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Detroit Jewish Chronicle

and The Legal Chronicle

VOL. 47, NO. 46

DETRnIT MICHIGAN FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1945

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

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JERUSALEM (JTA) — The serious accusation that
the Palestine Government has been arming Arabs and
inciting them to attack Jews, made by the secret
of the Jewish resistance movement, has finally radio
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brought into the open.

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reports of such activity on the ♦
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 Abdulla
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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JERUSALEM OTA) Troops
of the British Sixth Airborne Di-
viqion, who have been spread
through Palestine to ovas reinforce
police posts, have received un-
official instructions not to frat-
ernize with Jews, it learned
here. They have been "advised"
to abstain from any contact with
Jews.

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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.
The two refused and the cabs
drove on to the end.
John Formosa, president of the
Cab company was also very indig-
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"Someone in that stand ordered
the policeman to do that," he
sa;,l. "And whoever did it made
a %cry bad move. We were trying
to do a service to disabled vet-
eri.as and gold star mothers. We
e paying out money for the
Pr liege. Every owner of a cab
in this company is a war veteran
an I carries his discharge papers
1, 1:h him. That order was an in-
sti!( to all of us and, I might add,
to all veterans. I think an apology
IS in order."

DEADLINE CHANGES

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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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

•et everything that was going
on. He had a plane at his serv-
ice
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 during 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 520,000,000
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
for the distribution of "Zion "the Russians have not produced
Tags" which will be offered in 3o much as a handkerchief. The
only clothing they have is what
acknowledgment of popular con-
tributions ranging from dimes and we sent them. Our total supplies
quarters to larger sums to help for Russia has amounted to sixty
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-
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
Morgenthau Receives B'tiai B'rith Buy Zion Land
Award For Service To Humanity Sparks Tag Day

Henry Morgenthau, Jr., former Secretary of the Treasury,

receiving medallion from Henry 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.

Army Rabbis
Lauded by Ike
Eisenhower

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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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-
lains in the American and Cana- Ernst Boris Chain, a Jewish bi-
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 Send- 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 •President Truman's request to
1,000 Orthodox rabbis from all transfer 100,000 European Jews
parts of the country participated to Palestine; the immediate re-
in a demonstration here this week pudiation of the 1939 British
aimed to coincide with the Anglo- White Paper barring Jews from
American politcal consultations Palestine; the immediate forma-
at the White House. tion of an Anglo-American com-
Sponsored by the Zionist Re- mission to carry out the express-
visionist Organization of Amer- ed intentions of the League of
ica, the demonstration is direct- Nations mandate. and the imme-
ed toward achieving the follow- diate release of all Jewish patri-
ots from imprisonmnt in Egyp-
in g objectives:
tian Sudan, Eritrea and other
The immediate facilitation of i British camps.

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

The pasing of Jerome Kern re- cation. If they had any musical
moves one of the greatest of
American composers, a man who I knowledge, it came by way of
the synagogue. Many people have
ranked with Victor Herbert and ' a wrong idea about the old syn-
George Gershwin. agogue. They think of it in terms
If universality. as Tolstoy con-
of credos and other such rigorous
tended, is the hall mark of gen-
things, when in fact it was a
ius, then surely this Jewish song
great human institution, where
writer was a genius, for tens of
people came to let their hearts
minions have delighted in his out, to rejoice together in their
songs. Although Kern might have
gladness and weep together in
lived a good many more years, their sorrow,
— he was not an old man, —
Some of that old synagogue
few . American composers have
been so long before the public has been presented to the Ameri-
and few can match as consistent can public by these American
a record of successes as he. For Jewish singers. The fact that mil-
almost forty years, Kern had lions of non-Jewish Americans
been pouring forth his songs, took the songs to their own
hearts is proof of the fact, denied
seemingly without great effort.
by the anti-Semit e that no un-
The life of a Tin Pan Alley crossable chasm separates
the
song is'generally very brief in- Jew and the non-Jew
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deed. A song may be a raging
Oddly enough one of the first
hit one week and be dead as a
doorknob two months after. But of the German so-stalled scien-
Jerome Kern did not belong to tific anti-Semit e books, Richard
that class of song writers. It Wagner's "Der Judentum in Mu-
seems hard to believe that Amer- sic" sought to uphold anti-Sem-
icans will ever not like to hear itism by charging that Jews lack-
"Show Boat" or "Smoke Gets in ed musical genius, yet Wagner
Your Eyes." They belong to that himself had in other of his writ-
permanent song folk lore in ings admitted his great debt to
which one generation after an- Meyerbeer and also praised Men-
delsohn.
other finds an outlet for feelings.
Certainly, there is no reason
The songs of Kern will go on
being sung as the songs of Ste- for Jews to feel any inferiority
phen Foster, Victor Herbert and complex about their musical ap-
titudes. Wagner had the chagrin
George Gershwin.
It is surprising how many of of noting that when his first
the popular song writers of the great musical work was produc-
last several decades in America ed. the orchestra was composed
are children of the old ghettos. largely of Jewish musicians, This
Most of them were children of is not to say that Jews have an •
Russian Jewish parents, with al- superior genius for it but cer-
most no systematic musical (du- (Continued on Page 16)

