4 4 Girl and 4 Boys lop Youth Leadership Contest .7"suriA HrN icLE THIRD OF A CENTURY et,)s, \°:,% • OF SERVICE TO DETROIT JEWRY 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: r 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 - 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- . * • • 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, (Continued on Page 2) 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. IS 12 NOON lee a Copy $3 Per Year League to Chart AJC Role 5 Await Interview in Contest COPY DEADLINE 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.