li ed Carter CLIFTON AVENUE - CINCINNATI 20, 01110 Thirty-One Years of Service to Detroit Jewry Detroit Jewish Chronicle AN UNAFFILIATED, INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER and The Legal Chronicle Vol. 49, No. 2 DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, JANUARY 10, 1947 How JDC Aids Survivors * * * * Schools Are Set Up for Youngsters Truman Urges Refugee Aid, Fight on Bigots ATHLETES, P. 16 Attlee Calls Cabinet to Weigh Partition; Irgun Denies Truce ' WASHINGTON (JTA) — Presi- dent Truman, in his State of the LONDON—The British cabinet was summoned to a Union message to Congress, em- special session Thursday to discuss the Palestine ques- phasized that the United States has not done enough with regard tion following a second conference Wednesday °between to the admission of displaced per- David Ben Gurion, chairman of the Jewish Agency, and sons to this country and called Arthur Creech-Jones, colonial secretary. for congressional legislation to en- Lt. Gen. Sir Alan G. Cu mingham, high commissioner able the entry of more refugees for Palestine, who was to have re- from Europe. turned to his post Thursday, is The President also said that ex- Heads Anneal remaining in London for several isting legislation does not reach days In view of the cabinet dis- "the limit of federal power to pro- cussion. tect the civil rights of its citizens." Prime Minister Attlee's call to He decried "racial and religious the cabinet came following a 10-day bigotry" and declared that free- conference on the Palestine prob- dom to engage in lawful callings lem by high government officials has been denied to many citizens including Foreign Secretary.Ern- as a result of such bigotry. st Bevin and the sudden strength- "The will to fight these crimes ening of the Resistance In the should be in the hearts of every Holy Land. one of us," the President said. He Speculation was rife in govern- declared that the Department of ment • circles that the cabinet Justice is carrying on the "fight" would ponder a plan which calls for the Federal Government to the for independent Jewish and Arab full extent of its powers. states. According to authoritative Emphasizing that only about sources, Bevin and Creech-Jones 5,000 displaced persons have en- will urge partitioning of Pal- tered the United States since May estine in such a way that several 1946, President Truman said that areas probably including Jerusa- he did "not feel that the United lem and Haifa would be left un- States has done its part" in ad- der British trusteeship as "neutral mitting refugees. He pointed out regions." that the executive agencies "are The Colonial Office refused to now doing all that is reasonably make any comment on the cabinet IIENRY MORGENTIIAU possible under the limitations of call but it categorically denied • • • the existing law and established that Britain had offered conces- quotas" and asked for "congres- sions to the Zionists in the Ben sional assistance" in the form of Gurion talks to persuade them to new legislation. participate in the London Confer- "I urge the Congress to turn its ence on Palestine an invitation to attention to this world problem," which the Arabs have formally ac- the President stated," in an ef- cepted despite earlier threats that fort to find ways whereby we can they, like the Jews, would boycott fulfill our responsibilities to these Sees Moral Obligation the talks. Jrai ntigeommist thousands of homeless and suffer- ing• refugees of all faithS." for'Eveey Morgenthau Takes UJA. •Chairmanship Dr. Wise Chided for Quitting ZOA Called Tragic Figure of Zionist Congress NEW YORK—The action of Dr. Stephen S. Wise in withdrawing "from all offices in the Zionist Or. anization of America" as an af- termath to what he declared was 'he ZOA's misuse of power at the Basle Congress, was condemned by Daniel Frisch, chairman of the ZOA administrative council. Frisch conceded Dr. Wise's right 'o express dissatisfaction with the deliberations of the Congress, but he characterized his resignation and attack as "undemocratic." CALLS CONGRESS TRAGIC Dr. Wise had stated that the Congress was "nothing less than tragic in its inadequacy in relation to a great .hour. Measured by the Zionist Congress, the Zionist cause has fallen on evil days and ways." He described the new Zionist executive as a "cabinet not of all talents but of all ambitions, un- holy and unlimited, a cabinet rep- resenting a maximum of comprom- ise and a minimum of conviction." In reply, Frisch declared: "Grand old fighter in so many causes that Dr. Wise is, and con- stant proclaimer of his faith in democracy, he seems unable to endure differences of opinion or political defeat without flaming anger." NEW YORK — Henry Morgen- thau, former Secretary of the Treasury, has been chosen general chairman of the United Jewish Appeal which has undertaken to raise $170,000,000 In 1947. In a statement Issued on the acceptance of leadership in one of the largest voluntary relief cam- paigns ever conducted in the United States, Morgenthau said: "The American people dedicated their resources and manpower to the destruction of the menace that Hitler represented to our security and freedom. It is now equally their will that those who were the first and most tragic victims shall have their fullest sympathy and support until they are able to stand on their own feet, to make their own way. "I have accepted the general chairmanship of the United Jew- ish Appeal because I regard it as the moral obligation of every American, man, woman and child to save from despair and destruc- tion the pitiful remnant of Jews who remain alive in Europe." NO POST FOR 11131 "He was, and I say it with re- gret, the most tragic figure at the Congress in Basle. His friends, the very people who fought for Chaim Weizmann to the last hour, found it neither feasible nor even pos- sible to assign to Rabbi Wise a normal life thanks to a Jewish survivors in Europe are returning to race In the new executive, or the efforts of the Joint Distribution Committee. In the top picture, other position of importance. a Jewish woman happily displays products she has turned out after "It is true that his devotion to learning the weaving trade in a Czecholslovakian cooperative found- Zionism in America has been long ed with a loan from JDC. Center is a group of youngsters in Klads- and unswerving, yet it is a fact ke, formerly Glatz, Poland, who never miss a day of school in an that when his many followers Institution financed by JDC funds. Below are two former concentra- made him president, he left that tion camp inmates who proudly show samples of their leather work organization poor and ineffectual to Philip Ruby, JDC representative in Slovakia. JDC receives its and with but a handful of mem- funds from the United Jewish Appeal which is supported In Detroit through the Allied Jewish Campaign. ON PAGE 14; 10c a Copy; $3 Per Year U.S.-Jew- Ex-Internees Learn Leather Craft SEE TAX COLUMN bers." 32 Seized 'ut.Raids; Flogging Is Hated — JERUSALEM — In a pre-dawn raid on Rishon-le-Zion and Reho- voth, south of Tel Aviv, British police arrested 32 suspected mem- bers of the Irgun Zval Leumi Wednesday. Four women were among the prisoners. A few hours afterwards, Sir Hen- ry Gurney, acting high commis- sioner, canceled the flogging Im- posed on Aaron Cohen, 16-year- old youth, whose sentence brought retaliatory floggings upon four British soldiers last week. Irgun had threatened to shoot British (Continued on page 2) Gen. Morgan 'Retired' by the British Army LONDON (WNS) — Lieut. Gen. Sir Frederik E. Morgan, former head of UNRRA operations in Germany, has been "retired" by the British Army, it was disclosed here by the British War Office. Sir Frederik was the author of the notorious statement to news- papermen at Frankfurt-am-Main last January that the exodus of Jews from Poland was "well or- ganized" and that the Jews were entering the American zone in Germany "red-checked with pock- ets full of money." House Group Asks Curb on Non-English Press WASHINGTON (JTA) —Revoca- tion of the second class mailing privileges of all foreign-language newspapers and periodicals which do not carry English translations in parallel columns is recommend. ed in the final report of the House Committee on Un-American Activi- ties for 1946. It is one of several legislative proposals by the committee, many of which urge restriction of the rights and privileges of aliens. London Vandals Raid 3rd Synagog 12 Burned Scrolls Buried After Rites LONDON (WNS) — The Bays- water Synagogue was attacked here by a number of youthful van- dals, the third attack on a Jewish house of worship within a week. The incident occurred within a few hours after the ceremonial burial of the 12 sacred scrolls that were burned in the Dollis Hill Synagogue a week ago. The van- dals broke into the Bayswater synagogue and smashed the win- dows and stained glass. They were discovered by the caretaker and fled before police arrived. While the police were searching for the perpetrators of the recent anti-Jewish outbreaks, a chain store, owned by Jews, was blasted by a bomb. A gang of men were reported also to have blown up a car owned by a Jew. At Bristol, where many anti- Jewish posters appeared during the week, the only synagogue was placed under guard when oil- soaked rags were found near the entrance of the building. Meanwhile, the anti-Jewish ter- rorists are seeking to create ten- sion and confusion by repeated telephone calls, generany to news- papers, warning that public build- ings would be blown up. Follow- ing such an anonymous call, the police placed guards at the King Cross railroad station.