100%

Scanned image of the page. Keyboard directions: use + to zoom in, - to zoom out, arrow keys to pan inside the viewer.

Page Options

Share

Something wrong?

Something wrong with this page? Report problem.

Rights / Permissions

The University of Michigan Library provides access to these materials for educational and research purposes. These materials may be under copyright. If you decide to use any of these materials, you are responsible for making your own legal assessment and securing any necessary permission. If you have questions about the collection, please contact the Bentley Historical Library at bentley.ref@umich.edu

May 20, 1938 - Image 1

Resource type:
Text
Publication:
The Detroit Jewish Chronicle and the Legal Chronicle, 1938-05-20

Disclaimer: Computer generated plain text may have errors. Read more about this.

America', lavish Periodical eater

CINCINNATI AO, Oltri

c
*DETROIT EMS!" IIRO/NICIA

THE, ONLY i ANGLO-JEWISH

All Jewish News
All Jewish Views
WITHOUT BIAS

NEWSPAPER PRINTED

IN MICHIGAN

TELEPHONE

CADILLAC
1-040

and THE LEGAL CHRONICLE

VOL. XXXIX No. 52

DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, May 20, 1938

McDONALD HEADS U. S. REFUGEE DISTRIBUTE 3,200
FOR
ADVISORY COMMITTEE; LEAGUE'S CERTIFICATES
JEWISH CONGRESS
CO-OPERATION BID IS REJECTED

Popular Referendum Is Re
Worded by National Ad-
ministrative Committee

President Roosevelt Asks Congress for $75,-
000 to Pay Costs of American Dele-
DR. WISE WILL SPEAK
HERE TUESDAY, MAY 31
gates to Refugee Aid Parley

Rages On Elec
HEAD OF WISCONSIN U. DENIES BIAS Controversy
tion; Bnai Brith Rejects
Invitation
IN OUSTER OF JEWISH EDITOR

Catholic Paper Asks Deportation of Einstein,
Attacks Other Jews; Edmondson Freed;
J. D. C. Gets $100,000 to Aid Refugees

WASHINGTON, D. C. — (WNS) —
James G. McDonald, former League of Na-
tions High Commissioner for German Refu-
gees, was elected chairman of the President's
advisory committee on political refugees at
the organization meeting of the committee at

the State Department. Dr. Samuel McCrea Cavert was
named secretary. Others present were Paul Baerwald,
Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, Basil Harris, Louis Kennedy,
James M. Speer and Hamilton Fish Armstrong. The meet-
ting was devoted to a preliminary survey of means of aid-
ing refugees to settle in those countries that -accepted

Roosevelt's invitation to co-oper-•
ate in the work of the intergov-
ernmental committee on refugees.
After the meeting the State De-
partment announced it had as-
signed George Brandt, foreign
service officer, and Robert Poll,
divisional assistant, to aid Myron
Taylor, the American representa-
tive on the international commit- Twenty - three Students to
Graduate From Temple
There will be no co-operation
between President Roosevelt's in-
Beth El High School
tergovernmental committee for
the relief of refugees and the
Rabbi Eric Friedland of Tem-
League of Nations newly estab-
lished autonomous office to aid ple Beth Jacob, Pontiac, Mich.,
will
occupy the pulpit of Temple
refugees, State Department, of-
ficials declared. The government, Beth El, Friday evening, May 27,
and
will
speak on the subject "The
they indicated, is determined to
keep its refugee work separate Jewish Way."
Twenty-three students will re-
from that of the League.
An appropriation of $75,000 is ceive the Beth El High School
being asked of Congress for the diploma. The valedictorian is
balance of the fiscal year to meet Miss Elaine J. Reiser, daughter
the expenses of American partici- of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Reiser. The
pation, • in the intergovernmental diplomas will be presented by
committee for refugee aid. Presi- Morris Garvett, president of the
dent Roosevelt asked for the Temple, while the special awards
money in submitting a supplemen- will be distributed by Dr. Willard
tal estimate for the State Depart- D. Mayer, chairman of the school
ment to be provided in the second board. Dr. Leo M. Franklin and
deficiency bill. The money is to Rabbi Leon Fram will greet the
be used to pay travelling expenses graduates and the school.
The services will be read by
and personal expenses of Ameri-
can officials participating in the members of the graduating class—
Robert Krause, Martin Green and
refugee program.
Miss Dorothy Walker. The invo-
cation is to be given by Victor
Wisconsin U. Denies Race Bias
MADISON, Wis. — (WNS) — Kanners. The winners of the
Anti-Semitism has nothing to do scholarship medals, which are spe-
with the removal of Richard J. cial medals presented annually by
Davis of New York as editor of the Young People's Temple Club
the Daily Cardinal, student news- to students who achieve the high-
paper, it was declared by Clar- est rank in their studies at the
ence A. Dykstra, president of the Temple High School, will be
University of Wisconsin. Denying Elaine J. Reiser, Alice Mandell,
the assertion of Dean George C. Esther Goldberg. The school ac-
Sellery that Davis' ouster by the tivity keys will be awarded to Rob-
student board of control was mo- ert Krause, Elaine Reiser. Gordon
tivated by racial bigotry, Dykstra Seedberg, Victor Kanners, Doro-
said the matter "is a political con- thy Walker and Harriet Honey-
troversy with the control of the man.
The list of graduates is as fol-
official student paper at stake.
Doubtless in the heat of the Car- lows: Shirley Elaine Coblentz,
Robert
Lee Cohn, Robert Her-
dinal campaign some opposition
to individual Jews has been ex- man Eckhouse, Hortense Fire-
stone,
Charles
M. Garvett, Esther
pressed, but I feel that this op-
position has not extended further Goldberg, Ellen Faith Goldstone,
Martin
Green,
Harriet
Honeyman,
than to specific individuals. 1
have found no anti-Semitic tern- Shirlie Honeyman, Victor Jack
per in any of my conferences." Kanners, Robert Alvin Krause,
Leon Landsberg, Alice Mandell,
(PLEASE TURN TO PAGE Si
Elaine J. Reiser, Samuel Rice,
Betty Jane Rothenberg, Sherman
Schwartz, Gordon Seedberg, Ed-
win Shaffer, Jeanette Shulman,
Dorothy Walker and Irving Good-
man.
The commencement exercises of
Beth El College of Jewish Studies,
which took place Monday night,

PONTIAC RABBI AT
BETH EL MAY 27

DISPUTE BETWEEN T
CE
CENTER

Case in Jersey City Arose as
Result of Hague
Controversy

(PLEASE TURN TO LAST PAGE)

With more than 3,200 regis-
tration certificates already dis-
tributed among more than 150
Detroit .organizations, and with
spokesmen for societies and con-
gregations, as well as many in-
dividuals, calling for additional
supplies, officers in charge of the
popular election of the American
Jewish Congress on June 25, 26
and 27 stated this week that they
expected to see more than 36,000
Detroit Jews enrolled for this ac-
tion in defense of Jewish rights.
William Hordes, chairman of
the registrations, said that not a
single rebuff has been experienced
from local organizations which
are being visited by a group of
speakers who are explaining the
purposes of the election and the
demand for unity in the present
critical period for the Jewish peo-
ple.

Wise to Speak May 31

Henry Fenster, chairman of the
nominating committee which is to
present a slate of candidates for
delegates from Detroit, announced
that everything is in readiness for
the nominating convention to be
held at Can Technical High School
on Tuesday evening, May 31. Dr.
Stephen S. Wise, national presi-
dent of the Congress, will address
the gathering.

In view of the importance of
this convention. which must ad-
journ by 11 p. m. in observance
of rules set down by the Board
of Education, and also because
IDr. Wise must return to New
York the same night, the exec-
utive and elections committee of
the Detroit section of the Amer.
ican Jewish Congress, meeting
on May 12 at the office of Dr.
H. E. Lippitt on 12th and
Clairmount, decided to convene
the nominating convention at 7
p. .. slurp. This will allow
two and • half hours for the
business of the evening—that
of preparing for the elections
and the selection of nominees—
and an hour and • half for dis-
cussion and the address by Dr.
Wise.

A. C. Lappin, chairman of the
propaganda committee, stated that
unprecedented enthusiasm is being
registered for the elections wher-
ever representatives of the Con-
gress go.
Joseph Haggai, chairman of the
elections board, announces that
meetings of the committees are
s cheduled to be held on Thursday
evenings at the office of Dr. Lip-
pitt. Mr. Haggai announced the
appointment of the nominating
and election polling committees as
follows:
Nominating committee: Henry
Fenster, chairman; William Hor-
des, Lawrence W. Crohn, H. E.
Lippit, Philip Slomovitz, Joseph
Haggai, Michael Teich, Rabbi M.
J. Wohlgelernter, Leon Kay, Rab-
bi Joshua S. Sperka, Mrs. Maurice
Landau, Samuel Lieberman, A. C.
Lappin, Louis Levine and David
Sheraga.
Committee in charge of polling
places: Lawrence W. Crohn, David
Sheraga, Rabbi J. S. Specks, Louis
Levine, Nathan Spevakow and Sol
Lifsitz.

Mr. Hordes also announced
this week that five tables will
be arranged at Cass Technical
High School on the night of the
nominating convention to re-
ceive registrations from in-
dividuals and organizations and

(PLEASE TURN TO PAGE Si

Dr. Daniel Cohn Chosen
Maimonides' President

Dr. Daniel Cohn was elected
president of the Maimonides
Medical Society at the meeting
held Tuesday evening at the
club rooms of the Wayne Coun-
ty Medical Society. Dr. A.
Rogoff was elected vice-presi-
dent, Dr. Ray Altman secretary
and Dr. Ben Brand treasurer.
Philip Slomovitz was the
guest speaker at this meeting
which was also featured by en-
tertainment. Supper was served
after the meeting.
A resolution unanimously
adopted by Maimonides at this
meeting expressed thanks to
The Detroit Jewish Chronicle
for its assistance in conducting
an educational campaign in the
interests of a Jewish hospital.

OPPOSITSI ISDITONIALA

!LEADERS CONFER
WITH PALESTINE
PARTITION BODY

Commission Opens Its Ses-
sions in Camera in
Jerusalem

Jewish Campaign Leaders
Confident Goal Will Be Reached
In Follow-Up Unofficial Canvass

ARABS RELAX BOYCOTT
OF TECHNICAL GROUP

Drive Continued for Two Extra Days to Enable Workers to Cover
Thousands of Unsolicited Prospects; Approximately 95 Per
40 Arabs Killed in Battle;
Cent of Goal Reached as We Go to Press
Plight of Jobless in

Tel Aviv

GENERAL DIVISION WORKERS CONDUCT SPLENDID
DRIVE, REACHING THOUSANDS OF CONTRIBUTORS

JERUSALEM ( W N S - Palcor
Agency) — Matters of procedure
and not of principle were dis-
cussed at a session in camera of
t r h o e pres P ea orttii , t t i j o vo n s Commission
miit
t , s e ion wi th
s
Executive, including Dr.
Chaim Weizmann, David Ben Gur-
ion, Moshe Shertok and Dr. Ber-
nard Joseph. The conference was
the first private hearing that the
Dr. Goldstein, Dr. Wise Urge commission has conducted. It was
Observance of J.N.F. Sil- held in the offices of the commis-
ver Jubilee Flower Day sion, which has been assigned the
quarters occupied by the Peel
Royal Commission in what was
What has been described as a formerly the Palace Hotel. The
"Roses of Sharon" sale will be purpose of the session was to de-
conducted by a Zionist volunteer termine the form in which the
corps in Detroit on Saturday night,'
will submit the material re-
June 11, and Sunday, June 12, as Jews
a silver jubilee observance of Jew- quired by the commission.
ish National Fund Flower Day. , The Arab boycott of the Tech-
on Partition vir-
The day, inaugurated in June, nical
1913, will witness a mobilization of tually came to an end when a con- the campaign extended for two more days, through Friday, May 20, a sum approxi-
ference
of
leaders
of the Nasha- mating 95 per cent of the entire goal has been reached and there are indications that
the Zionist youth in a nation-wide
popular action to enlist mass sup- shibi Party at Ramleh decided several increases over pledges made early in the drive as well as reports on gifts yet
o
tw
o
..
y
A
ltile
the
party
would not to be solicited may even boost the total in excess of the campaign goal.
port for Palestine land redemption. tha
wboeuflo dreb
b C
leo m -
The co-chairmen of this year's mm ise.,, ioln i
ap
ra
P
e
b
s
a
r
While unprecedented devotion was noticeable throughout the drive among all
be able to
Flower Day are: Tikvah Haggai
and Dena Goldsmith. Plans are testify in their personal capacity. division heads and workers, the efforts of the general division and its executive corn-
already under way to make this It is believed that the Arab mod-
•mittee especially won commenda-
Detroit's outstanding Flower Day. erates and members of the clergy
tion from campaign leaders. It
All organizations and individuals intend to participate in the Com-
V estimated that last year's num-
Steuben Group Rebuffs
who wish to participate in it may mission's hearings.
ber of contributors will be ex-
Nazi Bid for Control ceeded
contact either one of the co-chair-
40 Arabs Killed
this year by at least 2,600
men by calling Townsend 6-4743
The bodies of more than 40
—clue primarily to the work of
Theodore H. Hoffman, who the general division.
or Townsend 7-2352.
slain Arabs are strewn along a
in 1934 lauded the Nazi regime,
Saturday evening, June 11, and battlefield in northern Palestine
but who now declines to com-
all day Sunday, June 12, proclaim- as a result of a major engage-
ed by the Jewish National Fund as ment on the Acro-Safed road be- Rosenwald Post Co-operated ment on conditions in Ger-
many, was re-elected national
Palestine Flower Day, will be the tween a large band of terrorists
with Clover Hill Ceme-
chairman of the Steuben Soci-
occasion for the observance and and detachments of troops, who
tery in Arrangements
Yielding to demands from work-
popular action in which passers-by were first attacked from ambush.
ety of America as the leading ers, leaders of the Allied Jewish
German-American organization Campaign announced at the lunch-
will be offered live flowers or Sr. The scene of the fighting was near
Rabbi Benjamin Friedman of defeated attempts by the Ger- eon meeting on Tuesday at Hotel
tificial flowers or leaves from a the village of Tamro, which had
"Roses of Sharon" booklet which been searched by police and Syracuse, N. Y., will be the guest man-American Bund to con- Statler that the campaign has been
will serve as tokens of interest in troops who found a large quantity speaker at the annual Decoration trol the society. Iloffman an-
Day services at Clover Hill Park nounced after his election at
Geulath Ha'aretz progress and as of rifles and ammunition.
Headquarters Moved
acknowledgements of the contribu: Taking with them many of the Cemetery beginning at 2:45 p. tn. the meeting in Detroit that the
tions made. The volunteer. corps,. 911Lagers who had been arrested on Monday.,May 30. _
society would hew to Its policy
, To Federation Office
Julius Rosenwald Post I4o. 218 of refusing to have anything
which is now being recruited under , for possession of arms, the troops
the auspices of the local Jewish found themselves the target for of the American Legion is co- to do with the Bund. He said
Headquarters of the Allied
National Fund Councils in the coin- volleys of shots from both sides operating in arrangements for this the Steuben Society is opposed
Jewish Campaign have been
munities where the observance will of the road as they left the vil-
to all foreign alliances and is
moved from Hotel Steller to
be held, is comprised of members loge with their prisoners, Incom-
interested only in the welfare
the offices of the Jewish Wel.
of Zionist Districts, Hadassah plete reports of the fighting
of the United States. Citing
fare Federation of Detroit, 51
Chapters, Order Sons of Zion trickled into military headquar-
attacks on the society in the
W. Warren Ave., telephone Co.
Camps, branches of the Poale Zion- tern here which sent reinforce-
Bund's paper, Hoffman said
lumbie 1600.
Zeire Zion, Jewish National Work- ments of troops and planes. But
"the policy of the Steuben So-
All campaign workers are
era' Alliance, Pioneer Women's as the smoke of battle cleared,
ciety is to stand on its own
asked henceforth to report on
Organization, Mizrachi groups and authoritative estimates indicated
feet and keep free from entan-
their last•mlitute solicitations
a score of youth organizations in- that at least 40 of the Arab brig-
glements with other organiza-
at this office.
tions."
eluding Hashomer Hatzalr, Young ands had been killed and that
Israel, Mizrachi youth groups and many others had been wounded.
extended two days and will close
others. The youth of the Hebrew !Only two Arabs were reported to
officially on Friday instead of last
Schools throughout the country will! have been captured, both carry-
Wednesday, as originally' sched-
play an important part in this' ing arms. Two soldiers of the
uled.
popular collection.
(PLEASE TURN TO PAGE
OPI•0811•18 EDITORIAL)
Rabbi Leon Fram, who pre-
Stirring calls to the Jewish coo -
sided at Tuesday's meeting, re-
munities throughout the country
ported that a total of $350,406
were issued by Dr. Israel Goldstein,
had already been raised. Of this
president of the Jewish National
amount Fred M. Butte!, general
Fund of America, and by Dr. Step-
810,000
Voted
to
Save
28
chairman of the drive, announced
hen S. Wise, president of the Zion- '
ist Organization of .America.
$210,669 for a total of 83 per
Children from Nazi
••I•resitlent Itoonevelt's Prolanal for in -
cent for the special gifts division.
Germany
ternational action In head( of the refti•
Irving Blumberg announced a to-
Tidbits
from
Everywhere
gent 'from the Narl.lands, opened top
n
nen inos
l of ano.
f
or te
h s light...
tal of $43,591 or a percentage of
and ac hleyements ), s- the
orga nised aill
By PHINEAS J. BIRON
WASIIINGTON.—Bnai
Brith's
87 for the general division. Gus
of our people. In this resurgence or our
national all! to sunny and to build a
new executive committee, elected D. Newman stated that the execu-
nen life, I•alenine 0111 play •
(Copyright, 193). 8 A. F. a.)
ttttt I Ilent
tive
committee of the Trade Coun-
at the 16th general convention of
lart• In
camel
tt and hell—mill he one of the
RABBI BENJAMIN FRIEDMAN the order here, met at the con- cil raised $96,146 or 96 per cent
of
its
quota.
mealessentinls. The Sillier Jubilee of FROM FOREIGN PARTS
clusion of the convention and as
Pinner teas Offer,. an the opportunity to
eg ne.inzte
. o de trisz4 r irir - 6„;;Ir-. German Aryans who have es. year's Memorial Service, and the its first action voted to nave 28
‘ coped from Ilitlerland are taking post's officers as well as Boy Scout
stele in his reit to thr Jeuish National wagers that Leni Riefenstahl, Troops 104 and 164 will partici- Jewish children from the Nazi in-
ferno and enable them to build
"ft mer,,;',,,t.j .„,, is moon ions. fare Germany's film czarina, will change pate in the ceremonies.
new lives in Palestine.
this choir. a enernaines: she., et her name to Mrs. Hitler by the end
Dr. Josef Dunner, lecturer, unis
The
program
will
open
with
the
crushing °port...don
or
Triumph
through
The executive committee voted
of the summ r . . . These same
(PLEASE TURN TO LAST PAONS
e
7,17,,, I .'"r"."ir‘ t, : ',:ii `"Xn.
"":::""g..`,,
I "., - Aryans report that the Fuehrer advancement of the U. C. Colors $10,000 to the Youth Aliyah af-
dented effort. who ran
,,GI den, has an artificial middle finger on by War Veterans. Dr. Edward ter a persoral appeal from Mrs.
an the first tan of nature—self...reser- , his right hand to take the place of E. Stern, commander of the Julius David de Son Pool of Hadassah
We. Zionists. took one stand
lon e c.o. we wheretee, ores, nal
digit shot away when an ex- Rosenwald Post, will open the end Mrs. David Greenberg, na-
ist...el io forge the instrnaentalith, storm-trooper t ied to bump him services and later in the program tional president of the Youth Ali-
or anis.) r
and national renaissance In
will recite "In Flanders Field." yah. They pointed out that for
Isran', Homeland, Aim, , the respoe
pone on • • • Po pular o p inners to the con-
ies, not twee re...rewire'. em, the trary, Emmy Sonnenmann, the Rabbi A. M. Hershman will give every $360 contributed to the Ali-
greatness of Theni" , Heed . . Itr''Phrl i r present wife of Gory Goering, is the invocation. Cantor J. H.
yah one child con be brought from
%Won and nIth the crushing need of
will chant a prayer and a country of persecution to Pal-
no relation to the famous Leopold Sonenklar
the present moment. wow,
!PLEASE TURN TO LAST PACIM
Anti-Semites Involved in
(KAMM TURN TO PAGE 3)
(PLEASE Tuner TO won' PAGED
Sonnenmann, Jewish founder of
Plan to Assassinate
the Frankfurter Zeitung ... Nor
is she Jewish . . . The confusion
President
arose from the fact that Frau
Goering's father's name was Au-
CHICAGO (ALPD)—Affidavits
- gust, and that in the Jewish Son-
swearing that threats against the
life of President Roosevelt were
nenmann family there is also an
The execetive committee of the August who has a daughter named
made at a meeting of the Silver
Jewish Community
Council will Emm
. . The week of June 12
y
Shirts, Fascist body organizing'
hold an important meeting next to June 19 has been proclaimed as
anti-democratic eroups here, are
By BERNARD POSTAL
Tuesday, May 24, at 8:30 p. m., international racial understanding
in the hands of the American
in the Jewish Childre's Hunts week and will be observed in all
League for Peace and Democracy
111117111, 04.000 members are hailing their new intermstional prwalent,
Burlingame and Petoskey Ares. countries free from Fascist con- IIN.%1
of
this city.
Dewy Monsky, y.ho %TM eleetrd
al the !Nth genend rontentlort in Washing-
Every member of the committee is trol . . . Georges Mandel, French
ton. Mr. I`ostal, editor of the sone, Arlo Proton. •sndinde
The affidavits will be turned
menthe.
of
St11411 11041., I.Irre of Wool With, gives as
urged to attend as this will prob- minister of colonies, changed his
pea picture el over to the
proper authorities,
the own who Is non Ben I:nth number one.
ably be the last meeting before the name from Rothschild because he
announces Mrs. Jane Swanhoyser,
summer period.
is no relative of the banking Roth-
organizational
secretary of the
When the 15th general conven- any other president i n Bnai
and didant
to be mis-
The fourth quarterly meeting of !san
* want
Chicago American League, to
the Jewish Community Council will taken for a financier ... But the tion of Bnai Brith last week Brith history. Monsky is also form the basis of legal action
r o otio o l Henry
n r y Monsky of
to h
the e 0 11: younger than the
be held on Wednesday, June 1, at, anti -Semitic press nevertheless f e e lected
against Roy Zachary. leader of
presidency
8 :15 p. m., in the Jewish Commu- , persists in calling him a member
all former Bnai Brith presi•
the Silver Shirts and his followers.
nity Center. Representatives of of the Rothschild family . . . The est national Jewish organization
dents, which is 61.
The affidavits attest the following
all affiliated organizations are ask- current crop of Nazi-made films is in the country and the largest
A native son of Nebraska and significant facts:
ed to be present, as there is action .so awful that the Nazi propaganda Jewish fraternal order in the of Omaha, its metropolis, he is
A large percentage of the audi-
to be taken on a number of issues , bureau is releasing old pictures world, it didn't simply pick • sin- the first Cornhusker to attain na-
at the meeting. where the
including the amendments which produced by Jews and starring cessor to Alfred M. Cohen. who tional stature in Jewish affairs, ence
threats
were made, was composed
have been proposed to the constitu- non-Aryans ... The grapevine re- retired after 13 years, but brought and thus one of the very few of members of the German-Ameri-
tion.
ports teat only fear for the lives a new name into the Jewish head- Jewish key men in America who can Bund.
of her children keeps the wife of lines and introduced a new face live Went of the Mississippi River.
of
At the first meeting of the
a high-ranking Nazi from walking to the galaxy of national Jewish Monsky is also the third American- group, held ■ few weeks ago at
out on him, so disgusted is she with leadership. Before we attempt to born president of Bnai Brith. Viking Hall here, describing the
his penchant for using a horsewhip introduce you to this man Monsky Jones, Bien and Simon Wolf were Roosevelt administration
as plot-
I on her . . . Behind his back, it who now takes rank with the con- born In Germany, while Adolf ting to establish a dictatorship.
! seems she corresponds with her temporaneous giants of Jewish Kraus hailed from Hungary. Only Zachary said. "The time is here. .
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WNS) Jewish friends, just to show that leadership in America, a few little Levi. a Texan, and Cohen, a non the time is past to rid the coun-
—Ezion-geber, which the Old Tes-i she hasn't been contaminated by known facts ought to be cited.
of Ohio, among Bnai Brith chief try of this menace." And "There
Monsky is the
th press-
tamest describes as King Solo- ! her husband . . . Strangest sit-
executives, abate with Monsky the will be plenty of action after we
mon's sea port, has been discover.' down strike was the sit-down of a dent of the 95-ye ■ r-old order distinction of being native-born. come
to power. Stay out of the
ed and excavated on the shore ofiJewish landlord in Jerusalem, who and the youngest man to hold It is also worth recording that Silver Shirts unless you are pre-
the Red Sea by Dr. Nelson Glueck, selected a sewer as the place to that office since 1900, when Leo Monsky is the first Bnai Brith pared to take order' from Pelley
American archeologist, who is di-, demonstrate his exclusive rights to N. Levi, then 44, became the president who is of East European (William Dudley Pelley, leader
rector of the American School of • drainage system ... Among the third president. Besides Levi. Jewish parentage. Five of his six of the group) on a quasi-military
Oriental Research in Jerusalem, se- 165 Jews murdered in Palestine eely twe other presidents have predecessors were either German- basis."
cording to an announcement by Dr. between Nov. 7, 1935, and April been younger than Monsky. who born or of German ancestry for
both meetings held here so
Millar Burrows of Yale University,I17, 1938, were natives of 22 differ- is 48, at the time of thei r else- Bnai Brith was for years a strong- far At Zachary
has Impersonated
president of the American Schools ent countries . . . Only 30 of the tin, Henry Jones, who was 32 hold of German Jewry. It is only Roosevelt as speaking with a Jew-
of Oriental Research. The site of victims were native Palestinians.
when his founded the coder In in the last generation that Jews lab accent.
the sea port was uncovered during NAZI BUSINESS
15431 end Juli e s Bien, who be- of East European origin came into
The affidavits were obtained by
excavations near Aquabah and it
The arrest of the six officials of came president in 1868. when
and
K known to the Arabs as Tell-, that Nazi camp organization has he was 42. and served coating- Bnai Brith in met
is nown
the
election
of
Monsky
Is
proof
Chicago
breaches who attended
Kheleifeh.

"ROSES OF SHARON'

Concluding Luncheon Report Meeting Was Scheduled for Friday;
Monday's and Tuesday's Gatherings Addressed by Lipsky
and Dunner; Plea Made for United Action

SALE JUNE 11 12

Encouraged by the liberality of Detroit Jew's and by the enthui‘
iasm with which workers in the Allied Jewish Campaign conducted
the drive for a quota of $390,700, community leaders expressed as-
surances on Thursday that the goal will be reached by the time all
outstanding prospects' cards' are reported upon.
As this issue of The Detroit Jewish Chronicle goes to press, with

ANNUAL MEMORIAL
SERVICES MAY 30

Drive Is Extended
Through Friday



Strictly
Confidential

BNAI BRITH GIVES
FOR YOUTH ALIYAH

Dr. Dunner Calls
For United Action

NAZI THREAT ON
ROOSEVELT'S LIFE

American Jewry Mobilizes for
Executive
Defense Again st Anti-Semitism Council
Will Meet Tuesday

JERSEY CITY, N. J. (WNS)—
Plans for arbitrating the dispute
between the Jersey City Jewish
Community Center and Rabbi
Benjamin Plotkin, whose Congre-
By LOUIS LIPSKY
gation Emanu-EI has been ordered
to vacate its rented quarters in
Vice-President, Ameri can Jewish Congress
the Center by June 30, were be-
ing readied here, the Seven Arts
The advocates of the American
In August, 1914, when the
Feature Syndicate learned from World War was started, many Jewish Congress were led by
sources close to both sides. A leaders in Jewish life were con- Louis D. Brandeis, then chairman
representative of the Syndicate vinced that in the readjustments of the Provisional Zionist Com-
also learned from Rabbi Plotkin following the end of the conflict, mittee: The opposition was led by
that newspaper reports stating the problem of Jewish rights Louis Marshall and Dr. Cyrus Ad-
that the order to vacate was issued would have to be placed on the ler, the heads of the American
immediately after he had ap- agenda of international affairs. Jewish Committee. After a public
peared in court as a character It was inconceivable that the controversy that lasted for some
witness for John R. Longo, an Jews would be forgotten in mak- time, a peace formula was ar-
anti-Hague Democrat, were not ing the world safe for democracy. rived at, - which was approved by
true, the Center's committee hay- Movements were started in vari- all groups. At a joint meeting of
log informed the Congregation it ous parts of the world to consoli- the interested parties, a provi-
must vacate some days before date Jewish demands and repre- sional committee for the organin-
Rabbi Plotkin appeared in court.
tion of the America - Jewish Con-
This matter of timing gave rise sentations. There were Jew's ac-
t() reports that the congregation five on both sides of the fighting gress was formed. Nathan Straus
was elected as honorary president,
was being punished because of line; in London and Paris with and Adolph Kraus, then president
Rabbi Plotkin's well known politi- the Allies; in Berlin and Vienna of the Bnai Brith, was elected as
cal views and his opposition to and Warsaw with the Germans. chairman. The peace formula was
Mayor Hague's policies and that Dr. Weizmann in London estab- a compromise, as all peace formu-
the Center was being used as the lished contact with English states-
Jews of Germany las are. The advocates of the
instrument of punishment because men.
Com- American Jewish Congress agreed
its president, Judge Morris E. formed what was called the
mittee dee Osten. to win Jewish to limit the program of the Con-
Barison, and its treasurer, Louis
gress to problems arising out of
Jacobs, a member of the board of sympathies in Poland for the the war; they also agreed that
education, are both Hague ap- cause of Germany. They acted in
the congress was not to be a per-
Pointees. The Syndicate has also line with an agreement with the manent institution. Democratic
established that the order to va- German High Command that in elections were provided for, but
tempered
by
conditions
case
the
Germans
won
the
war,
'lite Was
minority rights in Poland it was understood that • final ses-
which would permit the congrega- Jewish
tion's Hebrew and Sunday schools would be recognized. A Jewish sion of the congress was to be
to us. the Center's facilities for emissary was sent from Germany held when the elected representa-
a year and would allow the con- to the United States to make tives returned from the peace con-
irregstion itself to hold its High Propaganda for Germany. In the ference. 320,000 Voters
Holy Day services this fall in the United States, however, the more.
The delegates to the first ses-
Center's auditorium as usual to ment took the form of a call for
enable it to raise funds for new an American Jewish Congress, the sion of the American Jewish Con-
. gress were elected by over 320,-
advocatesof
which
were
aligned
quarters
Of
TURN TO rAos
Rabbi Plotkin disclosed the:- fl - ornthe first with the cause

Per Year, $3.00; Per Copy, 10 Cents

Seaport Used
By King Solomon

Introducing Henry Monsky:
The Ben Brith Number One

Back to Top

© 2025 Regents of the University of Michigan