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Detroit Jewish Chronicle

and The Legal Chronicle

DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, MAY 5, 1944

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Britain Demands Polish Government-in-Exile 18,000 JEnterprises
ewish E
• Army
Eradicate Anti-Semitism in n Polish
Li quidated in Budapest
.

Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden Defines British Attitude in
Answer to Question; of Several Members of House of Commons

LONDON (WNS).—Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden told the House of Com-
mons last week during resumption of the debate on the question of mistreatment
of Jewish soldiers in the Polish army, that Britain has demanded that the Polish
Government-in-Exile "eradicate all manifestations of anti-Semitism" in the Polish
armed forces here.
Eden defined the British attitude toward the question of Jew baiting in the
Polish Army here in answer
to several challenges from
members of the House that Refugee Singer to Women's Sabbath
he press for a more corn-
plete settlement of the is- Be Heard in "The League Conducts
sue. Revealing that Prime

Gypsy Baron"

DNB Boasts There Will Soon Be No Trace
Of 400,000 Jewish Businesses in Hungary

GENEVA ( WNS.)—During the
The report disclosed that the
last seven days the Nazi-con- Hungarian Government has es-
trolled Hungarian Government tablished 12 concentration camp.;
has closed more than 18,000 throughout the country to which
Jewish shops and stores in Bu- all Jews will be transferred with-
(tallest, it was reported here thi3 in the next few weeks.
week by the German news agen-
The DNB boasted that "there
cy DNB.
will soon be no trace of the
400,000 Jewish enterprises in
Hungary, they will either all be
shut down or handed over to
Aryans."
The latest decree issued by
the Hungarian Government, ac-
cording to reports reaching here,
is one ordering the dismissal of
all Jewish employers in Aryan
undertakings, including converts
Leaving Detroit to
to Christianity, except those
Work in New York
whose parents adopted Chris-
tianity prior to 1895 or who
Rabbi M. J. Wohlgelernter, were declared as Christians at
president of Yeshivath Beth Ye- their birth.
hudah, announces that the fare-
According to a report circu-
well reception in honor of Rabbi lating here among responsible
Jewish leaders, the Nazis are
said to have worked out a plan
envisaging the total extermina-
tion of the 800,000 Jews in Hun-
gary within the next six months.
The Nazis, according to the re-
port, will follow in Hungary the
same methods they used in Po-
land to liquidate the Jewish pop-
ulation. They will first deport
the Jews to several concentration
camps and then proceed to kill
them on a wholesale scale as was
the case in Poland, the report
stated.

Rabbi S. Weiss
To Be Tendered
Membership Drive Reception May 14

Minister Churchill had discussed
the question of anti-Semitism in
the Polish army with the Polish
John Garris to
May 13 Designated as
Prime Minister, Mikolazczy Mr.
Sing
Title
Role
Eden stated that the Britisk,
h Gov-
Mothers' Day Sabbath
ernment was not prepared to
intervene with the Polish Gov-The Detroit Friends of Opera,
Under the chairmanship of
eminent on the question of the Inc. announces the engagement Mrs. Abraham Caplan, an exten-
transfer of Polish Jews into the of John Garris, member of the sive membership campaign is be-
British army. He said the British Metropolitan Opera Company, and ing conducted by the Women's
Ambassador to the Polish Gov-
League during the month of May
ernment had stressed "the great
in an attempt to enroll large
importance which his majesty's
numbers of women in the or-
government attach to the Polish
ganization's ranks.
Government continuing and in-
The organization has done so
tensifying their efforts to eradi-
much to bring back a realization
cate any manifestation of anti-
of the importance of the Sabbath
Semitism in this country and
in Jewish life in the Jewish corn-
munity.
taking all steps open to them
to insure that their policy is
To date, 45 Jewish s st
ores in
translated into appropriate ac-
Jewish neighborhoods are closed
tion". He
He stated that the Polish
on the Sabbath. Women are ask-
,:
Government had not yet con-
ed not to shop on Shabbos and
pleted its investigation of the
help the Jewish merchant enjoy
Anglo-Polish discussions. He re-
a day of rest.
ferred to the sentences which a
The next meeting of the or-
Polish court-martial imposed last
ganization will be a Mothers'
week on the 21 Jewish soldier.;
Day meeting on Wednesday, May
, :4.,..:,.,
who left the Polish army and
17, at 12:30 p. m., at Congrega-
came to London to enlist in the
tion Bnai Moshe, Dexter and
Lawrence.
British forces, and said that the
sentences were subject to con-
The membership committee con-
firmation by higher Polish au-
sists of Mesdames A. 0. Barsky,
thorities. "I am sure," he added.
A. Deroven, S. Lightstone, Julius
'
"that these authorities will give
Bitten, S. Gorman, S. Schneider-
man.
full weight to extenuating cir-
cumstances."
Mothers' Day Sabbath
JOHN GARRIS
During the debate John Mack,
The League has designated
a Laborite, urged Eden to call formerly of Frankfurt on the Saturday,
DR. SAMSON R. WEISS
May 13, as Mothers'
the attention of the Polish Goy- Main, for the leading tenor part Day Sabbath, and asks all Jew-
ernment to the fact that "the in the opera "The Gypsy Baron" ish women to attend Sabbath Dr. Samson R. Weiss will b e held
House of Commons is not satin- by Johann Strauss, to be given morning services at the syna- Sunday
afternoon,
May
14, from
4 to 6 p.
m., in the
Yeshivah
fled with the action it has taken in the large auditorium of Ma- gogue of their choice on that
building, Dexter and Cortland,
by instituting a court-martial sonic Temple on May 31. Mr, day.
following the annual membership
against mistreated Jewish sol- Garris won the Metropolitan
Biers and not against those wh
are to asked
to bring meeting
who Opera
Opera auditions on the air two their children
the synagogue
Bah' of Yeshivath Beth Yehu-
mistreated them." He demanded years ago, and since then has on Saturday morning as a tribute
that the British Government re- been singing leading roles at the to their mothers and to their
Rabbi Weiss, who has been the
dean of the institution for the
same negotiations with the Polish Met, as well as on the West religion.
Government on the question of Coast. It will be Mr. Garris'
last four years and who rendered
The rabbis have been request- distinguished service to the De-
transferring Jewish soldiers from first appearance in Detroit.
the Polish army to British units.
troit Jewish community, accepted
See SABBATH—Page 9
Another artist who will come
Toni Driberg, Independent, urged to Detroit to help with the Ares- a call to head a national Jewish
that the transfer of the Jewish entation will be Carlton Gauld,
soldiers would "not dislocate any a native American, formerly with
of the invasion plans." the Metropolitan and now with
In the meantime, Tom Driberg the New Opera Company of New
revealed before the House of York. Mr. Gauld has been lead-
Commons that it had come to hip ing baritone at the Grand Opera
attention that three Jewish sail- in Paris until the War broke out
ors in the Polish navy had r"-
cently been tried by a Polish Opera in English
Great interest is being shown
The entire opera will be given
court-martial. He got this in-
by
the Jews of Detroit in the
in
English,
for
the
first
time
in
formation, he stated, from a
Jewish chaplain in the BritiSh this country. Ruth and Thomas Yeshivah campaign which is in
Army. Driberg also disclosed Martin have made the transla- its second week. People of vari-
that on of the ablest Jewsti tion especially for this perform- ous circles answered the Yeshi-
doctors in the Polish army," a mice. Mr. Martin, a refugee from vah call. Board meetings are
veteran of the campaign in Vienna, is a well known con- held every Tuesday night and
special meetings are called dur-
See REFUGEE—Page 12
.-...._ See BRITAIN—Page 12
ing the week. It is planned to
call a meeting shortly of all
presidents of synagogues in De-
troit to elect their representa-
tives on the board of the Yeshi-
vah. A special meeting of the
Vaad Ha-Rabbonim was held this
week in connection with the cam-
By NATHAN ZIPRIN
paign under the chairmanship of
Stonewall Jackson fell fighting crick Kisch, the Palestinian Jew, Rabbi Joseph Thumim. The rab-
in what was hardly more than chief of the Engineer Corps of bis have pledged themselves to
the beginning of a war, but his the British Eighth Army, who do their utmost in spreading the
name nevertheless was to be was killed by a land mine a few idea of parochial school and Jew-
ish education in Detroit, and
written in epical grandeur in the months hack.
also helping financially.
chronicles of the American na-
General Wingate was, of late,
tion.
Students of the Yeshivah will
most r, .towned for his Burma
One feels that such immortal- exploits as a leader of British speak (luring the campaign in
ity awaits two soldiers who re- raiders who were carrying the various synagogues and explain
cently fell in battle; one, a war through dense jungles of to the congregation members the
Christian, the other a Jew. The Burma. Only 41 at the time of achievements of Yeshivath Chach-
Christian was General Orde his death, Wingate had already mey Lublin and the Detroit He-
Charles Wingate, leader of the gained such a reputation as a brew Parochial School and their
"Wingate Raiders," who was redoubtable warrior that legends goals. A special 15 minute radio
killed only some days back in a began to weave about him. The program is being broadcasted ev-
ery Saturday night from Station
Plane crash in Burma.
The other is Brigadier Fred.
See HEROES—Page 12
See CHACHMEY—Page 9

Chachmey Lublin
Yeshivath Drive
Is In Full Swing

Two Fallen Heroes
A Christian and a Jew

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Gestapo Raids Churches

Reports reaching from the un-
derground movement in Nazi-held
Europe disclose that the Gestapo,
aide- d' by 'thy- Hungarirrn - palice. ,-- --
have raided Catholic and Protest-
ant churches where they found
more than 1,000 Jews who were
sheltered in the churches by
clergymen.
The Nazis are also reported to
have flooded Hungary with anti-
Semitic films. Almost all motion
picture houses in Hungary are
showing such anti-Jewish films as
"Der Eviger Jude," "Grenadier
Strasse" and other films intended
to incite the Hungarian people
against the Jews.
The Jewish Council in Buda-
pest, representing Jewish inter-
ests before the government, was
ordered by the Hungarian Min-
istry of the Interior to circular-
ize an appeal on the front page
of its publication, "Magyar Zsido
Klapja," directing all Jews to
immediately for labor