Friday, August 1, 1941
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE
Arrests Split Yishuv;
35 Revisionists Held
rage Two
On Rent Board
Ube Palestine Scene
Jews Demand Probe
of Tel Aviv Pogrom
(Continued from Page 1)
centration camp and kept there
for months without trial. One
can even be exiled to tropical
Kenya in Africa.
Earliir, the British blew to
bits a Jewish house in Jerusa-
lem in which arms had been
found. The house in the Givat
Shaul quarter was next to a
mental hospital. The patients
had been removed luckily, for
the blast ripped off most of :de
tiled roof of the hospital.
Agency, Y aad Meet as Crisis Mounts,
Extremist Activities Are Condemned
By BERL CORALNIK
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency Correspondent)
JERUSALEM (JTA)—The executive committees of the
Jewish Agency and the Jewish National Council met in
emergency session this week, first separately and then joint-
ly, to discuss the situation in the country which has de-
teriorated steadily since the execution last week of three
Irgunists.
BENJAMIN D. BURDICK, 726
issued later, the headquarters Dime Bldg., has been nomi-
building was attacked simulta- nated by Gov. Kim Sigler as
neously from several sides by a member df the rent contra:
underground fighters using rifles, advisory board for Detroit.
Stan guns and grenades. Win- Burdick is a senior public ad-
dows in the Agency building ministrator for Wayne County
were shattered by the blasts. and has practiced law here for
Two hundred persons were nearly 20 years. lie is mar-
ried and has a daughter An-
rounded up for questioning.
One "Arab was killed and drea and son Jimmy. The
another wounded when six Jews family residence is at 16815
blew up a section of railway Linwood avenue.
NO DETERRENT
The destruction of houses
linked to the underground will
probably be the general prac-
tice now. Moderate leaders
pointed out that the destruction
of property will in no way deter
patriots of the Irgun and Stern
groups.
on the Acre prison, the British
refused to give medical aid to
Irgun wounded and dying and
that one of the wounded was
slain on the spot.
"We won't forget, we will
never forget", Irgun declared.
UN Group
Sees DP's
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immigrate to another country, it
allowed?"
John L. Hood of Australia,
chairman of the subcommittee
said that he saw two important.
The two-fold reprisals which
the hangings set off, with the
Irgunists retaliating against Brit-
tasks before the group. The first,
ish troops and police, and troops
he said, is to check on the find-
rioting to avenge the hanging of
ings of last year's Anglo-Ameri-
Haganah, meanwhile, claimed can Committee of Inquiry on
two Britons by the Irgunists,
success in thwarting seven at- Palestine and determine whether
have brought the country to
the brink of a crisis as serious
tempts by the extremists to the vast majority of displaced
blow tip military convoys and Jews still wished to go to Pal-
as that of last year, whep Jew-
ish Agency leaders were ar-
ambush patrols.
estine.
The Irgun high command has
rested and martial law was im-
The second task will be to
denied the report that the bodies
posed.
learn
whether there is still a
In a statement issued after the
of the two British sergeants
the east
joint meeting, the Agency ex- between Rehovoth and Beer
executed by them had been movement of Jews ftom
into
the
United
States
zone
of
Yaacov.
The
Irgun
handed
out
ecutive warned that "cessation
booby trapped. The leaders de-
Germany, and, if so, what causes
of 'terrorism' is an inexorable leaflets in Tel Aviv threatening
clared that no explosives had this movement and whether it
national necessity." It condemn- to hang a British soldier for
been placed on the bodies them-
to continue in the fu-
ed the hanging of the two every Jew who is hanged by the
selves but that the area was is likely
ture.
British.
British sergeants and the sub-
mined.
In Riishon L'Zion British sol-
sequent rioting.
TELL TILE TRUTII
PLAN OWN FIGURES
Declaring that the soldiers had diers continued their private war
Irgun has a reputation, which
been murdered by "unprincipled on the Jewish population when
The UN group has not asked
Kasle Makes Plea
even the British respect, of tell-
men who have cast aside every several of them in a jeep raced
any authorities beforehand to at-
ing
the
truth
in
their
com-
for Expansion Fund
vestige of national responsiibil- through the streets and opened
tempt a census of the emigration
muniques.
ity," the executive called on the fire on a group of men standing
In another statement, Irgun wishes of the DP's. Last year,
Jewish community "to intensify at an outdoor soft drink stand.
the Anglo-American committee
Workers in the Zionist Expan- charged that following its raid cabled UNRRA beforehand to
its efforts with all organized Herbert Rabinovicy, 32, fell,
sion
Fund
drive
will
meet
at
8:30
strength to eradicate 'terrorism' mortally wounded.
have figures and estimates ready.
p.m. Monday at Shaarey Zedek.
and give full support to the
Hood said his subcommittee
Jewish police, called to in- Volunteers are strongly urged to Detroit Lodge Women
Yishuv's securi'y forces in car- vestigate the murder, were al-
would attempt no definite census
attend this meeting.
to Meet at Beth Aaron but would try to do spot check-
rying out this objective."
so fired upon by the troops, who
In an appeal to Detroit Jewry
The women's chapter of the ing and to take estimates from
MAYORS ATTEND
escaped. None of the policemen
The meeting was attended, in were injured.
to support the campaign for $60,- Detroit Lodge of Bnai Brith has the officials in the camps.
addition to the Agency and SLAY KIDNAPED JEW 1 000, Abe Kasle, co-chairman with changed its meeting place for the
Vladimir Simic, the Yugoslav
council members, by Mayors
The body of a Jew who hadLouis Berry, made the following coming year to the Beth Aaron
Synagogue, Wyoming and That- delegate, explaining his motives
Rokach and Ben Ami of Tel
been shot through the chest after statement:
in voting against visiting the DP
Aviv and Nathanya, (who are
"It is the task of the Zionist cher.
At a recent meeting Mrs. Mor- camps. lie said he had been a
among Jewish leaders arrested being badly beaten was discov- Organization of America, through
by the British), the heads of ered in the- vicinity of the an unprecedented program of ris Tack and the board dis- prisoner of war and a political
many local municipal councils, Lydda airport. Several Arabs public information and education, cussed plans for the fund-raising suspect for two-and-a-half years.
He added that he knew that
the Chief Rabbinate, the presi- saw the body being hurled from to tell the American people and ball sponsored by the Greater
dents of the Jewish Community a military vehicle.
the entire world the unvarnished Detroit Bnai Brith ‘Vomen's the Jews in the camps want to
Councils in Haifa and Jerusa-
It is believed that the Jew facts—that the only terror to fear Council. Mrs. William Barris is go to Palestine. He said that he
lem, the representatives of the was kidnaped several days ago in Palestine is British terror; that in charge of the ball for Detroit assumed the subcommittee must
recognize this tact. He also
Histadrut and the Manufactur- on a Tel Aviv street by several British betrayal, British malad- Lodge.
doubted whether UNSCOP had
Britons. It is also feared that ministration. British repression
ers Association and others.
very much time now and that he
Some of the participants urged this may be a continuation of has over a period of 25 years
did not feel that he was bound
that suspected extremists be ex- the activities of a fascist group been directly responsible for con- Pharmacy Fraternity
to complete the work of
cluded from Jewish public af- within the Palestine police force ditions in Palestine today; that
USNCOP by Sept. 1.
fairs and removed from any which was responsible for the only British actions are illegal in to Aid Eretz School
office. Others objected, declar- murder several months ago of Palestine—violating a Mandate of
ROCHESTER—The establish-
lie said that the Anglo-Ameri-
ing that would be tantamount to 17-year-old Alexander Rubovitz. which she made a mockery and ment of a pharmacology research
During searches of two Jew- without which she never would laboratory at the new Hadassah- can committee had four months
pointing out the suspects to the
and UNSCOP less than three
ish quarters in connection with have a chance to misrule in Pal- Hebrew University Medical
police.
months.
The problem is an enor-
un-
At a second meeting, the Jew- the Sternist attack in Jerusalem. estine.
School on Mt. Scopus was
mous
one,
he emphasized, and
ish Agency executive discussed a cache of arms was found in
by Rho Pi Phi Pharma-
"The Expansion Fund can keep dertaken
ceutical
Fraternity
at
its
con-1
he
refused
to be bound by the
measures to be taken to combat a shed attached to a Jewish-
this information before the pub-
1 1 deadline.
dissident groups within the Jew- owned home in the Givat Shaul
vention.
Sept.
ish community. However, a quarter. Two men were arrest- lic."
spokesman refused to disclose ed.
details of the measuies, assert-
ing that publicity would rob
Landsmanschaften
them of effectiveness.
Workers to Meet
in Zionist Drive
BEVIN AND BEIGIN
Outing on Aug. 17
Commenting on the situation,
Landsmanschaften will hold
the same spokesman said that an outing for members and their
"what we have now is a war families Sunday, Aug. 17 at the
between (Foreign Secretary Er- Farband-Kinderwelt camp, ac-
nest) Sevin and (Menachem) cording to Michael Taich, direc-
Beigin." He asserted that the tor of organizations for the De-
Palestine Jews, on one hand. troit Palestine Histadrut Com-
and the British forces in the mittee.
Plans are being made for a
country, on the other, were
"nothing but tools and victims" cultural and social program, and
Yona Goldberg, visitor from Pal-
in the battle.
He also revealed that the estine, will answer questions
Agency had demanded a full- concerning the Holy Land.
An evening meal will be
dress investigation of the riot-
ing of British troops in Tel Aviv served at cost. Members inter-
during which five Jews were ested in attending, call Taich
killed. He concluded that the at TO. 9-8660.
situation could not be expected
to improve as long as the gov-
ernment continued to impose ATTENTION HOUSEWIVES'
martial law and turn away ref- ,
ugee immigrants.
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In the midst of the delibera-
tions, a group of Sternists at-
Who Does
tacked the headquarters of the
Hampshire Regiment, which are
situated in a fortified zone ad-
joining the Agency building, Spare time telephone solicita-
where the meeting was taking
tions, weekly pay.
place. One Jew was killed and
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two captured in the attack, which
inflicted no casualties on the
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