v 4merkam 'apish Periodical eater _ CLIFTON AVENUE -CINCINNATI 20, 01110 THE ONLY ANGLO•JEWISH All Jewish News All Jewish Views WITHOUT BIAS Nie ■ meimewewl ■ I IN MICHIGAN NEWSPAPER PRINTED TELEPHONE THEfiETROIT and CADILLAC 1-040 THE LEGAL CHRONICLE Per Year, $3.00; Per Copy, 10 Cents DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, MAY 15, 1936 VOL. XXXVII No 51 MAYORS OF CITIES ' Leon Gellman, National President MORE ARMS, MORE $2 30 000 Raised for Allied Jewish Campaign IN U, S. WILL NOT Of Mizrachi, Will Address Jewish HEWS , DEMAND ()F , As Volunteer Workers Begin Final Week's JEWISH COLONISTS MEET IN GERM AM Solicitations for Drive's Quota of $323 550 Congress Conference This Sunday , Settlers Address Appeal to High Commissioner Wauchooe LaGuardia, Announcing Re- jection, Says Self-Gov- All Detroit Jewish Organizations Called Upon to Send ernment Ended There 6•MONTH JAIL TERMS Delegates to Important Rally in the Interests of World Jewish Congress FOR ARAB BOY SCOUTS, STATES DECISION WAS MADE LAST NOVEMBER nu m- Ben Gurion Calls Jewisht Leon Gellman, ntional presi-; preliminary meetings of a a as Colonization of Palestine State Department Is Silent dent of Mizrachi, O rthodox Zion- 1 , her of organizatiOns to act ist organization of America, a; temporary chairman, and Mrs. Al- "Cleanest Anywhere" on Action of U. S. Con- member of the national executive' ' bert Feldstein to serve as acting ference of Mayors. committee of the American Jewish secretary. Leaders Call Upon Detroit Jews Not to be Misled by Large Initial Sum Into a State of Lethargy and Urge Immediate Liberal Response in Order to Assure Com- plate Success of Import ant Campaign Effort RABBI SILVER STIRS LARGE AUDIENCE AT OPENING DINNER WITH DESCRIPTION OF UNPARALLELED TRAGEDIES OF EUROPEAN JEWRIES JERUSALEM (WNS — Pateor NEW YORK. — On the ground Congress, will be the principal , At Sunday's conference, a dele- Agency)—After describing dam - . that it would be a paradox to speaker at the conference of Jew-, gation of 20 will be selected to ages totaling $30,000 caused by, i!) 11 organizations to be held at' attend the American Jewish Con- marauding Arabs, a r e p resenta-1 Daily hold a conference on municipal 2 :30 p. m. this Sunday, May 17, twe of the Jewish settlements Of I government in a nation where lo- at the Jewish Community Center, ' the Emek Jezreel, center of the cal self-government has been "ob- Woodward and Holbrook Aves.,1 greatest destruction since the din- literated," Mayor La Guardia for- for the purpose of mobilizing De-1 turbances began, appeal to Sir 1 mally declined an invitation to troit Jewry in behalf of the Arthur Wauchope, High Commis-1 attend a congress of the Interns- American and World Jewish Con- sinner of Palestine, for two things: tional Union of Local Authorities' grasses. more arms for self-defense and to be held in Berlin on June 7. 6 James I. Ellmann, president of the entry of more Jws to build The Mayor's declination was the Zionist Organization of De- the country. The request was made in his capacity as President troit; Simon Shetzer, the most presented to Sir Arthur during a of the United States Conference orominent of the younger leaders tour of inspection of the settle- of Mayors. It was transmitted r in this city, and Joseph Ilaggai, ments to determine the extent of Philip to the Stoat e Department in Wash- will deliver addresses. the damages and to sound the ington by Paul V. Betters, direr- Slomovitz has been selected at sentiment of the Jewish colonists. for of the conference, whose head- Men and women who have been quarters are in that city. It was hardened by years of toil in the indicated in Washington that the transformation of swampy, sterile mayor's caustic comment on the land into fertile acres formed the lack of self-government in Ger- audience for the impressive scene many would not be transmitted of appeal, on the part of the col- misled by the $230,000 sum into a state of lethargy. They emphasized that every prospective contributor must be to the Hitler government. onists, and of reassurance, on the No formal invitation to attend part of the High Commissioner. solicited and his donation secured if the budgets of the 47 local, national and international agencies included in the the conference was received by The episode took place at the drive, and the building fund for the Jewish Old Folks' Home, are to be assured. Mayor La Guardia until Thursday, 33 Graduates of the Temple Kvutzah Ginegar in the shadows Warning against overconfidence, campaign leaders stated that contributions from donors in the middle although the Berlin meeting was High School to Receive of the Balfour Forest, where rep- ' ned goal the arranged at the last conference resentatives of the settlements in class and smaller brackets are now nee e to boost e Diplomas at Services of the International Union held in Leaders in the general division, under the chairmanship of Abe Srere, are redoubling their efforts during the bloc up toll Afuleh gathered. Lyons, France, in 1934. The One of the Chalutzim, named the week-end to raise the quotas assigned to them. In the meantime, the pre-campaign division, under the leader- 1-EON GELLMAN Rabbi Philip Waterman of Mayor commented in his letter Gurion, of the Kvutzah Gewa, . that the "invitation comes rather Grand Rapids, Mich., will accupy gress sessions in Washington, D. presented the memorandum to the ship of Henry Wineman, is approaching its goal of $240,000. An inspired gathering of campaign workers officially launched the drive on Tuesday evening, at the open- the pulpit of Temple Beth El C., on June 13 and 14. At this High Commissioner recounting the late." . 4 ing dinner at Hotel Stadler, Sunday morning, May 17, at Action by Mayors Revealed s t rict. national conference, which .vill el losses sustained by the di Tem- lver of the when Dr. Abba Ilillel S ilver Even had it been received earl- 10:45. He will speak on the sub- addressed by Georg Berard, It was pointed out that 14 fires tw ple of Clevelan delivered the ier, however, it would have been ject: "The Jew in the Modern exiled editor of the famous, now had ocurred in principal address. rejected. Mayor La Guardia re- World." ay Ain Hared from neigh- bori ng on itor o f Geri 20 extinct, Vossisch e Zei tung Dr. Silver's Address n. vealed that last November the 5. Altogether 590 Rabbi Waterman has a consid- to M of the and now ed Emphasizing that the unparal- Mayor's conference decided un- erable reputation as a preacher many Pariser Tageblatt, the American ams had been burnt and 2,895 leled tragedy in Jewish life to- officially to decline such an in- delegation. of 70 to the World dunams were destroyed. Owing day demands spontaneous giving ' vitation if and when it was re- Jewish Congress will be selected, to the burning of the local water Contest and Mildred Gerson u of funds by the Jews of ceived. It is planned, at the Detroit works, GO cubic metres of water William Sa lson Wins Senior A copy of the La Guardia letter Dr. Silver drew a picture of Jew. Is Star in Junior Division; Competition Sponsored conference of organizations on were being wasted hourly. The was delivered personally at 9:30 ish suffering in Germany and in was 15,850 (approxi. by Allied Jewish Campaign Sunday, to perfect a permanent total loss Poland that moved many in the o'clock Saturday morning to Jul- mutely $30,000). Jewish Congress organization. audience to tears and caused ius C. Holmes, assistant chief of Demand Compensaion An appeal, issued to all local Congregation Shaarey Zedek's Shaarey Zedek, won the junior many donors to make substantial protocol of the State Department, "The police do not possess the contest, and second honors went organizations, calls upon Detroit by one of Mr. .Betters' aides. increases In their contributions. Jews to join wholeheartedly in the necessary means to resist the mar- religious school will be awarded to Gerald Davidson of the Philo• "The causes included in your State Department officials, how- Pointed Remarks by the Ex. local Congress movement and auders, and therefore the ;area- the Clarence II. Enggass Cup, do- Debating Club. ever, while conceding a copy of autive Director of the diarism is being repeated," Gm- drive are— patently urgent, and asks all organizations to select 1 Louis S. Cohane, chairman of en It nated to the organization whose you recognize the need for them," the letter had been read, denied Allied Jewish Campaign Capaign !delegates to speak in their behalf. ion declared. "For self-defse. Rabbi Silver said. "We are in the ' Officers of those organizationslis necessary that we have further representative won the senior ors- the youth project of the Allie that it had been left with them. On being informed of this denial, midst of an epoch quite unpar- that are not meeting between the arms, which wil lonly be used in torical contest sponsored by the Jewish Campaign, whose commit- By KURT PEISER tee sponsored the contests, de. to Mr. Betters' comment was "one alleled in Jewish hisry. This is time they received their invita- an emergency." demanded Finally, the ew- that the Allied Jewish Campaign. livered an address preceding the is there all right." a time of great tribulation. An tions and the date of the confer- ish spokesman William Saulson of Shaarey orations by the four contestants. Will Not Transmit Message IS A COLUMN OF unparallelled tragedy has befallen ence are urged to attend the con- Jewish comunity be compensated edek was awarded first honors Aaron Kurland introduced the It appeared to be the State De- THANKS, However, while the Jewish community of Ger- ference or to appoint temporary for its losses by an increase in Zedek in the senior division by a jury speakers. partment's view that the German many. But this is not the only Jewish immigration. delegates to speak for them. In replying to the settlers, the of radio listeners who telephoned In addition to the Enggass Cup, I express my thanks, may Government's invitation to the community also, use this opportunity to I, great need. that finds itself in I - High Commissioner said that he in their decisions following the conference had been sent to the cups will be given launch a new appeal to each 78 Senators and Representatives understands the feelings of the broadcast over the Jewish Radio four smaller American branch of the Interna- fincaulpisstswienrethdeonacotendtebsty. one of you to continue our "The German government has the fruits of its work Forum last Sunday evening. Five tThheesfeouforur • Back World Jewish Congress tional Union of Local Authorities Emek when telephone operators accepted the Joseph II. Ehrlich, Samuel S. work during the coming few days, NEW YORK (WNS)—Endorse- and that the dealings of this or- Referring to a are destroyed. with increased fervor, with an un- dictiveness. Since you met last ment of the efforts to establish a British battalion that is reported votes from 550 who telephoned in F devotion. For then — added to cruelty a despicable vin- ganization with the United States tli:0,8i aitrinoknra notf 1 j' ea wmiislyh paralleled . ni ndeintahne, A we be able to guarantee the Nuremberg laws have been ad- World Jewish Congress and con- to be coming front Egypt, together their decisions front 7 to 9 p. m. Conference of Mayors was purely demnation of Ilitlerism and other a private matter. This viewpoint, nuine satisfaction work at well best ded to tolerated the discriminations. The with 20 light tanks, the High Com- on Sunday. in the senior di- genuine Youth. Jews of are aliens. anti-Semitic movements through- missioner said that "the military Second honors oarraytorciocl of prelintin it was indicated, would supply a featured the Jews who were rooted in the to Samuel Hertzberg, tests number out the world were expressed by isisaturrribitainnfesnotbubtecinauoserdoerf to help elp of Vision went reason for not transmitting Mayor • • • land, in its culture, in its lan- also of Shaarey Zedek. also of events prior to the final radio done. 78 members of the United States ( La Guardia's curt letter of de- uage, in its thought, have been Miss Mildred Gerson. Congress, 13 of them senators, in 1 express my sincere appre. RABBI PHILIP WATERMAN clination to the German authori- broadcast. read out of the pale of citizenship, messages addressed to Dr. Steph- nation to the hundreds of boy- Radio Programs ties. by a fiat, by petty or major ty- and lecturer. Ile has addressed en S. Wise, president of the Amer- a/ workers for their devotion, A series of radio broadcasts Along with the invitation Mr. rants. many civic bodies and lecture ican Jewish Congress. The latter for the sacrifices they are and have been arranged for the Allied Betters sent the mayor a list of and Impoverished forums throughout the state of organization, which is acting as making in behalf of Jewry's Jewish Campaign with the co-op- names of delegates to the Berlin "Since you last met, every Jew- Michigan. Ile attained fame a the organizing agency in this men and women, The causes. eration of the local stations. The meeting which were submitted to ish child has been thrown out of few years ago as the author of a country for the world parley, working in the Drive are really the State Department by the programs follow: the German public schools. The scholarly work entitled, "The announced at the same time that marvelous. I am thankful to American branch of the inter- Harry Weinberg, A' the Wein- Story of Superstitution." for their eineerity; for meanness and the unspeakable the World Jewish Congress would; them From Behind the Scenes, Kurt Peiser Directs the national union. berg Hour, of radio station WJBK, vindictiveness of a is that no pro- zeal td During the course of the serv- open at Geneva on Aug. 8 and' their loyalty; for their This list failed to meet with Allied Jewish Campaign and the has granted five minutes of radio visions have been made for other, cause. ice, Israel Ilimelhoch, president of continue until Aug. 14. a . Mayor La Guardia's approval. Of time, Wednesday, May 13, on be. Federation's Agencies schools to which these children • • . Senator William E. Borah of it he wrote: "There is not a sin- the Temple, will present diplomas time, of the Allied Jewish Cam- may go. Idaho, former chairman of the to 33 graduates of the Temple oc- ffi When this campaign is over, I gle Mayor, executive or cityther paign. Harold Silver, of the Jew- 'The 600,000 Jews in Germany Senate Foreign Relations Com- (PLEAsE TURN Ti LAST PAGE) e- ial in the entire list and it ish Social Service Bureau, will feel confident that the thousands are being ground further and fur- mittee, headed the members of fore must not be construed as speak. On Sunday, May 17, Kurt who will be helped with the funds ther into the mud of degradation the Senate endorsing the efforts representing the cities of the Peiser, executive director of the we are raising, will be able to look and total impoverishment But the n of Jews to defe d their elemen- country." The United States Jewish Welfare Federation, will to Detroit with a sense of gratitude Jews of Germany are facing their tary rights through a body of Conference of Mayors, he pointed for the manner in which we re- tragedy heroically. They are speak from 10:55 to 11 a. m. international co-operation such as out, is the "only national organ- l'hilip Slomovitz will address sponded in their hour of need. writing one of the most impor- the World Jewish Congress. Other • • • ON.EAsp) TURN To PAGE ization of American cities." tont chapters in history. They Popular Detroit Zionist Elected Senators who approved the World opPosiTE EniToRIAL) Text of Mayor's Letter have not intellectually or physic. (PLEASE TURN TO LAST PAGE) Our work must not stop for President of Organisation Following is the text of the La ally accepted defeat or collapsed a single second, until every Guardia letter to Mr. Betters, a before it. They are carrying on available dollar is raised. Too Mrs. Maurice Landau was copy of which was transmitted to as Jews, are continuing Jewish many prospective contributors elected president of the Detroit the State Department: tradition by creating schools, by have not yet been reached— Mays. 1036 chapter of Hadassah at the an- supporting their institutions. A too much of our important Mr. Pool V. Reiter., nual meeting of the organization, letter has gone out from the 'en- IVe IXreetor work remains undone. Tuesday, May 12, at the Jewish I tilled States Coafereace of Motors. tral Verein of Berlin to all the And job to complete. hare a Community Center. VI a•hlorlon• D. C. (PLEASE TURN TO PAGE 1) air. Iletters: tPLEAHE TURN TO LAST PAGE) For years an ardent Zionist, Mt IA unica- Annual Ceremony Will Be Ma of yoor comm om In receipt mference to the Mrs. Lanlau has served Hadassah Mass Indignation Meeting to Held on Sunday Morn- tio In of Mn y I. International Congress of Om Interna- be in many capacities. She has held Be Held at Littman's tional I Mon of Loral Authorities to ing, June 7 TO 1.081 PAGE) Says , Luncheons of Workers Being Held at Hotel Statler; Fred M. Butzel Urges Bal- anced Program to Care for Local Agencies and to Supply Needed Funds for European Relief and Palestine's Reconstruction With approximately $230,000 raised towards the $323,550 Allied Jewish Cam- paign quota as forms for this issue of The Detroit Jewish Chronicle were prepared for the press late Thursday, leaders in the community joined in issuing an urgent appeal to Detroit Jewry pleading for immediate liberal contributions to assure the complete Suc- cess of the present drive. Indicating that the initial large sums reported at the opening dinner on Tuesday evening, and at the two campaign luncheons on Wednesday and Thursday,-included most of the big gifts that were expected, campaign leaders urged the Jews of Detroit'not to be WATERMAN SPEAKS HERE THIS SUNDAY Enggass Cup Goes to Shaarey Zedek Whose Student Wins Oratory Contest GIVE! The y Need Your Help! T ins Meet the pilot Anna Landau Heads Detroit Hadassah POLISH PROTEST SUNDAY, MAY 24 (PLEASE TURN T" '.AST pAGE) .pLEASE TURN TO CONSECRATE 25 AT SHAAREY ZEDEK - Theater • More Jews Are Decreasing Rapidly Than Any Other Group The third annual Consecration Service of Congregation Shaarey Detroit Jewry will voice its 1 Zedek will be held on Sunday, protests against the oppression of \‘` ' June 7, in the main auditorium Eugenics Society Hears Baptista and Methodists Lead in Jews in Poland at a mass meet- of the synagogue. This service, Increases; Interesting Statement Made by ingat I.ittman's Pe ople's Theater , which has grown to be one of the 12th and Seward, on Sunday, May Frederick Osborn most inspiring and unique fea- 24, at 2 p. m. The meeting is By LUDWIG LEWISOHN tures of the congregational activi- sponsored by the Detroit branch 1 ties, is under direction of the Con- NEW YORK, (N.CJ.C. News churches "disinfect their minds" of of the American Committee Ap- This column le copyrIght by the Seven Arta Feature flyndlcal• R•- secretion committee, of which Mrs! Service) — The Jews are decrees- the idea that there is anything es- or In part Orally forbidden. Any Infringement on peal for the Relief of Jews in Sol. Q. Kesler is chairman. produrlloe le ',tole more rapidly than any other sentially unclean In sex instruc- his copyright will be proserutod Poland, Inc. This year a group of 25 girls, ing t group, it was asserted by Frederick tion to young couples. Church Prominent national and local members of the tenth grade class campaign Osborn, a member of the board o f bodies should initiate a of the Sunday School, will partici- 1directors of the American Eugenics for child allowances for young moral solidarity of an undaunted speakers will address the meeting on May 24. Suitable resolutions, pate. This is twice the number in ; Society, at the annual meeting of ministers which are far more im- "SOLIDARITY" The unanimous endorsement people. • • • expressive of the indignation with each of the two previous classes. portant for the welfare of the race this year the society at Hotel Delmonico. which the Zionists of America have Let us discuss once more this which citizens of Detroit view the The theme of the service than pensions for old ministers, he is "Gates of {lope"—the story of Studies show that the religious said. given to one the of World Jewish spots Con- , supremely crucial question of Jew- frightful lot of 3,500,000 starved Kress is the bright. , the birth and growth of the Zion groups increasing most rapidly are , are two kinds and tortured Jews in Poland, have Urges Religious Colaceptio• anpe d r tcheentMpeetrhogelints. Baptists l Ia ii s 60 upon the otherwise sufficiently de- ish solidarity. There w 1 i d e • I through 2500 years of the Dr. Wiil Durant, author, said pressing Jewish scene. It raises of solidarity. The first kind is the been prepared and will be sub- 0 increase pagans. mitted for approval at the mass ' Jewish history to its function in ation, while the Catholics increase that the future of America will be the hope that this stiff-necked peo-1solidarity of savages and modern present-day omnism an pie may conceivably come to it!' It is the kind of solidarity that the meeting. The committee in charge slowly because most of them are determined by which 'religion the restoration of the Jewish home- In urban centers, he said. breeds, not by which is right. and Fascist regimes are try- invites all to attend. for the senses some day. Whatever hesita- Nazi arrangements Dr. Louis I. Dublin, statistician Final , land in Palestine. the ing to establish. It means the re- Considerable attention was 1 , Members of the consecration given, at various round table con- for the Metropolitan Life Insur- tion I once had in en did 0. not Congress movement pro- duction of men to the status of meeting will be made at the con- 1class, who have already begun ance Company, declared that the from any doubt of its useful- slaves—slaves in body and slaves ference of all delegates to the this, the crowning proj• ferences, to the relation of tell. American Committee' Appeal for great problem is to integrate the reed a ilees• is soca , wor k on ness or rather, its necessity, as a in mind—stupidly or hysterically of their Jewish educational gious forces to directing human religious conception of the dignity D THE SCENES in e'er, well conducted b Relief of Jews in Poland, Inc., ect the as this is true io • well- / as follows: Charlotte evolution. In the absence of Bishop matter of principle. Not at all. It devoted to so-called leaders who held ehowe. Jost en. whose hand is seldom these masses as generals use Detroit branch, which will be p. tree of the Jewieh Welfare Federation-I careers, are J. McConnell, Rev. K. C. of human life with the development . ' . ., B EHIN , a name- next Sunday, May Lenora Bayles. Eileen Francis run business, se U.it sprang from the fear that i t e Hass., of science. He urged that the eu- Oil the field of battle, Anna McArthur of Sterling, Is this instance the man behind the scot. ie Kurt Peiser, who is , Barak. oshe, M genics movement associate itself be merely another movement, an- troops n things, means, instruments, at Congregation B'nai secretary of the Jewish Welfare Federation aid the director of the Blumberg, June Cantor, Florine opened the discussion by emphasis- Marcia Diamond, and so- other organization i Chad and not., as it should or be, organism as it must ly, cannon-fodder. Even in our own Lawrence and Dexter, first floor. Vivi•n Ellenson, Mildred ing the widespread interest on the with the best in religious Upwards of 60 Jewish organiza- Allied Jarish Conway.. i Chad, ilized America there c•m• 1 Diener, e thought cial eftroit: H P of progressive Christians in • few words concerning his work in D Sylvia Firestone, Bette P be in order to serve its high and liberal and adumbrations civ Professor Ellsworth Huntingdon Just ■ indispensable purpose. are faint of this Cons are affiliated with the con- the are 01 the, Frank, eugenics ltner, Virgiri• Golden, Raid better world. He said that •goi t he of Yale asserted that the best cri- itself. Now this conception of solidarity in such ference and more are joining her. ■ PP , •• ■ •••lar three and • haf bean lligieally omenosity. After ■ compare.; Ge Shirley Hertzberg, I* a means towards its realisation depression le the hi•toey of oar c Greenbaum, voice of Israel terion of eugenic Stress is moral unanimous endorsement by the notions as "party-discipline," "my daily. Henry M. Abramowitz is worst berg. c- tively easy tine• of smial work i• Ciacionati for a period of year., i Shirley lmber, Lucille Kavarau, by improving man andinot merely fervor and that persona possessing a chairman, Harry WeinBernsteion g Lewis. Nathalie Light- his environment. He advocated It will, if partially segregated, pro- . ■ wblest aba.it his• ears whoa the Zionist organization brings at least country, right or wron" and s in to chairman, and Jo seph It looked a s though the world ked t 1Marion of nu f em ty lo yaltie eugenic instruction in theological realization ements--loyal- treasurer. Prof. Samuel . .Levi n banks failed ism! al fads were tied up. nearer the one step v cootiased to rebuild the / stone, Lois Linden. Ruth Nagler, eug - .aries, through the religious duce a progeny of remarkable abi- pirit, he s B e r rile e semi However, with an optimisticspirit, my hope that the World Congress teams, mo Schlossberg. lity whatever their belief or race. w illi•geess i Sylvia the represents- ties, in groups. other words, that are un- is honorary chairman. cheery diepmitioe aid will be some day All Jewish organizations not yet commosity, sail today, with his AAAAA TUnn TO . LAIT PAGES critical in spirit, uninformed In °° Ike read to a well-developed arm- Soro c k. Bett ventions. Ile urged, also, that the Israel ay d Ethel Wi ns ton. i e tion of universal, of catholic we oece •gais Itr II serve, to and thus sum up in itself and bring temper, that seek more or less affiliated are urged to TO send PAGE dele- t FLEASC 'shedM the deliberately to sink or merge the IWITORIAL 1 uPpoarrn into vital and effective play rr swan) Ons&AIIN TORSI Ti) I t moral power, expressive of the THE WORLD'S WINDOW I