A merica path Periodical Cotter

CLIFTON AVENUE • CINCINNATI 20, OHIO

Detroit Jewish Chronicle

and The Legal Chronicle

_ION ONE
SECT

This Paper Printed in Two Saction$

DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1940

VOL. 42, NO. 49

Plan "Beth Am"
As Education
Month Finale

Program to Be Held
Dec. 15 ; Enroll
New Members

The United Hebrew Schools of
Detroit will celebrate the comple-
tion of the 14th annual Edu-
cation Month on Sunday evening,
Dec. 15, at the Rose Sittig Cohen
Building, with a novel program
which will retain all the social
and educational features of the
former education dinners given by
the United Hebrew Schools.
The program will begin with
what is known as a "Beth Am,"
or panel discussion, devoted to
the subject "We and Our Chil-
dren." A group of prominent local
leaders will be the participants.
In keeping with traditional pro-
cedure, members of the audience
will be free to ask questions and
participate in the discussion.
One of the features of the pro-
gram will be a group of songs
by the Shaarey Zedek quartet, and
a solo by Cantor Jacob H. Sonen-
klar, director. Miss Rosalyn Dons
will be the piano accontanist. The
members of the quartet are: Jo-
seph Cantor, Arthur Scher, Allen
Sumetz and Max Teitel.
A reception sponsored by the
Woman's Auxiliary of the United
Hebrew Schools will follow this
program. The public is invited.
Jr. Alumni Sponsor Program
on Sunday
The Junior Alumni of the Uni-
ted Hebrew Schools have ex-
tended an invitation to the pu-
pils of the Hose Sittig Cohen
Branch of the United Hebrew
Schools to be their guests at a
program on Sunday morning,
Dec. 8.
This program, which is a part
of the Education Month observ-
ance, will be in the form of a
radio broadcast. Fred Sorkowitz
will be the announcer; Norman
Leemon will deliver .a brief talk.
An original skit will be given by
several Aumni members.
Membership Enrollment
The membership enrollment of

Director Is Named
For Center Branch

Alexander J. Stein has been
engaged to direct the Northwest
Branch of the Jewish Community
Center, located in the Rose Sittig
Cohen Building at Lawton and
Tyler, according to an announce-
ment issued by
Henry Meyers,
president of the
Jewish Commu-
nity Center.
Mr. Stein rep-
resents the fine
combination of
Center worker
and experienced
Jewish educa-
tor, being a
graduate of the
U n i versity of
P ittsburgh
A. J. Stein
School of Ap-
plied Social Sci-
ences, from which he holds the
degree of Master of Science in

See STEIN—Page 8

Ilirkhead Urges
Defense . Unity
Frontists Create Mild
Disturbance at
Meeting

10 Coots Single Copy; $3.00 pet Yea'

Will Head
Death Toll of Enggass
Budget Committee Jail Anti•Nazi
32 on Refugee
Professor for
Boat at Haifa
Defending Jews

British Arrest 34 Sus-
pected of Being
Gestapo Agents

HAIFA.—With the recovery of
seven more bodies from the
sunken vessel Patria, the number
of victims of the explosion which
capsized the refugee ship while
it lay in Haifa harbor waiting
for orders to proceed to a Brit-
ish possession rose to 32.
The seven bodies, including
that of a five-year-old child, were
brought to the surface by divers
who have been working steadily
since the disaster to remove all
the bodies from the submerged
ship. Many of the victims, it was
learned, were trapped in their
cabins a the time of the ex-
plosion.
34 Arrested as Spies
According to official figures,
1,592 of the Jewish refugees
aboard the former French liner
were transferred to the Athlit
detention camp. British police ar-
rested suspected of being Gestapo
agents.
The report said that nine per-
sons injured in the explosion re-
main confined to the hospital
while 13 others escaped from the
hospital despite their injuries. Of
those aboard the Patria at the
time of the explosion, 1,771 came
to Palestine aboard the steam-
ships Pacific and Mylos.
Refugees' Fate Uncertain
Most of those on the ill-fated
vessel lost all their meager pos-
sessions in the disaster and re-
lief work is now being under-
taken throughout Palestine.
British officials have given no
indication of what will happen
to the refugees next. It is not
known whether they will be in-
terned at Athlit indefinitely or
whether they wiH-- still be trans-
ferred to another British pos-
session.

The first instance of a Chris-
tian Front demonstration in De-
troit was witnessed on Monday
evening, at the public meeting
addressed by Dr. L. M. Birk-
head, director of Friends of
Democracy, at Central High
School.
Approximately 60 members of
this group were the first to oc-
cupy seats in different parts of
the hall that evening. While the
heckling of the speaker began
when he mentioned the name of
Col. Lindbergh, the disturbance
began earlier when a sneezing
powder was apparently released
in the audience. The sneezing
lasted for about a minute.
Members of the disrupting
group were given the privilege
of asking questions, but invari-
ably every question was accom-
panied by organized shouting.
One of the group stated public- Manchester Guardian Criticizes
ly that he was a member of the
Government Attitude To-
Christian Front and his associ-
ward Refugees
LONDON.
(Palcor Agency)—
See "BETH AM" Page 16
See BIRKHEAD—Page 16
The Palestine Administration's
attitude toward the so-called il-
legal Jewish immigrants who suc-
ceed in reaching the shores of
Palestine was sharply criticized
by the Manchester Guardian,
liberal daily newspaper.
Denouncing last week's com-
Weeks of Intensive Activity to Be Concluded at Annual
munique on the status of the
Cultural•Musical-Social Gathering at the
1,771 refugees who had arrived
Masonic Temple on Monday
on the Pacific and the Mylos
and who had then been scheduled
Culminating weeks of intensive
for deportation to a British pos-
activity, the Detroit chapter of
session, and particularly censur-
Hadassah will hold its 1940 Honor
ing the government's announce-
Roll affair on Monday, Dec. 9 . ,
ment that "similar action will
at 8:30 o'clock, at the Masonic
be taken regarding further par-
Temple.
ties. which succeed in reaching
Rabbi Milton Steinberg of the
Palestine with a view to enter-
Park Avenue Synagogue of New
ing illegally," the Guardian
York, well known lecturer and
writer observed:
author, will deliver the main ad-
"Being humane just couldn't
dress of the evening, "Can Jew- ,
hurt Britain either in the Middle
Ty Survive the Present Crisis?'
East or elsewhere."
Featuring the musical portion . of
the evening will be Julius Chajes,
new director of music at the Jew-
ish Community Center, and Miss
Marguerite Kozenn, Rumanian
opera singer.
Following the program there
will be a reception and ball in
Palestine Religious
the Crystal Ballroom.
League Leaders Are
Mrs. Nathan N. Kaplan is chair-
man of the 1940 Roll of Honor
Guests in Detroit
and. rm
Mts. Julian Krolik is co-
c haian
is chairma n Mrs. Louis Redstone
Two spokesmen for the League
of the Roll of Honor
RABBI MILTON STEINBERG for Religious Labor in Palestine
for
the
Business
and
Professional
div
—Meyer Edelbaum, associate edi-
ision and Mrs. Samuel Rhodes
Slatkin, Wallace Roberts, Rob- tor of the Jewish Times of Lon-
is her co-ehairman.
Mrs. Max Frank, president of ert Roberts, Roy Fisher, and Al don, and Rabbi David Finkelstein
of New York—arrived in Detroit
Hadassah, and Miss Anne Mil- Meyers.
The proceeds from this affair this week to inaugurate a drive
stein, president of the Business
and Professional division and all go direct to Palestine where it for $10,000 towards the American
quota for this cause.
executives of both units, will act
is allocated according to quotas
Mr. Edelbaum is a deputy mem-
as hoste,ses during the evening. received from the National office.
Mrs. William Gershenson and Among the projects Hadassah sup- ber of the Zionist Actions Com-
Mrs. Max Osnos are chairman of ports are Youth Aliyah, Child mittee. He arrived in this coun-
• ushers and will have the assistance Welfare, Jewish National Fund, try from London five weeks ago
of the following: Mesdames Mar- Hadassah Medical Organization, and plans to remain several
months in the interests of the
cus Ginn, Milton Saffi r , David
and Rothschild Hadassah Uni-
Lipton, Jerome Frank, Joseph versity Hospital.
See ORTHODOX—Page 12

—

Rabbi Steinberg to Address
lladassah Honor Roll Event

Orthodox Labor
Campaign Here

Clarence H. Enggass, chairman
of the board of governors of the
Jewish Welfare Federation, will
serve as chairman of the Detroit
Service Group Budget Committee
for the 1911 Allied Jewish Cam-
paign. Mr. Eng-
gass was ap-
pointed by Irving
W. Blumberg,
chairman of the
board of direc-
tors of the De-
troit Service
Group, the fund-
r a i s ing instru-
ment of the Jew-
ish Welfare Fed-
eration, which
conducts the an- C. H. Enggass
nual Allied Jew-
ish Campaign, Under Detroit
Service Group auspices the bud-
get committee conducts the hear-
ings and weighs the petitions of

See ENGGASS—Page 9

Appeasement Is
Unthinkable
Position of Britain In
Palestine Severely
Condemned

Quisling Barely Misses
Bomb as Opposition
Grows

GENEVA. (WNS)—Professor
Defrum, rector of the Univer-
sity of Rotterdam, has been sen-
tenced to three months in prison
for condemning anti-Semitism in
a classroom lecture, it was re-
ported here. Prof. Defrum was
arrested by Nazi police immedi-
ately after his lecture.
The complaint charged also
that Prof. Defrum urged the stu-
dents,. to listen to radio broad-
casts coming from London. In
his lecture, the rector ridiculed
the Nazi theory of racial suprem-
acy and scored the Nazi treat-
ment of Jews.

By LOUIS LIPSKY

Dutch Students Strike Against
Dismissal of Jewish Professor
LISBON. (WNS)—Nazi author-
ities in Holland closed the Uni-
versity of Dolft following a stu-
dent strike in protest against the
dismissal of a Jewish professor
from the university, it was
learned here.
Ignoring Nazi warnings against
any demonstrations, the students
paraded on the campus demand-
ing the reinstatement of the
Jewish professor. Gestapo agents
immediately launched an inquiry
to find the strike leaders.

With the world turning violent
somersaults—all news nowadays
is incredible, fantastic. But the
report from Haifa that 1771
Jewish refugees have been denied
sanctuary in Palestin , and are
to be deported to an 'land near
Martinique, takes the aim for
political absurdity. A war to
prevent the domination of the
world by Nazi Germany—mil-
lions of Jews in Europe the vic-
tims of that war, seeking refuge
on the territory of a belligerent
power; and when they find their
way, after cruel suffering, to the
land promised to the Jewish
people by the chief adversary
of Hitler, the English represen-
tative in Palestine invokes rules
and regulations which were born
in the last miserable days of
appeasement to prevent their
landing!
(The intention was frustrated,
however, by an "act of God."

Quisling Escapes Death
STOCKHOLM. (WNS)—Major
Vidkun Quisling, Norwegian Nazi
leader, narrowly missed death
when a bomb exploded near him
in the streets of Fredrikstad in
Southern Norway, according to
.newspaper dispatches here.
Major Quisling, whose efforts
to impose anti-Semitism and
other Nazi principles on the Nor-
wegian people have apparently
failed, came to Fredrikstad to
address a group of his support-
ers. Angry demonstrations and
street clashes marked his visit.
During his trip to Sarpsborg,
a neighboring town, strong po-

See APPEASEMENT—Page 13

See NAZIS—Page 3

"We Must Go Forward"

Most Brilliant Literary Minds Warn Americans to Be on
Guard Against Impeding Menace Which Is
Threatened by Totalitarians

By SHIN FEY SAMEH

If only the democracies would
undertake to learn the lessons
of France and Holland and Bel-
gium! It is reasonable to believe
that the American way of life
would then be adequately de-
fended.
The most brilliant literary
minds have set out to accom-
plish this task of making Amer-
icans understand the implica-
tions of the present threats to
democracy. Archibald MacLeish,
Librarian of Congress; Willem
Hendrik Van Loon, Dorothy
Thompson, Sinclair Lewis are
conducting a valiant battle for
the retention of the positive ele-
ments in our way of life.
For Evolution of These Shores
At the same time, the ablest
foreign correspondents have come
forth with timely warnings. One
of the best works on the sub-
ject is M. W. Fodor's "The Revo-
lution Is On," (Houghton, Miff-
lin Co., Boston), in which we
are advised that if the revolution
inspired by the destructive total-
itarian governments is to be con-
verted into evolution, a plan of
positive action of enlightenment
and of preparation must be un-
dertaken. "With goodwill, fore-
thought, cleverness and sagacity,
the revolution can still be con-
verted into evolution on these
shores. And in achieving this,
a great task awaits the youth of
America."
The three leading dictator.
ships are alike in their ideolo-

gies, ''Mr. Fodor points out, and
he calls attention to the fact
that Hitler and his cohorts now
speak of themselves also as pro-
letarians. He relates an anec-
dote on this score: "The man
in the street in Berlin says with
acrid humor: 'Hitler is now a
triple Aryan: a veget-arian, a
totalit-arian, and a prolet-arian'."
Bankers' Narrow Mindedness
Fodor gives warning to Jews
and to Christians in his discus-
sion of the causes and sins of
the revolution of the dictators.
He makes reference to the mil-
lions of jobless workers who vot-
ed Hitler into power, and states:
"The narrow-mindedness of the
bankers, the completely vision-
less outlook of the financiers,
have brought the worst revolu-
tion in Germany into power. And
many of those who promoted this
move were Jews."
The eminent author of "The
Revolution Is On," who ranks
as the best informed foreign
correspondent, and who was on
the spot when the Nazis invad-
ed Belgium and Holland and
France, charges that treason was
responsible for the Nazi suc-
cesses. "It will be difficult to
erase the belief, firmly fixed
amongst the French troops of
the Ninth Army and whispered
all over northern France, that
treason, probably actual bribery
of some officers, or of one staff

-

See WARNING—Page 8