America ffewish Periodical &ter CLIFTON AVENUS - CINCINNATI 20, OHIO 2, 1946. "eared Thirty-One Years of Service to Detroit Jetvrt AN UNAFFILIATED, INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER Detroit Jewish Chronicle Vol. 48, No. 48 MEET NEW HEAD OF COMMUNITY COUNCIL, PAGE 5. and The Legal Chronicle DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1946 10c a Copy; $3 Per Year Jew Killed Eisenhower Hails Jewish War Record London Conference in Refugee Delay to '47 Due as Ship Battle Basle Parley Nears Toinmies Swing Clubs on Migrants the Ner ich will of first service 0 ut unit and has National touting. [1 Rabbi the De- 'embers e cretary, r, Josh. l'oplack lernard Julian im and • LONDON (WNS)—The London conference on Pal- estine, which was postponed to Dec. 16, is not expected to resume before early in 1947, according to semi-official reports. The possibility of another postponement was indi- cated by a foreign office spokesman, who said it was doubtful that Foreign Secretary Bevin, who is attending the United Nations Assembly sessions in New York, can JERUSALEM (Special)— One Jew was killed and two others were taken to a hos- pital Tuesday when 3,400 refugees violently resisted their transshipment at Haifa after landing on a blockade- runner. Ten British soldiers were hurt in the battle. Jewish authorities asserted that a second Jew had been fatally in- jured. The immigrants had arrived on the ship Jewish Resistance. There were 500 children and 100 preg- nant women aboard. The Jews were not subdued un- til helmeted British troops using fire hoses, tear gas and clubs boarded the ship after having been repulsed. The Jews threw every- thing that was not attached to the vessel at the invading British, including cans of food. BRITISH WARNED While the battle was at Its height, the passengers hung a huge banner over the side of the ves- sel. It read: "For every Jew mur- dered or wounded aboard this ship, you will pay in English blood. You have been warned." It was signed, "Commander-in-chief, Jew- ish Resistance." Fifty of the refugees leaped overboard In their frenzy to escape further wandering. All were re- turned to the ship. The deportation ships were to wait at Haifa until the Palestine High Court decides on a habeas corpus application submitted on their behalf by the Jerusalem Community Council. The habeas corpus order, issued by Sir William Fitzgerald, Pales- tine chief justice, called on the authorities to show cause why the Jews should not be allowed to land. In the petition for the writ, the lawyers were reported to have argued that the term "illegal" was inapplicable in the case of the ref- ugees since they were barred from the country under a policy that was itself 'illegal" and violative of the Palestine mandate. The pe- tition also raised the point that, once having reached Palestine waters, the arritrals were no longer subject to deportation proceedings. POINTS TO VISAS The application to restrain the deportation was made by a local English Jewish attorney, E. D. Gotein on behalf of the council. He argued that the refugees should receive an opportunity to appear before the court and show they were not "prohibited Immigrants as some had visas that they had been unable to use earlier because of war conditions." The tension in the country over the recent bombings of railways has eased somewhat, with no In- cident reported over the week-end except the killing of Fawzi Hus- seini, cousin of the ex-Mufti and a wealthy landowner. Husseini was believed to have been killed by (Continued on Page 6) Vienna Jews Hit Restitution Law Warburg Tells of Big DP Rise Unable to attend the 61st annual encampment of the Jewish War Veterans of the U. S. in Atlantic City this week-end, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, chief of staff, gives his message to the convention personally to Maxwell Cohen, national commander, whom he received hi his War Department office. Paying tribute to the more than 10,000 Jews who died in service during World War H and noting that 60,000 awards for valor were made to Jews, Gen. Eisenhower said that "the patriotism and gallant performance of these men is characteristic of the service Jewish soldiers have rendered in all our wars." Byrnes Sees Silver, Wise Zionist President Meets Bevil' Twice NEW YORK—American Zionist leaders met and conferred with Secretary of State James F. Byrnes, following two-._ meetings held within the past week between British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin and Dr. Abba Hillel Silver, American Zionist leader. The participants in the confer- ence with Byrnes were Dr. Silver and Dr. Stephen S. Wise, joint chairmen of the American Emergency Council, both of whom are leaving shortly for the World Zionist Congress. They were ac- companied by Dr. Nahum Gold- mann, member of the executive of the Jewish Agency for Palestine. The two conferences between Dr. Silver and the British foreign sec- retary took place on Nov. 14 and Nov. 20. Each discussion lasted approximately one hour. Lord In verchapel, British ambassador to the United States, was the only other person present on both oc- casions. Number Is Doubled, Says JDC Chairman • Distortions by Censors Condemned LONDON — The Conservative Evening Standard bit terly de- nounced the British censors In Palestine for "stupidities, conceal- ments and distortions." The paper charges that the cen- sors' actions were "manufacturing uncertainty in Palestine and block- ing efforts to restore peace." The editorial quoted specific ex- amples, starting with a ban on Arthur Koestler's "Thieves in the Night," a novel dealing with the Palestine underground. In one place, the censors slashed out three quarters of an article by an Englishman in the Palestine Post on the indebtedness of Chris- tiianity to Judiasm. The deletion included: "Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace to men of goodwill," the paper asserted. It added that one censor had struck the word "Jews" from a sentence to make it say that "Arabs and others" lived in Pal- estine. NEW YORK—Displaced Jews in Europe have doubled in the past year and the number has risen to 250,000 or 20 per cent of the total number of homeless persons, Ed- ward M. M. Warburg, chairman of the Joint Distribution Commit- tee, said on his return to the U.S. Tuesday. Warburg made a four-week in- spection of Europe. On Sunday he will report the results of his tour at the Atlantic City conference of the United Jewish Appeal. RISE IS EXPLAINED Warburg was accompanied by Dr. Joseph Schwartz, European di- rector of the JDC, and Henry Bernstein, UJA co-director in New York. Asked the reason for the in- crease in DP's, Dr. Schwartz de- clared: - "The chief cause is that people are leaving their own countries for lack of organized life and fear of uncertain future. "There are signs of economic improvement in Belgium, Czecho- slovakia and even Poland, but the general situation is mixed, both good and bad, because of general political insecurity, hardships and loss of life." MOST IN U. S .ZONES Discussing the figures compiled on homeless Jews in Europe, Dr. Schwartz said that of the 250,000 in displaced persons camps in Germany, Austria and Italy, 153,- 000 were in the American zone In Germany and 30,000 in the Ameri- can zone in Austria. He added that many of them were "longing for opportunities to migrate to Palestine." Histadrut Sets $150,000 Goal Here Delegates and key workers of . the Detroit Palestine Histadrut campaign have set a quota of $150,000 as Detroit Jewry's share of the $5,000,000 national Histad- rut goal. The following will represent De- troit at the annual convention of the National Committee for Labor Palestine in New York this week- end: Morris Ross, Louis Levine, Dr. Eli Harelick, Sidney Shevitz, Julius Honeyman, Harry Schumer, Morris Lieberman, Alex Schreier, Michael Teich and Sam Rabino- vitz. DELEGATES SUMMONED A special meeting for organiza- tions' delegates and campaign workers will be at 8:30 p.m. Thurs- day in the Rose Sittig Cohen audi- torium. Detroit representatives to the convention will give their re- ports. In announcing plans for the opening of the Detroit campaign with a city wide conference Sun- day, Jan. 5, Schumer, campaign chairman, said: "A new era In Jewish coloniza- tion work in Eretz Israel began Oct. 6 when 11 new settlements were established in a single day, as a thousand pioneers poured into the desert wastelands of the south and rooted themselves into the 100,000 dunams of Jewish soil. VIENNA (Special)—Vienna Jews 1,700 of them, held their largest demonstration T uesd a y. They shouted, "Never, never!" when Dr. David Brill, head of the Jewish community mentioned Austria's de. sire to see the Allied occupation army leave. The meeting was called to pro- test the restitution law which does not provide for the return of dwellings, places of business and other property from which Hitler ousted Jews. The meeting also asked that properties of Jews who died without heirs be placed in a common fund to reimburse Jews 9 IN FEDERATION whose property was destroyed. "Histadrut members played the Dr. Brill declared that Nazism leading role in executing the en- was getting stronger in Austria. tzim and the funds necessary to carry them through. "Histadrut emissaries are active in Europe guiding the endless chain of uprooted Jews through the "underground" to the Medi- terranean. Histadrut volunteers ar- range for the boats to bring ref- ugees to the Homeland. This fleet of life-saving craft must continue to sail as long as there are any Jews left in Europe who desire to go to Palestine. SUPPORT HAGANAII "The Haganah, the Jewish self- defense, whose actions in the past few years have been closely as- sociated with efforts to keep the gates of Palestine open for Jew- ish immigrants, has in its deve- lopment been composed of and di- rected mainly by members of Hil- tadrut. "The Kupat Holim, the Histadrut sick fund, which provides medical and social Service for more than one half of all the Jews of Pal- estine must be expanded to take care of the recently arrived im. migrants. The Histadrut coopera- tive housing authority, which In cooperation with other national organizations undertook to pro- vide low cost housing, requires additional funds to build many more thousands of houses. IIARRY SCIIUMER • • • terprise and nine of the settle- ments are part of the Histadrut federation of collectives. Again, the 250,000 men, women and chil- dren who make up the Histadrut demonstrated that the bulk of the pioneering manpower comes from its ranks. "The $150,000 we have under- "We must give our Palestine taken to raise is modest Indeed pioneers the means so that they when measured against the im- can build and defend our Jewish mediate tasks before our Chalu. Home." return in time for the meeting. There are indications that Prof. Selig Brodetsky, president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, had suggested a postponement to Colonial Secretary Creech-Jones since the World Zionist Congress, in Basle Switzerland , at whi h Jewish participation in the parley is to be discussed, might not in- clude its sessions before the end of December. Although there has been no of- ficial Jewish reaction to the re- ported postponement, the move is viewed in authoritative Jewish circles as indicative of a desire by the British government not to proceed with the parleys before the congress has had an oppor- tunity to pass on the issues. NO PARTITION DECISION A foreign office spokesman confirmed hero this week that measures were. being taken to augment the British military garrison in Palestine. He said the action was being taken in anticipation of a move by the British, regarding the Palestine mandate, but denied that the military precautions s t emmed from an expected decision par- titioning the country. - • Active participation by Dr. Chaim Weizmann in the Zionist Congress was indicated by a report that the president of the World Zionist Or- ganization had arrived in Lugano, Switzerland, for a conference with Moshe Shertok, head of the politi- cal department of the Jewish Agency. It had earlier been rumored that because of ill health the veteran world Zionist leader would not actively participate in the sessions beyond delivering the opening ad- dress and attending the essential caucuses. INSISTS ON STATE IDEA Rabbi J. L. Fishman, acting chairman of the executive of the Palestine Jewish Agency, declared here that Jewish participation in the conference would materialize only if the principle of a Jewish State were accepted. Ho stated that if Britain is to find peace, the Palestine question must be solved on the basis of a speedy establish- ment of a Jewish State. Refusal by the British govern- ment to make concessions on Jewish immigration and on transferring Cyprus deportees to Palestine may influence the con- gress Into reaching an adverse decision on the question of Jew- ish participation in the Palestine . (Continuel on Page 2) Aid to DP's Asked by Mrs. Roosevelt NEW YORK—Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt u r g e d Sunday that Americans show more responsibi- lity for displaced persons abroad. She said the problem should be considered from an economic as well as humanitarian angle. "Great organized groups" will defeat any government attempts to ease immigration of refugees un- less Americans showed more con- cern, she said. Mrs. Roosevelt is a member of the United States delegation to the United Nations General As- sembly which is considering the DP problem. She spoke at a meet- ing marking the tenth anniversary of the founding of Selfhelp of Emigres from Central Europe, Inc. Mrs. Roosevelt listed "labor and veterans groups and some patri- otic women's societies" as pro- spective enemies of the announced Administration intentions to admit some displaced persons into the United States.