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30 YEARS OF SERVICE TO DETROIT JEWRY

and The Legal Chronicle

VOL. 47, NO. 46

DETRn1T, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1945

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British Now Arm Arabs British Troops
to Shun Jews
Incite Riots, Charge

JERUSALEM (JTA) — The serious accusation that
the Palestine Government has been arming Arabs and
inciting them to attack Jews, made by the secret radio
of the Jewish resistance movement, has finally been
brought into the open.
In the last few months there have been many
reliable
reports of such activity on thee

part of the Palestine Govern-
ment, but those who were aware
of them, and had investigated,
were reluctant to aggravate the
situation by writing an expose.
Actually the story has not ap-
peared in the Palestine papers,
and the Government therefore
sees no reason to deny the charg-
es. And, of course, the people
who have the evidence cannot
risk coming out into the open.
One authenticated instance of
the administration's efforts to
create trouble between the Arabs
and the Jews involves Abdulia
Khalil el Sheikh, commander of
a Hebron gang which played a
prominent role in the disturb-
ances of 1936. Abdulla Khalil had
been in hiding since 1936, but last
year the Palestine authorities let
it be known that they had no
objection to his returning to He-
bron, which he did.
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Veterans Insulted;
Demand Apology

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Veterans have had enough war
on the front lines to be spared
war on the home grounds. At
least that is the opinion of George
Aslanian, one of the charter mem-
bers of the Veteran Cab Company
Inc. who is burning over what he
considers an insult to veterans in
general and his companay in par-
ticular.

A day or two before Armistice
Day, an ad appeared asking for
volunteer cars to drive disabled
veterans and gold star mothers in
the Armistice Day parade. The
Veteran Cab Co. thought this was
a good time to take action so they
volunteered for the job and were
accepted. They paid the costs
which amounted to about eleven
dollars per car.
They drove from Peterboro un-
til they came to the reviewing
stand near Michigan Avenue. Sud-
denly, up whizzed a motorcycle
policeman and ordered drivers Rob-
ert Popov and Owen Tucker to
get the cabs out of the parade.
Th, two refused and the cabs
drove on to the end.
John Formosa, president of the
cal , company was also very indig-
na nt.
" s omeone in that stand ordered
the policeman to do that," he
saio. "And whoever did it made
a t-ry bad move. We were trying
to do a service to disabled vet-
era.ls and gold star mothers. We
we;" paying out money for the
pri dege. Every owner of a cab
in :his company is a war veteran
au(' carries his discharge papers
wito him. That order was an in-
sul• to all of us and, I might add,
is veterans. I think an apology
ns in order."

DEADLINE CHANGES

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The Chronicle is changing
its deadline to Tuesday at
five p.m. instead of Wed-
nesday which has been the
deadline hitherto. All club
notices and social notices
must be in by Tuesday in
order to make the issue of
the following Friday.

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JERUSALEM (JTA)—Troop3
of the British Sixth Airborne Di-
vision, who have been spread
through Palestine to reinforce
police posts, have received un-
official instructions not to frat-
ernize with Jews, it was learned
here. They have been "advised"
to abstain from any contact with
Jews.

Henry Morgenthau, Jr., former Secretary of the Treasury,
receiving medallion from Henr y Monsky, president of Bnai
Brith, in recognition of his services to humanity and the war
effort. The medallion was presented at a testimonial dinner
in New York before 1,300 people.

forces of the United Nations dur-
ing this war.
Messages of commendation were
also received from Gen. Arnold,
Gen. Somervell, and Admirals
Nimitz, Halsey and King. Gen.
Arnold stressed that in the U. S.
Air Forces alone there were 70
NEW YORK (JTA).—Tribute
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to Jewish and other chaplains in
the U. S. armed forces was paid
by General Eisenhower in a mes-
sage sent to a dinner at the Wal-
dorf Astoria honoring 100 gradu-
ates and members of the Rabbini-
cal Assembly of America who
NEW YORK (JTA). — Dr.
served (luring the war as chap-
Ernst
Boris Chain, a Jewish bi-
lains in the American and Cana-
dian armies all over the world. ologist who was forced to flee
The dinner, attended by more Germany after the advent of the
than 1,500 persons, was arranged Nazis, has been named co-winner
by the Jewish Theological Semi- of the 1945 Nobel prize for physi-
ology and medicine for his work
nary of America.
in developing penicillin, it was
Gen. Eisenhower emphasized announced in Stockholm. The other
that the work of the Army chap- winners are Sir Alexander Flem-
lains has been of "inestimable ing. and Sir Howard Walter Flo-
value" to the American forces rey, British scientists.
in Europe. "Their selflessness and
Dr. Chain, who is now in New
their unfaltering devotion to the York on a mission for the Medical
spiritual and material welfare of Research Council of Great Britain,
millions of Americans have won has been a British citizen since
for them the admiration, respect 1939 and is a lecturer at Oxford
and affection of all commanders," University. In pre-Hitler days he
he said. "I am delighted that was active in Jewish cultural life
your seminary is taking special in Berlin and was a member of
occasion to honor its graduates the "Sholem Alechem Literary
who have served in the armed Club" there.

Jewish Refugee
Nobel Winner

1,000 Rabbis In Washington Stage
Huge Demonstration For Attlee

WASHINGTON (WNS)—Over
1,000 Orthodox rabbis from all
parts of the country participated
in a demonstration here this week
aimed to coincide with the Anglo-
American politcal consultations
at the White House.

Sponsored by the Zionist Re-
visionist Organization of Amer-
ica, the demonstration is direct-
ed toward achieving the follow-
ing objectives:

The immediate facilitation of

•President Truman's request to
transfer 100,000 European Jews
to Palestine; the immediate re-
pudiation of the 1939 British
White Paper barring Jews from
Palestine; the immediate forma-
tion of an Anglo-American com-
mission to carry out the express-
ed intentions of the League of
Nations mandate, and the imme-
diate release of all Jewish patri-
ots from imprisonmnt in Egyp-
tian Sudan, Eritrea and other
British camps.

Send Russia Old Books
UNRRA Speaker Begs

In a moving plea for books to be sent to Russia, Leo
Gruliow, the representative in the USSR of the American
Society for Russian Relief, addressed a press conference
Tuesday, Nov. 13. Gruliow, a native American who
speaks Russian fluently has acted as observer and liaison
man on a trip to Russia where he had full opportunity to

*me everything that was going
on. He had a plane at his serv-
ice and traveled from town to
town and village to village. He
dropped in unannounced into pri-
vate houses, hospitals, orphan-
ages and other institutions all
The attention of American pub- through the Donetz basin. He
lic opinion will be focused on the talked freely with everyone. He
other phase of the struggle for a saw the supplies actually in use
Jewish Palestine—the right of and in distribution.
Jews to buy land freely in the PICTURE APPALLING
Jewish national home—on Zion
"It is almost impossible to pre-
Tag Day which will be observed sent the picture of the destruc-
by Jewish communities throughout tion in the fighting areas of Rus-
the nation (luring the week-end
sia," he said. "Ninety per cent
of November 25th.
of everything was destroyed. The
Under the slogan "Land for a
Nazis stripped bare an area that
Jewish Commonwealth," graphi- normally houses eighty million
cally emphasized in the above re-
people. These Nazis invaded in
production of a Jewish National
the summer time and expected to
Fund poster, a popular effort
win the war before fall. When
will be made on Zion Tag Day
the icy Russian winter set in,
and the week preceding to secure
they
began a systematic looting
mass support for the $20,000,000
of everything that could be used
program of the Jewish National
for clothing. They took all the
Fund for the acquisition of new
men's clothing, the women's cloth-
land tracts in Palestine.
ing and even the children's. What
Corps of volunteers, recruited they could they used for uni-
from among the membership of
forms for their own men. The
youth organizations and Zionist
rest they sent back in trainloads
groups, have been organized in to
Germany."
many . communities by the local
"For
five years," he continued,
Jewish National Fund Councils
"the Russians have not produced
for the distribution of "Zion
30 much as a handkerchief. The
Tags" which will be offered in
only clothing they have is what
acknowledgment of popular con-
tributions ranging from dimes and we sent them. Our total supplies
for Russia has amounted to sixty
quarters to larger sums to help
implement the 1946 Keren Kaye- million dollars. As against that,
meth land acquisition program .hey have had a one hundred
and twenty-seven billion dollar
which will make possible the es-
lo•'s. Our supplies, however, have
tablishment of new Jewish agri-
meant that thousands of people
cultural settlements in Palestine.
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Jewish Right to
Buy Zion Land
Sparks Tag Day

Morgenthau Receives B'nai B'rith
Award For Service To Humanity

Army Rabbis
Lauded by Ike
Eisenhower

10c Single Copy, $3.00 Per Year

Jerome Kern Dead; Composer's
Songs Sung by Many Millions

The pasing of Jerome Kern re-
moves one of the greatest of
American composers, a man who
ranked with Victor Herbert and
George Gershwin.
If universality, as Tolstoy con-
tended, is the hall mark of gen-
ius, then surely this Jewish song
writer was a genius, for tens of
millions have delighted in his
songs. Although Kern might have
lived a good many more years,
— he was not an old man, —
few' American composers have
been so long before the public
and few can match as consistent
a record of successes as he. For
almost forty years, Kern had
been pouring forth his songs,
seemingly without great effort.
The life of a Tin Pan Alley
song is 'generally very brief in-
deed. A song may be a raging
hit one week and be dead as a
doorknob two months after. But
Jerome Kern did not belong to
that class of song writers. It
seems hard to believe that Amer-
icans will ever not like to hear
"Show Boat" or "Smoke Gets in
Your Eyes." They belong to that
permanent song folk lore in
which one generation after an-
other finds an outlet for feelings.
The songs of Kern will go on
being sung as the songs of Ste-
phen Foster, Victor Herbert and
George Gershwin.
It is surprising how many of
the popular song writers of the
last several decades in America
are children of the old ghettos.
Most of them were children of
Russian Jewish parents, with al-
most no systematic musical du-

cation. If they had any musical
knowledge, it came by way of
the synagogue. Many people have
a wrong idea about the old syn-
agogue. They think of it in terms
of credos and other such rigorous
things, when in fact it was a
great human institution, where
people came to let their hearts
out, to rejoice together in their
gladness and weep together in
their sorrow.
Some of that old synagogue
has been presented to the Ameri-
can public by these American
Jewish singers. The fact that mil-
lions of non-Jewish Americans
took the songs to their own
hearts is proof of the fact, denied
by the anti-Semit e that no un-
crossable chasm separates the
Jew and the non-Jew.
Oddly enough one of the first
of the German so-scalled scien-
tific anti-Semit e books, Richard
Wagner's "Der Judentum in Mu-
sic" sought to uphold anti-Sem-
itism by charging that Jews lack-
ed musical genius, yet Wagner
himself had in other of his writ-
ings admitted his great debt to
Meyerbeer and also praised Men-
delsohn.

Certainly, there is 'no reason
for Jews to feel any inferiority
complex about their musical ap-
titudes. Wagner had the chagrin
of noting that when his first
great musical work was produc-
td, the orchestra was composed
largely of Jewish musicians. This
is not to say that Jews have any
superior genius for it, but cer-

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