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DETROIT IEWIS14 CHRONICLB and The Legal Chronicle
UJA Parley to Study Problem of DP's
Sedition Cases
Dropped by U. S.
Anti Semites Among
Defendants in Case
Ii
British Shut Eyes
to Arab 'Armies'
United Force Looks
to Mufti as Leader
WASHINGTON, (JTA) — Chief
Justice Bolitiha J. Laws in Fed-
eral District Court this week dis-
missed the wartime mass sedition
case, granting defense motions by
the 26 defendants, who were charg-
ed in April, 1944, with conspiracy
to interfere with the draft and
to undermine the morale of the
armed forces. Among the defend.
ants are some of the principal
anti-Semites in the country.
The Justice Department announ-
ced immediately that it will appeal
the decisions. Attorney General
Tom Clark has instructed depart-
ment attorneys to draw up the Inc picture above reflects the despair and forlorn waiting in the
necessary papers and an appeal displaced persons' camps of Central Europe which will be described
hearing will be held on Dec. 2.
at the extraordinary national assembly of the United Jewish Appeal
MISTRIAL DECLARED
in Atlantic•City, Nov. 30-Dec. 2, by Maj. Gen. John H. Hilldring,
The department had announced assistant secretary of state for occupied areas and Dr. Joseph J.
earlier that it was ready to retry Schwartz, chairman o the European area of the JDC. As the voice
the case and was prepared to sub- of American Jewry, the 1,200 delegates at the conference will blue-
mit a confidential report which 0. print an over-all program for the reconstruction and resettlement in
John Rogge, former prosecutor on 1917 of the 1,400,000 saved this year by the JUG, the UPA and the
the case, made after an investiga- United Service for New Americans, the three constituent agencies
tion in Germany.
of the UJA.
After indictment in April, 1914,
the defendants were placed on
trial. Eight months later, with
the government's evidence not yet
completed, the presiding judge
died, and a mistrial was declared.
In dismissing the indictments
A. C. Lappin, chairman of the
Laws said: "Under the .circum-
Balfour Ball, announces that Har-
NEW
YORK—Funeral
services
stances, to permit another trial,
ry Cohen is running ahead in the
which conceivably would last more for Henry Morgenthau, Sr., father sale of patron tickets.
of
the
former
Secretary
of
the
than a year, with new prosecutors
The ball, which is being held
and newly-appointed counsel for Treasury, were held Wednesday in Saturday, Dec. 21, at the Hotel
defendants, with the eventual out- Temple Emanu-El. Mr. Morgen- Statler, promises to be one of the
come in serious doubt . . . would thau, at one time U. S. ambas- most outstanding affairs ever held
sador to Turkey, died at the age
be a travesty on justice.
in Detroit, Lappin says.
of. 90.
WITNESSES SCATTERED
Dr. Philip E. Lachman, who is
In the course of his long life,
"I can reach no other conclusion Mr. Morgenthau had been an at- planning the program of the even-
than that there is serious doubt as torney, real estate developer, phi- ing, is arranging for two orches-
to the validity of these cases," he lantropist and author as well as tras and plenty of room for danc-
continued. More than eight diplomat. He was intimately ac- ing. Refreshments will be served.
months is an abnormally long time quainted with Woodrow Wilson
to be required by the prosecution and Franklin D. Roosevelt.
to establish guilt in a clear case."
In 1919, Mr. Morgenthau headed
Laws pointed out that the wit- a U. S. mission to Poland to in-
nesses are now scattered, some no vestigate conditions there particu-
longer available, and that the larly as regards to the massacre
memories of witnesses as to events of Jews. He spent several months
Funeral services for Mrs. Rose
occuring many years ago are not there and submitted a report claim-
clear.
ing that the reports had been ex- Lippitt were held Wednesday at
the Ira Kaufman funeral home.
"It Is for these reasons among aggerated.
Morgenthau was strongly Mrs. Lippitt, who was 58 years
others that the Constitution re-
old, died Tuesday at the New
quires a speedy trial and that the opposed to Zionism. He called it Grace Hospital.
Congress has Imposed a statute of "the most stupendous fallacy in
She was the organizer of the
limitations to prevevnt long de- Jewish history."
Northwest Women's League of the
layed prosecutions. I do not see
United Hebrew School, a member
KILLER EXECUTED
how these defendants can now pos-
PRAGUE (JTA) — Wilhelm of Hadassah and the Eastern
sibly obtain fair trials."
Schmidt, former deputy command- Star. She lived at 16890 Prairie
ant at the Theresienstadt concen- avenue.
tration camp, was executed shortly
She is survived by her husband,
after he was convicted on charges Dr. Herman E.; sons, Irving, Ned,
of the murder of thousands of Martin, Albert, Charles, and Al-
Jewish and Czechoslovak prison. fred; daughters, Mrs. Philip Ru-
(Continued from page 1)
ers. He was an assistant to Hein- benstein, and Mrs. Walter Feld-
conference, it was declared here rick Joekels who was hanged three man; brothers, William and Irving
Reichenthaler.
by Moshe Shapiro, Jewish Agen- weeks ago.
cy executive member who ar-
rived here from Palestine.
Shapiro simultaneously denied
that any partition offer had been
received from the government. His
denial was believed to have been
an answer to a report carried by
the Jewish Standard, an English- VAN°, ITALY — In this small dents have learned Italian very
language publication, to the effect
Adriatic coastal town, 113 men quickly.
that it had learned from "most and women—all survivors of con-
The mutual interest in things
reliable" authorities that the gov- centration camps in Poland, Hun- related to the sea which the ref-
ernment had submitted to the gary, Romania, Yugoslavia and ugee students have with the in-
Jewish Agency a plan for the cre- Lithuania—are slowly forgetting habitants of this small town have
ation of a Jewish State covering the past and preparing themselves established a common bond be-
the 1,500 mile coastal plain and for the future by learning trades tween the 4 two.
part of the Negev.
taught them by the seafaring men
Leisure time is something they
of Fano.
know very little about at Hach-
ACCEPTANCE CLAIMED
The future, they are all re-
The publication claimed that the solved, will be one which will sharath Yamit. All are intent on
Agency accepted the plan and for- see them practicing their newly completing their courses in the
shortest possible time and on be-
warded its acceptance to the Brit- learned skills in Palestine.
coming expert In their respective
ish government.
These 131 men and women make trades; that way, they feel, they
Meanwhile Prof. Brodetsky made up ,the unique marine and fishing
it known that he believed parti- school known in Italy as Hach- will be able to contribute most to
of Palestine.
tion held the key to the solution sharah Yamit. It is functioning the development
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of the Palestine problem "in the under auspices of the Organization
light of the present world political of Jewish Refugees in Italy and REALIZES AMBITION
situation." At a meeting of the is financed by the Joint Distribu-
Zionist Federation, the president tion Committee, which suports the THE CHANGE THAT is slowly
taking place in all the refugee
of the British Board of Deputies, students who range in age from
declared that although he as one 18 to 27, and also provides the students can best be seen in 22-
was opposed to partition at one necessary food to supplement their year-old Chaim Den, a Lithuanian
time he now felt that "we must diets. Hachsharah Yamit is one who fought with the Partisans
accept a compromise which will of 69 training centers and hach- against the Nazis.
There were many tortured years
permit Jewish immigration with- sharoth which the JDC supports in
for Chaim Den—the loss of his
out anybody asking anyone's con- Italy alone.
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family and friends, hiding in the
sent."
woods, starvation. But now Chaim
2 YEAR COURSES
HOUSED IN A FORMER fish- Den is realizing a boyhood am.
Americans Prepare
canning factory, the school bition first fostered when he used
instruction to the young to sit on the wharves of his home
to Man Refugee Craft offers
men and women in the fundamen- city of Memel and stared out to
NEW YORK —Preparations for tal aspects of becoming ship's of- sea, imagining himself as a shop's
forming crews to man ships trans- ficers, marine mechanics, fisher. captain.
porting refugees from Europe to men or ship builders.
Now Chaim Den actually is
The courses, which last two learning to be a ship's captain, but
Palestine in defiance of the Brit-
ish blockade have been completed. years, are conducted by five in- he still has a dream—a dream of
Lt. Commander Yeshayohu Z. structors from an Italian gov- a time 'when all of us who are
Finkelstein, USMM, national di- ernment marine school, which is studying here will be able to
rector of the American Sea and located nearby. The language utilize what we have learned to
Air Volunteers for Hebrew Re- difficulty has not interfered with help our fellow Jews build new
patriation, has announced.
the program as most of the stu- lives and homes for themselves."
Final Rites Held
for Morgenthau
Harry Cohen Leads
Balfour Ball Sale
Mrs. Rose Lippitt
Taken by Tleath
Fst
Friday, November 29, 1946.
London Parley
Faces Delay to '47
Future Seamen of Palestine
Prepare in an Italian School
-
JERUSALEM, (Palco•)—This is
the inside story of the two
Arab "secret armies," Najada and
Futawah, whose parades and mili-
tary drill recently received wide
publicity.
Najada, founded at the end of
1945, was officially registered
with the Palestine government in
February, 1946, as a "semi-mili-
tary scouts organization," al-
though the government forbids
the wearing of uniforms or car-
rying of arms by any private
group, under current emergency
regulations. Najada lists Haj
Amin el Husseini, the exiled Muf-
ti of Jerusalem, as its patron.
The armies, according to the
United Press, are made up of 40,-
000 men and have been putting
themselves in a state of efficiency.
Until recently, the two forces
were divided into independent fac-
tions but they are now united un-
der the jurisdiction of the Arab
Higher Committee.
While the armies are illegal,
they have not gone underground
and wear their distinctive uniforms
in public despite the British dec-
rees forbidding them. Jewish lead-
ers see in Britain's failure to en-
force the decrees new evidence of
the colonial officials' scheme for
Arab-Jewish conflict as part of the
British "divide and conquer" tech-
nique.
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ARMY OF THE MUFTI
Futawah, which belongs to
the Palestine Arab Army (the
Mufti's Party), began operations
this summer. Liaison officer be-
tween Futawah and the Mufti's
party is Emil A. Ghory, a Chris-
tian Arab who received an M.A.
from the University of Cincin-
nati in 1933 and has been the
Mufti's representative in the
United States and in England on
a number of occasions.
Najada, commanded by Mu-
hammad Nimr IIawari, a 'Jaffa
lawyer, engages primarily in
marching through the streets of
Jerusalem and in Arab towns
and appears at reviews, parades
and festivals. Its chief activity
outside parading is close order
drill, but it is known to hold bat-
tle maneuvers secretly.
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The group boasts a "high com-
mand" and supreme council. Its
drill instructors are discharged
Army officers. However, there
were very few Arab officers in
the armed forces during the war
and none in combat service.
The Futawah, commanded by
Kamil Ariquat, a retired Arab
police officer, resembles Najada in
character, but is the private or-
ganization of the Mufti's party,
whereas Najada represents the
so-called "Arab nationalist move-
ment," which is controlled by the
Mufti but includes • Arab groups
outside the Mufti's ranks. In
some Arab districts branches of
both armies exist and there is
considerable fluctuation between
their memberships.
U.S.-Born Rabbi
Named Orthodox
Seminary Head
CHICAGO (JTA)—An American.
born rabbi has been elected to
head an orthodox rabbinical sem-
inary for the first time in the
history of American Jewry.
He is Rabbi Oscar Z. Fasman,
who was chosen by the board of
directors of the Hebrew Theolog-
ical College, Chicago, to serve as
president, succeeding the late
Rabbi Saul Silber. Rabbi Silber
had headed the institution for 25
years at the time of his death
Sept. 1.
Born in Chicago 38 years ago
Rabbi Fasman is himself a grad-
uate of the Chicago Seminary, and
is one of the youngest men ever
to occupy such a position.
Irgun Confesses
Bombing Building
JERUSALEM (Palcor). — Irgun
Zvai Lcumi claimed responsibility
for the blowing up of the income
tax office here in which a Bok-
harian Jewish constable, on guard
outside, was fatally injured.
The constable, named Ben Zion
Shaulov, suffered a fractured skull
from falling stones, spinal injur-
ies and bomb splinters. He later
died in the hospital. It was er-
roneously reported earlier that the
constable was an Arab.
According to the official com-
munique, three Jews pushing a
hawker's handcart approached the
income tax office on St. Louis Way.
They told the guard they had a
package for the office and when
he refused to-let them into the
building they struck him in the
head with a revolver and planted
the explosives.
A messenger boy who witnessed
this summoned police who ordered
the building evacuated. The at-
tempted to remove the explosives
with grappling irons and ropes,
but the package jammed the en-
trance.
The police then fired shots into
It and the package exploded,
wrecking the inside of the build-
ing. A British police sergeant and
three civilians were slightly in-
jured.
While walking with his wife and
wheeling his infant child in a per-
ambulator in the streets of Tel
Aviv, Shimon Azulai, 25, was shot
and wounded in the chest and ab-
domen by two men described as
Jews. He was rushed to the hos-
pital.
Rabbi Adler Addresses
Convention of League
CHICAGO—Rabbi Morris Adler
of Detroit was one of the speakers
at the national convention of the
National Women's League of the
United Synagogue of America this
week.
In her message to the 400 dele-
gates, Mrs. Barnett E. Kopelman,
president, of New York, said that
a primary aim of the league is edu-
cation in Jewish tradition and
heritage to equip Jewish women to
build up a Jewish self-respect in
their children instead of "that
heart-breaking self-apology we see
so often."
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FISHNIAN,
Y. P. S. Dance
Chairman says,
Rosenwald Fund Gives
$1,300,000 in 2 Years
CHICAGO — Over $1,308,000 was
spent by the Julius Rosenwald
Fund between July 1, 1944 and
June 30, 1916 for fellowships, edu-
cation of rural teachers and pro-
grams in race relations, Edwin R.
Embree, president, announced.
Since it was organized in 1917,
the fund has spent more than
$20,000,000. Most of the money went
for Negro education and the equal-
ization of opportunities for Ameri-
can citizens.
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