Friday, February 7, 1947 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLB and The Legs! Chronicsa Pars Two The Palestine Scene British Hand Agency a 7-Day Ultima ni Yishuv Rejects British Demand Refuse to Turn Informers on Jews Lincoln Flag An "Information Please" pro- gram will feature the, next meet- ing of the Northwest University Chapter of the Zionist Organiza- tion of Detroit, Thursday, March 6, at the Northwest Hebrew Con- gregation. A panel of experts will answer questions on Zionism. Dr. Oscar D. Schwartz, will act as in- terrogator. Questions may be submitted in writing to the office of 7ie Zionist Organization, 1044 Penobscot Bldg., or asked from the floor at the meeting. Albums of Jewish music will be awarded as prizes to those This conception of. the Ameri- who stump the expertT. can Flag with Hebrew letters was prepared by Abraham 'Kohn of Chicago and presented to Abraham Lincoln in 1860 before Lincoln left for Washington to be inaugurated as President. Believing that the courts need The reproduction has been made by the Jewish center division of at least one judge who had had the National Jewish Welfare long experience in arbitration of dispute, A. C. Lappin, communal Board. leader and labor mediator, is a candidate for common pleas judge Freddy Warren Booked at the primaries, Monday, Feb. 17. Friends of Lappin call him for Chapter I's Frolic qualified by experience, Weeks of preparation by Chap- eminently ter I, Zionist Organization of character and temperament to America, will culminate in the serve as a judge. club's February Frolic at 9 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 8, In the Jewish Alpha Epsilon Pi Starts Center. Freddy Warren and his orches- New Chapter at Wayne tra will play. Tickets will be sold A. new chapter of Alpha Epsilon at the door. On Sunday, Feb. 9, at 1:30 p.m., Pi has been organized at Wayne University. Officers are Larry Lo- the chapter will hold a toboggan and ice-skating party at the Muir patin, president-master; Hughes Trailer Park. Meeting place will Potiker, lieutenant master; Mor- be the Palmer Park Skating Pa- ris Novetsky, scribe; Bernard Bot- nick, lieutenant scribe; Sol Koen- vilion. igsberg, exchequer; and Edward Friedman, sentinel. IIELLER FAMILY CLUB Other charter members are Irv- Michael Golding has been elect- ed president of the Heller Family ing Shanbom, BillyZucher, Bernie Schneider, Harry Lipsitz, Milt Club. Other officers include Sam Helier, honorary president; Ben Weiss, Irving Grodman, Richard Daneman, vice-president;' Belrose Atkins, Burt Bernstein, Nathan Golding, secretary; and Dorothy Pollack, Milton Soloman and Mit- chell Tendler. Golding, treasurer. (Continued from page 1) prieve of Dov Gruner, condemned Irgunist. Joseph Saphir, Mayor of Petach Tikvah, said: "The Jewish people survived worse things than mar- tial law. Even economic ruin will (See latest developments on page one) not frighten us. There can be no JERUSALEM (WNS)—An ultimatum warning the Jew- retreat. There can be no coopera- ish Agency that unless it produces the names of the leading tion with the mandatory govern- because the ordinary Jew "terrorists" in the Holy Land within seven days the country ment, no faith in it." would be placed under martial law was issued here by the has RABBI ADDS VOICE Palestine government. The government demanded an imme- Solemnly the Chief Rabbi of the Oriental Jews, Ben Zion Usiel, diate reply. asked: "Does the government ac- This development added to cuse me, a Chief Rabbi, of insin- cerity in condemning terrorism? the tension which has been Is the government interested in gripping the Jewish community seeing Jews fight Jews? That is over the question of the Dov Gru• the only result that can come out ner execution and the ordered evacuation of all British civilians. of spying and informing. "We cannot accept the demands Gruner, who refused to sign an ap- (Continued from page 1) peal petition, had been slated to in the light of the abundant dis- of the ultimatum. We will act be executed Tuesday, but after the cussions which have been going against terrorism in our own time Palestine High Court refused to on and in light of the specific and in our own way, without stay the execution on an appeal Arab demands. pressure." made by Frank Gruner, New York Laborite Jacob Riff i said, "One's Last week's flareup in the House uncle of the Irgunist, it was re- of Commons over the government's 'natural reaction is to tell them ported that the execution has Palestine policy has riveted pub- to go to hell." Berl Repetur, representative of been postponed to Feb. 18. lic attention to the Holy Land problem as never before. But out- Left-wing labor cried: "The Brit- GETS DISPENSATION ish talk of our duties as citizens! Realization that the Palestine side of the reiteration by former The first demand of citizens is Prime Minister Churchill that crisis was reaching a climax be- the rescue of survivors in con- came evident on Saturday, when Britain either honor the mandate centration camps. And what about or else surrender it to the United the Palestine rabbinate permitted deportations—were they civilized? Mayor Rokach of Tel Aviv to trav- Nations, the debate failed to con- Our first battle must be against el on the Sabbath for the confer- tribute a single constructive sug- the White Paper and suppression ence with a high government offi- gestion. of immigration. There will be cial in Jerusalem. Such a dispen- NEW PARTITION PLAN no Jews in towns or resettlements Meanwhile reports were circu- who will do the dirty work of sation is sparingly given by rab- lating that Prime Minister Attlee, spying. Our answer to the threat bis even in great emergencies. While the authorities were mak- Bevin and Creech-Jones had of martial law should be to build ing preparations to evacuate Bri- reached an understanding on a dozens of new settlements." tish civilians, the Haganah was new partition plan calling for a REJECTED BY PRESS reported to have made an offer larger area for the Jews than The implication in the British to stamp out the extremist groups provided for in the Morrison fed- demand that the Jews must serve if the British adopted a hands-off eralization proposal. It is believed as informers and spies was also policy. A spokesman for the Ha- that the cabinet reached a deci- rejected today by all Hebrew news- ganah said his organization could sion on partition with the alter- papers, one calling it "ugly and halt the Irgun and Stern activities native that if the plan does not despicable." • if the "government will not in- work out to submit the entire "Yediod Aharonet" wrote "Yis- terfere." At the same time he question to the United Nations. hub (the Jewish community) will warned that the Haganah will Moshe Shertok, head of the Jew- receive the new blow, which is "not co-operate with the govern- ish Agency political department intended to stun and subdue it, ment while it holds to its present said the Agency may also make a with firmness of mind and cour- policy." direct appeal to the United Na- age. The war of nerves now being tions on the ground that the new conducted against the Jewish peo- WON'T BE INFORMERS ple will not break their spirit." In a statement rejecting British international body virtually as- In the meantime, thousands of demands for large-scale partici- sumed the jurisdiction formerly Jews and Arabs protested in pation by the Jewish community vested in the League of Nations. Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and Haifa against the extremists, Mrs. Gol- against eviction orders, regarded die Meyerson, head of the po;Al- Hailed by Bnai Brith as the first step toward medial cal department of the Jewish law. Families were ordered from Agency, said such a course would their homes in places that British mean fratitcidal warfare and that authorities intend to fortify as "we refuse to plunge the Yishuv security areas. into civil war." (In London, Colonial Minister Mrs. Meyerson made the state- Arthur Creech Jones revealed that ment while 40 British civilians High Commissioner Cunningham were being evacuated. Mrs. Meyer- had received authority to impose son asserted that the Jewish com- martial law in any area of Pal- munity had already begun to take estine.) action against the "terrorists" in line with the recent resolution of SIIARONA GROUP OF PWO the Jewish National Council, add- ing that British military measures Paid-up members of the Sharona would not make the "contem- Group, Pioneer Women's Organi- plated" impression on world opin- zation, have been invited to a Valentine party Saturday, Feb. 15 ion. No one here is prepared to pre- at the Jewish Center. dict what would happen if Gruner is executed..But it is certain that LAUNDRY DRIVERS' CLUB if the occupation costs are taxed Officers of the Laundry Drivers' Congresswoman Edith Nourse on the population they might vir- will be hon- Social Club will be installed at a tually bankrupt the Jewish com- Rogers (R), Mass., ored by Bnai Brith for her pio- dinner and dance Saturday eve- munity. neer work in veterans' legisla- ning, Feb. 8, at Assembly Hall, • tion at a testimonial dinner in 9125 Twelfth street. Washington Feb. 17. The fete Tiny Refugee Ship ZION MIZRACIII SISTERS marks Mrs. Rogers' appointment Chamisho Osor Bshvat was ob- as chairman of the house com- Bound for Zion PARIS (JTA)—A tiny 400-ton mittee on veterans affairs. Spon- served by the Sisters of Zion Miz- vessel sailed from LeHavre this sor of the dinner is the Bnai rachl in accordance with plans week with 600 Jewish refugees Brith veterans' advisory com- made at the home of Mrs. A. Du- brinsky. aboard reportedly bound for Pal- mittee. estine. NEW YORK (JTA) — Funeral WASHINGTON (JTA) —North- The vessel, "Ulna," is believed services were held this week for to be the same one which cleared western U. was awarded the Sig: David L. Podell, 62, community a Swedish port last week osten- mund Livingston Interfaith Fel- leader. sibly bound for Cuba where its lowship by Hillel Foundation. passengers, survivors of Nazi con- centration camps, were to be re- eettled. The harbor master at Le Havre had refused to give the vessel clearance, asserting that security The Home You Have Been Dreaming About measures aboard ship were inad- equate, but later reversed his de- cision. In Sweden, Gunther Cohn, who Custom Home Builder Is Taking Contracts arranged transport for the refu- To Build The Home You Want To Your gees denied that they were head- Plans and Specifications ing for Palestine. He added that all of them had Cuban visas. WE CAN ASSIST YOU WITH FINANCING, PLANS AND LOTS NATHAN GOLI)MAN CLUB Demand Names of Top tremists • but Jews Scorn Plea asFratricidal British Parley With Arabs Fails • • NOW YOU CAN BUILD A meeting of the Nathan Gold- man Family Club will be held Sun- day, Feb. 16, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Silverman of Cal- vert avenue. Officers are Mrs. Sara Goldman, honorary president; Mrs. Julius Goldman, chairman; Mrs. Jerome Arfa, secretary; and Mrs. Louis Silverman, treasurer. MERRILL GOODMAN Complete Real Estate and Building Service ')15 James Couzens Hwy. 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