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Friday, Aug. 2, 1946'

CLIFTON AVENUE • CINCINNATI 20, 01110

Page Three

DETROIT SWISH CHRONICLE and The • al Chronicle

London piipatches Say:

•

One-Sixth of Palestine is Jewish
,.Share Under Anglo-American Plan

13ritain Would Still Maintain
Strict Control Over Sections

•

HISTORY OF JEWS
IN MICHIGAN

NEW YORK (WNS)—While the after-effects of the
Jerusalem bombing were being felt by various groups in
several ways, conferences were going on in London lie-
tween American and British government representatives
over the future status of'Palestine, and reports persisted
that a partition plan for the country was being considered

and that the British will call —
Jews and Arabs to a conference had disclosed the receipt of com-
on this subject within the next munications from the governments
two months. Then entry of 100,. of Egypt and Iraq, which request-
000 displaced European Jews Into ed the British Government to en.
Palestine would be conditional on ter Into negotiations with the
acceptance of the partition plan, seven Arab States "to end the
it was stated. present situation in Palestine and
As a result of these rumors, Dr. to install a new regime in ac-
Nahum Goldmann, an American cordance with the provisions and
member of the Jewish Agency the aims expressed in the charter
who Is now in London, sent a note of the United Nations."
These communications were in-
to Henry Grady, chief of the
U. S. delegation conferring on terpreted as an attempt by mem-
Palestine, informing him that the hers of the Arab League to place
Jewish Agency would not partici- Palestine under United Nations
pate in such round-table discus- trusteeship. The notes also de.
sions, If the question of the ad- manded that all Jewish Immigra-
mission of 100,000 Jews into Pal- tion to Palestine be halted pend-
estine was to become part of the ing agreement on a new Palestin-
negotiations and, therefore, con- Ian regime.
tingent on Arab consent. Jewish
public opinion In the United Sta.
tea and the Zionist movement
throughout the world would con.
eider this a reversal of the policy
of the U. S. Government, said Dr.
Goldmann.
In Washington it was announced
last week that the State Depart-
JERUSALEM, (JTA)—The Jews
ment received two alternative
plans on Palestine from the An- of America are keeping a close
glo-American conferees In London, watch on the situation in Pales.
and it was understood that See- tine and "identify themselves with
rotary of State Byrnes would dis. the Yishuv as never before,"
cuss the proposals with President Henry Mentor, executive vice.
Truman. A spokesman for the president of the United Palestine
State Department was unable to Appeal and the United Jewish
say whether either of the plans Appeal In the United States, said
recommended' partition. here this week.
Mr. Montor told reporters that
Get Only One-Sixth
Nevertheless, London dispatches American Jewry is prepared to
during the week were persistent provide all the funds needed to
In their reports that the Anglo. transport 100,000 European Jews
American experts have agreed on to Palestine, if the large nations
a plan to divide Palestine. Last are unwilling to finance the
Friday it was stated that the plan transfer. The Jews of the United
is to divide the country into three States, he said, are not interested
sections, British, Arab and Jewish, In Palestine merely for philan-
with a Federal government which thropic or humanitarian reasons,
would rule under a United Na- but because they are aware that
tions trusteeship. A little less than what happens to Palestine is a
half the country, including the touchstone of what Jewry every-
Negev, would become a Jewish
where may expect from civilized
province. (A dispatch to the New
York Times from Its London cor- society.
respondent said that the Jews
would get only 1,500 square miles,
which is about one-seventh the
area of Palestine.) Jerusalem, it is
said, would be an international
settlement. The central governing
NEW YORK, (JTA)—The "most
body of Palestine would be an
Arab-Jewish one with a British important Jewish trustee in
viceroy.
charge of Jewish property In
The Jewish region, according to Austria," Dr. Oscar Wilhelm, has
this, would include two-thirds of been arrested by Soviet authori-
the southern coastal Plain of ties for opposing the Russian
Sharon, except the port of Jaffa, seizure of Jewish-owned land
the plain of Esdraclon, the valley
holdings, the New York Times
of Jezreel and eastern Galilee
north of Beisan. Both the Jewish reported this week in a dispatch
and the Arabs regions would be from Vienna.
According to the report, the
under the strict control of the
British authorities of the central Russian authorities had become
government, which would retain "outraged" by Dr. Wilhelm's con-
final authority over immigration, tinued resistance to Soviet occu-
although the regional governments pation of Jewish property held by
would have the right of appeal to the Austrian Settlement Com-
the United Nations Trusteeship pany, of which Dr. Wilhelm is
Council,
the head, and had ordered Wil-
Russia To Act
helm and four others, one an of-
It is now expected that the So- ficial of the Ministry Os Econo-
viet Government will bring up the mic Planning, to report to the
Palestine question before the Se- Russian military headquarters in
curity Council of the United Na. Vienna. None of the men have
T
tl r o ans1
ns .ovv rd hLi
been seen since.
r n fo th eada application
m pip ss Ilic o a n to t
ral.
the
nited Nations will be discussed.
: 7
is was Indicated by a Soviet
AIR-CONDITIONED
kesman In New York after the
\......eretarlat of the United Nations

America Keeps
Close Watch on
Palestine Situation

Soviets Arrest
Jewish Trustee

Executive Director

by

BALTIMORE ZIONIST
DISTRICT

Apply in writing, giving full par-
uculars to: Joseph Allen, Com-
mittee Chairman, 1507 Court
Square Building, Baltimore 2,

Maryland.

ARTICLE 23

Biographical Sketches
of Detroit Jews

LOUIS BLITZ

Louis Blitz was one of the out-
standing Jews in Michigan. He
was a man of high Intellectual at.
tainment, a great industrialist and
a leader in civic and Jewish af-
fairs.
Louis Blitz was born in Frank.
furt-am-Main on Mar. 2, 1850, and
canoe to the United States with
his parents at the age of two. His
boyhood was spent in Louisville,
Ky., and at the age of 10 he canoe
with his family to Detroit. He de-
cided to prepare himself for the
legal profession and graduated in
1872 from the Law and Literary
departments of the University of
Michigan, one of the first Jewish
graduates of that university,
where he was also a student of
Latin and Greek. After gradua-
tion he turned his attention to in.
dustrial enterprise, in which he
eventually achieved success and
high prestige. He was the founder
of the Detroit City Glass Works
at Delray, the first and only glass

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the

course at the University of Gies-
sen. He came to the United States
at the time of the German Revo-
lution of 1848-1850, and settled in
Albany. He moved to Detroit in
the '50's and was for a long time
a prominent and honored mem-
ber of the Detroit Bar. He served
for four years as United States
Land Agent for Michigan and for
eight years as U. S. Pension
Agent for Michigan. He died In
1873.

Mrs. Blitz was active in many
religious and benevolent societies,
especially in Temple Beth El, and
served as president of the Chil-
dren's Free Hospital. Mr. and
Mrs. Louis Blitz were the parents
of Marian (Mrs. John A Heaven.
rich, of Detroit), Grace A. (Mrs.
E. Louis Jacobs, of New York),
Helen (Mrs. David J. Levy, of
Detroit) and Frank A. (deceased).
Their grandchildren are: Mrs.
Howard Kaichen (Margaret Heav-
enrich), John P. Heavenrich,
Louis B. Heavenrich, Walter
Heavenrich, Richard Heavenrich
John K. Jacobs, Samuel K. Ja-
cobs, Stephen K. Jacobs, David J.
Levy, Jr., and Elizabeth Levy.

When Louis Blitz passed away
suddenly on Feb, 15, 1905, at the
early age of 54, his death was
mourned by the entire community
and memorial tributes appeared
In all the local newspapers. We
quote one of the editorials which
appeared in the Detroit Evening
News of Feb. 16, 1905: "Through
the sudden death of Louis Blitz

otti

LOUIS BLITZ

factory in Michigan; vice-presi-
dent of the German-American
Bank; a director of the Empire
Coal Company of Pittsburgh, and
one of the founders of the De-
troit Stock Exchange.
He served for eight years as
president of Temple Beth El, and
during his administration, Dr.
Leo M. Franklin began his min-
istry in Detroit and the Temple
on Woodward and Elliot was
built. He also served twice as
president of Pisgah Lodge Bnal
Brith, as president of the Phoenix
Club, and took a most active part
in the formation of the United
Jewish Charities and served on
its Board of Directors. He was an
ardent supporter of the Hebrew
Union College and served on the
Executive Board of the Union of
American Hebrew Congregations.
He was a student of the best
in literature and a lover of the
Bible, patron of the fine arts and
one of the first supporters of the
Detroit Museum of Arts, and a
member of the Archeological So-
ciety. He was a forceful and
THE MOST ClIA.RMING
pleasing public speaker and a
ROMANTIC COMEDY IN TEARS
man of broad Intellectual ken—
Season's Gayest Entertainment
one well equipped for leadership
MIRED de UAGRE, Jr. presents
in thought and action.
JOHN VAN DRUTEN'S
Mr. Blitz was married on Nov.
20, 1878, to (Mlle Kaichen, daugh.
Comedy
ter of Arnold and Helena Hal-
chen, who was born in Albany,
N. Y., and whose parents were
among the first couploa to be mar-
ried by Dr. Isaac M. Wise, found-
er of Reform Judaism, during his
with
PEGOY
LOUISA
ministry in Albany. Arnold Kai-
HARVEY
a HORTON a FRENCH chen was born in Germany, where
STEPHENS
EVES.: 3.60. 3.00, 2.10, 1 80, 1.10 (Tee
he received the best of educa-
11'etL, Sat. Slats.: 2.40. 130, 1.20 Inc).) tional advantages, including a law

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WANTED

By IRVING I. KATZ

there has been taken from the
business community of Detroit an
active, alert, enterprising and far-
sighted manager whose initiative
was responsible for the founding
and expansion of large and im-
portant industrial plants, the vil-
lage of Delray being, In large
part, a monument to his genius
for productive undertakings. Fi-
nancial circles are deprived of an
energetic intelligence that counted
for much in the lorcal banking
world and always on the side of
safe, sound a n d conservative
counsels. Tlie civic body is called
upon to part with a broad-mind-
ed, public-spirited citizen, deeply
concerned in the progress and
prosperity of the community and
equally alive to its moral and In-
tellectual needs. The Hebrew pop-
ulation especially must mourn a
conspicuous and trusted leader,
always foremost in its religious
and charitable enterprises. Mr.
Blitz's death will be sincerely re-
gretted in many quarters."
In recognition of his outstand-
ing contribution to the cause of
Temple Beth El, the congregation
honored his memory by erecting
a memorial tablet in the vestibule
of the Temple on Woodward and
Eliot which now reposes in one
of the rooms of the present Tem-
ple building.
The life of Mr. Blitz was marked
by large and worthy accomplish.
ments, by the highest integrity
and honor, and by an abiding hu-
man sympathy and tolerance. His
was indeed a "triumphant life"
and under this title was dedicated
the beautiful tribute published by
Temple Beth El. He brought to
bear the powers of a strong and
splendid manhood in the further-
ance of business enterprises
which concerned the general wel-
fare; he was loyal and public-
spirited as a citizen; he was de-
vout and of indefatigable zeal in
religious activities; he was gene.
rous and kindly In his association
with all classes and conditions of
men; he was one to whom friend-
ship was inviolable; and he made
his life count for good in every
relation.

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