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r.jiirP fIIi' "' 1 ill , ''""-''rftMBHin- MM WASHINGTON CHILLY - A visiting Govict viet Embassy in Washington. Speaking at k cultural delegation, which has found Wash- . right is Alexander I. Zinchuk, counselor of i "iev, ac, y P'ace since Russia's arrest the Russian Embassy. In background is a ( ot Yale Professor Frederick C. Barghoorn, is portrait of Soviet Premier Nikita Khrush- v shown holding a press conference in the So- chev. (UPI) ' Senate, House Members Open Drive To Show Anti-Semitism t- Hi. KTL'IT A it'inmir J United Press International WASHINGTON (UPI) - A bloc of Senate and House mem ; bers has opened a drive to turn the world spotlight on al- leged persecution of Jews in Soviet Russia. i The State Department is ac tively staying out of the pic ture. It privately sympathizes s with the objective but it also is conducting delicate negotiations ' with Moscow and has no desire to see them upset. It did say, i however, that anti-Jewish ac i tivities in the U.S.S.R. "have ' grown in intensity . over the J past several years." i After Russia fired ' her first (Sputnik into orbit in 1957, a J joke popular among Russian , Jews was: r "Why is the Sputnik a Jew? ' Answer: Because it wanders J around the earth and has no J place to stop." i This cosmic version of the ("Wandering Jew" is said here J to represent a sense of aliena , lion and discrimination now be ting felt by the Soviet Jews. Synagogues Closed The recent closing of syna Jgogues in Minsk (Belorussia) i and Lvov (Ukraine), the execu tion and imprisonment of Jews 'for alleged economic crimes, J and"; a government ban on un i leavened bread (matzohs) need fed for. religious ceremonies, are J cited as evidence ot growing , anti-Jewish actions by the So- viet government. i U. S. officials, congressmen and American Jewish organiza tions are following these and t other happenings in the U.S.S.R. i with alarm and concern. Last month more than half the Sen !ate joined in demanding that : Moscow cease persecuting Jews. I Sen. Abraham A. Ribicoff, D ' Conn., introduced a resolution, J jointly sponsored by 59 other senators, declaring there is "abundant evidence" of anti ISemitlsm in the Soviet Union "and criticizing Premier Nikita Khrushchev's professed ignor- ance of such reports as "a pro Jfound delusion." J In answer to a request by .Rep. Seymour Halpcrn, R-N.Y., that the government consider possible "remedial actions," a Jstate Department official said it "would not be in the best interests of the Soviet Jews (and) could in fact antagonize -the Soviet government to the detriment of the Soviet Jews. Such action by the American i government, the official ex plained, would "lend credence or substance" to the Soviet poli 'cy of accusing ' Jews of being I susceptible to "foreign influ i enecs " One Soviet publication recent 'ly echoed this sentiment. It ;said Jewish religious leaders and "bourgeois nationalists pro vide "grist for the mills of our Jclass enemies, district workers !from their class and Commu nist interests, and weaken their Consciousness with chauvinist !PWUh characteristic gusto, Khrushchev has attributed Wcst Vrn reports of Soviet anti-Semitism to "the attempts of re i.ictionary propaganda to ascribe to our state the pursuance and 'encouragement of (this) poll' Icy." And. he added, such at tempts "are not a new pheno menon." ' American officials, however, Jpoint out that the Soviet Jews, Hemorrhoids Cured Painlessly By Non-Surgical Tk. nnn. mimical, electronic method for treatment of Hem orrhoids (Piles) developed by doctor of the Beal-Oliver Sandy Blvd. Clinic has been so successful and permanent in nature that the ollowinu pol icy ii offered their patient: "After all symptoms of Hem orrhoids . . . have subsided and the patient has been dis charctd, if he should ever have a recurrence, all further treat who constitute about 1.5 per cent of the population, have been held responsible for two thirds, and in some areas 100 per cent, of economic crimes warranting death. Between July 1, 1901,' and July 1, 1963, one report said, 140 persons were condemned to death, of which about 60 per cent were Jews. In the Ukraine of 29 citizens sentenced to death since 1961, 25 were Jews. The American Jewish Com mittee said in a report that Jews were being made "scape goats" for the bureaucratic -ills of the Soviet government and also "singled , out for object lessons showing how severely the state regards economic crimes." Alleged Soviet pressure on the Jews has been typified by the outlawing of the study of Hebrew. No religious prayer books or publications are per mitted. Production of religious objects is illegal. There are less than 90 synagogues open in the U.S.S.R. Until 1957 there was a tight clamp on Yiddish cultural activities. In 1959, a half dozen Yiddish books were permitted to be published with limited circula tion (10,000 to 30,000) and in 1961 the. Sovietish Heimland, the only Yiddish periodical, was authorized for distribution. In a non-official discussion with a Soviet embassy repre sentative here, Rep. Leonard Review of Foreign Aid Funds Urged PORTLAND (UPI) -The Na tional Grange's Committee on Foreign Affairs Tuesday recom mended that Congress review its foreign aid appropriations. The committee took the action nr. iho final riav nf the Granae's 97th annual convention here. The meeting ran nine days. The committee urged mat ecu nomic a 1 d be extended only tuhnn thnro ws "reasonable as surance it will be used efficient ly" and nations receiving it show a determination to use u for development. TU nll alcn chnnlH nnlv be given when "there is reasonable thai it will advance the cause of freedom and as- sit In halting the spread 01 com munism," the committee said. Tha rnmmtltAP also took a stand in favor of the U.S. selling wheat to Russia. Unuouor if said that the sales should be made for cash or gold and should not be suosmizea Dy the federal government. Transportation Studies Under Way in Cities BERKELEY, Calif. (UPI) -Studies of metropolitan trans portation are under way in eight U.S. cities, the University of California's Institute nf Trans portation and Traffic Engineer ing reported. They are in the initial stages at New York, Boston and Milwa kce. The studies are well under way at Los Angeles, Philadel phia, Minneapolis, Seattle and Buffalo. Studies have been com pleted at Chicago, Detroit, Pitts burgh and Washington. Method ments will b given without additional fee." ' Patients experience little, It any pain. Their treatment re quires no hospitalization and does not employ drugs or in jections. Write today for a free, de scriptive booklet, ynurs without obligation: The Beat-Oliver Sandy Blvd. Clinic, Chiroprac tic Physicians, 2026 N.E, Sandy Blvd., Portland 12, Ore. Farbsteiri, D-N.Y., said he men tioned these and other incidents and Was told by the official: "Why should these little things interfere with the betterment of relations between our two na tions?" Farbstein said the official de nied anti-Semitic reports .- and also remarked: "Your newspa pers continually hit us over the head with these things." . "Baby! Yar" A spotlighting of anti-Semitism within the Soviet Union came in 1961 with publication of "Babyi Yar," a poem by the controversial Soviet poet, Yev geny Yevtushenko. The poem, later denounced by the government as "slan derous," assumed Russian guilt for anti-Semitic measures and asked why there was no memo rial at Babyi Yar, near Kiev, where the Germans in 1941 ma chine - gunned 40,000 to 70,000 Jews to death. ' Yevtushenko later was forced to revise part of the poem. Roy H. Millenson, national representative of the commit tee, told UPI that "despite guarantees of . the Soviet con stitution, the government has tightened restrictions on Jewish religious and national expres sion." He added that "the light that is creeping through the Krem lin's windows has not - yet reached the Kremlin's heart." MEDFORD Quotes From By UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL WASHINGTON Prof. Frederick C. Barghoorn, calling for cultural exchanges between the United States and Russia, de spite his recent detention in a Red prison on espionage charges: "I hope that this experience that I have had will not destroy the possibilities of continuing these exchanges." FORT WORTH, Tex. Karl Wallenda, accepting the re sponsibility for the use of a net in the Flying Wallenda high wire act, which ended in disaster two years ago in Detroit: "This time I am for the net. Should 1 be responsible for what happened in Detroit happening again people would spit in my face on the streets.'' BUENOS AIRES Foreign Minister Miguel Zavala Ortiz, defending Argentine cancellation of foreign oil contracts: "Nothing done elsewhere can reflect on the decision of the Argentine people to trace for itself its destiny for the welfare and security of all its people." LOS ANGELES Joseph and Vivian Clark, with ten chil dren of their own, another on the way and in the process of adopting a 10-month-old boy: "We plan to adopt one more, too, and who knows what'U happen after that." x .vi mniiiiiiiHiftflMniTiWiSiftiiffimfr iiiwW:;ir v' " MEDFORDsJllfWrmBUNE MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDKORD, the News Now... for people who'd buy a LeMans hardtop If there were one "If only the Le Mans had a 6," some one said. Ahem! The standard engine is now an in-line 6 of 140 horse power, with a pair of extra-cost V-8s for added muscle if you want it. OREGON U.S. Army Defector Charged With Deadly Weapon Assault AKRON, Ohio (UPI)-Lowell Skinner, the former Army cor poral who chose to remain in Communist China at the end of hostilities in the Korean con flict, and only recently returned to this country, is to appear in Municipal Court' Friday on a charge of assault with a deadly weapon. I Skinner,, 32, was arrested aft er a shooting incident at the home of an East Akron woman Monday night. He was held on $2,500 bond pending the hear ing. He was arrested after two teen-aged boys claimed Skinner shot at them during an argu ment at the home of Mrs. Rob erta Longgood, 28, whose hus band, Jack, is serving a term in the Ohio Penitentiary for rob bery. there "If only the Le Mans were ust a little bigger." And so it is. Bigger on a new 115" wheelbase and roomier. (And speaking of new, that's what the body and brakes and SEE THE ONLY DEALER WHO SELIS THE WIDI-TRACK CAM-YOUR AUTHORIZED PONTIAC DEALER DEAN fir TAYLOR PONTIAC CO., Inc. 2177 SOUTH PACIFIC HIGHWAY MEDFORD, OREGON Skinner's Chinese wife, whom he said has tuberculosis of the brain, remained in Red China when he returned to the United States in August. He said then he expected her to follow him here soon. George Bye, 17, and Harlan Monroe, 18, told police Skinner accused them of "trying to cut him out" with Mrs. Longgood when he found, them in the woman's home Monday night, and threatened to kii" them. The boys said Skinner drew a 22-calibcr pistol and fired ona shot, then aimed the gun at Bye's head and told the youths to leave Mrs. Longgood's home and never return. They left and called police. Skinner was picked up a short time later driving around the neighborhood. "I did not shoot is one. frame and suspension and steering and wheels and most other things are. Good and new.) "if only the Le Mans came in a hardtop," someone else said. There's CONSISTENCY! Newspaper Advertising Hits the Mark with a Large and Constant Audience There's nothing hit-or-miss about the newspaper audience -it's a constant audience that varies little throughout the year. That's because newspaper circulation remains con stant with little variation from month to month. There is no summer slump, in newspaper reading habits. Further more, readers can pick their own time-day or night-to enjoy the paper. And they do-over 107,000,000 of them every day in the U. S. For sure-fire results, advertise consistently in the daily newspaper. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1963 at them," he told officers. "I could have hit tnem if I wanted to. I just warned them to leave me alone." Says Was Threatened Skinner told officers he car ried the gun becausH of threat ening letters he received. He has lived with his elderly par ents in their trailer home in Portage Lakes since his return from China, and has oeeli work ing part-time as a carpenter. The Akron native was cap tured in Korea in 1950 and spent three years as a prisoner of war before refusing repatria tion. He violently objects to be ing termed a "turncoat." Skin ner said he refused repatriation because he Wanted to see China and to travel, but would not say why the Communists al lowed him to return to the U.S. a planned coincidence for you. I ust came. And now that we've wiped out your last possible excuse for not buy ing a Pontiac Le Mans, how about it? Wide-Track Pontiac Le Man 8 JOINS THE ACT LEEDS, England (UPI)-. Mike Cleary, 23-year-old mem ber of a visiting rugby team from Australia, joined the act Tuesday night when striptease dancer Yvonne Lamont began her performance at a night club. Before- anyone could yell "take it off," Cleary had re moved everything but his shorts. The club bouncer led him away before he went any further. When he returned he ex pressed "no regrets" for his ac tions. "I'd do it all over again if the same conditions existed," he said. A thin, almost gaunt-looking man, Skinner said his dishonor able discharge from the Army in 1954 was unwarranted and unfair. The Army turned him down in his attempt to collect $1,700 in back pay after his return.
