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Detroit Jewish Chronicle

SECTION ONE

VOL. 43, NO. * '43

Dept. of State
Gives Consent
To Conference

Jewish Congress Ex-
plains Inter-Ameri-
can Parley

A common understanding lead-
ing to effective cooperation
among Jews of countries in the
Western Hemisphere with rela-
tion to activities affecting Jewish
life here and abroad, is the prin-
cipal purpose of the Inter-Ameri-
can Jewish Conference, which
will be held at the Southern Ho-
tel in Baltimore on Nov. 23, 34
and 25. Jewish communities in
16 South and Central American
countries, in addition to the Uni-
ted States, Canada and Mexico,
will be represented at the con-
ference.

and The Legal Chronicle

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DETROIT, MICHIGAN. FRIDAY. OCTOBER 31, 1941

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Beth El to Install
New Rabbi Nov. 14

Temple Beth El will install
its new rabbi—Dr. B. Benedict
Glazer--at the service of in-
stallation on Friday evening,
Nov. 1•.
It is announced that attend-
ance at these services will be
limited to members of the Tem-
ple Beth El and their families,
and the Rabbinate.

Sperka Chosen
Congress Dead

Elected President of the
Detroit Branch of
Movement

Rabbi Joshua S. Sperka, for
a number of years an active
leader in the American Jewish
Congress and during the past
year one of its vice-presidents,
was elected president of the De-
troit Chapter, at a meeting held

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The purpose and scope of
the conferenc e were explained
by Dr. Stephen S. Wise, presi-
dent of the American Jewish
Congress, and Dr. Nahum
Goldman, chairman of the ad-
ministrative committee of the
World Jewish Congress, at a
meeting last week with rep-
resentatives of the Jewish
press. Both leaders emphasized
that the conference was being
held with the consent of the
various governments in South
America as well as of the
State Department of the Uni-
ted States, which has been most
helpful in facilitating the ad-
mission of delegates from other
lands.

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Dr. Wise pointed out that al-
though Jews had begun to settle
in South America much earlier
than in North America, organized
Jewish life in the South Ameri-
can countries was of compara-
tively recent development, and
would benefit extensively from
closer contact with the more nu-
merous Jewish communities in
the United States. Jews in South
America, he said, now have suf-
ficient economic and spiritual re-
sources to be able to shoulder
the common responsibility which
must be borne by all Jews for
Jewish survival in the diaspora
and the upbuilding of Palestine.

His Memory
Exiled Mufti Honor
Honor Brandeis'
at Meeting Sunday
at Shaarey Zedek memory Sunday
Given Haven
By Italians
On Balfour Day

Had Inspired the Anti-
Jewish Riots in Pal-
estine in 1936

Senator Brown, Dean
Krichbaum Principal
Speakers

LONDON (JPS) Haj Amin el
Husseini, former Mufti of Jerus-
alem who inspired the anti-Jew-
ish riots in Palestine in 1936, has
at last found a haven among the
Italians, who were charged by
the Zionists in 1936 with having
fomented the campaign of Arab
terrorism.
An official announcement was
issued in Rome confifirming the
arrival of ' the anti-British Mos-
lem agent in Italy. "He has cour-
ageously declared open war
against England and conducted
the fight without a truce against
British tyranny, in Arab lands,"
the Italian communique de-
clared.
Exiled from Palestine during
the course of the riots, the cx-
Mufti has poisoned the atmos-
phere against Great Britain in
every Middle Eastern country in
which he stayed. Ilusseini was
one of the group of profoundly
anti-British Moslems against
whom the Zionist leaders had
warned the British for many
years before the war, but with-
out avail. The most recent ex-
ploit with which Huuseini was
credited was the short-lived re-
bellion in Iraq.

Observance of the 24th anni-
versary of the Balfour Declara-
tion will be the signal for an
impressive tribute to the memory
of the late Mr. Justice Louis D.
Brandeis of the United States
Supreme Court, at a public meet,
ing in the main auditorium of
Cong. Shaarey Zedek, Chicago
and Lawton Ayes., at 2:30 n. m.
this Sunday, Nov. 2. The Zion-
ist Organization of Detroit is
sponsoring the meeting, admis-
sion to which is free.
Christians will join with Jews
in honoring the memory of the
great jurist and in evaluating
the contributions made by Mr.
Justice Brandeis in strengthening
the Zionist movement and the
cause of the rebuilding of Pales-
tine as the Jewish National
Home.
Participating in the program
this Sunday will be the follow-
ing:

Mrs. Roosevelt
Resents Rumor

RABBI J. S. SPERKA

on Wednesday evening at the
Bnai David social hall on 14th
and Elmhurst St.
Other officers were elected as
follows:
Dr. Clarissa Fineman and Philip
Slomovitz, vice-presidents; Mor-
ris Lieberman, treasurer; Reva
Antick, recording secretary; Mrs.
Albert Feldstein, corresponding
secretary; Mrs. Esther Green,

Attacks Spread of Tales
of Refugee Em-
ployment

LATE JUSTICE BRANDEIS

111eWilliams Is
Be-Arrested

'Handsome Joe's' Anti-
Semitic Activities
Continue

NEW YORK ( (JPS) — Jew-
aiter Joe McWilliams, American
Destiny Party chief who prom-
ised to "be good" and stop his
attacks against the Jews has
been seized as a parole breaker
by the Criminal Alien Squad for
having broken his promise. With
Nazi guile McWilliams, who had
given his word to stop attacking
the Jews in New York County,
continued his activities in Queens
and the Bronx.
Magistrate William Hoppin,
who had sentenced the rabble-
rouser on Sept. 9 for anti-Semitic
speeches had suspended sentence
with the promise to force Mc-
Williams to serve his 60-day
term in the workhouse if the
American Destiny fascist uttered
any more anti-Jewish comments.
The Now York Post revealed that
McWilliams in the Astoria Casino
had warned the "international
Jews," just two weeks after he
had given his pledge not to at-
tack the Jews again, that they
"will get what is coming to
them . . . the leadership in the
country is on its last legs be-
cause it is controlled by Jews
and their Christian stooges." Dis-

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The Hon. Prentiss M. Brown,
United States Senator from
Michigan.
Dr. William Krichbaum, dean
of the Detroit College of Law.
Rabbi Morris Adler, presi-
dent of the Zionist Organiza-
tion of Detroit.
Philip Slomovitz.
Former Judge Charles Rubi-
ner, who will preside.

Rabbi Adler stated, in an-
nouncing the program for this
public meeting, that the popular
response to the observance of
Balfour Day by Christians as well
as Jews has been most hearten-
ing, and that the tribute to be
paid to the memory of Justice
Brandeis is serving as a signal
for revitalizing the cause of Pal-
estine's redemption as the Jew-
ish Homeland.
Rabbi Adler extends an invi-
tation to the entire community
non-Jews as well as Jews, to at-
tend the meeting on Sunday, and

WASHINGTON. — (JPS) —
Referring to a rumor that has
sprung up from time to time,
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt de-
nounced what she described as
a widespread allegation that Jew-
ish-owned department stores are
dismissing employes to make way
for Jewish refugees. She branded
the story false in her Sunday
night current-events broadcast on Set ANTI-SEMITES—Page 16
See BRANDEIS—Page 13
See CONGRESS—Page 20
See SPERKA—Page 11
the NBC hookup for the Pan-
American Coffee Bureau.
"No story could create more Detroit Will Honor Memory of
Sehwartzhard's Defender Calls
disunity," she declared, after em-
Menahem Ussishkin on Nov. 13
phasizing that "it is not true.
Laval Corrupt and a Defeatist Germans
circulate a story like
this to hurt the Jews," she con- Louis Lipsky and Dr. A. M. Hershman Among Principal
Biography of French Pro-Nazi Is an Excoriating Decrip- cluded. If there is any down slant
Speakers at Jewish National Fund Public
tion of the Man Who Continues to Give
in department store employment
Meeting at Shaarey Zedek
at
this
time,
she
said,
it
may
Comfort to Hitler
be because of a possible seasonal
The memory of Menahem Us- had redeemed 560,000 dunams of
Henry Torres' "Laval", the
decline.
They Were Friends Once
sishkin, deceased world presi- land in the name of the entire
biography just issued by Oxford
They were friends and politi- "Horrible," Says Mrs. Roosevelt dent of the Jewish National Fund, Jewish people. (A dunam is a
University Press, will go down
of Jewish Deportations
will be honored at a public meet- quarter of an acre).
cal
collaboretors, author and sub-
on record as one of the great
Referring to the renewed cam- ing to be held in the main audi-
ject
of
this
biography.
Therefore
It is expected that the Can-
documents of 1941.
paign in Germany of wholesale torium of Congregation Shaarey
The original French edition of Torres came to know Laval well deportations of Jews to Poland, Zedek on Thursday evening, Nov. tors' Association of Detroit will
he understood him as few
M. Torres' expose of the pro- and
Mrs. Roosevelt described the situ- 13, it is announced by William chant the Askarah at this me-
other people did.
Nazi former Premier of France
ation as "horrible" in her "My Hordes, president of the Jewish morial meeting.
Complete details will be an-
From this knowledge springs Day" column written from here.
appeared at about the same time
National Fund Council of De- nounced in next week's issue of
"Somehow, being suddenly told troit.
that Collette's bullet struck La- forth a description of a very
The Detroit Jewish Chronicle.
that within an hour you must
val. But it is now contended that evil and unscrupulous man.
Louis Lipsky, former presi-
Torres calls Laval a lackey. leave your home never to return
Torres' book is more deadly than
the hot bullet and that it will "Germany," he says, "holds him is very difficult for us here to dent of the Zionist Organiza- World Jewry Summoned to Build
Tribute to Ussishkin
pursue the French defender of in reserve. Tomorrow he may be visualize," said the President's tion of America, Dr. A. M.
Hershman,
rabbi
of
Shaarey
back
in
power:
the
cup
of
shame
JERUSALEM
(JPS - Palcor)—
wife
in
describing
"some
accounts
Hitler unto his grave.
has not yet been drunk to its of the removal of the Jewish Zedek, and other prominent The Jews of the world are sum-
A Great Lawyer - Author
The author of this biography dregs. But even today he dares people from Germany to Poland leaders will be among the moned to build a worthy tribute
to Menahem Ussishkin in the
is one of the greatest living law- not show himself in the streets and Russia . . . It is a leave- speakers.
form of a great land coloniza-
yers. He was the defender of of the capital." How true. Since taking which savors somewhat of
Admission
to
this
public
meet-
death.
These
mass
removals,
tion
project in Palestine in a
the
bullet
was
fired
shortly
after
Sholem Schwartzbard, assassin of
ing will be free and there will manifesto
where
people
are
treated
like
issued here under the
this
was
written.
the pogromist Petliura, and it
animals, are so horrible to con- be no solicitation of funds. The signatures of the World Zionist
was thanks to his brilliant pres- "Worse Than an Executioner" template
Jewish
organizations
of
Detroit
that one can only hope
entation of the case that the
Here is how M. Torres explains that at a certain point feelings are called upon to reserve this Organization Executive, the Jew-
French jury freed the Jewish the lackey charge against Laval: become numb and suffering ceases date and not to arrange conflict- ish Agency Executive, the Zion-
ist General Council and the
hero who avenged the murder of
ing events for that evening.
"During his sinister rule he to be acute."
Boards of Directors of the Keren
thousands of Jews, and members handed over anti-Nazi refugees
Mr. Ussishkin, who became Kayemeth and Keren Hayesod.
of his own family, by firing a to the Germans, sometimes even President Grateful for Memorial known as "the iron man of the
As a gesture of reverence in
bullet into the man who led the anticipating German demands. A
Zionist movement," was respon- memory of Mr. Ussishkin, the
to Mother
gangsters in the Ukraine to de- great Catholic writer of the 19th
sible
for
the
redemption
of
prac-
NEW YORK. — (JPS) — Ex-
J. N. F. directorate decided on
stroy Jewish life and property.
century said that 'there is some- pressing his appreciation of the tically all of the land now the
This great Jewish lawyer was thing worse than an executioner: permanent endowment of a chil; property of the entire Jewish peo- the election of a praesidium of
men as an indication that
also to have defended Herschel a lackey.' These words exactly dren's room at the National Jew- ple in Palestine. When he be- three
no other man could take the
Grynszpan, whose murder of Vom describe Pierre Laval."
ish Hospital in Denver in honor came president of the Jewish place of the late president.
Rath in November, 1938, led to
Among the epithets hurled at of his mother, Sara Delano Roose- National Fund, only 70,000 dun-
Elected to the praesidium wore
a series of German pogroms Laval by Torres are: Defeatist, velt, President Franklin D. Roose- ams were in the possession of Berl Katznelson, Rabbi Meier
against Jews, but the outbreak a man • without shame, a rene- velt, in a letter to Felix War- the Jewish people. At the time Berlin and Dr. Abraham Granov-
of the war put an end to that
of his death, on Oct. 2, in Jerus- sky, the latter serving as manag-
possibility.
See LAVAL—Page 17
See ROOSEVELT—Page 17
alem, the Jewish National Fund ing director.

