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To Be Transported on Rumanian Ships and
Bear Insignia of Vatican To Insure Safety

To Address Rally
At Lachar's Feb. 25

Victory Rally To Be Held in Brown Memorial

Detroit
Ilistadrut
Palestine
Chapel of Temple Beth El Sunday, Feb. 28
Campaign ( Gewerkshaf ten) an-
nounces that it has succeeded in
LONDON (WNS)—The Axis- ties against the innocent peoples bringing Chaver Boruch Zucker-
From latest reports the Greater the constituent groups by Mrs.
dominated Rumanian Government of Axis-held Europe were said to man for a three day visit to De- Detroit Bnai Brith Council's one Lillian Aaron and Max Goldhoff,
has informed the United Nations be one of the reasons behind Ru- troit. Mr. Zuckerman has re- month drive to sell $1,000,000 in co-chairmen of the city-wide
that it is willing to cooperate mania's proposal. It was pointed
United States War Savings Bonds bond sales drive.
in a joint project to transfer out also that the special tax of
Harry Yudkoff, president of
and sponsor two submarine
70,000 Jews from Trans-Daiestria 20,000 lei for each of the 70,000
chasers will exceed its goal the Greater Detroit Bnai Brith
to a place of refuge named by refugees would bring a tidy pro-
before the end of the cam- Council, announces a big victory
the Allies, it was reported here
paign on Feb. 21, according to rally will be held on Sunday
this week.
See RUMANIA..—Page . 5
reports of sales received from night, Feb. 28, in the Brown
Memorial Chapel of Temple Beth
The Rumanian proposal pro.
El to celebrate the sale of more
vides that the 70,000 Jews be
than $1,000,000 in United States
transported on Rumanian ships,
War Bonds in one month. This
bearing the insignia of the Vati-
rally will be open to the public,
can to insure safe passage. It was
and a special program of profes-
specified that each Jewish refu-
sional entertainment is being •ar-
gee be taxed 20,000 lei by the
ranged and other innovations of
Rumanian Government to cover
Part of National
general interest, including the
"traveling expenses."
Exchanges Pulpits
receiving of the United States
While no specific place of re-
Brotherhood Program
With Dr. B. B. Glazer
Treasury Department's official ci-
fuge was named, Rumania was
reported to have indicated that
Rabbi Leon Fram of Temple
Dr. Tracy M. Pullman of the tation.
the Jews be transferred to Pales- Israel and Rev. Henry Hitt Crane
Church of Our Father will be the Approach Goal
tine since this would make the of Central Methodist Church, will
The total sales are approaching
guest speaker at the regular Fri-
shipping problem less difficult. Ac- exchange pulpits during National
the
$1,000,000 mark and every
day evening services at Temple
cording to the plan the Jews Brotherhood Week.
indication points to the total to
would first be taken from Trans-
Beth
El,
on
Friday
evening,
Feb.
Rabbi Fram will occupy the
BORUCH ZUCKERMAN
be announced at the victory rally
Dniestria to Bucharest where pulpit of Central Methodist
26, 8:15 o'clock. will be much greater than is
they would be held in special Church, Woodward at Adams, sided for a number of years in
This service will needed to sponsor the two sub-
centers pending completion of ar- Sunday evening, Feb. 19 at 7:00. Palestine. He has recently re-
celebrate Broth- marine chasers, according to
rangements for their transfer. It
Rev. Crane will preach at the turned from an extensive trip
erhood Week, latest tabulations.
was said that the Bishop of Buch- Sabbath Eve Services of Temple abroad as the representative of
Feb. 19-28, in
The Greater Detroit Bnai Brith
arest and the Papal Nuncio would Israel in the Lecture Hall of the the American Jewish Congress
conjunction with Council is the first local group
supervise the mass evacuation and Detroit Institute of Arts next and the World Jewish Congress,
thousands of oth- to join in the United States
would arrange for the use of the Friday night, Feb. 26, at 8:30.
visiting also all the countries of
er democratic in- Treasury Department's. newest
Vatican insignia.
Rev. Henry Hitt Crane is fa- the South American continent. He
stitutions all over bond sales promotion program to
is
one
of
the
famous
leaders
of
Neutral sources here inter- mous as one of the most eloquent
the country.
"Sponsor a Fighting Ship". This
preted Rumania's proposal to preachers in America. He is re- the Labor Zionist movement in
Presid e n t campaign officially started on Jan.
the
United
States.
transfer the Jews to an Allied garded as one of the leading per-
Roosevelt has is- 24 and ends on Feb. 21. If a
Mr. Zuckerman will arrive on
refuge as further evidence that sonalities of the Methodist Church
sued a proclama-
Brith bond representative
Dr. Pullman
Premier Ion Antonescu no longer in America and of American Pro- Tuesday, Feb. 23, and that same
tion commending Bnai
not called. you, you • can
believes that the Axis can win testantism as a whole. He now evening, he will .participate in a the observance of this week un- has.
"Help Sponsor a Fighting Ship"
the war and is seeking to divest occupies the Detroit pulpit made general meeting of the Labor
by calling Townsend 8-1347,
der
the
slogan
"Victory
for
Zionist
Movement
in
Detroit,
the
famous
by
Lynn
Harold
Hough.
himself of any responsibility for
which will bring a Bnai Brith
Pioneer
Women,
Poali
Zion
and
Brotherhood".
Rev.
Crane
is
sometimes
referred
the anti-Jewish atrocities in Ru-
to as "The Genuine Sky Pilot," the Jewish National Workers Al-
Dr. B. Benedict Glazer will in bond representative to your office
mania.
or home.
liance. Wednesday, Feb. 24, at
The stern United Nations' for, while he is a preacher by noon, he will be the guest speaker turn preach at Dr. Pullman's
The following members of the
warnings that just retribution vocation, he is also an aviator by at a special luncheon given for church on Sunday morning,
avocation.
See MILLION—Page 16
would be exacted for the atroci-
the active workers of the Gew-
At the close of the services on erkshaften Campaign at the De- Feb. 21.
Dr. Pullman, besides being a
Friday night, Feb. 26, the Sister- troit-Leland Hotel. All those who
hood of Temple Israel will hold have received their invitations are most eloquent speaker, has the
a reception in honor of Rev. urged to attend. On Wednesday distinction of being one of the
Crane, and his wife and mother, evening, he will meet with the
in the Romanesque Hall of the League For Labor Palestine. most prominent Unitarian minis-
ters in this city. The musical por-
Detroit Institute of Arts.
Thursday evening, Feb. 25, he
The Young People's Club of will be the guest speaker of the tion of the service will be under
Temple Israel has invited the 4th witty of all workers and sym- the direction of Julius Chajes,
Young People's Groups of Central pathizers of the Campaign to be with Jason Tickton at the organ.
Methodist Church to come to the held- at Lachar's, 8933 Twelfth A social hour in the Social Hall
services and to stay for a Youth St. All are welcome.
under the sponsorship of the Sis-
Ir
WASHINGTON (WNS) — A
NEW YORK (WNS)—Declar- Symposium to be presided over by
terhood will take place after the
factual report of the Nazi crimes
ing that "the anti-Jewish legacy Rabbi Frani and Rev. Crane.
services.
See ZUCKERMAN—Page 12
committed against the Jews in the
of the Nazis remains intact in
Warsaw ghetto, based on govern-
North Africa," and that 330,000
ment and private reports and on
Jews there are still the victims of
eye-witness accounts, was pub-
Nazi laws, the American Jewish
lished this week by the Office of
Congress and the World Jewish
War Information in a black-bor-
Congress joined in a statement
dered booklet, "tale of a City."
this week demanding immediate
action to implement the declara-
The 0. W. I. booklet, which
A
Catholic,
a
Protestant
and
a
Councils
Joseph
Q.
Mayne,
executive
sec-
of
Detroit,
Wayne
tion of President Roosevelt call-
describes the methods adopted by
ing for the abrogation of all laws Jew will speak at the second an- County Council of Master Ma- retary, Detroit Round Table of the Nazis to make the Warsaw
and decrees inspired by Nazi gov- nual Inter - Faith Brotherhood sons, and the Greater Detroit Catholics, Jews and Protestants. ghetto "Judenrein," will be dis-
ernments or Nazi ideologists."
Banquet, to be held at Amity Bnai Brith Council, with the co-
Harry Yudkoff, president of tributed to business groups, farm-
operation of the Detroit Round
Recalling that three month Hall, the home of the Gabriel Table of Catholics, Jews and the Greater Detroit Bnai Brith ers, war workers, patriotic orga-
have elapsed since the military oc- Richard Council of the Knights Protestants. The speakers on this Council, states that reservations nizations and schools throughout
to this banquet are limited, and the United States.
cupation of North Africa by
occasion will be Gov. Harry F. suggests that reservations be
"Before the policy of total ex-
troops of the United Nations
Kelly of the State of Michigan,
termination went into effect, 'the
under American command, the
Edgar A. Guest, nationally known
0. W. I. reported, "more than
statement pointed out that while
poet, and Rabbi James G. Heller
half a million Jews were packed
"grudging concessions have been
of Cincinnati, 0., past president
into the ghetto, a dismal section
made" no changes "of an impor-
of the Central Conference of
of 100 blocks in the northern part
tant character have been mode in
American Rabbis.
of Warsaw, surrounded by an
the political and economic situ-
Plans
for this Inter-Faith
eight-foot wall topped by broken
ation."
Brotherhood Banquet have been
glass. No one could enter or
'In substance," it said, "the
arranged by the following: James
leave without a pass. No street-
anti-Jewish legacy of the Nazis
E. Frazer, state navigator, fourth
cars ran between the ghetto and
remains intact, and its territories
degree Knights of Columbus, gen-
other parts of the city. Inside the
flying the flag of the United
eral chairman; Eugene Fisher.
ghetto, the Germans systematic-
II f States and the United Nations,
president of Gabriel Richard
ally created an escalator of
there still remains the Nazi ghet-
Council of the Knights of Colum-
death: when 500 Jews died, 500
tos, the concentration camps, the
bus, vice chairman; William J.
others immediately took their
full force of Vichy's version of
Newton, president of the Master
places, shipped into the ghetto
the Nurenberg laws abrogating the
Association of the Masonic Tem-
from various parts of Poland and
citizenship rights of Jews en-
ple, vice chairman, and Harry
Europe.
forced since 1870, reducing the
Yudkoff, president of the Greater
"During April, May and June,
Jews to a pariah class and deny-
Detroit Bnai Brith Council, vice
1941, 10,232 Jews died in the
ing them virtually all means of
chairman.
ghetto: only 1,208 were horn. The
livelihood.
Committees Named
annual death rate in the ghetto
The organizations pointed out
The following committees have
in 1941 was roughly 83 per thou-
that they have remained silent
been appointed for this second
sand; the highest annual death
during the past months because
annual Inter-Faith Brotherhood
rate of any modern city is less
GOV. HARRY A. KELLY
"we have appreciated to the full
Banquet: publicity, Paul Henry,
than 30 per thousand. Death from
the difficulties, military and other-
William T. Buckeridge, Norman made immediately. No reprva- starvation was common, rations
RABBI JAMES G. HELLER
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wise, of the situation, and be-
cause we wish to avoid saying of Columbus, Amity Avenue and Randolph and Rudolph Meyer- tions will be accepted after Feb. being little over half those alloted
anything which might embarrass Parkview, on Wednesday evening, sohn; ticket sales, William J. 24. For reservations, $2.25 per Poles outside the ghetto. Further-
Newton, William A. Ross, John
more, ghetto rations were the first
those who share the burden of March 3, at 7:30 p. m.
Wysocki, Louis Rosenzweig and plate, mail requests with check to be reduced.
responsibility. This policy of si-
This Inter-Faith Brotherhood Dr. Robert Coggan; general ar- to Louis Rosenzweig, secretary,
lence can no longer be maintained
"The Jewish Community Coun-
Detroit
Banquet is being sponsored joint- rangements, Mark Dunn and Greater
Bnai
Brith
ly by the Knights of Columbus William Friemuth; speakers: Dr. Council, 1108 David Stott Bldg.
ee CONGRESS—Page 12
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Rabbi Fram and
Rev. Henry Crane
ENehange Pulpits

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DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1943

Rumania Offering To Send 10,000 Vi s r ite t s h DZetrmFaonr B'nai B'rith Million Dollar War
Jews To Allied Refuge Is Reported Histraduth Drive Bond Campaign Is Nearing Goal

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Detroit and Jewish
Chronicle
The Legal Chronicle_

Dr. T. Pullmann
Beth El Speaker
On February 26

Information Office
Describes Anti-
Jewish Atrocities

Jewish Congress
Demand Repeal Of
Anti - Jewish Laws

Inter-Faith Brotherhood Banquet
lo Be Held Wednesday, March 3

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