t, IS411 est ontest ouncil r cup istrict f the High where fighter oven lega- ague the rued The ence ° ich vie op- nt; are Ian lan THIRTY-TWO YEARS HRONICLE OF SERVICE TO DETROIT JEWRY Vol 49. No. 54 ,,rte, 52 Friday, January 9, 1948 SEE BNAI BRITII IIIGIILIGIITS ON PAGE 7 10e a Copy $3 Per Year ZION SEEKS LEND-LEASE ARMS Zionists Here Rally Youths Eye Shertok Flies Back for Shekel Campaign Deadline With Appeal to U.S. As a climax to the campaign of the Zionist district to .ist Detroiters as Shekel-payers, entitling them to vote for delegates to the forthcoming World Zionist Congress, the ZOA has designated Sunday as "ZOA Shekel Mobilization Day." An all-out effort will be con- • • * centrated on registering every Jewish adult in the city within the Shekel fold, Harold Weis- man, chairman, said. A public demonstration for Zionism will be held at 8:30 p.m. Monday at the Northwest Hebrew Congregation. Jacques Torczyner, distinguished Belgian international lawyer and chair- man of the national Shekel cam- paign, will speak. There will be no solicitation of funds. GO DOOR TO DOOR A breakfast-rally in the Rose Sittig Cohen auditorium at 10 a.m. will launch the door to door drive here. Morris M. Ja- cobs, president of the district, will be the principal speaker. Mrs. M. S. Perlis is chairman of arrangements. Assisting her are Mrs. Nathan Spevakow, Mrs. Lawrence Crohn, Mrs. Mor- ris M. Jacobs, Mrs. Albert Feld- stein, Mrs. Harry Cascade, and Mrs. I. W. Silver. Following the breakfast, work- ers will be assigned in teams to visit Jewish families in all neighborhoods in the city. CONCRETE ACTION "Never before have the Jew- ish people been so exhilarated as they have been by the UN decision to create a Jewish State," Jacobs declared. "It is now our great opportunity to translate that emotion into con- crete action by enlisting the Jews of Detroit in the World Zionist movement by selling them Shekolim." The Zionist district will be host to all who sell one or more Shekel books at a dance Sunday evening at the Rose Sittig Co- hen auditorium. In High UHS Post for Contest With only 10 days remaining in the Jewish Chronicle's Youth Leadership contest, friends 'of candidates are accelerating ef- forts to place their favorite among the top fiv. leaders. Because the supply of ballots has been exhausted, the Chron- icle is again printing a ballot on page 14. Petitions giving name, address, school and grade of candidates and of those sign- ing will also be recognized. LEADERS LISTED Leaders to date listed alpha- betically are Alan Feinberg, Alice Jean Harris, Fred Hor- witz, Henry Lonnerstater, Shel- don Otis, Alva Sachs, Bob Stein- berg, Fred Stoller, Marshall To- HAROLD WEISMAN bin, Harold Weinstein and Ann Willis. A last minute rush as a re- sult' of the resumption of school is expected to send a flood of additional ballots into the _ Chronicle office. Over 2,000 have already been received. The winner, to be selected by Plan Will Succeed, a board- of five judges, will be He Pledges at Dinner awarded a $300 cash scholarship by the American Savings and NEW YORK (WNS)—Demand- Loan Association, 12246 Dexter boulevard. Other prizes will go ing the "speediest and most ef- to the runners-up. fective" implementation of the Palestine partition decision, An- JAN. 19 DEADLINE Judges are Adolph Deutsch, drei Gromyko, permanent Soviet Charles Rubiner, Harry Yud- delegate to the United Nations, koff, Mrs. Harry Jones and warned the "irresponsible ele- Aaron Droock, all prominent ments attempting to hamper the communal leaders. realization of the partition plan" Any Jewish youth attending that "such action cannot prevent grades 9 through 12 is eligible the final fulfillment of this de- for nomination and to vote. Ballots should be properly cision." filled out and mailed to the He made the assertion at a Youth Leadership Contest Edi- "United States - USSR - Palestine tor, The Detroit Jewish Chroni- Friendship Dinner," sponsored by cle, 548 Woodward avenue, De- the American Committee of Jew- troit 26. ish Writers, Artists and Scien- The absolute deadline is noon, tists. Dr. Emanuel Neumann, Jan. 19. president of the Zionist Organi zation of America, told the gath- ering that the orientation of the new Jewish State will be toward the United Nations. Gromyko Warns Enemies of State NEW YORK (Special)—Moshe Shertok, who is ex- petted to be the Jewish State's first foreign minister, ar- rived here with a plan to ask the United States for surplus war material on a lend-lease basis so that the Jews can enforce the UN partition decision. • • Reliable sources said that Sher- MOSHE SIIERTOK Haganah Blasts Arab-Al.lend -^ Gang Headquarters in Jerusalem Razed JERUSALEM (JTA)—Haganah assumed responsibility for the blasting of the Semiramis Hotel in the Katamon quarter of Jeru- salem during the predawn hours Monday morning in which five Arabs are known to have died. A spokesman said that the ho- tel was blown up because it was "a meeting place for Arab gangs and a distribution point for wea- pons from Jerusalem to the ad- joining Arab villages. Unfor- tunately," he added, "we cannot strike at the main headquarters of the Arab bands because it is secreted in the El Aksa Mosque." It is also known that the hotel was the headquarters for the lo- (Continued on Page 7) Head Youth Education Luncheon Gromyko pointed out that the UN Security Council "is ready in case of necessity, to deal with the question" in order to assist in getting quick action on the partition decision. Successful realization of this decision, he said, requires the cooperation of Great Britain with the United States and with the implementa- tion commission "not in words but in deeds." ALBERT ELAZAR, who has been appointed associate su- perintendent of the United Hebrew Schools. Born in Jeru- salem, Einar was graduated from Yellin's Teacher's Col- lege there and received his M. A. degree at LaSorbonne University, Paris, France. He Is a member of the executive board of the National Coun- cil of Jewish Education and past president of the Midwest Federation of Hebrew Teachers. Midtown Group to Hear the Citizen of Month Thomas Quinlan, who • was chosen citizen of the month by the Junior Chamber of Com- merce, for his work in the Western High School area, will be a speaker at the meeting of t h e Midtown Neighborhood Council Jan. 20. The meeting will also be ad- dressed by George Edwards, president of the Detroit Com- mon Council. All residents of the Twelfth street area are in- vited to attend. • tok was ready to commit Jews alone to make the partition plan effective, with the proviso that arms and money be provided and that the port of Tel Aviv be opened by Feb. 1 to permit the entry of men and arms without British interference. The Gen- eral Assembly had earlier recom- mended the opening of the port. U. S. BEST SOURCE Before leaving Palestine, Sher- tok said he would discuss arms with the UN but would attempt to obtain them from the United States alone, the New York Her- ald-Tribune reported. He said that the Yishuv badly needed armored cars, airplanes and a few field pieces to meet the threat of war from the Arabs. Other sources said that rifles, sub-machine guns, tanks and ammunition would also be needed. "The.keY to the security force of the Jewish State is in the hands of the United States," Shertok declared. "Our view is that an international force is nec- essary and desirable. But it is not for us to say whether it is practicable, and if the UN should say it is not, then it is up to us to shoulder the burden. WON'T ASK RUSSIA "If there is to be an interna- tional force, we'll like to co-op- erate. If we have to do it alone, then we will be ready for it. But to do it alone does not mean to do it unaided, and we shall then, through the United Nations, claim assistance in equipment and financial aid." Asked if he intended to re- quest arms of the Soviet Union, Shertok replied in the negative. "We value and need political support of the Soviet as well as of the United States," he said. Cargoes Checked for Explosives NEW YORK (JTA) — The American Exports Line, on one of whose freighters 65,000 pounds of TNT destined for Palestine were found, has ordered two other of its vessels in Palestine waters to check their cargoes. One, the Excelsior, is unloading at Tel Aviv while the other, the Exford, is in Haifa and has freight aboard for Tel Aviv. Officials of the Department of Justice stated in Washington that the department does not know if any law was violated, or whether any federal law was involved. "This will all be investigated," a spokesman declared. Shortly afterwards it was an- nounced that the FBI had offi- cially entered the case. British Deny Plan to Quit Before May 15 Final arrangements are being made by the Youth Education League for its Pledge Fund luncheon Jan. 27 at Masonic Temple.. Shown are chairmen of the affair at work. Left to right, Mrs. Alfred Lakin, reservations; Mrs. Morris Cohen, yearbook; -Mrs. Adolph Lichter, Honor Roll; and Mrs. Louis Fried, Pledge Fund.' Mrs. Sidney Halt is league president. JERUSALEM (JTA)—A Pales- tine government spokesman of- ficially denied reports that the government is considering relin- quishing the Mandate six weeks earl.r., r than the scheduled date of May 15. These reports, the of- ficial stated, are "pure specula- tion."