29th Year of Service to Our State and Nation ,P VICTORY 1, 1 BUY VNITZD AI WAR BONDS AND 14.1 STAMPS 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 10e Single Copy: $3.00 Per Yea. 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