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The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1954-07-02
"Center of the Southeast"
DIR. GOLDMAN ANNOUNCES
PROPOSALS FOR UNIFICA-
TON OF ZIONIST

TEL AVN, (JTA) = DR.. Ma
hum Goldman, chairman of the
Jewish Agency, revealed this
week that he made a specific
proposal for unification of the
Israeli General Zionist and Pro-
gressive parties to DR.. Peretz
Bernstein and DR.. Pinchas Rosen,
leaders of the two parties.
DR.. Goldman proposed two
specific steps as a prelude to uni
fication first, establishment of a
joint Parliamentary body to agree
on a common attitude toward
Parliamentary problems and gov
eminent policy; second, consider
alton of a unified election slate
for the next Parliament, for the
world Zionist Congress and for
local elections.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1954-07-02
Augusta, Georgia
Americans: New Type
OF Settler for Israel

where their married daughter has
been living for the past two years.
Orot, the new American moshav,
is the destination of Mrs. Rose
Weletzky and her son Julius who
has just been released from the
us. Army. Michael Cohen, who
ran a poultry farm at Vineland,
New Jersey, is also bound for
Orot where he has bought house
and several acres of land.
Israel apparently holds the
same attraction for elderly re-
tired persons as Florida and
Southern California. J. 'Donnen-
field, a retired realtor, and his
wife, plan to buy a flat near
Haifa. Mr.. B. Nechensky, an ex-
garment worker and pensioneer,
who has made two previous trips
to Israel, will settle in Jerusalem
Mrs. Rose Rothman, of New York,
widow, will live with her broth
err at Kfar Yekeskal, a moshav in
the Emek. Another widow, Mrs
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1954-07-02


civil engineer now working in
Spain. Jerry Reichstein, a teacher
of deaf mutes, and his wife, left
in June to settle in Tel Aviv
where he will work at the new
clinic school for deaf children.
The Reichsteins will live at the
Jewish Agency hostel in Tel Aviv
until they find an apartment.
A former Hebrew teacher from
Jersey City, Mr.. Samuel Sussman,
is giving up that profession for
farming and will settle, with his
wife, at Belt Akir, moshav
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-18
By the Associated Press

NASHVILLE, Tenn, Sept. 10.
"A man whose revolver clicked
on its only empty chamber was
shot down in a police trap yes
terday in the climax of a tele-
phone campaign to rape a Mrs.
America contestant.
The man, booked by police as
James Bryan, about 81. of Muir
freesboro, Tenn, was in critical
condition after surgery at a
hospital last night.
Police said Bryan had been
scheming to modest the woman
since he saw her picture in a
newspaper during last winters
preliminaries here of the Mrs.
America contest.
Hes been calling her UP since
july" Detective 1t. Sidney c.
Ritter said. "He called two or
three times every day and once
as high as seven times. He
threatened to rape her and MUIR
der her husband and children If
she would not meet him"
The woman's husband reported
the matter to police Monday
Then plans were laid for yes
terday's trap.
The housewife agreed to 9
date on one Of the threatening
calls. 1t. Ritter was standing
behind curtains and another
officer in a closet when Byrar
knocked on the door. The
woman answered.
las soon as she opened th,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-18
Cheaper Rural Power
Urged by Electric Co-ops
By the Associated Press

ELM1RA, N. Y, Sept. 49,
The National Electric Co-opera-
tive Association wound up its
two-day conference here yes
terday with a plea for congress
sional and State action which
would lead to more and cheaper
power for rural areas.
Resolutions passed yesterday
called for congressional investi-
cation into the possibility of
Harvesting the tides off the
coast of Maine to supply cheaper
power for rural areas in that
and nearby States.
Congress was also called upon
to give New York State the au-
thority to build, own and Up
crate Niagara power system
with a preference of sale to
rural areas. while the New York
State Power Authority was
urged to facilitate the purchase
and distribution of St. Lawrence
power, granting special prefer
ence to rural areas.
The conference also selected
Virginia as the site of next years
convention. No city was named,
however.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-18
Red China Coast
Bombed for 18th Day
By the Associated Press

TAIPEH, Formosa, Sept. 18.-
Communist military installations
along the China coast opposite
Formosa were the target of Ma
tionalist planes and warships for
the 18th straight day today, the
defense ministry announced.
Military officials, while &C
knowledging that daily attacks
on Annoy and other Notifications
have become almost routine, said
it would be wrong to conclude
that they are fizzling out.
The current vest pocket var
around Nationalist held Quemoy,
Z miles off the China coast, was
touched off by a f1ve-hour Red
bombardment September 3.
1t. Gen. Chang Yi-ting. Off
cial army spokesman, said Ma
tionalist planes yesterday dropped
leaflets on Foochow, capital of
coastal Fukien Province. The
leaflets told of developments
around Quemoy, which used to
be part of the province, and ex-
pressed concern over the plight
of flood victims in Red China.
The ministry said all was quiet
yesterday around the Tachen
Islands, Nationalist-held strong
point $50 miles north of Quemoy
where there have been minor
artillery exchanges in recent
days.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-18
Suspect in Attempt to Assault
Beauty Shot in Police Trap

door, Bryan pushed his way in
and locked the door," 1t. Ritter
related. HE stuck a pistol in
her ribs and told her to take
him through the house to see if
1t was clear.
when he got about 3 feet
from me stepped out. He turned
the pistol from her and rammed
it right in my stomach"
Bryan snapped the trigger on
the empty chamber just as 1t.
Ritter fired his own pistol. 1t.
Ritter's bullet struck Bryan in
the right shoulder.
The woman herself carried
it out right up till the time the
shooting started. Then she col
lapsed." 1t. Ritter said.
Police said Bryan, a married
man with no prior police record
here or in Murfreesboro, would
be charged with attempted rape,
attempted murder, assault with
a pistol with intent to commit
murder and with carrying a
pistol.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-18
Sheppard's Lawyers
Hope 10 Finish Plea
For Bail on Monday
By The Associated Pres.

CLEVELAND. Sept. 18.-Law-
yers for DR.. Samuel H. Sheppard
seeking his freedom on bail
hope to finish their case Monday
with the testimony Of three more
witnesses.
Pale and in need Of q haircut,
the Bay Village osteopath lis
tened yesterday to the last Of IL
witnesses testify about events
concerning the murder Of his
pregnant. 31-yearsold wife, Mar
ilyn.
DIR. Sheppard. accused Of first
degree murder in the bludgeon
Staying was not called by his at
torneys to testify at the bail
hearing. held before Common
Pleas Judge Edward Blythin.
Stifled Sobs.
He sat taking notes on q legal
size pad, but sometimes had to
stifle Sobs when witnesses re-
ferred to his wife, whose pretty
face was hacked to pieces be-
fore dawn on July 4.
Ohio law provides that defend
ants in capital cases may be re-
leased on bail unless presumption
of guilt exists to warrant holding
defendant before trial.
The prosecution has held that
indictment by a grand jury on
first degree murder charges con-
stitutes sufficient presumption of
guilt.
Seeks States Case.
Chief Defense Counsel William
j. Corrigan told a reporter that
one of his aims in the bail hear
ing was to get the State to pre-
sent its case and that II believe
I've succeeded in that"
The prosecution has called no
witnesses at the bail hearing
though it has cross-examined the
members of the Sheppard family,
investigating officers and other
witnesses brought by the defense.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-18
7 ALL Dock Officials
Bolt 10 Rival lila, Urge
400 Others 10 Desert
By the Associated Press

NEW YORK, Sept. 1.-TWO
key officials of the AFL dock
workers have bolted to the rival
international Longshoremen's
Association independently.
The AFL's international
Brotherhood of Longshoremen
suffered a double jolt yesterday
when John Dwyer, an IBL inter-
national vice president. and
James Egan, secretary-treasurer
of the group, urged some 400 fol-
lowers to pull out of the new
union and return to the LILA.
Mr.. Dwyer and Mr.. Egan both
charged "desertion" by the ALL
in a work stoppage at Grace Line
Pier As.
Mr.. Dwyer last fall left q
$10.000-a-year job as hiring boss
on Pier As to join the AFL union
and fight the lila for supremacy
on the waterfront.
Last Thursday he was hired as
an assistant at Pier As by hiring
boss William Kucinskas, not a
union member.
The Grace Line, citing an edict
by the New York-New Jersey
Waterfront Commission that no
changes in personnel be made,
fired both Mr.. KucinSkas and Mr..
Dryer.
This touched off a work stop
page at the pier. with Mr.. Dwyer
and Mr.. Egan urging all other
AFL workers embargo" all piers,
which would virtually shut down
the huge port.
The AFL tossed out the lila
last September on grounds the
union failed to rid its ranks Of
racketeering elements, and then
set up the IBL.
The lila recently defeated the
IBL in closely contested bar
gaining representation election
after a months-long battle
which caused a costly 29-day
water front strike.
MIR. Dwyer charged that AFL
President George Meany and
other national leaders withdrew
"99 per cent of their support"
after the election. Mr.. Meany
was not available for comment.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-18
Canadian Man Acquitted
In Drowning Of Wife
BY the Associated Press

WELLAND, Ontario, Sept. 10.
"A Supreme Court jury acquitted
23-year-old Bruce Mclean yes
terday Of a murder charge filed
after his wife drowned in a
canoeing accident last year.
But the young Office worker
went back into custody on
charges of obtaining $1,000 by
fraud from Mrs. Raymond St.
Louis, the former Sylvia Davies,
with whom he associated for a
time last winter.
Mclean who showed no emo
ton over the verdict, testified
during the trial that the canoe
in which he and his wife Eliza
beth Doreen, were padding over
turned when she tried to push
it away from a retaining wall.
He said he tried vainly to rescue
his wife.
The drowning was listed as
accidental at first. but Mclean
was later charged with murder
after his former girl friend
Sylvia, said in court he told hel
he got rid of this wife in a per
feet crime" and that he threat
ened her.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-18
Godfrey Regoins
His Wings, Finds
TheyFit Like Shoe
By The Associated Press

THEREFORE,, N. j., Sept. ID.
Arthur Godfrey got his wings
back yesterday after cooling his
heels on the ground for six
months and said it felt like an
old shoe"
when you put it on" he said,
lit fits"
The red-haired radio and tele-
vision entertainer, who was
grounded by the Civil Aeronau-
tics Board in the now famous
"buzzing" incident here last jan
-uary, got back his pilots license
after a 75-minute test flight.
The usually garrulous Godfrey
was quiet before taking off on
the flight required before he
could regain the license.
But after it was over and the
test passed he chatted and joked
with reporters and photogra-
pliers.
He said taking the controls of
his DC-3 twin-engine plane
again felt very, very good"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-18
Col. Fleming Defense
Ends With Testimony
OF Brain Washings'
Stor Staff Correspondent

FORT SHERIDAN, ILL.,, Sept.
18.-Lt. Col. Harry Fleming has
completed his court-martial de-
tense with a psychiatrist's testi-
mony that hunger, brutality and
brain washings" destroyed his
will to resist his Communist cap
tors.
Col. Fleming, the first Ameri-
can officer to be tried for his be-
havior as a Korean war prisoner,
is accused of collaborating with
the Reds during his three years
in captivity.
DR.. Glenn A. Bacon of Racine,
Wis, said he based his opinion
on an examination he made of
the Army officer and on testi-
mony of other POWs who testi-
ned at the court-martial.
Summations Due Monday.
Summations of the court
martial testimony will be given
when the hearing is resumed
Monday and the case may go to
the 11-man court late that day
for a ruling. The court-martial
opened August 80.
Col. Fleming, 46, of Racine,
Wis. is accused of taking part
in Red propaganda broadcasts,
OF attacking the war aims of the
United States and otherwise CO.
operating unnecessarily with his
captors.
DR.. Bacon, a former Army
Medical Corps captain, raised
these contentious:
/. Tactics employed by Col.
Fleming's jailers to soften his
resistance had brain washed"
him to the point he was mo
longer able to adhere to the
right"
2. The half-starved condition in
which Col. Fleming testified his
captors kept him would cause a
nutrient inadequacy with a re-
sultant loss Of will to resist"
3. A combination of malnutri-
ton caused beri-beri and dysen-
terry, from which Col. Fleming
testified he suffered in captivity,
would tend to throw the prisoner
into confusion and impair his
Judgment to a certain degree.
Still Suffers Effects.
DR.. Bacon said a recent exam
intion of Col. Fleming showed
the white-haired officer still
suffers from the effects of his
long captivity.
Earlier, the prosecution intro
duced an Army doctors PSYCHE
atric report contending that at
the time Of the alleged offenses
Col. Fleming was able to adhere
to the right within limits"
The report. by DR.. Leonard C..
Arnold of the base hospital,
added:
However. because of the obvi-
Gus extreme stress and depriva-
tons encountered as a prisoner
Of war, 1t is more than a posi-
bility that the patient
suffered from impaired Judgment
which did impair or diminish
his ability" to adhere to the
right.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-18
Bachelor Testifies
He Believed Red Line,
Denies Collaborating
By the Associated Press

SAN ANTONIO, Tex, Sept. 10.
-Corpl. Claude Bachelors gen.
eral court-martial at Fort Sam
Houston here was in recess today
until Monday after the accused
soldier testified in his own de-
tense yesterday.
The 22-year-old Kermit, Tex,
soldier yesterday denied he ever
informed on fellow prisoners but
said he at one time, while in
prison, believed much of the
Communist line.
He is on trial before the gen.
eral court-martial on charges of
collaborating with the enemy
and informing on his fellow
prisoners of war while a captive
of the Chinese Communists in
North Korea.
Insanity Plea.
His civilian attorney, Joel
Westbrook, yesterday entered a
motion denying Corpl. Bachelor
consorted with the enemy on
grounds of temporary insanity
while a prisoner.
Mr.. Westbrook three times
asked Corpl. Bachelor if he
"squealed" on fellow prisoners.
Each time the answer was mega
tive.
Corpl. Bachelor and his
mother, Mrs. o. L. Bachelor,
A., of Kermit. were the only wit
nesses yesterday.
The corporal told the court
martial he believed the Com
munist doctrine while a prisoner.
He admitted attempts to con-
vert fellow POWs to the belief
that the United States was a
warmonger for intervening in
the Korean war. But he said he
did not believe now what he once
thought was the Communist
aim: "A world where every one
lives in peace and plenty"
Mother Testifies.
Mrs. Bachelor testified that
during his childhood her son
never showed any interest in
politics, that he went to Sunday
School, Joined the Boy Scouts
and played football in high
school.
She said he Joined the Army
when he was 16 and was a pris-
oner of war at 10.
Corpl. Bachelor testified he
had led discussion groups con-
busted by the enemy; made
speeches favoring Communism;
had written articles for the camp
newspaper and had circulated
petitions criticizing the United
States for participating in the
Korean war.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-18
Truman | etter to Mitchell

what they call put labor in
it's place."
The list goes on and on, but
the worst thing the Republicans
have done is to weaken the posi-
ton of the free nations in the
fight against Communist i'm
perialism.
The Congress, however, does
not bear primary responsibility
for this awful world situation.
The election of a Democratic
Congress will not afford a COM
plete remedy to the world situa-
ton, because the Congress is only
a part of the Government. But
the election of a Democratic
Congress will help, and it will
help very much.
No More Plundering.
The election of a Democratic
Congress will check the plumber
ing of our natural resources in
the interest of a few big bankers
and big corporations. It will
save small business and depopu-
late the bankruptcy courts.
The election of a Democratic
Congress will save the farmers
from ruin, the rural electrical CO.
operatives from TIE electric util-
tiles monopoly, and the farm
equipment industry from creep
ing bankruptcy.
The election Of a Democratic
Congress will mean that the
problems of the average citizen
his needs for jobs, education
health and security - will get
sympathetic action instead OF
mere political lip service. A
Democratic Congress will take
care of that in at least one
branch of the Government.
The election of a Democratic
Congress will make it possible for
the United States to take up its
rightful leadership again in the
fight against Communist impe-
rialism-provided the executive
branch of the Government will
do its part.
It seems to me that President
Eisenhower should. be secretly
wishing for a Democratic Con-
gress. He is pledged to a foreign
policy of cooperation with other
free nations, but majority of
his party leaders are against it.
If he wants to continue that
policy, he needs the help of the
Democrats who created that pol
icy as a bipartisan enterprise
and put it into effect, and gave
him and Dulles a large part in
carrying it out. He will never get
his trade not aid" program, for
example. through a Republican
Congress. He will never get his
defense manpower program
through a Republican Congress.
He will never get the authority
and funds for an adequate pro-
gram of international co-opera-
ton through a Republican Con-
gress. He needs a Democratic
Congress if he is to go down in
history as a successful President,
who helped to save the free
world.
1t behooves the American peo-
pie, I think. to give Mr.. Eisen-
hover a Democratic Congress
and hope that we can save him
from the misdeeds of his own
party.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-18
Births Reported
From D. c. Health Department

BOYS.
Cecil and Eleanor. Davis
Pascal and Harriet Frazier.
Arthur and Ann Guess.
arthur and Grace Marina.
HHiSnara and Joyan THOMPSON. jr.
Marshall and Adele Allen.
roland and Connie Carpenter,
James and Ruth Gethers.
frank and Callie Harrison.
MatheW and Dorothy Holt.
Norman and Corine McCrea,
theodore and Alver Pertilla.
Fred and MARGARET Shephard.
James and Cardelia White.
Kenneth and Edna Ewing,
! harps al. ana Barbara barbara Goodwin.
Donald and Dolores Mills.
John and Annie Wildensteiner,
Jessie and Mary Brinlsley.
Vance and MARGARET Gay.
Milford and Doris Gillian.
Robert and Helen Hill.
Alvin and Clarice McCaskill.
Thomas and Lille Nelson.
John and Matte Resper.
Paul and Jean Vaughn.
Willie and Juliet Wilson.
GIRLS.
Joseph and Eta Butler.
White and Mary Clark.
'Benlamine and June Covinghton.
William and Marie Henderson.
Clayton and Mae jenkins.
Stanley and Ada Jones.
Therston and Barbara Mcneil,
Joel and Georgia Norman.
Clarence and Doris Parnell.
George and Ollie Saxton.
David and Lucille Smith.
Besel and Annie Thomas.
Andrew and Bertha Windsor.
irving and Maria Brotman.
Gerald and Jane Croskery.
William and Alice Guerrant, jr.
Robert and Grace Huebner.
Earnest and Christine Carter.
Charlie and Annie Cobbs.
Fred and Dorothy Gray.
Eugene and Hazel Hughes.
Lawrence and Alease Jones.
Edward and Hattie Mercer.
Charles and Allene Nash.
James and Bessie Page.
Earnest and Catherine Robinson.
William and Ruth Spencer.
Walter and Gloria Taylor.
George and Sally Tindley.
Frank and Catherine Coppola.
Myrlan and Margaret Greenway.
John. and Susie HolZwart.
Charles and Ann Morgan.
TWINS.
Louis and Katie Tompros, boys.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-18
Prison Probes Death
OF Guard in Escape
By the Associated Press

CARSON CITY, New, Sept. 10.
Nevada State Prison authori-
ties sought today to find out how
a guard was killed during a reck-
less escape by three convicts-all
recaptured within 10 hours yes
terday.
1--WE are trying to get things
back to normal" said Warden
A. E. Bernard. He will question
the three desperadoes about the
death of guard George Miller. SO,
who was taken as a hostage
when the three convicts seized a
milk truck he was driving
through the yard. They forced
him to smash open the rear gate
with the truck.
Guards on high towers opened
fire on the truck with rifles as
it ran past two steel gates and
disappeared along a dirt road.
The truck was found later half
a mile away from the prison.
Mr.. Miller's body was hanging
out an open door of the truck,
a bullet through his head.
Chief of Guards Harry Fletch-
er said Mr.. Miller had not car
ried a gun and that the three
convicts were unarmed when re-
captured.
District Attorney Cameron
Batter said charges would be
filed against che three convicts:
The ringleader, Gene T. Liebig,
10, kidnaper sent up from Cam
bridge, Mimi, William Robert
Burman, 81. of Chicago, in for
robbery; and Don Gulovsen, Is,
serving time for bad checks.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-18
Churchi|I-MoIotov Talks
Called 'UsefuI' by AftIee
BY the Associated Press

AUCKLAND, New Zealand.
Sept. 18.-British Labor Party
Leader Clement Attlee said to-
day talks between Prime Min.
lister Churchill and Soviet Pre-
mier Malenkov could be useful.
Mr.. Attlee, who held a news
conference before leaving for
Canada en- route to England, said
1t might be a good idea to call
a four-power conference at the
top level now that the Indo-
China war was ended.
The former Prime Minister
said he will report to Labor Party
leaders on his recent tour of Red
China and that he may have
talks with members of Mr..
Churchill's cabinet.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-18
3 West virginians
Held in S52O,259
Shortage al Bank
BY the Associofsd Press

PITTSBURGH, Sept. Ia
Three West Virginians were ar
rested last night by the FBI-
one Of them for the second time
lin connection with a shortage
Of $500. 259 recently discovered at
the First National Bank at Fair
mount, w. Va.
The trio are John Manchin,
operator Of q furniture and
grocery store at Pennington. w.
Va; Lee s. Ford, 46, president
of the hammond Brick Co. at
Grafton, w. Va, and John w.
Meredith, former cashier of the
bank.
Ex-Cashier Rearrested.
Fred Hallford, special agent in
charge Of the Pittsburgh FBI Of
fee, announced the arrests. Mr..
Meredith was re-arrested in con-
nection with the case. He has
been free on $4,000 bond since
he was arrested on August IL.
At the time he was charged with
making false entries Of the
banks records and misapplica-
ton of the banks funds, involv-
ing a total of $25,540.
Mr.. Manchin and Mr.. Mere
dith were arrested at Fairmount
and arraigned before the United
States commissioner in Pitts
burgh. Mr.. Ford was picked up
in the lobby Of a Pittsburgh
hotel.
The 32-year-old Manchin was
specifically charged. along with
Meredith, with violating the Fed
eral Reserve Act. Mr.. Ford and
Mr.. Meredith also were Jointly
charged.
Two Post Bonds.
Mr.. Meredith posted a $1,000
bond on each Of two charges of
misapplying bank funds. Mr..
Manchin, arraigned on the same
charge. posted $4,000 bond.
MIR. Ford was jailed when he
was unable to post $4,000 bond.
The FBI agent said Mr.. Ford
and Mr.. Manchin both admitted
to FBI agents that they wrote
checks drawn on the First Ma
tional Bank at Fairmont, know
ing they did not have funds on
deposit to- cover payment of the
checks. These arrests account for
all of the more than half million
dollars involved in the shortage.
We don't know yet however, Just
how the money was spent"