A mericillt ,fetrish Periodical &flier CLIFTON AVENUE • CINCINNATI 20, OHIO 211th Year of Service to Our State and Nation VOL. 45, NO. 30 Detroit and Jewish Chronicle The Legal Chronicle DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, JULY 23, 1943 10c Single Copy: $3.00 Per Year Prof. Solomon Michoels, Lt.-Col. Itzik Feffer Detroit Yeshivah Campaign • To Speak at Masonic Temple on Sun., Aug. 1 Continues Through Summer Fred M. Butzel Heads Reception Committee of More Than 100 Detroiters; Mayor Edw. J. Jeffries To Welcome Soviet Delegation Beth Yehudah Convocation To Be Held Sept. 12 Will End Drive for 500 New Members Professor Solomon Michoels, president of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee of the U. S. S. R., and Itzik-Feffer, noted Soviet Jewish poet and Lieutenant-Colonel (A -in the Red Army, in a long distance telephone interview from New York, stated that they were both looking forward to their visit to Detroit this week. Professor Michoels and Mr. Feffer, members of a Soviet Jewish delegation recently arrived from Ku- bishev on a cultural mission to the United States, are coming here at the invitation of the Detroit reception commit- Rabbi Max J. Wohlgelernter, president of Yeshivath Beth Ye- hudah, announces that the board of the local Hebrew Academy at its July meeting decided to ex- tend the campaign for 500 new members to the opening of the new school term in September. Directors and friends of the in- stitution will utilize the sum- mer months for the solicitation of annual contributions to sup- port Detroit's own center of re- ligious education. Final reports will be submitted at a special public convocation Sunday after- noon, September 12, for which elaborate preparations are now being made. One hundred new members and contributors were secured thus far, with a total amount in cash and pledges of $2,000, according to Samuel Hechtman, chairman of the budget and finance commit- tee. The following directors and staff members participated: Ed- ward Canvasser, Rabbi H. Carle- bach, Isadore Cohen, Louis Dann, Morris Dorn, Abraham Dubrin- sky, Charles T. Gellinan, Isaac Gendelman, Samuel Hechtman, Jacob Lesser, Dr. Hugo Mandel- baum, Samuel W. Platt, Louis Please, Sam Seligson, Louis So- Isidore Sosnick, Rabbi J. S. Sperka, Rabbi Isaac Stollman, Harry Stolsky, Meyer Terebelo, Rabbi Samson R. Weiss, Moses Weisswasser, Dr. Moses Wieser, Rabbi Max J. Wohlgelernter. tee headed by Fred M. Butzel, ed Detroit. We look forward with Saturday, July 24. George F. Addes, Rabbi Morris affection to bringing greetings in Adler, Philip A. Adler, G. Alman, The delegation will arrive early person from our people to the Hyman Altman, Maurice Arons- Saturday morning by train from people of Detroit." son, Anne Baker, Dr. Morton Pittsburgh, on the first of tvco t i, visits to Detroit. They will be Over 100 leaders of almost Barnett, Irving W. Blumberg $30,000 Budget Accepted officially welcomed by Mayor Ed- every phase of Detroit activity, Meyer Beckman, Maurice Borde- ' ward J. Jeffries in the City Hall representatives of civic and rei l- I At the last session of the board Mrs. A. H. Brodie, Leon gious organizations, business men love, of directors a budget of $30,000 at 1 a. m. and be formally introduced to then members of the and women, artists, writers and Brooks, Mrs. Douglas Brown, was voted for the current fiscal reception committee at a luncheon leaders of trade unions are mem- Councilman Frank Cody, David See CAMPAIGN—Page 12 in the delegates' honor at 1 p. m. bers of the Detroit reception corn- J. Cohen, Abraham Cooper, Fran- at the Book-Cadillac Hotel. mittee for the Soviet Jewish dele- cis B. Creamer, L. W. Crohn, Although Professor Michoels gation. Among the many promi- Harry C. Davidson, Paul M. Deac, and Mr. Feffer are making a na- nent figures are George F. Addes, Aaron Droock, Mrs. Dora B. tionwide tour of major cities Mrs. A. H. Brodie, Rev. Francis Ehrlich, Jack Ellstein, Charles C. which will allow them to visit B. Creamer., Aaron Droock, Mrs. Feinberg, Rabbi Leon Fram, Mrs. li h ' James I. Ell _ H. J. L. Frank, Rabbi Leo M. these cities only once, Detroit Dora B. Ehrc, means so much to them that they mann, Rabbi Leo M. Franklin, Franklin, Isaac Finkelstein, Dan are returning for a second visit Mrs. Samuel R. Glogower, Dr. B. Fishman, William Friedman. on Sunday, Aug. 1, the reception Benedict Glazer, Rev. Charles Nat Ganley, Morris Garvett, committee announced. Climaxin g Hill, Israel Himelhoch, Mayor Ed- Fred A. Ginsburg, Mrs. Charles Co-Chairman Enggass the delegation's second visit, a ward J. Jeffries, Leon Kay, Mrs. Gitlin, Mrs. Martha Gleicher, Mrs. giant public reception will be Bayre Levin, Frank X. Martel, Samuel R. Glogower, Dr, B. Bene- Announces New List held for them at the Masonic Mrs. Willard Pope, C. Pat Quinn, diet Glazer, Henri Goldberg, H. Temple, Sunday evening, Aug. 1, Judge ky, Frank A. Picard , George Rabbi S. Grant, Mrs. Hannah Harvith, Maurice A. Enggass, co-chair- at 7 p. m., under the auspi ces P irins Abraham Srere , R. J. A. M. Hershman, Rev. man of the collection committee Thomas and Donald M. D. Thur- Charles Hill, Israel Himelhoch, of the Detroit reception commit- bar' William B. Isenberg, Mrs. H. L. tee. Accompanying the delegation of the Detroit Service Group, Action Is Taken by on their second visit will be the The delegates' first stay here Jackson, Herman Jacobs, Mayor announces the enrollment of the fr om Saturday, July Edward J. Jffrie American Consul-General of the will extend s, Benjami E. e following additional workers in 24, through Monday, July 26, Jaffee, Judge Ira W. Jayne n Board of Elections U. S. S. R., Eugene Kisselev. , Ed- the drive for the collection of interview during which time they expect to ward Kahn, Harry E. Kaplan, During the telephone inter The national board of elections Allied Jewish Campaign accounts: Professor Michoels stated:o T visit several of the war plants Joseph Katz, Leon Kay, Isaac the people of Russia, Detroit "- is and USO activity centers, and Kessler, M. J. Kogan, Harry of the American Jewish Confer- Division A—Mercantile the American Stalingrad." meet personally many of the in_ Kaminer, Abe Kasle, S. L. Key- ence on Tuesday notified Abraham Special assignments—Max Os- Srere, chairman of the Detroit Declared Mr. Feffer: "Detroit dividual community leaders. The well, Jacob Keller Louis LaMed, and its people are near to our delegation will leave for Cleve- Samuel W. Leib, Mrs. Bayre Lev- election committee for the Con- nos, Maurice A. Enggass, Israel hearts. Its fame as the Arsenal land Monday evening, July 26, in, Samuel M. Levin, Bill LeVine, ference, that Fred M. Butzel has Himelhoch. of Democracy has been demon- and return to Detroit for their Louis Levine, S. J. Lieberman. been certified as a delegate to Jewelry—fred F. Simmons, strated concretely to us in the public reception at the Masonic Samuel Lifshitz, Isaac Litwak, the conference and that Detroit Samuel Gerson. heat of battle when the vital Temple, Sunday, Aug. 1. Shoes--Nathan Hack. Frank Markson, Frank X. Martel, has been granted 10 instead of products of war made by the Reception Committee Frank Merskey, Henry Meyers, nine delegates. Furniture—Louis Robinson. This action came after a group workers of this American Stalin- Dry goods—Julian H. Krolik, The complete list of the Detroit Sam Miller, S. Milgrom. of Detroit leaders had pointed I sane Shetzer. grad have arrived in boxes stamp- reception committee follows: out to the national elections See MISSION—Page 12 - ____ _____ ___ board that Michigan, with a Jew- n Women's apparel—Morton Ash- er, Bert Silverman. ish population of 110,000, was Men's apparel—Harry S. Cohn. RABBI WISE GREETS SOVIET JEWISH DELEGATES entitled to 11 delegates instead 0 of 10, and that Fred M. Butzel See WORKERS—Page 12 was one of the 10 highest vote- r getters in the local election. Action taken by the national board followed the appeal that NOTICE was made by the following De- troit organizations and their presidents: All copy must be in not Temple Israel. Morris Garvett; later than Wednesday, 3 Temple Beth El, Joseph Welt; Hadassah, Mrs. Morris Adler; p.m. It must be written Congregation Shaarey Zedek, Morris Blumberg; Council of Jew- on one side of paper only ish Women, Mrs. Leonard Wei- ner; United Hebrew Schools, Ru- and where possible should dolph Zwieback; American Jew- be typewritten. ish Congress, Leon Kay; Jewish Community Center, Mrs. Samuel Glegowcr. Workers Enroll For Collection of Campaign Funds Fred M. Butzel Is Named Delegate to Jewish Conference MUSSOLINI AND ANTI-SEMITISM Rabbi Stephen S. Wise (right) as he greeted Itzik Feffer famed Soviet Jewish poet, ( left)' and Professor Solomon Michoels (center), chairman of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee of the U. S. S. R., at the huge Polo Grounds reception in New York,'July 8. 47,00 New Yorkers attended the meeting, at which distinguished speakers and artists, includin g Sholem 0 Asch, James N. Ros- enberg, Mrs. David de Sole Pool, Maurice Schwartz, Dr. Nachum Gol dmann, Eddie Cantor and Paul R obeson welcomed the Soviet delegates. Professor Michoels and Mr. Feffer are to appear shortly In Pittsburgh, Detroit, Cleveland, Chicago and Philadelphia, in a tour to promote friendship between the peoples of the United States and the U. S. S. R. Editor's Note—Each passing day brings Mussolini closer to his inevitable end. The following article, prepared for the Uni- versal Jewish Encyclopedia, discusses the Italian dictator's conversion to Hitler's wild anti-Semitic program. Duce and dictator of Italy, b. Predappio, Italy, 1883. Son of a shifted ground and advocated blacksmith who had been a dis- Italy's intervention on the side ciple of Bakunin, Mussolini from of Great Britain and France just his childhood inclined to revolu- as vehemently, as he had com- tionary socialism. He was forced batted it before. He was there- to leave Italy for Switzerland fore excluded from the Socialist (1902) because of his violent an- Party, whose members were com- tagonism to monarchy and Cath- pleteiy surprised by his change olicism. During his Swiss exile, and reproached him for having Mussolini was supported by so- betrayed those who redeemed him cialists of various countries who from moral and physical misery. were likewise refugees. Many of Mussolini, however, had in his them, including Angelica Bala- pocket a contract enabling hint banoff, were Jews, and Mussolini to found his own newspaper, the formed intimate friendships with interventionist Popolo d'Italia, which thereafter remained his them. Returning to Italy, Mussolini property. At the end of the war, became editor-in-chief of Avanti, Mussolini founded the Fascist the leading newspaper of the Party to combat socialism and de- Italian Socialist Party. He con- mocracy, and in 1922 he became tinued to represent the extreme dictator of Italy. a stages of his ca- left wing of the party, and was In the erly veer as Fa scist leader Mussolini violently opposed to Italy' con- quest of Libya in 1912. After the had e assistance of several outbreak of the first World War Jews. His trusted lieutenant was (1914) Mussolini thundered Aldo Finzi, a gallant airman who against all belligerentgovern- cooperated with Gabriele d'An- ments. Suddenly, however, he See MUSSOLINI—P age 12