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Detroit Jewish Chronicle
SECTION ONE
VOL. 43, NO. 14
Ili 41*
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Loyalty Pledge
By Chief Rabbi
Of Yugoslavia
and The Legal Chronicle
DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, APRIL 4, 1941
10 Cents Single Copy; $3.00 per Yen
Former U. S. Senator William IL King to Address
Annual Federation Meeting on Sunday Evening
Preparations for 1941 Allied Jewish Campaign Get Under Way; Women's Division
to Commence Solicitations on April 15; Organizational Groups Are
Strengthened with Formation of Synagogue Committee
Colony
Formed By Bnai
Brith in lion
ing at 7:45 p. m., preceding
The Hon. William Henry King
Senator King's address, which is
of Utah, who served as a mem-
scheduled for 8:30 p. m.
ber of the United States Senate
Champion of Justice
Convention Hears Ad-
24 years, will be the guest
Nazis Link Grynszpan for
Senator King, who had a dis-
speaker at the annual meeting
tinguished
career
in
the
United
dresses by Wallace
of the Jewish Welfare Federa-
with Shooting of
States Senate in four consecu-
tion on Sunday evening, April 6,
and Weizmann
tive terms, from 1917 to 1941,
Swiss Nazi
at Hotel Statler.
has been an outstanding cham-
Senator King, who was re-
CHICAGO. — An appropriation
pion of minority rights and one
BELGRADE. (WNS)—A dele- cently elected vice-chairman of
of the most vigorous opponents of $100,000 to establish a Bnai
gation of prominent Yugoslavian the American Palestine Commit-
of the Hitler regime since its Brith-Henry Monsky colony in
Jews, headed by Chief Rabbi tee, which consists of more than
inception in 1933. He has vis- Palestine, 'adjacent to the Bnai
Isaac Alcalay, visited the royal 300 of the foremost leaders in
ited Palestine and seen the pro- Brith-Alfred M. Cohen Colony,
palace and pledged the loyalty government, public affairs, busi-
gress of the work of refugee set- created in 1936 through an ex-
and allegiance of the country's ness, education and religion, will
tlement and rebuilding of the penditure of similar size, was vot-
ed here by the national triennial
75,000 Jews to 17-year-old King speak in behalf of the United
Jewish Homeland there.
Peter II a few hours after Gen- Jewish Appeal — the combined
Born in Fillmore City, Utah, convention of Bnai Brith as it
eral Dusan Simovitch and the fund which includes the Joint
June 3, 1864, Senator King was approved a recommendation from
executive committee. The mo-
Yugoslav Army overthrew the Distribution Committee, t h e
educated at the Brigham Young the
tion, adopted by a unanimous ris-
pro-Nazi regime of Premier Dra- United Palestine Appeal and the
Academy and the University of ing vote, was offered by Judge I.
gisha Cvetkovitch.
National Refugee Service, re-
Utah. He received his LLB from M. Golden, of San Francisco, a
Dr. Alcalay, who has long been ceiving its support from the
the University of Michigan.
national vice president.
active in the political circles of Jewish community of Detroit
He began his brilliant career
The Bnai Brith-Henry Monsky
Yugoslavia, informed the young through the Allied Jewish Cam-
in public life as a member of
king that the country's Jewish paign. Today, this fund is en-
the Utah Territorial Legislature colony will be created on land to
acquired through the Jewish
population stood solidly behind gaged in an unprecedented war
in which he served for three be
National Fund, official Jewish
the new government and was pre- emergency drive for relief and
terms. He was subsequently elect- land-purchasing
agency in Pales-
pared to fight to the last man, rehabilitation overseas, for the THE HON. WILLIAM H. KING ed president of the upper body
tine. It is located adjacent to
if necessary, for the preserva- upbuilding and defense of the
for one term. He also served the existing Bnai Brith colony,
tion of Yugoslavia's independ- Jewish homeland in Palestine,
Abraham Srere, president of as Utah County attorney and where 100 refugee families are al-
ence.
and for the integration of refu- the Jewish Welfare Federation,
ready settled. Preference for set-
One of the first acts of the new gees in the United States.
See CAMPAIGN—Page 15
will preside at a business meet-
tlement in the new colony will be
government was to announce the
given to former members of Bnai
release of hundreds of men and
Brith or their children who have
women, including many Jews,
been made homeless by Nazi per-
Local Leaders on
who were arrested earlier in the
secution.
week during the widespread dem-
resolution
Advisory Committee
empowering
The
onstrations against Yugoslavia's
pointed out that more than 250,-
formal alliance with the Axis
Jewish refugees have already
powers.
Lindheim, Mereminski For Union Conclave Jewish Congress Con- 000
been settled in Palestine and that
To Revoke Anti-Semitism
venes Conference for the Jewish National Fund has
Morris Garvett, Mrs. Philip
to Address Opening
While the country wildly cele-
made available large tracts of
Bloomgarden, Benjamin Wilk,
July 9 to 11
Session
land for the settlement and re-
brated the overthrow of the pro-
Mrs. Harry Krohn, Fred M. But-
habilitation of the refugees.
Axis regime, a source close to
zel, Maurice A. Enggass, Dr.
A conference of representatives
Premier Simovitch was reported
Other Appropriations
Mrs. Irma Lindheim, world- Hugo A. Freund, Albert Kahn,
to have given assurances to Jew- famous Zionist personage, and Julian H. Krolik, Meyer L. Pren- of all Jewish communities in
Previously Bnai Brith appropri-
tis, Leo M. Butzel, Dr. Herbert North, Central and South Amer- ated $15,000 for further imple-
ish leaders here that the anti-
Jewish regulations, adopted re- Israel Mereminski, active leader I. Kallett, Mrs. Sol Wolff, Mrs. ica, will be held in Montevideo, mentation of the Bnai Brith-
cently as a sop to Nazi demands, of the Histadruth, the Jewish La- Sidney Weinman, Mrs. Milford
Uruguay, on July 9, 10 and 11, Bogen-RubinoW Forest in Pales-
would shortly be revoked.
bor Federation of Palestine, will Stern, Mrs. Sam Sloman, Miss
tine, which was established in
Yugoslavia's Jews, for the most be the principal speakers at the Henrietta Robinson, Mrs. Ben- according to an announcement 1938 as a memorial to the late
jamin Lambert, Mrs. Maier B. made by Dr. Stephen S. Wise, Drs. Boris Bogen and I. M, Rub-
part tradesmen and small arti-
sans, are concentrated mainly in opening assembly of the ninth Finsterwald, Mrs. Douglas Brown, president of the American Jew- inow, secretaries of Bnai Brith.
Belgrade. Yugoslavia was little national convention of Hashomer Mrs. Julian Krolik, Mr. and Mrs. ish Congress. Invitations to the Bnai Brith also voted $2,000 to
affected by anti-Semitism until Hatzair, the world Zionist scout Louis Cohane are the local lead- conference, which is the first of the University in Exile, in New
Nazi agents appeared among the movement convening in De- ers who are members of the na- its kind in history, have been York City, which is engaged in
tional advisory committee of the issued over the signatures of Dr. rescuing some of the great schol-
Croats and spread typical Nazi
anti-Jewish propaganda. Yugo- troit, April 15 to 20. The con- Union of American Hebrew Con- Wise, Louis Lipsky, chairman ars made homeless by Hitler's
This committee, made of the governing council of the coming to power.
slav Jews have always found vention will open in Northern gregations.
up of outstanding leaders from
Other appropriations included
their staunchest supporters among High School Auditorium on Tues- all parts of the country is one of American Jewish Congress; Judge
the Serbs, Serbia having officially day evening, April 15, with the the key groups now completing Julian W. Mack, honorary pres- an additional $500 to the Bnai
presentation of the pageant,
ident of the World Jewish Con- Brith Child Care Committee ih
emancipated the Jews in 1878.
(From the plans for the 37th biennial coun- gress; and Dr. Nahum Gold- England, which had previously
"Mimaamakim"
cil
of
the
Union
and
biennial
con-
$5,000 for the care of
Nazis to Link Grynszpan with Depths), a saga of Europe and ventions of its affiliates and mann, chairman of the adminis- received
German-Jewish child refugees
Palestine,
as
well
as
the
addresses
trative
committee
of
the
World
youth
which
will
take
place
in
Shooting of Swiss Nazi in
brought to England prior to the
of these two distinguished Zion- Detroit, April 26 to May 1.
Jewish Congress.
Broadcast Trial
In explaining the purposes of outbreak of the war; and $500
On Thursday and Friday, Rabbi
GENEVA. (WNS) — David ists.
Mrs. Lindheim, former national Louis I. Egelson, director of syna- the Pan-American Jewish con- for the Haifa Nautical School in
Frankfurter, the young Jewish
ference, Dr. Wise said that in Palestine, which trains boys for
medical student who shot and president of Hadassah and now a
the spirit of President Roosevelt's careers in the maritime field.
member
of
Kibbutz
Mishmar
Hae-
See
U.
A.
H.
C.—Page
9
killed Wilhelm Gustloff, Swiss
"good neighbor" policy, which has
Joint Fund-Raising
mek
of
Hashomer
Hatzair
in
Pal-
Nazi leader, on Feb. 4, 1936, and
been approved by all Latin Amer-
The Anti-Defamation League of
Herschel Grynszpan, 19-year-old estine, is widely known for her
ican countries, the meeting is de- Bnai Brith and the American
Polish Jew who killed Baron achievements as a lecturer, au-
signed to bring about closer con- Jewish Committee have agreed
Ernst vom Rath, a Nazi Embassy thoress, leader and devoted Zion-
tact and fuller cooperation among upon an immediate joint fund-
ist
who
left
her
comfortable
life
secretary, in Paris on Nov. 7,
the Jewish communities in the raising campaign for the defense
in
America
to
become
a
chalutzah
By
AL
SEGAL
1938, were members of a terror-
Western Hemisphere, so that each programs of the two agencies,
in
Eretz
Yisroel
in
one
of
the
ist band organized by the "Elders
passed a church on the front community may be completely Mr. Monsky announced in his
I
collective
agricultural
colonies.
of Zion" to murder Nazi officials,
steps of which sat an old man. integrated, through the life of presidential report to the con-
Chief of Gestapo Heinrich Himm- Mr. Mereminsky, a member of
Ile was selling Coughlin's Social its own country, in the American vention, which heard him read
ler will "prove" at the elaborate the executive of the Histadruth, Justice.
A black headline on the way of life common to all peo- the text of a joint statement
show trial of young Grynszpan, is on a visit to the United States front page of Social Justice took ples on the American continents. signed
by him and Sol Stroock,
according to reports from Paris. as the Palestinian delegate to my eye from contemplation of
The conference, Dr. Wise add- president of the American Jew-
Nazi authorities, who last the Gewerkshaften campaign. He the pathetic little old man. It ed, wil consider and coordinate ish Committee.
week announced that Grynszpan is especially known to the Far- suggested that the Jews have methods of bringing material and
The campaign will be known as
"confessed" that he had acted vand, Pioneer Women's and been trying to rob Christians of moral help to Jewish victims of the "Joint Appeal for the Amer-
under orders of "international Poale-Zion organizations as well Lent. The headline asked:
the war, and unite all American ican Defense Activities of the
Jewry" when he killed von Rath, as al: Zionist groups. As a la-
Jewish communities in support American Jewish Committee and
bor
leader
he
has
been
acclaimed
have made arrangements to
DO JEWS IN U. S.
of the effort to establish the Jew-
WANT CHRISTIANS
See BNAI BRITH—Page 16
ish National Home in Palestine.
See
SHOMER—Page
8
See NAZIS—Page 13
TO ABANDON LENT?
People were going in and out
of the church to and from their
Lenten devotions. Oh, I mused
By LOUIS LIPSKY
joyously, the Christians still have
Lent, nevertheless, and are giv-
The majestic figure on the a young man in spiritual storm ing themselves fully to its spir- World Jewish Leader Urges British Government to
Permit Establishment of Jewish Military Force on
bridge overlooking the Rhine at struggling with a "revelation." itual ideals.
Basle.—The stately leader of a He is indeed possessed. The idea
Par with Other Exiled Peoples' Armies
I, as a Jew, could not help
Congress announcing the prom- which possesses him is trans- but feel that if it were in my
ises of Kings that would lead formed in the struggle, and the power I should provide Mr. Declaring that the Jewish prob- everywhere must recognize that
his people to the Promised Land. man in the process is himself Coughlin with more and more lem is a world problem rep- the solution of the Jewish prob-
—A Messiah in a frock-coat.—A transfigured and becomes the Lent instead of taking any part resenting a challenge to those lem lies in giving the Jewish
bright meteor rushing through a leading actor in a drama which
who will guide the post-war re- people an opportunity to build
clouded sky and disappearing into ends in tragedy. Before the idea of it away from him. Lent is construction efforts of the world, a land of its own.
for
penitence
and
I
should
give
the darkness.—That is Theodor becomes focused in reality, he is
Dr. Chaim Weizmann, presi-
Dr. Weizmann, who has guided
the victim of hysteria which dis- him years and years of Lent in ident of the Jewish Agency for the destinies of the movement
Herzl of the Zionist legend.
which
to
lie
prostrate
at
the
feet
torts the facts; the difficulties
Palestine and of the World Zion-
the rebuilding of the Jewish
In the life of IIerzl Alexander are exaggerated in depression; of his gentle Lord for penitence. ist Organization, said in his first for
National Home in Palestine dur-
Penitence for spreading false-
Bein has written, the legend and swept aside in moments of
public declaration since his ar-
emphasized
comes to life and makes a queer exaltation. He moves from one hood, penitence for giving hates rival by clipper in the United ing the past 25 years,
program
for the
the
Zionist
that
to
the
hearts
of
men
in
spite
impression. The book gives the impossible task to another, dis-
States, that British statesmen
color, ,form and sequence of
See
WEIZMANN—Page
11
and the leaders of democracy
See LENT—Page 13
See HERZL--Page 10
Herzl's adventures. It begins with
Pan-American
Parley Called
Simmer Parley
April hi to 20
s
This Paper Printed in Two Sections
More Lent
. 0.1
Herzl Legend Comes to Life
Dr. Weizmann Points to Palestine
As Solution to Post-War Problem