Friday, September 14, 1945
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle
Our Capital Letter
Halevy Starts
Rehearsals Sept. 18
By CHARLES BENSON
S
WASHINGTON—Almost thr
months of deliberation were r ee ican concern for the property
quired to compile the list e- rights of German homeowners—
twenty-four major war crimina of apparently regardless of how the
to be tried by the Internation Is homes were acquired by their
Tribunal at Nurenberg. Possibl al German owners. At an awkward
the deliberators found difficult y press conference shortly after his
because of the wide choice o y return from the reparations con-
candidates. Or perhaps the leg f ference in Moscow—awkward be-
al cause Mr. Pauley was unfortun-
minds were unable to agree o
the definition of war crimina n ately unable to cast anything but
Whatever the reason, it is obviou a dim and very flickering light-
that no list could have been omi s he let it be known that the Amer-
ted the two dozen cited. Na t- icans in their zone in Germany
party functionaries, the military zi are taking "careful inventory" of
, houses occupied by United States
diplomats, financiers, industria
1- personnel. They give the burgo-
ists are represented. Two month
s, meisters receipts which in turn
three weeks and three days ha
d are given to the owners.
to pass, however, before publica
- It is illuminating that of the
Lion of names which were co
few positive aspects of repara-
fain of inclusion.
tions on which Mr. Pauley seemed
Considering the revelations h , to have any knowledge, one hap-
DAN FROHMAN
the Army report on Pearl Harbor , pened to be a measure presum-
it is understandable that ther e ably to protect the German home-
Next Tuesday, Sept. 18, marks
may have been some balking i ❑ owner, Nazi or otherwise. He was the opening of the 21st year of
some circles at throwing in the unable to cast any light on the activity for the Detroit Halevy
president of the Krupp arms subject of German labor repara- Singing Society, and the 16th
plant, Gustav Krupp von Bohlen tions other than that compulsory successive season for Dan Froh-
and Halbach, or the former presi- labor should be required only man as the Halevy Musical Di-
dent of the Reichsbank, Hjalmar from those judicially convicted rector. Next Tuesday's rehearsal
Schacht. Corporate kinships can as war criminals. He was, in fact, and meeting will take place in
be just as strong, and sometimes mighty uncomfortable on the the auditorium of the Roosevelt
stronger, than blood ties. So an griddle prepared for him by the School, Linwood and Burlingame.
American or Britisher or French- searching questions of the hun-
The 21st annual Halevy concert
man intertwined through patent dred or so correspondents. They, is scheduled for March of next
or cartel arrangements with in turn, went to their telephones year in the Masonic Temple, and
Krupp, might consider him as puzzled haw to write clearly will feature a return appearance
just another businessman trying about reparations when the man of Igor Gorin.
to get along, and not to be put in heading this country's mission
Members and all singers inter-
the same class with Hans Frank, was so obviously muddled as to
ested in Halevy membership are
Governor General of Poland, or what it all meant.
asked to come to the Roosevelt
Goering, or Fritz Sauckel, who
Our muddled policy toward School before 9 p.m. next Tues-
was in charge of foreign labor, or Germany and Japan demonstrates day.
Julius Streicher, who organized the resurgence of the same
the anti-Semitic barbarities.
groups who prepared for war by
Warsaw Ghetto
The Nazis produced their own appeasing the aggresors.
trinity. It was the industrialists
Destroyer Held
who helped finance the Nazis, and
PARIS (WNS) — S.S. Lt.-Gen.
it was the military who cooper-
Jurgen Stroop, liquidator of the
ated with the Nazis, and were
Warsaw Ghetto in the spring of
supplied by the industrialists in a
1943, is now in the hands of
three-way program of aggression.
American military authorities in
In Hawaii the island industrial-
American people have their Germany; where he is held on the
ists and plantation owners are
charge of inciting civilians to
branded by the Army Pearl Har- hearts uplifted at a time when
murder American fliers who made
our
Jewish
friends
and
fellows
bor Board for their responsibility
forced landings in Germany dur-
in weakening the defense mea- celebrate their 5,706th New Year. ing the war.
For
the
first
time
in
more
than
sures. It is not pretty to realize
The evidence which has so far
that two generals were subjected a decade peace between nations
been
compiled against Stroop by
is
rapidly
becoming
a
reality.
At
to, and accepted, such pressure
from sugar and other island com- the same time, some of the bur- the American authorities shows
mercial interests. The section in dens are being lifted from the that he led a regiment of SS
the Army report citing the action yoke of oppression that has troops in an effort to round up
of these interests, before and weighted so heavily upon our Jews for labor camps. The regi-
after Pearl Harbor, reveals an Jewish brethren. It is only natur- ment, including 50 tanks, was
attitude bordering closely on the al that we as Americans are just- wiped out by a band of 6,000
treasonous.
ly proud of our part in achieving Jews which was armed with weap-
these goals. But certainly we are ons that lay hidden in sewers and
"Senator Hill of the Hawaiian
rot blinded to the remaining in- other underground hideouts.
Senate testified as to the protests
When the regiment was defeat-
justices of the world by the bril-
of local commercial interests to
ed, the Nazis sent planes over the
liance of our present victories.
General Emmons when he pro-
ghetto, pouring gas into the sew-
After twenty centuries of wan-
posed to take action in removing
ers. After reducing the Warsaw
the dangerous Japanese from the dering and discrimination, climax- ghetto to rubble, Stroop announc-
sugar plantations after the Pearl ed by the horrors of the last ten ed in an official proclamation that
Harbor attack. He said the poli- years, the Jewish race is progress- the "Warsaw ghetto had ceased
tical pressure brought to bear ing in spite of the countless to exist." He was reward?cl for
by those interests was sufficient wrongs perpetrated against it. his cruelty by being promoted to
to bring about a cancellation of For in truth these noble people command SS formations in west-
through the annals of time have ern Germany.
this effort of General Emmons.
demonstrated
themselves to be
It was significant of the prop
aganda pressure on the subjec t persevering, wise and deserving Dingell Sends
of doing nothing to offend the of the inheritance of the people
of Abraham.
Greetings to Jewry
Japanese in the Islands and to let
So, as a lover of liberty and
them alone so they could work for
Will you please concey to the
these island industries and agri- union, I salute you and pray that entire Jewish community my
you
may
have
divine
protection
culture, which must have been
greetings and best wishes on the
imposed heavily upon General and guidance in meeting the occasion of Rosh Hoshonah and
Short. The constant application problems that face you as Ameri- Yom Kippur. We are all grateful
of such pressure for a period of cans and Jews.
to Almighty God that carnage
nearly a year upon General Short
and destruction of the last sever-
doubtless had a material effect NW Women Meet
al years has come to a halt and
upon his mind and upon his an- Sept. 19 to Map Plans we pray that the long awaited
xiety about the Japanese popula-
peace has at last settled upon a
The board of directors of the war-weary world.
tion, about which he could do
nothing."
Women's Auxiliary of the North-
To preserve this peace we must
west Hebrew Congregation and
It might not be far afield to Center will hold its first fall be ready to sacrifice to the limit
assume that the same attitude is meeting at the home of Mrs. Max for its continuance. Peace, like
largely responsible for the fumb- N. Haidy, at 3650 W. Outer Dr., liberty, demands sacrifice.
JOHN D. DINGELL,
ling of the Japanese surrender, on Wednesday, Sept. 19, it was
leaving Japan's warmakers still announced by President Alice
Member of Congress.
unconvinced of defeat. Two days Goldsmith. The board, at that
after V-J Day, an American cor- time, will complete plans and E. Side Bnai Brith
respondent reported from Tokyo programs for the fall and winter
Lodge, Auxiliary
that "our present policy of polite- season.
ness and respect for individual's
Hear Tony Weitzel
property and security of person
BUSINESS NOTICE
The East Side Lodge and East
• • . is tending to confirm the
Dr. B. M. Seyburn who has re-
Japanese belief that they have not ceived an honorable discharge Side Women's Lodge of Bnai
Brith opened their 1945-46 year
been conquered."
from the U. S. Army Dental
As for Germany, straight from Corps is now associated with Dr. with a joint open meeting at 9
p.m., Monday, Sept. 10, at the
President Truman's personal rep- J. M. Goldsmith, in the practice Pi
liar Temple, 14529 Kercheval.
arations representative, Edward
general dentistry at 1416 Gris-
Tony Weitzel, newspaper col-
P aulcY, comes assurance of Amer- of
wold St.
urn nist, addressed the meeting.
Senator Ferguson
Sends Greetings
To Detroit Jewry
Page Five
Doings of Detroit Soldiers
Stationed at Ft. Sheridan
By CPL. PHIL ROTHSCHILD
dan Home is Cpl. Sam Faigen-
baum, 2012 Pingree, who recent-
ly returned from Europe after
The recent article that I sub- spending four and a half months
mitted about the Detroit boys at in German prison camps. At the
Ft. Sheridan, Ill., brought a wave present he's working in the ma-
of protests from the motor city , chine gun repair shop and lives
soldiers whom I failed to mention. in Highwood, Ill.,
with his wife,
In this column I have added those the former Nita Litvin.
names — so everybody will be
We're mising the two lively
happy. Some of this material is
spirits
who recently were dis-
excerpts from my weekly column
charged . . . T/4 Lou Shambroun.
in the Ft. Sheridan "Tower."
Glynn Court, and S /Sgt. Ben
Under the title "the home town
Zack, Chicago Blvd. There'll be
boy makes good" . . . T/5 Jack no more howling on the North
Fine of Tuxedo Ave. crashes the Shore. . . . Cpl. Mort Serlin is
local Chicago papers and The Ft. a military instructor in the Spe-
Sheridan "Tower" with three
cial Training Unit. .. . Cpl. Norm
songs that he has just sold. His
Shwcdel of 17501 Woodingham
first major triumph in his 10- ,
Drive is aligned to the Medics
year fling at free-lance song writ-
Dental Supply. He is living with
ing, "I Can't Make Up My Mind," his wife, the former Zelda
"Is There a You," and "Taking Schwartz, in Highland Park,
M.
My Chance With You," have
Sgt. Bernie Moorin of Fairfield
been recorded for national dis- Ave. paid us a surprise visit after
tribution. The Melody Lane Pub- being recently discharged from
lishing Co. of Hollywood is pub- the Borden General Hospital,
lishing the songs and "I Can't Chickasha, Okla.. . . Irving Co-
Make Up My Mind" will be hen, the Gamma Kappa Chi Kid
broadcast over a national hook-up and Tartar basketball star, was
on NBC's "Tin Pan Alley of the promoted to Pfc. Cohen promises
Air."
to make those baskets fly for
A newcomer to the Ft. Sheri- Sheridan's team soon.
Ft. Sheridan, Ill.
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