of Service to Detroit Jewry

30th Year

Detroit Jewish Chronicle

VOL. 47, NO. 38

Door Closed,
Last Refugees
Land inYishuv

and The Legal Chronicle

DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1945

Adler 1st Rabbi
to Land in Japan

HAIFA (Palcor) — With the
arrival here Sept. 12 of 341 im-
migrants aboard the Portuguese
steamer Lima, the last immigra-
tion certificates for Western Eu-
rope, available to the Jewish
Agency under the White Paper,
have been exhausted and the
showdown between Jewish Pales-
tine and the government's ban on
Jewish immigration has reached
its climax.
Unless new certificates are
made available for Jewish immi-
grants from Western Europe, the
further arrival. of Jews from the
area containing multitudes of
concentration camp survivors is
virtually suspended.

The Lima's 341 immigrants in-
cluded 130 Chalutzim and 75 chil-
dren. The arrivals were refugees
who had found temporary sanc-
tuary in Switzerland and others
who had been transferred to
UNRRA camps in North Africa
soon after liberation.
The immigrants who arrived
aboard the S.S. Mataroa on the
eve of Rosh Hashonah spent the
holiday at the Atlith clearance
camp. Their release from the
camp has begun and the releasees
include a group of 87 members
of the Buchenwald Kibbutz (col-
lective).

Palestine Youths
Arrested on
Arms Charge

HAIFA, Palestine. — Eighteen
Jewish boys and girls, all under
20, appeared before a military
tribunal this week as police testi-
fied that they had uncovered a
weapons cache belonging to the
group.

The officers said they had found
a store of hand grenades, ma-
chine guns, rifles, pistols, and
ammunition hidden within 250
yards of the Benjamina Jewish
settlement.

The 18 young defendants dress-
ed in the white and blue caps of
the "New Zion Organ" were
charged with five offenses under
the 1936 emergency regulations.
All pleaded innocent and none
belonged to any known terrorist
ortanization.

Palestine Ruling
Is Imminent

LONDON (WNS) — Informed
Jewish circles here believe that
a statement with regard to Brit-
ish policy in Palestine will be
made soon after the conclusion
of the Foreign Ministers confe•-
ence.

Pro

CHAPLAIN MORRIS ADLER
Captain Morris Adler, associ-
ate rabbi of Congregation Shaa-
rey Zedek, was the only Jewish
chaplain picked to be among the
first to land in Japan. Captain
Adler is stationed in Yokohama.
He held High Holy Day serv-
ices in a beautiful reconverted
Presbyterian chapel which had
been run by a Jap missionary.
Chaplain Adler b•ough a Sepher
Torah and Talisim and Mach-
zerim from Australia.

PARIS (WNS) — The anti-
Jewish wave which has been
sweeping Poland is still unabated
and thousands of frightened Jews
are fleeing that country by foot
in the hope of finding shelter and
refuge in the American-held zone
in Germany, according to reliable
information reaching here.
Hundreds of Jewish fugitives,
among them many who languish-
ed in German and Polish concen-
tration camps, have reached Mu-
nich. Those who could not, or
were not permitted to head for
Munich are marching toward Vi-
enna. The victims of Polish ter-
rorism have left what remained
of their belongings in Poland.
The chief centers of Polish ter-
rorism are Cracow and Radom,
where the majority of the sur-
viving Polish Jews are now living.
A Pole who has recently reached
Prague from Poland was report-
ed to have made the following
statement: "Leaflets are being
distributed in these two cities
warning the Jews that they will
be killed if they do not leave the
country. That these threats are
not idle is indicated by the fact
that up to now 120 Jews have
been killed in Cracow and four in
Radom."

Truman Asks Britain Admit
100,000 Jews into Palestine

WASHINGTON (WNS)—President Truman has writ-
ten a personal letter to Prime Minister Attlee of Great
Britain, requesting the admission to Palestine of the ap-
proximately 100,000 displaced European Jews who are
still in camps in Germany, it was disclosed by former
Senator Guy M. Gilette.
Ex-Senator Gilette declared that he and Senators Brew-
ster and Magnuson had been received by President Tru-
man at the White House, and that the President told
them that he urged the admission of the 100,000 Jews
irrespective of what the ultimate settlement of the Pales-
tine question would be.

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Bnai Brith Plans
New Zager Lodge

Preliminary plans have been
completed by Isadore Starr, dis-
trict chairman of new lodges of
Bnai Brith, for the formation of
a lodge in tribute to the memory
of the late Rabbi Menachim Man-

Alex Margulies
Catholics Pledge Heads Beth Aaron
Orphans' Return Congregation Beth Aaron has

JERUSALEM (Palcor) — Def
finite assurances that the Catholic
Church would return to the Jews
all Jewish children rescued and
harbored by Catholic institutions
during Nazi rule, was given by
Monsignor Arthur Hughes, Vati-
can representative on a visit to
Palestine. He said that the Cath-
olic Church won't exploit the ad-
verse position which overtook the
Jews of Europe and will not seek
to procure the conversion of chil-
dren, entrusted to its care. The
children will be restored to their
kin, Jewish institutions and any
Jewish individuals prepared to
receive them.

Kaufman Heads
N W Synagogue

The following officers were
elected by the members of the
Northwest Hebrew Congregation
and Center, at the annual meet-
ing at the Bagley School, Sept.
12.
Ira G. Kaufman, president;
Max Goldsmith and Samuel Kat-
ken, vice presidents; Charles
Charlip, treasurer, and Meyer Ru-
bin, secretary.
Mr. Kaufman succeeds Alex
Moss. The installation will take
place on Simcoth Torah.

Yeshivoth Beth Yehudah, Durfee
Combine in New School Program

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Thousands Flee
Polish Terror,
Pogroms Continue

I0e Sing!. Copy, $3.00 Per Year

An experiment in education Then they enter their respective
s been undertaken by Yeshi- Het), ew classes where they re-
th Beth Yehudah in conjunc- main until noon. After a hot
ti " with Durfee Intermediate lunch, the Beth Yehudah bus
School. Since commencement of brings them to the Durfee school
the present semester, boys in the at 12:30 p.m., where they join
7th,
8th
and 9th grades at Dur- the regular intermediate classes
1 ,ee.
have been able to receive in mathematics, social science and
their Hebrew education in the English until four o'clock.
at the Yeshivah, to eat
While these subjects constitute
kosher
s.01her hot lunches, and to obtain a full program, and are sufficient
their
secular education in the af- for college entrance requirements
t ernoon
at Durfee.
At 8:15 a.m., the pupils assem- the Yeshivah is working to ar-
the
Yeshivah for the morn- range for instruction in other
b. 11 in
Minyan. They bring their subjects as well. Negotiations are
a
r o rs sandwiches with them under way to procure the Win-
n(' are serve d chocolate milk. terhalter school gymnasium for
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reelected Alex Margulies, founder
of the congregation, as president.
Others reelected at the annual
meeting held Sept. 12 in the new
Beth Aaron Synagogue at Wyo-
ming and Thatcher are: S. Rubin,
vice president; M. Schneider, sec-
ond vice president and L. Levin,
treasurer. Benjamin Bagdade was
elected secretary.

The board of trustees consists
of S. Freedman, J. Harris and C.
Krupp. The executive board is
composed of N. Reznick, M.
Strasner, B. Silverman, G. Heck-
er, S. Seligson, G. Schneider, H.
Amernick and S. Sternfield.
A large increase in membership
was reported by the congregation
over the holidays. Liberal dona-
tions were pledged for the build-
ing fund.

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Gerald K. Smith
Denies He Is
An Anti-Semite

WASHINGTON (WNS) —
Gerald L. K. Smith, self-styled
spearhead of the nationalist
movement in America, declar-
ed here that he was no anti-
Semite.
The Jews of America, said
Smith, have been hysterical for
the last five years. But at the
same time he disclosed that he
was conducting a campaign to
have Father Coughlin, whose
publication Social Justice was
suppressed during the war, re-
turn to the air. He also said
that he was planning a con-
ference with former Senator
Robert Reynolds, head of the
Nationalist Party, and with a
number of Congressmen who,
he added, "are nationalists at
heart."

TEL AVIV GETS LOAN
TEL AVIV (Palcor) — The
Palestine Government has agreed
to grant a long-term loan of
$800,000 to the Tel Aviv muni-
cipality for the construction of
houses for Jewish ex-servicemen.

RABBI M..M. ZAGER

dell Halevi Zager, who passed
away on Oct. 1, 1940.
Born in David Horodek, Po-
land, Rabbi Zager was graduated
from the Slonimer Yeshivah as
an ordained rabbi at the age of
18. He continued his studies in
the famous rabbinical academies
in Poland and Russia and became
known for his great Talmudic
knowledge.
Rabbi Zager held pulpits in
Russia and Poland and in De-
troit was affiliated with Congre-
gations Adas Yeshurun, Pesach
Tikvah, Ateres Zvi and Shaarey
Zion.
Yeshivath Beth Yehudah paid
tribute to his scholarship, erudi-
tion and devotion to traditional
Judaism by featuring a portrait
of Rabbi Zager in its Hall of
Fame.
Rabbi Zager, by uniting in
rare accord the different elements
of his vast store of knowledge,
became a remarkable and deeply
impressing preacher, who in the
ancient Yiddish did not alone
bring home to his audience the
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Declaring that the President
had authorized him to make the
news public, Ex-Senator Gilette
disclosed that Mr. Truman told
the delegation that our govern-
ment was in constant consulta-
tions with the British Govern-
ment regarding the Palestine
question.
The President also told the del-
egation, representing the Ameri-
can League for a Free Palestine
and the Hebrew Committee of
National Liberation, that Secre-
tary of State Byrnes, who is now
in London where he is attending
the Conference of Foreign Minis-
ters, is negotiating the future of
Palestine with the British Gov-
ernment. The President, however,
counselled Ex-Senator Gilette to
postpone his contemplated trip to
London on behalf of the Ameri-
can League for a Free Palestine
until the Secretary of State re-
turns from the London confer-
ence and submits a report on the
results of his negotiations.
At the same time, Gilette quot-
ed President Truman as having
said that the U. S. Government
is to ask Great Britain to assist
American authorities in Europe
in evacuating the displaced Eu-
ropean Jews to Palestine.
LAUD ACTION
NEW YORK (WNS) — Dr.
Abbe Hillel Silver of Cleveland
and Dr. Stephen S. Wise of New
York, joint chairmen of the Am-
erican Zionist Emergency Coun-
cil, issued the following state-
ment:
"The Zionist movement in Am-
erica, together with all Ameri-
cans of good will welcomes with
great satisfaction the news that
President Truman has written a
letter to Prime Minister Attlee
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Palestine Jews
Raise $9,200 9 000

TEL AVIV (Palcor) — Jewish
Palestine, with a total Jewish
population estimated at 650,000,
contributed over $9,200,000 dur-
ing the last three years for the
War Needs and Rescue Fund,
which spent $2,800,000 for the
rescue and relief of European
Jews, and whose program in-
cluded welfare activities for Jew-
ish servicemen and assistance to
Jcwish veterans and servicemen's
families. The Fund will seek to
raise $4,000,000 this year.

Temple Sisterhoods Will Hold
State Convention Here October 2nd

For the first time since Pearl
Harbor, the Michigan State Fed-
eration of Temple Sisterhoods is
again planning to hold its regu-
lar meetings.
Mrs. Henry Meyers, general
state chairman of the convention,
announces that the first postwar
state convention is to be held on
Tuesday, Oct. 2, at the Book-
Cadillac Hotel.
Mts. Manuel Brown of Grand
Rapids, president of the Michi-
gan State Federation of Temnle
Sisterhoods; has been in, office

since 1943 when she was elected
by the board of the Federation
because the Office of Defense
Transportation asked that no
general convention be held.
ELECT OFFICERS
At the convention in the Ball
Room of the Book-Cadillac Hotel,
the morning session will be de-
voted to an exchange of wartime
sisterhood experiences and an
election of officers. Mrs. Brown
will act as chairman of the
morning session.
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