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First 3rd of 1946
Sees $33 Million
Spent by UJA

HISTORY OF JEWS
IN MICHIGAN

By IRVING I. KATZ

ARTICLE 17

Biographical Sketches
of Detroit Jews

Martin and Magnus Butzel

Martin and Magnus Butzel, sons of Moses L. and Hannah (Bach-
* :nun) Butzel, were born in Burg Ellern, Bavaria, the former in 1828
lad the latter in 1830. When Magnus was 14 years old he was ap-
prenticed to the trade of stained
glass work which he mastered in
the course of time and became an
expert thereof. He came to Amer-
ica in 1848, joining his brother
Martin, who had about the same
old country experience, had come
six years earlier, and was work-
ing for his uncle in a dry goods
store at Saugerties, near Kings-
ton, N. Y. The two brothers
formed a partnership in the dry
goods trade and went into busi-
ness in Peekskill, N. Y. They
moved to Detroit in 1862 and be-
came associated with their bro-
ther-in-law, Emil S. Heineman, In
the clothing business, under the
firm name of "Heineman, Butzel
and Company," supplying uni-
forms for the Union Army and
later manufacturing ready-made
clothing and men's furnishings.
Mr. Heineman retired in 1890 and
the Butzel brothers in 1893.
Martin Butzel was a member
of the first Lighting Commission
of Detroit and the Detroit Light-
MARTIN BUTZEL
ing Station is named after him.
He was known for his broad philanthropies. He took a very active
Interest and played a prominent role in the Palestine Colony in Bad
It*g
Axe, Michigan, a dramatic venture in Jewish colonization which took
place in the '90's of the last century (the complete story of the Col-
ony will be treated in future articles). He served as president of Tern-
pie Beth El and the Beth El Relief Society.
He was married to Betty Binswanger and their children residing
in Detroit are: Leo M. Butzel, prominent attorney, and Emma Butzel.
The grandchildren of Mr. and Mrs. Martin Butzel are: Mrs. Leonard
T. Lewis (Sally Butzel), Martin L. Butzel, and Mrs. Philip Van Zhe
(Ruth Butzel).
Magnus Butzel took a very active part in the community life of
the city and in Jewish affairs. He was a member of the Board of Edu-
cation from 1881 to 1883, and in
the latter year he was elected a
Commissioner of the Public Libra-
ry, being reelected for two suc-
cessive terms in 1889 and 1895.
One of the branch libraries of De-
troit, on Harper and the Boule-
vard, is named in his honor. He
was president of the Michigan
Club, the leading Republican or-
gahization of Michigan, was one of
the first directors of the Detroit
Board of Commerce, and a liberal
giver to all public causes. He was
extremely popular as an apprais-
er and umpire in settling fire in-
surance losses. He served as presi-
dent of Pisgah Lodge Bnai Brith,
as treasurer of Temple Beth El.
and as Chairman of the Religious
School Board of Temple Beth El
ve
eve`
for 20 years.
He was married to rienriette
!less of Cincinnati and they were
the parents of Henry M. Butzel,
Chief Justice of the Supreme
Court of Michigan and one of
Michigan's outstanding Jews, Fred
31AGNUS BUTZEL
M. Butzel, prominent Detroit at-
torney and nationally-known communal leader, Lawrence M., of New
York City, and Maurice M., who served in the Spanish-American War.
Their grandchildren are: Mrs. Erwin Simon (Eleanor Butzel), Mrs.
Robert Spiegel (Elizabeth Butzel), and Henry M. Butzel, Jr.

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By Ora) SCHICK
(JTA Correspondent.)

LONDON (JTA) - - Eight dis-
placed Jews were stabbed this
week by Polish DP's during a
football match at the former Ber-
gen-Belsen concentration camp,
where both groups are quartered,
and another Jew was shot by un-
formed Polish members of the
camp police, it was revealed here.
Norbert Wollheim and Bernard
Laufer, members of the Central
Jewish Committee at Belsen, who
have just arrived here, said that
the man who was shot, a Jewish
but leader at a training farm near
the camp, is in a serious condition.
They also disclosed that four Po-
lish police entered the Jewish sec-
tion of the camp brandishing pis-
tols. They were arrested by Jew-
ish police, who found that one of
the four had been involved in an
attack, in February on three mem-
bers of the Jewish Central Com-
mittee.
Following the attacks, Wollheim
said, the situation at the camp,
which has been rapidly deterior-
ating, grew acute and the camp
leaders are concerned over wheth-
er they can hold the DP's in
check. As a temporary measure,
he stated, the camp administra-
tion was urged to arm Jewish po-
lice to the same extent that the
Poles are armed and to assign a
unit of the Jewish Brigade to
guard duty at Belsen.
Both Jewish leaders said that
the only means of averting a com-
plete morale breakdown of the
DP's and the threat of disturb-
ances was to move them to Pales-
tine.

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Council of Jewish Women, held on
May 1 at the Book-Cadillac Hotel,
officers for the coming year were
installed by Mrs. Regene Freund
Cohane.
Mrs. Herbert Smith received the
president's gavel from the retiring
president, Mrs. Hershal Kreger.
First vice-president is Mrs. Ben-
jamin Shwayder; second vice-pre-
sident, Mrs. William Grahm, and
third vice-president, Mrs. Lewis
Daniels.
Mrs. Henry Krohn is treasurer;
Mrs. Philip Brown, recording sec-
retary; Mrs. Norman Levey, cor-
responding secretary; Mrs. A. A.
Lappin, financial secretary; . and
Mrs. Arthur Purdy, assistant fin-1
uncial secretary.

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Mrs. Green Is
AJC President

CHICAGO (JTA) - The agen-
cies affiliated with the United
Jewish Appeal campaign this year
have spent $33,000,000 in the first
four months of 1946, it was an-
nounced here at a meeting of the
UJA national campaign executive
committee.
This suns is exactly one-third of
the total campaign goal for the
year and has been spent in the
first third of the year. The larger
share, over $17,000,000 was expend-
ed by the Joint Distribution Com-
mittee for relief and rehabilita-
tion needs in Europe, Shanghai,
North Africa, and various Middle
East countries. The United Pal-
estine Appeal has spent more than
$15,000,000 for improving settle-
ments in Palestine atkd in acquir-
ing new land.
Addressing 750 delegates of lead-
ing American Jewish communities
at an extraordinary national con-
vention at the Standard Club here,
MRS. SAMUEL A. GREEN
James B. McDonald, a member of
the Anglo-American Committee of
At the annual meeting of the
Inquiry on Palestine, urged the Detroit Women's Division of tin.
greatest haste in carrying out the American Jewish Congress, Mrs.
committee's recommendation that Samuel A. Green was elected
100,000 displaced Jews be trans- president. Other officers elected
ported from Europe to Palestine
were Mrs. Sans Olsher, vice-pres-
He stated that the admission of
these DP's to Palestine and re- ident in charge of education; Mrs.
moval of land purchase restric- , Arthur Gould, vice-president in
tions could be accomplished "with- I charge of public relations; Mrs.
out injury to the legitimate inter- Phil Stellar, vice-president in
ests of the Arab people in Pales- charge of fund-raising; Mrs. Ir
tine," and added that if the Brit- win I. Lappin, vice-president in
ish and American Governments charge of program; Mrs. Harry
are "deeply concerned" the oppo- Stocker, vice-president in charge
sition of the Arab world would of World Jewish Congress; Mrs.
not be strong enough to deter Harry Frank, vice-president in
them from achieving this objet charge of membership; Mrs. Mil-
tive.
ton L. Prag, recording secretary;
Edward M. M. Warburg, chair- Mrs. Benjamin Kohen, corres -
man of the JDC, told the dele ponding secretary; Mrs. Lawr-
gates that the European govern- ence Crohn, treasurer; Mrs. Aaron
ments expect the transfer of 100,- Friedman, financial secretary;
000 displaced Jews. That obliga- Mrs. Harry Bookstein, member at
tion, he said, is "to speed their large. Advisory: Mrs. Max Dash.
reinstatement into normal life, kin, Mrs. Nathan Spevakow, Mrs .
making proper compensation for Perry Burnstine and Mrs. Morris
the terrible disabilities they suf- Weingarden.
fered at the hands of the Nazis."
Elected to the Board of Direc-
Rudolf G. Sonneborn, national
tors were the following: Mes-
chairman of the UPA, urged that
UNRRA extend the aid given dis- dames Emanuel Baker, S. P. Ba-
placed persons in Europe to home- ker, Frank Bernstein Samuel
less Jews reaching Palestine dur- Blondy, Albert Boesky, Irving
ing the first stages of their re- Dworman, Charles Feinberg, Jo-
seph Frenkel, Jacob Lattin, Saul
settlement there.
LaVine, Joseph Newman, Sam
Pearlman, M. S. Perlis, Abe Ro-
senberg, Harry Rott, Max Said-
Open up the cold blockade in your nose man, Albert Silber, J. C. Solomon,
with fast-acting Penetro Nose Drops. Joseph Staub, David Bernstein,
Breathe freer, easier, almost instantly, Abe Katzman, Archie Goldberg,
as they cool, soothe and shrink swollen Louis Hamburger, Jack Jewis,
nasal membranes. Caution: Use only at Benton Wolfe, Arnold Frank,
directed. Generous bottle 25c, 50c. Get Harry Weinstock, Robert Block,
PENETRO SOSE DROPS Wallace Nathan, Fred Patt, Louis
Tatken, Allan L. Weston, Sam
Herman, Milton J. Miller, Sam
Margolis and A. M. Hershman.
Mrs. Samuel Kutkin, chairman
of the Strawberry Festival to be
held at the Ernst Kern Co. on
June 12, announces that tickets
may be obtained from Mrs. Flor-
ence Rosman, ticket chairman,
UN. 1-4837.
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Mrs. Smith Heads
Committee for
Zionist Shekel and Detroit Nat. Council
At a recent luncheon meeting
Election Set Up
of the Detroit Section, National

The Zionist Shekel and Elec-
tions Committee of Detroit con-
sists of the following persons:
Zionist Organization of Ameri-
ca: Leon Kay, Lawrence Crohn,
Nathan Spevkow, Dave Coleman,
Morris Jacobs, Sol Lifsitz.
Labor Zionist Organization of
America: Benjamin Laikin, Mrs.
Michlin, Morris Lieberman, Abra-
ham Jacobson (Hashorner).
Hadassah: Mrs. Sarah Glasier,
iss Sophie B. Schwartz, Mrs.
3arney Salinger, Miss Corinne
Perlis.
Mizrachi Group: Irving Schlus-
•AL
At the first meeting held on
May 9, the following were elected
as officers: Lawrence Crohn,
chairman; Irving Schlussel, vice-
( hairman, and Morris Lieberman,
secretary.
Elections for delegates to the
World Zionist Congress will bt
held on June 18 and June 17. El
ection Booths will be placed in
number of centrally located places
No as to enable the Shekolim Hold-
ers to vote in their respective
vicinities.

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