Page Two 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 • • • 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. • • • 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. • • • 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. • • • 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. 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