Yishuv Awaits Martial Law

Stern Reprisals Due
in Irgun Executions
of eAlritish- Soldiers

Thirty-two Years of Service to Detroit Jewry

Detroit Jewish Chronicle

Vol. 49, No. 31

DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, AUGUST 1, 1947 10c a Copy, $3 Per Year

Barnes'
Articles
Refuted

Exodus Refugees Glimpse Zion

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The two kidnaped soldiers paid with their lives after
the British hanged three Irgunists for participation in the
Acre prison break.

Colleagues Hit
Palestine Series

Messages
Hail Change
at Chronicle

Misleading statements on
Palestine by Russell Barnes,
Detroti News correspondent,
are fully refuted by the ear-
lier writings of other News
reporters, a survey of the
Jewish Chronicle reveals.
A series of articles entitled

"The Palestine Puzzle", written
by Barnes, has been appearing
daily in the News for the last
two weeks.
Articles on Palestine by the
famed News commentator, W. K.
Kelsey; Ralph McGill, liberal
southern publisher; the late Philip
A. Adler, News foreign affairs
expert; and Meyer Levine, world
traveler and correspondent, clear-
ly contradict every statement by
Barnes hostile to the Jewish pro-
gram or a misrepresentation of
fact, the Chronicle study dis-
closes.
1:4ERRORS QUOTED ,
Because of limited space, the
Chronicle is unable to list all of
Barnes fallacies and quote the
antecedent refutations of his ,col-
leagues.
The following are typical, how-
ever, and will give the reader
an insight on how deeply mired
Barnes became in his statements
and how deftly quotations from
his colleagues' writings contra-
dict his views.
Warning of careless reporting
and weak judgment on the com-
plex Palestine question, the late
Philip A. Adler in the Aug. 22,
1946 News made this statement:
"In the ever-rising mountain
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Zionists "'Set
Fund Goal

JSA LEM (Special)—All of Jewish Palestine stood
brink of martial law and faced unprecedented re-
sive measures by the British armed forces as a result
.. the retaliatory hangings of two British sergeants by the
Irgun Zvai Letuni.

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Three Jews were killed and a score injured when the British
navy seized the Exodus 1947, Jewish refugee ship, whose hu-
man cargo was later packed' into British vessels and trans-
shipped to their point of embarkation in France. Shown above
at Haifa with a visibly damaged side, the vessel is lined with
would-be immigrants.

Congress Unit Fights
Callahan Act Here

A drive for thousands of signatures on petitions asking
the repeal of the Callahan Act has been launched by the
Detroit Section, American Jewish Congress.
The drive is part of a statewide campaign to obtain
200,000 signatures by Sept. 3 to wipe out the legislation
described by the Congress as one of the most dangerous

measures ever enacted into law.
The Callahan Act, signed by
Gov. Kim Sigler on June 27
Kasle, Berry Head
requires every organization sus-
Expansion Drive
pected of "foreign inspiration" to
register with the attorney-gen-
A quota of $60,000 has been eral.
set for the 1947 Expansion Fund
AFFECTS ZIONISTS
campaign of the Detroit Zionist
"This means," says the Con-
district, Morris M. Jacobs, presi-
dent, announced. Alan Kasle and gress, "that any organization
Louis Berry, veteran Zion- having worldwide affiliations,
ist leaderS, have again under- including the Zionist Organiza-
tion, Hadassah or Lanasmanch-
taken to head the drive.
"The Expansion Fund is dedi- aften groups, must set forth de-
cated to the battle for a Jew- tailed information on member-
ish Homeland through a pro- ship, activities, income and 'oth-
gram of mass education and pub- er particulars as may be re-
lic relations," Jacobs explained. quested by the attorney-gen-
The need for effective propagan- eral.' "
Representations urging the
da in both Jewish and non-Jew-
ish communities is tragically governor not to sign the bill
were made by Henry S. Swee-
greater today than ever.
"Friends of the Zionist move- ney, Judge Patrick H. O'Brien.
ment who have contributed to Rabbis Joshua Sperka and M. J.
the fund in past years know that Wohlgelernter, R. J. Thomas and
this annual effort is the sole other religious, social and labor
means of providing funds for leaders. Members of this group
have undertaken to sponsor the
publicity for the movement."
As part of his contribution, petition for a referendum by
Harry Cohen, furniture dealer bring the act to a vote in No-
and devoted Zionist worker, has vember.
pledged the fund 10 percent GET YOUR PETITIONS
from every sale made in August
Petitions are available at the
to a customer who mentions his office of the Congress, 9124 Lin-
advertisement in the Detroit wood avenue. Organizations and
Jewish Chronicle. The store is at individuals are urged to come
7303 W. McNichols road at Moni- in or write for petitions.
ca avenue.
'The Jewish community must

alert itself to the serious stake
it has in this campaign," said
Harry Nathan, Detroit section
president. Every signature is
important to assure that this
evil piece of legislation is stop-
ped before it can be applied."

15th Balfour Ball
Is Set for Nov. 1

The annual Balfour Ball of the
Detroit Zionist district will be
held Saturday, Nov. 1 at the
Hotel Statler, Morris M. Jacobs,
district president, announced this
week.
The dance will mark the 15th
annual birthday of the affair
which draws many hundreds to
this outstanding event of the
social season.

'UNION BROKEN'

The apparent "spiritual union"
The following additional mes-
between the Irgun and Haganah
sages have been. received con-
faded away when liaganah took
gratulating the new management
part in all all-night search for
of the Chronicle:
the kidnaped Britons in the hope
of averting their deaths.
FROM DR. FRANKLIN
Pleas to the Irgun by respon-
Mr. Seymour Tilchin,
sible heads of the Jewish com-
Detroit Jewish Chronicle,
munity were ignored. The Jew-
ish National Council, while con-
Detroit, Michigan.
ceding that Jewish bitterness was
My Dear Seymour:
inevitable following the hangings
With many of your friends who of the three Jews, begged the
know your personally, and are Irgun not to execute the Britons,
familiar with your Jewish loyal- warning that their execution
ties and your genuine breadth of would be regarded as "an inhu-
sympathy for other men's opin- man crime never to be forgive,
ions, I was very greatly pleased by the Jewish community—a
to learn that you had assumed crime against the Jewish people."
the management of the Detroit
RABBI AT PRISON
Jewish Chronicle.
It is my hope that you will
The Jewish youths were per-
make the paper the spokesman mitted a 10 minute visit from
for every phase of Jewish life, Chief Rabbi Gad Ohana of the
lifting its editorial and general Acre Sephardic community before
news policies above narrow par- they went to the gallows.
tisanship and freeing it from
Dr. Ohana was forced to re-
those prejudices which serve to main in the corridor outside
divide rather than unite the their cells. He was permitted to
various segments of local and read prayers for the 10 minutes.
world Jewry.
As he departed, the condemned
You are well fitted to assume boys cried: "Shalom to every
so important a responsibility.
one. Tell our families not to
With all good wishes,
grieve. We are proud of what
Very sincerely yours,
we have done."
LEO M. FRANKLIN,
In New York, the American
Rabbi Emeritus,
Zionist Emergency Council called
Temple Beth El.
the hangings of the Jewish
youths "a deliberate ,act of pro-
vocation", a proof that "Great
LEGION COMMANDER
• Britain does not want peace in
Mr. Seymour Tilchin,
Palestine."
Detroit Jewish Chronicle,
BRIITISII FLAYED
Detroit, Michigan,
Meir Grossman, president of
Dear Mr. Tilchin:
United Zionists-Revisionists, de-
It is with a great deal of manded that Jewish resistance
pleasure and satisfaction that I members be treated as prisoners
of war and said the "vicious
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circle of provocation and re-
prisal cannot end as long as
Britain remains sole judge, jury,
Wires Truman
prosecutor and executioner."
Dr. Stephen S. Wise, said he
was "shocked at the calculated
cruelty" of the hangings, and
that Palestine violence "may be
traced back to the illegal British
White Paper."

Rabbi Levi Quits
Bnai Moshe Post

Jews Refuse to Quit
Exodus in French Port

PORT-DE-BOUC, France —
(Special)—All but three of the
4,500 Jews aboard the Exodus
1947, brought back to France
from Palestine waters, remained
aboard ship refusing to debark.
The French sent out a launch
with an amplifier to assure the
Jews that they would not be
forced to land.

The three young Jews, Meyer
Naker, Jacob Weiss and Absalom
Habib, went to their deaths
singing "Iiatikvah". They died
without being permitted to .say a
final word of farewell to parents
and relatives who were refused
permission to see them.

MRS. JOSEPH WELT of De-
troit, president of the National
Council of Jewish Women, in
a wire to President Truman,
deplored the Exodus 1947 seiz-
ure and urged the lifting of,
immigration barriers in Pal-
estine.

Rabbi Eliezer Levi of Congre-
gation Bnai Moshe relinquishes
his pastorate on Aug. 1 to take
over the pulpit of conservative
Temple, Anshe Emeth, largest
synagogue in Youngstown, 0.
Rabbi Levi was named asso-
ciate to Rabbi Moses Fischer at
Bnai Moshe in December, 1945,
while he was still in the army.
Rabbi Levi was the first Jewist
chaplain to go overseas having
joined up in 1941.
Rabbi Levi is a graduate of
the Jewish Theological Seminary
of America.

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