A merkait ,fewish Periodical Cotter CLIFTON AVENUE - CINCINNATI 20, OHIO THE DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE MICHIGAN'S JEWISH HOME PUBLICATION voi VI. NO. 2. D. S. AMBASSADOR DENIES POLISH POGROM REPORTS Per Year, $2.00; Copy,.5 Cents DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, JUNE I 3, I 9 I 9. CELEBRATES 80TH ANNIVERSARY SUNDAY. Flag Day Proclamation. Jewish Delegates Demand Indemnities for Victims the By the Governor. Jewish delegations from United States, Great Britain, Italy ....id other nations, submitted to the , peace conference Monday proposals I for the protection of the minorities in Bulgaria, Poland, Rumania, Russia and other eastern find central Euro- pean countries. They made propos- als also for the payment of indemni- ties for victims of pogroms and pen- shuts for widows and orphans created by such atrocities. I PARis Our Flag floats today over a laud that rejoices not only in peace with victory and honor. No snanieful or inivvorthy act has dimmed the glory to our starry banner. :\ year ago the free nations of the earth were looking to America as the hope of democracy and civilization. America has not dis- Minister Hugh Gibson Tells State appointed them. She has been true to Department He Knows of No her trust; and today, thank God, our brave soldiers and sailors and marines Massacre of Jews Outside of are coming back to us after gloriously upholding the honor of the flag on Pinsk. land and sea. ' It's only an old bit of bunting, WILL INVESTIGATE ALL It's only a colored rag, RLPORTS WITH DR. BOGEN But thousands have died for its honor And shed their best blood for the flag." Let Flag Day then remind us of the \V ASH I GTON — Official advises meaning and significance of the flag rc,eived by the State Department of our country; and 1 suggest that on hum H ugh Gibson, American NI in is- that day we inaugurate the general ter at \\ arsaw , have been made pub- custom of uncovering for the colors. and seem tu indicate that reports Whenever the flag goes by, let every massacres of Jews in Poland have man remove his hat and every woman ...one instances, at least, been exag- reports that his stand at salute. In this way, we shall g et:fie& Mr. Gibson do honor to ourselves and to the mem- iniestigations indicate that the feel- ory of the gallant lads w•lio have laid ing against certain classes of Jews is flown their lives in the cause of hu- flue largely to economic reasons rath- er than to religious intolerance. The man rights and human freedom. Therefore, I, Albert E. Sleeper, gov- announcement Department ernor of the State of Michigan, do cads: issue this my Proclamation, and urg- "Mr. Gibson states that he has re- ently request that Saturday, the four- ceived no reports of atrocities against teenth day of June, 1919, be observed Jews in l'oland, Lithuania, and Galicia, with the exception of the affairs at as Flag Day. Let flags be displayed on both pub- Vilna and Pinsk. lie states that his lic and nrivate buildings; and, as Flag sources of information are the local Day will fall on S turda y when the n ewspapers, including the Jewish schools will be closed, I suggest that press; the American Relief Adminis- on Sunday, June 15th, fitting Flag tration, whose representatives cover all Day programs be given in all the Polish districts; the American Red churches of the state. Cross, the American Jewish Joint Dis- Given under my hand and the Great tribution Committee, Allied Mission, Seal of the State, this sixth (lay of representatives of Jewish organiza- June, in the year of our Lord o ne tions who have talked frankly with thousand nine hundred and nineteen, list concerning the situatiol., and mis- and of the Commonwealth the eighty- cellaneous sources. third. Economic Reasons Prevail. ALBERT E. SLEEPER, Governor. "It is stated that information has been given that there is feeling By the Governor: COLEMAN C. VAUGHAN, against certain classes of Jews, largely Secretary of State. due to economic reasons rather than to religious intolerance, and that ac- cording to this information certain Jewish elements support the Gov- ernment and are regarded with re- spect as an integral part of the nation of Poland, while another Jewish ele- — ment is openly hostile to the Govern- Will You "Adopt" a Jewish War Orphan? POLAND PROMISES GOVERNMENT WILL PROTECT ALL JEWS Gen. Pilsudaki Says He Will Give Peremptory Order to Army That Outrages Will Be Pun- ished Severely. — PEACE CONFERENCE IS URGED TO ACT QUICKLY --- Joint Distribution Committee Pro- gram Provides for Care of Homeless Children—$80 Will Support Little One for Year. \Y.\ SHINGTON—The State De- partment has issued an official an- nouncement to the effect that the Pro- visional Government of Poland had given assurances that it would not tolerate the persecution of Jews in Poland, and had given strict instruc- N E \PORK—The Joint Distribu- tions to preserve order. "The Provisional Government of tion t.:ommittee, of which Felix hi. \\'arburg is chairman, announced Poland." the State Department an- plans for the care of hundreds of nouncement reads, "has given the 'arsaw posis thousands of Jewish children orphaned .\ inerican Legation at \ ■ by the war. It is proposed to create tire assurance that it is imposed to anti-Jewish activities, and that it will a bureau to co-operate with child- caring agencies in all the countries not tolerate persecution of Jews in that country. It will take strong where war orphans are in need. It is proposed to establish the first measures at once to protect all Jews bureau in Palestine, where Jewish war in Poland, the legation was advised. orphans number between 3,000 and This statement reported in a dispatch 4,000, because conditions in other war- from \Varsaw to the Department of SAMUEL HEAVENRICH. ravaged countries make the establish- State was reply to instructions . , , ,ment of such bureaus impracticable at from the department to the legation to ascertain the true situation and One of the nation's Jewish pioneers, Simon lie"ve"rich was taken by W a ° this time. The Joint Distribution Conn - enrich, sons of mittee has acted favorably on the re- to inquire into the attitude of the a constructive force in the communal 1 ter and John Ideas life of Detroit during the entire 66 Samuel Ileavenrich. In 1903 the firm port of Dr. Albert Lucas, its secre- Polish Government.. was dissolved and Mr. Ileavenrich tary, who said in his recotnmenda- Pilsudaki Gives Assurances. years of his residence here, Samuel joined the staff of the Northwestern . lions: Heavenrich celebrates the anniversary "The American minister reported in Mutual Life Insurance Co., where he I "Adopt" War Orphans, of his eightieth birthday on Sunday, "I propose a comprehensive cam- the dispatch today that he had called June 15. His name is identified not still continues. In 186O NIT.. Heavenrich married paign that shall spread nut as oppor- upon General Pilstulski, president of e- only with the physical growth c thi Miss Sadie Troun stifle, of Cincinnati,l n . t y offers, to the end that con- the Polish Government, and that Gen- trout, but its mural and social uplift and their happy married life continued I tributors shall 'adopt' a Jewish war eral l'ilsivlski had advised him he not as well. As one of the leading Jewish til the death of Mrs. Heavenrich 1 or than 'I' he adoptiOn of French and only is opposed to persecution of spirits of this city, the entire com- un war orphans has been car-Jews, Inn has given strict instructions the corner at .\irei munity rejoices with \t r. Heavenrich street, and ei•tr e ha avenue , . ` `, I, ted on with considerable success, and I to maintain order and to protect the and his family on the attainment of \h'Si 'ol o9 .114‘...•arTl fell ll A ,;.: contribution of $80 a year permits Jews at Chenstokhov, that he had built by Mr. Heavenrich, when his four score years. street was almost the northern-most he contributor to adopt one orphan. warned the army in peremptory or- For the $300,000 required in Pales- ders that the persecutions will not be Mr. Heavenrich was born in Fretis- point in Detroit, and their later home , dorf, near Itanberg, Germany, on June at 45 Pingree avenue, were the cen- r ir - less than 4,000 contributors are tolerated, that officers will be respon- 15, 1839, one of a family of nine. At ters of much of the social activity of It qui resi , . It i is to he expected that Ode for any such acts on the part the age of 14 he sailed for America Detroit, and in them were entertained i the um. of the e inonty by . the plan 1 1 of their men, and that severe punish- have suggested will result in its beim.; molt will lie meted out to offenders. where Isis elder brother, Simon, and many visitors prominent in social and sister, Mrs. S. Sykes, had preceded him. civic life. possible to maintain, educate, and 'The situation in Chenstokhov is said Coming at once to Detroit, he entered Six children blessed their union— train the children for much less than to have been investigated personally Mrs. Len M. the estimated sum. It will certainly by the Polish Minister of the Interior. the employ of his brother-in-law, Mr. Mrs. Alfr d Rothschild, e "President Pilsudaki expressed in. Allegations of Cruelty Shown Sykes, who had a retail clothing store Ittitzel, Miss Edith Heavenrich and be possible, in properly equipped in- ment. "The City of Vilna was captured by on Jefferson avenue near Bates street. Messrs. Walter, John and Herbert stitutions, for the children to lie dignation that reflections had been Jews Still Being Made to Heavenrich, all residing in Detroit ex- taught useful trades or husbandry, or brought upon the country by anti- the Poles on April 29 in a house-to- Detroit was then a city of 25,000 in- cept the latter. whatever the circumstances and na- Jewish activities. lie stated that the Peace Conference. house tight, and some of the local popu- habitants, whose northern boundary - lation were killed during this fight. It ill:fr. Heavenrich has ever been one tural inclinations of the children may persecution of the Jews brought shame upon the name of Poland. and could PARIS—Evidence of cruelties prat• was the Grand Circus park. The of the most active and progressive prove to be most desirable. is reported that the Polish forces had e is Central Railroad came down only harm the country. He pointed Michigan thirty-five casualties, and that thirty- ticed upon the Jews in Vilna by l'ol- Fund at Disposal of J. D. C. nit-tubers of the community. H has Michigan avenue to the site of the , out that the Jews, of whom there are R. M , eight civilians were killed. Persons sh troops as seen by witnesses one of the earliest members of Temple Poland, Galicia, Rumania, or re- City Hall and the Detroit and oing to re- Ruhmilevitz present who were known to be, or were even 'seen collected by Dr. Beth bag serving as its president for sia will only need a change in the millions in Poland, are g and sent to the Premier of Lithuania & Pontiac Railroad arrived via Gratiot methods of the local organization. main in Poland and that the Polish suspected of being. Communists, it is two years and as trustee since 1893, stated, were deported as hostages as and transmitted by hint to the Litho- avenue at the site of the Detroit Op- a period of over 25 years. He is a The contributors will pay the same people will live in close contact with a set-off against Poles deported by the anian Commission to the Peace Cots- era House. director of the United Jewish Chad - amount, and the fund will be at the them. He said that both the govern- In 1862 he bought out the interests ties and is the only surviving charter disposal of the Joint Distribution meat and the best element of the Pol- Ilosheviki. These cases have been ference. civic Committee, for distribution through ish people are strongly opposed to • The document says that the same of Mr. Sykes and with his brother under investigation by a commission, member of the Phoenix Club. in its central bureau to the local btu- any persecution, knowing as they do and those found to be citizens of good day the Poles occupied the Vilna rail- Simon avlio was in business in Leav- affairs, Mr. Il eavenrich has also taken i enworth, Kansas, established the firm way station, they began pillaging th an active part and takes a vital '° reads, as circumstances may from time that discord among elements of the . repute are being returned to Vilna Polish population must be eliminated houses of Jews tinder the pretext that of Ileavenrich Brothers, manufactur- terest in every question affecting the without delay. to time require. This business contin- they were searching for arms and . "The generous contributions made in order that the country may settle I thi ers "No Massacre at Vilna." Soldiers of the Polish used until 1893, when the interest of city's welfare. by American Jewry to the funds used down to peaceful development, and "Colonel Godson, attached to the Bolsheviki. Legion were seen front windows in for war relief permits the assumption for the public welfare the government American Legation at Berlin, his as- the 1,Vallstrasse forcing open stores that America will Inc the largest con- will suppress wills an iron hand anti- sistaot Lieutenant Dewald, and an tributor in the adoption of war or- Jewish activities. American newspaper corresponi en , closed because of the Jewish Sabbath. plan. There is no doubt that Jews were in Vilna on May 5 and talked On the afternoon of Monday, April ith J ews and others regarding the 21, when relative calm obtained, pen- in other countries will also gladly un- \M1 I.ater, representatives of ',le who had taken refuge in the eel- .Voted Jewish Scientist. Who Met Tragic Death, Was One of World's dertake their proper share in the re- situation. Soldiers, it is said, Agricultural Experts—Discoverer of sponsibility." the Relief Administration and also a 'tars came out. Famous wrested them demanded their pa- General Staff officer attached to the pers, searched them and took all the resen- mission in Lithuania and a rep valuables from their pocketbooks. tatise of the Jewish Joint Distribu- —The Peace Conference New Turk—The Not Killed by Bolsheviki. Aaron Aaronsolin, the noted botau- ish in a climate of small rainfall. His tion Committee were in Vilna. Infor- ful would have will satisfactorily solve the Jewish prob- Street fighting broke out, the docu- • st who w as killed in an aeroplane ac-lexperiments if success mation has been given that all of these lem in eastern Europe and likewise gra- c ear 13oulogne while flying quadrupled the wheat producing area t meat says, on the afttrnoon 1 i i persons are unanimous ident n tify the aspiration of the Jew for the of the world. These were followed ll that there was no Jewish massacre in I22, after the city had been entirely from London to Paris on Thrsday, D e e- ' establishment of a Jewish State in Pal- by bir th. with the intensest interest the thUnit ed \'ilna, and that statements in Jewish cleared of Itolsheviki. A considerable April 1 5th, w as a Romaany uni estine, according to assurances given artment of Agricultu re of by ' number of Jews were killed or thrown Asa child of five he was ta arsa confirm this , y newsnapers of W w WASH I NGTON — The National 1.y Federal Judge Julian W. Mack, in a ' to irison l'edestrians in the streets parents to Palestine whither they States which duplicated them in a view. the experiment n I Polish Bureau has issued a statement statement issued on his return from were robbed of their clothing, par- went with a group of their neig hbors ' measure in some of es t er , states i Will Investigate, Says Later Report. to i fr‘011 Lieutenant Constantine Dc Wol- Paris. lodge Mack, who went abroad ticularly shoes. Prominent residents to form a Jewish farming settlement stations of our W in behalf of the American Jewish Con- A report from Washington subse- of the town were arrested and tor- e in Samaria. The which irrigation had been resorted ski , a Polish officer from Warsaw at- •ress of which he is chairman, was make available great stretches of tached quent to the above news story states tured and held for ransom. Some at Zichron la th relative to the staff of General Haller, ih s to e traditiona 1 Imy received to the pogrom stories whic h , elected in Paris head of a committee that acting under the orders of the mud, the semi-arid land. Were killed. education in Bible and Tal Jew chosen from the Jest ish delegations at 'flue new cultivated wheat might state department to make a personal others Reports speak of 1 500 persons hav- knowledge of which later stood him in good stead in developing his far- have flourished in these same stretch- have been generally printed through- the Peace Conference. This committee investigation of the report of anti- out the country. - killed in Vilna alone, while ing been nce a irrigation. Tat was Jewish pogroms, Hugh Gibson, the it is estimated that from 2,000 to 5 000 He declared that the real Polish at - presented to the Peace Conference seeing agricultural and reclamation es without the discoverer. h and the the I f titude towards the Jewish people memorandiun setting forth the condi American minister to Poland, accom- were deported from Vilna to Lida. o ,,, mod m, made known int the wffild hope of eparttnent in- panied by Dr. Bogen, the representa- Ransoms of 1,500 to 15,000 rubles plans. From early youth he assisted the age sestigations of the D within six months, when, from the tions of the Jews in Poland and Rou- at ub encouraged on the sject tive in Poland of the joint distribu- were demanded of Jews who were his father on the farm. and d e Rot hs- Agrclture iu tion committee, has left Warsaw for thought to have money. Those de- o f eighteen, Baron Edmu than discour age d his hope. Not Russian lands, because of fear of per- mania and the demands of the Jews for ity of rather ies at ch only (lid the Amcan Department of civil, political, and religious rights in child granted him the opnportun e ri new States to be created under the Vilna and Pinsk. ported were subjected to the most pu rsuing agronomic stud dFre n institutions. On his return to Pales- Agriculture follow his experiments' sectition, a great Jewish immigratio would start towards Poland, which the Pc:::, Treaties. cruel treatment, according to the re- "When 1 left Paris on May 18." said port, being clubbed with rifle butts tine. equipped with all that modern and give space to them in its own stn- science can bestow, he threw himself tions, but it gave to Mr. Aaronsohn would do its best to protect the refit- fudge Ma .k. "our government, as well and entirely deprived of food during . were there is at the present time Associated Powers, w "That eagerly into the study of Palestinian every encouragement possible. One to ' gees. the journey. d partly hich of its bullins was d evote and part-I an undercurrent of feeling against the as some of the Assoe pogroms w e broadly from a Damage 6,000,000 Rubles. ricul people running through Eu- invesheating terribl ltura pro the discovery of wild w heat, have been the taking place not only in of brough t point of view. He Other reports in the document say ag scientific llrope is of felt ' by many people," lie con- upon them varied information, h• to Mr. Aaronsohn's description Jewish p ' in many of Poland but in other countries in the that the Jewish population was sub- to bear which commerci a o ther Unfortunately, he proved 1 tinned. The biggest event of the summer in jected to indescribable cruelty. The geological. botanical, mineralogical, legumonous and ma ss- geographY, physical and would be of great value for introduc- the countries, and particularly in Po- East. Authentic in formation confirms of the Palestine local fraternal circles will take place Polish authorities prohibited any one and meteorological; above all, he was plants D e- into United States. A num- land, the Jewish people, unwittingly all that w as rets.reil at the great at Put-in-Bay in August, when Pisgah from selling bread to the Jews. It interested ill Those who had the extsosi. privilege bier tier of his suggestions were followed perhaps, were used as requisition meeting here in New York May 21. only of listening to his sparkling Lodge, No. 34 I. 0. Ii. will join was also impossible for • them, it is human. of the effect of environment on , lit by the Department of Agriculture,lagents by the German military forces. nuts are worse than useless; they o with its sister lodges in the lower said, to bring in food fei n t neighbor- men. will never forget his eloquence ,.(nd one of its specialists made a trip I In Galicia. for some strange reason, emphasize the facts and the intentional men Great Lakes region in a great joint ing localities, because the Poles for- lion o Palestine to study on the spot the Jews I the the Austrian made' the affair suppression of the truth. Pinsk bade the Jews to cross the bridges and the vividness of his illustrations. to lodge outing. plants described by Mr. Aaronsohml food government commissionaries, posi- was worse than the The ordinary l'isgah Lodge as initiator of this leading out of the city. es He Discoverer became widely knovvn to the A second bulletin was devoted to the I dons which inevitably led to wrang- Is.erom; a military commander executed the 4. of Wild Wheat. splendid idea to bring its neighboring Between April 10 and May of the experiments on wild ling with the farmers. Again, the thirty-seven young any trial on the mere men and without ungrounded 'nto named closer touch with one oes 1 i ■ has other, a committee on an- ar- document says, the Jews in A dna sn - • discovery results • I Bolshevist movement has led to more suspicion that they mere Bolshevists. Gold- feted damage estimated at 6,000,000 scientific world through his Since my departure, Nir. Louis Nlarhall The bodies of fifty-four Jews were of the so-called wild wheat, the pro- wheat reached in one of the Arizona Prominence of certain Jews in the istin ton gements ran . the whole story he of this . bitterness. has of tole cultivated wheat. Sec- experiment stations. smith, chairman, A. Lapin Cohen, Mil- rubles. • •Co "No one of these things ju e and ether outrages in a per :o m oat i nter- Establishment of Experimental N. H. Goldstick, found in the streets 19 ' t°tYP M. Alexander, g of Leon The between majority April of those eral German an Austrian botanists Wilho has the oppression of the Joys, but it is ins- I son, w resi ent Station at Haifa. s of the iew to Pd discoveredin t inn hon. Adolph Freund, Joseph J. Cummins. had discover 22. possible, in th e creation of a new view from situation under serious consid- • e April , it is asserted, were buried on presence o f t his wild wheat in l'ales- M r. Aaronsohn was enabled to carry Plans have already been made for and lion, to expect the peop e o te eration in all of its aspects. ng athletic killed h snot where they, fell. so it is ins- tine, but none had been able to pros i on Isis experiments with wheat, se- na nclu unique features idi same, barley, citrus plants, fodder nation to automatically fall into an and amus ements. night possible to arrive at the et num- that it grew there. The problem was eventncing, s da POGROMS CONTINUE. put up to Aaronsohn as the oaths(' plants, mulberry trees and fruit trees exact observance of the rights of oth- At the last meeting Monday a exact a great ovation was tendered Samuel lien of document victims. The says that the Lithu- cientist with the widest experience in general through the establishment ers, and they object to having such LONDON—Jewish pogroms have of the Jewish Agricultural Experi- unfortunate happenings chronicled I. Rhodes, past seph president of Pisgah Gottlieb, two anian Commission desires to point out with the Palestinian flora. Disap- 1 ment Station in Haifa, Palestine, by throughout the newspapers as acts of occurred in 50 different places in Rus- Lodge, Jo order who have just that it appealed to the great powers pointed again and again he persisted a group of American Jews interested the Polish government. and to the sia, according to a Russian wireless en and of the the being held up before message which gives as its authority brethr d from eighteen months' service for a commission of investigation he. until he socceeded in finding it on in both of his experiments on wild arrive Laudatory speeches of their fore Premier Paderewski of Poland slopes of Mt. Hermon. The story of in the discovery reads like a romance. In I wheat and in the development of Pal-1 the people of America as little better the newspaper lzvestia. Most of the overseas. the Turks. than pogroms were carried out in the exploits and the gratification of the took such a step. reality it was logical that he. with his ' estinian husbandry. Just as his ex.' "With a scanty force of poorly clad neighborhood of Proskuroy. Three ' in- PISGAH LODGE NOTICE. l s pursued and var ied periments were reaching their term1 ong order on their safe return were made s ystema tic on has, in every thousand lews have been killed in . hould have found it a Iona d I inninf( to become avail- , men the government — nvestigati by several of the mem bers, to which in 1 i ' k e trouble able to the farmers of Palestine, bothIcase where anything Felghtyn, 2,0n0 in Z'nitomir, 4,000 Th-r' w ill be ■ regular meeting of The period of discovery was followed seemed likely, rushed soldiers and Teplek and 350 in Ovrutch. the returning heroes responded, ex- . B., the Jewish and the Ara de. the by a long period of patient expe pressing their thankfulness that they No. 34, 1. 0. B. preseed peace." ry could once again Inc back in the midst held Pima, at lodge. the lodge rooms, 25 Broadway, mentation. The firoblem before hint broke out and the results of his labors New Jersey State Department with The of their brethren to carry on the no- on Monde): evening, June 16, at 7:33 was to fertilize the wild wheat . , , were swept away. It is not yet known A new synagorme , to cost between of Charities has issued a certificate Nominations for officers for carious species of t he " It "' eu definitely whether the experiment hie work of the order. farms were left intact by the Turkish $65,000 and $75,000. is to be erected made that norn- listing the Hudson County Hebrew Announcement W 3 s will be made. Nomma- wheat. in nether On the one hand to forces as they swept across the Haifa for Congregation Tifereth Israel. of Orphan Horne. ending the app roved eliminate the brittleness of the wild instions for officers for the next term the next t-rm be continued at the regular at the regular meetings lions will t. 'finalities of sector. Scattered leaves of his seism- North Dallas, Texas, as soon as a I charities the state. wheat And the degenerae will he held June 16. and Monday, meetin. on June 21. A class initia- le preserving on Monday, site is selcted. the coitivated wheat. wh. (Continued Or Pa r Four.) lene 23. A class initiation will be ton wiil be held at the lodge rooms on ity of the wild wheat to flour- the ab il June 21. held on June 23. SAY POLISH TROOP' , IN VILNA, SLEW 1500 to LIFE STORY OF AARON AARONSO HN t nu I Polish Official Says Jews Will Migrate tg Poland Eventua y Judge Mack Says Peace Conference Will Solve Jewish Problem in Europe Pisgah Lodge to Join Sister Lodges in Great Outing at Put-in-Bay of