A liferkall "elvish Periodical Carter CLIFTON AVENUE - CINCINNATI 20, 01110 11111111 ■.- 1111=MMIIMI 46 Inter- )ming at be • ess Is once to go shone the y Ate wan- bet AN INDEPENDENT UNAFFHIATED NEWSPAPER LARGEST ANGLO-JEW...411 Thirty-One Years of Service to Detroit Jewry PAID suBscarrnovr IN STATE OF MICHIGAN ,Detroit Jewish Chronicle VOL. 48, NO. 31 Recommendations On Palestine to Follow Sessions By OTTO SCHICK LONDON, (JTA)—The British Government will probably not at- tempt to act on the recommenda- tions of the Anglo-American con. ferees until after conclusion of the projected round-table discus. sions among the 'British, the Jews and the Arabs, which will prob- ably be held here within the next four or five weeks, ft was re- ported here. It is learned reliably that no "aolematic invitation" to attend the conferences will go out to the Jewish Agency, and it is consid- y ered doubtful in informed quar- ters that the Agency will be in- vited. However, that probably de- pends on events of the next few weeks. The Arab Office here has issued a statement reiterating Arab op- position to any solution based on partition. The statement said the recommendations of the U. S.. British experts were not satis- factory. The Paris radio' said this week that several Jews have been ar- rested in Damascus after a po- lice raid on the Jewish quarter. They will be tried for it1SVIntain. Ing "illegal relations" with Zion. fists, the broadcast said. Lehman Switches To Education in His New Role - I NEW YORK.—Former Governor Herbert H. Lehman has accepted the office of honOrary president of the American Association for Jew. Ish Education, according to an an- nouncement this week by Bernard Semel, honorary secretary of the organization. This is one of the first com- munal posts assumed by Governor Lehman since his resignation as director general of tho United Na- tions Relief and Rehabilitation Administration and his return to private life, The American 'Association for Jewish Education is a national coordinating and service agency which helps local communities in providing religious education for their children. Lehman has also consented to servo as a member of the board of directors of the Jewish Theo. logical Seminary of America, it was announced. In 1941 he re- ceived an honorary degree of Doctor of Letters from the Sem- inary. and The Legal Chronicle DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, AUGUST 2, 1946 10c a Single Copy; $3.00 Per Year British Clamp Rigid Curfew On Tel Aviv: Roundup Begins Discuss Plight of European Jewry 200,000 Placed Under Virtual House Arrest as Troops Search City for ArMs and Terrorists JERUSALEM — Tel Aviv's 200,000 residents were placed under virtual house arrest at dawn Tuesday as British troops combed this all-Jewish city in an attempt to round up the persons who bombed the King David Hotel here last week. A 22-hour-a-day curfew was slapped on Jerusalem, and residents were forbidden to leave their homes ex- cept under the authorized two-hour period for purchas- ing necessary commodities. Reports said that about 1,000 persons were arrested, Polish, Jewish Groups In Detroit Ask Support Of Poland Government Mrs. Joseph M. Welt, of Detroit, president of the National Coun- cil of Jewish Women, is shown (at left above) in the organization's National OfIkies in New York City, discussing with Miss Cella 13Ioom, the maintenance of the Council's first home for unattached Jewish women in Europe. Miss Bloom, who lives in Rochester, N. Y., is now in Athens, Greece, where she is director of the home, formerly oper- ated by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. Gurion Tells Press. Agency May Publish Book of British Crimes PARIS, (JTA) — The Jewish Agency may soon publish a "Black Book" listing crimes of murder 'and terror committed by the Palestine administration against the Jews of Palestine. David Ben Gurion, chairman of the Agency executive, told news- men this week at a press confer- ence here. The Agency has not published such a listing earlier because it did not wish to further embitter Byrnes Says Partition Plan Originated in Great Britain By BEATRICE HEIMAN WASHINGTON, (JTA) — Tho partition plan fot Palestine which has been recommended to the Ameri- can and British governments by the Anglo-American relations between the Jews and the British Government, he said, adding that "ultimate responsi- bility for sabotage, murder and lawlessness in Palestine will rest on the British Government," which during the past seven years "set an example of lawlessness and breach of faith in Palestine." In the first public statement by an * individual member of the Agency executive, Ben Gurion. second ranking member of the Agency, denied the charges of the White Paper. British Middle East circles, hating and fearing the existence of the progressive Palestine Jewish community in the Middle East, are attempting to destroy it, he chargeti. Refers to Telegrams Referring to th e telegrams quoted in the White Paper, he declared, "I do not say that all these documents are forged, but such cases are known in history," and recalled that the British Gov- ernment has upon occasion used false documents to compromise (Continued on Page 12) conferees, who have just com- pleted their discussions in Lon- Mr. Byrnes replied that he did don, Is of British origin, Sccre- not want to be secretive, but that tarY of State James F. Byrnes he had not read in full the last said this week. He Indicated that installment received by the State o final decision has been reached Department, which presumably Y this government. contains the crucial recommenda- \_ He disclaimed knowledge of au- tions. fi ISAAC FRANCK'S STATE- Mention 100,000 thorship of the idea, but empha- MENT ON LAST WEEK'S tically said that no direction of The Secretary of State said that EDITORIAL any kind was given by anybody the admission of 100,000 European Numerous communications on in the United States Government Jews to Palestine is mentioned in the front-page editorial, "Is to the American representatives the report of the conferees. How- In London to suggest any such ever, whether this question is to Detroit Too Poor to Keep a Good Man! Or Is Detroit Just plan. be considered together with the Plain Blind!" which appeared The Secretary said that the partition plan or separately de- In last week's Chronicle, have plan has the approval of the Bri- pends on what the full Cabinet tish Cabinet. He added that he Committee and the President will been received. Among them is one by Isaac Franck, executive considered it necessary to point say, he added. Mr. Byrnes did not know, he director of the Detroit Com- out that the report is not a joint munity Council, who is resign- one but has the unanimous sup- said, whether this government ing his position to take a sim- Port of 'the three American as would be represented at the Arab- well as the three British repre- Jewish conference which the . Bri- ilar post in Brooklyn. They sentatives. tish Government has called to will appear in next week's edi- To a question as to whether the take place in London for further tion of the Chronicle. • plan actually proposed partition, Palestine discussions. The first joint Polish and Jew- ish action for support of the Pol- ish government- was formulated at a meeting July 26 at Jericho Temple by representatives of Pol- ish and Jewish organizations. The meeting, initiated by the Michigan Jewish Labor Council and attended by representatives of the Council, the City Commit- tee of the Jewish Peoples Fra- ternal Order, Federation of Polish Jews, American-Polish Democrat- ic Connell, Rebuilders of Poland, American Slav Congress and Glos Ludowy, elected Harold L. Sha- piro and Senator Stanley Nowak as co-chairmen of the provisional committee. The immediate plans of the committee call for mass protest meetings in the Jewish and Pol. Ish communities on the recent pogroms in Poland. The first of these will be at Jericho Temple on August 21. The committee will also issue a call to Jewish, Polish and labor organizations for a dele- gated conference at which plans will be made to develop moral and economic support to the Pol- ish government. The conference will also set up a permanent organization to corn- bat the attempts of reactionary elements here and in other coun- tries to revive anti-semitism in Poland and use it as a weapon to prevent the reconstruction of that country on a democratic basis. Including men and women who had been under police supervi- sion. In Haifa, about 50 men and women who had been released from interment camps in Eritrea earlier this year were re-arrested and Bent to Latrun prison: Lieut. Gen. Sir Alan Cunning. ham, British high commissioner in Palestine, said the British had "clear evidence of the existence of terrorists in Tel Aviv and that some, if not all, of those who took part In the Jerusalem crime came from that town." Sir Evelyn Barker, British com- mander-in-chief In Palestine, has issued a letter to all units in which he charges that all Jews in Palestine are equally guilty of the Mktg David bombing. Explaining his reason for ordering all Jew- ish business, places of entertain- ment and homes out of bounds for British soldiers, Barker added that "this race" should bo made to feel British loathing and con- tempt through the most effective means — their pockets. Barker added that expressions of regret by Jewish institutions must be treated as "hypocritical," Binae they do not cooperate in eradi- cating terrorism. Tel Aviv probably will be un. der rigid curfew for several days while soldiers and Palestine po• lice carried on the house-to-house search, a high-ranking officer said. The city has been trans- formed into a virtual ghost town (Continued on Page 12) Army Halts Large Transports Of D.P. Jews from British Zone By ROBERT GARY BERLIN, (JTA)—The U. S. Army has begun halt- ing large transports of Jewish refugees arriving from the British zone, although permitting the entrance of small groups, it was learned here. It is known that Army officials at Mariendorf, a suburb of Ber- feel that the British are failing lin, to relieve the congestion at to shoulder a fair share of the the Duppel camp here. The new -efueee burden and are seeking a camp at which the first group of clarification of the entire problem. 500 displaced Jews arrived this This new policy may explain week, consists- of more than a the halting and turning back of square block of three-story apart- a train with 600 Jewish refugees ment houses with a capacity of from Eastern Europe at Gies- 4,000 persona. A personal inspection by a Jew. sen, 40 miles east of Frankfurt, earlier this week. When the Jews fish Telegraphic Agency corres- learned that they were being sent pondent established that th/Ma- back to the British zone, a num- riendorf center, which formerly ber of them abandoned their bag- housed American occupation gage and fled the train, making troops, is one of the most com- their way to Frankfurt lade. fortable camps in the entire U.S. pendently. After the train arrived zone of Germany. The first grodp at a British depot, another group of DP's were delighted to find fled and headed for the American that the rooms at the new camp were standard size with large zone. windows and, in some instances, The office here of Rabbi Philip large balconies, permitting them Bernstein. adviser on Jewish af- to enjoy normal family life. fairs to Gen. McNerney, is Inves- At present it Is planned to bil- tigating the Giessen incident, it let four people in a room, but was reported. this figure is expected to vary in Meanwhile, the Army has opened proportion to the arrival of other another displaced persons camp refugees from the East.