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The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1954-01-08
LIFE OF One OF AMERICAN JEWRY'S GREATEST
PHILANTHROPIST IS DRAMATIZED
JUDAH T0UR0, CENTENARY OF WHOSE DEATH WILL BE
MARKED THIS MONTH is HERO OF NEW FILMSTRIP.

Portrayed in the filmstrip is the manner in
which Touro contributed $4,000 to make the con-
struction of Bunker Hill Monument possible and
the events which led to the founding of famed
Touro Hospital in New Orleans The filmstrip is
the third to be created by the Reform congrega-
tional union in connection with the forthcoming
tercentenary of Jewish life in America. The pre-
vious two dealt with the arrival of the first group
of Jews in New Amsterdam and the career of
Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise.
The text of the Touro filmstrip was written by
DR.. Bertram W. Korn, rabbi of Keneseth Israel
Congregation, Philadelphia. The research and the
script were prepared by DR.. Emanuel Gamoran,
director of the Commission on Jewish Education;
the filmstrip was directed by Samuel Grand head
of the Unions Department of Audio-V Visual Edu-
cation William L. Steinel and David Stone were
the illustrators.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1954-01-08

The Security Council, which
had been assured by DR.. Charles
Malik of The Lebanon, that an
agreement was 'just around the
corner" discovered last week that
there was no agreement and none
was in sight. In fact, the Council
was so far from agreement that
it took the irritated delegates two
hours to decide the date of their
next meeting.
The Arabs. backed by the So
Wet Union and Pakistan, had
fought hard to secure amendment
of the three-power resolution to
give Syria a veto right over de-
velopments in the demilitarized
zone of Israel. But the United
States delegation refused to sur
render on this point and the at
tempt failed.
Nor could the three powers
muster the seven votes necessary
for adoption of their resolution
which would have referred the
complaint back to truce chief
Major Gen. Vagn Bennike and,
presumably, have opened the way
for speedy resumption by Israel
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1954-01-08

On January Is, American Jewry will mark
the one hundredth anniversary of the death of
Judah Touro, greatest of American Jewish philan-
thropsts
The man who helped underwrite the Bunker
Hill Monument and gave gifts to churches, syna-
gogues and hospitals throughout his lifetime and
after his death, is the "hero" of filnstrip re-
Gently produced by the Union of American Hebrew
Congregations
It was on January Is, 1884, that the great New
Orleans bachelor merchant breathed his last.
Shortly thereafter, his will was made known. In
it he bequeathed half million dollars-an enor-
nous sum in those days-to host of charitable
organizations Catholic and Protestant churches
and orphanages, virtually every American syna-
gogue then in existence, to hospitals and aims
houses in Jerusalem. These gifts were in addition
to the many benefactions made during his life
time.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1954-01-08
Anti-Jewish Posters Put
Up In Miami

MIAMI, Fla, (JTA) = Dade
County Sheriff Thomas Kelly
launched an investigation last
week into the appearance of
placards in the city linking
Jews to communism. Similar
signs were plastered on poles
and buildings along the Tamil
ami Trail between Miami and
Fort Myers. A few weeks ago,
whole district of the city of
St. Petersburg was plastered
with similar signs apparently
from the same source as those
now appearing here.
A Florida state law makes it
criminal offense to put up
posters or distribute printed
material tending to expose any
religious group to. hatred, con-
tempt or ridicule unless the
true name and address of the
person responsible for the
printing and distribution is
shown on the material.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1954-01-08
Jewish Writers Receive
Awards in Mexico

MEXICO CITY, (JTA) = Two
Israeli writer's, Isaiah Spiegel and
Mendel Mann, and the Argentine
Jewish journalist, Sirncha Snef,
received last week the annual
literary awards of the Xvi Kessel
Fund for Jewish Literature. The
fund is administered by the Cen
trail Jewish Community of Mex
leo.
Mr.. Spiegel received the prize
for his book of short stories and
ghetto life in LODI. Mr.. Mann re-
ceived the award for his ''The
Awakened Earth" Mr.. Sneh was
given the prize for his volume on
World War II.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1954-01-08

If work on the Bnot Yaakov pro-
ject.
VishinskY Attacks Project AS
'Imperialist'
Angry opposition to the three
power resolution came from the
Soviet Unions Andrei Y. Vishin-
sky who revealed, for the first
time, that the Soviet stand was
not motivated by pro-Arab or
anti-Israel sentiments but was
simply phase of the Soviet anti
American program.
The Kremlin. Mr.. VishinskY re-
vealed. considered the Jordan
River power project as a venture
of American imperialism and saw
the whole issue as an American
attempt to secure control Of the
natural resources of the Middle
East.
In this situation, the Pakistan
delegate, supported by the Soviet
! Union, sought an indefinite post
ponement of consideration by the
,, Council of the Syrian complaint
while Britain and France, antici-
pating better luck for their reso-
luton in the reconstructed Coun-
Gil, held out for a meeting in
early January.
Alexis KYrou of Greece innme-
diatelY pointed out that the pre-
vious Council resolution had en-
joined Israel against resuming
work on The Bnot Yaakov project
while the case was under urgent
consideration by the Council. He
asked how the urgency implied
here could be reconciled with a
sine die ADJOURNMENT.
The Chinese delegate then pro-
posed a compromise which would
require the Council to meet again
on the Syrian-Israel issue some
time between January 18th and
the 18th. The British delegate i'm
mediately accepted this compro-
mise and withdrew his motion.
The Pakistan delegate also with
drew his sine die ADJOURNMENT
proposal and the Chinese proposal
was carried with the Soviet Union
and Chile abstaining from voting.
When the Council next meets.
Dr.. Malik of The Lebanon will be
the president. Palxistan. which
strongly supported the Arab posi-
tion. will have given up its seat
to New Zealand. Turkey will have
replaced Greece and Brazil will
replace Chile. In this set-up. the
three-power resolution is expect
ed to have much better chances Of
adoption-unless Soviet opposi-
tion to it takes the form of a veto.
The disclosure of the Soviet
motives in supporting the Syrian
position in the dispute was gen.
orally regarded as a powerful in
surance against concession to the
Arabs by the three Western
powers. A concession from the
principles expressed in their
three-power resolution would no
longer be considered as conces-
sion to the Arabs, it was pointed
out, but a backing down in the
face of Soviet opposition.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1954-01-08

Rabbi David Max Eichhorn, Di-
rector of Field Operations of the
National Jewish Welfare Boards
(JWB) Commission on Jewish
Chaplaincy, who has been elected
the new president of the Associa-
ton of Jewish Chaplains of the
Armed Forces.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1954-01-08
PLAIN TALK
BY ALFRED SEGAL
HOW TO BE A cHOCHEM

I guess I'd better be coming
home this week in this column.
I'VE been away in New York and
Viewpoints and there have been
weeks when I've gone all the way
to heaven to write about meeting
Rabbi Hillel and Akiba there and
speaking to the angels.
Yes. there are days w hen a
columnist has to get cosmic in his
search for something to write of.
But this week 1 shall come home
right among my own people. And
as for Hillel and Akiba, good old
souls that they are, well, aren't
there some worthwhile men left
on the earth of whom to write.
BY these meditations I come to
the Chochem Club which is of
our town-Chochem Club. Wise
Guys. that is. when translated
into plain English. The Chochem
Club would feel embarrassed to
be set up as high as Akiba and
F1illel. They would tell me that.
after all. they are just gin rummY
players who meet every Thursday
evening in their various homes to
have a good time with gin game.
But those boys really have got
something far beyond their skill
at rummY.
So I thought that this week I
should tell on them in all the
cities in which this column cir
culate; in order the gin rummy
players elsewhere may catch up
with our Chochem Club and go
along with them and do likewise.
First of all. why did they call
themselves the Chochem Club
Chochomim in Hebrew plural.
that is? Il wasn't on account Of
their being expert rumrnY play
ers. though they are really good
at il. In fact. their convinced idea
is that il takes more than skill at
rummY to be a great chochem.
What's a chochem anyway? A
chochem, they may tell you, is
really more than fellow who is
deep in Talmud and can tell on
what page any paragraph occurs.
What's the real use of a chochem
who knows chapter, page and
paragraph yet doesn't know the
right way around in the maze
that's called the brotherhood of
man?
A genuine Al chochem. they
might tell you. has to be a dedi-
Gated man who knows every day
that he isn't separate person in
the world: as he gets to be a
wiser chochem he devotes him
self to the idea of being friend
of man. And what if the man to
be befriended isn't a Jew? A
chochem doesn't know Jew from
non.Jew: Jew and non-Jew are
brothers when neither has a pot
to cook in and a chochem can
see no difference between them.
The constitution of the Cho-
chem Club says that its weekly
winnings at gin shall be applied
to giving help which otherwise
might not be given.
myself first became acquain4-
ed with the Chochem Club after
a visit from one of those public
school teachers who go around
teaching invalid children in their
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1954-01-08

Sometimes / think Ben Gurion
who wants to see a lot of Ameri-
can Jews immigrate to Israel,
would get further if he stressed
Zionism less and merely appeal
ed, "Come to Israel and be a cow
boy" David Schwartz
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1954-01-08
RUSSIA OPPOSES ISRAEL'S
WATER POWER PROJECT

UNITED NATIONS. N. Y. JTA) = Israel marked time last
week hYdroelecric project the newly
reconstructed Security Council chance to
whether the Syrian complaint
against
Evening star., 1954-10-17
"MY ALL-TIME ALL-AMERICAN TEAM"
Continued from page eIecen

Gipp of Notre Dame, Clint
Frank of Yale, Eddie Mahan of
Harvard and Walter Eckersall
Of Chicago. There is no doubling
George Gipp's standing. He and
Frank were perhaps the best col
lege backs l ever saw.
The late great Knute Rockne
was known for his ability to in
spire his teams and his Lets
win this one for the Clipper is
ancient history. But it's the kind
of history that American sports
thrived on during an age when
school spirit and college try left
little place for apathy.
The night before the 1923
Army-Notre Dame game. Rock
phoned me at my home in New
York. l suggested: Hop in a cab
and come up here. We can warm
our sides by an open fire, have
spot of Tennessee milk and
watch the rest of the world go
to hell"
>0ne Last Request"
WHEN Rock settled down, he
told me: you recall Gipp. He
died Of pneumonia. practically in
my arms, eight years ago.
"A moment before he died.
Gipp looked up at me and said,
Rock. know I'm going :. but
Id like to make one last request
:. some day, when the odds are
against us, ask a Notre Dame
team to win a game for me"
Then Rockne looked up at me
and said. Grant. I've never
asked the boys to pull one out for
Gipp. Tomorrow might"
At half-time next day. Army
and Notre Dame had battled TO
a scoreless tie. A sobbing band
of Fighting Irish raced out for
Evening star., 1954-10-17

the third quarter. | knew they
were playing with a twelfth man
George Gipp.
Fog Gipp
BUT Red eagle didn't see any
ghost as he circled deep behind
his own line. reversed his field
and galloped for great chunks OF
terrain. Army scored first. Notre
Dame fired right back, smashing
80 yards. and Jack Chevigny
rammed into the end zone crying,
Here's one of them. Clipper"
Finally. containing eagle close
to their own goal line. the Irish
started another drive and carried
the day. 1876. Somewhere George
Gippmust have been very happy.
l don't feel qualified to pick a
complete all-time pro team. In
the line men are shifted back and
forth too often and there are
stars for offense and defense. But
here are my picks for an all-time
college line: center - Germany
Schulz. Michigan. O6; guard
Pudge Heffeliinger, Yale. %;
guard - Herman Hickman. Ten
nessee. 32;tackle JoeStyGiahar,
West Virginia. '35; tackle - Bill
Henry, Washington and Jeffer-
son. 20; end - Don H,stsOn.
Alabama. '35; end - Bennie
Oosierbaan, Michigan, %.
But I'm sure that the best
doesn't belong to the past. 1t is
with us now. And even better
athletes will be with us on ahead.
When we arrive at the Jim
Thorpe of the Year 1000. we
should really have something.
n
Evening star., 1954-10-17
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the third quarter. | knew they
were playing with a twelfth man
George Gipp.
Evening star., 1954-10-17

NEXT WEEk: Part FO,ar Of
Mr.. Ricc's memoirs. "L.axt
Warming ia College FGOfisaII.'
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-13
Mayor Seeks 10 End
New York Pier Strike
BY the As.oeietsd Press

NEW YORK. Mar. 13.-Mayor
Robert F. Wagner has called for
meetings today with waterfront
labor leaders and employers in
hope of ending a wildcat strike
costing the shipping industry an
estimated million dollars a day.
The Mayor interviewed in the
now nine-day-old pier strike
after city business leaders yester-
day told him New York's econ
omy would be seriously hurt If
the walkout continued.
Mayor Wagner said 5000 BUSH
nesses already have been affected
and soon may begin to lay off
workers. Importers told him
millions of dollars worth of fruit
and vegetables will spoil on ships
stranded in the port.
The Commerce and Industry
Association reported thousands
of tons of shipping have been
diverted to other ports and pre-
dicted at least 10 per cent of this
business would never return to
New York.
Mayor Wagner asked for sepa-
rate meetings with union leaders
and shippers today. He said he
had definite suggestions "as to
what could be done to bring
about q truce" a
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-13
Atomic Committee to Probe
Report Of Missing Secret Data

that out Of millions Of docu-
ments" in the ,country,s atomic
installations some cannot he &C
counted for.
Mr.. Pelly said he had no indi-
cation the data was stolen by
spies. but he asked for an in
'vestigation because, he said.
"even if it's a matter of poor
housekeeping it's shocking sit
uation."
An Acc spokesman said the
commission would have nothing
to say for the time being. At
Hanford there was no imme-
date comment.
The project employs 1880
workers. Its main mission is
production of plutonium for
atomic bombs.
However. DR.. Ralph Lapp, a
scientist who worked on the
World War II Manhattan Prof.
ect, said in recent book that
material used in the first big
hydrogen blast in November,
1852. was made at Hanford, DR..
Lapp identified this material as
tritium. a heavy form of hydro
gen.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-13
Snow Vets Down Dust Clouds
Sweeping Across Five States

night and was expected to drift
southeast over the State by
morning.
Pushed along ahead of the
dust was a dense blanket of fog
that cut visibly to less than a
mile at Beaumont, Houston,
Galveston and Brownsville.
Texas had its share of high
winds. too, with gusts of up to
so and 70 miles an hour reported
at Dalhart, at the top of the
Panhandle.
Elsewhere there were gusts up
to So miles an hour in Oklahoma,
SO at Cheyenne, Wyo., and Al at
Pueblo, Colo.
A gust of 100 m.p.h. was re-
ported at Fairfax Airport in
Kansas City. Kans.
In Colorado and Wyoming the
snowstorm was diminishing after
leaving UP to six inches of snow
at Casper and Lander, Wyo., and
four inches at Akron, Colo.
An estimated 300 motorists
were stranded at various points
in the two States, and 40 Colo
RADIO schools were closed.
In Nebraska the moving snow
storm also was disrupting trans
portation. One hundred and
fifty passengers from six buses
transferred to trains at Sidney
last night. At Lincoln. the site
OF a State basketball tournament
and Democratic Party meet
ing, hotels and motels had to
turn away stranded travellers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-13
Manion Calls Mccarthy
A Godsend 10 Country
BY the Associated Pres.

CHICAGO, Mar. 13.-Clarence
E.. Manion, who was forced to
resign his Government post
under White House pressure last
month; has described Senator
Mccarthy. Republican, of Wis
consin. as "a GodSend to the
country"
Mr.. Manion, former dean of
Notre Dame University Law
School. was ousted February II
as chairman of the Commission
on Intergoyernmental Relations
to which President Eisenhower
had appointed him. He blamed
the action on his support of the
Bricker amendment.
Mr.. Manion. a Democrat, said
at a news conference when asked
to comment on Mccarthy:
1T is just as important to get
the Communists out of Govern
ment as it is to get them out of
Indo- China, Korea or Western
Europe. Mccarthy is doing a
good job"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-13

raphers poster people to make
them smile and people do it and
the next time they see their
picture in the paper it may be
in connection with some aw-
full disaster and there they are
grinning like it is the funniest
thing in the world"
That's something else and
anyhow people don't have to
grin if they don't want to. Seems
to me you're clear of the track,
Old-Timer."
Il suppose maybe ! am. But
get tired of seeing these pic
lures of people letting Mccarthy
hug them-people that hate
everything he stands for or. at
least. say they do. And I get
tired of reading that the Presi-
dent and Mccarthy met at dim
ner last night and exchanged
pleasant greetings and all that
sort of thing"
so you take it out on the
photographers"
We'll. somebody's got to do
something about our one-man
national menace and if no.
body else will, maybe it really
is up to the photographers.
They know a phony when they
see one. Far as that's con-
cerned. so do the other Sena-
tors, but it is pretty clear
they are not going to do any,
thing. Look at those rules
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-13
vogeIer 5 JaiIer Gets
Life Term Himself;
Reds Convict Others
BY the Asseeiotsd Press

BUDAPEST, Mar. The
government announced today
former political police chief, 1t.
Gen. Gabor Peter. purged from
his job IA months ago, has been
sentenced to life imprisonment
on charges of "anti-state and
anti-people crimes"
The brief government COM
munique said former Minister
Of Justice Gyula Decsi also was
convicted in the same supreme
military court and sentenced to
nine years in prison. A third
purged official in the Justice
Ministry. Istvan Thar. got II
years. the announcement said.
The announcement said there
were others on the accused
stand but did not name them.
Nor did it give details of the
charges or say when the trial
was held.
rESt OMclal WOr0.
Although it had been known
in Budapest that Peter and
Decsi were purged with several
others in January, 1853, this
was the first official word of
their fate. Decsi. a young law
yer. was one of the first or
ganizers and chief officials Of the
state security Office, which is
charged with protecting this
Communist governed country
from sabotage and espionage.
Peter figured prominently in
many purge after the Com
muniSt takeover in Hungary
after World War II. His name
first cropped up as spectator
at the trial of Hungary's Roman
Catholic prelate, Josef Cardinal
Mindszenty, who was sentenced
to life imprisonment in 1949 on
charges of espionage and black
marketing. 1t was Peter who
ordered the arrest and later the
release of American businessman
Robert Vogeler.
Anti-Semitic Victims.
Mr.. vogeler served part Of a
10-year prison term on charges
of spying while he managed the
Budapest Offices of the Interna-
tional Telegraph and Telephone
Co. before the Hungarians par
doned him.
Peter and Decsi-both Jews
were reported swept up in the
vast wave of anti-Semitic purges
which hit the Communist world
early last year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-13

The David Schine case in
wolves the course only of Chief
Counsel Roy Cohn since Nc
Carthy, originally at least,
had little or no part in these
maneuvers to make military
life easy for the former unpaid
aide. But his enemies and de-
tractors are bound tc make
COINS ipdiscretions pay good
dividends in their anti-Mc-
earthly campaign.
In the meantime, the Sena-
tors devotees throughout the
country would see in these at
tacks only one thing: that
the members Of McCarthy's
staff have become sacred
cows"-a breed of citizens Me-
Carthy himself has SO bitterly
opposed. Hence. the advice of
his colleagues to quietly dis
pense with the brilliant but
immature Roy's services be-
fore he appeared to be forced
to do so.
This, say these friends Of
the Senator. would have been
good politics. Mccarthy, be-
cause of his popularity in the
country. is still the white hope
Of the Republicans to win
some doubtful seats in both
houses, provided, however,
that his popularity is un-
scathed. 1t is believed that
nothing that his bitter enc
mics could say about his ham
ding of the Communist and
diSloyalty cases could affect
McCarthy's stand among his
millions of followers. But the
pressing demands of Cohn for
the ''coddling" of his friend
Schine by the Army is an en-
tirely different matter. It is
said that every man in poll
tics is entitled to three major
mistakes. This was Nc
Carthy'S first.