Jerusalem Plan Rejected
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Sale Stirs
Near-Riot
NEW YORK—(WNS)—Sev-
. eral war veterans picketing a
news stand which has been
One of the chief outlets for the
sale of the anti-Semitic, anti-
Catholic and anti-Negro sheet
The Broom were attacked in
the Yorkville area of this city
ten they refused to break
the demonstration.
s
As the veterans vverr; parading
before the stand a mob of about
300 shouting, milling men and
women attacked them. Some of
the men, showing open pro-Nazi
sentiments, shouted: "The Broom
is a Christian paper and these
Jews are trying to stop it."
In the mob were several racist
agitators, among them Curt Mer-
tig, professed anti-Semite, and
Raymond Burke, would-be Nazi
fuehrer.
A brief fist fight broke out, and
the Nazis shouted: "Why don't
you Jews go to Israel?"
When a person with a distinct
British accent who happened to
pass the stand told the mobsters: !
"Go back to Germany where you
belong," he was pounced on by a
group of men and escaped in-
jury by jumping on a passing bus.
A serious riot was averted
when the police arrived and dis-
persed the mob.
UJA Loss 30%,
Silver Reveals
CLEVELAND — (WNS) — A
statement declaring that the UJA
Campaign in 1949 witnessed a
drop of about 30 per cent was
issued by Dr. Abba Hillel Silver.
Dr. Silver issued the statement
by way of reply to a declaration
made a week ago by Dr. Nahum
Goldmann, chairman of the
American section of the Jewish
Agency, that the total raised by
the United Jewish Appeal in 1949
was 10 per cent below the total
raised the year before.
Dr. Silver said that "whether
this serious drop is to be attri-
buted exclusively to the delay in
organizing the 1949 UJA," is a
matter of personal judgment.
Arab Delegates
Oppose UN Plan
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Vol. 52 — No. 2
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ay, January 12, 1950
TEL AVIV—(SPECIAL)-
Israel rejected a compromise
10c a Copy —$3 Per Year plan on Jerusalem suggested
by Roger Garreau of France,
president of the UN Trustee-
ship Council.
Under the suggested plan
the UN would administer only
the area containing the Wail-
ing
Wall and the places sacred
FACILITIES LISTED
The dedication celebration will to Christians.
Full Week of Festivities
to Launch Center Branch
"Hi neighbor" will be the by-
words this week when men,
women and children from all
sections of the Jewish commun-
ity of Detroit join in dedicating
the new branch of the Jewish
MRS. ROYAL MAAS
• • •
Community Center—the Dexter-
Davison branch just completed
on Davison at Holmur.
In keeping with the aims of
this new building, the opening
function of dedication week, Jah.
15-22, will be an all-community
open house, 2-6 p.m., Sunday,
Jan. 15, at which Center Board
members will act as hosts and
hostesses in welcoming members
of the community.
Formal dedication ceremonies
will be held at 8:30 p.m., Mon-
day, when Mrs. Walter E. Heller
of Chicago will be guest of
honor.
GUEST FROM CHICAGO
Mrs. Heller was recently
named chairman of the Jewish
Center Division Committee of
the National Jewish Welfare
Board and has given two de-
cades of service to the Center
movement.
Chairthan for the evening will
be Samuel H. Rubiner, chairman
of the dedication ceremonies
committee.
A Jewish cultural evening,
arranged by Arthur Bloom and
Mrs. Royal Maas, members of
Rubiner's' committe, is scheduled
for 8:30 p.m., Wednesday, Jan.
18.
Featured in the program of
Jewish music will be the Center
Symphony Orchestra, under the
direction of Julius Chajes.
TWO AFFAIRS PLANNED
Two special affairs will mark
Thursday, Jan.19—an afternoon
reception and tea for lay leader-
ship and staff of non Jewish
cooperating social service agen-
cies and an evening reception for
members of mothers' clubs who
will be guests of the Mothers'
Club Council. - •
Dexter youth, who will be
served in many ways by the new
Center, will also have their part
in the dedication ceremonies.
Teenagers will hold a barn
dance and rally at 8:30 p.m.,
Jan. 21 while juniors, from 6 to
12 years of age, will attend a
post-dedication children's party
2-5 p.m., Sunday, Jan. 29.
mark the initation of a recrea-
A foreign office spokesman
tion program planned especially pointed out that the plan was
to serve residents of the Dexter nothing more than a lesser geo-
area who cannot easily travel graphical version of the original
internationalization plan and re-
tained many of its objectionable
features.
ISRAEL'S OBJECTIONS
Garreau's plan includes Mt.
Scopus and Bethlehem as places
to be internationalized. This Is-
rael feels is unnecessary.
It has long been the contention
of the Israeli government that
foreign supervision should be
confined to the shrines.
Informed sources believe that
a compromise agreeable to Israel
would include the Church of the
Dormition and Cenacle on Mount
Zion in addition to the Notre
Dame Hospice within an interna-
tionalized zone.
SAMUEL RUBINER
PEACE TALKS
• • •
However, this zone would have
to the main building of the to be limited to the old city, since
Center—children, teen-agers and there are no shrines in tilt new
Facilities in the branch in-
clude an auditorium, with seat-
ing capacity for 350 people and a
dining capacity for 200; lounge,
library, checkroom; dark room;
seven meeting rooms and a teen-
age lounge.
In the basement, the Center
will have a large game room,
television theater and crafts
shop.
I
JERUSALEM — (ISI) — The
UN's plan to subject Jerusalem to
an international regime was dealt
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Elias M. Epstein of Jerusalem,
overseas director of the Keren
Kayemet, will be the principal
speaker. Epstein is the founder
and editor of the Palestine Re-
view. He has been a resident of
Palestine for the past 30 years.
Albert Elazar is program chair-
man. The program will include
Barkley to Speak
at USNA Meeting
TURNED CAMP HORROR INTO PROFIT
'Pure Aryan' Murderer
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city of Jerusalem.
Another factor leading to Is-
rael's objection to the compromise
plan are the peace talks with
Transjordan. Israel wants to
avoid agreeing to a plan which
would deprive King Abdullah of
any territory.
All indications are that Israel
and Transjordan now have
reached a point where anything
directly affectiug them must be
decided by both sides and not
unilaterally.
old people.
CONFIDENCE VOTE
Canon. Attacks ZOD Meeting to Hear Editor Meanwhile,
the foreign policy
of the Israeli government was
The Zionist Organization of De-i Moe Kesner, interpreter of an- approved by the Knesset when it
UN Scheme
troit will hold a city-wide meet-1 cient and modern Jewish songs. turned down a non-confidence
ing Thursday evening, Jan. 19,1
motion. The vote was 62 to 28.
the Northwest Hebrew Con-
for Jerusalem at gregation.
`Ben Gurion declared that Jeru-
salem had been the de jure capi-
a serious blow by Canon Hugh
Jones, head of the English mis-
sion
here, in his Christmas day
TEL AVIV—(ISI)—Broadcasts
revealed continued Arab opposi- sermon at the united carol serv-
tion to the internationalization of ice of all Protestant congregations
rusalem.
in Jerusalem.
efection from support of the
While UN desire for the safety
plan was noted by the Beirut
Arabic Radio which reported that of Holy Places was probably the
a number of Arab delegates to reason for the resolution, Canon
NEW YORK — (WNS) — Vice-
the UN have come to the conclu- Jones questioned: "In all the pol- President Alben W. Barkley will
sion that internationalization and icy of the last two years, how be the principal speaker at the
the withdrawal of the Arab Le-
annual national conference of the
gion are not, after all, likely to much thought and concern has I United Service for New Ameri-
been
shown
toward
the
Jews
and
lead to a satisfactory solution of
cans, in New York City on Jan.
the problem of the city's future.
Arabs of this ray?"
1 14 and 15.
MUNICH—(WNS)—The story
how a Vilna born Jew posed as
a pure Aryan, joined the Nazi
party under Hitler and became
a merciless torturer of Jews in
a number of concentration
camps was revealed here in its
full ugliness as Alec Sirowitch,
the accused, was sentenced by a
German court to six years for
Grimes against his coreligionists.
The indictment under which
Israel Sees
Flaws in
New Bid
the culprit was tried stated that
Sirowitch was born in Vilna in
1904.
He came to Germany at the
age of 12. When Hitler rose to
power, Sirowitch jointed the
Nazi party.
Blond and blue-eyed and
with the aid of forged docu-
ments Sirowitch entered the fold
of the racists.
In 1933 he volnteered to
serve in the SS. Willi such a
membership card in his pocket
he proceeded to participate in a
series of anti-Jewish activities
and in rounding up Jews.
In 1944, this Jewish renegade
was sent to Riga, where he set
up the Letna concentration camp
and was an accomplice in the
murder of many Jewish inmates.
Working with the. SS, he ac-
cumulated great wealth through
robbing his victims.
ELIAS M. EPSTEIN
tal of Israel 'since the state had
been proclaimed and that it was
now the de facto capital of Is-
rael.
He said that the UN decision
was "no disaster" since "the Jew-
ish right to Jerusalem is bigger
and stronger than any such de-
cision." He reiterated Israel's in-
tention regarding the security of
holy places and unrestricted re-
ligious freedom for all religious
communities.
The opposition sharply criti-
cized the government's policy.
Much of its fire was directed
against the setback Moshe Shar-
ett suffered at the United Na-
tions. Some of the speakers
warned against a peace settle-
ment with Transjordan which
would partition the city of Jeru-
salem.
JI\IF Rejects
erger Move
a j ew M
Sirowitch posed as a persecuted
Jewish victim of Nazism. In
1948, while in the office of Dr.
Auerbach, commissioner for ra-
cial political and religious per-
secutees, Sirowitch was identi-
fied by a number of his former
victims.
He was immediately placed
under arrest and after a long in-
vestigation of his activities he
When Germany capitulated, was placed on triaL
NEW YORK — (WNS) — Elias
Epstein, overseas director of the
Jewish National Fund, who re-
cently arrived here from Jeru-
salem, announced that "the world
board of the Jewish National
Fund, which comprises repre-
sentatives of all parties in the
Zionist movement, unanimously
rejected a proposal made in cer-
tain quarters for the merging of
the Jewish National Fund and
the Keren Hayesod."