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July 11, 1941
CLIFTON AVENUE - CINCINNATI 20, OHIO
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and the Legal Chronicle
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Hashomer Hadati Camp to Have Three
Two-Week Periods Starting July 14
Hashomer Hadati Moshava, the
and Harry Yudkoff of Detroit,
AMERICA: Discrimination was said to exist in the armed representing Michigan Council. only religious-Zionist kosher camp
Mrs. Benjamin Samuels, Chi- in the midwest for Jewish youth
forces as well as in defense industries by a special delegation
between the ages of 10 and 18,
which interviewed representatives of the State, War and Navy cago, was elected president of on Lake Kinneret, at Rolling
Women's Grand Lodge No. 6,
Departments . . . The American Civil Liberties Union found dis- together with the following other Prairie, Ind., will open on July
14 for three two-week periods of
crimination in defense industries the only dark spot in a generally
camping. The rates are $8 per
favorable picture of civil liberties throughout the country . . . A
week plus $1 registration fee,
National Morale Committee to fight the German propaganda war
fare and a small payment for
was formed in New York . . . The 100,000 Sephardic Jews in
office expenses, totalling about $20
for a two-week period.
the United States are re-organizing their community. Dr. Nissim
Children will leave from and
J. Ovadia, former chief rabbi of the Sephardic Community of
return to Detroit in the company
Paris, has been made titular head of the Spanish-speaking Sephar-
of a responsible adult, under the
direction of the Michigan Syna-
dic Jews in this country . . . The General Jewish Council said
gogue Conference. Applications
that a legislation committee will watch bills hiding discriminatory
are being received at the office
intentions introduced into State legislatures . . . Eddie Cantor
of Congregation Beth Tefilo Eman-
was elected president of the Jewish Theatrical Guild for the ninth
uel, 1550 Taylor, Trinity 1-2934.
consecutive time . . . Sam H. Harris, outstanding theatrical man-
ager and producer, died in New York City at the age of 69 . . .
nounced at Bnai Brith head-
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., said that the Nazi invasion of South
quarters by Henry Monsky, pres-
America was already under way, with fifth-column putsches pre-
ident and chairman of its na-
pared by radio, press and business propaganda . . . Eleanor Roose-
tional defense committee.
velt said that failure to enforce full equality in employment
Word has gone out to 1,300
menaced the rights of every citizen in the nation . . . Father
lodges, auxiliaries and chapters
Coughlin withdrew his support from the American First Commit-
of Aleph Zadik Aleph, Bnai
tee because it was not "looking for leadership in high places,"
Brith's youth organization, to
but continued to praise Lindbergh . . . Bishop Joseph P. Hurley
cooperate to the fullest extent
broadcast an address in which he called the Nazis "Public Enemy
with all state, local, county and
No. 1" . . . The Jewish Welfare Board dedicated two more service
other governmental agencies as
centers in army camps . . . Part of the famous collection of
well as with state and city de-
manuscripts and documents belonging to Prof. Simon Dubnow,
BENJAMIN I. MORRIS
fense councils in the effort to
world-famous historian, arrived in the United States for inclusion
in the library of the Yiddish Scientific Institute . . . The Non- officers: Mrs. Al Schneider, Chi- salvage some 50,000,000 pounds
Sectarian Anti-Nazi League congratulated Lindbergh for having cago, first vice-president; Miss of aluminium.
shown his true colors when he said he preferred a union with Charlotte Gant, Detroit, second Bnai Brith to Provide Torah
Scrolls for Jewish Services
Germany to aid for Russia . . . Joseph Rosenheim, president of vice-president; Mrs. Louis Perl-
in Army Chapels
the World Agudath Israel Organization, arrived in the United man, Chicago, third vice-presi-
Bnai Brith is launching a na-
States . . . Abraham Cahan, Socialist editor, celebrated his 81st dent; Mrs. Bess Turk, Chicago.
birthday at his desk at the Forward . . . Nazi transmission belts treasurer; and Mrs. Bernard tion-wide campaign among its
1,000 men's and women's units
were accused of sabotaging anti-Nazi films in this country . . . Bolotin, Chicago, secretary.
Carl Raswan, explorer, denied any connection with Nazi propa-
The Women's Grand Lodge to obtain Sefer Torahs (Scrolls
ganda among the Arabs and said he was pro-British and pro- presented President Henry Mon- of the Law) for use during Jew-
Semitic.
sky with a check for $10,000 to ish religious services to be held
in the non-sectarian chapels be-
PALESTINE: Axis bombs killed and wounded several Ger- be used for the relief of the ing built at more than 50 army
German-Jewish erfugee children
man and Italian war prisoners in a camp "somewhere in Palestine," bing card for in England by posts and camps by the Federal
despite full warning that had been given the enemy of the location Bnai Br i th's British Grand government.
Wherever necessary Bnai
of the men . . . Palestine Jewry rejoiced at Foreign Minister Lodge. The Chicago Bnai Brith
Brith will purchase Sefer Torahs
Council
gave
Mr.
Monsky
a
Anthony Eden's advance rejection of any peace offensive from
check for $8,000 to be expended but an intensive effort will be
the Nazis . . . The intensified Rumanian persecution of Jews was for war relief by the Supreme made to have lodges and auxil-
described by Dr. M. Kotik, Rumanian-Zionist leader, who recently Lodge.
iaries borrow from local syna-
reached Palestine . . . Memorial services were held in Jerusalem
gogues extra Torahs, provided
Mr.
Monsky,
who
was
the
for the Jewish victims of the massacre in Bagdad when the
they are in perfect condition, for
British were about to take the city . . The Jewish National speaker at the Fourth of July use in army chapels, Mr. Mon-
Fund acquired 3,500 additional dunams of land in the north and exercises, called for the co- sky said. Arrangements for this
the south of Palestine . . . German and Italian prisoners of war ordination of the civilian defense national Bnai Brith project were
in Palestine internment camps admitted they were pleasantly Mir- efforts of such organizations as cleared through the Jewish Wel-
prised at the treatment they received from Jewish guards and Bnai Brith, the American Legion, fare Board and its national reli-
physicians . . . The total of Jewish soldiers listed as missing in American Federation of Labor, gious chairman, Dr. David de
Elks, Kiwanis and others that
action in the sixth Palestinian casualty list was 144.
have already made known their Sola Pool, of New York.
OVERSEAS: The Nazi invasion of Russian territory brought desire to give every possible
Aid to De f e n s e Program by
all the horror of pogroms and persecution to millions of Jews measure of cooperation to Presi-
Young People Under Military
dent Roosevelt and the Office of
in Kaunas, Vilna, Lemberg and the smaller communities directly Civilian Defense, "through the
Age to Be Keynote of Youth
Conventio
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in the line of attack . . . Vichy ordered confiscation of the bag- development of a common plan
n in Texas July
gage of refugees stranded in Marseilles and other French ports of action for the mobilization of
KERRVILLE, Tex.—What the
. . . Hungary banned intermarriages . . . Karl Radek, Communist their resources, efforts and man-
young people of America who
leader recently in prison in Russia, was reported freed so that power."
Other convention speakers are under military age can do
he could take up his keen pen on behalf of Russian resistance
to the Nazi attack . . . The German rulers of Paris ogranized were Dr. Solomon Goldman, Chi- to further the national defense
a "Jewish Board" despite resistance from the Jewish community. cago, whose inspirational address effort will be the keynote of the
A "Research Center for Jewish Affairs", which is a euphemism was the oratorical highlight of 18th annual national convention
for anti-Semitic propaganda, was also organized in the city. Solo- the convention; U. S. Senator of Aleph Zadik Aleph, Bnai
mon A. Lozovsky, vice-foreign commissar for the Soviet Union Prentiss Brown of Michigan, and Brith's youth organization, the
and foreign press contact man, displayed pithy wit when he called Governor Van Wagoner of largest national Jewish boys'
the German gains the equivalent of the boast: "I have caught Michigan, who sent a message group in the country, which
a bear, but he won't let me go" . . . A general revival of religion declaring that "Bnai Brith, in meets at Schreiner Institute,
was noted in Soviet Russia, apparent among Jews and non-Jews defending the Jews from defam- Kerrville, Tex., from July 12 to
alike . . . Rumania practically voided Jewish citizenship . . . Fake ation, is actually defending not 18. More than 400 representa-
courts-martial railroad Jews to death in newly occupied territories its own people but the cause of tives from every state in the
. . . Freedom of religion may soon become an official Soviet democracy itself." Recalling that Union are expected to attend.
In keeping with the conven-
policy .. . Jews from Birobidjan enlisted en masse in the Russian "the ruin of the German Repub-
army . . . Vichy put Russian Jews under arrest . . . Finland lic began with the defamation tion's theme, the principal speak-
barred Jews from the army . . . 500 Jewish refugees without visas of the Jews, the Governor said ers will be Daniel W. Hoan, as-
were arrested in Portugal . . . General Sir Archibald P. Wavell "let no libel against a Jew go sociate of Mayor Fiorello H. La-
said that security in the Near East has been strengthened by the unanswered, let no propaganda Guardia, head of the Office of
of racism go unchallenged for Civilian Defense, and Major
Nazi-Russian war.
the cause of freedom in Michi- Stanton Smith, commanding offi-
NEWS BREVITIES: Rabbi Morris V. Dembowitz has been gan and in our country depends cer of the U. S. Air Corps Sta-
appointed assistant to Dr. Max Arzt in the Field Service and Activi- on the continuance of your vigi- tion for advanced training at
lance."
Brooks Field, Tex.
. . Dr.
ties Department of the Jewish Theological Seminary
A Saturday afternoon Oneg
Bernard Joseph, whose duties on behalf of the Jewish Agency— Shabbat symposium on the four
Ford Installs Huge Air
which he serves in the capacity of legal advised—took him to major Bnai Brith activities, fea-
Conditioner in Plane
South Africa just as the Allied invasion of Syria was in its initial turing talks by Dr. A. L. Sachar,
Engine Plant
director
of
the
Hillel
Founda-
stages, has returned home to Jerusalem . . . Speaking ostensibly
DEARBOR N, Mich. — The
only about Negroes, Governor Eugene Talmadge of Georgia called tions; Richard E. Gutstadt, di-
racial equality a "foreign" idea and "Communistic stuff" . . . Al- rector of the Anti-Defamation largest air conditioning system
though all other children of school age have been ordered evacu- League, Max F. Baer, director ever installed in an American in-
ated from Bucharest because of possible air attacks, Jewish chil- of the Vocational Service Bu- dustrial plant is ready for oper-
reau, and Leonard Belove, AZA ation in the new $23,000,000 air-
dren must remain in the city . . . "Carlsbad Oblaten", a special
plane engine factory at the Ford
kind of wafer made famous in Carlsbad are now being manu- city director in Detroit.
Special awards for outstanding Rouge plant.
factured in the United States by Karl Korter, a former Prague
Cooled, filtered air will be
journalist, and Fred Tollsen, a Viennese biscuit manufacturer . . . Americanism activities were pre-
drawn into this huge "black-out"
Lorin Maazel, 11-year-old orchestral conductor, made the men sented to Louis C. Cohen, Grand type defense unit at the rate of
of the NBC Orchestra forget that he was just a child when he Rapids; Maurice Atlas. St. Paul; 2,000,000 cubic feet a minute when
conducted the first of two Saturday night broadcasts over a nation- Ben Rhodes, Detroit Pisgah the enormous air-control system
) wide network .. . The American Youth Congress, in the series of Lodge; Louis Cook, Duluth; Ray starts operating, according to
resolutions adopted at its annual convention in Philadelphia, re- .4 1pert, Green Bay, Wis.: Jacob Ford designers and engineers.
iterated its condemnation of "anti-Semitism and the Nazi policy Ulevich, Gilead Lodge, Milwau-
Although the airplane engine
of employers who refuse to hire Jews" . . . A plane of German kee; and Austin Lodge, Chicago. plant contains more than 800,030
manufacture was the prize of anti-aircraft gunners during an un-
square feet of floor space, Ford
successful raid by hostile aircraft on Haifa . . . Jewish men, Bnai Brith Volunteer for Drive engineers said it would receive
to
Salvage
Aluminium
for
women and children are to be shanghaied for slave labor in the
six complete changes of condi-
National Defense
tioned air every hour.
Russian territories occupied by the Nazis. They will be put to
work repairing bombed roads, railroads and houses . . . The
WASHINGTON, D. C.—A vol-
Russian Art Theaters in Moscow and Kiev have had to close be- unteer army of 150,000 men and Young Women's Bicur Cholem
Thanks Chronicle
cause of the wholesale enlistment of the actors in the Russian women of Bnai Brith in every
army. Many Jewish writers are also at the front . . . Seymour state in the Union enlisted in Editor, Detroit Jewish Chronicle:
Melman, winner of the 1939 Avukah Fellowship and former field the national campaign to collect
The Young Women's Bicur
secretary of the organization, was made executive secretary for aluminium for national defense Cholem Organization thanks The
next year. Miss Lillian Schoolman was elected administrative sec- to be held throughout the coun- Detroit Jewish Chronicle for co-
retary . . . A memorial building or scholarship is being planned try from July 21 to July 28 operation in various affairs.
in honor of the late Representative M. Michael Edelstein. (Copy- under the direction of the Office
Mrs. Jos. Viedrah,
right JPS).
of Civilian Defense, it was an-
Publicity Chairman.
For further information write or
call Rabbi M. J. Wohlgelernter,
chairman of the religious and edu-
cational committee of the Michi-
gan Synagogue Conference.
The following Detroit campers
were registered last summer:
Louis Cohen, Esther Cohen, Han-
nah Cohen, Arnold Eisenman,
Rosaline Eisenman, Alvin Pens-
lar, Joyce Penslar, Charlotte Kal-
man, Jacob Wolf, Miriam Rine
and Bernard Appelbaum.
Camp activities include lectures
on Jewish topics, discussions on
Zionism, arts and crafts, drama-
tics, athletics, games, swimming,
campfire ceremonies, nature stu-
dies, scouting, daily religious serv-
ices, Sabbath programs.
TRIBUTE TO MARSHALL
IN BROADCAST JULY 12
"Louis Marshall — Statesman"!
will be the subject of a radio
address by Jacob Billikopf of
Philadelphia, when he speaks on
the "Call to Youth" broadcast
over the coast-to-coast Red Net-
work of N. B. C. This address
will be delivered on Saturday,
July 12, 12:30-12:45 E.D.S.T.
(11:30-11:45 E.S.T.). This pro-
gram is another one of the cur-
rent series dealing with the con-
tributions of Jews to America.
During the war, Mr. Billikopf
was the executive director of the
J. D. C. campaign for war suffer-
ers, and has been a director of
the J. D. C. ever since 1917. He
has been executive director of
the Federation of Jewish Chari-
ties of Philadelphia; president of
the Conference of Jewish Social
Service and is a past president
of National Conference of Jewish
Social Workers. He has held many
posts on labor boards and govern-
ment agencies in social and eco-
nomic fields. His interests also in-
clude the academic world. He is a
trustee of Howard University and
a member of the Board of Gov-
ernors of the Hebrew University.
The "Call to Youth" program is
presented by the Union of Ameri-
can Hebrew Congregations, the
central organization of liberal Ju-
daism, during the months of May,
June, July and August. The gen-
eral theme for this season's
broadcast is: "Religious Contribu-
tions to American Democracy."
Picnic of J. W. E. W. 0.
on July 13
A special meeting of the Jew-
ish Women's European Welfare
Organization was held June 30,
at Congregation Bnai Moshe. Re-
ports were heard on the success
of the bake sale and thanks were
expressed to Mrs. A. Katzin,
chairman, to committees, to own-
ers of Kosher meat markets for
their help. A report was also
heard of the paid-up membership
free luncheon.
Final arrangements were made
for the picnic to be held Sunday,
July 13, at Palmer Park, with
Mesdames Osnos and Feldman as
chairmen.
The organization is conducting a
rummage sale. Those who wish to
donate old clothing should call
Mrs. D. Silverstein, Townsend
6-3489.
GIFTS TO HEBREW SCHOOLS
The United Hebrew Schools
acknowledge the receipt of one-
half scholarship to the scholarship
fund from Mr. and Mrs. Mendel
Shiffman of Sturtevant Ave., in
hOnor of the Bar Mitzvah of
their son, Alvin, which will be
observed on Saturday, July 12,
at the Bnai Jacob Synagogue;
one-half scholarship from Mr.
and Mrs. Samuel Matoff of Pasa-
dena Ave., in honor of the Bar
Mitzvah of their son, Melvin,
which will be observed on Sat-
urday, July 12. at the Rose Sit-
tig Cohen School; a contribu-
tion from Mr. and Mrs. Harry
M. Selker, in memory of the
vahrzeit of Mrs. Selker's father,
Joseph Finley.
CHRONICLE THANKED BY
DETROIT N.H.J.C. LEAGUE
Editor, Detroit Jewish Chronicle:
The Detroit League of N. H.
J. C. at Denver wishes to take
this opportunity of thanking you
for your full cooperation with
our organization in publicity ac-
tivities.
Sincerely, yours,
Mrs. Alfred Koffman,
Corresponding Sec'y.