Papillae
maim,
CUMIN AVM= - 01110111111411T1
MO
Pm,
30th Year of Service to Detroit Jewry
Detroit Jewish Chronicle
and The Legal Chronicle
VOL. 47, NO. 30
DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, JULY 27, 1945
Professor Einstein Honorary
Silver and Wise!
Chairman I n Million Dollar Drive;7
the drive at the Hotel Biltmore. Hail Unity
In a messag e
PROF. A. EINSTEIN
Professor Albert Einstein has
:accepted an invitation to serve
'as honorary chairman of a na-
tion-wide drive to raise a million
dollar endowment fund for the
maintenance and expansion of the
Jewish Institute of Religion, of
New York City.
Announcement of Professor
Einstein's acceptance was made
today by Rabbi Stephen S. Wise,
founder and president of the In-
stitute, at a luncheon, launching
Polish Jews To
Observe Anniversary
OF Warsaw Ghetto
MOSCOW (WNS)—The second
anniversary of the destruction of
the Warsaw ghetto by the Ger-
mans, will be observed as a day
of mourning by Polish Jewry, the
Lublin radio said this week. The
broadcast also reported that an-
other mass grave of persons mur-
dered at the Oswiecim death camp
has been discovered at Pszczyna.
The Hakoah club in Lodz, which
before the war was one of the
most popular Jewish athletic clubs
in Poland, has resumed its activi-
ties, it was reported here. The
majority of the members of the
club are Jewish partisans and
Jews who fought in the uprising
in the Warsaw Ghetto, the report
said.
to the committee
conducting the drive, Professor
Einstein said, "In the past, Eu-
rope was the center of Jewish
culture and education. The ad-
vent of Nazism drove Jewish cul-
ture and education and all free
academic learning out of the con-
tinent. Spiritual and scientific
teaching can thrive only on dem-
ocratic soil. If the world is once
again to know the value of cul-
tural and spiritual inspiration,
we Jews in America must pre-
serve and expand our institu-
tions."
Rabbi Wise, commenting on
Professor Einstein's statement,
said, "Just recently, I heard of
the discovery of over 100,000
volumes of Hebraica and Judaica
in a cellar in Frankfurt, Ger-
many. One of our brave Jewish
soldiers, a member of the Amer-
ican Army of liberation, stum-
bled over them as he searched a
building. There were books there,
some hundreds of years old, bear-
ing the imprimateur of Jewish
institutions of learning one lo-
cated in every major city of the
continent. It is supposed that
they were collected with some
idea of profit, a profit that would
be turned against the Jews and
all other peoples of the world in
the form of shells and bombs .
(Continued on Page 13)
427 Refugee Children
Arrive in Palestine
HAIFA (Palcor) — Four hun-
dred and twenty-seven children,
mostly emaciated concentration
camp victims, aged beyond their
Years and bearing numbers tat-
tooed On their bodies, are among
the 1.314 immigrants who arrived
here from Europe aboard the
British liner Mataroa.
Some of the children were shel-
tered, for years, in French mon-
asteries
and hail forgotten who
the
ir p arents
were. M any
fought
as members of the Zionist under-
round movement and with par-
tisan bands all over Europe.
NEW YORK (WNS) — In a
joint statement this week hailing
the end of the breach in the
Zionist movement in America,
Drs. Wise and Silver, co-chair-
men of the reorganized Ameri-
can Zionist Emergency Council,
declared that the "American
Zionist front is Once again united
and strong" and that "we can
now speak effectively in the
name of the entire Zionist mem-
bership of our country at the
forthcoming World Zionist Con-
ference in London."
Similar sentiments were ex-
pressed by Zionist leaders here
and throughout the country.
The return of Err. Silver to
active leadership of American
Zionist political work marks an
end to a dispute over policy and
methods which has existed in
Zionist ranks since December,
1944, when he resigned. The re-
organization is expected to unite
Zionist leadership of this coun-
try behind a program of vigor-
ous action.
Undemocratic Tieup
May Prove Danger
10 Detroit Jewry
The 25th Annual Conference
was held in Jerusalem of the
Palestine Jewish Women's Equal
Rights Association.
$1,143,984 Voted By Federation
And Service Group To Agencies
Budgetary allocations totaling
$1,143,984 have been voted by the
boards of the Jewish Welfare
Federation and the Detroit Serv-
ice Group to local, national and
overseas agencies of the Allied
Jewish Campaign, for the fiscal
year beginning June 1, 1945.
Announcement of the budge-
tary grants was made in a joint
statement by Judge William
Friedman and Abraham Srere,
president and chairman of the
board, respectively, of the Jew-
ish Welfare Federation; Irving
W. Blumberg, and Maurfce A.
Enggass, president and chairman
of the board, respectively, of the
Detroit Service Group; and Fred
M. Butzel, chairman of the Fed-
eration execu t i v e committee,
which serves as the budget steer-
ing committee.
200,000 Polish-Jewish Refugees
in Siberia Aided by J. D. C. Parcels
NEW YORK — In two years
relief supplies valued at $5,000,-
000 have been furnished in the
form of food parcels to more
than 200,000 war-displaced Jews
from Poland and Baltic Europe
now in Asiatic Russia, Charles
Passman, director of the Middle
East program of the American
Jewish Joint Distribution Com-
mittee, said.
The food parcel program was
made possible after Mr. Pass-
1 man concluded arrangements in
behalf of the JDC with Soviet
and other government authori-
ties in 1943. Despite wartime
supply difficulties he established
In America
10c Single Copy, $3.00 Per Year
commodity stockpiles in Teheran
from which 10,000 food parcels
monthly have gone into the So-
viet Union for delivery to indi-
viduals and families. A J.D.C.
service unit of 70 persons is sta-
tioned in Teheran to handle the
shipment of the parcels.
225,000 in Siberia
About 200,000 Polish Jews in
Asiatic Russia, Mr. Passman said,
make up the largest group of
survivors anywhere of Poland's
pre-war Jewish population. In
Poland itself, only an estimated
75,000 Jews survived the Ger•
man occupation.
The Polish Jews in Asiatic Rus-
sia were brought there after they
escaped with hundreds of thou-
sands of other Poles in the face
of Nazi military advances. In
addition, other Jews fled the
German-occupied Baltic areas of
Europe, and the total group of
Jewish refugees in Asiatic Rus-
sia, according to Mr. Passman's
estimate, numbers 225,000.
The Jewish refugees have been
permitted to take employment in
the Soviet Union, but few have
achieved self-support. The J.D.S.
parcel program has provided most
of them with desperately needed
food, and also with clothing and
medicines.
(Continued on page 11)
The lion's share of the funds,
$750,000, was approriated for the
United Jewish Appeal agencies,
the major partners of which are
the Joint Distribution Commit-
tee and the United Palestine Ap-
peal, with the domestic program
of the National Refugee Service
also included.
Since 1942, the source of all
Allied Jewish Campaign funds is
the War Chest of Metropolitan
Detroit, in which the Allied Jew-
ish Campaign is a partner, along
with the Detroit Community
Fund and the National War
Fund agencies, such as the USO,
the United Seamen's Service and
the various United Nations war
relief programs,
Certain local Jewish agencies
receive their support through
the Community Fund. Such agen-
cies are the Fresh Air Society,
Hebrew Free Loan Association,
Jewish Community Center, Jew-
ish Social Service Bureau and
the North End Clinic. Those
agencies are budgeted as of Jan-
uary 1st and are not included in
the current list.
The Jewish Community Coun-
cil is shown for a grant of $21,- .
515, which represents its regular
administrative program, charge-
able to the Allied Jewish Cam-
pagn, through the War Chest.
An additional sum, through the
special civic-protective campaign
outside of the War Chest, will
be budgeted later.
Jewish educational services in
Detroit are listed for $80,000, of
which more than $50,000 is for
the United Hebrew Schools and
the remainder for the Farband
(Continued on Page 14)
The Detroit Jewish Chronicle is an INDEPENDENT
PAPER. It has NO TIEUPS. This means that the Chron-
cle can serve all groups impartially, can voice its opin-
ions unafraid. It means that the Jewish Chronicle can
give space in its news and editorial columns to all shades
of opinions.
Orthodox, Reform, Conservative, Zionist, assimila-
tionist, workers' groups, Yiddish and English groups all
can get space in the news columns of the Chronicle.
They all represent aspects of American Jewry and the
Chronicle will report all their doings with understand-
ing and sympathy for the diversity of American Jewish
life.
This Is DEMOCRACY
This is one of the reasons why the tieup between
the Detroit Jewish Welfare Federation and the Jewish
News is dangerous. For he who pays the fiddler calls
the tune. The Federation has "subsidized" the Jewish
News to the tune of about $20,000 of charity money. In
addition, the Federation has tried to aid the Jewish News
with its prestige, with its mailing list and with letters of
endorsement.
Because it has received about $20,000 from the Fed-
eration ; the Jewish News is bound to voice the opinions
of the' Federation leaders, to print what the top men of
the Federation want it to print. This means that a few
leaders of the Federation are not qnly controlling your
charity funds but indirectly could be using these funds
to dictate their views. This is an undemocratic proce-
dure. Its danger can be seen from the following incident
which occurred recently in Seattle, Wash.
Some weeks ago, Elmer Berger, who runs the Amer-
ican Council for Judaism, came to Seattle for the pur-
pose of establishing a chapter of the anti-Zionist group.
At a • press conference Rabbi Berger had the insolence
to utter the dictum that Zionists must learn to be Amer-
icans first and Jews second, as if there were contradic-
tion between the two. He insinuated that the Zionists
were not true and loyal Americans.
(Continued on page 2)
Harry R: Solomon,
Prominent Detroiter,
Passes-Away
West Europe Jews
To Hold Congress
Parley Aug. 19
PARIS — Western European
Jewry will be represented at a
HARRY R. SOLOMON
regional conference of the World
Jewish Congress to take place in
Harry R. Solomon, for many
Paris for five days beginning
Sunday, Aug. 19, to discuss mat- years one of Detroit's outstand-
ters affecting the Jewish commu-
nities of Europe since V-E Day.
"The disaster which over-
whelmed the Jewish population
in Europe is still unique in its
(Continued on Page 13)
ing attorneys, and in later years
prominent in other fields of busi-
ness, passed away at his home in
Los Angeles, California, on Sun-
day evening, July 22, after a
brief illness. Mr. Solomon came
to Detroit about the turn of the
century from Au Sable, Michigan,
his place of birth where he had
been associated in the lumber
business with his father, Mr.
Selig Solomon, at one time Mayor
of that city. Mr. Solomon took a
very prominent part in the life
of the Detroit Jewish community.
He was for many years a mem-
ber of Temple Beth El and dur-
ing a great portion of that time
a member of its Board of Trus-
tees. He was at one time presi-
dent of the Men's Temple Club.
He served for long periods as
Chairman of its Cemetery Board.
Mr. Solomon was exceptionally
active in the affairs of the Jewish
Welfare Federation, serving on
some of its most important com-
mittees, and particularly on the
Service Group.
But his activities were not limit-
ed merely to his own religious
group. He was a member of the
Michigan Sovereign Consistory
and of the Shrine. He was one of
the founding members of the old
Fellowship Club and also of the
Redford Country Club.
About 42 years ago he was mar-
ried to Miss Esther Levyn of Al-
pena, by whom he is survived, as
well as by two children, Mrs. E.
W. Walters if d Mr. Milton S.
Solomon and y two sisters, Mrs.
William Levyn and Miss Anna
Solomon, all of Los Angeles.
There are also four grandchil-
dren.
About five months ago, Mr. Sol-
omon moved from Detroit to Los
Angeles in order to be nearer his
family. He will be buried in that
city.