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The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1953-05-01
Presentation Of Sefer
Toroh at Etz Haydn
Sunday

An event of rare occurrence will
take place this Sunday afternoon,
May 3rd, at 4:3O P. M. in Etz
Haydn Congregation, 33 w. 9th
Street. At that time, two Torah
scrolls will be formally presented
to the congregation.
The Hebrew name for the occa-
sion is Siyum Hatorah, which
means the completion of the
Torah scroll. This term arises out
of the custom of leaving the
Scroll incomplete at the time it
is written and then finishing the
writing at the time of presenta
ton.
Each letter written at the
"siyum" is sold to someone and
thus the Sefer Torah then has
been partially written in behalf
of the individual who bought"
the letter. In this way, each per-
son is given an opportunity to full
fill the commandment Of writing
a Torah Scroll.
One of the two scrolls to be
presented to Etz Haydn is COM
plete, having been purchased by
Mr.. Max Bloom during his visit
to Israel. The other, purchased by
the late Ben Mack, is the one to
be completed at the occasion.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1953-05-01
University Of Fla. News

Madelyn, a junior with a lab
technician major, is the daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Philip Weinman
of 1915 Calais Drive, Miami
Beach.
Outgoing AEPhi Sorority and
Pan Hellenic President Roz We
deles, Quincy, was elected VISA
Secretary.
Current Hillel Secretary and
Grove Hall Vice President Mae
Kaplan, Key West, was elected
VISA class representative.
Barbara Safer, Miami, was
elected VISA Sophomore Glass
Representative. Miss Safer is
VISA Reid Hall Council Member
u y y
The Hillel picnic at Camp Wau-
berg has been re-scheduled for
May 10. Heavy rains cancelled
the outing last week.
The Hillel Players performed
Sunday at the State Federation
of B'nai Birth convention in
Tampa.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1953-05-01
BY JEROME WIENER

GAINESVILLE = Four of the
seven Women Student Association
posts were won by Jewish goods
in campus-wide elections last
week.
Top honors went to current
Hillel President Madelyn Vein
man, Miami Beach, who was
elected VISA President.
Miss Weinman is member of
'Trianon, coed honorary leadership
fraternity; Florida Union Social
Board; has served on the VISA
Judiciary Committee; Secretary
of VISA Revision Committee;
VISA Grove Hall Representative
for two years; and Student Reli-
gious Association Council Mem
Der.
Evening star., 1953-08-03
DR.. Blair Appointed
As Welfare Adviser

DR.. Montgomery Blair, attend
ing physician and medical di-
rector of Children's Hospital to-
day was named by the District
commissioners as the ninth
member of the Public Welfare
Advisory Council.
Eight of the nine members of
the board of Public Welfare
agreed to serve on the council
but Preston Kavenhaugh de-
clined, and DR.. Blair was named
in his place.
DR.. Blair was born in 1898 and
was graduated from Harvard in
1925. After a two years intern
ship at st Luke's Hospital in
New York. from 1926 to 1923 he
came to Washington as an in
terne at Children's Hospital.
DR.. Blair is on the consulting
staff at Garfield Hospital and on
the Medical Advisory Board of
Christ Child convalescent home
in Rockville, Md. He served two
years in the Army Medical Corps
in 1912 and 1943. He is mar
ried and has four daughters. two
of whom are married.
DR.. Blair lives at 1926 Con-
necticut avenue NV.
Evening star., 1953-08-03
By the Associated Pres.

PARIS, Aug. 3.-PlaneS and
ships of four nations searched
in vain today for an Air France
Constellation plane which ap-
parently crashed in the Medi-
terranean off the coast of Turkey
with Al persons, including a
young American mother and her
child.
United States Navy helicop-
ters, Greek military planes and
French and Lebanese CONNER
cial planes and ships swept re-
peatedly over the sea off Kastel-
lorizon, small Greek island be-
tween Rhodes and Cyprus.
The Air France pilot radioed
an SOS from that area early
today. He said he was preparing
to ditch the plane in the sea
after it's two left engines conked
out. The airliner was en- route
from Rome to Beirut, Lebanon
and Teheran, Iran.
Most of the 33 passengers pre-
sumably were Lehanese and
Iranian, but Air France reported
Mrs. Marjorie Clark Yahyavi
81 American wife of an Iranian
was on the plane. She was re-
turning to Teheran from Port
land, Ore. Air France also re-
ported this was her birthday
She was born August 3, 1926.
Evening star., 1953-08-03

to be paid for during the COM
ing months that we must raise
additional cash to pay for
them as they come due. This
is in addition to paying the
current expenses of the Gov
ernment which have just been
voted by this Congress.
The present debt limit
severely restricts f1exibility and
will more and more limit our
ability to administer the finan-
cial affairs of the Government.
We asked that the debt limit
be raised SO that we can bet
ter handle the Governments
requirements for raising money
to pay for these past obliga-
tionS. 1t does not in any sense
mean the slightest retreat from
our determination, which has
already been clearly demon
strated, to cut down on spend
ing on every possible turn.
We will make every effort
to comply with the demand of
the Senate Finance Commit
tee to postpone the necessity
for action by it as long as we
can and until the next regu-
lar session of the Congress.
Evening star., 1953-08-03
School Aid Compromise
Is Approved by House
BY the Associated Press

The House today approved Sem
ate-House compromise bills for
continuation of Federal school
aid to communities whose school
facilities are overburdened as a
result of Federal activities.
The bills, reduced somewhat in
amount from their original
House-passed form, provide for
a two-year extension of Govern
ment assistance in constructing
new schools and in maintaining
existing facilities.
Senate House conferees Topped
approximately $50 million off the
1927 million originally author
lied by the House for Federal
participation in constructing
minimum school facilities in the
so-called Federally impacted
areas.
Schools in both Maryland and
Virginia would be affected.
Evening star., 1953-08-03
CIA Man Injuries Foot
In Power Mower Mishap

A resident of Pimmit Hills,
near Falls Church, Va, suffered
a severe foot injury yesterday in
a power lawn mower accident at
his home on Stanley place, Ar
lington Hospital reported today.
He was Harold E. Christ. Jr.,
81. Central Intelligence Agency
employe. The hospital said part
of two toes on his right foot were
amputated and bones broken in
the other toes. His condition
was described as good today.
His wife said Mr.. Christ was
using a rotary-type mower which
he pulled toward him. The blade
ripped through his heavy shoes,
Mrs. Christ said.
Evening star., 1953-08-03
Mexican Plane Feared Lost,
Found Safe at JERSEY Field

ried four other persons as pas
Sengers.
A dispatch from Mexico City
said Col. Gaxiola had telephoned
his wife of his arrival.
A plane answering the deScrip-
ton of the Mexican craft landed
at deserted Hadley Field yes
terday, 10 miles southeast of
Linden.
The Civil Aeronautics Admin
lstration had sent planes up from
Norfolk, Va, early today to
search for the aircraft. Hadley
Field, where the plane was re-
ported to have landed, was de-
serted yesterday because rainy
weather prevented the usual
weekend flights of pleasure craft
oased there. There is no control
tower at the field.
Evening star., 1953-08-03
Gen. Navarro Prepares
To Step Up Attacks
BY the AsSocioied Press

HANOI, Indo- China, Aug. g.
Gen. Henri Navarro, commander
in chief of French union forces
in Indo-China. arrived here to-
day from Saigon to discuss with
his field commanders plans for
stepping up the war against the
Communicated Wet Mini.
Gen. Navarro returned last
week from Paris, where he asked
an additional 10000 troops and
war credits totaling $3.50 million.
Both Gen. Navarro and his top
aide in northern Indo- China,
Gen. Rene Cogny, have made
clear that they intend to raid
enemy bases and attack Wet
Mini troop concentrations as
quickly as they are located.
Evening star., 1953-08-03
Way Paved to Adjourn 7 7odoy;
Debt Rise SheIved, Hope Held
Of Avoiding Special Session
Secretary Explains Stand

Tert of Secretary of the
Treasury Humphreys state
ment pledging an attempt to
keep Government expenditures
1Oitl1in the present debt ceiling:
The Senate Finance Com
mittee has decided to hold for
later action the request of the
administration for an increase
in the debt limit which has
already been passed by the
House of Representatives.
This administration has
stated time and time again
that it will do everything in
its power to further reduce
expenditures which will not
jeopardize the security of this
country. 1t will re-examine it's
programs and continue to work
at such reductions every day,
every week and every month
during the year.
However, this administra-
ton inherited such a large
amount of obligations con-
tracted for during the past
few years, for which no money
was provided, and which have
Evening star., 1953-08-03

A Mexican Air Force plane
reported missing on a flight from
Maxwell Field, Ala, has landed
safely in New Jersey, according
to word received by the Mexican
consulate in New York.
Consul Enrique Ballestros said
he had received telephone call
from a friend of the pilot, and
that the friend said the plane
had made a safe landing yester-
day 10 miles from it's destina-
ton, Linden, N. j.
The plane, twin Beechcraft
with a Mexican flag painted on
the side, was piloted by Col. Ra-
danes A. Gaxiola, assistant chief
of Mexican President Adolfo
Ruiz Confines staff. the ASso-
ciated Press reported. 1t car
Evening star., 1953-08-03
Dulles on His Way
Over Pacific by Air
To Talk With Rhee
Wording of Security
Pact With U. S. Will
Be Drafted at Seoul
By the Associated Press

McCHORD AIR FORCE BASE
Wash, Aug. 3.-Secretary OF
State Dulles today winged across
the Pacific toward Seoul and
talks with Korea President
Syngman Rhee on the wording
of a Korean-American security
pact.
Mr.. Dulles, who was the OBJ
ject of an angry blast by Red
China's Peiping radio yesterday,
left this sprawling base south
OF Tacoma last night after a
flight from Washington.
He made a short stop at Shem-
va, at the western tip of the
Aleutian Island chain, before
continuing along the great circle
route to Korea.
The treaty Mr.. Dulles is to
discuss with the aging Korea
leader is designed to strengthen
that war-torn country against
the possibility of a future Com
munist attack, such as the one
which plunged the United Ma
tions into combat with North
Korea and Red China three
years ago.
Rehabilitation Also Topic.
Also slated for discussion was
rehabilitation plan revealed
Saturday in which Mr.. Dulles
and President Eisenhower said
American troops would be used
to repair war damage in South
Korea.
Before leaving Washington
yesterday, Mr.. Dulles told news
men the United States intends
to consult fully with other U. N
members on the future of Mr.
Rhee's ravaged country.
AS to his talks with Mr.. Rhee
Mr.. Dulles said in statement:
ut is clearly appropriate that
there should be a preliminary
exchange of views with the gov
ernment of the Republic of Ko-
rea. which was the victim of the
Communist aggression and which
contributed nightly to stop
ping that aggression.
But the United States will
not finally determine its posi-
ton in relation to the (forth-
coming) political conference (on
the future of Korea) and it's
procedure until we have had the
benefit of wider consultation. "
Mr.. Dulles said his talks with
Mr.. Rhee were to be purely ex-
ploratory and would not be bind
ing on the United States.
He said he intends to seek
maximum coordination between
South Korea and United States
policies before the political con-
ference.
Mr.. Rhee's defiant stand for
the ultimate unification of Korea
may prove the stumbling block
to the conference. The Korean
leader has stated that South Ko-
rea will walk out of the confer
ence and resume the war if with
in 80 days the conference has
not produced tangible results of
Korean unity.
The United States has not
made any promises to Mr.. Rhee
other than that it will also quit
the conference if after 80 days
(See DULLES, Page A-5.)
Evening star., 1953-08-03
The World Watches
This Royal Romance

THE ROYAL RoMANCe-For the
post few months the world hos been
reading obout the romantic en-
tonelements OF Princess Margaret and
Group Copt. Peter Townsend. Sylvia
Short, writer close TO the British
court circles. troees the romance
bock TO its stort in q series OF three
articles. The first OF the series op-
peers todoy on Poee B-6.
SHOCK" coLoRs ARE THE
THING - Brightly eoIored jeweIry
will toke the foshion limcIieht this
season. EIeni, The Stor fashion ed
itor, tells when and where to wear
ieweIrY TO its best odvontose in
story on Poee B-4.
Evening star., 1953-08-03
East German Fighting Flares
After Reds Ban Food Trips
Communist Radio Tells of Outbreaks
In Scores Of Soviet Zone Communities

June II revolts, the Red police
were reinforced everywhere to
deal ruthlessly with strikes. Be-
hind them stood Soviet army
tanks if needed.
The ban on travel to Berlin
torpedoed yesterdays food dis
tribution, for which $50, 900 East
erners had been expected. Only
$4,000 persons trickled into the
city from five Russian n-occupied
provinces.
COnant DenOunceS Ban.
United States High Commits
sioner James B. Conant, visiting
the Red-surrounded city, de-
nounced the travel ban as a
"tlagrant example of the callous
disregard by the Communists of
the welfare of the people of their
zone"
DR.. Conant said he was Con
f1dent that Communist terror
will not in the long run prove
to be an adequate substitute for
food" He announced that the
United States would supply 49,
600 tons of food-parcels for nine
million perSons-in the next nine
weeks, but declined to say what
plans the Americans have, if any,
for getting the packages through
the blockade.
The Communist Party organ,
NeueS Deutschland, exulted that
the travel blockade had foiled a
new American provocation at
tempt" 1t claimed the Ameri-
cans planned to organize thou
sands of food seekers for mass
attacks on our government and
our police"
The paper admitted that there
were fights and protest demon
Strations throughout the Soviet
zone but contended these oc-
Cured when honest workers"
attacked Fascist beggars" re-
turning from Berlin with food
parcels
Hundreds of arrests were re-
ported in the widespread rioting.
Evening star., 1953-08-03
Gas Station Bandit Gets
S1O4 on Wisconsin Ave.

Daniel E. Butler, At, an at
tendant at a gasoline station in
the $500 block Wisconsin avenue
NV, told police he was held
up and robbed early today
of $104.
Mr.. Butler reported he was in
the service station at 2:15 am
when a youth about 18 years old
entered and demanded, "Give
me what you've got" He said
the youth, who carried a
revolver, made his getaway in
a 1947 or 1948 Chevrolet sedan
bearing North Carolina tags.
Evening star., 1953-08-03
City 10 Off
So as Result
0fBudgetC
Personnel Will Drop
u; New Jobs to Be
Found for Some

The District Commissioners
today called all city department
heads together at meeting and
told them to fire so District
government employees.
They said the meeting came
as result of cuts made in the
District budget when it was
passed by Congress. Those to
be dismissed will be released as
soon as possible. New jobs will
be found at the District build
ing for some of them.
The District budget first sent
to Congress by the Commission
ers totaled $143,849,200. Items
were added later until the re-
quest finally stood at $151,597.-
500. AS finally passed. the budget
totaled $147,740,693
Personnel to Drop %.
The biggest cut will be in the
Districts personnel department.
Here % employees of the 50 in
the office will be dismissed. This
Office is a new one created to
facilitate the reorganization Of
the District government.
Two other reorganization
agencies hit by the cuts are the
Management Office and the In
ternal Audit Office. Manage
ment will lose six employees and
Internal Audit will lose three.
The District Office of Rent
Control will release 18 employees.
This office went out of existence
as rent control ended in the
District last Friday.
The Purchasing Division will
lose one employe.
Commissioner Samuel Spencer
told the department heads the
SO jobs have to be eliminates
Immediately. He asked the de-
partment heads to try to find
places for the dismissed en-
ployeS in their organizations as
normal vacancies occur.
Situation Explained.
Engineer Commissioner Louis
PrentiSs said the city heads at
first were going to send a letter
to the department heads order
ing the dismissals. He said they
decided instead to hold the meet
ing and explain the situation.
Although the revamping of the
city government will be handi-
capped by the cuts, Gen. Prem
tiss said the work would go on.
Henry F. Hubbard, District
personnel director, said about II
of the so could be placed imme-
diately in vacancies in other de-
partments. Clerks and typists
will be fairly easy to place in
other jobs, he added. but special
lists being dismissed will be a
tougher problem.
The District government has
about 10000 employees. About
5000 are in the public school
system.
The city government has been
growing steadily for years. This
is the first year a cutback in
employees has affected this many.
In the past cuts in personnel Of
individual offices meant little as
the workers were absorbed in
other departments.
Evening star., 1953-08-03
Senators. Pick Morse
As Third Member Of
Transit Study Group
Subcommittee to Meet
Today to Map Plans
For Investigation Here
By Harold B. Rogers

Senator Morse, Independent,
of Oregon, today was designated
the third member of a special
Senate District subcommittee to
investigate Capital Transit Co.
and other lines serving the Dis
trict.
The Oregonian was appointed
by Senator Nicely, Democrat, of
copitol Tronsit Repeats Refusal To
Aid Boord. Poee B-l
West Virginia, the ranking mi
nority member of the Senate
District Committee.
The subcommittee, headed by
Senator Payne, Republican. of
Maine, met this afternoon to de-
eide on a program.
All Lines to Be Studied.
The subcommittee was au-
thorized by a Senate resolution
to make an intensive investiga-
ton into all transit lines oper-
ating in the District. 1t will
report to Congress with recon-
mendationS for legislation, if
needed, by next January 81.
The subcommittee was consti-
tuted by the Senate District
Committee which took careful
action, with roll call votes, to
authorize it's investigating unit
with full powers.
On motion of Committee Chair
man Case, the two Republican
members named were Senator
Payne and Senator Beall. Re-
publican of Maryland. The full
committee decided to have the
third minority member selected
by Senator Nicely, the former
chairman of the full District
Committee in the last Congress.
Staff to Be Selected.
Senator Payne said he hopes
in this first meeting of his unit
to lay down the policies and
course of action to be followed
Selection of a staff of experts
for the technical work is one of
the important tasks facing the
subcommittee. The decision will
be left entirely to the three
member group, Senator Payne
emphasized.
One of the most prominently
mentioned possibilities for the
staff has been the management,
engineering and consulting firm
of ERNST & ERNST. It has been
active in major surveys of state
governments and utilities, par
ticularly throughout the East. It
was engaged by the State of
Maine to study the State Gov
ernment when Senator Payne
was Governor there.
Chairman Payne recently said
his personal idea would be for
the committee staff to make
careful study of all facts avail
able, to prepare the subcommit-
tee for public hearings. These
hearings, the Senator said, would
probably begin late in october or
early in November.
Evening star., 1953-08-03
She'll Kills Four Children

VIENNA, Austria, Aug. 3 (P).-
-Four Austrian children. 7 to IL
years old were killed by an ex-
ploding 6-inch artillery shell last
night. The youngsters had been
playing in a forest near Horn,
when they found the shell left
behind from the war.
Evening star., 1953-08-03
Exchange Of P0Ws
Rehearsed Before
Big Day Tomorrow
Red Cross Teams Set
To Visit Prisoners
Held in Camps
BY the Associated Press

MUNSAN, Korea, Aug. 3.-The
United Nations Command staged
an elaborate trial run today Of
the machinery which will speed
1913 Americans and other Allied
prisoners of the Korean war
homeward in a mass exchange
starting Wednesday (Tuesday
night, Washington time).
One-hundred fifty Allied SOL
diers played the role of liberated
POWS in the dress rehearsal and
were moved from the exchange
point at Panmunjom to the port
of 1nchon. where United States
bound troop ships awaited the
actual exchange.
Allied and Communist Red
Cross representatives, mean
while. cleared the way for the
first joint inspection of North
and South Korean prisoner
camps.
Red Cross Teams to Start.
They signed an agreement-at
first delayed by the Reds-to
enable the CONAN teams to be-
gin their work at 9 am. Tuesday
g pm. EDIT, Monday. Red
Cross teams of Americans, Danes
and British will pass legally
north of the Communist Iron
Curtain for the first time, while
teams of Chinese and North Ko-
reans cross to the south.
The agreement allows the
Allied Red Cross teams to visit
Red POW camps which stretch
as far north as the Manchurian
border, to distribute gifts and
observe the movement of pris-
oners.
Swedish Maj. Gen. Sven Graf
strom, meanwhile, announced
the neutral nations supervisory
commission has picked next
Saturday as the tentative date
for dispatching its inspection
teams into North and South
Korea to watch the movement
of all troops and arms in and out
of the peninsula the date was
agreed upon at the third con-
ference of the commission at
Panmunjom.
The Chinese Reds Peipine
radio said the first group Of
Communicated POWs, includ-
ing sick and wounded. was due
today at Kaesong, seven miles
north of Panmunjom, and Sec
ond group was en- route from
Pyoktong prison camp, on the
Manchurian border.
A last-minute dispute with the
Reds delayed for a day the de-
parture of joint Red Cross teams
to North and South Korean
prisoner camps with comfort
packages for some $1,000 men
in their last hours of captivity
A Communist proposal to keep
the CONAN joint teams out of
the prisoner. camps themselves
was fatty rejected by the U. N,
command.
Col. L. D. Buttolph, acting as
senior U. N. member of the Mil
itary Armistice Commission, re-
minded the Communist repat-
ration subcommittee of the COM
mission in a 1-hour-and-36-min-
ute session that the armistice
agreement calls for the Red
Gross teams to visit all POW
camps to comfort the prisoners
and distribute gifts.
The dispute was viewed as an
other Red move to keep Western
eyes from combing North Korea,
which refused during the war to
admit International Red Cross
teams.
Taylor Watches Preparations.
Feverish preparations for the
exchange stirred excitement at
MunSan.
Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor. COM
mander of the United States 9th
Army, watched the practice run
at Freedom Village with a crit
ical eye
I'VE want to make the re-
turned prisoners as comfortable
(See TRUCE, Page A-50