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30 YEARS OF SERVICE TO DETROIT JEWRY

Detroit Jewish Chronicle

VOL. 47, NO. 52

and The Legal Chronicle

DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1945

Special Council Conference
Sunday Discusses Budgeting

Pursuant to a decision by the Community Council's Ex-
ecutive Committee, a Special Conference of delegates
and presidents of the Council's affiliated organizations
has been called by Aaron Droock, President, for this Sun-
day, Dec. 30, at 2 p.m. in the Brown Memorial Chapel of
Temple Beth El.
At this all-important conference, representatives of the

Council's 222 constituent organiza-
tions will hear and participate in
a comprehensive discussion of the
proposal for a "National Advisory
Budgeting Service," which is being
proposed on behalf of the Board
of Directors of the Council of Jew-
ish Federations and Welfare
Funds. Following the discussion,
delegates will vote by secret bal-
lot on whether or not they ap-
prove of this proposal. In thig
way a recommendation truly rep-
resentative of Detroit Jewish opin-
ion on this proposal will be ob-
tained, and will be presented to
Detroit's Jewish Welfare Federa-
tion.
Julian S. Krolik, treasurer of
the Community Council and mem-
ber of its board as well as mem-
ber of the executive committee of
the Jewish Welfare Federation,
will speak in favor of the pro-
posal. Abram Meyerowitz, mem-
ber of the board of the Council
and director of the Farban
Schools, will speak against it.
The National Advisory Budget-
ing Proposal will be acted on na-
tionally at the National Assembly
of the Council of Jewish Federa-
tions and Welfare Funds, which
is to take place in Detroit, Febru-
ary 8 to 11. At this Assembly, del-
egates representing Detroit's Jew-
ish Welfare Federation will have
an opportunity to vote for or

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Anti-Semitism In
Poland Punishable
By Death, Decree

WARSAW (WNS) — Violence
against Jews will be punishable
by death or life imprisonment, ac-
cording to a decree promulgated
by the Polish Government last
week.
Under the decree all persons in-
citing or participating in acts of
terrorism or violence against na-
tional or religious groups, or in-
dividuals, are to be tried by mili-
tary courts under martial law pro-
cedure. Sentenced offenders are
not to have the right to appeal
from the judgment of the court or
the severity of the sentence.
Following disclosure of the new
decree, Prime Minister Edward
Osuba-Morawski ex pressed the
hope that the new law would
check anti-Semitic outbreaks. He
admitted that there had been a
wave of serious anti-Jewish out-
breaks in Poland, but at the same
time he charged that the instiga-
tors were Poles who still stood in
touch either with Nazi survivors
or with General Wladyslaw And-
ers, former commander of the
armed forces of the Polish Gov-
ernment-in-Exile in London.

JULIAN S. KROLIK

Truman Forbids
Discrimination In
Federal Agencies

WASHINGTON (JTA) — Presi-
dent Truman this week issued an
executive order continuing the
work of the Fair Employment
Practices Committee until June
30, 1946, in accordance with pro-
visions of the National War Agen-
cies Appropriation Act. The com-
mittee is instructed by the order
"to investigate, make findings and
recommendations, and report to
the President, with respect to dis-
crimination in industries engaged
in work contributing to the pro-
duction of military supplies or to
the effective transition to a peace-
time economy."
"It has come to my attention,"
the Piesident wrote, "that a con-
siderable number of loyal and
qualified employees have been re-
fused transfer and re-employment
by employment agencies solely be-
cause of race and creed. This con-
dition is a violation of civil serv-
ice rules which have been issued
by the President and in violation
of existing law. I am writing to
request that you make careful an-
alysis of your personnel policies.
procedures and practices in order
that . . . all qualified workers in
existing temporary war jobs will
be considered fairly for appoint-
ments without distinction because
of race, creed, color or national
origin."
The full cooperation of all gov-
ernmental agencies with FEPC
"in all matters affecting the em-
ployment of minorities in govern-
ment" was also requested by the
President.

Sumner Welles Demands UNO
Establish Jewish Commonwealth

The Anglo-American Commis-
sion of Inquiry on Palestine can-
not have "any truly beneficial re-
sult" because "the problem is not
one which can be solved by the
findings of a Commission con-
sisting of the representatives of
any two nations," Hon. Sumner
Welles, former Under Secretary of
State, declared when accepting
the chairmanship for Maryland
of the American Christian Pales-
tine Committee.
"A lasting and just result can
only be obtained through the de-
termination of all of the United
Nations that such a solution must
be found and found promptly. It
is for that reason that I earnestly
hope that the United Nations Or-
ganization will assume the respon-

sibility for finding such a solution
as soon as the Organization is con-
stituted," Mr. Welles ,said.
Pointing out that "the Govern-
ment of the United States is offi-
daily committed to the establish-
ment of a Jewish National Home
in Palestine," Mr. Welles asserted,
"the Commonwealth of Palestine
can only come into being if the
United Nations Organization de-
cides, as it should, that the estab-
lishment of a Jewish Common-
wealth in Palestine is essential to
world peace and to world stabil-
ity. The International Trusteeship
Council soon to be set up by the
United Nations Organization
should be charged with the obli-
gation of carrying out this deci-
sion promptly."

Demand Removal
Of Jews At Once
Front D P Camp

By M. NATHAN
(JTA Correspondent)
PARIS (JTA) — Displaced Jews
must be taken out of Germany
immediately, if a "disastrous
breakdown of morale" is to be
avoided, three representatives of
the American Jewish Committee
who have just returned from there
warned this week.
In a statement to the press, Max
Gottschalk, Herman A. Gray and
Lewis Neikrug, who studied the
question of rehabilitation and re-
settlement of the Jewish D.P.'s
said: "During recent months the
situation of the displaced persons
in camps in Germany has repeat-
edly been brought to public atten-
tion. There has been sharp criti-
cism of shortages in housing, food
and clothing. Vital as these things
are, they do not go into the heart
of the problem. The fact is that
displaced Jews must be taken out
of Germany immediately, if there
is to be any hope for them. No-
body ever expected that they
would remain in camps in Ger-
many beyond the time needed for
their recovery from total exhaus-
tion."
Their statement added that "it
is profoundly disturbing that the
Intergovernmental Committee on
Refugees recently met and ad-
journed without doing or planning
anything for the displaced Jews."
The question of resettlement, they
said, is one for the United Na-
tions, but immediate emergency
action must be taken, "if this
handful of survivors of the Nazi
terror are to be saved."

Campaign Starts
For Palestinian
Medical School

The campaign to raise $4,000,.
000 to build Palestine's first Med-
ical School was opened at a dinner
Dec. 18 at the Pierre Hotel in
New York at which $475,000 was
donated in gifts. About 250 persons
attended the dinner, which was
given by the American Friends of
Hebrew University and Hadassah,
and which honored 17 Nobel Prize
scholars, who, headed by Albert
Einstein, are serving on a scien-
tific committee of sponsors for
the project. Ira A. Hirschman'',
co-chairman with Mrs. Samuel J.
Rosensohn, presided.
The principal speakers at the
dinner were Dr. Chaim Weizmann,
chairman of the Board of Govern-
ors of Hebrew University, Dr.
Charles Gordon Heyd, past presi-
dent of the American Medical As-
sociation, Dr. Otto Loewi, Nobel
Prize scholar in physiology and
medicine, and Mrs. Lorna Win-
gate, widow of the late Gen. Orde
Wingate, of the famed "Wingate's
Raiders."
Among the contributions made
at the dinner were $50,000 from
Harry Scherman, President of th
Book-of-the-Month Club; $25,
from Edmund I. Kaufmann
Washington, D. C.; $15,000 fro
Mr. and Mrs. Jack S. Gordon of
Boston, Mass.; and $10,000 each
from Mr. and Mrs. David B.
Greenberg of New York City and
Albert D. Lasker, also of New
York City.
The proposed school, which will
be known as Hebrew University--
Hadassah Medical School, is ex-
pected to become a world center
for the study of tropical medi-
cine. The $4,000,000 is planned to
meet the cost of building, equip-
ping and maintaining the school
for five years. It will be the first
institution of its kind in the Mid-
dle East, and will be open to Jews,
Christians and Moslems. It was
pointed out by the speakers that
in providing Jews with the medi-
cal training denied them for more
than a decade, the school will fore-
stall the threatened shortage of
doctors in the Middle East and
provide urgently needed medical
care for the ever-growing refugee
population of Palestine.

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Palestinians Deported
To Concentration Camp

JERUSALEM (WNS) — The Palestinian Government
announced this week that 55 Jews had been deported
from Palestine to a concentration camp in Eritrea "in the
interest of public safety."
The sudden action by the government was viewed with
alarm by the Jewish community here, particularly in view
of the fact that the high court here had only recently

Czech Jews In
Sudeten Resettled

NEW YORK (JTA) — Several
thousand Jews f rom Carpatho
Ruthenia, ceded by Czechoslovakia
to the Soviet -Union, are being re-
settled, with Czechoslovak Gov-
ernment aid, in the former Sude-
ten region, replacing Germans, Dr.
Jan Papanek, director of the
Czechoslovak Government infor-
mation service in the United
States disclosed here.
Although, according to the agree-
ment with the Soviet Union, only
persons of Czech and Slovak na-
tionalities In Carpatho-Ruthenia
have the right to choose Czecho-
slovak citizenship, Carpatho-Ruth-
enian Jews who cross into Czecho-
slovakia are being given Czecho-
slovakian citizenship, he stated at
a press conference.
Dr. Papanek, who recently re-
turned to America after a brief
visit to his homeland, pointed out
that Czechoslovakia is the only
liberated country which has re-
established autonomous Jewish
communities. There are now 50
Jewish communities in Bohemia
and Moravia and 110 in Slovakia,
he reported. Through the still val-
id pre-yar law of state support
for churches of all denominations,
the Jewish communities receive
financial subsidies for synagogues
and religious schools and have
the right to tax members of Jew-
ish communities.
"Only about ten percent of the
country's pre-war Jewish popula-
tion came back to Czechoslovakia
from concentration camps," he es-
timated. "One of the first laws of
the new Czechoslovak Government
was a decree abrogating all dis-
criminatory laws established dur-
ing the occupation by the Ger-
mans. The process of readjust-
ment of the returned Jews is a
slow one due to difficult economic
conditions, but there is no doubt
in the mind of Czechoslovak Gov-
ernment officials that in several
months life will be normal."
Speaking of the anti-Jewish ex-
cesses in Slovakia, Dr. A. Papanell
said that the Government is tak-
ing steps to punish persons re-
sponsible for them and to prevent
other incidents. The disturbances
are provoked by former German
soldiers hiding in the mountains
by deserters from the Russian
quisling group headed by General
Vlasvov and by former members
of the Hlinka Guards, Dr. Papa-
nek asserted.

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handed down a decision to the ef-
fect that it was unlawful to de-
port Palestine citizens for deten-
tion abroad. Jewish leaders are
expected to present the matter to
the attention of the Privy Council
in London, and Jewish lawyers
are said to be preparing papeis
to test the validity of the deporta-
tion order.
The official government an-
nouncement merely disclosed that
"In the interest of public security,
fifty-five persons who had been
detained under the Emergency
Defense Regulations in connec-
tion with terrorism, were trans-
ferred yesterday to military cus-
tody and removed to a detention
place in Eritrea" and "twenty-one
persons who were among the cl ,.!-
tainees in Eritrea have now been
returned to Palestine."
The detainees, taken from a de-
tention camp at Latrun, between
Jerusalem and Tel-Aviv, we r e
flown to Eritrea by military
planes.
It was disclosed at the same
time that the deportation of the
55 Jews was effected only after
a clash in which all the Jewisn
prisoners at the Latrun camp par-
ticipated. It took a detachment of
police and soldiers to °meow!
the resisters.
Following the deportation of the
group, the Jewish internees in the
Latrun camp declared a hunger
strike, now in its fifth day.

New Chief Rabbi
Takes Office In
City Of Rome

ROME (WNS)—Dr. David Pra-
to was sworn In this week as Chief
Rabbi of Rome, a post he held
from 1936 to 1939. The ceremony
was attended by representatives
of the Italian Government and
the royal house.
Dr. Prato was born in Livorno,
Italy, in 1882. In 1927 he was made
chief rabbi of Alexandria. An ard-
ent Zionist, he sponsored the or-
ganization of the Palestine Foun-
dation Fund and the Jewish Na-
tional Fund in Italy. In 1936 he
became chief rabbi of Rome, but
in 1939 he resigned and went to
Palestine, where he became a rab-
bi of the Sephardic community
of Tel-Aviv. His resignation in
1939 was said to have been the
result of pressure by groups wh.,
where backing Israel Zolli, who
later became converted to Catholi-
cism, for the chief rabbinate of
Rome.

Jews Served U.S.
• In War;
nerals, 3 Admirals On List

NEW ORK (JTA) -- Fifteen
men of J vish faith achieved the
rank of Ge cral and three others
saw service s Admirals or Com-
modores dur g the war, it was
revealed her by the National
Jewish Welfar Board in a call to
Jewish groups and individuals in
the United Sta s asking them to
submit names o Jews who fought
in World War to their local
Jewish War Rec. ds Committee.
Designating Jan ary as "War
Records Month," th Jewish Wel-
fare Board reported that incom-
plete data already
ed indi-
cates that some
) Jewisn
men and women
• in the
armed forces. In add ont, to thiq
number, which would be s 'dent
to man 40 divisions, mor than
fifty percent of the America rab-
binate volunteered for the c p-

laincy, with half of their number
serving overseas. One third of the
Jewish physicians of all ages were
in uniform; 60 percent of those
under 45 were in the armed
forces. Nearly 30 percent of th..
Jewish dentists in the metropoli-
tan New York area saw military
service.
Forty Jewish families through-
out the United States lost two
sons each in the service, while at
least one family is known to have
lost three sons in action. Combat
casualties among Jewish men and
women numbered 22,042 while 29.-
004 awards were received by some
15,000 Jewish soldiers and sailors.
One received the highest award of
the nation, the Congressional Med-
al of Honor, and 76 earned the
second highest award, the Army
Distinguished Service Cross and
the Navy Cross.

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