Friday, October 12, 1945

DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle

'Jewish Leaders Picket British Consulate In Protest

Clergy Discuss
Jews Spend
Dexter • Incident
10 Million A Year The so-called Dexter incident
was discussed at a meeting OcL
For Education
4 in Durfee Auditorium sponsor-

BALTIMORE (JTA ) — More ed by the Civil Rights Federa.
than $10,000,000 a year is being tion. Reverend Charles A. Hill, of
spent on Jewish education in the the Hartford Avenue Bapti,t "
United • States, it was reported Church and the Reverend Erne s t
here at a two-day conference on Arthur, state director of the Pe..
postwar planning arranged by the pie's Institute of Applied Reli-
Council of Jewish Federations gion, denounced a "hush, hu r l;"
and Welfare Funds, and attended policy in combating racial preju-
by professional and lay leaders dice. They urged vigorous action
from 15 of the largest organized to stamp out discrimination.
Other speakers included Sam-
Jewish communities in this coun-
uel
Sage, vice president of the
try and Canada.
The report was made by Israel Wayne County CIO Council, Fr.
S. Chipkin, executive director of Clark L. Attridge, rector of the
the American Association for Church of the Incarnation, the
Jewish Education. He predicted secretary of the Central High
that during the next five years School Student Council, the pres-
there will be an increase in the ident of the Hi-Y Club of Central
number of all-day Jewish private High School and Cpl. David Gutt-
and "parochial" schools where man urged closer ties between ra-
the pupil will receive an integrat- cial and religious groups. Ernest

—,bolo by Chronlrle Warr Photographer

Hundreds of men and women, many of them lead-
ers in the Detroit Jewish Community picketed the
British consulate here last Monday as a gesture of
condemnation for Great Britain's infamous policy
in Palestine. Among those who picketed were
Rabbi Leon Fram of Temple Israel, president of

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the Detroit Zionist chapter; Benjamin
pres ident of the Zionist Council; Mrs, Louis Glas-
ier, head of Hadassah• Bernard Isaacs, superin
tendent of the United Hebrew Schools, and Morris
Schaver, leader in the Histadruth. The group
carried placards demonstrating their condemnation.

Story of Plot

ed program of Jewish and gen-
eral subjects.
The conference, at which vari-
ous other problems were discuss-
ed, was also addressed by Dr.
E. M. Bluestone, director of Mon-
tcfiore Hospital for Chronic Dis-
eases in New York; H. L. Lurie,
executive director of the Council
of Jewish Federations and Wel-
fare Funds; I. Edwin Goldwasser,
chairman of the distributing com-
mittee of the New York Federa-
tion; Irwin Rosen, assistant to
the executive vice chairman of
the New York Federation; Elkan
Voorsanger, executive director of
the Milwaukee Jewish Welfare
Funds; Isidore Sobeloff, executive
director of the Detroit Jewish
Welfare Federation; Dr. Maurice
Hexter, executive vice chairman,
New York Federation, and Harry
Greenstein, executive director,
Baltimore Associated Jewish Cha-
rities.

Goodman presided.
A citizens committee was cre-
ated to foster better relations in
the community.

ZEDAKAH CLUB PLANS
FALL, TEA OCT. 22
Zedakah Club will meet on
Monday afternoon, Oct. 15, at
the home of Mrs. Louis German-
sky, 18659 Pennington.
A Sunday morning breakfast
was served on Oct. 7 to 125 ser-
vicemen at the Jewish Center.
On Oct. 22 the Fall Tea will
take place at the home of Mrs.
Norman Shulevitz, 18904 Wilde-
mere. Co-hostesses are Mesdames
Alan Brown, Arthur Feldman,
J. Harvith and Hattie Schwartz.

Rev. Dr. Crane lauded the Jewish
policy in Palestine.
(Continued from Page 1)
"Almost unique in history is
false
premise, Mr. O'Donnell at-
this
complete
adoption
of
the
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1)
(Continued from
tempts to trace a sinister pat-
peaceful
way.
Every
inch
of
land
ment is preparing the same be-
the Jews possess in Palestine they tern of events leading to the re-
trayal Chamberlain was guilty of.
paid for. Finally, I endorse the cent action on Gen. Patton by his
We are the most wronged people President's appeal because I am a superior, Gen. Eisenhower. Mr.
on earth. One-third of all Jews
believer in democracy, which in- O'Donnell attempts to demon- Sholem Aleichem
were lost under conditions un-
sists that all men be guaranteed strate that this was the result of
equality of opportunity. I can't Jewish efforts provoked by the Concert Oct. 28
understand why the nations don't "slapping" by Gen. Patton of an
The annual concert of the Sho-
Kelly Backs Plan
give the Jews one little section. American soldier in a hospital in lem Aleichem Folk Institute will
Am in full accord with con- In fact not only should Palestine Sicily. To lend plausibility to his be held Sunday, Oct. 28, at the
science and justice of plea to be open to the Jews but America fantastic conclusion, Mr. O'Don- Jewish Center, Woodward and
admit one hundred thousand ought to open its doors. All doors °nell alleges that the victim of the
Holbrook.
homeless and displaced Jews should be thrown open."
slapping was of Jewish descent
The famous Yiddish poet and
and
that
this
was
what
prompted
of Europe to Palestine.
RABBI FRAM'S PLEA
writer, Yankov Glatstein, will be
HARRY F. KELLY, Governor.
Rabbi Fram voiced the thanks several prominent American Jews the speaker.
of the Detroit Jewish community to work secretly toward the "dis-
Saul Meizels, well-known sin-
gracing" of Gen. Patton. These
paralleled in history. Russia, to President Truman.
ger, will sing a group of selected
CLOTHES
He declared: "Not since Pres- are the facts: Carl Herman Kuhl, Yiddish and Hebrew songs.
which suffered greatly, lost about
4 percent. Where are the refu- ident William Howard Taft abro- the slapped soldier, is not Jew-
Students of the Sholem Alei-
•
gees to turn? Where are they to gated the U.S. trade treaty with ish. His family belongs to the chem Schools will read and re-
Christian
Church
of
the
Nazarene
Czarist
Russia
because
of
its
dis-
go? The only chance for life for
cite from the works of Yankov
I UPHOLSTERED
crimination against Jews, not in Mishawaka, Ind.
them is in Palestine."
Glatstein.
FURNITURE
"No other evidence of the ir-
since Wilson gave his approval of
DON'T NEED FORCE
responsibility
of
Mr.
O'Donnell's
the
Balfour
Declaration
and
the
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Cautioning against British pro-
statements
should
be
required.
Jewish
homeland
in
Palestine,
has
paganda, Rabbi Heller asserted:
Sarah's
I TACKED-DOWN
"Do not believe that it is neces- a President of the United States You are undoubtedly aware that
at
the
time
of
this
writing
Mr.
spoken
so
plainly
and
acted
so
CARPETS
sary for the United States to
Poultry
Eggs
Cleaned right in your
send troops to Palestine to pro- directly in behalf of decency and Morgenthau and Mr. Niles, men-
tioned by Mr. O'Donnell, have
13918 LINWOOD
home, on the floor
tect the Jews. The Jews in Pales- justice toward a people victimized
already issued public statements
tine are capable of taking care by an arbitrary foreign power.
•
characterizing
his
charges
as
"The Jewish people are not
of themselves. Britain can keep
Shoichet Always
"wholly untrue." The entire con-
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the pace in India with a small merely pleading for the right of tent of Mr. O'Donnell's column is
On Premises
a
homeland
to
which
they
may
force; why cannot it keep the
reminiscent of the bigotry which
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peace in Palestine where it main- have unrestricted entry. They marked the propaganda of Hit-
UNLIMITED PARKING
have
WON
that
right
by
the
gal-
tains large numbers of troops?
ler's Reich, an enemy whom the
FACILITIES
"It is possible to bring hun- lantry of Palestinian Jewish sol- United States defeated and
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diers
and
by
the
simple
fact
that
dreds of thousands of Jews into
against whom all Americans were
Poultry Dressed and
Palestine without displacing any of all the countries in the Middle aligned in common purpose, re-
East, the Jewish Homeland in
Cleaned
Arabs."
gardless of race, creed, or color.
533.547 E. FOREST AVE.
Dr. Heller declared that dur- Palestine was the only place that
•
"As the publisher of a news-
ing the darkest hours of the war demonstrated loyalty and devo-
Downtown Branch:
and Delivery
Phone
pape•
with
a
circulation
of
more
while Palestine Jewry stood fast tion to the cause of the United
Orders Promptly Filled
THE J. L. HUDSON CO.
than 2,000,000, you are undoubt-
by the side of faltering Britain, Nations.
S.. !dal
9651
edly
a::are
of
the
grave
respon-
TOWNSEND
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"We,
therefore,
petition
the
3rd Floor Former Street
the Arabs met to divide British
sibility that is yours in respect to
President
of
the
United
States
to
and Jewish property.
The Rev. Dr. Crane, one of the remain firm in his request, to per- the formation of public attitudes.
staunchest friends of Jewry, was sist in it until this British gov- We are informing you of the
introduced by Rabbi Fram as ernment, which is so deeply obli- facts, which obviously you did
"the conscience of Detroit." Dr. gated to America and which is not previously ascertain, in order
Crane listed his reasons for sup- asking America for favors, shall that the public may be correctly
informed. The necessity for the
porting President Truman's plea bow to the demands of decency
avoidance of false or sinister pro-
and
justice.
We
further
ask
the
to the British government to open
President that he be not content paganda in order to preserve the
For All Makes of
the gates of Palestine.
foundation and the traditions of
with
securing
these
100,000
im-
DEBT TO JEWRY
our democracy must be apparent
Cars, Trucks, Station Wagons
"I endorse the President's ap- migration certificates, but that he
peal because I am a Christian," insist that the British govern- to you."
TABLE TOPS AND MIRRORS
stated Dr. Crane, "and as such I ment abolish the White Paper,
feel so vastly indebted to my which is a Nazi law. We ask the
DR. J. M. GOLDSMITH
FREE ESTIMATES
spiritual forebearers, the Jews. President to insist that Palestine
DR. B. M. SEYBURN
does
not
belong
to
the
British.
You are in very truth the fathers
"We are here to petition the
DENTISTS
of our faith. The human race
owes more to the Jewish people conscience of mankind. We ask
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Bet. Grand River and Clifford
than to any other three races. the United Nations to be vigilant
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For Service and Quality
You gave us the idea of one as Britain sends her navy to Pal-
God. This has been the major estine for the purpose of sinking
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source of inspiration to all Chris- ships carrying Jewish refugees as
Between Cass and 2nd
tians as well as to all Moham- it brought about the sinking of
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medans. As a grateful Christian, the refugee-laden ships, the Pat- Open up the cold blockade in your nose
I proffer my assistance to your ria and the Struma. We ask the with fast-acting Penetro Nose Drops.
CONTRIBUTE TO THE WAR CHEST
United Nations to keep watch as Breathe freer, easier, almost instantly,
cause."
as they cool, soothe and shrink swollen
Great
Britain
sends
an
army
to
Declaring that there were two
BUY VICTORY BONDS
nasal membranes. Caution: Use only as
ways of gaining possession of Palestine to shoot down any hap- directed. Generous bottle 25c, 50c. Get
less
Jewish
refugees
who
may
be
land, one by conquest and the
PENETRO NOSE DROPS
other by peaceful means, the trying to enter their homeland."

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