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and The Legal Chronicle

SECTION ONE

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Declaring that the essence of
democracy requires that all citi-
zens regardless of race, color, or
creed, be afforded full and equal
opportunity to life, liberty, and
the pursuit of happiness", speak-
ers at the Park Central Hotel,
New York, urged American citi-
zens throughout the country to
register their convictions with
federal, state, and city legisla-
tors to the end that "existing
laws guaranteeing equality to all
be strictly enforced, and that ad-
ditional legislation be enacted to
prevent discrimination, with a
proper penalty imposed upon
those who would foment racial
hate and who commit acts of dis-
crimination." This was the con-
census of opinion expressed by
Assemblyman Robert F. Wagner,
Jr., Senator Daniel Gutman,
Judge Nathan D. Perlman of the
Court of Special Sessions, Mrs.
Stephen S. Wise, president of the
Women's Division of the Ameri-
can Jewish Congress, and Miss
Milly Brandt, chairman of the
legislative action committee of
the Women's Division, calling at-
tention to the dangerous extent
of economic discrimination, par-
ticularly against Jews. Assembly-
man Wagner stated that 35 per
cent of young Jews in New York
are unable to find jobs in certain
industries.
The occasion was a luncheon
arranged under the auspices of
the legislative action committee
of the Women's Division of the
American Jewish Congress to
launch a program designed to
educate Americans on the impor-
tance of legislation in defense
of democracy.
Other speakers at the luncheon
included Read Lewis, director of
the Common Council for Amer-
ican Unity, the Hon. Ruth War-
ters, Deputy Attorney General of
New York State and chairman
of the Brooklyn Women's Division
of the American Jewish Congress,
Miss Anna Lord Strauss of the
League of Women Voters, and
Roy Tozier of the Friends of De-
mocracy. Miss Brandt presided.
Declaring. that "economic se-

See DISCRIMINATION—Page 8

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VOL. 43. NO. 26

Discrimination
In Employment
Is Condemned

This Paper Printed in Two Sections

Officers Elected by Hebrew Schools, Community
Council, Zionist Organization and the Center

Louis Robinson, Simon Shetzer, Rabbi Morris Adler and Mrs. Samuel R. Glogower
Are the Respective Presidents Selected by Leading Detroit Groups

Detroit's leading community
movements elected officers dur-
ing the past week.
Louis Robinson was re-elected
president of the United Hebrew
Schools. Simon Shetzer was elect-
ed for a third
two - year term
as president of
the Jewish
C o m u n ity
Council. Rabbi
Morris Adler
was re - elected
president of
the Zionist Or-
g a n ization of
D e t roit. Mrs.
Samuel R. Glo-
gower became
the first woman
L. Robinson
to hold the of-
fice of presi-
dent of the Jewish Community
Center of Detroit.
Hebrew Schools' Officers
Besides Mr. Robinson as presi-
dent, the United Hebrew Schools
elected the following: Rudolph
Zuieback and Charles Rubiner,
vice-presidents; Maurice Landau,
treasurer; Aaron A. Silberblatt,
secretary.
The following board members,
whose term expired, were re-
elected for three years: Dr. Al-

Institute on
Peace Issues
Formed by American
and World Jewish
Congresses

NEW YORK. — Declaring that
the Jewish people faces a crisis
unparalleled in its history, "with
one out of every four Jews in
the world the victim of Nazi and
Fascist oppression," Dr. Stephen
S. Wise, president of the Ameri-
can Jewish Congress and chair-
man of the executive committee
of the World Jewish Congress,
announced the establishment of
a scientific institute, known as
the Institute of Jewish Affairs,
to prepare a brief "on the basis
of which four pillion Jews may
be restored to normal life at the
end of the war, and means de-
vised to prevent a recurrence of
which has taken place, and to
insure security in the future."
Editor's Note: Similar insti-
tutes have also been formed by

See PEACE—Page 12

I Saw Jews Bun in Brazil

By MRS. ARCHIBALD SILVERMAN

EDITOR'S NOTE: Mrs. Archibald Silverman, one of America's most
brilliant Jewish women, world traveler who has visited and
studied more Jewish communities throughout the world than
probably any other woman, has just returned from months in
South America. Meeting with the leaders, studying the masses,
probing the sources of Jewish life, she found an extraordinary
story to tell. The Detroit Jewish Chronicle and the Independ-
ent Jewish Press Service present the first in a series of sensa-
tional exposes of problems met by Jews throughout South
America.

Any fears I had about my re- of the important government de-
ception in South America because partments as well as the heads
of my ignorance of Spanish be- of the army favoring the Axis.
fore I got there were dispelled All foreign languages are fo•-
with the "Shalom uvracha" fol- bidden, either in public meeting
lowed by a welcoming speech in or the press. The prohibition of
Yiddish delivered by the chair- the public use of any language
man of the reception committee other than Portuguese, the na-
that awaited me when the boat tional tongue, has been enforced
docked at Rio de Janeiro. I felt for some time, while the ban on
quite at home. They all under- the use of a foreign-language
stood and spoke Yiddish, even press is going into effect on July
the children who so charmingly 1. the government having grant-
proffered the flowers they had ed a six-month wind-up period
brought to the ship. for the many newspapers thus
And so in Rio, where the po- affected.
litical situation is very precari-
Act.Ze Refugee Problem
ous. I learned the following:
The refugee problem is be-
There are 100,000 Jews M coming more and more acute,
•
all Brazil.
for the government is making it
There are about 2,000,000 increasingly difficult and costly
Germans—non-Jews, of course— for even those having the neces-
living there. sary visas to remain there; the
of
There is a very large Japanese procedure
savors
almost
element in-the land.,
Idackmail in many instances.
The government is definitely
See BRAZIL—Pafe 13
pro-Nazi, the outstanding heads

bert E. Bernstein, Rabbi A. M.
Hershman, Abe Kasle, Jack Kell-
man, Louis Robinson, Isaac Ro-
senthal, Charles Rubiner, Philip
Slomovitz, Rabbi Ralph Spalter
and Maurice H. Zackheim. New
board members who were elected
for a term of three years are:
William Friedman, Dr. Alexander
W. Sanders and Isaac Shetzer.
Board members whose term ex-
pires in 1942 are Rabbi Morris
Adler, Fred M. Butzel, Joseph
B. Colten, Lawrence W. Crohn,
Judge Harry B. Keidan, Max Lie-
berman, Rabbi Harold N. Rosen-
thal, Harry Seligson, Aaron A.
Silberblatt, Louis Stoll, Rabbi
Isaac Stollman, Henry Wineman,
Rabbi M. J. Wohlgelernter and
Rudolph Zuieback. Board mem-
bers whose term expires in 1943:
Julius Berman, Louis Dann, Mrs.
Joseph H. Ehrlich, Rabbi Moses
Fischer, Rabbi Leon Fram, Aaron
Klein, Maurice Landau, Saul R.
Levin, Robert R. Marwil, Gus
D. Newman, Simon Shetzer, Sey-
mour Tilchin, Nathan Yaffa and
David S. Zemon.
The Zionist Officers
Rabbi Adler, as president, has
as his associate officers of the
Zionist Organization of Detroit
the following:
Vice-presidents, Abraham Coop-
er, Lawrence W. Crohn and
James I. Ellmann; secretary,
Harry Cohen; treasurer, Aaron
A. Silberblatt; executive direc-
tor, Mrs. Albert Feldstein; board

RABBI MORRIS ADLER

of directors, Dr. Harry E. Au-
gust, Mrs. Ralph Davidson, Aki-
vah Drasnin, Mrs. J. H. Ehrlich,
Henry Fenster, Walter L. Field,
Rabbi Leon Fram, Isaac Franck,
Dr. David H. Fauman, Philip
J. Gilbert, Dr. A. M. Hershman,
Bernard Isaacs, William B. Isen-
berg, Morris M. Jacobs, Abe
Kasle, Helen Kass, Irving Kauf-
mann, Leon Kay, Joseph Kirsch-
mann Maurice A. Landau, Charles
A. Lapides, A. C. Lappin, Phil-
more Leemon, Sol Lifsitz, David
Lipton, David Lubetsky, Robert
Marwil, Dr. M. S. Perlis, William
R. Roth, Charles Rubiner, Isaac
Shetzer, Simon Shetzer, Philip
Slomovitz, Isadore Sobeloff, Can-
tor J. H. Sonenklar, Rabbi Jos-
hua S. Sperka, Nathan Spevakow,
Abe Srere, Maurice Zackheim,
Rudolph Zuieback.
Council Retains Shetzer
The re-election of Simon Shet-
zer as president of the Jewish
Community Council took place

Earlier Deadline for
The Next Week's Issue

On account of the Fourth
of July which occurs this year
on Friday, the next week's
issue of The Detroit Jewish
Chronicle will go to press one
day earlier than usual, and
all copy for insertion in it
will have to be in the hands
of the editor not later than
at 10 a. m. on Tuesday,
July 1.

Almost 5,000,000
Jews Reside in
Invaded Russia

at the meeting on Wednesday
evening at the Jewish Commu-
nity Center.
The following were elected as
Mr. Shetzer's associate officers:
Fred M. Butzel, honorary presi- Nazis Urge Pogroms in
.
dent; Myron Keys,
Baltic Countries and
James I. Ellmann
and Morris Gar-
Bessarabia
v e t t, vice - presi-
d e nts; Joseph NEW YORK CITY (JPS)—As
Bernstein, treas-
urer; Aaron Ro- the Nazi shadow, which has al-
Yiddish ready blasted the lives of some
senberg,
Mem- 5,000,000 Jews in continental
secretary.
hers of the board: Europe, darkened the borders of
Rabbi Morris Ad-
ler, Mrs. A. Harry Soviet Russia, almost 5,000,000
S. Shetzer Brodie, Fred M. more Jews in Greater Russia re-
membered Hitler's pledge to re-
Butzel, David J. Cohen, Law- move every Jew from Europe.
rence W. Crohn, Aaron Droock,
Mrs. J. H. Ehrlich, Rabbi Leon This
includes
popu-
lation figure
of the
Soviet the
Union
to
Fram, Dr. L. M. Franklin, Wil- which since September, 1939,
Liam Friedman, Charles Handler, were added Bessarabia, Northern
Dr. A. M. Hershman, William Bukovina, Lithuania, Latvia and
Hordes,
ordes, Dr. Schmarya Kleinman, Esthonia.
Benjamin M. Laikin, Nathan
The Ukraine, toward which
Lerner, Samuel Lieberman, Louis
Rosenzweig, Charles Rubiner, Hitler's panzer divisions and
Dr. Alexander Sanders, Philip Stukas are directing their heav-
Slomovitz, Isidore Sobeloff, Abe lest blows, contains almost 1,-
Srere, Rabbi Max J. Wohlgelern- 500,000 Jews, hundreds of whom
ter, Joseph Zwerdling. are already reported killed in
Mrs. J. H. Ehrlich was chair- the Rotterdam-type of treatment
man of the nominating commit- said to have been administered
already to several of the Russian
cities. including Kiev, Odessa
See ELECTIONS—Page 16
and Elizavetgrad.
The Soviet regime was said to
have made one of the greatest
contributions to the liberation
of the Jews since the Emancipa-
By NATHAN RICARDO
the tion. The Pale of Settlement, the
EDITOR'S NOTE:—One of
mark of the Czarist regime, was
charges brought against Jews abolished. Anti-Semitism was de-
by people who know little. dared illegal and counter-revo-
about them is that their mood lutionary. Yiddish was made an
is too heavy. Here is a survey official state language, although
of modern—and older—Jewish Hebrew and Zionism were for-
humor, citing charming exam- bidden as counter-revolutionary.
ples and analyzing their con- Jewish farm settlement in the
tent.
Crimea and the Ukraine were
About a year ago, after one promoted on a large scale. Rus-
of Germany's swift victories, the sia even attempted to set up on
writer happened to pass a news- autonomous Jewish state in Biro
paper stand on one of New Bidi all '
York's busiest corners. The own-
Nazs Urge Pogroms
er of the stand was a Jew. A
customer of his, a non-Jewish
GENEVA (JPS)—Concurrent-
business man, came along, put ly with the German invasion of
down his three cents, took his Russian territories the anti-Jew-
paper and said:
ish propaganda system was put
"The next thing that fellow to work. Lithuanians in Bessara-
Hitler is going to do is to conic bia were bombarded with simi-
over her and take your stand lar propaganda, and a strong
movement was instigated to
away from you."
"That's fine," answered the rouse the populations of the
dealer. "I'm looking for a part- Ukraine to anti-Jewish frenzy.
ner."
Adolf Hitler returned to
Not only can Jews laugh; they the old stand in his declare-

Jews Can Laugh

See HUMOR—Page 12

See WAR—Page 3

Is the State Department Fair?

Famous Columnist Comments on Most Important Story
of Week from Point of View of Refugee Aid

By JACOB FISHMAN

For weeks disturbing rumors
In certain non-Jewish guar-
had been coming from Portugal. tors, notably in the New York
It was reported that the Ameri- daily PM and the liberal weekly
can consuls had stopped issuing The Nation, direct charges of
visas to refugees, even to those anti-Semitism have been made
who had obtained promises of against the State Department.
visas. Similar reports came from The Jewish press was more me-
Marseille and other centers where ticulous. It did not want to be-
immigrants gathered awaiting lieve such things. I do not be-
transportation.
lieve them yet. I cannot believe
What did this do to the spirit that President Roosevelt and
of the waiting refugees can be Secretary Hull would permit such
imagined. Only evidence of an influences to hold sway.
American visa, or the certainty
Now the news has broken. The
of receiving one, gave them the official statement from the State
right to remain in Portugal.
Department partly verifies the
In unoccupied France Petain's rumor that the issuance of visas
police were more harsh than the has been hedged about with se-
Portuguese, who were frequently vere restrictions. It is stated that
content with warning the refu- those relatives whose relatives re-
gees and letting it go at that. main in German-occupied coun-
In France, however, last week's tries will not be given visas. The
anti-Jewish decrees were fol- State Department says this is
lowed at once by the arrest of because refugees with relatives
12,000 Jews who had not been remaining behind are terrorized
able to leave the country. by the Gestapo into serving as
The Charge
spies. It cites the case of a refu-
What has happened in the gee in Havana who allegedly re-
State Department? Thousands of ported daily to the German Em-
Americans, bombarded by heart- bassy, where he was forced to
breaking appeals from their rela- act in behalf of the Nazis.
Lives abroad, and hundreds of
From this alone it is obvious
welfare workers have been stupe-
See FISHMAN—Page 9
fied by the turn of events.