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DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, JUNE 21, 1946

VOL. 48, NO. 25

Haganah Bares Plan
To Arrest 5,000 Jews

Polish Delegation
Here Sunday

British Plot to Seize Leaders and
Disarm the Resistance Movement

Bevin's Sneer Rouses
Fury Throughout U.S.

Protests, Cables, Telegrams Pour in
From Organizations and Individuals

By Berl Coralnik

Repercussions on British Foreign Secretary Ernest
Bevin's statement that President Truman wanted Jews in
Palestine so that he would not have to have them in
New York began to come thick and fast as organization
after organization rose in protest at the new anti-Semitic
slant England seems to be taking.
The American Jewish Conference sent a telegram to
President Truman declaring the statement "an astound-
ing reflection on Truman's
HUC TO Ordain efforts in b'ehalf of Europe's
) stricken Jews" and having

(Jewish Telegraphic Agency Correspondent)

JERUSALEM (JTA)—Details of an alleged British
secret plan to arrest 5,000 prominent Palestine Jews, in-
cluding members of the Jewish Agency executive and
Mayor Israel Rokach of Tel Aviv, and to raid all Jewish
settlements and colonies in an attempt to disarm the
Jewish resistance movement, were broadcast- this week
by the "Voice of Israel," underground radio of the
Haganah.
The broadcast said that Charles Goldstein
the counter-intelligence of
the Haganah had succeeded Reelected Temple

in securing the British plan as
well as the "blacklist" of Jewian
leaders to be arrested when the
plan is put into operation. The
plan also provided for widespread
searches to be carried out in Jew-
ish sections throughout Palestine.
Among the leaders marked for
arrest were David Ben Gurion,
Moshe Shertok, Eliezer Kaplan,
Rabbi J. Fischman, and all other
members of the Jewish Agency
executive; also Dr. Bernard Jo-
seph, legal advisor of the Jew-
ish Agency; Mayor Rokach; Rab-
bi Meir Berlin, leader of the
World Mizrachi Organization;
Shlomo Eisenberg, general secre-
tary of the Jewish Agent'y execu-
tive; and a number of other Jew-
ish Agency officials. The plan pro-
vided that all seized Jewish lead-
ers be interned in Palestine or
deported.
Orders to the military authori-
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Find Remnant of
Torah Desecrated
By Nazi Vandals

NEW YORK.—A wallet made
out of several pieces of parchment
from a Torah Scroll desecrated by
the Nazis, and rescued by a Jew-
ish displaced person who found it
in the possesSion of a German
prisoner of war, was received here
this week by the National Jewish
Welfare Board from Chaplain Bert
Klein, who is serving with the
U. S. Occupation Forces in Fur-
tenfeldbruck, Germany. Attached
to the cover of the Mallet was a
red plastic figure of a cat.
The pieces of parchment used in
making the wallet contained the
weekly portion from the Torah
entitled ''Ki Teze" (Deuteronomy
2226). This portion sets forth the
Jewish code of behavior in time
of war, rules governing the pro-
tection of widows, orphans and
strangers, and injunctions against
immoral acts.

Israel President

DR. EMIL SOMMERSTEIN

Eight Students

Plans have been completed for
to Detroit on Sunday af-
ternoon, June 23, of a delegation
representing the Central Jewish
Committee of Poland, headed by
Dr. Emil Sommerstein, president
of the Committee and noted Jew-
ish statesman of Poland. The
meeting will take place at 3 P. M.
in the auditorium of Central High
School, Linwood at Tuxedo, undr
the auspices of the Jewish Wel-
fare Federation of Detroit, which
has just concluded the Allied Jew-
ish Campaign for the United Jew-
ish Appeal, the national sponsor-
ing agency of the Detroit visit.
The members of the delegation
reflect various political affillat;ons
and arrived in America for the
purpose of bringing the united
viewpoint of the Jews of Poland
to their fellow Jews- in America.
Among thoSe wno will address
the Detroit meeting will be Dr.
Emil Sommerstein, who will be
accompanied to Detroit by Mrs.
Sommerstein; Marek Bitter, a
member of the Polish Workers
Party; Miss Chaya Grossman of
Hashomer Hatzair; Professor Jo-
seph Zack, of the Right Poale
Zion; and Anatole Wertheim, of
the Polish Partisan group. Dr.
Sommerstein is a leader of tha
general Zionist group.

,

CHARLES L. GOLDSTEIN

Charles L. Goldstein was re-
elected president of Temple Is-
rael for a third term at the sixth
annual meeting of the Congrega-
tion held June 12.
Goldstein has been president of
the Congregation since 1944, when
he was elected to succeed Morris
Garvett, first president of the
Temple. „
Under his leadership, the Tem-
ple has grown to a membership
of over 800 families and is now
one of the largest reform. Con-
gregations in the United States.
He was president of the Men's
flub from 1941 to 1944 and is a
regular contributor to the Jewish
Layman, the official publication of
the National Federation of Tem-
ple Brotherhoods and the Jewish
Chautauqua Society, and . is a
member of the Hebrew Union Col-
lege National Council.

Governor Arnall Warns
JDA to Beware of KKK

Describing the Ku Klux Klan as
an organization that feeds on
quackery, hatred, intolerance and
bigotry, Gov. Ellis Arnall of Geo-
rgia warned, in his address at the
dinner opening the Chicago cam-
paign of the Joint Defense Appeal,
that there are stlil too many
Americans who continue to give
an ear to the KKK and other or-
ganizations peddling race hatred.
The 38-year old Governor was
introduced by Bernard Nath, who
is serving together with Arthur
N. Horwich, as chairman of the
Chicago effort in the 1946 JDA
drive to raise $5,000,000 through-
out the country.
More than 500 Chicago commu-
nal leaders attended the meeting,
which was held on June 11, and
all pledged their support on be-
half of the drive that maintains
the work of the American Jewish
Committee and the Anti-Defama-
tion League of Bnai Brith.
To combat religious bigotry,
GOV. Arnall cautioned against a
complacent attitude.

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Beth Aaron to be
Dedicated Sunday

The Dedication cerem oniea
known as the Chanukas Habaiaa,
to celebrate the formal opening
of the Beth Aaron Synagogue will
he held on Sunday, June 23, at 6
p.m. at the Synagogue on Wyo-
ming and Thatcher.
The services will commence
with the formal opening of the
doors, and the use of the key to
the Synagogue. Following this,
the lighting of the Eternal lamp
and placing the Sifrei Torahs in
the Ark will take place. Guest
speaker of the evening will be
Rabbi Morris Adler. There will
be music, dancing and refresh-
ments. The general public is in-
vited to attend.

Marlette Sees Her
Only Brother for
Very First Time

\ the effect of "humiliating the
American government and its
chief executive."
The anti-Nazi League, non-sec-
tarian, cabled a protest on what it
considered the "Nazi-Fascist Na-
tionalism voiced by Ernest Bevin
in his anti-Semitic slur on the
non-Jewish citizens of N. X."
The American League for a
Free Palestine charged Bevin's
"hysterical" outburst was an open
avowal of "membership in the
Christian Front."
The Synagogue Council of
America charged that Bevin has
"revealed an insincerity that has
from the very inception violated
the purpose for which the Anglo-
American Commission has been
created."
Senator Gillette .characterized
the statement " as "unworthy of a
member of the Cabinet of a great
nation."
H. H. Lopez-Penha, member of
the Dominican Senate and Presi-
dent of the Dominican Committee
for Jewish Immigration, who is
now in the United States as dip-
DR. REINHART
representative of the
lomatic
CINCINNATI, 0. —Eight stu-
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dents of the Hebrew Union Col-
lege will be ordained as rabbis
here Saturday, June 22 at the
College's 64th graduation exer-
cises, Dr. Julian Morgenstern,
NEW YORK, N. Y.--The third
president, announced.
They are as follows: Brooklyn, group of displaced men, women
N. Y.: Ezra Spicehandler, Isaiah and children from Germany and
Zeldin; Detroit, Mich.: Jay Her- Austria to enter the United States
bert Kaufman; Margate City, N. under President Truman's immi-
J.: Sidney H. Brooks; New York gration directive arrived in New
City: Moses N. Bension; Phila., York harbor on June 18 aboard
Pa.: Martin I. Hinchin; Wilming. the S. S. Marine Flasher.
Over 800 happy passengers were
ton, Del.: Edward Zerin; Young-
stown, Ohio: Alfred Stanley Drey- aboard the vessel, including 573
immigrants to the U. S. The Joint
fus .
Four honorary degrees will be Distribution Committee, major
awarded and two academic doc- American agency aiding Jewiait
torates of Hebrew Letters will be survivors overseas, arranged pas-
sage and paid or advanced travel
conferred by Dr. Morgenstern.
Dr. Harold F. Reinhart, HUC costs for 400 of the 573 immi-
graduate, class of 1915, and rabbi grants aboard the vessel. An addi-
of London, England, will deliver tional 230 Americans were re-
patriated aboard the ship.
thec ommencement address.

"It isn't wise," he said, "to sit
back and do nothing under the
impression that the ultimate good
sense of the American people will
be effectively brought into play."
The Southern liberal leader
praised the work of agencies, like
Joy reigned supreme in
the American Jewish Committee home of Mr. and Mrs. Emil
and the Anti-Defamation League, Fruchter, 2715 Rochester Avenue
which conduct a program des. when their daughter, Mariette, ar-
skned to interpret the ideals of rived last Tuesday from England
democracy and to immunize the on the Drottningholm. Marlette
people against race hatred
will see her father and mother for
He called the Klan "nothing the first time since 1938. She will
more than a nuisance organization also see her little brother, Sey
at present," but stressed that if its mour, who was born in Detroit
activities were allowed to proceed and of whose existence she did
unhindered, it might thrive.
not even know until today.
Arnall also revealed that he .4
The family are natives of Bel-
leading a two-pronged attack gium. When the dread of the Ges-
tapo became imminent. Mr. Fruch-
against the Klan.
1. Through the findings of se- ter fled leaving his two children,
cret agents of the Georgia Bu- Marlette and Helen, with his fa-
reau of Investigation who have mily in Belgium. When the Eng-
been placed in the Klan's mem- lish soldiers were evacuated from
Belgium, the family managed to
bership.
board a ship and come to Eng-
2. By revoking, through legal . land with the soldiers. There
means, the Klan's Georgia charter

Third Immigrant Ship
Arrives in New York

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Offer Rewards for Capture
Of Mufti if He is Indicted
Palestine question really wished

The New York Post, one of the
most liberal and progressive news-
papers in the country, has an-
nounced that if the Mufti were
indicted it would offer a series
of rewards, from $5,000 up, to find
the Arab fugitive and bring him
to trial as a war criminal. The
Post, which carried an expose nt
the Mufti by the noted corres-
pondent Edgar Ansel( Mowrer,
said that Mowrer was ready fo
fly to Nuremberg with documents
attesting to the Mufti's war guilt.
Commenting on toe reward, T.
0. Thackrey, the Post's editor,
said it was questionable whether
any of the powers involved in the

Marlette was sent to the country
where she spent the entire period.
She knew the terror of the "blitz"
and endured it bravely with the
English children.
Mariette, aged thirteen, will go
to school here. For the time being
she is too tired to talk about her
trip and her experiences, even
with her parents. Her father, A
diamond merchant here in De-
troit, expects that in time she will
he a normal, happy girl here.

to place the Mufti on trial. A
similar view was expressed by
Bartley C. Crum, the fiery Cali-
fornian who was one of the Amer-
ican representatives on the An-
glo-American Committee of In-
quiry on Palestine. Mr. Crum,
speaking at the recent Zionist
protest demonstration at Madi-
son Square Garden, declared arat
he was "not so naive" as to be.
lieve that the Mufti's escape was
"a simple coincidence," particu-
larly in the light of Bevin's state-
ment repudiating past pledges and
indicating British rejection of the
Palestine report.
The New York Post has carried
enough evidence to warrant the
placing of the Mufti alongsiiie of
Goering. Streicher and the other
mass murderers now on trials f.t
Nuremberg. But will the British
Government, which is the main
great power involved in the Is-
sue, move against him in a way
to bring him to trial?
Mr. Thackrey certainiy held his
thumb on the situation when he
declared that the real trouble was
not in finding the Mufti