Thirty-two Years of Service to Detroit Jewry

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Vol. 49, No. 21

C ampaign

and The Legal Chronicle

Total Past
31/2 Million

Wednesday in the Hotel Stotler.
This may be the final report meet-
ing of the extended campaign if
the response comes up to expecta-
tions.
At the luncheon Wednesday,
Robert H. MacRae, managing di-
rector of the Detroit Community
Chest and vice- president of the
Council of Social Agencies, spurred
workers on to complete their visits
to prospective donors.
They responded by pledging
unanimously to continue their
work, many reporting that they
will make return visits for in-
creased plerlgos.
Molly Picon, famed Yidish com-
edienne now in Detroit, appeared
as the guest artist.
Pledges up to Wednesday noon
of $3,501,000 were reported with
63 per cent of the slips covered.

In more than 300 settlements throughout Palestine, Jewish farmers,

Including thousands of newcomers spending their first harvest-time
on Palestine soil, will celebrate by gathering In their crops, fruits
of their year-round cultivation of the once barren earth. American
support through the United Jewish Appeal makes possible the growth

and development of these settlements.

Butchers Cleared
City to Unite
of Price Charges
in Tribute to
Pledge Made Here Henry Monsky List Is Published

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At an unprecedented luncheon
with Detroit Jewish community
leaders, Dr. Joseph Winiewicz, Po-
lish ambassadoc to •the United
States, pledged continued support
to Jewish aims in Poland and
Palestine.
He spoke before 40 members of
the Rabbinate and representatives
of Synagogues and Jewish organi-
zations at the Wilshire May 8. The
Wilshire Catering Co., headed by
Bernard Lefkowitz and Charles
Mars:, were hosts to the gathering.

CONSUL JOINS IIIM

The ambassador was accompan-
ied by Tadeusz Frymar, Polish con-
sul in Detroit. Dr. Winiewiaz had
come from the sessions of the UN
special Assembly on Palestine
where he had insisted on Jewish
Agency representation at the As-
sembly.
"My backing of the Jewish Posi-
tion," he said, "was motivated by
deep conviction of the justice of
Jewry's cause. I feel it an obliga-
tion to stand by you in the UN
because whenever Poland fought
for its independence, our Jewish
brothers were in the first line
with us. You supported us in the
darkest moments of our history
and it is now our duty to stand by
you in your own distress."
SETTLE IN SILESIA
His government has instructed
him to visit Jewish communities in
the U. S. to explain what Poland
has been doing to Improve the lot
of the Jew who survived the Hit-
ler invasion, the ambassador re-
vealed.
Jews are now being settled main-
ly on newly attachehd territory,
particularly Silesia, he said. They
have their own schools, their own
language and their Synagogues, he

added.

"They feel at home there," the
ambassador continued, "surrounded
by understanding and friendship."
A paper greeting the ambassa-
dor in his native tongue was read
by Rabbi Shlomo Gilicsman. Rabbi
Joshua Sperka, who presided, read
ala English translation.

r Year

Pal

ite Envisions
kick, iendence Soon
as Leaders Convene

independence is not far distant.
The assembly is evidence that the Jews can manage their own
affairs. David Remez, chairman, declared at the opening session
Tuesday.

The $3,500,000 mark in the
Allied Jewish Campaign for
$5,335,000 was passed today
with hundreds of solicitors
pledged not to stop until
eve7. prospect is covered.
workers' luncheon will
be held at 12:15 p. m. next

Ambassador Vows
Support of Jewry

ATTEND SERVICES!

JERUSALEM—(Special)- For the first time in 15 months, the
ish national assembly convened this week, cheered by the belief Jew-
that

Luncheon Set
for Wednesday

by Polish Envoy
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ON SUNDAY, MONDAY.

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DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, MAY 23, 1947 1

Shavuos: Palestine Reaps Its Harvest

SHAVUOS MINES

A community-wide service in
memory of the late Henry Monsky
will take place at 8:30 p.m. Thurs-
day. May 29 at Shaarey Zedek.
Eulogies will be offered by Rab-
bis Morris Adler and B. Benedict
Glazer. Aaron Droock, president
of the Jewish Community Council
and a long time friend of Mr.
Monsky, will speak.
Cantor Jacob Sonenklar of Shaa-
rey Zedek will sing the El Moleh
Rachamins.

to Trap Cheaters

Publishing its final report on the
Kosher meat price situation, the
Jewish Community Council this
week implied that prices appeared
to he justified on the whole and
that part of the blame for the
high cost must be placed on the
consumer.

Purchasers were asked to call
the Council at CH. 1657 if their
butcher charges more than the
DETROIT'S TRIBUTE
maximum price set by the Kosher
Under the joint auspices of the Butcher's Association In February
Greater Detroit Bnai Brith Coun- when prices were reduced follow-
cil, the Greater Detroit Bnai Brith
Women's Council and the Jewish reports of excessive charges. Call-
Community Council, the event will ers are asked to give their butch-
mark Detroit Jewry's expression er's name as well as their own to
upon the passing of a leader whose* permit full investigation of the
life was dedicated to the cause of charges.
Jewry everywhere.
PRICE LIST TODAY
Monsky's last public appearance
The following is a list of maxi-
in Detroit was in July 1948, when mum prices:
he addressed the convention of
Beef, chuck with bone, 55c;
District Six, Bnai Brith. During
the same visit he participated in boneless, 65e; breast, 8.5e; shout-
a rally sponsored by the Jewish der steak, 80c; cross flank, 55c;
Community Council in protest breast flank, 29c; rib steak, 80c;
against the mass arrests In Pales- beef liver, 70e.
tine.
Veal, breast with bone, 35c; veal
steak, 80c; first cut chops, 85c;
SABIN HEADS AIDES
second cut chops, 58e; ,boneless
The Bnai Brith committee for veal, 35e; and veal liver, 51.25.
the service is headed by Murray
Lamb, first cut chops, 90c; sec-
Sabin, Louis Marshall Lodge.
ond cut chops, 75e.
Others on the committee are Al
"A few butchers," said the Jew-
Keats, East Side Lodge; Barney
Ross, Zager Lodge; Mrs. Samuel ish Community Council in its re-
Bank, Lou:.. Marshall Women; and port, "have been guilty of over-
Mrs. Ann Hartstein, president, charging and other bad business
Greater Detroit Bnai Brith Wo- practices although the majority of
them had been conscientious in
men's Council.
their dealings with their custom-
ers and are endeavoring to bring
the offenders into line.

Director Is Named
at Shaarey Zedek

Joseph Abrahams,
Canadian
communal
leader,
has
been
named executive director of
Shaarey Zedek, Harry M. Shul-
man, preside..t, has announced.
Abrahams was active in the
Zionist Organization of Canada,
the Canadian Jewish Congress
and the Young Men's Hebrew
Association. He comes to Detroit
from the United Talmud Torahs
of Montreal where he had been
executive director for the past
three years.

"We have all the functions of
statehood, lacked only world rec-
ognition," he said. He called An-
drei Grpmyko's speech at the UN
"encouraging to the Jews."
HITS BI-ZONAL PLEA
Mrs. Goldie Meyerson, head of
the Jewish Agency political de-
partment, spoke Wednesday de-
fending the Agency program and
assailing the demands of the
Hashomer Hatzair, leftwing group,
for a hi-national state.
With community taxes, the as-
sembly finances social and health
services and education and gives
assistance to prisoners of the Brit-
ish.
At a special meeting, the execu-
tive of the Jewish Agency took
under consideration the UN As-
sembly's plea for a truce in the
Holy Land until a final decision
is rendered, and voted to call on
all elements in the Jewish com-
munity to maintain peace, an
Agency spokesman told a press
conference. (See page 2 for Irgun
reply.)

AWAIT UN MOVE

He said that the Agency had not
begun prearat ions for appearing
before the UN inquiry committee,
since it was not yet clear whether
the probers would want to bear
witnesses or merely study written
memoranda.
The Palestine government, mean-
while, is going ahead with plans
for accommodating the members
of the inquiry committee and their
aides. It is understood that part
of the King David Hotel where
the government's secretariat is lo-
cated will be made available to the
UN body. The area is surrounded
by barbed wire and it is impossi-
ble to enter without special per-
mits.
The Jewish Agency gave voice
to the gratification of Palestine
Jewry at Gromylco's demand In
the UN for the establishment in
Palestine of separate Jewish and
Arab states, if bi-nationalism
proved to be unacceptable to both
peoples.
PRINCIPLES ACCEPTED

"Gromyko's speech caused great
satisfaction to world Jewry and
the Palestine Jewish community
and to the Jewish Agency," an
Agency spokesman stated, "It is
obviously an event of extraordi-
nary importance when one of the
three major powers makes a pub-
lic declaration in which a number
of basic principles guiding us in
our analysis of the Jewish posi-
tion and our work are accepted
and underlined," he continued. "It
is of extreme importance that the
(Continued on page 15)

Heads Bnai Brith

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Statement Called
Soviet Departure

FLUSHING MEADOWS, (JTA)
In an exclusive interview, So-
viet delegate Andrei Gromyko ex-
pressed satisfaction when he was
told that his statement advocating
the right of the Jews to a state of
their own had been received very
favorably by Jewish circles, which
interpreted it as indicating a sig-
nificant departure from the official
Soviet opposition to Zionism.
Gromyko said that he • saw no
conflict between his support of
partition and his unsuccessful de-
mand in the political committee
that the issue of independence be
included in the terms of reference
of the inquory committee.

YANKS OUTFOXED
Rueful members of the U. S.
delegation told the JTA that
Gromyko had "stolen a march" on
the United States on the ultimate
solution of the Palestine problem.
It has been taken for grante. In
UN circles that the U. S. favors
partition, but did not wish to ex-
press its views at the present ses-
sion, preferring to wait until Sep-
tember.
Later, a U. S. spokesman said
that "we recognize that we have
responsibilities in Palestine." He
emphasized that the U. S. govern-
ment will he ready to present its
Views on the Palestine issue to
the UN inquiry commission, if
invited to do so, but added that it
cannot he revealed as yet whether
the U. S. recommendation on the
ultimate solution of the Palestine
problem will be made at that time
or at the Assembly in September.

CALLED CONCILIATORY
Senator Austin, commenting on
the Soviet attitude toward the
Palestine problem, termed it "con-
ciliatory." Members of the P.ritish
delegation said that they are
"pleased" with the outcome of the
present session while the Arabs
refused to comment.
Jewish Agency spokesmen hailed
Gromyko's statement as paving
the way for the establishment of a
Jewish state. "There should be

no differences of opinion among
the major powers now, when even
Russia has expressed itself in fa-

vor of partition," one of the Agen-
cy spokesmen said. He pointed out
that the element of power politics
has now been eliminated by the
fact that the Soviet delegation is
no longer insisting on a recom-'
mendation by the inquiry com-
mission for the immediate inde-
pendence of Palestine.

Cultural Group
for City Charted

DEMAND SAME CUTS

"Another factor, and one which
the Jewish consumer may find
difficult to accept, is that a part
of the blame for high meat prices
rests with the public who buy Ko-
sher meat retail.
"Practically all the demand is
for chops, steaks and brisket.
Consumers refuse to buy the other
Kosher cuts in sufficient quanti-
ties to make it economically
worthwhile for the butcher.
"Nonetheless, the butcher must
pay for these parts at full whole-
sale rates and later sell them to
rendering companies at a loss."

Gromyko Pleased
•
at Jews ' Reaction

— --
FRANK GOLDMAN, Lowell,
Mass, attorney who has been
elected president of Boat Brith,
succeeding the late Henry Mon-
sky. (*se story on page 14-)

Three groups are studying plans
for a united cultural committee of
the Jewish Community Council
following an organizing meeting
Monday at Shaarey Zedek.
A sub-committee to chart plena
for Yiddish and Hebrew cultural
affairs is headed by I. Zemel of
the Day. Irving Katz of Temple
Beth El heads the English group
and Rabbi Morris Adler of Shaarey
Zedek the general committee.
When integrated the cultural
committee will stimulate citywide
participation in individual group's
activities and sponsor cultural

meetings on behalf of the entire
community.

