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DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1943
VOL. 45, NO. 51
873 New Members Join Bnai
Brith in Honor of Centennial
Unity in Jewry Through Meetings of Jewish
Conference Expected, Declares Monsky
Council to Present
Government Play,
"It's Up To You
10e Single Copy; $3.00 Per Yem
Jewish Settlers in Palestine
Convicted for Possessing Arms
Pisgah Women To
Put on Performance
Five Defendants Charged With Illegal
Possession of 88 Bombs, 85 Cartridges
JERUSALEM. (WNS) — The that they smuggled in the arms to
against
Eliciting enthusiasm and felici- He dwelt at length on the Pal-
The war efforts education com- five Jewish settlers from the Hul- protect the Hulda co
itary here possible Arab attacks.
tations of the entire community, estine question, stating that it is
as evidenced by the numbers who his opinion that the slight dif- mittee of the Jewish Community da colony who were tried trib-
the
David Goiten, attorney for
fo ac-
attended the impressive events on ferences that prevail today will Council, under the chairmanship last week before a mil
of illegal pos- defen dants, argued forha an
12,
the
con-
be
overcome
and
that
a
program
of
Mrs.
Edward
Robbins,
will
pre-
until
on
the
charge
play s d ession of munitions, were all quittal on the groun d t that there
Sunday, Dec.
stituent groups of the Greater of unity of American Jewry on sent to the community a
Russel Law-
Detroit Bnai Brith Council com- Palestine will be culminated and prepared by the United States found guilty. Major Ru
meant to be used for an
memorated the 100th anniversary that the American Jewish Con- Department of Agriculture. The rence, presiding officer of the was no evidence that the ntrary,
arms
of Bnai Brith and had as the fernce will then reconvene. Mr. play is entitled "It's Up To You" court, announced that the court were but that, on the contrary,
y
defendants
at
the
end
of
the
the
were
intended
for
self-de-
guest of honor Henry Monsky, Monsky looks forward to unity and will be performed by the would pronounce sentence on the attack
fense. He pointed out that alarm-
president of the Supreme Lodge, on all issues at the next session. Pisgah Women Players. This see-
in g articles and pronouncements
cial
performance
will
take
place
The trial of the five defendants, by British authorities about anti-
Bnai Brith.
Rabbi Folkman Speaks
Rabbi Jerome D. Folkrnan, past on Wednesday evening, Dec. 29, week.
The highlight of the afternoon
program was the initiation of a president of District Grand Lodge in- f the
Brown Beth
Memorial
Chapel
were 88
accused
illegally
Temple
El. There
will who
sessing
mortar of bombs
and pos-
85 Jewish disturbances in Palestine
for the Incas-
class of 873 new members as No. 6, Bnai Brith, paid tribute o be no admission charge and ballistic cartridges, began on De- were responsible
See SETTLERS—Page 12
participants of "Bnai Brith Cell
everyone in the Jewish commu- camber 8 after two additional de-
fendants, Jacob Haas and Jacob
tennial Class". This initiation
See MEMBERS—Page 12
nity
is invited.
.
"It's
Up To You" presents in Galata. pled guilty to the charge.
ended d the first phase of a city-
wide membership drive to enlist
dramatic form the how and why Among the witnesses for the pros-
ecution was Brigadier A. A. Al-
1,500 new members into Bnai
of our national rationing and len and Police Inspector Hacket G
Brith. The drive commenced on
conservation program. Its timely who testified that more than 100 V
the 100th birthday of Bnai Brith
message fits into the educational armed policemen participated in
on Oct. 13 and it was the ex-
program now being conducted by the raid on Hulda where the
pectation of the membership com-
the war efforts education commit - weapons were found. Allen testi-
mittee to attain half of the quota j
tee of the Jewish Community fied that the search was conduct-
by the time Mr. Monsky visited
Council. Because of the import -
500 Patrons Enrolled
city.
Due
to
the
efforts
of
the
"upon instructions". Testify-
the
ance of the message, the war ef- ed
ing that on Oct. 31 he sent Brit-
members of all lodges, the orig -
Long Gives State
committee
is
of-
For Concert Dec. 19
forts education
ish soldiers to surround the Hulda
inal goal was exceeded. The fol-
this
performance
to
the
Department
Views
colony
and
assist
the
Polish
army
lowing totals of new members re-
Jewish
without
charge. in its search for alleged deserters,
Over 500 patrons have already
ceived up to the time of the
ile community
Pisgah Women
Players,
d that "no enrolled for the recital Emanuel
initiation Sunday afternoon was WASHINGTON. (WNS)—The T
announced as: Pisgah Lodge, 602; revelation that Breckenridge under the direction of Mrs. Sam- Brigadier
declare but that - List, famous Metropolitan Opera
deserters Allen
were found"
Louis Marshall Lodge, 165; De- Long, Assistant Secretary of uel Rosenman and Mrs. David "later the police arrived and dis Company basso, is to present at
testified
Shaw,
have
consented
to
put
on
covered arms which were lying
troit Lodge, 70; Theodor Herzl
this performance for the benefit unhidden in a shed in the settle- the Jewish Community Center on
Lodge, 16, and East Side Lodge, State, had secretly
against the present form of the of the Jewish community of De- ment". He testified further that Sunday, Dec. 19.
20,
List will be the fourth world
Baldwin-Rogers resolution provid- troit. A previous performance, when he asked for an explana-
Monsky Pays Tribute
famous
artist to make his debut
Following the initiatory exer- ing for executive creation of a presented to the members of the tion of the presence of the arms
effectuate
the
res-
Pisgah
Women,
Bnai
Brith
No.
he was shouted down by the men, under Center auspices. The late
commission to e
'cellist, Her-
arses, Henry Monsky, president of , cue of the Jewish people of Eu- 122, proved to be interesting and women and children in the col- Emanuel Feuerman,
thr, Glaz and Kurt Baum Were
the Supreme Lodge, Bnai Brith rope has convinced many iiiio ,instructive.
ony.
wide.
cross-examinatiun
by
welcomed the Jargeqt class 'of propbrients Of ' the 'resolution in - "Atthoilgli` rflib . Perfortnanee will David Goiter, attorney for the the other three artists whom the
Center Music Department brought
rig:
members
Bnai
He briefly
paid into
tribute
to Brith.
Bnai the House Foreign Affairs Corn- be without charge, the number of defendants, the British command to
that, unless the resolution seats available is limited. Only er admitted that he received a to Detroit for initial perform-
Brith's versatility during its 100 is amended to comply with the persons possessing tickets will be letter from the Hulda settlers antes.
The artists have made these
years and briefly reviewed the views of the State Department, admitted. These tickets can be apologizing for their conduct. Th,!
various key departments of Bnai its final passage would be greatly obtained from the office of the letter pointed out that Hulda had concerts p ossible by accepting a
Brith, namely Anti-Defamatory jeopardized.
Jewish Community Council at 803 a tragic history, that it was set fee which covers only their ex-
League, Hillel Foundations, AZA,
Mr. Long told the House For- Washington Blvd. Bldg., Cherry in flames during the Arab dis- penses. Proceeds of the concert
o toward maintenance of the
Vocational Guidance and War eign Affairs Committee on Nov. 1657.
.
turbances in 1929, that 17 set- B
sub- Center's music department.
Service Department which works 26 in secret testimony t hat every-
tiers had lost their lives in sub
as a coordinating department in one in the State Department and
List has chosen operatic arias
seq uent Arab attacks and that
all Bnai Brith activities with war everyone else with whom he had
22 of its young men were in the from Mozart's "Magic Flute,"
service of the British armed Rossini's "Barber of Seville," and
service, as well as carrying out come in contact had been inter-
a group of songs by Schubert,
an all-out war service program of ested in endeavoring to save the
forces.
Schumann, and Moussorgsky. He
its own.
ple from the terrorism
Jewish people
Police Inspector Hacket con- will close the program with a
Mr. Monsky in the evening of the Nazis. Referring to secret,
robroated Brigadier Allen's testi- group of Negro spirituals and
chose as the theme of his master- and hitherto unrevealed, propo-
mony. He admitted that he never
ful
discourse
"The
American
sals
adopted
at
the
Bermuda
con-
Jewish Conference". He traced ference, Mr. Long indicated that asked the Jewish Auxiliary Police Viennese folk songs. Paul Berl
When the Halevy Singing So- in Hulda to assist him in the will Re accompany
him at the piano.
ception to Follow
the formation of the conference while it would be unwise for the
ill honor
from the calling of the Pitts- House Foreign Affairs Committee ciety makes its concert appear- arrest. He also testified to the
Mrs.
burgh Conference, through the to reject the pending bills, it ance in Masonic Temple on Sun- tragic history of the Hulda colony. . List
. reception
w t. Lewis
following
the concer
Li A short
H. J. L. Frank and Mr s. Lewis
organization stages, the elections should hold them in suspension day, Jan. 16, it will present as Two Plead Guilty
Jacob Galata and Jacob Haas, C. Frank, co-chairmen of the
of delegates, and elaborated on for further consideration.
the two defendants who pled Hostess Committee, will have
The secret Bermuda proposal son.-
the cross-sections of Jewry sent
guilty, read a declaration in the Mrs. J. H. Ehrlich, Mrs. Blanche
as delegates which made the to which he referred reads:
Inter-Governmental
gathering the most momentous the
"The
executive committee of Commit- court in which they stated that Gilbert, Mrs. Benj. Lambert, Miss
Henrietta Robinson, Mrs. I. Shet-
and representative gathering' in
for the were
presence
of the arms in zer, Mrs. Milford Stern, Mrs.
American Jewish history. tee is hereby empowered by the it was they who
responsible
Hulda and that they brought Henry Wineman, and Mrs. David
He stated that all were in member States to undertake nego-
them in without the knowledge
program
with
neutral
and
Allied
tiations
agreement on a common
See LIST—Page 3
of any other settlers. They said
of action on the rights and status
See BALDW1N—Page 12
in
the
post-war
world.
of Ai:vs
List To Be Fourth
Artist To Be
reat Arti
Center Sponsore d
Amend Baldwin-
R ogers Refugee
tint Resolution
Halevy to Have
New Accompanist
At Annual Concert
,
Educational Policy of
Yeshivath Beth Yehudah
The Hebrew Talmudical Acad- decline are definitely to be traced
emy, Yeshivath Beth Yehudah, to the failure of those systems
aims to give its students an in- of Jewish education which were
tensive training in Torah and to satisfied with a minimum of
prepare them for Jewish living knowledge and practice and,
in conformity with our religious therefore, could not possible train
law. Yeshivah education, there- the children to follow in the
fore, has a two-fold purpose: to footsteps of their fathers. While
impart the knowledge of Bible welcoming every sincere effort for
and Talmud and to develop a the extension of Jewish schooling
SHIRLEY SUBAR
healthy Jewish personality. For to all boys and girls in our com-
the realization of these objectives, munity, we are nevertheless con-
will one of its accompanists a pianist
the Yeshivah employs a thor- vinced that the future of a full-
oughly integrated curriculum and grown Jewry in America depends who has been with the Halevy
extra-curricular activities. Instruc- upon those of our children who only since the beginning of this
tion is given in a maximum num- will he willing to overcome the season.
The new Halevy accompanist
ber of hours by men of tested difficulties in the path of a com-
is Shirley Subar, who, with Re-
and
pedagogical ability and proven re- plete Jewish educationhar
monious becca Frohman, will provide the
ligious fervor, in an inviting be provided with
music for the first half of
physical environment and through guidance from early childhood piano
19th annual concert. Because
the use of the most modern edu- through adolescence to Jewish the
the second half of the program
manhood.
rational methods.
will consist of the oratorio "Di
In
order
to
fill
this
need,
to
we
For more than a generation
Tzvei Brider" with orchestral ac-
have been witnesses to the sad meet the request of a large num- companiment, Miss Subar will
spectacle of the rapid disappear- ber of Jewish parents in our coin- join the alto section of the chorus
ances from Jewish life of that munity and to prepare , students for that work.
complete personality, well versed for its advanced classes\ where
Miss Subar has studied at the.
in our lore and zealously devoted Talmud and codes are studied,
See HALEVY—Page 12
to the upkeep of our traditional
See YESHIVAH—Page 12
institutions. The causes of this
Hulda's Suffering Under Arab
'terror Is Told at Arms Meet
JERUSALEM (Palcor). — The for any way in which he may
story of how the communal Jew- have been molested during the
ish settlement of Hulda was near- search, but which also points out
ly razed by Arab terrorists in that in the light of the settle-
1929, rebuilt within the next three ment's experiences in 1929 and in
years only to be subjected to new 1936-39 "we trust that you will
terror during the disturbances of appreciate how pained and ang-
1936-39, while receiving little ef- ered our people were when they
fective protection from the auth- suddenly found themselves sur-
orities, was told on the first day rounded by hundreds of military
of the trial of seven of its set- an police as though we were a
tiers before a military tribunal on band of criminals."
Brigadier Allen stated that the
charges of illegal possession of
arms. In the terror of 1936-39, 17 purpose of the search was to dis-
cover deserters from the Polish
re.idents of Hulda were killed.
All of these facts, as well as army. However, he admitted, under
the information that 22 out of a cross-examination, that no desert-
total of 129 Hulda settlers are now ens were found.
serving with the British forces as
After two of the defendants,
volunteers, were revealed in a let- ,Jacob Gallata and Moshe Hass,
ter from the settlement to Briga- pleaded
p1
ea guilty to the charges
dier A. A. J. Allen, miltiary com- against them, the defense coun-
mander of the Lyda area, who sal made a motion that the court
was in command of a search by dismiss the charges against the
military and police at Hulda on other five accused, pointing out
October 3, 1943.
that there is no evidence at all
rigadier Allen, appearing as a against four of them and that
Brigadier
witness for the prosecution, read
See SUFFERING—Page 12
the letter which expressed regret