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VOL. 47, NO. 16
Founded in 1915
DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 1945
Jewish Hospital
Site Approved
By City Board
The
Detroit City Planning
Commission has approved the
building of the proposed Jewish
Hospital on the site bounded by
McNichols, Outer Drive, Whit-
comb and Lauder avenues. The
commission referred the matter
to the city council with the rec-
ommendation that it be approved.
The council will have to amend
the zoning act relating to that
area. The streets, with the ex-
ception of McNichols, are re-
stricted to single residences.
The Planning Commission stip-
ulated that the hospital should
be built 300 feet from Outer
Drive and Whitcomb Avenue so
;is not to interfere with the sin-
gle residences on these blocks.
It was also stipulated that the
hospital commission should give
the city 50 feet on Whitcomb
and Lauder so that the city
could widen Whitcomb to 100
feet and Lauder to 90 feet.
Work on the new Jewish hos-
pital will start as soon as the
city council changes the zoning
ordinance and as soon as ma-
terials are available, Max ()silos,
chairman of the hospital fund
drive. declared. The hospital will
( , )nist, of the most modern struc-
tures and will be beautifully
landscaped. It will he located on
a :14-acre plat. Although under
Jewish sponsorship, the hospital
will serve all groups.
Food, Clothing
Asked for Jews
In Freed Areas
NEW YORK.—Dr. Joseph J.
Schwartz, chairman of the Joint
Distribution Committee European
Council, in a cabled report to the
American Jewish Joint Distribu-
tion Committee, yesterday ap-
pealed for food, clothing, medi-
cines and tools for Jewish persons
who have been freed by Allied
advances.
In his report, based on a sur-
vey of Jewish needs in Italy,
France, Belgium and Switzerland,
Dr. Schwartz urged that "top
priority" be given to the saving
of approximately 350,000 Jews
who still remain in Nazi hands
and who must be kept from the
last convulsive measures of the
Germans.
He emphasized that these Jews
still alive in Poland have ap-
pealed for medicines, clothing,
blankets and shoes, with special
requests for tools in order to
resum e work in industry and on
farms.
Dr. Schwartz stressed that
- Jews who have managed to out-
See FOOD
and The Legal Chronicle
—
Page 11
Anti-Semitism
Is Un-Christian,
Says Murphy
NEW YORK (WNS).—Justice
Frank Murphy of the United
States Supreme Court was pre-
scrited here this week with the
1944 award of the League of
Fraternal and Benevolent Organi-
zations of the Jewish Education
Committee of New York in rec-
ognition of his services as chair-
/ man of the National Committee
Against Persecution of the Jews.
'Justice Murphy, on receiving
I he award, paid tribute to the
ime President Roosevelt as a
ertat spiritual and political lead-
1'i'• He said the "Lord will not
•tbandon" this nation in . a grave
F our in its history and that
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt is
See MURPHY—Page 5
Bias Bill Dies
In Legislature
The Fair Employment Prac-
tices Bill was killed in the.
State Legislature. last Monday
when the house state affairs
committee voted against re-
porting it to the floor. The
vote was five to four. The
committee is composed of sev-
en Republicans and four Dem-
ocrats. Rep. M. E. Post, chair-
man, declared the majority of
the committee believed the
bill's passage would make mat-
ters worse.
The bill, which would have
forbidden any discrimination
on the part of employers or
employment, agencies, was in-
troduced by Rep. Jack Ells-
worth and Janus Becker, Dem-
ocrats of Detroit, and Carl II.
Graves ( R ) , of Hazel Park.
Jews Sit Shivah
For Roosevelt
A week of mourning and of
nrayer for the late President
7 ranklin Delano Roosevelt
was
declared by the Synagogue Coun-
cil of America, during the last
Neel:. It asked that all Orthodox,
Conservative and Reform congre-
zations hold special services dur-
ing the week of April 15.
Jews throughout the land ob-
served the week of "Shivah".
Rabbis asked their congregations
not to hold any festivities or to
undertake any enterprises during
Coe week. Prayers were also re-
cited for the success of Presi-
dent Truman's administration.
Detroit synagogues and tem-
ples were crowded for services.
At Temple Beth El and Temple
Israel special services were held
Friday evening where prayers
were recited for the late Presi-
dent. On Sabbath morning all
synagogues were crowded. Kad-
ish was recited for President
Roosevelt and the worshipers
mourned him as one mourns a
beloved father.
Synagogues held special serv-
ices at 11 Sunday morning, the
time of the burial in Hyde Park.
Thousands thronged to these
services to pay their last re-
spects to Israel's best friend.
Detroit Jewry is planning a me-
morial rally for Franklin Delano
Roosevelt. The entire Jewish
community was shrouded in
gloom.
Jog. Proskauer,
illonsky Named
To Conference
lOc Single Copy, $3.00 Per Yea'
Truman Foe of American Jewry Mourns
Anti- Semitism
WASHINGTON ( W N S ) .-
President Harry S. Truman has
on a number of occasions shown
his sympathy with the work of
Jewish organizations and has de-
fended the Jews against slurs.
In October, 1943, he appeared
at the St. Louis Bnai Brith cen-
tennial meeting and denounced
slurs which had been made on
the Jewish part in the war effort.
During his term as Grand Mas-
ter of the Masons in Missouri,
Truman appointed a rabbi as
Lodge Chaplain.
In his first speech after his
inauguration as vice president,
made in Chicago on March 17,
President Truman made a strong
plea for religious tolerance.
He said : "Bigotry and in-
tolerance are the munitions of
our enemies. Evil doctrines of
discrimination frequentl y im-
ported from gangster nations
plagu e certain areas in Amer-
ica. Racial and religious in-
tolerance is being preached
here b y agents of our enemies
as well as b y innocent victims
of their propaganda."
Truman warned against the
enemy doctrine of divide and
rule and said that the after-
effects of the poison of intoler-
ance would long circulate in the
nation's bloodstream unless it
were resolutely opposed.
JEW GOVERNS HANOVER
WITH THE 21ST ARMY
GROUP INGERMANY (WNS) .
—Capt. Herbert Fried, a Jewish
officer of the U. S. Army, has
been named military governor of
the city of Hanover, it was dis-
closed here.
Memorial Rally
For Roosevelt at
Center April 25
A memorial in tribute to the
late President Franklin Delano
Roosevelt will be conducted by
the Jewish Community Center at
8 :30 p. m. Wednesday, April 25.
The program will feature an
address by Dr. Leo M. Franklin,
rabbi emeritus of Temple Beth
El, and films depicting some of
the highlights of President
Roosevelt's public career. The
films to be shown will be "Mr.
President" and "Peace Builders".
Also selected recordings will be
heard, including the famous
speech delivered when Pearl
Harbor was struck.
Appropriate music will be
played by Julius Chajes, Center
music director.
The program will open with the
Funeral March of Julius Chajes,
played here for the first time by
the composer.
The chairman of the evening is
to be Mrs. Benjamin E. Jaffe,
vice president of the Center.
The entire community is in-
vited to participate. The memo-
rial program will be held in the
auditorium of the Aaron DeRoy
Memorial, starting at 8 :30 p. m.
Th e American Jewish Confer-
ence and the American Jewish
Committee have named their
consultants who will advise the
American delegation to the Uni-
ted Nations Conference in San
Francisco.
The American Jewish Confer-
ence announced that a panel of
nine will represent it at San
Francisco.
In response to the invitation
extended by the State Depart-
ment, the Conference designated
Henry Monsky, a member of its
JERUSALEM (WNS). — A
three-man interim committee,
group of Palestine Commu-
and president of Bnai Brith, as
nists visited the Wailing Wall
its consultant, at the same time
to pray for the victory of the
informing Secretary of State
Red Army and of Marshal
Stettinius that any of the other Stalin, it was reported in Kol
eight members of the panel
Haam, Ilebrew weekly news-
would be in a position to act in
paper of the Communist Party
place of Mr. Monsky.
in Palestine. After the prayers
The members of the panel, in
the Communists sang Russian
addition to Mr. Monsky, are: ` songs, the publication reports.
Louis Lipsky and Dr. Israel Gold-
stein, both of whom are mem-
bers of the Conference's interim 3,000 DUTCH JEWS FOUND
BRUSSELS (WNS). — Three
committee ; Rabbi Maurice Eisen-
: thousand Jews. including 1,100
d. ath, Prof. Hayim Fineman,
Hayim Greenberg. Rabbi Joseph children. have been found in the
-Irev dy liberated sections of Hol-
low!.
See PEACE—Page 2
Jewish Communists
Pray at Wailing Wall
Death or Roosevelt
NEW YORK (WNS).—The sudden death of Presi-
dent Roosevelt, whose friendship for the Jewish people
translated itself in deed as well as in word, threw the
Jewish community in America into deep mourning.
Throughout the country, leaders of American Jewry
joined the nation in mourning the death of the President
Reparations Seat
Asked by Jews
JERUSALEM (WNS). — The
executive of the Jewish National
Council of Palestine announced
that it has decided to ask the
United Nations that, a seat be
assigned to a representative of
Palestine Jewry on the Interna-
tional committee which will de-
cide on reparations from Ger-
many.
The Jewish National Council
also decided to ask the United
Nations that all Jdwish art and
cultural treasures looted by the
Germans which may be recovered
by the advancing Allied armies,
should be sent to Palestine.
The first all-Jewish mobile
medical unit left here this week
foe Greece to give aid to Jews
and Greeks alike.
Young Israel's
Chief to Launch
Detroit Drive
Edward R. Silver, president of
the National Council of Young
Israel, will head the program of
Detroit Young Israel's 22nd an-
niversary dinner to be held Sun-
day, May 13, at the Shaarey
Zedek Social Hall. Mr. Silver
heads more than 57 constituent
and affiliated Young Israel organ-
izations in the United States and
other countries with a member-
ship of 15,000 young men and
women. Mr. Silver will launch
at the dinner the drive for an
Orthodox Jewish Center in this
city.
Mr. Silver is a former assist-
ant U. S. Attorney for New York
and has been active in promoting
legislation to facilitate Sabbath
observance. He is active in the
American Jewish Congress and is
a delegate to the American Jew-
ish Conference.
A rally of Young Israel's mem-
bers and friends, to plan for the
anniversary celebration, will be
held Wednesday, April 25.
and in paying tribute to his
statesmanship, to his leadership
and to his humanitarianism.
Dr. Stephen S. Wise, a per-
sonal friend of the President, de-
clared:
"The loss is too great to be
measured in words. His achieve- "
ments had made an immortal
of him in his own lifetime.
Alas, death makes him take
his place with those immortals
who have wrought most for
human freedom. I said of him
after his recent re-election
that he was the friend of man.
History claims him, freedom
sings his requiem, but he be-
longs to us.
"Above all, the Jewish peo-
ple have never known a more
understanding friend, who sor-
rowed over their oppressions
and misfortunes and who
sought with all his strength
to bring about a new world
where justice to Jews would
be inevitable and th e Jewish
people would be restored in
their ancient home."
Judge Joseph M. Proskauer,
president of the American Jew-
ish Committee, stated : "President
Roosevelt's tragic death at this
critical time brings „tragic death—
not only to every one of his
stricken countrymen, but to citi-
zens of every nation which is
fighting for freedom and decency
against barbarism and inhuman-
ity."
The President, declared, Judge
Proslcauer, "led superbly in many
fields of human aspiration, but
above all he was a warrior for
the principles of fraternity on
which our Bill of Rights is based,
and an indomitable foe of in-
tolerance and bigotry. We mourn
his loss as a champion in the
age-old struggle to create a com-
mon brotherhood of man under
a common fatherhood of God."
(Continued on Page 5)
$250,000 SOUGHT
AS MEMORIAL
The Zionist labor movement in
the United States seeks $250,000
for the Jewish National Fund to
establish a colony in Palestine
named in memory of Berl
Katzenelson, Palestine labor lead-
er and editor.
Erection of 3 Branch Centers Here
To Cost $300,000 Urged by Broder
The erection of three Center
buildings to cost between $300,-
000 and $400,000 is urged by
H. C. Broder, president of the
Detroit Jewish Community Cen-
ter, in his annual report. These
extension buildings are needed
to serve the 12th Street area,
the Dexter-Davison area and Liv-
ernois-Six-Mile Rd. section, the
report states.
Mr. Broder also called atten-
tion to the need of an endow-
ment fund tax to augment the
income of the Center.
One of the main jobs of the
Jewish Center, Mr. Broder
stressed, is to develop young men
and women for community lead-
ership, to emulate the leadership
of such men as Fred M. Butzel,
Henry Wineman, Judge William
Friedman, etc. The Center now
has about 3,000 members and is
seeking to expand its activities
among the 90,000 Jews here.
The report stressed that i.he
Center is now cooperating with
various groups, notably with the
Yiddish groups, in staging the
Yiddish Culture Program; with
the AZA, whose members can
join the Center at a group rate,
and with Young Judea, Habonim,
Young Israel, who are urged to
use the Center facilities. In the
women's program the Center, ac-
cording to the report, is working
with the Bnai Brith Business
and Professional Women, Bnai
Brith Young Women's Council,
with Hadassah, with the National
Council of Jewish Juniors and
with the Service Wives' group.
The outstanding achievement
of the year for the Center was
the organization of the Twelfth
Street Council Center, which was
established with the cooperation
of the Detroit section of the Na-
tional Council of Jewish Women.
The Center now houses three
Boy Scout troops and five Girl
Scout troops.
The three main branches of
Center activities are grouped un-..
der intermediate, Junior and Ad-
ult. The Adult Education Com-
mittee is considering the organi-
zation of a College of Jewish
Studies.