Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1961-07-14

              COLUMBUS EDITION
COLUMBUS EDITION
Vol. 39, No. 28
FRIDAY, JU
Israel To Shoot Another Rocket Within 2 Weeks
.JERUSALEM, (JTA) — Israel will take a long step forward as the latest member of the intcrnntional space club by firing within fhe next two weeks a second .sounding rocket much more sophisticated technically than thc firsf one.
Reliable sources, disclosing the next step in the planned series of weather sounding .shots planned by Israel, said the second firing would seek to hoist an instrument package capable ot transmitting data to ground stations.
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THE FXIJST IwVUNCH, a spec¬ tacular technological triumph for .so .small a country, sent up a canister of sodium which exploded at the top of the shoot 52 miles and sent out a white cloud. A number of observation posts photographed tho trajectory of the initial flight of thc ,550-pound soljd-fuel rocket and of thc effect of wind and pressure on tho drift¬ ing man-made sodium cloud. The rocket was designed and built by Israeli scientists.
Tile successful firing of tho multi-stage rockot made Israel thc first counrty in thc Middle East to fire and track a rocket. The solid fuel was made from materials available in Israel.
PRIME MimsTER David Bbn- Gurion, who was! one of the offic¬ ials who watched Israel's pioneer shoot from a secret base on thc Mediterranean shore, was flulck to deny thc immediate worldwide speculation as to the military po¬ tential of tho firing. He called the shot "purely a scientific achieve¬ ment and device." He declined to comment on questions as to Whether the rocket, dubbed Shavit II, could be adapted  for military
use, saying only that "first we shall have to see tf and what the scientists will do.
Scientific sources, discussing the major aspect of the launch, said that the development of in effec¬ tive solid fuel from local re¬ sources was the most important development, indicating this had important   strategic   Implications.
The news of the first firing took Israelis by complete surprise. Kol Israel flashed the news and Israeli evening papers rushed through special editions.
BONDS AID U.S. PLANT IN ISRAEL
With the aid of Israel Bonds funds thc Government ot Israel recently extended a loan to enable the Miles Laboratories of America to establish a $2,000,000 citric acid plant in Israel. Photo shows Finance Minister Levi Eshkol laying the cornerstone of the new enterprise, which will be located In the Industrial zone at Haifa Bay. Thc new plant will produce citric acid to be utilized in food, pharmaceutical and plastic industries. Half of its 1,500 ton output will bo sold overseas, Israel Bond investments have enabled tho I.srael Treasury to provide capital for new enterprises throughout the country, including many participated in by for¬ eign private investors.
^jchmann Admits Knowing Hitler's Destruction Plan
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Adolf Eichmann admitted here today, under relentless cross-examination, that he knew Adolf Hitler had proclaimed his intent to exterminate the Jews "regardless of who wins the war."
Pale but calm and unruffled at this afternoon's session of his trial, after the morning sitting was recessed because he claimed he had been ill and sleepless all night, tho former Gestapo colonel also admitted that he capie to Pales-
Two Columbus Teen Agers To Speak At B.B.Y.O. Conference
Two Ck)lumbus teen agers were selected to speak at thc B'nai B'rith Youth Conference which opened yesterday at the University of Illinois. The conference will run through Sunday.
Ron Solove, 16 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Solove, 14<3 S. C!a.ssingham, (Olumbus, Ohio, will deliver a paper on "Jewish Tcen- Agers Careers and Future Life Plans."
KON, CURKENTLy A senior at Bexley  High  Sohool,  has  been president of Pops Dworkin Chap¬ ter of the Aleph Zadik Aleph. He
is active In his community and interested in sports, news writing, and in the field of law.
Sandi Katz, 18 year old daughter of Mr and Mrs. A. E. Katz, 462 Napoleon Ave., Columbus, Ohio', wiil deliver a paper at the B'nai B'rith   Youth  Conference  on   the
"American Teen-Agers Know¬ ledge, Attitude and Views about Israel."
SANDI, 'WHO HAS been in the B'nai B'rith Girls for four years, is past 1st Vice-President. She has won a scholarship for Israel Sum¬ mer Institute and a BBG of the Year award. She is interested In
dramatics, English, and social work. .She is also active in her community.
The conference at the Universi¬ ty of Illinois is featuring a variety ol informal educational, recreat¬ ional, social, intcr-cuitural, and religious activities. Two hundred and fifty young people of teenage are representing their local com¬ munities from seven mid-west states: Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri, (Colorado, Wyoming, and New Mexico.
Tho theme of the District Insti¬ tute is a reply to President Ken- ned.v's challenge to Youth —¦ "And Youth Replies— I Can!"
tine In 1937 to confer with thc anti-Jewish, former Grand Mufti. But, he insisted, reports that he had made derogatory remarks against Jews at tho time were false.
WHEN COURT OPEND this morning, Eichmann sent a note to his counsel. Dr. Robert Servatius, asserting that he was too weak to stand cross-examination. Fol¬ lowing a 15 minute conference in chambers between the three judges and counsel for both sides, the recess was granted. Eichmann had said in his note that he had spent "a sleepless, depressive night." A police physician con¬ firmed the fact that the prisoner had not slept all night.
But when the court reconvened in the afternoon, Eichmann spar¬ red lustily with Attorney General Gideon Hausner, making admis¬ sions now and then but always ex¬ plaining his own good intent coupled with his zeal to perform faithfully the orders of his su¬ periors.
EXPLAINING HIS awareness of Hitler's promise, early in World War n, that Jews would be ex¬ terminated, Eichmann said that, at that time, "extermination did not mean physical liquidation." In Prance and in England, he main- tEiined, "we tried to reduce to zero our enemies' reslstence, so that they would fade into oblivion— but not physical oblivion."
IDlchmann pursued his main line
TALENTEO ACTRESS
Amazed By Hum Of Jewish Activities
David Kotzln
TRIP WINNER WILL REACH ISRAEL SOON
David Kotzin, recipient ot the Herman .Schottenstein Meniorial Award, arrives in Israel on July 20 after a week-end in Paris and a Mediterranean cruise. He is a meniber of tlie "Summer in Is¬ rael" group sponsored by the Ye¬ shiva University Synagogue Youth Council. Tlie tour will take mem¬ bers of the group through the length .'ind breadth of Israel —r from  Metullah to Eilat.
David, a member of the Agudas Achim Youth group will spend a week at the Bar-Ilan Uni¬ versity of Aamat-Gan for lec¬ tures and classes in conversational Hebrew, Jewish laws and observ¬ ances, and the study of Israel's geography and archaeology as they   relate  to   the  Bible.
David's group wiil also partici¬ pate in a number of joint activi¬ ties with Israeli youth and spend several days at a Kibbutz. The group will also visit oriental com¬ munities and be received by gov¬ ernment and reUgious leaders.
David is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Ezra Kotzin ot 29 N. Stan¬ wood Rd.
BY IRA N. STONE Special Chronicle Writer
"My, but I've never seen anything like this back East!" The speaker's striking dark eyes were opened wide with amaze¬ ment as she surveyed the bustling summer evening activities stretch¬ ed over 20 acres of The Jewish Center. "This is terrific!"
IT WAS RUTH JAROSLOW, the talented New York actress talking. In town this week to play the Gertrude Berg role tn "A Majority of One" out at Play- housc-on-the-Green, Miss Jaros- low came to visit The Jewish Center and expressed wonderment at the extensive Jowish activities here in C!olumbus.
"You know in the New York area," Miss Jaroslow Informed us, "Jewisih community centers are attached to an individual temple or synagogue. I think it's wonder¬ ful that prograntmlng of this kind takes place in a building that is available, to all members of your community."
THE AM1»LY PROPORTION¬ ED character actress could not conceal her astonishment over the number of flourishing activi¬ ties. She observed the assembly of Individuals splashing and div¬ ing about the brightly lit outdoor pool. She witnessed a host of squirming teen agers dancing on the outdoor patio and, as a form¬ er fan of the Brooklyn "Dodgers", she even gleefully followed a few Innings of the Center's A.K. Lea¬ gue In action.
Inside the auditorium, she came In at the tall end of a rehearsal of tween age performers prepar¬ ing a musical presentation. She viewed   several  scenes   from   the
Ruth Jarotdow
Gallery Players forthcoming pro¬ duction of "Bits & Pieces" and watched tho dancers from the production go through several routines.
"Well, I can see where this would certainly be a wonderful community to come to and settle down."
There was a nostalgic quality In Miss Jaroslow's voice as she said
this. It was the same quality that Is present In thc speech of Mrs. Jacoby (her role in "A Majority of One") when the affectionate Jewish widow from Brooklyn, in a moment of homesickness after being transported into a Japanese local, remarks, "I live at 776 East¬ ern Parkway, Brooklyn, U.SA., North America."
ODDLY ENOUGH, when not barnstorming about the country, this gifted performer resides on Eastern Parkway within a few blocks of the aforementioned ad¬ dress. Although she springs from a theatrically interested family she became an actress purely by choice. Her brother was a pro¬ fessional actor and she remembers tales her father used to tell her of his early ambitions.
"HE    ISED   TO    TELi,      m e
stories of his youth when he lived in a small village in Russia. He used to sneak out of the house at night and join in a performance of a group of strolling actors that might be playing In the area. When he came home his father would be waiting for him with a stick."
But Miss Jaroslow had no such desires. After serving a hitch as a navy nurse, the slavic-featured Brooklynite was engaged as a junior executive with the Cen¬ tury Llgrhting Company in New York City. As a respite from the rigors of her work, she enrolled in some drama classes at the Drama Workshop hoping to de¬ velop an Interesting hobby.
MRS.   IRWIN  PISCATOR,  the
tamed head of the school, noticed
her work and encouraged her to try hor luck tn the pirofesslon. Within a comparatively short time. Miss Jaroslow was cavort¬ ing through the New York area and the Catsklll circuit In various roles.
As Bloody Mary In "South Paci¬ fic," she won the Flagg Court Award tor the best supporting actress playing in New York re¬ pertory. She then proceeded to tie down the Stanley Wolff Memorial Award as the best supporting ac¬ tress playing stock in thc "borscht belt" area. This prize came through her performance in the role of Mrs. Van Daan In "Diary of Anne Frank." Her ability was noted by Playhouse director, Phil¬ lip Pruneau, who signed her for her Columbus appearance.
"I   CEUITAINLY   HOPE   I   can
get back and do another show her next year. The P.O.G. has a fine company and the audiences are great."
As she was leaving the (Center, Mi.ss Jaroslow stopped and turned to us.
. "YOU KNOW I am filled with a feeling of pride to know our peo¬ ple are doing so much here In Co¬ lumbus to add to the cultural pat¬ terns of the community. It is a pleasure to watch so many people engaged In healthy recreation."
Ruth Jaroslow, we too are proud to have you visit our community and lend us the benefit oif your talents. We hope your final per¬ formances tonight and tomorrow night at Playhouse-on-the-Green will be packed to the tent flaps.
of defense, claiming that ho had been "pro-Zionist." He said proof of his attitude was tho fact that when he returned to Vienna from Palestine In 1937, he recommended the reopening of tho Austrian of¬ fices of Keren Kayemeth and Keren Hayesod.
HE DISMISSED AS A "forg¬ ery" a document establishing that at Budapest, he had ordered his deputy to protest to the Nazi For- eigTi Ministry against permitting Hungarian Jews to emigrate to Palestine. The document, he ex¬ plained, was false, since it bare no reference number or initials. Laughter broke out among thc spectators crowding thc court room at this exhibition of a bureaucrat's meticulous concern for details, and presiding Justice Moshe Landau warned the public he would clear the premises if there were further demonstra¬ tions.
Eichmann, at one point, admit¬ ted that, he had worked hard to get tho German and Austrian Jews to emigrate, but he denied staunchly that the purpose was the enrichment of the Reich, which would benefit from confis¬ cation of Jewish property. "I re¬ gret," he declared, "that I did not press even harder so that more Jews would have emigrated."
AT ONE POINT, Dr. Hausner asked tho prisoner whether all the witnesses who had testified earlier had lied, while he alone told the truth. "No," he answered calmly, "the documents before us tell the truth and substantiate what I say."
Returning to his claim that he had pressed hard for Jewish emi¬ gration, Mr. Hausner asked Eich¬ mann about a letter he had writ¬ ten, asserting that he holds "the Jowish leaders in my hands, and they do not dare to do a thing without my approval." Eichmann explained this away as "only typi¬ cal soldiers' language," and insist¬ ed he forced rich Jews to surrend¬ er property only as an aid toward financing of emigration of poor Jews.
HE ADMHTED he had con¬ fiscated remittances sent by Jews abroad but said that tho money was used "to the last cent" to finance Jewish emigration.
Eichmann denied he had any part in the Infamous "Crystal Night" occurrences of Novembor, 1938. When Mr. Hausner quoted a report from Dr. Josef I.oewen- hertz, head of the Vienna Jewish community, that Eichnmnn had threatened a repetition of "Crystal Night," the defendant at first denied this report flatly, but re¬ tracted his denial when confront¬ ed with a statement he had made to the Israeli police. In that state¬ ment, he had said his conversation with Dr. Loewcnhertz was "part of negotiation tactics, such as are employed everywhere."
JiUl. HAUSNER ASKED, then, when It was part of "negotiations" for Eichmann to slap Dr. Loewen- hertz, as the latter reported. "That was a slap," the prisoner replied, "for which the slapper later aplo- loglzed, and is a private matter between the two men concerned."
He denied another reported threat in which he had promised to send someone to the Buchcn¬ wald concentration camp. Pressed
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