A merica ,wish Perio4cal Cada CLIPTON AVENIM - CINCINNATI 20, OHIO 28th Year of Service to Our State and Nation CTORY BUY Detroit and Jewish Chronicle The Legal. Chronicle__ WAR Nos swot 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