A merica 'with Palatial eater WAN AYENUB - CINCINNATI 20, 01110 Detroit Jewish Chronicle SECTION ONE 14 VOL. 41, I 280 Prisoners Of War Killed By the Nazis and The Legal Chronicle DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, APRIL 5, 1940 Heads 1940 Allied Drive Jews Singled Out for Executions; Ghetto in Vienna AMSTERDAM. (W NS) —Two hundred and eighty Jewish sol- diers, captured last September with the Polish Army, were exe- cuted by Nazi firing squads last month, it was reliably reported here. Before their execution the Jewish war prisoners were com- pelled to dig their own graves. With disregard for treaties providing for humane treatment of war prisoners, all Jewish sol- diers who had fought with the Polish army have been singled out and sent to special concen- tration camps. This Paper Printed in Two Sections 10 Cents Single Copy; $3.00 per Year Fred M. Butzel Is Selected To Head 1940 Allied Jewish Campaign for $925,000 Goal Henry Wineman Heads List of Honorary Vice- Chairmen; Rabbi Wolf Gold to Speak April 14 Announcement that Fred M. Butzel will serve as general chairman of the 1940 Allied Jewish Campaign is made by Abraham Srere, president of the Jewish Wel- fare Federation, which conducts the annual drive. Henry Wineman will head the list of honorary vice- chairmen for this year's campaign which also includes the following: Mrs. Aaron De- Roy, Henry M. Butzel, Leo M. Butzel, Rabbi Moses Fischer, Dr. Leo M. Franklin, Dr. A. M. Hershman, Albert Kahn, Judge Harry B. Keidan, Judge Charles C. Simons and Andrew Wineman. "With Fred M. Butzel at the Dr. Grete Bernstein to helm," stated Mr. Srere, "the Address Meeting formation of the campaign or- ganization for the drive will be The Nazi Way on Tuesday completed in record time, for our Because of the overcrowded chairman is one of those rare conditions in the concentration Guest speaker at the second personalities who is a hero in his camps the Nazi authorities re- report meeting of the Women's home town as well as to the cently decided to send Jews Division of the 1940 Allied Jew- world at large. taken prisoners during the war to ish Campaign to be held on Is Very Active Man the Lublin Jewish "reservation." Tuesday noon, April 9, at 2:15 Examination of their birth cer- "Dr. Butzel — for in 1935 o'clock at the Jewish Community tificates disclosed, however, that Center, will be Dr. Grete Bern- Wayne University conferred the 280 of the Jewish prisoners were degree of Doctor of Letters upon stein. born in that part of Poland Formerly political and eco- him—serves or has served on which formerly belonged to nomic staff writer for the Frank- the board of nearly every con- furter Zeitung and for the Vos- structive social-work organization Russia. The Jews were packed into sische Zeitung, Dr. Bernstein re- in the city of Detroit and, in ad- open cattle trains and trans- ceived her Ph.D. degree at Hei- dition, his name appears on the ported, without food, to the Sov- delberg University where she roster of directors of many na- iet border. The soldiers were re- studied sociology and economics ional and international agencies. fused admittance by Soviet au- "To mention just a few of under the late Prof. Emil Led- thorities who claimed that the erer. In 1930 she was appointed them: He guides the destinies of Jews were no longer Soviet sub- to the staff of the Frankfurter the Detroit Community Fund and jects. Zeiung as a special writer on the Council of Social Agencies, The Nazi commander in charge FRED M. BUTZEL political and economic subjects, the Legal Aid Bureau, the Serv- of the prison train then ordered and research assistant to the ice Men's Bureau, the Parkside the men executed. They were editor. For a year she was asso- Hospital for Negroes, the Boy shot down by machine gun Dr. Wise Stirs Record Audience ciated with the Ullstein Publish- Scouts and the Ford Republic. "Chairman of the executive squads close to the Soviet bor- House, Berlin, as a member With Appeal for Allied Campaign ing der. The Jewish community was of the editorial staff of the Vos- committee of the Jewish Welfare Federation, he is also president compelled to sign affidavits stat- sische Zeitung. of Resettlement Service and an ing that the men had frozen to Main Auditorium and Social Hall of Shaarey Unique as Speaker active board member of the death. In the course of her travels Hebrew Free Loan Association, Zedek Filled to Capacity at Great Rally Ghetto in Vienna Dr. Bernstein has visited France, the Jewish Child Placement Bu- Refugees arriving here from More than 3,000 Detroit Jews social hall, at the rally held in Belgium, England and Canada. reau, the Jewish Childrens' Austria report that ghetos have been established for Jews in Vi- were witnesses to a stirring dem- behalf of the Allied Jewish Cam- She is currently employed as a Home, the United H e b r e w translator on technical and sci• Schools and the Jewish Commun- enna, once the gayest capital of onstration last Monday evening, paign. The large outpouring of De- entific subjects by a large in- ity Council. the Continent. The 2nd, 9th when a record audience filled to Honored Nationally and 20th districts have been set capacity not only the main syna- troit Jews, which necessitated dustrial company, and is engaged "And his record of affiliation aside exclusively for Vienna's gogue of Congregation Shaarey the exclusion of hundreds of in social service work on behalf Zedek but also the synagogue's others who could not gain ad- of refugees in the United States. with communal enterprises goes Jewish population. mission, was a demonstration of With a fund of first-hand in- back to the old Hannah Schloss The areas assigned to Jews are the affection in which Dr. Ste- formation on refugee problems, days of the United Jewish Chari- so small that as many as eight phen S. Wise, who was the guest the result of close study and per- ties, when he was an active mem- persons have to share one room. Rabbi Goldman speaker, is held by the people of sonal participation, Dr. Bernstein ber of the Tri-Square Club and a Sanitary facilities are reported to Here April 16 this community, and was at the is unique as a public speaker. directing force in the affairs of be, in most cases, non-existent same time an expression of loy- Those audiences in and near New the Boy Scouts. and the danger of epidemics is "Mr. Butzel was recently prevalent throughout the Jewish President of Z. 0. A. alty to the causes included in the York City, which have heard her 1940 drive. have been greatly impressed. quarter. elected to the national board of Dr. Wise spoke to approxi- directors of he Council of Jewish Additional Leaders Jews are permitted to shop in to Address Pub- mately 1900 people in the main Mrs. Harry Wetsman has as- Federations and Welfare Funds special stores and many days lic Meeting pass b. fore there is sufficient synagogue—hundreds lining the sumed the chairmanship of Di- and also serves on the national walls and filling the vestibule— vision W-C within the Women's board of the Joint Distribution food for the entire Jewish com- munity, Dr: Solomon Goldman, presi- and to an additional audience of Division campaign organization Committee and is an honorary dent of the Zionist Organization more than 1,000 in the social hall according to an announcement vice-chairman of the United Pal- Pogrom Reported in Lodz It is reported from Lodz that of America, rabbi of Congrega- who heard the address over a by Mrs. Hyman C. Broder, exec- estine Appeal. A member of the 18 Jcv were killed and 200 tion Anshe Emet of Chicago, broadcasting system that was es- utive vice-chairman of the Worn- executive committee of the Jew- were V, unded in a gogrom on author of a number of Jewish pecially installed by Shaarey Ze- en's Division. Two new captains ish Welfare Board, he also is March 8 in the Baluti ghetto. philosophic works and recognized dek for this gathering. Prior to not previously announced in Di- vice-president of the Graduate any ,jcws, including Dr. Reit- as one of the most brilliant Jew- the main program, Dr. Wise went vision W-A, are Mrs. Harry E. School for Social Work. "To list all of Mr. Butzel's er-Kurianska and Henryk Li- ish orators in the world, will to the social hall to greet the August and Mrs. Sol R. Levin. The initial business report communal and national activi- brach, committed suicide after address a joint meeting of the auxiliary audience and to address meeting following the formal ties," concluded Mr. S r e r e, Zionist Organization of Detroit them for seven minutes. the pogrom. Campaign Appeals Determined to stop Jews from and the Detroit chapter of Had- See WOMEN—Page 16 See CAMPAIGN—Page 20 Abraham Srere, president of See NAZIS—Page 3 See GOLDMAN—Page 17 the Jewish Welfare Federation, which sponsors the campaign, presided at the meeting and out- lined the purposes of the drive and the causes included in it. Fred M. Butzel, whose selec- tion for the chairmanship of the 1940 drive was announced at the Seek Expulsion of Those Who Entered Country Smilamity, Head of Palestine Farmers' Federation, Here great meeting, made a touching After April, 1931; Newspapers appeal for the great causes now in Interests of Jewish National Fund, Says asking for help here, and asked Are Preaching Hate Jewry Will Not "Sacrifice nor Revolt" that Jews should stop thinking in terms of what others give but STOCKHOLM (WNS) — Fol- German-Jewish refugees in Ma- NEW YORK.—Palestine Jewry visit in the interests of the should be concerned with what lowing in the footsteps of Hit- drid and Barcelona and will Jewish National Fund, is the and the Zionist movement, hav- ler and Mussolini, Generalissimo deport them to Germany with- ing been confronted by the Pal- President of the Palestine Farm- they themselves must give. An additional plea for service Francisco Franco has taken steps in six months unless they ob- -estine land edict with a choice of ers' Federation, an eminent citi- and liberal giving in the cam- to suppress the Jewish minority, tain visas for other countries. either "sacrificing" their hope zen of the Jewish National Home, paign was made by Isidore Sobe- it was reliably established here. The government - controlled for the full development of the one of its outstanding builders loff, executive director of the While military parades and press has begun an editorial and historians, and a widely-rec- Jewish National Home or "re- Jewish Welfare Federation, who spectacles were being held in campaign preaching hatred volting", will do neither, Moshe ognized authority on the land described the set-up of the quota commemoration of the first an- against the Jews. Jewish chil- which includes 55 beneficiary niversary of the end of the dren have been forbidden to at- Smilansky, one of Palestine's old- problem. Making his first public appear- causes. est agricultural pioneers, told a Civil War, the Franco Govern- tend public schools and Jewish was conferenc e of Zionist leaders in i ance at the conference whichG old ment announced that all Jews babies cannot be entered in the Dr. Wise's Address I - the metropolitan area held here presided over by Dr.Israel Dr. Wise's address was devoted who entered the country, after official birth register unless they stein, President of the Jewish Na- April 4 in the Hotel Astor. are baptized. Circumcision has April, 1931, will be expelled. Mr. Smilansky, who came to Police have rounded up all been forbidden. See DR. WISE—Page 11 PALESTINE—Page 17 See the United States for his first Women start Allied Drive ■ M Palestine Can Absorb 1,500,000 Despite the Land Restrictions Franco Regime in Spain Taking Measures to Suppress the Jews