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- 31 YEARS OF SERVICE TO DETROIT JEWRY

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Detroit Jewish Chronicle

and The Legal Chronicle

ECTION ONE

VOL. 48, NO. 15

THIS PAPER PRINTED IN THREE SECTIONS

DETROIT, MICHIGAN, APRIL 12, 1946

Shapero Is AJC Campaign .Chairman

10c a single copy; $3.00 per year

Jackson Uses
Nazi Documents
In Yivo Archives

NEW YORK — it was announc-
ed recently that some of the Nazi
state documents in the possession
of the Yiddish Scientific Institute.
Yivo, New York, were sent to Nu-
remberg at the request of Justice
Robert H. Jackson, U. S. Chief of
Counsel at the international tri-
bunal in Nuremberg. Copies of
about 100 Nazi documents pertain-
ing to the life and death of the
Jews in the eastern European ter-
ritories under German occupation
were previously sent by the Yivn
to Justice Jackson. Of these, a
number of originals, being held by
the Yivo, was requested to be
used against the Nazi defense now
proceeding at the trial. All these
documents indicate the responsi-
bility of Alfred Rosenberg for the
crimes committed against the Jew-
ish people in the territory under
his control.
Reproductions and English trans-
lations of these and many other
Nazi secret state documents will
appear in a Yivo publication by
Dr. Max Weinreich, entitled "Hit-
ler's Professors: The Part of
Scholarship in Germany's Crimes
Against the Jewish People." The
book will be published on April
25 and will tell of the role of
German scholarship in the anni-
hilation of the Jews in Europe.

Zionist Congress
Must Be Held on
August 7—Shertok

JERUSALEM (JTA)—The Jew
ish Agency executive is deter-
mined that the World Zionist Con-
gress will open on Aug. 7, regard-
less of what decisions concerning
Palestine's future may be issued
in the interim, Moshe Shertolt,
chief of the Agency's political de-
partment, said this week.
Mr. Shertok told the Jewish Tel-
egraphic Agency that he was
greatly surprised at the statement
by Rabbi Meir Berlin, Mizrachi
leader attacking him for alleged-
ly telling the inquiry committee
that the Arabs had as much right
to Palestine y ns the Jews. "I am
unaware that I ever made such a
statement," Shertok said, adding
that Rabbi Berlin had congratii
listed him after he testified before
the committee, and had not voiced
any criticism.

Speakers Table at AJC Dinner

MMIO. NOMMEM

Going into high gear for the actual raising of the two
million dollars and more of Detroit's quota in the Allied
Jewish Campaign, a meeting of the top campaign leaders
was held last Wednesday at a dinner in the Book-Cadillac
Hotel to map out the actual details of the fund raising.
Julian Krolik, president of the Jewish Welfare Fed-
eration,
announced that the chairman of the 1946 cam-
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Conducts Survey
On Employment

Photo by Jack 731gelatan, Staff Photographer

Faye Emerson (Mrs. Roosevelt), Brig.-General Elliot Roosevelt,
Edwin I. Kaufman, Nate S. Shapero, new campaign chairman,
Harold J. Goldenberg, Henry Wineman, Julian Krolik, Fred Butzel.

2,000 Refugees Scheduled
To Arrive in U.S. in May

SYRACUSE (WNS)—Disclosure that 2,000 refugees
are due to arrive in the United States next month from
Europe and a plea by the Senate's Majority Leader, Al-
ben W. Barkley, for the opening of Palestine immigration
were highlights of the closing session of the joint New
York State Conference of the United Jewish Appeal and
the Council of Jewish Fed-
erations and welfare funds he flung open to enable tens of

NEW YORK (JTA) —A nation-
wide survey on anti-Jewish dis-
crimination in employment is now
being conducted by the Nationa'
Community Relations Advisory
Council in cooperation with the
Jewish Occupational Council and
local Jewish groups, it was an-
nounced here.
The survey was undertaken at
the request of the FEPC which
has been instructed to investigate
and report to the President with
respect to discrimination in recon-
version employment.
"Although discrimination against
Jews is known to exist, there is a
virtual absence of objective data
about extent, areas, and patterns
of such discrimination," a state-
ment issued by the NCRAC says
"Jews are not identified either in
the census or on the registration.
forms of the United States Em-
'ployhint Service - and the increas-
ing subtlety with which discrimin-
ation against Jews is carried on
has made it extremely difficult for
the FEPC or other governmental
agencies to take official cogni-
zance of the Jewish aspects of the
problem."
On the basis of the survey, it is
hoped that for the first time a
mass of factual data will be ac-
cumulated concerning the naturo
and extent of anti-Semitic dis-
crimination in employment, and an
indication of the way in which
this discrimination affects different
geographical areas and different
occupation and industrial groups.

Edwin Rosenberg, first vice- thousands of hungry and un-
Jews
Europe
find
president of the National Refugee wanted
sanctuary
and of
a new
life to
there."
Service, reported that arrival of
the refugees next month will sig•
Mr. Barkley added that "bring-
nal the start of refugee immigra- ing succor and relief to the
tion at the rate of 2,000 a ammo stricken Jews of Europe" is an
under President Truman's recent "elementary duty that all human-
directive. This order permits the ity owes."
entry of refugees into the United
He was joined in his plea by
States under regular immigration Lieut. Col. Judah Nadich, for-
quotas. merly adviser on Jewish affairs to
Senator Barkley urged that Pal- General Eisenhower, who declared
estine be opened to large-scale "millions have died, but hun-
Jewish immigration and colonize- dreds of thousands call for help
tion.
and our answer, your answer, will
"The governments of the world determine whether the Nazis won
cannot leave these so-called dis- the war against democracy, or
placed Jews of Europe indefinitely not."
The 250 delegates pledged them-
in camps," he declared. "Those
people cannot go on living in a selves to give "unreserved support"
no-man's land ringed in by invis- to the $100,000,000 United Jewish
ible walls of homelessness and des- Appeal campaign for relief and
pair. The gates of Palestine must rehabilitation overseas, for refugee
Operation of the so-called GT
settlement in Palestine and for ad-
justment needs of newcomers t Bill of Rights is developing some
the United States.
real troubles.

AJC Demands Immediate Action
On Denazification of American Zone

NEW YORK — Contending that I mitted to raid a Jewish camp, in
Past denazification p r o c e du r es the company of American militat y
have failed to accomplish their oh- personnel, gives courage to the
jectives, the American Jewish Con- Nazi underground, whose , existence
ference recently urged that de- AMG admits, and certainly does
nazification in the American zone help to inculcate democratic prin-
in Germany be prosecuted with in- ciples among the civilian popula-
creased vigor, in communications tion in Germany. Such an act also
to Secretary of State James F. demoralizes American occupation
Byrnes and Secretary of War Rob- troops, who are continually ex-
ert P. Patterson. posed to Nazi indoctrination in
The charge was based on the their contact with the German
killing of Samuel Dantziger, 37. population," he wrote.
Year old survivor of the Oswiecim
"The report that one member
.oncentration camp who was shot of the German raiding party was
Friday morning, March 29, by recognized by a Jewish displaced
rman police in a mass raid on person as a former guard at Os-
. Stuttgart displaced persons wiecim, is even more serious. Fm
ttlement. Three other Jews were it indicates that Germans used in
wounded and twenty-six were ar• police work have not been thor
rested. oughly screened.
Henry Monsky of Omaha, Nebr., I "We appreciate that Lt. Genera;
Chairman of the Interim Commit-I Joseph T. McNerney, Commander
tee of the Conference, declared in the European Theater, prompt.
that the incident "comprised the ly suspended the right of Ger•
fair name of the United States and man police to enter Jewish dis-
the democratic principles for placed persons centers. We be-
vhich we, as Americans, fought in lieve that every step must be
Vorld War II. taken to prevent a recurrence of
"That German police were per- this incident. It is patent that
• Germans must not under any cir-
cumstances be permitted to con-
trol or supervise the lives of Jew-
ish displaced persons. German
armed guards must not be per-
In order to accommodate the
mitted to patrol borders through
reading public, and our ad-
which Jewish persecutees enter
vertisers, the Passover issue of
the American zone.
the Chronicle will come out
"We are confident that the in-
in two numbers this year. The
vestigation now being conducted
second number will come out
will
result in punishment of those
next week.
4 guilty."
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Passover Number

Topflight Givers Meet to
Speed Campaign Tempo

paign was Nate S. Shapero, pre.s-
ident of Cunningham and Shaperr,
Drug Stores.

Promised Support
"I spoke to the campaign lead-
ers and they all promised to back
me in my work and in the cam-
paign," said Mr. Shapero to tla -
one hundred and twenty civic
leaders and business men assem-
bled at the dinner. "On that basis
I have accepted the chairman-
ship. This campaign will not be
run on ballyhoo. There must he
the most solemn note running
through it all for the emergency
is greater than ever before in
history."
The main speaker of the eve-
ning was Brig.-Gen. Elliott G.
Roosevelt, who urged "that every-
one must support the United Na-
tions" which, he said, "was my
father's idea" and which was "the
basis whereby rectal and religious
intolerance would be no more."
Roosevelt described conditions
in Europe as he had seen them
and called especially•for fair treat=
ment of the Jews who, he said.
"had suffered the most and gain-
ed the least from the war."

Go Forward
As he ended his speech with a
stirring, "Go forward! Millions of
people all over the world stand
ready to follow. Go forward, un-
dismayed and unafraid," the entire
audience rose to do him honor.
The next speaker was Edwin I.
Kaufman, former Detroiter and
now business leader of Washing-
ton, D. C., who recently announced
his gift of $250,000 to the United
Jewish Appeal. He spoke briefly
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Federal Aid a GI Can Get:
Breakdowns and Abuses

Arrested En
Route To Palestine

1200

ROME (WNS) — Approximately
1,200 Jews, including three non-
commissioned officers in a Pales-
tine regiment, were arrested this
week at La Spezia, Italian port,
as they planned to embark for
Palestine on three small steamers.
The Jewish refugees, said to
have e n t e red Italy illegally,
reached the port in a caravan of
over thirty Allied trucks. As the
trucks were approaching the port.
an Italian police patrol became
suspicious when it noted two Al-
lied non-commissioned officers in a
jeep. Unable to produce proper
identification papers, the two men
drove off with the police pursuing
them after an exchange of shots.
An investigation disclosed that s
convoy of trucks near-by wets
jammed with Jews waiting to
board three small ships destined
for Palestine.

It is expected that the refugees
will be placed in custody of the
Joint Distribution Committee un-
til final disposition is made of the
incident. Now in custody on the
schooner "Fede," the refugees
were reported to have wired
President Truman and Prime
Minister Attlee that unless they
w permitted to enter Palestine
tAy "will sink the ship and
drown with it, because we have
reached the last stage of despair.'

be seen by following some typical
veterans through the field of
choices offered by the Government
Veterans' privileges are being today.
misused by some veterans or their
Here is veteran John Smith.
relatives, by some employers and like one out of every three World
some people with things to sell. War II veterans, he never had a
Questionable on-job training pro- real job. So he finds it hard to
grams and fraudulent real estate get good pay now. But his three
deals are showing up. There is a years' service, some of it over-
growing feeling that some veter- seas, qualifies him for the limit
ans will continue to pass up to• in all Government monetary bene-
day's jobs when they stand to get fits.
as much as five years' living on
A year's vacation on his Federal
a Government income that can go
Readjustment Allowance of $20 a
higher than a $7,000 total for that
week for 52 weeks might prove
period.
more attractive than any avail-
Then there is the storm of com- able job. Smith could have $10,-
plaints from veterans all over the 000 in the bank and still get his
country about the way their bene- allowance. All he must do is re-
fits fail to work out in individual port to the nearest Government
cases. Undermanned employment employment office, register for a
agencies offer few attractive jobs. job and wait ten days to two
Loans are easy to get only for weeks for his first job .
those who have some money and
If pressed to take a job, Smith
so need them least. Colleges don't could always travel to another
have enough space. Red tape ties area. However, he would have to
up dalings with the Veterans' Ad- register with the Government em-
ministration. Major veterans' or- ployment office in his new loca-
ganizations quarrel with the Gov- tion and probably wait five or six
ernment about all these defects, weeks for his account to catch
then ask Congress for still more up with him.
benefits, including a bonus that
By taking a little trouble, John
would add as much as 5,000 more Smith thus could assure an in-
to a veteran's Government ac- come of $1,340, counting his $300
count.
mustering-out pay, during his first
What really is happening can 12 months out of service.

It