Friday, August 1. 1947
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE
Page Two
New Messages Hail
Chronicle Changes
Aids Medical School
The Palestine Scene
Martial Law's Grip
.on Nathanya Ends
(Continued from page 1)
the Detroit Jewish Chronicle.
note your recent &cquisition of , I know of your zeal and self
the Detroit Jewish Chronicle. dedication to the ideal of Jewish
I know it is public-spirited rebirth, Zionism, and am there-
men of your calibre who will aid fore very glad that the paper
the American Legion in our is under your guidance since I
fight against Communism, Fas- have no doubt that it will serve
13-Day Search by Tommies Fails;
Extremist Raids Go Into 14th Day
JERUSALEM (JTA)—British military control of Na-
thanya, diamond center and seashore resort, was lifted after
13 days of occupation which paralyzed the town's trade and
industry.
Despite intensive research by police and troops, the
two sergeants whose kidnaping precipitated the imposition
of martial law lost their lives.
They were held by the lrgun as
hostages for the three Irgunists
who were hanged for participa-
• tion in the Acre prison break.
Lt. Gen. Sir Ilumphrey Gale,
who commanded "Operation Ti-
ger," British code name for the
occupation, called on Mayor Oved
Ben Ami and thanked him for
the inhabitants' "cooperation."
Ben Ami replied that the com-
munity will continue the search
for the abducted soldiers.
mount daily. The latest is con-
tamed in the Cairo daily, Al
Misri, which usually reflects the
Egyptian Government's position.
The paper says that the commit-
tee will study a plan proposed by
Nuri Pasha, the chairman of the
Iraqi Senate, which calls for a
modified form of federalization
along the lines of the Morrison
plan.
DOUBT NEW CURB
cism, and other un-American ac-
,/
DR. WILLIAM A. PERLZWEIG,
professor of biochemistry 'at
the Duke University School of
Medicine, has been named spe-
cial adviser in the organiza-
tion of the Hebrew University-
Hadassah Medical School in
Jerusalem for which $4,000,000
is being raised in the United
States.
British Belittle Services
of Jewish Brigade in War
tivities.
The Charles A. Learned Post
of the American Legion, the
largest post in Detroit, congratu-
fates you and wishes you every
success in your undertaking. '
the cause well.
With best of good wishes, I am.
Cordially yours,
DANIEL FRISCH.
Vice President, ZOA,
New York C'Ity
With kindest personal regards,
Yours. sincerely,
JOSEPH JONES, Commander ,
Charles A. Learned Post No. 1
The American Legion.
CONGRESS PRESIDENT
Dear Mr. Weiswasser:
May I congratulate and ex-
press my best wishes to you and
Seymour Tilchin in your new
venture as owners and publish-
ers of The Detroit Jewish Chon-
icle.
Your profound sense of Jewish
responsibility; your definite Zion-
ist platform; your fearless pres-
entation of all viewpoints will
wounded was 157 and four are be appreciated by our commu-
missing, the War Secretary said. nity.
Sincerely yours,
Sir George' then asked if it
MRS. SAMUEL A. GREEN,
wasn't a fact that the actual ser-
President Det. Women's Div.
vices of the Jewish Brigade were
American Jewish Congress
not very important and the actual
number that took part in the fight
wasn't very great.
FRISCH GREETINGS
Bellinger replied: "I shouldn't Mr. Seymour Tilchin,
like to draw that deduction my- Detroit, Mich.
self, but I have given the facts
teenth consecutive clay with out- the House, refused to castigate an and the House must draw its own My clear Mr. Tilchin:
Thank you for your letter of
.breaks in Jerusalem and an at- MP who implied that Jewish vol- conclusions."
July 15 advising me that y on
' lack on the rail network. One
officer was seriously injured and unteer fighters during the war
have become the publisher of
a soldier suffered slight wounds were the same people who blew
Immediately after the an-
nouncement of the lifting of mili-
tary control was made in Jeru-
salem, Chief Secretary Sir Henry
L. Gurney left by air for London
LONDON (Palcor) — Pleading
for a fortnight's vacation. His
dearth of information and giving
departure has tended to quiet
rumors that imposition of martial otherwise evasive replies, spokes-
law on the wide areas of the men for the government in Com-
country is imminent, since it is mons tried painfully to avoid
believed that he would remain mention of Jewish Palestine's con-
here if such move were in the
tribution to the late war effort.
making.
At one point in the discussion,
However, Jewish terrorists car-
ried their attacks into the four- Col. J. Clifton Brown, Speaker of
when a rail trolley patrolling the
tracks was blown up on the Tel
up the King David Hotel.
Finding; of Moses
Is .Subject of New
Institute Painting
The stock answer "information
unavailable" was given Major L.
Wilkes, Laborite MP, when he
asked the War Office the number
The Detroit Institute of Arts
of Jews, and other Palestinians, announces the acquisition of a
who volunteered for service be- great painting by the famed
hind enemy lines during the war, Italian artist, Salvator Rosa
the number dropped by para- (1615-1673). It is "Landscape
chutes and the percentage killed with the Finding of Moses," the
by the enemy. He wanted to gift of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar B.
know how many non-Jews in Pal- Whitcomb.
estine gave similar service and
It is a large painting, meas-
what their casualties were.
road.
uring 79 1,2 inches wide and 48'.!
FIND ARMS CACHE
inches in height.
MAJORITY VOLUNTEERS
Edgar P. Richardson, director
An arms cache discovered by
M. Edelman, also a Laborite.
police in a Tel Aviv engineering
of the Detroit Institute of Arts,
asked what percentage of the
plant was reported to be one of
Jewish Brigade were volunteers, writes:
the largest Haganah arms dumps
"Our painting, passing through
what percentage conscript, when
in Palestine. Informed sources
various private collections, was
the Jews first requested the bri-
brought to America in the late
estimated the value of the weap-
gade and when permission to
19th century. It now takes its
ons at $750,000.
form it was granted. Ile also ask-
Thirty-two Jewish families liv-
place in our collection as one of
ed for comparative enlistment
ing in three houses in Haifa were
the monuments of Baroque land-
figures of Jews in the armed
ordered to evacuate their homes
scape painting and a masterpiece
forces.
of Salvator Rosa's grandeur and
wi thin 24 hours under an order
The War Office replied that the
issued by Gen. E. L. Bols, corn-
decorative power."
mender of northern Palestine. exact figures were unavailable,
Bols charges, although no evi- but the great majority of the Jew-
dence has been produced, that the ish Brigade were volunteers. The
residents of the houses aided first Jewish request for a Brigade
was made Nov. 26, 1943. The
"terrorists" who laid mines in the
following January, the comman-
Haifa area in recent days.
der-in-chief in the Middle East
Ten-year-old Iladassah Sinkov-
was notified to raise such a force.
sky was wounded in the jaw by
Lord Winterton, Conservative
ricochetting bullet which en-
a red her third-floor bedroom. It , MP, then interjected that in fair-
is believed to have been fired ness to the Jews, "the majority
b soldiers who shoot at random , of them non-Zionists" who served
y
during the dusk-to-dawn curfew, ! with gallantry in the armed for-
I ces, it should be noted that the
which is still in force in Haifa.
above information refers only to
I , the small number of Jews from
OBSERVANCE BLOCKED
Jerusalem's curfew prevented, 1 Pale k'n5 who composed the Jew-
for the second successive year, the i ish Brigade.
s. Conserva-
1 raditional evening observances
Sir George Jeffreys,
at the Wailing Wall on the eve five MP, asked for the number
of Tisha B'Av, which marks the of Jews who enlisted in the bri-
destruction of the Temple. of gade and served outside of Pal-
which the Wailing Wall is be- estine, and whether it was neces-
lieved to be the last remaining nary to complete the brigade with
section. non-Jewish personnel owing to a
Only a dozen or so Jews were lack of Jewish recruits.
at the wall, most of them news-
4,021 IN BRIGADE
papermen. Dr. Israel Goldstein.
War Secretary Bellinger replied
president of the American United
that 176 Jews were serving in the
Palestine Appeal, was there for a
Jewish Brigade outside of Pales-
short time.
tine at the end of the war. The
The last remaining members of
total number in the Brigade at
t he secretariat of the United Na- that time was 4,021. Some non-
tions Special Committee on Pales- Jewish personnel was include in
tine left for Geneva, where the
t committee began meeting early the brigade, not because of lack
this week to prepare its report of Jewish recruits but because of
and decide whether to visit the the need for experienced officers
displacedpersons camps. and other specialized ranks.
The number of members of the
as to the UNSCOP's
RUMOrS
to brigade killed was 33, the number
eventual decision continue
Aviv-Jaffa line.
A wooden bridge between Ben-
yamina and Zichron Jacob, which
was erected as a temporary struc-
ture following the blasting of the
permanent span last week, was
destroyed by fire.
Earlier, two Royal Signal Corps
men were killed when they struck
a booby trap while repairing a
cable on the Jerusalem-Jaffa
FROM JWV
Mr. Seymour Tilchin,
Detroit Jewish Chronicle,
PAroit, Michigan.
Dear Mr. Tilchin:
I was delighted to learn that
you have assumed active man-
agement of the Detroit Jewish
Chronicle.
May I, on behalf of the De-
partment of Michigan, Jewish
War Veterans, extend to you the
sincere good wishes of our 52
year old organization.
Sincerely yours,
MAURICE BORDELOVE,
Department Commander,
Jewish War Veterans of
the United States.
BAY CITY GREETINGS
Detroit Jewish Chronicle,
Detroit, Michigan.
Gentleman:
Upon hearing of your under-
taking of the publication of the
Detroit Jewish Chronicle I wish
to express my sincere best wish-
es for your whole-hearted suc-
cess.
Very truly yours.
MRS. H. F. ANTHONY,
255 N. Madison Ave.
Bay City, Mich. •
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and our
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