.• fittycnovirjanstiOttart azia. PAGE•TEN Largest, fastest steamers in the world. Excellent treatment of pas- sengers. There is a local agent in your town or nearby. To Poland, Lithuania, Uk- rainia and all Baltic States via Hamburg: SAXONIA Oct. 29 Cabin Agents of the Polish police raided and examined documents and records in all the Jewish dailies of Warsaw. No reasons for the action were given. • • • • 3d Cl. $145.00 ED ER WOODIVARD AVE. $100.00 Tax $5.00 Via Cherbourg, Southamp- ton, Liverpool and Glasgow: BERENGARIA Oct. 20 AQUITANIA .. Oct. 25 ASSYRIA Oct. 29 A report from Kovno states that the police on the Polish-Ukrainian frontier have arrested a number of refugees who attempted to cross the border without the necessary papers. • • • • The second eon of the King of Sweden and the English Duke Sunder- manland have arrived in Palestine and have paid their respects to the high Commissioner. • • • Israel Zungwill has just completed a dramatization of his well known book, "The King of Schnorrers," which will be produced shortly in English in the National Jewish Theater. • • • Via England or Hamburg to Dan- zig, $110; Libau, $120; Ham- burg, $100. Tax $5. Sweeping the City --- In Retjesta, near the Russian frontier, the Bolshevik authorities have shot six plantation owners who were charged with urging the peasants to make pogroms on Jews. • • . • The Building Commission of Lodz has confiscated Rasmaitasje, the beau. tiful theater owned by the Jewish Actors Society of I,odz, and given it to the Society of l'olish Actors, whose theater was recently razed by tire. • • • • In the course of the debate in the • l'olish Sejm, the well known leader of the Socialist party, gibed at the "order" that prevailed in Poland, when Polish urchins were permitted to throw stones at Jewish funeral pro- cessions. • • . • Select Dandng Nightl y The Chief Rabbinate of Budapest reports that between January and August of 1921, 129 persona accepted the Jewish faith. Of these some 50 per cent were repentant renegades and the others Christians, including a goodly number of physicians and lawyers. * Palais de Dance Particular People Preis, the Palala Susctly censored. His heel The London Morning Post confirms a recent report of the assassination of the Bolshevist diplomat, Adolph Jaffee, at the hands of one of his bitter political enemies, Evtlakimow, who was a member of the Petrograd Com- munist executive committee. • • • standard IMge pussaisal The Pierson Construction Company has begun to carry out its contract for the construction of a modern harbor at Haifa on the Mediterranean Sea. It is announced that the expenses of the operations will amount to £10,000,000. • • • • 1106400 Otwbows. Miss Detroit Cigar Systematic searches for Jewish refugees are being conducted by the Polish police. l'olice agents recently entered numerous Jewish hotels and private dwellings, where many emigrants and destitutes without special per. mission to live in Poland were arrested. • • 1. 8c Each The Red Star, a Communist organ published in Witebsk, prints an article from the pen of the well known Bolshevik leader, Merejin, who proposes that the national Soviet authorities take measures to prevent the observance of the Jewish Sabbath on the grounds that it causes economic loss to Russia. • • « Manuel Urbach Emess, a Moscow organ, states that 2,000 Jewish families in the province of Odessa are successfully engaged in the pursuit of agriculture and in the care of large tobacco plantations. They are handicapped, however, says the paper, and further settlement is impossible because of the absence of livestock and agricultural machinery. • The London Morning Post prints a ♦ cable from Mr. Driscoll, the presi- dent of the Trans-Canadian Theater Association, charging that German- Americans and Jews are in control of the Canadian Federation of Musicians and use their Influence to bar English conductors from entrance into the federation. • • • . Marble and Granite MONUMENTS $64 Winder St. C•dillac'48 The only Jewish Monument Dealer In Detroit. I Henry the Hatter Detroit's Exclusive Hatter Library Park Hotel Bldg. Gratint at Library. mu sminstrie No am Maloney-Campbell Realty Co., Inc. ' 104 FREE PRESS EILDR. General Real Estate. teleran**. Choler Homes. Two.flats, In. vestments and Store Property PHONE CHERRY tUA BUSINESS MEN! ATTENTION! A Saving Proposition. We take care of I,•oiks of accounts; install easy si,..ems of book- keeping. A. M. KATZ Public Accountant 433 Melbourne An.. Market 2509 • Jewish capitalists in America were • accused of complicity in a plan to through. Communism' at a meeting of anti-Semites held in Warsaw. The old charge was repeated that American Jews have aided Trotsky in establishing his regime in Russia and that Communism is merely a German and Jewish scheme to destroy Poland. « • • The Polish representative in Vilna has granted subsidies to Jewish charitable institutions in that city. 'fhe contributions are taken to be a sop to Jewish public opinion, which has been opposed to the Polsh regime. The Vilna Municipal Council has protested against the league decision re- garding Vilna. Jewish counsellors were nut present. • • • Professor Alfred Zimmern, the well known authority on Greek history, who was connected with the British Foreign Office and who accompanied Mr. Brandeis and Mr. Dellaas on their trip to Palestine, has arrived in this country. Ile will deliver a course of lectures at the New School for Social • Research in New York, and will do some work for the Zionist movement. • e • • Members of the Jewish Kehillah of Warsaw recently applied for per- mission from the local municipal authorities which would permit Jews to keep their stores open on the Sunday preceding the New Year, since otherwise Jewish merchants would be seriously inconvenienced. The re- quest was denied and as ¢ result Jewish members of the Municipal Council have entered their resignations. •• • M. M. Usisshkin has arrived in • Jerusalem and stated that he was full of hope for the new period which has now begun. 'fhe fact that the prpsent World Executive, he said, was duly and legally elected by the Congress would make for progress and satisfaction. Mr. Usisshkin expressed the confidence that the money required to cover the proposed budget would be raised during the year. • . • . Reuter's Russia correspondent reports that a marked feeling of unrest prevails among the Jews in the Soviet provinces and in the Ukraine. Thou- sands are proceeding to Moscow, feeling that they will be safe there should counter-revolutionary uprisings take place in Russia. Reuter states that ex- perienced observers of Russian conditions anticipate that in the near future iagroms on Jews will take place on a large scale. • • • In reply to an interpolation by Jewish Sejm deputies regarding a num. ber of Jewish immigrants who had arrived in Canada and who were in danger of being returned by the Canadian authorities because their pans- ports did not show that they were Polish citizens, the I'olish government has published a reply in which it declares that it has wired its ambassador in Canada to take the necessary measures to enable those immigrants to remain in Canada. . • Dr. Joseph Krimsky, president of the American Federation of Ukrainian Jews, returned to New York on Friday, Sept. 30, from an extended visit to the pogrom-stricken countries of Eastern Europe. Dr. Krimsky made as thorough an investigation as possible of Jewish conditions in the Ukraine and brings with him a detailed report of the situation, the names of Jews who have relatives in America, and will place these, as well as recommenda- tions for further activity. • • • • THE A-I MILD HAVANA CIGAR Edmund G. Lewis JEWISH FUNERAL DIRECTOR Chapel and Offic• 7739 JOHN R. Complete Motor Equipment Market 3688.R Market 2114 SPRUNIC ENGRAVING CO. Commercial Artists and Engravers 700 MARQUETTE SLOG. DETROIT . Coats of every description, from the smart formfitting Chesterfields to the great soft woolly ulsters. The variety of styles, fabrics, patterns, colors is wide that we cannot imagine a man not finding exactly the coat he.wants. Come Saturday and pick out your coat and save real money. The lea has appropTiated a quarter e• of a million francs for the Ort so- ciety, in order to buy seeds for the Jewish colonists in South Russia. The Ort is making an effort to secure agricultural machinery for the Russian Jewish colonists and has already obtained permission of the Soviet govern. ment to ship tools into Russia. •• crush Poland , The great overcoat sale is going over like a tidal wave. Men are hur- rying here to get their winter coats and get in on the fine savings. Five wonderful groups $19.50, $23.50, $28.50, $34.50 and $39.50 compris- ing 3826 of the best overcoats the markets of the United could supply for this big event. In the debate following Premier l'onikowski's message to the Polish Sejm, Deputy Greenbaum stated that the Jewish deputies have no faith in the promises of the new government, especially since it is adopting methods similar to those used by the old administration in its dealings with the Jewish population. Ile complained that an unjust policy with regard to aliens has again been adopted and that the frontiers are being closed to Jews who are fleeing starvation and persecution in the Ukraine and in Russia. • • • • Jewish emigrants bound for America are in great distress in English and French ports. The steamship companies have introduced strict medical examinations so as not to carry to America such passengers as will not be admitted into the United States, and who will have to be taken back on their steamers. Many men, women and children are not passed on by the steamers' physicians because of the increased strictness of the examinations, and many sad scenes follow the acceptance of one member of a family as a passenger, while others are turned back. • • • • At a recent meeting in Bethlehem, Pa., Rabbi Ira F. Sanders, rabbi of Keneseth Israel of Allentown, and general secretary of the Jewish Com- munity Center of that city, helped to organize a Jewish University Club, composed of members from the cities of Eastern Pennsylvania. The pur- pose of th• Jewish University Club is to foster a better cultural and edu- cational irit among the Jewish alumnae. The meetings that have thus far been Leld in different cities of this section of the country have proven to be very whole-hearted and inspirational. The Committe of Jewish Delegations in Paris and the British Joint Con- ference Committee have forwarded to the Council of the League of Nations detailed memoranda regarding the situation of Jewish refugees in various countries and explaining the danger that threatens them if new steps are not taken to insure their safety. Dr. Friedjhor Nansen was thereupon delegated to deal with the question in its political aspects and to investigate the possibility of new fields for immigration. Ile is also authorized by the Council to propose measures that might solve the passport difficulties of the refugees. • • • • tour through Lower and Upper Galilee, On his return from an extended High-Commissioner Sir Herbert Samuel received Dr. Thon, just back from Carlsbad, who complained against the severe interpretation that was being given to the immigration limitations. Dr. Thon stated that the strictness of immigration officials prevented the utilization of the excellent prospects for employment that now prevailed in the country. Samuel heard the charges sympathetically and promised to investigate matters in the very near future. Our correspondent learns that the High-Commissioner is well pleased with the attitude the recent Zionist Congress took towards the Arab question. ENCOURAGES CUBAN IMMIGRANT CENTER la. sin i21 non-sanitary t y ocnoei orl o mn, , aansdmpaanyy. ing from 40 cents and upward fora abiglehtp'serl co ed ngti n n[ their e ai a r n e Zes s id ae nr: I some had no work at all. Those with- out funds were forced to sleep in the (Continued from page 1.) parks, resulting in sickness, as many call with me upon the Sephardic Jews. of them could not withstand the ter- Sonic volunteered and we visited A. rible heat, particularly during the Bensenior, a prominent merchant and months of August and September. president of the Sephardic Jewish "Many of them were contracting community known as Sheivet Achim. climatic fever. There was no one to I also saw some other Sephardic Jews look after the sick or even to take and invited all of them to attend the them to the hospital. It was useless, meeting which was to take place the they said, to go to the hospital un- accompanied, because, not knowing following evening. "They, too, hesitated in accepting the language, they could not tell the the invitation. But when I told them physician what was the matter with that the Ashkenazi community want- t hem. Because of this quite a num- ed their co-operation in the sacred her had to leave the hospital, fli• cause of aiding the unfortunate im- though sick, without receiving any migrants, they agreed not only to at- medical attention. "In my speech I endeavored to en- tends but to notify as many as they courage them, telling them not to be could to come to the meeting. "Immediately after the conference despondent but to make the best of I visited the immigrants. Messrs. the situation in which they found Steinberg Brothers had been good themselves. There was little to look enough to place at their disposal their forward to, I said, in the United store as headquarters and it was the States, because business conditions only place in which the immigrants there were just as bad as they were i Cuba. The weather would soon could meet. The immigrants kept in hthe ag bearable, coming and going, and I could see esehqa un egneanvd,itbecome baenare of the con a. - by their demeanor that they realized sequence the inconvenience to which the Stein- son; the economic condition would berg Brothers were put. Reluctant improve because of the new crop and as they felt to take advantage of the the beginning of the tourist season. kindness, under the circumstances On behalf of the society I promised t there was nothing else for them to that we would do everything in our do because it was the only place in Power to aid them and that in our whaii c they could inquire for their work the Jewish Committee of Ha- m Ha- vans would co-operate financially and mail. otherwise. Need for Permanent Home. The Joint Meeting. "Then and there I came to the con- clusion that one of the needs imme- "On the evening of Sept. 14 the diately to be recommended was the first meeting of both the Ashkenazi establishment of a permanent Hies and Sephardic Jews interested in the Home. welfare of the Jewish immigrants was "The immigrants not only inquired held in the store of Messrs.Stein- for their mail, but asked about ob- berg Brothers, Jacob Barker occu- taining work, sought information as pied the chair. to their visas, and made all sorts of "My suggestion for union between requests. My secretary took com- plete data of all the Jewish immi- the two organizations was adopted. "Having received a message that grants, particularly the more urgent eases, no that I could go to the United the immigrants desired to confer with States consul with definite informa- me once more, I met them on Sept. 15, 65 attending. Their spokesman tion and records. arrival in Havana, I called upon the again referred to their terrible con- United States consul. The consul gen- dition, adding the information that eral, Mr. Hirst, was in America. Mr. even girls were obliged to sleep in Putnam was acting in his stead. I parks because they were without had a long conference with this gen- funds. tleman, who promised to do every. "The suggestion was made that if thing possible for the immigrants, the immigrants could secure loans of and made arrangements to return the even small sums of money, which , same afternoon with specific cases they were willing to repay, they could and more definite requests for in- purchase goods and thus make a liv- I formation and aaeistance. ing. The out Jewish custom of Ge- miluth Chasodim (free loan) imme- Committee Appointed. "Upon leaving the consulate, I re- diately occurred to me and I prom- turned to the Steinberg store and no- ised them that at the gathering which ticing that the immigrants were still was to take place that evening I continuing to come, realized that this would propose the establishment of state of affairs could not continue. I a Free Loan Society for the immi- then appointed Mr. Schector and Mr. erants with the financial aid of Was. !feller as a committee to seek per- The immigrants left in a most hope- manent headquarters and report to ful mood. the meeting which was to take place The Massmeetine. that evening. "The massmeeting that evening "I myself went on a tour of in- vestigation with a view of finding er,ved a great success. There were some temporary headquarters. I was sent about 105 persons, 20 of fortunate in obtaining from the Sep- Sim were Ashkenazi Jews. Mr hardic congregation the one of their lensenior, president of the Sephardic large hall in which they hold services community, presided. and arranged that the immigrants "I spoke at some length, the in- were to meet there that afternoon at terpreter translating my remarks. 5 o'clock. After a lengthy discussion, it was agreed that there he an amalgama- The Immigrants Meeting. "About 85 immigrants were pres- tion between the Ashkenazi and Sep- ent at the meeting held in the hall hardic Jews. A budget of $7,000 per of the Sephardic Congregation, on annum was agreed upon and I prom- Sept. 14. The rest could not come ised that Hies would pay one-half of I because they were either still at work that. or were in ill health. I let the immi. "I then broached the subject of grants tell their story, from which the establishment of a Free Loan So- it was only too clear that their con- ciety. This was agreed to after be- dition was a most pitiful one. Lack- ing thoroughly debated. I had the ing a central home, they were corn- pleasure of starting the fund with ■ pelted to seek lodgings in cheap hotelscontribution of $100 from Hies. All HELMAR TURKISH CIGARETTES QUALITY SUPERB GREATEST VALUE OF ALL CIGARETTES From the President's Desk—Talk No. 72. How Many Years Have You Been Working? and what have you to show for it? Have you acquired any property— made any investments — have you money in the bank? Figure it all up. Are you satisfied with the showing, or will you admit that it is shame- small for the money you have earrea? Icw. ily Start this week—RIGHT NOW—to save more than you've ever saved before. Save until it hurts, for that is the sort of saving that brings men MICCCS'. All the facilities of this bank are at your disposal. A BANK OF OtTRO T' promised most enthusiastically to sup- port the Free Loan Society. Mr. Ben. senior was appointed president of the Free Loan Society. "I also had a conference with Rabbi L. Schulsinger of Key West, whn promised Hiss considerable sup- port from Key West, Tampa, Miami' and Jacksonville. Ile urged that Inas appoint a representative at the United States immigration station at Key West so that immigrants arriv- ing there and who are detained would be properly taken care of. "As commissioner of Hies, I feel that I fulfilled my duty in uniting the I various elements, establishing h Hies branch and founding a Free Loan Society. It now remain' for the Jews of Havana to continue and strengthen the local Flies branch. When Mrs. Rosenblatt and I left Cuba on Sept. 17, I was imbued with the confidence that the work which had been begun would be carried 01 both efficiently and enthusiastically. Mr. Rosenblatt succeeded in secur- ing some financial support from the Jews of Havana themselves, who !re dicated every interest in the Jewish wanderers and the desire to be 0( help to them.