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Arrest of Mayors Splits Yishuv
UN Group Starts DP Camp Tour Revisionist Leaders'
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Delegates
Quiz Jews
on Yishuv
Aid Brothers in Europe
JERUSALEM (Special)—The Jewish community in
Palestine was split wide open with the sudden arrest of
Mayors Israel Rokach of Tel Aviv and Oved Ben Ami of
Nathanya and the seizure of 35 Revisionist leaders in Pal-
estine.
In reprisal, the Irgun blew up the British department
of labor building in Jerusalem. Three British policemen
were killed when they attempted to move a bomb which de-
stroyed the front of the edifice.
The arrest of Mayors Rokach and Ben Ami, who are
Make Up List
of Questions
GENEVA (JTA)—The 10-
man subcommittee of the
United Nations Special Com-
mittee on Palestine started
an eight-day tour of Jewish
DP camps in the American
and British zones of Austria
and Germany-this week.
The members of the group
are traveling by American
military plane and will visit
Munich, Vienna and Berlin, in
that order. They will inspect
camps in the vicinity of these
cities, as well as the Home camp,
formerly t h e Bergen-Belsen
ct
Seizure Called Blow
to lrgun; Some Scoff
Miss Barbara Rose, niece of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Wolpe, De-
troit, and a camper at the Jewish Community Center day
camp, Camp Habonim, is shown presenting canned foods to
Mrs. Helen Singer, 18040 Northlawn avenue, chairman of the
Detroit drive for Supplies for Overseas. /The SOS food and
cothing is being collected by the camp children. They are
making arts and crafts projects, toys, friendship bags and pic-
ture scrapbooks for overseas gifts. The SOS collection is de-
signed to educate American children to the needs of surviving
children in Europe.
Prison Ships Rabbi Returns
Medal to British
Stay in Port in Act of Protest
Nils learned that each com-
mittee member will be guided it
his work by a questionnaire
which has already been drawn
up. Among the queries listed
are: "How did you become a
DP?" "Would you like to return
Exodus Passengert,
to your country of origin?" If
the answer is "Yes," the next
Given Good Care
question is "Why haven't you
done so already?" If the reply
PORT DE BOUC, France
is "No," the refugee will be
(JTA)—British sources here have
asked, "Why not?"
denied any knowledge of a
PALESTINE QUESTION
French report that the three
Other questions include: "Do prison ships upon which the
you want to immigrate to Pales- 4,500 Exodus refugees are con-
tine." "Have you any other tinuing their sitdown strike will
wishes regarding immigration?" sail out of the harbor this week
"Had you already applied for for a British tropical colony,
immigration to Palestine before despite the fact that the vessels
the war?" "Would you like to are being loaded with supplies
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of food and water.
The British insist they are
still awaiting word from London
Heads Chest Unit
It is also rumored that the ships
will weigh anchor and steam
into Marseille to take on coal
for the next stage of the refu-
gees' saga.
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JDC PROVIDES FOOD
MARTIN L. BUTZEL has been
appointed co-chairman of the
commercial and professional
unit of the 1947 Community
Chest Campaign. )3u1sel, who
served in the Air Forces as a
lieutenant colonel from 1942
to 1945, is a former board
member of Children's Hospital.
H4 now serves on the board
of the Jewish Social Service
Bureau and the Family Ser-
vice Society. The commercial
and professional unit of the
fail drive is one of the three
large divisions of the cam-
Pam
During the past four days, the
JDC has shipped some 35 tons
Of food and medical aid aboard
the three deportation vessels.
Some other assistance is being
furnished by a French relief
agency. A group of international
Red Cross doctors has arrived
to investigate conditions on ship-
board.
Fortified by the meals supplied
by the Jewish relief organiza-
tions, ,the morale of the immi-
grants remains high. It was
officially announced that the
number of persons who .volun-
tarily left ship since last week
Tuesday is 88. Most of these
persons were ill. None of the
refugees went ashore during the
weekend.
PRIORITY CONSIDERED
It is also understood that
British and French authorities
are discussing the question of
offering the immigrants a high
priority for admission to Pal-
estine if they agree to disem-
bark.
Leon Blum, former French
premier, this week accused
Britain of "Inhumanity" in re-
turning the Jewish refugees
from Palestine to Franc*
BOSTON (JTA)—Rabbi Ju-
dah Nadich, former adviser on
Jewish affairs to Gen. Dwight
D. Eisenhower, who was dec-
orated by the British govern-
ment for his war services, an-
nounced that he was returning
the medal "because Atlee. Bevin
and their associates have robbed
it of all meaning."
He made the announcement at
a protest rally on Boston Com-
mon, attended by 10.000 persons.
British Chiefs
in Zion to Die,
Irgun Declares
General Zionists, shocked the
Yishuv. They had often con-
demned extremist activity and
had supported the Agency's new
drive against the miilitant un-
derground.
PARIS (Special)—High British
officials in Palestine have been
"tried" and face execution when
apprehended, the Irgun Zvai Le-
umi, warned here.
A spokesman told reporters in
a Paris hotel that the old law of
an eye for an eye had been in
yoked by his underground group
"because if there are to be hang-
ings, we refuse to hang alone."
Irgun military courts have pas-
sed judgment on British military
and civil officials, the spokesman
said. The names would be an-
nounced after the sentences are
carried out, he declared.
LED BY CHIEFTAINS
Many Jews hailed the arrests
of the Revisionist leaders as a
blow at the heart of the Irgun,
but others belittled them point-
ing out that the underground
group was led personally by
their chieftains and that the ar-
rests would not diminish their
activities.
Other Jewish leaders rounded
up included Abraham ,Krinsi,.
chairman of the Ramat Can
council, and Arieh Altman,
president of the Revisionist
party in Palestine, who had
planned to leave this week for
the United States.
The Revisionist youth organi-
zation, Brith Trumpeldor (Be-
tar) was outlawed and its lead-
er, Menahem Arbor, arrested.
All property and assets of the
party were seized.
If Haganah presses its fight on
the Irgun, the underground rep-
resentative said, the "world will LIKE SOVIET ACTS
find that Irgun will fight on two
The arrest of the Revisionist
fronts. Haganah is to Palestine
today what the Vichy militia was leaders was reminiscent of the
activities of Communist-orbit
to France yesterday."
lands in eastern Europe where
the rulers wipe out their oppo-
sition by wholesale arrests with
no legal bias.
In Tel Aviv, British troops
cordoned off the home of Mayor
Rokach on Rothschild boulevard
and set up machine guns at all
to fly to New York where Sieg- approaches during the night.
At 5 a.m., two escorted police
bert was waiting.
As Siegbert rushed into his officers, pounded on the door.
father's arms, crying "Papa!" Mayor Rokach was still asleep
and his wife answered.
"We have come to arrest the
mayor and we must search the
house," the British Gestapo men
told Mrs. Rokach. "He can have
time to dress, eat breakfast and
pack one suitcase."
Father-Son Reunion Brings
Radio's Most Touching Scene
NEW YORK—A refugee fath-
er and son, brought together by
United Service for New Ameri-
cans after eight years' separa-
tion, rushed into each others'
arms in a broadcasting studio in
New York City the other day,
resulting in what Paul Denis,
radio editor of the New York
Post, called "the most touching
moment I have ever heard in
radio."
The incident occurred during
the "Reunion" broadcast over
the Mutual network. The father,
Max Frieberg, formerly of Ber-
lin, last saw his son Siegbert,
now 20, in 1939. The elder Frie-
berg had been imprisoned in
Buchenwald, and on his release
was forced to flee to Shanghai.
During the war his wife disap-
peared in concentration camp,
and the son, escaping, hid out
until liberation.
Siegbert immigrated to this
country a year ago with the aid
of United Service, whose work
is financed by United Jewish
Appeal. Then United Service
and JDC set the' machinery in
motion for reunion of father and
son.
Aided by the two agencies,
the older Frieberg recently ar-
rived in San Francisco from
Shanghai. From there the Mu-
tual network arranged for him
'SERVICE TO CROWN'
Mayor Rokach, who wears the
Order of the British Empire for
services to the crown, dressed
and went along quietly with the
officers, not even bothering to
ask them for a search warrant.
In Palestine, one can be picked
up on suspicion, sent to a con-
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FATHER AND SON
even blase studio engineers
were in tears, while the veteran
master of ceremonies, Milo
Boulton, confessed that for the
first time in his career he was
speechless.
A week later the Fi iebergs
broadcast again, giving a happy
and hopeful account of their
first week together, and of their
plans to start life over in Amer-
ica.
Eddie Cantor to Get
Award From the UJA
NEW YORK . (,JTA) — Eddie
Cantor will receive a certificate
of award for "humanitarian serv-
ice" in recognition of his con-
tribution to the success of the
1947 United Jewish Appeal.
Notable among Cantor's serv-
ices in behalf of the Appeal was
his participation as star of a spe-
cial short film for the campaign,
entitled "We Must Not Forget."
The award will be presented to
Cantor at a dinner in his honor.