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Detroit Jewish Chronicle

and The Legill Chronicle

VOL. 48, NO. 17

DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, APRIL 26, 1946

Inquiry Committee Submits
Unanimous Palestine Report

Enggass Elected
Board Member

The Washington chairman of the Anglo-American
Inquiry Committee is reported to have submitted the com-
mittee findings to the State Department at Washington.
The committee reportedly recommends the admis-
sion of one hundred thousand D.P. Jews to Palestine this

year. Army transportation is to
be used for this purpose. The
White Paper is repudiated. Ad-
ministration is to be through the
UN Council.

La Spezia Passengers
Will Delay Departure

LA SPEZIA (JTA) — The 1,090 passengers aboard
the "Fede" at La Spezia have decided to postpone their
departure for Palestine until April. Their decision was
taken following receipt of a cable from Harold Laski,
chairman of the British Labor Party, stating that the Brit-
ish Government would announce.

"We Walked in the Bataan Death March"

By FRANK BECKMAN
No solution of statehood was
"I kept thinking of those boys
proposed. This will be worked out who weren't so lucky as we," said
in time to the satisfaction of the Sgt. Isadore Sabbota, of 2291 Ha-
people in Palestine under UN ad- zelwood, who was one of the two
ministration.
Jewish survivors of the Bataan
The report of the committee was Death March from Detroit. The
unanimous. It is believed that this
is a compromise solution with the
American members demanding
more and the British members
urging less. Despite all the ru-
mors circulated in recent weeks
and despite frequently acrimonious
debate which occurred while the
recommendations were being draft-
ed, no minority report was writ-
ten.

From here on in, the fate of
Palestine rests in the hands of
the two governments and the An-
glo-American inquiry committee
no longer exists, its member ,
scattering to their homes in Eng-
land or the United States. It is
assumed that the State Depart-
ment and the Foreign Office will
contact each other for the pur-
pose of arranging simultaneous
release of the report in Washing-
ton and London.

It is not known yet if the report
will be released immediately, or
whether the two governments will
first consult as to the decisions VI
be taken on the basis of the re-
port, and release it only when
they are ready to announce thes,?
decisions. It is understood that
when the committee visited Fa.
reign Minister Bevin during its
hearings in London, he intimated
that whatever they recommended
would be acted upon.

At a meeting of the Detroit
Board of Commerce, Maurice A.
Enggass was elected a member of
the Board. The election was un-
animous.
Some months ago, the Detroit
Jewish Chronicle published an edi-
torial urging the Board of Com-
merce to elect a Jewish member
to their board.

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SID WOLF

ceremonies in front of the City
Hall on April 9 were very im-
pressive, and I couldn't help con-
trasting the way we stood at at-
tention here with the way we had
to stand at attention in a Japan-
ese prison."
Sabbota and his friend, Sid
Wolf, 2276 Taylor, were both
drafted on March 20, 1941. They
In the 104 days that elapsed be- were together almost constantly
tween the time when it opened from their first day in uniform.
hearings in Washington and fin- They were together when Bataan
ished the report here, the com- fell four years ago.
mittee, in part or in whole, visited
London, Paris, Bari, Berlin, Stutt-
gart, Munich, Nuremberg, Frank-
furt, Prague, Warsaw, Cairo, Jeru-
salem, Beirut, Damascus, Baghdad
and Riyad, studying the problems
of the Jews of Europe both in
NEW YORK (JTA) — Instances
and out of displaced persons
camps and in the Middle East, of "Jews being rejected and dis-
charged from employment are
and the problems of Palestine.
sharply on the increase and hotel
and resort literature is filled with
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discrimination specifications," the
Bnai Brith Anti-Defamation
League reported at a meeting of
delegates from eighteen national
and local organizations organized
in the New York Metropolitan
Council on Fair Employment
Practice.
Reports by various organiza-
MONTREAL (JTA) — The Que-
bec provincial legislature has tions in the Council, which in-
adopted a bill compelling local cludes Protestant, Catholic, Negro.
school boards to accept Jewish interfaith, interracial and labor
children as students in the insti groups as well as Jewish bodies,
outlined methods evolved for deal-
tutions under their jurisdiction.
ing with manifestations of dis-
The legislation was drafted by crimination in employment. Sev-
the Government following the re- eral of the reports pointed out
fusal of the Protestant education- that discrimination by employers
al authorities in Outremont, a was on the upgrade in anticipa-
suburb of Montreal, to renew a tion of the closing of the national
contract under which Jewish chil-
Fair Employment Practice Com-
dren in the community were edu-
cated at Protestant schools. The mittee office in Washington at the
Out r e m o n t school authorities end of this month.
charged that the Jewish commun-
Among the participating groups
ity was not contributing sufficient were the Anti-Defamatiori League,
funds to defray the expenses in- the American Jewish Committee.
curred in educating the Jewish the American Jewish Congress.
children.
the Jewish War Veterans, and
The problem arose as a result the Jewish Peoples Committee.
of the fact that Quebec, in place
The Brooklyn Borough Gas Co. .
of the system of public schools
existing elsewhere in Canada, has which has previously been charg-
separate Protestant and Catholic ed in the State Legislature with
systems. Jewish children have al- discrimination in the hiring of
ways attended Protestant schools. Jews, has been accused of hiring
The government bill, which has only one Jew within the last ter.
been hailed by Jewish leaders and years. In a letter to Miss Mary
condemned by the school authori- Dillon, president of the company
ties, is only a temporary solution and president of the New York
of the problem, however, since it City Board of Education, the Am-
compels the admittance of Jewish erican Jewish Congress asserted
children to Outremont schools on- that the number of Jews employed
by the utility was less than three
ly through June 30, 1917.

At the time, Sabbota was a pre-
law Senior at Wayne University,
and Wolf was a Briggs employee.
Five months later, they were at
Clark Field in the Philippines.
They were there on December 71
1941, • when the Japs struck at
Pearl Harbor.
Hawaii was still smoldering
from "the stab in the back" when
Jap bombers turned southward to
Clark Field. With only a handful
of men available, units were
broken up for a defense of the
islands. Sabbota was rushed to
Manila with the 515th CA Bn.,
and Wolf stayed behind with the
200th CA Bn. to help' cover the
retreat. They met later on Bataan.
The 515th's stay in Manila was
a stormy one. They saw the Ca-
vite Naval Base completely de-
stroyed by 68 enemy planes. Six
of the bombers were shot down
by American gun crews two-
thirds understrength. When Ma-
nila was declared an open city on
Christmas day, the cease firing
signal was given with orders to
proceed to San Fernando, 80
miles north.
On January 22, the Japanese
infantry struck at the Habuki
Line, a narrow road leading to
Bataan. Repulsed in a six-d ✓
battle, they were thrown back to
San Fernando by stubborn Yan-
kee troops. Again an unrelent-
ing air bombardment began. On
March 22, leaflets addressed to
Gen. Wainwright were dropped
among the weary Americans.
"You have fought to the Japan-
ese code, Bushido, (brave war-
rior). Singapore, Sumatra, Bor-
neo, W. Indies and Hongkong
have fallen. You and your sol-
diers have fought very bravely

its decision within a week. Laski
said that he had met with Foreign
Secretary Bevin, and the latter
"showed great interest" in the
case.
The cable arrived as the leaders
of the would-be immigrants re-
ceived word that another Italian
vessel, the "Fenice" would join
the "Fede" in case the British ob-
jected to the trip on the grounds
that the first vessel was over-
crowded. It was read to the as-
sembled Jews as they gathered on
the dock to commemorate the
third anniversary of the Warsaw
ghetto battle.
"We are Impatient to leave —
and we will leave," one leader
stated, "but we believe in Prof.
Laski's good will and sympathy
for our cause, and that is the
reason why we decided to wait
another week. At the same time,
we are preparing to sail if a fa-
vorable decision is not reached by
the British by next Friday, or if
that decision is one that we con-
sider negative."
He explained that a negative de-
cision would include one splitting
the group into two — one to leave
now and the second next month, a
move which has been reported as
the probable British solution. The
spokesman emphasized the refu-
gees' determination to resist any
British attempt to hinder the voy-
age by the exercise of force, add-
ing that "the tragic consequences
of any such attempt would be on
the heads of the British."

and nobly. It is no shame to sur-
render. You will be treated ac-
cording to international law. The
soldiers' families will be grateful
to Gen. Wainwright for saving
the lives of those still living. If
you do not comply on March 27.

ISADORE SABBOTA
we will be compelled to take ac-
tion." Wainwright did not reply.
The Japs fulfilled their threat
and hit again on March 27. A
crumbling American force re-
treated until April 9 when Gen
King surrendered.
The two Detroiters began the
185 kilometer "Death March of
B a t a a n." Eleven thousand men,
all weak from .continuous fight-
ing, set out for Camp O'Donnell.
Many dropped to the wayside ex-
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Might Blow Up Ship
He hinted that the immigrants
might even go so far as to blow
up the ship with themselves, ex-
plaining that "our lives don't
matter. What only matters is our
cause — immediate immigration
to Palestine for all Jews left alive
in Europe who want to go."
There is definite evidence that
the group is planning an early de-
parture. The water tanks are be-
ing refilled while scores of men
and women, clad in shorts and
shirts, are disinfecting all parts
of the ship. There are no police—
either British or Italian — around
the dock area and, so far as this
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MOSCOW (JTA)—"Whom Time
Obeys," a play based on the hero-
ism of Jews in the ghettos of Li-
thuania and Jewish partisans,
opened here this week at the
Valchtangov Theater, one of the
ATLANTA (JTA) — Prompt po-
major Moscow playhouses.
lice work has resulted in the ar-
One of the central characters in rest of three boys charged with
the drama written by Tur and desecrating the Anshe S'Fard
Lev Sheinin, is Rubenstein, a 72- Chassidic Synagogue here.
year-old clock maker, who is sum-
Following discovery of the at-
moned by the Nazi Gauleiter of tack on the synagogue, during
Riga and ordered to repair his which two Torahs were ripped
rare 15tfi century Genca clock and prayer books, an American
In return, the watchmaker is flag and several talliths were
promised his life.
strewn around the floor, an official
Rubenstein repairs the valuable of the synagogue communicated
antique but plants a time bomb with the local office of the Anti-
within it -- as he has been order- Defamation League.
ed to do by the partisan move-
A call by ADL chairman to
ment. He is murdered by the Na- Chief of Police Hornsby resulted
zis after he delivers the clock, but in detectives being dispatched to
is revenged when it explodes three the scene and the arrest of three
days later, and kills the gauleiter neighborhood youths, all under 15,
and his chief aides.
who confessed they had committed
One scene L'S laid in the ghetto the vandalism.
on Passover night. Rubenstein and
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one of his friends sit and recall
seders of other years, when a
crash of glass and a volley of
shots is heard — the Nazis are
BUENOS AIRES (JTA) — Dr.
raiding the ghetto. The contrast Mario Weissman, Argentinian Jew,
between Passover nights during has been awarded one of the
the pre-Nazi period and under the t annual prizes given by the
German occupation is one of the F ulty of Medicine of Buenos
high points of the play.
Aires for the best scientific work
The playwrights, two Jewish of the year.
journalists born in Kiev, have
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four other plays running in Mos-
cow theaters at present — at the 17,000 REPATRIATED
Kamerny Theater, the Lenin Kom-
BUCHAREST (JTA) — A total
somol Theater, the Theater Sa- of 17,000 Rumanian Jews have
tire, and the Red Army Theater. passed through Czernowitz en
During the war they served as route home from the Soviet Uk-
war correspondents and botn raine, to which they were deport-
I achieved the rank of captain.
ed by the former Fascist govt.

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Anti-Defamation League Reports That Moscow Views
Discrimination Is Slowly Increasing
Play Written on
percent. This state of affairs, the Jewish Heroism
letter said, "can scarcely be re-

Quebec Compels
Schools to Accept
Jewish Children

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garded as an accident in a com-
pany employing several hundred
persons and operating in a city
more than one-fourth of whose in-
habitants are Jewish."
Replying to the American Jew-
ish Congress, Miss Dillon issued
a statement reading: "Your gen-
eralized and unsupported charges
that this company has had a pol-
icy or has been engaged in a
practice of discrimination in ern
ployment against any qualified
employee on account of race,
creed, color or national origin is
wholly untrue and is all the more
reckless since no effort has been
made by any representative of
your organization to ascertain the
facts from any officer of this com-
pany or any responsible person
handling employment for the com-
pany. I have forwarded your let-
ter to the chairman of the State
Commission Against Discrimina-
tion and requested him to make
an impartial investigation of the
facts, which I am sure will dem-
onstrate the lack of any basis
for your accusations against this
company or against me personally
as its preaident.
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400 Jews Held

ROME (JTA) -- Four hundred
Jewish refugees en route from
Yugoslavia to Italy, apparently in
the hope of eventually emigrating
to Palestine, were detained at
Trieste, it was reported here. The
refugees were taken to a camp at
Bologna which is under the juri3-
diction of the Allied Control Com-
mission.

Arrest Three Who
Attack Synagogue

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Awarded Prize

