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27th Year of Service to State and Country
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SECTION ONE
VOL. 44, NO. 50
Detroit
Jewish
Chronicle
_ and The Legal Chronicle
DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, DECEMBER II, 1942
World Famous Detroit Architect
Dies Unexpectedly at Age of 13
Albert Kahn, the world-famous architect whose
industrial monuments dot the whole world, died Tuesday
morning at his home, 208 Mack Ave.
Zionists Present
4 Point Program
To Pres. Roosevelt
Plan Would Aid Jews
In Solving Problems
10o Singie Copy; $3.00 Per Yea
J.D.C. Allotted $7,250,000 During
1942 for Overseas Assistance
• NEW YORK. (WNS)—Ameri-
Herbert Lehman, New European Relief
can Zionist leaders, meeting this
Head,
Resigns As 'Committee Chairman
week under the auspices of the
National Council for Palestine of
NEW YORK. (WNS) — The spent $5,448,000, "mostly under
the United Palestine Appeal, sub-
mitted to President Roosevelt a Joint Distribution Committee ap- U S. Treasury licenses where
four-point program aimed at the propriated $7,250,000 for the these were necessary" Review-
liberation of the Jews of Europe calendar year 1942 to provide ing the activities of the J. D. C.
and the establishment of the relief, emigration assistance, edu- in 1942, Mr. Becker declared
Jewish National Home in Pale-! cational and reconstructive aid that more than 7,700 persons
stine as "a self-governing Jewish
were helped to escape from Eu-
Commonwealth". The program
1 ope to the Western Hemisphere
follows:
and Palestine, and that despite
war and the disruptions° of war
"1. That the gates of Pale-
the agency maintained, and in
stine be opened to all Jews who
some cases intensified, its wort{
may desire to settle there and
in Western Europe, Latin Amer-
that to this end the restrictive
ica, North Africa, Palestine, Tur-
policy of the MacDonald White
key, Persia and on behalf of the
Paper of May, 1939, which sought
Polish refugees in Asiatic Russia.
to limit and ultimately to stop
Paul Baerwald, honorary chair-
Jewish settlement and coloniza-
man of the J. D. C., pointing
tion in Palestine, be abrogated.
to the problems of post-war re-
"2. That steps be taken to
construction, declared that the
facilitate forthwith the immigra-
J. D. C. was already planning for
tion of many tens of thousands
the peace to come.
of homeless Jewish refugees, in
"All of us join in the fervent
North Africa, Russia and Iran,
hope that with the victory of
who are eager to enter Palestine
the United Nations a new mean-
and who, in view of the great
ing will result for the word
and increasing shortage of labor
'peace', for till the peoples of
in Palestine industry and agri-
the world, whatever their na-
culture, could be of direct and
tionality, race or religion," he
immediate service to the war
said "For the J. D. C. this is
effort.
more than a hope, for we are al-
"3. That there should be or-
ready thinking and planning and
ganized in Palestine a Jewish
preparing for that day."
military force which under its
Declaring that the choice of
own flag shall take its place
alongside the armies of the to 795,000 people, James H. former Governor Lehman as Di-
United Nations in the struggle Becker of Chicago, chairman of rector of Foreign Relief and Re-
against the common enemy, and the organization's National Coun- habilitation was an admirable
"4. That the profound aspira- cil, reported this week at its one, Mr. Baerwald said:
"Herbert Lehman's unusual ad-
tion of the Jewish people—for 28th annual meeting.
the establishment of Palestine
In actual cash, Mr. Becker ministrative ability, combined
as a Homeland—be realized said, the J. D. C. has thus far
THE LATE ALBERT KAHN
See J. D. C.—Page 16
through action by the United Na-
tions;
and
that
the
aims
embodied
The man whose brilliant mind directed the plans
in the Balfour Declaration be
for an industrial age on five continents, such as the actualized by the establishment
of Palestine as a self-governing
tractor plant at Stalingrad and ed before Pearl Harbor were Jewish Commonwealth—free and
the Willow Run bomber factory Naval bases at Midway Island, equal among the nations of the
here, gave his last few years Honolulu, Alaska, Puerto Rico earth."
to bringing into being massive and Jacksonville.
At the close of the day's pro- "Tn. Land of Israel,
arsenals for producing the wea-
5trir oy5 horn r4
The man who was destined to
for the People of Israel,
pons to defend America.
514- ar men
See ZIONISTS—Page 12
grow with the industrial age
according to the Torah of Israel"
Had Imagination
from an office boy to a man who
Under his direction were erect- revolutionized that very age it-
ed virtually all the motor indus- self by altering its mills, was
MIZRACHI ORGANIZATION OF DETROIT
try's manufacturing and as- born in Rhaunen, Westphalia,
sembling plants, dozens of air- Germany, on March 21, 1869.
UTItrIZ Tnnyi
When he left school in Luxem-
plane factories, flying fields and
924 i108-6 Foiw BUILDING
naval bases, newspaper buildings, bourg, as a boy of 11 years old,
he came with his mother, an
office structures.
RANDotim 3336
"Green Fields", "Jankel
His gift of imaginative daring aunt and five smaller brothers to
DIIISOIT, MICHIGAN
and organizing genius was not join his father in the United Der Schmied" To Be Seen
spent entirely in housing a me- States. He was even then a child
The Jewish Theater Guild of
chanical age. He designed edi- prodigy—but as a pianist.
Detroit is sponsoring two theatri-
fices for the arts and sciences, Started Work Early
After about three months in cal events this season, two spe-
De cember 3, 1942
and military bases for defense of
Baltimore, the family came to cial productions to be performed
America, his adopted country.
by Jacob Ben-Ami and Bertha
Among such recently complet-
See KAHN—Page 16
Gerstin with their ensemble of
artists.
The Guild will observe the 70th
birthday of the great Jewish Mr. Jacob Margolis
playwright David Pinski with a Detroit Jewish Chronicle
special Pinski celebration at 525 Woodward Avenue
which Jacob Ben Ami and his Detroit, Michigan
LONDON. (WNS)—Nazi Ges- massacre was carried out by Ger- entire cast will present David
tapo Chief Heinrich Himmler has man Vernichtungscolonen (ex- Pinski's great drama "Yankel Dear Mr. Margolis:
Der Shmied" ("Yankel the
organized new brands of notori- termination columns) and de- Blacksmith"). The festive per-
struction squads commanded by
ously anti-Semitic Ukrainian and the highest Nazi authorities in formance will be given on Tues-
After reading the very fine letters from the
day evening, Dec. 15, at Litt- various organizations commending the Detroit Jewish
Latvian hooligans to speed up Berlin.
man's Theater and prominent
the extermination of the 1,000,-
In Warsaw's ghetto, the re- speakers will participate in the Chronicle, we feel impelled to add our voice in
000 to 1,250,000 Jews still alive port said, only 30,000 remain of program of the evening. Tickets congratul a t ing/W3n the non-partisan attitude of your
in Poland of the estimated 3,- the 400,000 young Jews em- and information may be secured paper, the independence it has displayed and the fair
500,000 Jews in Poland before ployed in the large factories of at the Guild office, 9124 Lin- mindedness of its articles and editorials.
the Nazi occupation, according Schultze and Tebens or as Jew- wood, Tyler 5-3684.
to reliable underground reports ish police. In the Lublin ghetto
A special performance for
We believe that the Detroit Jewi sh Chronicle
received here this week.
only 400 are left in the Maj- children of "The Green Fields," adeluately covers the requirements of a real communal
These hands of anti-Jewish danks factory of 60,000 once the idyllic play by Peretz Hirsh-
terrorists, commanded by Ges- employed there. The reports con- bein, will be given by the Jacob newspaper; from our observations, it has always kept
tapo and SS agents, have been firmed previous stories of mass Ben-Ami - Bertha Gerstin troupe, i ts columns open to eve ry Ihorth whi le group and cause,
turned loose on the Polish ghet- gas poisoning, electrocuting and under the sponsorship of the and we wish to take this opportunity of expressing our
tos with orders to kill as many machine - gunning in g h etto Guild. To this performance, which deep appreciation for the publicity you have given our
Jews as possible. The under- streets.
will take place Sunday morning, o rcani zat on.
ground reports, which gave ad-
The Warsaw ghetto was de- Dec. 13, at Littman's Theater,
ditional details of the Nazi plan scribed as in a state of nervous the Guild is inviting the pupils
With be s t wishes for your continued success,
to destroy completely the Jewish tension approximating mass in- of every type of Jewish school
population of occupied France, sanity. Food is almost unobtain- in Detroit. Invitations have gone
were disclosed here by Samuel able—a pound of potatoes costs out to the Hebrew schools, the
Zygelbaum, one of the two Jew- $5 and a loaf of bread $18—ten Yeshivahs, the Sholem Aleichem,
Sincerely yours,
ish members of the Polish Na- times the price outside the ghetto Workmen's Circle, Farband, and
tional Council.
International Workers Order
walls.
Schools, to arrange for their pu-
During the first eight months
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The report concluded with an pils to see this play, without
of 1942, there have been 1,250,-
ardent appeal to save 500,000
re i dent
000 to 1,500,000 Jewish victims survivors from inevitable death. charge of admission. The Guild
of organized manslaughter, and It is useless to pass resolutions is covering the cost of this per-
formance; so that the children
others have died of starvation,
or to punish the Germans after may have an opportunity to see
hardships and hygienic conditions
in the ghettos. The wholesale
See 'POLISH—Page 16
See GUILD—Page 12
Executive se 9.14/tary
"The Chronicle A Real Communal
Newspaper," Says Mizrachi Group
-
Jewish Theater Guild
Sponsoring Ben-Ami
Gerstin Productions
Millions of Polish Jews
Massacred by Nazis