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The Detroit Jewish Chronicle and the Legal Chronicle, 1942-03-13

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March 13, !912

DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and the Legal Chronicle

16

Allied Jewish Campaign Opens
1942 Offices at Hotel Statler

PALESTINE LODGE PARTY
question period followed.
Women speakers are now cov-
The Palestine Lodge
ering many organization meet-
of Detroit, Mich., will hold
ings, to bring to them the cam- a 542
charity bingo party Tuesday,
paign message.
March 17, at 9 p. m., at their

ferred from the comparative com-
fort of the prison at Chalon to
Montor to Address
The greatest Jewish community project of the
temple, 3707 Fenkell Ave., above
what amount to virtual solitary
Budget Committee
the Fenkell Theater.
year,
the
Detroit
Allied
Jewish
Campaign,
got
Henry Montor, executive vice-
confinement in a prison at Dijon.
The funds raised will be used
its organizational phases under way on Monday,
chairman of the United Jewish
He had 15 minutes a day out-
purchase Passover baskets for
Appeal, will visit Detroit next to
March 2, with the opening of campaign headquar-
side of his cell but not talking
distributors among the needy,
Sunday,
March
15,
in
behalf
of
or smoking was permitted. He
ters at Hotel Statler, Room 1401, Telephone Ran-
the United Jewish Appeal for
says, however, that in his months
dolph
3940, Campaign workers of past years and
Refugees, Overseas Needs and
at Chalon he got more real in-
prospective
workers
are
invited
to
get
in
touch
Palestine, American Jewry's sin-
formation about what was really
gle fund-raising instrument to
with the office by telephone, or by stopping in at
going on in France and the other
provide for the relief and re-
Nazi occupied countries from his
headquarters any day of the week except Saturday.
habilitation of victims of war
guards and fellow prisoners than
and oppression in European
he could ever have gotten on
lands, for the upbuilding and de-
the outside.
fense of the Jewish Homeland in
CONVENTION
JR.
DIVISION
"I met scores of German offi-
Palestine, and for the integra-
cers and soldiers who talked to
tion of refugees in the United
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me—their prisoner—as they nev-
er talked to civilians in the oc- emphasized the fact that Jr. eon meeting, heard Irving W. States. Mr. Montor will be one
cupied areas," Mr. Allen says. Hadassah must increase its mem- Blumberg, resident of the of the principal speakers to ad-
"And I met and talked for days bership. She stressed the im- Detroit Service Group, who led dress the budget committee of
with literally thousands of portance of the Zionist move- a discussion on the day-to-day the Allied Jewish Campaign at a
Frenchmen, Belgians, and Neth- ment at this time, and stated work that has been carried on morning meeting at the Statler
erlanders and others from both that we must be enrolled in by the committee. He praised the Hotel.
In view of the fact that mil-
occupied and unoccupied areas. large numbers to make our de- work of this group which has
"With me my guards discussed mands at the coming peace con- collected over $4,000 to date, lions of Jews in many parts of
Rudolf Hess' flight. Trey were ference effective. She spoke of particularly the efforts of the the world have been gravely af-
frankly puzzled and not a little the sinking of the Struma and various sister teams, Natalie and fected by the devastation of war
alarmed. Then one day they emphasized that only a helpless Lenora Ginsberg and Sarah and and the spread of Nazi persecu-
dropped it. The fateful Sunday people, without a home or a gov- Molly Moehlman, for their out- tion, the United Jewish Appeal
when Adolf Hitler launched his ernment, could be the victims of standing work in collecting over- is seeking to raise funds to sup-
port the programs for rescue.
blitzkrieg on the Soviet Union such an unjust and tragic fate. due pledges.
relief and resettlement carried
and made up Stalin's mind, I was She said that unless we are
r.
Mesdames Adler and
on by the Joint Distribution
awakened at 7 a. m. by a Nazi prepared to work for the estab- Jackson Co-Chairmen
Committee, the United Palestine
corporal and taken to the office to lishment of a Jewish Homeland,
The Speakers Bureau of the Appeal and the National Refu-
hear the news from the radio we can not hope that the com-
Allied Jewish Campaign, under gee Service.
from Berlin."
ing generations of Jews will he the chairmanship of Rabbi Leon
Among Mr. Allen's "scoops" free of the horrors European
for the North American News- Jewry is suffering today. She an- Fram, will hold its opening meet-
Best music of all is the sound
paper Alliance during his months nounced that the National Board ing on Monday, March 16, at of coins falling into Uncle Sam's
in Northern Africa was his famed of Jr. Hadassah has opened a 8:30 p. m., at the Hotel Statler, till for defense bonds and
eall—TYLER 5-8400
interview with General Weygand campaign from March 8 to 22 on the ballroom floor. In addition stamps.
after the collapse of France in to gain two new members for to the men who will be present,
June of 1940. Before joining the every life lost on the Struma. a special invitation has been ex-
North American, Newspaper Al- This alone is a fitting memoriam, tended to the speakers of the
:liance's staff, he worked for many the promise that for every man, Women's Division to attend the
LITTMAN'S PEOPLE'S THEATER
(years for the Chicago Tribune woman and child who lost their March 16 meeting.
8210 TWELFTH ST., near Seward Ave.
The meeting will be devoted
Phone Trinity 2-0100
covering for that newspaper the lives needlessly, due to the in-
civil conflict in Spain and Italy's justice of unmerciful peoples, to a detailed discussion of prob-
conquest of Ethiopia. His first two will be enrolled to fight for lems connected with this year's
SUNDAY MAT. and EVE., MAR. I5—TUES. EVE., MAR. 17
major European assignment was justice. decency and a Jewish campaign and of the type of
Two new Guest Stars for a Limited Engagement Only
message which needs to be
covering the funeral of Cardinal Homeland.
The Well known Dancing Comedian and Young Prima Donna
brought to the organizations and
Mercier in Brussels in 1925.
Ruth Lefkowitz was honored individuals in our community
Jay Allen is the son of a prom-
inent Seattle, Washington, lawyer. for winning the Cultural Fel- this year.
He was educated at Washington lowship Key. A panel discussion
The speakers in the Women's
In a Jolly Musical Comedy
State and Harvard Universities. was held Sunday afternoon on Division of the campaign held
"Junior
Hadassah's
Place
in
the
His first newspaper job was with
their
opening
meeting
on
Mon-
Eugene, Oregon, "Morning Reg- World Scene." Participants were day morning, March 9. The wom-
Garber of Cleveland, Fern
ister." Then came a job with Alice
en speakers are under the chair-
"The Morning Oregonian" in Lepold of Toledo, Rose Poskel manship of Mrs. Morris Adler
of
Detroit,
Donna
Gitlin
of
Co-
Portland, and finally Paris and
and Mrs. Harry L. Jackson.
Supported by Our Star Cast—LILY LILLIANA, LEON LIEBGOLD
a connection with the Paris edi- lumbus.
At the March 9 meeting, Mrs.
ABRAHAM LAX, ETHEL DORF, MISHA FISHZON and Entire Company
Goldie
Shapiro,
president
of
tion of the "Chicago Tribune."
Joseph H. Ehrlich addressed the
A little later he transferred to the Central States Region, pre- women speakers on the mood of
TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 14, Gala Night in Honor of ABRAHAM
sided
at
the
formal
banquet.
the Tribune's Foreign Press
this year's campaign, and details
LITTMAN, who will celebrate 45 years' activity managing Yiddish
Service and began the series of Edith Wiener of Detroit gave of local, national and overseas
theaters in America. The play will be ”ZUZEHET AND ZUSHPREIT",
roving assignments that have the prayer. Installation of of- work supported by the campaign.
a comedy by Sholem Aleichem. Produced by Misha Fishion.
since then taken him all over the ficers followed greetings by Mrs. An interesting and stimulating
Harry
L.
Jackson,
president
of
world.
Mr. Allen is married and the the Central States Region of
father of a 12-year-old son. He Sr. Hadassah.
Eileen Reznick, violinist, pre-
makes his home in a brownstone
house facing Washington Square sented several numbers, accom-
in downtown New York City panied by Roses Manko Mash.
where he divides his time be-
Rabbi Morris Adler, president
tween writing and lecturing. He of the Detroit Zionist District,
is the co-author with Ernest spoke on "Palestine in the War
Hemingway, Eliot Paul and Louis and in the Peace". Greetings
Quintanilla of "All the Brave" were read from Eleanor Roose-
and has written for many lead- velt, Senators Arthur Vanden-
ing American and foreign maga- berg and Prentiss Brown, Gov-
zines, as well as for newspapers. ernor Murray Van W agoner,
The Allied Jewish Campaign Congressman John Dingell.
is conducted annually by the
The conference was closed
Jewish Welfare Federation of with a formal dance at which
Detroit in behalf of 55 local, service men from Selfridge Field
regional, national and overseas were among the guests.
communal causes. Mrs. Hyman C.
Broder is chairman of the Wo-
men's Division.

DEFEND

YOWINDIAJTOO

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PAUL BURSTEIN - LILLIAN LUX

`The Comedian'

Something
has been
added!

Yeshiva Protects
Its 40,000 Books

MOMENTOUS DISCOVERY
FOR HEALING WOUNDED

WASHINGTON, D. C. — How
a former Philadelphia, Mrs. Ruth
Plans for protecting its 40,000 Schimmel Hoffman, who majored
books and manuscripts in the ad- in biology at the University of
vent of an air-raid have been Pennsylvania, has collaborated on
formulated by Yeshiva College of what may be one of the most im-
Liberal Arts and Sciences, Hir- portant discoveries in the annals
scheli Revel, librarian of the of medical science, while engaged
in laboratory experiments at the
Yeshiva Library, disclosed.
The Yeshiva Library possesses Hebrew University of Jerusalem,
a number of rare manuscripts and is described in the bulletin "In-
side Palestine," issued by the
valuable 16th century books.
Zionist Organization of America
Dedicate Tower of Methodist here.
Mrs. Hoffman discovered that
Church to Jew
PHILADELPHIA (JPS) — In an extract from the tissues of
a curious blend of religion and animals heals wounds which have
racism, the Elmwood Methodist failed to respond to ordinary
Church was formally opened here treatment. According to reports,
as its four walls were dedicated sensational results have been ob-
to the Negroes, Chinese, Catho- tained in tests of experimental
lics, and Episcopalians who had cases in both civil and military
built it, while its tower was dedi- hospitals of Palestine. Mrs. Hoff-
cated to the Jew who had sup- man and her collaborators, Dr.
plied the money to build the edi- Leonid Doljansky, the laboratory
director, have been engaged in
fice.
President Roosevelt, in a mes- research for some years on re-
sage to the pastor, Rev. E. W. J. actions of animal tissues out-
Schmitt, declared that the work side the body. After they had dis-
was in the "spirit of friendliness covered an extra tissue which
and simplicity which character- showed an influence on cell pro-
liferation many times greater
ized the work of the Master."
Called "the Church that friend- than was previously possible, they
ship built," the building is a $25,- called on Dr. Hugo Schloss, of
000 edifice which cost but $750. Hadassah hospital in Jerusalem,
Erected in 19 months, the Church former head of the famous Vienna
was built by members of the five Radiological Institute, and an ex-
racial and religious groups, who tract was prepared for treatment
of wounds.
worked side by side.

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