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Friday, June 4, 1948

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Urges U.S. Rush Navy to Israel

President Visits President

Dr. Chaim 1Veizmann, Israel's first president, talks with Presi-
dent Truman about the Palestine problem during his recent
visit to the White House. Ile presented a Torah scroll to
Mr. Truman.

Haganah Fights 2 Enemies

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Council to Elect 14 Members Back Up
of Executive Board June 10 UN, Asks

The Jewish Community Council will elect 14 members to its
executive board at a delegates meeting at 8:15 p.m., Thursday,
June 10 in the Brown Memorial Chapel of Temple Beth El.
Twelve of the candidates will
be elected to replace one-third American Jewish Committee;
of the executive board mem- Rabbi Jacob Segal, Northwest
bers whose terms expire this Hebrew Congregation; Harry Na-
year. The new terms will run than, Jewish War Veterans; and
until 1951. In addition, a va- Morris Zwerdling, Bnai Brith
cancy is to be filled for a term Council.
expiring in 1950, and another for
For the term expiring in 1950:
a term expiring in 1949.
Mrs. Samuel Green, women's
The 12 nominated for the term division, American Jewish Con-
ending in 1951 are as follows: gress.
Henry Abramovitz, of the Bnai
For the term expiring in 1949:
Brith Pisgah Lodge; Joseph Louis Berry, Zionist Organiza-
Bernstein, of the Detroit Ser- tion of Detroit.
vice Group; William FriedMan,
At the last delegates meeting,
of the United Jewish Charities; the above names were pre-
Judge Theodore Levin, of the sented by the nominating com-
United Jewish Charities; Samuel mittee and were unanimously
Rhodes, Jewish War Veterans: accepted by the delegates.
There were no nominations
Irving Schlussel, Mizrachi; Isi-
dore Sobeloff, Jewish Welfare from the floor, and these will be
Federation; Mor r is Garvett, the only names which will be
Temple Israel; Ralph Mayer, voted on on June 10.

tnewhere in Israel members of the llaganah in action
staving oft attacks of British-armed Arabs.

Memorial Fund
to Honor Butzel

The Jewish Welfare Federa-
tion has set up a Fred M. Byt
zel Memorial Fund to honor thit
late communal leader, Julian
H. Krolik, president, revealed.
The nature of the memorial
to Mr. Butzel, who died May
20, will be determined by the
Federation board in consultation
with members of Mr. Butzel's
family, Krolik said. Memorial
gifts already received will be
placed in the fund.
United Jewish Appeal leaders
meeting in New York, May 23,
joined in a standing vote of
tribute to Mr. Butzel and formu-
lated the following memorial ex-
pression signed by• the national
UJA chairman, Henry Morgen-
thau, Jr. • •
"A symbol of all that was best
in the life of America and of
the Jewish people, Fred M. But-
zel added luster to our people
not only in Detroit but in the
nation. It is men like Fred M
Butzel who have made this na-
tion great and we rededicate
ourselves in his spirit to make
enduring the work to which he
contributed so much during his
lifetime:"

Stassen

(lived al to t he ('hronkle)

Harold Stassen urged the
United States to send its
fleet to Palestine "as a means
of protecting the residents

of Israel from continued slaugh-
ter."
In the meantime, Arab artil-
lery and planes, in defiance of
the UN, broke the truce order
the Arabs had agreed to obey
only a few hours before.
CAN ENFORCE TRUCE
Stassen, in his address at a
veterans rally, asked "that the
United States send a major por-
tion of its navy to Palestine to
carry out policy directions of the
UN and to enforce the request
for a truce."
Within the UN, there was the
customary confusion over the
Palestine question. Although a
deadline was set for the end of
hostilities to inaugurate a four
week truce, both Israeli and
Arab replies were qualified and
TEL AVIV, Israel — (World there was no certainty that the
News Serviced--During the his- truce would continue.
toric' emergency session held in FREE OF INVADERS
Tel Aviv .to ratify the decision
The Israeli delegation issued
setting up the Jewish State, a military report Tuesday charg-
Rabbi Meir Berlin of Mizrachi ing that Arab communiques gave
a distorted impression and as-
serted that despite two weeks of
attempted invasion by five Arab
armies, "the territory of the
State of Israel is entirely free
of invaders.
"Israel forces in operations of
active defense have seized mili-
tary control of more than 400
square miles of territory outside
the State of Israel and are
in control of the whole of
Galilee," the statement added.
Israel claimed full control of '
the coastal area from the Leba-
weer
said that nobody had dreamed nese border in the north down
how valiantly the Yishuv would through Isdud, south of Tel
stand up to the attack, as even Aviv, 'and of all Palestine sea-
ports except Arab Gaza.
the Old Yishuv was doing.
He told of an old Rabbi of EGYPTIANS REPULSED
Egyptian attacks on southern
Jerusalem who became one of
the foremost sharp-shooters; of Jewish villages were reported to
the Yeshiva Bochurim, who left have been "successfully repell-
their books for the battlefield, ed," and Egyptian forces to be
saying that the Yishuv's stand is operating exclusively in regions
one of supreme gallantry and assigned to the Arabs under the
partition plan.
holiness.

Even the Aged
and Pions Fight
for the New Land

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pity to Bow at Rites for Lt. Raymond Zussman

The entire community will
join in paying honor to the late
Lt. -.Raymond Zussman of De-
troit, at reburial services at 1
p.m., Sunday in Shaarey Zedek.
Lt. Zussman was the only Jew
to be awarded the Congressional
r Medal of Honor in World War II.
Rabbi Morris Adler will offici-
ate, and members of the Lt.
Raymond Zussman Post, Jewish
War Veterans, will take part in
the services.
Lt. Zussman was named for
the Medal of Honor only a few
days before he was killed in
action. The award was made
posthumously to his father, Na-
than Zussman, of 2918 Sturte-
vant avenue.
HEROISM DESCRIBED
Lt. Zussman's heroism is de-
scribed in the citation signed by
President Truman, which reads
as follows:
"The President of the United

States takes pride in awarding
the Medal of Honor posthumous-
ly to 2nd Lt. Raymond Zuss-
man, Cavalry, U. S. Army, for
service as set forth in the follow-
ing citation:
"On 12 September, 1944, Lt.
Zussman was in command of
two tanks operating with an in-
fantry company in the attack on
enemy forces occupying the town
of Noroy Le Bourg, France.

TANK BOGGED DOWN

distant he stood by his tank di-
recting its fire. Three Germans
were killed and eight surrender-
ed.
WALKED INTO GUNFIRE
"Again he walked before his
tank leading it against an enemy
held group of houses, machine
gun and small arms fire kicking
up the dust at his feet. The tank
fire broke the resistance and 20
enemy soldiers surrendered. •
"Going forward again alone he
rushed an enemy-occUpied house
from which-the Germans fired on
him and threw grenades in his
path: After a brief fire .fight he
signaled his tank to come up and
fire on•the house. Eleven German
soldiers were killed and 15 sur7
rendered. '

"At 1900 hours his command
tank bogged down. Throughout
the ensuing action, armed only
with a carbine, he reconnoitered
alone on fo3t far in advance of
his remaining tank and the in-
fantry, returning only from time
to time to designate targets, di-
LT. ZUSSMAil
18 GERMANS KILLED
rect the action of the tank and
• • •
"Going on alone he disappear-
turn over to the infantry the
numerous German soldiers he directed his tank to destroy it. ed around a street corner, the
Fully exposed to fire from an fire of his carbine could be
had caused to surrender.

reappeared driving 30 prisoners
before him. Under Lt. Zussman's
heroic 'end inspiring leadership
18 enemy soldiers were killed
and 92 captured. (Signed) Harry
S. Truman."
The state convention of the
JWV which will be in session
Sunday will be recessed at the
time of the funeral. It is planned
to name a room in the proposed
JWV memorial building in Lt.
•Zussman's honor.

ATTENDED WAYNE

He was born July 23, 1917 in
Hamtramck. He was graduated
from Central High School and
attended Wayne University and
the Detroit Institute of Tech-
nology.
He entered the army on Sept.
24, 1941 and received his basic
training at Fort Sill, Okla. He
was given additional training at
Camp Foley, Tex., and entered
officer candidate school at Fort

"He located a road block and enemy position only 50 yards heard and in a few minutes he Knox.