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VOI.. 48, NO. 20

DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, MAY 17, 1946

Detained Jews Go On
Protest Hunger Strike

Moynihan Cited
for Work in Racial
Harmony

By BERL CORALNIK

ROME, (JTA) — Allied military authorities here
promised to initiate a detailed inquiry into the circum-
stances under which two displaced Jews were killed and
thirteen injured last week in anti-Jewish riots by Ukrain-
ian fascists in the Reggio Emilia camp for displaced
persons.
The Ukrainians, a number of whom served as Ges-
tapo guards in Nazi extermina-

U.S. Will Consult
Jews and Arabs
On Inquiry Report

Charge Doenitz
Persecuted Jews

JUDGE J. A. MOYNIIIAN

Chosen as the Detroiter who
made the greatest contribution to
inter-racial harmony in 1945, Cir-
cuit Judge Joseph A. Moynihan
will receive the Probus Inter-
national award May 22.
The presentation will be made
as a feature of the Annual Inter-
Fraternity banquet in Gabriel
Richard K. of C. Hall, 9375 Amity
Avenue. The banquet is sponsored
annually by Masonic, Bnai Brith,
and Knights of Columbus lodges
of Detroit. The Knights of Colum-
bus lodges are hosts this year.
Frequently a speaker for Ma-
sonic and Bnai Brith lodges and
active generally in inter-racial ac-
tivity, and among servicemen dur-
ing World War II, Judge Moyni-
han is past Supreme Grand Knight
of Council 305, Knights of Colum
bus, past district and past state
deputy of the Knights of Colum-
bus, a pioneer in the field of in-
ter-racial activity, and past vice-
president of the National Council
of Catholic Men.
Probus International is a Jewish
luncheon club composed of busi-
ness and professional men. The
award is made annually in each
community in which Probus is
active.
Two of the participating bodies
have chosen their speakers for the
banquet. The Rev. Irwin Johnson,
Rector of St. John's Episconal
Church, will represent the Ma-
sonic groups. Judge Jacob Asher,
of Worcester, Mass., will speak
for Bnai Brith.
General chairman of the Inter-
Fraternity banquet is Henry Zin-
ica, Palestine, and other demo- ger, of the Knights of Columbus.
cratic nations to Europe's dis- Group chairmen are: Abraham Sa-
tovsky, Jewish groups, Paul Mur-
placed Jews.
Other resolutions adopted laud- phy, Catholic groups, and Harold
ed the British Labor Party for its Mills, Masonic groups.
leadership of the democratic so-
cialist movement of the world,
affirmed the Workmen's Circle's
support of American labor's efforts
to organize all workers into trade
unions, and pledge its support to
the fight against legislation cur-
tailing the right to striae, and en- ATLANTA, (JTA) - The Ku Klux
dorsed the Murray-Wagner-Din- Klan came out into the open here
gel Social Security bill and other for the first time in many years
progressive. legislation.
th's week, when 1 000 hooded
The delegates voted to hold the klansmen and women gathered
next convention in 1948 in Boston around burning crosses on Stone
or Cleveland, and to hold an ex- Mountain during the initiation of
traordinary Silver Jubilee conven- several hundred new members.
tion in 1950.
Dr. Samuel Green, Grand Dra-
gon of the Klan, asserted that th-
organization had more thA 20,000
members in Georgia alone. He ad-
mitted that the Klan favors
"white supremacy," but denied
that it had religious or racial
bias.
Opposition to the revived Klan
was voiced by religious. social
The largest collection of Jewish and labor groups. The Christian
books in the world has just been Council of Atlanta protested
discovered intact in Germany ac- against "a misguided patriotism
cording to William G. Bryant, the that clothes itself in secrecy."
Dutch consul here. The collection, The Georgia Legislative Council
known as Rosenthalania, was charged that the Klan is attempt-
plundered by the Nazis during the ing to discourage labor organiza-
war and was believed to have been
destroyed. Its discovery was totally tion in the South by terrorism.
while the Southern Regional Coun-
unexpected.
cil, a joint Negro and white
This information was brought to group working to improve race
light when the Dutch consul relations and economic conditions
called Mr. Fred M. Butzel of this in the South, declared that the
city to inform him of the existence Klan "is not likely to get far in
of the collection.
the awakening South."

Workmen's Circle Closes
Convention With Memorial

Every Nazi should be tried and
punished as a criminal, according
to a leader of tho Jewish Socialist
Party (Pond) of Poland, Shloime.
Mendelsohn. addressing the final
session of the 46th convention of
the Workmen's Circle, 70,000
strong Jewish labor fraternal or-
der, on Saturday afternoon, May
11, in Detroit's Hotel Statler.
The closing session was a Yizkor,
or memorial service for the six
million Jews who were the victims
of the Nazi extermination pro-
gram. The hall was decked in
tnournino• black and the atmos-
phere was heavy with the grief
of the many convention delegates
whose own families were among
the martyred European Jewish
dead. Mendelsohn was the major
speaker in the memorial service.
Mendelsohn recalled that the
Jews in occupied countries lived
and fought while knowing there
was no escape from the doom Hit-
ler had pronounced on them. "No
greater epic of human valor," he
said, "has been recorded in his-
tory than the stand of 35,000 Jew-
ish men, women and children
against the Nazi war machine in
the Battle of the Warsaw Ghetto
in April of 1943. Very few of the
Jewish defenders remained alive,
but in that battle the spirit of all
mankind earned its most magni
cent triumph."

Earlier in the day the conven-
tion adopted resolutions calling
for the punishment of war crim-
inals, rehabilitation of Jewish life
in Europe and for the opening
of doors of Immigration of Amer-

Ku Klux Klan
Revives Activities

Largest Collection
of Jewish Books
Discovered Intact

Anti-Semitic Riots To
Be Probed By Allies

By LEO BERNSTEIN
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency Correspondent)

JERUSALEM (JTA) — Twenty-four settlers from
the Jewish colony of Birya, who were arrested on Feb.
28, went on a hunger strike last Thursday, in protest
against police brutality.
The 24, who were detained following an attack
by unknown persons upon an encampment of the Arab
Legion near Birya, were beaten by British constables in

the Acre police sthtion on Thus-4)
(lay, when they refused to he fin-
ger-printed, asserted that they
were political prisoners, not crim-
inals.
After they were returned to
prison, they sent a protest to
High Commissioner Sir Alan G.
Cunningham, stating that they
By CHARLOTTE %'EBER
would continue their hunger
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency
strike until given assurances that
Correspondent)
the police violence would not be
WASHINGTON (JTA) -- The
repeated. Among t h e hunger
strikers are several youths under United States Government is stu-
dying the recommendations of the
eighteen.
Anglo-American inquiry commit-
The Birya incident precipitated tee on Palestine and intends to
a battle in mid-March between consult with Arab and Jewish
several thousand Jews and an leaders before making any def-
equal number of British soldiers inite decision on the report, Act-
when the Jews attempted to es- ing Secretary of State Dean Ache-
tablish a new settlement a few son told the diplomatic represen-
hundred yards from Birya in pro- tatives of five Arab states who
test against the military's refu- called on him to protest the com-
sal to allow settlers from nearby mittee report.
colonies to take over the work in
Acheson told his press confer
Birya of the arrested men, who ence that the Arab diplomats
comprised the colony's entire male pointed out that on a number of
population. It ended in the Jews occasions the United States Gov-
being granted permission to work ernment had informed the Arab
Governments that in its view no
at Birya.
change should be made in the bas-
A clash between Arab special sic situation in Palestine without
police and Jewish settlers was prior consultation with both
narrowly averted at the village of Arabs and Jews. They further ex-
Bnei Brak, a short distance from pressed hope, the Acting Secretary
Tel Aviv, when the police smeared declared, that the American Gov-
Jewish houses with swastikas. ernment would not adopt any pol-
When the villagers complained to icy calling for change in basic
police headquarters, the Arabs policy without such consultation.
were brought b?ck to Bnei Brak
Asked whether any negotiations
and compelled to remove the are nroceeding between the Unit-
swastikas.
ed States and British Govern-
ments to implement the recom•
The government office at Tel mendations of the committee,
Aviv, which issues identity cards, Acheson said that we are in con-
was set afire Saturday and the sultation with the British Govern-
entire interior is believed to have 'lents on matters of procedure re-
been gutted. Meanwhile, the dusk lating solely to the promised con-
to dawn curfew imposed on en- sultation with Arabs and Jews.
tertainment places in Tel Aviv
He declined to comment on an
and the roads surrounding it, fol- alleged statement by Bartley
lowing the killing of seven Bri- Crum, an American member of
tish soldiers by Jewish terrorists, the committee, assailing the for-
was lifted this week.
mer Grand Mufti.

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NUREMBERG (JTA) - - Admiral
Karl Doenitz, former chief of the
German navy, was charged this
week with being equally responsi-
ble with other Nazi leaders for the
persecution of Jews.
British Prosecutor Sir David
Maxwell-Fyfe quoted an address
by Doenitz in March, 1944, in
which he urged the officers and
men of the German navy to join
in driving every vestige of Jewry
from the German nation. The for-
mer naval chief, who headed the
short-lived post-Hitler G e r in a n
Government, replied that he had
feared that the Jews might have
an adverse effect on the morale
of the Germans, who were being
heavily bombarded by Allied air
fleets.

Benes Discusses
Jewish Problems

PRAGUE, (JTA)—President Ed-
uard Benes received Ernst Frisch-
er, chairman of the central coun
cil of the Union of Jewish Com-
munities in Bohemia and Moravia,
with whom he discussed some of
the urgent problems facing Czech
Jewry. Mr. Benes is reported to
have expressed a desire to aid thy:
Jews in overcoming these difficul-
ties.

tion camps in Poland, and there-
fore fear to return to the Ukraine,
were permitted by the Allied au-
thorities to live side by side with
the displaced Jews at the camp,
which is located about 45 miles
from Bologna. Representatives of
the Joint Distribution Committee
and of the Central Committee of
Jewish Refugees in Italy, arc
seeking permission to participate
in the promised inquiry.
A special correspondent of the
Jewish Telegraphic Agency who
visited the camp was refused in-
formation by Major Lewis, the
British commandant, and Lt. Eys-
ton, his assistant. However, the
correspondent learned the follow-
ing details from the Italian police
and the Jewish refugees:
Nearly a thousand Jews ar-
rived at the camp the last week of
April. The camp already held 25
national groups, including Finns,
Czechs, Hungarian members of
the fascist Arrow Cross, White
Russians and 130 Ukraln;ans from
Glasgow who were said to be fas-
cists. The Hungarian fascists
were promptly removed, but the
others were not.
Mordecai Lowenberg, of Po-
land, leader of the Jewish Camp
Committee, and sole survivor of
his family of a father and moth-
er, five brothers and three sis-
ters, a wife and three children,
said that the Ukrainians threw
water at the Jews from second
story windows of the building as
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Ladies Division of Allied Jewish
Campaign Hears Baukhage Speak

"Baukhage Speaking," the greet-
ing familiar to thousands of after-
noon radio listeners, was heard at
the third workers' rally when H.
R. Baukhage, popular news com-
mentator, was guest speaker at the
"Ladies Day" report meeting of the
Allied Jewish Campaign held last
Wednesday at the Hotel Statler.
His talk dealt largely with the
Neurenberg war trials where he
was a reporter. He described in
detail the principal war criminals
including Goering, Hess Keitel and
Streicher. He also compared the
trials with the famous meeting of
the German Reichstag when Hitler
first announced that the German
armies had invaded Poland.
"The fate of the criminals in
Neurenberg is unimportant," said
Baukhage. "At Neurenberg they
are creating an important prece-
dent, that war is illegal. They are
establishing there for all time the
precedent that plotting war is n
criminal act.
"There is 'also being established
there a record, the complete story
of how the Nazis betrayed not
only Germany but the whole civi-
lized world. History is being cre-
ated there.
"Liberty is being provided in
Germany today," he continued, "at
least enough liberty so that the
Jews in Germany are able to wor-
ship as they wish. They cannot do
much else unless this campaign is
a success."
It was announced by Mrs. Dora
Ehrlich, chairman of the ladies di-
vision, that of the campaign goal
of $300,000 for the ladies, $297,151
has already been pledged and
there were still many hundreds of
slips uncovered.
Nate Shapero, general cam-
paign chairman announced that
as of this date, Wed., May 15, the
sum pledged was $1,700,000. He
pleaded for more volunteers to
cover the thousands of slips still
not heard from.
"The campaign cannot be a sue-

cess if we do not get complete
coverage of the community," he
urged. "We must see that every
person who is a potential con-
tributor is reached and solicited."
In order to accomplish this, roc
final report date has been extended
for one full week.

Twelve Killed in
Poland Massacre

By LEON LENEMAN
(,Jewish Telegraphic Agency
('orrespondent)

LODZ, (JTA)--The mystery sur-
rounding the disappearance of a
group of Jews attempting to cross
into Czechoslovakia from Poland,
near the Polish town of Szczaw-
nic, has been solved by a report
from Cracow stating that 12 of
the emigrants had been killed
and seven wounded when they
were ambushed by anti-Govern-
ment anti-Semitic bandits.
Funeral services for the twelve
were held in Cracow with repre-
sentatives of the Government,
trade unions, political parties and
other groups attending. The mas-
sacre has aroused the entire na-
tion and spurred official efforts to
crush the bands which have been
terrorizing the countryside.
(The group was one of three
who left Cracow in the last days
of April with the intention of
eventually getting to Palestine,
according to Jacob Wisnia, leader
of another group, who arrived in
Vienna.)
(Thirty-two men, women and
children, led by Wisnia, crossed
the Polish frontier on the night
of May 1, and reached Kreis
markt, Czechoslovakia. From there
the group made its way to Bra-
tislava, where it awaited two oth-
ers. A second, with 30 members,
arrived a day later, but the third
group never turned up).