Friday, August 22, 1947

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March 3, 1879
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Entered as Second-class atter March 3, 1916,
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SEYMOUR TILCI IN, President
CHARLES TAUB, Advertising Manager
GEORGE WEISWASSER, Editor-in-Chief

Vol. 49, No. 34

Friday, August 22, 1947 (ELUL 6, 5707)

DETROIT 26, MICH.

neutral zone would be absorbed by the state
which gains a majority in the plebiscite.
To sing the praises of Fred Butzel in
While the proposal has many points of
columns of type on the occasion of his great advantage, it has the faults of any
seventieth birthday Monday would be like partition scheme, the chief of which is that
gilding the lily.
future strife is implicit in it. Division
All Detroit knows full well the saga of means weakness and only a partial fulfill-
this institution, this human embodiment of ment of Jewish aspirations.
atomic for`ce, this personification of civic
The answer is a , Jewish State in all of
benevolence that is Fred Butzel.
Palestine with the Arab states paid off or
We can pay him no greater honor for appeased with concessions that British and
his indulgence for half a century in the UN diplomats would know only too well
luxury of doing good than to quote Justice how to effect.
Frank Murphy, who when mayor, acclaimed
Fred Butzel appropriately as "Detroit's
De f amatory Headlines
First Citizen"!
We must be charitable to the copyreader
No 'War' in Palestine
of the Detroit News who in his moment
Despite the excited headlines, there is of ignominy scribbled the banner headline
no "war" going on between Arabs and Jews "Jews Massacre 7 in War With Arabs."
To the copyreader this was a good sen-
in Palestine.
Last week's fighting was not the opening sational line on a warm day and would be
gun of the long predicted full-scale battles certain to attract passersby. We doubt
that are to turn the Holy Land into a field very much that there was any expectation
now require larger quarters=
in the writer's mind that his defamatory
of carnage.
SOS IS HELPED
for a House of Worship—for
There are never going to be such battles lines would fan fires of hatred in the breasts Dear Editor:
classrooms—for a Jewish Cen-
My sincere appreciation for the
even when the British finally leave because of bigoted readers.
ter.
He
based
his
headline
on
incomplete
publicity
SOS
received
in
your
the Arabs are fully aware that the Jews are
We trust that the people of
well prepared and well armed and will have dispatches that he probably had to trim be- newspaper, Aug. 8.
your community will help us,
no qualms about taking reprisals for Arab cause of the general rule in the daily press We received many inquiries please.
netted us many contribu-
Their generous donation will
that the public is not too bright and except which
brigandage and Arab murders.
tions of clothing and food for serve a noble aim.
for
a
sex
or
crime
story
will
not
read
be-
All the talk about a holy war and the
our drive.
CONG. OHAV SHOLAUM
massing of Arab "armies" do 'not 'frighten yond the first two or three paragraphs.
Any future help you can give
Leo Klein, Pres.,
the Jewish forces. They interpret it right-
As a result what was left of the story us will be deeply appreciated, for
34 Sherman Ave.,
fully as Arab bombast for they know that gave the impression of cold-blooded killings only through such publicity can
New York 34, N. Y.
the Arabs are disunited and have no loyal- by Ilaganah. The word "massacre" was we hope to fulfill our promise to
our
people
overseas.
-%
used probably because it best fit the space.
ties.
SEERS CHARLES RUBIN
The shootings and stabbings of last week An intelligent copyreader should have Good luck to the new and bet-
ter Chronicle.
Dear
Editor:
were disconnected incidents and took place known, however, that you can "massacre"
HELEN SINGER.
Mrs. Dora Rosen. Lodz, Poland,
on the fringes of Tel Aviv and Jaffa or on only considerable numbers and not seven
is seeking information about her
the highways. There were no clashes in persons.
QUERY ON BAD AXE
uncle, Charles Rubin (formerly
the center of a populated area.
Those who called the News to protest Dear Editor:
known as Szaja Rabinowicz 1. Mrs.
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As a weekly subscriber to your
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the lines as soon as they appeared were
Rosen is the daughter of Moishe
newspaper we have been fol-
Arab leaders were quick to absolve them- wise. News editors are sensitive to the fine
Rabinowicz, his brother. Mr.
lowing with interest your - His-
selves of any complicity and hastened to reactions of their readers. They figure that tory of Jews in Michigan," espe- Rubin was born in Krinki, Po-
issue a call to their people for order. Some, if one person bothered to call there are cially so the last two articles re- land about 1870.
Ills parents were Szmul and
it is true, declared that "the slay" had not hundreds who meant to but never did.
garding the oity of Bad Axe.
Dwojra Rabit(owicz. He was
We
are
interested
to
know
if
yet come, but that can be dismissed as so
Let the News editor know when you do
are still any Jewish fam- unmarried, and died in Detroit
much bluff.
not like his defamatory headlines. Only there
ilies
residing
.near Bad Axe, and some time between 1930 and
llaganah acted promptly to punish the this way can you assure yourself that they
if so how would it be possible for 1932. He was the owner of sev-
bandits responsible for the Hawaii cafe will not be repeated.
eral hotels in Detroit.
us to locate them.
killings and other outrages. They surprised
Will anyone with knowledge
STANFORD S. KOFFMAN,
the guilty Arabs in their lair and quickly
Cass City Mich of Mr. Rubin please phone Mrs.
executed them, blowing up their headquar-
Bavly at Trinity 2-4080.
ters. The woman and children who died in
FROM N. Y. REFUGEES
JEWISH SOCIAL SERVICE
Dear Editor:
the house were there unbeknown to the
BUREAU.
You may have heard abqut
llaganah soldiers, neutral New York papers
this unusual Congregation. '
TO ALL ROSENBERGS
reported.
We have dedicated ourselves
"We are determined to liquidate the
That not all the members of the Labor to a special mission for hur1 Dear Editor:
armed Arab bands an9to prevent further Party are chorus-boys to I3evin's baton was dreds of Jewish families, who\ The"writer of this is Moses Ro-
skirmishes and provocations", llaganah an- made very clear the other day when Lord escaped the Nazis. When those senberg, born April 28, 1918, son
nounced. "We know the circles of men who Strabolgi, the Labor member who before he families came to this neighbor- of Baruch and Rachel (Klein-
support and guide these murder bands and was elevated to the house of Lords was hood, we undertook to guide berg) Rosenberg of Worona-Otty-
Stanislau, Poland.
we know who is responsible for the last known as Lt. Com. J. M. Kenworthy, made a them spiritually . . . to give nia I near
lost all connection with my
statement to the press touching the Pales- them assistance . . . to help relatives during the war and
bloodshed".
them to get settled and to be-
It is with this kind of spirit that the tine problem.
come proud citizens of our would like to get in touch with
underground forces are defending the
them although I do not need any
Lord Strabolgi, it will be remembered, is wonderful country.
help. The following rela-
Homeland. More power to them,
the great protagonist of the idea of Pales- Not only through religious material
tives of my father emigrated to
services,
but
through
many
ac-
tine as a Seventh Dominion within the
the U. S. in 1918: Louis and Si-
British Commonwealth of Nations. When tivities, citizenship courses, lec- mon, my father's brothers, and
Another Partition Plan
tures, social gatherings, we are
The purported Uruguayan proposal to one reflects upon this notion, and all that it daily working toward this goal. Rifka and Blima, his sisters. 131i.
Among the students of our ma is married to M. A. Stein.
the United Nations Palestine committee for implies, one is surprised that it has not
I am a very lon'efy man and
the immediate partition of Palestine contains received wider acceptance in official circles; Hebrew School we count al- would
be thankful .fpr informa-
certanly
the
large
majority
of
Jewry
would
most
100
refugee
children,
many
several provisions that put it qt the head
h}tVe considered this a consummation great- of them provided with scholar- tion about the aboye.
of its class.
MOSES ROSENBERG,
ships, all of them educated to be
Uruguay would permit lb 'dependent Arab II, to be desired and certainly Canadian good American Jews.
65 Gartenstrasse,
Jewry
would
have
found
ideal
a
solution
and Jewish divisions to; make their own de-
Roth near Nuremberg,
To carry on and to expand
which
united
them
with
the
Yishuv
in
Pal-
cisions on immigration. The Jewish State
this terribly needed work, we
U. S. Zone, Germany
estine
not
only
by
ties
of
blood
but
also
by
would be able to open its doors up to its
bonds
of
constitutional
association.
contract, and before the ink
absorptive capacity. 1'1,10 years, at least
Brooklyn Teacher was dry, corralled the popular
jlowever, for reasons which must re-
500,000 and, perhaps, a' million Jews could
Brooklyn teacher '.W. Ith a "live"
main the secret of the Foreign Office this Goes on Record
find a refuge there. • -
audience never before acquaint-
solution
was
never
seriously
entertained.
At' the end of 10 years, the plan calls
to
Foster
Mirth
ed or addicted to Levenson hu-
for a plebiscite whose purpose the frag-
It is this which explains Lord Strabolgi's
NEW YORK.—They finally mor. Sam, the jolly, boyish-look-
mentary news dispatches on the subject do impatience as he declared that the Palestine
that high school teacher ing mathematics instructor,
not define. The plebiscite may well turn problem could find its answer in a month if caught
out in Brooklyn.
-
out to be the means whereby all of present- the parties involved were allowed, without
Sam Levenson, Tilden high launched Into his English-Yid
day Palestine could be incorporated into the outside interference, to come to terms. The school instructor whose Yiddish dish "Story 'of a Bar Mitzvah
Arabs and Jews believe Lord Strabolgi, are story-telling has been rolling Boy," and the unsuspecting aud-
Jewish State.
The Uruguayan draft provides for a not eternally incompatible elements: they Brooklynites in the aisles for ience responded.
"special jurisdiction" under the joint con- could work together just like the English years, has been nabbed by the They responded in the manner
trol of Arabs, Jews and the United Nations. and French in Canada, or the English and record industry and signed to that banquet patrons, civic, edu-
introduce his borough-famous cational and social groups by
This neutral zone would include a free trad- Dutch in South Africa. ...
comedy to the rest of the coun- the carload have responded—
ing area at Haifa, and the joint administra-
"in howls," according to the
try outside Brooklyn.
Canadian
Jewish
Chronicle,
tion would presumably have jurisdiction
Apollo Records negotiated the Apollo recording company.
Montreal, Canada.
over' the holy places. We assume that the

Fred Butzel is 70

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