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Detroit Jewish Chronicle

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vol. 41, NO. 38

DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1940

Jewish Shops
Are Pillaged
By Algerians

Unoccupied France
Continues Scene of
Anti-Semitism

GENEVA, (WNS). — The
smashing of windows and pillag-
ing of Jewish shops continued
in certain sections of unoccu-
p ied France and Algiers with
the Petain Government making
no outward attempts to curb the
anti-Semitic agitators, it was re-
ported here.
According to reports, the anti-
Jewish rioters "acted according
to concerted plans," substantiat-
ing the belief that the demon-
strations had been organized in
advance.

McWilliams Ends in
Psychopathic Clinic

"Handscom Joe" McWilliams,
self-styled American Hitler,
called the defeat he suffered
at the polls in New York on
Tuesday, as a candidate for
Congress, a "shellacking". He
received all of 672 votes, as
against 2,495 for his opponent
on the Republican ticket, James
Blaine Walker, Jr., in spite of
many months of anti-Semitic
tirades in the Yorkville dis-
trict of New York.
But it is not yet known how
"Handsome Joe" terms the
sentence given him by Magis-
trate Edgar Bromberger for
disturbing the peace. Judge
Bromberger committed him to
Bellevue Hospital for psycho-
pathic observation. On another
occasion, McWilliams was fined
$50 for inciting to riot against
the Jews.

Pray for Nazi Victory

Last week Jacques Doriot, who
is rapidly assuming the role in
un-occupied France of that play-
ed in Germany by Julius Streich-
er, had boasted that his follow-
ers were organizing anti-Jewish
demonstrations in French cities
for the purpose of forcing the
Government to "settle definitely
the Jewish problem."
In his latest diatribe, Doriot
announced that he and his fol-
lowers were praying for a Nazi
victory over Great Britain,
France's No. 1 Jew-baiter warn-
ed, would result in the Jews
taking over France once more.

Gluska Plans
Detroit Visit

Yemenite Leader Will
Solicit Help for His
Community

Zachariah Gluska, president of
the Yemenite Community of Pal-
estine, is planning a visit in De-
troit the latter part of this month
to solicit aid here for the Yem-

Blum Arrested

"Jewish finance," Doriot said,
"would choke us with its cor-
ruption. Freemasonry would re-
establish its dictatorship. Pluto-
cracy would reign as master, and
our national independence would
not be re-established. For France
would officially become then the
first dominion of the British ma-
jesty, whereas until yesterday,
we were that only unofficially."
Meanwhile, it was learned that
Leon Blum, twice Premier of
France and former leader of
the French Socialist party, has
been arrested and "administra-
tively interned" at Chateau Chaz-
eron.

Nazis Charge Sec. Morgenthau
Responsible for Destroyer Deal

LONDON (WNS)—The Nazi
press, which has informed its Ger-
man readers that British raiding
planes are piloted by Jews, and
has consoled hungry Germans by
attributing the food shortage to
the "Jewish blockade," has now
solved the United States destroy-
ers-British bases deal.
The deal was consummated,
the Nazi press reported, because
of the machinations of U. S. Sec-
retary of Treasurer Henry Moe-
genthau, Jr. The Nazi papers
said that Mr. Morgenthau pre-
vailed upon President Roosevelt
to trade 50 over-age destroyers
for air and naval bases in Brit-
ish territory.

Challenge to
French Envoy

Open Letter Rebukes
Him for Pro-
Fascism

By ZACHARIAH SHUSTER

Editor's note: In this open
lette r to the French Ambas-
sador, Zechariah Shuster, well-
known Yiddish journalist, ex-
presse s i n rational tone the
feeling s of all who mourn the
fate of betrayed France.

Your Excellency:
If I address you simply as
"the French Ambassador," it is
because I am in a quandary.
About four months ago, I would
have known that your title Is
Ambassador of the French Re-
public." However, the situation
is not so simple now. Are we
still justified in calling France
a republic? Are Marshal Petain
and Monsieur Laval, whom you
represent, the real spokesmen of
the French people? Can we talk

See OPEN LETTER—Page 16

Jews Called
Allies of a
Belligerent

Great Britain Organizes
Special Jewish Infantry
"We Are in the Front
Line," Palestine Jews
For Defense of Palestine

Are Told

TEL AVIV. (Palcor Agency)
—Shortly after Italian planes
droned over the city, dropping
bombs upon scattered civilian ob-
jectives, the national conference
of the Confederation of General
Zionists, meeting here, heard
stirring words asking Great Brit-
ain to allow the Jews of Pales-
tine to participate actively with
her in the prosecution of the
war.
"For the first time in Jewish
history we are the ally of a bel-
ligerent," asserted Dr. Isaac
Gruenbaum, member of the Jew-
ish Agency Executive, in his ad-
dress at the opening session at-
tended by 200 delegates. "The
conflict has now come to us," he
said. "We are in the front
line. We are compelled to re-
quest Great Britain for our right
of active participation alongside
her in this struggle."
In discussing the events of
the past year, Dr. Gruenbaum
pointed out that despite handi-
caps, the Jewish community had
not only maintained its posi-
tion unimpaired, but had suc-
seeded in consolidating its ad-
vances and adding new national
possessions.

New Cemetery for Victims

•

Z. GLUSKA

enites. He will be accompanied
by his secretary, Z. Gispan.
In a statement made prior to
his projected visit in Detroit, Mr.
Gluska states:
"The anti-Jewish decrees have
never ceased in Yemen (except
during the short reign of Turkey
preceding the world war). But in
1921 they assumed very danger-
ous forms. Suddenly Yemenite
Jews residing in Palestine and
institutions there began to re-
ceive horrible tidings concerning
the renewal of persecutions in
Yemen. It was reliably reported
that as soon as the Turks with-
drew, after their defeat in the
world war, fr.un Yemen, the
Eamam (Ruler) of the country
decreed that:
"(1) A special head-tax be
imposed on all Jews.
"(2) Jews are prohibited to
pass at the right of a Moslem.
(The Jews, according to the
ruler, are Satans, whose touch
is contagious.)

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A fresh section of Tel Aviv's
new cemetery was opened to re-
ceive the bodies of victims of
the Italian air raid. Scores of
thousands attended the first 72
Jewish funerals held at mid-
day.
Among those paying homage
to the dead were delegations
from every se' Lion of the coun-
try, representatives of the Gov-
ernment, the British Army and
national institutions. Also shar-
ing in the grief of the crowds
who lined the streets as the pro-
cession passed were a number
of Arabs, led by Acting Mayor
Abdul Raouf el Bitar of Jaffa.
The ceremonies were simple.
There were no orations over the
long line of coffins.
Kaddish was said over the
open graves by the chief rabbis.
High Commissioner Sir Harold
MacMichael visited Tel Aviv to
inspect the wrecked houses to
the wake of the raid and to con-
fer with Mayor Israel Rokach
and Deputy Dov Hos on meas-

See PALESTINE—Page 20

Separate Jewish and Arab Units Planned as
Voluntary Recruiting Opens; Seafaring
Units Ready for Action

JERUSALEM (Palcor Agency)—As the British Isles
momentarily awaited invasion and Italian troops crossed
the western Egyptian frontier for the first time, the Ex-
ecutives of the Jewish Agency and the Vaad Leumi an-
nounced that permission has now been granted by the
British Government for the formation of Palestinian in-

Conference
On Refugees

Leaders Discuss Prob-
lems in Lansing on
Sunday, Sept. 22

Representatives of the state's
smaller Jewish communities, and
many Detroiters, will convene in
Lansing, Sunday, Sept. 22, for
the first all-state conference to
be held by the Jewish lay lead-
ers of Michigan. The confer-
ence is sponsored by the Michi-
gan State Resettlement Service
and the Council of Jewish Fed-
erations and Welfare Funds in
cooperation with the Joint Dis-
tribution Committee, the United
Palestine Appeal and the Nation-
al Refugee Service.
Scheduled to begin at 10:30
a. tn., the conference will be di-
vided into three sessions—morn-
ing, luncheon and afternoon. Dr.
William Haber, executive direc-
tor of the National Refugee Serv-
ice ; Samuel A. Goldsmith, secre-
tary of the Jewish Welfare Fund
of Chicago; and Rabbi Morris
Adler of Congregation Shaarey
Zedek of Detroit will address the
luncheon meeting. Isidore Sobel-
off, executive director of Detroit's
Jewish Welfare Federation, will
address the afternoon session.
Fred M. Butzel will preside at
the morning session which will
be devoted to an intimate discus-
sion on the refugee situation of
adults and children in Michigan.
All conference sessions will be
held at the Hotel Olds.

fantry companies in the army.
The announcement came as a
climax to a campaign which the
Jewish Agency has conducted
since the beginning of the pres-
ent war for the establishment of
armed Jewish units which could
participate in the struggle along-
side other Empire forces.
The decision of the Government
followed by less than a week the
first bombing by Italians planes
of the all-Jewish city of Tel
Aviv, and the subsequently in-
creased dissatisfaction throughout
the country over the delay in the
formation of a defense force.

Agency Pledges Aid

Unstinting co-operation with
the authorities in recruiting the
new units was promised as the
officials of the Agency and the
National Council issued the fol-
lowing statement :
"The raising of Palestinian in-
fantry companies, Jewish and
Arab separately, has been offi-
cially announced. These com-
panies will form a part of the
Palestine and may be employed
in neighboring countries for the
purpose of defending Palestine.
"Ever since the beginning of
the war we proclaimed the readi-
ness of the Jews of Palestine to
fight shoulder to shoulder with
the British people against the
enemies of democracy and the
foes of the Jewish race.
"We sought full opportunities
for the Jews of this country to
partake in the defense of Pales-
tine through the raising of Jew-
ish units. Tens of thousands of
Jews responded to that call in
the registration for national ser-
vice carried out at the outbreak
of the war. The great majority
declared their willingness to
serve with British troops and
take part in the defense of Pal-
estine and the Yishuv.

Many Enlist

Resettling New Americans

"From the beginning of the
war until July 1st of this year

By WILLIAM HABER

See ARMY—Page 2

III. BUILDING NEW LIVES IN A FREE LAND

Editor's Note: This is the third of five articles by Dr. William
Haber, Executive Director of the National Refugee Service,
dealing with the problem of local resettlement.

Let's give it the sociologically 1 First to arrive in Middletown
classical name of Middletown.
was Mr. P., a man in his mid-
Middletown is a small city, thirties who had formerly run
partly industrial, partly agricul- i a men's clothing store in Berlin,
tural, on the banks of the Mis- his wife, and a four year old
sissippi, just on the border of daughter.
North and South. It has about
The Middletown community
20,000 people; 2,500 of them in- and the National Refugee Serv-
dustrial workers in the town's 30 ice Capital Loan Committee loan-
manufacturing concerns whose ed Mr. P. $250 dollars, he bor-
average annual payroll is $2,- rowed $200 more from a friend
See YEMENITES—Page 17
750,000. It is an attractive lit- and obtained $100 worth of cred-
tle city, still close to the rich it from a wholesaler. With this
agricultural land surrounding it, slender capital he opened a bar-
land that produces cereals, fruit, (min clothing store. The records
Earlier Deadline for
Rosh Hashonah Issue truck crops, dairy products, and of Mr. P.'s sales in his new ven-
poultry. In brief, a typical small ture are interesting as an indi-
cator of hard plugging and per-
Contributors to the column American town.
In Middletown live 12 Jew- sistent work. The first month
of The Detroit Jewish Chroni-
The sixth
cle are asked to adhere to the ish families, well-integrated with sales were $214.
the life of the general commun- month, $740.
In the twelfth
following deadlines:
The Rosh Hashonah issue ity, and with the Jewish life of month they reached $1,000. A
of The Chronicle will go to , America and of the world, willing few months ago Mr. P. was able
press three days earlier than to assume the responsibilities of to obtain a $300 loan without
collateral from a local bank. His
usual, and all copy for that Jewish communal life.
In the last year these 12 Jew- assets are now over $2,000 with
edition will have to be in the
He
hands of the editor not later ish families of Middletown have liabilities of under $1,300.
than at 10 a. m. on Monday,' accepted three refugee "units" has long since paid back his ini-
—three persons in the P. family, tial loan. The P. family is happ'y
Sept. 30.
; 'There will be earlier dead- two brothers and a sister in the in Middletown. They say "We
, lines for the Succoth holiday E. family, a young refugee, Z. can't express enough appercia-
issues, and announcements Their stories are interesting for tion for the people in the Na-
the light they shed on the pos-
sibilities of refugee resettlement.
i will be made in due time.
See REFUGEES—Page 17

Kernan Gives
Defense Plan

Outlines Program for
Democracy in Stir-
ring Address

In a stirring address delivered
before the Detroit Women's Di-
vision of the American Jewish
Congress, at the Detroit Leland
Hotel, last Monday afternoon,
Father William C. Kernan of
Scarsdale, N. Y., condemned
Father Coughlin, Joseph McWil-
liams and their cohorts who are
spokesmen for Nazism in this
country.
Father Kernan urged the 300
women in attendance to advo-
cate the adoption of a platform
aimed at preventing the rise of
intolerance through the follow-
ing means:
1. A law to outlaw sub-

versive groups. "This is not a
denial of tolerance," Father
Kernan explained. "The sub-
versive groups want to use
free speech in order to de-
stroy these rights. They must
be deprived of these rights.

See KERNAN—Page 10

