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DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1946

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CONGRESS ENDS, SPURNS CONFERENCE

Battle Cry
Is Sounded
by Mufti

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Showdown Due
as Arabs Mass

JERUSALEM (Special)—
A showdown conflict in Pal-
estine appeared to be shap-
ing up this week as the
commander of the Najada,
the Arab illegal army issued
a call on behalf of the ex-
Mufti for a "fight on the
Jews" and the British re-
shuffled its Palestine police

force.
At the same time, the two ex-
tremist Jewish bands, the Irgun
and Sternists, announced their
unification for the coming battle.
The end of their temporary truce
during the deliberations of the
Zionist Congress appeared Im-
minent.

ARAB ASSASSINATED
On Wednesday, Arab assassins
in Haifa shot down in broad day-
light another wealthy Arab land-
owner who had been selling land
to Jews. He was the Emir Mo-
hammed el Saleh, one of the lead-
ing landowners in Palestine.
In announcing the changes in
the Palestine police, Inspector W.
N. Gray revealed that his special
mobile squadron would be Incor-
porated in the regular Palestine
police force to combat violence.
He also announced that special
police training courses would be
organized and modern equipment
acquired. He revealed that 1,000
new police had been added in the
past three months.

FEARS IMMIGRATION
The call to arms by the Arab
"army" came from Mohammed
Nimer el Hawari, a lawyer who
commands the illegal Arab force.
"The Mufti wants you to or-
ganize yourselves to fight the
Jews," he told the members of his
"army."
The Arabs, he declared, have
been cheated by both the British
and the Americans. Jewish Immi-
gration still goes on despite the
British blockade, he charged, and
the Zionist underground uses the
new immigrants in a pool for
reinforcements, he added. This un-
derground, now fighting the Brit-
ish, he asserted, will one day turn
against the Arabs.

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AWAITS SIGNAL
El Hawari assured his men that
the Arabs could easily deal with
the J e w I s h resistance forces
"When we get the signal from the
Mufti," he said, "we will prove to
the world that our forces are
stronger than people think — our
(Continued on Page 2)

I.F. Stone to Depict Story of Jews in Flight
to Palestine as Histadrut Keynote Speaker

I. F. Stone, chief editorial writer
ofr PM and Washington editor of
the Nation, who traveled with
groups of Jewish refugees from
Europe to Palestine to report at
first-hand their need to enter Pal-
estine, will be the keynote speaker
at the citywide conference of the
Detroit Palestine Histadrut Cam-
paign at 1:30 p. m. Sunday, Jan.
5 in the Brown Memorial Chapel
of Temple Beth El.
The conference will officially
launch the 1947 campaign for De-
troit's share of the $5,000,000 na-
tional goal.
This will be Stone's first appear-
ance in Detroit since he made his
sensational trip to war-torn Eu-
rope, accompaniing groups of flee-
ing, desperate Jews intent only on
reaching the safety of Palestine's
shores.
STIRRING ACCOUNT
His eyewitness account of in-
human obstacles placed in the way
of the refugees, the cost in per-
sonal possessions and lives as they
I. F. STONE
passed from country to country
* • *
and the heroic efforts of the many
workers of the "underground," series of articles were first pub-
stirred the entire world when his lished in the newspaper PM.

Stone is recognized by his fel-
low newspapermen as one of the
ablest investigators in the craft.
His editorials and writings, have
been acknowledged as being In the
highest spirit of American jour-
nalism, and he enjoys the envi-
able reputation of being one of the
great newspapermen of our day.
A newspaperman since 1924, his
writings soon attracted attention,
and in 1931 he became editorial
writer for the Philadelphia Rec-
ord. While he was editorial writer
for the New York Post from 1933
to 1439, his editorials were read
by millions. He became Washing-
ton editor for the Nation in 1938,
and joined PM in 1941.
The conference program commit-
tee announces that arrangements
are also being completed to bring
an outstanding American Zionist
leader, who has been attending the
World Zionist Conference in Basle,
to the opening conference so that
Detroit Jews will have a first-hand
report of the decisions made by
that body.
The conference will also act on
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Gillette Urges
End of Agency

Dr. Weizmann
Offers Apology

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Weizmann Asked
to Back Regime

NEW YORK — Political action
which would dissolve the Jewish
Agency, streamline the World
Zionist Organization Into a non-
sectarian movement enlisting mem-
bers of all faiths and creeds and
immediately proclaim a provision-
al government for the Hebrew Re-
public of Palestine was urged upon
Dr. Chaim Weizmann, president of
the World Zionist Congress, by
Senator Guy M. Gillette, president
of the non-sectarian American
League for a Free F.lestine which
has 'a membership of 140,000
Americans.
A "Black Book," on the British
treatment of Jews in Palestine has
been published by the league.
Charging the British administra-
tion with anti-Semitism, the vol-
ume contains reports and photos
aimed at showing that the treat-
ment of the Jews in Palestine to-
day "involves denial of civil liber-
ties, tortures, imprisonment In
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$300,000 Fund
Contributed for
Szold Memorial

BASLE—A fund totaling $300,-
000 had been created as a me-
morial project for the late Henri-
etta Szold, founder of Hadasash,
the American women's Zionist or-
ganization.

The fund, will be applied, as a
capital addition to the child and
youth welfare foundation that
Miss Szold began with her birth-
day gifts in 1942. She died in Feb-
ruary, 1943, a few months after
her eighty-third birthday.
Following the lead set by Ha-
dassah, whose gift of $100,000 Mrs.
Judith Epstein, Hadassah's presi-
dent, announced to the Zionist
Congress, the Jewish Agency for
Palestine' and the National Coun-
cil of Palestine Jews, through their
representatives here, announced
similar gifts. The fund will be
used for furthering work for youth
and children in Palestine.

CATTLE FOR PALESTINE
OTTAWA (JTA) — A shipment
of livestock from Canada is en
route to Palestine. The shipment
includes Holsteins and other pure-
bred cattle, purchased by the Pal-
estine Cattle Breeders Association.

Ex-GI's Arrive to Study at Haifa

Parley to Survey
Bigotry in U.S.

NEW YORK—The agenda for
the national conference of the
Joint Defense Appeal, which COn-
venes on Jan. 4, 5 and 6 in St.
liso ills, underscores a complete pro-
,
ram
ram of review, analysis and ex-
!oration of the evil of anti-Semit.
m in this country, according to
Albert H. Lieberman, conference
committee chairman. Mbre than
1,000 Jewish leaders from all parts
of the nation will participate in
the proceedings.
The first session on Saturday
evening, Jan. 4, will be opened by
Donald Oberdorfer, of Atlanta,
national JDA chairinan. Judge
Meier Steinbrink, national chair-
Plan of the anti -Defamation
League will preside.
The Joint Defense Appeal serves
as the financial arm of the League
and the American Jewish Com-
mittee.

Meant No Slur,
He Assures ZOA

BASLE—A statement expressing
resentment at Dr. Weizmann's re-
marks with regard to the Ameri-
can Zionists in the course of an
address at the Congress was is-
sued by the delegation of the Zion-
ist Organization of America.
Subsequently, Dr. Wei zmann
apologized, stating that he had in-
tended to cast no aspersions on
the contributions of the U. S. Zion-
ists when he said that they had
been urging resistance in Palestine
while safe at home in America.
The ZOA statement said in part:
"Spokesmen of American Zion-
ism at the Congress stated that it
must be left to the responsible
elements of Palestine Jewry to de-
termine what should or should not
be done with regard to resistance,
and they reaffirmed the support of
American Jewry to the Yishuv and
Haganah in their heroic efforts to
protect the rights of the Jewish
people.
"This position of American Zion-
ists was so distorted as to be
susceptible to the interpretation
that American Zionists were ir-
responsibly encouraging the youth
3f Palestine to expose themselves
to danger while remaining safely
in America and offering only mo-
ral, political and financial support.
This unparallelled imputation has
caused a feeling of outrage among
the American delegates to the
Congress."

Partition
Proposal
Is Doomed

Zionists Scorn
Weizmann Plea

BASLE, (Special) — The
Zionist Congress ended its
sessions Tuesday after turn-
ing down renewed pleas by
Dr. Chaim Weizmann and
his grqup and rejecting
participation in next month's
London conference on Pales-
tine by a vote of 171 to 154.
There were 25 abstentions.

The vote apparently doomed the
partition scheme.
(In Cairo, the Palestine Arab
Higher Committee, as a reper-
cussion of the Congress' decision
to boycott the London parleys, an-
nounced that it would ask the
Arab states to refuse to partici-
pate unless the Arabs of Palestine
are invited on their own terms.
One of the Arab demands is recog,
nition of the infamous ex-Mufti
as leader of the Arab delegation.)

COUNCIL TO DECIDE
The Zionist Congress failed to
elect a new executive. Obviously
badly split and confused, it em-
powered the newly formed Zionist
General Council Instead, to begin
at once discussions on a new ex-
ecutive body.
, The Congress ended after 24 and
a half hours of continuous ses-
sions. A deadline had been set for
5 p. m. Tuesday because the hall
in which it was meeting was to
be closed on Christmas eve.
The General Council comprises
77 members and 20 Zionist vet-
erans nominated personally for
services to the Zionist cause.
Whether Dr. Weizmann will enter
the executive is still unknown.
Some leaders think that he still
will, after another effort to bring
about Agency participation In the
parley.

LAUDS WEIZMANN
David Ben Gurion, chairman of
the Agency political committee,
paid a rare tribute to Dr. Weiz-
mann in his closing speech.
He referred to the revered lead-
er as "that great Jew of our gen-
eration whose place in Jewish his-
tory does not depend on his re-
election or otherwise, to whose
credit stands a great political
achievement in the history of
Zionism, the Balfour Declaration,
and whose life has been closely •
intertwined with the fruition of
the Zionist cause."
The two leftwing parties made
an unsuccessful. last minute at-
tempt to force the election of an
executive. The position now is that
the Congress has gone on record
as qualifying the Jewish Agency's
attendance at the Palestine talks
on the British repudiation of its
1936 White Paper, but there are
many who feel that there is still
a chance of the Agency accepting
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Cleveland Marks
Euclid Temple's
100th ,Ann!versary Rites Held in Basle

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CLEVELAND (JTA)—The 100th
anniversary celebration of the Euc-
lid Avenue Temple, Cleveland's
oldest Jewish institution, was
marked this week with the rede-
dication of the synagogue by 12
descendants of original members
of the congregation.

Fifty United States veterans will be receiving their training this
year at the Haifa Institute of Technology in Palestine under the GI
Bill of Rights pursuant to an arrangement made with the Veterans
Administration in Washington. The picture above shows the first
group of Americans arriving at the Institute. The ex-GI's form
part of a student body of over 1,000 who attend the engineering
school, the technical high school and the nautical school which
compose the institute. Dr. Shlomo i(aplansky, president of the in-
stitute, will be honored at a dinner meeting by the Detroit Chap-
ter of the American Society- for the Advancement of the Hebrew
Institute Jan. 6 at the Hotel Statler.

The three-day celebration fea-
tured the unveiling of a plaque
honoring the 826 members of the
congregation who served in the
armed forces during the war in-
cluding 21 who died In service.
The congregation which began in
1816 with 20 members has grown
to include more than 1,700 fam-
ilies. Rabbi Barnett Brickner is
the spiritual leader.

for Jacob FishMan

BASLE, (Special)—Funeral serv-
ices were held here Monday for
Jacob Fishman; former editor of
the New York Jewish Morning
Journal and dean of American
Yiddish journalists, who died here
at the age of 68.
Mr. Fishman was a ZOA dele-
gate to the Congress and was
covering the sessions for his news

paper.

His body will be taken to Pal-
estine for burial on the Mount of
Olives. Tributes at the rites were
voiced by Dr. Israel Goldstein,
Meyer W. Weisgal and Isaac Ham-'
lin of New York and Gershon
Agronsky of Jerusalem.

