America ifewish Periodial Cu r ter CLIFTON AVENUE - CINCINNATI 20, OHIO AN INDEPENDENT UNAFFILIATED , NEWSPAPER LARGEST ANGLO-JEWISH Thirty-One Years of Service to Detroit Jewry PAID suBsenrenoN IN STATE OF MICHIGAN Detroit Jewish Chronicle e , 4 and The Legal Chronicle DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, AUGUST 9, 1946 VOL. 48, NO. 32 Tel Aviv Siege Was Unnecessary Is New Charge 10e a Single Copy; $3.00 Per Year Who Pinches The Pu a Strings To Sap Us'of Our Strength? TEL AVIV (JTA)—With mili- tary operations in Tel Aviv ended and the siege of the city lifted, Jewish circles here are question- DON'T DRAW THE PURSE SPRINGS ing the results of the four-day occupation by more than a full division of infantry troops sup- ported by tanks, armored cars and heavy machine gun carriers. They point out that these 20000 soldiers carried out a war-time operation against 200,000 civilian residents of Tel Aviv. At the end of the four days all that had been found were some old Haganah arms caches and a small quantity of arms belonging to the Irgun Zval Leumi hidden in the air raid shelter oia synagogue which was accessible to anybody. In addition, about 1,500 people were detained, but only about 40 suspected terrorists were arrested, including the sister of Abraham Stern, the late leader of the Stern Group, who had nothing to do with the activities of his organ. ization. These same circles point out that the cost of this large-scale operation was unnecessarily high in relation to the results obtained. (Continued on Page 7) Ted Petok Simple Ceremony Installs Levin CIS Federal Judge In a Federal courtroom packed with notables, friends, relatives and neighbors, last Wednesday, Theodore Levin was sworn in as - Federal Judge in a brief but sol- i emn ceremony. Promptly at 10 a. m., the court clerk banged his gavel and every. one in the room rose as the judges of the Federal Court walked in in their judicial robes. The clerk read the commission of President Truman, nominating Levin. Judge Simons administered the oath of office, having first read a portion from the Bible relative to the duties of a judge. The marshal then invested Levin with the judicial robe, the symbol of office. Judge Simons spoke a few brief words of welcome and By BERL CORALNIK formally invited Judge Levin to ascend to the bench. There was a JERUSALEM (JTA)—Far-reaching decisions of a mili- formal shaking of hands with all tary and administrative nature were arrived at here the judges and the court was ad. during a ten-day visit by a high official mission from journed. London consisting of officials of the Foreign Office and high-rank- ing army, navy and air force °M- yers, it was learned reliably. The mission arrived here shortly after the bombing of the King David Hotel and returned to Lon. don last week-end. Great secrecy The Northwest Hebrew Congregation and Center has surrounded its comings and goings finally completed its preparations for serving the Jewish as well as its meetings with High Commissioner Sir Alan Cunning population of that neighborhood by calling to its pulpit a ham. Present at these meetings a spiritual leader for the coming At the Tisha Ab Services con- were Chief Secretary Sir John year. ducted by the Synagogue or Mon- Shaw, Sir Evelyn Bdrker, British Rabbi Jacob Segal will be the day night and Tuesday, a sub- commander in Palestine, and the new rabbi of the synagogue and stantial sum of money was raised chiefs of police and the Criminal he has already accepted the ap- for the National Palestine fund Investigation Department. The conferences are believed to pointment, pursuant to the man- after a stirring talk by Israel Liss. sate of the general membership The memorial committee under be connected with recent decisions body in June. the co-chairmanship of A. J. Piel to prepare Jerusalem and other and Morris Sukenic held a meet. large cities against possible ex- Rabbi Segal is a graduate of the ing on Tuesday night at the home tended terrorist attacks or even an college of the City of New York of Mr. Kaufman to prepare liter. armed uprising. The requisition and of the Jewish Theological ature descriptive of the Dedica- last week of several key buildings Seminary of America, in both of tory plaques and the Yaizheit in- in Jerusalem is believed to be the which he had an outstanding rec. scriptions to be set up for its first step in setting up "defense areas" in which the government ( ■ ord of scholarship. Prior to the members. ilitr, Rabbi Segal was connected could continue to function under 1 ,• th Bnai Zion Synagogue in Chi- any condition. go. He has just completed a pe- One of the chief reasons for the \__ iod of Army Chaplaincy, retiring present concern and apprehension with the rank of Major. A reception in official circles is the arrival in welcoming the new Rabbi will the past week of several thousand take place in the latter part of visaless immigrants and the re- August upon his arrival here. ports that thouSands of others are An open mass meeting is being en route. One reliable source es. Rabbi Segal will be in charge of the Dedicatory Services celebrat- called at the Congregation Bnai timated that 17,000 Jews have ing the completion of the social Moshe for Wednesday, Aug. 14, at sailed for Palestine since June 29. The decision as to whether these hall of the Synagogue on Sunday, 8:30 p. m. The speaker will be September 8, at 2:30 p.m. The en- Rabbi Ephraim Oschry, the only immigrants are to be admitted is tire community is invited to the surviving rabbi in all Lithuania up to London, but it is understood ceremonies which will be followed who will bring greetings from the that the Palestine government has by a dinner in the evening. Tick- few surviving Jews of that coun- recommended the admittance of only women over 50 years of age, ets for the dinner may be pur. try. The mass meeting is sponsored children under ten and persons chased from the ticket chairman, Manny Lax or Samuel Bez. An ex. by the Vaad Horabonim and Mer. who are seriously ill. Jewish circles here are consid. cellent program has been ar- kaz and the Federation of Lithu- (Continued on Page 11) anian Jews. ranged for the event. New Palestine Defense Plans ',Reported Mapped Rumor Visaless Jews May Be Refused Entry and Turned Back Call Segal to Pulpit of Northwest Congregation Only Survivor of Lithuanian Rabbis At Mass Meeting Why Doesn't The Community Council Get All The Funds That Are Needed To Carry Out Its Full Program When anti-Semitism rears its ugly head, it is not di- rected against individuals primarily but against our peo- ple as a whole. And the fight against anti-Semitism must be waged by our people as a whole. That is why the Jewish Community Council of De- troit was first organized. That is why every Jew in this city must be behind the Council program. That is why this paper has constantly called for unity among Jews. But there is no such unity. In high places, the program of the Council has not fully supported. Its way has not been made easy. Consequently, its work has suffered. Two weeks ago, we bemoaned the loss of Isaac Franck, executive director of the Council, who has re- signed to go to the community of Brooklyn. In a letter to the Chronicle, Mr. Franck denies that he is leaving be- cause of the increased sal. iy. Furthermore, the difference in salary is not great enough to warrant the change. We believe that what he says is true. Yet we reserve the right to think that if the conditions of Council opera- tion were such as to meet the complete needs of the com- munity, Franck would not have accepted work outside of Detroit, even at a larger salary. What are the .facts? What has been refused that could have been done? Who is to blame? What needs to be done? What can still be doner - The staff of the Council has always been too small. Its budget has always been inadequate. Therefore its coverage has always been inadequate. And Jewry in De- troit has been the sufferer. As the overall organization of Detroit, the Council has always been in need of a field worker to confer with or- ganizations, to discover their needs, to help unify and co- ordinate their programs into that of a solid community. No such person was ever provided. The strength that comes from unity never could be realized. Whoever held the purse strings pinched them. And the Council limped , along. Everybody in the community realizes the extreme need of adult education in our midst. To whom should Jews look for such a program? To the Council, of course. (Continued on page 7) Silver Says Zionist Staved Off Disaster; Urges Pressure NEW YORK (JTA)—The Zionist -m- o- Vement-ria176-77 averted "political disaster," Dr. Abba Hillel Silver said, disclosing that as of Tuesday night of last week President Truman had decided to accept the members of the Anglo-American British plan for Palestine. The President's decision to delay Committee of Inquiry on Pales. action on the proposal gives Amer- tine, Dr. Silver revealer'. He said,. lean Jews a "breathing spell" dur. ho believed that the President; ing which they must mobilize all and Secretary of State Byrnes, possible political pressure on had been taken by surprise by Washington, the chairman of the their experts' acceptance of the American Zionist Emergency "federalization" scheme, and quoted Council warned. The three months Mr. Turman as having told Sen. that remain before the Congres- Wagner that he did not wish to sional elections are crucial, he told do anything to injure the Jews. a press conference. Describing the British proposal Dr. Silver criticized the support as "partition without partition," given the British loan by Rabbi the American Zionist leader Stephen S. Wise, co-chairman of charged that the Anglo-American the Emergency Council, asserting experts had been instructed to hn. that if the loan had been delayed plement the report of the inquiry for six to eight weeks, sufficient committee, but, Instead, had made pressure could have been placed recommendations which were at on Prime Minister Attlee to corn- wide variance with the report. II pct him to accede to at least the these recommendations had been recommendations of the Anglo- accepted by the President, it American inquiry committee for would have represented a victory the immediate admission of 100,003 for circles in the State Depart. Jews to Palestine. He pointed to merit's Near Eastern Division the fact that the British "federal- which have always followed the ization" p;an was pushed through British line, he added. as soon as the loan had passed. Asked to comment on the meet- The President's sudden shift on ing of the Jewish Agency e.eecu- the plan resulted from appeals tive in Paris, Dr. Silver said that sent to the White House by Her. this conference cannot set a defi. bert H. Lehman and other prom. nitive policy for the Zionist move- inent Jews, by influential members ment. He advocated that a World of Congress and by - Bartley Crum, Zionist Congress he held as soon James MacDonald and Frank Bux. as possible, preferably in the ton, three of the six American United States.