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Mrs. Meir denominational religious practices asked that Israel's gpod wishes be in public schools in many parts of conveyed to the Emperor and the Withdraw Claim Lazarus Considering Bid For the state were condemned at the people of Ethiopia.- annual meeting of the Michigan Special significance was given Ann Frank Diary Republican Mayoral Nomination Anti-Defamation Le a g u e of to the Ethiopian· decision because B'nai B'rith. Was A Forgery The story has been prevalent in of the fact that strong Arab pres A survey of membership policies po 11 tic a I circles that Frank sure had been exerted for several LUBECK, West Germany of private clubs in 14 communities Lazarus. Republican minority lead years against any such action by The trial of two members of the outside of Detroit was described Ethiopia. neo-Nazi German Reichspartei on er of the Providence City Council. by Judge Burton R. Shifman. The recognition also reflected charges of slandering the memory has been considering seeking the chairman of the ADL research the many-faceted relations which of Anne Frank ended last week in Republican nomination for Mayor committee. He reported that of have been established between the an agreed settlement. The defen of Providence. the 29 clubs studied, 16 maintained two countries. A number of Is dants withdrew their claim that When questioned on the above. policies of excluding Jewish mem raeli missions are at work in the diary of Anne Frank was a Mr. Lazarus said. "While I am de bers. Ten of the 16 refused -to ac Ethiopia in various fields in forgery and the prosecution drop finitely interested at this time. I cept any Jews and six maintained cluding farming, develop~ent, ped the charges. am still undecided." strict quota limits on Jewish fishing, construction. education. Otto Frank, father of the girl Mr. Lazarus, a member of the members. who died in a Nazi concentration Providence City Council for the public health and other areas. An He said that in some cases, the Israeli staff directs the Ethiopian camp and whose diary became an past 16 years, has been extremely active in Republican affairs for exclusionary policy was included government hospital at Massawa international best-se ller . flied the in the constitutional provisions and a technical college at Adis charges against high school teach many years. er Lother Stielau and Heinrich He was president of the Re of the clubs and that in others, Ababa. Commercial relations also where a quota was maintained, Buddeberg. publican Club of Rhode Island have been expanding. the policies were unofficial and The two men had declared that from 1944 to 1948, and secretary fully understood only by club of "certain circles" had enriched of the Republican State Central ficials. The survey found that such Eshkol Presents His themselves on the "tragic fate" Committee from 1948 to 1956 . policies were unrelated to the type of Anne Frank while "hate-mon At the Republican National Con New Progress Report of club. The survey covered gering against the German \'ention of 1952 in Chicago, Mr. JERUSALEM - Finance Minis country clubs, golf clubs and people." Lazarus acted as reading clerk of ter Levi Eshkol. who is seeking on boating clubs. The slander charges were with Frank Lazarus the convention. behalf of Mapai to form a new Irving Feldman, chairman of coalition government. this week drawn when the defendants de clared that legal investigation had the ADL committee on emerging ,. presented to President Ben Zvi a Negotiations Begun To Protect Algerian Jews issues in church-state relation progress report on his efforts. convinced them of the fallacy of their charges and that the authen PARIS-France and Israel were securing similar rights of those ships, reported on a survey of 26 He informed Ben Zvi that while Algerian Jews choosing to settle in municipalities in all parts of his series of talks with leaders of ticity of the diary was "beyond disclosed to have started negotia doubt." tions to protest possible property Israel. Michigan. He said the survey the Liberal Party, Achdut Avoda It was reported that the French found distribution of Bibles and the National Religious Party The prosecution then declared rights of Algerian Jews emigrating that the investigation of the two to Israel. were showing an understanding though public schools. celebra -had failed to end the deadlock attitude toward the question and it tion of Christmas and Easter in blocking a new government, he in neo-Nazis had not revealed any anti-Semitic motive behind their Most Jews who have left Algeria was hoped an early agreement such a manner as to "virtually tended to continue his efforts. have chosen to settle in France, a would be reached. Continued on Page 15 Eshkol applied pressure to the claim that the diary was a forg ery. It was disclosed that Stileau choice understood to be based on leftist Achdut Avodah for a \Vas suspended from his teaching their desire to protect their claims prompt answer on whether it post two years ago because the to any compensation to be paid would join the coalition now that Ministry of Education regarded either by France or an independent all of its conditions for joining his teaching as · detrimental to the Algeria to departing Europeans. have been met without its partner "democratic education" of Ger The current talks being held at Mapam. man youth. the diplomatic level here aim at Journalists Protest Banning of "Exodus" FBI Gathers Data On Wire-Tapping The Herald Home Section . Pages 4, S, 6 NICOSIA. Cyprus -A group of Cypriot journalists recently issued By Segregationists In Louisiana Impressions of European Jewry Page 17 a protest against reported plans NEW ORLEANS - The Federal race is a violation of divine law.'.' by the Government here to ban the showing of the film "Exodus," Bureau of Investigation was dis- Since then, the rabbi said, wire which depicts Israel's struggle for closed last week to be gathering taps were arranged, and the taps freedom. data on wire-tapping by segrega- were played back to lay leaders of The protest was issued following tionists in and around the Baton Baton Rouge churches with de a report that the Cypriot Govern Rouge area as part of a harass- mands that the ministers be com ment would accede to pressure by ment of clergymen, including a pelled to withdraw their names rabbi. who had spoken out publi- .on pain of loss of their pulpits. the United Arab Republic to pre cly against racial segregation. I vent the showing of the film. Op I , Rabbi Marvin Reznikoff, of He asserted that after his ap- They Learn More Than Dancing .Page M-1 position by the UAR to the show the 'Liberal Synagogue- of Baton pearance before the grand jury be ing of the film was believed to Rouge, said he was one of several came known, he had received Dr. Fishbein's Travels . Page M-2 have been conveyed to the Cypriot persons who appeared before the many assurances from members Women Take Over . Page M-3 delegate to the recent Belgrade federal grand jury in New Orleans of his congregation that they sup conference of no-aligned nations. which rep01:tedly is looking into ported him one hundred percent. Architect, Photographer, Designer Pages M-4, M-5 the charges. · · He also said some of the persons C_hicago Vandalism The rabbi told the Jewish Led- applying pressure against the min For Teen Agers . Pages M-6, M-7 CHICAGO, - A Chicago grand ger, of New Orleans, that some 50 isters were anti-Semites. He said jury-1lad the case of two teen-age Baton Rouge ministers of all de- his voice appears on two of the youths arrested in connection nominations, under the leader- tapes. · with the January 11 bombing of ship of Wade Mackie, the Amer- The rabbi declared · that wheri Columnists the Anshe Emet synagogue. Paul ican Friends Service Committee conditions in the area approached Muhlig, 19, has admitted that he representative in Baton Rouge "totalitarianism,'' he and Mackie Beryl Segal - Sylvia Porter was with Herbert Miklitsch, 19, on some time ago signed a public called on the federal government Leonard Lyons the night the synagogue was statement which declared that to step Into the situation, with the bombed. · "discrimination on the basis of FBI c_oming into the area. z THE R. I. HERALD, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1961 Louis, William and Samuel; all of The Automobile Legal Associa- , to provide every man, woman, and Providence, and Jerome Schleifer tion reports that there are enough child with a ride s~ultaneously . ~ of Cranston; a daughter, Miss automobiles in the United States without crowding. · Shirley Schleifer of Providence; a [ sister, Mrs. Fannie Kopman of :.. : U.,.~~~ :,... .: ""'·' ,. '-. New York City and six grand MRS. CHARLES PHILLIPS Calif., and Mrs. Henry Robinson children. ~EW ENGLAND Funeral ~rvices fot Mrs.