Americo' 7ewish Periodical Cotter

25, 1945

Capitol Letter

CLIFTON AVENUE - CINCINNATI 20, 01110

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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The ltiol Chronicle

Merkaz Gets Fund
To Sponsor New
Kosher Restaurant

U. S. Army Publishes
Yiddish Book in Germany

WITH THE 42D INF. DIV.

Chesed Shel Emes
In Membership Drive

The Hebrew Benevolent Society
OF THE SEVENTH ARMY IN
WASIIINGTON —Violence , and which all of us hope will never
GERMANY (WNS). — The first (Chesed Shel Emes) is now con-
b
e
in
America."
Ervin
promised
threats of violence, against mi-
Contributions of $500 each to book published in Yiddish in
ducting a membership campaign
norities in different parts of the "explosive evil" to Jews support- establish a strictly kosher restau- Germany since Hitler began his
ing passage of the bill, and cli- rant in Detroit were made by persecution of the Jewish peo- to raise funds for the purpose of
country have been appearing maxed his remarks by assuming
with increasing frequency. Deeds that fear of said explosions Louis Levin and J. Lachar at the ple was published by the 42d erecting monuments and frames
have been contributed by Cali- "should prompt the Jewish lead- last meeting of the Council of Infantry (Rainbow) Division as on the graves of hundreds of
fornia vigilantes, words by some ers of America to persuade the Orthodox Rabbis and Merkaz, a souvenir of Passover services friendless deceased.
which is sponsoring the drive for held by the Division's Jewish
Louis Shiell is the chairman of
members Of Congress.
Jewish employes of the FEPC funds.
Chaplain in the Nazi community this campaign and Nathan Geer
Between Jan. 2 and May 1. (the temporary wartime Com-
Final plans for the restaurant of Dahn.
is co-chairman.
24 incidents of terrorism or open mission) to resign, in order that
intimidation, including 15 shoot- Jews may have no part in push- will be made at it luncheon meet-
ing of the rabbinical council and
ing attacks' were recorded by ing Americans around."
Merkaz at noon this Sunday at
the War Relocation Authority as
The stream of prejudice flows
directed against persons of Japa- almost unchecked through the Lachar's, 8939 12th. Several sites
nese ancestry who returned to halls of Congress and thereafter are being considered and the
California from war relocation in the "Congressional Record". restaurant is expected to open
within a month. Mr. Lachar is
centers. This "planned terrorism Ervin's outbreak occupied 15 chairman of the restaurant com-
by hoodlums," as Secretary of pages. Twenty finely printed mittee. Other members are:
the Interior Ickes grimly phrased pages were usurped in the same Rabbis Thumin, Stollman and
it employed "Nazi storm trooper issue by Senator Bilbo of Missis-
Levin and L. Elenbogen, M.
tactics" against "loyal Japanese sippi, demanding resettlement of Mohr, M. Fischer, Mr. Levin, L.
Americans and law-abiding Japa- all American Negroes in Africa, Solai, A. Nusbaum, D. Edelman,
nese aliens," many of whose sons and promising "revolution" if H. Stolsky, D. Weisberg and I.
are battling the Japanese in the that "un-American and uncon- Sosniek.
Philippines, at Okinawa and other stitutional monstrosity known as
The rabbinical council recom-
HONOR
"LEST WE
Pacific areas.
the FEPC" is enacted by Con- mended that all orthodox congre-
FORGET."
HIS
The secretary pointed to the gress.
gations become members of the
dollar and cents sign behind the
MEMORY
Because of its diverse races Merkaz and that a general meet-
Who gave his
increasingly desperate lawless- and creeds this nation is pecu- ing of representatives from all
BY
life for De-
ness of the "racebaiters fighting liarly vulnerable to intolerance Orthodox congregations be held
mocracy. We
SAYING
a private war safely at home". and bigotry, Mr. Truman' said, four times a year when problems
pay tribute to
YES!
They had hoped, he said, to profit even before he assumed the of observance and traditional
this gallant
from the property of Japanese Presidency. His advice is still Jewish practices will be dis-
TO UNCLE
soldier a n d
evacuees, 900 of whom returned good, namely, watch for and cussed.
SAM'S
American:
to the West Coast in April and actively combat "propaganda
Rabbi Levin is the chairman
PLEA TO
Who has fal-
May, while 1,800 moved east. poison".
of the drive for "Chijuk Hatorah
len in its de-
BUY
The real profit they hand, know-
V'yahadus"; Rabbi Stollman is
fense — who
ingly or otherwise, to Hirohito
WAR
chairman, Menahel, Vaad bora-
died so that
and his propagandists. Ever since Seek Volunteers
bonim and Merkaz, and H. Stol-
BONDS
o u r country
Pearl Harbor, the Japanese have
sky is president of the Merkaz.
may live.
been broadcasting reports of ra- To Sort Clothing
cial tensions in the United States,
At the request of those re-
using the well worn but still ef-
fective Hitler technique of divide sponsible for Detroit's collection JWV Auxiliary
and conquer through racial and of clothing for the United Na-
tions Relief and Rehabilitation Presents Gifts to
religious prejudice.
LIEUT. ROY F. GREEN
After the sixth and seventh Administration (UNRRA), the
Dearborn
Patients
Aviator—Army
shootings—one of them against Jewish Community Council has
an honorably discharged Japa- appealed to its constituent or-
The Detroit Ladies' Auxiliary
nese-American veteran, Bob Mo- ganizations to muster volunteers
"Made the Supreme Sacrifice"
No.
135 of the Jewish War Vet-
to
help
sort
the
record
collection
rimoto, and his family—some of
at Corozal, in the Caribbeans
erans
visited
the
Veterans'
Facili-
the California press editorially of clothing.
Detroit leads the country in ties Hospital, in Dearborn, on
criticized the local sheriff for his
public statement, that "It's kind the collection of clothing for the May 17 and presented gifts to
• In loving rnemory of our son,
of difficult to find a suspect". The liberated countries with 10,000,- all the patients.
The hospital committee in-
sponsor this advertisement as a mes-
San Francisco Chronicle called 00 pounds having been gathered.
sage to the community.
for law enforcement. Secretary The problem now is that of sort- cluded Eve Finestein, chairman,
Ickes, pointing to the shameful ing and shipping this clothing as Henrietta Niman, Esther Tenzer,
Lillian Sachs, Ann Leiser, Ber-
outbursts on the doorstep of the rapidly as possible.
MR. and MRS. MAX GREENBERG
James I. Ellmann, Council tha Schaap, Fannie Caplan, Til-
United Nations conference, labor-
lie
Klein,
and
the
president,
ing to provide peace for a world president, asks all organizations
of all races, urged "an aroused to enlist volunteers to help with Birdeye Rosenberg.
national opinion, rooted in the in- this work. The sorting is being
dignation of fair-minded Ameri- done at the Ford Motor Bldg.
cans throughout the country," to A-1, in Highland Park, opposite
aid West Coast officials charged the car barns. Volunteers may
with bringing vigilante criminals come at any time from 9 a. in.
to 9 p.
to justice.

Memorial Day tribute

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Warns Aganst Bias

A warning to Negroes and to
Jews that the Ku Klux Klan ten- Young Israel Plans
dencies of these vigilantes could
easily turn against them has New Center Program
been sounded by the executive
The leaders of Young Israel's
secretary of the Southern Cali- youth groups and story hours
fornia Catholic Inter-Racial Coun- will meet with Rabbi Turner this
dl, Daniel Marshall, a prominent Sunday, to initiate activities in
attorney and civic leader. In Young Israel's future orthodox
talks to negro and other groups center at Dexter and Fullerton.
he has told them the obvious,
The leaders seminar will study
but often-forgotten truth, that the architect's plans for the
predatory interests which pit race building and recommend changes
against race, and religion against and additions in accordance with
religion, play no favorites. Ne- the needs of the group program.
groes—and Jews—who are led
In preliminary discussions, it
into movements against the Nisei was planned to utilize the center
may, one fine day, find them- for weekday activities of all
selves the target of similarly in- Young Israel groups and for the
duced hostility.
Sabbath programs of all groups
On the floor of Congress, some within walking distance. Groups
sentiments were recently deliv- in outlying neighborhoods will
ered by Rep. Ervin of North continue to conduct the Sabbath
California which, in substance activities at their present loca-
and phrasing, conform curiously tions. About 150 children are
closely to what the then vice served by Young Israel programs.
president Truman once con-
demned as "evil doctrines of
AGENCY
discrimination frequently import-
er from gangster nations." In a
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lengthy rant against the Fair
Employment Practices Commis- ministrative Committee at the
sion bill—now holed up in the Hotel New Yorker, stated that
Rules Committee—Ervin 'issued a the confirmation of Jewish suf-
call to the Ku Klux Klan to re- fering which has now i,een re-
assemble, to prevent the result- vealed to the world should have
ing "non-segregation of white compelled special consideration
for the "case for the Open Door
women and Negro men."
With barely concealed threats of Palestine for the homeless
Of violence against Negroes and and exiled Jews of European
Jew,. he predicted a "task force" lands who have survived Nazism."
He declared: "Personally I be-
operating North and South
around the "flagship KKK". He lieve that the Jewish question
exulted in the certain "fever and in some of its larger aspects
convulsion" which will "sicken" should have come before the
the people of New York who Conference, even though nomi-
have adopted a State FEPC law. nally tnd technically it limited
itself to the creation of a con-
Stream of Prejudice
If the bill should pass Con- stitution for the coming Peace
gress, he provocatively announc- Conference and the International
ed. "I believe that the leading Security Organization.
"The silence, necessary or vol-
Jews of America will urge the
other members of their race who untary, of the San Francisco
live in America not to seek the Conference, with regard to the
supposed benefits . . . because, Jewish case makes it impera-
if any unattractive members of tively necessary for us once
their race (and there are unat- more to present that case to the
tractive persons in all races) American people and its Govern-
which seek to overcome em- ment, to the English people and
ployee resistance it might set its Government. The Jewish peo-
the spark which would give us ple cannot and will not longer
a conflagration of persecution wait."

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