30th Year ot Service to Detroit Jewry
'Detroit Jewish Chronicle
and The Legal Chronicle
SECTION ONE
DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, AUGUST 10, 1945
10o Sio9lo Copy, $3.00 Per Year
THIS PAPER PRINTED IN TWO SECTIONS
VOL. 47, NO. 32
The Public Must Act;
Militant Zionism Leaders Of
We Have Done Our Part Is On the March Underground
The Detroit Jewish Chronicle in its series of front
page editorials has sought to render a service to the De-
troit Jewish community by bringing into the open certain
practices of the Detroit Jewish Welfare Federation which
we consider dangerous. These dangerous practices can be
divided into the following two classes:
Using charity funds to aid a private business en-
terprise without consulting the public.
Use of public money that may influence news
and editorial policies of an Anglo-Jewish publication.
The use of charity funds to aid a private business is
clearly and definitely open to public censure. The Detroit
Jewish Welfare Federation, as we pointed out, devoted
nearly $20,000 of charity money to 'subsidize" the Jew-
ish News This was done at a time when millions of our
brethren cried to us for help. This money was given to a
private business while hundreds of thousands of men,
women and children were without food and clothing, were
homeless and helpless.
What is more, this "subsidy" to a private business
was voted by Federation leaders. The vast majority of
donors, of the Detroit Jewish public, knew nothing of
this practice. No action was taken by the Federation
leaders to get the people's reaction to this use of public
funds.
The Federation itself has admitted that it "sub
sidized" the Jewish News from its start three years age,
because it wanted control over its editorial policies. The
,/ Chronicle- ha4 /Minted' out how dangerous and undemo-
cratic such a tieup is. We cited the example of the Seattle
Jewish community which could not defend itself against
At World Parley
Silver Slaps Weizman Asks
'Refugeeism', Quick Action
Secret Pacts On Palestine
LONDON (WNS) — A
call for an end to all "back-
door diplomacy" in the
struggle for Jewish rights
in Palestine, was made by
Dr. Abba Hillel Silver, co-
chairman of the American
Zionist Emergency Council,
addressing a closed session
of the World Zionist con-
ference in London.
LONDON (WNS) — The
first World Zionist Confer-
ence since 1939 opened here
last week with an appeal by .
Dr. Chaim Weizmann, pres-
ident of the World Zionist
"Whatever the situation is,"
said Dr. Silver, "we must clear-
ly state our aims and not use
round-about methods.
"We have heard Dr. Weiz-
iranu warning us not to have
too much confidence in govern-
ment leaders," Dr. Sliver told
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Not A Race, Says
World Almanac
The World Almanac will
omit in its 1946 issue this
sentence: "Jews include
Jews by race not necessar-
ily by religion."
The reference is in the
1915 Almanac under the
classification Religious Pop-
ulation of the World, page
367.
Archibald Bromson, labor
attorney, pointed out in a
letter to the publication that
"Jews are not a race. Jews
are people •Who acknowledge
n.
the Jewish religion . . of
all races, including Negro
and Mongolian."
E. Eastman Irvine, editor,
announced in his reply that
the sentence would be
dropped, and that "we re-
gret the incorrect reference."
Sessions will be held in the morn-
ing, according to the summer
schedule. The first session will
be at 9:30 a.m., the second at
11 a.m., and so on. This will be
continued until after Labor Day,
when sessions will be held in the RABBI ABBA HILLEL SILVER
afternoon, immediately after pub-
lic school hours.
the delegates, "1 sum it m 1944
This is the beginning of a new at the convention of the Zion-
semester and registration is being ist Organization of America.
held now for children of all But then the executive and its
ages, for beginners, as well as officers were insisting on our
more advanced students. Parents putting all our trust in Roose-
are asked to avail themselves of
velt and in Churchill. Now
this registration period and con-
Churchill is out, and Roosevelt
tact the schools immeiately.
The schools are located at: i; unfortunately dead.
"We are more hopeful re-
13226 Lawton., 1215 W. Philadel-
nhia, -1000 Tuxedo, 15705 Park- garding the Labor Government,
side, Central High School, Bag- but that is because of the pub-
ley Public School, and the Brady lic stand which the Labor Par-
Public School. The telephone num- ty has taken with regard to the
ber of the main office is Townsend Palestine issue and not be-
8-0063.
cause we base our hopes on our
personal relations with this or
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Liberated Jews
Hold Parley in
Hitler Beer Hall
Arrangements have been com-
pleted for the reception and mass
meeting to be held at 8 :30 p.m.,
on Monday, Aug., 13 in the So-
cial Hall of Congregation Shaarey
Zedek in honor of three e J e wi
po
sh.
underground
leaders of
I and a n d
France. They
are Dr. Nathan
Eck, leader of
the Jews in
Poland and edi-
tor of the Jew-
ish Journal
"Dos Wort" in
Paris; A b r a-
Abraham Rajski ham Rajski,
leader of the Jewish "Maquis" in
France and editor; and Majlech
Topiol, leader of the Underground
Movement in southern France
and President of the Federation
of Polish Jews in France.
For the first time since the end
of the war in Europe, the Jews of
Detroit will have the opportunity
to hear an eye-witness account of
the various acts of heroism dis-
played by the Jews of France and
Poland in their death struggle
with the Nazis.
The Detroit Federation of Po-
lish Jews in conjunction with
other
.. leading Jewish organiza-
tio'nb in Detroit is sponsOring this
mass meeting. Every Jew in De-
troit is urged to attend and lis-
ten to the story of the Jews in
Poland and France.
CHAIM WEIZMANN
Ex-Sen. Gillette Hebrew Schools
Heads League for Open August 15th
The United Hebrew Schools will
Free Palestine
reopen on Wednesday, August 15.
WASHINGTON (WNS) — Guy
M. Gillette, former Democratic
Senator from Iowa and former
chairman of the Surplus Prop-
erty Board, announcing his ac-
ceptance of the presidency of the
American League for a Free Pal-
estine, urged that the 2,250,000
European Jews who had survived
the Nazi terror be permitted to
.decide for themselves whether
they choose to settle in a He-
brew national state in Palestine.
Mr. Gillette, who will also serve
as a political adviser to the He-
brew Committee for National
Liberation, declared that his ma-
jor objective in serving both or-
ganizations would be to obtain
for the Jews of Europe the right
of self-determination enabling
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Here Monday
DAVID BEN GURION
Organization, urging t h e
United Nations to recognize
the establishment of a Jew-
ish state in Palestine as
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New Crisis in Coal
With war ended, Europe is slow transport, food cannot be distrib-
• MUNICH (WNS)—The Munich to get back to work. France re- uted normally. Lacking coal, fac-
Hafbrau, the beer hall where Hit- mains in the doldrums. Few tories are idle, and idle factories
ler and his cohorts conspired the wheels are turning in Northern mean idle men. Idle men can mean
"putsch" of 1923, was the site Italy. Germany, of course, is stag- trouble.
This is the story hack of the
nant. Even the Scandinavian
of a gathering last week which countries
are having their diffi- threatened coal crisis in the U. S.
culminated in the establishment culties.
The United States normally could
of the Central Committee for
The trouble in each case traces provide Europe with the coal it
Jewish Liberatees in Germany.
back to one basic problem—a needed. Right now, however, this
The meeting was attended by shortage of coal. Coal kept creep- country faces a rather acute
128 delegates representing 48,000 ing into the deliberations of the shortage of its own. Harold Ickes,
Jews who are confined in 32 Big Three at Potsdam, to crowd , Solid Fuels Administrator, esti-
camps in the Anglo-American out issues of high political policy. mates that the U. S. supply next
Coal, in fact, appears to hold the winter will be 37,000,000 tons
zones of occupation.
short. At the same time, this
ey to the future in Europe.
Among those attending the k Center
of Europe's coal supply country is agreeing to ship (3,000,-
meeting were 12 officers and men is in Germany and in the Saar 000 tons of soft coal to Europe,
of the Jewish Brigade, two Basin.
. .
Production of coal in this about 1 per cent of its supply
American army chaplains and area is less than 10 per cent of and sufficient to meet only a frac-
Elihau Dobkin, chief of the Im- I normal. Lacking coal, transport tion of the continent's most ur-
cannot be revived, and, without , gent needs,
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I
$2,000,000
Arab
Propaganda Drive
LONDON (WNS)—The Arabs
are preparing to do a big-scale
publicity job in London and
Washington to combat Zionist as-
pirations and present the Arab
case. About $2,000,000 has been
allocated to this work by the
pan-Arab league.
London newspapers reveal that
$600,000 has been earmarked by
the Arab League for publicity ac-
tivities in the United States, For,
London, the League has allocated
$1,000,000 for the same purpose.
It is stipulated by the Arab
League that its activities in Wash-
ington shall not be linked with
any elements conducting anti-
Jewish or anti-British propagan-
da. At the same time it is not to
limit itself to propaganda on
Palestine, but present the events
in Palestine as part of general
life in the Near East from the
Arab point of view.
Anti-Semites Get
Prison Terms
BUCHAREST (WNS) — Four-
teen persons found guilty of mur-
dering Romanian Jews or de-
porting them to death camps in
Transnistria were sentenced to
prison terms ,ranging from life
to ten years. Nine of the ac-
cused received life terms, two
were given 25 years and the ot her
sentences ranged from 10 to 12
years.
Minister of Justice Lucretia
Patrascanu said that there is no
Jewish problem in Romania, but
that "an anti-Semitic problem
still remains." Patrascanau said
that he considered "Jewish reac-
tionary racial superstitions tha
same as the Ilitlerite fascist
superstitions. The chief problem
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