Friday, July 25, 1941
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE
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1 BNAI BRITH MESSAGE
Originator Explains JY A
The Palestine Scene
Immigrant Killings
Protested by Strike
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3 Jews Slain by British in Battle
on Blockade Runner, 27 Wounded
JERUSALEM (JTA) -- Jews throughout Palestine halted
work and closed their shops in a general strike protesting
the killing of three persons aboard the blockade runner
"Exodus 1947" Friday.
The strike took place as 4,500 visaless Jews were being
sent back to their port of embarkation ill France and against
a backdrop of bomb, mortar and attacked British military instal-
gunfire attacks in a number of
widely scattered areas of the
country.
The call for the general strike
was rigidly adhered to in every
city, town and settlement in the
country.
In Tel Aviv Mayor Israel Ro-
kach, Chief Rabbi I. J. Unter-
mann and Berl Locker, member
of the Jewish Agency, addressed
some 20,000 Jews who attended
a monster mass meeting. While
'banners reading "Piratical ac-
tions will not halt Jewish im-
migration" flew overhead, the
speakers called on the extremists
to cease their killings of "inno-
cent Englishmen" and to avert
civil war in the Jewish com-
munity.
lations and railroads throughout
the country.
Haifa, where tension ran high
during the weekend as a result
of the deportation of the Exodus'
immigrants and the burial of
three of the refugees killed
aboard the blockade runner, was
the scene Saturday of the kill-
ing of a British policeman. Fol-
lowing, a number of • outbreaks
in Jerusalem, a similar curfew
was imposed there Monday,'after
five coitecutive days of attacks
throughout Palestine.
AMERICAN KILLED
The three men killed during
the British boarding operation
were buried in Haifa. They were
William Bernstein, an American
Jew from San Francisco who
served as first mate of the Ex-
odus; Mordechai Bunstein, 23, a
former inmate of a DP camp
in Germany; and Hirsh Yacubo-
vitch, 15, from Poland.
The last two victims died
aboard the blockade runner dur-
ing the battle, while Bernstein
died later in a Haifa hospital
of wounds received in the en-
gagement.
Meanwhile, the • condition of
the five of the 27 wounded pas-
sengers and crewmen hospital-
ized after the attack remains
critical. The five are: William
Millman, 24, crewman from Chel-
sea, Mass., who suffered a bullet
wound in the jaw; Moses Engel-
man, 20, abdominal wounds;
Ernst Weiss, 24, severe burns;
Arien Birnbaum, 24, abdominal
wound; and Nathan Berkovitch,
71.
AGENCY HORRIFIED
RAILROADS RAIDED
Besides the ,killing in Haifa,
the major casualties occurred in
the landmining of a military
truck on a road near Raanana.
One soldier was killed and one
seriously injured while two
others received light wounds.
Seven different attacks were
carried out against railroad in-
stallations and rolling stock of
the government-owned r a i 1-
roads. No casualties resulted
from the raids. On the Jaffa-
Jerusalem line a railroad em-
ploye who discovered a bomb in
time and was investigating it
was fired upon, but was not /
Bi-National Plan
Called UN Coal
Mr. Seymour Tilchin
Detroit Jewish Chronicle_
Detroit, Michigan
Dear Seymour:
I learned last Thursday night
of your becoming publisher of
the Detroit Jewish Chronicle.
I want to express to you my
sincere best wishes in this under-
taking. I know that in that
capacity you will be a credit to
your paper and people.
Very sincerely yours, ,
SIDNEY J. KARBEL,
President, Greater Detroit
Bnai Brith Council.
DOCTOR ' S FELICITATIONS
Mr. Seymour Tilchin,
Detroit Jewish Chronicle,
Detroit, Michigan.
Dear Mr. Tilchin:
May I congratulate you upon
acquiring the Detroit Jewish
Chronicle, and wish you all the
luck in the world. The forces of
liberalism and, Zionism are in-
deed fortunate, in having you at
the controls of such splendi
paper.
Sincerely yours,
HARRY , N. JUROW, M.D.
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Dr. Walter C. Lowdermilk, originator of the Jordan Valley
Authority designed to bring water to the dry sections of Pal-
estine, explains the project to Yona Ettinger at the Palestine
exhibit in Radio City's Museum of Science and Industry. She
collected the arts and crafts which are on view at the ex-
hibition.
Goodwill Messages
Pour Into Chronicle
McNALLY GREETINGS
Mr. Seymour Tilchin, '
Jewish Chronicle,
Detroit, Michigan.
Dear Sir:
Permit me to express my con-
gratulations and best wishes to
you on your new venture in the
operation of the Jewish Chronicle.
I have every reason to believe
you will render a fine service to
your readers and to the whole
community, just as your predec-
essors have in the past.
Again I say, the best of luck
to you.
Sincerely,
JAMES N. McNALLY,
Prosecuting Attorney.
BUTZEL GREETINGS
SEES CITY'S GAIN
Mr. George Weiswasser,
Detroit Jewish Chronicle,
Detroit, Michgian.
Dear George:
This is to offer sincere best
wishes to you and your associ-
ates for your every success in
your new venture as publishers
of The Jewish Chronicle. It
pleases me to 'know that one
with your vast newspaper ex-
perience has so golden an op-
portunity to be of great service
to the community at large.
Sincerely,
REFEREE JOHN M. WISE,
The Recorder's Court
Traffic & Ordinance Div.,
City of Detroit.
Mr. Seymour ,Tilchin,
Detroit Jewish Chronicle,
Detroit, Michigan.
Dear Seymour:
May I transmit to you my sin-
cere best wishes for the future
of the Detroit Jewish Chronicle,
which publication is indeed the
fortunate beneficiary of your re-
cent decision 'to, assume the re-
sponsibility of president and
publisher.
Sincerely,
• MARTIN L. BUTZEL.
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IRVING W. SCHLUSSEL,
President, Jewish National
Fund Council.
CONGRATULATIONS
SEYMOUR TILCHIN,
DETROIT JEWISH CRONICLE.
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CONGRATULATIONS A N D
taking testimony from the rep- BEST WISHES IN YOUR NEW
resentatives of the neighboring VENTURE.
MURRAY J. ROBINSON,
Grauel, whose identity docu-
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ments and Palestine visa were
confiscated by the British in
BEST OF LUCK
Haifa, spent more than an hour
furnishing the delegates with de- SEYMOUR TILCIIIN,
tails of the British boarding DETROIT JEWISH CRONICLE.
operation on the Exodus. The
IT IS INDEED GRATIFYING
delegates, who displayed great ' TO THE JEWISH COMMUNITY
interest in the entire story, were TO KNOW THAT A MAN WITH
particularly anxious to learn YOUR KNOWLEDGE AND UN-
whether the violence of the DERSTANDING OF WORLD
operation was "necessary."
AFFAIRS HAS BECOME PUB-
Grauel answered that it was LISHER OF THE DETROIT
unnecessary, pointing out that JEWISH CHRONICLE. CON-
over 30 blockade runners had GRATULATIONS AND BEST
arrived off Palestine and had OF GOOD LUCK IN YOUR
been boarded and their passen- NE WUNDERTAKING.
gers transshipped without such
MARK H. BIRNKRANT
an attack.
The Jewish Agency issued a
statement expressing the "shock
and revulsion of the Jewish
people" at the attack on e the
Exodus and "its cargo of human
'misery." It termed the ram-
ming of the vessel "a needless
and wanton act fraught with
grave peril for the 4,500 refu-
gees most of whom were women
and children."
FROM JUDGE WATTS
Meantime, a ten-hour dusk-to- ASSAILS BRITISH
Mr.
George Weiswasser, Editor.
The minister added that there
dawn curfew was last weekend
clamped down on the Jewish were no weapons aboard the Detroit Jewish Chronicle,
quarter of Haifa as extremists vessel and that three guns which Detroit, Michigan
had been found aboard several Dear Mr. Weiswasser:
This is to express whole-
days before the battle had been
confiscated and thrown over- hearted congratulations to you
board. Turning to UNSCOP and your associates as the new
chairman Emil Sandstroem, publishers of The Detroit Jew-
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J.—Dr. Grauel said:
ish Chronicle. Yours is a won-
Harry Lasker, national director
"Sir, I saw you aboard the derful opportunity to be of great
of Jewish relationships, Boy ship looking about. I want to service to the community at
Scouts of America, will attend tell you that when your back large, and I am wishing you
the Sixth World Scout Jamboree was turned the British carried every success in your endeavors.
at Moisson, France, Aug. 9 to 22. a stretcher by with a boy on it.
Sincerely,
lie is serving as a member of That wasn't a wounded boy, but
JUDGE
JOHN D. WATTS,
the central staff of the Ameri- a dead boy with a blanket rolled
The Recorder's Court.
can delegation which consists of down from his face to make it
Traffic & Ordinance Div.,
1,090 Boy Scouts . and leaders appear that he was not dead
City of Detroit.
from every state, the District of but unconscious."
Columbia, and Alaska. Among
them are more than 60 Boy
Scouts of Jewish faith, includ-
OUR BEST WISHES and LOTS OF LUCK
TO THE
ing four from Detroit.
Dr. Lasker, an ordained Rabbi.
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will arrange religious services
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for those of the Jewish faith at
the Jamboree, as well as aboard
the army tfonsport "General C.
Ii. Muir" upon winch the United
States delegation sailed from
New York July 24.
The "Jamboree of Peace" as
the gathering will be known.
will bring together at Moisson.
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