Israel Urged
to Shut Doors

By WILLIAM ZUCKERMAN
gave more generously to the UJA.
(Jewish World News Service)
the entire trouble would be elim-
NEW YORK—Reports from Is- inated and there would be no im-
rael indicate that the country, migration crisis in Israel.
having overcome its initial poli- BLAME GOVERNMENT
tical and military difficulties, is
This, however, is not the view
lacing an economic crisis which taken of the crisis by the best ob-
Overshadows the earlier events. servers in Israel. Gruenbaum
The reports emanate from Is- states that the crisis is due to
rael directly and they come from the fact that "Zionist executive
such men of importance in jour- cannot cope with the immigration
nalistic, social and political life of problem organizationally and fi-
the country as Isaac Greenbaum, nancially and that something is
former minister of the interior in wrong with the leadership of the
the Israeli cabinet, Meir Gross- immigration and with the gov-
man, Revisionist leader and rep- ernment which has not produced
resentative of the Jewish Agency any plan to take care of the im-
in Jerusalem, from the "Haaretz" migrants."
Tel Aviv newspaper, from I. K li-
Grossman is even more out-
now, press director of the Jewish spoken. In a series of articles in
Agency, and from David Pinsky, the "Day," he too accuses the
Yiddish-American playwright and government of not having any
author, who is in Israel and is plan to meet the influx of immi-
high in the council of Labor Zion- grants except to open the dobrs
ists.
widely and to let in everyone
PRESS IS WORRIED
who so wish, to enter.
Most of the reports revolve
He is also critical of the new
around the hardships in connec- arrivals. He claims that they are
tion with the tremendous influx not of the same fine human ma-
of Jewish immigrants into Is- terial as were the old idealistic
rael which keeps up at the re- Zionists and Chalutzim who came
markable rate of between 20,000 to Palestine because they were
to 30.000 per month.
primarily interested in building
That a certain amount of hard- up a Jewish homeland.
The new immigrants refuse to
ship and trouble was to be ex-
pected with an influx of immi- work on the land and they claim
grants in such numbers into a that they have to be supported in
Country whose limit of immigra- the cities because they say "you
tion capacity until now was legal- have brought us here."
ly 1.500 per month and about CAMP CONDITIONS
4,000 illegally, is obvious. The
"Haaretz" sent a contributor
fact is that even in this country disguised as an immigrant into
where the Zionist press is more one of the camps and that jour-
patriotic than that of Israel and nalist describes conditions worse
where one seldom finds anything than in the DP camps in Europe.
but the most glamorous descrip- I. Klinow, the press director of
tions of conditions in the Jewish the Jewish Agency of Jerusalem,
State, even this press has lately writes in the New York "Morning
been publishing depressing re- Journal" of protests and hunger
ports of hardship of the new im- strikes by the new arrivals in the
migrants. camps.
From all these reports one fact
But these have been invariably
ascribed to a lack of funds, and emerges above all others. This is
the general line taken by most that there is now in Israel, itself,
newspapers and fund-raisers has a growing dissatisfaction with the
been that if only American Jews (Continued on Page 2)

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`No Curbs on Immigration,'
Mrs. Myerson Pledges Here

Dr. Kleinman Heads
Community Council

DetJzoit .TaLui4h,

HRONICLE

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President

NEW YORK — (Special) — A

NATE S. SHAPERO
• • •

Temple Elects
Nate Shapero

Nate S. Shapero, president of
Cunningham Drug Stores and
civic leader, was elected presi-
dent of Temple Beth El at the
99th annual meeting Monday.
Other officers are David Wil-
kus, vice-president, and Law-
rence J. Michaelson, treasurer.
Elected to the board were Harry
A. Hyman, Gilbert Michel, Leon-
ard N. Simons, Louis Tabashnik
and Arthur H. Rice.
Rabbi B. Benedict Glazer and
Dr. Herbert I. Kallet, retiring
president, presented their reports.
Dr. Kallet was given a citation
for distinguished service to the
Temple.
Shapero has had a lengthy rec-
ord of public service, both locally
and nationally. Among local posts
he has held have been chairman-
ship of the 1946 Allied Jewish
Campaign, presidency of Frank-
lin Hills Country club, president
of the Michigan state welfare
commission, chairmanship of the
Wayne county March of Dimes
and many other civic and com-
munity activities.

Women
Win Moral Victory
•
m 'Boycott' . of Butchers

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Charges Kleinman
Plot on President
Israel
of Council

campaign on several fronts to

In a plea for funds to provide the newcomers to Israel were not
housing for the newcomers to of the best Jewish stock, Mrs.
Israel, Golda Myerson, minister Myerson declared that the Yem-
of labor and reconstruction, told
enite Jews and those from North
an overflow
Africa who were being brought
dinner audience
here that 'mini-
into the land are of the finest
gration to Israel
types and will become "wonder-
will not be halt-
ful builders."
ed despite the
"We should all pay for the
overcrowding
privilege of being the fortunate
and the sub-
generation that participates in
standard living
the rebuilding of the new Israel,"
conditions.
she told the audience.
A check for
M
Many
special 51,500 gifts were
$250,000 was pre- Mrs. Myerson
tented to Mrs. Myerson on behalf given in her honor to build a
of the Allied Jewish Campaign unit of Israeli housing.
by Joseph Holtzman, campaign
co-chairman executive and one of
its most active workers. The
campaign was approaching the
$5,400,000 mark this week.
Louis Berry, campaign chair-
As the two-week trial "boycott'" of Kosher butchers here
man, promised that he would
take no vacation until the job is neared its end, both sides claimed a victory.
Both were right, but it seemed to an objective onlooker that
done. He received a standing
ovation from the audience. The the "s triker s," the women's
goal is $6,395,000.
groups supported by the Jewish than high prices. It would seem,
Council, had a slight then, that if the upshot of the
Etchings of Dr. Chaim Weiz- Community
edge because of their moral vie- "boycott" will be that butchers
mann were presented to Berry,
Holtzman and Henry Wineman tory. will become more polite in their
Actually, a hurried survey by dealings with their customers and
for their distinguished leadership
the Jewish Chronicle revealed, not bark at them when they ask
of the campaign.
few housewives lived up whole- for the price of a cut of meat,
Contrary to some reports that heartedly to their pledge not to then this alone is a victory.
purchase meats for two weeks FEAR SUPERVISION
costing more than 70 cents a
Whether the Council will get
Arab Newspaper Views pound.
the price bulletin board it de-
Yet, a visit to most markets mands from every butcher is
Refugees as 5th Column disclosed that the merchants were problematical. Several merchants
BEIRUT — (MN) — "Al-Zira," feeling the public pressure of the told this reporter privately that
Moslem Lebanese newspaper, has "boycott" and were displaying the bulletin board dispute had
called for continued pressure up- more price tags on their meats become a matter of principle to
on the Jewish State until all and—and this should not be mini- them and that it would be the
mized—a more considerate . atti- last point that they would ever
Arab refugees are repatriated.
The publication admitted that Jude to their customers. concede to the Council.
Aside from the fact that some
"the refugees will constitute a ASSAIL ARROGANCE
Indeed, it seemed to this re- hold feeebly that the price list-
fifth column which together with
the Arab states and with western porter in talking to housewives ings would be useless, there is,
aid, that is Great Britain, will that their chief complaint against apparently, the fear that this is
succeed in fulfilling their historic many of the butchers was aimed the beginning of rather extensive
mission — the destruction of at their allegedly arrogant and supervision of butcher shops and

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Thursday, June 16, 1949

contemptuous attitude-rather (Continued on Page 8)

block Israel's development as a
free and strong State is being
pushed on several fronts, Daniel
Frisch, new ZOA president,
charged Tuesday before depart-
ing for a tour of Israel.
Unless President Truman in-
tervenes, said Frisch, "there is
danger that pro-Arab officials in
the State Department will pre-
vent the much-needed consum-
mation of a peace treaty" be-
tween Israel and the Arab states
in Lausanne. The U. S. has been
putting pressure on Israel to per-
mit the entry of large numbers
of Arab refugees.

After four years as vice-presi-
dent and nine years as a member
of the executive committee of the
Jewish Community Council, Dr.
Shmarya Kleinman was elected
president of the Council Tuesday.
He succeeds Aaron Droock who
assumed the presidency in 1945.
Dr. Kleinman was born in 1892,
in what was then Russian Poland.
He studied medicine in Berlin in

DULLES CONSIDERED

Meantime, at Lausanne the
conference called by the UN to
bring a formal end to the Pales-
tine war appeared to be on its
last legs with an Israeli proposal
for direct talks with the Arab
states individually apparently re-
jected.
The chairman of the Concilia-
tion Commission, Mark Ethridge,
was back in the U. S. to report
to the President and surrender
his post. John Foster Dulles,
Republican foreign affairs expert,
Dr. Philip Jessup, UN delegate,
and others were suggested as
possible successors.
SEEK TERRITORY
In some quarters, the sugges-
tion was made that Dr. Ralph
Bunche be assigned to the Con-
ciliation Commission, but Dr.
Bunche was reluctant to take on
another task while he was still
trying to negotiate an armistice
between Israel and Syria. Talks
between the two nations have
broken down and Bunche said
he feared a resumption of fight-
ing between the two nations.
An Arab spokesman at Lau-
sanne said the Arabs would ask
territorial concessions if Israel
refuses to accept all refugees
from Palestine. The Israelis
view is that the refugee question
can be solved only within the
context of a general settlement
and not as a condition precedent
to talks as the Arabs have de-
manded.

Dinner to Honor
Morris M. Jacobs

DR. KLEINMAN

• • •

1912-14, and graduated from the
medical school of Rostov-on-Don
in 1918.
Dr. Kleinman was active in the
labor movement in Russia and in
Poland. He has contributed to
many Yiddish and Russian maga-
zines and newspapers. His con-
tributions include short stories,
essays on political, social and pub-
lic health subjects in Europe and
the United States.
Dr. Kleinman came to Detroit
in 1927 and has been a practicing
physician since, finding time to be
active in the labor movement and
Workmen's Circle, as well as in
many cultural and communal or-
ganizations. He is widely known
as an internist.
Dr. Kleinman is a national vice-
president of the Jewish Labor
Committee, a member of the
board of governors of the Detroit
Jewish Welfare Federation and a
member of the Detroit Philo-
sophical Society.

A testimonial dinner honoring
Morris M. Jacobs, retiring presi-
dent of the Detroit Zionist dis-
trict. will be held Thursday, June
23 at the Knollwood country club.
The annual election meeting of
The first meeting of the new
administration of the district will the United Hebrew Schools is set
for 8:30 p.m., Tuesday at the
be held following the dinner.
Northwest Hebrew Congregation.
Among those who will present
Morgenthau Lodge
committee reports are Maurice
Ii. Zackheim, Maurice Landau,
Names Jack Caminker Louis
Stoll, Julius Berman, Na-
Jack Caminker was elected than Yalta, Morris Fishman,
president of the Henry Morgen- Harry Cohen, Samuel Schwartz,
thau Lodge, Bnai Brith.
Joseph Yolles, Dr. A. W. Sanders,
Other officers are Hilbert Sasin, Lawrence W. Crohn, Allan L,
Irving Davis. Sidney Felstein, Weston, Morris Lachover, A. J.
Leo Sobel, Herb Capp, Gabe Lachover and Mrs. Louis Tobin.
Glantz, Stan Wolf, Fred Rapa-
For reservation, call TO. 8.
port, Al Rottman, Sam Schiff, 0063.
Morrie Nelson. Paul Richman
OPEN DYEING PLANT
and Al Blumenfield.
The officers will be installed at
HAIFA — (ZOA) — Kurdaneh
an open meeting Monday, June Textile Works, a modern dyeing
27 at the Rose Sittig Cohen Bldg. plant, has begun operations here.

UHS Election Set
for N.W. Tuesday

