Thirty-two Years of Service to Detroit Jewry AN UNAFFILIATED, INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER Detroit 31 N la Chronicle ro. 1 Tal ph SEE ANALYSIS OF PALESTINE CRISIS, —EDITORIAL PAGE Legal Chronicle Vol. 49, No. 7 Dr •C\0.) .GAN, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1947 10c a Copy; $3 Per Year ° A\ LEFTISTS AND Ik3UN BATTLE IN PALESTINE Canton Proposal Spurned Human 'Mine Detector' Finds Haven • Bevin May Take Zion Issue to UN at LONDON (Special)—Jew- ish Agency leaders met with Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin and Colonial Secretary Arthur Creech-Jones and re- jected the British proposals for a solution of the Pales- tine problem. The Arabs had already rejected the plan. Bevin's answer was that the British government would probab- ly have to submit the whole Pal- estine problem to the United Na- tions. He told Arab delegates to the Palestine conference that he Could see no use carrying the talks on any further. A final meeting was held Friday. WANT WITHDRAWAL The Arabs in their turn told Bevin they would like Britain to withdraw from Palestine alto- gether and let them handle the situation in their own way. Moshe Shertok, head of the Agency political department, ex- plained the rejection of the British terms by citing the -main provi- sions. The plan envisioned separ- on-contiguous semi-auton- ate areas for Jews and Arabs orn, under the British high commis- sioner for five years. Immigration which under the Morrison Plan was fixed at 100,- 000 annually was sot at approx- imately the same number for two years. MIGHT GO TO UN The Zionists have asked the British government to produce a map showing the areas suggested in the cantonment proposal. It is reported that the map will show more than 20 individual areas planned in Palestine. Shertok said that ''we consider that our business in London is practically finished." He added that a session of the Agency executives might be called soon, saying that if Britain carries the issue to the United Nations, the (Continued on page 2) Council President British Curbs in Zion Called Sympathy Act Britain Hedges on 'Ultimatum' Gruner Granted Delay to Appeal TEL AVIV (Special)—The recent drastic British actions in Palestine are intended pri- marily to influence British opinion and are not directed against "terrorists," Gene Currivan, special writer for JERUSALEM (Special) — Members of Hashomer Ha- tzair, leftist labor group, and of the Irgun Zvai_ Leumi raided each others' camps in the Tel Aviv area threaten- ing to embroil the Jewish community in Palestine in the New York Times, asserted. It is a question of policy, probably long term, he said. The British, he explained, are seeking sympathy and nothing could attract sympathy more readily than sacrifice by them. This explains, he said, the evacu- ation of all British residents deemed non essential and the dis- ruption of homes. Jerusalem is now divided into three principal areas and no one can move from one to another without permission. Viennese-born Walter Ivanyi, 37, one of the few survivors of the Currivan's informant, a highly Nazis' human "mine detector" battalions of Jews, is reunited placed official, denied that the re- through IIIAS (Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society) cent demands sent to the Jewish with his wife Fannie and three-month-old baby daughter Suzanne Agency and the Jewish National Carolyn, who arrived in New York on the S.S. Marine Marlin. Council were actually an ulti- Ivanyi was impressed from a Nazi concentration camp and forced matum. to act as a human shield for German panzer troops against ex- It had been assumed that re- ploding personnel mines on the Russian front. After seven months jection of the ultimatum would of this, Ivanyi, wounded, switched clothes with a dead Hungarian mean more drastic action by the soldier, took his papers and escaped. government, but actually, said Currivan's informant, this was not the case and the ultimatum was issued merely to know where the Jews stood. The British now know that the Jews intend to do nothing about the British demand that they turn informers. No retaliatory steps have been taken or are contem- Brotherhood Leader HAIFA (JTA) — The British plated, said Currivan. merchant vessel Empire Heywood Due Here on Feb. 22 left for Cyprus this week carrying 656 men, women and children who Resistance to British Detroit will honor John G. arrived here aboard the blockade Inevitable, Says Wise Winant Saturday evening, Feb. 22, runner Negev. as the highlight in its participa- NEW YORK (JTA)—The Brit- One of those wounded during a tion in National Brotherhood ish White Paper on Palestine "is clash between the passengers and Week, Feb. 16-23. such a gross and lawless violation a boarding party and a later fra- Winant, national chairman of cas on the pier when the refugees of the Bal.t..wr Declaration and the the observance and former U. S. were being trans-shiped, died British M ite for Palestine that resistance .a inevitable," Dr. Ste- ambassador to England, will ar- Monday. phen S. Wise, president of the rive in Detroit • from Cleveland Prior to the departure of the American and World Jewish Con- with Richard M. Kelly, director of public Information for the Na- Empire Heywood, a Jewish Agen- gress, declared. tional Conference of Christians cy spokesman, annealing to the "A people less firmly grounded and Jews. Kelly will join Winant government to allow the immi- ethically and spiritually than the at a civic dinner in the Hotel grants to remain; said that "every Jews would have resorted long deportation provides an atmos- before this to much graver and Statler. Many local functions are plan- phere on which terrorism feeds. more violent resistance to British ned to make this 14th year cele- We cannot tell Jews to combat rule in Palestine and the terms bration the most elaborate in his- terrorism when their suffering of the White Paper," Dr. Wise brethren are deported." stated. tory. Among the churches to hold brotherhood prog 3 will be Trinity Methodist .urch, High- land Park; Calvary Presbyterian Church, Central Methodist Church and Hartford Avenue Baptist Church. Students of Durfee Intermediate NEW YORK—On a North River ported by the United Jewish Ap- School will see 'The World We pier when the S.S. "Marine peal, provided its corporate affi- Want to Live In" Thursday after- Perch" arrived Tuesday a middle- davit as the basis for visas for 310 noon, and from 4:30 to 5 p.m. aged Philadelphian waited to wel- of the immigrants. that day WJR will broadcast a come an orphaned refugee youth Gold and his wife heard about special program, "Music for World whom he is adopting to take the young Szerman through a sec- Brotherhood." olace of his son, killed in action in ond son, Lt. Col. Norman G. Formal activities in Detroit will the U. S. Army. Gold, .now with the American culminate with a forum on Jacob N. Gold had never seen army of occupation in Germany. "Brotherhood- Pattern for Peace" Col. Gold wrote his father that at 7:45 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 23, in Ben Zion Szerman, 22-year-old Po- he had hired a number of dis- the Second Baptist Church, 441 lsh survivor of a Nazi concentra- placed persons as civilian em- tion camp, his prospective foster- Monroe avenue. - child, but was able to recognize ployees for the army. Among him instantly when he came down them was Szerman, in whom he the gangplank — because he bears immediately saw a double for his a striking resemblance to Gold's dead brother. • • * own son, Berwin, killed in Frar on Oct. 29, 1944. REPLACES DEAD SON * * Leon Gellman, president of the COL. GOLD ASKED his parents Mizrachi Organization of America, AIDED BY UJA whether they would consider tak- will address / achi here at 8:30 YOUNG SZERMAN is one of ing the boy into their home. Mr. p.m. Monday Yeshlvath Beth 721 "DP" immigrants who arrived and Mrs. Gold responded enthu- Yehudah. Gellman, a member of the world from Bremerhaven, Germany, siastically. With the help of Unit- Zionist executive, has an urgent aboard the "Marine Perch." The ed Service for New Americans and message for all Zionist groups. He ship is also bringing 87 orphaned the Philadelphia section of the Na- tional Council of Jewish Women will report on recent emergency refugee children. The immigrants, of all faiths and they made arrangements for young sessions of the executive and on problems taken up at the recent many nationalities, are coming to Szerman to come here as a quota meeting of the world Mizrachi ex- this country under the quota laws, Immigrant. Asking Col. Gold to in accordance with President Tru- discuss the plan with the American ecutive in Jerusa!em. A reception In honor of Gellman man's directive on immigration of consul in Munich, the father wrote: will be held at Finkel's Restau- refugees. United Service for New "It is my hope that the boy will Americans, whose work is sup- replace Berwin in our hearts." rant at 6 p.m. Winant Dinner 656 Shipped Off to Cyprus; Jew Heads Events Dies After Battle civil strife. A few hours after 10 armed leftists had kidnaped an Irgunist in Rehovoth, the Irgunists re- taliated by snatching two mem- bers or Hashomer Hatzair in Tel Aviv. The kidnapings marked the fifth clash in four days between ex- tremists. Tuesday night, Irgunists tried to burn down the club- houses of the leftists in Tel Aviv and Rehovoth. STARTED BY HASHOMER The troubles were precipitated when the Hashomer Hatzair, the most outspoken and belligerent anti-"terrorist" group, began tear- ing down Irgun posters in Tel Aviv. A gang of Yemenite Irgun- ists tried to halt the activity and and street fighting ensued. The strife, fortunately, has been confined to the Hashomer youths, who number about 15,000 in all Palestine, and the "terrorists". In the meantime, Lt. Gen. Sir Evelyn Barker, notorious anti- Semitic - commander of British troops, yielded his command in Palestine and left for Cairo. AN IMPROVEMENT There is general feeling that Barker's successor, Maj. Gen. G. H. A. MacMillan, while little known in Phlestine, cannot help but be an improvement. The British officially announced the postponement of the execution of Dov Bela Gruner, condemned Irgunist, whose death sentence has been a focal point of the current tension in the Holy Land. The postponement was granted to allow Gruner's lawyers to ap- peal to the Privy Council, Brit- ain's highest court. Informed circles said it would take months or possibly a year for the Privy Council to unties the legal tangle. About 1000 Bedouins, armed with knives and a pistol, attacked the Jewish village of Bnai-Geulim, near Nathanya, in a land dispute and wounded six settlers and kid- naped one Jew when they re- treated. Gold Star Parents to Adopt DP Restrictive Clause Who Is a Double for Dead Son Ban Asked in N.Y. • STANLEY C. MEYERS of Mi- ami was reelected president of the Council of Jewish Federa- tion and Welfare Funds at the 15th annual general assembly last week. The delegates were told by Sidney S. Cohen, execu- tive director of the Boston Com- bined Jewish Appeal, that Amer- ican Jewry will be called upon In 1917 to raise "close to $300,- 000,000 for its overseas, national and local needs, including the $170,000,000 United Jewish Ap- peal campaign." Mrs. Joseph Glogower of Detroit also urged increased support to the UJA. Gellman to Speak to Mizrachi Here NEW YORK (JTA)—A bill has been introduced into the New York State Assembly to outlaw restrictive clauses prohibiting own- ers of houses to sell or rent their property to Negroes, Jews or mem- bers of other minority groups. Among the supporters of the bill is the American Jewish Congress. The state of New York is more advanced in dealing with discrimi- nation matters than any state in the Union, Sen. Irving M. Ives declared at a conference of the Bnai Brith Anti-Defamation League her. Asserting that neither the fed- eral government nor any other state has made the same progress as New York in barring discrim- ination in employment, Ives called for U. S. legislative curbs. Jewish Youths Build 4th Colony in Month JERUSALEM—The fourth Jew- ish settlement to be staked out in Palestine this month was estab- lished Tuesday on Jewish Na- tional Fund land at Kfar Etzion near Solomon's Pools. The set- tlers are Palestinian-born youths.