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Detroit Jewish Chroiiiicle
SECTION ONE
VOL. 48, NO. 35
and The Legal Chronicle
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DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, AUGUST 30, 1946
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Factions In Palestine Await Conference
Hate Press Has
Outlet in Detroit
ADL Reveals
NEW YORK, (JTA)—Important
sections of the German-American
press are back at their pre-war
stand, more blatantly anti-Amer-
ican, anti-democratic and anti-
Semitic than ever, according to a
national survey conducted by the
Anti-Defamation League of Bnai
Brith, details of which were re-
leased last week by Richard E.
Gutstadt, National Director of the
League. The study, directed by
Arnold Forster, national director
of the Legal Department for the
ADL, was based on an analysis of
the 150 newspapers which make up
the German-language press.
Mr. Forster also urged the Fed-
eral Communications Commission
to investigate the broadcasting ac-
tivities of Upton Close, news
commentator accused of anti-
Jewish bias. "Close is a clever
propagandist," Forster said. ''He
has shrewdly avoided the use of
outright anti-Semitism in his cur-
rent broadcasts. Prevented from
spewing his anti-Semitism out on
the airwaves, he eniploys a tricky
device to disseminate his hatred.
At the end of each broadcast, lis-
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Want O'Dwyer
As One-Man
Commission
NEW YORK, (JTA) — Mayor
O'Dwyer this week declined to
make any comment on a report
that the White House is consid-
ering sending him to Palestine as
a one-man commission to look
into the situation there and re-
port back directly to President
Truman.
The suggestion to send the New
York mayor to Palestine as Pres-
ident Truman's emissary is re-
ported to have come from a group
of Jewish, Catholic and Protesta rllt
clergymen. It was made withou
his knowledge. Prior to being
elected mayor, O'Dwyer was the
head of President Roosevelt's War
Refugee Board.
Acheson Denies
Crum Charges
By BEATRICE HEIMAN
WASHINGTON, (JTA) —Acting
Secretary of State Dean Acheson
this week denied charges by Bart-
ley C. Crum, member of the for-
mer Anglo-American inquiry com.
mittee, that "middle level" State
Department officials have frus-
trated Presidential policy on Pal-
estine. He said that if there is
any fault in this matter, which he
does not believe, the criticism
should be directed against him.
Asked at a press conference
about the charges, Mr. Acheson
said that all the officials con-
cerned work under his direct and
immediate guidance. He very
much regretted, he said, that
Crum should have levelled the
.charges at officials under him and
;pot at him.
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MASS MEETING
A mass meeting, sponsored
by the Zionist Council of De-
troit, will be held at 8:30 p.m.
Saturday, Aug. 31, at the Shaa-
rey 7,edek Synagogue. Rabble
Leon Feuer and Morris Adler
will speak at this rally, being
called as a protest against con-
tinued delay in carrying out
President Truman's demands to
move 100,000 homeless Jews to
Palestine.
Progress Despite Crisis
Jewish Agency Receives Invitation;
Meeting Will Open On Sept. 9
By OTTO SCIIICK •
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency Correspondent)
LONDON, (JTA) — The Jewish Agency this week
revealed that it has received an official invitation from
the British Government to participate in the forthcom-
ing round-table conference on Palestine.
The invitation was extended to the Agency about
Silver Reported
Resigned from
Jewish Agency
TOP: Dr. Abraham Grunovsky, chairman of the Herrn ayemeth Board
of Directors In Jerusalem, addressing the founders and guests who witnessed
the establishing of the new colony. 11(Yrf011: Mohanuned Ibrahim
head of a group of neighboring Ambs, who brought expressions of good wit
and welcome to the Jewish war IMerans in their new colony. 'Though I have
rend the history books, I have found nothing about our or lust red between
Jews and Arabs in the mud — only in the present time. However, the more
discerning among us are not influenced by this pros ovation. The days to come
will disperse• the clouds," said Mohammed Ibrahim 'Intl!).
Palestine Land Front Fight Parallels
Life and Death Immigration Issue
NEW YORK, (JTA)—Dr. Abba
Hillel Silver, chairman of the
American Zionist Emergency
Council, this week told the Jew-
ish Telegraphic Agency that he
had no comment to make on a re-
port from Paris that he has re-
signed from the Jewish Agency
executive.
"All statements will have to
come from the Jewish Agency
executive in Paris," he said. The
report attributed Dr. Silver's res-
ignation to sharp disagreement
with other members of the Jewish
Agency executive, particularly Dr.
Nahum Goldmann, over the line
the executive should follow on
Britain's Palestine proposals.
two weeks ago. Within 24 hours,
Dr. Chaim Weizmann, president
of the Agency, sent a letter to
Colonial Secretary George Hall
stating that the Agency was un-
able to participate in round-table
negotiations on the basis of the
"federalization" plan outlined by
government spokesman Herbert
Morrison in Parliament.
In his letter, Dr. Weizmann also
advanced the following demands
as prerequisites to the Jewish
Agency's participation in t h e
round-table discussions:
1. The Jewish Agency should
have full freedom to designate its
own delegates, including those
who are at present under deten-
tion, or those who may possibly
be detained.
2. The Jewish Agency executive
shall, in consultation with the
British Government, invite all
members of the Jewish delegation
to the round-table talks, it being
understood that the Agency will
include representatives of other
important Jewish organizations.
Must Have Mufti
The Palestine Arab Higher Corn-
mittee has deCided to accept the
British Government's invitation to
participate in talks in London on
Palestine "providing the Palestine
Arab delegation includes Haj
Amin El Husseini, the Mufti of
Jerusalem."
The decision, reached after a
two-hour session In Jerusalem,
was communicated to General Sir
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Progress amid and notwithstanding the severe crisis
—that is the story of embattled Jewish Palestine today.
Parallel with the struggle which is highlighted by the
life and death issue of continued Jewish immigration
to Eretz Israel, the effort on the Palestine land front,
Germans in U. S.
Zone Need Education
Against Anti-Semitism
carried on by the Jewish National
Fund as the land redemption in-
strumentality, is also going for.
ward.
The pictures above are a graph-
ic record of the new progress not-
withstanding the evrts in Haifa
Bay, on the Medi, rranean sea
lanes, and at Cyprus. It is epitom-
ized by the founding, on July 18,
of Kfar Kisch, a settlement bear-
ing the name of Brigadier Fred-
tk —TL---Kisch, the late chairman
of the Jewish Agency Executive,
whose heroic achievements as
chief engineer of the British
Eighth Army during the historic
stand at El Alamein is one of the
great epics of World War II.
The name of this great Jewish
hero who gave his life for the
victory of the United Nations, is
now perpetuated on an area of
5,000 dunams of land in Lower
Galilee Where Jewish war veter.
ans have been settled. The found-
ing of Kfar Kisch was followed
by the establishment, on Aug. 1,
of Irgun Bazra, on Palestine's
coastal plain, which is the ninth
war veteran's settlement on Jew-
ish National Fund land.
WASHINGTON, (JTA)—No or-
ganized program of reeducation
to combat anti-Semitism is being
undertaken, as yet, by German of-
ficials in the American zone in
Germany, Dr. James Pollock, for-
merly director of the regional
government coordinating office and
a member of the staff of Lt. Gen.
Lucius Clay, deputy military gov-
ernor of Germany, told a press
conference here this week.
He said that he thought that
the German officials were helping
The Board of Directors of
the DP's by allocating larger Young Israel of Detroit have
amounts of food and that under elected Rabbi Alvin M. Poplack as
the jurisdiction of the German of- the new executive director of the
ficials an involved set of laws
were being drawn up providing
for the restitution of Jewish prop-
erty.
Dr. Pollock said, in response to
questioning, that the underground
movement of Jews to Palestine,
"must have been organized to a
certain extent in the American
zone. They are certainly coming
in awfully fast," he said, and
added that it was a serious strain
on the food allocation program.
Polio Forces
Postponement of
School Opening
The Board of United Hebrew
Schools announces the postpone-
ment of the opening date of the
schools from Tuesday, Sept. 3, to
Sunday, Sept. 8.
This postponement is done in
accordance with the ruling of the
Detroit Public Schools in order to
avoid crowding children in the
classrooms during the infantile
paralysis period.
The offices, however, will be
opened immediately after Labor
Day for registration of pupils for
the fall semester.
BLU3I CHARGES DISTORTION
PARIS, (JTA)—Former Premier
Leon Blum this week sharply
criticized the official Palestine ra-
dio for allegedly distorting a re-
cent article he wrote on the
Palestine situation.
Young Israel Elects
Rabbi Alvin Poplack
As Executive Director
Pressure for Buyers' Strikes and Subsidies to Hold Down Prices
Strategy of the nation's top la-
bor leaders for the immediate fu-
ture, as outlined at recent CIO
and AFL meetings, adds up to
thee following:
On w ges, both CIO and AFL
officials are trying to hold off a
showdo I on a second round of
wage I reases in the basic in-
dustrie, until late this year or
early year. Some unions now
are riG ng wage requests and
threatening to do so,
other..
but 4. 1 • 'neral strategy is to de-
age demands.
lay
es, the plan is to try
0
a new series of big
to
least until after the
rite
elections. CIO President
Nr
P KOS rraj, has said that th
rs have no intention of
S heir present wage con-
CALL ich run until February
0 policy, for the pres-
S try to delay the major
ut there will be strikes
by some CIO affiliates. The AFL's
general policy also is to postpone
the big strikes so that production
can make some real headway.
Prices are to receive the major
attention of the CIO for the next
few weeks under the program out-
liined by Mr. Murray, Secretary
James B. Carey and other lead-
ers. The CIO plans to increase the
number of buyers' strikes and
demonstrations. It is demanding
that subsidies be restored in or-
der to lower food prices. Both
the CIO and AFL urged the Price
Decontrol Board to restore price
ceilings on food products. The
CIO admitted in a review of the
price situation, however. that it
was fighting a losing battle on
prices. Both AFL and CIO lead-
ers recognize that another round
of big wage raises would auto-
matically bring price increases un-
der the new OPA law. It is such
price increases that the labor
leaders want to avoid.
Taxes. The CIO intends to study
the possibilities of curbing infla.
Lion by raising tax rates on "spec-
ulative profits" and by means of
other fiscal and monetary moves.
Labor - management conference.
The CIO thinks there is more
reason than ever for holding a
conference of labor and man-
agement representatives which it
proposed to President Truman last
month. The AFL, however, has
rejected the idea, and there have
been no signs of White House
approval of such a meeting.
Political action • is to form a big
part of the strategy for both AFL
and CIO. The AFL has stated It
will increase its political activities
this year to oppose Congressmen
who helped weaken price controls.
The CIO also is making the price
issue a major point in its political
campaigns.
RABBI ALVIN M. rurLAux
organization, It was announced by
Charles T. Gellman, president.
Rabbi Poplack, who succeeds
Rabbi I. Turner, is a native of
Seattle, Washington, and a prod-
uct of the American Jewish edu-
cational system. He took his ele-
mentary training at the Seattle
Talmud Torah and after comple-
tion of courses there attended the
Yeshivath Torah Vodaath. The
new executive directdr took his
secular work at the University of
Washington in Seattle and served
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