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Detroit Jewish Chronicle
and The Legal Chronicle
VOL. 42, No. 5
DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2,
1940
10 Cents Single Copy: $3.00 per Year
Vatican
PROTEST HORRIBLE NAZI ATROCITIES AT PUBLIC
communities Confirm
Atrocity Charge
RALLY AT CASS HIGH SCHOOL SUNDAY; SENATOR
Mobilized for
BROWN, CHURCH AND LABOR LEADERS TO SPEAK
Mercy Effort
German Denials Repudiated
as Reports Indicate
Increased Savagery
ROME. (WNS) — While the
Germans issued denials of state-
Federations' Assembly ments made by the Vatican and Jews and Christians Cooperate in Arranging Public Meeting for Presen-
tation of Facts on Jewish Position in Poland and Other
Approves U. J. A. London radios describing Nazi
atrocities and persecutions in
Nazi-Controlled Areas
1940 Agreement
Poland, a statement issued by
the Vatican charges mass execu-
Detroit's protest against the horrible atrocities perpetrated by the Nazis
Machinery for the inaugura-
tions and expropriations in Ger- against the Jews will be heard at 2 p. m. this Sunday at the public meeting at Cass
tion of the United Jewish Appeal
man-occupied cities and villages Technical High School, arranged by the Detroit Chapter of the American Jewish
in communities throughout the
of Poland.
Congress and the Jewish Community Council.
country was set into motion at
With United States Senator Prentiss M. Brown as principal speaker and spokes.
Authorized Vatican circles re-
the seventh annual assembly of vealed the names of priests who men for church and labor organizations sharing the platform with him, this meeting
the Council of Federations and have been the victims of firing
will present the facts on the
Welfare Funds here in Detroit squads. Many priests, the report
existing tragedies and will ex•
from Saturday through Monday. states, are now obliged to dis-
press the indignation of Ameri-
At the concluding business ses- guise themselves in civilian
can citizens against the worst
sion on Monday afternoon, the clothes to be able to perform
brutalities in world history. The
assembly approved the United their duties.
extermination of more than 250,-
Jewish Appeal agreement for
At Bydogoszcz the German
000 Jews in Nazi-Poland during
1940 and accepted responsibility military authorities are said to
the past three months and the
Leaders
Issue
First
to share in budgeting processes have executed several hundred
horrors experienced by Christians
through the selection of a com- Polish inhabitants. At Szamotuly
and Jews alike has resulted in ac-
Statement
on
1940
mittee of three representatives five young people were reported
tion on the part of Americans
to serve on the allocations com- to have been shot before the eyes
of all faiths in condemning these
United
Appeal
mittee together with two spokes- of a crowd in the village market
atrocities and in mobilizing pub-
men from each of the three con- place. At Koscian, the local cu-
lic opinion against the terrorism
With
the
recognition
by
Ameri-
stituent agencies—the Joint Dis- rate, a land owner and 48 rep-
which aims at exterminating an
can Jewry that it faces the great- entire people.
tribution Committee, United Pal- resentatives of the Polish popu-
estine Appeal and National Refu- lation were shot, the report de-
est test of responsibility and serv-
Detroit Jews are called upon
gee Service.
clares. At Wawer, near Warsaw,
ice in the widespread disaster and
to
set aside this Sunday after-
in
retaliation
for
the
death
of
a
suffering that has gripped mil-
Hail Progressive Steps
German soldier and officer by a
noon
for the protest meeting
lions
of
Jews
in
Central
and
in
The resolution adopted by the Pole who succeeded in escaping,
at
Cass
High School, and to
assembly "urges all member wel- 120 people are said to have been
Eastern Europe, the decision to
bring
their
Christian friends
fare funds and all other fund- slain.
continue the United Jewish Ap-
raising groups participating in
with them. Prompt attendance
Germans
declared
in
their
peal
for
Refugees
and
Overseas
united campaigns to exert their
Needs in 1940 will provide Jew- at 2 p. m. is also urged by the
fullest strength and influence to blanket denial that it is riot yet
ish communities throughout the committee on arrangements.
achieve the maximum results in possible to determine whether
behalf of overseas, refugee and hundreds of priests have been ar-
country
with a single unified in-
In addition to Senator Brown,
Palestinian agencies that are rested in Warsaw as was stated
strument of fund-raising for the the speakers at this meeting will
in
the
Vatican
broadcasts,
but
now or may during the cam-
three major agencies which are be: Dr. Marshall R. Reed, presi-
paign be included within the that if they were, the German
called upon to carry out the life- dent of the Detroit Council of
scope of the United Jewish Ap- statement said, it could have
giving - and life-saving tasks of Churches; Frank X. Mead, preii-
BROWN
peal; as well as in "`behalf- or been only for. political •-and
PRENTISS
M.
HON.
relief and rehabilitation overseas, dent of the Detroit Federation
for
religious
reasons.
U.
S.
Senator
from
Michigan
other agencies which have by
immigration and settlement in Pal- of Labor; Tucker P. Smith,
Basis
for
the
recent
Vatican
record and performance merited
estine and refugee immigration Michigan representative of the
and received support from Amer- broadcasts on Poland was receipt
in the United States, it was an- Retail and Wholesale Employees
of
information
from
Augusto
ican Jewish communities." The
nounced this week by Rabbi Abba of America, a CIO affiliate; Dan-
Cardinal
Hlond,
Primate
of
Po-
resolution endorses as a pro-
Hillel Silver and Rabbi Jonah B. iel Foley, attorney for the Asso-
gressive step the bringing of the land, presented to the Pope last
Wise, national chairmen of the ciation of Catholic Trade Union-
Council of Federations and Wel- week, of an 11.000 word docu-
United Jewish Appeal.
ists. The Jewish spokesmen will
fare Funds agencies into closer ment which contained details of
In the first formal statement of be Rabbi Morris Adler, Philip
mass
shootings,
manhunts
by
association with the administra-
the establishment of the 1940 Slomovitz, president of the local
tive forces of fund-raising agen- German agents, plundering and Identity of Interests Is United Jewish Appeal on behalf chapter of the American Jewish
persecutions
conducted
with
cold-
cies through the proposed bud-
of the Joint Distribution Commit- Congress, and James I. Ellmann,
get committee. This resolution blooded brutality and ferocity by
tee, the United Palestine Appeal vice president of the Jewish
Affirmed by Both
the
Nazis
against
Catholics
in
further approves the establish-
and the National Ref u g e e Community Council.
occupied
Polish
territory.
Groups
ment of a service of auditing and
S e r v i c e, Inc., Rabbi Silver
Members of Detroit Post No.
evaluating expenditures and pro-
and Rabbi Wise emphasized that
grams and urges the United Jew- Exiled
Government
Polish
JERUSALEM. (Palcor Agen- large funds can be used and must 135 and Lawrence H. Jones
ish Appeal to continue to work
Pledges Democratic Regime
cy)—The dramatic phenomenom be provided if the Jews of Amer- Post No. 190 of Jewish War
out satisfactory cooperative re-
for Restored Poland
of Arab planters joining with ica are to answer the "solemnly Veterans of the United States
lationships w it h functioning
Jewish
growers to discuss the challenging plea from the hearts
PARIS. — (WNS) — Declar-
bodies of the three major relief
difficult
conditions facing Pales- of millions of our fellow Jews will act as ushers and will pre-
ing that "suffering has made us
who have been made to bear the
and reconstruction agencies.
all equal", and that "respect for tine's citrus industry was wit- burden of hate and oppression, sent the Colors at this meeting.
Distinguished Gathering
democratic ideas will be the nessed today as the National and whose devastation has been
The meeting will open with the
The Detroit sessions, the guiding principle of future Po- Conference of Jewish Citrus intensified by the sweep of war." singing of "America" and "God
Growers,
in
private
and
labor
best-attended and generally con- lish regimes," Ignace Jan Pader-
Declaring that the three pro- Bless America" by Mrs. Abraham
sidered the most important in the ewski, Poland's veteran states- settlements, was opened this grams sustained by the United Cooper, with Mrs. Sol Q. Kesler
history of the Council of Fed- man, patriot and musician, open- morning at Petach Tikvah.
Jewish Appeal have attained new at the piano.
Scores of Arabs were cordially dimensions and gravity as a re-
erations and Welfare Funds, was ed the Polish Parliament in exile,
Senator Brown, the principal
significant for the decisions it the National Council of the Re- welcomed to the proceedinigs by sult of the outbreak of war in speaker at this rally, is known
reached on fund-raising, the dis- public, after his election as Pres- their Jewish colleagues. Addresses 1939, Rabbi Silver and Rabbi as one of the leading liberals in
analyzing the situation, compli- Wise urged every individual Jew Congress. Born at St. Ignace,
cussion of defense activities and ident of the Assembly.
the presence of eminent national
None of the council members cated by transport difficulties, re- and every Jewish community in Michigan, in 1889, he was edu-
and world leaders. There were was a member of the Polish Par- strictions on import of packing America to accept a share in the cated in the city schools of his
500 delegates at the convention. liament which was dissolved a materials, disrupted markets and sacred task of helping the Jewish home community, graduated in
Dr. Chaim Weizmann's visit few weeks ago and which con- wage disputes, were delivered by people to survive in the midst of 1911 from Albion College, re-
in the city was an occasion for sisted in Warsaw of old regime Moshe Smilansky, president of wholesale destruction and tragedy ceived a scholarship in political
numerous private meetings and nominees only. Poland's three the Farmers Federation, and oth- far greater in intensity that the economy to the University of
receptions, in addition to the major parties—Peasants, Na- er leaders.
See RELIEF—PAGE 9
See PROTEST—Page 13
One of the notable speakers
.. See VATICAN—Page 12 ..
See ASSEMBLY—Page 16
was an Arab grower who joined
with his Jewish associates in call-
ing upon the Palestine govern-
3.
ment to provide assistance to the
citrus industry through loans,
grants and duty easements.
The Arab planter affirmed the
identity of interests between
Column Reprinted as Introduction to Race-
Makes Strong Case for Jewish Palestine; Feted Jews and Arabs. The leading
Hating Speeches; F.B.I. to Investigate
Arab and Jewish delegates were
at Luncheons by Industrialists and
entertained at luncheon at the
Father Coughlin
home of Abraham Shapira, vet-
Community Leaders
eran communal leader of Petach
NEW YORK. (WNS)—Defin- ized." Boake Carter then waxed
Tikvah.
During a three-day stay in De- president of the Women's Inter-
ing the fascist Major-General indignant because Moseley has
troit, Dr. and Mrs. Chaim Weiz- national Zionist Organization, ad-
Van Horn Moseley as "an earn- been denounced not only as a
mann, made community history, dressed 300 women at a lunch- Ashrai Bank Saved from Com- est experienced officer" who militarist and fascist but also as
pulsory Liquidation
and built up a strong case for a eon arranged by Hadassah on Sun-
"spent his time off duty study- a Nazi, only "because he spoke
day at the Book-Cadillac.
Jewish Palestine.
TEL AVIV. (Palcor Agency) ing the effects of disease upon bluntly." He protested the atti-
Room
for
Expansion
In addition to his principal ad-
—As the result of a compromise the people of America," Boake tude of Moseley's opponents
In his address on Saturday agreement, the Ashrai Bank, Ltd., Carter devoted his entire news- "which caused the army high
dress at the opening session of
night,
Dr.
Weizmann,
speaking
the assembly of the Council of
of Tel Aviv and Haifa, has been paper column recently to prais- command to clamp a gag on him
Federations and Welfare Funds, as president of the World Zionist saved from compulsory liquida- ing Moseley.
as a reserve officer," and closes
at Temple Beth El on Saturday Organization and the Jewish tion, and by vote of the deposit-
"For
humanitarian
reasons
his column with the sneer:
evening, Dr. Weizmann addressed Agency for Palestine, developed ors, who are the main creditors, alone," Carter said, "for their "That's democracy".
several other functions, received the thesis that Jews have been is to be conducted on a limited protection as refugees as well as
Boake Carter's column was
numerous delegations from this turned into refugees everywhere
Americans, he (Moseley) nig-,
country and Canada; and Mrs.
See MOSELEY—Page 13
See CITRUS PARLEY—Page 9 gested they (refugees) be steril-
Weizmann, who is the honorary
See WEIZMANN—Page 8
Principal Speaker
JEWRY FACES
At Protest Meeting
RELIEF TEST
ARABS, JEWS IN
CITRUS PARLEY
Weismann Inspires
Audiences on Visit Here
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Fascist Ge Moseley Gets
Praise from Boake Carter