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VOL. 48, NO. 23

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DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, JUNE 7, 1946

Murder Polish Jew;
Killer Leaves His Card

Swiss Jews to
Discuss Problems

Urge Palestine Talk be
Barred Temporarily

MONTREUX, Switzerland (JTAI
- - A conference on religious ac-
tivities among displaced Jews, in
NEW YORK (JTA) — All Jewish groups were
which Jewish religious leaders
By LEON LENEMAN
from various European countries urged by the closing session of the national convention
(JTA Correspondent)
and from Palestine participated, of the American Jewish Congress not to enter into any
WARSAW (JTA) — Dr. Michael Szczglowski-Meh- concluded here. The conference negotiations concerning a permanent solution of the Pal-
rer, a leader of the OSE, the Jewish Health Society, in started in Paris under the chair- estine problem until the Anglo-American Committee's
manship of Palestine Chief Rabbi
Poland, was murdered this week by a member of an anti- Dr. Isaac Herzog and was later recommendation that 100,000 displaced European Jews
itic underground group at his home in Katowice, transferred to Sitozerland.
be moved there immediately is
Sem
fascist propaganda and Inoculat-
which was located on the busiest
The meeting a pted a resolu- carried out.
Military Court and president of
A resolution adopted by the sev- ed with the deadly germs of pre-
tion thanking American Jewry
street of the city.
The murderer brazenly left be. the ORT in Poland.
eral hundred assembled delegates judice," the convention called for
Bubow will be tried at Loth. for the aid given to religious Jews
hind a card indicating that he
also reaffirmed the Congress' "ded- "a more effective system of ori-
where several hundred Jewish wit- in Europe through the Vaad Haat- ication to the Zionist ideal and entation and educational training
was a member of the Polish Home nesses are expected to testify zala, orthodox relief committee.
Army, which is terrorizing the
The resolution stressed that the the rebuilding of Palestine as a of these members of the armed
Jews and campaigning against the against him. Hoess' trial will take activities of the Vaad Haatzala Jewish commonwealth." It denied forces."
place in Warsaw, and witnesses
The convention opposed legisla-
present Polish Government.
a Jewish state would mean
from all over Europe have been do not duplicate the relief work that
At his funeral, which was at-
done by the Joint Distribution domination of the Arabs. tion curbing the rights of labor,
Calling for the dissolution of all which it said was "one of the
tended by thousands of people, assembled to testify.
Another war criminal brought Committee, since they are limited
representatives of the Polish Med- here this week is Hauptsturm- to "certain aspects" of relief and displaced persons camps in Eu- major allies of minority groups in
ical Association and of other fuhrer Goetz, who liquidated the rescue work, particularly those e- rope, the convention resolved to the struggle for the recognition
"take all possible steps for the and protection of their rights";
groups expressed their indignation
Cracow and Sanok ghettos and lecting religious problems.
rehabilitation of Europe's Jews" called for Big Four and United
at the terrorism.
volunteered to wipe out the ghet-
and demanded further that "the Nations unity and pledged co-
Hans Bubow, commander of the tos in Tarnow and Buchnia. Goetz
doors of all other countries be operation with democratic voter-
Lodz ghetto where 200,000 Jews is charged with responsibility for
opened to the victims of Nazi ans organizations.
were murdered, and Rudolph the deaths of tens of thousands of
Other resolutions greeted the
Hoess, commandant of the infa- Jews. He was in hiding in the
oppression who wish to emigrate
from their lands of origin." The Polish-Jewish delegation headed
mous Oswiecim death camp, have U. S. zone of Germany for almost
United States was asked to relax by Dr. Emil Sommerstein, which
been brought here from the U.S. a year before being apprehended.
its present immigration quotas is now in this country; commend-
zone of Germany by a Polish mili- Flown here with Goetz was Fritz
Warren Rovetch, 2726 Oakman for a period of two years and to ed the Polish Government for its
tary commission to stand trial Preuse, an SS leader who took
us war criminals. The commission part in the destruction of the Court, has been elected as one permit the immediate entrance in. efforts at combatting anti-Semi-
of the twenty-five American stu- to the United States of "all such tism; voted to expand both its
was headed by Dr. Marian Musz-
kat, vice-president of the Supreme I Warsaw ghetto.
dent delegates to the International unfortunate stateless persons who program under which American
definitely possess the qualifications Jews "adopt" war orphans and
for American citizenship." destitute Jewish children in Eu-
Citing recent reports that Am- rope and its Office of Jewish In-
erican troops stationed in former formation and decided to organ-
enemy countries have been "se. ize youth chapters throughout the
riously influenced by Nazi and country.

Rovetch Selected
As Delegate to
Prague Congress

U.N. Refugee Body Opposes
Any Interim Relief Measures

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Clash in Belsen

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King George Assures Arabs Britain
Will Not Act Until They Are Heard

By OTTO SCHICK
(JTA Correspondent)
LONDON (JTA) — The final del told a press conference. He
session of the United Nations added that "it would be a dan-
members of the Haganah are
By BERL CORALNIK
Committee on Refugees and Dis- gerous principle to create a new
ready to smash the Arabs, but in
(JTA Correspondent)
placed Persons defeated a motion nationality for a specific race or
JERUSALEM (JTA) — • King the neighboring countries there
by Chairman Sir Hector McNeil. religion because it had been per-
George of Britain has informed are underground groups who are
British Under-Secretary for Fe>. secuted."
King Abdullah of Transjordan training to come .to the aid of
Rendel
said
that
the
British
reign Affairs, that the Intergov-
to-
that the report of the Anglo-Am- the Palestine Arabs If necessary.
ernmental Refugee Committee be were "most fvorably inclined es"
erican inquiry committee is being
Referring to the rift in the
-te--ofttlertakos4Meriffi
wards
Jewish
relief
activiti
aytherined
carefully studied by British offi- Higher Committee, which has re-
measures on behalf of refugees and referred to "the grave injus-
cials, who will take no action until sulted in five parties forming a
and DP's pending the establish- tice" arising from the Czechoslo-
they have considered the views new group, he charged that he
ment of a new international body vak Government's decision to treat
of the Arab states, a report re- was unable to accept the dissident
by the U. N. Social and Economic as Sudeten Germans, Jews of
ceived here from Amman, capital parties nominees for membership
German culture.
Council.
of Transjordan, discloses. King on the committee, because two
McNeil's proposal was supported
McNeil, who also spoke at the
George's statement was in reply favored cooperation between Ar-
by the American and French del- press conference, said that he
to Abdullah's protest against the abs and Jews.
egates, but was strongly opposed hoped that the recent differences
I recommendations of the joint
WARREN ROVETCII
by Soviet delegate Ratov. The between the British and American
A Reuter report from Calcutta
published in London, says that
Russian representative said that Governments regarding the or- Students Congress in Prague to be committee.
At a mass meeting called by
his government planned to re-in- ganization set-up of the new in. held August 17-31. He will sail for
the ex-Mufti of Jerusalem has
the Palestine Arab Party, Jamil suggested to leaders of Indian
national refugee agency would
troduce several of the controver - ter
Husseini, chairman of the Arab Moslems that a world-wide Mos- .
be thrashed out in the U. N. So- London on the 15th of July.
sial questions which were bypass- cial and Economic Council so that i Sixty-four nations will he rep- Higher Committee, warne d
ed by the committee, when the
it could be established in the Fall I resented with 500 delegates pres- audience of 3,000 that they must lem conference be held to map
Social and Economic Council of this year. He expressed the ent from all over the world.
prepare "to defend their country ways of preventing Jewish immi-
meets in September. This meeting
The major purpose of the Con- with blood." He said that 80,000 gration to Palestine.
opinion
that
re-settlement
of
the
adopted a resolution drawing the
persons gress will be to set up an inter-
attention of the Council to the refugees and displaced
national students' organization.
could begin in the Winter.
urgency of the refugee problem.
George Warren, the American The second purpose will be to de-
Earlier, Sir George Rendel, a
member of the British delegation. delegate on the committee, said tide where such an organization
said that the British Government that the U. S. Government sup- can fit into the social, political
WINNIPEG (JTA) -- Dr. Louis
By OTTO SCII1CK
believes that the Jews in Ger- ported the commitee's final report, and economic scheme of things
Slotin, Jewish scientist who died
(JTA Correspondent)
many and Austria should be cared which included a section analyz- the world over.
from the effects of radiation
Rovetch is a student at Wayne
for by a special Jewish relief or- ing the memorandum submitted
LONDON (JTA) •-- Displaced burns suffered as the result of
ganization, rather than by the by various Jewish organizations. University and was elected to Jews at the Bergen Belsen camp, an accident at Los Alamos, New
It said that they revealed a"con- „ represent the entire university. in the British zone of Germany,
new international refugee body.
where he was engaged in
The British objection to inclu- siderable degree of unanimity" Ten colleges in the United States clashed this week with English Mexico, oerh
c eseaHrech,wowsas35buyreiaedrs here
sion of the Austrian and German concerning the need for the per- are being represented. Fifteen of troops, it was revealed in the I athtoismiw
Jews now in their home countries manent resettlement of Jewish the twenty-five students selected House of Commons.
According to a statement by I When the accident occurred, Dr.
in the category of "refugees" is refugees and DP's, mainly in Pal- will come from national organ!.
motivated by the fear that the estine, and suggestions for alley'. zations and ten will come from John B. Hynd, Government spokes- Slotin thrust himself between
§lavic states would also demand ating the present plight of the the colleges themselves. Between man on matters concerning occu• the exploding atomic material and
seven of his co-workers. All suf-
four and five hundred colleges sent
assistance in resettling their na. refugees.
in applications for representation. pied territory, the commander of fered from burns, but Dr. Slot.
tions on their own territory, Ren-
the camp threw a cordon around
Rovetch lives with his parents, Belsen because there had been a in's quick action saved the lives
Mr. and Mrs. Ben Rovetch. At series of crimes commmitted in of the other men. Dr. Slotin took
Wayne, he is a member of the the area. No one was allowed to an active part in all the experi-
mental work in the New Mexico
Student Council and executive enter or leave.
desert and was to have partici-
NEW YORK (JTA) — Director- secretary of the United States
To protest this action, the Jew- pated in the Bikini Atoll expel,.
Student Assembly of which he is
General Morello LaGuardia this representatitve for the entire mid- ish DP's organized a procession ment.
week told Dr. Stephen S. Wise, west. He will be a junior this which crossed and recrossed the
cordon and forced its way through
ATLANTA (JTA) — Gov. Ellis president of the World Jewish fall majoring in sociology.
Six weeks ago, he toured 1500 a group of guards. Hynd asserte d
G. Arnall, who last week ordered Congress, that UNRRA authori-
the Georgia . Attorney General to ties in Germany had no right to miles, stopping at 15 colleges and that the clash which followed
utilize the entire legal staff of the halt the activities of a cultural speaking to orientation groups on was' "not a serious disorder," and
state to stamp out the newly.re- delegation sent to the DP camps how they could participate in the that a British soldier was the
only casualty.
born Ku Klux Klan "once and for by the Congress.
The delegation. which is headed International Student Congress.
Samuel Silverman and Barnett
JERUSALEM, (JTA)—The es-
all," has accepted the invitation
The
trip
was
made
in
a
jeep
fur-
government
by H. Leivick, Yiddish poet and
Janner, Laborites, pointed out to
of the Chicago Joint Defense Ap- playwright, was ordered last week nished without cost by Ben Fried- Hynd that the DP's had lived tablishment of a new
department for trade and indus-
peal to be its principal speaker
man,
west
side
jeep
distributor
through years of unimaginable try was officially announced here.
at a dinner on June 11 opening to leave Germany becacze its ac- of Detroit.
were allegedly not in har-
horrors and that their future was
the Appeal's campaign, it was tivities
The new bureau will deal with
mony with UNRRA's principles.
still obscure, and, therefore, they inquiries concerning home trade,
announced.
LaGuardia was quoted by the
required
extra
consideration.
Both
foreign trade, general marketing
Gov. Arnall, revealing that he Congress as stating that "I do not BULGARIAN JEWS
stressed that the Jews had been conditions, and transport. It will
had received threats from the believe the entire story. UNRRA SELL SHEKOLIM
given
no
indication
as
to
when
SOFIA (JTA) — The opening of
also handle commercial agree-
Klan to "ruin" him if he did not has no right to do such a thing.
they might be admitted to Pal-
desist from his campaign against Submit all the facts to me and I the shekel selling campaign in estine, where all of them wish to ments with foreign companies,
Bulgaria was marked here with a
will promote tourist trade, and
the secret society, said that he will take the necessary steps."
demonstration during which many go. Urfa replied that while he ap- will attempt to stimulate village
would ask the state General As-
sembly to force the Klan to come POST GIVES DINNER DANCE Jewish organizations including the pfeciated the difficulties faced by industry.
The Robert Rafelson Post of the Maccabi sports group marched the displaced Jews, it was only
into the open, if present state
statues do not provide grounds JWV will take over Lee 'n' Ed- through the Jewish section of the fair to point out that they have istration. He added that the in-
from its banning. He charged dies for their dinner-dance on city. The demonstration was pre- been provided with food and ac d cldent was "particularly unusual"
that the Klan "is ani has been Wednesday evening, June 26, ac- ceded by a memorial meeting hon- commodations, w
lace
the Jews who died during
engaged in unlawful activities'' cording to George Agree, social the in war
and the Nazi, occupation. a burden upon the British admin- and was now closed.
and has violated the Georgia cri- chairman.
minal code.

Atomic Research
Scientist Buried

.
Protest Halting of
Delegations to DP's

Palestine Starts
Dept. of Trade