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The Arizona post., 1962-06-08
Goldman
Kidnop Plot
Is Revealed

VIENNA, (JTA)-A plot
foiled by the West German
Government, for the kidnap-
ping of DR.. Nahum Gold
mann and holding him in an
Arab country as a hostage to
be exchanged for Adolf Eich-
mann, was disclosed here by
the Arbeiter-Zeitung, organ
of the d o m n ant Socialist
Party.
The plan envisaged the kid
mapping of DR.. Goldman,
during a visit he had made
last summer to Bonn. The
plot had been reporte d1y
Matched by Alois Brunner, a
former Gestapo official who
had worked with Eichmann
during the war and super
viSed the deportation of Jews
from Salonika and Slovakia.
Later, at least until last No
vember, Brunner lived in Da-
maScuS under the name of
George Fischer, engaging in
the arms trade. Brunner had
been sentenced to death here
in abSentia for war crimes.
Brunner was reported as
having hired a Lebanese to
organize the kidnapping of
DR.. Goldman. He came to
Austria, carrying large sums
of money, and lived for a
time with relatives of Brun-
ner. In Austria, he discussed
the plot with prominent for
mer Nazis, including Jan Yer
belen, the former Belgian SIS
leader, who is now under ar
rest here on charges of hav-
ing committed war crimes.
During the plotting, the
Lebanese agent contacted a
former SIS officer at Ham
burg. The German Govern
ment got wind of the plot
after the Hamburg man had
been brought into the plot,
and the scheme was foiled by
West German counter-intelli-
gence. According to the news
paper, several non-Germans
involved in the plotting were,
as a result, arrested in West
Germany and expelled from
the country.
The Arizona post., 1962-06-08
Jewish Quiz Box

they fear that some pieces of
dough might be left in a raw
state on the machines and
might ferment and become
"leavened" thus putting some
parts of leavened dough into
the next piece of dough to
come through the machine.
These people would probably
be found to eat only circular
MatZoh. There are many re-
liable authorities, however,
who have given sufficient
sanction to our machine
made Matzoh and thus the
round form is not used any
more by many.
The Arizona post., 1962-06-08
Boris Snolar

The number of drop-outs of children
from Jewish schools after only year or
two continues to be very high. The Coun-
Gil of Jewish Federations and Welfare
Funds, interested in having the Jewish
communities raise the standards of Jew
ish education, is therefore pondering
what can be done about it.
The question posed by the CJFWF is
whether there is a role for Federation in
studying the problem in behalf of all the
schools to discover basic causes and sug-
gest methods of prevention. Also whether
there is a role for Federation in relation
to the parents of children who drop out
Also what Federation can do to help at
tract a large attendance of children of
high school age.
Jewish educators claim that of an es-
timated 100000 Jewish children of high
school age, only about 10000 receive any
form of secondary Jewish education Why
has the Jewish school so little retention
The Arizona post., 1962-06-08
Boris Smolar
The School Drop-out Problem

power for them? Why do so many par
ents fail to appreciate the need for sec
ondary Jewish education for their adoles-
cent children? Why are they reluctant to
support such programs?
The educators claim that Jewish lead
ership is not sufficiently interested in
strengthening Jewish education However,
it is no secret that one of the Obstacles
perhaps the major OBSTACLES the serious
shortage in trained teachers. The CJFWF
is therefore, trying to ascertain what can
Federation do to provide high quality
teacher training for all Jewish schools
in the community. Also, how Federation
can improve the status of the profession
as well as to slow down the high rate of
teacher turnover.
The CJFWF is similarly interested in
the question as to whether grants from
Federation to establish scholarships for
training Jewish educators could become
part of long-range plan.
The Arizona post., 1962-06-08

conflict with the Church'S
doctrine of the brotherhood
of man." the memorandum
stresses. It then draws atten-
ton to "a lie G a ii ons by
churches in various parts of
the world of ritual crimes by
Jews. The ch arg IS, the
COJO says, were perpetuated
in inscriptions, pictorial rep
reservations, and even in
commemorative services.
1t expresses doubt whether
those who saw such inscrip-
tions or attended such serv-
ices were aware that they
had been "the subject Of re-
peated Papal condemnation"
1t then thanks the Pope for
his recent historic decision
to emove Objectionable
phrases from the liturgy.
The Arizona post., 1962-06-08
Bomb Exploded
At Home OF
RothschiId

PARIS, CJTA)-A bomb
believed to have been
planted by the OAS, the
secret French rebel force
opposed to Algerian indie
pendence, was eXplo d e d
Monday at the country
home of Baron James de
Rothschild, at Compiegnes.
Damage was caused to
the home, but no one was
injured. The Baron and his
entire family were home
at the time the explosive
went off. The bombing is
believed here to have been
caused by Baron de Roths-
child's support of President
de Gaulle's Algerian policy.
The Arizona post., 1962-06-08

anti-J eWiSh references from
Catholic texts, liturgies, in
scriptions and pictorial rep
reservations, was signed by
all constituent member
groups of the COJO-World
Conference of Jewish Organi-
Zations-With the exception
of the Board of Deputies of
British Jews.
DIR. Nahum G oil d m a n n,
president of the World Jew
ish Congress, and Label Katz,
world pre- sid t of B'nai
Birth, are co-chairmen of the
COLO They expressed
the hope that although the
memorandum is addressed to
Pope John in person, it
would be sent to the Ecumen-
ical Council with the Pope's
approval. The memorandum
states that world JeWry is
deeply convinced" that the
time has come for a SuS-
tanned effort to master this
anti-Semitism - on the
part of all who believe in
human rights.
'We think" the memoran-
dunn says, that the struggle
against anti-Semitism is the
struggle for emancipation of
all mankind. The memoran-
dunn points out that if COJO
addressed itself to the Cath
olic Church in particular, it
is because of certain refer
ences to Jews in Catholic lit
urgical texts.
The Arizona post., 1962-06-08

THE TIDE of public opinion continued to mount. Bar
associations heard from in great number Chiefs of
Police throughout the land stated the TVS The Law and
Mr. Jones' had strengthened respect for order The
Gladstone Missouri that he and his entire
Gil had successfully platform suggested-n seq
ment from the pen of Sy Gobnerg stating that in
public office liable legal action if they do live
up campaign promises When the show completed its
production schedule the producer had alone
ceived $4,000 letters from their FANS the network
the ad agency and the FEC total of 335OOO protests
The power of 100000 individual voices brought "The
Law and Mr. Jones" back to the air this spring Com
berg didn't disappoin his audience pulled punches
his striving for human understanding among people
of this country
When last year the ABC network show Messrs Com
berg and Whmore dropped from the program 100000
viewers Zone percent of the nations 100000 television
didn't hesitate take pen protest
the decision. Today Gomberg tells of the
celaon of "The Law and Mr. Jones'" How many letters
will be received this time?
The Arizona post., 1962-06-08
By Rabbi Samuel j. Fox

DN 1NdOUl odIhAuCl u AoA
Question: Why do some
people insist upon eating
round MatZOh?
Answer: Since the Bible
EXODUS 12:39) speaks of
'Uggot Matzoh," the term
"Uggot" is taken to mean cir
cular forms and thus round
Matzoh are used by some. Of
course, originally, all the
Matzoh were round since
such is the simplest form
when making them by hand.
There are some people who
still refuse to eat Matzoh
made by machines because
The Arizona post., 1962-06-08
"It is unfortunately not to

1T is unfortunately not to
be denied that the ignorant,
or malicious, may misunder-
stand, distort, and exploit
such references, foment hat
red of others and promote
The Arizona post., 1962-06-08

1T WAS IN 1860 that Gomberg devised the formal for
"The Mr. JONES'" taormade for his friend actor
Whtmore The series bowed in October 1860 and
we'll received because it had something important to
in itself rarity in vdeo 1t combined purposefuness
with of entertainment values setting up
complex situations economically without subpos of super
fous characters.
"The Law and Mr. Jones" built the network to a
of "A share audience 1t with little
surprise Gomberg, when he learned in March of 1861
that the show being renewed for the next
finding it impossible to pin down Once the news
the cancellation out the reaction began to set in
spontaneously TV editors asked their readers to write in
and express their feelings and quickly thousands of letters
ping in Gombergs office The Los Angeles City
Council passed resolution endorsing the moral significance
the Cancelled series State Attorney General Stanley Mos
wired his agreement with the sentiment
The Arizona post., 1962-06-08
Contents OF Letter
To EcumenicuI
Council Revealed
BY BORIS SMOLAR

NEW YORK (JTA)-The contents of the memorandum
submitted by Jewish organizations the forthcoming Ecu
Council convened by Pope John XIII in Rome
October this year now be revealed.
The memorandum, appealing for the elimination of
The Arizona post., 1962-06-08

GOMBERG TELLS me that he created the character of
Abraham Lincoln Jones, to Identify him.
self with relentless struggle waged in the courts for truth
and decency His hero fights for the right to dissent for
twopary PRESS against newspaper monopoes he points
UP iniusces prevailing laws such the preventing
inermarrage between Indians and Caucasans Jones deals
with the problem of dope traffic. illustrating the
of the addict himself who is sick person often mis-
used criminals He attacks discrimination against profeS
sional women; of minorties restricted
deals In of the 13 films televsed this season.
omberg of racial intolerance
dealing with hatemonger who shoots down Puerto Rican
because he is different
During my chat with Gomberg, he told me that he
New York and first to California around 1888
to study at USC two years later winning the "Appoiad"
contest for his play jackson White Jackson Black deal
ing with human understanding against the background of
Revolutionary War Enlisting in the Air Force after
Pearl Harbo he started play writing after the wars
end, winning Academy Award nomination in 1850 for
When Willie Comes Marching Home"
The Arizona post., 1962-06-08
Hollywood Report
Liberalism Cancels
Popular W Show
Hollywood Report
BY HERBERT G. LUFT

HOLLYWOOD -(JTA)-Sy Gomberg, writerproducer
The Law and Mr. JONES' ABCs TV network show, is a
nonconfomis at heart who knows of taboos Perhaps
this is the his series to be Cancelled for the second
time completed this only 13 out of total
26 dramazations contracted for-the last Poor
Eddy Dead dealing with the blacstng tactics of the
righwing John Birch Society which labels man
a traitor because he has supported the United Nations
Evening star., 1962-01-28

400 q METROPOLITAN MOVIE.
IVA Hours "The Champion" le49
Kirk Douglas, Ruth Roman.
q ISSUES AND ANSWERS.
Public Affairs. Guest: Ambassador ches-
ter Bowles
q WONDERFUL WORLD OF GOLF.
Sports. l Hour Torakich "Pete" Ma
kamura, Japan's ace professional links
man, VS.. Bob Rosburg, hard-hitting United
States representative, battle It out over
the Kasumgaseki Golf Course in Tokyo.
Japan. FiIm.)
4:30 q DECEMBER BRIDE.
Comedy. Spring Byngton stars.
500 q THE NATIONS FUTURE.
Public Affairs. l Hour. "ShouId Medical
Care For the Aged Be Linked to Social
Security" Guests: Senators Clinton P.
Anderson and John C. Tower.
q WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS.
1Hs Hours. The Oregon TnvitationaI Track
Meet, at Memorial Coliseum, Portland.
Oregon.
q AMATEUR HOUR.
Variety Talent is from the D. c. area:
The Aerotones. the Doubletones, Andret-
tes, David Wojtowicz, George Bossard,
Barbara Frank and cathy oliver.
$50 @ Mr.. DISTRICT ATTORNEY.
Crime. David Brian stars.
q COLLEGE BOWL.
Quiz De Pauw Univ (Green Castle, lnd0
VS.. Brigham Univ (Provo Utah.
Evening star., 1962-01-28

Afternoon, Cont.
loo q BOWLING TEENS.
Sports. l Hour Participants from 1913
years of age bowl against a mystery
score in each frame.
q SUNDAY AFTERNOON MOVIE.
/ Hour "Men In Her Life" 1857
Phyllis Kirk.
l:30 q THE CATHOLIC HOUR.
Religion. Meditation" drama by
Father Dominic Rover o.P. dealing with
group Of contemporary American
figures.
200 q VICTORY AT SEA.
Navy Mare Nostrum"
q CHAMPIONSHIP BRIDGE.
Game Howard and Bee Schonken VS..
Charles and Peggy Solomon.
q THE 25TH HOUR.
Hobbies. Sky diving and giders will be
featured. Mary Beth Larrabee, hostess.
2:30 q NBc OPERA COMPANY.
Color. 21a Hours. "Don Giovanni"
starring cesare Siep (Don Giovanni,
Leontyne Price donna Anna). Judith
Raskin (ZerIna), John Reardon INA
setto). tRepeat of April 10, 1e6o)
q THE CALIF0RNIANS.
Drama. Adam Kennedy stars.
q MEET THE PROFESSOR.
Public Affairs. Guest: Arthur Mizener,
professor of English, Cornell University
q SUNDAY SPORTS SPEcTACUR.
Sports. IVA Hours. Harlem GIobetrot-
ters play the Washington Generals in a
game taped December 10 at Fort Myer.
Virginia.
300 q THE CHEATERS.
Drama. John Ireland stars.
q DIRECTIONS ~.
Public Affairs. Portrait of MetropoIi-
tan Opera star Jan Peerce
3:30 @ FOUR JUST MEN.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-16
Flight Goes on

In the main Mercury Control room,
the ordered buSy-ness of a flight day
continued. A dozen or so scientists,
technicians and engineers sat at con-
soles where blinking lights told host
of fast-paced tales. Across the front
of the room was spread map of the
world, a capsule shaped dot moving
across it's surface as Friendship-7
moved through space. To the left and
right of the map were banks of charts
showing, minute-by- minute, the con-
ditions Of the astronaut and the major
elements of his Spacecraft.
Shepard was the first to react to
Saunders news. Kraft was for the
moment occupied with the immediate
flight situation. The ground commu-
nicator jotted down Segment 81"
and then did double take. His heart
skipped beat A signal on Segment
81, If accurate, meant that Friend
ship-7's heat shield had come loose
while the spacecraft was still in orbit.
To understand the significance of
this and why the signal so shook
Shepard-it is necessary to know a
little about the Mercury capsule and
its heat shield.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-16

capsule and its occupant-With dis
astrous results.
This vital shield was not fixed
firmly to the blunt end of Friend
Ship-7 because it served a double
purpose: 1t was to be an insulator on
re-entry, and a shock absorber on
landing. At certain point after re-
entry, it was supposed to drop
loose and hang beneath the capsule
as the bottom of an air-filled landing
bag. On water landings, such as are
normal in Project Mercury, the land
ing bag is not essential. 1t would be,
however, if an emergency caused the
capsule to come down on hard ground
The Segment 81 meter on Bill
Saunders board had to do with the
condition of the heat shield. When
Saunders first noticed it, on the first
pass over Canaveral, Segment 81
seemed to be saying that the shield
had come loose in outer space, and
was hanging in landing position. If
that were true, things couldn't be
worse.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-16
Titan 2 Hits
urget on
First Flight

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.
Mar. Is (AP).-The most pow
erful United States military
rocket ever flown, the towering
Titan 2, successfully passed its
maiden test flight today,
streaking to a South Atlantic
target more than 5000 miles
away.
The success, announced by the
Air Force, bolstered Defense
Department hopes of fully de-
veloping the blockbuster weap-
on in about a year and gave
tremendous boost to future
United States manned and un-
manned space exploration
plans.
Titan 2 is ticketed as the
launching vehicle for several
space programs, including the
two-man Gemini space capsule
and the Dyna-Soar manned
bomber.
The Air Force announcement
said the 103-foot vehicle met
all test detectives on the 30
minute flight.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-16
The Vital Shield

friendship was a cone shaped
metal can, about feet across the
base and about feet high. In orbit,
and when returning to earth, it
travelled blunt end first.
To protect the capsule and its occu-
pant from the terrific fractional heat
of re-entering the atmosphere at
1900 miles an hour, this blunt end
was covered entirely by heat shield.
The shield was a smoothly curved
surface of glass fibers embedded in
a special resin. It had the strange
property Of boiling itself - and the
worst of the re-entry heat-off into
space.
In normal re-entry from orbit, the
center Of the heat shield reaches
5000 degrees and its outer edges
approach 1000. If there were no heat
shield to carry them off, these tenn
peratures would be imposed on the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-16
Mrs. Rockefeller
Gets Divorce for
Mental CrueIN'

RENO, Mar. 16 (AP).-Mrs
Nelson Rockefeller, 81, divorced
the New York Governor today
in proceedings that took little
more than 10 minues.
The divorce was granted by
District Judge Grant Bowen on
grounds of mental cruelty, thus
ending a 31-year marriage.
Mrs. Rockefeller arrived in a
station wagon from a guest
ranch near Reno where she put
in the required 6 weeks resi-
dency for a "quickie" Nevada
divorce. She left in another car
driven by her lawyer, William
WOODBURY..
She was accompanied by her
son, Stephen, who arrived here
Wednesday.
Mr.. WOODBURY. said Mrs.
Rockefeller would have no COM
ment about anything, including
her plans.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-16
PuzzIing Signal

The reading on Segment 81 didn't
make sense to Shepard, and it didn't
make sense to Chris Kraft, either.
Neither man could see any way for
the heat shield to come loose if the
retro rocket package, which was
mounted on it, was still in place. And
conversely, if the rockets were not in
place, the question of Glenn's re-entry
was probably academic, anyway, be-
cause the "retros" were needed to
slow him down from orbital speed so
he could come back to earth.
These retro-rockets sit in round
aluminium container called a retro
pack" on the outside of the heat
shield. The pack is held firmly to the
capsule itself-not to the heat shield
by three stout straps of the exceed
ingly strong metal titanium. In effect,
these straps serve to anchor the heat
shield to the capsule as long as the
retropack is on.
So reason said the retropack must
go before the heat shield could drop
loose, and all indications were that
the pack was still in place with its
rockets still unfired.
But still, there was that signal on
Segment 81 ...
Kraft pondered the signals signifi-
canoe, trying to convince himself that
it was false. He asked Saunders to
report the signal strength, and Saun-
derS replied, Eighty per cent"
Far from dispelling his fears, this
news sobered Kraft further. He knew
that If everything was well, Segment
81 should be reading about 10 per
cent. What were the alternatives?
Zero per cent might mean a bad
meter; 100 per cent would mean a
grounded circuit; 40 or even so per
cent might mean a dirty switch. But
80? Eighty per cent should mean only
one thing: The heat shield was loose.
Meanwhile the minutes were ticking
Continued on Page AS, Col. 1
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-16
SPECIAL REPORT
SEGMENT ST.
Tiny Switch Caused Grim 3 Hours
For Mercury Spocemen
By WILLIAM HINES
Star Science Writer

For three narrowing hours last
month, the life of a man and the
prestige of Nation hung in doubt.
In this period-so brief yet so long
Astronaut John Glenn made the final
two of his three earth orbits while his
colleagues on the ground wondered
whether they would be able to get him
back. Had they failed, not only would
a brave man have persisted, but this
country's stature in the Space Age
would have suffered tremendously.
This is the story of Friendships
heat shield, told by the men most
intimately involved. 1t is story of
suspense and high adventure on an
unknown frontier, of inciSive detec-
tive work and cold engineering logic,
of Steely calm under stress. It is an
adventure story, told for the first
time, that will have an enduring place
in the annals of the early Space Age.
The three-hour crisis of the heat
shield began at 1920 am. on February
20, just as Glenn was passing over the
East Coast at the end of his first orbit.
In room in the building at Cape
Canaveral housing Mercury Control,
a technician named Bill Saunders was
scanning bank of 80 small meters,
each of which gave some information
on the state of affairs aloft.
Suddenly his eyes froze on a meter
numbered 81. He spoke into a tele-
phone that linked him with Mercury
Flight Director Christopher Columbus
CChris") Kraft and Astronaut Alan
B. Shepard, who was the Capes voice
contact with his fellow spaceman in
orbit:
1--WE got valid signal on Segment
ST."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-16
REDS HELP AMERICAN
Rore Drug Flown to U. S.

the Embassy called, Mr.. Schwei-
ker said, to tell him the drug
was being obtained.
When Mr.. Malakhin delivered
the drug to Representative
Schweiker, the legislator said
he asked the price. The diplo-
mat replied, Mr.. Schweiker
said, that there was no charge
and they were happy to nelp
a person who was fatally i'll"
1T is very heartwarming to
know that in spite of our cold
war differences" Mr.. Schweiker
said, "the Russians were will
ing to send a drug to our
country at no charge to help
a critically ill American citizen
for whom there seemed to be
no relief"
The name of the patient was
mot disclosed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-16

Russian Embassy. The legisla-
tor said he Immediately for
warded it to the Valley Forge
Heart Research Foundation for
the benefit of the woman,
fatally stricken with the dis
ease.
Hodgkin'S disease is a pain
less and progressive enlarge
ment of the lymph glands which
begins in the neck and usually
spreads. Mr.. Schweiker said he
learned of the elderly woman's
case when a constituent in
Lansdale, Pa, wrote him she
could not obtain the one drug
that would prolong her life,
Sarcolysin.
The Congressman, informed
that the rare drug was avail
able in Russia, wrote directly
| to the Embassy. A week latel
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-16

The life of an elderly Ameri-
can woman suffering from
Hodgkins' disease may be pro-
longed because of an act of
mercy by Soviet Russian au-
thorities.
Representative Schweiker,
Republican of Pennsylvania,
disclosed today that the Rus
sian Embassy here gave him
"a supply of the rare drug
Sarcolysin, apparently flown
from the Soviet Union as a
result of the Congressman
request.
Mr.. Schweiker, whose dis
trict is in the Norristown area
near Philadelphia, said the
drug was brought to his office
Wednesday by Petr M. Malak.
hin, a first secretary of thu