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DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1941

VOL. 43, NO. 6

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Yeshiva Opens
$35,000 Building
Drive on Feb. 9

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Lot for New Structure
Secured; Campaign
to End March 9

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Over the signature of Isa-
dore Cohen, president of the
Michigan Synagogue Confer-
ence and chairman of the De-
troit Committee for the Vaad
Ha-Hatzolah, a letter was sent
this week to prospective indivi-
dual contributors in Detroit and
out-state communities, asking
them to forward their dona-
tions for the transportation
fund to bring rabbis and lay
leaders from Nazi territorities
to this country, to Isaac Shet-
zer, treasurer of the fund, at
142 E. Jefferson.
Mr. Cohen's letter reads in
part:
"You are right. We are hav-
ing altogether too many drives.
"But, these are not normal

Aid-to-Britain
Campaign Nears
Detroit Wind•Up

Youth Groups Play a
Leading Role in Fund
For Kitchens

Zionist Membership
Drive Progressing

James I. Ellmann, chairman
of the membership drive of the
Zionist Organization of Detroit,
reporting on progress of cam-
paign activities at a meeting
of the executive board and the
membership committee on Tues-
day evening, at his home, ex-
p r e s s e d satisfaction over
achievements to-date and shared
the confidence of his fellow-
workers that the local mem-
bership will be doubled before
the month is over.
After less than a week's
solicitations, since the dinner
which was addressed by Dr.
Israel Goldstein, president of
the Jewish National Fund of
America, on Jan. 30, at the
Shaarey Zedek, the workers

2,000 Rumanian
Jews Killed in •
Bloody Pogrom

Sickening Reports Re-
veal Unparalleled
Brutality

Details
BUDAPEST (WNS)
of the bloody Iron Guard mas-
sacre of Jews in Rumania, pieced
together from stories told here
by newspapermen and others ar-
riving from Bucharest, are so
horrible as to defy adequate de-
scription.
See ZIONISTS—Page 8
Conservative estimates place
the number of Jews murdered
(luring the five-clay pogrom from
1,700 to 2,000, with several thou-
sand more wounded in an orgy
of murder which has no parallel
modern times.
Butzel Named Presi- in An
indication ol the bestiality
dent of the Two which prevailed was furnished
when the pro-Nazi Antonescu
Merged Agencies
government recovered truckloads
of gems and other valuables loot-
Bnai Moshe Gives Kitchen
Wednesday
Fred M. Butzel was elected
It was announced at Monday's president of the Jewish Children's ed from the Jewish quarter of
The faculty and board of di- meeting that there are assurances Bureau at the organizational Bucharest and other Jewish-popu-
rectors of the United Hebrew that at least five kitchens will be meeting for this new agency held lated cities.
The police discovered many
Schools invite the public to the
on Jan. 29, in the offices of the
commencement exercises of the See AID-TO-BRITAIN—Page 2 Jewish Welfare Federation, 51 rings and earrings clinging to
the fingers and ears of their
Junior High School on Wednes-
W. Warren Ave.
Jewish owners. The Iron
day
evening,
Feb.
12,
at
8:15
The
Jewish
Chil-
Purchase Lot
Guardists, refuiiiig to wait for
o'clock, in the Rose Sittig Cohen
d r e n's Bureau,
The drive will begin Sunday School, northwest branch of the
the Jewish women and girls
which represents
and continue for four weeks, to
to take off their gems, hacked
a merger of the
United
Hebrew
Schools.
March 9. A lot has already been
off their fingers and ears. •
Jewish Children's
The
following
boys
and
girls
purchased at the northwest cor-
While the anti-Semitic govern-
have
completed
the
junior
high
Home and the
ner of Dexter and Cortland, and
ment announced officially that the
plans are now being drawn for school course prescribed by the Third Bnai Brith Ath- Jewish Child
loot, estimated at many milliOns
Placement B u -
a school structure which will also sinool : Oscar Bigman, Perry
letic Congress on
of dollars, had been recovered,
reau, was created
provide facilities for other le 1- Ross, Jacob Stollman, Ida Kroll,
no steps had been taken., to re-
following
a
study
foll
gious - educational activates to Isidore Singer, Raye Metzger,
Feb. 16
turn any of their possessions to
— e the. local child
meet the requirements of tradi- Frances Winokur, Harry Festen-
the tens of thousands of Jews
. care situation
stein, Benjamin Kutnick, Rachel
tional Jewish youth.
The National Bnai Brith Bowl w h i c h recom-
made homeless during the unre-
The Yeshiva is at present lo- Shuldinger, Norman Katz, Belle
Margolis, William - Schumer, - Al_ ing Congress, the only nationally mended one uni-
F. M. Butzel strained rioting. , , • •
cated in afoul-family residential
S ege 1 Alb t or anized Jewish athletic event fled organization
Sickening stories" ofhotv -gafigs
structure on Elmhurst Ave. be vin Posen,
E th Segel,
P ' Esther
tween La Salle and Linwood, Kramer, Berol . Robinson, Rachel for adults, will hold its ethird for the care of dependent chil- of anti-government Guardists
which was condemned by the De- Goldrich. Louis Gorzeck, Sidney annual tournament at the De- dren under Jewish community way-laid Jews in the streets and
partmnt
Pearl Rappaport, Shirley troit Recreation Building, Feb. auspices.
transported them in trucks to
e of Safety and Building Stone,
a
According to Mr. Butzel. the open fields where they were tor-
Engin eering as unfit for school Sleeper, Myron Rosenthal, Nettie 16. More than 1,000 Jewish bowl-
Jewish
Children's
Bureau
will
use. With the enrollment of 115 s Seligson,
Ger-
- compass the functions of both the tured and shot down, lent a
( Frieda Smolinsky,
,
all bpar t s fo f B th
Ir .. 11
d Shirley
Sh• 1 . Su
' 1) bar. e r s from
students during the current term,
nightmarish unreality to the po-
Strauss and
ri.
o d . Bnai
trs
mem
e
all
members
Children's Home and the grom. Many of the victims were
the coun- Jewish Child
the six classes meeting every
The principal speaker will be try,
n-
in
the
sit
en
ere
arefi
d
team even s. Jewish Child Placement Bureau, doused with gasoline and set
weekday afternoon after public Dr. A. M. Hershman, Rabbi of lodges,
merging both the institutional and
school hours. in addition to Satur-
ua entrants foster home elements into one afire.
glen
days, have become overcrowded Congregation Sharey Zedek. The
ne and
of the individual
pre _ One
Scores of young Jewish girls
e . in ormer
former national program, ;for. the best interests
Max Stein,
to such a degree that congestion program will begin with a
were criminally assaulted and
constitutes a pressing problem. cessmnal by the graduates. The all-events title holder, who is of the children under care and
subjected to sadistic tortures.
Following the announcement of instructors of the graduating bringing a Bnai Brith team from the community a§ a whole.
Many cases were reported of
the new building project, city class, Max Gordon, Joseph Hag Hollywood,Calif.
Children's Home Status
Jewish women and girls hav-
authorities have granted a three- gal and Rabbi Leizer Levin, will
Entries to date have been re president
Herman Cohen, who served as ing their breasts cut off. Po-
Louis
months extension for the occupa- deliver brief addresses.
keglers tyesident of the Jewish Children's licemen assigned to guard the
of the present quarters, ex- Gorzeck, a member of the grad- ceived fromm Bnai Brith
inois , Penn-
was Jewish districts ignored the
uating class, will talk on Rashi, in Ohio,
one of the subjects studied by Sylvania, New York, Indiana, Home
20 years, of the cries for help, and, in many
elected for
first over
vice-president
piling May 1.
The Secure
total cost
of $20,000
the construe- the graduating class. Norman Missouri, Wisconsin, Kentucky, new 'bureau. The entire board of eases, 'joined forces with the
Initial
and its fur- Katz, another member of the Iowa, Kansas and California. directors of "the" Children's Home green-shirted Legionnaires.
nishings
estimated
tion of the is building
• at $55,000, graduating class, will talk on Over 200 teams will compete for was elected to the directorate of
Many Jews were mutilated and
An initial contribution of $20,- the "Ethics of the Fathers," a the President's Trophy, an an- the new agency. In addition, the burned beyond recognition. Scores
000 has been received from the subject included in the high nual award given by Henry Mon- Children's Home board will retain will never be identified -for their
sky. president of Bnai Brith, to its identity as the property-hold-
mutilated bodies were thrown in
the
winner
of trophy
the five-man
event.
trustees of Congregation Mogen school course.
In 1940
the
was won
by ing corporation for the Home's garbage disposal dumps or de-
Greetings will be extended by
plant on Burlingame and Petos-
Abraham, now defunct, who have
stroyed by fire. It was reported
transferred their assets to the Louis Robinson, president of the
rs. the Dayton, Ohio, Lodge. The k ey Ayes. The Children's Home that Moise Orechowsky and Leon
United
Hebrew
Schools,
M
building
will
serve
as
the
insti-
joint
building
fund.
It is
expected
that several Charles Robinson, president of 1939
winner
was Trophies
the Jack- and tional department of the new Plimes were among the 37 lead-
son, team
Mich.,
Lodge.
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ers and employees of the Zionist
large gifts will be received in the the Woman's
Auxiliary
of
the
w Schools, and Isi- prize money will be awarded at Jewish Children's Bureau.
course of the first week or two United Hebrew
a banquet at the close of the
See POGROM—Page 13
See CHILDREN--Page 9
day-long tournament, with Bob
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GRADUATION—Page
See YESHIVAH—Page 12
Hall as master of ceremonies.
The Bnai Brith tournament is
officially recognized by the Amer-
ican Bowling Congress. Sam
Maza of Detroit is president of
the Bnai Brith Bowling Con-
gress. Vice-presidents are Ben Refugee Settlement Called Huge Success; 1,000 More
Majority and Minority Reports to Be Submitted to Tolpin, Columbus, 0., and Julius
Jews and Christians to Be Colonized Soon
Lentin, Chicago. Morton J.
203 Member Agencies in 167 Cities
Bechek and Max H. Goldhoff,
for Referendum Vote
CIUDAD TRUJILLO, Domini- refugees'• from Nazi-dominated
both of Detroit, are treasurer can
Republic (WNS) — While lands to start life anew.
and secretary, respectively.
In the words of Robert T. Pell,
delegates of 32 nations met in the
ATLANTA, GA. — Proposals tablishment of th service, as
the eport
s report sub-
National Palace here to partici- chief of the United States dele-
w ell as a minority
for the establishment of a na- mated in opposition, with a re- lw
pate in ceremonies commemorat- gation ,to the conference, the
tional advisory budgeting service quest to act on the measure be- AMAMI
ing the first anniversary of the agreement was a monument of
signing of the agreement which construe tive humanitarianism
ore
April
1,
1941.
to assist local communities in al- I
Wineman Named Vice-Pres.
led to the establishment of the which "like a candle in a dark
locating funds to national and
Sosua refugee colony, James N. chamber will shine for all time."
Sidney Hollander of Baltimore
overseas agencies were approved
"Day by day," Mr. Pell stated,
by the board of directors of the was re-elected president of the Convention of Jewish Rosenberg, president of the Do-
minican Republic Settlement As- "experiments are taking place in
Council of Jewish Federations Council at the annual business
Leaders to Confer on sociation, announced that the Ro- this test tube, which should revo-
and Welfare Funds, and will be meeting of the Assembly. Other
senwald family had made a gift lutionize resettlement in the
submitted to the 203 member officers re-elected were William
Overseas Needs
of $125,000 to the refugee haven. Western Hemisphere.
agencies of the Council in 167 J. Shroder, chairman of the
In his report, Mr. Rosenberg,
board; William Rosenwald, of
The gift was made, Mr. Rosen-
cities for a referendum vote.
American Jewish leaders from
describing the refugee colony as
This action was taken by the Greenwich, Conn., Henry Wine- all parts of the country will berg said, on the recommenda- a huge success, said that 1,000
board at a meting during the man, of Detroit, and Ira M. eather in New York on Sunday, tion of Lessing Rosenwald. It was additional refugees, Jews and
General Assembly of the Council Younker, of New York, vice- Feb. 16, at 10 a. m., at Hotel exactly a year ago that officials Gentiles, owing to the non-sec-
in Atlanta, Feb. 1, 2 and 3. The presidents; Elias Mayer, of Chi- Astor, to take counsel with the of the Dominican Republic and tarian chafictei of the project,
member agencies will receive the cago, secretary, and Dr. Solomon officers of the American Jewish the American-financed Dominican would be established this year at
Republic Settlement Association
majority report of the Council's Lowenstein, of New Pork, treas-
signed the agreement, permitting Sosua.
committee on national budgeting See FEDERATION—Page 3
See J. D. C.—Page 8
proposals recommending the es-

Active leaders of all congrega-
tions and other communal organ-
izations interested in Jewish edu-
cation, parents of the students
of Yeshivath Beth Yehudah, the
members of its board of directors
and of the Ladies of the Yeshiva,
will gather next Sunday, Feb. 9,
at 2 p. m., in the auditorium of
the Jewish Community Center,
Woodward at Holbrook, to launch
a drive for funds to erect a new
building for Michigan's only cen-
ter of higher Jewish learning.
Rabbi Moses Fischer of Con-
gregation Bnai Moshe, chairman
of the Detroit Council of Ortho-
dox Rabbis; Dr. A. M. Hershman,
rabbi of Shaarey Zedek; Dr.
Samson R. Weiss, dean of the
Yeshiva, and Rabbi M. J. Wohl-
gelernter of Beth Tefilo Emanuel,
will deliver brief talks. The pub-
lic is invited to this meeting which
will conclude at four o'clock.
There will be no soliciation of
funds.

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End Rescue Fund
Drive Next Week

Fraternal groups, congrega-
tions and youth organizations this
week joined in the effort to send
several mobile kitchens from De-
troit to provide assistance for the
impoverished people in war-torn
England.
The non-partisan committee
See RESCUE FUND—Page 16 which was organized last week
under the chairmanship of Maur-
ice H. Zackheim, at a meeting
at Mr. Zackheim's home on Mon-
day evening, decided to conduct
an intensified canvas and to con-
clude the drive in two weeks.
Final arrangements will be made
Monday evening at the home
Jr. High Commence- this
of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Bernstein
ment to Be Held
of 17503 Oak Drive.

Hebrew Schools
To Graduate 27

New Children's
Bureau Formed

To Hold Bowling
Tournament Here

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Rosenwald Family Gives $125,090
To Sosua Colony on 1st Birthday

Federations' Assembly Approves
Proposed for Budgeting Service

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Parley Feb. 16