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To Hasten Victory—Buy 7th War Loan Bonds
Detroit Jewish Chronicle
In Its 30th Year
VOL. 47, NO. 20
Agency Seeks
Soviet Views
On Palestine
Founded in 1915
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DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, MAY 18, 1945
Cause of Zion
To Prevail, Says
Lewisohn Here
SAN FRANCISCO Ludwig Lewisohn, noted Amer-
(WNS). — A memorandum ican author and Zionist, and edi-
dealing with the protection tor of New Palestine, expressed
of Jewish rights in Palestine his optimism regarding Palestine
was submitted last week by
the Jewish Agency to the
Soviet delegation at the
United Nations Conference.
The memorandum was the
first direct contact made by
world Zionist leaders with
high Rusisan officials since
the Soviet Revolution.
Jewish Agency leaders were
reported to have long sought a
way to present to Stalin the
Zionist position on Palestine with
a view to securing Soviet sup-
port of Jewish demands at the
peace table. By the submission
of the memorandum to the So-
viet delegation at the San Fran-
cisco Conference it was hoped
to enable Stalin to receive for
the first time Jewish views di-
rectly from world Zionist leaders.
Rabbi Stephen S. Wise had
hoped to confer with Foreign
Commissar Molotov before his
departure for Moscow. But Zion-
ist leaders here believe that the
Soviet delegation will give due
attention to the memorandum and
that they will take it back to
Moscow for consideration by
higher Soviet officials.
At the same time, Jewish
See SOVIET—Page 6
Detroit Jewish
Flier Winner of
16 Decorations
NEW YORK (WNS). — More
than 40 Jewish fighters have
earned the Distinguished Service
Cross, the Jewish Welfare Board
announced. This decoration is the
second highest honor the U. S.
Army bestows for combat per-
formance and is given for ex
traordinary heroism against the
enemy. More than 8,200 Ameri-
can Jewish soldiers have received
decorations.
The JWB also discloses that
Sgt. Max J. Globerman, 32, Army
Air Force, of Detroit, holds 16
decorations, the distinguished
Flying Cross with Oakleaf Clus-
ter, the Air Medal and 13 Oak-
leaf Clusters, for aerial heroism
in Europe. According to the DFC
citation, he displayed "commend-
able dexterity" as a tail gunner
on a B-26 bomber in the course
of 25 missions over enemy-occu-
pied territory during the air war
on Europe, manipulating his guns
with telling effect" against en-
emy fighter plane onslaughts.
Noted Journalist
To Talk at Beth
Yehudah Yeshivah
Chaim Lieberman, New York
Yiddish writer, a member of the
staff of the Forward, will speak
on "Jews and Judaism in the
Gentile World" at the annual
meeting of Yeshivath Beth Ye-
hudah, Dexter and Cortland, at
8 P. tn. Monday.
Eighteen directors of the Ye-
shivah will be elected by the
members, according to Rabbi Max
Wohlgelernter, president.
The 'Yeshivah has been visited
recently by a number of notables
including Rabbi Elijah M. Bloch,
president of the Rabbinical Col-
lege of Telshe, now located in
Cleveland, and by Rabbi Leo
Jung of New York and Dr. Trude
Weiss Rosmarin, editor of "The
See BETH YEHUDAH—Page 14
Only 3 Arrivals
In Zion in April
TEL AVIV (Palcor).—Only
three Jewish immigrants ar-
rived in Palestine with certifi-
cates throughout April, Davar,
leading Hebrew labor daily, re-
ports. "This happened when
hundreds of thousands of
Jews of various lands are
craving to emigrate to Pal-
estine, otherwise they are
threatened with material and
moral extinction," Davar
writes, and adds:
"There is no immigration
because of the erection of
technical barriers against
would-be immigrants. The ap-
paratus for preventing immi-
gration works unflaggingly and
systematically."
Detroit Jewry Sends
Resolutions to Parley,
United Jewish
Front Bid At
S-F Rejected
LUDWIG LEWISOHN
and justice to the Jews, in an
address last Sunday night at the
Jewish Community Center at the
opening of the annual drive by
the Detroit Labor Zionists. La-
bor Zionists opened a drive for
$20,009. A great part of the sum
was raised at the rally.
"We got nowhere in San Fran-
cisco," he said, "but no one got
anywhere. The American delega-
tion means well. The Chinese
delegates came to us and sympa-
thized with us. They told us they
would do their utmost in our
behalf.
"The White Paper stands. How-
ever, we bring in extra legal
people. Eventually the gates of
Palestine will be open. It is not
we who are illegal. It is the
White Paper which is illegal."
Mr. Lewisohn declared that
there is a great struggle going
See LEWISOHN—Page 7
Palestine Goes
Wild with Joy
Over 17 -E Day
JERUSALEM (WNS). — The
greatest demonstration in the his-
tory of modern Palestine took
place here as the Jewish popula-
tion went wild at news of the
victory of Europe. The streets
and synagogues were constantly
filled with happy celebrants and
United Nations and Jewish flags
flew from hundreds of buildings.
Special victory editions of the
Hebrew papers reviewed the Jew-
ish role in the war effort, stress-
ing that at least 1,300,000 Jews
fought in the armies of the Uni-
ted Nations, while 4,000,000
Jews were murdered. The papers
stressed the great contribution
made by Palestine industry, agri-
culture and science.
Work in all but essential in-
dustries stopped in Jerusalem in
accordance with a V-E day proc-
lamation by the Jewish National
Council. Between 4 and 7 p. m.
all urban traffic came to a halt,
and public prayers were said in
all synagogues.
The Jewish Agency for Pal-
estine issued a manifesto in
which it pointed out that the war
cost the destruction of one-third
of world Jewry and three-quar-
ters of the Jews in the formerly
Nazi-occupied portion of Europe.
The Jews of Europe, it said, are,
in the main, homeless and broken
and thousands of children are or-
See V-E DAY—Page 8
SAN FRANCISCO (WNS).-
The American Jewish Confer-
ence, supported by the repre-
sentatives of the World Jewish
Congress and the Jewish Agency
for Palestine, has rejected the
proposal of the delegates of the
Synagogue Council of America
to negotiate for the establish-
ment of a united front among
the various Jewish groups here.
At the same time, it was an-
nounced that the American Jew-
ish Conference and the Ameri-
can Jewish Committee have sub-
mitted separate letters to Secre-
tary of State Stettinius express-
ing the hope that Jewish rights
with regard to Palestine will not
be overlooked in any formula
which the security conference
will adopt in connection with the
projected formula for interna-
tional trusteeships for mandated
areas.
At a press conference, Henry
Monsky revealed that the Ameri-
can Jewish Conference repre-
sentatives are carefully studying
the British, American and other
drafts on trusteeship plans and,
within a few days, will make
public their observations on the
subject. Meanwhile, he said, the
American Jewish Conference, in
its letter to Mr. Stettinius, has
advanced the following demands:
1—"Any plan for internation-
al trusteeships in succession to
the existing mandate system of
the League of Nations should be
sufficiently flexible and broad in
scope to permit within its frame-
work the solution of the Pales-
tine problem in accordance with
the underlying intent and pur-
pose of the Balfour Declaration
which would be inconsistent with
and the Palestine mandate.
2—"Nothing shall be included
or prejudicial to the special rights
of the Jewish people under the
Balfour Declaration and the Pal-
estine Mandate, and all such
See UNITED:—Page 3
Synagogs to Sell
$2,000,000 Bonds
Asks International Bill of Rights,
Unrestricted Palestine Immigration
An international bill of rights, a Jewish Common-
wealth in Palestine, and abrogation of the British White
Paper which has closed the gates of Palestine to Jewish
immigration were demanded by Detroit Jewry in a
resolution to the United Nations Conference in San
Francisco.
The resolution was adopted at a rally Tuesday
Forest Planted
In Honor of
Morris Schaver
A tribute of singular signifi-
cance which expresses the com-
munity's appreciation for out-
standing services to the Zionist
night in Shaarey Zedek Social
Hall sponsored by the Jewish
Community Council, the Detroit
Zionist Council and the delegates
to the American Jewish Confer-
ence.
Copies of the resolution were
sent to the President, the Secre-
tary of State, the United Nations
Conference and the embassies of
Great Britain, Russia, France
and China in Washington.
R. J. Thomas, president of the
UAW-CIO; Dr. David D. Henry,
executive vice president of
Wayne University, and Rabbi
Leon Feuer of Toledo addressed
the rally.. Thomas pledged the
support of organized labor for
a Jewish homeland in Palestine,
asserted that the UAW would go
all-out for this cause and de-
clared that the Jews must make
their voices heard.
"There should be sonic place
where the Jews can give political
expression to their problems.
Palestine should go to the Jews
and, knowing the intelligence of
the Jewish people, I don't see
why Palestine needs to be under
a inundate. It can govern itself."
Thomas reiterated the advice
that the Jews cannot hope to
gain anything by "sitting on
their hands" but must educate
public opinion regarding their
cause. He also declared that the
Detroit Jews were marked as
next victims of riots after the
June, 1943, race rioting here.
Dr. Henry's Advice
MORRIS L. SCHAVER
Henry, who is a member
movement and to other Jewish of Dr.
the
Christian-Palestine Com-
causes during three decades, was
paid to Morris L. Schaver, promi- mittee, also advised Jewry to
nent labor Zionist and commu- make its main appeal to America
nal leader, at an assembly held
See RALLY—Page 12
in the Jewish Community Cen-
ter Sunday.
To give expression to the com-
munity's appreciation for Mr.
Schaver, Detroit Jews resolved
to plant on the land of the Jew-
ish National Fund in Palestine,
a forest of 10,000 trees which
LONDON (WNS). — Prof.
will bear his name. The initia- Selig Brodetsky, president of
tive was taken by the Jewish the Board of Deputies of Brit-
National Fund Council of De- ish Jews, declared that Jews
troit, in cooperation with the ought to boycott Germany
even as Spain has been boycot-
labor Zionist group here.
ted since the inquisition.
Urges Jews Shun
Reich Forever
See SCHAVER—Page 2
Young Israel Opens Fund Drive
For $100,000 Orthodox Center
Young Israel has raised ap-
proximately $20,000 towards the
building of an Orthodox Center
and Synagogue on Dexter near
Fullerton, it was revealed at the
22nd anniversary celebration
banquet of Young Israel. The
banquet, attended by 400, was
held in the Shaarey Zedek So-
cial Hall.
The Young Israel Center will
be started as soon as materials
can be obtained and government
restrictions are lifted. The or-
ganization owns the lot. The ne w
building will contain a syna-
gogue, nine clubrooms, a gymna-
sium, a games room and a swim-
ming pool.
Edward S. Silver of New York,
president of the National Coun-
cil of Young Israel, the main
The Michigan Synagogue Con-
ference, composed of Orthodox
Synagogues, has pledged to sell
$2,000,000 in bonds during the
Seventh War Loan Drive, Rabbi
Joshua Sperka, secretary of the
conference, announced. The quo-
ta was set at a meeting Monday.
The bond drive will serve as a
memorial to President Roosevelt.
Each synagogue will have a per-
manent war bond committee. Ap-
peals will be made in all the local speaker, in tracing the work of
synagogues during the Yizkor Young Israel, declared that Jew-
service, when memorial prayers ish immigrants to the United
for the late President Franklin States faced an unprecedented
Delano Roosevelt will also be problem. In Europe these Jews
had lived a ghetto-like existence .
recited.
in purely Jewish communities.
When they arrived in the United
States they entered a land where
there were no restrictions, where
business opportunities and the
schools were open to all.
Business Success
These Jewish immigrants who,
in the Old World, had been ac-
customed to honoring learning
above everything else, soon saw
that in this country success in
business or the professions was
the path to prestige. The parents,
therefore, said Mr. Silver wanted
their children to become success-
ful businessmen, lawyers and
doctors. The younger generation
was pulled away from traditional
religious practices by the lure
of other cultures.
Young Israel has reversed this
trend and is training the younger
men and wqmen to be proud of
traditional Judaism, said Mr.
Silver.
See YOUNG ISRAEL—Page 15