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Thirty-two Years of Service to Detroit Jewry

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Detroit Jewish Ch ron i cl

Vol. 49, No. 23

HUMOR COLUMN,

EDITORIAL PAGE

and The Legal Chronicle

DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, JUNE 6, 1947

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City Mourns a Devoted Leader
as Death Takes Simon Shetzer

Detroit and American Jewry is merchants paid tribute to his busi-
mourning the loss of one of this ness acumen by electing him pres-
city's most brilliant young leaders ident of the Wholesale Merchants
in the death of Simon Shetzer,
former executive director of the
Zionist Organization of America.
Funeral services were held Mem•
orial Day at Clover Hill Park
Cemetery.

Mr. 'Shetzer had been ill for the
last two years. He died May 29.

• • • and These Remain

Michigan Outlaws 'Restricted' Ads

"We think it a matter of gen-
eral understanding and capable of
proof that such terms are gen-
erally understood by the public to
mean that the restrictions in-
cluded under that general term are
invoked against persons of certain
color, race or creed," Black said.

Stands on
DP Issue

Probers Begin
Flights to Eretz

(Special) — A decision or
linking the DP problem to
the Palestine issue was de-
layed by the United Nations
inquiry commission when it

voted to wait until it gets to Pal-
estine to study the question.
The committee agreed to hold
open meetings during its study
except when it decided otherwise.
One of three groups of the
committee left Friday by plane
for Palestine. The other two will
depart Tuesday and Wednesday.

Simon Shetzer was born in De-
troit 47 years ago, the son of
Isaac and Ella Shetzer. He was
educated at the University of
Michigan and the Harvard law
school which granted him a de-
gree in 1924.

SIMON SHETZER
He practiced law briefly and
Bureau and a director of the De-
then joined his father's whole-
CHAIRMAN ELECTED
troit Board of Commerce.
sale drygoods firm in which he
As predicted, Emil Sandstrom,
A list of Mr. Shetzer's charit-
became a Partner in 1937. Detroit
former chief justice of Sweden,
(Continued on page 16)
was elected chairman. Dr. Al-
berto Ulloa, Peruvian senator, was
named vice-chairman. The D.
committee members are from Aus-
tralia, Canada, India, Iran, Yugo-
slavia, Czechoslovhkia, the Neth-
erlands, Sweden, Peru, Guatemala
and Uruguay.
The inquiry body voted that liai-
By A. J: ARNOLD
son officers shall not be permitted
2nd `7,-Day' Set -
Anglo-Jewish Editor, World
to attend closed meetings and
News Service
to Gain Members
shall not sit on the committee at
open meetings but may examine
TORONTO, ONT. -- An attempt
witnesses
at the committee's dis-
was made recently 'at a social af-
Morri M. Jacobs was reelected
fair in Detroit to put the discredit- president of the Detroit Zionist cretion ;
ed Fr. Coughlin back on the aft, district at the annual meeting May
The Uewish Agency had asked
but the priest's superior, Cardinal 27 at Shaarey Zedek.
that its liaison representative he
Mooney, has forbidden him to do
permitted
to attend all meetings
In a responss to a plea by Dr.
any broadcasting.
Abbe Hillel Silver, the district and that he sit with the body as
Details about the party, which voted to hold a second "Z-Day" to a sort of ex-officio member.
went unreported in the press, lead complete the membership campaign LABOR JURIST
us to believe that Coughlin's come- inaugurated several months ago.
back attempt cannot easily be dis-
Sandstrom is a member of the
A house-to-house canvass will. be
missed as having died *horning.
repeated on June 22 by Zionist Swedish Labor Court, a member
--This party, reported in the social members. They wi'l meet at a of the Court of International Ar-
columns with Coughlin's name de- mobilization breakfast at 10 a.m. in bitration at The Hague and was
leted, was in celebration of the the Rose Sittig Cohen auditorium chairman of an international or-
wedding anniversary of Mr. and to receive their prospect lists and ganization for relief In Greece
Mrs. G. R. Richards. Richards is instructions.
from 1942 to 1946.
the manager of radio station WJR,
The UN has arranged for ;30,-
Louis Berry, Walter L. Field and
outlet for Coughlin's anti-Semitic,
000 policies of insurance for each
pro-Hitler broadcasts until Pearl Abe Kasle were elected vice-presi- of the delegates and members of
dents of the district. Seymour
Harbor.
Tilchin was chosen secretary, Char- the secretariat. The delegates or
Guests Included Henry Ford II, les Wolok reelected treasurer and their governments will pay for
William Knudsen and C. E. Wil- Mrs. Albert Feldstein again named half and the UN for the other
half.
son; Gov. Kim Sigler, J. Edgar executive director.
Hoover, Eddie Rickenbacker; and
Besides salaries, the delegates
Delegates chosen to attend the
the head of CBS, William Paley.
Zionist convention July 3-6 include will also get a $25 a day allow-
This guest list certainly included Jacobs, Field, Tilchin, Wolok. Mrs. ance from the UN.
all the necessities for a olomeback Feldstein and Rabbi Leon Fram,
They will live in the Salvia, a
for the "radio priest." There he Leon Kay,Dr. M. S. Perlis, Maur- new Jewish-owned hotel in the
had potential financial backers, ice H. Zackheim, Harold B. Weis- modern quarter of Jerusalem.
moral and spiritual supporters, and man, Philip Slomovitz, Sol Dann,' Arab cooks will prepare their food
the people who could facilitate Dr. Bernard Weston, Rabbi E. A. and their drinks will he served by
his access to a tacit() outlet
(Continued OA page 2)
a Jewish bartender.

Cardinal Blocks
Radio Comeback
by Fr. Coughlin

A group of Jewish child survivors are shown In the top photo at
a migration center in Berlin as they prepare to leave for a new
life in Palestine and the United States. The Jewish youngsters in
the lower photo do not yet know the meaning of freedom. They
must stay In hate-infested Romania until the powers-that-he sub-
stitute humanitarianism for politics. They continue to look to the
United Jewish Appeal for hope and subsistence,

UN Delays

LAKE SUCCESS, L.

Despite his youth, he held some
of the highest offices in the gift
of Detroit Jewry. A wise and
inspiring chieftain, he headed the
Detroit Jewish Community Coun-
cil from 1937 to 1941 and was
president of the Detroti Zionist
district and of the midwest Zion-
ist region.

The printing and distribution of
resort advertisements containing
the words "restricted," "restricted
clientele," or "clientele selected"
have been prohibite', according to
a ruling made this week by Eu-
gene F. Black, state attorney gen-
eral.

SEE JEWISH JESTER

Zionists Reelect
Morris M. Jacobs •

Lady Astor Rants on Zionism in Shipboard Tiff

NEW YORK (Palcor)—James G.
McDonald, former League of
'Nations High Commissioner for
refugees and a member of last
year's Anglo-American Inquiry
Committee on Palestine, declared
on his return from a visit to
Palestine that Jewish develop-
ments in that land "have gone so
far that they cannot be de-
stroyed."
He said that while the political
VI situation in Palestine had deter-
iorated, the economic, agricultural
and industrial situation had great-
ly improved. Most of the Jews
and Arabs get along "very well,"
he added, but the political regime
makes it impossible for them to
cooperate.
Dr. McDonald will speak in
Detroit Sunday, June 16 at a Jew-
ish National Fund concert.
• • •
Dr. McDonald's remarks, made
bo reporters aboard the British
luxury liner Queen Elizabeth,
were prompted by an almost hys-
terical harangue against Zionism'
and "Jewish gangsterism" made
by American-born Lady Astor,
former MP and member of the

"appease Hitler" Clivcden set, who
Dr. McDonald: "See here Lady
was aboard the Queen Elizabeth Astor, you are not right about
with McDonald. , this. You're wrong, you know."
Surrounded by scores of fellow-
passengers, scribbling reporters
and popping flashbulbs, arch-con-
servative Lady Astor screeched:
"We beat Hitler co the Jews
would have homes in Europe.
Now they ought to stay put."
English Jews are "horrified at
the gangsterism" in Palestine, she
said. "British mothers don't like
their sons being shot in the back.
Britain is the only country where
a Jew could become prime min-
ister." •

Dr. McDonald: "You tell the
reporters what you have to say
and I'll correct you."
Lady Astor: "Let me make
this clear. Anyone who arouses
anti-Jewish feeling is a henchman
of Hitler . . . but how can justice
prevail with those gangsters in
Palestine. I can see nothing to do
but keep our troops there."
• • •
Dr. McDonald:
"You and
Churchill never lived up to the
mandate or the troops wouldn't
be there."
Lady Astor: (hammering Dr.
McDonald's shoulders with her
fists) "Don't say me and Churchill.
• • •
We never went together. How
Dr. McDonald, who was stand-
about the gangsters. Is that sir-
ing al the periphery or the crowd.
itual Zionism?"
entered the debate when he heard
Dr. McDonald: "But I know
Lady Astor describe Zionism as a
what's going on in Palestine. I've
movement "made up of depressed
only just come from there. It is
Jews from all over Europe and
the mass opinion of the Jews that
purely materialistic . . ."
the British stand is Immoral be-
Lady Astor: "I went to L'ales-
cause they have failed to carry
tine in 197x'. I was convinced
out their obligations. . . . I'm not
DR. JAMES McDONALD
that the Ziosists were not look-
in favor of partition, but If it's
ing for what Abraham was look- Lady Astor: "I know you. You the only way to give the Jews
ing for, a city whose foundation were one of those crazy men who political autonomy, then I'm for
IL"
was in God." helped us get into the war."

Lady Astor:
"Fer gangster
rule?"
Dr. McDonald: "Terrorism is a
great mistake. . . . Palestine is
now a police state with a British
soldier for virtually every male
Jew. . . . Yau would feel differ-
ently if you went to Palestine.
I have slight sympathy with the
resistance but the young people
arc not interested in politics but in
irrigation ditches and reconstruc-
tion."
Lady Astor: "You's been anti-
British for years.'
• • •

The debate continued for about
15 minutes during ' which Lady
Astor called Dr. McDonald a
"Communist," "Fascist" and "arch-
British hater." Finally Dr. Mc-
Donald spoke without interrup-
tion for several minutes during
which he remarked about Jewish
progress in Palestine.
As the group broke up Lady
Astor cautioned reporters to quote
her correctly, saying she was "for
the Jews, but against their gang-
ster rule because of the shots in
the back."