vimericam ifewish periodical eatter CLIFTON ATENU1 • CiNCINNATI 20, OHIO THE DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE MICHIGAN'S JEWISH HOME PUBLICATION Per Year, $2.00; Copy, 5 Cents DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, AUGUST 8, 1919. VOL VI. NO. 10. RABBI OF EULOGIZES OSCAR I NEW CHIEF FRANCE IS ELECTED HAMMERSTEIN AT ' TEMPLE FUNERAL'sniosrtoryt, 'Detroit Boy's Last Resting Place in France. SHAAREY ZEDEK ANNEXES ACRE TO NEW CEMETERY uzair A, PROMINENT JEWS OF NATION CALLED TO AID BRETHREN An additional acre of land adjoin- ing the gate and entrance, and situ- ated so that it overlooks the beautiful landscape below, has been annexed to Congregation Shaarey Zedek's spa. cirrus new cemetery, Clover Hill Park, is M. Israel Levi, one of the rabbis — - - at \Voodward avenue and the Fifteen- — - of Paris. The present incumbent, Nide Road. It was found that the ex- Summoned by Felix Warburg to Rabbi Silverman of Temple who is 63 years old, graduated from tra acre would enhatiace the cemetery Consider Further Relief for Jews l'aris Seminary in 1879 and was in its physical appearance, as well as Ernanu-El Honors Memory 0 t - the in Europe in Present Extreme appointed assistant rabbi in 1882. Ten in its utility value. Great Impresario Who Died years later he was appointed proles- Crisis. The formal consecration of Clover sor of Jewish history at the Rabbit)- Last Week. Hill Park Cemetery, which took place - _ ical Seminary, and in 1890 he was Sunday, July 6, was a revelation to the TO HOLD CONFERENCE IN lecturer on Rabbinic liter- WAS FAMOUS AS HEAD OF appointed hundreds who thronged its artistically NEW YORK SUNDAY, AUG. 10 slue at t Eci1e hra des laid-out grounds. The landscape pre- MANHATTAN GRAND OPERA Paris. l.teTi"is sents a pretty picture to the eye with -- - of the foremost Jewish scholars of for its shrubs and blooming bushes and Will Prepare Budget to Ile was closely identified Came to America in 1865— the day. Future Needs—To Organize All fine, wide driveways. The most mod- Introduced Modern French with the management of the Revue ern methods will be used in conduct- Relief—David A. Brown Repre- Etudes Juices and was a very Music-Drama Here—Friend of 'le` ing this new cemetery. Perpetual sents Detroit. frequent contributor to its columns. maintenance will be guaranteed and Students. He is best known fur his edition of discrimination will not figure in fam- -- • the newly discovered text of Ben New. York:—Several score of lead- ily lot prices. The opening of Clover New York: The funeral of Os- sira, of which a class room edition Hill Park Cemetery is filling a real ing Jews from all parts of the car Hammerstein was held in the was issued in the "Semitic Study country will meet here Sunday, Aug- Temple I•mann-El, on Monday last. Series," edited by Drs. Richard Gott- need in the community. ust 10, at the invitation of Felix M. The temple was filled to capacity, and lied and ,turns Jastrow. M. Levi is Warburg, the Wall street banker and the congregation comprised men a son-in-law of the late Grand Rabbit chairman of the joint distribution and women of theatrical and operatic of France, NI. Zadoc Kahn. committee of the Jewish Relief Funds, prominence. as well as hundreds of to consider the present extreme crisis the general public. The services, of Jewry abroad as outlined by re- which were simple in character, in- A Mogen David, reverentially painted on a crude pine board, the cently returned investigators and to cluded two selections by the tenor, folds of the Stars and Stripes, the flag for which he fought and died, determine upon a definite, unified pro- John N1cCormack, one of the well- melting into the blue and white of Israel's symbol, and over all a gram in which all sections of Ameri- known old Hebrew hymns, sung in wreath of poppies and wild flowers, carefully wrought, by fingers New York, Aug. 6.—The Transmis- can Jewry shall join to save the race English, and "The Lost Chord." by sion Bureau of the Joint Distribution in Europe from destruction. that trembled—these tokens differentiate Grave No. 221, the last Sullivan. The Rev. Dr. Joseph Silver- The conference will extend over a resting place of Nathau Ilarry Lamport, the first of our Jewish boys Committee of Jewish Relief Funds man, the rabbi of Temple Emanti-El, London, Aug. 4.--A Bolshevik wire- tip die in France, from the countless hundreds of unnamed graves at has sent abroad this year to relatives period of two or three days, with ses- delivered the funeral sermon. of people in America, nearly half a sions in the morning, afternoon and less dispatch from Moscow reports After a selection from the Scrip- St. Nazaire, France. million dollars in individual remit- evening. tures and a brief prayer by Rabbi Sil- the shooting of Gen. Gregorieff, the The picture reproduced above is the most treasured relic of the tances and has located thousands Invitations have gone to all mem- verman, Mr. McCormack sang, and Russian commander who captured front whom parents, children, or bers of the joint distribution commit- the funeral address followed. Dr. Sil- Odessa early in July, and whose war brought back from France last Sunday by Al Curtis, the last of brothers and sisters on this side have tee and to many other prominent men troops are reported to have carried four brothers to return from France. It was Mr. Curtis who dec- verman said in part: hail no word since the beginning of who are interested its the work of this out a massacre in the Jewish quarter Rabbi's Eulogy. orated the grave of his comrade and brother. I larry Lamport was the war. The semi-annual report organization and of the American of Odessa recently. killed at Paimbeauf, France. on September 3, 1918, in an aeroplane front January 1, to June 311, places the Jewish committee, the funds of which "The public career of ()scar Ham- Gen. Nlaksno, commander of the merstein is well known. lie has left Ukranian insurgent forces. was his accident. Ile was in the medical service, attached to the aviation total of remittances handled in this are turned over to the joint distribu- his impress on several walks of life; assailant. section of the A. E. F. Ile is the late son of Mrs. Ethel Lamport, period at $467,877.28. The average tion committee. he touched the world at many points. single remittance is about $25. Po- These Will Attend. 950 John R. street. Beginning life in this country at the land, Lithuania, Galicia, and Czecho- Polish — Semi -official bottom of the ladder, he finally real- sources have received reports that slovakia are the chief regions to Among those who have been asked which private funds have been sent. by Mr. Warburg to attend are Louis r . , ized that his natural inclination was Gen. Gregorieff's troops, which are No charge is made for this service, Marshall, Jacob Schiff, Felix M. War- in the direction of music and the op- occupying Odessa, surrounded the era. He sought to educate the public Jewish quarter and began a massacre the cost of operation being borne out burg, Nathan Straus and Henry Nfor- to the best in art. and was ready to which lasted three days and nights. I'aris, July 19.—Renard Richards, of the relief funds of the American genthau, all of New York city; Mayer NEW YORK.—Colonel H. A. sacrifice his own.fortunes if necessary Russian soldiers of Gregorieff's Secretary of the Delegation front the Jewish Relief Conunittee and its co- Sulzberger, Dr. Cyrus Adler, Jacob D. to achieve this purpose. This int- command, it is stated, carried out the Guinzberg, Chairman of the Campaign American Jewish Congress to the operative organizations. Receipts Lit, Philadelphia; Mrs. Janet Harris, presario was a tnan of strong person- massacre. The Jews of Ukraine and Committee of the $100)0,000 United Peace Conference, who left Paris to- from abroad are returned to America Bradford, Pa.; A. Leo Weil, Pitts- ality, of irresistible individuality. lie Bessarabia have proclaimed a mourn- Building Fund Campaign for Feder- day to sail for America on the Lor- through the bureau after they have burgh; David A. Brown, Detroit; Mrs. ated Jewish Institutions, announced been signed by the recipients, many Abram Simon, Fulton Brylowski, Col- rarely took advice; he always give it. ing period of 14 days. yesterday at a meeting of industrial raine, expressed much satisfaction of whom live in districts where no onel Herbert H. Lehman, Washing- He counseled his counselors and • ad- Gen. Gregorieff entered Odessa re- With the work done in Paris for the leathers of this city at the Bankers' was intensely He vised his advisers. cently after severe fighting and was protection of Jewish rights and the mail can be sent. These signatures ton, D. C.; Colonel Harry Cutler, democratic, loving humanity and be- quoted as saying that he was ready Club, that $2,000,000 had already been furtherance of the interests of the show that the person to whom the re- l'rovidence, R. I.; J. Walter Freiberg, subscribed to the fund. Of this Harry Friedenwald, Julius Levy, Bal- friending the unfortunate. to Join the Allies in a combined at- other minorities involved in the Peace mittance goes is still aliVe. "Oscar Hammerstein has become tack on the liolsheviki if the latter mount, $1,041,000 had been contrib- Felix M. Warburg, chairman of the timore, hid.; Louis Topkis, Wilming- settlement. part of the history of this metropolis began an offensive on the Dniester uted up to last Friday by the direc- When asked for his opinion of the Joint Distribution Committee, issued ton, Del.; Dr. Emil G. Hirsch, Julian tors and officers of Federated Institu. a statement today calling attention to W. Mack, Samuel Philipson, Julius and will be remembered for many a river. tions and the remainder came from results achieved, Mr. Richards said the fact that this bureau, which is Rosenwald, Albert D. Lasker, Chi- day. The story of the theatrical and Cecil B. Harmsworth, British under that, thanks to enlightened public practically the only channel of com- cago; Joseph Michaels, Rochester, N. operatic life of this city—aye, of this secretary for foreign affairs, said in individual donations. Since the $1,041,000 already receiv- opinion and the determination of the country—cannot be written without the House of Commons on July 8, munication between this country and Y.; J. G. Joseph, Rabbi Louis Kopald, ed represents about one-third of the Allies to stand by the principles en- an important record of Oscar Ham- that Gen. Gregorieff was stated to he $5,000,000 quota assigned to directors unciated in the course of the war, the many sections of Europe, is open to Buffalo, N. Y.; Louis E. Kirstein, Bos- everyone who desires to send funds ton; Colonel Isaac M. Ullman, New merstein. His friends loved him for strongly anti-Jewish in his sympath- , of institutions, who are being can- Committee on Jewish Relations his intrinsic worth; his foes honored ies. The under secretary said many vassed by a committee headed by Ja- which was made up of delegates from to long-lost relatives abroad. Checks Haven, Conn.; Colonel Moses Schoen- hint for his rugged strength. 1l ay his Jews had lost their lives in the course cob H. Schiff, and since only 500 out different countries, had reason to he should be made out to Arthur Leh- berg, St. Louis; A. C. Wurmster, Kan- memory be an emulation for the ideal of the operations between the Russian of a possible 1,500 directors had been gratified by the recognition which man, treasurer, and be sent to 98 Sec- sas City, Mo.; Colonel Harris Wein- in net that rises supreme over the Soviet forces and those of Gen. Greg- asked to contribute, the committee had already been given. and the as ond avenue, together with the full stock, NI ortimer Fleishhacker, San dross of materialism." orieff, who was in command of a believe that the total amount willote surances that were held forth with native and last known address of the Francisco; Louis Isaacs, Los Angeles; Edward N. Calisch, Richmond, Va.; Prominent Pallbearers. ('kranian anti-Bolshevik army. attained. This sum, it was said, does regard to the protection and mainten- payee. Joseph H. Schanfield, Minneapolis; The honorary pallbearers were I.ee not include gifts previously announc- ance in their rights of all minorities. Nat Stone, Milwaukee; Marion Tra- Naturally, he said. the delegates RABBIS TO ISSUE BOOK ed of $150,000 from George Blumen- Shubert Ah r ,t,in E. Erlanger Nf , rk LOUIS MARSHALL JOINS OF CONSOLATION vis, Tulsa, Okla.; Samuel E. Radii, In- • thal, President of Mt. Sinai Hos- front America played the dominant Klaw, David Belasco, George Al. Co- dianapolis; Felix Fuld, Newark, N. J.; role in the committee, and American ham Al Woods, William A. Brady, J. IN "MUTINY" ON TOURAINE pital, and $150,000 front Jacob H. Dr. Boris Borger, Cincinnati. Jewry has reason to be proud of the At the request of the Executive J. shubert, Morris Gest. l'ercy G. Schiff which h w A subscription of $80,000 from Na- work done and the manner in - Committee of the National Federa- 1-lye H. Andrews, and To Consider New Activities. New York—Louis Marshall tells enn it was represented here by such Henry Rosenberg. Homer E. Will- the following rather adventurous in- than Hofheimer, a leader in the auto- The purpose of the conference, as cident which occurred on the French mobile and hardware industry and di- rent leaders in Jewish affairs as judge lion of Temple Sisterhoods the Ex- iatns was the organist. officially outlined are to survey condi- As a tribute to the memory of Oscar Liner Touraine while at Havre on rector of the Home for the Aged and Julian Mack, Louis Marshall, Colonel ecutive Committee of the Central Infirm. was announced by Colonel Harry Cutler, Dr. Stephen S. Wise, Conference of American has tions abroad as they exist at present; ng Consol to issue "A Book i Rabbis of Hammerstein, Hugo Riesenfeld, di- d 12. ship was advertised to sail on Guinzberg. He also reported the do- and others of note. al to prepare a tentative budget which c Bibli iba- i containing The , r , " " tontatt rector of the Rirvoli and the Rialto, July compre_ ti on and Prayer Mr. Richard said that the efforts to and Rabbinical reflections of a cheer- will cover if possible the whole future ordered the flag on the Rialto at half- July 12, but when the passengers nation of $50.000 front Louis Mar- activities on behalf of the Jews ry character. staff• and at 11 o'clock. the hour of gathered in the dining saloons, Cap- shah', who first learned of the United organize Jews on a broad, and publication consolato of this book , which abroad, and to take up plans for rais- the funeral of Mr. Hammerstein, a fain Bordeaux informed us that the Building Fund Campaign at a dinner pensive basis for this work had been ing ne members ing further funds. bugler sounded the call of "Taps" crew h ail struc k j us t a few hours he- given in his honor last Monday night. fully justified. Other problems r - The aim, it is stated, is so to or- to be soed, mail solved, however. during has been authorized by the from the roof of the impresario's old re. insisting on going to Paris on when New York Jewry welcomed mained h■ of a need Bastile Day. Captain Bordeaux said hint on his return front France, where the period of reconstruction, he add- of the Conference through a which ganize the relief work that every ad- theater. Ant- vantage may be taken of facilitating outgrowth he was Chairman of the American ed, and it behooved the Jews of An vote, the been long felt by the women of has is sa il until J ul y Life History. the the vessel Would not uld have to get off Jewish Delegation to the Peace Co"- erica to continue to manifest their he congregations affiliated with - the these efforts by co-operating with Oscar Hammerstein, operatic im- 15 and that we woad interest in and give their support to onal Federation empie :s is- relief organizations established by Federation in 1 Temple England, France or other countries. presario, inventor and theater builder, until then, as he could not give us ference. the Jews itt Eastern Europe who National oo s. te The commissioners who went died on Augnst 1 in New York city, accommodations. had suffered so grievously during the FORBIDS Rev. Dr. Leo M. Franklin, of De- " \Ye knew that the hotels ashore POLICE CHIEF at the age of seventy-two years, after troit, President of the Central Con- abroad for the committee and are war. ANTI-JEWISH ATTACKS a long illness. .5 remarkable figure in were filled to capacity. I addressed now hack in this country, will attend ference of American Rabbis, has ap- the passengers, both in the ca tin an d the operatic world, he had i pointed a committee with instruc- the meeeting. These men and wo- ANNIVERSARY OF DEATH quarters, and learned that it NVarsaw —"Die chief of police hay- men made a first-hand investigation of the work for a period of ten years. steerage OF "HADASSAH KAPLAN" tions to present the material for the of conditions throughout eastern Eu- ors le whole of P o- 't y over the but was planning to resume his activ- was the sense of everybody that we in g au th book to the Autumn meeting of the hies in February next--his contract slonild stay aboard the Touraine, de- land issued an order to the police Conference Executives. The action rope, the Balkans and Palestine. It NEW YORK.—August 3rd marked with the NI etropolitan Opera Conn- spite Captain Bordeaux' announce- chiefs of every city, town and village, will assure a speedy compilation of is their direct information that is to in the new Polish republic, calling the second anniversary of the sad pang expiring then—when Ile was ment. the book and the early appearance of furnish the basis for the relief budgets. ' again attacked by the serious illness 1 "I communicated this sentiment to t o their attention to the decision of the death of Rose Kaplan, one of the Among these commissioners are Jacob the volume. he had been suffering from for years., Captain Bordeaux. In spite of the Polish Government not to permit any first nurses sent from this country Billikopf, of Kansas City; Bernard to establish a system of district nurs- His greatest service to this country fact that there were in the steerage further attacks upon Jews. Horvvich, of Chicago, and Isidore The order issued by the chief of ing in Jerusalem. She was sent un- The officers of the Central Confer- his introduction to the music- I many women and children who did was . world of New York of what not hare the means to subsist ashore, police calls for the instruction ce of all der the auspices of "Iladassah," ence of American Rabbis have been Hershfield, of New "fork. loving Reposes Confirmed. though lodgings were found, police officers to notify police and which has for its watchword: "Heal- notified by the executors of the will might he called intimate music-drama, even ch school Captain Bordeaux insisted that we military headquarters as soon as any ing to the Daughter of My People." of the late Isidor Cohen, of Sacra- The reports of critical conditions French le tnnmern I, that of Rose Kaplan, or "Hadassah Kap- mento, Cal., that according to his brought back by these representatives which had been greatly neglected by leave the ship. Otherwise, he said. disturbance either by Polish soldiers the older companies, and the vogue we would be ejected. He threatened or by civilians, having the nature of lan," as she was called in Jerusalem, will the sum of $250 has been be- are confirmed in a recent statement anti-Jewish demonstrations. begin. was untiring in her service to the queathed to the Conference. This he established must be continued. the use of force. lie defied hint. given out by the American Red Cross. "Ile went ashore and returned with The police are also instructed that men, women and children ailing in is the first time that the value of the This statement was contained in a His like does not exist today. The unique and important place he filled twenty uniformed gendarmes. With they are to use all means to suppress body and downcast in spirit. Through Conference to the community at large dispatch from Frank NV. America, one attacks upon Jews and that they will her efforts. backed by the splendid has been thus recognized by a lay- in the musical world cannot he filled the aid of sixty-seven army officers of the orgrization's agents in War- we beat them off. Bleeding noses and he held personally responsible for women of "Hadassah," clinics for wo- man, and will probably direct the at- by any man at the present age. skinned knuckles were the only cas- carrying out this order. men and children were established tention of others to the beneficent saw. "The American Red Cross Party," Greatest Impresario. 'taffies. The gendarmes did not re- in the Holy Land. The battle against work which is being dime by this writes Mr. America, "visited scores Traconta, that widespread affliction body. Oscar Hammerstein was one of the mil. They had had enough." RABBI CHARLES J. FREUND of cities. towns and villages, from big of the eyes. was valiantly fought by most remarkable figures in musical FROM TEMPLE towns like Brest-Litovsk and Bielos- her and her associates. Weak and and theatrical life in this city for tok to the smaller villages like Ka- RAPIDS JUDGE BRANDEIS ENDS APPOINTED COUNSEL EMANUEL, GRAND were JEW children many years, his chief claim to fame , under-nourished mien-Kaszyrski, where there was not — PALESTINE JOURNEY Grand Rapids, Mich.—Rabbi Chas. brought back to health through this OF U. S. SHIPPING BOARD j a single doctor for 3,000,000 inhabit- being hiss s venture in grand opera in _ J. Freund who has been rabbi of service. Pre-natal and post-natal care Manhattan Opera House in West . - and not a house where at least I , file reports each as introduced. Thirty-fourth Thirty-fourth street, where for a per- New York.—Justice Louis D. Bran- T Hyman, law- one was not down with typhus, tu- le Emanuel of this city for the year glow with the m any invaluable PORN.—Mark NEW ORK.—Mark of four years he presented opera deis, United States supreme court. past three years, has tendered his services rendered by this splendid wo- yer, anti-trust prosecutor and assns- berculosis or smallpox. with outstanding casts, produced op- Hughes in the air has completed a tour of Palestine and resignation to the congregation. Everywhere. Famine and Di eras which were practically unknown now is en route to Paris, according Rabbi Frond came to Grand Rapids. man, truly bringing "healing to the cant to Charles E. craft investigation, has been appoint-I Metropolitan here in opposition to the —nue people were subsisting on a here by the Zionist from Harrisburg, Pa. Previous to daughter of my people." to news received ed general counsel for the United Company, and attained a reputation an awful black sub- organization of America. The Jew- that time he served in the ul it f TO BAR States Shipping Board. Mr. Hyman sort of bread. as an impresario which will long be ish colonies were reported in a "flour- con o RABBI p d i) s alt made of bark from oak trees, ! gregations in To I e d o an • in remembered by the music-lovers of ishing condition." Lake Cit Rabbi Freund stated 1 that succeeds Sherman L. Whipple, of tits- . stance, chaff and heather, but contain- CLEVELAND.—Rabbi Liebowitz, ton, who resigned to return to private acorns, y. New York. His operatic career ended ing no particle of flour. In some vil- The American jurist, who is bon- Ile intended to devote himself to oth- practice. in 1910, when he sold out all his in- i head of the Congregation B'nai Ja- lages this so-called bread was made a orary head of the Zionist movement er fields of endeavor. cob, has been admitted to the Ohio terests to the Metropolitan Company in this country, accompanied by little more palatable with potato peel- hi Li b ow itz , who is 45 PISGAH LODGE NOTICE. bar. Rabbi for something over a million dollars. Jacob De Ilaas, executive secretary, ings. PERSHING CITES RABBI years old. came to America in 1906. with an agreement not to engage in and Professor Alfred Zimmern, of "We passed from village to village opera for a period of ten years. This the University of Wales, a former The next regular meeting of Pisgah and everywhere found famine and dis- Grand time would have been up in February Rabbi Appointed ma- St. Louis.—Captain Elkan C. Voor- r- ease. Many villages were absolutely Lodge, No. 34, Independent Order of he was planning another sea British foreign undersecretary, ne xt and ed Jaffa. Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and sanger, formerly Rabbi in this city, Chaplain of N. Y. Masons B'naI Brith will take place at the uninhabited. There was not a living more than 20 Jewish colonies in Ju- who is now chief of all Jewish Wel- so n to begin then in this city. thing in them except the inevitable New York—Rabbi Elias Margolis, lodge rooms, 25 Broadway, on Monday fare Board activities in Paris, has carrion crow, and we wondered why dea, Galilee and Samaria. Came Here in 1665. evening, August 11th at 7:30 p. m. of Temple Emanuel. Mt. Vernon, N. It was as if a he hovered there. Arrival of the visitors. it was said, been cited in a proclamation by Gen- Born in Berlin in 1847, Oscar Ham- The DetrInt Jesish Chronicle is the offirjal Y., has been appointed grand chap- merstein came to this country in 1865, was the signal for a public holiday eral Pershing for exceptional meri- blight had passed over these places. laesl area. of Pisgah Lodge. lain of Masons of New York state. torious services. I in most of the cities and towns. (Continued oil Page 4.) Even before the death of the late !Grand Rabbit, NI. Alfred Levi, which 'occurred last week, the Central Con- eell,e,ettee,11 grrec Care J. D. C. TRANSMISSION BUREAU SENDS BIG SUM TO RELATIVES RUSSIAN GENERAL WHO MASSACRED JEWS IN ODESSA IS KILLED PRAISES WORK DONE N. Y. BUILDING FUND IN PARIS .FOR JEWS REACHES $2,000,000 ADMITTED