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DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, JANUARY 19, 1940
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At a working session of the
Assembly on Monday, Jan. 29,
representatives of local welfare
funds and of leading national
agencies dealing with overseas,
Palestinian and refugee needs will
consider fund-raising plans for
the coming year. The sub-commit-
tee of the Council's Committee on
National Jewish Agencies, which
has been seeking to work out a
fund-raising agreement among the
overseas and refugee organiza-
tions, will report the results of
its efforts at that time. William
J. Shroder of Cincinnati, chair-
man of the board of the Coun-
, cil, will preside over the subse-
quent discussion, at which local
communities will seek to arrive
at common policies in allocating
funds for major overseas and ref-
ugee causes. At a luncheon meet-
ing immediately thereafter, the
campaign strategy to be used
the 1940 welfare fund drives will
be outlined and methods of inter-
city cooperation in campaigns will
be considered.
Other sessionsa t the General
Assembly will be concerned with
local social welfare needs, group
relations programs, refugee prob-
lems, Jewish education and voca-
tional services.
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Editors, community leaders, readers of The Detroit
Jewish Chronicle representing every walk of life, this
week continued to send additional messages of greetings
commending the change of format and type faces, as
well as the printing of the paper on book stock.
Among those who this week sent letters of greeting
ROOSEVELT
HAILS GIFT
Donation of $250,000
To Aid Christians
Is Lauded
Declaring that it bears "elo-
quent witness to the spirit of
tolerance and true charity",
President Roosevelt hailed the ac-
tion of the United Jewish Appeal
for Refugees and Overseas Needs
in contributing $250,000 to aid
Catholic and Protestant refugees,
from funds raised in 1939.
In a letter addressed to Rabbi
Abba Hillel Silver and Rabbi
Jonah B. Wise, National Chair-
men of the United Jewish Ap-
peal, the Chief Executive extend-
ed his "hearty congratulations
upon the spirit of brotherhood
and universal good will which
prompted allocation from the
funds of the United Jewish Ap-
peal for Refugees of generous
sums for use through other agen-
cies in relieving suffering among
non-Jewish refugees."
In 1939 the United Jewish Ap-
peal combined the fund-raising
activities of the Joint Distribu-
tion Committee, the United Pal-
estine Appeal and the National
Refugee Service, Inc., the three
foremost American agencies for
relief and rehabilitation of Jews
in distress in European lands, as-
sistance to refugees in various
parts of the world, immigration
and settlement in Palestine and
the integration of refugees corn-
ing into the United States in ac-
cordance with the quota regula-
tions.
Leaders in local Jewish welfare
service will address a session on
"Present-Day Trend
s in Federa-
tion progra'
Harry Green-
stein, executive
director of the
Associa te.,
Charities, Bal-
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local Jewish wwelif
ward Green f I re re activity. Ed-
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an Jewish
are: U. S. Senator Arthur H.
Vandenberg of Michigan, W. S.
Gilmore, editor of The Detroit
News; Isador Sobeloff, executive
director of the Jewish Welfare
Federation and a former news-
paper editor; Mayor Edward J.
Jeffries; Congressmen Clarence
J. McLeod and John D. Dingell;
Edward E. Grusd, managing edi-
tor of National Jewish Monthly
of Bnai Brith; Malcolm W. Bin-
gay, editorial director of Detroit
Free Press; Simon Shetzer, presi-
dent of Jewish Community Coun-
cil, and mahy others.
Mr. Gilmore writes the editor
as follows:
"The new form and quality
of paper of The Chronicle give
you an opportunity, judging by
the first issues, to do a much
improved printing job. I ven-
ture to guess that your read-
ers will applaud the change;
that the paper in this maga-
zine form will be more easily
handled and more easily read.
Good Luck!"
Mr. Sobeloff's statement com-
mends The Chronicle's policies of
rendering services to the com-
munity at large. He states:
"Congratulations on the new
format of The Chronicle. The
technicia n will appreciate the
improved readability provided
by the smaller pages, the new
type faces, the finer paper and
the clearer cuts, but the aver-
age reader will deriv e the
many added benefits that flow
from the new form of your
publication. Behind these tech-
See TESTIMONIALS—Page 8
COUGHLINITES
HELD IN PLOT
2,000 Rabbis Circularized
Dr. Cyrus Adler, president of
the Jewish Theological Seminary
of America, has sent a letter to
the 2,000 rabbis in America with
copies of President Franklin D.
Roosevelt's message to him, ac-
cording to an announcement
from the office of the Seminary.
President Roosevelt had written
to Dr. Adler on Dec. 23, as a
representative of the Jewish reli-
gion, to join with leaders of the
Christian faiths in preparing the
ground for world peace.
In sending the President's let-
ter to the rabbis of the country,
Dr. Adler said:
"I shall be very grateffil for
any suggestion you may make to
me with regard to the method
and procedure to be followed in
attaining peace for the world. I
To View Federatio n Program
Federations' Guest
At Assembly Jan. 27
W. S. Gilmore and Malcolm W. Bingay, News and Free
Press Editors, Congressmen Dingell and McLeod,
Mayor Jeffries, Sobeloff, Shetzer Among Those Com-
mending the Change.
Will Speak at Conclave
Here; Committees
Named
Dr. Chaim Weizmann, president
of the Jewish Agency for Pales-
tine; Clarence E. Pickett, execu-
tive secretary of the American
Friends Service Committee; and
Dr. Solomon Lowenstein, execu-
tive vice-president of the New
York Jewish Federation and vice-
chairman of the Joint Distribu-
tion Committee, will be the prin-
cipal speakers at the opening ses-
sion of the seventh annual Gen-
eral Assembly of the Council of
Jewish Federations and Welfare
Funds to be held here on Jan.
27,
Discussing the effects of the
war on overseas needs, Palestinian
reconstruction and refugee activi-
ties, the three speakers will pre-
sent the latest information on
developments in those fields to
the delegates from Jewish federa-
tions, welfare funds and com-
munity councils in the United
States and Canada. More than
400 leaders of Jewish communal
affairs throughout the country
are expected to attend the three-
day gathering.
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Aimed to Overthrow U.
S. Government and
Terrorize Jews
NEW YORK. (WNS)—Seven-
teen members of the anti-Semitic
Christian Front were arrested
and charged with plotting to over-
throw the Government of the
United States. In announcing their
arrest, J. Edgar Hoover, head of
the Federal Bureau of Investiga-
tion, said they had planned to
start a reign of terror against
the Jews, bomb private and pub-
lic buildings, seize the nation's
public utilities, capture the gold
in the Federal Reserve Bank here,
assassinate fourteen Congressmen
and ultimately establish a dic-
tatorship.
More than half the men ar-
rested are members of the New
York National Guard, and it is
believed that ammunition which
Hoover found they had accumu-
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Dr. Franklin's Third
Broadcast on Sunday
Over Station WXYZ, at 8 p.
m., on Sunday, Dr. Leo M. Frank-
lin will be heard in the third
broadcast in his series of four
addresses on the "Message of
Israel" program. His special
theme this Sunday will be "To
Be a Jew." The previous ad-
dresses of this series have called
forth enthusiastic comments from
auditors in all parts of the coun-
try. The original broadcast is giv-
A World-Wide Celebration
en over the Blue Network of the
Not romantic legend, how- National Broadcasting Company
ever, but plain uncontested his- on Saturday evenings at 7 o'clock
and it is rebroadcast in this area
on Sunday evenings at 8 o'clock.
See RASHI—Page 11
scholarship to Spain in the person
of a great scholar, captured by
a pirate and unwittingly sold as
a common slave in Cordova. An-
other legend has it that the Jew-
ish population of France was de-
rived from early settlers who
landed at French ports to which
the winds had perforce driven
them, after the destruction of
Jerusalem by the Romans.
Senator Brown
Will Address
Public Rally
Christians and JeWs to
Protest Atrocities
on Feb. 4
Prominent speakers are being
enlisted to address the public
meeting against intolerance and
DR, CHAIM WEIZMANN
as a protest against the horrible
atrocities perpetrated against
Jews in Poland by the Nazis, on
Sunday afternoon, Feb. 4, at
Cass Technical High School. This
meeting is being arranged by
the Detroit Section of the Ameri-
can Jewish Congress and the Jew-
ish Community Council, with the
cooperation of prominent spon-
sors, including United States
Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg.
Labor and church organizations
Detroit Jewry will hear an ac- are cooperating in sponsoring the
count of the horrible conditions meeting.
in Poland from an eye-witness to
As we go to press, we are in-
the atrocities of the Nazis, when formed that United States Sen-
Dr. Henry Szoszkes, one of the ator Prentiss M. Brown of Mich-
outstanding Polish-Jewish leaders igan has accepted the invitation
who was the first to escape from to be th e principal speaker at
the Nazi hell, speaks at the pub- this important meeting.
lic meeting at the Bnai Moshe
Other speakers will be Frank
auditorium, Dexter and Law- X. Martel of the Detroit Federa-
rence, next Thursday, Jan. 25, tion of Labor and August Scholle
at 8:15 p. m.
of the CIO; Mayor Edward J.
This public meeting, admission Jeffries; Dr. Marshall R. Reed,
to which will be free, was ar- president of the Detroit Council
ranged by the Detroit section of of Churches, and others to be an-
nounced next week.
the Federation of Polish Jews.
DR. SZOSZK ES
HERE JAN. 25
Eminent Polish Leader
to Address Public
Meeting
Interceded With Nazis
For 166 years vice-president of
the Warsaw Kehillah, Dr. Szosz-
kes is a pioneer Zionist leader
and a veteran attendant at . World
Zionist Congresses. Ire was the
executive secretary of the Jewish
co-operative movement in Poland,
and for four years he was on
the committee for the distribu-
tion of funds remitted by the
Federation of Polish Jews, serv-
ing together with Senator Saul
Szereszewski and Senator Moses
Scorr. On his way through
France, after his escape from Po-
land, Dr. Szoszkes was named
honorary Polish consul at Tel
Aviv by the provisional Polish
government with headquarters in
Paris.
Dr. Szoszkes was the first Jew-
ish leader to intercede with Nazi
officials in Poland in defense of
the Jewish position, and he is
the best qualified person to pre-
sent a report on existing condi-
tions of the horror-stricken Jew-
ish communities.
Albert Brown, field secretary
of the Federation of Polish Jews,
is in Detroit to arrange for Dr.
Szoszkes' visit here.
REPORT RAPE, HANGINGS
AND EXPULSIONS IN LODZ
Mr. Albert reports that the
first shipment of clothing being
sent by the Polish Federation for
Polish refugees now in Lithuania
has already been made. Clothing,
underwear, shoes and other
necessary articles are included in
the shipment.
The first Detroit shipment of
collected clothes will be made in
PARIS. (WNS)—The raping
of Jewish women by Nazi sol-
diers and officers, the hanging of
Jews for 48 hours, the deporta-
tion of thousands of Jews daily
in sealed cattle cars and the
bestial forcing of mothers to
cohabit with their sons is de-
scribed in a hair-raising report
received here from Lodz.
This report, received from a
very reliable source, reveals that
all the Jews of Lodz were origi-
nally ordered to leave that area
not later than Jan. 15. Nazi
authorities, however, realizing
that this would be impossible,
changed the expulsion date to
March 1.
Meanwhile, Gestapo agents con-
tinued to lam othusands of Lodz
Jews daily into cattle trains
routed to Cracow, Warsaw and
Lublin. The Lublin Jewish com-
munity was ordered by the Ges-
tapo to prepare barracks for
15,000 people.
The deportation of the Jew-
ish population from Lodz is offi-
cially explained by the Nazis as
punishment for the refusal of the
Lodz Jewish community to de-
liver Jewish women to the Nazi
military brothels in Lodz. Twen-
ty-four members of the Jewish
community council in Lodz were
arrested by Nazi authorities in
connection with this refusal. Af-
ter several weeks' imprisonment
they were released on Dec. 28
and shipped in sealed cars to
Cracow, seat of the Nazi Gov-
See DR. SZOSZKES—Page 10
See ATROCITIES—Page 17
Transport Clothing
History of the Federation
By ABRAHAM SRERE
President, Jewish Welfare Federation of Detroit
EDITOn's No•E:—This article has been prepared by Mr. Srere to twinkle the
delegates to the Resent!' annual General Assembly of the Council of Jen kb
Federations and 1% el fare Funds, to be held in Detroit from Jun. 27 to 29.
with a resume of the accomplishments of the Detroit 'leafs!' community
In its 40 years of organized Jealsit social welfare effort. Original!) pub-
lished in the pre-conference Issue of Notes and Neon, the organ of the
Council of Jewish Federations and 1Velfare Funds, the article Is printed
here by arrangement with its editors.
Six years ago, announcement
of the organization of the pres-
ent Council of Jewish Federations
and Welfare Funds was made
in Detroit. In the six years of
its existence, the Council has
been a potent instrument in the
planning and execution of Jew-
ish social work programs through-
out the United States and Can-
ada. It has been instrumental in
coordinating the financing a n d
activities of various national and
overseas agencies, and has di-
rected itself to uniting and in-
tegrating the numerous social
welfare agencies and programs.
As a constituent from the Coun-
cil's beginning days, the Detroit
Federation has has the benefit
of the Council's services in de-
veloping and improving the local
welfare program in recent years.
But the story of Jewish commu-
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