Friday, February 13, 1948
Pap Eleven
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE
Eyewitness Report:
Campaign Leader
Heads Group
Chronicle Reporter Stands Guard
in Eretz Armed With Useless Rifle
military type beret and 24 bull-
ets.
The rifle, the only type al-
lowed the Jews for defense, was
Italian. It had been acquired by
the British when Marshal Gra-
ziani's decrepit Army had sur-
rendered, and it was about as
By BALFOUR PEISNER
efficient as that discredited
SHORTLY AFTER the UN de-
force. I wondered whether it
'" cision and the subsequent
wouldn't blow up if I fired it.
terrorism, virtually every man
With a second volunteer, I
in the Yishuv was called upon was sent as a re-enforcement to
to do his share in the defense
an outlying district, Ramat Aha-
of his town.
ron, which was often the object
This was not new to the of Arab attacks.
Yishuv, for it had been defend-
• • •
ing itself against the Arabs vir-
AN
EERIE
NIGHT
tually from the time of the first
THE NIGHT 'was pitch black
Bilus, though then it was against
due to heavy cloud formations.
unorganized bandits. '
Today the duty of defense is Flashes of lightning lighted our
a communal task from which way, and together with the
no male between the ages of 17 crashes of thunder which fol-
and 60 is exempt and whigh also lowed, they managed to give
calls upon men over 60, if they the night the type of setting
dramatized by the movies as
ere physically able.
"fit for a murder."
• • •
poor field of fire while the en-
emy would have good cover and
concealment in his approach.
(This is a fourth in a series
of eyewitness reports by our
Palestine correspondent, Bal-
four Peisner, who returned
from the Holy Land three
weeks ago.)
ALEX SCHREIBER (above)
has cut short his vacation in
California to accept the chair-
manship of the arts and crafts
division -of the 1948 Allied
Jewish Campaign.
JDC Draws Up
Relief Program
NEW YORK—The Joint Distri-
bution Committee will purchase
in the first six months of this
year almost 31,000,000 pounds of
milk, flour, wheat, cheese, fish and
ON
GUARD DUTY
IN REHOVAT, one night, I
other essential food supplies for
volunteered to stand guard. At 8
shipment to Europe's Jews, Moses p.m. on the appointed day, I
A. Leavitt, executive vice-chair- arrived at the guard station and
was issued something they called
man, announced.
Leavitt also 'reported a six: a rifle, a military overcoat, a
month clothing purchase program
for 2,153,000 pieces of wearing
apparel, including 77,000 suits,
`Justice:' Jew Gets
Life, Arab Pays Fine
minded me of artillery barrages,
and the orange groves I was
walking through recalled to me
the Huertgen Forest in Ger-
many.
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DAWN COMES UP
LIGHTNING AND THUNDER
continued throughout the night,
and when diorning arrived it
started to rain.
With eyes swollen from loss
of sleep and drenched to the
skin, we started out on our hike
back to Rehovot, our shoes
squishing in the new mud.
As we approached the town,
lights began twinkling in the
windows, as people began get-
ting up to go to Work.
Walking out. to the position
Slowly the lights began fad-
reminded me of other times I
had marched in the night, carry- ing as the grey light of dawn
ing a weapon, keeping ever on grew stronger, and I watched
the alert and observing every- them wondering how long it
thing which passed within sight would be before they could turn
or hearing.
on those lights in peace and se-
The crashes of thunder re- curity.
103,000 dresses, 213,000 pairs of
JERUSALEM (WNS)—A Brit-
shoes, 880,000 pieces of undergar- ish' military court in Palestine
How different, was my situa-
ments, 506,000 pairs of socks and handed down the following sen-
tion now. In Germany I had a
stockings, 176,000 shirts, 54,000 tences last week:
great army behind me. Artillery
blouses and 77,000 skirts.
Mordechai Ben Aryeh Sofer and air support, supply lines,
(a Jew), charged with discharg- communications, and hosts of
ing a firearm, to be imprisoned reserves. Here I felt I was walk-
LET US HELP YOU
for life.
PLAN YOUR AFFAIRS!
ing alone.
Mohamed El Haj Hussein
1 could be shot from ambush,
Nimer (an Arab), charged with and not be discovered for a
'ORCHESTRAS
discharging a firearm, to pay long time.
TY. 4-0296
JO. 4-6637 small fine or three months in de-
fault. (Fine paid same day.)
INVITES DEATH
YOUR FIRST TASTE TELLS
YOU IT'S DIFFERENT!
To top it all off, my partner
had had no military training,
and every once in a while step-
ped out into the open to light a
cigarette. Hail anyoliql, been
watching the village, they could
have shot him in the head with;
out his ever learning where the
shot came from.
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WE TOOK UP our position at
the edge of a cluster of houses.
Together with two fellows at
the other end of town, we form-
ed the entire- defense.
It seemed terribly inadequate,
for any attack would undoubted-
-1y be in force and we could not
possibly, hope to stop them, let
alone drive them off. In addi-
tion, our position seemed ter-
ribly vulnerable to my military-
trained mind, since we had a
3 Michigan Cities
to Get SOS Award
Convert Rebuked
for Dishonest Act
(Continued from Page 3)
"And I'm surprised at you
Zilch! You who have always
keen a cautious business man
trade in your Judaism for an
insurance policy that you can't
be too sure will pay off.
"Don't you remember Jews
like you in Germany who
changed their religion to make
their children safe? Hitler got
them, anyway, and they went
to the incinerators with all the
rest."
Pavolotcher's Party
to Aid the Histadrut
are Alma
Titeratt iht RTINT
eftlIt'
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Nordau Chapter
in Full Swing
DR. BERNARD WESTON
•
New Zionist Group
Is Formed for Stud„,,,,,r
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Detroit's newest Zionist chap-
ter is in full swing, Dr. Bernard
Weston, chairman, announced.
It is the Max Nordau Chap-
ter, limited to business and pro-
fessional men in the 30 to
Chapter of .which it is an out-
growth, it is little interested
Schmidt's
5 it . keine.
Proceeds of the Pavolotcher Aid
Society's card party, scheduled
for Monday at the Bereznitzer
Hall, Linwood and Davison ave-
nues, will go to the Palestine
Jlistaclrut campaign.
concerned with the study
WILL TAKE
E TC.
FOR cOMNETE
INFORMATION
TO.6-1505
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of
Zionist and general Jewish af-
Jewish Congress
Postpones Sesiiion
NEW
YORK (WNS)T-Dr.
Stephen S. Wise, president of
the World Jewish Congress,
announced that its second session
has been postponed from Feb-
ruary to May 18.
flic ,
The postponement resulted
from urgent appeals from Latin
American countries, the United
States and Palestine which could
not have full and representative
delegations before May, Dr. Wise
said.
Chenstochover Farein
to Celebrate 13th Year
The Chenstochover Rajoner Fa-
rein will celebrate its 13th anni-
versary at a banquet, Feb. 22 at
Lachar's. The poblic is invited
and reservations may be obtain-
ed from Helen Sborow, TO. 6-
7983.
38 FAMOUS VARIETIES
erpet mietosati
HOMEC1/111k
in
social affairs and is primarily
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PICTURES OF...
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age group. Unlike, the Haifa
the resurrection were best for fairs.
your soul. I couldn't have
Rabbi Irwin 'Gordon of the
agreed with your conclusions llillel Foundation at Wayne is
but Would have respected you presenting a series of talks at
if you had come to the Episcopal the meetings of the chapter
church by sincere faith.
every third Tuesday at the Rose
"Indeed, I would have wished Sittig Cohen Bldg. Ills topic
you my best in your endeavor for the meeting Feb. 17 is
to be a 'good and exemplary "Roots of Modern Confusion".
Christian. But your idea of
Officers besides Weston are
Christianity is that it's a kind Abe Rosenzweig, program; Ru-
of insurance policy for your ben Gold, membership; Sherman
kids. Really, this isn't being a Shapiro, political action; Dr. Ja-
good Christian any more than cob Weinstein, educational; and
you were a good Jew.
Jack Stern publicity.
"You turn out to be nobody,
Membership is by application
Zilch. Not a Jew, not a Chris- only. For information, call Wes-
tian, either; just a policyholder. ton at VErmont 7-4374..
NEW YORK—A total of 135
cities in the United States, in-
cluding Detroit, Benton Harbor
and Pontiac, will be awarded
the SOS Certificate of Merit this
Zilch said he had business to
week. Mrs. Isaac Gilman, nation-
take care of and had to cut this
al SOS co-chairman, announced.
talk short. He ventured the
"The certificate," Mrs. Gilman
opinion, rather sourly I thought,
said, "is being awarded these
that I had enough to do to look
cities in recognition of their hav-
after my widgets.
ing achieved 100 percent or more
of their over-all quotas of relief
supplies for Europe's needy
Jews."
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