gives it full
breath and depth. Incidental
comedy is introduced by Olga
Fabian. as the landlady rejuve-
mated by having a little high liv-
ing around the place; Edward
Andrews. in a luSty caricature
Of rich American abroad, and
Harriet MacGibbon, as the
mother UNDERSTANDABLE con-
cerned over the gay time Sally is
having in Berlin.
Janet Dowd and William Allyn
lend fine support, too, illumina-
ting both the comedy and the
sorrow in the lives of q Jewish
merchants daughter and the
suitor who feels compelled on the
rise of Nazism to admit what he
has lied about all his life, that he
Is Jew.
II Am a Camera may have its
shortcomings, but you'd be a
fool to let even greater ones
than these keep you away from
the incandescent Julie Harris.
Evening star., 1953-03-03
The Passing Show
The Passing Show
Miss ssHoyes' 'ConnedySporkIe
HighIiqhts Mrs. Nc hinq'
By Jay Cormody

AS time becomes apparent that Mary Coye
Chase does write her She bews them by recipe
reesS handed down from the time the Coys cavored with the
little people in the old country
Depending how they ganished if tnat the word
can be appeng they leave the ashamed that
Evening star., 1953-03-03
Julie Harris ru|y Shines
As I Am uCunneru' Star
BY Harry Macarthur

Julie Harris is the actress
chosen to launch international
Theater Month at the Sam S.
Shubert Theater and a happier
choice would be hard to find. 1t
is a stunning performance Miss
Harris gives in John Van
Druten's II am q Camera" +"
Originally it was stunning
enough to bemuse the New York
Drama Critics Circle into voting
this the best play of its year,
a verdict not likely to win unani-
nous approval.
It is easy now to see how it
happened, though. Mr.. Van
Druten's human comedy is not
the best example of the we'll
made play in existence right now.
But this is something which
fades into complete insignif1cance
the moment Miss Harris steps on
stage.
II am a Camera" is an adapta-
ton of Christopher Isherwood's S
Berlin Stories" The locale,
naturally enough, is Berlin. the
time is 1890 and the Nazis are
beginning to throw their weight
around in the streets beyond
the windows. The central figures
are Sally Bowles (Miss Harris)
a young Briton of Unstable
morals, and a young British
writer named Christopher Isher-
wood (Charles Cooper.
He is seeking direction and
she is seeking. affection. Before
the first act is over they are liv-
ing adjacently if not actually to-
gether, not in sin but platoni-
cally. Sally, a singer and sort of
part time shady lady. saves the
sin for others. From Chris she
wants and gets friendship.
X X
1t is an amusing and sometimes
melodramatic life these two re-
fugees from a lost generation
and their friends live in the mag
nif1ciently middle class Germanic
bed-Sitting room Boris Aronson
designed. To say that II Am q
Camera" is not the best made OF
plays is not meant to imply that
it lacks wit and wisdom.
1t has both of those and it also
has polish. It just goes wander
Evening star., 1953-03-03
Hollywood
Diary
By SheiIoh Grohom
HOLLYWOOD,

dO1LY WOOD.
Arlene Dahl says that If Lex
Barker keeps on talking, she'll
tell the real reason why their
marriage busted up.
Adlai Stevenson spent two
days at the Deep Well Ranch in
Palm Springs-under a pith he'll
met. No homburg?
John Ford has been budding
in Rome with Errol Flynn and
Italy's Gina Lollobrigida.
Grace Kelly took an evening off
from Clark Cables company in
London to dine with Mike Nidorf,
who flew over from Gotham.
And Freddie March starts film
ing today in the Italian capital.
George Sanders has been blow
his top because Roberto Rossel-
lini, directing him with Ingrid
Bergman in Rome. works with
out a script. But Zsa Zsa's
sAoAO AACAhCA A4OLCs MI D.
Sanders starts "Glittering
Death" in Paris April 10.
Dapper Dan Daley tweed it
at the Racquet Clubs City of
Hope benefit with a new gal
70-year-old Elsinore Machris.
:. Bob Cummings arrived in
his own plane, saw a limousine
and said to the driver, Waiting
for me?" and heard. I'm waiting
for Robert Taylor - who are
you?" In the middle of the
show, Virginia Farrell told the
orchestra to play Hearts and
Flowers" and went into a eulogy
for Charlie.
Shelley Winters, shocked by
criticism of her personal appear
ance, promises to 60 in for
glamor. That's what the girl
says.
The Mel Tonnes are in the
"he (and she) doesn't-under-
stand-me stage"
(Released by NANA.)
Evening star., 1953-03-03
Where and When
Current Theoter Attractions
And Time Of Showing

And Time Of Showing |
Stage.
National - Mrs. McThing"::
$3.50 pm.
Sam S. Shubert-"I Am a
Camera; $3.50 pm.
Arena-"The Country Wife,;
$3.50 pm.
Screen.
Ambassador - II Confess: ::
1:25. 1925. $50, 1880 and 9:35
pm.
CapitOl-"Niagara";; IL am,
1:45. 4:30, 7:15 and 10 pm.
Stage: 1855, $40. 6:25 and
9:10 pm.
COlumbia-"Ivanhoe";; II am,
1:10. 1920. $3.50, 7:40 and 9:50
pm.
DupOnt-"High Noon: /, 2:45,
4:30, 6:15, 8 and $50 pm.
Keith's-"Peter Pam; 1855
am, l:55, 1855. 5:55, 1855 and
9:55 pm.
Little-"Limelight";; $40, 7:25
and 9:40 pm.
MacArthur-"CaStle in the
sAir";; 6:15, 8 and $50 pm.
MetrOpOlitan-"Hans Christian
Andersen; II am, 1:05, $40.
Sis, 1880 and 9:40 pm.
OntariO-"The Stooge";; 1:25,
$3.50, $40, 7:50 and 9:45 pm.
Palace-"Taxi";; 11:40 am.
1:45, 3:45, $50, 7:50, $50 and
11:55 pm.
Pix-"Children of the Sum-;
7:10 and 1905 pm.
PlayhOuse-"Come Back, Little
Sheba";; 11:25 am, 1:25, 1928
$50, 7::35 and 9:40 pm.
Plaza-''Limelight";; 10:30 am.
1850, $40, $50, 7:50 and 10:1C
pm.
Trans-Lux - "Androcles anC
the Lion; II am, 1850, 2:40
4:30. 6:25, 8:15 and 10 pm.
Warner-"I Confess; 11:4(
am, LAO, $40, 5:45, 7:45 anc
$50 pm.
Evening star., 1953-03-03

'I AM A CAMERA" by John Van
Druten, adapted from THE Berlin
Stories" by Christopher Isherwood. pro-
duced by Gertrude Macy and Walter
starcke, directed By Van Druten, setting
and lighting by Boris Aronson. At the
Sam 8. Shubert Theater.
Evening star., 1953-03-03

parents cannot build walls
around the lives of their young.
Miss Hayes has more fun than
an amusement park. She de-
fies Mrs. Chase's Imagination to
run away FROM her. The re-
Sultant contest is so spirited
that the spectator is opiated
against the dull spots of Mrs.
Nothing" of which there are
several rather protracted ones.
These have to do principally
with the mobster area of Mrs.
ChaSe's comedy-fantasy. These
characters are caricatures. of
just what the playwright never
makes quite clear. They are
undeniably comic at times,
especially Jules Munshin as
Poison Eddie Schellenbach who
sounds as if he might be a
younger brother trying to imi-
tate Bert Lahr. Another merry
member of the same social set
is a chef who amuses himself
lingering intricate piano COM
positions on the shelf where he
works.
While Miss Hayes is running
the winning gamut of her COM
edy art, there are miscellaneous
interesting performances coun-
terpointing her own. One of
these is the creation of young
Robert Mariotti as the boy
Howay who has his own solid
idea of how boys should be
reared. Another is the demon
favored portrait of a witch's
child by small Lydia Reed. who
might well reconcile any parent
to the dullnesS Of his own Off
spring.
1t apparently is the theory of
Joseph Bulof in directing Mrs.
Nothing" that all his adult per-
formers need is encouragement to
really cut loose. This works out
piquantly in the cases of Iggy
wellington as the piano-playing
chef, and of Enid Markey and
Paula Trueman as two of the
venerable butterfly Lewis spin
Sters.
+ Bethel Leslie makes a brief ap-
pearance as Mrs. McThing, a
lovely apparition who could be
proud of the daughter she res
cued from a trash pile.
Lester Polakov designed the
two settings for Mrs. McThing"
and they serve very well as the
liveliest play ground Miss Hayes
has found in several seasons.