Lax Announces Finish of Purim Ball Preparations Einstein Sees Palestine Solution By UNO Control of Government "I am convinced that the Jew- ish-Arab difficulties can be solved if we are able to obtain a govern- ment in Palestine under direct control of the UNO organization and under a constitution which assures both the Jewish and Arab people security against being out- voted by the other party," declar- estine Association. Addressed to the first public meeting of the Washington Chairman Mrs. Manny Lax an- branch of the. Progressive Pales- nounced recently that arrange- tine Association Einstein's letter ments have been completed for stated: "I agree wholeheartedly the Purim Ball to be given by with your program and I am con- the Sisterhood of the Northwest vinced that your work will be of Hebrew Congregation and Center real value for the solution of the at the Bonnie Brook Country Club hard problems the Palestine situa- on Sunday evening, March 17. tion is presenting." Music will be furnished by Ken- The Progressive Palestine Asso- ny Singer and his orchestra, and ciation intends to fight for the a complete entertainment pro- opening of Palestine to free Jew- gram has been planned, according ish immigration and to support to Mrs. Ira Kaufman, program program of Arab-Jewish coopera- chairman. tion in Palestine, announced the Assisting Mrs. Lax are Mrs. Sam chairman of the meeting, Adrian Bishop, co-chairman, and the fol- B. Schwartz. lowing: Mesdames C. Charlip, S. A Jordan Valley Authority ap- Helfer, P. Brodsky, D. Aidem, C. pointed by the UNO as trustee for Harris, E. Brook, E. Dunshy, G. Palestine and dedicated to the ex- Gold, G. Chisik, M. Schram, M. pansion of economic opportunity, Fineman, Z. Garber, M. Rivkin, is being proposed by the PPA, H. Storchan, D. Samelson, and said Schwartz, president of the Mitchelle Tchor. Washington branch of the organi- Mrs. Mary Gordon is in charge zation. Schwartz explained that the of refreshments. group differs from the position of the majority of Zionists in that it does not support their demand for a Jewish Commonwealth in Pal- estine. "No lasting solution which will meet Jewish needs — or for I' HOF. EINSTEIN that matter Arab needs — is pos- ed Albert Einstein in a letter to sible until a new social climate the newly formed Progressive Pal- has been created there," he said. "lb Make Use of Your Spare Time; Supervise Youth Groups in Detroit Do you have a sense of humor? Have you patience and enthusi- asm? Do young people like you? Can you stand noise and confu- sion? convalescent patients at the Mc- Gregor Convalescent Home. You can supervise recreational activi- ties for the children in the cot- tages at Children's Village. – No, this isn't a quiz program. The CYO Community Center But the $64 question might be: wants leaders for crafts, hobbies, Can you set aside several hours a bowling, billiards, games, gymna- sr, week in your busy schedule to help sium and dramatics. Franklin Set- a group of young people make tlement, Williams House, the YW better use of their leisure? CA, St. Peter Claver Community Throughout the metropolitan De- House, Delray Christian Neighbor. MRS. MANNY LAX troit area there are hundreds of hood House, Brightmoor Commu- youngsters and teen-agers hop- nity Center and many other com- Tickets may be secured by con- ing some older person will take munity centers supported by the tacting Mrs. Sam Bishop, UN. 3- an interest in them. They want to Detroit Community Fund need 5042, Mrs. Norman Allan, UN. 3- meet after school or in the eve- volunteers to help direct the va-i- 1456, or Mrs. A. Sacks, UN. 1-7238. nings. They want to learn crafts ous club and recreational activi- Mrs. James Downey, director of and hobbies, play games and have ties conducted at the centers. the Women's Safety Division of wholesome, worthwhile fun. But the American Auto Club, was they can't unless they have adult guest speaker at the regular meet- supervision. ing of the Sisterhood held at the Mrs. T. W. P. Livingstone, new- home of Mrs. J. Gordon last Wed- nesday evening. ly-appointed director of the Cen- tral Volunteer Bureau, which is The'Sisterhood will be hostesses seeking to recruit volunteer group at the breakfast meeting of the Detroit Congregations are pre- work and recreation leaders, es- League of Jewish Women's Or- timates that at least 200 volun- paring a proper reception for the ganizations to be held at the Cen- famous Gaon, Rabbi Abraham Jof- teers are needed at the present ter on Wednesday, March 13. fen, head of the renowned Vovar- time to supervise youth groups in odok Central Yeshivah Beth Jo- the Detroit area. You don't have to be a trained seph, who has arrived in Detroit leader or whiz at sports, games in the interests of this Torah cen- ter. or hobbies, to be a group work The Novarodok - Bialistok Cen- and recreation leader. If you can spare several hours a week and tral Yeshivah Beth Joseph was would like to herp in this work, the center of over 70 Yeshivoth in or if you would just like to learn Poland and Lithuania, and did much to endear Jewish religious The Junior High School of Tem- more about the work, call th.? culture among great numbers of ple Beth El will present its Purim Central Volunteer Bureau, TE. 1- our youth. play, "Mordecai's Cousin," by Ab- 1600. Yeshivah is now engaged in elson, on Saturday, March 16, at This bureau, is a clearing house. for volunteers in all types of work. a large project of expansion to 10:15 a.m. The play is under the It is a department of the Coon- accommodate the hundreds of direction of Mrs. Blanche Gordon cil of Social Agencies and is sup- stranded refugee students which Romm, with the following partici- are now being brought to this pating: Harry Carris, Lawrence ported by the Detroit Community country from Shanghai. This great Clamage, Johanna Frankel, Laine Fund. Last year it placed 1,123 undertaking requires untold ef- Ginn, Marilyn Kirselsmann, Bever- volunteers, who put in a total of forts and immense sums of ly Morris, Richard Weis, and Mar- 105,381 volunteer hours. money. jorie Yagoda. What can you do as a volunteer The Council of Orthodox Rabbis "A Merry Good Purim" by Soi- group work and recreation leader? of Detroit and the Vaad Hayeshi- You can teach dancing to a voth is 1ppealing to all leaders of fer will be the Purim presentation gropp of high school boys at the Congregations and societies and of the Intermediate Drama Group Boys Club or plan entertainment to all loyal Jews to give this their before the Primary and Interme- and organize outside activities for fullest co-operation and support. diate Assembly on Sunday, Nfaren 17, at 10:15 a.m. The cast is as follows: Mark Fleischman, Helen Isaacs, Louis Karbel, Marcia Kleinman, Joyce Lane, Janet Maas, Bela Miskin, Elaine Platt, Back from Overseas Service # and Sharon Schwartz. Mrs. Blanche G. Romm is directing the play. 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Page Two ■■••■■•••■•■•■■••■■•■ 1-10 8790 • 41..................44 REPORT FROM GERMANY By IRVING IlAYETT Jewish Chronicle Foreign Correspondent (Copyright 1916, All Rights Reserved) This series of articles tells of the War Crimes Trials in Frankfurt, Germany. ARTICLE VIII The Brockhagen Atrocity Case N OR ABOUT the first of October 1944, while on a bombing run over Germany, an American bomber plane was attacked by several German planes and shot down. Three American airmen were seen to parachute from the plane over Brockhagen Germany. Brock- hagen is a little farming village about 20 kilometers from Bad Oeynhausen. Two of the men came down together while the third flyer was seen to drift about a quarter of a nail} away. When the Americans liberated one of the prisoner of war camps, the two American flyers that landed together were found but not one trace could be found of the third airman. From the report of the two airmen and from preliminary questioning of witnesses it was evident that the third flyer was beaten to death. Another German war atrocity had been committed. As I ant now on loan to the War Crimes Liaison Detadiment stationed in the British Zone at Bad Oeynhausen, I was asked to accompany Lt. Johnny Hachmann, Investigator-Examiner, Sgt. T-5 Arthur Jacoby, Interpreter and a driver to investigate the Brock- hagen atrocity case. Accordingly, on 7 January 1946 we set out in our jeep for Brockhagen, which is some kilometers from Bad Oeyn- hausen, to interview two friendly witnesses and to find out what we could as to what happened to the airmen. The names of the witness- es were Walter Sussick and Paul Sussiek. Good Dark Earth Bad Oeynhausen, as I have al- ready mentioned, is a resort town. AN we left the compound we entered a country road and were right in the midst of Ger- man farm country. The farms we passed were all quite large, the land was good, dark earth and seemed to my inexperienced eyes to he fertile. The buildings are of brick, covered with white paint and with a criss cross pattern of black beams. All the roofs are , ■ f red clay or tile. The farms went by one after the other, all the same, all white, criss crossed, all red tiled roofs, all neat and orderly, as only the orderly and precise Germans can be. After bouncing around in the hack seat of the jeep (by the way if you've never been bounced over a country road in the back seat of a jeep, brother you ain't never been bounced. Riding a bucking broneho or a jammed subway, is a pleasure ride compared to it) we arrived at the village of Brockhagen. After asking directions of the local "Polizei," we finally found the mill of the Sussiek brothers. Evidently these Sussiek brothers had done all right before the war, because the mill was good sized one for so small a village. (Population 7001. We were greeted by an excited German, who turned out to he Walter Sussiek. When he saw the jeep with the American flag on it he started jumping around like a jumping jack. His hat was in his hand and he was bowing so MU is I thought he would break. Final- ly, we were led into a very large, neatly kept office. In one corner was a beautiful mahogany desk. Set in one wall was the tall, white tiled stove (coal) and on'the other side was a bookcase, well filled with German books, all leather bound. The floor was thickly car- peted and the chairs were the high back, old fashioned over- stuffed affairs. It was a very pleasant room in which to con- duct an examination. Point the Finger I set up my stenotype machine, intently watched by the witness and we were ready to go. The wit- ness was sworn in and the inter- rogating began. The Sussick brothers had written a letter to the Liaison Detachment e•ting that they felt it their duty to give testimony as to what they saw. What they saw' was very little. However, they did mention- some names and they did point the finger at one Heinrich Pohl- mann, a party member who owned a machine shop in tow.. It seems that the two flyers that were shot down, who landed together were taken to an Inn in the town by a group of local volunteer police- man. One of them had bruised his leg but the other was not injured at all. They were neither one of them seriously hurt. Walter Sus- sick, did not know very much, he had left as soon as Ortsgruppen. leiter Pohlmann came to the scene, because Walter was not party member and was on the black list. His brother Paul Sus- siek had accompanied the flyers to the Inn. Walter was dismissed. Paul Sussiek, a tall, blond German about 44 years old came into the room. Ile had a kindly face and seemed very much at case. It seems that two of the , airmen landed on his property. By the time he got to the 113 ers, }antler Richards was there and thirty other people of the team The two airmen were taken to (Continued on page 6) HISTADRUT RADIO PROGRAM Sunday Morning, March 10, Featuring 12:45, Station W JIB HELEN WAREN C losing Campaign Festival and Celebration of 25th Anniversary of Histadrut Sunday Evening, March 17th, 8:00 p.m. CASS HIGH SCHOOL AUDITORIUM Guest Artist, RICHARD TUCKER The Finest "KATK A" An Unusual Great Novel By MARIA K. SINAK ". . - kept me burning the midnight oil ..." —The Detroit Times 508 pages 33.50 S. J. BLOCH Publishing Co. Michigan Bank Bldg. 600 Woodward Detroit 26 Eminent Metropolitan Opera Co. Star Tickets of admission are being issued to organization of $12 and over. Turn in delegates and contributors H1STADRUT PALESTINE COMMITTEE your contribution to 9142 LINWOOD TY. 7-8225