Friday, February 11, 1941

THE JEWISH NEWS

Page Twelve

What's Happening in Detroit

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INCOLN'S BIRTHDAY is being utilized for a
series of patriotic rallies preliminary to the
observance of Brotherhood Week seven days hence
during the week of the observance of Washington's
birthday.
Among the celebrations planned are the services
marking Scout Sabbath this Friday at Temple Israel
and the Shaarey Zedek.

• This Friday night, also, at Temple Beth El and
the Shaarey Zedek tablets bearing the names of mem-
bers of the congregations in the service of our country
will be dedicated. There are 200 names on the Temple
Beth El Honor Roll and in excess of 150 names on
the Shaarey Zedek Honor Roll.

Rickenbacker and the America Firsters

The holding of the so-called America First Party
rally last Sunday night, with Earl Southard and Ger-
ald L. K. Smith as speakers, prompted L. M. Birk-
head, national director of the Friends of Democracy,
to call upon Capt. Edward V. Rickenbacker to re-
pudiate the sponsorship of his Presidential candidacy
by this group.
Reminding him that his name is "symbolic to
millions of Americans of devotion to duty and the
stern patriotic integrity and courage we love to regard
as an American heritage," the message of Friends
of Der,nocracy asks Capt. Rickenbacker "to repudiate
in advance any attempt by super-nationalistic pro-
fascist political promoters" from using his name for
their own political build-up.
Dr. Birkhead stated in. his telegram:
"You are privileged at any time to see evidence in
our possession that the moving spirit, Gerald Smith,
was No. 3223 of the Silver Shirts organized by William
Dudley Pelley, convicted of sedition; that Southard,
once court-martialed by the Veterans of Foreign Wars,
has basked in the support of William Kullgren, indict-
ed for sedition; William Griffin, indicted for sedition;
Elizabeth Dilling, indicted for sedition, and others who
helped spread the Nazi poison from Lieutenant Colonel
Fleischauer's propaganda factory at Erfurt, Germany."
Rickenbacker's present rank is Lieutenant Colonel.
Notified in New York about the meeting, Ricken-
backer replied that "he had not been invited and
would refuse if I had been."

Coining Events

Feb. 13—Basketball game at Jewish Center, for
benefit of Ted Blatt.
Feb. 15—Address by Dr. Edgar de Witt Jones
on "Washington and Lincoln" at meeting of Pisgah
Lodge.

Feb. 16—Inter-Faith Concert of Detroit's Round
Table of Catholics, Jews and, Protestants, at De-
troit Institute of Arts.
Feb. 17—Women's Sabbath Observance League
round table discussion at Shaarey Zedek. Speakers:
Rabbis Morris Adler, J. S. Sperka and Leizer Levin,
Mrs. M. J. Wohlgelernter, Irving Schlussel.
Feb. 18—Rally of Gewerkshaften, at Lachar's on
12th St. Speaker, Rabbi Morris Adler.
Feb. 23—Brotherhood Week concert at Jewish
Community Center.
March 7—Torah Month banquet at Jewish Cen-
ter, marking first anniversary of Yeshivath Beth
Yehudah. Speaker, Rabbi Herbert S. Goldstein of
New York.

Youth Groups Form Fund Unit

Butzel and Keidan Honored by Scouts

Representatives of youth groups affiliated with the
Zionist Youth Council as well as with the Jewish
National Fund Council of Detroit have formed a Jew-
ish National Fund Youth Committee, Detroit being
one of very few cities to have such a youth setup.

The Detroit Area Council of Boy Scouts of America
last week honored Fred M. Butzel by presenting him
with the 30-year Veteran Award.

The committee has launched as its project the
planting of trees in the Forest for Freedom in Pales-
tine, and planters of trees in Palestine will be
permitted to choose any existing forest they desire.

Those who have relatives or friends in the armed
services are especially asked to plant trees in honor
of the servicemen. Special Forest for Freedom certi-
ficates are being issued.

Miss Thelma Jaffin, 1711 Clairmount, TR. 1-3991,
can be contacted for further information.

The J.N.F. Youth Committee is sponsoring a
Purim carnival to be held in March in conjunction
with the senior council's box holders' rally. The en-
tire community will be invited to this event, the place
and date to be announced soon.

Plans for the carnival include the setting up of
special booths and games tables, a Tel Aviv Cafe
under the supervision of Junior Hadassah, a Purim
operetta, choir singing and other features. The high-
light of the evening will be the crowning of Queen
Esther, with all local organizations being asked to par-
ticipate in the competition for the choosing of the
Queen.

2 Congregations Join Zionist Ranks

Hope was expressed in Zionist ranks in Detroit
this week that the example of Synagogues and or-
ganizations in other cities will be followed here for
mass enrollment in the Zionist movement. Lawrence
W. Crohn, former president of the Zionist Council of
Detroit, proposed such an effort for mass membership
enrollment to the national executive committee of the
Zionist Organization of America last year.

Simon Shetzer, well known former Detroiter, na-
tional executive director of the Zionist Organization of
America, this week reported from Washington that the
entire memberships of two of the largest and oldest
congregations in New England joined the ranks of the
Zionist Organization.

The two newest additions to the organized forces
of Zionism, whose affiliation has been unanimously
approved by the members of the respective congrega-
tions, are the Congregation Mishkan Tefila, one of the
oldest synagogues in Boston and the leading conserva-
tive Temple in New England; and the Congregation
Kehillath Israel of Brookline, Mass., one of the largest
synagogues in New' England.

Enthusiastic scenes marked the adoption of the
resolution calling for its affiliation as a body with the
Zionist Organization at a general membership meeting
of the Congregation Mishkan Tefila in Boston.

Congregation Kehillath Israel in Brookline endoll-
ed as a body in the Zionist movement by unanimous
vote of its Board of Trustees. The plan adopted will be
put into operation with the cooperation of the Brook-
line-Brighton-Newton Zionist District, of which Benja-
min Ulin is President.

Under the plan members have their choice of
joining either the Zionist Organization of America or
the Mizrachi organization. It is expected that the Z.O.A.
will gain 250 new members in that community. Dr.
Louis M. Epstein is the spiritual leader of the Congre-
gation.

Six Jewish Brothers Serve U. S.

Judge Harry N. Keidan was elected a member of
the Council's Executive Board.

Zionist War Bond Month

Abraham Cooper, president of the Zionist Organ-
ization of Detroit, stated this week that the Zionist
War Bond campaign, now in progress, is meeting with
success.
From the national headquarters of the Z. O. A. in
Washington comes the report that communities
throughout the land are cooperating in assuring the
success of the War Bond campaign during the month
of February.
The conviction that American Zionists will roll
up unprecedented total's for War Bond Month was
voiced by Judge Morris Rothenberg of New York,
Chairman of the National War Effort Committee of
the Z. O. A., who predicted that in every single in-
stance War Bond sales quotas will not only be filled
but overscribed. In New York alone Zionist War Bond
Month is being marked by over one hundred organ-
ized Zionist groups, under the direction of special
War Bond committees.
The United States Treasury, through William C.
FitzGibbon, has officially expressed satisfaction with
the response on the part of the Zionist Organization
of America. Mr. FitzGibbon declares that "when the
Treasury Department called upon the Zionist Organ-
ization of America to do even more than it had al-
ready done in support of the War Savings Bond
Program, the response was splendid."

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Twenty Years Ago This Week

Compiled From the Records of the
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

WASHINGTON—Congressmen Sabath and Sie-
gel, members of the House Immigration Committee,
announce that they would file a minority report
against the clause in the Committee's immigration
bill which would restrict the number of immigrants
from any country to two percent of the residents of
the United States in 1890 instead of three percent
of those living here according to the census of 1910.

WARSAW—Nahum Sokolow, of the Zionist
executive, reaching here from Danzig, stated that
the next Zionist Congress would undoubtedly be
held there. Mr. Sokolow conferred" with Premier
Sikorski on the question of the projected expulsion
of many Jewish refugees.

JERUSALEM—A large gathering of Palestine
notables—with the exception of Arab leaders—at-
tended the lecture on relativity delivered by Prof.
Albert Einstein at the Hebrew University here. Dr.
Einstein spoke in Hebrew and French. He was wel-
comed by M. M. Ussishkin and High Commissioner
Sir Herbert Samuel.

CRACOW—As a result of threats by anti-
Semitic students that Jews will be barred from
classes at the University medical schools unless ar-
rangements are made for the delivery of Jewish
corpses for dissection by the Jewish students, the
Jewish authorities have arranged to supply one
Jewish corpse out of every ten.

(Copyright, Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

War Honor Roll Jerusalem's Call for a Jewish Army

Jewish Men Who Have Distin-
guished Themselves in
U. S. Service

(Compiled and Copyrighted by
Jewish Welfare Board of
Records, 1943)

The largest family contingent in the service from the Philadelphia
area, they are (left to right) : Top—Michael, 26, in the Tank Corps;
his twin, Abraham, 26, a Marine in the Solomons; Samuel, 23, in
Army Ordnance; Morris, 22, bombardier training in Missouri;
Benjamin, 20, with the Army in Ireland; and Edward, 17, in the
Navy "somewhere abroad." Their father, Harry Podolsky, 60, was
presented with an award by the Phila. Army and Navy Committee
of the Jewish Welfare Board. Mother of the . boys, Yetta, died

six years ago.

Killed in Line of Duty
Second Lt. Lawrence Gross, of
Los Angeles, lost his life in a
plane crash at Lido Beach, Sar-
astoa, Fla. Lieut. Gross, who
was on a routine training flight
at the time of the fatal accident,
had won his commission only a
few weeks ago.
Capt. J. William Mendoza, 31,
of McKeesport, Pa., was killed in
a plane disaster while on active
duty as a flight surgeon with the
Army Air Corps. The crash oc-
curred near Newfoundland. Capt.
Mendoza leaves his wife, Mar-
ian; his son Stanley, two years
old; his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Na than Mendoza, and a brother
and sister.
Max Schwartzman, Technician
fifth grade, 34, of Minneapolis,
Minn., was killed "while perform-
ing,a service to his country," ac-
cording to the War Department
announcement received by his
his wife, Mollie. Schwartzman,
a volunteer, had been in service
seven-and-a-half months.
Seaman Irving Ginsburg, 21, of
Syracuse, N. Y., a U. S. Coast
Guardsman, lost his life while
engaged in active duty in the
Great Lakes region. A letter
from the Oswego station crew,
where Irving was on duty, to his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. David

Jerusalem movie house.

The

In spite of the censorship and
intimidations on behalf of the
Colonial Administration in Pales-
tine, the Jews do not give up
their demand for a Jewish Army.
They express this demand
through many channels and
manifestations.
This photograph shows the slo-
gan for a Jewish Army painted
clandestinely on the wall of a

photograph was presented to the
Committee for a Jewish Army of
Stateless and Palestinian Jews,
535 Fifth Ave., New York City,
by Croswell Bowen, an officially
accredited photographer who re-
cently returned to the United
States.

Ginsburg, said: "David was loved
by all the crew and we miss him
greatly . . . he gave his life for
his country in true seaman fash-
ion. We • are proud of him." Irv-
ing's brother, Seymour, 19, is
also in the Coast Guard. His
father fought in the last war and
earned several decorations.

The leader of the religious
community in Palestine, Rabbi
Meyer Berlin, who came by clip-
per from Palestine a few days
ago, declared to the press on his
arrival that all the Jews of Pales-
tine are united in a demand for a
Jewish Army, 200,040 strong.

