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Vol. 50, No. 2
4511)1. 52
Friday, January 30, 1918
One girl and four boys are the
finalists in the Jewish Chronicle's
Youth Leadership Contest.
They are listed alphabetically:
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Jews Clear Roads;
50 Arabs Reported
Dead in Fierce Fight
MARSHALL TOBIN, Cass Tech
senior, member of AZA and Hab-
onim and president of Star Delta,
a club composed of all electrical
students at Cass.
JNF Unit Presents
Gift at Donor Event
United Nations failure to back
up its decision to partition Pales-
tine was blamed for the fighting
there by Mayor Israel Rokach of
Tel Aviv before audiences here
Tuesday and Wednesday.
He spoke to a huge crowd
Tuesday evening at the donor
event of the Ladies Auxiliary of
the Jewish National Fund at
the Masonic Temple. Mayor Ro-
kach was presented with an
$85,000 cheek for reclamation
work in Palestine.
On Wednesday he was honor-
ed at a luncheon of the officers
Of the Jewish Welfare Federa-
tion at the Book Cadillac
Rokach pleaded for arms to
ermit the Jews to defend them-
ives and urged the UN to
send an international police force
to the fighting areas.
The League of Jewish Women's Organization has designated Feb.
9 as "Women's Division Day." At a meeting that day in Bnai
Moshe, the group will draw up plans for its participation in
the 1948 Allied Jewish Campaign. Guest speaker will be
Stefan Ileym, author, lecturer and radio commentator A
luncheon will be served at 1 p.m. by the Bnai Moshe- ,ter-
hood. Above are Mrs. Harry Becker, left, progra,/
man,
and Mrs. John Hopp, vice-chairman of the Womc
avision
campaign.
Dr. Golub to Show Donors
Slides of Jewish Hospital
Dr. J. J. Golub, consultant on
the new Jewish Hospital, will
meet with contributors and with
Jewish physicians this weekend,
joining with the hospital archi-
tects in a presentation of the
completed hospital plans and a
scale model of the first unit.
Jewish physicians and their
wives have been invited to see
slides of the building at a meet-
ing at 8 p.m., Saturday at the
Center. Contributors to the 1944
drive for hospital funds will
meet with Dr. Golub and the
architects at 2:30 p.m., Sunday
at the Ccnter.
224 BED UNIT
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Max Osnos, president of the
hospital association, announced
that the first unit will provide
for 224 beds and 60 bassinets for
new-born babies
The Hospital will be erected
on a 34-acre site at Outer drive,
McNichols road, Whitcomb ave-
nue and Lauder avenue.
"The new Jewish Hospital will
be devoted to the care of acute-
ly and chronically sick people
regardless of race, creed or col-
.
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or," said Dr. Golub. "It will be
a Jewish hospital staffed by
carefully selected and proficient
physicians.
EDUCATIONAL AIM
"It will have facilities for
medical education and instruc-
tion for undergraduates, general
practitioners and specialists. It
will be fully equipped with sci-
entific and technical apparatus
and precision instruments for
diagnostic, therapeutic and in-
vestigational purposes."
"It will also engage in nursing
education or affiliate with exist-
ing schools of nurses for the pur-
pose."
Emphasizing that the hospi-
tal will serve community needs,
Dr. Golub said that service will
be furnished "to the poor and
low income groups in the popu-
lation, free, below cost and at
cost, as well as to those in the
population who can afford to
pay for their hospital care."
Gunfire Fails
to Halt British
Ritual in Eretz
JERUSALEM (Special)—With-
in earshot of gunfire, the British
in Palestine conducted an investi-
ture ceremony amid all the cus-
tomary pomp.
Top-hatted, frock-coated Brit-
ish officials participated after
traveling to Government House
under escort. Twenty-eight Brit-
ons, 24 Arabs and 13 Jews re-
ceived awards for meritorious
service.
Mayor Joseph Saphir of Petach
Tikvah sent his regrets. He said
he was too busy.
W
FRENCH RELENT
PARIS (JTA).--The minister
of justice promised that he
would quash all pending prose-
cutions against Jews charged
with entering the country illeg-
ally and pardon those who have
first caih ailed or fined.
At least one Arab was killed
and 11 wounded when an Arab-
chauffeured bus hit a landmine
on the road between Jerusalem
and Bethlehem.
Seven Arabs died in the Tel
Aviv vicinity, as a result of Ha-
ganah attacks to clear the high-
ways of Arab raiders and Arab
traffic and an attack on the
Jaffa boundary. Three of the
The Detroit Rabbinate has Arabs died when the Ilaganah
scored a signal success in the attacked Yazur, scene of a bloody
first weeks of its campaign to ambush last week, while an
ban the use of the terms "Ko- Arab truck driver was shot In
sher" and "Kosher Style" by his cab.
restaurants and delicatessens CASUALTIES HIGH
which do not sell strictly Kosher
A bitter battle on the Jerusa-
food, Rabbi Joshua Sperka re-
lem-Tel Aviv road marred the
ported this week.
quietest weekend in Palestine
All five restaurants requested since the UN decision. The en-
to remove their Kosher signs at counter, in which several hun-
the start of the crackdown com- dred heavily armed Arabs and a
plied, said Rabbi Sperka, who large Haganah unit participated,
represents the Council of Ortho- resulted in casualties estimated
dox Rabbis.
at eight to 14 Jews and two to
"They accepted our contention 50 Arabs killed, depending on
that only restaurants observing the sources of the figures..• • •
all religious requirements should
The Jewish Agency lashed out
be permitted to bear the Kosher at the Palestine authorities charg-
sign, Rabbi Sperka said.
ing that the death of seven Jew-
All other restaurants and deli- ish settlement policemen near
catessens in the city will now Yazur Thursday' was the fault
be requested to abandon the use of officials who refused to per-
mit the use of armored settle-
of the label, he added.
"Those who refuse," he said, ment police cars out of the
"will be cited before the Jewish neighborhood to which they
Community Council, and if this were assigned.
A liaganah unit attacked the
mild, action fails, we will be
forced to carry our case to the Arab settlement of Yibna, south
of Rehovoth, where 11 Jews were
courts."
A Michigan statute specifically killed last week, and blew up
prohibits the misuse of the between 15 and 20 houses.
Kosher label.
MORE SYRIANS ENTER
A battalion of trained troops
Radio Programs Mark from Syria arrived this week in
the Arab town of Nablus, which
Music Month Here
has become the headquarters of
Jewish Music Month is being the terrorist. bands. The guer-
celebrated, here with weekly rillas, estimated at 700, were
broadcasts on the Altman Jewish ceremoniously received and the
Hour. Arranged by the music commander was taken on a tour
department of the Jewish Cen- of the vicinity to map plans for
ter, the programs will end Feb. attacks on Jewish settlements.
22.
At Lake Success, the Jewish
Agency submitted a memoran-
Zionist Director
dum to the UN Implementation
Commission requesting immedi-
ate steps for the recruitment, or-
ganization and establishment of
a Jewish militia in Palestine
consisting of between 30,000 and
35,000 men.
Emphasizing that the use of an
international force to implement
the UN decision would be "high-
ly desirable" and that the Jew-
ish militia would cooperate with
it if such a force is established,
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Restaurants
Bow to Rabbis
on Sign Curb
FRED STOLLER, a junior and
honor student at Central, where
he is a student council member.
Rokach Is Given
$85,000 Check
ON MONDAYS
JERUSALEM (JTA)—A new Jewish campaign to clear
the highways of Arab roadblocks and ambushes and also
to disrupt and harry Arab traffic on the roads around Jeru-
salem and between that city and the main coastal cities and
towns has been put into effect.
ALAN FEINBERG, 11th grade
student at Central High School
and president of the Junior Con-
egation at Shaarey Zedek.
FRED HORWITZ, honor - stu-
dent in the 10-A class at Central
and member of the junior con-
gregation.
ANN WILLIS, member of the
Bnal Brith Girls, the Contem-
porary Theater Group and 10th
grader at Central.
These contestants, who received
over half of the 2,500 ballots cast,
will appear before a board of
five judges, who will decide the
winner.
Leadership in the school and
community, personality, character
and leadership will all be consid-
ered in the judging.
The board, composed of Adolph
Deutsch, Charles Rubiner, Harry
Yudkoff, Mrs. Harry Jones and
Aaron Droock, will also confer
with teachers, Rabbis and organ-
izations to determine which stu-
dent is most likely to be the out-
standing leader of the future.
To their top selection will be
presented a ;300 cash scholar-
ship offered by the American
"Savings and Loan Association,
12246 Dexter boulevard. Prizes
will also be awarded to the four
runners-up.
Announcement of the winner
will be made in a forthcoming
Chronicle.
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Registration hi On
in UHS Branches
DR. J. 3. GOLUB
A new term starts this week
in all branches of the United
Hebrew Schools. Parents are
arged not to delay registration.
Zionists Mobilize
to Spur Campaign
SAUL GOTTLIEB, author and
former associate director of
the Bronx Zionist Region, whb
is the first director of the new-
ly-created Michigan Zionist Re-
gion. Be is also field director
of the Ohio Valley Zionist Re-
gion.
Zionist leaders here will meet
Monday at 8:30 p.m. to plan mo-
bilization of all Zionists behind
the United Jewish Appeal. The
conference will be held at Shaa-
rey Zedek. _
Ellis Radinsky of the United
Palestine Appeal will speak.
Zionist parties and funds have
agreed that because the record
$250,000,000 UJA goal is based on
the needs of the emerging Jew-
ish State, Zionist forces should
unite their efforts in helping at'.
tain the quota.