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Detroit Jewish Chronicle

SECTION ONE

VOL. 43, NO. 22

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Hitler Plans
Blow to lion,
Turkey Hears

and The Legal Chronicle_
30, 1941

DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, MAY

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Continue Debate
Allied Jewish Campaign Closes;
Nazi Bund Is
On Budgeting
Total of S 1135,000 Contributed

More Than 27,000 Donors Solicited in the Drive; Expect The Committee on the Refer-
an Additional $25,000 to Be Raised in
endum for Budgeting, of which
Post-Campaign Effort
Simon Shetzer of Detroit is

U.S. Vanguard
Of Blitzkrieg

The Allied Jewish Campaign goal of $940,000, the result is Chairman, has issued the follow-
of 1941 came to a close on Wed- accepted with great satisfaction ing statement with respect to
nesday, at the final meeting of by the campaign leadersas set the referendum conducted by the
workers, at which it was an- ting a new standard in giving in Council of Jewish Federations Charges Made by Dies
and Welfare Funds on the es-
Destruction of Pales- nounced that a total of $835,000 Detroit. Expect $25,000 More
Committee in 200-
tablishment of a national ad-
had been raised.
tine Said to Be
Hey
Wineman,
chairman
of
visory
budgeting
service
:
This sum represents an in-
nr
Page Report
"An announcement by the
crease of $ 100,000 over last the drive, speaking at the final
Aim of Nazis
year's subscriptions and is an all- meeting of workers, expressed Council of Jewish Federations
WASIIINGTON ( WNS) —The
ISTANBUL ( WNS) —H i t 1 e r time record in fund-raising in gratitude to his fellow workers and Welfare Funds makes it tip-
and said he was confident that at pear that the Jewish communi- German-American Bund was or-
Detroit.
will soon unleash his mechanized
Approximately 27,000 people least another $25,000 will be se- ties of America went on record ganized to act as the vanguard
legions against Palestine in the have contributed towards thiscured towards this year's goal in favor of the establishment of a Nazi blitzkrieg in the Unit-
belief that the fall of Palestine year's drive. from unsolicited prospects. of a National Advisory Budget- ed States
and
it plans to by
aug-
ment its
membership
de-
A call was issued at Wednes- ing Service in the referendum nouncing "the red Jewish pesti-
While the total subscribed is
will symbolize the destruction of
world Jewry, neutral quarters $105,000 short of the assigned day's meeting for 100 volunteers
knee in America," according to
See BUDGETING—Page 16
to form a mop-up crew to solicit
a 200-page report made public
here believe.
those who have not been reached
here by the Dies Committee In-
Without minimizing the stra-
thus far in the campaign.
vestigating un-American activi-
tegic importance of Palestine in
The speaker at Wednesday
ties.
the Near East, these sources
night's gathering was the bill-
stated that Hitler's campaign
The report stressed that the
runt humorist and cartoonist,
against the Holy Land will be
Nazi Bund was formed along mil-
ld
Harry Hershfield.
motivated as much by personal 90 to Be Confirmed at
Campaign for Men in itary lines to enable it to per-
Report Meeting
reasons as by military strategy.
form the same traitorous f unc-
At Monday noon's report meet-
Service Gets Under bons which were committed by
Beth El Sunday
Authoritative
Authoritative sources said that
ing, Fred M. Butzel reminisced
Nazi groups in many European
Hitler believed that the Nazi des-
Way
Morning
'arl Detroit Jewish communi-
on early
countries which were subse-
[ruction of Palestine would has-
ty
history.
Julian
Krolik
pre-
occupied by the Nazi
ten the total l collapse of world
NEW YORK, N. Y.—A na- A
In accordance with a custom sided.
Jewry. A number of prominent
The report at that meeting tionwide religious festival, touch-
Turks have joined Jews here in initiated a score of years ago,
" When we began our work,"
urging the British Government the Rabbis of Temple Beth El was for a total of $760,320, or ing the life of virtually every
ill the repd,
"the Bund and a
ort sai
to arm the Jewish population of each year write an entirely new 81 per cent of the quota and 73 church-goer in the country, w
Palestine to defend itself against Confirmation Service, built about per cent of the prospective don- be held on June 6, 7, and 8. It score of Nazi-minded American
will be celebrated without regard groups were laying plans for an
some central theme. This year ors.
attack.
impressive united-front federa-
Mr. Krolik announced that as to creed, race or color.
the theme will be, "Judaism and
tion which would be able to
of Monday noon, 6,800 prospec-
the Democratic Ideal."
.
m
The occasion, to be known as launch a first-rate Nazi move-
Palestine Defense Speeded; i
The service this year, on rive contributors were yet to be U.S.O. Sabbath, is sponsored by
migration Quota Again
United
Service Organizations for our
ment
in the United
By
Sunday morning, June 1, will be reached.
exposure
of these States.
plans we
Omitted
Irving Blumberg, reporting for National Defense.
(WNS) — Day very colorful. It will begin with
smashed
the
Nazi
movement
even
JERUSALEM
and
night preparations to defend a processional of the Confirmants the general division, reported
According to Walter Hoving, befo re it was able to get under
Palestine against invasion were bearing their offerings of fruits, that 4,695 contributors to the
rganization, way. ,,
speeded as reports from Vichy g"ins• and flowers. Usually the 1940 drive had not been reached
the once
this
w president of annoument
The Dies Committee renort
flower offering is placed as of Monday noon,
li
week in New York, the observ- nointed out that the Nazi Bund
threatening air attacks on British so-called
Teams Over the Top
naval bases and airdromes in near the center of the program.
anticipates violence,"
Honor was accorded at the Al- ance will emphasize the basically "clearly
year it will come at the be-
Near ginning, and the culmination of lied Jewish Campaign report religious character of member citing the fact that "the OD
Palestine heightened the Ne
also will ( °miming Dienst or uniformed
East tension.
the service will be the exaltation meeting, Monday, May 26, at the agencies of U.S.O. It a
of corpsof the Bund) gives assur-
British and Jewish officials stn-of the Lord and the Scroll Serv- Staler, to those team chairmen the organization, in which
Cth-
i
a
ance that our movement will, at
who had led their respective
died developments in Iraq and ce
olio, Protestant and Jew are
'
the 90 children of tennis over the top of their working closely and harmonious- the sacrifice of life if necessary,
Syra for signs of a large-scale i - Although
remain the inexorable opponent
offensive against Palestine. Pre- the class-42 boys and 48 girls— quotas by that date.
,,
In Division A, the Mercantile 1 3r•
,
cautionary measures were re-
""
participate,
the
entire
Advance notice of U.S.O. Sab- of Jewish Marxism."
Division, headed by Maurice H.
The Bund document quoted by
doubled after the Nazi-controlled w" 1
Vichy Government in France service will be completed not Enggass and Louis Robinson, the bath and requests for coopers the Dies Committee said : "We
Wholesale
Dry
Goods
Team,
of
tion
from
the
entire
clergy
of
warned that further R. A. F. later than 12 :30.
are looking for men who enter
It is interesting to note that w hich Julian H. Krolik and Het- the United States have gone out our organization not in order to
bombings of Syrian airdroms
would result in counter-attacks.. a number of the Confirmants are man Wetsman are chairmen, re- under auspices of the U.S.O. procure personal advantages or be
Clergy
Advisory
Board,
compos-
An emergency meeting of the children of persons who had ported 142 per cent of quota.
d of the
Rt. Rev.
Henry
St. allowed to play soldier pleasant-
e
Appliances
Household
T
h
e
but who intend with their
A ir Raid Precautions Committee themselves been confirmed at
Air
George. Tucker, Presiding Bishop whole power to eradicate the red
in Jerusalem took steps to con- Temple
Beth
El.
See CAMPAIGN—Page 12
of the Protestant Episcopal Jewish pestilence in America."
Because the seating capacity
vert the ground floors of the holy of the Temple will undoubtedly
Church ; the Most Rev. Edward
The Dies report disclosed that
city's citadel towers into shelters be taxed, the doors of the lower
Mooney, Archbishop of Detroit,
and recommended an additional
and the Rev. Dr. Edward L. Is- the Nazi bond maintained a file
municipal grant of £4,600 to pur- auditorium will be closed when
i ael, President of the Synagogue of cards for Germans, enemies
the Confirmants enter the Tem-
trailer
and Jews. Yellow cards were
helmets,
steel
chase
Council of America.
_ pie. The preliminary service will
used for Germans and enemies
pumps and other apparatus ne begin at 9:30.
The opening observance will while a light blue card, stamped
cessary to defend the city.
be
held
in
orthodox
Jewish
syna-
The Confirmants
Lost Merchandise for gogues on Friday evening, June with the letter J, were for Jews.
Meanwhile, the Jewish cons-
The members of the class are :
munity expressed keen disap-
6, and continue through Satur-
Palestine Covered
Marise Ilene Alpern, Phyllis
pointment at the Palestine Gov-
New Jersey Seeks to Outlaw
(lay.
ernment's announcement that it Joyce Alvin, Joyce A. Barrar,
German-American Bund
by
Insurance
Saturday evening, beginning
was omitting the immigration Lois Benjamin, Robert Lee Blitz,
TRENTON ( WNS 1 —Attorney
at 10 :30, there will be a radio
schedule for the three months Frances Millicent Bloom, Sally
ending June 30. The announce- Carol Brown, Harold Israel Bus- JERUSALEM (Palcor ) —With "Call. to the Faith," over a net- General David T. Wilentz dis-
ment came as a blow to the sey, Louis Goldman Clinton, the loss of the Egyptian liner work of the National Broadcast- closed here that he will seek
Yishuv since the Government Phyllis Jane Cohn, Sherman "Zamzam" confirmed and the ing Co. Participating will be speedy enactment by the Legis-
had likewise refused to issue an Cohn, Betty Deutsch, Joan Ruth safety of all the 140 American prominent clergymen from each lature of a bill which would re-
immigration schedule for the Eston, Joel Feinberg, Rhoda p assengers who were aboard her
See NAZI—Page 13
See U. S. 0.—Page 8
when she sailed from South
See CONFIRMATION—Page 9 America last March the subject
See PALESTINE—Page 16
of assurances by the German
Government, Hadassah official ;
in this city revealed that the
steamer had carried a large sup-
By RABBI MORDECAI L. BRILL
ply of linens and various hospi-
Shevuoth,
the
Feast of Weeks Scroll, from which the Ten Com-
By BERNARD G. RICHARDS
tal supplies, including bandages
Does anybody remember, does ocratic Convention of 1924, he and tubber gloves, consigned to ( Pentecost) , comes on the sixth mandments were read later in
day of the Hebrew month Sivan. the morning. In the school, he re-
anybody remember? There was was strangely enough advised by their
headquarters
here.
One
of the ambulances
car- In Palestine it is a one-day festi- ceived his first lesson in reading
a world we knew yesterday, but a leading Jew ( who also tried
val while outside of Palestine it Hebrew. On a slate were smear-
what happened the (lay before? to become a Jewish leader) not rigid on the "Zamzam" and des-
ed some of the letters of the
Let's glance backward for a mo- to repudiate the offered support tined for the Near East British is observed for
* two
* • days.
Hebrew alphabet. or simple pass-
Forces
had
been
donated
by
ment. There was William Gibbs of certain reactionary forces.
McAdoo, lawyer, industrialist, But, at the Chicago conven- Hadassah, it was also learned. The feast of Pentecost was the ages from the Bible and the child
(inquiry at the British-American most popular time f or initiating lisped the letters as he ate the
, he again served in
financier,
statesman.
tion of 1932
As builder politician,
of the first
tunnel a significant
way to carry for- Ambulance Corps headquarters youngsters into their school work, honey, the cakes and the other
since the feast is associated with delicacies, that the words of the
from New York to New Jersey, ward the tradition of Woodrow in New York City elicited the in-
throwing his Cal- formation that this ambulance, the giving of the Law at Sinai. Law might be sweet to his lips.
by
against
all to
skeptical
opinion, he
was said
have performed
an Wilson
'forma and
delegation to his side, as well as the other materials An account of the ceremonies The child was then handed over
had which took place partly in the to the arms of his mother, who
impossible feat, but that was made possible the nomination of carried
by the by
"Zamzam,"
been covered
war-risk insur- home and partly in the synagogue had stood by during this delight-
only the beginning of other Franklin
Delano
Roosevelt.
There
was an
earlier period ance and would be replaced. In is given in a medieval prayer- ful scene." This ceremony took
amazing tasks which he per-
it was indicated, replace- book as follows : " Early in the place usually when the boy was
formed as war-time Secretary of American
when this made
gallant
dynamic
our and
people's
case fact,
ment may already have occurred.) morning the boy was dressed in five years old. However, it was
of
the Treasury, Administrator
Interest was felt here in the new clothes. Three cakes of fine deferred in cases where the child
Railroads,
of Liberty of his
own
a most
telling
man- fate of Michael Kirchwey Clark, flout and honey were baked for was weak or sickly.
Loans, and director
in other capacities
ner,
but in
when
Senator
McAdoo
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away on February 1 of one of the 24 American ambu- him by a young maiden. Three
great responsibility. He support- passed
lance drivers now interned by eggs were boiled, and apples and
The Book of Ruth is read in
ed Woodrow Wilson first for this year, not one Jewish news- the Nazis in France. The 21- other fruits were gathered in
Governor of New Jersey, and paper in the country made any year-old son of Freda Kirchwey, great quantities. Then the child the story
synagogue
Shevuoth.
of Ruth on
who
embraced The
Ju-
then for President of the United reference to the important part editor of "The Nation," and of was taken in the arms of the daism and the charminif descrip-
States. He became a member of he played in the fight to abro- Evans Clark, head of the Twen- Rabbi or another learned friend tion of agricultural life in an-
gate the of
treaty
with Russia
on tieth Century Fund, visited Pal- first to the school and then to the cient Palestine, as well as the in-
cabinet and later a account
the Czarist
Govern-
in 1938, during the height synagogue. The child was placed
member of his family. After-
See SHEVUOTH—Page 2
wards,
on the reading dais before the
wards, he himself aspired to the
of the disturbances.
See RICHARDS—Page 8
Presidency and pending the Dem-

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