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Detroit and Jewish
Chronicle
The Legal Chronicle

DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, JULY 30, 1943

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Roosevelt Says America Will
Continueto AidJewsinEurope

Declaration Made In Message Read to Closing
Session of Emergency Session to Save Jews

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Reading left to right: Professor ter of Moscoc; Lt. Col. Itzik
Solomon Michoels, president of Feffer, outstanding Jewish poet
the Jewish Anti-Fascist Commit- of the Soviet Union and Lt.
tee of the U. S. S. R. and di- Colonel in the Red Army; Mildred
rector of the Jewish State Thea- Raskin, Aaron Rosenberg, execu-

NEW YORK (WNS) — Presi -
"In reply to your telegram of
dent Roosevelt in a message rea d July 15, asking a message to the
to the closing session of the Em - Emergency Conference to Save
ergency Conference to Save th e the Jewish People of Europe,
Jewish people of Europe, prom - am glad to transmit a message I
iseci that this government woult I from the Hon. Cordell
Sec-
not cease its efforts to save those retary of State, which Hull,
has my
who could be saved. This message full concurrence. You are aware
accompanied one from Secretary of the interest of this govern-
of State Cordell Hull.
ment in the terrible condition of
Mr. Hull said the final defeat the European Jews and of our
of Hitler and the rooting out of repeated endeavors to save those
the Nazi system were the only who could be saved. These en-
complete answer to the problem deavors will not cease until Nazi
of saving the 4,000,000 Jews in power is forever crushed."
Europe.
"The rescue of the Jewish peo-
Former President Herbert Hoo- ple, of course, and of other peo-
ver, speaking by telephone from ples likewise marked for slaugh-
San Francisco, suggested develop- ter by Nazi savagery, is under
ment of the uplands of Central
Africa as refuges for the op-
See ROOSEVLT—Page 12
pressed minorities of the Axis-
tive secretary and chairman of dominated countries.
Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia
the luncheon at the Book-Cadillac urged the United States and its
Hotel, B. Z. Goldberg, Rabbi Allies to serve notice on the Axis
that all persons responsible for
Fram, Senator Stanley Nowak.
the deaths of Jews or non-Jews
would be tried for murder. Mean-
while there would be practical
steps taken for resettling those
who desired to emigrate from
Mrs. Samuel Aaron
Europe, he said.

Detroit Jews to Welcome Michoels and Feffer
At Reception at Masonic Temple Sun., Aug. 1

Gov. Harry F. Kelly Accepts Membership on Reception Committee;
Prominent Detroiters To Greet Soviet Delegation at Meeting

Mrs. Chas.Solovich
Elected Head of
B. B. Lodge Aux,

The President's Message

On Genl. Committee

The message from President
Mrs, Charles Solovich, past
Roosevelt, addressed to Dr. Max
Lerner, read:
president of Pisgah Auxiliary No
122 Order Bnai Brith, has beeii
unanimously elected president of

Collection Comm.
Makes Appeal for
ledge Payments

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Professor Solomon Michoels, ception committee, introduced now, at long last, being broker
president of the Jewish Anti Fay-Aaron Rosenberg, the commit- down.
cist Committee of the U. S. S. R. tee's executive secretary, who Aaron Rosenberg was chairman
and direetor of the Jewish State acted as chairman of the lunch- and interpreter.
Theater of MoseoW, and Lt. Col. eon. -
' forchoek
Itzik Feffer, poet, cultural envoys Following the greetings extend- Feffer
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Cleveland
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of
Russian
Jewry
and
the
fighting
ed
by
members
of
the
reception
Sunday
afternoon
and
will
return
people
people of the Soviets to this coun- committee, Professor Mi
try, were officially welcomed to Mr. Feffer were askedchoels and to meet Detroit Jewry at their
Hyman Altman Aids
questions
public reception Sunday evening',
Detroit last Saturday, July 24, by by the assembled guests.
In re- NAug•
1, at 7 p . m. at the Ma-
In Collection Drive
Mayor Edward J. Jeffries, at the sponse to on
as to sonic Temple.
City
City Hall. Professor Michoels and why many Jews question
ere left behind
In cooperation with the Col-
Fred
M. Butzel,
chairman has
of
Mr. Feffer will be guests of the in evacuated cities, Mr. Michoels the
reception
committee,
lection
Committee of the Detroit.
Jewish community of Detroit, at explained that special convey- made known the acceptance of
a public reception at the Ma- ances had been provided for Jews
Service Group, Hyman Altman,
sonic Temple, Sunday evening, because of the Nazi known atroc-
in a radio appeal Sunday, July
See RECEPTION—Pa ge 2
Aug. 1, at 7 p. m.
ities against the Jewish people
25.
urged all organizations who
They have been brought here However, Professor Michoels ex-
still owe on their Allied Jewish
by the Detroit Reception Com- plained, many Jews did not be-
Campaign and War Chest pledges
mittee headed by Fred M. Butzel, lieve that harm would
to make remittances immediately.
chairman, and Aaron Rosenberg, them and refused to leave. The
He referred to a confidential mes-
executive secretary.
city of Kursk was cited as an
sage just received from the Joint
Following their reception by example, where thousands of Jews
Distribution Committee which
the Mayor, from whom they re- preferred to remain behind with
contained an urgent appeal for
ceived an inscribed gavel to be other members of the population.
increased remittances.
presented to the Mayor of Mos- Three days after the city fell to
Harry R. Solomon, co-chairman
cow on their return to Russia, the Nazis, these Jews were all
Championed Zionist
of the Collection Committee re-
the delegation met members of murdered.
ports the following new workers
the reception committee at a
Cause in CO morons
The keynote of the lunch,
eon
enrolled for assistance in the
MRS. CHARLES SOLOVICH
luncheon at the Book-Cadillac. expressed in the greetings of the
LONDON
(WNS)
Lord Jo- work of the committee:
Present at the speakers' table, to speakers and the replies of the siah
Wedgewood
of —
Barlaston,
Division A—Mercantil e — House- the District Grand Lodge No. ti
greet the delegates, were Judge delegation was one of reunion . ,
hold Appliances, Office Equip- Auxiliary, at the convention held
Patrick H. O'Brien, Rabbi Leon the reunion of the Jews of Russia who had be
ment, Trucking:
in Milwaukee last week. At the
Fram, Rabbi Leo M. Franklin, with their brothers of America, vigorous been one of the most
battlers
for Jewish
same time Mrs. Samuel Aaron,
Joseph Bing.
State Senator Stanley Nowak. long separated from each other causes and
for Zionism
in
Mr. Butzel, chairman of the re- by misunderstandings which were
now a past president of Pisgah
Shoes:
A uxiliary, was honored by be-
Great Britain, died here this
See PLEDGE—Page 12
week at the age of 71 as the
See SOLOVICH—Pag e 2
result of a heart ailment.
Wedgewood had been a gadfly
to the British Colonial Office for
the past 20 years, during which
It is obviously inevitable that Aug. 29. Various reasons are he championed the cause of Zion-
By BEN SAMUEL
denounced
in no of
uncer-
(Co pyright, 1943, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.)
a great public event such as the given for the alleged pressure, in- ism
Cain and
terms
those actions
the
Jew- eluding the one that Jews should British government or of the Pal-
convening of the American Jew- not discuss their affairs while the estine administration which he (This column is based on information supplied by the National
Jewish Welfare Board)
ish
Conference,
following
popular
elections, should evoke not only invasion of Europe is in progress, felt were prejudicial to Jewish
The question of the date of the interests.
passionate e d
Doctor on Attu:
Dawn came But Topolsky is still alive to
up over Attu through a blur of tell the tale, and here is how
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issuesfacing
lso become
s the conclave, but cussed at a meeting of the Execu- he served in Parliament—he was fog. In a small hospital tent a he tells the rest of it:
ubject
of news- tive Committee which was held first elected to Commons in 1906 number of haggard, bleary-eyed
a
mors and
reports—some
of them
er rumors baseless and some in New York six weeks ago. Vari- and stayed there until 1941 when doctors worked over the wounded.
"Finally, they went away—they
with just a kernel of truth in ous proposals were then made re- he was raised to the
Among them was Lt. Harry To- were hungry and stayed outsidee
them.
peerage,
garding the
most suitable time for Lord Wedgewood was noted for polsky, of Columbus, Ohio.
our rations and going
While this should be nei- .t... a ion. But no proposal his outspoken criticism of events
There was a sound of shouting throughh our equipment.
themoverestimated
nor
exageer-
of
any
kind,
which
could
be
inter-
which
did
not
meet
with
his
ap-
that grew louder. Eerie yells in
ated, nevertheless it is important
"We were evacuated at 5 p.
high-pitched
Feet that night and taken to a sttion
Japanese.
a
of these rumors pone the Conference was made Jews and Zionism but for all lib- pounding swiftly past the tent.
on reports
about a mile in back of our origi-
ti
no founda-
, in that have
nal
hospital
site.
The
next
morn-
in fact
to clear
the at the meeting of the executive eral causes. Although he started
The doctors never looked up ing. that area was attacked but
a direct the discussions he committee, held on July 14-15. At his parliamentary career as a from
their work. Quietly they
air and
current problems in their proper
of that meeting the executive coin- Liberal he became a member of r‘ te i(n i( !led the injured soldiers in- of the
Japs killed.
were repulsed and most
them
channels,
mittee occupied itself mainly with the Labor Party soon afterward,
Here are a number of questions the arrangements for the Confer- and during the first Labor min-
Then the Japs dropped hand"I had received a compound
t
grenades into the tent. And ma- fracture of the left leg and was
that were raised in the press re- 2 9. ceNe scheduledd t o convene of Aug.
retry
he
was
the
Chancellor
of
members
he the Duc hy of L
cently and which require an au-
the tent, knowing hit with a machine-gun bullet
ancast s er. li e was chine-gunned
thoritative answer:
executive committee whose names also a distinguished
perfectly well that the cots in- while on the floor of the hut.
1. pressure to postpone
oldier
and
are mentioned by one of the col- was decorated in the last war for side were filled with the sick and
"First I was operated on in the
injured.
beach at A ,
Conference:
the proposed
umnists, nor
any other member
en roe ve
Columnists of two
postponement
or even hsi
• participation in the Gallipoli
Lt. Topolsky and four others miles on a tractor trailer d
Jewish news agencies circulated mentioned such a date as No-
gn.
the
the
were
somehow
left
alive.
They
lay
beach,
then
was
taken
by trans.
A Stated
frequent
visitor
to spoke
the Unit-
reports
last
week
to
the
effect
vember.
As
a
matter
of
fact,
ar-
ed
where
he
for
that pressure is still being a
flat on their backs and played port plane to Vancouver."
plied to postpone the American
Lt. Topolsky was awarded the
P- rangements for the holding of Zionist and liberal movements, he dead. All that morning they lay
Jewish Conference, scheduled for
there, as still as they could, ex- Purple Heart while recuperatin g
See CONFERENCE—Page 12
pecting the Japs to come in at from his wounds at Vancouver
See WEDGEWOOD—Pa ge 12
any moment and bayonet them.

Josiah Wed,geu;ood
Fig hter for Zion,
at Age of 71

American Jewish Conference Rumors
And Facts; Questions and Answers

JEWS IN UNIFORM

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