Detroit Jewish Chronicle
and The Legal Chronicle__
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DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, MAY 24, 1940
VOL 42, No. 21
Jews Pray at
Z ionWall for
Alli ed Cause
Outstandint Jewish Personalities Address
.
Drive
i Here Mai 30
Farband Co j nvention Openng
id Pinski, Eliezer Kaplan, Dr. Aryeh Tarta-
hen S. Wise, David
Dr. Stephen
kower, Baruch Zuckerman, Ham Greenberg, Dr. Israel Goldstein,
Among Spokesmen to Appear at Sessions
Closes
With Record
Subscription
Large Increase Shown
in Income Over
Last Year
Outstanding personalities in ance of America—also known as and novelist, national president
American and world Jewry will the Farband—which will open of the Alliance; Louis Segal, na-
address the sessions of the 30th with a public session at the Wil- tional secretary of the Alliance,
anniversary convention of the son Theater next Thursday, May
See FARBAND—Page 20
Jewish National Workers' Alli- 30 (Decoration Day), at 2:30
p. in. All other sessions, which
Stating that Detroit could
will extend through Monday,
boast the finest and most loyal
June :3 , will be held at Hotel
JERUSALEM (Palcor Agency)
1
body of workers in the country,
Stotler, where convention head-
—Answering a summons from the
dedicated t the, cause they serve,
quarters have been established
Chief Rabbinate of Palestine,
Fred M. Bo the, l c hairman of the
under the direction of H. Yellis,
any
Jews
gathered
to
wor-
m
1940 Allied Jewish Campaign, ex-
national field director of the or-
ship at the Wailing Wall and
pressed his thanks to the army
ganization.
to pray for an Allied victory
of 3,000 who have conducted the
Delegates are expected at this
and the safety of Jews in terri-
drive; and to the entire Jewish
&,..
convention from 30 states in the
tories occupied by the Nazis.
community for its fine support,
Union. Problems affecting the la-
As part of the prayer of sow-
at the closing campaign luncheon
bor movement in this country
ices, the Gerer Rebbe with many
at the Staler, on Friday, May
and Jewry in this country and
of his colorfully costumed Chas-
abroad
will
be
on
the
conven-
3
sidim prayed at the Tomb of
tion agenda.
"Reacting under the impact of
Rachel.
Itt •
Dr. Wise to Speak
the war news and recognizing
Dr. Stephen S. Wise, president
that the fate of an entire people
Dutch Surrender Spurs Alcohol
of the American Jewish Con
depends on what the Jews of
Production in Palestine
gress, will be the principal speak-
America do, the men, women,
er at the opening session. The
This country has skirted by
boys and girls of Detroit's Jew-
only the narrowest margin the
convention will open officially
ish community—as separate units
with a brief address byJoseph
acute alcohol shortage that might
and collectively—have given un-
have resulted from the overrun-
Haggai, chairman of the Detroit
selfishly of their time, as well as
convention committee. 0 t h e r
ning of Holland by the Nazi
full measure of their substance,"
speakers at that session will be
Th
hordes.
— said Mr. But zel. "ey
_
_DAVID
PINSKI
David Pinski, eminent playwright
The alcohol needed for local
be ` warmly congratulated. are to
ELIEZER KAPLAN
medical institutions—the various
Large Increase Over 1939
Hadassah hospitals and the Ku-
pat Cholim clinics—was until
Earlier Deadline for
"The sum of $700,740, report-
very recently imported to the
ed on Wednesday, represents an
The Issue of May 31
greatest extent from Holland. It
increase of 9 per cent over last
was cheaper for these institutions
Due to Decoration Day,
year's total. Although even with
to get the alcohol from abroad
today's report we are short of
there
will
be
an
earlier
dead-
exempt
since the imports wereas
line for next week's issue of
the 1940 goal, the amount raised
from customs duties, where
The Detroit Jewish Chronicle.
is the greatest sum ever realized
there was a high excise tax on
in any single year's campaign.
To be assured of insertion in
the local products, of which there
Based on the world need, a quota
the May 31 issue, all copy
was in addition a paucity.
must reach the editor before
of $925,000 was set, or 42 per
As the European war pro-
Moshe Smilansky, one of the cent more than the amount raised
10 a. in. on Tuesday, May 28.
gressed, however, it became evi-
Dr. . Jacob R. Marcus, professor
outstanding pioneer residents of last year. While Detroit has fall-
dent that the imported supply
en short of this assigned goal, it
would soon be seriously diminish.. of history at the Hebrew Union
has shown signs of improved giv-
ed if not totally cut off. It was
ing and better organization by
then decided to expand the ex-
comparison with the efforts of
isting facilities for production of
previous years.
alcohol and to develop the new
"Over 3,500 slips still remain
formulae by means of which con-
uncovered and many of our so-
version of citrus by-products into
licitors have pledged themselves
alcohol has become feasible.
to the task of seeing every pros-
This attempt at self-sufficiency
pect even though the Campaign
was spurred last month when
has officially ended. "I appreci-
the Medical Emergency Supplies
ate," explained Mr. Butzel, "that
Committee of the Vaad Leumi
LONDON. (WNS) — Twenty-
the coverage of slips this year
approached the Government with
has been slow because it has been
eight thousand Jewish refugees
the request that the excise on
intensive. Each solicitor gave in-
from Greater Germany have been
local alcohol sold to the hospitals
dividual attention to every pros-
recaptured since the Nazi in-
be waived. This request was
vasion of Luxemburg, Belgium
pect."
granted, and with this encour-
and the Netherlands, the Nazi
Women's Division
agement local production was
radio has reported.
spurred to such an extent that
Paying special tribute to the
The Nazi radio stated that
it is believed that the require-
Women's Division which served
"special" treatment would be ac-
ments of the medical institutions
as the vanguard for the drive,
corded the recaptured Jewish
will be able to be filled locally.
and whose splendid achievement
refugees in Nazi concentration
The hope is eventually to pro-
has been an inspiration to the en-
camps. The broadcast confirmed
duce all needed alcohol in Pales-
tire city, Mr. Butzel cited the
fears that Jewish refugees in
tine, thus obviating the necessity
work accomplished by Mrs. Abra-
Belgium and The Netherlands,
MOSHE SMILANSKY
for importing any more at all.
ham Srere, chairman of the
who had been interned by the
Government Surplus of £994,000
respective governments of those Palestine, president of the Pal- Women's Division and her asso-
DR. JACOB R. MARCUS
Recorded
countries, were not released in estine Farmers' Association, a ciates. "To date," said Mr. But-
All Palestine Government ex- College, Cincinnati, will deliver time to escape the invading Nazi
See CAMPAIGN—Page 16
See SMILANSKY—Page 10
penditur e for thJ 10 months end- the lecture at the closing exer- army.
It was reported that Heinrich
Himmler, chief of the Gestapo,
See COLLEGE—Page 17
See PALESTINE—Page 2
Nazi secret police, had arrived
in war-ravaged Holland and had
assumed command of the Nazi
"fifth column". Huge placards
reading "Israel, your hour has Sandford Goldberg and Rose Stolsky Tied for Second
struck" have already appeared
Place; Ned Chalat's Essay Awarded
"The Procession of the Centuries" to Be Theme of This on the streets of Amsterdam.
Fourth Place
British Labor Party
Reaffirms Support
of Homeland
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. .:1:„,1,: : :,w,„:, —
o
Smilansky
In Detroit
Prof. Marcus
Speaks Here
Palestine Farm Leader
Meets with J. N. F.
Workers
Will Address Beth El
College Next
Monday
Nazis Capture
28,000 Exiles
Bomb Refugees; Wave
of Suicides in
Amsterdam
JUDITH JACOBS GETS FIRST PRIZE
IN THE CHRONICLE ESSAY CONTEST
54 GIRLS TO BE CONSECRATED AT
SHAAREY ZEDEK SUNDAY MORNING
Year's Ceremony; Rabbi Hershman to
Address Consecrants
"The Procession of the Cen-
turies," depicting trends in Jew-
ish history beginning with Abra-
ham down to our own times, will
be the theme of the annual Con-
secration Service at Congrega-
tion Shaarey Zedek, at 10
o'clock this Sunday morning
(Lag b'Ome•), May 26.
Th e class to be consecrated —
the largest in the history of this
ceremony at Congregation Shaa-
rey Zedek—consists of the follow-
ing 54 girls who are students in
the 10th grade of the Shaarey
Zedek Religious School:
Sally August, Marjory Shelia
Baer, Naomi Ruth Baker, Theda
Bette Bankie, Mildred Ruth
Bernstein, Edith Rosalind Bo•in,
Charlotte Brawer, Elaine Brode,
A gn " Anr. Brown, Lois Collins,
Sylvia Dorn, Vera Faye Dushkin,
Wave of Suicides
The Nazi capture of Amster-
dam was marked by a wave of
suicides among the Jews who
were unable to flee to France.
Gestapo agents, aided by Dutch
Nazis, have rounded up all Jews
in Amsterdam and Rotterdam.
Their fate has not as yet been
Frances Dworkin, Shirley Ruth
Ehrlich, Dolly Marilyn Fenton,
Audrey Corrine Franklin, Lor-
raine Gendil, Harriet Gold, Le-
nore D. Goldman, Idena Gold-
stein, Rosalie Florence Gross,
Judith Jacobs, Maxine Joslove,
See NAZIS—Page 3
Susan Garvett Kesler, Pearl
Klein, Roslyn Lipchinsky, Faye
London, Vera Mathis, Carole Joy
Morgan, Jeanette Newman, Sally-
ann Newman, Betty Pearl Nit-
chun, Elaine L. Prussian, Ruth
M. Prussian, Doris Rabinowitz,
The annual meeting of the
Rosalie D. Rosenberg, Shirley
Rosensweet, Marva Lee Rosen- Zionist Organization of Detroit
thal, Lois Ruth Rubin, Florence will be held on Tuesday evening,
Rubinstein, Helen B. Salk, Do- May 28, at the Jewish Commu-
loves Salzman, Arlene Schwartz, nity Center.
Lawrence W. Crohn, retiring
Selma Schwartz, Leona Vera
Shalit, Elaine Gertrude Shiffman, president, announces that officers
Lila Gladys Sklar, Maxine Spick- and members of the board of di-
ler, Shirley Spoon, Rose Stolsky, rectors, as well as delegates to
nnual convention to be held
Harriet Jean Waratt, Charlotte the a ttsburgh June 30 to July 3,
in Pi
will be elected at this meeting.
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Annual Zionist
Meeting Tuesday
See CONSECRATION—Page 11
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JUDITH JACOBS
Judith Jacobs, a member of
the 1940 Consecration Class of
Congregation Shaarey Zedek, won
the essay contest sponsored
among confirmants of Temple
Beth El and consecrants of
Shaarey Zedek, and will receive
a set of the new Universal Jew-
ish Encyclopedia, priced at $100,
as her prize. Miss Jacobs is the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Morris
Jacobs of 1987 Glynn Court. In
addition to attending the Shaa-
rey Zedek Sunday School, she
also studied in the Shaarey Zedek
Hebrew School. From 1933 to
1936 she attended the United
Hebrew Schools. She is a student
at Central High School.
Sandford Goldberg, a member of
the 1940 Temple Beth El Con-
firmation Class, and Rose Stol-
sky, another Shaarey Zedek 1940
consecrant, tied for second place.
Through the courtesy and co-
See CONTEST—Page 11