Louis Dann, 77,
Benefactor, Dies;
School Founder
Crashes Gerald L. K. Smith Rally,
Depicts Antics of Speaker, Audience
(EDITOR'S NOTE: The fol- ed the Negro against the White
Louis Dann, of 3339 Tuxedo, lowing account of the Gerald L. and then stepped back "to let the
one of the "grand old men" of K. Smith meeting was written by poor Negro get it.”
He told the Catholics that the
Detroit, a patriarch in the Jew- a Wayne University student who
ish community here, passed away "crashed" the rally, along with picket line outside was anti-Cath-
olic. And he informed the audi-
Tuesday in Harper Hospital at several other Wayne students.)
ence that he was not against the
the age of 77. Funeral services
By ESSIE MASSERMAN
Jews "as a race." He simply was
were held in the Yeshivah Beth
C.I.O. and A.F. of L. picketers against certain "Hollywood Com-
Yehudah, Wednesday afternoon,
with burial in Machpalah Ceme- chanted union songs as they munists" or leaders in the labor
marched with Bnai Brith, Social- uniors or "international bankers."
tery.
ist party groups, student organi- Smith asserted that such men as
Mr. Dann was born in Russia
zations, and religious groups in Sidney Hillman were bringing in
where he was a "Yeshivah Bo-
a demonstration against Gerald 600 paid workers to carry the
chur." He came to Detroit 55
Smith's America First meet- city for Frankensteen. And, talk-
years ago and founded a metal L. K.
ing, Thursday evening, Sept. 27, ing about Communists, he said,
business. His real vocation, how-
at Northern High School. Picket "did you know that the Com-
ever, was the Torah, Jewish
signs read, "Hitler was a Jew munist party financed itself here
"learning." He founded several
classes in Gomorrah and every Hater and so is Gerald L. K. by floating counterfeit $100
day he would take time out to Smith," or "Labor and Religion bills?" A skeptic demanded "Who
finances you?"
conduct at least one class. His Unite Against Fascism."
It• was this picket line that we
"These good Christians out
philosophy was that one should
try to make things easier for the crashed, somewhat shamefacedly, here," said Smith, caressing his
and we were jeered with "Anti- expensive-looking suit.
other person.
Smith devoted most of his
Because he heard of people Semite!" "Labor-Baiter!" and
speech to condemning Rev. Claude
who were homeless he aided in "Scab !"
We seated ourselves within Williams, liberal Protestant
founding the House of Shelter.
Because he knew of many aged convenient running distance of preacher, whom he attacked as a
persons who were destitute, he the auditorium door and settled Communist and nudist.
helped to organize The Home for down to listen to Smith's illogical
the Aged. Because of his interest and inconsistent ravine. The au- NW Congregation
in Jewish education, he and a dience was outnumbered by the
group of others who had studied picketers. The majority of the Names Directors
At the installation of the new-
with the late great Rabbi Judah audience was middle-aged and,
Leven, founded the Yeshivath judging from dress, within the ly elected officers of the North-
Beth Yehudah as an annex to the lower middle-class income biack- west Hebrew Congregation and
Mogen Abraham Synagogue on ets. There was something cruel Center, the following were ap-
Farnsworth with the idea of hav- and unintelligent reflected in the pointed by Ira G. Kaufman, pre-
ing a Jewish parochial school. He audience's reactions to Smith's sident of the congregation, as
was on the board of directors of remarks. They were not unlike the new board of directors of
the United Hebrew Schools, sat sheep. We were also reminded the congregation:
David B. Aaron, Benjamin
in on their examinations and fre- of an evangelist meeting for the
crowd looked eager to prostrate Brodman, Irwin I. Cohn, A. J.
quently visited their classes.
His interest in Zionism was itself at the feet of the "master." Cutler, N. R. Epstein, Max Fine-
man, Max N. Haidy, Alfred A.
BLAMED "REDS"
great and he was one of the
founders of the Mizrachi group
Smith commenced by saying Helfgott, Philip Helfman, J. Mau-
here and aided the Keren Haye- the picket line was the "under- rice Karo, David M. LeVine,
sod drives. There wasn't an eve- handed work of Communistic ele- Benjamin B. Levy, Adolph H.
ning a week during which he ments in the Bnai Brith and the Lichter, David J. Miller, David
didn't have a meeting and up to C.I.O." and suggested sending Safran, David Tchor, and Alex
the last he retained his interest them all back to Russia "where Moss, ex-officio.
The installation took place
in communal affairs. He had re- they belong." Shouted one of a
tired from his business 15 years group of soldiers standing against during the Simchas Torah serv-
ago but not from his organiza- a back wall, "Brother, you ain't ices, at which time the newly
tions.
got a country!" Smith confided elected officers were introduced
Surviving are the wife, Rachel; to the audience that these were by Dr. Benjamin Levy.
three sons, Moe S., who took over only "Stalin stooges."
the metal business; Dr. David S.,
Then Smith began eulogizing 11 Hungarian Leaders
Kansas City, a physician, and Sol the "most Reverend" Gerald L.
On Trial for Crimes
A. Dann, an attorney, and four
K. Smith with a detailed descrip-
daughters, Mrs. Louis Seiton, Miss
VIENNA (JTA)—Eleven lead-
Florence Dann, Mrs. Edith Dann tion of his speaking tour in New ers of the former pro-Nazi gov-
York, Rochester and Chicago, but
and Mrs. Albert Pine besides 10
was interrupted by a query from ernment of Hungary and of the
grandchildren.
one in the audience, "Tell us anti-Semitic Arrow-Cross party
about Los Angeles" (where Smith were flown by American military
Hebrew Schools
was ignored and forced to leave). authorities from Salzburg to Bu-
Smith murmured something dep- dapest, where they will be tried
Enroll New Pupils
decatingly about "Hollywood as war criminals.
One of the principal charges
Registration of new pupils is Communists." We laughed, much
still going on in all the branches to the disconcertion of an old against them is the deportation
of hundreds of thousands of Jews
of the United Hebrew Schools. lady in the row ahead of us.
from Hungary to extermination
Classes are now being organized
"Aren't you ashamed to laugh camps in Poland. The trial open-
for beginners as well as for more
advanced students. The main of- at him?" she indignantly de- ed Monday. The decision to send
them to Budapest for trial, in-
fice of the United Hebrew Schools manded.
"Aren't you ashamed to listen stead of trying them before an
is open all day.
to him?" we replied.
international tribunal, was made
JR. HOME RELIEF
by Justice Robert Jackson, Amer-
A NATURAL ACTOR
MEETING SUNDAY, OCT. 14
Throughout his speech Smith ican war crimes prosecutor.
Jr. Home Relief Society opens appealed to the emotion rather
The eleven include Ferenc Sza-
the season with the meeting at than to reason. He was a natural lasi, Hungary's last "fuehrer";
2:30 p.m., on Sunday, Oct. 14, performer, gesturing wildly, us- Laszlo Bardossy, pro-Nazi Prime
at the home of Lorraine Velick, ing earthy language that delight- Minister under whose regime the
2450 Pingree.
ed the audience, and telling his Hungarian Jews were driven to
The first of the affairs will be listeners only what he knew they the frontier in a "March of
a membership dance on Nov. 17 wanted to hear, He was consid- Death" and there handed over to
at the Lee Plaza Hotel.
erate in not over-burdening them the Germans to be murdered; En-
dor Jaross, Interior Minister who
with facts.
He made an appeal for the ordered the Jews' deportation;
UAW BACKS ZIONISM
support of all groups by damning Laszlo Endre, sadistic Under-Sec-
IN PLEA TO TRUMAN
each with faint praise. He stated retary of the Interior in charge
Following is a copy of the that he had never been anti- of Jewish persecution, and Bela
telegram sent by the UAW- Negro and that the race riots Imredy, Prime Minister who first
CIO to President Truman, ask- had been started by Communists introduced anti-Jewish laws in
ing that 100,000 Jewish refu- — that is, the Communists play- 1938.
gees be admitted to Palestine:
President Harry Truman
The White House
Washington, D.C.
Thu, United Auto Workers
heartily endorse your recent
message to the English Par-
liament on the question of
opening Palestine for one
hundred thousand displaced
Jews who have suffered the
deprivation of Nazi concen-
tration camps and the war.
The entrance of fifteen
hundred Jews per month to
Palestine, as suggested by
the British Government, in
no way would meet the pres-
ent immediate emergency.
Sincerely,
Richard T. Frankensteen,
Vice President,
rnternation•I UAW-C10
Friday, October 5, 945
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle
Page Twelve
ORIENTAL GARDENS
.10
Rabbi, Cantor
B. Z. Moldawski
Passes at 68
Anti-Bilbo Drive
By Jewish Congress
Rabbi Ben Zion Moldawski,
of 1717 Lee Place, spiritual lea
er of Congregation Shaarey Ha.
shomayim, passed away last Sat.
urday in Grace Hospital of a
stroke he suffered durir;.r. the
Succoth services at his syna-
gogue. He had been in ill health
since two of his sons were killed ,
in the war.
Hundreds of Detroit Jews at-
tended his funeral Wednesday
morning at the Chesed Shel Emes.
Rabbis and cantors of the other
Jewish congregations came to pay
their last tribute to the rabbi
who had achieved renown as a
composer of religious music. Bur-
ial was in Hebrew Memorial Park.
Rabbi Moldawski in the early
1920's attracted worldwide notice
when he won a long legal fight
in Russian courts over the right
to practice his religion in Russia. ,
Soon after he won the case in
1925 he came to Detroit.
More than 100 of Rabbi Mo!.
dawski's liturgical works are
chanted in synagogues through-
out the world. cantors say.
Of the rabbi's two sons killed
in service, one, Lee Marlowe, was
serving with the Canadian Air
Forces and the other, Pvt. Sol,
with the American army in Italy,
Surviving are three sons, Pvt.
Max, stationed at Miami; Cpl.
David, stationed in California;
and Harold, of Los Angeles; and
two daughters, Mrs. Hyman Lev-
ison and Miss Evelyn Moldawski,
of Rochester, N. Y.
The funeral was held up un-
til his sons arrived.
MORRIS LIEBERMAN
The Law and Legislative Com-
mittee of the Detroit Section of
the American Jewish Congress
has opened a campaign against
the un-American and race hatred
activities of Senator Bilbo. Mrs.
David B. Penfil, chairman, an-
nounces that the plans thus far
include the circulating of peti-
tions for the expulsion of Sena-
tor Bilbo, sending letters and tel-
egrams of protest from the De-
troit Section and from individual
members to the Senators from
Michigan and to the majority and
minority leaders of the Senate.
Plans are being made to con-
tact and cooperate in this cam-
paign with other minority groups
which the Senator from Missis-
sippi has also attacked.
Members of the Law and Leg-
islative Committee are Mrs. Pen-
fil, chairman, Alan Brown, Miss
E. Neidelman, Miss A. Parker, Lift Restrictions
Mrs. Vidaver. Morris Lieberman On Packages Abroad
is president of the Detroit Sec-
Effective Oct. 1, in order to
tion.
allow the mailing to civlians in
foreign countries of parcels con-
REFUGEES SEEK
taining badly needed articles such
DETROIT RELATIVES
as overcoats, blankets and other
The following refugees are bulky articles, the restrictions
limiting the size to 18 inches in
seeking relatives here:
Morritz Friedyn sought by length and 42 inches in combined
children of his brother Isaac and length and girth have been mod.
of his sister, Rachel Warszauer. ified.
The new limit for packages is
Newberg, music teacher, native
42
inches in length and 72 inches
of Tarnow, sought by nephew Dr.
in combined length and girth.
Toni Neuberg.
D. Siegel, formerly of 506 Mt.
Vernon, sought by Lola Ianche- BULGARIAN JEWS
SOFIA (JTA) — The first con-
levici, nee Goldman.
Rebecca Aronowitz, operator of tingent of 107 Bulgarian Jews
candy store, sought by Lola Paj- left last week for Palestine. The
entire group consists of chalut•
zicher from Jerodov Poland.
Anyone knowing the where- zim who received training here for
abouts of the above mentioned agricultural work in Palestine.
people is requested to communi- They were given an enthusiastic
cate with Harold Silver, Jewish send-off at the railway station
Social Service Bureau, Trinity where the Bulgarian national an-
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them and Hatikvah were sung.
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