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SECTION ONE
DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY. MAY 2, 1941
This Paper Printed in Two Sections
10 Cents Single Copy; $3.00 perYeat
VOL. 43, NO. 18
Na.miesD.abFbria ;kin"enr itus Chief Rabbi Herzog of Palestine Will Speak
U. A. H. C. Ur Urges
Sunday in Behalf of Allied Jewish Campaign;
Jewish Council
Dr. Abba Hillel Silver to Open Drive May 11
Reconstitution
Retires from Active Temple
Beth El Ministry After
42 Years
D r. Leo M. Franklin, for 42
years rabbi of Temple Beth El
of Detroit, is retiring from his
ctive ministry and will become
rabbi emeritus of the Temple on
Oct. 31, 1911, Harry C. Grossman,
Spurred by reports of the immensa services being rendered to stricken Jews
president of the temple, announced
Heated discussions on the last Saturday.
in war-torn Europe, in Palestine, and in havens of refuge throughout the world,
status of the Union of American
Mr. Grossman announced that preparation for the 1941 Allied Jewish Campaign was in full swing this week, ac-
Hebrew Congregations and the the board of trustees of the Tern-
cording to Henry Wineman, campaign chairman. The campaign, which will open
wisdom of the dissolution of the le had taken ac-
officially with a dinner at Hotel Statler, on Sunday evening, May 11, will be con-
General Jewish Council featured p
the sessions of the 37th biennial tion on Dr.
ducted through May 22, and will seek a minimum of $940,000 for 55 local, national
council of the Union, which F r a n klin's ex-
and overseas causes.
came to a close at the banquet pressed
desire
to
retire at
a meet-
Guest speaker at the opening dinner, on May 11, will be Dr. Abba Hillel
on Wednesday night.
on April 22,
on
Silver, national chairman of the
Dr. Mann recommended (1) when the follow-
United Jewish Appeal for Refu-
recording of programs of music, ing r e s o 1 ution
gees, Overseas Needs and Pales-
Guest
Here
Sunday
service and sermon be made in was adopted:
tine, spiritual leader of the Tem-
large Union congregations and "0 n J a n. 24,
ple in Cleveland, and one of the
made available to small congre- 1899, Leo Morris
foremost scholars and Jewish
gations; (2) immediate formation Franklin entered
leaders in America.
of a monthly journal for Liberal into the service
PALESTINE CHIEF RABBI
Judaism by the Union; (3) fur- of C 0 ngregation
TO SPEAK HERE SUNDAY
ther development of youth activi- Beth El as its
The highlight of advance pro-
ties including use of at least four rabbi. The con-
gramming for the drive will be
field secretaries; (4) increased g r e g a tion was
the address by Dr. Isaac Halevy
number of seminars, relatively
a small
Richard A. Meyer, president Herzog, Chief Rabbi of Palestine,
ng old Dr. Franklin
oc cupyi
who will be the guest of Detroit
The first of the series of im- one
and equate
inad e
of the Chicago Jewish Youth
Jewry on Sunday, May 4, and
passioned discussions came after quarters. Since that day, it has
Assembly and prominent in the who will speak on behalf of the
. and prospered greatly under
an address on Monday by Dr. lived
city's communal work, will be Allied Jewish Campaign before a
Louis Mann of Chicago, who his dynamic spirit, increasing six
the principal speaker at the public meeting at Congregation
criticized failures of the past, fold in numbers and twice finding
Junior Division opening dinner Bnai Moshe, Dexter and Law-
including that of serving univer- it necessary to erect magnificent
for the 1941 Allied Jewish Cam- rence Ayes., at 8 p. m. Dr. Her-
sity students, and urged the places of worship.
paign. The dinner is scheduled zog comes to Detroit as a repre-
"In the four decades that have
adoption of more aggressive and
for Sunday, May 4, at 6:30 p.
sentative of the United Jewish
more far-reaching means of ad- passed since his coming to Detroit,
at the Jewish Community Cen- Appeal, and will devote his brief
vancing the Union's platform. he has enriched the life of the
visit here to the interests of the
Sharp division of opinion marked Congregation, the City and the
local fund-raising project.
the debate that followed his ad- State in a measure far exceeding
By virtue of his position as
that given to most men to achieve.
CHIEF RABBI IIERZOG
dress.
Chief Rabbi of Palestine, Dr.
On Wednesday morning, af- A Jew and an American, not
Herzog is recognized as the lead-
ter discussion of the work of merely by the accident of birth
er of the religious Jewish com-
the four major Jewish organi- or nativity, but by the deepest
munities of the entire world and
zations—Morris D. Waldman convictions. of his_50,1.11, , e_ has
is one of the outstanding mem-
speaking for the Amemrican never limited his ministry and
bers of the world movement of
Jewish Committee, Rabbi Mor- works to the people of his own
religious faith or of his own na-
Miz•achi, the orthodox Zionist
ton Berman for the American
tive land. Untiring in his efforts
organization.
Jewish Congress, Sigmund Liv-
in behalf of Jew and non-Jew
WAS FORMERLY CHIEF
ingston for Anti-Defamation
alike, he has always had energy
RABBI OF IRELAND
League, Fred M. Butzel for to spare for the relief of suffer-
Prior to his elevation to the
National Council of Federa- ing among those living in less
great office he now holds in the
tions and Welfare Funds, B. C. fortunate lands across the seas.
Holy Land, Dr. Herzog was Chief
Sherman for Jewish Labor Com-
The Non - Sectarian Anti - Nazi
"No project for the betterment
Rabbi of the Irish Free State. A
took of mankind has ever been foreign League distributed 10,000 copies
mittee — heated debate
great Talmudic scholar, he was
place on the problems of Jew- to his interest. As a resident of of a circular titled: "What One
educated in England and holds
ish unity. A resolution adopt-
Detroit, he has given of himself Hitler Medal Can Do." outside
the degree of Doctor of Litera-
ed by the delegates expressed without stint whenever the call Manhattan Center, New York, as
ture from London University.
"deep regret that the objec- to serve came to him. As a con- a protest against the rally ad-
Before coming to the United
sultant in innumerable matters of dressed by Colonel Charles A.
tives envisaged at Pittsburgh
States he made a tour of South
in 1938 have not been realized, public interest during the years, Lindbergh, held under the aus-
Africa in the interests of Pales-
and our tragic disappointment as a member and President of the pices of the America First Cont-
tine's reconstruction. He has
at the present situation." Pro- Library Commission, as a leader mittee.
been acclaimed not only by Jews,
A statement issued by the
viding for the selections of a in all cultural activities and in
RICHARD A. MEYER
but by Christians as well, wher-
the civic life of the community board of directors of the League
committee of three who should,
ter, Woodward and Holbrook ever he has traveled, and is re-
together with a committee generally, he has contributed read as follows:
garded with reverence and re-
"The Nazis used their 'secret
from the Central Conference richly to the remarkable progress
in the program, spect in Palestine among the
Participating in
of American Rabbis, strive for of the city during his sojourn weapon' in New York tonight.
the reconstitution of unity and here. Well earned, indeed, as a Aided by the support of every un- together with Mr. Meyer, will be English and Arab, as well as the
the reorganization of the Gen- citizen, were the honorary doe- American and pro-Nazi group in Bob Hall, famed radio comedian Jewish communities.
The Chief Rabbi, who will re-
eral Jewish Council, the resolu- torates conferred upon him by the New York, they made a raid on and rhymster, and Gus D. New-
University of Detroit and Wayne American morale through the aid man, president of the Detroit turn to Palestine via Clipper
tion stated further: "With all
University.
of a few honest but misled Amer- Service Group. The Junior Divi- within the next two weeks, was
of the force at our command,
"Great as has been his interest leans whom they are using as a sion of the Allied Jewish Cam- born in Lomza, Poland, in 1888.
in the name of Judaism and of
in the general life of the commu- front.
paign is sponsored by the De- He is the son of the late Rabbi
the Jewish ideal of unity, we
nity, that which lies closest to his
"Colonel Lindbergh has definitely
call upon all these agencies to
heart is the welfare of Judaism shown himself to be America's
S See CAMPAIGN—Page 16
See JR. DRIVE—Page 8
join together in another effort
No
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appeaser,
ready,
willing
and
See FRANKLIN—Page 8
See U. A. H. C.—Page 13
able to follow the path of destruc-
tion outlined by other appeasers
in the new devastated countries
of Europe.
"Tonight's meeting made the Made Reply to Lindbergh's Isolationism; Concerted
National Jewish Monthly Publishes First Interview with headlines
of every newspaper in
Action Sought for Jewish Army; Harsher
Martin Niemoeller, Obtained in Nazi
Berlin. The panegyrics which
Anti-Jewish Laws Under Nazism
greeted Lindbergh's previous state-
Prison Camp
ments in the Nazi press are noth-
NEW YORK. (WNS)—James fact before. As soon as I was in-
ing compared to the glee with
By EDWARD E. GRUSD
which the Goebbels machine has P. Win•burg, who was asked by vited, I asked the Bishop to con-
Managing Editor, National Jewish Monthly of Bnai Brith
Fight f or sider t he an ti-S emitic s;rty line
ing story of 22 months with s out now in an attempt to prove the recentl y
"Not
cling Niemoller in the forthcom- to the suffering people of Europe Freedom C ommittee to reply to againstJews and bankepra Bishop
Martin
"Not you, Mr. Hitler, but the star
the isolationist policies of Col. Hobson dismissed this as irrele-
Lord
is my Fuehrer!"
"Whoever
is an anti-Semite and ing May issue of The National that some Americans have not yet Charles A. Lindbergh disclosed vant.
persecutes the Jews can never be Jewish Monthly, published by Bnai learned that the path of appease-
"I have but one duty, and that
during his radio address that he
Brith. It is the first direct word ment leads but to the grave.
"This meeting was a call not had been advised by a number is to speak out as an American.
a real Christian."
"There isn't a single Nazi lead- on the famous German pastor re-
of persons not to make his ad Jew
-
or Gentile, an American can
er in the country today who has ceived in this country in years, for America first but for for
say only this to Charles Lind-
dress because he is a Jew.
not cut himself off from the Chris- and the first exposition of Mr. appeasement
first."
Prof. James H. Sheldon, of
Mr. Warburg, who said that bergh: Your second non-stop
Niemoller's views on the Jewish
Nazi League's
Board
tian
faith." like these sprinkle question since he was thrown into Boston,
Assertions
is chairman
of of
the Direc-
Anti- it was his duty to speak out "as flight has taken you to a strange
an American, " began his address destination. "
one of the most amazing inter- prison in Germany.
tors, which includes Sidney Hill-
It
is
a
thrilling
and
enhearten-
man,
Judge
Samuel
S.
Leibowitz,
with the following contents:
views ever granted in a Nazi
Anti•Jewish Laws Ex•
"I wish to thank Bishop Hob- Harsher
H
concentration camp—for that is ing story, for it not only proves Prof. Paul H. Douglas, of Chi
son
of Cincinnati, chairman of
peered in Nazi-Occupied
where it took place. The speaker: that four years of Nazi torture cago, Gerhart H. Seger, Miss Toni
Holland
Martin Niemoller, former have failed to break the Chris- Sender the Rev. Donald G. Loth- the Fight for Freedom Commit-
_ tee, for his invitation to respond
ZURICH. (%VNS)—The intro-
leader of the German Confessional tian convictions of a grea
auction of more stringent anti-
Church, and the man who openly man church leader, but it demon - rop
and of
Prof.
Winkler.
Pres to Charles Lindbergh tonight.
ident
the Max
national
advisory
"A number of
of whom
well meaning
I do not Jewish laws in the Netherlands
Mead
defied Hitler until his arrest four strat es that despite everything, council is Prof. Nelson P. Mead.
a con-
years ago. The interviewer: Leo there is, as Erika Mann claimed _ John Frederick Lewis, Jr., of People, many
ference
in Amsterdam
indicated
following between
in her recent book, "another Ger Philadelphia, is a vice-president. know, have telephoned and wired was
fellow
Stein,
a
German
Jewish
Stein,
better Germany, that M. W. Weisgal is executive vice- urging me not to speak because
prisoner.
See NAZISM—Page 9
I am a Jew. I was aware of this
Mr. Stein has just arrived in
chairman of the league.
See NIEMOELLER—Page 12
this country, and he tells his
Express Deep Regret at
Failure; Ask Rep- a
resentation
Women Raise 75 Per Cent of $90,000 Quota, Plan All-Out Coverage
During Final Week of Solicitations; Additional Appointments
Made to Complete Organization of Campaign Machinery
Juniors Open
Drive Sunday
Richard A. Meyer to
Address Dinner at
Center
Assail _ America
First Meeting
Lindbergh Rally Pro-
tested by Anti-
Nazi League
"THE LORD IS MY FUEHRER!"
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