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No. 8

DETROIT. MICHIGAN. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23. 1940

pc' ish Jews

B( in Trek
To Palestine

First Group of Refu-
gees Provided with
Certificates

LONDON (Palcor Agency) —
The first group of refugees from
Poland, in possession of special
certificates made available by the
Palestine Government from the
"refugee allotment" of 25,000
promised in the White Paper of
May, 1939, started on their way
to Palestine Feb. 19.
The news was announced by
Rafal Szafar, secretary of the
temporary immigration commis-
sion in Lithuania, who was for-
merly connected with the Pales-
tine Office at Warsaw. Szafar is
now in Londan in connection with
the refugee problem, trying to ob-
tain governmental co-operation for
the furtherance of Polish refugee
immigration to Palestine.

Huberman Praises Progress
of Symphony Orchestra
JERUSALEM (Palcor Agen-
cy) — High praise for the tech-
nical standards and the progress
registered by the Palestine Sym-
phony Orchestra which he helped
found was voiced by Bronislaw
Haberman, noted violinist, as he
prepared to leave for Egypt to
assist the Palestine Orchestra in
a concert on behalf of the Turkish
earthquake victims.
Addressing a press conference
here, Haberman declared that the
original hopes held out for the
orchestra are being realized. He
paid a special tribute to the
wholehearted support given to the
musical organization by the Yis-
huv.
In the evening, Huberman do-
nated a solo recital in behalf of
the Polish students' relief fund of
the Hebrew University, playing
before a selected audience which
included Viscount Samuel, first
High Commissioner of Palestine,
who is here on a visit.
Palestinia n Troops Prepared to
Leave for France
Nearly one thousand Palestin-
ians, Arabs and Jews, were in-
spected by Sir Harold MacMichael,
High Commissioner, on a visit to
the Sarafend military camp where
the Palestinians are training as

SCe

PALESTINE—Page 9

Laloor to End
Its Campaign

Drive to
I. Completed on
March 17

Gee'. rkshaften

, 17 has been set as the
date f
the closing of the Pal-
estine Labor (Gewerkshaften)
Campa.. , a for $30,000 in Detroit.
The . ;osing event will be held
in the Lditorium of the Institute
of AI Morris Schaver, chair-
man 0 :he drive, announces that
an , sting musical program
is belt arranged for the occas-
ion. E. :1 donor of $12 or over
will 1 , •ive an admission card
to the elebration. Organizations
will b. -ntitled to one guest for
each :2 contribution. There will
be no sale of admission cards
other 'liar: those given to donors.
In ,, •der to reach the goal of
a continuous program
of
tine evenings will be car-
ried
until the March 17 dos-
ing fl„ “.
Organizations that have
recen. 1', carried out Palestine eve-
nings are: Turover Aid Society,
Mlaa a Umgegend Verein, Laun-
drym,,n's Association and other
groups. Among the speakers who
addressed these meetings were
A. II. Kuschinski and David Sis-
lin• The musical programs fea-
tured the vocalist Shoshana
Brooks, accompanied on the piano
by Miss G. Friedenberg.

To Plan Mo'os Chitim
Work at Meeting
on Feb. 28

10 Cents Single Copy; $3.00 per Year

LI Radio Stations Reject

Desperate
Coughlin Talks; Number
Is Reduced from 60 to 45
Life Battle
Several Powerful Stations Drop Radio Priest,
But Station WJR Continues as
In Warsaw

An emergency meeting, to
plan this year's program for
the Mo'os Chitim Committee,
has been called for Wednes-
day evening, Feb. 28, at 8
o'clock, at the Jewish Com-
Originating Source
munity Center, Woodward and
400,000 Struggle for
Holbrook Ayes.
WASHINGTON. (WNS)—The number of radio sta-
The conference will be de-
Existence; Immediate
voted to the discussion of
tions throughout the country carrying Father Coughlin's
Help Necessary
pressing and most important
regular Sunday broadcasts has dropped from 60 to 45
problems concerning Passover
relief. "An agreement must be
GENEVA (WNS) — Their within the last year and is expected to drop further dur-
reached at this time by the property and valuables confiscated, ing the next few months, according to a statement issued
leaders of our Jewish commu-
here by the National Association of Broadcasters.
nity who are interested in tra- deprived of their right to work
The N. A. B. recently offered
ditional practices," stated mem- and unable to obtain daily food
its fullest cooperation to the
bers of the committee's Rab- rations, Warsaw's 400,000 Jews
Federal Council of Churches of
binical advisory board in a let- cannot survive another year un-
Christ in America in its cam-
ter of invitation to the meet- less help arrives, was the predic-
paign to combat anti-sectarianism
ing, "or the Mo'os Chitim
and anti-racial propaganda.
tion
voiced
here
this
week
in
Committee, which for the past
A spokesman for the powerful
40 years has coordinated the diplomatic circles.
radio body reported that among
Red
Cross
Informs
the
activities of Passover relief in
the major radio stations which .
Giving the lie to reports that
Detroit, is faced with extinc- the Nazi government had relaxed
World Congress of have cancelled the Coughlin
tion."
its anti-Jewish drive in order to
broadcasts are WTMJ in Mil-
The rabbinical advisory concentrate on the prosecution of
Relief Needs
waukee, WIRE in Indianapolis,
board for the Mo'os Chitim the war, these sources state that
WCAO in Baltimore, and stations
Committee includes Rabbis the poverty and suffering among
GENEVA. — Following the in Erie, Pa., and Lowell, Mass.
Moses Fischer, A. M. Hersh- Warsaw Jews is daily becoming receipt of an important commun- The spokesman admitted, how-
man, Joshua S. Sperka, Isaac worse.
ication that the International Red ever, that the radio priest has
Stollman and Max J. Wohlgel-
Plundering of Jewish homes is Cross had addressed to the Geneva acquired several small stations
ernter.
an every day occurrence. Any Bureau of the World Congress, which are not members of the
German may enter a Jewish home the representative of the World N. A. B.
New England to Drop Priest .
without fear of being molested Jewish Congress had a long con-
by the police and take whatever ference with members of the
It was reported also that on
he pleases. German soldiers, how- International Red Cross on the Sept. 1 when Coughlin's con-
ever, have been forbidden to enter subject of relief for the Jewish tracts with all stations holding
private homes or cafes inhabited population of occupied Poland, membership in the N. A. B. will
war prisoners and interned civil- expire, the majority of the sta-
by Poles and Jews.
ians.
Ground Is Broken at
tions will not renew their con-
Gestapo Ruthless
In the course of this confer- tracts with the Royal Oak anti-
Ceremonies Wednes-
Despite the fact that the Jewish ence, the International Red Cross Semite. Station WJR in Detroit,
community provides Nazi authori- informed the World Jewish Con- where Coughlin's broadcasts orig-
day Morning
ties with 500 Jewish workers daily gress that it had arranged with inate, will continue the broad-
to remove debris and other com- the German authorities that
William Friedman, president of pulsory tasks, members of the henceforth relief supplies des- casts, it was learned.
authoritative
to
According
the United Jewish Charities, and Gestapo roam the streets looking tined exclusively for the Jewish
sources,
Coughlin's
budget pro-
Harry Cohen, former president for Jews. Jews who appear on population in Poland be admitted
of the United Hebrew Schools the streets without their ghetto for the following four districts: vided for $350,000 annually for
of Detroit„t mounted the cab of badges are fined 'br sent-to con- -Warsaw, -Radom, Cracow- and his radio broadcasts as of last
November when the N. A. B.'s .
the automatic steam-shovel to centration camps. The few Jewish Lublin.
code banning anti-racial propa-
turn the first sod on the ground shops still open must display spe-
No Aid for Individuals
ganda went into effect.
selected on Lawton Ave., between cial signs in their windows.
This refers only to collective
The entire Colonial Network,
Waverly and Tyler, for the new
The lack of adequate food has shipments which should be ad- which covers all the New England
Rose Sittig Cohen Memorial
dressed to Jewish communities in states, has indicated that it will
Building. The ceremony took place precipitated epidemics among the these
districts through the in- refuse to renew its contract with
Jewish population, which, for the
Wednesday morning, Feb. 21.
termediation of the International Coughlin when the present one
most
part,
is
unable
to
secure
The two-story neighborhood
Red Cross at Geneva. Contrary to expires. Several of the 18 sta-
building, to be erected with funds proper medical attention.
certain reports published in the tions belonging to the Colonial
allocated by the United Jewish
press, individual shipments ad- Network, which had individual
Charities from the Carrie Sittig "Aryanization" of Lodz Must Be dressed directly to the persons contracts with the radio priest,
Cohen Memorial Fund, will serve
named, cannot yet be delivered in have already cancelled them.
Completed by March 1,
as a branch of the United Hebrew
Poland. Nor does there yet exist
The Colonial Network has been
Nazis
Say
Schools, and will also house cen-
at this moment any possibility of donating all money received from
AMSTERDAM
(WNS)
—
Nazi
ter activities, under the super-
sending relief to the civilian pop- Coughlin since the N.A.B. code
vision of the Jewish Community authorities have accelerated the ulation in Soviet-occupied Poland. was signed to charity. To date
mass deportation of the 200,000
Center.
The supplies most necessary in $5,000 has been turned over to
Louis Robinson, president of the Jews from Lodz, second largest German-occupied Poland are ship- various New England charities.
United Hebrew Schools, welcomed city in Poland, and have taken ments of medicaments, sanitary
Dies Committte Passes Buck
the assembled guests, among whom measures designed to reduce the material, warm colthing, and food
on Coughlin
were members of the board of the entire Polish population of the for free distribution.
Jewish Welfare Federation, the city to a condition of industrial
Congressman Martin Dies, who
Help for Prisoners
United Jewish Charities, the Jew- servitude in preparation for March
With regard to the war pris-
ish Community Center, and the 1, the date set by Chancellor Hit-
See COUGHLIN—Page 12
ler for the "aryanization" of Lodz, oners and interned Polish civil
United Hebrew Schools.
ians
in
Germany
and
in
the
oc-
it
was
learned
here.
Stating that the project repre-
Formerly the center of a flour- cupied territory, whose number
sented a great step forward in
community programming because ishing textile industry and an is about 400,000—a considerable
it gave evidence of the new co- important purchaser of American part of whom are Jews—individ-
ordinated approach to commun- cotton, Lodz will be dominated ual relief shipments not exceed-
ity problems, Isidore Sobeloff, ex- completely by its small German ing the weight of 5 kgs. or col-

NAZIS PERMIT
PARTIAL HELP

BEGIN WORK ON
A NEW SCHOOL

,

Hoover Urges
UJA Support

See SCHOOL—Page 9

See WARSAW—Page 12

See RED CROSS Page 16

National and Local Leaders Sponsors of
Project to Honor Memory of J. H. Ehrlich

Drs. Stephen S. Wise, Solomon Goldman, Cyrus Adler Join Commit-
tee to Secure Memorial Fund for Planting Ehrlich Forest
on J. N. F. Land in Palestine

Outstanding national leaders
have joined with local leaders in
forming a sponsoring committee
to pay tribute to the memory of
Joseph H. Ehrlich by planting a
forest in Palestine on land of the
Jewish National Fund.
William Friedman, prominent
Detroit lender, former president
of the Jewish Welfare Federation
of Detroit and at present the
president of the United Jewish
Charities, has been selected as
chairman of the sponsoring com-
mittee. Harry Cohen and Abra-
ham Cooper are the co-chairmen
and Lawrence W. Crohn is treas-
urer. Mrs. Albert Feldstein is-
secretary of the committee.
A formal announcement of the
plans for the Ehrlich Forest was
mailed this week to several thou-

sand Detroiters. This letter car-
ries the names of the sponsor-
ing committee and explains the
project.
Contributions to the fund for
the Ehrlich Forest are now being
received at the office of the Jew-
ish Welfare Federation, 51 W.
Warren Ave., or at the head-
quarters of the Zionist Organi-
zation of Detroit, 1044 Penobscot
Bldg.
The sponsoring committee con-
sists of the following national
leaders:
Rabbi Israel Goldstein, Mrs.
Tamar de Sola Poole, Mrs. Ju-
dith Epstein, Rabbi Solomon
Goldman, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise,
Dr. Solomon Lowenstein, Dr.
Maurice J. Karpf, Morris Wald-
man, Joseph C. Hyman, all of
New York City; Dr. Cyrus Adler

of Philadelphia, and Sidney Hol-
lander of Baltimore.
The following are Detroit
members of the sponsoring com-
mittee: Rabbi Morris Adler, Sid-
ney J. Allen, Maurice Aronsson,
Dr. Harry E. August, Irving W.
Blumberg, Fred M. Butzel, Mrs.
Aaron DeRoy, James I. Ellmann,
Clarence H. Enggass, Rabbi Leon
Fram, Dr. Leo M. Franklin, Mrs.
Max Frank, Fred A. Ginsberg,
Dr. A. M. Hershman, William
Hordes, Abe Kasle, Julian H.
Krolik, Mrs. Maurice Landau,
Theodore Levin, Gus D. Newman,
Meyer L. Prentis, Louis Robin-
son, Charles Rubiner, Simon
Shetzer, Isaac Shetzer, Isidore
Sobeloff, Abraham Srere, Philip
Slomovitz, Dr. Israel Wiener,
David Zemon, Henry Levitt,
Harry Frank, Henry Wineman.

Says Relief Problem Is
Now More Tragic
Than in Last War

As hundreds of communities
throughout the country responded
to the call for the mobilization of
all energies and resources to raise
their share of the $23,000,000
quota of the United Jewish Ap-
peal for Refugees and Overseas
Needs, Herbert Hoover called
upon all Americans to give their
support to the humanitarian pro-
gram carried on by the constitu-
ent agencies of the United Jew-
ish Appeal.
In the large cities such as De-
troit, New York, Cleveland, Los
Angeles, St. Louis and San Fran-
cisco, Jewish leaders are concen-
trating all their energies on plans
for campaigns that will exceed
all previous contributions to the
Joint Distribution Committee, the
United Palestine Appeal and the
National Refugee Service, through
the instrumentality of the single,
unified campaign of the United
Jewish Appeal.
Task of Saving Millions
Speaking before 1,000 Jewish
leaders gathered at the Standard
Club in Chicago, Herbert Hoover
launched the Jewish Welfare

See HOOVER Page 9