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Detroit Jewish Chronicle, 1950-03-16

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irt eiL E

Cit y Names

13 1(;yfield for
Fred Butzel

The Detroit Planning Com-
mission recommended on Feb.
18 to the Detroit City Council
that the northeast corner of
Linden avenue and Meyers
road be named the Fred M.
Blaze! Play Field in honor of
the late Mr. Babel.
The Council adopted the
recommendation and instruct-
ed city officials to take the
necessary steps to put the
resolution into effect.

Knesset Gives
Nod to Talks
With Jordan

JERUSALEM —(Special)— By
a vote for adjournment on an
opposition motion to discuss Is-
rael's peace negotiations with
Transjordan, the Knesset, in ef-
fect, supported the cabinet's
policy.
The vote was 54 to 29.
The Herat party had moved for
a full-dress debate and the
Mapam party had asked for as-
surances that any pact reached
with Abdullah be submitted to
the parliament before it was
signed.
Foreign Minister Moshe Shar-
ett declared that no agreement
"has been signed or is now be-
fore the government for signa-
ture."

BEIRUT—(Special)—King Ab-
dullah of Transjordan told rep-
resentatives of the Arab states
of an agreement between Jor-
dan and Israel, the Lebanese min-
ister in Anman reported.
Commercial circles in Lebanon
fear that under the new agree-
ment Haifa ,will replace Beirut
.as Jordan's main outlet to the
Mediterranean. This, they be-
lieve, would deprive Lebanon of
many millions of pounds of profit
early.

1)1.. Harris Levine
Named JNF Head

NEW YORK —(Special)— Dr:-
Harris J. Levine was elected
president of the Jewish National
Fund of America. He succeeds
Magistrate Morris Rothenberg,
who resigned to become national
chairman of the United Palestine
A ppeal.

Vol. 52 — No. 11

27 Thursday, March 16, 1950

UN Jerusalem Council
Weighs Religious Rule

GENEVA—(WNS)—A proposal based on the thesis that the interests of the people of
Jerusalem must be considered secondary to the interests of worldwide religions was given
consideration this week by the UN Trusteeship Council here when it held a second reading
of a French resolution under which representation in the proposed Jerusalem legislature
would be determined on a religious basis.

Under the French plan theta
legislature would consist of 25
government over the city with
members, with Jewish, Moslem
power to dissolve the legislature
and Christian communities each
in the event of a crisis. .
electing eight, and with one seat
With the Council due to end its
going to 130 residents who, in
session here early in April, there
1947, belonged to none of those
appears no possibility of its com-
communities, The legislature,
pleting the task of drawing a
under that proposal would have
a number of unstated members statute for Jerusalem pursuant to
nominated by "the heads of the
principal religious communities"
in equal numbers to represent the
Christian, Moslem and Jewish
world.
Opposition to the plan on the
ground it identified church and
The 100th Anniversary Service
secular government and on the of Temple Beth El will be held
further basis that it would favor at 8:15 p.m., Friday, March 24.
the Arabs, who could gain rep- Dr. Jacob R. Marcus, president of
resentation both as Christians and I the Central Conference of Am-
Moslems, was voiced by the
American representative. lie was
backed by the New • Zealand
spokesman on the issue, but they
did not press the matter.
The Trusteeship Council also
discussed the question of a UN

*

the internationalization decision
of the General Assembly.
There is growing opinion here
that the question will ultimately
again be referred t the Assembly
if no final settlement is reached
between Israel and the Arab
states.

Banquet, Services, Pageant
to Mark Beth El's 100th Year

N.Y. Masons Okay
Lodge of Israel

NEW YORK— (WMS) —The
Dr. Gliseek
New York Grand Lodge has exe
Dr. Marcus
• * •
tended recognition to the Masonic
Lodge of Israel, it was announced erican Rabbis; Dr. Jonah B. Wise,
by 'Frank M. Totten,. grand mas- Rabbi of Central Synagogue, New
ter of Masons of New York state. York. and son of Dr. Isaac M.
The Masons of Israel were or- Wise, founder of Reform Judarsm
ganized in 1934 under charter in America: and Dr. B. Benedict
from the Grand Lodge of Egypt. Glazer will be the main speakers.
During the period of hostilities
Local participants will be:
in Palestine, Arabic Masons at-
Rabbi Leon Fram of Temple Is-
tended lodge meetings at the risk
of their lives, Totten declared, rael and Rabbi Morris Adler of
Shaarey Zedek.
while Jewish Masons retained the
property of their Arabic brothers
The 100th Anniversary Pag-
until peace was restored.
eant, to be presented by the Re-
There are now 20 lodges with ligious School children. will be
about 1.200 members of French, , held at 11 a.m., Saturday, March
Arabic and Hebrew origin.
I 25.

Dr. Goldmann, Warburg to Address
Allied Jewish Campaign Rally Monday

Opening the 1950 Allied Jewish
Campaign in Detroit, Dr. Nahum
Goldmann and Edward M. M.
Warburg will speak at a city-
wide rally, at 8:15 p. :u.. Monday
at Temple Beth El.
F r.•
They w ill
bring to D e
troit Jews
first-hand re-
ports of t h e
progress
in Israel and
Europe in the
past year.
Dr. Gold-
man, chair-
man of the
Ameri-
c a n Section
of the Jewish
Warburg Agency for
Israel, returned only last month
from a trip to Europe and Israel,
while Warburg, chairman of the
Joint Distribution Conimittee,
has made numerous inspections
of JDC project abroad.
Dr. B. Benedict Glazer of Tem-
ple Beth El and Julian H. Krolik,
president of the Jewish Welfare
Federation, will round out the
report io the community with a
picture of local services and
needs.

10c a Copy — $3 Per Year

Israel Jacobson, former direc-
tor of the Joint Distribution Com- '
mittee in Hungary, and Marvin
Lowenthal. author and lecturer, •,
will ,peak at the two opening
functions of the 1950 Allied Jew-
ish Campaign for the Junior Di- !
vision, a special gifts dinner, at
6:30 p.m., Sunday, March 26, at !
the Lee Plaza Hotel, and an ad-
vanced gifts luncheon for all
campaigners in the Junior Di-
vision, at 12:30 p.m., Sunday.
March 26, at the Mayfair, 13305
Dexter boulevard.

WASHINGTON — (WNS) —
Limited diplomatic recogni-
tion of Israel is planned by
Iran, according to reliable
sources here.

With Turkey having recog-
nized Israel, the Iranian gov-
ernment is reported on the
verge of making a move which
would in effect break ranks
with most of the Moslem
world,

Koussevitzky
Gives Library
to Hebrew U.

TEL AVIV —(Special)— Dr.
Serge Koussevitsky, conductor
emeritus of the Boston Sym-
phony Orchestra, who is in Israel
to conduct 16 concerts, donated
his entire library of music to
the Hebrew University.

The library, believed to be one
of the most valuable in exist-
ance, is being shipped from
France. It includes all of Bach
and Beethoven.
Dr. Koussevitzky stated that
he was so impressed with Israel's
musical appreciation that he de-
cided to deflate his collection,
the extent of which he himself
does not know.
He has made the provision that
all the scores and manuscripts be
made available to worthy organ-
izations in Israel.
Dr. Koussevitzky's appearance
with the Israel Orchestra has
aroused great enthusiasm
throughout the country.

Rabbi Hits-Effort.
to Convert Jews

NEW YORK — (WNS) — At-
tempts by Christian religious
leaders to convert Jews to Chris-
tianity were condemned by Rabbi
William F. Rosenblum of Temple
Israel, in an address before a
group of ministers of the Re-
formed Church of America.
He suggested, instead, that mis-
sionaries direct their efforts to
the salvation of "many hundreds
of millions of Christians who do
not practice what they profess."

Israel's Envoy 'to Britain Dies
at 57 While Studying Talmud

LONDON—(WNS)--Dr. Mordecai Eliash, Israel's min-
ister to Britain, died here at the age of 57 of a heart attack
last Saturday while sitting in a chair reading a volume of

the Talmud.

More than 300 members invit-
ed to attend the third annual
special gifts dinner, will discuss
their participation in the 1950
Allied Jewish Campaign.

Leonard Baruch. chairman of
the advanced gifts committee, an-
nounced that the luncheon would
give all campaigners an oppor-
tunity to hear the same speakers
featured at the special gifts din-
ner.
Jacobson recently attracted
world attention when he was ar-
rested by the Hungarian govern-
ment on an unfounded spy
charge
Lowenthal, author, lecturer,
traveler and historian, will bring
to Detroit his experiences of 10
years abroad, where he has stud-

The 100th Anniversary Banquet
will be held at 6:30 p.m., March
25. at the Book Cadillac Hotel.
The participants will be Dr.
Nelson Glueck, president of the
Hebrew Union College-Jewish
Institute of Religion; Dr. Maurice
N. Eisendrath, president of the
Union of American Hebrew Con-
gregation; Dr. Solomon B. Free-
hof, rabbi of Temple Rodef Sha-
lom, Pittsburgh, and a past Presi-
dent of the Central Conference of
American Rabbis; and Dr. B.
Benedict Glazer.
Other participants will be Rab-
bi Sidney Akselrad; Governor G.
Mennen Williams; Mayor Albert
E. Cobo; The Rt. Rev. Richard
S. Emrich, bishop of the Episco-
pal Diocese of Michigan; the Rev.
Chester A. McPheters, president
of the Detroit Council of
Churches; Dr. David Henry, pres-
ident of Wayne University; Nate
S. Shapero, president of Temple
Beth El and the Honorable Char-
les C. Simons, chairman of the
Centennial Anniversary Commit-
tee who will act as toastmaster.
The musical program will be
rendered by the Little Symphony
of Detroit under the direction of
Vatter Poole.

Iran Expected
to Recognize
Israeli State

DR. GOLDMANN
• • •
ied Jewish life and customs not
only in Europe, but in North Af-
rica, Israel and the Near East.

• • •

Launching the 1950 Allied Jew-
ish Campaign. for members of
the Women's Division of the Jew-
ish Welfare Federation, Israel
Jacobson will also speak at their
opening meeting, at 2 p.m., Mon-
day, March 27 at Temple Beth El.

A religious person of orthodox
persuasion, Dr. Eliash was in-
strumental in the processes which
ultimately led to the establish-
ment of Israel.
The Russian-born Oxford grad-
uate was a successful London
I lawyer when, in 1920, he left
his practice to settle in Palestine,
where he practiced for 30 years
and became president of the Jew-
ish Bar Association.
Dr. Eliash was a Hebrew schol-
ar and an effective orator. He
was the first Israel diplomatic
envoy to speak for his govern-
ment before the United Nations
at Lake Success.
He was Israel's first diplomatic
representative to London when
Britain gave de facto recognition
to the new state. Later his gov-
ernment gave him the official
rank of minister.
President Chaim Weizmann, in
a message to Foreign Minister
Moshe Sharett, said Israel lost in
the death of Dr. Eliash "an out-
standing diplomat in an impor-
tant post."
Moshe Sharett called the death
an "unparalleled loss to our coun-
try and to Israel's foreign serv-
ice."

An official Israel communique
said in the death of Eliash "we
lost a wonderful personality who
raised high the Jewish people's
stature and Israel's position among
the family of nations."
The body wa. flown in a char-
tered plane to Israel for burial.

Jewish Lawyer
Defends Nazis

PARIS—(WNS)---Marcel Bloch,
a Jewish lawyer, has been en-
gaged to defend 13 Gestapo agents
who are to stand trial at Lyons
on charges of complicity in the
deportation of French Jews, of
having confiscated their property
and of having executed 112 mem-
bers of the Fiench resistance
movement.
Angered over the action of the
Jewish lawyer, the Jews of Lyons
held a demonstration. Bloch's an-
swer was that if it was right for
a Jewish London attorney, Sam-
uel Selkin, to defend some months
ago the Nazi General von Mann-
stein it was right for him to de-
fend such minor "criminals" as
the 13 accused.

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