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Detroit Jewish Chronicle
Vol. 48, No. 51
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Rescued
742 Freed
by British
Singing Children in Parades
Launch Palestine's Chanukah
Kosher Meat
Price Studied
Council Investigates
Women's Complaints
The Jewish Community Council
is investigating prices charged for
kosher meats In Detroit in re-
sponse to many complaints from
housewives, Dr. B. Benedict Gla-
zer, revealed at the quarterly meet-
ing of the Council Tuesday in the
Jewish Community Center.
Dr. Glazer is chairman of the
body's Internal discipline commit-
tee. The community, he said, will
be informed of the results of the
study of alleged differentials in
prices between kosher and non-
kosher meats, Dr. Glazer declared.
A sub-committee of his group,
he said, is charting a program to
help improve the physical appear-
qtce of areas inhabited by Jews.
e also disclosed that his commit-
has been weighing measures to
anpose community pressure upon
persons who, in their business
practices, do not live up to Jewish
ethical standards.
Rabbi Leon Fram reported that
the Council affiliates had obtained
15,000 signatures on petitions for
a fair employment practice law in
Michigan. He pointed out that
even if the attorney general's chal-
lenge of the legality of the peti-
tions is sustained, the presentation
of the 650,000 or more signatures
will have a strong impact on the
legislature.
He announced that the Council
has joined the Michigan Council
for FECP, a new .statewide organ.
ization, which is promoting fair
practice legislation. -
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Dr. Weizmann Issues
Ultimatum on London
Parley to the Congress
BASLE—(Special)—Dr. Chaim Weizmann in an ulti-
matum to the World Zionist Congress Wednesday de-
clared that unless the Congress approves. Jewish partici-
pation in the London conference on Palestine next month,
he would not accept any Congress office.
He has also told the standing committee that he
LONDON (Special) — In
a holiday gesture of con-
ciliation, the Colonial Office
agreed on the eve of Cha-
nukah to admit into Pales-
tine all of the 742 pas-
sengers, men, women and children,
rescued from the island of Sirini
after their ship went down in a
gale.
The marooned refugees were
transported to Cyprus and the
British announced that only the
women and children would be
transferred to Palestine. The
agreement to admit the men also
was hailed as a great victory for
the Jewish Agency which had
been pressing for such a move.
ANGER AROUSED
Earlier, Jewish anger was stirred
by a report that British soldiers
and sailors had used clubs and
tear gas in the Cyprus disembark-
ments. A number of Jews were
reported badly beaten.
Despite the resentment, the
gratitude of the Jewish community
for the assistance given to the
stranded immigrants by the RAF
was expressed by Isaac ben Zvi,
president of the Jewish National
Council, in a visit to Air Com-
modore Dawson, commander of
the RAF in the Levant.
QUOTAS DIVIDED
The Colonial Office also an-
nounced that the Palestine gov-
ernment had decided as an in-
terim measure to divide the 1,500
regular monthly Palestine immi-
gration quota evenly between ref-
ugees held In Cyprus camps and
those in the British zone of Ger-
many. There are approximately
15,000 Jews in the zone.
The estimated expenditure on
camps in Cyprus up to next April
is $7,600,000, the colonial secretary,
Arthur Creech-Jones, said in the
House of Commons.
He reported that the cost would
be met by the Palestine govern-
ment.
A JOYOUS CHANUKAH
and The Legal 'Chronicle
DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1946
Await Transfer
to the Homeland
j a i
on
would not take the honorary pres-
idency but only an active post.
The venerable leader's announce.
ment was no surprise. He had
made it known when he arrived
for the Congress that he was not
seeking reelection as president.
Louis Lipsky, American member
of the Jewish Agency, said the
`Demagogue'
Is Shouted at
Dr. Weizmann
This 3-year-old Palestinian child lights the Chanukah candles in
the window of her home. All Jewry joins with her in the prayer
that the ceremonial gleam may show the way to a new life for
thousands of displaced Jews in the Homeland. They look to the
United Jewish Appeal to fulfill their dream.
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tyrants and the winning of their
By BALFOUR PEISNER
freedom.
((HANUKAH, the "Holiday of the
Then Chanukah songs are sung,
1 -4 Miracle," is in Palestine a embodying in them the very es-
period of festivity. It is celebrated sence of the holiday and of the
with parties, fetes and, most con- Jewish spirit.
spicuous of all, lights.
The song most frequently heard,
The celebration Is begun with a "Hancros Hallolu", is translated:
parade of school children. At dusk "These candles which we light,
on the eve of Chanukah, the chil- For the miracles and for the
wonders,
dren assemble in their school
yards, each with a candle. Shortly For the salvation, and for the
valor,
after sunset the candles are lit,
and this touches off the lighting Which Thou didst for our fore-
fathers,
of the first candle all over the
At this time, in those days.
country.
• • •
On water towers, synagogues,
city halls, and other high build- RETURN FOR LATKES
The children then return home
ings the first light blazes in
commemoration of the purifica- to partake of potato latkes.
Chanukah, in Palestine, is not a
tion of the Temple and the re-
storation of Israel's ancient dig- period for the exchange of gifts,
as it has come to be in this coun-
nity and glory.
try. There, if at all, gifts are
exchanged during Purim.
LISTEN TO THE STORY
The holiday week is the apogee
THE CHILDREN then parade of the social season, vyith the
through the streets carrying can- slightest excuse bringing forth
dles from their schools to the parties and celebrations.
As each day goes by, the coun-
synagogues, where services are
read and the story of Chanukah, try becomes brighter with addi-
and the exploits of the Hashmo- tional candles being lit, until at
the end of the eighth day, the
naim are told.
Each has heard the story many country is ablaze with this positive
times, yet the children all listen assertion of the people that the
as if for the first time, all eager Jewish Nation remembers its
to hear of the exploits of Judah glories of old and is resurrecting
the Maccabee and his brothers, of itself from the despair and home-
their triumph over the Syrian lessness of the diaspora.
• • •
BASLE — Dr. Chaim Weizmann
bitterly attacked Palestine ex-
tremism in a half hour address at
the conclusion of six days of de-
bate by the World Zionist Con-
gress and excoriated its United
States supporters.
"I am not impressed about
Speeches on resistance made in
New York," the Congress presi-
dent asserted, "when resistance is
supposed to take place in Pales-
tine." He declared that extrem-
ism in the Holy Land had done
immense harm to and might
eventually poison Jewish life.
' Dr. Weizmann was interrupted
by Dr. Emanuel Neumann, vice-
president of the Zionist Organiza-
tion of America, who shouted
"demagogue." But Dr. Weizmann's
moving reply brought the gather-
ing to its feet cheering. He said:
"Every house, every barn at Na-
halal, every little factory in Tel
Aviv and Haifa bears a drop of
my blood."
Nahalal is a village in the Plain
of Esdraleon of which Dr. Weiz-
mann is particularly fond.
Following Dr. Weizmann's ad-
dress, David Ben Gurion, chair-
man of the Jewish Agency execu-
tive, repeated his opposition to a
partition as a Zionist political pro-
gram. He indicated again, how-
ever, that he would not be averse
to it if an offer came from the
British.
Honors Rabbi Adler
Survey in N.Y. Reveals Hard Goods
Will Set Sales Pace in Early 1947
NEW YORK. — Hard goods
will be a major factor in sales
gaina during the first four months
of 1947, according to the results
of a survey of 200 stores announc-
ed yesterday by Kirby, Block &
Co., resident buyers.
Eighty-two per cent of these
stores, handling both hard and soft
lines, expect to go ahead in sales
for this period, whereas 90 per
cent of specialty shops, handling
apparel and accessories only, ex-
pect to go behind in the same
period.
The median percentage of in-
crease for the total store was put
at 15 per cent, with the range be-
ing from 5 to 33 1/3 per cent. The
median percentage of decrease
was 12 per cent for the four
months, the range of decline be-
ing from 3 to 20 per cent.
OUTLOOK FOR HARD LINES
Hard lines alone, however, had
a median anticipated increase of
80 per cent and range of from 5
to 300 per cent over 1846.
The median increase for, some
stores on soft lines was put at 10
per cent, with the top gain being
20 per cent and the lowest 3 per
cent.
For stores reporting an expected
decrease in sales of soft lines the
median decline .wac 15 per cent,
with the range being from 5 to 25
per cent.
By months the survey revealed
the following: 75 per cent of the
department stores expect a gain in
January, whereas 65 per cent of
the specialty shops expect to go
behind. In February 71 per cent
of department stores foresee gains,
while 50 per cent of the specialty
stores anticipate lower volume. In
March 100 per cent of the depart-
ment stores anticipated volume
gains, while 45 per cent of the spe-
cialty shops look for a drop. In
April 65 per cent of department
stores expect to go ahead, where-
as 75 per cent of the specialty
shops expect to run behind.
The survey also brought out that
68 per cent of the stores expect
January inventory to be higher
than in 1940, 60 per cent look for
this to be true in February, 65
per cent in March and 50 per cent
in April.
DR. LOUIS FINKELSTEIN,
president of the Jewish Theo-
logical Seminary of America,
will deliver the main address at
the Chanukah dinner of Congre-
gation Shaarey Zedek at 6:30
p. m. Sunday. The affair will also
be a testimonial to Rabbi Mor-
ris Adler on his recent induction
as rabbi of the congregation. Dr.
Finkelstein is chairman of the
Religious Institute of America
and the author of such scholar.
ly works as "Akiba" and 'The
Pharisees." Cantor Jacob Sonen-
kiar will sing appropriate selec-
tions and also kindle the Chanu-
kah lights. Harry M. Shulman
will preside.
Congress must make a clear dis-
tinction between "resistance" and
"terror." He said he was confident
that the Congress would not give
up hope of cooperating with Brit-
ain in some way. Breaking off re.
lations with Britain or losing all
hope, he declared, would lead to
needless strife.
"It is my hope that the Con-
gress will allow the new executive
elected next week to send repro- .
sentatives to the London confer-
ence," he added.
Lipsky said that "resistance" ex-
cluded terror and means organized
responsible action; "terror" Im-
plied "action not responsible to
the community."
Dr. Abba Hillel Silver, ZOA
president, was elected chairman of
the key political commission. It
faces the task of squaring oppos-
ing views on future Zionist policy
and thus enabling the personal
composition of the Jewish Agen-
cy's new executive to be evolved.
Earlier, Dr. Silver had called
for a boycott of the London par-
ley and urged the Congress to
"disown the disastrous diplomacy"
of the executive. He called for
continuous immigration to Pales-
tine "regardless of the cost."
OVATION FOR WEIZMANN
He was followed by . Dr. Weiz-
mann, Dr. Stephen S. Wise and
David Ben Gurion, agency political
chief, who made impassioned ap-
peals for the support of the par-
tition scheme and for participation
in the London talks. Dr. Weiz-
mann received a tremendous ova-
tion when he arose to make his
reply to Dr. Silver. (His address is
reported in part in an adjoining
column.)
In a move which greatly
strengthens the forces opposing the
partition proposal, the Palestine
Labor Party, second largest rep.
resented here, adopted a resolution
calling for reaffirmation of the
Biltmore program which calls for
a state in all of Palestine.
William B. Ziff, American Re-
visionist, urged the delegates to
take a firm position in behalf of
a provisional Jewish government
for Palestine. Declaring that Amer-
Ica must be convinced that her
true interests lie with a Jewish
State in Palestine, Ziff attacked
the advocates of partition and de-
nounced "anti-Semitic bureaucrats"
in the British governmental offices.
SUSPEND REVISIONISTS
The Zionist executive announced
that it had suspended six mem-
bers of the central committee of -
the Zionist Revisionist Union of
America for breaches of dis.
cipline.
The suspensions were based on
two counts. The first was an un-
authorized submission of a request
to the United Nations to bring the
Palestine question before the Gen-
eral Assembly.
The second was the fact that
the Revisionists, among other
groups, had published an appeal
for money contributions to a Zion-
ist resistance fund "for active
fighters of the Palestine under-
ground."
Altman Hour Enters
18th Year of Service
The Altman radio hour will en-
ter its 18th year of service to
Detroit's Jewish community with
its regular programs this week-
end. They will be conducted over
WJLB from 8:30 to 10 p. m. Satur-
day, and 11:45 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Sunday.
`Rabbi Joshua Sperka and Can-
tor Robert Tullman will participate
in a special program Sunday.
Congratulatory wires have beep
pouring in to Mrs. Sarah Altman,
who is in charge of the programa,
from organizations throughout the
city.