Friday, June 18, 1943

THE JEWISH NEWS

Page Sixteen

Detroit Selects Conference Delegation

The Committee on Voided Ballots was corn-
posed of Harry Yudkoff, Chairman, Mrs. Sam-
uel R. Glogower, Mrs. Morris Rand and Abra-
ham Cooper.
Tellers' Committees were chosen as follows:
1. Benjamin M. Laikin, Mrs. Louis Bass and
Leonard Belove.
2. Mrs. Herman A. August, Mrs. Merril Sil-
verstein and Mrs. Bayre Levin.
3. Mrs. Julian H. Krolik, Mrs. Michael Mich-
lin and Mrs. Joseph M. Welt.
4. Mrs. Perry P. Burnstine, Dr. Herbert I.
Kallet and Louis Rosenberg.
5. Benjamin Cowen, Lawrence Crohn and
Karl Segall.
6. Nathan Linden, Morris Mohr and Mrs.
Benjamin E. Jaffe.
7. Louis Schostak, Irving W. Schlussel and
Mrs. A. H. Brodie.
8. Morris Lieberman, Daniel Cullen and Jo-
seph Bernstein.
The heat of pre-election campaigning sub-
sided when the delegates, returning from bal-
loting, were addressed by James I. Ellmann on
the necessity for united efforts in the commun-
ity. His address was delivered while the tel-
lers counted the ballots and the Electors waited
for the results of the election.
The final results became known at 10:15 P.
9
M.
In addition to the nine elected to represent
Detroit at the American Jewish Conference, the
ballot carried the following other 45 names of
candidates:

Sam Atkins
Ida Baker
Alex Belkin
Abraham Bigelman
Fred M. Butzel
Mrs. Isadore Cohen
Louis Eilbaum
James I. Ellmann
Rabbi Moses Fischer
Abraham Goroff
Joseph Haggai
Max Holtzman •
Jerome Kagan
Max Kaminsky
Leon Kay
Jack Klein
Louis. Kramer
Jacob Leser
Alvin B. Levin
Charles Levine
Abraham Lichtenstein
Hyman M. Margolis
Max Meisner .

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Rabbi Jacob J. Nathan
Xulius Newberg
Louis Phillips
Dr. A. N. Prussin
Samuel Rhodes
David Richman
Saul Rosenman
Mrs. Eugene Roth
Sam H. Rubin
Morris Saham
William Sandler
Mrs. Maurice Shapiro
Aaron L. Sheifman
Louis Shusterman
Harold Silver
Isadore Sosnick
Rabbi Joshua S. Sperka
Abraham Srere
Louis L. Steinberg
Aaron Sumetz
Irwin Tamler
Henry Wineman

Prior to the election, it was announced that

Coining 1E -vents

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June 20—Farband Folk School graduation.
June 22—Annual meeting of Jewish Community
CoUncil of Detroit.
June 20—Annual dinner meeting of Temple
Israel at Book Cadillac Hotel.

First Returns on Conference Elections Reported
NEW YORK (JPS)—The names of leaders
of Jewish communities throughout America
who have been elected as delegates for munici-
palities or state groups have begun to pour into
New York headquarters of the American Jew-
ish Conference. The first list of those who will
represent communities in the Conference in-
- eludes the following:
Albert Schiff, Columbus, Ohio Election Dis-
trict; Julius Livingston, Oklahoma State Elec-
tion District; Simon Wampold, Alabama State
Election District; Gus Kaplan, Harrisburg, Pa.,
Election District; D. J. Apte, Florida State Elec-
tion District; M. C. Schrank, Southern New
Jersey Election Region; Rabbi David W. Pearl-
man, Stamford, Conn., Election District; A. B.
Cohen, Scranton-Lackawanna, Pa., Election
District; Rabbi Jerome D. Folkman, Michigan
State Election District; Rabbi Harry E. Ep-
stein, Atlanta, Ga. ; Election District; Mortimer
May, Nashville, Tenn:, Election District; Joseph
.Halbert, Atlantic City Election Dist., and Dan-
iel Frisch, Indianapolis, Ind. Election District. -
Warns Zionists Against "Immigration" Substi-.
tute for "Commonwealth"
chief
danger facing Palestine and
"The
Zionism at the forthcoming American Jewish
Conference is the demand of anti-Zionist ele-
ments that instead of joining the plea for a
Jewish Commonwealth in Palestine the dele-
gates accept as a substitute free immigration
for -Jews in Palestine," it is asserted by. Geda-
liah Bublick, Mizrachi leader and member of
the American Emergency Committee for Zion-

`Weekly Review of the News of the World

(Compiled From Cables of Independent Jewish Press Service)

See Also Page 3

OVERSEAS

The anti-Semitic newspapers published
in Denmark are on the verge of bank.,'
raptcy, according to reports in the. Swed- .
ish press.- A number of weeklies, including
the Kamptengen, no longer appear, and
the daily Vaterlandet was converted into
a weekly, as a result of strong hostility on
the part of the Danish public to the Nazi
press in general and particularly to anti-
Jewish newspapers, it is stated.
Five hundred . armed Jews who escaped
from the Warsaw ghetto have arrived in .
Russia and are now working with the
guerilla fighters, it , is reported by the
Soviet press . . Russian guerillas who
attacked a Nazi-held village near Briansk
and routed the enemy released a group of
Hungarian Jewish forced laborers. The
latter joined the guerillas.
A Jewish nurse servina with the Red
6
Army, known as Fruma,has
added an-
, other. act of heroism to her distinguished
record. When the commander and officers
of her -battalion were killed, she assumed
command and extricated the battalion
from German encirclement.
That_ persons contracting mixed mar-
riages in the Netherlands are being sub-
jected to sterilization was revealed with
the issuance by the United Churches of
the Netherlands .of an appeal to Dr.
Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Reich Commissar
for the occupied Netherlands, demanding
the cessation of this "infamous practice."

ist Affairs, in an article in the "Jewish Morn-
ing Journal."
Jewish Labor Committee Gets 16 Delegates
The Jewish Labor Committee, which had
warned its affiliated bodies in local communi-
ties not to participate in the elections for local
representatives, has been assigned 16 delegates
of the 125 set aside for national organizations,
it was announced here by the Labor Commit-
tee, following an agreement with the American
Jewish Conference.
Elect National Praesidium
The American Jewish Conference will take
place on Aug. 29, most probably in New York.
A decision was made by the executive com-
mittee to permit Revisionist Zionists to come in-
to the American Jewish Conference. It was
further voted to exclude Communists from par-
ticipation in the American Jewish Conference.
The decision was taken on an application for
affiliation by the Jewish section of the Inter-
national Workers' Order. It was stated that the
International Workers' Order was a -general
rather than a Jewish body and therefore was
not entitled to affiliation.
The executive committee elected a Praesid-
ium consisting of Henry Monsky, president of
Bnai Brith; Dr. Stephen S. Wise, president of
the American Jewish Congress, and Joseph M.
Proskauer, president: of the American Jewish
Committee. Mr. Monsky had previously been
serving as acting chairman of the executive
of the American Jewish Conference.

Isidore Sosnick had withdrawn as a candidate.
There were only three voided ballots.
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Hadassah Wants American Jewish Conference
to Support Zionist Program
NEW YORK, (JTA)—Support of the Zion-
ist platform by the American Jewish Confer-
ence was asked this week in a statement issued
by Mrs. David de Sola Pool, national president
of Hadassah.
"We take our place in the American Jewish
Conference with the deep conviction that we
have in Jewish Palestine a great, potent and
far-reaching instrument for the salvation of
the Jewish people," the statement reads. "It
has taken half a century to forge that instru-
ment. The Jewish National Home is at once
adequate and eager to give to the uprooted,
wandering masses of Jewish refugees a home
and a chance to rebuild their lives .. .
"We approach our task with the faith that
dispassionate and searching discusSion will lead
to an understanding of our goal and apprecia-
tion of our program, which centers on the es-
tablishment of Palestine as a Jewish .Commen-
wealth. Upon this platform we stand firm, con-
fident that in its elaboration and implementa-
tion rests the salvation of Jewry."

(Continued from Page 1)

Twenty Years Ago This Week

Compiled From the Records of the
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

MUNICH — Adolf Hitler, - BaVarian National
SocialiSt leader, is in 'contact 'with Benito Mussolini,
head of the Italian fascist state, it was charged here
at the trial of a group . of monarchists accused of
being involved in the . assassination last year of
Foreign Minister Walter Rathenau .• . • Meanwhile,
preparations are being made for the - libel trial of
Stephen Grossman, a Bavarian. publisher, who -is
being sued by Hitler because his .paper.charged that
the National Socialist leader ,was -largely financed by
foreign capital. •
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JERUSALEM—The - Soviet Government haS ex-
tended an invitation to the;"-HistadrUth . Haovdim,”
the JewiSh labor organizatiOri, -:WParticipate in the
international agricultural exhibition which opens. 'n
Moscow on August 17. The Histadruth has accepte ,
it is learned, and will send- a .delegate: and -a- repre-
sentative collection of Palestinian - agricultural
products.
VIENNA—Professon Franz -Boaz, noted anthro-
pologist of Columbia University in New York City,
has been eltced a corresponding Member. of the
Austrian Academy. of Science. His electiOn came as
a surprise since most of -the Academy membership-
is reputed to be anti-Semitic.
WARSAW—Following a stormy debate, the edu-
cation committee of the Sejm went on record, by a
vote of 16 to 13, favoring the adoption of a "numerus
Clausus" in Polish universities. Liebral and Jewish
deputies protested the restriction. It is expected to
be taken up in the Sejm shortly.

German Church Leaders
Risking Lives to Aid Jews

PALESTINE—
A record income of £600,000 for the Churches in the Third Reich Reported Planning Methodt
eight-month period from Oct. 1, 1942 to
of Cooperation With Other Religious Forces
May 31, 1943, was ,reported as having ,been
To Build a Lasting Peace .
received by the Keren Hayesod (Pales-
tine -:Foundation Fund) , fiscal instrument
.,,(Copyilght 1943 by Religious News Service)
of • the: :Jewish Agency. for :Palestine. The
The Nazis 'have met a major 'defeat in their efforts to
sum compared with . £331,000" received dur- destroy the Christian faith in the Third Reich, and the Ger-.
ing the correspOnding . .Period in the pre- man churches, 'Protestant and Roman Catholic, now are-.
ViOus year.
methods of cooperation with religious forces. in
Lively disputes have been taking place planning
other countries to build a lasting peace when Hitlerism has
within the Revisionist party .as plans-have been Overthrown, according to a> .
been presented-for itsreturn- to the World. .report 'from a reliable Scandina- Catholic Bishop of Berlin, Con-
Zionist • Organization.' Negotiations , be- vian source.•
rad von Preysing, who have ta-
tween - the leaders of the W.Z.O. and- the
Breaking a .long silence .re- ken steps to keep informed of
Revisionist representatives to facilitate garding
tha Position of the ber-
the re-amalgamation have resulted . in man chureheS, ‘ Particularly of the measures directed against the
several public statements by Revisionists Protestant Church, the report .as- Jewish population. . .
The churches are described as
opposed to the joinder.
serts that the church has pre-
AMERICA—
served its unity despite Nazi at- having been notably successful in
Author and playwright Ken Gold- tempts to weaken and divide it. organizing a "secret public opin-
ion" to 'Offset Nazi 'propaganda
smith, who had been a producer for This has been possible, it says, against
the Jews and to develop
because
of
•
Unexpectedly
wide-
since
1937,
prOducing
.
UniVersal Pictures
resistance to the practice of
spread
cooperation
in
creating
a
over 20 films, died in Hollywood at 43. He
euthanasia. Protestant forces
began working in Hollywood as an inde- common front of resistance.
haVe created a common front
Charges
Refuted
pendent producer in 1928.
Under Bishop Wurrn and this
The report ref'utes . charges front is working with the Roman
There is an anti-union movement in
the. United States which is not far re- made by some religiouS; leaders Catholic forces.
moved from an anti-Semitic conspiracy, in other countries that the Ger-
Special Collaborators
have folloWed a
it is asserted by Victor Riesel, labor editor man churches
Church leaders, headed by
policy of. resignation . and inac-
Of the. New York Post, In an expose of the tivity in the faCe of Nazi tyranny. Bishops Wurm and Von Preys-
activities of the Christian American Asso- 'It reveals, particularly, that the ing, have entrusted special col-
ciation . in forcing anti-union legislation on churches have protested frequent- laborators with the* task of
various states . . . The association, headed ly the persecution of Jews.
forming them of acts planned
by Lewis V. Ulrey, is linked to Gerald L.
In this connection, it cites the against the Jews. This has en-
K. Smith, and has the approval of Senator outspoken stand taken: by Luth- abled the churches to devise
O'Daniel of Texas. Vance Muse, the asso- eran Bishop Theophil Wurm, of means of helping Jews to escape
Wurttemburg, and the Roman from Germany.:
ciation secretary, is its chief lobbyist.

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