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Detroit Jewish Chronicle

and The Legal Chronicle_

VOL. 44, NO. 6

Ford's Warning
To Jew-Baiters
Given Acclaim

Appeals to the Mexican
Government; Asks
End of Reprints

Henry Ford's warning to the
Ku Klux Klan that he will start
legal action against the organiza-
tion if it does not refrain from
distributing anti-Semitic litera-
ture using his name has been
given wide acclaim throughout
the land.
The warning, nuide known Sat-
urday night by I. A. Capizzi,
Ford's attorney, was incorporated
in a letter to J. A. Colescott,
Imperial Wizard of the Klan, and
follows a statement issued by Mr.
Ford on Jan. 12 in which he con-
demned anti-Semitism and de-
clared that he did "not subscribe
or support, directly or indirectly,
any agitation which would pro-
mote antagonism against my Jew-
ish fellow citizens."

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Similar Plea to Mexico

At the same time, Mr. Ford,
through' Mr. Capizzi, asked the
Mexican Government to cooperate
in the suppression of similar anti-
Semitic literature of which the
pioneer automobile manufacturer
reportedly was described as "au-
thor."
In his letter to the Imperial
Wizard, the legal representative
of Mr. Ford arcked that the Klan
"desist from further publication
and circulation" of "The Inter-
national Jew" and also of any
reprints of other articles related
to this subject-matter that ap-

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See FORD—Page 12

DETROIT. MICHIGAN. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 6. 1942

Annual Report
Noted Speakers at
Yeshiva Dedication Of Children's
Bureau's Work
Pekarsky Outlines the
Agency's Important
Activities

10c Single Copy: $3.00 Per Yeat

Federations Issue Call for
Unstinted U. S. Efforts for
Relief, Communal Activities

Leaders State Full Resources of Welfare Agen-
cies Needed in War Against Aggressors;
Wineman Named Vice President

Activities of the Jewish Chil-
dren's Bureau—the successor to
the Jewish Child Placement Bu-
reau and the Jewish Children's
Home—on the „completion of the
first year of its existence, were
. By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
outlined by Herman M. Pekar-
sky, acting director, at a meet-
CHICAGO. — The war against aggression does not
ing held Jan. 28, at the Ros...
imply
that there is need for curtailment of welfare, re-
Sittig Cohen Bldg.
lief,
reconstruction
and educational activities. On the
Mr. Pekarsky pointed to the
agency's initial contrary, the all-out war demands, for the sake of the
functions morale of the American people, that normal efforts
through the in- should not be reduced but should be strengthened.
Thie view received emphasis at the important ses-
stitutional and
sions of the general assembly of
foster home
Jewish Federations and Welfare
de par t -
RABBI A. M. ASHINSKY
Funds held in Chicago during the
Incas — which
lust week-end.
led to the clos-
Plans were completed this
ing of the Chil-
week for the dedication cere-
Delegates from all parts of
dren's Home.
monies of the new Yeshivath
the land echoed these senti-
The new bu-
Beth Yehudah building at Dexter
reau, Mr. Pe-
and Cortland, Sunday afternoon,
ments and indicated their de-
karsky said, as-
Feb. 15, to be followed by other H. Pekarsky
teimination not to permit re-
sured the com-
duction of efforts for the
See YESHIVA—Page 12
munity's child care functions and
strengthening of Jewish plans
is recognized* for this purpose
NEW YORK. (JPS) — Clearly for relief and reconstruction
by the Community Fund and the
dramatizing the new Polish-Jew- and for the expansion of com-
Jewish Welfare Federation.
Describing the home finding ish amity and the reaction of munity projects.
plan, operated in accordance with Poles to Arabs and Arabs to
(Detroiters at the assembly
state regulations for licensing Poles, The Polish • Review, issued sessions included Mr. and Mrs.
foster homes, Mr. Pekarsky here, tells of the close relations Abraham Srere, Mr. and Mrs.
stated that traditional observ- between Jews and Polish soldiers Henry Wineman, Mr. and Mrs.
ance and Jewish values are in Palestine.
Isadore Sobeloff, Mr. and Mrs.
stressed.
• - In an article titled "Poland Julian II. Krolik, Mr. and Mrs.
He reported that the home. Fights Back in the Desert", the Abraham Cooper, Isaac Shetzer,
Dr. Noah E. Aronstam, one of finding committee, under the items most emphasized are those Simon Shetzer, Harold Silver,
Detroit's most distinguished men chairmanship of Mrs. Harry . M. dealing with the friendliness Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Levin,
of letters, who has gained as Shulman, h a s which reigns between Jews and Mrs. Bayre Levin, Walter Field,
Poles
Mrs. Joseph II. Ehrlich, James
much prominence in the medical 'recently under-
When the soldiers arrived in Ellmann, Bernard Isaacs, Aaron
profession as he has in the field taken a proj-
Palestine, the story states, "the Droock, Isaac Franck, Miss Es-
Polish Jews, of whom several ther Prussian, Herman Pekarsky,
ect of contact-
See ARONSTAM—Page 12
hundred thousand are living in P. Slomovitz, Abraham Lachover,
Palestine, soon forgot their 01(1 Abe Luckman, Ralph Beigel, Ro-
ing Jewish or-
feuds with the Poles. Besides, delle Broder, Gerson B. Chertoff,
ganizations for
they we re soldiers fighting
Morris Schaver, Mrs. Ben Ja-
the purpose of
against Hitler."
cob. Max Subar represented
Regarding
the
Arabs,
they
stimulat- Mrs. Shulman
"looked with amazement at Poles Grand Rapids.)
ing foster home •
While there were some de-
there who were not Jews. They had mands for greater emphasis upon
1941,
In
applications.
been
accustomed
to
regard
as
were 128 applications from pros-
Poles the Zionist Jews who came relief and Palestine reconstruc-
to Palestine from Poland as set- tion work, coupled with criticism
See CHILDREN—Page 7
tlers. The horses of the Brigade of those who give first considera-
met with the aproval of the tion to local activities, the dis-
sheikhs. The sheikhs themselves cussions indicated existing de-
seemed to the Poles to be very termination to reject proposals
much like Jews. " 'Why do they for curtailment of functioning
always quarrel?'" wondered the projects.
soldiers; 'after all, they are quite
See FEDERATIONS—Page 2
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Poles Stress
Jews' Amity
Point to Arab Reaction
to Selves in Pal-
estine

Dr. Aronstnm's
70th Birthday
Detroit Leader Is Na-
tionally Known as
a Scholar

Brotherhood Week Feb. 15-22

Women Make
Drive Plans
Mrs. Brown and Mrs.
Krolik Executive
Emanuel Neumann Will Speak Here
Vice-Chairmen
Next Wednesday; Rabbi Morris Adler
Organizational plans for Wom- Issues Zionist Membership Call

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en's Division participation in
Emanuel Neumann, who has
the 1942 Allied Jewish Campaign
were advanced this week at a been a prominent figure in
meeting of the officers and divi- American Zionism for niece than
sion chairmen at the Jewish 20 years, will address a public
meeting of the Zionist Organiza-
Community C e n -
tion of Detroit on Wednesday
ter, presided over
evening, Feb. 11, in the Social
by Mrs. Hyman
Hall of Congregation Shaarcy
C. Broder, 1942
edek. The public is invited. There
campaign c ha ir-
will be no solicitation of funds.
m a n . Associated
Mr. Neumann was educated in
with yrs. Broder
the public schools of New York
in planning t h e
meeting were
Mrs. Douglas I.
Brown and Mrs.
Julian H. Krolik,
executive v i c e-
chairmen of the
women's cam- Mrs. Brown
paign.
Isidore Sobeloff, execuiive di-
sumo uNaeastamotNG, DEFEAT INTOLERANCE
rector of the Jewish Welfare
Federation, addressed the meet-
ing and reported on the sessions
of the annual Assembly of the
Council of Jewish Federations
and Welfare Funds at Chicago,
Stressing that the strength of
reviewing briefly the current ac-
American democracy rests on the
tivities of the major organiza-
genuine practice of Brotherhood,
tions which in Detroit receiv -k
in war as in peace, this asserting
their support through the Allied
poster has been selected for the
Jewish Campaign.
ninth annual observance of Broth-
Mrs. Broder made public the
erhood Week, Feb. 15-22, by the
An invitation has been ex- names of division chairmen who
National Conference of Christians tended by James I. Ellmann, will lead the major sections of
and Jews. The poster will be
the Women's drive, as follows:
displayed in outdoor advertising president of the Jewish Com-
Division 1—Mrs. Jack Gould.
munity
Council
of
Detroit,
to
all
posters and on the bulletin
boards of schools, churches, pub- officers, delegates and members Mrs. Benjamin E. Jaffe; Division
lic libraries and other buildings
EMANUEL NEUMANN
See WOMEN—Page 6
See BROTHERHOOD--Page 11
throughout the country.

and at Columbia University and
holds a doctor's degree from New
York University. For several
years, while still pursuing. his
graduate studies, he was actively
engaged in Zionist work, par-

Brotherhood Day
Program at Center
Monday, Feb. 16

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RABBI MORRIS ADLER

ticularly among the youth as a
leader of a group of Zionist
Youth Clubs in Brooklyn, and

See ZIONISTS—Page 12