Axericatt "apish Periodical Center CLIFTON AVENUE - CINCINNATI 20, OHIO Thirty-One Years of Service to Detroit Jewry AN UNAFFILIATED, INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER Detroit Jewish Chronicle Vol. 48, No. 37 and The Legal Chronicle DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, SEPT. 13, 1946 SEE 'GRANDPA WHAT'S A JEW,' ON EDITORIAL PAGE 10c a Copy; $3 Per Year 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- (Continued on page 2) 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- (Continued on page 16) 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. • • * 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 (Continued on page 2)