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Synagog
Burned in
Floggings

Murphy Given Tolerance Award

MAKE THREAT GOOD
The burning of the second syna-
gogue was obviously a result of
the floggings In Palestine when
the Ifgun Zval Leumi made good
its threat to strike retaliatory
blows if the authorities carried out
the verdict of a military court
ordered the whipping of a 16-year-
old Jewish youth whom it had
sentenced for extremist acts.
British army authorities in Pal-
estine confirmed that the sentence
of 12 lashes woilld be carried out
despite the Irgun warning that
any lashings would result in re-
prisals with "bullets." The sentence
was approved by the notorious
anti-Semitic British commander,
Lieut. Gen. Sir Evelyn Barker
who is concluding his service in
Palestine.

Britis"4-9'Q%rer to Study
Plan i‘r Jewish State
In Part of Palestine

LONDON—Britain is ready to consider the creation
of an independent Jewish State in part of Palestine when
the London conference meets later in the month, a re-
liable spokesman declared Thursday, according to a
United Press dispatch.
He was reported to have declared that it would be

LONDON (Special) — In
retaliation for the flogging
of a British army major and
three sergeants by the Pal-
tine Resistance, vandals
a second synagogue afire
here in an outburst of anti-
Semitism. Twelve Tor a h
scrolls were destroyed be-
fore firemen were able to

2 TORAIIS MUTILATED
Two weeks ago the Clapton
Synagogue In East London was
broken into and intruders entered
the Ark, took two of the Scrolls
of the Torah and attempted to
burn them, but they were merely
singed. A message signed, "Na-
tional Guard", was left by the
gang.
The initials 'N. G.' were scratched
near the Dollis Hill Synagogue.
This led police to believe that the
vandalism had been committed by
the same group.
The hoard of Deputies of Brit-
ish Jews said that those who had
watched with concern the "re-
emergence in the streets of East
London of known pre-war Fascist
agitators will be shocked but not
surprised at the hoodliganism."

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2nd Set Ablaze
'in Retaliation'

extinguish the blaze.
The woodwork around the Holy
Ark was badly charred but the
building of the Dollis Hill Syna-
gogue was saved.
On a pillar outside the edifice
was scrawled: You whip—we
burn."

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and The Legal Chronicle

Vol. 49, No. 1

FIRST OF SERIES

Old Leaders
Repudiated,
Silver Asserts

Long a champion of American civil rights, Associate Justice Frank
Murphy of the United States Supreme Court is shown hero being
presented the Benjamin N. Cardozo Memorial Award as a tribute
for his battle on anti-Semitism by Tau Epsilon Rho, national Jewish
legal fraternity. The presentation ceremony was held Dec. 30 at the
Hotel Statler. Left to right, Mrs. Isadore Bookstein, Justice Isadore
Bookstein of the New York Supreme Court (holding plaque), Albert
Silber, Detroit Chancellor, William Friedman, former Wayne Circuit
judge, and Justice Murphy. (Photo by Jack Bigelman)

Bergson Sails
U.S. Zionists
to Hear Report to Plan Regime
on Basle Issues Exile Government

NEW YORK—Some 1,500 Zionist
leaders and key workers from all
parts of the country will attend
the two-day national mobilization
conference of the Zionist Organi-
zation of America beginning Fri-
day afternoon, Jam 24, through
Sunday, Jan. 26, at the Hotel Ste-
vens in Chicago.
The conference will hear first-
hand reports by leading members
of the ZOA delegation to the Zion-
ist Congress. It will be highlighted
by discussions of the major issues
and decisions of the Congress and
will draft plans for their imple-
mentation.
The two-day sessions will be di-
vided up, in addition to plenary
meetings, into seminars devoted to
the million dollar Expansion Fund
of the ZOA and its campaign for
1,000,000 members by 1950. Out-
standing Zionist personalities will
lead the discussions.
The Saturday session will be in
the form of an Oneg Shabbat de-
voted to veterans and youth, and
a reception by the Chicago Zionist
Organization.

Yishuv Condemns Extremism,
Says Wohlgelernter on Return

The builders of Palestine deplore conciliation with Britain, Rabbi
extremist acts and generally back Max J. Wohlgelernter of Beth
the moderate Weizmann stand of Tefilo Emanuel asserted in an in-
terview this week following his
return after a two months' inspec-
tion tour of 26 Palestine colonies
and participation in the delibera-
tions of the World Zionist Con-
gress in Basle.
Rabbi Wohlgelernter will be
welcomed home at a public recep-
tion at 8:15 p.m. Thursday, spon-
sored by Yeshivath 13c th Yehu-
dah of which he is president.
ONLY DETROITER
He was the only Detroiter at
the Congress. He attended its ses-
sions en route 6_,.)me after visiting
the settlements of the Hapoel Ha-
mizrachi, orthodox labor group of
the Yishuv.
"I was delighted at the progress
made by the organization," he de-
clared. It is the second largest
force in the Jewish community
and is having remarkable success
in establishing colonies with a
deeply religious basis, in organ-
izing working youth in the cities
and in helping young refugees to
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RABBI M. J. WOHLGELERNTER

for Zion in Offing

WASHINGTON—Peter Bergson,
chairman of the Hebrew Commit-
tee of National Liberation, sailed
for Paris this week to head an
office of the committee which is
drawing up plans for a Jewish
Provisional Government-In-Exile.
Bergson, who has received sev-
eral extensions of his permit to
remain in the United States, said
that he hai a re-entry permit from
the State Department.
Before he sailed, Bergson an-
nounced that during his absence
Dr. David Wdowinski, hero of the
battle of the Warsaw Ghetto and
president of the Union of Hebrew
Partisans, of Europe, would be
chairman pro-tempore of the Heb-
rew Committee.
Messages pledging American sup-
port for the Hebrew government
in exile were delivered to Bergson
including telegrams from Senator
Warren G. Magnuson of Wash-
ington, former Senator Guy M. Gil-
lette, president, American League
for a Free Palestine, Ben Hecht,
Louis Bromfield and Will Rogers,
Jr.
Senator Magnuson said: "I have
for years followed the attempts
of lesser leaders and deliberate de-
famers here and abroad to dis-
credit your efforts and the com-
mittee's work, but through the at-
tacks you and your colleagues
have steadfastly thwarted all ef-
forts to sabotage the definite so-
lution of the problems-of P.aJestine
and the saving of Hebrew lives.
"Thousands today owe their lives
to you, and a reborn nation will
soon be in your debt. You are now
on the threshhold of realizing that
solution, and I for one have com-
plete faith that your provisional
government will be most signal.
cant in settling the problem of
Palestine. Your historic cause will
not be without its champions in
the senate of the United States."

NEW YORK (Special)—"A clear
purpose and a clear line has
emerged from the Zionist Con-
gress," Dr. Abba Hillel Silver,
president of the ZOA, declared
on his arrival In New York by
air from the Congress in Basle.
"The old leadership was repudi-
ated at the Congress, "he ex-
plained, "Its record was one of
retreat and political failure. The
Congress reaffirmed the classic
Zionist positions expressed in the
firm resolve of the Jewish people
to resist all illegal actions of the
British government either to liqui-
date or constrict the Jewish Na-
tional Home.
"The Congress refused to lend
itself to British dilatory maneu-
vers. The proposed London con-
ference is such a measure, but
should circumstances change and
the British give clear indication
that they really intend to abandon
their disastrous White Paper pol-
icy by lifting the restrictions on
immigration and colonization, the
Jewish Agency will most gladly
attend the conference. The next
move is clearly up to the British.
"The policies adopted by the
Congress were In complete con-
formity with the position taken by
the ZOA at its last convention."

UJA Leaders Meet
to Chart '47 Quotas

NEW YORK—Recommendations
on the share each Jewish com-
munity in the United States should
accept in the nationwide $170,000,-
000 campaign of the United Jewish
Appeal for Refugees, Overseas
Needs and Palestine in 1947 were
made by the National Committee
on Community Quotas at a recent
meeting at the Biltmore Hotel in
New York.

up to the Jews to propose parti-
tion since the Attlee government
was not planning to introduce the
plan in London discussions.
Meantime, David Ben Gurion,
newly elected chairman of the
Zionist executive, began consulta-
tions with Arthur Creech-Jones,
colonial secretary, on possible Jew-
ish participation in the conference.
Tip.) Zionist Congress last week
by a close vote formally refused
to take part in the talks but left
an opening if Britain would grant
concessions. However, the parti-
tion scheme will be a great stumb-
ling block since the concensus of
both U. S. and world Jewish
opinion is that the Jewish Home-
land must not be pared further.

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Weizman!' Ousted;
Executive Named

BASLE (JTA)—The Zionist Ac-
tions Committee this week elected
a new executive of the World
Zionist Organization, after defeat-
ing a proposal by the Palestine
Labor Party that Dr. Weizmann
be named president. No president
was elected.
The vote climaxed 15 days of
deliberations by the Zionist Con-
gress and a five-day meeting of
the Actions Committee. It repre-
sented a compromise between the
Palestine Laborites and the Amer-
ican General Zionists, which
emerged as the two dominant
greonutp. s in the world Zionist move-
m

David Ben Gurion was named
chairman of the executive, with
Rabbi Judah L. Fishman, Miz-
2 Reform Synagogues
rachi leader, and Dr. Isaac Gruen-
baum, General Zionist, as vice-
Mark 100th Birthday
chairmen. Dr. Abba Hillel Silver
NEW YORK (JTA)—The 100th will head the section' of the ex-
anniversary of the Central Syna- ecutive in Washington. There will
gogue, New York's second oldest be a four-man executive in ' , en-
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burning
of rlebrew books unaer a
virulently anti-Semitic colonial ad-
ministration, according to 46-pages
of American and British newspap-
er reports, collected by the Ameri-
can League for a Free Palestine
and published under the title:
"Black Paper, The British Terror
in Palestine."
"This irrefutable proof of British
malfeasance in Palestine, and of
British usurpation of power under
the guise of a mandate," Senator
Guy M. Gillette, president of the
non .sectarlan American Leagtie
for a Free Palestine, said, "is
really a postscript to the Illegal
British White Paper of 1939 that
scaled the doom of millions of
European Hebrews by preventing
their safe immigration to Pales-
tine.
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BRITISH SPONSORS
"WHILE THE AMERICAN
League realizes the responsibility
of publishing a document as in-
criminating and damaging to the

SENATOR GILLETTE

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