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SECTION ONE
VOL. 43, NO. 17
and'The Legal Chronicle
DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, APRIL 25. 1941
This Paper Printed in Three Sections
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Scores of Jews
Additional Allied Jewish
Palestine Jewish Students
Killed in Nazi
Bald on London
Demand Expansion of Armed Jewish Deputy Called a Campaign Appointments in
Rothschild
Preparation for 1941 Drive
Forces as War Threat Nears Deserter;
Is Exonerated
LONDON. ( WKS) —Scores of Dr. Weizmann Inspires Large Audience at
Jews were killed and countless
Public Meeting; Special Broadcast in Behalf
shops and homes were destroyed
in an eight-hour Nazi air at-
of Campaign Sunday Afternoon
tack on London which reduced
Jewish quarter to a shambles.
In behalf of the Detroit Allied Jewish Campaign
JERUSALEM. (WNS)—With Nazi-Italian advances the
Four Jewish fire-fighters were
in North Africa and the Balkans bringing closer the dan- killed when they stuck to their and similar appeals now being conducted throughout
ger of an Axis invasion of Palestine, Jewish college stu- posts in a burning building.
the country, the Joint Distribution Committee will go
Many women and children, in- on the air from coast to coast over the Mutual network
dents urged the government to close higher educational
cluding a number of refugees,
institutions to free students for service in the country's were
buried under tons of de- on Sunday, April 27. The program, a dramatic presen-
armed forces.
bris when the Jewish clubhouse tation of rescue, relief and rehabilitation operations over-
The demand of the students was one of the steps in which they had found shelter
seas, will be heard in Detroit
was hit by a bomb. Memorial
taken by the defense-conscious
over radio station CKLW, from
services for the dead were held
Jewish community to prepare for
3:30 to 4 p. in.
in a nearby synagogue which
a Nazi invasion. At a special
Henry Wineman, chairman of
remained untouched although
meeting of the Central Commit-
the 1941 Allied Jewish Campaign,
buildings surrounding it were
tee of Hebrew Students, which
will broadcast on behalf of the
completely demolished.
represents the student bodies of
Major Cazelet Sees Pal- local drive in the course of the
The
entire
Jewish
quarter
was
the Hebrew University in Jeru- Polish Leader Gives
nation-wide program. The pro-
almost wholly destroyed, large
estine as Solution
salem, the Haifa Technicum and
gram will feature Raymond
Assurances to Con- craters remaining the only signs
the Tel Aviv Economic School,
Gram Swing. Scheduled to be
of Problem
of former buildings and market
a resolution was adopted de-
heard, also, are Edna Ferber,
gress
Delegation
places.
Apartment
houses
were
manding mandatory enlistment
George S. Kaufman and Ed-
wrecked,
some
of
them
being
Declaring
that
the
Jews
have
of students to strengthen Pales-
ward M. M. Warburg, chairman
NEW YORK—Assurances that completely burned to the ground. been fighting the Battle of the of the J.D.C.
tine's military defense.
Democracies for more than seven
the Polish Government consid-
Palestine Prepared to Resist
A feature of the presentation
Mendes France Charged with years, Major Victor A. Cazelet, will be a radio drama, "Cable
ers
that
it
is
helping
to
fight
conference
of
graduates
of
A
noted
Member
of
the
House
of
Desertion; Rothschild
Hebrew colleges throughout the an ideological war from which a
Commons, urged in a press in- from Lisbon," specially pre-
Exonerated
country, held in Tel Aviv, served new world order will emerge,
terview that a Jewish state in pared for the J.D.C. by George
(W
N
S)
—
Mendes
VICHY.
warning to aggresor nations that based on freedom and justice to
Palestine be established at the Ludlam, leading radio writer.
France,
former
Deputy
from
Palestine was prepared to resist, all, were offered by General
end of the war in order to bring "Cable from Lisbon" tells the
Seine-Inferieure
and
a
member
to the last man if necessary, any Wladyslaw Sikorski, Prime Min-
about the solution of the prob- story of the suffering and the
of
one
of
the
foremost
Jewish
attack. Moshe Shertok, head of ister of the Polish overnment,
lem of Jewish homelessness in rescue of victims of the war
the political department of the to a delegation of the American families in Bayonne, will be tried many parts of the world.
and of persecution, as it un-
next month by a military
folds in the scores of cabled
Jewish Agency, sounded the key- Jewish Congress and the World early
court
at
Clermont-Ferrand,
and
Major Cazelet, who arrived appeals from all parts of the
note of the meeting when he de- Jewish Congress, in an interview
charged with desertion from the recently in this country as liaison world that funnel through the
clared:
held at Hotel Buckingham. Gen- army, it was learned here.
officer between the British Gov- J.D.C. European headquarters in
"It is our duty to throw our- eral Sikorski stated that the
Meanwhile, Philippe de Roths-
selves into the struggle with principles to which the Polish child, son of Baron Henri de ernment and General Sikorski, Lisbon every day and are re-
heart and soul. We are fighting Government is dedicated are the Rothschild, who had been arrest- Premier of the Polish Govern- layed from Lisbon to New York.
Together with the United Pal-
with our backs to the wall. Yet five freedoms enunciated by Pres- ed on a similar charge in Al- ment in Exile, has for many
our will and endurance are im- ident Roosevelt, namely, freedom geria and brought to France for years been chairman of the Pal- estine Appeal and the National
estine Committee and Refugee
measurably strong."
of religion, freedom of expres- trial, was exonerated by the mili- Committee in the House of Com- Refugee Service, the Joint Dis-
tribution Committee, as a con-
David Ben Gurion, chairman sion, freedom from fear of at- tary court and released from cus- mons. He was interviewed at stituent agency of the United
tack,
freedom
of
information
and
of the Jewish Agency Executive,
tody.
headquarters of Emergency Com-
addressed the special conference knowledge, and of the press, and
At the same time, it was learn- mittee for Zionist Affairs, 41 E.
See CAMPAIGN—Page 18
freedom from want. The slogan ed that Mme. Andre Blumel, wife 42nd St., New York. Referring to
See DEFENSE—Page 20
of the present government is of the Chief of Cabinet during the critical situation in the Medi-
"Equal obligations and equal Leon Blum's Popular Front. Gov- terranean, Major Cazelet said
rights."
ernment, and her son were ar- that in view of its strategic geo_
These statements, further elab- rested and jailed when they were graphical position Palestine is
orated by the Polish Prime Min- turned over to the French au- bound to play an important role
ister, followed the presentation thorities by the Spanish Govern- in the defense of the Suez Can-
to him of a Memorandum setting ment. Mme. Blume] and her son, al. The British diplomat stressed Ladies at New High;
the series of steps which who were accused of crossing il- the fact that thousands of Jews
Urge Detroit Jews to forth
Youth Campaign
the Polish Government was urged legally into Spain from France have already been enrolled in
Make a Special
to take in order to assure the last June, are awaiting trial in a the British Forces in the Middle
Opens May 4
prison at Perprynan, southern
Designation
See SIKORSKI—Page 16
France.
See STATE—Page 17
Evidence of a new high in
community response to the Wo-
Calling the attention of the
men's Division Drive for the 1941
community to provisions for spe-
Allied Jewish Campaign was
cial designations for a Jewish
given during the past week at
hospital on pledge cards for the
the two report meetings held at
Allied Jewish Campaign, the De-
the Jewish Community Center.
troit Hebrew Hospital Association
An indication of the way De-
has issued an appeal urging De- Special Supplement Included in This Issue of Detroit Jewish Chronicle troit women are responding to
troit Jews to make initial gifts
the desperate need for help over-
Devoted to Convention Program and to Accomplishments of
for this purpose and thereby as-
seas, for Palestine rebuilding,
sure the laying of the foundation
and for refugees here, are the
Union
of
American
Hebrew
Congregations
for a hospital.
increases in the pledges which
Acting on decisions reached by
A large number of American ing the accomplishments of the
are being reported.
the board of the Hebrew Hospital Jewry's outstanding leaders will Union of American Hebrew ticipate in the sessions are: Mel-
"Detroit
women,"
declared
Association at a meeting on Tues- convene in Detroit this week as Congregations and its affiliated ville S. Welt, chairman of the
Detroit convention committee; Mrs. Abraham Srere, chairman
day evening, at the home of the delegates to the 37th biennial groups.
Harry C. Grosnisan, president of of the Women's Division, "are
secretary, William Buchhalter, council of the Union of Ameri-
Prominent Christian and Jew- Temple Beth El; Judge Charles also mindful of the many local
Dr. Leon A. Katzin, president, can Hebrew Congregations.
ish educators will speak at the C. Simons of the U. S. Circuit and national causes included
made the call to the community
Opening with a religious serv- sessions of the affiliated groups Court of Appeals; Justice Henry among the 55 agencies supported
in behalf of the Jewish hospital
Butzel of the Michigan State by the Allied Jewish Campaign.
fund. Dr. Katzin pointed out that ice session at Temple Beth El on as well as the Union itself. Some M.
Supreme
Court; Fred M. Butzel; Descriptive of our attitude tow-
of
the
addresses
will
be
broad-
Sunday
evening,
convention
ses-
in accordance with decisions of
Dr. Leo M. Franklin and Rabbi ard this giontic fund-raising
the Jewish Welfare Federation, sions will be held beginning on cast.
Detroit leaders who will par- Leon Fram.
effort, is our own campaign slo-
contributors may designate to the Monda• mornig at Hotel Statler
gan, "Life, Liberty and the Pur-
Jewish hospital fund any portion ad at the Book Cadillac Hotel.
The climax of the convention
suit of Happiness—for them and
of a pledge beyond 110 per cent
for us!"
will take place at the banquet
of the 1940 subscription.
Third Report Monday
"We are heartened by latest on Wednesday evening, at the
The guest speaker at the third
action in behalf of a Jewish hos- Statler, with Hendrik Willem
report luncheon meeting of the
pital, and we are confident that Van Loon, James Marshall and
Women's Division, scheduled for
our aspirations will soon be real- Dr. Emil Leipziger as principal
Monday noon, April 28, at the
ited," Dr. Katzin stated. "It is speakers.
Meeting simultaneously with
Jewish Community Center, will
therefore imperative that Detroit
be Rabbi Solomon B. Freehof, of
Jews encourage the movement the Union of American Hebrew
Pittsburgh.
and make contributions now in Congregations are the three affili-
Former professor of liturgy at
order to assure the creation of ated organizations of the Union—
Hebrew Union College, Dr. Free-
the necessary initial fund for National Federation of Temple
Sisterhoods, National Federation
hof is a brilliant speaker. His
this great cause."
weekly book reviews are ac-
Besides Dr. Katzin as president of Temple Brotherhoods and Na-
claimed throughout the city of
and Mr. Buchhalter as secretary, tional Federation of Temple
Right
to
left:
Jim-A
Marshall,
president
of
New
York
City
Pittsburgh, and are attended by
other officers and directors of the Youth.
convention Board of Education; Rabbi Emil Leipziger, New Orleans, president enthusiastic members of every
complete
The
Detroit Hebrew Hospital Associa-
of Central Conference of American Rabbis; and Hendrik Willem sectarian group. He is the rabbi
in the
tion are: H. T. Glickman, vice program will be found
Van Loon, author, lecturer and journalist, who will speak in Detroit, of Pittsburgh's Rodef Shalom
s upplement
special
four-page
president; Marcus Kates, treas-
included in this issue of The April 30, at the joint banquet session of the 37th biennial council Congregation.
urer; Maurice Floch, Joseph Cam- Detroit Jewish Chronicle. This of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, the 14th biennial
Three Reports in May
iener, Michael Bagdade, Isaac
dedicated to the assembly of the National Federation of Teraple Sisterhoods, and
Three additional report meet•
Rosenthal, Philip Slomovitz, Da- supplement,
also car- the ninth biennial convention of the National Federation of Temple
vid Oppenheim and Manuel Ros- Union's c onvention,
See DRIVES—Page 17
ies o a rticles describ- Brotherhoods.
ries
a
ser
enthal.
Zionists Urge Britain to Mobilize Jewish Man-
power in Palestine; Latest Reports Tell
of Suffering and Heroism
Sikorski Backs
Jewish Bights
Statesman for
Jewish State
Women, Youth
Direct Drives
Appeal Made by
Hospital Ass'n
Reform Jewish Organizations Convene
Here; Outstanding Leaders Will Speak
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