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VOL. 45, NO. 24
Detroit and Jewish
Chronicle
The Legal Chronicle
Welles Says Algerian Jews
May Re-Acquire Citizenship
DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, JUNE I I, 1943
Declaration Is Made In Leiter Sent to Emanuel
Celler, Congressman from New York City
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Isadore Starr
Is New President
Of Pisgah Lodge
$850,000 War Bond
Drive Ends June 30
10c Single Copy; $3.00 Per Year
Community Council to Hold
Election Meeting June 22
Important Amendments To Constitution
Will Also Be Voted Upon By Delegate Body
WASHINGTON (WNS)—Now and agaents who had been dis-
On Monday night, June 7, Pis-
that the battle for Tunis has missed because of their Jewish
The Jewish Community Coun- sented to the delegates at this
been successfully concluded, there origin are to be restored to their hel
gah Lodge No. 34, Bnai Brith cif will elect new officers and a election meeting is composed of
is every reason to hope that the full rights.
d , i its annual election of offi- new
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executive committee at its the following: Henry Abramovitz,
legal problems involved in restor- ' Finally, a
note emanating. cers. Isadore Starr was elected election meeting on Tuesday, Dr. Leo M. Franklin, Dr. S. Klein-
ing French citizenship to the na- from the Major General (similar president to succeed RudolphJune 22, at 8:15
tive Jews of Algeria "will be to our Adjutant General) of the Meyersohn. Other officers elected
p. m. in the man, Louis Levine, Mrs. Louis
solved in the near future," Under- Army was sent on May 15 to were as follows: Milton Wein- auditorium of the Jewish Corn- James Rosenberg, Rabbi Joshua
Secretary of State Sumner Welles Army, Navy and Air Fo
rces spa- stein, 1st vice president; Jack munity Center, Woodward at Hol- S. Sperka, and Abraham Srere.
declared this week.
cifying that 'all racial discrind- Leeds, 2nd vice president; Max brook.
The nominating committee se- Rabbi Sperka was chosen by the
Mr. Welles, whose statement
Goldhoff, treasurer; Leonard Rad- lected to draw up and propose the chairman. g Thecsoemmse
was made in the form of a letter
See WELLES—Page 13
____________ _ .
____ ner, recording secretary; Leonard slate of candidates to be pre-
to Congressman Emanuel Celler
Belove, financial secretary; Ru-
itlteecetionass weirtes
of New York who has demanded
made in order to secure a broad
dolph Meyersohn, monitor; Jack
restoration of the Cremieux De-
De-
i epresentation of various seg-
Lawson, assistant monitor; Harry
cree, did not indicate whether ra
J.-,
meets and groups in the Jewisn
Schwartz, warden and Rudolph
General Giraud would reconsider lo C
community. Each person was
Leitman, guardian. The following
his recent abrogation of the Cre-
chosen because he is an active
were elected trustees: Lewis L.
mieux Decree, which deprived the
Steinberg, A. J. Piel, and Rob-
leader in his particular circle of
native Jews of Algeria of their
' ert Wallach.
organizations, and, at the same
French citizenship. Mr. Welles'
time, each has a direct personal
At this meeting Herbert Eskin,
letter follows:
100 Candidates Have .
know
. ledge of the program of the
2nd vice president of Pisgah
To Combine With
"As you are undoubtedly
L odge, was honored and pre-
Been Nominated
Jewish
Community Council.
aware, the presence of American
Youth Aliyah Program
sented with a resolution lauding
According to the provisions of
troops in French North and West
Detroit electors to the Amer- his activities in the lodge. Mr.
the. Community Councills consti-
Africa does not mean that those ican Jewish Conference will meet Eskin has enlisted in the U.
Detroit Chapter of Hadassah tution, this committee is limited
S.
d
territories have been occupied at Temple Beth El at 7:30 p. m. Army and has been sworn in as will embark on its 16th annual ber
to seven
which
num-
only persons,
three can of be
members
by our forces.. The fact is that
an Army Chaplain with the com• fund raising campaign June 16.
M
matters of
of local administration on
onday. June 14 to choose mission of 1st Lieutenant.
of the present executive
have at all times remained in the Detroit's nine representatives.
The Honor Roll campaign which tee of the Jewish Community
Max Goldhoff, chairman of Pis- provides money to carry on Ha- C ouncil.
hands of the French. This, of
More than 150 organizations gah War Service Committee, re- dassah's projects in Palestine will
course, applies to all laws and have sent in slates and have nom- minded the members that the be. combined with the Youth C This nominating committee has
re
'.
gulations and
affecting
the local in-
mated approximately one hundred lodg
$850,000 War Bond Drive of the
the responsibility for assembling
population,
it is therefore
Aliyah Emergency program which
e
a slate of candidates, to fill the
officially
ends
on
June
30,
provides
for
children
brougnt
correct to state that any action candidates. It is expected that 1943. He urged all members to
Positions of officers and executive
taken by General Giraud with some of these nominees will with-
ham Europe to Palestine where committee members of the Jew-
respect to the local situation has draw before the ballot is printed. buy bonds themselves and to sell they may rebuild their lives and ish
Community Council, which
been approved, or disapproved, The complete list of nominees of
bonds
to others.
This Lodge
drive No.
is part at the same time aid with the will be as representative as pos-
the
District
Grand
by this government.
to date follows:
development of Palestine as a Bible of the entire Detroit Jewish
"It was stated some time ago
6, Bnai
Brith War
Drive in
to homeland for Jews now deprived community. The nominating corn-
A
sell
$10,000,000
in Bond
War Bonds
by General Giraud that imme-
Abramovitz, Henr y M.; Adler
of home and citizenship in coun-
honor of Bnai Brith's 100th year. tries where they were born Which mittee has held several meetings,
study was being
p given to Rabbi Morris; Adle
Adler, Mrs. Mori
Isadore Starr, chairman of the are now dominated by Nazi and it now is ready with its re-
the early establishment of a pro- ris; Anstandig, Mrs. G ussie; A t- membership
s p e Og t. eI ntt hians m a d jee w sure
committee, announced Germany.
ct o h m
a t m every
cedure whereby those native Al- kins, Sam.
that the membership drive is be-
the
Since
its
inception
30
years
will
be
adequately
represented.
•
.
ing extended_ to _the_ latter part ago, under the guidance of
arils deprived of their French
Baker, Ida; Becker, Samuel, of the month, at which time the
names "will be presented
citizenship. Now that the battle Belkin, Alex; Bernstein, Joseph; quota of 850 new members, as- American born, Miss Henrietta to These
,,J
the delegates at the
c ion
for Tunis has been brought to a Bigelman, Abraham; Blau, Ben; signed to the lodge by the dis- Szold, Hadassah has developed
meeting, at which time additional
successful conclusion there is ev- Brodie, Mrs. Arnold H.; Brown,
and maintained a complete non- nominations may be made
fro
trict, ten will
for have
each been
year reached.
of its sectarian health service in Pales- etheedurfleoo
in reason to hope that the legal Mrs. Douglas I.; Burnstein, Isa- existence,
isr.mT
adheismdaenindnotcorratic P ro-
problem involved will be solved lore; Butzel, Fred M.;
tine, service offered to all resi-
Butzel,
the near future."
b y
Henry M
will membershin
give Pisgah
Lodge dents of the country, regardless constitution of the Commu
the This
largest
increase
3' ye
nit y
Ends Racial Discrimination
of aco or creed, includes hos- Council.
in any one year i n its
C
history pitals, pre-natal and post-natal
Cohen, W.
Mrs. Isadore; Crohn,
Meanwhile, Assistant Secretary Lawrence
Several
important
amendments
See STRRR—Page 13
care, pasteurization of milk, and will also be voted upon at the
of War John J. McCloy this
D
school luncheons. Research in the June 22 meeting. The amendments
week informed Dr. Stephen S.
Droock,
Aaron.
Hadassah Rothschild University have been app
Wise, president of the American
approved and
by now
the ex-
Hospital in Jerusalem by native ecutive committee,
re-
Jewish Congress, that Gen. Gi-
mud,
Ehrlich, Mrs. Joseph II.; Eil-
and refugee doctors has resulted quire the vote of the delegate
ud,
acting
upon
the
request
of
baurn,
Louis,
Ellmann,
James
I.;
the United States government,
in valuable development in the body. These amendments are the
has
as put an end to all racial dig- Epstein, Mrs. Sonia.
treatment of cancer and in the result of a careful analysis of
F
study and control of tropical dis- the constitution,
crimination in North Africa with
eases.
made by a spe-
r
Feller. Finkel,
Jess R. d Fischer, Rabb i
to the professions and to Moses;
, •A i i3
cial committee appointed for that
positions in the military and civ-
Land purchases through Ha- purpose. The committee mem-
Fram, Rob -
ilian personnel of the armed bi Leon; Franck, Isaac.
Sunday evening, June 13 is the dassa
date set for the graduation exer- Fundh for the Jewish National bers were: Joseph Bernstein,
forces. Mr. McCloy said:
G
has aided in the develop- Lawrence Crohn, Morris Garvett,
Garvett, Morris; Gorman, Mrs, cises of the two Junior High meat of Palestine as a home- Myron Keys, Samuel W. Leib,
"In the Ordinance of March Edith; Glazer, Dr. B. Benedict; school classes of the United He- land. Afforestation and refores- and Louis Rosenzweig. The con-
14, 1943, general measures were Glogower, Mrs. Samuel R.; Gol-
tation through tree planting. in slitution study committee pro-
taken abolishing all racial dis- den, Mrs. Edith; Goldsmith. Mrs.
strategic spots has helped mater- posed a series of amendments
crimination in admission to, and Ida; Golden, Harry; Goroff, Ab-
exercise of, the professions, and
iPlIv in ridding the country of based upon six years' experience
malaria.
a further order of May 5 stipu-
in i he functioning of the Corn-
See RPRESENTAT1VES—
latex that government employees
There being no Red Cross in rnunity Council,
Page 13
and in the light
Rep, esentatives
onference to
Be Elected June 14
E
Hadassah Honor
Roll Campaign
Opens on June 16
Fred M.
Bl to
Butzel
Address 'Hebrew
High Graduates
S-1 HADASSAH—Page 13
Jewish Inmates At Our State Prisons:
A Report and a Request
By RABBI JOSHUA SPERKA of Cong. Bnai David
Jewish Chaplain, Bureau of Prisons, State of Michigan
See COUNCIL—Pag e 13
Scottish Churches and Jewry
By THE VERY REV. J. HUTCHISON COCKBURN
LDITOR'S NOTE: A report of the first meeting in Scotland of
Scottish Jewish leaders with representatives of the Scottish
Churches.
Individuals and organizations technical report and a request to
have frequently requested infor- our community.
For the first time in Scotland,
mation concerning the status of
For Jews the times are catas-
was invited
on Nov.
1941, and
that
there met together, on 27th Jan- trophic, not only in Germany,
Jewish inmates at our state pris- I It was
to 27,
Lansing
ons. Many desire to visit or be
but
uary, 1943, representatives of in all Hitler-occupied countries.
presented
with a certi
certificate
and
Scottish
Jewry and of the Scot- It is not an exaggeration to
present at services or on special official
notifications
of
f
i
sh
occasions, on festivals and Holy-
say
appoint-
The times brought that in some of them the Jews
,hem churches.
togeth
day celebrations. I have made it a meat "to the position of Jewish
the
are
faced
with
extermination;
need were mutual. Hitler's tr
policy to refuse requests that are Chaplain—Bureau of Prisons in
er; the desire and eat- Hitler has so declared his inten-
State of Michigan."
made out of curiosity only, and I
ment of the Jews is not due to tion, and his unspeakable crimes
h ave welcomed heartily those who
Following my acceptance of
a war aberration ; it is not forced of destruction on an unparalleled
came out of motives to help and this honor I set out to visit our
upon him by circumstances or by scale, especially in Poland today,
who understand to act with sym- state prisons. At that time I
FRED M. BUTZEL
war strategy, but is the result of prove that the intention is be-
pathy, sincerity and dignity.
found 75 Jewish inmates in State
a deliberate policy adopted in the ing carried out. The story of
brew
Schools
at
the
Rose
Sittig
Inmates at a prison are neither Prison of Southern Michigan in
early days of his career. Few in these mass executions was told us
son 10 in Ma uette
Jack,
rq, 3 in Cohen building. A unique feature Germany or Nazismt in the by
objects of curiosity nor of pity. Ionia
reformatory, 4 men in House of this program will be the pres- early
Cohen, president of
r elsewhere ook "Let Ed
Edinburgh R Synago,
Here are men and women who for of Correction and 3 women in Wo- entation of a playlet, "Ruth," in
was regue with a re-
one reason or another, have de- men's Division of the House of Hebrew, by the members of the Judah Perish" as a serious pol- straint that
markable;
even
icy, considering it rather a plank so, the horror was
felt, though
viated from our accepted stand- Correction. A total of 95 Jewish graduating class.
ards of social, ethical or moral be- inmates in a prison population of
in
a
platform
which
Hitler
could
mercifully
the
imagination
is
pre-
Greetings in the name of the
havior. Some can be aided with 7.699 w hic
satisfy without recourse to seri- served in sanity by a measure of
Jewish
Welfare
Federation
will
h is (.0123) a little
ous measures. But Hitler is not dullness.
little effort; some need medical over 1 percent.
be brought to the graduates by only diseased in mind; he is
attention or moral correction and
Fred
M.
Butzel,
Rudolph
Zuie-
But it would be stone blind-
"possessed
of a devil (Is there
few, I may say very few, are be-
The Jewish inmates were at a
yond improvement.
decided disadvantage without a back will greet the graduates in any other explanation that fits ness for us Christians to content
That is to
the previous repor Jewish chaplain. They were with- the name of the schools. The the case?) and will go to any ourselves
with an expression of
why
pity
for the Jews, with the
submitted
ts out a planned Jewish program diplomas will be awarded by lengths against the Jewish people.
Department of
Correction of our state were never and with no regular services. They Maurice H. Zackheim, chairman Three things are necessary: Hit- thought that this was a Jewish
made public. Today, (May 27 had no contact with the commu- of the Board of Education, and ler must be stopped; the situation problem and that there was noth-
Rabbi Leizer Levin, instructor of
1943,) when a semi-annual re- , pity and the problems to which the Gamarah classes, Gifts to must be brought under control; ing in it that called for more
the re-education of the German from us. At the conference I had
port is due, I am making a non
See INMATES—Page 16
and other people must be at two things to say in this matter
See BUTZEL—Pag e 13
tempted.
-
See SCOTTISH—Pag e 13