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Vol. 49, No. 11
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Kosher Meat PI $'\
Juggling in Shops
Uncovered in Probe
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Prices for kosher meat in
Detroit vary anywhere from
five cents to 30 cents for the
same cuts in different shops,
the investigation of alleged
high kosher meat prices by
the Jewish Community Coun-
cil reveals.
All Jewish butchers carry
the same grade of meat, namely
double A, the Kosher Butchers
Association maintains. The dis-
parity in price must then be at-
tributed to other factors and
hese may be unfolded at a
lanned meeting between the
butchers and the Council's in-
ternal affairs committee, accord-
ing to Louis Fraiberg, director of
internal relations.
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Federation Guest
40 Refugees Escape
to Freedom as Ship
Slips Past Blockade
NEW YORK (Special) — This
city will have a $1,000,000 inter-
faith forum structure, combined
with a Jewish community center
and a synagogue. It will be erect-
ed at Seventh avenue and Fortieth
street.
The site was purchased for
$500,000. Catholic bankers in the
garment district and Jewish manu-
facturers will conduct a campaign
for $1,000,000 to build a synagogue
for 350 worshippers and an audi-
torium to seat 700 for interfaith
meetings.
The building will be open to all
faiths for radio broadcasts, in-
formal discussions and social
activities.
The backers see the forum as a
demonstration of the theme that
tolerance is the road back to the
fundamentals of Americanism.
NEW YORK (Special)—Dr. Ab-
ba Hillel Silver, chairman of the
American Zionist Emergency
Council, before leaving for Pales-
tine Wednesday, charged in a
telegram to Undersecretary of
State Dean Acheson that British
martial law in Palestine "is part
of a carefully conceived plan cal-
culated to bring about the econ-
omic strangulation of Palestine
Jewry."
Speaking for the entire Zionist
movement in the U. S., Dr.
Silver expressed the hope that the
United States government "will
register its protest with Great
Britain against this policy on legal
and humaniarian grounds, and will
insist that this assault on the
well-being of a whole people
cease forthwith."
In giving expression to the wide-
spread feeling of outrage over the
brutalities inflicted on the Jewish
community under the martial law
regime, including the killing of a
four-year old child and other in-
nocent citizens, Dr. Silver de-
clared:
"As could have been foreseen,
martial law did not stop the acts
of desperation in Palestine. How-
ever regrettable, these acts are
the reaction of people driven to
violence by an illegal and inhu-
man regime, and further brutali-
ties on its part will inevitably
provoke the people still more."
Humorist Slated
by Pisgah Lodge
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h e Legal Chronicle
Silver Scores
Strangulation
of Zion Trade
Council Institute
Set for April 13
HUMOR COLUMN,
.1GAN, FRIDAY, MARCH 14, 1947 10c a Copy; $3 Per Year
Catholics Join
Jews to Build
N.Y. Synagog
CHARGES STUDIED
The committee, headed by
B. Benedict Glazer, will meat
March 20 to hear a full report
by Fr' " - -irg in which he will out-
line complain, sf Jewish
a situation
housewives or the
tchers' nswer to
and give th(
the charge the ferential
between non.kosher mew. and ko-
sher cuts is sometimes as high as
100 percent.
"If any price gouging is un-
covered by my investigation, I
shall certainly so report to the
committee and suggest that they
The spring delegate institute of
exert pressure on the butthers to the Jewish Community Council
force the establishment of an will tall
'ace Sunday, April 13,
equitable price list, Fraiberg said. at the
rItmen's Circle Educa-
tional Center, 11529 Linwood.
CITES CASE OF LAMB
The theme of the institute will
"I cannot tell, until I hear what
the Butchers Association has to be "The Role of the Jewish Com-
say, if there is any justification munity in American Life." Three
for the apparently huge differen- approaches to this question will be
tial. When you consider, for ex- discussed: Jewish culture in Amer-
ample, that Jewish customers buy ica, the integration of Jews in
virtually no lamb except the two American life and U. S. Jews'
grades of chops, it seems evident obligations to world Jewry.
The discussions will be con-
that, at least for lamb, the butch-
ers have some excuse for much ducted by prominent speakers and
delegates will participate from the
higher prices.
floor. A banquet that evening will
"Whether there are similar ex- conclude the sessions.
planations for beef and veal must
await the conference with the
butchers."
TAGS PROMISED
Most butchers label the meat in
their showcases and some even
Mark Feder, humorist, story-
place price tags on it, Fraiberg teller, monologist and actor of
said. The Butchers Association New York City, will be featured
has promised the Council that all at the annual Piagah Lodge bowl-
its members will soon price-tag ing league meeting at 8:30 p. m.
all meats properly.
Monday in the Jewish Community
In the meantime, he added, the Center.
investigation will continue in the
Feder, who presents Yiddish
Twelfth street, Linwood-Dexter
humor in English, acts the stories
and McNichols road areas.
as he tells them. The meeting is
In answer to a question, Frai-
open to the public.
berg said that no Detroit rabbi,
other than Dr. Glazer, has of-
IIADASSAII LOYAL
ficially entered the investigation
of the alleged exorbitant prices
NEW YORK (JTA)—Pledges of
despite admission by butchers the "fullest loyalty and coopera-
that they are losing customers to tion" to the Jewish Agency have
the venders of non-kosher meats been cabled from the mid-winter
at lower prices.
conference of Hadassah.
JEWISH JESTER,
DR. J. J. SCIIWARTZ
JWF Election
Slated Tuesday
European Chief
of JDC to Speak
Nine members of the board
of governors of the Jewish
Welfare Federation will be
elected at the Federation's
annual meeting at 8 p. m.,
Tuesday at the Hotel Statler.
The speaker will be Dr. Jos-
eph J. Schwartz, dihctor of
European activities of the Joint
Distribution Committee, who re-
turned from Europe 10 days ago.
The meeting is open to all mem-
bers of the Jewish community.
Julian H. Krolik will present
the president's report, and Mrs.
Joseph H. Ehrlich, president of
the women's division, will review
her unit's activities.
AMENDMENT OFFERED
The business of the meeting will
include a vote on the following
amendment to the constitution of
the Federation:
"For a term of service begin-
ning after the annual meeting in
the year 1948, the board of gov-
ernors is vested with the power
to elect to its membership, not
more than twenty-five (25) addi-
tional members of the corpora-
tion, it being the intention here-
by to provide representation for
the various trade and professional
service groups of the working and
contributing public; the Junior
Service Group; the women's divi-
sion of the Federation; and the
various organizational groupings
of the community."
4 AGENCIES TO MEET
Nominated for the board of
governors are Rabbi Morris Adler,
Sidney J. Allen, Mrs. Aaron De-
Roy, Harry Frank, Morris Gar-
vett, Mrs. Samuel R. Glogower,
Joseph M. Welt, Mrs. Henry
Wineman and Rabbi Max J. Wohl-
gelernter.
Preceding the Federation meet-
ing, four affiliated agencies will
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Britain Prepares
It's Case for UN
LAKE SUCCESS (JTA) — The
text of a British note to the
United Nations, officially submit-
ting the Palestine case for UN
consideration was reported this
week to have been completed.
However, it will not be submitted
befote it is approved by Foreign
Secretary Ernest Bevin who is
now in Moscow attending the "Big
Pour" foreign ministers parley.
It is believed that Bevin will
discuss the Lie proposal for a
fact-finding committee with Sec-
retary of State Marshall.
The British government has not
yet replied to the U. S. request
for concrete recommendations to
the United Nations regarding ac-
tion on Palestine. It is felt in of-
ficial circles in Washington that
a considerable number of studies
on Palestine have been made in
the past and that it may be un-
necessary to make any more.
JERUSALEM, (Special)—
Only 40 out of 800 Jewish
ref ugees, whose 400-ton
wooden ship slipped through
the blockade and beached it-
self on the sands near Gaza
Wednesday, escaped into the
hills and to freedom.
All the others, plus 100
Palestinians who rushed to the
shores to aid them, were rounded
up by Brtish troops and police
who used camels, jeeps and planes
In their hunt.
A British petty officer and two
sailors were drowned while try-
ing to rescue swimmers from the
Jewish ship, the Susanna. Sev-
eral refugees are also believed to
have drowned. A wrecked life-
boat was found half a mile north
of the scene.
GET BAD BREAKS
According to Homer Bigart of
the N. Y. Herald-Tribune, most
of the refugees might have es-
caped except for two strokes of
bad luck. First, a strong west-
erly wind and a mean surf made
unloading painfully slow. The
aged, the ill and the weak were
unable to cope with the breakers
and were forced to remain aboard.
The second inisfortune was that
the Susanna came aground too
close to a large British garrison.
Though the ship was hidden by
sand dunes, once ashore, the im-
migrants could not escape detec-
tion. The only reason the 40 were
able to make good their escape
was that the British were caught
by surprise.
ARABS SOUND ALARM
Arab laborers gave the alarm
when they saw a procession of
buses coming to the aid of the
refugees.
All Jewish areas of Jerusalem
were placed on a dusk-to-dawn
curfew Thursday following an at-
tack by the Irgun Zvai Leumi on
British billets. One soldier was
killed and eight wounded.
Yhe curfew which keeps the 90,-
000 Jews of Jerusalem indoors for
12 hours daily, will continue in-
definitely.
Churchill Blasts
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m ar on the Jews
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LONDON — Winston Churhill
once again Wednesday included
the Labor government handling of
the Palestine issue as one of the
causes for the decline of British
prestige and power. Ire spoke in
the House of Commons. I
Churchill spoke of the expendi-
ture of $440,000,000 and 100,000
Britons kept away from' their
homes and work "for the sake
of a senseless, squalid war against
the Jews in order to give Pales-
tine to the Arabs or God knows
who."
Detroit Goes All-Out to 'Fight Bevin'
All sections of the Jewish com- Jewish rights in Palestine."
amity in Detroit are enlisting 1 Outlining the Zionist organiza-
this week in the campaign of the I tion's plans for its membership
Zionist Organization of Detroit to drive this month, Oscar J. Kritz-
fight British Foreign Minister Be-
in's policies on Palestine, it was
eported by Dr. Philip E. Lach-
man, chairman of the district
membership committee.
"The response to our call for
action against Bevin has been
gratifying," Lachman said. "But
we need more and more active
workers to insure the fullest pos-
sible enrollment of the Detroit
Jewish community within the
ranks of the Zionist Organization
of America.
"By having a numerically strong
and united body of Jewry in
America support the valiant ef-
forts of Palestine's Jews to open
the gates of Eretz Israel to Jew-
ish immigration, we can strike a
telling blow at the tyranny of
the British foreign minister and
give strong support to our ova
government in its championship a• OSCAR KRITZER
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er, of the .national office of the I 300 minutes of your time on Sun-
ZOA, who is in Detroit to direct day for the welfare of your peo-
the drive, called upon all Jewish ple.
Men and women to enlist in the
"Surely, among the thousands of
ranks of the ZOA.
The present memnersrup cam-
paign, he said, will be climaxed by
"Z Day" on .Sunday, March 23.
On that day, hundreds of Zion-
ists will assemble at a Mobili-
zation Breakfast starting at ID
o'clock, at a place to be an-
nounced later.
Following the breakfast, ,these
"minutemen and women" will leave
in teams of two to visit thousands
of Jewish homes to enroll the
Jews of Detroit in the Zionist
oreanization.
The workers will be supplied
with lists of names of those peo-
ple who have already been in-
formed by mail that Zionist dele-
gations will call upon them March
23.
In calling upon more "minute-
men" to enlist in the drive on
March 23, Kritzer asked for "only
DR. PHILIP LACHMAN
Zionist members in Detroit there
is a good percentage of people♦
who can spare one Sunday to the
active support of a cause which
seeks to rescue the decimated rem-
nants of European Jewry and gain
for them statehood and security
in Palestine."
Between now and March 23,
Kritzer said, all Zionists in De-
troit are called upon to enroll at
isast five of their friends and
family in the Zionist organization
"In this fashion we will be able
to defeat the treachery of the
present British government which
has declared what amounts to
open warfare against the Jews of
Europe and their champions in
Palestine.
"Both as freedom-loving Amer.
icans and as members of the Jew-
ish community we must join to-
gether to combat this British war
of extermination against the piti-
ful remnants of Europe's Jewish
displaced persons."