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The ^orfcf^ eliminate reli-gioa�'pracyc4� and end segregation in the public schools are "part of the same struggle to preserve the Bill of Rights as the basic guarantee of American liberty," an official of the American Jewish Congress, Shad Polier, chairman of the agency's National Governing Council, said in an address at a luncheon honoring ten rabbis who had been arrested for taking part in anti-segregation demonstrations in Albany, Georgia, says the New York Times. The meeting was held in Stephen Wise Congress House, 16 East 84th Street, in New York.
Congress leaders presented scrolls to the rabbis, citing their "courage, devotion to liberty, and fulfillment of the teachings of our prophets."
A report to the Council took issue with editorials in America, the Jesuit weekly, which suggested that anti-Semitism might result if Jewish groups continued their campaign to oppose religious practices in the schools. Ephraim S. London, the lawyer, who made the report, pledged that the Congress would not abandon its effort to keep sectarian practices out of public schools.
The Jesuit magazine, which is published in New York, ran a series of letters praising it and criticizing it for its editorial "To Our Jewish Friends." It also ran a "P.S." editorial in which the 44itora aaid: "We draw the curtain on our part in this debate."
Their chief concern, the editors ' '
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(council, lower house of the Swiss Parliament IB Bern, approved a bill to lift the Banks Secrecy Law for the benefit of Jewish victims of Nazi Germany, the bill was adopted by a vote of 87 to four. It will now go for final action to the Council of States, or upper house, where its passage is considered certain.
The aim of the measure is to obtain an Inventory of all asset* that have lain unclaimed in Switzerland since the end of World War II., the owners of which can be presumed to have been "victims of racial, religious or political persecution," says the New York Times. If the owners or their heirs cannot be traced within a year, unclaimed assets are to be placed in a special fund.
Dr. Nehemiah Robinson, an official of the World Jewish Congress, in New York, which has been interested in the* recovery of assets hidden in Swiss bank*, explained to the New York Times some of the complex-procedures involved in the bill that had been approved.
He mentioned for instance, a provision to the effect that if the owners or their heirs cannot be traced within a year, the unclaimed assets will be placed in a special fund. The one-year period referred "only to the lapse of time between the appointment of a custodian and the start of the proceedings to declare thf owaat musing," Dr,
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cies" do not apeak for Jews in general when they campaign to keep religious practices out of the public schools, says the New York Times. The editorial concluded:
"Yes, there has been a lot of static, but our message got through. We now withdraw from the fray � bloodied but unbowed � bloodied a bit, in a worthy cause, but unbowed. Today our purpose remains what it was four weeks ago, when we set out to speak the truth in charity 'To Our Jewish Friends.' "
the Swiss Parliament next will give details of how the fund will operate, It is expected that' in general it will be uJ$& to support Jewish rehabilitation and resettlement projects, gays the New York Times. Host of the asMta expected to be uncovered are thought to have been hidden in the 1930's during the rise of Hitler-ism. Jews in Germany of that time sought to avoid arbitrary confiscation. _^ 4
The chairman of the National Council's committee that studied the bill told the Council that it was impossible Co estimate the sums that may be brought to light.
An estimate by the Swiss Bankers Association after a survey of its members and insurance companies put the amount at lev than 1,000,000 francs, or about' $233,000. Jewish spokesmen hatja termed this estimate "ridlouloiwly low."
Bankers will have to divulge funds held in secret numbered accounts and open.safe deposit boxes if they merely suspect that the un-heard-from owners come within the measure's definitions. Similarly, insurance companies, lawyers and all other custodians of the sought-for assets will have to declare them even if bound to their clients by professional secrecy.
Any failure to declare assets in. volved will b� punishable.j>y a fine of up to 10,000 franca <$�XV72) or imprisonment.
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pAbel George (Buck) Warahaw-fcky, aged 78, the realist painter Whose works hang in numerous galleries in Europe and the United States, died of a heart attack In his home at Monterey, Cal.
^Mr. Warshawsky was an artist **> label. His colourful city scenes ad landscapes and sensitive por-Jaits inclined toward the roman-jc, the sentimental and the picturesque, says the New York Herald Tribune. But his short, muscular body and broken nose seemed Jnore fitting to a boxer (which he ifence was) than to an immensely talented artist who had lived much of his life on the Left Bank of Paris.
He was born in Sharon, Pa., son of a Russian immigrant who distributed sacramental wines. Educated at the Cleveland School of Art in Ohio and the National
'Academy of Design in Paris, he fought in the French Army in World War I. Between the two
�world wars, he made his home in
'France.
�i Mr. Warshawsky's pilgrimage, done during the interval, were
� many, and his New York showings were well received. In the 20s and 80s, when he was at the height of
' his fame, he was a popular subject for newspaper interviews.
He ad^dtfi^ "if the death of the owner is certain, or he was declared missing, the inheritance procedure is opened."
"Thus," Dr. Robinson said, "there will be much more time than one year for the owner, and particularly his heirs, to appear. Only if no heirs appear in the inheritance proceedings, will the assets be allocated to the fund, which means a further delay."
Another bill to be placed before
subse<tee~nlly decldeiT^n'ofc to oppose the bill because of it* humanitarian aim. In the day's debate, in Bern, a Socialist Deputy emphasized Switzerland's obligation "to remove any suspicion that she seeks to profit from the assets left behind by these victims" of persecution.
Jewish organizations have actively sought such a measure since the end or the war, says the New York Times. A spokesman for a Swiss Jewish organization hailed the National Council's vote as "very satisfying."
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I* He needed little prompting to produce usable quotations, and hia discourse ranged afield. American men were "effeminate" and women were "anxious to become mascu-yfne," and the murals in government buildings in Washington jirete "awful stuff."
l)s had Bomethiijg petn-iry to �ay about- -felKjjatfve Fand, however, and promised he would return "for good." American prosperity, he said, gave his country's middle class a better artistic taste than the European bourgeoisie possessed. And he loved New York � "the most beautiful city with the most beautiful women in the world."
His work reflected the vigor and enthusiasm that were his chief personal traits. Scenes of French flower markets and views of Manhattan buildings were all filled with the shimmering vitality he found in himself and in his world.
The French government decorated Mr. Warsnawsky with the Chevalier of the Legion of Honor in 1933. In 1938, after more than 25 years' residence in France, he returned to live in the United States. He was a member of the Academy of Jewish Arts and Sciences. Survivors include his wife, Mrs, Ruth Tate Warshawsky.
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Tragedy In ^outh et^^i stfeartng lit ^\G^^ To Replace Frankfurter Jn High Court
President John F,, Kennedy watched the United States Supreme Court open its new term as Arthur J. Goldberg took the oath as a new justice. Ordinarily the swearing-in of a justice;is a happy affair, ritualistic and significant mainly to family and friends. So it was when the President watched his first Supreme Court appointee, Byron R. Wmte, take the oath last April.
But the Mississippi tragedy hung in the air of the courtroom, says the New York Times. It was etched on grim faces of the President and^ his brother* Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy. The Attorney General who was up all night dealing with the Mississippi crisis, came to the $upj*eme Court after a few minutes' fcap and a shave. The President h�d bad only a few hours' sleep.
Vice President Johnson, Postmaster General J. Edward Day and Justice Goldberg's successor as Secretary of Labor. W. Wil-Jard Wirtz, were there also. So were a numbed of Senators and other distinguished gufflts.
The presence of th* President and other high officials seemed, in the circumstances, to have symbolic significance. It "was a reaf-firmation of faith in law and in the country's highest expositor of the law.
It was a strange, quiet interlude in a tragic day as the Supreme Court clerk, John P. Davis, first read the archaic language of the President's commission to Justice Goldberg and then administered the judicial oath to him. The new justice swore: , ^.
"I. Arthur J. QoWbcif do solemnly swear that � will jtdminjfter justice without wtoect to perMpB* aod do ej�fl ri^ *V the M� and to -this^fehTikl tkftfrVwlpfs*th-fully and impartifUy*> discharge and perform al] the duties incom-bent on me as associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States according to the best of my abilities and'understanding, agreeably to the Constitution and laws of the United States, so help me God."
That made Mr. Goldberg the ninety-fourth Supreme Court justice. The marshal of the court T. Perry Lippitt, escorted Justice Goldberg from the clerk's desk to his seat at the far right-hand side of the bench as the audience sees it, says the New York Times. The President reached up to the bench to shake hands with his appointee. The Attorney General and others followed.
Then the Court began its routine business of admitting lawyers to its bar. There was a momentary chill in the air when.fwo lawyers from Mississippi we�e. moved for admission, but Chief Justice Earl Warren gave them hie usual affable greeting.
The Chief Justice made a formal statement announcing with regret the retirement of Justice Felix Frankfurter, whose place Justice Goldberg takes.
"As scholar, teacher, public servant, enlightened critic and member of this Court for almost a
Juarter of a century," the Chief ust:ce said, "Justice Frankfurter has already made a contribution to our jurisprudence rarely equaled in the life of our Court,
"Through each of these facets of his long and notable career, he looms large in the history of our country, and we. his colleagues, have been the most favored bene-
ficiaries of his wisdom and fellowship."
The Court also published a letter from the justices to Justice Frankfurter, and his reply.
Justice Frankfurter used the occasion to call for "disinterested-nfjis" on tb* part of judges � a theme he has often sounded, says the W�w York Time*. The great issues before the Supreme Court, he said, do not warrant any expectation of "identity of views among the members of the Court, nor even of agreement on,, the routes of thought by which decisions are reached.
"The nation is merely warranted," he said, "in expecting harmony of aims among those who have been called to the Court. This means pertinacious pursuit of the processes of reason, intellectual disinterestedness, rigorous self-scrutiny to discover, with a view of curbing, every influence that may deflect from such disinterestedness."
Diverted River Jordan Will Be Life Blood To Negev IB 1963
The heart of Israel's new |200�-jfc**:*Ji taking
shae 4t Iberias, It is expected to ^.^ end of
1988. 3Pvm$* rotsfclttjthe hill of Kafed �IW* leS
from -outer prominences bn^lm rocky Galilean landscape, but in the hollowed-out hill, large artificial caverns are ready to house giant pumps to regulate the flow of Galilean waters to southern Israel.
Sometime between the end of 1963 and the spring of 1964 the hill is scheduled to come to life and begin pumping the precious waters of the Jordan River, the country's life blood, says the New York Times, through a system of canals, tunnels, pipes and reser-vo;r. to supply billions of gallons of water to the parched lands in the Negev.
This will be only the first phase of the project. A few years later the supply of water is expected to be doubled.
Laborers wearing miners' yellow garb and white protective helmets are now putting the finishing touche? to subterranean chambers where pumps, valves, and machinery will be installed in the next few months. Outside on the shores of a beautiful lake other workers are engaged ''n molding sections of large pre-stressed concrete pipeline more than'nine feet in diameter to be laid on the lake's bed.
Further east on the Sea of Galilee, boats are rocking gently as divers go down to lay dynamite charges that will blow up the rocks along the line of the projected submarine pipeline.
Several miles to the we^t of Eshed Kinrot, men and machines are digging a ditch on a hillside to lay giant steel pipes that still
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