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Detroit Jewish Chronicle
and The Legal Chronicle
VOL. 42, No. 4
Federations'
Parley Opens
This Saturday
Dr. Weizmann Speaks
at Opening Session
of Assembly
More than 500 delegates rep-
resenting Jewish federations, wel-
fare fund and community coun-
cils in 144 cities in the United
States and Canada will consider
their policies on fund raising, wel-
fare activity and community or-
ganization for the coming year
Fete Mrs. Weizmann
At Luncheon Sunday
Detroit chapter of Hadassah
will honor Mrs. Chaim Weiz-
mann, honorary president of
the Women's International
Zionist Organization, the wife
of the president of the World
Zionist Organization, at a
luncheon in the Crystal Ball-
room of the Book-Cadillac Ho-
tel at 12:15 p. m. on Sunday,
Jan. 28. Reservations for the
luncheon may be made by
calling Mrs. Ralph Davidson,
TOwnsend 6-6021.
at the seventh annual General
Assembly of the Council of Jew-
ish Federations and Welfare
Funds opening here this Saturday
night, Jan. 27.
The effects of the war on over-
seas needs, Palestinian recon-
struction and refugee activities
will be described at the opening
session by Dr. Chaim Weizmann,
president of the. Jewish Agency
for Paletine; Clarence E. Pickett,
executive secretary of the Ameri-
can Friends Service Committee;
and Dr. Solomon Lowenstein,
vice chairman of the American
Jewish Joint Distribution Com-
mittee and executive vice presi-
See FEDERATIONS—Page 12
U.A.II.C. 1941
Meeting Here
Detroit to Have Na-
tional Biennial
Council
Detroit is to have the Union of
American Hebrew Congregation's
National Biennial Council May
4 to 8, 1941, according to a deci-
sion reached Sunday at the an-
nual meeting of the U. A. H. C.
executive board in Cincinnati.
Made up of over 300 congrega-
tions throughout the U. S. and
Canada, the Union is known as
the parent body of Liberal Juda-
ism in America. More than 2,000
delegates and visitors are ex-
pected to attend the 1941 meet-
ing to discuss development of
the Union's 10-year program of
Increased service to religion and
democracy. The Union program
Is in harmony with President
Roosevelt's recent call for co-
operation of religious groups in
the solution of world problems.
Milton M. Alexander Re-Elected
to Board of Managers
Milton M. Alexander of De-
I•oit was re-elected to the Board
of Managers of the Union of
American Hebrew Congregations'
Department of Synagogue and
School Extension at the annual
meeting of the Union Executive
Board meeting just held in Cin-
cinnati.
An advertising counsellor, Mr.
Alexander is known as the man
who directed, in 1935-36, the
Michigan State and Cook County,
Ill., advertising campaign for de-
linquent taxes. He was the foun-
der of the Jewish Center Asso-
ciation and served as its first
president. Mr. Alexander is affili-
ated with Detroit's Temple Beth
El, a Union member.
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DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, JANUARY 26, 1940
Welcome, Federations
The Detroit Jewish Chronicle joins in wel-
coming to the sessions of the General Assembly
of the Council of Federations and Welfare Funds
the leaders of the Jewish communities in America.
Convening here during the most crucial period
in all of our history, spokesmen for Federations
are faced with the responsibility of providing large
sums for relief of the millions who are today suf-
fering under the heels of tyrants; of creating emi-
gration possibilities; of enlarging the scope of work
for Palestine's re-settlement and reconstruction.
This assembly is privileged to have as guest the
outstanding leader in world Jewry—Dr. Chaim
Weizmann, the president of the Jewish Agency
for Palestine and of the World Zionist Organiza-
tion. We welcome him with the wish that his hands
may be strengthened in the difficult tasks ahead of
him as the guide of the movement for national
rebirth of the Jewish people.
May the deliberations of this conference be
crowned with success, and may they serve to de-
velop greater unity in Israel leading towards the
restoration of security and dignity to the horribly
harassed masses of our people.
Federation's Assembly Greeted
By Civic Leaders and Officials
Mayor, Governor, Community Fund Director, Regional
Head, Make Statements Welcoming Delegates
City and state officials, com-
munity leaders, heads of impor-
tant civic movements and Com-
munity Fund directors have
joined in extending greetings to
the delegates who will attend the
DR. GOLDMANN
SPEAKS JAN. 28
World Congress Leader
to Address Dinner
in Detroit
sessions of the seventh annual
assembly of the Council of Jew-
ish Federations and Welfare
Funds, in Detroit, this week-end.
Abraham Srere, president of
the Jewish Welfare Federation of
Detroit, in a personal statement
of greeting to the delegates,
estates:
"Detroit looks forward with
grat pleasure and antici-
pation to the forthcoming sev-
enth annual Assembly of the
Council of Jewish Federations
and Welfare Funds. The As-
semblies have been productive
of
movements and policies
which have proved to be im-
portant factors for the com-
mon good of Jewry. Today,
more than ever before, we need
the wise counsel and decisions
of the delegates to the Assem-
bly.
"May the results of these de-
liberations bring a generous
measure of hope and comfort
to our fellow Jews every-
where."
Dr. Nahum Goldmann, chair-
man of the administrative com-
mittee of the Wo..ld Jewish Con-
gress, who arrived in this coun-
try last week to confer with
American leaders on the status
of world Jewry, will be a guest
in Detroit during the sessions of
the Council of Federations and
Welfare Funds and will speak at
a dinner arranged by the Ameri-
can Jewish Congress, at 6 p. m., Governor Luren D. Dickinson
of Michigan, in a message ad-
at Hotel Statler.
Prominent national leaders of dressed to Mr. Srere, welcomes
the American Jewish Congress, the delegates as follows:
"It gives me sincere pleasure
including Louis Lipsky, vice pres-
ident, will be present to address to welcome the delegates of the
this dinner, reservations for General Assembly of the Coun-
which may be made by calling cil of Jewish Federations and
Mrs. Nathan Spevakow, president Welfare Funds. I trust that your
of the Women's Division of the stay in our state will be full of
Congress, Ty. 6-6402, or Mrs. both pleasure and profit to all
Albert Feldstein, secretary of the of your member organizations.
Detroit Chapter of the Congress,
See GREETINGS—Page 16
Cherry 6559.
per Year
Senator Brown, Leaders of Church and Labor
Groups to Address Meeting at Cass
High School
Christians and Jews will join in registering their
protests against the horrible atrocities perpetrated
against the Jews in Poland and other territories under
Nazi rule at the public meeting arranged by the Detroit
Chapter of the American Jewish Congress and the Jew-
ish Community Council, together with Christian co-oper-
ating organizations, to be held at 2 p. m. on Sunday,
Feb. 4, at Cass Technical High School Auditorium.
United States Senator Prentiss M. Brown, of Michi-
gan, will be the principal speaker at this meeting. Other
speakers will be: Dr. Marshall R. Reed, president of the
Detroit Council of Churches; Frank X. Martel, president
REPORTS SHOW
JEWS' STATUS
American Jewish Com-
mittee Holds 33rd
Meeting
Pointing to the disastrous ef-
fects of war upon all peoples, the
American Jewish Committee, in
its executive committee's 33rd
annual report presented to dele-
gates at Hotel Astor on Sunday,
voiced the hope that "it may be
possible for our country to re-
main at peace."
"For the second time in the
history of the Committee, we
meet but a few months after the
outbreak of a major European
conflict," declared the report,
which was read by Morris D.
Waldman, secretary of the com-
mittee. "Happily, our country is
not a party in this conflict. Con-
vinced as we are of the futility
of war, knowing as we do its
incalculable material and moral
costs, we hope and pray that it
may be possible for our country
to remain at peace."
Dr. Cyrus Adler was re-elected
president of the Committee,
which was established in 1906
for the protection of the civil
and religious rights of Jews
throughout the world. Other of-
ficers re-elected were Hon. Abram
I. Elkus, honorary vice president;
Judge Irving Lehman and Louis
E .Kirstein, Boston, vice presi-
dents; and Samuel D. Liedesdorf,
treasurer. Sol M. Stroock, chair-
man of the executive committee,
presided at the morning session,
and Judge Lehman presided at
the luncheon which followed.
Richard C. Rothschild, chairman
of the survey committee, pre-
sented a report on the educa-
See COMMITTEE —Page 2
Radio Priest Takes Stand Beside the 17 Arrested on Charge of Plotting
to Overthrow U. S. Government; Reveal Cassidy
Tried to Destroy Records
not disassociate myself from that
movement. I reaffirm every word
which I have said in advocating
its formation; I re-encourage the
Christians of America to carry
on in this crisis for the preserva-
tion of Christianity and Ameri-
canism, more vigorously than ever
despite this thinly veiled cam-
paign launched by certain pub-
licists and their controllers to
villify both the name and the
principles of this pro-American,
pro-Christian Frontiers," Father
Coughlin declared.
"I take my stand beside the
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Christians Join With Jews
To Protest Nazi Atrocities
At a Public Rally on Feb. 4
Coughlin and Christian Front Condemned
Throughout Land; Investigation Is Urged
By Professors, Clergymen, Labor Leaders
The Rev. Charles E. Coughlin,
who last week "roundly dis-
avowed" the specific Christian
Front involved in the arrests of
17 New Yorkers by the United
States Government on charges of
treason, in his sermon last Sun-
day criticized newspaper accounts
of the recent arrests of the 17
men in New York on charges of
plotting to overthrow the United
States Government and took his
stand with the Christian Front.
"While I do not belong to any
unit of the Christian Front,"
Coughlin said, "nevertheless I do
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of the Detroit Federation or La-
bor; Tucker P. Smith, Michigan
representative of the Retail and
Wholesale Employees of Amer-
ica, a CIO affiliate; Daniel Foley,
attorney for the Association of
Catholic Trade Unionists. Mayor
Edward J. Jeffries and a spokes-
man for Governor Luren D.
Dickinson are also expected to
address the meeting. The Jewish
spokesmen will be Rabbi Morris
Adler, Philip Slomovitz, president
of the local chapter of the
local chapter of the American
Jewish Congress, and James I.
Ellmann, vice-president of the
Jewish Community Council,
The Guest Speaker
Senator Brown, the principal
speaker at this rally, is known
as one of the leading liberals in
Congress. Born in St. Ignace,
Mich., in 1889, he was educated
in the City schools of his home
community, graduated in 1911
from Albion College, received a
scholarship in political economy
to the University of Illinois and
was given an honorary LL. D.
degree by Albion College in 1937.
In 1914 he began practice of law
in St. Ignace. He served as prose-
See PUBLIC RALLY—Page 9
End Seen for
Million Jews
World Congress Dele-
gates Extremely
Pessimistic
NEW YORK.—The prediction
that one million Jews will die
in Europe within the coming
year as a result of outright mur-
der and starvation by the Nazis
in the territory occupied by Ger-
many was made by Dr. Nahum
Goldmann, chairman of the ad-
ministrative committee of the
World Jewish Congress, and by
Dr. Maurice L. Perlzweig, chair-
man of the British section of the
same organization, who arrived
in the United States Jan. 17
aboard the SS. Vulcania.
Dr. Goldmann and Dr. Perl-
zweig are here at the invitation
of the American Jewish Congress
to bring home to the Jews of
America the needs and the as-
pirations of European Jewry and
the hopes that they repose in the'
help which the American com-
munity, Jewish and non-Jewish,
may give to save Jewish life from
complete destruction.
Place Hope in U. S.
Christian Fronters," F a t h e r
Coughlin declared. "Recognizing
also that in one sense the op-
position to Communism is on
trial, I freely choose to be identi-
fied as a friend of the accused.
It matters not whether they be
guilty or innocent; be they ar-
dent followers of the principles
of Christianity or the betrayers
of them, my place is by their side
until they are released or con-
victed."
Speaking for himself and Dr.
Perlzweig, as the direct emis-
saries of the 39 Jewish corn-
munities of the world represent-
ed in the World Jewish Congress,
Dr. Goldmann stated that the
chief hope of European Jewry
is that America may be aroused
to take immediate steps and to
plan for a future which will re-
lease them from the Nazi con-
centration camp in which they
live today.
"European Jewry feels that
this can and should be done with-
See COUGHLIN—Page 8
See CONGRESS—Page 13