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Detroit Jewish Chronicle
and The Legal Chronicle_
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DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, MARCH 29, 1940
VOL. 42,_ No. 13
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A (1,1', netes Pick • May 6 to 16 Set as Dates for $925,000 Drive;
ffi
New Ocers,
Hear Reports Women's Division Campaign Opens on Tuesday;
Dr. S. S. Wise Will Speak Here Monday Evening
Annual Federation Re-
port Submitted by
Nate S. Shapero and Sidney Allen Head Pre-Campaign Division; Eva
Abe Srere
Lips to Address Women's Rally Tuesday; Public Meeting Mon-
the
Federa-
t
is
that
i
tie.;
Sta
day at Shaarey Zedek to Hear Address by Head of Congress
belong to every-
tion's aim
the
community,
and
con-
th
to
body in
Dr. Stephen S. Wise
Start Pre-Campaign
versely to have everybody in the Women to Open
•
community be a part of Federa-
Spks
S
peaks Here Monday
Work on April 8
non, Abe Srere, Jewish Welfare Drive on Tuesday
Epidemic In
L ublin; Jews
Shot in Lodz
"Reservation" Infested
with Disease; Report
Executions
AMSTERDAM (W N S) — A
wide-spread epidemic has been
taking a fearful toll in the Lublin
Jewish "reservation" as a result
of the overcrowding, lack of fresh
food and medical supplies, it was
reliably learned here.
Medical circles frequently warn-
Federation president, submitted
Dr. Stephen S. Wise, recog- ed that an epidemic is inevitable
Eva Lips, author of the highly
his 8111111111 report at the organi-
nized as the most brilliant orator under current conditions in the
zation's 13th annual meeting, held praised best seller, "Savage Sy rn-
in America, will address a pub- reservation. In the face of these
last Sunday evening, at Hotel phony," will address the opening
lie meeting in the interests of warnings Nazi authorities have
meeting
of
the
Women's
Division
Statler.
llid Jewish Campaign continued to send Jews from all
the 1940 Allied
Mr. Srere opened his report of the 1940 Allied Jewish Cam-
on Monday evening, April 1, at parts of Greater Germany to that
with an account of important lo- paign, .on Tuesday afternoon,
cal happenings of the past year. -...-- small area outside of Lublin
which has been designated as the
He stressed the dedication of the
"Jewish reservation."
Aaron DeRoy Memorial Building
Catastrophe Predicted
of the Jewish Community Center
The epidemic was held in check
to which a week of ceremonies
while the cold weather continued
was devoted; and called attention
but the arrival of Spring and
Sidney J. Allen
to the neighborhood building,
warm weather precipitated a new
Nate S. Shapero
now under construction, which
outbreak which is rapidly decima-
will house a branch of the United
ling the population. Nazi author-
Nate S. Shapero and Sidney
Hebrew Schools and will also
ave the
re-
J. Allen have accepted the co
ides, it was r eported, have
permit the Jewish Center to con-
chairmanship of the pre-campaign
quested Berlin to disco nt
duct neighborhood activities. The
s rom
f
division for the 1940 Allied Jew-
practice of expelling Jews
erection of the Aaron DeRoy
ish Campaign. Abe Srere, presi-
lin but parts
this of Germany to Lub -
other
Memorial Building was made pos-
been ig-
dent of the Jewish Welfare Fed-
sible through a gift by Mrs.
eration, the sponsor of the an ',
nored.
Helen L. DeRoy in memory of
nual drive, announced on Wed-
Unless help is forthcoming im-
her late husband and an alloca-
nesday.
mediately the epidemic will prob-
tion by the United Jewish Chari-
ably reach catastrophic
Actively connected with the
ties from the Carrie Sittig Cohen
Lions. Because of a recent Nazi
Jewish Welfare Federation the
estate. The new neighborhood
decree Jews in the reservation are
year-round, Mr. Shapero serves
building is also made possible by
not permitted to contact Jewish
as a Federation vice-president
a United Jewish Charities alloca-
communities in other parts of the
and Mr. Allen is a member of
non from the Cohen estate.
Reich.
the Federation's board of goy-
A mention of the $5,000 gift
30 to 40 Lodz Jews Executed
ernors. Experienced campaign-
of Mrs. II. J. L. Frank to the
Every Thursday
ors, Mr. Shapero and Mr. Allen
Federation,
in memory of her
F
DR. STEPHEN S. WISE
In Lodz, appropriately known
have given distinguished service
husband, the income of which is
EVA LIPS
in both Allied Jewish Campaigns
to be used as a scholarship fund
of the April
2, at 2 o'clock, of
in the main
and Detroit
Community
Fund 8 o'clock,
in
the main auditor-
here
the 40
city
of horror,
between
Shaarey
30 as and
Jews
are executed
by
for worthy
wards
any
de
in tam
- of —
. C Ongregation
drives. In the 1940 Allied Jew- Zedek, .Ch. icago and Lawton Ayes. the Gestapo every Thursday. The
Jewish agencies, was included
auditorium of Temple Beth El.
Admission to this meeting will weekly executions are carried out
Mrs. Lips was born in Leipzig, ish Campaign, they will chart the
the report.
e, and there will be no so- in the small Lodz suburb of Bel-
Germany, the daughter of one program of the workers solicit- b.e .
Hospital Allocation
free, of
"In the annual report for of Germany's great publishers. ing special gifts prospects and
m- licitation
i funds. An overflow dew.
No official reason has been
r. Srere, "I re- Her grandfather was Minister of will serve as solicitors theta audie nces expected.
1938," said Mr.
given for the executions but it
ferred to the Jewish Hospital
See WISE—Page 13
is believed that the Nazis need
See CAMPAIGN—Page 3
See WOMEN—Page 13
movement. I expressed the hope
more room in the already over-
then and I repeat it now, that
the prisoners
crowded jails for more
some (lay the community will
idea of
and have hit upon
have it first class hospital under
weekly executions to provide more
Jewish auspices. While the di-
room. The victims are selected at
rectors and lay-people who are
random by the Gestapo and are
interested in the hospital have
herded into jail to await "Black
been patient and fair in the
Thursday."
realization of the pressing needs
The Jewish communities in Lodz
in so many other directions and
and neighboring districts, it was
agree it would not be right to
said, present a weird appearance
include a substantial sum of
because of the complete lack of
money in the 1940 Allied Jewish
NEW YORK—More than 1,000 men between the ages of 16 and
Campaign for a hospital; never-
The great majority of the
To dispel erroneous ideas vela-
women, attending the seventh an- 50 .
tholes, in the hope that the
nual
luncheon
of
the
Women's
youngerJews
are in prison. The
movement may win the attention live to the present status of
Division of the American Jew- city prisons are crowded with
and support of influential people Jewish aspirations in Palestine,
ish Congress, at Hotel Astor, at thousands of men, women and
in our community, your Federa- the Jewish National Fund Coun-
$25 per person, raised a fund of children, most of whom had been
lion Has included a small sum cil of Detroit has arranged for
$25,000 which will initiate a pro- arrested on the flimsiest charges.
of money in our coming cam- a public rally, to be held on
gram to strengthen democracy One day last February approxi-
Pain. somewhat in the nature of Wednesday evening, April 3, at
at home against subversice props- mutely 80 Jewish women were
a tok, n grant, with the wish that Central High School, Tuxedo
the
Banda and assist the Jewish v vie- seized by the Gestapo while walk-
the Impe of today be the reality near Linwood.
The
facts
regarding
the
Jewish
tiros of dictatorship and oppres- mg on Piotrowska Street.
of tomorrow."
One Room for Three Families
slop abroad.
MI Srere commended the Fed- position, and the truth about the
T. he prisons have no sanitary
erat i ( , 's relationship with the De- effect of the latest land regula-
Marking
the
10th
anniversary
i ,
facilities an.d many prisoners
troit , miimunity Fund, and urged tions, will be outlined pictorially
of
the
founding
of
the
Women's
N. ' ..
tract typhoid . while serving their
that —•ws support the fund liher- and in brief talks by spokesmen
Division as an integral part of sentences. Fifteen persons are
ally . , th in service and money. for all Zionist p allies in Detroit.
\
the American Jewish Congress, herded into cells originally built
.
A feature of the rally will i
the luncheon offered a platform
E,4i, ' , Jewish agencies," he
in
aria! • I nut, "including the Jew- the presentation of a sketch n
to distinguished speakers to de- for two or three prisoners.
More fortunate Jews who are
ish ' elfare Federation itself, song and recitation regarding a
velop their ideas of the part of not in yrisen have been ordered to
ree(m. some or all of their sup- phase of Jewish National Fund
America and its citizenry in the
LUDWIG LORE
port from the Detroit Comma- work. There will be songs by
present world crisis. Those who move into the poorest slum guar-
ter in the city, which, henceforth
pity . r und. Inherent in the Corn- the members of Itashomer Itat-
Ludwig Lore, foreign editor of were heard March 19 included: will be the Jewish quarter. One
nnirm y. Fund theory and prac- zair and Habonim. meeting will the New York Post, and well- Federal Security Administrator
Ad m i ssion to this
bees are the very principles o f
be free, and there will be no known authority on international
See EPIDEMIC—Page 2
See CONGRESS—Page 6
problems, will speak on "The Jew
See FEDERATION—Page
age 16 solicitation of funds.
in the European Maelstrom," at
the Jewish Community Center,
Woodward at Holbrook, April 2,
at 8:15 p. m. Mr. Lore's lecture
will be the second of five events
in the Center's first annual lee-
tu•e-concert series.
Rabl)i Frain Urges Organizations to Do Their Utmost
Mr. Lore is nationally known
as a lecturer and writer on world
for Relief Causes; Hear Reports on Distribu-
politics and he speaks with au-
lion of Literature
thorny on domestic as well as
NEW YORK. (WNS) — "The the SS. Excalibur from Haifa,
l
to
the
gates
to
secure
liberal
contri-
on
foreign political and social British land edict which struck a Palestine.
In a stirri ng app ea
The Zionist leader, a resident
repteentatives of the Jewish butions to the relief funds and problems. His widely-read col- cruel blow at the structure of
Home in of Rehovoth, Palestine, is a well-
Community Council, at the guar- personally to do their utmost umn, "Behind the Cables," in the the Jewish Naonal
ti
Post has
and an
the
Philadel- Palestine has placed Palestine known Hebrew novelist and the
tell y meeting on Tuesday eve- for the drive. He pointed to the New
phia York
Record
enthusiastic
Jewry before a severe test. We author of two volumes of Arabic
nu: • at the Jewish Community great needs of the day and plead-
center, Rabbi Leon Fram urged ed for wholehearted support and following among those who look Jews are, however, an ancient tales which he published under
individuals and organizations to for making the current drive for
P e dispassionate
r s p e c t i v and
e on informed
international and experienced people and will the nom de plume "Havaja
for Moses). He
(10 their utmost for the Allied the major point of interest in trends. He has contributed nu- find a way out of the dilemma," Musa" (e Arabic
for a lecture tour un-
came her
_
thereby
the
community
during
the
next
Jew
1,1i
Campaign
and
help provide the necessary
funds six weeks. The delegates were merous articles on special topics declared Moshe Smilansky, presi
der the sponsorship of the Jewist
for relief and reconstruction for urged to cooperate with the to such magazines as the Nation, dent of the Palestine Farmers ' National Fund of America.
Federation, and Zionist leader,
See PALESTINE—Page 2
upon his arrival in New York on
millions of Jewish sufferers
See LORE—Page 12
See COUNCIL—Page 12
Rabbi Fram urged the dole
PRESENT FACTS Lore to Speak NEW PROGRAM
ON PALESTINE Here Tuesday FOR FREEDOM
Outstanding Christians
Join Jews in Con-
gross Work
To EX lain Land Situ-
anon at J. N. F.
Rally April 3
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con-
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PLEA FOR ALLIED JEWISH DRIVE AT
Qt,kRTERLY MEETING OF COUNCIL
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GREAT POSSIBILITIES SEEN FOR
CONTINUED EFFORT IN PALESTINE
Moshe Smilansky, President of the Palestine
Farmers' Association, Arrives for
Lecture Tour in U. S.