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Detroit Jewish Chronicle
SECTION ONE
VOL. 43, NO.
at 97
and The Legal Chronicle
DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1941
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Colorful Inter-American Conference DthiLhZelltttie Important Decision by Judge
DeWitt Merriam Affecting
Sets Historic Precedent for Unity Nazi s Performances
They
Claims of Stockholders
of Jewries on American Continent Hated by the
STATE OF MICHIGAN
Frenchmen
and particularly Frenchwomen in
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF WAYNE
Paris hate the Nazis and the Nazi
IN CHANCERY
regime so much that. they pur-
posely go out of their way to AMERICAN STATE BANK OF DETROIT,
A Michigan Banking Corporation, et al.,
patronize Jewish merchants and
By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
Plaintiffs,
shop in Jewish stores, the Get-
No. 205,755
v.
man newspaper Pariser Zeitung
BALTIMORE, Md. — The Jewries of the Americas, "confessed in a remarkable article CHARLES D, AARON, et al.,
long separated by conditions created by language, dis- on the attitude of the French
Defendants.
tance and political considerations, were brought together people toward the Jews in Paris.
OPINION
here for the first time during the past week-end, at the Reports from Paris substantiate
Inter-American Jewish Conference convened by the the German complaints.
Counsel • has stated that there
Many Parisians even pay high-
The general and basic issues
American and World Jewish Congresses.
er prices to the Jews in order to in this case have been determined are approximately 1200 defend-
Hailed as an historic event, there were few of the support them and to express
by the Supreme Court in Amer- ants in this case. Many of them
delegates or guests who disputed
their hatred for Nazism in this
the wide connotation thus given
fashion, the paper declared, open- ican State Bank of Detroit vs.. have entered no appearance.
these sessions. There was in evi-
ly admitting that the Nazi au- Aaron, 271 Michigan, 147; Glass Others singly and in groups are
thorities are helpless to suppress vs. Locke, 286 Michigan, 628, and represented by counsel. The bill
dence the reflection of impres-
this spontaneous sympathy for Thompson vs. American State of complaint was filed early in
siveness that arises out of some-
the Jews at the present time.
thing extraordinary, and the as-
Bank, 256 Michigan 245. The bill 1932. Ample time has been allow-
sumption is that the sessions in
As a solution to the "problem",
of
complaint sets forth in all ed for the argument of motions.
Baltimore repeated the events of
the Germans offer their usual
1896, when Dr. Theodor Herzl
cure—a ghetto for the Jews in required detail the action taken Regardless of the form of his
first convened the Jewries of the
Paris, similar to the one in War- by the Bank Commissioner and pleading, no defendant has been
world for the first World Zionist
saw. In this way, the gazette the directors of the American denied the opportunity to present
Congress.
said, Jews and non-Jews would
LONDON (JPS-Palcor) — Ad-
The union of the Jewries in
be segregated and sympathy for Bank for the purpose of placing testimony relating to or affecting
the bank in voluntary liquidation the question of his actual owner-
the Americas is now a fact—and mitting that the British govern- the Jews would be suppressed.
a matter of historic record— ment had toward the end of 1940
Reports from Paris state that on March 12, 1931; the confirma- ship of stock.
assured
Dr.
Chaim
Weizmann,
as
and the colorful and significant
the Union of French Cafe and tion thereof by the stockholders
The Guaranty State Bank was
sessions in Baltimore arose out the latter revealed at the be- Restaurant Owners has decided
ginning
of
this
month,
that
it
of the bank at their meeting held
of a newly-achieved harmony
organized
and began business in
unanimously
to
remove
the
which overcame the obstacles of accepted "in principle" the for- sign "Jews not wanted," which on March 27, 1931; the agreed the year 1927. It had not -paid a
mation
of
a
Jewish
army
to
fight
distance and language.
plan for effectuating liquidation
dividend up to the time of con-
alongside the British forces as the Germans had imposed upon
Borrowing the traditions that do the armies of the other Allies,
evidenced by the agreement and
solidation
with and merger into
See NAZIS—Page 16
were common to the League Coloniel Secretary Lord Moyne
bill of sale dated March 30th,
the American State Bank in
of Nations at Geneva, the ad- attempted to justify in the House
1931, and generally the proceed-
dresses at these sessions were of Lords the subsequent decision
March, 1930, on the bas's of sur-
ings
taken up to the time of
._presented tri-lingually. The not to accept the proposal - "un-
render and exchange of mte share
the commencement of this suit.
main speeches delivered in der present conditions."
of Guaranty for one and a quar-
English and in Yiddish were
The facts above referred to were
The necessity for sending equip-
ter shares of the American. After
translated into Spanish, and in
also stated in the brief for plain-
ment to Russia and the inability
the date of merger, the American
most instances the texts o f the
to iron out "various points" were
tiffs filed in the Aaron case and
cddresses were distributed to
declared and paid to its stock-
the reasons presented by the Co-
were commented on at length by
the delegates in the languages
holders four dividends. The Guar-
lonial Secretary for the refusal
the Supreme Court in its decision.
they spoke.
by the British government to ac-
anty stockholders claim that they
The Supreme Court, therefore,
But while the languages were cept and to foster the Jewish
were induced to make this ex-
mixed, the idea behind the con- Agency's offer of 50,000 young
was fully advised of the facts
change
through the fraudulent
NEW
YORK
(
(JPS)
—,
That
ference remained intact. The Jewish men to fight for Britain
upon which this action is based
delegates felt throughout the ses- on any fronts to which they British labor stands firmly by the
Acts and false representations of
sions and repeated their senti- might be sent, as long as they pledges made to the Jewish peo- and has held that it was prop- the officers of the American. That
ments through their spokesmen were permitted to retain their ple in the Balfour Declaration erly instituted. It has also con- these stockholders were deceived
that the major needs of the Jew- identity and to make their con- was the message received by strued the agreement of March
ish people today are to provide tribution to the war effort as cable at the annual conference of 30, 1931, between the American can be assumed. It is evident that
their own officers did not make or
the National Labor Committee for
solution for the sufferings cre- Jews.
Palestine from J. S. Middleton, and the Peoples State Bank as an cause to be made as thorough an
ated by the war and to strive
towards the realization of the Australian Premier Backs Jewish secretary of the British Labor instrument giving the latter bank examination of the affairs and
Party. Identifying the cause of legal authority to proceed as
age-old hope of rebuilding Pales-
Homeland
Zion with the "cause of all peo- liquidating agent for the Amer- condition of the American Bank
tine as the Jewish National Home.
CANBERRA, Australia (JPS- ple seeking full freedom," the
as should have been made before
The Inter-American Confer-
ican in the disposition of its as-
a transaction was concluded which
ence was given status at the out- Palcor)—With Australian sold- British Labor leader declared that
set by two factors: the presence iers once again, as in the last the Jewish military and civilian sets and liabilities for the pur- involved the surrender and dis-
of delegates from 18 Latin war, sending back reports of the contribution to the struggle for poses therein stated.
posal of all of their interests in
American republics, in addition welcome they have received at democracy "entitles and ensures
In Glass vs. Locke, decision the Guaranty. The Bank Com•
the
hands
of
the
Jewish
commu-
the
establishment
of their own
to the, delegations from the Uni-
dated December 21, 1938, the Su- missioner had
ted States and Canada, and the nity in Palestine, Prime Minister home in their ancestral home-
made an official
preme Court held that the actual report and
endorsement of its aims given John Curtin told a Jewish dele- land."
had
criticized the
A message from Dr. Chaim or beneficial owner of the stock
by the appearance and speech of gation here that he had the ut-
bookkeeping entries of both banks
most
sympathy
for
the
upbuild-
Weizmann,
president
of
the
Jew-
Under Secretary of State Sum-
as distinguised from the record
ner Welles, at the public session ing of the Jewish homeland in ish Agency for Palestine, pointed holder should be held to be the before the merger was consum-
Palestine
and
was
greatly
im-
mated. The trade was made one
out that American Jewish labor
on Sunday afternoon.
Mr. Welles was emphatic in pressed by the progress that had can play an honorable part in person obligated under the pro- year before the American ceased
the struggle for Jewish rights by visions of Section 48 of the Mich-
See ARMY—Page 8
to function as a bank. Stock in
See CONFERENCE—Page 13
uniting behind Zionist demands igan Banking Act.
the Guaranty carrying personal
in Palestine.
The decision, therefore, of this
The complete support of the
liability of the holder was ex"-
American Federation of Labor court must conform to the deci- changed for stock in the Ameri-
for the further upbuilding of the sion of the Supreme Court above
can also carrying personal lia-
Jewish National Home was referred to.
bility. The delay in taking action
I
pledged
by
William
Green,
presi-
The movement for the erection burgh Hospital Campaign
No assessment is required to
'hos-
dent,
and
by
Senator
James
M.
to rescind and annul this ex-
remarked
that
the
term
of a Jewish hospital in Detroit,
establish liability of the stock-
change preVents this court from
dating back to the efforts made pital' or 'oephanage' or 'day Mead of New York.
A declaration presented by Ba- holders under Section 48. This
a generation ago by a group of nursery' has no sacrosanct
accepting the contention of
ruch Zuckerman, Labor Zionist harsh provision, since repealed, is
pioneers in this cause, has had meaning as far as I am con-
the former Guaranty
stock-
leader,
urged
that
"no
change
in
expressly declarative of the holders
the support of outstanding lead- cerned; it assumes sacredness
the status of Palestine is to be
when
as
a
sufficient
de-
y
and
significance
onl
ers in and out of Detroit.
effected without adequate Jewish double liability attached to stock
Seventeen years ago, the Jew- there is an actual need for that participation in making such ownership. It has no relation to fense at this time. It is apparent
that the Guaranty stockholders
ish hospital movement was en- kind of an institution. Thus, changes. The final status of Pal-
dorsed by Dr. Jacob Billikopf, in Kansas City, I refused to estine must be that of a Jewish the proceedings provided in Sec- were not aware of the conditions
then executive director of the give any e ncouragement to the state of such magnitude as shall tion 44 for assessment on and existing in the American Bank
Federation of Jewish Charities building of a Jewish hospital enable the immigration of mil- sale of the stock. It is assumed
at the time the exchange was
of Philadelphia. Dr. Billikopf, because, in my judgment, there lions of Jews."
and I have no doubt that in the
made. However, our Supreme
son-in-law of the late Louis Mar- is no need for it there. I re-
Reporting a total of $477,000 case of nearly all of these de- Court has repeatedly ruled that
shall, who ranks to this day as fused to speak in Providence raised during the past year in
one of the outstanding social in behalf of the orphanage, be- the Gewerkshaften campaign to fendants their stock has been ac- Section 48 was enacted for the
workers in America, wrote on cause I felt that a few chil- aid the Histadruth (Jewish Fed- quired in good faith and that
Oct. 30, 1924, to Morris D. Wald- dren could have been placed eration of Labor) in Palestine, they have been placed in their sole benefit and protection of the
man, then director of the United in private homes at an infinite- the National Labor Committee present unforunate position wholly depositors and creditors. Even
Jewish Charities of Detroit, prior ly smaller expense. 1 am not adopted a quota of $1,000,000
less fortunate than stockholders
to the formation of the Jewish sure that I could have g otten for its campaign in the ensuing without fault on their part.
are the depositors and creditors
up
much
enthusiasm
had
I
been
While
the
repeal
of
Section
48
Welfare Federation of Detroit,
asked to speak in the recent year. Joseph Schlossberg was has come too late to afford them who as such not only have no
as follows:
one million dollar campaign in elected national chairman; Jos-
voice in transactions which in.
"You asked me specifically
Lot,Angeles for an orphanage. eph Breslaw, Sarah - Feder, Louis relief, they should be given in volve the use or misuse of their'•
what I think of a Jewish hos-
But I did speak with a great Hollander, Alexander Kahn, Saul full measure the benefits of any property, but they do not have
pital in Detroit. I am for it,
deal of fervor in Newark, N. Metz, David Pinski, Alex Rose, equitable construction of the law
strong. In a speech I delivered
Louis Segal and David Wertheim,
which can be applied.
last Wednesday night at the
See OPINION—Page 1, Sec. 2
co-chairmen.
See
HOSPITAL—Page
12
opening dinner of the Pitts-
Preservation of Liberties Pledged by the Under
Secretary of State Welles; Sessions
Conducted in Three Languages
GENEVA,. (JPS)
—
Moyne Denies
Army Pledge
Admits, However, the
Idea Was Accepted
in Principle
$1,000,000 Goal
For the Histadrut
Demands for Palestine
Made by Labor
Committee
JEWISH HOSPITAL IN DETROIT
ENDORSED BY JACOB BILLIKOPF