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THIRTY-TWO YEARS

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Vol. 49, No. 53 ...tr.=•• 52

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Shekel Chairman

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Detroiters Bid
to Zionist Rally

JACQUES TORCZYNER

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Torcz ner to Speak
at Meeting Jan. 12

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A publie meeting of the Zion-
ist Organization of Detroit will
be addressed by Jacques Torczy-
ner, national Shekel chairman,
at 8:30 p.m., Monday, Jan. 12
at the Northwest Hebrew Con-
gregation.
Torczyner is a member of
one of the most distinguished
Jewish, families of pre-war Eur-
ope. Since his arrival in the
United States in 1940, he has
assumed a place of leadership
in American Zionism.

Judges Named
for Chronicle's
Youth Contest

Five prominent professional
and communal leaders will serve
as judges for the Jewish Chroni-
cle's Youth Leadership contest,
which ends Jan. 19.
They are Adolph Deutsch,
president of the American Sav-
ings and Loan Association, 12246
Dexter boulevard, which is do-
nating a $300 cash scholarship
to be presented the winner.
Charles Rubiner, former as-
sistant Attorney General of
Michigan and former Common
Pleas judge.
Harry Yudkoff, past president
of Pisgah Lodge, Bnai Brith,
and of District Grand Lodge
No. 6.
Mrs. Harry Jones, president of
Detroit Chapter of Hadassah.
Aaron Droock, president of
the Jewish Community Council
and National Bnai Brith and
defense leader.
With only 17 days remaining,
over 2,000 ballots have been
cast. Many more are expected
before noon, Jan. 19, the abso-
lute deadline.,
Any Jewish youth attending
grades 9 through 12 is eligible
for nomination and to vote.
Ballots should be properly
filled out and mailed ,to the
Youth Leadership Contest 'Edi-
tor, The Detroit Jewish Chroni-
cle, 548 Woodward avenue, De-
troit 26. Where no ballots are
available, petitions giving name.
address, school and grade of
candidates and of those signing
will be recognized.

SHEKEL CAMPAIGN
On Sunday, Jan. 11, a door-
to-door campaign for the sale
of Shekolim will be led by
Harold B. Weisman. Young
Judeans will join older Zionists
for breakfast at 10 a.m. at the
Rose Sittig Cohen auditorium.
From there they will proceed
to appointed neighborhoods to
canvass Jewish home's. Volun-
teers are asked to call the Zi-
onist office, Cherry 6559.

AWARD VOLUNTEERS

Charles Wolok, treasurer of
the Zionist district, will pre-
sent a Parker pen and pencil
set. to the person selling the
greatest number of Shekolim.
Young Zionists who sell a
minimum of 10 Shekolim will be
guests at a party on the eve-
:ling of "Shekel Day."

Midtown Council
to Hear Edwards

George Edwards, president of
the Detroit Common Council,
will address the Midtown Neigh-
borhood Council meeting Tues-
day, Jan. 20 at the Hutchins
School.He will speak on "What
You Can Do For Detroit and
What Detroit Can Do For You."
The talk i.; designed to show
residents of the area ways in
which they can work together
in their own neighborhood to
better living conditions.
The council is planning the
meeting as a rally of interested
citizens in the area who are
concerned with such problems
as traffic control, recreation and
the preservation of property
values.

Hostesses for Council Tea

JERUSALEM (WNS)
1 laganah and 1 rgun Zvai
Leuini have united, it was
reported by reliable Jewish
sources.

The news coincided with a re-
port that .200 Arab volunteers
crossed into Palestine from Syria
under cover of darkness to
bolster the weakened Arab
bands who have been taking a
licking from Haganah defense
forces and Irgun reprisal bat-
talions.

SHIP INTERCEPTED
The report of consolidation
of Haganah and Irgun armies
said that Menahem Beigin, Ir-
gun commander, had accepted
the supreme authority of Ha-
ganah and' had recognized the
Jewish , . Agency as the pro-
visional government of the Jew-
ish State. Irgun will retain its
units but will not operate sep-
of
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Hostesses at the tea of Detroit Section, National Council
arately. The ,report had not
Jewish Women, Monday afternoon will be Mrs. Maier Finster-
been confirmed by the Agency
wald, sitting at the left, Mrs. 1. Irving Bittker at the right,
at midweek.
and Mrs. Milton Tyner, standing,'.:,.,
Meantime, It was revealed,
two transports bearing over
15,000 uncertified Pa l e s tine-
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NCJW to Honor Presidents
of Women's Clubs at Tea

Detroit Sectibn, National Council of Jewish Women will honor
the heads of Detroit women's organizations at its annual Presi-
dents' Day Tea, to be held Monday at the Jewish Community
Center.
Mrs. Herbert M. Smith will
open the meeting at 1:45 p.m. social hour 'committee under di-
and greet presidents of organi- rection' of Mrs. Ralph Levy and
zations affiliated with the De- Mrs. Louis Landsberg.
Mrs. Maier Finsterwald, chair-
troit Federation of Women's
Clubs and the League of Jewish man of the program commit-
tee; Mrs. I. Irving •ittker, as-
Women's Organizations.
sociate financial secretary; and
Mrs \imee R. Gaines will Mrs. Milton Tyner, co-chairman
preset r. Levi A. Olan, speak- of the Brides' Group, will be
er of the day, who will discuss assisting at the door.
"A Faith for these Dark Days".
Dr. Olan is Rabbi of Temple
Emanuel in Worcester, Mass. Los Angeles Resident
Dr. Olan is a director of the
Wills $100,000 to JNF
"Worcester People's Forum" and
LOS ANGELES—Jacob Kahan
a vice-president of the "Wor-
cester Foundation for Experi- of Los Angeles, has willed to
the Jewish National Fund most
mental Biology".
Tea will be served at the of his estate valued at approxi-
close of the program by the mately $110,006,

Syetvibiess Report on Zion:

Detroiter Runs Gantlet

(This is the second eyewitness
report of recent Palestine
events by Balfour Peisner, De-
troiter, who has been visiting
his parents in Palestine. Peis-
ner is on his way back to De-
troit.)
ERUSALEM—For weeks now
the roads of Palestine have
been a virtual no-man's land,
with "battles" occurring daily.
The Palestine railways being
what they are,.life is entirely de-
pendent upon road transport. Je-
rusalem especially is vulnerable,
because its daily food supply, as
well as the million and one other
appurtenances of modern life are
brought in by truck. Consequent-
ly, the road to Jerusalem from

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Tel Aviv is th, most traveled—
and the most dangerous.
Ever since the troubles began,
Jewish vehicles have traveled
this road only in private con-
voys, the British government
having refused to provide protec-
tion.
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JOINS CONVOY
I JOINED one of these cara-
vans. It took over four hours to
assemble in Tel Aviv, and we
finally started out at 1:30 p.m.
There were seven buses, each
carrying about 35 persons, in-
cluding two drivers, and about
10 trucks loaded with food and
medicines.
A private type automobile, car-

17,000
'Illegals
on Way

rying four persons shepherded
the convoy, first running far
ahead, then falling behind it. It
was not hard to see that it was
a Haganah car, though appar-
ently the passengers carried no
weapons.
We left Tel Aviv by, way of
Givat lierzl, and Abu Kabir, the
Jaffa-Tel Aviv quarters hardest
hit by the riots.
The area, ordinarily teeming
with people at this time of day,
was deserted. All the factories
and workshops were closed. Car
lots were empty, restaurants and
shops shuttered with steel doors.
The road, ordinarily choked
with traffic, had become a play-
ground for stray dogs and cats,

Teehnion Guest

DR. WALTER LOWDER-
MILK, author of the Jordan
Valley Authority proposal for
Palestine, who will be princi-
pal speaker at the annual
dinner of the Detroit Chapter,
American Technion Society,
Saturday, Jan. 10 at the Ho-
tel Statler,

of Arab Bullets

some of whom lay basking in the Rothschild, a distance of about
warm winter sun.
two miles, the vehicles sped
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along on the straight and de-
SIGNS OF WARFARE
serted road, increasing the dis-
ON BOTH SIDES, the road was tance between them as they did.
lined with evidence of the trou-
All was going well, and the
bles of the past 'weeks. Houses people were beginning to sink
had been gutted by fire and au- into that mental stupor so com-
tomobiles wrecked. Bullet holes mon to passengers, observing the
were visible in walls.
passing scenery with unseeing
At the end of the Abu Kabir eyes, when suddenly, like a bolt
section, the caravan turned on to from the blue, they struck.
the main rotid, which was also
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comparatively dead. At the in- LEGIONNAIRES ATTACK
tersection, a lone police car was
LOOKING AHEAD, I noticed
providing the "law and order"
so often promised by the British. that we were approaching what
From there to Mikvah Israel, was called the village of Yazur.
the agricultural school sponsored It was little more than a cluster
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