Detioit Jewish chroticle
SECTION ONE
VOL. 43, NO. 35
and The Legal Chronicle
DETROIT, MICHIGAN. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1941
Presentation
Executions of Plane
In Detroit Sunday
Jews in Paris
Is Called Off
A distinct honor will be ac-
corded Harry Schumer, honor-
ary president of the Michigan
Linen Supply Board of Trade,
when a plane is presented this
Sunday noon, at Hartung.
Field, Gratiot and
Reveal Nazis Were to Aviation
10% -Mile Road, in his honor,
by the linen supply associa-
Have Wholesale
tion.
This plane will be presented
Massacre
to Ilechalutz of Palestine for
defense activities in the Jew-
ish National Home and for
revelation, whose propaganda the training of Jewish pilots
overtones were not immediately
See SCHUMER—Page 8
apparent, Fernand de Brion, rep-
This Paper Printed in Two Steam
10 Cents Single Copy; S3.00 per Yea
Veterans Hit
Un-Democratic
Forces in U. S.
Edmund I. Kaufmann Withdraws
As 1. 0. A. President on the Eve
America First Commit-
tee Attacked at
Convention
Of This Week-End's Convention
BUFFALO (JPS)—With some Recommends Judge Louis E. Levinthal of
40,000 members represented by
Philadelphia as His Successor; Major Issues
delegates, the Jewish War Vet-
erans of the United States met
to Be Considered in Cincinnati
here for a five-day convention,
beginning Aug. 28, with prob-
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. — (JPS) — Edmund I.
lems of assistance to the national
defense paramount in the dis- Kaufmann, president of the Zionist Organization of
evasions.
America, issued a statement four days before the opening
During a symposium on Ameri- of its annual convention at Cincinnati in which he with-
resentative of Vichy to Paris,
canism and national defense, at drew as a candidate for re-election on the ground of
announced that through the in-
which various Jewish organiza- illness and called upon the organization to elect as his
tions had representatives, Prof.
tervention of his government, the
successor in the presidency Judg'
Nazi authorities held off a mas-
James Sheldon, chairman of the Louis E. Levinthal of Philadel-
board of the Anti-Nazi League,
sacre of Jewish hostages that
phis, chairman of the adminis-
charged that the America First
they were planning in reprisal Detroit Jews to Send Committee was the front for all
trative committee of the Zionist
for widespread sabotage and the
Organization.
New Year Scroll to the anti-democratic forces in
assassination of a German subal-
Kaufmann declared that
America.
Specifically,
he
declared
Rabbi James G. Heller his Mr.
tern.
• Palestine
doctors had ordered him "not
that it was "a front for Adolf
to continue the strain of office
In a solicitude for the Jews
Hitler. It is not necessary to
to Be the Guest
A novel project has been an- analyze the literature of the
ofPresident of the Zionist Or-
that was not apparent in any of
ga nization of America."
the acts of the Vichy regime but augu•ated in Detroit through the America First Committee to dis-
Speaker
that might have been dictated Jewish National Fund Council, at cover within it the inn unendos
Mr. Kaufmann' s Statement
by criticism abroad of its anti- the extraordinary conference held against the Jews, the attacks
Dr. James G. Heller, rabbi of
The
following is the full text
Jewish policy, M. de Brinon de- on Thursday evening at the upon the democratic leaders in the Isaac M. Wise Temple of of the statement which Mr.
clared that proof had been sub- Shaarey Zedek.
America and England, and the Cincinnati, the "mother-congre- Kaufmann released to the press:
mitted to the Nazis by the Ger-
Introduced at the suggestion other signs of the regular Hit-
"After my recent and pro-
gation" of Reform Judaism in
mans that it was not a Jew but of Rabbi Moris Adler, who was ler 'line'."
tracted illness, my doctors or-
a Communist who shot the Ger- the principal speaker at Thurs-
America and president of the dered me not to continue the
Only Hitler Not Hissed
man naval officer in a Paris sub- day's conference, the project
Central Conference of Ameri- strain of office of president of
Referring
to
a
Carnegie
Hall,
way, and that Paul Colette, who provides for the gathering of New York,
can Rabbis, will deliver the ad- the Zionist Organization of
meeting
of
the
shot Laval and Deat, was also thousands of names of Detroit America First Committee, at
America. Although the instruc-
a Communist agent.
Jews—men, women and children which John T. Flynn, its chair-
tions of the physicians were
Mandel's Secretary Escapes
-to be sent to Palestine on a man, Philip La Follette and
clear and imperative, I refused
to consider them as final until
Andre Diethelm, former secre- special scroll as this community's President McCracken of Vassar
I had carefully gone over the
tary to Georges Mandel, French greeting on the New Year 5702 spoke, Prof. Sheldon said "there
entire situation and consulted
Colonial Secretary in the Rey- to the Yishuv in Palestine. Or- was only one man prominent in
many associates, friends and ad-
naud Cabinet who is now im- ganizations are also invited to the press of today who was not
participate
in
this
project.
visers as to the future. With
attacked by any speaker and who
prisoned at Rion), succeeded in
singlar unanimity, eyes turned to
The Planned Scroll
was not booed and hissed by the
escaping from France and en-
a personality among the leaders
tering. England.
Individuals and organizations audience. His name is Adolf Hit-
and active workers who would
He told newspapermen that the enrolling. as participants in this ler."
command the respect and active
German government had informed project will be asked to contrib-
In his report as national com-
suport of all American Zionists
Petain that she was ready to ute the sum of $1 each, w hi c h !pander to the 4Gth annual con-
—Judge Louis E. Levinthal of
release all arrested French states- will be used for Palestine land- vention, Fred S. Haris of Meri-
Philadelphia. He is known as an
men supposed to be tried for redemption work through the den , Conn., described the role
eminent jurist, and a devoted
war guilt but that she insisted Jewish National Fund. The call,
Zionist. As chairman of the ad-
that Georges Mandel, a Jew, and as issued on Thursday, states
See VETERANS—Page 12
ministrative council of the Zion-
"6) Paul Reynaud, must remain in that the scroll "to be sent to
ist Organization of America for
prison until the end of the war Palestine will be appropriately
the past two years, Judge Levin-
and then be turned over to the worded, beautifully inscribed, ex- Beth El' School
thal has earned the affection and
Nazis for judgment.
pressing. the affection, interest
admiration of us all. I have every
Adds Bus Service
and hope of Detroit Jewry for
Ejected From France
Accused of being "pro-Jewish the Yishuv; promising our co-
See ZIONISTS—Page 13
As a convenience to parents
operation, bringing the encour-
See NAZIS—Page 13
agement and cheer of Detroit and children, Temple Beth El
w shortly inaugurate a bus
Jews to their brethren in the will
service from the . northwest sec-
Homeland."
of the
city from
for children
An Important Statement on
The call also states that this tion
going
to and
Sunday
RABBI JAMES G. HELLER
scroll will represent "a roll-call
the Zionist Situation
of honor of Jewish organizations School.
dress on the occasion of the in-
Arrangements
and individuals."
have
already stallation of Rabbi Leon Fran)
By LOUIS LIPSKY
Assistant Secretary of
been made with the Department
"Hands Across the Sea"
into his new pulpit, the recently
of
Street
Railways,
and
all
that
EDITOR'S NOTE: Louis Lipsky,
State Makes Impor-
Those planning to participate remains is for a committee to organized liberal Jewish congre-
former president of the Zion-
in
__this
"Hands
Across
the
Sea"
plan
the
actual
procedure.
ist Organizatio n of America,
gation of Temple Israel,
tant Declaration
project are asked to send their
The School of Religion of
has issued the following state-
The installation service will
contributions to the Jewish Na- Temple Beth El will start its
ment to The Detroit Jewish
take place in the auditorium at
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.
Chronicle, expressin g his views
See - SCROLL—Page 8
(JPS) — "You cannot make
See BETH EL—Page 9
See
FRAM—Page
12
on the issues facin g the con-
peace with the Hitler crew," •aS
vention of the Zionist Organi-
the theme of the address of As-
zatio n of America, which will
sistant Secretary of State Adolph
be held in Cincinnati this
A. Berle, Jr., before the final
week-end.
evening session of the Williams-
town Institute of Human Rela- The World's Outstanding Pathologist States His Views an Vital Issues; Prof. Bern-
I would be the last person in
hard Gottlieb Makes Strong Plea for Dental College in Palestine; A
tions, which brought together
the world to find fault with any
hundreds of civic and communal
Sketch of and an Interview with Eminent Scientist
leaders under the auspices of
ZOA administration if it fall
By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
the National Conference of
short in the enrollment of mem-
Christians and Jews.
Dental authorities anywhere in During the first seven months of result of Nazi domination of bers, or was unable to balance
Speaking in a blunter language the world will tell you that Prof. his residence in this country he Austria, he has learned that
its budget and had to report a
than had been used by most of Bernhard Gottlieb is the world ' s
visiting professor at the Uni- hatred of the Jew is more seri- substantial deficit. These repre-
the other participants in the dis- outstandging pathologist and that was
versity of Michigan, serving as ous in this country than he had
cussions, particularly Jews, Mr. his recent arrival in this country lecturer in oral pathology in the ever imagined it to be. He ad- sent the difficulties of Zionist
Berle inferred that if necessary is considered of great signifi- pathology laboratories of the mits frankly that he saw mani- work. The new administration
America must go to war, for if cance to the progress of den- Kellogg Foundation Institute. He festations of anti-Semitism in had a hard job and they did the
Hitler wins America "will have fishy in America. has just assumed a new post as American universities. He is up- boat that was in their power.
the grim choice of becoming a
But when you talk to the emi- professor of oral pathology at set by the fact that there are But I submit that an Adminis-
part of the slave system or of nent professor, physician and Baylor University in Dallas, Tex. unwritten laws which impose an tration that took office after it
spending a generation on the dentist you become aware at Thus, when Dr. Gottlieb speaks America
n numeros clausus upon had blackened and derided the
bloody business of a war between once that his major interest is of Palestine, it is not as a re- Jewish students.
And he believes, achievements of all its predeces-
hemispheres, and none of us will Palestine and that his life's am- cent convert to the movement, with strong conviction, that sors—the Sol Goldman, Wise,
live to see the end of that war." bition is to participate person- but as one who is steeped in something must be done about it. Rothenberg and Szold Adminis-
"Battle Must Not Be Lost"
ally in the redemption of Eretz knowledge of the land and of the Jewish students, Dr. Gottlieb trations—going as far back as
Saying that America is des- Israel and in helping in the movement that aims at the coun- believes, ought not to be deprived 20 years, when I was the head
tined to emerge as the strongest solution of the painful problem try's reconstruction. But his new of an opportunity to study the of the ZOA, cannot now plead
single power in the world, Mr. of anti-Semitism.
approach to the Palestinian cause medical sciences. Furthermore, a different standard of measure-
He Knows Palestine
Berle asserted that "every dic-
has assumed a new aspect. He he believes that if the doors to ment.
At Pittsburgh, Mr. Kaufmann
tate of statesmanship and of
Impressive - looking, emphatic- speaks of a new experience—of such opportunities are closed to
horse sense tells us to use every speaking, convincing, Dr. Cott- what he considers a great need them here they should be pro- was snonsored by a group who
effort to see that the battle of lieb is an interesting man who to help eradicate the evils of vided elsewhere—and there is said his personality would win
Europe shall not be lost." .... leaves you with a great deal to anti-Semitism. only one elsewhere for this emi- the cooperation of leading non-
Zionists, bring in a youthful
Disturbed by Prejudice
Answering the question as to think about. He had to leave his
neat pathologist: Palestine.
"American" contingent, rejuven-
Dr. Gottlieb is disturbed over
whether American democracy has home city of Vienna, where he
A Gottlieb
Dental School
Zion
fears in
that
Jews ate the leadership, see to it that
a world future, the Assistant was professor at the famous the status of the Jewish students Dr.
Secretary of State pointed out University of Vienna, and lived in America. Coming from one are losing precious time by de- the budget would balance, and
that "the United States has been for two years in Palestine, where of the seats of anti-Semitism, laying the creation of all import- that the ZOA would he guaran-
he had visited three times before, where he saw it rise to a new
teed a business administration.
See INSTITUTE—Page 8
for a few weeks every two years. low in human degradation as a
See GOTTLIEB—Page 16 See LIPSKY—Page 9
Launch J. N. F.
Project Here
Install Frani
Next Frills y
MY POSITION
"No Peace With
Hitler"---Berle
Teeth, Anti-Semitism and Palestine