Prtie Two

The Palestine Scene

Council Scholarship Winner Greeted

Flight of Police Aide
Stirs Jewish Agency

JERUSALEM (JTA)—The Jewish Agency takes the
"gravest" view of the escape of Major Roy Farran, 27-year-
old British army officer, who was being held on "serious
charges" in connection with the disappearance last month of
a 17-year-old Jewish youth, an Agency spokesman declared
this week. He said the Agency would demand an explana-
tion from the government.

BORDERS ALERTED
Police authorities have asked
neighboring countries to be on
the look-out for Farran, and
border patrols have been alerted.
The young army officer had
been loaned to the police by the
military authorities, and held the
rank of assistant superintendent
of police.
An attempt by three armed
Jews, one a girl, to kidnap a
British policeman in the heart
of Jerusalem, was foiled this
week. The extremists had at-
tacked the policeman, C. J.
Pound, and had almost subdued
him when a police patrol, sum-
moned by another officer,, arrived
on the scqne. The three fled
after firing gne shot.
Private L. S. McKenzie, who
fired a sub-machine gun into
a crowded Jerusalem street last
March 11, during an altercation
with a Jewish bus driver, was
found not guilty of the murder
of Esther Tuvi, 19, who was
killed by a stray bullet. The
court martial, however, con-
victed him on charges of man
slaughter.

DISCOVER ARSENAL
What is believea to be the
workshop of the l!aganah in
Tel- Aviv was dicovered by the
police as the result of in
anonymous telephoned tip. It is
assumed that the information
came from Jewish extremists in
reprisal for Haganah's foiling
their attempt to blow up Citrus
House, British military head-
quarters here.
Acting on the mysterious
phone call, police broke into a
locked house on Hagalil street,
in the vicinity of Citrus House,
where they discovered a work-
shop fitted out with lathes, and
occupying three floors. Two men
fled over the roof-tops when the
police smashed their way in. In
the cellar the raiders found parts
of automatic weapons.
A government official is re-
ported to have told a represen-
tative of the Middle East Red
Cross who is visiting Palestine
that the authorities are prepar-
ing to deport all terrorist sus-
pects held in the Latrun deten-
tion camp to internment camps
in Kenya, which already hold
250 to 300 Palestinian Jews.

CURB IRRIGATION
An ordinance which may pre-
vent Jews from irrigating the
Negev was promulgated by the
Palestine government.
The ordinance gives the high
commissioner the right to as-
sume control o ∎ •r underground
water resources in any area of
Palestine and prohibits the con-
struction of new wells or the
making of substantial alteration
in existing wells without special
permit.
Under the new law, no person
is allowed to draw water from

any well in a controlled area
without a special license. The
ordinance was Originally drafted
in 1942, but was not implement-
ed because of opposition by
Jewish leaders who feared that
the government might use its
new powers to the detriment of
Jewish colonization and intro-
duce discrimination against Jews
along the same lines as the land-
acquisition laws.
There has been no illegal Arab
immigration into Palestine. Not
a single Sudanese has entered
the country since 1936 and only
one Arab entered annually from
Iraq.
(According/to figures available
a l sources an increas-
from reliabl
ing numb r, of Arabs from
Transjord ; Syria and other
Middle East countries have been
entering Palestine illegally since
the end of the war. Photo-
graphs of Arabs crossing the
Jordan from Transjordan with-
out any border check 'have been
published abroad.) ,

IGNORE MANDATE

The government preSentation
devoted 60 pages to describing
the Palestine Constitution, but
made no mention of the Man-
date. The Jewish war effort was
minimized (30,000 Palestinian
Jews were in the Anted forces,
and Palestine was air' arsenal
for the Middle East theater) and
the Arabs were described as
profoundly anti-Axis. They were
said to have been very much
perturbed at the Italian bomb-
ing of Tel Aviv in 1942. '

Chief Rabbi Hails
Poland's Regime

By COL DAVID KAHANE

Will Demand Goverment Explain
Escape of Suspect in Kidnaping

It is reported that the two
army officers assigned to guard
Farran have been arrested and
a shakeup of the Palestine police
force is contemplated. Farran
was being held at the Allenby
detention barracks following his
extradition from Syria whence
he had fled when the Jewish
community demanded an official
investigation of ' the Jewish
youth's alleged kidnaping and
murder.
Farran was identified last week
by three eye-witnesses as one
of the men who abducted the
Jew, Alexander Rubovitz.

Friday, June 27, 1947

DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE

Ern, IIASSID, right, of Salonica, the fifth recipient of a 'social

work scholarship granted by the National Council of Jewish Wo-
men, is greeted on her arrival in this country by Mrs. Irving M.
Engel, national vice-president &Ed chairman of the executive
committee of the council.

2 'Groups AAail
Extremists' Ads

Drought Threatens
Jews of Romania

NEW YORK (JTA) — Many of
Romania's 350,000 Jews are threat-
ened with starvation as a result of
a severe drought which has lasted
almost three years, Joseph Mar-
man, Jewish Telegraphic Agency

NEW YORK — joint state-
ment repudiating pro-Palestine
extremist advertisements publish-
ed by Ben Hecht for the Ameri-
can League for Free Palestine was correspondent In Romania, report-
issued by the American Jewish ed upon his arrival from Buchar-
Committee and the Jewish Labor est.
Committee.
The statement deplores "the
Palestinian Visitor
misunderstanding created in the
minds of some Americans by
these advertisements which pur-
port to speak for the Jews of

America in indorsing the Pales-
tine terrorists." The. Hecht group
is characterized in the joint state-
ment as "being "completely unre-
presentative of general Jewish
sentiment in the United States"
and as being "a small group which
speaks for itself alone."
Responsible Jewish organiza-`
tions, while endeavoring to undo

Western Poland.

the "evil consequences" of the
British White Paper policy in Pal-
estine, at the same time condemn

terrorism as hostile to the spirit
of Jewish religion and tradition,
the ,statement says.

vertisements and

notices in a

so called Jewish Yearbook.

-

"Those who ate approached
should know that the Council
is not the sponsor of this pub-
lication nor to its knowledge is
The Jewish Community Coun- any other official Jewish agen-

Council Statement
on Yearbook Here

cil this week issued the follow- cy. The publication appears to
be a private profit-seeking ven-
ing statement:
ture."
"The Jewish Community
Council has received notice that
PATRONIZE OUR
solicitation is being made by
ADVERTISERS
mail and telephone for paid ad-

Chief Rabbi of the Polish Army
(Special to the Chronicle)
LONDON—The Jews of Poland
are supported by the present gov-
ernment in their rehabilitation ef-
forts.
Before the war 3,500,000 Jews
lived in Poland. Some 80,000 were
able to survive the war in Poland
itself. About 160,000 were evac-
uated to the Soviet Union and
spent the war years there. Thus,
a total of about 240,000 Polish
Jews have remained alive. About
3,260,000 Jews perished in gas
chambers and conce ntration
camps.
Of the 240,000 Jews who sur-
vived, about 140,000 emigrated
from Poland immediately after
their repatriation from the USSR
because having returned to Po-
land in the first months of 1946,
they did not find any of their rela-
tives alive and were incapable,
psychologically, of standing life in
what, for them, seemed ajeme-
t cry.
Some 100,000 chose to remain in
Poland. After the difficulties of
the first few months after the lib-
eration, the situation' in Poland
became more stabilized, which
made the conditions better for the
Jewish population.
The Jews returned partly to
their former domicles, but in the
majority—some 70 per cent-- set-
tled in the western territories,
especially in Lower Silesia. There
they started life anew and were
integrated In the process of Po-
land's reconstruction.
From the organizational point of
view, the former Jewish religious
councils have ceased to exist and
have been replaced by Jewish de-
nominational congregations and
Jewish committees. Both these
bodies deal with the organization
of Jewish life in,Felsnd- and con-
trol numerous schools and social
institutions.
I would like to state that the
process of reconstruction of the
economic and social life of the
Jews in Poland enjoys the full
suppett of the state authorities,
which is of great importance, es-
pecially with regard to the activi-
ties of the Jews In the areas of

RABBI JACOB CLEMES,
member of the Chief Rabbi-
nate of Jerusalem, will spend
a few days here on behalf of
the Jerusalem housing project
which hopes to raise one mil-
lion dollars to build shelters
and homes for refugee Rab-
bis. Rabbi Clemes is here
with Rabbi Samuel J. Kipnis
as representatives of Pales-
tine's highest religious tribu-
nal.

After Extremists Blast Police Station

Sachar Resigns
Post With Hillel

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bounded ability which have al-
ways characterized him."
Dr. Sachar was born in St.
Louis, in 1899. He graduated
from Washington University in
that city, and then studied for
three years at Cambridge Uni-
versity, England, where he re-
ceived his PIM. Returning to
this country in 1923, he became
associate professor of history at
the University of Illinois, and
taught there until 1927.
SUCCEEDS FOUNDER
While on the faculty, he met
the late Rabbi Benjamin Era"-
kel, founder of the Hillel Foun-
dation movement, and Dr. Ed-
ward Chauncey Baldwin, the
Christian professor who encour-
aged Rabbi Frankel to organize
an agency to build Jewish loy-
alties in Jewish college .; stu-
dents. Rabbi Frankel died in
1927, and Dr. Sachar succeeded
him as director of the Illinois
Hillel Foundation.
At that time there were only
nine Hillel limits. Today there
are 167, on campuses containing
more than half of the 161,000
Jewish students in American
colleges and universities.

Chrilians Support
United Jewish Drive

NEW YORK--Large contribu-
tions by Americans prominent in
all fields of endeavor marked the
opening of the National Christian
Committee campaign in behalf of
the $170,000,000 drive of the United
Jewish Appeal.
Henry Morgenthau Jr., general
chairman of the UJA, announced
the following contributions from
Christian donors: $75,000 from J.
P. Stevens, New York textile lead-
er; $25,000 from Nelson A. Rock-
efeller, former Assistant Secretary
of State; $15,000 from the Anheu-
ser-Busch Brewery in St. Louis;
$15,000 from Robert Ulhieln in be-
half of the Schlits Brewery of Mil-

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This is what happened when a group of extremists, posing as telephone repairmen, blew up the Sarona
police station outside Tel Aviv. Four policemen were killed and five other persons hurt.
(Acme World News Servioe)

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