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Thursday, October 12, 1950

DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE

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`Red Channels' Seeks to Wash Jews off the Stage

By PIIINEAS J. BIRON
YOU HAVE PROBABLY heard of Counterattack.
According to the spokesmen of the organization,
"Counterattack is a private, independent organization,
founded in May, 1947 by a group of former FBI men.
It has not affiliation whatsoever with
any governmental agency."
The principal functions of Counter-
attack, say its official sponsors, are
as follows:
1) To publish the newsletter
"Counterattack," which exposes the
most important aspects of Communist
activity in America each week.
2) To compile factual information
on Communists, Communist fronts
and other subversive organizations.
3) To assist, consult with and pro-
Biron
vide factual information on Communist activities to
responsible individuals and organizations."
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A subscription to this newsletter costs $24 per
year and its compilation of information in book form

will set you ba4 $1 per copy.

THE MOST RECENT "achievement" of Counter-
attack is the publication of "Red Channels" purport-
ing to be "a report of Communist influence in Radio
and Television."
"Red Channels" received quite a lot of publicity
in the press in connection with the Jean Muir case
(Miss Muir was barred from a television show because
"Red Channels" charge'd her, without producing evi-
dence, with being a fellow traveler).
"Red Channels" lists among the Communist "in-
fluencers" of radio the following Jewish actors, writers,
directors, composers, mpsicians, comedians, announcers,
etc.:
Larry Adler, Luther Adler, Stella Adler, Leonard
Bernstein, M - irr. Blitstein, J. Edward Bromberg, Abe
Burrows, Edward Chodorov, Lee J. Cobb, Aaron Cop-
land, Norman Corwin, Howard De Silva, Alfred Drake,
Martin Gabel, John Garfield, Tom Glazer, Ruth Gor-
don, Morton Gould, Ben Grauer, Horace Grenell, E.
Y. Harburg, Robert P. Heller, Lillian Hellman, Judy

Holliday, Leo Hurwitz, Charles Irving, Sam Jaffe,
Adelaide Klein, Arthur Laurents, Philip Loeb, Peter
Lyon, Ben Myers, Arthur Miller, Henry Morgan, Sam-
son Raephelson, Edward G. Robinson, Harold Romse,
Nor1nan Rosters, Coby Ruskin, Artie Shaw, Irwin Shaw,
Robert L. Shayon, Lionel Stander, Helen Tarniris,,
Louis Untermeyer (poet), Sam Wanamaker, Irene
Wicker, Betty Winkler, Martin Wolfson and Richard
Yaffe.

"RED CHANNELS" has a counterpart in California
where a certain racketeer by name of Fagan is pub-
lishing books and lists smearing Hollywood movie stars.
It is an open secret that Eddie Cantor quit, at least
temporarily, his radio program because of Fagan's
pressure on his sponsors.
Joseph Schildkraut is having his troubles with
Hollywood for the same reasons.
Peter Lorre and Kurt Bois, two refugees from
the German stage, who were doing quite well in
movietown, decided to return to Europe to escape from
the smear hysteria.

Chronicle—City's Oldest Kvutzah Ivrith Elects J. Katz
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Surviving Jewish Paper

IRVING I. KATZ
inally published by the Jewish
Executive Secretary,
Review and Observer of Cleve-
Temple Beth El
land, Ohio, as its Detroit edition,
HE FIRST English - Jewish with Emanuel T. Berger as the
weekly to be published in this managing editor.
country was The Asmonean,
A year later, the paper was
founded by Robert Lyon in 1849 purchased by Solomon M. Gold-
in New York City. The first city smith of Detroit and on Oct. 18,
in the Middle West to have a 1901, the Jewish American be-
Jewish periodical was St. Louis, came the official organ of Temple
The Jewish Sentinel having ap- Beth El, with Dr. Leo M. Frank-
peared in 1868.
lin as editor and S. M. Goldsmith
Detroit's first English - Jewish as publisher.
weekly, The Jewish American,
On Jan. 1, 1904, Dr. Franklin
appeared in October, 1900, and relinquished the editorship of The
this month, therefore, marks the Jewish American but the paper
50th anniversary of the Jewish continued as the official organ of
press in Detroit.
Beth El.
Half a century
In 1908, Goldsmith died, and
ago, Detroit had
in 1910, The Jewish American
a Jewish popula-
ceased to serve as the official or-
tion of less than
gan of Beth El. The last issue of
5,000 in a total
The Jewish American appeared
general popula-
on May 12, 1911.
The Jewish American was an
tion of about
300,000.'There
excellent newspaper and con-
tained much historical material
was one reform
on early Detroit and Michigan
temple"' in t h e
Jewry. It is especially rich in his-
city and five
torical material on the early
orthodox syna-
Katz
years of the United Jewish Chari-
goguges.
The work of Jewish charities ties and the Synagogues of the
was carried on by the recently city.
Shortly after the discontinu-
formed United Jewish Charities.
There were also in existence the ance of The Jewish American, an
Hebrew Free Loan Association, attempt was made to publish in
the Hebrew Benevolent Society, Detroit a monthly which went by
and Assembly of David and the name of Reform Chronicle,
which was, however, short-lived.
House of Shelter.
CHRONICLE FOUNDED
Jewish education for children
On March 3, 1916, the first issue
was provided by the Talmud
Torah Institute and by several of The Jewish Chronicle (now
Detroit Jewish Chronicle) ap-
congregational schools.
There were six Jewish frater- peared with Samuel J. Rhodes as
nal lodges, one mutual aid so- editor and Anton Kaufman as
ciety, and six literary and social general manager.
The Detroit Jewish Chronicle
clubs. The Jewish neighborhood
was centered near the downtown is now Michigan's oldest English-
Jewish weekly, with Seymour
area.
Tilchin as publisher.
JEWISH NEWSPAPERS
In 1927, there appeared in De-
The Jewish American, Detroit's
first English-Jewish we ek 1 y, troit an English-Jewish weekly
started on Oct. 5, 1900, was orig- under the name of The Detroit

T

The annual election meeting
of the Kvutzuh Ivrith, the He-
brew cultural group of Detroit,
named the following officers and
board members:
Joseph Katz, president; J. K.
Palman and Rabbi Max Kapustin,
vice-presidents; Sol Kasdan and
Norman Ruttenberg, secretaries;
Joel Cashdan, treasurer; M. Mich-
lin, distribution of books; Morris
Nobel, cultural committee; Ber-
nard Isaacs, J. M. Mathis and
Aaron Toback, editors; A. J.
Lachoyer, membership, and Mor-
ris PlZkfn and Alex Roberg, pub-
licity.
Members of the executive com-
mittee are Albert Elazar, Joseph
Haggai, Israel Elpern, Morris

Jewish Herald, with Joshua ' S.
Sarasohn as managing editor and
P. Raymond Feiler as associate
editor. The newspaper was in ex-
istence for only a few years.
The Beacon, a Yiddish month-

ly, was printed in Detroit for a

years beginning wit?? 1930.
In 1941, Philip Slomovitz, a
former editor of the Detroit Jew-
ish Chronicle, founded The Jew-
ish News.
The Detroit edition of Forward,
a Yiddish daily, had its beginning
in 1915. Joseph Bernstein has
been its managing director for
the past 35 years.

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