DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and the Legal Chronicle 16 PALESTINE C. F. Smith Co. (Continued from Page 1) March 28, 1941 Five Detroiters on Jewish Interfaith Group for Democracies The formal establishment of a statement made by Rabbi William Allen White of Emporia, the Jewish Section of the Inter- Goldstein, will undertake as its Kan. Pointing out that by treaty faith Committee for Aid to the immediate task the matter of and Congressional enactment the Democracies, for the purpose of fulfilling a pledge to secure 200 American Government has for- rendering aid to Great Britain, m o b i 1 e field kitchens for the a mally recognized and approved the with headquarters at 57 William British population, involving St., New York City, in the offices cost of approximately $400,000. establishment of a Jewish Na- The organization has already tional Home in Palestine, Senator of the British War Relief So- Wagner declared that this policy ciety, was announced this week. excess credited its efforts which a sum has in of to $75,000, has received the public endorse- Anent of Presidents Wilson, Hard- leaders . More of than 138 representative Jewish communities in been turned over to the British 48 cities and 26 states of the War Relief Society. It is pro- ing, Coolidge, Hoover and Roose- elt. posed to establish in key corn- Included among the members Union have associated themselves I with the Jewish Section, as well munities throughout the United of Congress who have joined the as 18 outstanding National Or- States, those represent- outstanding National by including sponsoring groups, local American 'Palestine Committee ganizations. Jewish sections of the Jewish Section are: Senators Arthur H. Van- of the Interfaith Committee, The purpose of the ewi denberg and Prentiss M. Brown which will in turn mobilize Jew- and Congressmen Fred Bradley Section are twofold— I. To secure needed supplies ish Community support for as- and John D. Dingell of Michigan. for the British population sistance to the British popula- The American Palestine Corn- 2. To secure the cooperation tion. mittee also has on its roster of of all Jewish i groups with the membership a number of dig- Interfaith Committee for Aid to . With respect to these activi- ties, the Jewish Section will op- tinguished educators ,and relig- the Democracies. erate in close cooperation with ious leaders. Dr. Israel Goldstein of the the British War Relief Society, More than 150 members of Congregation Bnai Jeshurun has making all contributions payable the U. S. Senate and House tare been elected as chairman of the directly to the British War Re- resenting both major parties are committee, with the following listed on the rolls of the Ameri- vice-chairmen: Judge I. M. Gold- lief Society. Dr. Maurice L. Perlzweig of can Palestine Committee. on of San Francisco; Senator The governors of 19 states Alfred -- M. Cohen of Cincinnati; London, who is the chairman of have joined the committee. They Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver of the British Section of the World include Governor Murray D. Van Cleveland; Edmund I. Kauf- Jewish Congress, will serve as Wagoner of Michigan. iann, president of the Zionist liaison between the Jewish Sec- Dr. Frank Cody, Superintend- Organization rganization of America; Dr. tion of the Interfaith Commit- ent of Detroit Schools and Presi- Stephen S. Wise, president of tee and the British War Relief dent of Wayne University, has the American Jewish Congress; Society. Eighteen n a t i o n a 1 organiza- joined the committee. Hon. Carl Sherman; Mrs. David tions, with a membership DeSola Pool, president of Hadas- nctions Under- sah; Judge Nathan D. Perlman; throughout the country have gro Polish Zionism Functions Dr. Samuel Margoshes; Herman pledged their aid to the effort Order Brith Sholom; of the Jewish Section and have JERUSALLEM. — (Palcor Independent Hoffman, grandmaster of the formally authorized the sponsor- Agency) — That the Chalutz of its undertakings. movement and the various youth Mrs. Bernard S. Deutsch; Louis ship Among the members of the organizations in the Polish oc- Fabricant. Irving A. Manacher cupied territories are continuing is treasurer of the organization, committee of sponsorship are the from Detrit: to function against difficult odds and James Waterman Wise, sec- following Albert Kahn, Simon Shetzer, . as underground movements was retary. The Jewish Section of the In- Philip Slomovitz, Rabbi Joshua the theme of revelations made Saturday at the national confer- terfaith Committee, according to S. Sperka, Abraham Srere. ence held in this city by two youth organizations, Gordonia and thoutands of these persons caught Wayne-Michigan Young Maccabi. in the Nazi web. The two groups decided to The statement by the Jewish Avukah Party on merge within the framework of Agency took sharp issue with O the working Palestine and Kvut- a statement made on Wednesday Saturday Evening zah movements. in the House of Commons by A flag which had been Colonial Undersecretary George The University of Michigan brought at great hazard from Henry Hall, who sought to make and Wayne chapters of Avukah A Store in Your Neighborhood occupied Poland across many it appear that Great Britain will hold their second annual frontiers by a woman member was showing regard for the Jews spring party in Ann Arbor this who reached Eretz Israel a week who desperately want an oppor- Saturday night, March 29, at the ago was tendered to the Gordonia tunity to escape from Rumania Beth Israel Synagogue. group as a gift by its bearer. The by issuing special immigration The party will be in the form presentation of this flag was certificates for Palestine. of a mock night club. made the occasion for a report Mr. Hall had said to the House In addition to the combined on the Zionist activity which is of Commons that "a substantial proceeding clandestinely in both number" of the Rumanian Jews Wayne and Michigan Avukahs there will be present as guests sections of Poland. who escaped alive in the Janu- sonic 20 Jewish students from It is only through the people ary pogroms "are included in the Hillel Foundation extension who manage to arrive here that the arrangements" for the trans- at the Michigan State Normal the truth of Zionist suppression fer of over 700 Jews from that College at Ypsilanti. and underground activity in both Balkan country to Palestine. The Joint affairs between the Jew- n Nazi and Soviet Poland comes Jewish Agency accused the Gov- ish student groups in Detroit and to light. The letters and other eminent of seeking to give an un- Ann Arbor and more recently written messages that are re- justified impression of its willing- Ypsilanti are becoming more and ceived from the occupied tern- ness to permit the Rumanian more common. This Saturday's tories bear only the most stereo- Jews to find asylum in Eretz party promises to be a fine ex- typed of phrases — such as: Israel. The facts of the case, the ample of just such an affair. That This Year As Always They Will Produce "We are well ; let usknow how Agency pointed out, are other- you are," and the like. wise. In Nazi-occupied Poland, it is Shertok to Visit Cairo Dr. Henry H. Crane reported, many young Zionists Moshe Shertok, head of the To Address Temple have been shipped off for forced political department of the Jew- labor. There was great . anxiety ish Agency for Palestine, left Women on April 14 there as to what the winter and for Egypt. He will go straight to spring would bring. The estab- Cairo, where he is expected to lishment of the ghetto had mad . e confer with various Government The Sisterhood of Temple Beth SWEET CREAM SOUR CREAM contacts more difficult. But still officials during the course of El announces that its speaker for activity was continuing there, as his short visit. the next monthly meeting, Mon- well as in Russian-occupied Pol- day, April 14, at the Temple, and. Britain Will Not Permit Balkan will be Dr. Henry Hitt Crane, pastor of the Central Methodist In the latter territory attempts Jewish Refugees to Enter Church of Detroit, who will speak Palestine have been made to penetrate the schools and to disseminate infor- LONDON. — (WNS) —Jew- on "The Time to Laugh." Dr. mation on what was happening ish refugees from Rumania, Hun- Crane, who has held the longest Under the Supervision of the in Palestine. Attempts also have gary and Yugoslavia will not be pastorates in the history of the been made to establish contact permitted to enter Palestine, Methodist Church, averages more VAAD HA'RABONIM OF DETROIT between the Jews of Old Russia Colonial Under-Secretary George then one address a day, not only and the Zionist Jewries of Galicia H. Hall declared in the House locally, but throughout the coun- and Beloe Russia. The contact of Commons. Mr. Hall said that try. Dessert luncheon will be served between the Zionist movement in exceptions from this ruling would Russian Poland and in Warsaw be granted in the case of promi- at 1:30 in the social hall, with is being maintained to this day, nent Zionist leaders in the Bal- the meeting immediately after at 2:30. it was said. UNiversity 1-2800 kans. 4055 PURITAN AVE. Although a number of leading Jews in the Balkan nations Zionists have been imprisoned, who already hold immigration the rank and file have remained certificates, he said, will, of Pioneer Women Celebrate International Women's loyal to their Zionist ideal, it was course, be admitted to Palestine. declared. They have gone through Mr. Hall's declaration of policy Day Saturday "unimaginable difficulties and was made in response to a ques- dangers, and all as a result of tion by Col. Josiah Wedgwood, The Pioneer Women of Detroit, Retain their great hope that they may Laborite, who asked what action combined with the United Read- achieve their single purpose of had been taken by the British ing Circles, are planning an in- Judge NEAL aliyah (immigration into Eretz Government to permit Jews driv- teresting program for Saturday, Israel)," one of the new arrivals en out of Balkan countries to March 29, to celebrate Interna- reported. The difficulty in main- enter the Holy Land. tional Women's Day, proclaimed taining contacts prevents the im- 1908 as a special day for the plementation of a program on a Sabotag e Responsible for Patria in recognition of women's accom- large scale, but underground cul- Explosion in Haifa Harbor plishments, and thereafter ob- tural and educational activities HAIFA. — (WNS) — Sabo- are nonetheless being carried on. tage was responsible for the ex- served throughout the world. The program will be presented Palestine Government Scored for plosion and sinking of the S. S. at the Workman's Circle Center, Callousness by Jewish Agency Patria, with 1,904 Jewish refu- at 2:30 p. m. The speaker, Dr. To fill vacancy—Term ending Dec. 31, 1943 The Jewish Agency for Pales- gees aboard, in Haifa Harbor last Clarissa Fineman, has chosen for Thoroughly qualified by years of legal prac- tine charged the Palestine Gov- Nov. 25, according to a report her subject, "Women in the De- tice; Legal Instructor. U. of D. Law School ernment with callousness to the submitted to High Commissioner fense of Democracy." A musical and life-long resident of Detroit. plight of imperiled Rumanian Sir Harold A. MacMichael by the program will be an added attrac- NON-PARTISAN BALLOT Jews because of its failure to Special Commission of Inquiry, tion. provide special certificates to which was appointed to investi- The public is invited to attend. Election April 7, 1941 meet the emergency confronting gate the disaster. Admission is free. Pure Food Stores • WHERE PRICE TELLS AND QUALITY SELLS • Watch for Our PASSOVER SPECIALS Featured at All C. F. Smith Co. Pure Food Stores UNITED DAIRIES HI-TEST MILK Kosher Shel Pesach 1 United Dairies, Inc. FITZO ERALD Common Pleas Judge