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THE JEWISH

NEWS

Friday, Jima I I, 1943

What's Happening in Detroit

AMERICAN Jewish Conference • elections oc-
cupy the interest of communities throughout the
land. Various groups are competing here for the
votes of Detroit Electors.
The local election committee has been at
work setting up the machinery for the election.
Abraham Srere, chairman of the local Election
Committee, has given devoted service to the job
assigned to him, and the elections on Tuesday
evening, at Temple Beth El, are certain to be con-
ducted in a most efficient manner.
The following were nominated by more than
150 local organizations to be candidates for elec-
tion as delegates to the American Jewish Confer-
ence:
Henry M. Abramovitz Goldie Levinstein
Abraham Lichtenstein
Rabbi Morris Adler
Mrs. Gussie Anstandig Samuel Lieberman
Isaac Litwak
Sam Atkins
Mrs. Harry Margolis
Ida Baker
Hyman M. Margolis
Samuel Becker
Michael Michlin
Alex Belkin
Nathan Mogi11
Joseph Bernstein
Max Meisner
Abraham Bigelman
Mrs. Jacob Molly
Ben Blau
Morris Mohr
Mrs. Arnold H. Brodie
Mrs. Douglas I. Brown Rabbi Jacob J. Nathan
Julius Newberg
Isadore Burnstein
Mrs. Bella Osnos
Fred M. Butzel
Louis Phillips
Mrs. Isadore Cohen
Dr. A. N. Prussin
Aaron Droock
Mrs. Joseph H. Ehrlich Samuel J. Rhodes
David Richman
Louis Eilbaum
Aaron Rosenberg
James I. Ellmann
Mrs. Abe Rosenberg
Mrs. Sonia Epstein
Isadore Rosenberg
Jess R. Feiler
Mrs. Louis J. Rosenberg
Rabbi Moses Fischer
Saul Rosenman
Max Finkel
Mrs. Eugene Roth
Rabbi Leon Fram
Mrs. Edith German
Mrs. Hyman Rottenberg
Dr. B. Benedict Glazer Sam H. Rubin
Morris Saham
Mrs. S. R. Glogower
William Sandler
.IVIrs. Edith Golden. .
Morris L. Schaver
Mrs. Ida Goldsmith
•Harry Golden
Mrs. Esther Schlussel
-Mrs. Rose Schuraytz
Abraham Goroff
Mrs. Marion Grace
Mrs. Henry SchWartz
Joseph Haggai
Mrs. Morris Servetter
Rabbi A. IrHershman Mrs. Maurice Shapiro
Max Holtzman
Aaron L. Sheifman
M. Louis Honigman
Mrs. A. Shusterman
Bernard Isaacs
Louis Shusterman
. • Harold Silver
Jerome. Kagan
Mrs. Moritz Kahn
Mrs. David Silverstein
•Max Kaminsky
Judge Charles C. Simons
Joseph Snitman
Abraham J. Katz
Isadore Sosnick
Mrs. Rebecca Katzin
eon Kay
Rabbi JOshue S. Sperka
Jack Klein
Abraham Srere
Mrs. Maurice Klein
Louis L. Steinberg
Louis Kramer-
Aaron Sumetz
-
Irwin Tamler
Benjamin M. Laikin
Mrs. Lena Lansky
Daniel Temchin
Jacob .Lesser
Nathan Waterstone
Alvin B. Levin
Mrs. Leonard H. Weiner
Theodore Levin
Joseph M. Welt
Mrs. Agnes Levine
Henry Wineman
Charles Levine -
Rabbi M. Wohlgelernter
Louis Levine
Mrs. Max Wohlgelernter
Mrs. Sarah Levine
Philip Yanovsky
It is believed that many of these nominees
will withdraw from the race before the ballot is
printed during the week-end, and this list is pre-
sented for the benefit of our readers in order that
it may assist the Electors in choosing the candi-
dates they prefer. A number of other nominees
have already declined to be candidates.

The Jewish News learned as we went to
press with this issue that Aug. 29 has been
set as the date for the American Jewish Con-
ference.

Twenty Years Ago This Week

Compiled From the Records of the
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

JERUSALEM—The British • Government's treaty
with King Hussein of the Hedjaz and Emir Abdual-
lah of Transjordania provides for British support of
Moslem independence in Transjordania, Mesopota-
mia and Arabia, while the King and the Emir recog-
nize Britain's "special position" in Mesopotamia,
Transjordania and Palestine. There is no mention in
the treaty of independence for the inhabitants of
Palestine.
BERLIN—General Erich von Ludendorf did not
intend to cast aspersions upon the Jews of Germany
in passages in his memoirs which have been objected
to by Jewish leaders, a local. court has decided, dis-
missing the charges against the .General brought by
the German Bnai Brith lodge.
KOVNO—Seventy Jewish children were detained,
115 are under arrest; many were beaten and a num-
ber of teachers taken into custody when the police
raided a picnic on the outskirts of Kovno because
they had not been notified that it was to take place.
air A police cordon was thrown about the children and
they were asked to produce their passports. Those
unable to do' so were -held. •

Coining Events

Information Please!

June 13—Beth El Memorial Park third anniver-
sary exercises, at 3 p. m.
June 13—United Hebrew Schools High school
graduation, at Rose Sittig Cohen Bldg.
June 15—Detroit electoral convention for selec-
tion of delegates to American Jewish Conference,
at Temple • Beth El.
June 20—Farband Folk School graduation.
June 22—Annual meeting of Jewish Community
Council of Detroit.

Is the title of an unusually interesting article
by

Fred M. Butzel

which will be one of the features in next
week's issue of The Jewish News.

Jews' Record as Soldiers
Depicted in Encyclopedia

.
Ninth Volume of Important American Literary Effort Has
Articles by More Than 200 Authoritative Writers;
Dedicated to Brandeis' Memory

NEW YORK.—The Jew as soldier since the beginning
of recorded history, comprehensively surveyed for the first
time, constitutes one of the hundreds of authoritative arti-
cles in the ninth volume of the Universal Jewish Encyclope-
dia issued today, according to an announcement by Rabbi
Isaac Landman, editor-in-chief of this 10-volume compen-
dium in English. Louis Rittenberg

is executive and literary editor.

The tenth and final volume will
appear within a short time. Vol-
ume IX of the Universal Jewish
Encyclopedia is dedicated to the
"indelible memory of Louis D.
Brandeis (185.6-1941), illustrious
jurist, champion' of justice and
loVer of Zion; .WhOse life was • an
inspiring blend of Americanism
and Judaism, and who left 'an
enduring imprint on • the social,
economic, judicial and spiritual
character of America." The earli-
er 'volumes were dedicated to
Georte._ Iki&ander_ Kohut, Felix
M. Warburg, • Louis Marshall;
Isaac Leeser, Isaac M. Wise, Solo-
mon. Schecter, Jacob H. Schiff and
Julius Rosenwald respectively.

The ninth volume of the Uni-
versal Jewish Encyclopedia com-
prises subjects from PROSBUL,
a legal form inaugurated by the
great Hillel, to SPEYER (James),
American banker and philanthro:-
pist.

Among Contributors

Included in the list of special
contributors to this voltime is
Philip Slomovitz, editor of The
Jewish News, who • has written
articles for most of the other
eight volumes of the Universal
Jewish Encyclopedia.

The article concerning Jews as
soldiers presents illuminating
new and little known fatts. In
Bible days the exploits of Joshua,
Gideon, Jephthah, Saul, David,
Nehemiah and others yield par-
ticular interest. In . ancient times
the Hasmoneans (Maccabees), the
Jewish generals of the Ptolemies,
the Roman general Tiberius Julius
Alexander, the great war against
Rome, Bar .Kochba, and kindred
heroes held the :stage. Sir Edward
Brandon (15th cent.) added to
the romance of the Middle Ages.
The modern period is rich in the
valor and patriotism of the Jew
as soldier. Major General Albert
Goldsmid fought in the English
army of Wellington in the Penin-
sula campaigns and at Waterloo.
• Marshall Andre Massena was one
of Napoleon's great warriors. In
995 armed Jews decided a battle
won by the Bohemian Christians
against the pagans. Jews served
as the special guard of a gate at
Cologne in the 12th and 13th cen-
turies. General Louis Bernheim
of the Belgian army who helped
defend Antwerp in World War I
and commanded the northern di-
'vision of the army in the trium-
phal campaign of 1918.

Jabotinsky Hero

Vladimir Jabotinsky and Joseph
Trumpeldor distinguished them=
selves in Palestine. Sir John Mo-
nash was commander of the Aus-

.

tralian corps in World War I,
General Paul Edouard Alexandre
rendered notable service in artil-
lery work to Petain at Verdun.
Alfred Dreyfus (of the Dreyfus
Case) brought the first news to
Gallieni of the change in 'direction
of the German army on Sept.' 6,
1914; the strategy that won the
battle of the Marne .resulted
therefrom. Milton Wolff led the
Lincoln-WashingtOn battalion in
the Ebro retreat in the Spanish
civil war.

A lad named "Issy" brought
doWn a big - German bomber that
made a specialty of strafing the
London East Side . during World
War II. General _Frederick H.
KisCh who .died recently in No•-
thern Africa. Moishe - Cohen, the
Chinese general, who became a
trusted adviser of Chiang Kai-
Shek. Mordecai Fritzis, hero of
the Greek army at Tepelini. Iakov
Smushkevich, commander of Sov-
iet Russia's air force.
•

Revolutionary Heroes

In the United States, David
Salisbury FrankS, Solomon Bush,
'David Nunez cardozo fought
bravely in the American Revolu-
tionary War. Solomon Etting,
Uriah P. Levy (in whose honor
a cruiser was recently named)
and John Odronaux, in the War
of 1912. Major General Frederick
Knefler, Colonel Leopold Blu-
inenberg, Leopold Karpeles and
Abraham Cohen added luster to
the pageS of the Civil War. Wil-
liam Durst served on the "Moni-
tor" in its famous battle with the
"Merrimac." Rear Admiral Adolf
Mari x, commander of t h e
"Maine," the first American Jew
to be made rear admiral. Luis H.
Brie and Isidor Borowski helped
win independence for South
America. Sam Dreben who be-
came a lengendary figure as the
"fighting Jew" in World War I.

Laid Mine Barrage

Brigadier General Milton Fore-
man who commanded the 33rd
Division in the same war. Rear
Admiral Joseph Strauss who laid
the mine barrage in the North
Sea.

Lieutenant Commander Solo-
mon Isquith who won glory at
Pearl Harbor. Sergeant Meyer
Levin, manifold hero of the war
in the Pacific, who died in ac-
tion. Irving Strobing, whose last
message from corregidor thrilled
the nation. Barney Ross who gave
an extraordinary .account of him-
self at Guadalcanal. Ira Jeffery,
the first American. Jew to die in
action at Pearl Harbor, whose
memory has been perpetuated as
the name of an American war-
ship.

A Challenge
To Zionists

Lorna Lindsley's "War Is
People" Pays Tribute to
Efforts in Palestine

Sandwiched in between two
interesting sections on Spain and
France, in Lorna Lindsley's ex-
, tremely fascinating book, "War
Is People," (Houghton Mifflin
Co., Boston), is a 68-page section
on Palestine.

Mrs. Lindsley, having gone to
Spain to cover the civil war as an •
American correspondent, visited
in Palestine- during the 1939 dis-
turbances. She conferred with
Jews and with Arabs, with both -
extremes among the latter and
with general Zionists as well as
Revisionists among the former.

ThrMing Story

•

Her story is a thrilling en-
dorsement of Jewish aspirations
'in Zion...•• Mrs. Lindsley evinces
great respect- for - the Jewish: Pio-
neers. -The-story- about Showei
Zion,- related -to 'her by Manfred
Weil, is an' epic of Jewish . devo-
ton to an ideal; Her account. of
a visit to.- Maale Hahainisha—the
Hill 'of the Five established in
memory : of 'five YoUng Jews who-
were Murdered. by the Arabs—is
a grim. account of the struggle
Jews : have -to carry on in the
course of building a homeland.

The chapter.,`Wew Day of Cre-
ation" should - be . -- read by every
Jew - who- is interested in Jewish
creatiye . .effort.: ",is..Athe story of
the heroic efforts -. of David Ha-
cohen, builder of -the Teggert
Wall.

• 'Man' of Faith'

• "Daviddlacohen -. Was a man of
faith,"7Mrs.- Lindsley, writes. "He
belieVed that manpower- was an
asset to a country, that the Jews
came to Palestine not to Consume.
What was there, not • to drive the
Arabs to the wall, but instead to
two things grow where one
make two
grew before"; to work side by side
with the Arab for their common
good; to build a modern state in
an ancient land. - Each day that
dawned was, for him, a new day
•of Creation.'
In a sense, Mrs. Lindsley's
book is a challenge to Zionists.
She was 'impreSSed by the Re-
Visiohist attitude and their deter-
mination- to fight and to resort to
action whenever they faced a
critical situation. She endorses it
in her book. It is an impression
which deserves study, since this
eminent American correspondent
had just come from the turbulent
land of Spain and had expected
in Palestine resistance on the
part of JeWs—on the par with
the Spanish Loyalists' heroism—
rather than the spirit of Hay-
lagah which, in our opinion, will
get us farther than a - bomb in an
Arab quarter.

One of Bright Spots

Mrs. Lindsley's friendship, ex-
pressed in her book "War Is
People," is one of the bright spots
for Jews in the present period of
gloom. Zionist public relations
men will do well to set her
straight on the differences that
exist between us and the Revion-
ists. After all, there are two
kinds of action, and we are not
laying down our weapons, even
though they be the historic ones
that are based on patience, deter-
mination and the will to survive
and to create peacefully in Pal-
estine.

