; Friday, January 2, 1943

DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE

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Detroit Writer Runs Gantlet
of Arab Bullets on Convoy

Chairman

British Hold 2 Vets
in Attack on Fascist

LONDON (JTA)—TWO leaders of the British Jewish
veterans organization "The Forty-three Croup" are being
held undor arrest without bail on the charge of shooting
"with intent to murder" at John Preen, founder of the
British fascist Vigilantes Action League.

the upholstery of the seat ahead
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of buildings around an Arab cof- of me. All in all only five peo-
fee house, but called a village pie had been injured.
After we stopped, the police
because it had once housed a
Police alleged that the two—
appeared, and began searching
police station.
Gerald Flambe;g, 25, and John tapo men who broke into the in-
I had gone through this "vil- the caravan for weapons. A pis-
Wymbourne, 20—fired at Preen stitution when the children were
lage" hundreds of times in the tol was found in the possession
from a car hired by Flamberg. asleep.
past six months, so it was with of one of the truck drivers. He
Flamberg is chairman of "The
little concern that I observed its was arrested and his truck con-
Forty-three Group" and has an
outstanding war record. He
sun baked huts, and orange fiscated.
Other drivers pleaded in vain
groves lining the road. I did,
fought in Africa and Holland
however, notice an Arab Legion with the police to go back to
where he was captured. He was
' truck partly blocking the road, rescue the driver whose truck
disabled by wounds and is now
with four legionnaires starling had gone into the ditch.
on a government pension. Wym-
While
we
were
stopped,
a
con-
alongside.
bourne has a good war record.
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voy
of
Arab
vehicles
passed
us
Suddenly, the legionnaires be-
Meanwhile, the Edinburgh
bound
refugees sailed through
coming
from
the
opposite
direc-
gan shooting at us. More shots,
Trades Council adopted a resolu-
the
Bosporous.
and rocks came from the orange tion. There were 12 British army
tion
urging
that
the
government
BEN SIDLOW
Another ship with an estima-
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grove from the other side of the trucks jammed with Arab youths
outlaw all fascist organizations,
around
military
age,
and
many
particularly Sir Oswald Mosley's ted 750 Jewish immigrants was
road.
intercepted by British warships
The sides of the bus resounded other Arab buses and trucks.
latest "Uilion Movement." The
in Palestine's territorial waters.
from virtually continuous pound- Every third vehicle in the con-
resolution also calls for legisla-
A ship with approximately 650
ing by rocks. Auto windows were voy was an escort, either a tank,
tion providing heavy penalties
immigrants was also said to
shattered by both rocks and bul- a bren gun carrier, or a light
for all persons who advocate an-
truck with 10 or so heavily
have
been intercepted.
ti-Semitism and other forms of
lets.
The two vessels passing the
The gunfire was virtually con- armed British soldiers protecting
race
hatred.
Bosporus were the Fan Crescent
tinuous, and we could feel the this Arab convoy through this
It was reported that Mosley is
Character Actor
muzzle blasts, the shots were purely Arab territory.
involved in the efforts of Arab and Pan York. They left an-
After the convoy had passed,
coming from so close. The road
groups in England to recruit chOr after inspection by Turkish
at Shaarey Zedek
an Arab was seen leaving one of
had become a battlefield.
anti-Semitic volunteers to fight officials.
The two ships were said to
In the bus itself pandemonium the groves ahead, and entering
in Palestine against the Jews.
actor,
Baruch
Lumet,
character
have
reached Constanza, Roma-
broke out with the first shot, a panel truck which had appear-
Earlier this week Home Secre-
though the people, either by in- ed. As the truck approached our will appear before the Men's Club tary James Chuter Ede told a nia, about three months ago,
stinct or by following the ex- stopped caravan it was halted by of Shaarey Zedek at 8:30 p.m., delegation of the National Coun- when preparations were made
to ship uncertified immigrants
ample of others, fell to the floor. some of the drivers who tried Wedn4sday, Jan. 7.
Lumet is known for his por- cil of Civil Liberties that the to Palestine.
Seized with panic, old women to drag the Arab out, claiming
government
was
considering
aboard began screaming, one that he was carrying a sten gun trayals of Jewish life taken from whether it would be desirable to
SELL BELONGINGS
past and contemporary Jewish
adding a touch of the ludicrous (the British "Tommy Gun").
against fascist
The refugees who were desig-
A policeman approached with literature. He changes his make- tighten the laws
in
by crying out, "I dont want this,
and anti-Semitic propaganda
pistol drawn and ordered the up and costumes on the stage view of the recent acquittal of nated for the trip had sold and
I don't want this."
drivers away from the Arab and gives the audience the op- James Caunt, editor of a weekly disposed of all their belongings,
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truck, waving it on. When told portunity of seeing the actor which printed an incitement to including homes, in preparation
JEWS UNARMED
that the Arab had a sten gun, transform from one character to violence against Jews during last for the voyages. In the mean-
MEANWHILE, the hail of bul- his only comment was:
another.
time the Jewish Agency was
lets continued, and eVeryone
The program will be presented summer's riots.
reported to have ordered can-
"Very interesting." .
could not but help be terror•
in Yiddish and English.
cellation of the ships' departure
stricken, not only because of the
Albert Green, president of the
in compliance with a promise
vulnerability of our position, but
club, has announced that Ben Pakistan Denies
to the UN that it would halt
also because of our utter help-
Sidlow will act as chairman of Massacre of Jews
illegal immigration.
the evening with Joseph Ziff as
lessness.
Jewish leaders in Romania
LONDON (WNS)—Denying re-
The British, while promising
co-chairman. Sidlow is secretary
that Jews in Peshawar had decided, according to reports, to
ports
to maintain law and order, for-
of the congregation.
been massacred, the Pakistan order the ships cleared because
bade the private possession of
Yehudith Simchonith, pioneer
high commissioner has informed they felt there was no other
weapons, making an attempt to leader of the Palestine Women's
the World Jewish Congress that way out of the situation.
protect yourself in cases like this Labor Council, will speak at the
The resignation of Moshe
since the UN partition decision
felony
punishable
by
law.
If
a
annual donor event of the Pio-
special protection has been ar- Sneh from the Jewish Agency
you succeeded in killing one of neer Women's Organization of
ranged for the Jews in that city. executive was reported to have
the attackers, the government in- Detroit at 8:30 p.m. Tuesday,
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been the aftermath of the
variably charged you with mur- Jan. 13 in the Masonic Temple.
Adele Feldman, radio and
Agency's refusal to sanction the
"clash
between
Jews
and
stage
singer,
will
entertain
at
departure of the two ships.
. der in a
A program of Palestinian and
Slayer
of
Orphans
Arabs."
In the meantime Arab-Jewish
,Yiddish songs will be presented a meeting of Chapter One, Zi-
Bullets continued to fly, each by Cantor Leibele Waldman.
Is
Hanged
in
Poland
onist Organization of Detroit,
clashes showed no signs of abat-
additional shot sending bolts of
WARSAW (WNS)—After his ing. The death toll in Palestine
Contributions from individu- at 8:30 p.m., Thursday, in the
terror through our hearts, while als and groups for child rescue, Bnai Moshe social hall. The ses- plea for clemency was rejected as a result of those clashes has
the acrid smell of gun powder building fund and other activ- sion is open to members only. Piotr Leideritz, former Gestapo reached a total of over 900. A
filled our nostrils. I fejt exactly
Leo Weisman, father of Har- leader who was convicted of re- clash at the Damascus gate in
ities. of the organization are al-
as a duck in a shooting gallery ready coming in, according to old Weisman, chapter president, sponsibility for the mass execu- Jerusalem claimed the lives of
must.
Mrs. Michael Michlin, chairman will speak on Palestine. He has tion of 60,000 Jews in Kolomeja, 12 Arams, twp British constables
Then it was over, almost as
4ew.
of the campaign. The goal has just returned from a visit in Galicia, was hanged here.
Under his personal supervision, and one
suddenly as it began. Looking been set at $78,000. ,
Eretz Israel.
back I saw one of the trucks in
Proceeds of the group's vic- it was established at the trial,
. The need for rescue of chil-
the ditch alongside the road.
European and Arab tory dance, nearly $150, are be- all children at the Kolomeja
dren
in
If the driver was not already
is greater than ever ing turned over for defense of Jewish orphan asylum were ma-
dead, it was quite certain that countries
chine gunned by a unit of Ges-
the new Jewish State.
before, Mrs. Michlin declared.
an Arab cutthroat in the grove
would make short work of him.
It later turned out that he had
un-
been shot dead "by persons
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stopped to take stock. An ex-
amination of the vehicles left
us all in awe. One bullet had
gone through the bus halfway
between me and the person be-
bind me. Another had entered

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