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30th Year of Service to Detroit Jewry
Detroit Jewish Chronicle
and The Legal Chronicle
VOL. 47, NO. 28
CIO, AFL Ask
World Back
Jewish Nation
NEW YORK — The American
Jewish Trade Union Committee
for Palestine, speaking for mil-
lions of American workers—both
AFL and CIO—today issued a
memorandum calling upon the
leaders of the United Nations to
act immediately on the Palestine
question, and listing the two min-
imum requisities of any solution
of the Jewish problem as follows:
1. To abolish without further
delay all restrictions on free
Jewish immigration into Pales•
tine and all limitations on the
right of Jews to purchas e and
settle the land;
2. To make simultaneously a
definitive announcement, in the
spirit and purpose of the Bal-
four Declaration and the Man-
date, of the determination to
reconstitute Palestine as a free
and democratic J e wish Com-
monwealth.
The memorandum, which was
submitted to President Truman,
Secretary of State Byrnes and the
members of both Houses of Con-
gress, reviews the achievements of
Jewish Palestine during the last
25 years, and emphasizes that
American and British labor "have
been resolute in their demand for
a repudiation of the 1939 White
Paper policy and for an honest
fulfillment of the pledges made to
the Jews in the Balfour Declara-
tion and in the Palestine Man-
date."
Max Zaritsky, president of the
United Hatters, Cap and Millinery
Workers International Union, is
chairmah of the American Jewisn
Trade Union Committee for Pales-
tine. William Green, president of
the AFL, and Philip Murray, pres-
ident of the CIO, are hononary
chairmen.
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DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, JULY 13, 1945
Jewish Federation
Continues "Subsidy"
With Your Funds
The Detroit Jewish Welfare Federation has decided
to continue its policy of using charity funds to "subsidize"
a private business enterprise. In its last issue, the Detroit
Jewish Chronicle made public the offer it had made to
the Federation—TO PUBLISH ALL NEWS AND PUB-
LICITY OF THE FEDERATION AND TO SEND THE
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE FREE OF CHARGE TO
THE DONORS' LIST OF THE FEDERATION AND THE
ALLIED JEWISH CAMPAIGN ONCE A MONTH just as
the Jewish News is now doing on a subsidized basis.
The Jewish Chronicle offered to do for the Jewish
Welfare Federation FOR NOTHING that for which the
custodians of your charity money have expended nearly
$20,000 with the Jewish News.
The Federation, directed by Isadore Sobeloff, turned
down this offer without any adequate explanation. There
can be no adequate excuse now as to why charity money
should be spent needlessly. Common sense should have
dictated that the Federation should have eagerly grasped
at the chance to save thousands of dollars yearly on a
service which the Jewish Chronicle offered to perform
free of charge.
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The custodians of charity funds must be more careful
of the communal fund than of their own money. They are
the trustees. Every cent of that money is earmarked for
a holy cause—to feed the hungry, to clothe the naked, to
shelter the homeless. Especially is this necessary now in
this most tragic hour in Israel's history, when one-third
of a people have perished in the most diabolically cruel
manner and when a million and a half wretched survivors
have only us to aid and succor them.
The $20,000 used to subsidize the Jewish News, a
private enterprise operated for profit, could save hundreds
of lives in the war torn areas of Europe. That sum could
buy a lot of food and clothing. It could give hope to many
who have felt themselves abandoned. Isn't there a twinge
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Dr. Goldstein, U.S. Zionist Chief,
Leaves for Parley in Europe
WASHINGTON — Dr. Israel
Goldstein, president of the Zionist
Organization of America, left last
week by Pan-American Clipper
for France and England to study
problems of post-war rehabilita-
tion and to attend the World Zio-
nist Conference which will meet
in London July 30 to discuss and
act upon major problems affecting
the future status of Palestine. Dr.
G oldstein heads a delegation
which includes Dr. Abba Hillel
Silver and Judge Louis E. Levin-
thal, vice-presidents of the Zion-
ist Organization of America.
Dr. Goldstein voiced the "sense
of deep disappointment of Amer-
ican Zionists at the continued de-
lay by the great Powers in reach-
ing an immediate and final deci-
sion on the future of the Jewish
National Homeland in Palestine."
He asserted that the "procras-
tination in settling this problem
in keeping with the pledges of
Great Britain and the United
States is producing a disastrous
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Jewish Congress r
Appeals to Big 3
GEN. ROSE'S FATHER DIES
The Rev. Samuel Rose, 90, rab-
bi and father of the late Maj.
Gen. Maurice Rose, who was kill-
ed by a Nazi tankman, died in
Denver.
Mrs. Mathilde Welt, widow of
the late Louis Welt, one of the
pioneer Jewish women in Mich-
igan, died at her home, 5440 Cass
Avenue, at the age of 89. Funeral
services were held at the William
R. Hamilton. chapel and burial
was in Beth El Memorial Park.
Dr. Leo M. Franklin, who had
known Mrs. Welt for half a cen-
tury, paid tribute to her goodness,
to her civic mindedness and to her
uprightness. The funeral was at-
tended by some of the leading
members of the Jewish commun-
ity.
Mrs. Welt was the widow of a
president of Temple Beth El, the
late Louis Welt serving as presi-
dent from 1913 to 1918. She was
the mother of two former presi-
dents of Temple Beth El, Mel-
ville S. Welt and Joseph M. Welt.
Her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Joseph
M. Welt, is president of the Na-
tional Council of Jewish Women.
Mrs. Welt was a link to the --
pioneer generation. She was born
in Monroe, Mich., in 1856, a mem-
ber of the Meverfield family, one
RABBI LEON FRAM
of the few Jewish families in
Rabbi Leon Fram was re-elect- Monroe before the Civil War. At
ed president of the Zionist District 17 she won a beauty contest.
of Detroit at the annual meeting
She and her husband moved to
of the organization held Thursday Detroit about 55 years ago when
night, July 5, in the Prayer Room there were only a few hundred
of Congregation Shaarey Zedek. Jews here and Detroit itself was
Rabbi Fram's first term in of- not much bigger than Grand Rap-
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ids is now. She was an organizing
member of the Beth El Sisterhood
and of the Women's City Club and
one of the first officers of the
Sisterhood.
Surviving besides the two sons
are four grandchildren and four
great-great grandchildren.
Tel Aviv Jews
Rush To Locate
On German Land
Arab Socialists
TEL AVIV (WNS) — Sarona,
a German settlement close to this
city, last week witnessed a land
rush reminiscent of the home-
steading clays in the United
States.
The trek to Sarona began as a
result of a rumor that the gov-
ernment had confiscated the land
of the interned Germans and that
JAFFA
(WNS)
— The
Arab
all one had to do to secure title Socialist
Workers
Union,
meeting
to the land was to fence off a
last week, issued a manifesto to
piece
land and of build
a shack.
the effect
that there
sufficient
As
the of residents
this city
saw room
in Palestine
for is both
Arabs
Urge Bi-National
Palestine State
NEW YORK — Hope that dur-
ing their prospective conference
in Berlin, the Big Three will take
"decisive action" for the estab-
lishment of Palestine as a Jewish
Commonwealth was expressed in
a communication to President
Truman sent last week by Rabbi hundreds of trucks, carts and and Jews and that if the country
Irving Miller, chairman of the ex- donkey - drawn vehicles heading were properly developed, both
ecutive committee of the Ameri- with hundreds of Jews toward peoples could live in peace and on
Sarona they, too, joined in the terms of equality in a common
can Jewish Congress.
Recalling that the American landrush. Before long thousands homeland.
Jewish Congress owes its origin of men, women and children, dis-
George Nassar, one of the lead-
to the late Louis D. Brandeis, regarding the heat and flaying ing Arab trade union leaders, told
Rabbi Miller said that the Con- sun, began marching toward the the gathering that the future of
gress speaks for the "overwhelm- German settlement.
Palestine lies in cooperation be-
ing masses of American Jews" in
As
the people
began
to unload
tween
Arab and Jewish
workers.
the
building
material
they
brought
Representatives
of Jewish
labor
favoring the establishment of a
Jewish National Home in Pales- along with them and as they groups addressed the meeting.
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tine.
"The tragic occurrences of
recent years have made clearer
the indispensability of such a
national hom e as a primary so-
lution of the present intolerable.
situation of the Jews in Eu-
rope," he wrote.
Morris Adler of
Chaplain
"We beg you to do whatever Shaarey Zedek, now serving in the
DR. ISRAEL GOLDSTEIN
done
in
association
with
can be
Philippines, has been promoted to
the Prime Minister of Great Captain.
Britain and the head of the So-
"I shall gleefully shoot the next
viet Union to bring about de- soldier who says that I look good
cisive action for the onl y pos- behind bars," he wrote his friends
sible solution of the Jewish last week (referring to his cap-
problem, which is in accord wi!h tain's bars).
the necessities of the Jewish
Writing of his work he says,
- situation and the dictates of "The number of my services is
justice."
quickly multiplying. Sabbath at
8 a.m. at the Base chapel; 10 a.m.
LONDON (WNS) — Rabbi
at a General Hospital; two serv-
Klepfish, Jewish chaplain with the
ices on Friday evenings, three
Polish Armed Forces, declared
mid-week forums and several Yid-
here upon his arrival from Ger-
dish, Hebrew and Bible study
many that there are approximate-
groups in process of formation.
ly 130,000 Jews in the Anglo-
"Paradoxes everywhere, I, a
PARIS. — Chief Rabbi Leon
American zones of occupation in
Germany. About 50,000 of them Baeck of Germany, who arrived Rabbi, in my capacity as Base
from Theresienstadt, where he Hospital chaplain, distribute New
are from Poland, he said.
Most of the liberated Jews are .vas confined since 1943, declared Testaments, rosaries, crucifixes,
between the ages of 20 and 40. it a press conference that none missals and altar wine to my
At Dachau there are still about Jf the Jews in the camp, with the Christian colleagues. I am get-
1,000 Polish Jews. In Bergen-Bel- exception of the 5,000 half and ting a generous education in com-
stn there are about 11,000 Jews quarter Jews, desire to go back parative religion.
Filipino Attends Service
including 8,000 women. There arc to Germany. The survivors, he
"I wish I could take a picture
3,000 in Celle, 1,000 women in said, are eager to go to Palestine.
Salzwedel, and 1,000, mostly at the United States or other coun-
CHAPLAIN MORRIS ADLER
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Diepholz. tries.
Chaplain Adler Promoted to Captain;
Recites Experiences in Philippines
102 Million Bond 150,000 Jews
Sale by Zionists In Anglo-U. S.
WASHINGTON, D. C. — With Occupation Zone
all of its 600 chapters throughout
the country going over the top in
their War Bond sales, the grand
total of War Bonds sold to date
by the Zionist Organization of
America in the current drive has
reached $102,000,000 surpassing
its national goal of $95,000,000.
The sale of more than $50,000,-
000 in War Bonds has been re-
corded by the Zionist Region of
Manhattan.
City Zionists Mrs. Welt, 89,
Pioneer, Civic
Elect Fram Leader, Dies
For 2nd Term
Chief Berlin Rabbi
Says Jews Won't