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Detroit Jewish Chronic

Vol. 48, No. 36

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Detroit, Michigan, Friday, Sept. 6, 1946

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Jewish Agency Delays
Rejecting London Bid
to Ponder Bevin Offer

British Battle Jews
on Refugee Vessel

Heads Drive

JERUSALEM — Fighting
flared anew over Jewish
immigration when sailors
of the .Royal Navy battled
frenzied Jewish immigrants
aboard a blockade runner
off the Palestine coast.
Over 1,000 immigrants
were aboard the 400-ton
vessel, the Four Freedoms,

The Jews of Europe find
no resting place, wander
from country to country
and zone to zone hoping
to settle finally in Pales-
tine. The top picture
shows a-group of Jewish
displaced persons from
Poland clustered about
Mrs. Rae Karp, of the
Joint Distribution Com-
mittee, to thank United
States Jews for warm
clothing and food. The
lower picture shows a
happy group of survivors
as they arrived in Pales-
tine under the quota per-
mitted by Britain. At the
right, an aged woman is
seen as she arrives to be-
come a new American ,
with the help of the Na-
tional Refugee Service, a
United Jewish Appeal
Agency.

A Precious Gift

roin U.S.

when she was intercepted inside
territorial waters of Palestine.
Following the violence, the Brit-
ish towed the vessel to Haifa.
Shortly after the Four Free-
doms dropped anchor between two
destroyers just outside the Haifa
breakwater, naval engineers set
up barbed wire runways on the
docks for processing the refugees.
Barges swarmed around the an-
chored craft.
The ship was first sighted 35
miles west of Tel Aviv. When she
entered Palestinian waters she
was boarded by sailors from the
British destroyer Childers.
Met With Resistance
They were met with resistance
as a result of which several Brit-
ish ratings were injured, the gov-
ernment statement said. Twelve
men aboard the Four Freedoms
jumped overboard "during the fight
with the intention of swimming
ashore. Sortie of them escaped near
Tel AvIV, a United Press dispatch
sa4,
/The vessel was the first to ar-
rive in Palestine waters with im-
migrants since the British an-
nounced that all Jews attempting
to enter the Holy Land without
proper admision certificates would
be deported to Cyprus.
Vessel Expected
Unofficial sources said that
members of Haganan, Jewish de-
fense organization, had been ex-
pecting the ship to land near Tel
Aviv and had been hoping that
she would be able to elude Brit-
ish naval units.
These sources recalled that a
landing of some 300 European ref-
ugees was effected successfully
several weeks ago a few miles
north of Tel Aviv.
Meanwhile, reports from Haifa
said the port area had been closed
and that British army reinforce:
ments were being rushed in to
prevent attempts by the Haganah
to free the immigrants aboard the
Four Freedoms.

PARIS (Special) — The
Jewish Agency has drawn
up a formal rejection of the
British invitation to the
London conference on Pal-
estine.
But it was not yet certain
whether the rejection was
final. British officials in
Paris and London said they

ABE BASLE

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Zionist Fund
Campaign On

Abe Kasle Chairman
of Drive in Detroit

The Zionist Expansion Fund
Drive is in full swing in Detroit,
Abe Kasle, the chairman, reported
today.
The expansion fund campaign is
part of a nationwide Zionist drive
for funds to support emergency
needs of the American Palestine
Committee, Zionist educational and
political undertakings and radio
and newspaper information serv-
ices. Harry Schumer is Detroit
chairman of the general campaign.
The Expansion Fund Committee
on Thursday heard the story of
the slaying of Brucha Fuld from
her mother who is visiting in
Detroit. Brucha was killed in Tel
Aviv resisting British attempts to
block the entry of Jewish ref-
ugees.

LEADER IN HUNGER STRIKE
JERUSALEM (Palcor) — Wolf-
gang von Weisal, Revisionist lead-
er detained at Latrun, went on a
one-man hunger strike at sunset
Sept. 1, which he said he would
continue for 28 days, to protest
British jailings.

Romania Pledges Equality
to 400,000 Surviving Jews

Orphaned Jewish chil i ren in Budapest hold precious
packages of kosher f d sent from the United States.
These gifts are part of the 1,000,000 pounds shipped
since V-E day by tl• e Agudath Israel Youth Council
of America. The c uncil also maintains a guardian
plan whereby Ame ican Jews can arrange to "adopt"
Youngsters like the . for a year.

PARIS (Special)—An agreement
which brings new hope to nearly
750,000 Jews in Eastern Europe
has been reached between the
Romanian government and the
World Jewish Congress.
At a meeting between six Ro-
manian cabinet ministers, and
trIfigress leaders, it was agreed to
work out Romanian laws to give
effect to special provisions in the
Romanian peace treaty for equal-
ity of citizenship and protection
of Jews in Romania.
The meeting was held at the
Romanian legation under the
chairmanship of the Romanian
foreign minister, George Tatares-
cu. The Jewish leaders were Dr.
Nahum Goldman, chairman of the
executive of the World Jewish
Congress, and A. I. Easterman, its
political secretary in London. .
Jewish leaders regard this as
the first concrete success in an
effort to have various peace con-
ference delegations sponsor the In-
sertion in peace treaties of clauses

Secretary Weighs
Zionist Autonomy

proposed by the congress and de-
signed to insure that Jewish com-
munities which can not emigrate
will be given fair play and equal-
ity with other citizens.
Tatarescu, who once was pro-
Fascist, said his government was
determined to eradicate anti-
Semitism.
"This is the first concrete ray
of hope for 700,000 surviving Jews
in Eastern Europe," Easterman
commented. Of these 400,000 live
in Romania."

Rabbi Saul Silver
Is Taken by Death

CHICAGO, (JTA) —Rabbi Saul
Silver, founder and president of
the Chicago Hebrew Theological
College for 25 years, and one of
the founders of the Mizrachi Or-
ganization of America, died here
this week at the age of 64.

did not believe the Agency would
persist in its refusal and went on
with preparations to confer with
representatives of seven Arab
states.
Arabs Spurn Conference
The Arab Higher Committee has
already rejected the bid to Lon-
don because of British refusal to
accept the Mufti of Jerusalem as
a member of the proposed Arab
delegation.
London sources asserted that as
a result of Foreign Secretary
Ernest Bevin's tentative agree-
ment to admit the Agency plan
as a basis for discussion, the
Agency would reconsider its re-
jection.
Meetings between Bevin and Dr.
Nahum Goldman and Berl Locker
of the Agency executive left the
belief that the British would
finally agree to discuss the settle-
ment on the basis of complete
Arab and Zionist autonomy In-
cluding control over immigration
in their respective regions.
Leaders to Be Consulted
It may not be known for sev-
eral days whether the Agency
will reverse itself. Dr. Chaim
1,Veizmann, who is ill In England,
and other Jewish spokesmen must
be first consulted.
It is believed that the confer-
ence with the Jews will be post-
poned until Sept. 15 if the Agen-
cy accepts the invitation.
Some reports said that the Brit-
ish would bypass the Jewish
Agency if it persists in its re-
fusal and will invite represent-
atives of other Jewish organiza-
tions in their place.
After conferring with Dr. Welz-
mann, three of the members of
the executive—Prof. Selig Bro-
detsky, Louis Lipsky and Dr. Na-
hum Goldman—returned to Paris
for further consultations. A Jew-
ish Agency spokesman said that
no meetings of the executive are
planned in Paris and no decision
on attending the London parley is
likely to be reached for another
few days—until the attitude of
the Zionist Actions Committee,
now in session in Jerusalem, has
been received.

Ignore Arab Refusal
It was officially stated by the
British that the parley would be
held, if the Agency accepts, de-
spite Arab refusal to participate.
In the event the Jews also refuse
to attend the parley, official cir-
cles indicated that they will hold
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Allan, 8, Whistles
as Doctors Work

EIGHT-YEAR-OLD Allan Rus-
kin is O.K. today, but only a few
days ago his mother, Mrs. Betty
Ruskin, of 3724 Rochester avenue,
had to rush him frantically to a
hospital.
Allan presented a puzzling
case to the doctors. Ile had a
toy whistle lodged In his throat.
As they prepared for a delicate
operation, Allan was seized with
a coughing spell.
Out popped the whistle.

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