Friday, June 25, 1948
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE
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Irgunists
Battle
Haganah
Bernadotte Opens Peace Talks
Temple Israel
to Build in Fall
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president of the congregation.
Ileelecte with him were Harry
(See Later Story, Page 1)
TEL AVIV—Several Jew-
ish soldiers were reported
killed in a battle between
Israeli troops and Irgun
forces who were caught un-
loading an ammunition ship In
violation of the UN truce.
The ship was being unloaded
north of Natanya between Haifa
and Tel Aviv. Government sol-
diers . detected the activity and
ordered the Irgun to surrender
the cargo. Irgun refused and
fighting began which lasted
through the night.
TRUCE VIOLATED
Foreign Minister Moshe Sher-
tok asked all citizens to sup-
port the government against
"this grave effort, to undermine
the State." He declared he could
not permit any forces, whatever
they might be, to attack the
Israeli army.
"The government saw in this
matter a very serious breach
of the laws of Israel and a vio-
lation of international obliga-
tions," Shertok's statement said.
Ile bitterly denounced Irgun
commanders saying that the
agreement with Irgun had spe-
cifically barred separate action
in the acquisition of arms.
FUEL WITHHELD
The government of Israel is-
sued a statement in which it ac-
cuses the British government of
closing the great oil refineries
of Haifa for the primary pur-
pose of destroying the Jewish
State through withholding fuel
from the Israeli army.
In a White Paper, the first to
be issued by the Israeli foreign
ministry, it was stated that Brit-
ain had diverted oil stores from
the port of Haifa, which is
Jewish-controlled, via Tripoli,
Lebanon; had provided the
Arab Legion with free gasoline
supplies and had closed the pipe-
line from Iraq to Haifa at the
insistence of Arab governments.
The Jewish army and its civil-
ian economy, the White Paper
declared, are suffering from lack
of the fuel supplies which had
come from Haifa before the re-'
fineries were shut down on
April 17.
The refineries normal output
is 4,000,000 tons a year, of which
15 per cent was divided between
Arab and Jewish Palestine.
ORT Here to Add
2 More Chapters
The Detroit branch of Wo-
men's American ORT voted at
its annual meeting to divide its
North and South chapters in
Detroit into four groups.
Present regional officers are
Mesdames Harry Becker, chair-
man, and Clarence Enggass, Da-
vid Ruby and Joseph Fenton,
%ice-presidents.
Chapter presidents are Mes-
dames Clarence Enggass, North
Harold Kukes, South; Joseph
Davidson, Oakland County; and
Abe Levine, Mt. Clemens.
GEORGE M. STtITZ
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C. LeVine, vice-president; Ar-
thur J. Hass, secretary; and Ja-
cob Citrin, treasurer.
ELECTED TO BOARD
The following new members
were added to the board:
Charles H. Alter, Sol R. Colton,
Louis Millman, Schostak, My-
ron S. Steinberg and Jack 0.
Lefton.
The building committee also
includes Stutz, Alter, Citrin,
Hass, LeVine, Edward Bernstein,
David Goldberg, Nathanial H.
Goldstick, Benjamin E. Jaffe,
Max Osnos, George D. Seybrun,
Ellis M. Thal and Rabbi Leon
Pram, ex-officio.
Doubts Sentry
Killed Marcus
N.Y. Pays Tribute
to American Colonel
TEL AVIV (Special)—An in-
vestigation has failed to sub-
stantiate reports that Col. David
Marcus, American hero of World
War II, was killed when he an-
swered a Jewish sentry's chal-
lenge in English, an Israeli
spokesman said.
The exact circumstances of
his death have pot been dis-
closed, but it is believed he was
struck by a stray bullet.
Tribute to his memory was
paid this week by 400 persons
who crowded into a court room
in the Brooklyn Supreme Court.
Those present included mili-
tary, political and civilian fig-
ures with whom Col. Marcus
was associated as New York
City Commissioner of Correc-
tion.
Col. Marcus' body will be in-
terred in the post cemetery at
West Point, from which he was
graduated.
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Moshe Shertok that the fighting
in Palestine had shattered the
Arab claim to invihcibility, and
that Lsraeli forces had won all
phases of the war despite Brit-
ish aid and advice to the Arab
states. Ile made the statement at
the annual meeting of Mapai,
Jewish Labor Party.
A warning that the enemy
may renew its attacks and that
preparations must be made "for
any emergency during the truce"
was sounded by Prime Minister
David Ben Gurion when he told
the Mapai gathering that "the
main duties at the present time
arc to organize Israel's army for
a possible struggle 'and build up
Israel's state."
The government has finished
calling up classes of able-bodied
men up to 36 years of age for
combat duty. Those over 42 are
mobilized in the home guard,
while those between 36 and 42
are being held for future mili-
tary call as needed.
The terms under which Jews
would be willing to engage in
full - scale pea c e negotiations
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with Arab states are as fol-
lows: .
1. The State of Israel must
be treated as a sovereign na-
tion and not as a minority group
in Palestine.
2. No restrictions on immigra-
tion are to be imposed on Is-
rael from the outside.
3. No reduction of the terri-
tory allotted to Israel by the
United Nations partition deci-
sion of Nov. 29.
4. Jerusalem must remain an
international city, in accordance
with the UN decision. If Arab
attacks there are resumed after
the expiration of the truce, the
Jews may demand inclusion
Within Israel of the New City of
Jerusalem, almost all of which
is at present in Jewish hands.
5. Arabs must abide by the
UN decision for creation of an
independent Arab state in Pal-
estine. Otherwise Israel will not
relinquish territory, such as
Western Galilee, which it has
acquired by conquest.
Congress Group
Awaits Picnic
The first annual picnic of the
Detroit Section, American Jew-
ish Congress, will be held at
11 a.m., Sunday at the Plymouth
Riverside Park, Plymouth and
Haggerty roads.
All Congress members, their
families and friends are invited,
Mrs. Betty Leonard, chairman,
said.
Pioneer Women's
Dance Saturday
LOUIS S. COIIANE, leading
attorney and civic worker,
has been named to the board
of directors of the Detroit
Chapter of American Red
Cross.
Final plans have been com-
pleted by the Pioneer Women's
Council for its "Grand Dance"
to be held at 8:30 p.m., Satur-
day in the Crystal ballroom of
Masonic Temple.
Proceeds wil go to Rishon Le'
Tzion, the children's home in
Israel built with funds raised
in Detroit. Mrs. Phil Stellar is
chairman.
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TEL AVIV (WNS)—As the
four-week Palestine truce was
entering its half-mark, U. N.
Mediator Count Folke Berna-
dotte begun a series of prelim-
inary talks at Rhodes with Jew-
ish and Arab experts with a
view to laying the foundation for
ultimate peace negotiations.
Count Bernadotte made it
clear before leaving for Rhodes
that he would consult the Arab
and Jewish experts separately
and that he did not expect to
have a peace proposal before a
week at least, thus indicating -
he might ask for an extension
of the truce. He plans to move
slowly and cautiously before
suggesting a round-table con-
ference.
GUARDS' DUTIES
Prior to leaving for Rhodes,
the UN mediator announced that
the 50 UN guards en route from
New York would supervise Is-
raeli convoys to Jerusalem, as-
sume control of the areas to be
evacuated by British troops and
guard the camps to which Jews
of military age have gone as in-
ternees since the truce.
Meanwhile there is no inclina-
tion here to place too much hope
in the Rhodes talks. Israeli lead-
ers, including Prime Minister Da-
vid Ben Gurion, have made it
clear that if there are to be
peace negotiations they must be
predicated on the acknowledg-
ment of the existence of Israel
and its sovereign rights.
The success of the Rhodes talks
hinges on those basic considera-
tions. According to unconfirmed
reports both Transjordan and
Egypt are prepared to take the
position that Israel's existence is
a fact and deal on that basis.
Lebanon, once reported to have
sought peace negotiations, and
Syria are said to be holding out.
If the report is true it would
mean that the alleged unity
brought about among th, Arab
states as a result of their com-
bined aggression against Israel
has begun to crumble.
FICTION FADES
At the same time it was de-
clared here by Foreign Minister
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