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F.D.R. Promises Retribution
For Nazis' Slaughter of Jews

President Reveals to Delegation, Headed by Dr. Stephen S.
Wise, Plans for U. S.-United Nations Commission to
Assess Personal Guilt of Hiflerites

Lithuanian Jews'
Rally on Sunday

Meeting at Workmen's -Cir-
cle to be Addressed by

NEW YORK (JPS)—Hadassah,
Women's Zionist Organization,
has announced the launching of a
I. Rosowsky, executive director $100,000 "postwar reconstruction
of the Federation of Lithuanian fund for Jewish refugees in Pal-
estine" and the immediate set-
Jews will ad
ting aside toward that goal of
dress a mass
$10,000 out of membership dues.
meeting of the
The organization, which con-
Detroit branch
ducts a medical and child aid
of the organiza-
program in Palestine, announced
tion at 8 p. m.,
through its president, Mrs. David
this Sunday ev-
de Sola Pool, that the fund "will
ening, eants tchire-
be used for the necessary first
steps which will have to be
cle Center on
taken- to help rehabilitate these
Linwood Ave.
tens of thousands of Jewish
M r . Rosow-
men, women and children who
sky, who was in
will turn to Palestine for a haven
Europe several Dr. Goldoftas
months ago, will discuss the stat- and a home after the war."
us of Jewish refugees in . Siberia.

National Director

Happy Birthd ay

WASHINGTON (JPS)—President Roosevelt, told
that 2,000,000 Jews have been killed and 5,000,000 more
face death, is considering the establishment of a commis-
sion, in which the United States and the United -Nations
will be represented, to assess the personal responsibility
of the Nazis guilty of ordering and executing the slaughter

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of Jews in -Europe, • the Chief
Executive assured a delegation of pressed in the message he issued
Jewish leaders visiting him at last July when he 'declared that
the White House to plead for in- "the American people not only
tervention to save those who can sympathize with victims of Nazi
yet be rescued throUgh adequate crimes but will hold the per-
warning and action by the petrators of these crimes to strict
United Nations.
accountability in a da3r_of reckon-
Dr. Stephen S. Wise, president ing which will surely come.
of the American Jewish Con-
The purpose of the delegation
gress who headed the delegation; was to urge the appointment of
which also comprised Maurice a commission to investigate the
Wertheim, president of the Amer:. anti-Jewish barbarities as well as
jean Jewish Committee, . Henry crimes against other civilians in
Monsky, president of the Bnai Europe. It is . this' proposal that
Brith, Adolph Held, preSident of the President now has under con-
the Jewish Labor Committee, Dr. sideration :
Israel Goldstein, president' of the
Urge Warning' to Nazis
Synagogue Council, and Rabbi
Israel Rosenberg, head of the "In this hour of deepest an-
Union of Orthodox Rabbis, told guish and despair," the memo-
-reporters after he emerged from randum read by Dr. Wise to the
the interview that President President said, "we turn to you,
Roosevelt was "revolted" by the Mr. President. Your voice awak-
outrages committed against the ened the conscience of the world
to the great crime of Lidice. We
Jews.
. ask you now once again to raise
"Profoundly Shocked"
Dr. Wise and the rest of the your voice—on behalf of the Jews
delegation had presented to the in Europe. We ask you once again
President a lengthy memoran- to warn the Nazis that they will
dum, largely based on documents be held to strict accountability
in the possession of the State for their, crimes." •
Department, showing how a plan _ Dr. Wise, reporting on what the
of extermination approved by President had said, stated that the
Hiller had taken a ghastly toll of latter had observed, "The mills
millions of Jews through the most of the gods grind slowly but they
vicious devices of cruelty known grind exceeding small. We are
to. the modern mind.
doing everything possible to as-
The President reiterated his certain who are personally
sense of "profound shock"' ex- guilty."

HENRY WINEMAN

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The Jewish Community Council of Detroit, at its
quarterly meeting held Sunday evening at the Jewish
Community Center, went on record favoring the conven-
ing of a mass protest meeting to condemn Nazi atrocities.
The executive committee of the Council was authorized
to make the necessary plans.

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Jewish Community Council Plans City-wide Demonstration;
Strengthening of Internal Relations Urged; Discrimin-
ation Committee Reports Cooperation of OCD

-Delegates heard comprehensive
reporth of the Council's activities. tiations being conducted by the
James I. Ellman, president of Council with the newspapers of
the Council, outlined the ideo- Detroit to secure their coopera-
logical background of the Council
tion in eliminating discriminatory
and described the democratic
approach it takes towards various -advertisements. He told of the
Jewish community problems. In distribution of large quantities of
his scholarly review of the phil- literature and of the efforts to
osophy of the Council, Mr. Ell- trace evidences of anti-Semitism
mann spoke of the need for
in this community.
strengthening and improving in-
Oscar L e o n a r d, nationally
ternal relations and declared that
there is the continuing obligation prominent social worker who is
of meeting our detractors on 'all in Detroit to assist in prepara-
fronts.
tions for the conference of the
Gerson Chertoff, research di-
rector of the Council, reported on Jewish National Fund of Amer-
the organizational menibership' of ica, extended an' invitation to the
the Council, and the activities of community to attend the sessions
the 'Arbitration Court, the dis- on Dec. 26 and 27.
crimination committee and the
Dr. B. Benedict Glazer of
civilian defense committee.
Mr. Chertoff stated that the dis- Temple Beth El pffered encour-
Crimination committee is cooper- agement to the efforts to elimin-
ating with the Committee on Fair ate abuses of basic American
.Employnient Practices. He said principles.
a request had come from the
0 : C.D. that organizations set up
Special committees and appoint
war observers to report on their
war efforts. He urged that local
Jewish organizations follow this
Vrocedure and make their re-
ports to the Council.
" Isaac Franck, executive direc-
tor of the Council, ' reported on
the educational activities, on the
internal relations in the Council,
on efforts to counteract anti-
Semitism and the work to im-
prove Negro-Jewish relations:

Dr.. M. Goldoftas, educator and
labor Zionist leader, will preSide
at the meeting. Cantor Robert
Tulman of Temple Israel will
provide the musical program for
the evening. The public is in-
vited.

Greetings to Henry Wineman,
whO observed his 64th birthday
last Saturday.
Mr. Wineman has the distinc-
tion of having been the first
president of the Jewish Welfare
To avoid disappointments, it
Federation of Detroit.
is urged that reservations for
Born in Cincinnati, son of the
the conference banquet of the
late Leopold and Henrietta Wine-
Jewish National Fund of •Am-
erica, on Dec. 27, be made not
man, Mr. Wineman studied in
later than Monday, by calling
Chicago and Detroit schools and
the chairman of the banquet
was graduated from the Univer-
committee, Mrs. Samuel N.
sity of Michigan in 1901. That
Heyman, 4031 Glendale, HO.
year he entered the family busi-
2057.
ness, the People's Outfitting Co.,
Reservations, at $3 a plate,
of which he became president in
will be filled in the order in
1923.
which they are received.
Mr. Wineman holds key posi-
At the J. N. F. convention
tions . in ' the Joint Distribution
held here four years ago, more
Committee, United Palestine Ap-
than 400 persons were turned
peal, Jewish Agency for Pales-
away from the banquet be-
tine American Friends of Heb- _ cause they had failed to make
rew University, on WhOse nation-
their reservations on time.
al boards he is representing De-
troit. He is vice-president of the
Jewish Federations and Welfare
Funds, member of the board of
governors of Hebrew Union Col-
lege and holds important offices
in numerous local social service

Mass Meeting Protesting
razi Atrocities to Be Called

Hadassah Post-War
Rehabilitation FUnd
Goal Set at $100,000

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`National Interest'
Demands End of
Prejudice, Warning

SALT LAKE CITY (JPS)—
"Racial prejudices must be fore-
gone in the national interest,"
Brig.-Gen. Frank J. McSherry,
operations director of the War
Manpower Commission, declared
here in an address to the Ameri-
can Mining Congress, as he re-
viewed the changes that must be
made by industry to utilize all
available manpower.

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