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The Phoenix Jewish news., 1954-06-11
(From The National Jewish PosD


NEW YORK - The first Who's
Who in World Jewry, a volume
which will include the biographies
of 10000 prominent Jews, will roll
off the presses early next fall.
While the greater majority OF
possible candidates reacted favor
ably, and often with enthusiasm to
inclusion in such a reference work,
there were a number who objected
more or less violently to having
their names listed in what some
termed "a purely sectarian vol
ume.
Arthur Krock, of the New York
Times, objected to the use of his
name for the book, explaining his
objections in a letter to the editors
or Who's Who:
+" "'Jewry' means the Jewish peo-
pie or race and / do not qualify
because:
1. If it is a race which l
don't think it's been for many
centuries land such is the con-
clusion of excellent anthr0polO-
gists), don't belong to Tiny
Hebrew ancestry has been much
diluted for several generations.
2. 81 am not and never have
been a communicate of the jew
ish faith and have never belonged
to what can be called the jew
ish community.
8. eff / did, i would still OBJ
ject as an American to being
categOrized on a religious, or, as
in this case, untrue racial
basis"
1.-The principal value of these :.
lists is to attract SwarmS of men
dicants, Zionists, ETC., with appeals
for assistance for things of which
highly disapprove."
CLIFTON FADIMAN, of TV
fame, pleaded not to be included
in the volume which is taking 2k
years to complete, calling his re-
1uctance "a matter of longheld
principle"
While novelist Fanny Hurst re-
acted enthusiastically to her inclu-
sion in the book, dramatiSt Rose
Franken answered negatively -
without explanation.
Frank Altschul, a financier who
appears in Who's Who in America,
wrote he was mot interested in
being in any purely sectarian vol
ume." Dancer choreographer Je-
rome Robbins refused on the
grounds that he would mot like to
see Who's Who in World Catho-
lies or in World Arabs or ProteS-
tants, any more than I'd like to
see a Who's Who in World Jewry." !"
TWO MEN threatened legal ac-
ton if their names were used over
their objection. An American, Will
1. Levy, in a letter employing legal
language, threatened to prevent the
books publication if his name ap-
peared. DR.. Walter Auerbach of
Hanover, Germany, also wrote of
undertaking legal steps, adding, II
did not fight Nazi racialism only
to turn to another brand of racial
ism. AS left the rabbinical
church nearly 80 years ago for re-
igious reasons, 1 strongly object
to any reference to my person. "
According to its present editors,
Harry Schneiderman, former ed
itor of the American Jewish Year
book, and Itzhak j. Carmin, former
executive director of the World
Confederation of General Zionists,
the aim of the project is ito pro-
duce an objective, impartial, and
completely reliable book with about
10000 biographical sketches of liv-
ing Jewish men and women who
have achieved recognition for be-
ing outstanding in all fields of hui
man endeavor, including the field
of Jewish communal activities.
THE POPULARITY of the work,
which, because of the high cost
The Phoenix Jewish news., 1954-06-11
South Africans Worried

JOHANNESBURG, (JTA) - The
grave anxiety of South Africa's
Jews over the increasing Arab hos
tility toward Israel was expressed
here in a joint statement by the
South African Board of Jewish
Deputies and the South African
Zionist Federation.
The Phoenix Jewish news., 1954-06-11
Jewish Center Blocked

PELHAM MANOR, NY, (JTA)
The village board of trustees has
approved amendments to the zon-
ing ordinances which will prevent
the use of a 19-room house as a
Jewish community center.
The Phoenix Jewish news., 1954-06-11

The American Zionist Committee
for Public Affairs is the newly
established spokesman for all Zion
ist bodies in America.
The Phoenix Jewish news., 1954-06-11
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Israel's exports in 1858 were the
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The Phoenix Jewish news., 1954-06-11

THE POPULARITY of the work,
which, because of the high cost
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-12
Todoy's Radio HiehIiqhts

9:15, WRC - Book Carnival:
Freedom Train," by Dorothy
Sterling.
1850, WTOP - Invitation to
Learning: Mark Twain'S
Life on the Mississippi"
1890, WWDC - Bing Crosby:
Guest is Singer Teresa
Brewer.
1880, WRC - Eternal Light:
First in a series Of dramas
commemorating the Ameri-
can Jewish Precautionary.
100, WRC - Listen to the
Witness: A former exile to
Siberia and the former deco
rator to the Hungarian Min
iStry Of Foreign Affairs.
1880, WRC - Chicago Round
table: New presidents of the
World Council Of Churches.
$3.50, WTOP - World Music
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$3.50, WGMS - Good Music:
Howard Mitchell plays and
comments on Brahms "Aca-
demic Festival Overture" and
Gershwin's "Porgy and Bess
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1880, WRC - Youth Wants to
Know: Gov. Talmadge. of
Georgia.
5:35, WMAL-Jewish Tercen-
tenary: Reconsideration serv-
ice.
600, WRC-American Forum:
The role of the Subversive
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$3.50, WRC-NBC Concert:
Kreisler's "Rondino On A
Theme by Beethoven" "Lieb-
esleid," and at a m b ourin
Chinois."
1880, WRC - Conver a til n:
Guests are authors Jacques
Barzun and Laura z. Hob
son.
500, WRC-Sunday With Gar
roway: Guests are movie star
Danny Kaye, writer Lucius
Beebe and pianist Mel Powell.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-12
Color TeIevision
For This Week

The first in a series of its
Commute color extrava-
ganzas will be presented by
NBC tonight, while the CHS
network has scheduled a
color premiere on Wednes-
day for a series of dramatic
programs. as follows:
Today, 100000 pm,
WNBW, MAX LEHMAN
PRESENTS. Betty Hutton,
Kelvin Mccarthy and an all
star cast in "Satins and
Spurs" an original musical
comedy.
WTOP-TV, MEET MILLIE,
a situation comedy series
with Elena Verdugo, Marvin
Kaplan and Florence Halop.
Wednesday. 10:00-11:00
pm, WTOP-Tv, THE BEST
OF B DAD WAY. Helen
Hayes, Fredric March and
Claudette Colbert head a
cast of stars in the American
classic drama, 1.-THE Royal
Family" by Edna Ferber
and George s. Kaufman.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-12

local independent radio sta
tons and one independent TV
station will join forces Octo-
Der 5 in a king-size party for
Ben Gross, TV-radio editor of
the New York Daily News.
The occasion is his 30th an
|niversary on the job of COW
ering broadcasting. Gross has
written an autobiography. II
Looked and I Listened" due
out october 8.
Some familiar United States
TV film shows, with dubbed
in Spanish language sound
tracks, are being telecast by
Latin American stations.
XIV international reports
that Spanish language YER
sions of six Of its shows now
are appearing in Latin Ameri-
ca: "Favorite story" "Mr.
District Attorney" "Unex-
pected," Boston Blackie" and
yesterdays Newsreel." A
seventh to have a Spanish
version, starting in January,
is II Led Three Lives"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-12
Viewing TV
Viewing TV
N Koye's Medium
Miss Ballard Finds 1t Vitomin
For a Girls Squirting Career
BY Wayne Oliver
Associated Press Stoff Writer
NEW; YORK.

AVE-" 406e34s
Some say it's diamonds, but
television is a girls best friend
If she's in show business, con-
tends comedienne Kaye Bal
lard.
"It's fantastic" she says of
the upturn in her career
brought by TV.
Miss Ballard had enjoyed
more than moderate success in
Broadway musicals and in
night clubs and hotels the past
several years. But she says her
offers have multiplied in num-
bers and amount since her six
featured performances on the
summer (Colgate) Comedy
Hour on NBC-TV.
The rubbery faced, green
eyed actress-singer now is
under option for up to 10 per-
formances on the regular win
ter comedy hour series. in
Guiding two in October. She
Is booked up for personal ap-
pearances for weeks ahead.
Nov I can take a taxi any,
time I want to-" she sums up
the big upturn in her career
and her new prosperity.
Since she was little Cath
crime Gloria Ballardo back in
her native Cleveland, her idea
Of success and luxury has been
to ride in a taxicab whenever
she wanted to go someplace.
When I was a kid in school
I used to do without lunch and
use the money to ride in taxis,
and mamma would wonder why
I was always so hungry when
I got home" she relates.
"Once she caught me get
ting out Of a taxi after riding
home on the money I was
supposed to have used for
lunch. and I got the spanking
Of my life"
Aside from bringing her
more and better offers and an
income ample for plenty OF
taxi riding, Miss Ballard says
TV also has had a marked
effect on her reception by
audiences in personal appear
ances.
In her pre-Tv days, she re-
lates, II had to build up about
20 minutes to get a hand.
Nov they applaud as soon
as they see me-they're with
me from the start"
y 4 + Il
From G. w. Blue, who runs
a TV-radio service business
in Clearwater, Fla, comes this
suggestion for prospective
home-builders: Have the wir-
ing plans include television an
tenna outlets in several rooms
so you can plug in a set where
ever you want to and avoid
having a lead-in wire trailing
down an outside wall and into
a window. Some builders al
ready are doing this, he de-
clares.
Blue sometimes gets q bet
ter insight into TV viewer
habits than do the popularity
polls. For instance, many
housewives tell him they don't
watch daytime TV. but they
want the set repaired in a
hurry If it goes out early in
the day. A hefty percentage
of viewers profess to be not
overly enthusiastic over TV
but IF their set goes bad they
want it fixed right away" Most
realize q TV set sis a complex
instrument except when it
comes to paying the bills and
then many think it's SIM
pie"
y \ \ Il
Normally hot competitors.
five national networks. six
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-12

$500, WTOP-Edgar Bergen:
The ventriloquist. with Char
lie Mccarthy and Mortimer
Snerd, in a new program Of
music and guest stars.
1880, WRC-Meet the Press:
Secretary Of the Air Force
Talbot.
1880, WTOP-Capitol Cloak
room: DR.. Samuel Brownell,
q S. Commissioner Of Edu-
cation.
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-11
Test Fight on Polio
By chorIes /. Hoffman

Tracking down and subduing
polio. is one of the most dramatic
detective stories developing In
medical history.
But when history finally re-
cords mans inevitable victory,
This Is the second Of series OF articles
presenting foets and expert opinions
obout the polio voeeine. its effective
ness and safety factors. to help
parents hove as much understanding
Of the tests as possible.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-11
Ex-D. {. EmpIoye
Found Dead in Bed

Deputy Coroner Richard M.
Rosenberg today was investigat-
ing the death Of James II.
Miles. 81, who was found strari-
gled in rooming house in the
TOO block of Fourteenth street
Sc, about 7 O'Clock last night.
Homicide Detective Sergts.
Emmett Talbert and Grayston
Chapman said Mr.. Miles was
found in bed with a tie around
his neck and that tt also was
attached to the bed. They said
ne apparently strangled himself
in this position.
Mr.. Miles, the detectives said,
had been respondent over ill
health and unemployment. This,
they said, was indicated in a
note he wrote which was dated
March 3. The detectives said
that at that time he may have
been contemplating taking his
own life.
Mr.. Miles, about six years ago,
suffered a hunting accident in
West Virginia. He slipped on
ice and hurt his right leg.
He had been doing some furni-
ture repairing in recent days.
Mr.. Miles had worked for the
District Sewer Department for
many years. He was a native
of Montgomery County.
The body, police said, was dis
covered by Robert /. Kelso,
landlord at-the Fourteenth street
address. Mr.. Keiso had last
checked on Mr.. Miles about 7
am, yesterday. He did not see
the man during the day, he
checked again about Z pm,
when he found the body, accord
ing to police.
Police notified a brother, VIII
liam Miles, who has been in
the District Governments En-
cheering Department for %
years.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-11

necessary reagents and kept
warm for about q week.
Then one type Of polio virus
is put in each tube for propa-
cation. with the mixing of the
three to come as q last step.
Several days later pure virus
suspended in water Is ready for
harvest and is separated from
the original mixture.
The virus Is then killed" by
exposure to formaldehyde rob.
bing 1t Of disease-spreading
power yet leaving 1t Just strong
enough to stimulate production
Of antibodies when injected into
the blood stream.
Some 1880 children In Mont
gomery County are eligible to
participate in the vaccine
tests with the first shots slated
for March 90 at the Rockville
Elementary School. Thousands
more In Arlington. Fairfax and
Loudoun Counties. and Alex
andria. Va. also will participate.
TOmOrrOw-Safety precau.
ti0ns In connection with the
new vaccine.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-11
Vaccine 10 Be Given
thorough Checks,
County Aides Told

The director of hospital serv-
ices for the National Foundation
for Infantile Paralysis yesterday
assured Montgomery County
principals. doctors and health Of
f1cers that no trial polio vaccine
shots would be given until they
had passed all safety tests.
DR.. Herbert T. Wagner gave
the assurances in briefings with
the elementary school principals.
the County Medical Society and
the Health Department staff.
Even If it means not one shot
of the vaccine is to be given this
summer. none is going to be dis
tributed by the Foundation until
it passes all the safety tests"
All Vaccine Tested.
DR.. Wagner added that all
vaccine patches are being tested
In the manufacturers labora-
tories. in the laboratory of DR..
Jonas E. Salk who developed the
vaccine, and at the Biologics
Laboratory of the National In
stitutes of Health in Bethesda.
E The problem now. DR.. Wagner
said, is keeping up production of
the vaccine to meet schedules of
the trial tests in which up to a
million children in the first. sec
ond and third grades across the
Nation will participate.
DR.. Wagner reminded the doc
tors and principals that no one
was to be presSured into taking
part in the trial tests.
The parents themselves must
sign a paper requesting their
child be inoculated. The request
also covers the taking of blood
samples from about 2 per cent
Of the children.
AntibOdieS Checked.
The blood samples are needed
to compare the antibody level
before and after the three inocu-
lations are made. The anti
bodies protect the child against
the polio virus.
The medical director of the
foundation, DR.. Hart E. Van
Ripper, last night issued a state
ment in New York that the Salk
vaccine had been proved safe
in tests and that all test in
formation is in the hands of
the State health officers, &C
cording to the Associated Press.
DR.. Van Riper'S statement fol-
lowed announcement that med
ical societies in Houston and
Dallas, Tex. had baked at the
use of the vaccine there because
they said they lacked enough
scientific information to decide
whether the vaccine is safe.
Houston was the scene two
years ago of a mass test of the
effectiveness of gamma globulin
as a protection against polio.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-11
New Polio Vaccine
Using Tame Living
Viruses Reported
BY the Assoeiessd Press

DETROIT. Mar. 11.-Dr. Al
bert B. Sabin, Cincinnati virus
expert. today reported big steps
toward a new kind of polio vac
cine which might give lifelong
protection.
He announced finding tame
living polio viruses which have
been used successfully in vaccine
tests on monkeys.
Although still alive, these
viruSes are harmless cousins
of regular polio virus and don't
cause sickness. Because they
are alive they presumably would
be far more powerful in creating
protective antibodies than killed
viruses. such as used in the Salk
vaccine. The antibodies created
by living viruses could last for
years. even perhaps a lifetime.
Sees Much Work Ahead.
Much more work needs to be
done on this type of vaccine,
DR.. Sabin, Of the University of
Cincinnati Medical College. told
the Michigan Foundation for
Medical and Health Education.
DR.. Sabin expressed opinion
there are still some unanswered
technical questions about the
vaccine developed by DR.. Jonas
E. Salk of Pittsburgh.
One question is how many
thousands or millions of killed
viruses are needed for one vac
cination. If the number is too
high, it may be impossible to
supply enough virus to vac
cinate millions of children and
young adults, DR.. Sabin said.
No Safety Implications.
DR.. Sabin's prepared paper did
not imply that the Salk vaccine
is not safe.
He said the final answer
whether any vaccine actually
gives protection can come only
from carefully-controlled expert
ments on hundreds of thousands
of children. Such tests of the
Salk vaccine are scheduled soon,
with support of the National
Foundation for Infantile Paral-
ysis. The foundation supports
the studies Of both Drs. Salk and
Sabin.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-11

TOmOrrow-Safety precau.
tions I'm connection with the
new vaccine.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-11
Test Fight on Polio
Bottle BegontoM Make eodwoy
When Virus Was Singled Out

could be vaccinated. but the
only known sources Of such a
vaccine we're the nerve tissues Of
laboratory animals.
Such q vaccine could not be
separated from neural tissue.
which might cause an inflamma-
ton Of the brain and nervous
system called encephalomyelitis
"a more dread disease than
polio.
Clues Turn Up.
Then suddenly, in 1912. new
clues began turning up, They
seemed to At together.
The late DR.. E. J. Cohn Of the
Harvard Medical School sue
ceeded in "fractionating" blood
plasma into its component parts,
including one called gamma
globulin. Gamma globulin con-
tanned most Of the blood's anti
bodies. including those Of polio.
But the foundation refused to
support field trials Of gamma
globulin. not only because of it's
then low level Of polio antibodies,
but also because it still was be-
leved the polio virus never trav-
eled in the blood.
Then. in 1949. probably the
greatest single discovery in the
polio investigation was made.
DR.. John Enders and his Har-
ward associates grew polio virus
in test tubes containing nom
neural tissues.
His contribution removed the
threat of encephalomyletis. fur
nished cheap supply Of virus for
experiments and cleared the
way for eventual commercial
manufacture of a vaccine.
During 1949 and 1850, the ma
tional foundation, at a cost of
$1.3 million and 10000 monkeys,
learned the polio enemy was a
three headed" creature - that
instead of q single virus there
were three. This meant that any
vaccine, to be effective, must
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-11

contain all types Of polio viruses.
At about the same time. an
other scientist. Or. william Nc
Harmon, Of the University of
Pittsburgh, reported a successful
field trial test of gamma globu-
lin.
Before his announcement was
made. however, the findings Of
DR.. David Bodian of Johns Hop
kins University and DR.. Dorothy
Horstmann Of Yale anticipated
the discovery. They learned that.
In the early stages Of polio. the
virus does circulates In the blood.
"It would appear that paralytic
polio should be one of most
readily preventable, diseases" DR..
Bodian said in his announce
ment.
After walking down many a
blind alley for half a century
science now appeared close to
controlling the disease.
And DR.. Jonas E. Salk already
was busy in his laboratories in
the yellow bricked Pittsburgh
Municipal Contagious Disease
Hospital overlooking the univer-
sity's Cathedral Of Learning. I"
Experimenting with rhesus
monkeys. he had developed a
vaccine that protected them
against injections Of polio virus.
Finally he was ready to try it
on human beings. The parents
Of young polio victims at the
nearby D. T. Watson Home for
Crippled Children offered their
children to test the vaccine.
Later nonpolio victims at the
home participated. All showed
evidence of having all three
types of polio antibodies in the
blood after the shots.
DR.. Salk's own three sons re-
ceived the test injections. His
first report last March covered
161 persons inoculated without
mishap.
BY last fall. some 700 had re-
ceived the vaccine in the Pitts
burgh area. All showed anti
bodies in the blood after the
injections that had not been
present earlier.
DR.. Salk grew his virus In test
tubes at the university. A barely
visible amount Of monkey kid
ney tissue is put in the tube with
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-11

only a few scientists will be
mentioned as combatants. Thou
sands, however. have participant
ed in the battle. More than 49,
900 papers have been written on
the subject since 1889.
The irony Of it all Is that
science has been drafted to bat
tie an enemy it apparently
strengthened. The dread polio
epidemic Is found most often
in civilized countries where
medical men have insisted on
sanitation.
The first polio epidemic in
America was recorded in 1894
in the Green Mountains Of Ver-
mont Sixteen years later. man
finally learned the disease was
caused by a virus.
Eludes Detection.
For the next 40 years the elu-
sive virus went about its deadly
work unseen, throwing of false
leads about its modus operandi.
Science had been unable to in
feet a rhesus monkey with blood
samples from a human polio vic
tim.
Scientists believed the virus
attacked the nerve cells directly.
travelling along nerve pathways
to the central nervous system.
And for vaccine to be effective
the antibodies created in the
blood stream had to be able to
combat the virus there.
They had learned a monkey
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-11
Churches Seek Goods
For Worlds Needy
BY tho Assoeiased Pres.

NEW YORK, Mar. 11.-Ship-
ment of at least 81 million
pounds of food. clothing and
medicine to needy regions was
announced yesterday as the goal
OF the country's major Protestant
and orthodox churches.
DR.. Wynn C. Fairfield, head of
Church World Service, overseas
relief arm of the National Coun-
Gil Of Churches, said 80 per cent
OF the shipments would be to
refugee areas, particularly in Ko-
rea. Central Europe. Hong Kong
and the Near East.