Detroit Jewish Chronicle

and The Legal Chronicle
2, 1942

DETROIT, MICHIGAN. FRIDAY,

VOL. 44, NO. 1

Co nimunity Council Committees
Announeed for the Coming Year
•
Appointments
Made by James 1. Ellmann. President;

Unity Appeal
Made to U. S.
J ewish roil s ti, .:

10c Single Copy: $3.00 Per Yeat

JANUARY

Recommend 6
ews for U. S
Flying Cross

Dr.eg
O
Klineb r pens
r
Th e Cente Lecture
Series on Tuesday j

Prominent Leaders Head Defense and
Educational Functioning Groups

•

Di r lonoet
n d D i shci it.iirnrivin asteioling,so
s i (CI ennutn coifl and
a n iIa 1 . 1 E 1C1 ionnainmna,
Seligson
Community
Jewish
Education, Aaron Rosenberg
o! Detroit, at a meeting held at
tie Jewish Center last Monday and Bernard Isaacs, co-chairmen.
evening, announced the appoint -
Inter-community relations, Jos-
conu
eph Bernstein and Rabbi Morris
Mair
went of the following committee
men for the coming year:
Adler, co-chairmen.
Public relations, Rabbi Leon
Arbitration, Judge Charles Ru-
WASHINGTON (JPS) — Six
Frani and Morris Garvett, co- biner and David J. Cohen.
Jewish fliers, one of whom later
chairmen.
Literature,
L
a
w
r
e
n
c
e
W.
A proposal that Jewish groups
distinguished himself under fire
Crohn and Benjamin M. Laikin.
in this country abandon competi-
in the Philippines, were recom-
Inter-group
relations,
Dr.
Leo
tion and duplication and under-
mended to President Roosevelt for
Franklin
and
Nathaniel
Gold-
take to unify their efforts as a
aMtick
awards of the Disinguished Fly-
result of the war was advanced
ing Cross in recognition of the
by Dr. Stephen S. Wise, presi.
Newspapers, William Friedman
trans-Pacific formation flight of
dent of the American Jewis:1
and Henry Wineman.
Sept. 5-12.
Congress, and talks along this
Legal, Myron Keys and Joseph
Of the 75 fliers who made the
line are now in progress.
flight, Meyer Levin, 25-year-old
Zwerdling.
This fact was revealed this
Brooklyn boy, was one of the
Admissions, Dr. Shmarya Klein-
week by "Trend of Events," the
heroes in the bombing of the Jap-
man and Mrs. Leonard Weiner.
Jewish news-letter circulated p:i-
anese battle cruiser Haruna. The
Speakers,
Louis
Rosenzweig
NEW YORK. (JPS) — "We
vately by Meir Grossman, well
youthful Corporal was the born-
are
in
a
war
now
and
there
are
and
Philip
Slomovitz.
known Jewish journalist.
hardier in Captain Colin Kelly's
commit-
Personnel
for
these
PROF.
OTTO
KLINEBERG
The statement regarding this more important things to be done
ship, which later was shot down
proposal, as revealed by "Trend than to make a martyr out of tees will be announced shortly,
"Mass Psychology and War," by Jap fighter planes. Corporal
McWilliams," Magistrate William Mr. Ellmann stated.
Events," follows:
is the subject to be discussed by Levin bailed out safely.
Increased Activities
Ringel declared, in refusing to
With the entry of the U. S. issue a warrant for Joe McWil- In announcing the committee Prof. Otto Klineberg, when he The other five Jewish fliers rec-
into the , war, American Jew- liams, Jew-baiting rabble-rouser. appointments, Mr. Ellmann stated introduces the Jewish Comma- ommended for the D.S.C. were
sh leadership is facing a grow- Joseph Goldstein had obtained a tnat the Council will be faced nity Center's third annual lee- Lieutenant Morris N. Friedman,
ing demand for re-examination summons for McWilliams after with increased responsibilities as ture series on Tuesday evening, 3 of Grand Forks, N. D.; Private
i the possibilities of unity
of charging him with disorderly con- a result of the emergency created Jan. 6, at 8:30 o'clock. The 1942 Robert E. Altman, 22, of San-
of
series will be devoted to a dis- ford, Florida; Lieutenant Henry
cooperation
and effec tive co
duct at a pre-war meeting. He by the war.
Plans for presentation of the cussion of the Jewish situation Goodman, Hampton, Virginia;
the national o rganizations. The had been unable to find the anti-
eorge Brandeis of
Jewish press and many promi- Semite and sought the warrant Council's request for an enlarged today and an analysis of what Sergeant GConnecticut,
and Ser-
Wbury,
nent leaders came out with so as to be able to get him.
budget from the Allied Jewish
scant
Lester
Kramer.
See
CENTER—Page
8
urgent appeals to put an end
McWilliams had been accused Campaign were presented at last
to competition and duplication
of verbally attacking President Monday's meeting by Mrs. Joseph
OCD Mobilizes Bnai Brith
in Jewish public life. There are Roosevelt and the Jews. The H. Ehrlich.
Leaders
indications that these
Samuel
Lieberman
reported
on
Judge, in refusing the warrant,
demands may compel the lead- added, "We don't issue warrants improved Negro-Jewish relations
WASHINGTON (JPS) — Five
ers to come together. Bitter
leading Bnai Brith leaders have
for name-calling. If we did, the in Detroit, and Aaron Rosenberg
rivals of yesterday may find Bronx courts would be flooded outlined the rich program spon-
been mobilized by the Office of
Civilian Defense, national gov-
themselves side by side tomor- with arrests." Goldstein said he sored by the Yiddish Cultural
ernment agerv.y roaldt
row in the fight for a common
may seek a Supreme Court order. Section. Mr. Rosenberg reported
ing and training Americans for
that a group of outstanding Jew-
cause.
civilian defense tasks, Bnai Brith
Dr. Stephen S. Wise, who at
ish lecturers will address gather-
Vandals
Damage
Synagogue
announced here.
ings arranged by this section.
the Baltimore Conference re-
I.
NEW HYDE PARK, L.
Henry Monsky, Bnai Brith Pres-
Among those to be sponsored by
vealed that in September 1939,
In a year-end statement on ident, Philip M. Klutznick of the
(JPS)—For the third time in the Yiddish Cultural Section will
he and the American Jewish
Congress approached the Amer- three months vandals attacked be Dr. Hayn Greenberg, Ray Tzair the position of the National Supreme Advisory Council of
ican Jewish Committee in an the Jewish Center here on Lake- (Dr. Chaim Tehernowitz), Dr. Refugee Service in time of war, Aleph Zadik Aleph, and Julius
Bisno, Executive Director, have
attempt to find means of co- ville Road. They entered the Chaim Zhitlowski and others.
William Rosenwald, president, been
synagogue, destroyed most of
named to the advisory board
operation and that he was
stated
that
"the
continuance
of
the
religious
books,
set
fire
to
a
of the youth section of the Office
prepared to merge the Congress
kitchen and ransacked the He-
the major aspects of the NRS of Civilian Defense. Two women
with other org anizations, has
brew school, where they left be-
now made a similar effort.
peace-time program and the suc- have been appointed to the ad-
visory board of the women's sec-
In a telegram he sent to the hind a swastika.
cessful fulfillment by the agency tion of the OCD. They are Mrs.
lenders of the American Jewish
new war-imposed tasks repre- Lenore I). Underwood, President
Committee, the Bnai Brith, Social J u stice Says Rothschilds
But Additional $150,000 of
sents a first consideration for of the Women's Supreme Council
Caused Hitlerism
the American Jewish Labor
Must Be Raised in a
the American Jewish community of Bnai Brith and Mrs. Abram
NEW YORK. (JPS)—The pro-
Committee, Z. 0. of America,
Year
for
Release
eager to discharge its obligations Orlow, Chairman of the hational
Council
Nazi,
anti-Semitic,
anti-Roosevelt
Hadassah, Synagogue
to its country, its own well-being, defense committee of the Council.
Social
Justice,
organ
of
,Jew-
and the Fe deration of Welfare
The Hebrew Hospital Associa-
Funds, Dr. Wise proposed a baiting Charles Coughlin, con- tion of Detroit, the parent group and the refugee.'"
Since war creates grave and Bullitt Visits Jewish Settlement
meeting to consider problems tinues to attack Great Britain of all Detroit movements for the
JERUSALEM (JPS-PAYCOR)
and the Jews. Blaming the war Oil building of a Jewish hospital in greatly increased responsibilities
arising out of the war. The
i
—William C. Bullitt, President
talks thus initiated are still in the British and the Jews, the Detroit, at a meeting held on Dec. for the National Refugee Service,
paper said in its December 22nd 23 at the home of its secretary, our patriotic desire to aid our Roosevelt's envoy to the Middle
progress.
issue that more important than William Buchhalter, on Rochester nation dictates that we continue East, broke his journey from
banishing
Hitler is "liquidating Ave., went on record pledging all to make possible through NRS Beirut to Jerusalem by stopping
of
Withholds $25,000 for Sake
the causes" of Hitlerism. These its resources, amounting to $42,- the complete incorporation of the an hour at Zichron Jacob, where
Jewish Unity
(JPS)—In an "causes" include the Rothscluids 000, to any group that will be refugee newcomer into American he spent the time with Captain
Alexander Aaronson and Rika
CINCINNATI.
. attempt to "serve as pressure and the Bank of England as "the able to raise $150,000 in cash life," Mr. Rosenwald said.
upon or encouragement of the pack of usurers who transubstan- within a year towards a hospital,
See WAR—Page 12
See REFUGEES—Page 13
tiated a vice into a virtue in the using the Jewish Children's Home
16th
century."
as a nucleus.
See UNITY—Page 16
Action taken by the Hebrew
Hospital Association, of which
Dr. Leon A. Katzin is president,
Jewish Chaplains in the American Army
was the result of a decision
reached by the board of directors
Another View of Sosua
By ZANE MEKLER
of the Jewish Children's Home to
turn
over
its
building
on
Bur-
By CHARLES ROSENBLOOM
When America entered World faith of men at war. The heter-
ettle- lingame and Petoskey Ave. and War I, there was no spiritual ogeneity of our khaki-clad serv-
s
uthor of this article on Jewish
adjoining lots for a hospital, pro- guidance for the thousands of icemen reveals the magnitude of
Editor's Note: The a
ment in the Dortinican Republic is one of American Jewry's
fore- vided $200,000 is raised by April Jewish men in the khaki of Uncle the task facing America's relig-
erican
m
commands a high position in the A
1. The Jewish Children's Home Sam. Army policy had been to ious leaders. Jewish and Chris-
most philanthrop'sts. He
has been closed since September allow the majority creed in the tian youth alike, from all eco-
Zionist movemert, as national treasurer of the United Palestine
as
a
Tri-State Zionist Region and
The Hebrew Hospital Associa- specific military camp to deter- nomic and cultural levels of this
OvI
Appeal, as chairman of the
onist gan-
c ommittee of she Zi Rosenbloom tion makes the provision that in mine the chaplain of the post. far-flung nation, thrust into the
xecutive
e
member of the national
addition to availability of a fund
stark, mechanistic life of military
of Pittsburgh, Mr.
ization of America. In his home city usic,
art and literature as well of $150,000 in cash, work on a Jews, being a small percentage service, demand careful attention
m
of the total fighting forces, lacked
is noted for hii philanthropies to
hospital building will have to be Jewish army chaplains. Only to individual adaptation and group
as to various Jewish and general communal undertakings.
begun at once and completed when Congress provided for Jew- morale as well. To this task of
The project to settle Jews on invalid. I affirm at once that I , within 18 months. Its resolution ish chaplains-at-large did Jew- gearing the talents of our spirit-
the island ce Santo Domingo am not an expert in colon:zationI favors the co-ordination of all ish spiritual leadership in uni- ual leadership to perhaps its
hospital movements into one body. form expand to 34 by the time supreme educational task—that of
needs no defeise. Its very objec- even associated
though for myself
many years
with the
wartime morale—the Jewish corn-
The Rresolution
tive is its ovn best spokesman. h
th war ended.
But because several individual upbuilding of the Jewish National
Full text of the resolution `Today the problem of meeting munity, as all other denomina -
Home in Palestine and though I
in adopted by the Hebrew Hospital the spiritual needs of Jews in the tional creeds, is lending a willing
Zionists have spoken or written
disparagingly of the undertaking, continue
to take transformation
great pride
armed forces is greater in terms hand.
miraculous
Association follows:
The thunder of war in the Paci-
,
"In view of the serious need
I believe it necessary to make the
point completely
clear:
That
Jewish
colonization
has it of a Jewish hospital in Detroit, of
-...
but the
the Jewish
methods
of dealing
with fie, with Hawaii the focus of
' one
the expressinis
of such
single
in- which
wrought
in Palestine.
Perhaps
army
population
and taking into consideration the the situation are better organ- raging hostilities, dramatizes the
dividuals do not constitute a uni- is because I have been colonizing
so corn- community interest now being d's- ized and more experienced. The responsibilities of Chaplain Harry
fled Zionist policy—nor
do they,
of the
nt, faithfully
re- pletely
ay of convinced
Jews in Palestine
that played in favor of such a hos- abnormal mental and physical Richmond, counsellor at the Hono-
ability
that pital, the Hebrew Hospital Asso- strain imposed by modern war- lulu army post. The duty of
y and under-
in my
judgme
the purpose or achievement I look with sympath p
ciation, at a meeting held on fare gives unique significance to plugging tirelessly and courar-e-
o nsly to keep up stamina and
;nherent in the Dominican Repub-
standing
on the
any shattered
r
will
restratify
eco- Dec. 23 at the home of William
Buchhalter goes on record as fol-
the activity
of the Army
Navy
Departments'
corps and
of moral courage finds Chaplain
lic Settlement Association.
Richmond well qualified by expe-
Not many of us are experts on nomic life
of Jew
lows:
-
Palestine's Position
rience to perform his arduous
,, l. We reaffirm the resolution chaplains.
resettlement and colonization. It
Richmond of Honolulu
A group of philanthropic-mind -
field
in
which
long
years
of
Perilous
duty
has
always
put
a
is
experience
are required as a basis ed American Jews took up the adopted at our meeting on April
See CHAPLAINS—Page 12
a supreme test on the spiritual
See HOSPITAL—Page 9
%
for, acceptable judgment, whether'
See SOSUA—Page 16
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valid
oi
"der it vali
laymen
may consider
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e o e h a

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Palestine Women Are
Called to Enlist for
War Service

Dr. Wise Takes Initia-
nye in Advancing
Proposal

Refuse Warrant
For 11eWilliams
mew York Anti-Semi te
New
Who Attacked FDR •
Is at Large

Refugee Status
In Time of War
Report on the Present
Position Made by
Rosenwald

Fund Available
For A Hospital

They Give Jewish Doughboys Faith

Jews Should Be Saved Anywhere