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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle
The Palestine Scene
Heads Delegates
British Oust Colonel
After Tirade on Jews
Branded Israel 'Despicable Race'
in Mad Attack Before Reporters
JERUSALEM — The Palestine government Tuesday
removed from his command Lieut. Col. Richard H. L.
Webb, who referred to Jews as a "despicable race" in
a tirade before Palestine correspondents.
Webb, commander of the First Battalion on the Ar-
gyll and Sutherland Highland Regiment, was removed
for expressing "opinions which
were both unauthorized and un-
official," the government state- Agronsky, editor of the Palestine
Post, who returned after a five-
ment said.
The correspondents were re- week visit in London, a file con-
moved from the scene of British taining correspondence and other
papers "under defense regula-
searches which Webb • admitted tions."
were at his own command to pre.
Three British soldiers were
vent the newspapermen from wit-
nessing the behavior of the troops killed and 12 wounded in a dyna-
who used rifle butts and "did a mite explosion in an Arab quar-
little looting to make the bloody ter. The blast followed Jewish
Agency condemnation of the Stern
Jews stop protecting terrorists."
band's "shoot-to-kill campaign."
HELD FOR 5 HOURS
* • •
The victims of the searches were
Jewish men, women and children Palestine Belittles
who were ordered from their
homes at 7:30 p. m. Oct. 24 and British Opposition
were held in the streets until 2
NEW YORK, (JTA)—The prog-
a. m. the next morning for a ress which the Jews in Palestine
screening following an explosion. are continuing to make despite
Webb was quoted 'as having British opposition was reported on
said that it was the Army's pol- by Don Pines, Histadruth leader
icy to "make as big a nuisance and by Hayim Greenberg, reader
of itself" as possible to the Jews of American Zionist laborites, who
so they would turn against ex- have just returned from Palestine.
tremists.
Addressing a dinner this week,
Observers here believe that the
rare action of relieving a com- Pines, who is one of the editors
mander of his duties was due to of Davvar, largest Hebrew daily
his reference to his commanding newspaper in Palestine, said that
general, the notorious anti-Semite, the Jews in Palestine are deter-
Lt. Gen. Sir Evelyn Barker, as mined to bring in as many Jews
"Little Barker" and to his having as possible from Europe and are
declared that Barker's successor developing industrial and agricul-
would know better how to handle tural plans for the economic ab-
sorption of the newcomers.
the Palestine Jews.
LABOR IN THE LEAD
"The Yishuv is optimistic as to
Although the final figures will the outcome of its fight, even
not be known until the beginning though the atmosphere i n the
of next week, provisional results country is tense," Pines reported.
of Monday's voting for the World
Zionist Congress showed that the
Mizrachi Unit Awaits
labor group was In the lead.
Of 79 delegates so far assigned
to Palestine, at least 28 will rep- Brunch on Wednesday
An open brunch and rally of
resent the Jewish Labor Party
(Mapai) at Basle. Twenty-eight Young Women's Mizrachi will be
other delegates represent other held at 10:30 a. m. Wednesday, at
labor factions, The Revisionists, the Educational Center, Burlin-
who voted for the first time in game and Linwood avenues.
years, will have 12 seats. The
Ross Mullholland of WJR will
'other right-wing parties will present his "Meet the Missus" pro-
share the remaining 11 votes.
gram. Sonya Nusholtz will be "The
Over 205,000 Jews over 18 voted. Lady of the Day", in appreciation
for her service to the group.
SEIZE EDITOR'S PAPERS
Security authorities at the Jeru.
Mrs. Loraine Danzig will speak
salem airport took from Gershon after the brunch.
Eye-Witness Bares Gestapo Methods
of British Colonial Police in Palestine
NEW YORK (Special) A sen-
sational expose of the recruitment,
training and methods of operation
of the Palestine police was con-
tained in an article appearing in
the latest number of The New
Palestine.
The author, a trained, reputable
observer, insisted on anonymity
to protect his personal security
against the very police methods
he described.
Athletic minded young men in
England are high pressured into
signing up for the police by such
attractions as "The glamour of
serving in a crack force in a
country of sand dunes and orange
groves, camels, horses, cars, mo-
torcycles, speedboats, radio, sport,
etc."
• • •
MOST DISLIKE JOB
UPON ARRIVING in Palestine,
however, and receiving training in
the use of weapons against women
and children, most of them seek
to leave the country.
Those who remain, the New Pal-
estine correspondent reported, are
largely petty criminals sentenced
to terms of from one to seven
years in England for felonies and
given pardons for enlisting in the
colonial police."
Describing some of the verified
third degree methods used by
these policemen against Jewish
political prisoners, the writer sta-
ted that the customary tool of the
trade is a typewriter roll which
is painful and leaves no permanent
marks.
• • •
FEW JEWS REMAIN
VERY FEW JEWS remain in
the service of the Palestine police,
the article said. "A Jew devotes
15 or 20 years of excellent service
MRS. LOUIS GLASIER
*
9 to Represent
City Hadassah
at Convention
Mrs. Louis Glasier, Detroit chap-
ter president, will head the De-
troit delegation of nine to the
thirty-second annual convention of
Hadassah, Nov. 10 in the Copley
Plaza Hotel, Boston.
Others who will represent De-
troit include: Mrs. Jacob Sauls,
Central East Group; Mrs. Julian
Tobias, Central West; Mrs. Sam-
uel Arkin, Russell Woods; Mrs.
Henry Stark, University East; Mrs.
Ben Silberstein, University West;
Mrs. Samuel Rubiner, Huntington
Woods; Mrs. Carl Schiller, vice
president of the Central States
region; and Miss Sophie Blanche
Schwartz, chairman of the Busi-
ness and Professional Group.
The following will also attend
the convention. Mesdames Claire
Axelrod, Joseph Ehrlich, Sidney
Krause, Morris Krause, Nathan
Mandeberg and Nathan Spevakow.
A vigorous stand on the Pal-
estine question will be taken at
the conclave. Pointing out that
this question has become a world
isspe and that the condition of
displaced Jews in Europe has
reached an emergency character,
Mrs. Glasier, declared this week:
"Hadassah is now the largest
Zionist organization in the coun-
try, and the 200,000 American wo-
men for whom we speak are uni-
ted in their determination to bring
the true facts of our people's needs
before the great American public
during our convention.
"We know that sympathetic un-
derstanding for our cause is wide-
spread, and we hope to make it
even clearer than hitherto that
the Zionist solution of the problem
of Jewish homelessness is both
logical and just, and therefore
deserving maximum support."
TEL AVIV—The first prize at
to the police force and remains a the International Debussy Compe-
private; a Britisher works with tition has been awarded to Max
him for a year and soon gets Pressler of Tel Aviv, who is 22.
three "pips" on his shoulders and
a soft job.
After eight years of service a
Jewish constable receives an an-
DEMAND
nual salary of 96 pounds ($384)
and a Britisher gets 180 pounds
($720).
ASPIRIN
• • •
100 TABLETS 3S ,
"AN ILLUSTRATION of how
vicious the British police are in
Palestine is that not only do they
give no medical attention to
wounded Jews, but they also do
not permit civilian doctors to treat
them properly," the author said.
"As a general rule in a battle
there are always more wounded
than dead; not so in a fight with
the Palestine police."
Page Nine
Labor Shortage Agency Aide
in Palestine Cited Dies in Egypt
JERUSALEM (Palcor) —Jewish
Palestine is emerging from the
postwar transition period with a
lack of labor rather than an un-
employment problem, It is dis-
closed by figures released by the
Jewish Agency.
The number of Jewish unem-
ployed, on a daily average, from
July, 1945 to February, 1946, was
3,112, which indicates virtually no
unemployment since there are al-
ways about that number of per-
sons changing jobs, or transfering
from one occupation to another, in
a single day, who are only tem-
porarily not working.
Deducting the 20,000 Palestinian
Jewish men and women in British
armed forces as of July, 1945, the
number of wage earners then was
225,000 as compared with 192,000
before the war, an increase of 33,-
000, despite the fact that certain
trades and industries, especially
the citrus industry, suffered during
the war.
The unemployment problem in
the Arab countries, as contrasted
with the dearth of labor in Pales-
tine is discussed in an article by
J. L. Teller in the newspaper PM.
Teller points out the failure of the
Arab governments to undertake
public works projects for the ab-
sorption of the masses of workers
formerly employed on Allied mili-
tary projects. In Iraq alone, there
are 70,000 unemployed.
The difference in wages between
Jewish workers in Palestine and
workers in •the Arab countries is
beyond comparison since Jewish
workers are paid according to
western standards. In many Arab
countries workers have been forced
to take cuts of 50 per cent in
wages.
Plane Crash
CAIRO, (JTA) — One Jewish
Agency official was killed and sev-
eral injured when a plane which
was carrying them from Paris
crashed in the hills of Northern
Egypt last week, it was revealed
here with the arrival of the
wounded at the Cairo Jewish Hos-
pital.
The passenger killed was Joseph
E. Perlman, of the Agency's en-
gineering department, who was
recently sent to Europe to exam-
ine abandoned American Army
camps which the Agency is plan-
ning to buy to house future im-
migrants.
The plane, which carried a to-
tal of 21 passengers, had been spe-
cially chartered in Paris for the
trip to Palestine. It crashed into a
hill during a sand storm about 90
miles from Cairo. The crash threw
all the passengers from the craft,
which broke in two and burned.
The survivors remained at the
scene of the accident for 48 hours
until they were discovered by a
passing caravan, which gave first
aid to the injured and arranged
for them to be taken to the near-
est hospital, 30 miles away.
$100,000 LEGACY FOR JNF
JERUSALEM—The Jewish Na-
tional Fund has received a legacy
of $100,000 from the estate of
Louis Altshul, New York Zionist.
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Palestine's Export
of Oranges Grows
JERUSALEM (Palcor)--A mil-
lion and a half crates of Pales-
tine's new citrus crop have already
been sold on the continent in ad-
dition to six and a half million
crates sold under contract to the
ministry of food.•
Nearly two million crates will
be available for local consumption.
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