, Detroit Jewisn P Thirty-two Years of Service to Detroit Jewry AN UNAFFILIATED, INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER ■ Vol. 49, No. 32 ■ bob V ,s()44,4. • A .43 DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, AUG1' ie. 4 e READ CIIRONICLE CLASSIFIED ADS ON PAGE 12 'a ■ A a Copy, $3 Per Year Arrest of Mayors Splits Yishuv UN Group Starts DP Camp Tour Revisionist Leaders' • 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 (Continued on Page 2) 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. . 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- (Continued on Page 2) 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.