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Friday, June l.7, I547

Page Five

DETROIT JEWISH CHRONIC!.

The Voice of the Only 60,000 Jewish DP's Seek Chapter I Picks
Man in the Street to Enter U.S., House Unit Told Weisman Again

Photos by JACK BIGELMAN

TIME: Sunday morning.
PLACE: Dexter and Elmhurst.
QUESTION: Are you in favor
-of the Stratton Bill to ad-
mit 400,000 DP's into the
United. States in the next
four years?

MRS. SAM MARGOLIS, 2662
Hazelwood avenue, housewife.
It this bill will help get most
of the Jews from Europe into the
U.S., then I am in favor of it. I
think the Jews
would be fur-
ther ahead,
however, if they
went to Pales-
tine instead of
coming here.
We may get
into anoper
war yet and the
same brutality
i that confronted
them in Europe might follow
them here.
Whether we like it or not, we
are all Zionists in some way. The
way things are shaping up in the
world, we might all end up in
Palestine.

BENJAMIN EDELSTEIN, 3745
Tuxedo avenue, salesman.
I certainly am in favor of ad-
mitting the DP's into our country.
We've got plenty of vacant room
here which can
be made avail-
able to them
so they can live
in peace for a
change and en-
joy life in a
free and demo-
cratic country.
I have no
doubts that they
will also be-
come good citi-
zens in the meantime.
The unfortunate people over-
seas have suffered long enough.
It's about time they got an op-
portunity to amount to some-
thing.
Admitting 400,000 DP's into the
U.S. will not overburden us and
it would give them a chance to
start life anew after being sub-
jected to all kinds of attacks.

JACK LAKRITZ, 11736 N. Mar-
tindale avenue, druggist.
My opinion is that its O.K. to
send them here. We have plenty
of r ■ ann in this country and I
know it will
riot work any
hardship on our
economy.
By bringing
them over here
we could show,
them how a de-
mocra,:y works.
We can demon-
strate to them
that they are
still able to
two a good life even after their
hardships.
And you can be sure that after
all the trouble they've been
through, with concentration camps,
slave labor and bestiality as a
background, tlfey will have a load
taken off theit minds. We've got
the stuff to make their lives
worthwhile now, so it's about time
we did something about it.

WASHINGTON (JTA) ----No
more than 60,000 displaced Jews
trolls the American zones of Ger-
many and Austria would emigrate
to the United States if Congress
eases immigration restrictions,
since the majority still desire to
settle in Palestine, Rabbi Philip
S. Bernstein, advisor on Jewish
affairs to the American military
command in Germany, testified
before the House sub-committee
on immigration, which is hold-
ing hearings on the Stratton Bill,
which would allow 100,000 DP's
to enter annually for'four years.
Rabbi Bernstein flew here from
Germany at the request of the
State and War Departments to
testify on the bill. He empha-
sized that the approximately 225,-
000 displaced Jews in Germany,
Austria and Italy -"cannot reti.'
whence they fled."
QUIZZED BY TEXAN
Before Rabbi Bernstein began
his testimony, Rep. Ed Gossett, of
Texas, asked him why Gen. Luc-
ius D. Clay should have an ad-
visor on Jewish affairs and not
one on Polish, French and other
affairs. Pointing to the "very
special and delicate character" of
the problem, Rabbi Bernstein said
that President Truman and Gen.
Eisenhower felt that it required
the advice of some responsible,
experienced Jew to guide the mil-
itary in caring for the Jewish
DP's.
Rabbi Bernstein told the com-
mittee that Jewish organizations
are ready to guarantee that the
displaced Jews admitted to the
United States would not become
a public burden. He said that
the 60,000 refugees who wish to
conic to the United States want
to join their relatives here, and
also see in the American way of
life the "best hope for freedom
and justice." He assured the
committee members Jewish DP's
would make good citizens.

textile workers, shoe workers and
agricultural workers among them,
he stated. "They have all shown
the moral and physical stamina
necessary to survive and rebuild
their lives if given an opportun-
ity," he declared.
"The decision," he said, nar-
rows down either to merely pro-
longing the existence of the dis-
placed persons in the camps, pri-
marily at the expense of the
United States, or to an early rea-
sonable program of settlement in
which this country would take a
part to enable these DP's to re-
sume life in a normal atmos-
phere."
Ugo Carusi, commissioner of
immigration and naturalization,
testifying in support of the bill
for the Department of Justice,
said that 85 percent of the Jew-
ish DP's want to go to Palestine,
as evidenced by personal cards
they filled out. He said that when
he was in Europe, early in 1946,
the United States was the minor-
ity designation of these DP's, but
that this might have changed to
some degree since then.

Singerman Wins A.B.
at Yeshiva College

NEW YORK—Arnold Singer-
man of 8547 Twelfth street, De-
troit, was awarded the degree of
Bachelor of Arts at the 16th
annual commencement exercises
of Yeshiva College.
At the exercises June 24, hon-
orary degrees were conferred
upon Bernard M. Baruch, Amer-
ica's elder statesman, and Earl
G. - Harrison, dean of the Uni-
versity of Pennsylvania law
school.
Yeshiva College is a division
of Yeshiva University, the only
university under Jewish aus-
pices in the Americas.

Sends 14 to Attend
Zionist Conclave

Harold B. Weisman ha,, been
elected to his third consecutive
terns as presidert of Chapter I,
Zionist Organization of Detroit.
Other officers are Sol Ginsburg.
executive vice - president; Myer
Mandelbaum, Lil Tron, Selma
Jakont, Bea Meisner and Bernice
Weisman, vice-presidents; Tybie
Schneider, personnel executive;
Pearl Meisner, Selma Sherman
and Ruth Kape, secretaries; Ruth
Morgan, treasurer; and - Morris
Gellerman and Morris Cutler,
sergeants at arms.
Chapter I will continue its ac-
tivities throughout the summer,
Weisman announced. The chap-
ter will send 14 members to at-
tend the Zionist convention July
3 to 6.

National Conclave
to Hear Poplack

"'Rabbi Alvin M. Poplack, ex-
ecutive director of Young Israel
of Detroit, will deliver a report
on "Young Israel and the Mid-
west" Sunday at the 35th annual
convention of National Young
Israel in Bradley BSach, N.J.
Delegates from Young Israel
branches all over the country
will convene from June 27 to 30
to discuss the problems facing
the group. Representatives from
Detroit are Hillel Abrams, Da-
vid I. Berris, Frances Berris,
Ruth Bodzin, Ethel Framovitz,
Jerome W. Kelman, Ruth Levi,
Harold Platt, Rabbi and Mrs.
Alvin M. Poplack and Eva Poss.

`Restricted' Signs
Barred by Hotels

CHICAGO — Offensive "re-
stricted" and "Gentile only" phra-
ses will disappear from hotel and
resort advertising in Illinois —
because hotel operators want it
that way.
a
Taking positive action in what
is long a some spot of social disc
elimination, the board of direc-
tors of the Illinois Hotel Associ-
ation, representing approximately
300 hotels and resorts, has unan-
imously adopted a resolution as-
sailing discriminatory practices
on the grounds, of religion or
creed.
The resolution was released by
Harold Lachman, chairman of the
Chicago board of directors of the
Anti-Defamation League of Bnai
Brith.

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LISTS LABOR SKILLS
Listing a great rariety of labor
skills among the displaced Jews,
Rabbi Bernstein said that tailors
comprise about 15 percent of the
total. There ara also substaittial
numbers of carpenters, painters,

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Relief Package
Gets Kosher Food

CARE (Cooperative for Ameri-
can Remittantes to Europe, Inc.)
has announced expansion of its
service to include a kosher food
package.
Delivery to those in whose
names they are ordered will begin
on August 1.
The cost is $10 and delivery is
guaranteed in Austria, Czechoslo-
vakia, England, France, Hungary,
Italy, Poland, Romania and Ger-
many (the American, French and
British zones and all Berlin).
Ethel Polk, Detroit CARE rep-
resentative, announced that the
new parcel will include 111/2
ounces of beef and gravy, meat
loaf and goulash, replacing the
original meats of the standard
CARE food package. The kosher
selections have been made with
the approval of the Union of Or-
thodox Rabbis of the U.S. and
Canada.
Additional
information
o n
CARE's program in Detroit is
ELI GROSS, 1478 Glynn court, available at the Detroit CARE
steel broker.
Committee, 2230 Witherell, Room
I'm in favor of anything and 612. The phone is Ca. 9852.
any plan which will help admit
refugees into the United States. Beth Aaron Meeting
And that's not
Is Set for Wednesday
for Jews alone
A meeting of the Beth Aaron
either, because
Congregation will be held at 8
I 'want to help
p.m. Wednesday, July 2, at the
all the Nipple
Synagogue.
who have gone
All members are urged to at-
through so
tend as this will be the final
much misery.
meeting before the High Holy
We can give
Days. There will be a guest
those people
speaker and refreshments.
homes and
without a ques-
want equality of opportunity for
tion we can we
them here in our industries and them and non-Jews. We can't
trades. This is especially true in start discriminating when we
the needlework and textile indus- fight so hard to eliminate intoler-
ance in the world. Admitting
tries where we have a shortage.
Although this would be a splen- the DP's would give them a spark
did opportunity for the Jews, I of hope again.

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