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Vol. 48, No. 37
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DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, SEPT. 13, 1946
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FARCICAL PARLEY DRAGS ON IN LONDON
B ritish Seize
100 Jews in
Tel Aviv Hunt
Celebrate Synagogue Dedication
Arabs Reject
Partition Plan
for Palestine
Tension Relaxes
After Explosions
Oppose a State
`for Immigrants'
TEL AVIV, (Special) —
The tension which gripped
most of the Holy Land
through the week eased off
Thursday after British
troops arrested over 100
Jews and wounded two in
occupying Tel Aviv and
nearby Ramat Gan in a
hunt for saboteurs who
blew up government offices
in Tel Aviv.
More than a third of the Jews
in Palestine were considered un-
der house arrest while the in-
tensive search went on. A rigid
curfew was clamped down on
several towns.
In Jerusalem, the Jewish Na-
tional Council of Palestine voted
a campaign of complete non-co-
operation between the Jewish com-
munity and the government. The
action was taken in a six-hour
plenary session attended by Jew-
ish mayors and heads of com-
munity councils of Jewish settle-
ments and villages.
'NOT COOPERATING'
Fifty-four Jews including 33
young men and boys were seized
Tuesday in Tel Aviv. Two of
these were wounded while resist-
ing the searchers, according to
the British explanation.
British military officials in-
formed Mayor Israel Rokeach that
the curfew would remain in ef-
fect throughout the hunt because
the Jews were not ''cooperating"
with the British.
Forty-seven persons were ar-
rested in the search among Ra-
mat Gan's 5,000 inhabitants. Il-
legal pamphlets and a sten gun
were unearthed there.
The British poured 8,000 troops
of the Scottish Gordons and the
Sixth Airborne Division into the
two cities after a series of bomb-
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LONDON (Special)—The
so-called Palestine confer-
ence plodded on into its
fourth day today with no
Jews and no Palestine
Arabs present and with the
Arabs of seven nations cate-
gorically rejecting any par-
tition scheme. •
In their first formal state-
ment in reply to Prime Minister
Taking part in the dedication of a wing of the Northwest Synagogue are left to right-- Ira G. Kauf.
man, Adolph Lichter, Mrs. Kaufman, Rabbi Morris Adler, Rablii Jacob Segal.
Northwest Synagogue Terror Routs
Stettin Jews
Dedicates First Wing
With solemnity and with
reverence, the Northwest
Hebrew Congregation and
Center dedicated the first
floor of its new synagogue
at Curtis and Santa Rosa
avenues with traditional
ceremonies on Sept. 8.
Over 800 members and
their friends witnessed the
presentation of six Sffrei Torah
to the synagogue by the families
of Lewis Freedman Manny Lax,
Adolph Lichter, Zlata Uharlip,
Philip Heitman and Mrs. Eva
Bortman.
They were accepted on behalf
of the congregation by its presi.
dent, Ira G. Kaufman, and other
members who deposited them
reverently in the Holy Ark.
RABBI LEADS PROCESSION
A procession, wnich included
Torah bearers, officers, the past
officers, the Board of Trustees,
the Men's Club and Sisterhood
officers, the Young People's Club,
the Junior Congregation and rab-
bis of the city, was led by the
newly installed rabbi of the con-
gregation, Rabbi Jacob E. Segal.
Cantor Jacob Sonenklar of Shaa-
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He Had Something to Live For
A
MAN IN HIS early thirties
.stood in his Brooklyn home
last Week and looked with tear-
dimmed eyes at the red, white
and blue crepe paper decorations
and signs in a child's handwrit-
ing: "Welcome Home, Daddy,"
and "Yes, He's Home at Last."
This was a dream come true
for Scharley Scht4f, who arrived
aboard the S.S. "Marine Perch"
with hundreds of other concentra-
tion camp survivors.
Reunion with his wife, Senta,
his 1 0-year-old daughter, IledY,
and Bernard, 7, born in this
country after his wife's arrival,
was what Scharf had lived for
during eight years of separa-
tion, six of which he had spent
In a Hamburg prison making
boots for the Gestapo.
• • •
GETS HELPING IIAND
LIKE HUNDREDS of other
\\ y/comers whose kin preceded
enem to the United States before
lega
, nd during the war, Scharf found
,' hat his family had been given a
helping hand by the national ref-
ugee adjustment program of
United Service for New Ameri.
cans. USNA receives its funds
from the $100,00000 campaign of
the United Jewish Appeal for
1946.
It was after V-J Day that a
Brooklyn GI returning from Ger-
many first brought word to Mrs.
Scharf that her husband was
alive and well. Then Mrs. Scharf
and the children set about deco-
rating their apartment for
Scharf's homecoming.
Hundreds. Flee City__
as Poles Stir Panic
WARSAW, (JTA)— Repatriated
Jews who, after arriving from the
USSR were settled by the Polish
authorities in the former German
city of Stettin, are panic-stricken
as a result of the mounting anti-
Jewish terror there which follows
the same pattern as in other parts
of Poland.
Increased terroristic activities on
the part of Poles are forcing the
Jews to leave their dwellings and
all other possessions and cross the
border en route to the American
zone. Hundreds are handing over
the keys of their apartments to
the local Jewish committee and
are leaving town with a few per-
sonal possessions.
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Dragged From Trains
LODZ, (JTA)—Jews are still be-
ing dragged off Polish trains de.
spite intensified government ef-
forts to combat anti-Semitic ter-
rorism and anti-Government
groups.
A report reaching the Jewish
committee here says that armed
terrorists removed five Jews from
a Lodz-Cracow train. Their fate Is
unknown, but it is assumed that
they have been murdered.
Detroit to Bid
Farewell to the
Isaac Francks
After a separation; of eight years, Scharley Scharf, a bootmaker
who was too valuable to be put to death by the Nazis, is once more
united with his famiyl above, his wife Senta and daughter Iledy,10.
Detroit will bid farewell to
Isaac Franck, executive director
of the Jewish Community Coun-
cil of Detroit, at a public recep-
tion in his and Mrs. Franck's
honor, at 8:30 p.m. Thursday,
Sept. 19, at Shaarey Zedek.
Franck is retiring after five
years of service here, to take over
the directorship of the Brooklyn
Community Council.
The committee In charge of the
reception is headed by Lawrence
W. Crohn. He is assisted by
James I. Ellmann, Mrs. A. W.
Saunders, Dr. Samuel Kleinman,
Harry Yudkoff and Aaron Droock.
The constituent organizations of
the Detroit council are invited to
be represented at the reception.
Attlee's opening address Tuesday,
the Arabs declared that "no part
of Palestine should be cut off to
make a home or state for a body
of immigrants belonging to dif-
ferent nationalities though they
may be of the same religion."
This argument, Zionist observers
commented, gave a new slant to
Arab opposition fe the immigra-
tion of 100,000 Jews into the
Homeland.
In answer to Attlee's request
that the Arab delegates show un-
derstanding of Jewish interests
and consider Palestine as a world
problem, the Arab reply declared
that the "Jewish problem as such
is a world concern and therefore
requires a world-wide solution.
NO SOLUTION IN PALESTINE
—. Palestine has nothing to do
with this problem nor can any
solution be found in Palestine."
The natural solution for the
Palestine problem, the Arab state.
ment asserted, "is that the right
of the people of Palestine should
be recognized to live securely in
their own country and to de-
termine their fate in the same
way as all other peoples and that
the application of the usual demo.
cratic principles should not be de-
nied to the people of Palestine."
After hearing the Arabs, Attlee
turned over the chairmanship of
the conference to Foreign Secre-
tary Sevin who also emphasized
the international view on Pales-
tine policy.
HALL EXPLAINS PLAN
Colonial Secretary George Hall
then explained the federalization
scheme for provincial authority for
Jews and Arabs and invited amend-
ments and counter-proposals.
Abdul Rahman Azzam Pasha,
secretary of the Arab League and
a delegate, confirmed that he has
a counter-plan ready if discus.
sions on the federalization pro-
gram fail.
There was an obvious air of
gravity, even futility, at the open-
ing. The British delegates and the
Arab negotiators, approached their
task solemnly.
Attlee, addressing the opening
session, emphasized that no settle-
ment of the Palestine problem is
possible unless Jews and Arabs
are prepared to make concessions
and to take into account each
others interests.
FIRST ITEM ON 1'ROGRA5I
The federalization plan remains
the first item on the agenda of
the conference, he told the 16
Arab delegates present, but added
that the government is not com-
mitted to this proposal. Each
delegation is free to forward
amendments, he declared.
The Arabs and Britain, Attlee
continued, are associated in a na-
tural partnership. The danger for
this partnership can be removed
by seriously searching for a so-
lution of the Palestine problem
"to which you and ave can honor-
ably agree."
The British prime minister re-
called that the Arab national re-
vival would have been much
slower if the Ottoman Empire
had not been broken up by the
British armies in World War I.
He .also stressed the fact that
since the last round-table confer-
ence on Palestine In the St. James
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