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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and the Legal Chronicle

Detroit
Jewish Chronicle
and THE LEGAL CHRONICLE

%Wished Weekly by Jewish Chronicle Publishing Co., Inc
Entered es Second-class matter March 3, 1916, at the Post-
office at Detroit, Mich., under the Act of March 3, 1879.

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Sabbath Readings of the Law
Pentateuchal portion—Lev. 16:1-20:27.
Prophetical portion—Amos 9:7-15.

APRIL 24. 1942

IYAR 6,5702

American Rights

the fall of the Republic. Theirs has been
a unique predicament. The other nations •
that felt the impact of the Nazi hordes
have been conquered and an unequivocal
' by Phineas J. Biron
effort made to subjugate them.
WEEKLY GIGGLE
for the boys in uniforu, ,
Not so in the case of France. She has
To harry Hershfield we are After appearing at the m am.
been existing under an armistice for indebted for this incident from moth San Francisco Navy Re-
show he's going ,o tour
almost two years. and what a pitiful the career of Junior Mussolini lief
. . . It seems Benito had gone Army camps in Alaska and the
existence it has been. Millions of her over to Libya to visit his troops, Hawaiian Islands.
soldiers held as prisoners of war in Ger- and had somehow managed to Co ngr at ulations to Sidney
many; part of her territory occupied and get . stranded pretty far from Kornheiser of Famous Music
ization without a hlilre in his Corporation on his appointment
the entire population within the Deco- j civilization
e a ns
i l e he met as music coordinator for the
pied and unoccupied areas systematically a couple of Itattalel i n awh
sfoldwieares,. a.nd . USO camp shows.
starved, plundered and humiliated by the told them his
Good for Maurice Wurzel,
conquerors.
He had a rather difficult time president of Loft's, the
candy
convinci
th em th at he reall firm, who has been
supplying
What people has lived in such suspense was the ng Big
Muss , and theny , the Stage Door Canteen for
and under such pressure as the French? when he finally had identified service men with chunks of
sweet
We know of none. What people could himself to their satisfaction by stuff.
have stood up more heroically and stoic- a doing his famous chest-expansion Ezekiel Rabinowitz, head of
broached the subject of the Audio-Seriptions, invites
ally under such cruel physical and mental - `tuns,
uni-
loan . . . "I need carfare to formed members of Uncle Sam's
tortures?
get back to Rome, he told them, armed forces to have their
;titind s ifd yo i tu'll leknd me 50 lire
What is the human breaking point?
voices recorded free of charge,
In forming our judgment we must bear second I get gto the ta Ty re et a isur t y h ": their messages to be preserved
ultimately turned over to
these questions in mind.
. . . So one of the soldiers gave and
the
contemplated
National Hall
iem t he . monhey, and Mussolini
Does anybody think it was an easy h d departed
of Voices . . . Any soldiers,
rtaniiwt aey direction
sailors and marines who are in
decision for Marshal Petain to make nep are t
stationof the New York and have a three-
when he acceded to the Nazi demand to When the big chief had Ir,.).n., minute
message they want pre-
accept Laval as the head of the govern- the other soldier started to bawl served for
posterity shouldn't
o
t
lutliis
nIb
pal . . . "That was a hesitate to make an appoint-
ment. Every correspondent who inter. lirue
jus s t unli,ke patrtin
h a t, w ith 50 ment with Mr. Rabinowitz.
viewed Petain learned that the aged
marshal loathed Laval; that he repre- . .. "I don't care ii he is N a i l"
sented everything that was odious and solini—how do you know he'll JEWISH NEWS
w Ae igzemnacuy President,
to him and yet despite his per- return your money? . . . "Don't
de n t a Dlirv.
the other reassured
j eim
, who o finally
sonal feelings and repeated promises worry,"
waish
h im , "I'll get it back . . . hCahsa
arrived in this country,
never to accept him, he did just that.
Didn't he borrow Ethiopia, and will soon establish headquarters
Petain may be senile and may forget then give it back?"
in Washington . . . It seems
that some of the topnotch chem-
what he said from one day to the next. LOOK HERE ..
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ists engaged in t he U. S. war
His steadfast and persistent refusal to
• • Justice"
• • • • • leas s. effort are very eager
to get his
Now that "Social
do Hitler's bidding for almost two years been
banned from the U. s
does not seem to square with this de - - mails, thanks largely to the ef. professional
advice.
An interesting
idea has been
-
scription of him.
forts of New York's newspaper put into operation by the Eas-
hope that the au- ton, Pa., chapter of Aleph Zadik
ec
to Perhaps it is because
we do not like PM, we can
will crack down on its Aleph . .
These Junior Bnai
bel i eve that Peta i n i i s a poltroon and thorities
direct sales also, and get it com- Brith boys have organized a
a doddering ancient that we think it
was pletely out of the way . . . I n _ committee of "Minyan Men," the
which are on con-
the terrific pressure of hunger, fear, des- cidentally, Life magazine a cou-
p of weeks s ago published an scant
ta nt call
call for service when a
pondency and misery of the French peo- pie
ple that forced him to make the tragic excellent survey of the malo- mi nyan is lacking for Kaddish.
dorous field of hate-spreading,
Miriam Hayman, who was di-

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Father Charles E. Coughlin admits that
he controls Social Justice but that he is
not the owner.
For practical purposes this admission
is of little moment because a denial of
control would have convinced nobody.
Men and movements are recognized and
known by lines of reasoning, attitudes,
points of view and nobody who is ac-
quainted with the speeches and writings
of Father Coughlin could fail to recog-
nize his handiwork.
He promises to fight the postal order
and will continue to publish. Both of
these rights are his and we are happy
that in an America at war the civil courts
are open to all those who feel aggrieved.
If the postal authorities have deprived
Social Justice of a right we are certain
that it will receive a fair and impartial
trial.
If the writings have violated the es-
pionage or any other law upon the sta-
tute books the offending individuals or de
p r e j u d i c e-mongering, Hitler- recting Jewish Army Committee
corporation or both should be indicted for
ivities on the West Coast
tn l,e -- activities
i
We witnessed a splendid spectacle of t bionostian rge sheets that at this
the specific offense charged. If we em-
rrir will soon become Mrs. Bob Fine
putti ng
Fine- :
courage
and
forthrightness
in
the
re-
phasize the procedure by information,
dirfy work . . .1)1tt
1!V'e
pe ri you— man • • • The groom-to-be, who
indictment and jury trial it is because it cent Riom trials. Blum, Daladier, Game- and the Department of Justice is a film producer, is a brother-
is one of the fundamental constitutional lin, Reynaud and others proved to the --didn't miss it . . . Look who's in-law of John Gunther.
The Committee for a Jewish
rights of Americans. We achieved it after world that men of heroic cast still live finding fault with the Nazis now. Army,
t a k e enf
It's none Gabby tGheaenbbolt9r, over a b yh a utshee awsa y i ts hab s a s e
a grim and determined battle against ar- in France. There are millions of French- • o o ld-time
-t me
bitrary powers, orders in council, star men and women like these articulate rep- who's being qy uoted a y s deploring operations in Washington . . .
chamber sessions and other noisesome resentatives of the Republic. It is there- the Germans' "lack of ability for The testamonial dinner which
practices Of a more tryannous day. We fore with much sadness that we contem- quick original improvisation.,, this committee is giving to
But don't think the little club- Pierre van Paassen—who, among
want to keep this precious right, for it plate the imminent tragedy of France as foot
himself is stumped by the other things, is its national
an
enemy
of
the
United
Nations.
is a precious right, to be faced by your
rising tide of despair that is chairman—on May 3, is develop-
accuser; to have the indictment read;
os Impressive gath-
overcoming the common people ing into a most
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of Germany as Hitler's famous ering . . . One of the speakers
and be tried by a jury of your peers.
Russian campaign drags on and will be Selective Service head
If there is one difference between us
Five Thousand Rescued
on . . . He can't give 'em bread, Brigadier
General
Lewis B.
and the military-police despotism of
bu t he's preparing a fine circus Hershey.
The Joint Distribution Committee re- fo r 'em, to take their minds off
Germany and Italy it is that we cannot
th air troubles . . . Said circus BROADWAY BROADCAST
be summarily convicted in secret without ports that 5,000 refugees were emigrated wi
definite charges made by accusers who from Europe since Pearl Harbor. This N 11 take the form of what the Our own Rome-Berlin axis is
call a "trial," with Her- going strong . . . Irving Berlin
are compelled to face us.
is a marvelous achievement under the sc azis
hel Grynszpan as "he who gets is reviving his "Yip Yip Yap-
conditions
that
have
prevailed
since
Dec.
sla
And should an American be arrested
PPed" • •
hank" of the first world war
by an over-zealous police officer without 7, and it is because of the smoothly SE RVICE FOR SERVICE MEN for the Army, and Harold Rome
warrant and for insufficient reason we functioning and splendidly co-ordinating
has written a new song—about
Jolson may be unacceptable quadruplets named Franklin D.,
still have the greatest of all rights: the organization of the Committee that this f o r Al military
service—he's way Winston C., Joseph V. and Vic-
was possible.
right of habeas corpus.
ov er 50—but he's doing his bit tory Jones.
Of the many groups that will receive
We cannot stress these rights and pro-
cedures too often in times like these, for part of your contribution to the Detroit
there are many ardent, impatient folk Allied Campaign none is doing a better
who would deny these safeguards, to job than the group that concerns itself
those who in their opinion, are obstruc- with the refugee problem. And what a
ting the war effort and spreading subver- problem it is. It staggers the imagination.
Have you ever moved with your family
sive poison.
from
one city to another in this free land
We are fighting this war to preserve of ours;
with every possible comfort and
and perpetuate the Four Freedoms, and convenience
of first class travel on stream-
until the military exigencies compel us
lined
trains
roomy, balloon-tired
to limit or deny these freedoms we automobiles. or If in you
are not too young
should hold fast to them and deny them you felt that you never wanted to go
to nobody.
through such a trying ordeal again. Now
Our Attorney General Francis Biddle picture, if you can, the feelings of ter-
and his special assistant Maloney are rorized, penniless, half-starved men, wo-
men of character, probity, fairness and men and children driven from their homes
should Social Justice and the 90-odd by merciless hooligans who are strangers
allegedly subversive periodicals be un- to all human feelings and you have a
able to convince juries that they are pale notion of the plight of these refu-
innocent of law violations we may be gees. And yet these who escape from the
sure they will be convicted as indicted purgatory of Hitler's Europe consider
and sentenced as provided by law.
themselves the fortunate ones.
The job of caring for these people does
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not end when they reach the ports of
debarkation. Often the job begins then.
Pity the French
Work must be found for them; living
Pity the French. You may not indulge quarters must be provided ; food, cloth-
yourself in the luxury of such an emo- ing and furniture must be bought and
tion for long if the gloomy predictions all this must be taken care of by these
as to Laval's course and policy mater- agencies that are asking you to contribute.
ialize.
This kind of salvage and rehabilitation
The French need our pity for there are has many satisfying features, for one
few peoples who have suffered the men- can see the concrete and definite results
tal tortures that they have endured since of the money and effort expended.

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