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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONIOLE and The Legal Chronicle

Hebrew Committee of National Liberation
Registers as Foreign Agent with Justice Dept.

To Preside at Central
Conference of Rabbis

June 23 1944

I AM A WAC

Noted Spiritual Women
Leader to Visit Here

By Lt. Freddie Boyle

WASHINGTON (WNS).—The the Securities and Exchange Com-
Dr. Solomon B. Freehof, rabbi
Last night I met six Polish
Hebrew Committee of National mission for authority to publish of Temple Rodef Sholem, Pitts
Mrs. A. M. Hershberg, wife of
- Wacs who are the guests of Rabbi
Liberation, headed by Peter H. a loan.
A. M. Hershberg, spiritual
burgh,
will
deliver
the
president'
Bergson registered with the Jus-
5 the American Wacs in Detroit leader of Yeshivath Chachmey
In answer to the question ask-
tice Department as a foreign ing for names of persons respon-
for the greater part of this week. Lublin, will be in Detroit next
agent acting for the "Hebrew sible for the organization, the
We
took them to their hotel, and
nation," for which it seeks recog- following names were submitted :
nition as an independent state. Peter H. Bergson, 2315 Massa-
then talked to various members
According to the registration chusetts Ave., Washington; S.
of the party for a short time.
the Hebrew nation "consists of Merlin, 57 Park Ave., New York;
Two of the Polish Wacs (or
those Jews in Palestine and oc- Theodore Ben-Nahum, 65 Central
Pestkas, as they are called) were
cupied Europe who desire to be- Park West, New York; Profes-
deported to Russia after the Rus-
long to it" and does not include sor Pinkas Dolougaz, 4724 Drexel
sians took the eastern section of
Jews who are citizens of other Blvd., Chicago; Eri Jabotinsky,
Poland. One of them worked on
nations such as the United States. now in Turkey; Arih Ben Eliezer,
a Russian state farm as a farm
The committee, which has now in Palestine, and Captain
hand and another worked in the
bought and refurnished a former Jeremiah Halpern, now in Eng-
forests, sawing the trees just as
embassy building on Massachu- land.
the men do. She said she received
setts Ave. here, said that "as
In personal questionnaires, Mr.
enough money to buy food for
far as we know" there is no other Berkson gave his name us Hillel
herself. However, she had her
organization which purports to Kook, Palestinian citizen born in
mother and four younger sisters
represent the "Hebrew nation," Kruk, Lithuania; Mr. Merlin re-
with her, and she had to sell her
though there are organizations vealed his name was Smil Mer-
clothes in order to support them.
which speak for the "Jewish lean, stateless, but born in Kish-
people".
Sgt. Stefanie Soltan is the
niv, Bessarabia, and Mr. Ben-
member of the group that be-
The registration said the coin- Nahum revealed he had changed
longs to the Black Brigade. She
mittee's total assets were $10,000 his name from Theodore Kopelio-
and one other woman went into
received from the Free Palestine vitch and is a Palestinian citizen,
Norway in 1940 with the 1st
Committee and $15,000 borrowed but he did not state his birth-
Highland Division of the Polish
from the Palestine Defense Fund. place. All three arrived in the
Army, doing canteen work in
Application has been made to United States in 1940.
DR. S. B. FREEHOF
much the same fashion as our
American Red Cross workers do.
MRS. A. M. HERSHBERG
message and preside over all ses-
BIENNIAL CONVENTION OF AMERICAN
sions of the Central Conference Sgt. Soltan was decorated for
bravery, but I was interested to week for a visit. Mrs. Hershberg
of American Rabbis' 55th annual note that the sergeant made no
JEWISH CONGRESS IS CANCELLED
convention in Cincinnati, June mention of her outstanding is a graduate of the Chicago Col-
lege and the College of Jewish
NEW YORK (WNS). — The patriotic duty to call off the 23-26.
achievements herself. A gentle- Studies. Mrs. Hershberg, former-
American Congress recently an planned convention at this mo-
man from the Polish Information ly Miss Hermina Eichenstein,
Center brought up the subject. (laughter of the Grand Rabbi
nounced the cancellation of its ment of all-out national effort to Jew Who Was Never in
An attractive blonde, Corporal Eichenstein of Chicago, is well
biennial three-day convention win the war. The solutions of the Army Found Guilty of
which was scheduled to open in problems affecting the future of Desertion by Polish Court Kos, told of living in Japan with known throughout the country for
her family. She was in that coun- her work for Judaism and Torah.
New York on June 24. The con our people will appear in a much
JERUSALEM (WNS). — A try at the time of Pearl Harbor She formerly was the head of the
vention was called off in compli clearer light when the actual lib- Polish Jew, who never
served in
ance with the request of the eration of the European contin- the Polish forces and who was and gave private lessons in Eng- Achdus B'nos Israel of Montreal,
1 ish, and did various other jobs. Canada. During her stay in De-
Offies of Defense Transportation ent will be well under way."
rejected for service when he at- , She speaks Russian, Polish, Eng- troit she has been asked to speak
for immediate cancellation of all
tempted to enlist, has been sen- 1 ish and Italian. Cpl. Kos did not at the ladies donor luncheon of
conventions so as to make all
tenced by a Polish court-martial, go into detail about her escape the Ladies' Auxiliary of Yeshivath
transportation facilities available
to a prison term of six years for f rom Japan, but she did say it Chachmey Lublin on June 27 on
for. the increased needs due to Downtown Theaters -
"desertion", it was disclosed here was difficult to get out of the the subject "Torah in Life".
the invasion of Europe.
FOX—"The Eve of St. Mark," this week when the attorneys for c ountry.
A statement issued by the ex-
convicted Jew applied for
Pvt. Stanislawa Zeremba, an- Rabbi Wasserman to Be
ecutive committee of the Con- film version of Maxwell Ander- a the
writ of habeas corpus to the ther member of the group, was
gress, explaining its decision to son's Broadway hit, opened Fri- Jerusalem
Sabbath League Speaker
District Court.
orn in Chicago. Her mother
call off the convention, says: day at the Fox. Starring Ann
The Women's League for Sab•
The convicted Jew, Chaim 8 ml sister are in Poland, and she
"The ODT requested the immedi- Baxter, William Eythe and Vin-
was a refugee in Siberia. h as not heard from them since bath Observance, 12th St. Branch,
ate cancellation of all conven- cent Price, the film is another Novak,
When an attempt was made to I 940. Her father lives in Ham- will hold an Oneg Shabbos tea,
tions and meetings not connected feather in the cap of a Holly- form
a Polish Army in Russia t
and he met her at the Saturday afternoon, July 1, at
with the war program and the wood which is doing right well by in 1941, he offered to enlist but r rarnck,
Beth Tefilo Emanuel Shule, Tay-
ailroad
station.
end of all non-essential civilian our legitimate theater, translat-
rejected. He received a cer-
Every member of the group lor and Woodrow Wilson.
travel in order to make room ing stage themes to celluloid was
to that effect. Somehow h as interesting stories to tell of
The guest speaker of the after-
for the transportation of war cas- with the added advantages of the tificate
Novak managed to leave Russia t he hardships they and their peo- noon will be Rabbi Simcha Was-
ualties and other military pas- camera's scope, and without los- with
the Polish Army that was P le have undergone. And all of serman, dean of Yeshivath Beth
sengers. With the news of the ing the dramatic values of the evacuated
to the Middle East. s were impressed with the lack Yehudah. Refreshments will be
first battles on the coast of Nor- original. A second feature com- Eventually
he reached Palestine 0 f emotion these brave young served. All members and their
mandy it became clear that mo- pletes the bill.
where he was picked up and sen- w omen showed in relating the friends are cordially invited.
mentous as are the problems of
MICHIGAN—Cecil B. DeMille's tenced by the Chief Magistrate st ories of their lives since Ger-
our people, neither the country
4 H Membership Rises
romantic
Technicolor triumph, of Haifa to a light prison term many invaded their country.
as a whole nor the Jewish com-
for
entering
the
country
illegally.
An
army
of 62,404 rural boys and
They
have
come
through
their
"The
Story
of
Dr.
Wassell,"
munity can give concentrated at-
When he finished serving his sen- s
girls in New York state is enrolled
tention to these problems at this starring Gary Cooper, Laraine tence, Polish authorities demand- uffering in magnificent fashion, in
the 1943 4-H club program, a 75
most critical hour of conflict. Day and a cast of hundreds, con- ed his extradition. He was later h a nd make us Americans who
Psychologically we are all partici- tinues at the Michigan. The com- placed on trial on a charge of a ave met them feel very small per cent increase over the 1942 num-
ber of 35,853 members.
pants in the battle and our nat- panion feature is "Lady, Let's "desertion" and sentenced to a nd inadequate
ural impulse is to suspend all Dance" with Belita, European term for six years. The court-
POLITICA
I.
A
DV
ERTISEM ENT
other problems until victory looms skating sensation.
martial refused to recognize the
certain over the smoke of the
UNITED ARTISTS — Robert validity of the certificate showing
battlefield. For these reasons the Walker
in the title role of the that Novak had been arrested.
convention has been postponed.
best seller, "See Here,
"This does not mean, however, hilarious
Hargrove," holds over at
that the Congress will give up, Private
the United Artists. The second
even for a time, any of its ac- feature,
"Gambler's Choice," is
tivities. We regard these activi- a thrill-packed
action romance of
ties as a direct contribution to early New York
with Chester
the strengthening of the home Morris and Nancy
Kelly co-
front, but we consider it our starred.

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