Ailtericalt "ewfsh Periodical Cotter CLIFTON AVENUE - CINCINNATI 20, OHIO 22, 194 • 31 YEARS OF SERVICE TO DETROIT JEWRY ph E' A " ) Detroit Jewish Chronicle VOL. 48, NO. 13 G C I , er . MANN..14 and The Legal Chronicle DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, MARCH 29, 1946 New Treaty Proclaims Transjordan Now Free . Harry Meisner Gets Appointment To Federal Job LONDON (JTA)—Transjordan, which since 1922 has been a part of the Palestine Mandate, became a sovereign, independent state this week, when it signed a treaty of mutual assistance and alliance with Britain. The text of the treaty will not be made public before it is presented to Parliament early next week. The docu- ment terminating the Mandate and guaranteeing Trans- jordan's independence was signed at a ceremony in the Foreign Office, with Under-Secretary of Colonies Arthur Creech-Jones signing for the British Government and Ibrahim Pasha Hashim for Emir Abdullah, the ruler of Transjor- dan- Mutual Assistance Alwyn Freeman Gets Appointment To Dept. of State Th y provisions of the treaty are believed here to include mutual assistance in the event of either of the contracting parties becoming involved in a war, in- cluding the g r ant of corn- The United States Department munication facilities to Britain by of State recently announced the Transjordan. They also are re- appointment of Alwyn V. Free- ported to stipulate that Trans- man, member of the Detroit Bar, jordan must provide facilities for as Assistant Legal Adviser to the British protection of the vital oil Department of State at Washing- pipelines running through the ton. Mr. Freeman was relieved of country from Iraq to Haifa, in his duties as head of the Division Palestine. of International Law in the Judge While leaders of the Jewish Advocate General's Office of the Agency refrained from comment- United States Army to take up his ing on the termination of the new duties. Prior to his enlistment Transjordan Ma n d a t e, Rabbi in the armed forces, he served the Philip Bernstein of Rochester, who State Department as attorney for arrived here from the United the Mexican-United States Mixed States to participate in the drive for the United Palestine Appeal in Britain, told representatives of the British press that he believes that the independence of Transjordan would be "an irritant." He ex- plained that "the treaty signed to- day is a one-sided arrangement made without consulting either the Jewish Agency or the United States." Was Part of Palestine "Transjordan was part of Pales- tin" when the Balfour Declaration was made and the Palestine Man- date was granted, Rabbi Bernstein (Continued on Page 16) 3.4 87 0 U. S. Commander Cannot Foretell Displacees Fate I FRANKFURT (JTA) -- Confirm- ing that Jewish displaced persons are not affected by Secretary of State James F. Byrnes' announce- , ment that most DP camps will he closed by August, Gen. Joseph T. MeNarney, U. S. Commanding General in the European Theatre, this week told the press that he did not know what would happen to them. Asked what would be done with the Jewish DP's Gen. McNarney aid: "I wish you could tell me." He added that the chances are that very few will remain in Ger- many because "not even one in a thousand wishes to stay in Ger- many." At a ceremony here, plaques were unveiled at the sites of the synagogues here, destroyed in No- vember, 1938, in the pogroms fol- lowing the assassination of Nazi attache Ernst vom Rath in Paris. The plaques were put up by the Frankfurt municipality at the sug- hestion of the military govern- ment. Speaking at the unveiling ceremonies, Rabbi Leopold Neu- haus voiced the gratitude of the Jewish community. In a special broadcast marking the ceremonies, a commentator on the Frankfurt radio reviewed the anti-Jewish crimes of the Na- zis and said that "when we hear of the harsh persecutions of Jews in some parts of Eastern Europe today, when in the West, too, vic- tims who have gurvived the death mills of the Nazis are not exactly received with open arms, this shows to what moral degradation Nazism gave rise also outside of Germany." World Zionists to Meet on August 7 JERUSALEM (JTA) -- The 22nd World Zionist Congress, the first since 1939, will open here on Aug- ust 7. it was decided at a meeting of the Jewish Agency executive. I ALWYN V. FREEMAN Claims Commission in the settle- ment of agrarian claims, and un- der Admiral Emory S. Land as counsel for the Maritime Commis- sion. Mr. Freeman is a graduate of ths‘,University of Michigan, Har- vard Law Ithool, and holds a doc- torate degree in International Law from the University of Geneva, Switzerland. He is the author of "The International Responsibility of States for Denial of Justice," published by the London firm of Longmans Green. Mr. Freeman is 35 years of age, and the son of Mr. and Mrs. Alex- ander Freeman of Chicago Blvd. JDC Allocates Million Dollars In USSR Relief NEW YORK (JTA) -- The Joint Distribution Committee is inaugu- rating a $1,000,000 program of med- ical relief in the Soviet Union and has already shipped five bil- lion Oxford units of penicillin un- der the terms of an agreement reached recently by the JDC with the Russian Red Cross and Red Crescent S6cieties, it was an- nounced here. Dr. Joseph C. Hyman, executive vice-chairman, disclosed that the JI,IC will equip five 500-bed hos- pitals and two'250-bed institutions in the Ukraine and White Russia, areas in which large numbers of the Jewish persons in Russia are nook` living." Supplies for the hospitals are now being purchased in the Unit- ed States. They will be completely equipped with basic operating room and sterilizing room sup- plies; surgical instruments and a-- cessories; laboratory equipment; diagnostic and therapeutic X-ray equipment and accessories. HARRY MEISNER Announcement is made by the American Bar Association of the appointment of Harry H. Meisner to serve as a member of the Com- mittee on Correlation of Federal Income, Estate and Gift Taxes. Percy W. Phillips, former Judge of the Tax Court of the United States, is Chairman of the Tax Section and Etwin N. Griswold, head of the Department of Taxa-. tion of Harvard Law School, is also a member of the Committee. The Treasury Department has ap- pointed a similar committee of lawyers connected with that De- partment to work along with the American Bar Association's Com- mittee in its work of correlating the Federal Income, Estate and Gift Tax laws. The importance of the work of this Committee can best be appreciated in the light of the fact that in recent years more than 80 percent of the total Federal Government's yield came from these three important forms of taxation. 1,ii. Meisner has for many years been a practicing attorney before the Courts and Government Agen- cies and he is also a certified pub- lic accountant. Formerly he was head of the Department of Taxa- tion and Corporation Finance at the University of Detroit. During World War II, Mr. Meisner served in the U. S. Navy as a Lieutenant-Commander. Ha is a member of the law firm of Meisner and Meisner in the Na- tional Bank Building. Palestine Offers Hope for UP Jews ATLANTA (JTA) -- Ralph Mc- Gill, editor of the Atlanta Consti- tu ion, who has just returned from Germany and Palestine, in an ad- dress to the South Eastern States Conference of the United Jewish Appeal, told the 250 Jewish lead- ers present that what he saw in Palestine leads him to believe that the country "offered the real hope for the displaced Jews in Europe." He strongly urged the Jews of the United States to in- sure the success of the $100,000,000 drive now being conducted by the U.J.A. "I came back convinced purely on the basis of what I've seen,' he said, "that the objections tc Jewish immigration into Pales- tine are ridiculous. Jews who are already there have done much to build up the country- and those who go there in the future will do much more. "I found that Jews and Arabs are getting along in neighborly fashion," Mr. McGill stated. "The Jews have learned a lot from the Arabs and the Arabs have learned a lot from the Jews. My feeling is that if there were no power politics between Great Britain and Russia, there, would be no ArabaJewish trouble in Palestine." 10c a single copy; $3.00 per ,year Poles Detour 'Frain Full. of Jewish USSR Repatriates MOSCOW (JTA)--A train carrying one of the first group of Jewish repatriates to return to Poland from the Soviet Union was sent on a ten-day detour by an un- identified group of unfriendly Poles, it was reported here. When the train carrying the repatriates reached Wroclaw, the former Germah city of Breslau, the cars carrying Poles were uncoupled, while those carrying Jews were shunted around for ten days, until the train reached Rychbach, which is only 40 miles from Wroc- law. As a result of an immediate investigation by Gov- ernment authorities, however, subsequent transports have arrived in Rycbbach without delay. The Polish Press Agency report- ed from Warsaw that 26,000 Jews have been settled in the Lower Silesia pre-war German areas re- gained by Poland, and that 40,000 more Jews will come to the re- gion. Among the cities in which the Jews have settled, it said, are Wroclaw, Rychbach, Walbrzych and Lignica. The dispatch said Jewish committees in Lower Si- lesia are helping the Jews build homes and obtain employment. However, as a result of resent- ment by Poles, the local Jewish committees are not only assisting Jews, but all repatriates. Polish Minister of Industry Hi- lary Minc, in a statement issued in Warsaw, declared that the for- mer German industries in Silesia can furnish a livelihood for many Jews. Jews who are inter- ested in agriculture are being settled on farms. Some of the repatriates from the USSR encountered at Rychbach Jews who had recently returned from Munich, to where they had fled because they feared thJy would be murdered if they re- mained in Poland, the report re- ceived here reveals. The latter group reported that living condi- tions in the U. S. camps in the Munich area were bad, and that there was little hope that the Jews would be able to emigrate. There are now 60,000 Jews in all of Poland, of whom 20,000 are em- ployed, according to a statistical survey broadcast by the Warsaw radio. Palestine Parties Merge Into One JERUSALEM (JTA) -- The Jew- ish State Party and the New Zi- onist Organization announced their merger and the creation of a new party called the United Zionist- Revisionists. Similar action was taken last week by the Jewish State and NZO groups in Britain and the United States. — Trades Meet to Step Up Tempo of AJC Campaign The tempo of organization for the Allied Jewish Campaign step- ped up this past week as group after group met and began prep- arations for all-out participation in Detroit's $2,000,000 emergency drive, under the leadership of Isi- dore Sobeloff, executive director of the Jewish Welfare Federation. Building Trades A Steering Committee of the Roofers and Tinsmiths Section met Wednesday, March 27, with the section's chairman, Jacob E. Kalt, to plan campaign organiza- ISII)ORE SOBELOFF tion. Members of the Committee are: Nathan Katchman, Abe Se- gal, Manuel Grossman, B. L. Leav- itt, Sidney Rubenoff, Max Nissel, Adolph Ettinger and Max Rabino- witz. Under Allen B. Kramer as chair- man, the Property Management Section met on March 25. (Continued on Page 16' Dinner Honors Dr. Wise Dr. Stephen S. Wise, founder and president of the Jewish Insti- tute of Religion, 40 West 68th St., New York City (center) shown at the Founder's Day Dinner of the Institute at the Hotel Biltmore In New York, March 17. The Dinner, held on the birthday of Dr. Wise was a double salute to him and the 50 graduates of the Institute who To Legalize Canadian Refugees have served as chaplains in World War II. MONTREAL ( JTA ) -- The le- At the left is Maj. Abraham Haselkorn (of New York), attached galization of the status of a num- to Headquarters Delta Basin at Marseilles, France. At the right is ber of refugees who entered Can- Capt. Julius Kravetz (of Rochester, N. Y.) who served In the Philip- ada illegally during the war will pine Islands. Haselkorn was a rabbi in Poughkeepsie, N. Y., before be asked in a bill which will entering the service and Kravetz had a congregation in Bluefield, W. be introduced in Parliament. Va. Both arrived in the United States recently. 1