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DETROIT JEWRY
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Vol. 49, No. 46
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Friday, November 14, 1947
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By RUDOLPII MEYERSOIIN
One of the world's largest and most enterprising Bnai
Brith lodges, Pisgah of Detroit, will celebrate itg Ninetieth
Anniversary Tuesday with impressive ceremonies at a ban-
quet in the Fountain room of the Masonic, at which repre-
sentatives of all faiths will join.
The dinner will start at 6:30 p.m. on the date officially
proclaimed by Mayor Edward J. Jeirries as J3nai Brith Day
as a tribute to the patri6tism and service of Pisgah Lodge.
Rabbi Arthur J. Lelyveld, of
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JERUSALEM (WNS) — Plans
for convening a Constituent As-
sembly in Jerusalem to establish
a Jewish Provisional Government
are being studied by the Jewish
Agency. ,
While the plans are in the
formative stage, a decision has
New York who will succeed Dr.
already been reached to con-
delegates at the UN Assembly
Abram L. Sachar as national di-
voke the Zionist Actions Commit-
MORRIS KARBAL
said.
rector of Bnai Brith Hillel Foun-
tee some time after the close of
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Under the agreement, the
dations on Jan. 1, will be the
the UN General Assembly, so that
British would have to perform
principal speaker at the ban-
the combined groups might form
a service which they have re-
quet.
the Constituent Assembly.
jected in advance, the use of
.
RIGHTIST
DEMAND
WRITER-LECTURER
their troops in Palestine to main-
A demand that the Jewish Na-
tain order until May.
Rabbi Lelyveld, a graduate of
tional Assembly be enlarged to
Hebrew Union College, has occu-
Sunday marks the concluding include representatives of groups
If the British refuse, there
pied important pulpits before
will be a great gap in the UN day of the Layman's Institute of npt now represented and then be
serving during the past year as
program to partition Palestine Jewish Studies in Detroit, which convened the purpose of
associate national director of
into Jewish and Arab States is in progress at Shaarey Zedek. electing the provisional govern-
Hillel Foundations. He has writ-
At that time, a dinner will be ment has been made by the right-
since the international body has
ten for many Jewish publications
no force of its own to replace held, with three speakers on wing Citizens' Bloc. The floc is
and has been in demand as a
hand to address guests.
the British army.
opposed to any arrangement by
lecturer throughout the country.
They
are
Rabbi
Morris
Adler,
which the government would be
Under the American-Russian
Leaders of the community will
agreement, in which both sides Dr. Leon J. Liebreich of Gratz chosen by the Agency or the WNW
felicitate Pisgah Lodge at the
made concessions, the Mandate College, Philadelphia, and Rabbi Zionist Actions Committee, argu-
RABBI LELYVELD
90th Anniversary Banquet. Be-
would terminate May 1, 1948. Henry Fisher of Congregation ing that it should be chosen only
cause of the prominent non-Jews
Bnai
Zion,
Chicago.
by
residents
of
Palestine.
The two new states would be-
who will grace the speakers ta-
Christian
Woman
Wills
A
joint
manifesto
which
calls
Norman
Snider
is
chairman
of
come independent as soon there-
ble, the banquet will have a
after as ible but in no case the program of the institute, as- upon the Palestine Jewish com- $5000 to United Appeal semblance of a brotherhood
sisted by Morris M. Karbal, co- munity to accept national disci-
later than .,uly 1, 1948.
BOULDER, Colo.—A Christian meeting with the Hon. Joseph A.
chairman. Karbal has also ex- pline, to oppose extortions, rob- woman, Mrs. Hattie Eckhardt, Moynihan, presiding judge of
Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, U.S.
tended financial support to the beries and murders and to iso- had bequeathed $5,000 to the Michigan Circuit Courts, repre-
delegate at the UN Social, Hu-
late those who 'Support such United Jewish Appeal.
senting the Catholic faith, and
manitarian and Cultural Com- project.
methods has been issued by all
"The bequest is the final ex- the Rev. Walton E. Cole, minis-
Chairmen
of
other
committees
Arab
an
to
mittee, objected
labor
groups
in
the
country.
pression of Mrs. Eckhardt's life- ter of the First Congregational
resolution before the body which include Dr. Morris M. Burnstein,
3,000 TO QUIT ISLE
long attitude toward Christian Church, • representing Protestant
is aimed at preventing immi- study courses, Dr. Harry Bur-
Clashes between Haganah and
gratinn "likely to disturb friend- stein, Friday night services, and Irgun leaflet squads, in which po- and Jewish oppressed alike,"
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said Dr. Max L. Welker, a friend.
Ben S. Sidlow, banquet.
ly .tions between nations."
lice have lately been intervening,
are still going on. Last Thursday
a bomb explosion wrecked the
offices in Jaffa of the anti-Mufti
Arab weekly. "Nida el Ard."
As a result of negotiations be-
tween the Jewish Agency and the
NEW YORK (JTA)—United Nations approval of Palestine
WARSAW (JTA)—The illegal emigration of Jews from Po- Palestine Government, 3,000 wom- partition. will mean little unless it is implemented by a Jordan
en and children among the Jew- Valley Authority which could provide cheap power for industry
land has resumed in recent weeks and about 1,500 Jews have left
ish internees on Cyprus will soon and water for the Negev, Henry A. Wallace said at a dinner on
the country in the last month.
receive immigration certificates to Palestine sponsored by the Progressive Citizens of America.
In this mass movement, in contrast to earlier migrations from
interests
financial
Poland since the liberation, the persons involved are almost all Palestine.
"Large
should cooperate with the World
members of Zionist parties or-
Bank in making the JVA a re-
ganized in Hechalutz training
ality and the northern Negev a
centers. An additicnal 4,000 Zion-
garden as soon as possible after
ist men and women are expected
the majority report of UNSCOP
to make their way toward Pal-
has been adopted," the former
estine before the newest wave
vice-president said.
recedes.
He reported - that he had found
The Polish border guards, as
no expectation in Palestine that
well as the Czechoslovak author-
"there would be serious conflict
ities, have in most instances
between the Jewish and Arab
looked the other way when
peoples of Palestine once parti-
these groups, usually organized
tion was an accomplished fact.
on the basis of the training cen-
No matter what top-flight Arabs
ter in which the members for-
may say, there is no indication
merly lived, crossed the frontier.
that the rank and file of the
Several groups were detained for
Arab people are preparing to use
a short while at Polish guard
any type of violence," he con-
posts, but were eventually re-
tinued.
leased.
Wallace said that without ade-
The Czechs are lenifnt because
quate UN enforcement, King
they know that the Jews will
Abdullah of Transjordan might
continue through their country
move into the Arab section, but
en route to France or Italy
there is no danger of invasion
ves-
a
where they hope to board
from north or the east.
sel for Palestine.
Abdullah told him that. he
number
of
former
Jewish
A
planned to visit the U.S. within
officers and non-commissioned
the next year or two, Wallace
officers in the Polish army have
said, expressing the hope that
been among those who made
when the Transjordan monarch
their way out of the country re-
is here a program can be worked
cently. More are - preparing to
out for a JVA. He said that Ab-
leave.
dullah has little interest in de-
Photo by Jark nigelman
Originally the military author-
veloping industry in Transjordan,
be returned to Mich-
to
Funeral services for Pvt. Albert Fields, first of the Jewish war dead
ities refused to accept applica-
but would like to develop the
igan,
were
held
last
Sunday
at
the
Lewis
Bros.
Chapel
under
the
auspices
of
the
Rosenwald
tions for demobilization from the
port of Aqaba to enable him to
Post
of
American
Legion
and
the
Jewish
War
Veterans.
Rabbi
Morris
Adler
officiated.
Burial
officers and non-corns because
export grain without using the
was at Alachpelah Cemetery. Pvt. Fields, 24, husband of Lillian Fields of 15356 Freeland ave-
they said that the men were
Suez Canal.
nue, was killed Dec. 12, 1944, in France. lie had been awarded the Silver Star, third highest
The number of settlers who
needed as cadres to train re-
army combat medal. Pallbearers were, left side, Sam Curtis, Al Curtis and Robert Morrison.
will eventually be able to settle
cruits. -
Right side, Dave Horwitz, Irwin Cohen and Louis Gottlieb. Other survivors include a son
Some of the Jews carried their
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of 3786 Glynn Court; and three sisters.
Sander, age 5; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Sam Finkelstein
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LAKE SUCCESS, L.I.-
'(Special)—Britain holds a
virtual veto over the Amami-
can•ltussian compromise plan
for Palestine and can make
it useless if she chooses.
Dinner to Climax
Study Institute
Zionists Quit Poland
in mmugration Wave
Jordan Valley Scheme
Vital, Wallace Asserts
War Hero Laid to Rest in Detroit Soil
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