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DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY. MARCH 7. 1941

VOL. 43, NO. 10

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As Nazis Pour
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GENEVA. — (WNS) — Hun-
dreds of Bulgarian Jews, includ-
ing many Zionist leaders and
others active in Jewish public
life, were arrested and taken
into "protective custody" as hun-
dreds of thousands of Nazi troops
poured into Bulgaria presumably
en route to Salonika, it was re-
liably reported here.
The mass arrests were made
by Bulgarian police, armed with
lists of influential Jews, provided
by Gestapo agents, the inevitable
vanguard of a Nazi army of oc-
cupation. Most of the arrests oc-
curred in Sofia where Gestapo
agents assumed complete control
of the Bulgarian police depart-
ment.

Nazi Extortion Scheme

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The March quarterly meeting
of the Jewish Community
Council will be held Tues-
day evening, March 11, at
8:15 o'clock, in the main audi-
torium of the Jewish Com-
munity Center, Woodward at
Holbrook.
At this meeting, the new ex-
ecutive director, Isaac Franck,
will outline plans for the future
development of the Community
Council program.
Among the importnat items
upon the agenda will be a dis-
cussion of the proposed national
advisory budgetry committee
which the board of directors
of the Council of Federations
and Welfare Funds adopted in
Atlanta. This proposal, together
with a minority recommendation,
is now being submitted by refer-
endum to the Federations and
Welfare Funds of the country
for approval or rejection. The
Detroit Federation will soon be
meeting to take formal action
upon the proposal.
proposed budgetary
"The
committee represents such a
radical innovation and carries
with it such vast implications
for the whole of Jewish life,
that it deserves to be fully dis-
cussed and debated before final
decisions are reached," Simon
Shetzer, president of the Coun-
Megillahs
in
silver
cases,
showing
range
in
size
and
Examples of
cil, stated in the call he issued
ornamentation, from the collection in the Museum of Jewish
to Tuesday's meeting.
ceremonial objects of the Jewish Theological Seminary of

WASHINGTON. — (WNS) —
The threatened expulsion of
America, New York City.
Vienna's 50,000 Jews to the
—Photograph by Fellman Photo Service, New York City.
"Jewish reservation" in Lublin,
Nazi-occupied Poland, was mo-
On March 13, which is "the erance from the vengeful hatred
tivated by a Nazi scheme to ex-
of Haman, the vizier of the Per-
tort millions of dollars from 14th day of the 12th month, which sian monarch "Ahasuerus, who
Jews in the United States and is the month of Adar" on the He- reigned, from India even unto
elsewhere, according to informed brew calendar, the Jews of the Ethiopia, over hundred and seven
diplomatic quarters here.
world will celebrate their deliv- and twenty provinces." On that
day of Purim, instead of the mass-
A diplomat whose identity can-
tragedy which Haman had plotted
not be divulged disclosed that
for them, "the Jews had light and_
Nazi authorities in Austria are
and joy and honor.
offering Jews in Vienna the–pp-
So it is related In the Book
portunity to emigrate to other
of Esther in the Hebrew Scrip-
countries before ordering their
tures. The holiday is named after
deportation. Nazi officials, he
the Persian "pur," meaning lot,
said, are encouraging the Jews
since Haman cast lots' ("purim")
to cable their relatives or friends
to decide on what day his de-
in the United States for funds
cree of death for every Jewish
to procure steamship tickets.
man, woman and child in the
The cables direct . American
relatives to deposit $400 at the
See PURIM—Page 8
At a meeting of the Detroit
offices of Hapag Lloyd or at
Council
of
Orthodox
Rabbis
held
other Nazi steamship and travel
agencies to cover the cost of Thursday, Feb. 27, in Bnai
transportation. Since there are Moshe Synagogue, the following
about 50,000 Jews in Vienna, the resolution was adopted unani-
scheme would enrich the Nazi mously, urging the support of
all local congregations for the
treasury by $20,000,000.
It was estimated that close building fund drive of Yeshivoth
to 20,000 cables have been re- Beth Yehudah:
"The Vaad Ho-Rabbonim of
ceived io far by American

$20,125 Given
Yeshivah Fund
Karbal Family Donates
$10,000 for New
Building

See NAZIS—Page 3

This Paper Printed in Two Sections

Council to Discuss
EXHIBIT OF MEGILLAHS DURING
PURIM WEEK AT N. Y. SEMINARY Budgeting Tuesday

Believe Vienna Expul-
sion Scheme to
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See YESHIVAH—Page 2

Choni---The Forgotten Jew

At Last, the Famous Jewish Falstaff Has Found an
Able Biographer

Szold to Speak
Here Monday
Will Address Zionists
at Rally at Temple
Beth El

See Restored
Unity in U. S.
Jewish Drives

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Work Progresses in
Preparation for
Local Campaign

Speaking before the budget
committee of the Detroit Serv-
ice Group on Tuesday evening,
Harry Greenstein, executive di-
rector of the Associated Jewish
Charities of Baltimore, indicated
that restoration of unity in fund-
raising in this country is possible,
and that important announce-
ments will be made in a few
days.
Mr. Greenstein stated that
negotiations are still being car-
ried on and that the last differ-
ence of opinion is over a 2
per cent margin in distribution .
of funds.

Air Views on
Budget Plans

Shroder in Favor of
Proposal; Heller
Opposes It

Budget Meetings Sunday

Preliminary preparations for
the forthcoming Detroit Allied
Jewish Campaign are proceeding.
Headquarters have been opened
at Hotel Stotler, and numerous
divisions will be organized soon.
Leading figures, active in the
work of the Joint Distribution
Committee, the United Palestine
Appeal and the National Refu-
gee Service, will present the
budgetary requests of their re-
spective organizations at the
hearings to be conducted by the
major overseas section of the
1941 Allied Jewish Campaign
budget committee, throughout
the day on Sunday, March 9, at
Hotel Stotler.

The debate on the proposal for
the setting up of a budgeting
committee sponsored by the Coun-
cil of Jewish Federations and Wel-
fare Funds continued this week,
with William J. Shroder of Cin-
cinnati, chairman of the board of
the Council of Federations, favor-
ing the proposal, and Rabbi James
G. Heller of Cincinnati oppos-
ing it.
Hadassah joined the Zionist Or-
ganization of America, the Amer-
ican Jewish Congress and the
Bnai Brith in expressing opposi-
tion to the proposal.
The Cleveland Jewish Commu-
nity Council, by a vote of 81 to
2, went on record against the
plan.

Prominent Spokesmen Here

The United Palestine Appeal
presentation will be made at 10
a. m., by Dr. Bernard Joseph,
legal advisor of the Jewish Agen-
cy for Palestine, and Henry Mon-
tor, executive director of the or-
ganization.
Edward M. M. Warburg, chair-
man of the Joint Distribution
Committee, and Moses A. Leavitt,
secretary, will make the budg-
etary request for the J. D. C.,
at the hearing scheduled for
11:30 a. in.
Following a luncheon at 1
o'clock, which the members of
the overseas section are invited
to attend, the needs of the Na-

See BUDGETING—Page 16

See CAMPAIGN—Page 9

"The Great Dictator" Is Coming

The membership campaign of
the Zionist Organization of De-
troit will be concluded at a rally "Let Us Fight for a World of Reason" Is Cry Heard in

Charlie Chaplin's History-Making Comedy
Deriding the Totalitarians

By DAVID SCHWARTZ

"The Great Dictator" is com-
ing!
This would be news anywhere,
but it is particular news for
Detroiters today, since the great
Charlie Chaplin film will be at
the Michigan Theater beginning
on March 14.
The film itself is not only his-
tory-making—it is already his-

Editor's Note: Ever heard of Choni, the Falstaff of the Zionist
movement in America? If you have not, you should have. If you
have, how much do you know about him? The able A m erican-Jewish
writer, David Schwartz, who years ago did a column for The Detroit
Jewish Chronicle under the title "By the Way", has written this
interesting article for The Detroit Jewish Chronicle, filling a gap
in personality history in American Jewry.

Look through your copy of ber of that reserve army of the
Who's Who in American Jewry unemployed, for Choni did not
and you will not find his name. work in the ordinary acceptance
He's the forgotten Jew as far of that term even in the boom-
as these staid and unimaginative lest years of American history.
compilations of names of the But to say that Choni has no
prominent are concerned, yet unemployment is to speak in
whereas 89 per cent of those narrow bourgeois terminology. I
listed in the Jewish Who's Who should think on the contrary
will be unknown to the leaders that Choni has led one of the
of Jewry in France, in England, busiest lives in recent American
in Poland and in Palestine, few Jewish history and I can see be
it
of them do not know Choni. no other way—but tha n
Let us not be too severe with busy is to be in business.
Choni has been in business.
Who's Who which works by card
indexes and other such routines. To the majority of people, when
And Choni is anything but the name Choni is mentioned,
routine. In the first place, how generally there is a twinkle in
can you catalog him with re- the eye, suggesting some amus-
spect to the alphabet. A man ing recollection. We might then f
with only one name. Such a nian perhaps classify him as one o
belongs to the Who's Who of the comedians of the day—a
ancient times when there was comedian whose stage is the
Moses and Aaron and Nebuchad- whole world. But let us not for-
nezer and Gabriel, people who get that comedy today is a very
stood or fell by their names. respected occupation.
Thus to dismiss Choni is
Then again there is the difli-
culty of classifying him with re- nevertheless unsatisfactory. Here
spect to occupation. By all the is a man who hobnobs with all
ordinary standards, we would
See CHONI—Page 12
put him down as a charter mem-

ROBERT SZOLD

in the social hall of Temple Beth
El, on Monday evening, March 10.
Robert Szold. former chairman
of the Zionist Organization of
America, will be the guest speak-
er. Palestine movies will be
shown.
A reception for new members
will follow the meeting. Refresh-
ments will be served.
James I. Ellmann, chairman
of the Zionist membership drive,

See ZIONISTS—Page 8

tory in itself. In Nazi Germany
it has been the subject for at-
tacks for many months. In Latin
American countries, the extent
of sympathy or antipathy shown
the film has been the measuring
rod for the degree of support
in the respective countries for
either the democracies or the
dictatorships.
"The Great Dictator" is com-
edy; but it is also the imper-
depicting the conflicting forces
which make up the world's strug-
sonation of an immense drama
gle for freedom.
The great moment in the pic-
ture is when Chaplin, as the
Jewish barber who is suddenly
placed before the microphone as
the dictator Hynkel delivers the
powerful appeal for justice and
brotherhood. It is a solemn and
impressive event when the world's
greatest comedian utters these
serious words:

"I'm sorry, but I don't want
to b e an emperor. That's not
my business. I don't want to
rule or conquer anyone. I
should like to help everyone, if-
possible, Jew, Gentile, black
man, white. We all want to
help one another. Human be-
ings are like that. We want
to live by each other's happi-

CHARLIE CHAPLIN

See CHAPLIN—Page 9