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VOL. 46, NO. 19
Detroit and Jewish
Chronicle
The Legal Chronicle
DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, MAY 12, 1944
JusticeMurphy Addresses Bnai
Brith 100th Anniversary Meet
Irving I. Katz to
Address Temple
Secretaries Meet
Anti-Semitism Is Anti-Christian and Menace
To Post-War Reconstruction, He Declares
NEW YORK (WNS).—Justice Frank Murphy of
the United States Supreme Court, addressing the 100th
anniversary convention of Bnai Brith at Carnegie Hall,
declared that anti-Semitism is a menace to postwar soli-
darity in this country and contrary to the basic concepts
of Americanism and Christianity.
In calling for mobilized action to fight the growth
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Hungarian Government Sends
Jews to Transylvania Ghetto
Conferences to Be
In New York, Chicago
The National Association of
Temple Secretaries, an agency
of the Commission on Synagogue
Activities of the Union of Ameri-
Nazis Using Pressure to Have Hungarian Jews
Deported to Concentration Camps in Poland
GENEVA (WNS). — Thirty thousand Hungarian
Jews were deported last week by the Nazi-controlled
Hungarian government to a ghetto in an unnamed city
in Transylvania, according to reports reaching here.
This ghetto is one of 18 so far established in Hun-
gary. The Jews are not permitted to leave the ghetto
of undemocratic forces in Ameri-
walls except for one hour each
morning to permit them to make
can life, and in warning against
purchases of food, clothing and
the divisive and disruptive forces
other essential necessities. The
that are seeking to gain political
housing conditions there are so
control of the nation through a
terrible that many families are
using apartments on a shift ar-
technique similar to that em-
rangement. With their resistance
ployed by the Nazis in their
early days in Germany, Justice
weakened by hunger and fear
Murphy declared: "We shall not
'Ballad for Americans' and with an acute shortage of
Mrs. Joshua S. Sperka
doctors and medicaments, many
try to deprive those who may
To Be Performed
of the ghetto dwellers are suc-
differ with us of their right to
To
Direct
Playlet
cumbing to illness and disease.
free speech and press. But we
The great cantata, "Ballad for
Simultaneously, it was dis-
shall energetically and relent-
Wednesday, May 17. at 12:30
lessly oppose by every means at
Americans," which director Froh- closed here that the Nazis are
our command their victims and p. the Women's League for
man introduced to Detroit for using pressure on the Hungarian
government to deport all the Jews
insidious propaganda through a Sabbath Observance will present
the first time several years ago, to concentration camps in Po-
campaign of enlightenment and a Mothers' Day meeting, at the
land. Both in Hungary and Ru-
education in which we shall ex- Congregation Bnai Moshe, Dexter
mania the Germans are display-
pose the tragic error of their and Lawrence. Members, their
ing photographs purporting to
teachings . . . We shall win the
show how Jews are torturing
global war on the field of battle, mothers and daughters, are in-
Christians in the areas that were
but if at the same time we ac- vited to be guests of the organi-
liberated by Soviet Russia. The
cept and become permeated with zation at this meeting in honor
IRVING I. KATZ
purpose of this propaganda is
even a portion of the Nazi ideol- of Mothers' Day, as well as all
to incite the Christian population
ogy in a larger sense we shall
can Hebrew Congregations, has
against the Jews and to impress
have sustained a major defeat. women of the community.
them with the fact that their
Hitler knows that and has al-
Dessert luncheon will be served completed plans for the holding
of its first annual regional con-
own safety would be assured if
ready boasted that the seeds of at 12:30 in the social hall of the ferences. The Eastern Seaboard
all Jews were deported to Po-
Nazism and anti-Semitism which Bnai Moshe, and at 1:30 the Regional Conference will be held
land. The faked pictures carry
he has sown will survive military meeting will begin. A feature of May 22 and 23 in New York
the headline "victims of Jewish
defeat. We must realize that un- the afternoon will be the prese- City and the Midwest Regional
terror" and a warning that death
less the seeds which Hitler has entation of a dramatization en- Conference, June 3 and 4, in
and terror awaits all Christians
sown are destroyed now before titled "Mothers in Israel," writ- Chicago. Papers dealing with
at Jewish hands if Russia wins
racial brutality and persecution ten and directed by Mrs. Joshua synagogue publicity, administra-
the war.
come into full bloom the long Sperka. Participants will be mem- tive procedure and personnel re-
Establish Ghettos
struggle to create freedom and hers of the organization.
lationships will be presented by
equality for all shall have been
With the arrival this week of
Under the chairmanship of leading professional secretaries,
futile."
Budapest newspapers it was dis-
Mrs. Abraham Caplan, an exten- congregational officers and rab-
Asserting that anti-Semitism is sive membership campaign is be- bis. The commission on syna-
closed that the Hungarian gov-
"not only un-American, but anti- ing conducted and is meeting gogue activities of the Union of
ernment issued it decree author-
Christian," and that racism hin- with signal success. Anyone fin- American Hebrew Congregations,
izing the mayors of cities with
ders the solution of economic, terested in enrolling is asked to Cincinnati, the New York Fed-
populations exceeding 10,000 to
social and political problems by contact Mrs. Abraham Caplan eration of Reform Synagogues
establish ghettos for Jews. All
diverting our efforts from finding
SIDOR BELARSKY Jews in cities or towns with a
Saturday, May 13, has been
a solution to finding a scape- designated Mothers' Day Sabbath and the Chicago Federation of
Reform
Synagogues
are
cooper-
will
be
one of the featured num- population of less than 10,000
goat," Justice Murphy warned by the Women's League for Sab-
are to be deported to larger ,
bers
on
the program. "Church cities. This is part of a plan to
that intolerance "may first wreak bath Observance, and all mothers
See KATZ—Page 12
its vengeance on the Jew, but and their children are urged to
Bells" and the "New Era," two transfer Jews from cities not
it will not stop there."
choral cantatas from the pen of likely to be bombed by the Allied
attend synagogue services at
Justice Murphy, an associate that time. No greater gift can
composer and director Frohman, air force to cities and zones
judge of the United States be given a Jewish mother by
wall also find its place on the within the periphery of areas that
Court, is a Roman Catholic and her children than to accompany
program. Many other important are known to be the target of
chairman of the recently formed her to divine services in honor
works of Yiddish Hebrew and Allied bombings. Non-Jews will
National Committee Against Per- of Mothers' Day. Many syna-
English compositions from such be moved to the areas freed of
secution of the Jews.
noted composers as Low, Engel, Jews.
gogues are preparing special
Weiner, Heifezt, Helfman and
At the same time, it was dis-
President's Message Read
Kiddush in honor of the occa-
A cast of 200 Detroiters will Gelbart complete the choral pro- closed that the Hungarian Minis-
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, sion.
try of the Interior issued a de-
The Women's Sabbath League participate in Johann Strauss' gram.
who received a plaque from Bnai
Mr. Belarsky will offer two cree prohibiting Jews to conduct
Brith to be placed in the recrea- seeks to bring back a realization comic opera, "The Gypsy Baron,"
tion room of the military bar- to the Jewish women of the com- according to Julius Chajes, ar- groups of songs by Prokofieff, public worship in synagogues or
Tschaikovsky, Kan, Yompolski, elsewhere. This, the report stated,
racks attached to the White munity of the basic and sacred
Lavri and Thomas. The accom- was a measure to prevent uncon-
House, said the President was significance of the Sabbath and
paniment will be in the capable trolled gathering of Jews.
grateful for the war and civic asks all women to refrain from
hands of Evelyn Gurvitch and
A report from Hungary, dis-'
services of the Bnai Brith and shopping in Jewish stores on
Rebecca Frohman, two well closing the mass-deportation of
that he was particularly pleased Saturday, thereby giving the Jew-
known local concert pianists.
Jews from sub-Carpathian towns,
with the organization's gift of ish merchant a day of rest.
The entire program is under stated that a train carrying de-
the Sara Delano Roosevelt Memo-
the direction of Dan Frohman, ported Jews to Poland had been
rial House to Hunter College. The
famous choral and orchestra con- attacked by Jewish partisans in
Bnai Brith sought the Roosevelt
ductor.
the sub-Carpathian section of
NOTICE
town houses at 47 and 49 East
The program begins promptly Hungary, and that many of the
Sixty-fifth Street, New York City,
at 8:30 p. m. and will be held in deportees were freed. The report
and presented them to the col-
All copy must be in not
the large auditorium of the De- states that many Gestapo agents
lege for use as a center for inter-
troit Institute of Arts on Sunday who were escorting the train
faith and inter-racial activities of later than Wednesday, 3
evening, May 14.
were killed. The liberated Jews
the student body.
are hiding in the Carpathian
Alfred M. Cohen, honorary
f
1 mountains, where they are fed
p. m. It must be written
president of Bnai Brit)), dedi-
and sheltered by the partisans.
[ Go to Your Synagogue
cated, in behalf of the organiza-
on one side of paper only
The Jewish partisan group is said
tion, a service flag in honor of
on Invasion Day.
to count several hundred mem-
the 22,000 members who are in
bers and is supplied with food
the armed forces and in memory and where possible should
Vaad Ha•Rabonim
and weapons by the local non-
of 177 members who have been
be typewritten.
Jewish population.
killed in the war or reported
of Detroit
missing in action.
Sidor Belarsky to
Be Featured Singer
At Concert May 14
Women's Sabbath
League Mothers'
Day Meet May 17
200 Detroiters to
Appear in Opera
"The Gypsy Baron"
See GHETTO—Page 12
The Song of the Girl-Pupils
Of a Beth Jacob School
By RABBI MOSES FISCHER
Since one of the greatest au-
thors and writers in Israel dedi-
cated his matchless literary tal-
ent, his profound versatility and
his inherited passion for religion
to glorify and reinterpret the
founder of Christianity and his
Apostles to our contemporaries.
Since one of our greatest poets,
a poet by the grace of God,
devotes his creative faculties to
apotheosize a peasant girl: a
Saint of the Catholic Church
and causes the whole contempo-
rary world to listen with enchant-
ment to the "Song of Berna-
dette"—I wonder whether there
will rise and where and who will
See SCHOOL—Page 12
DR. LOTHAR WALLERSTEIN
tistic director of the Detroit
Friends of Opera, Inc. The choir
will consist of members of the
Catholic Youth Organization Cho-
rus, the Glee Clubs of Central
and Northwestern High Schools,
and of Ford and Chrysler work-
ers. Various nationality groups
will also be represented in the
cast. The supers will come from
See OPERA—Page 12
Polish Court-Martial to Try
17 Anti-Semitic Officers
LONDON (WNS)---Prof. M.
Heitzmann, chief of the political
department of the Polish Minis-
try of the Defense, declared here
this week that seventeen Polish
officers and men charged with
overt acts of anti-Semitism will
face trial before a Polish court-
martial in the near future. He
made the statement at a mass-
meeting, sponsored jointly by the
Council of Polish Jews and the
Federation of Polish Jews, that
was attended by representatives
of the Polish Premier Stanislaw
Mikolajczyk and other high-
ranking Polish officials.
The meeting. called to protest
against the mistreatment of Jews
in the Polish Army, adopted a
resolution demanding the punish-
ment of all officers and men re-
See POLISH—Page 12