America', "elvish Periodical Carter

Friday, September 6, 1946

CLIFTON AVENUE - CINCINNATI 20, 01110

DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle

ZOA Renews Faith
in Silver Leadership

On Rescue Mission

Denies He Represents 'Extremists,'
in Contrast to Agency 'Moderates'

NEW YORK (WNS)—Renewed confidence in the
leadership of Dr. Abba Hillel Silver, ZOA president, was
expressed here this week by the national executive of
the Zionist Organization of America.
The meeting, an all night closed session, approved
a resolution rejecting the "imputation conveyed in the

tendentious and harmful reports
that Dr. Silver and the masses of
American Zionists whom he leads
represent an 'extremist' position
in contrast with the allegedly
'moderate' position of the Jewish
Agency executive." The resolutior
also expressed regret over "the
equally unwarranted suggestion
that he or we are motivated by
anti-British sentiment."
Dr. Silver, earlier had confirmed
the report that he had submitted
his resignation as a member of
the Jewish Agency executive.
Free Entry Demanded
A resolution reaffirming the of.
tidal program of the Zionist
movement, calling for free entry
of Jews into Palestine and the
establishment of Palestine as "a
Jewish Commonwealth with full
equality of rights and status for
all its inhabitants," declared that
"this program has been adopted
and ratified by the highest in-
stances of the World Zionist move-
ment and has been approved by
the overwhelming majority of
American Jewry" and that "the
official Zionist position has never
been reversed or modified by any
World Zionist conference or Zion-
ist Congress empowered to make
valid decisions touching basic
Zionist policy and principles."
The only 'Zionist body "compe-
tent to revise the basic Zionist
program is the Congress of the
World Zionist Organization," Dr.
Silver said in a statement carried
in the Boston Traveler.
Referring to the recent reports
in the public press that the Jew-
ish Agency has proposed the par-
tition of Palestine into two states,
one Arab and one Jewish, Dr.
Silver said that "between sessions
of the World Zionist Organization
only the actions committee has
authority to act for the move-
ment and that body has not yet
authorized any proposal as were
reported in the press.
Not Anti-British
Dr. Silver emphasized that his
criticism of British policy should
not be interpreted as anti-British.
"We all have the highest re-
gard for the people of Great
Britain, for the high concepts and
standards of democracy and law
which they have achieved, and for
the courage and bravery of their
fighting men . . . But men who
love freedom and justice, who,
like us are fighting for the right
of an ancient and honorable peo-
ple which have suffered so much
to find peace at last in its his-
toric home, cannot help but rec-
ord that their present government
is pursuing a woefully wrong-
headed and dangerously blunder-
ing policy in regard to Palestine
of which they, themselves, loyal
to their tradition, cannot approve.
Asked to comment on the re-
cent charges that the officials of
the State Department have frus-

trated American policy on Pales-
tine Dr. Silver said:
"Unfortunately Crum's charges
are all too true—if by American
policy is meant the oft repeated
public statements of the Presi-
dents of the United States. There
has long been a record of amazing
and bewildering incongruities be-
tween what the President says
and what the State Department
does. We refuse to accept the al-
ternative that the President and
the State Department have a tacit
understanding to give the Jews
of the United States a run
around."
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Backed by Bnai Zion

NEW YORK, (JTA)—A resolu-
tion backing Dr. Abba Hillel Sil-
ver's policy on Palestine and em-
phasizing that the American Zion-
ist Emergency Council must be
considered as the sole body in
the United States "to represent
the Zionist viewpoint to official
American circles," was adopted by
the administrative council of the
Bnai Zion Order, it was an-
nounced here this week.
Another resolution opposed the
partitioning of Palestine, and em-
phasized adherence of Bnal Zion
to the principles of the Biltmore
Declaration, "Only the forthcom-
ing World Zionist Congress has
the right to deal with any pro-
posed partition plans, the resolu-
tion said.

Pennsylvania Klan
Inquiry Is Ordered

PHILADELPHIA, (JTA) — Gov.
Edward Martin this week ordered
the state police to investigate Ku
Klux Klan activities in Pennsyl-
vania.
The governor's action followed
receipt of a letter from Justice
Meier Steinbrink of the New York
State Supreme Court who, as
chairman of the board of directors
of the Anti-Defamation League of
Bnai Brith, asked him "to direct
the investigative and prosecutory
forces of the state of Pennsyl-
vania to proceed immediately
against the Ku Klux Klan."
Judge Steinbrink brought to
Gov. Martin's attention "an Open
Letter to the Public" from the
Franklin County Klan of Cham-
bersburg, Penn., which appeared
on Aug. 23 as an advertisement
in a Chambersburg daily news-
paper, "Public Opinion." He
charged that the Franklin County
Klan was inciting race hatred by
falsely claiming in the advertise-
ment that "if the Negro gets his
vote, they will turn quickly on
those who held them down."

BLIND LINK SIFTED
WASHINGTON, (JTA) — Gov.
Ellis Arnall of Georgia has asked
President Truman to order an in-
vestigation of the conectlon be-
tween the Ku Klux Klan and the
German-American Bund it was re-
ported here this week. The report
said that he specifically asked
that John 0. Rogge former as-
sistant Attorney General be named
to head the investigation and that
A campaign for a State Fair the FBI cooperate.
Employment Practice law through
the collection of approximately
200,000 signatures of Michigan
citizens was announced today by
Registration for Windsor Tal-
Jack Raskin, executive secretary
of the Michigan Civil. Rights Con- mud Torah classes is still in prog-
gress, under whose sponsorship ress, M. Levine, secretary of the
the campaign will be conducted. school, announced today.
Sept. 4 marked the opening day
"Since the end of the war,"
Raskin said, "individuals and or- of the fourth year for the reor-
ganizations have brought to our ganized Talmud Torah in Wind-
attention the deteriorating situa- sor.
Six classes are being conducted
tion in employment of minority
groups in Michigan. Firing of in addition to Bar Mitzvah and
Negroes, refusal to hire Negroes, post-Bar Mitzvah groups. A mod-
Jews, and women, and downgrad- ern kindergarten for five-year-old
ing have become frequent prat. children has also been set up.
Numerous requests from mem-
Bee. That this should take place
at a time when there is a hue bers of the Windsor Youth Coun-
and cry being raised for all-out cil has brought about an opening
and efficient production, makes of its kningo program a full month
Passage of such legislation a ahead of schedule.
The lounge is open from 8 to 11
must"
"The campaign is a real chal- p. m. on Tuesdays, Thursdays and
lenge to the people of Michigan," Sundays.
Members of Windsor's Jewish
Raskin added.

Fair Employment
Campaign Gets
Under Way Here

LvtAS J. Sta'fialiJS
In connectiion with rescuing the
Jews from Poland, where their
lives are in constant danger
from anti-Semitic pogrom s,
Louis 'J. Septimus, Now York
accountant, left by plane for
Paris recently, as the represen-
tative of the Agudath Israel
Youth Council of America. Ills
mission, which takes him to
Paris and to Prague, is to im-
plement the program to facili-
tate the transfer of Jews from
Poland to safer countries.

Soviet Opposes
Court on Rights

Ukraine Delegate
Cites UN Charter

PARIS, (JTA)—Leaders of cen-
tral Jewish organizations who last
week submitted a joint memoran-
dum to the Peace Conference on
Jewish rights in European coun-
tries, held a closed meeting fol-
lowing the indication by Dmitri
Z. Manuilsky, head of the Soviet
Ukrainian delegation, that the
Soviet Union would oppose the
establishment of an International
Court of Human Rights as sug-
gested by Herbert V. Evatt, the
Australian representative.
In opposing Evatt's suggestion,
Manuilsky quoted from the United
Nations Charter the text of Ar-
ticle 2, paragraph 7, which reads:
"Nothing contained in the present
Charter shall authorize the United
Nations to intervene in matters
which are essentially within the
domestic jurisdiction of any State,
or shall require the members to
submit matters to settlement un-
der the present Charter."
The head of the Ukrainian dele-
gation made his statement during
a discussion by the Political and
Territorial Commission for Italy
of the preamble of the draft
treaty. An Australian amendment
to the preamble urged the guaran-
teeing "to all persons in the ter-
ritories affected by it of human
rights and fundamental freedoms,
without distinction as to race, sex,
language or religion." Discussion
of the amendment was postponed
until several articles of the treaty
draft touching upon the problem
can be collated and debated,
Meanwhile, Andrei Y. Vishinsky,
Soviet deputy foreign minister, in-
dicated that he intends to take
part in the debate on the ques-
tion of human rights when Article
72 of the Italian draft treaty is
discussed. A United States propo-
sal says _that the state to which
territory is allotted must secure
the fundamental rights and free-
doms to all persons within the
territory.

Windsor's Talmud Torah Reopens

community are looking forward to
an adult institute of Jewish Stu-
dies. The program is being de-
signed to provide a survey of
Jewish life for adults. Persons in-
terested can register by calling
Louis Lieblich at 2-2286.
Two families in Budapest, Hun-
gary, are receiving financial sup-
port from the Windsor Bnai
Brith Women's Lodge through its
Adopt-A-Family patronage.
Mrs. Evelyn Lutvak is president
of the chapter.
Additional facilities have been
added for the accommodation of
new pupils at the Peretz School.
Organized 12 years ago as a
non-partisan school for children,
the Peretz attempts to educate
students in a progressive Jewish
spirit.

Page Five

MAN CIF TIME WIEEIC
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ILL HANK GREENBERG play next season?
That is the big question circulating today around the American
sports circuit about our Man of the Week.
Although the huge Tiger first basemen has intimated to friends
that he will hang up his spikes come September, sports writers are
still waiting for an official statement, which they think will come
at the end of the present cam-
paign.
Should Hank decide to call it
quits, America will lose one of
its most colorful athletes.
Henry Greenberg grew up on
the sidewalks of New York. He
learned baseball as a kid and he
loved it. As early as March, when
the winds of spring whirled
through the streets of the Bronx,
people would stop and gap at
tall, clumsy boy as he shoveled
snow off Crotona Field. They
would then shake their heads as
he drew an old taped baseball out
of his pocket and threw it to his
smal!..n. friends.
Even after he hit the big leagues,
Hank retained the reputation of
a hard worker. He has spent so
much time in Briggs Stadium that
groundkeepers once suspected that
he set up light housekeeping there
to save room rent.
In 1938, when he was bidding
for Ruth's homerun record, he
paid quarters and dollars out of
his own pocket to get the neigh-
bor's children to pitch to him at
nine in the morning and frequ-
ently after a game until sundown.
Out the entire season with a
broken wrist in 1936, Hank merely
IIANK GREENBERG
had to show up on the first and fifteenth for his paycheck. Instead
he climbed into his monkey suit every morning and chased fungoes
for three hours a day to keep his legs in shape.
No ballplayer has more acquaintances and fewer intimate friends
than Greenberg. The glad-handers bore him stiff with their small
talk and the men with whom he works simply do not ponder the
psychological intricacies of baseball, the phase of the game 'which
interests him most.
* * *
INORDINATELY SENSITIVE to public opinion, Hank tries to
conform to the private life expected of a ballplayer against his inner
will. He hates hunting but once a year goes on an expedition and
returns within 36 hours,
He likes night clubs, and bright lights. During his bachelor days,
he was tagged by columnists as a man who has been engaged to
every show girl on Broadway and has led more conga lines than
any man in America.

Dignity is the keynote of his public relations. He never has
indorsed a cigarette that he doesn't smoke or a headache remedy
that he doesn't use. Ile could be booked solidly on the banquet
circuit at $100 a crack for reading some stock speech. He turns
down all such offers.

"I'll have enough money to live for the rest of my life," ho said,
"but I don't call that living, that's just existing. I'd like to learn
another business but I can't work for 20 bucks a week—which is
all I'm worth—besides people would think I'm keeping another guy
out of a job."
In February of last year, Greenberg married Carel Glazier Gim-
bel, heiress to New York department store millions, in a simple
ceremony at Brunswick, Ga.
* s s
BEFORE HIS MARRIAGE he lived modestly with his parents—
Romanian emigrants, who went to see him play even in grade
school—in the same three-story house the family occupied 20 years
ago.
Hank's fame is a surprise to people who knew him as an awk-
ward kid with two left feet at James Monroe High School In New
York. He is not a natural athlete and is shy and sensitive. But he
hates to lose.

After being graduated from high school in 1928. Greenberg
played semi-pro ball around the New York arca. His slugging
prowess was noticed by Yankee scouts and negotiations were
started to acquire the Jewish first baseman. Offered $1,000 for
his signature, Hank held out for $1,000. When the Yankee front
office was slow in accepting his offer, he signed with Jean Dubuc,
a Tiger scout who had seen him play.

Starting his professional career with Raleigh and Hartford, ho
soon moved up to Evansville, Beaumont, in the Texas League, and
hit the big time with Detroit in 1933.
Pennant fever had its biggest epidemic since 1909 in Detroit when
Mickey Cochrane fielded his Owen-Rogell-Gehringer-Greenberg infield
in 1934.
• * *
DETROIT FANS WERE looking forward to their first American
League championship in 25 years. They then heard news that Green.
berg might not play on Rosh Hashanah. Many of the city's Jews
wrote to him saying: "Rosh Hashanah comes every year; Detroit
hasn't won a pennant since 1909." They awaited his answer.
On the fateful morning of Sept. 10 the Detroit Free Press printed
a huge picture of Greenberg on page one bearing the caption, Happy
New Year, in Hebrew characters.

Hank played that day. He hit two home runs to give the Tigers
a 2-1 victory over Boston. Nine days later religion and sports
again clashed. This time Greenberg said he definitely would not
play on Yom Riqqur, The Day of Atonement. Ile didn't and
Detroit lost.

Following this period of excitement, Edgar Guest wrote the fol-
lowing poem in the Free Press:

"The

Irish didn't like it when they
heard of (Ireenberg'n fame,
For they thought a good first baseman
should possess an Irish name.

And with S' doubles and a
snare of homers made,
The reepeet they had for Greenberg
w as being openly displayed.

And the Murphy, and Mulrooneys
said they never dreamed they'd see
A Jewish boy from Gronxville out
where Casey used to be.

But upon the Jewish New Tear
when flank Greenberg name to bat
And made two homers off Pitcher

In the early days of April not a

Dugan tipped his bat
Or prayed to see a double when Hank
Greenberg came to bat.

Came Torn Kippur—holy feast day
world-wide over to the Jew—
And Hank Greenberg to his teaching
and the old tradition true

In July the Irish wondered where
he'd ever learned to play.
"He makes me think of Casey!" Old
)fan Murphy dared to say,

Spent the day among his
he didn't come to Dias'
said Murphy to Stutrocrney. "We
shall lose the game todayl"

Rhodes—they cheered like mad for that.

people

and

Greenberg was the first ballplayer to enlist in World War n. He
was discharged as a captain on June 14, 1945 after service in the
China-India-Burma theater of operations.

