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THE JEWISH NEWS

New President
of Bolivia Hits

Anti-Semitism

WASHINGTON, (JTA) — The
full text of a statement by the
new Bolivian President, Gual-
berto Villarroel, repudiating anti-
Semitism was received here this
week. The statement, which was
made by President Villarroel at
a press conference at La Paz this
week, emphasizes that the new
government is ready to join the
Intergovernmental Committee on
Refugees.
President Villarroel's statement
made little impression on official
circles in Washington. It was
pointed out here that four mem-
bers of the anti-Semitic National
Revolutionary Movement are in-
cluded in Villarroel's cabinet. Al-
so that the leader of the party,
Victor Paz Estenssoro, a known
anti-Semite, engineered the coup
that brought Villarroel to power.
Government officials here do
not hesitate to label the week-
old Bolivian regime as Nazi, de-
spite a denial of anti-Semitism
and all other Nazi connections by
Paz Estenssoro.
One effect of Villarroel's dis-
avowal of anti-Semitism may be
the continuation in office of Dr.
Enrique de Lozada, the junta's
representative here who had
threatened- to resign unless the
new Bolivian regime repudiated
the anti-Jewish parts of the pro-
gram of the National Revolu-
tionary Movement. Dr. Lozada
is expected to stay in the hope
that Jose Antonio Arze, leader of
the Bolivian Leftist Revolution-
ary party, will enter the govern-
ment and eliminate Nazi ten-
dencies.

Israel Sisterhood
To Hear Lecture
By Miss Smetisko

Miss Eugenia Smetisko, wel 1
'known Russian artist and world
traveler, will address the Temple
Israel Sisterhood meeting nex t
Monday.
A dessert luncheon honoring
Miss Smetisko will be given at 1
p. m. preceding the meeting in
the Romanesque Hall of the De-
troit Institute of Art, Huntington
Woods members acting as hos-
tesses. The meeting will be held
in the lecture hall.
- Miss Smetisko, who will speak
on "Russia As I Know It," is
highly qualified to speak on this
subject. She escaped to Rumania
during the revolution and has
- since made three trips to Europe
spending several months in Fin-
land and Denmark.
Her address will be illustrated
with colored slides of the coun-
tries she has visited.
Cantor Robert S. Tulman, who
will be accompanied by Rosa
Bassin-Stein, will be featured as
soloist. at this meeting, to which
members are urged to bring,their
friends.
Mrs. William Gordon and Mrs.
Manfred Linnick, • chairman of
the watch drive, urge members
to bring old watches for doctors
and nurses in Russia to this
meeting.
War Bonds and Stamps will be
sold at this meeting. Mrs. Ran-
dolph Weber is chairman of the
War' Bond committee.

DPeGlazer To Address
Ezra Sisterhood Donor
Luncheon Wednesday

Dr. B. Benedict Glazer, rabbi
of Temple Beth El, will be the
guest speaker at the annual -
donor luncheon of the Ezra Sis-
terhood of the Detroit Federation
of Polish Jews, at noon next
Wednesday at the Detroit Leland
Hotel.
• Funds raised will be used to
help finance the underground
movement against the Nazis in
Poland and to help finance the
national organization's publica-
tion of "The Black Book of
Polish Jewry."
This program also will feature
stars of the Yiddish stage and
the local radio.
Mrs. Jennie Weinberg, preSi-
dent, and Mrs. Becky Reblatt,
chairman, appeal to the Jewish
women of Detroit to support this
project..

War Correspondent

Federations
Conference
Program Set

Mueller to Address
Shaarey Zedek Men

4 Concurrent Sessions Feb. 4
Open CJFWF Assembly
in Pittsburgh

NEW YORK — Four major
questions of immediate concern
to Jewish communities will be
discussed at concurrent sessions
on the opening day of the Gen-
eral Assembly of the Council of
Jewish Federations and Welfare
Funds, in Pittsburgh, Feb. 4-7.
Donald Oberdorfer is chairman
of the program committee.

United Hebrew Schools'
Enrollment Project
Is In Full Progress

The membership enrollment
project of the United Hebrew
Schools is in full progress. The
committee and the, workers are
holding frequent meetings at
which they submit their reports
and discuss problems pertaining
to Jewish *education. These meet-
ingS are of value as open forum
gatherings, at 'which all phases of
the work of the United Hebrew
Schools are discussed.
The chairmen of the member-
ship enrollment committee are:
Dr. Albert E. Bernstein, Julius
Berman and Morris Fishman.
The next meeting will be held
next Thursday evening.

Jews Catch 22 Per Cent
of Palestine Fish

HAIFA, (JTA)—Jewish fisher-
men account for 22 per cent of
the fish taken by Palestine ves-
sels, it was disclosed here at the
first Palestine - wide conference
of. Jewish fishermen, attended by
200 representatives from nine
settlements. David Ben Gurion,
addressing the conference, said
that the sea is as important as
the land in developing Palestine
for Jewish colonization. He also
pointed out that the fishing in-
dustry can pave the way for the
growth of large-scale • Jewish
maritime industry.

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Palestine Partition Plan

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is chiefly responsible for the increase in the cost of living." The
article also criticizes the "cost-of-living allowances" which provide
for an automatic wage increase as the price index rises. It declares
that these wage increases intensify the inflationary pressure.

Merrill "Red" Mueller, who has
been described as America's
"most blitzed" reporter, eminent
Wedgwood's "Testament" Asks Jewish Majority in Palestine
war correspondent, will address
NEW YORK (JTA)—The future of Palestine as visualized by
the next cultural meeting of the
the late Lord Josiah Wedgwood is outlined in his last work, pub-
Men's Club of Congregation . lished
this week under the title of "Testament to Democracy." The
volume, which contains a foreword by Prime Minister Winston
Churchill, has been issued under the auspices of the American
Chapter of the Religious Emergency Council of the Chief Rabbi
of Great Britain.
"What I should like," Lord Wedgwood says in his "Testament,"
"would be a larger Palestine, embracing the Hauran, Transjordan
and Sinai, as a self-governing State of the Democratic Federal
Union; such a State to be pledged to open frontiers for immigration;
and Jewish police to keep order. Then the Jews would soon be • in
a majority, and with votes for all and single member constituencies
on a general franchise, the State would develop as peacefully and
justly as the State of New York."

The assembly will devote sev-
eral sessions to various aspects
of postwar planning, the civic
protective field, community or-
ganization, and fund raising and
budgeting.

Four concurrent sessions on
Friday, Feb. 4, will provide maxi-
mum participation by delegates
for the purpose of developing
group thinking on the policies
and programs to -be evolved. One
session, expected to be of interest
primarily to larger cities, will
deal with war problems and post-
war planning for family, chil-
dren's, vocational, health, and
cultural needs.
Discuss Fund Raising
Another session will deal with
Jewish community organization,
treating the problems of large
cities and those of smaller com-
munities.
A third session will be devoted
to the problem of fund raising
and budgeting. .
The subject of civic protective
activity which has been discussed
at several recent Assemblies, will
be taken- up at a fourth session.
This year the group discussion
will focus attention on local de-
velopments leaving the subject
of coordination of national civic
protective agencies to the Sunday
session. The basic elements of
present-day anti-Semitism and
problems of anti-Semitism in the
post-war period, and what corn-
munities can do to meet the prob-
lem locally will be considered.
First General Session
On Saturday -evening, Feb. 5,
the first general session of the
Assembly will be held. The pro-
gram will include a report by
Sidney Hollander, president of
the Council, and statements on
the overseas situation and the
American scene by prominent
leaders, with special reference to
the question of postwar planning.
The business meeting will be
held on Feb. 6, when the entire
Assembly will meet to discuss
results of the four sessions of the
previous Friday.

Friday, 'January 7, 1,944

MERRILL MUELLER

Shaarey Zedek next Wednesday
evening, in the social hall of the
synagogue. • His topic. will be
"Where Do We Go From Here?"
Leaving school at the age of
15, Mueller rose high in -journal-
istic circles beginning with his
first -newspaper job. He resisted
efforts of his parents to send him
to college in order to retain
newspaper jobs.

Palestinians in America Now Liable to Induction
WASHINGTON (JTA)—The National headquarters of the
Selective Service System this week announced that it has removed
Palestine from the category of neutral countries and included . it
among the co-belligerents. Under this order all Palestine citizens
residing in the U. S. are liable to induction into the armed services.
Under Selective Service regulations a neutral alien may file
a special. Selective Service Form and request relief from service.
If a neutral alien files such a request 'he is forever barred from
becoming a citizen of this country under existing law. Revised
regulations provide, however, that if a neutral alien becomes a
co-belligerent, a form formerly filed becomes ineffective.

West Side Women
Assist Red Cross
Blood Bank Drive

Jones or Mrs. L. Grant Hamilton,'
UN. 2-5511.

Mrs. Jones states that donors

- rill be received without notice to.

An inter-denominational effort Lhe committee at the appointed
hours.
to secure additional donors to
the Red Cross'Blood Bank, among
JWV Auxiliary Offers
people in the northwest section
of the city, has been started by Americanization Course
Correspondent for Newsweek, a group of women representing
Aliens residing in the north-
he has covered the war in Sicily, all faiths.
west section of the city are of-
Italy, Burma, India and—China.
Mrs. Harry Jones, UN. 1-0731, fered Americanization courses
He has received the f ',Bowing
awards : Headliners Award of representing the Jewish women, by the Dept. of Michigan Ladies'
Valor, Purple Heart, Regimental announced on Tuesday that a I Auxiliary . of Jewish War Veter-
Badge from the French with an Blood Bank will be established ans, Tuesday and Thursday ev-
accompanying Foragiere of Le- at the Mayflower Church, Curtis enings, 8 to 10, at the Yeshivah,'
Cortland and - Dexter. Mrs.
gion of Honor.
at Monica, near Livernois, from Bertha Baskin is the teacher.
1:30 to 5:30 P. M. next Wednes-
During the second term, a
day, Jan. 12.
Dr. Efros to Speak
letter-writing course is offered,.
On Tchexnichowsky
Those desiring to participate to enable relatives to write to
are urged to call either Mrs. men in the armed forces.
At Memorial Jan. 15

. Dr. Israel Efros, noted He-
brew poet and orator, will speak
on Saturday evening, Jan. 15, at
8:30 o'clodk, in the auditorium
of the Rose Sittig Cohen Build-
ing, on the life and works of the
Saul' Tcherhichowsky, who. died
three months -ago in Tel Aviv,
Palestine.

Tchernichowsky was one of
the most versatile writers. Pro-
lific, both in original writings
as well as in translations, he
was the translator of Homer and
Plato into Hebrew and of the
Finnish epic "Kalevala," for
which he received the award of
the Finnish White Rose. His
last book of Hebrew poems is
entitled "See Here, Earth," for
which he received the Bialik
prize.

This lecture is being sponsored
by the Kvutzah Ivrith jointly
with the Zionist Council. The
following committee is in
charge: For the Zionist Coun-
cil, Nathan Spevakow, , chair-
man, William Hordes, B. Laikin,
Mrs. David Scheraga, E. Sislin,
Lawrence W. Crohn; for the
Kvutzah Ivrith, Bernard Isaacs.

Bnai David Ladies'
Games Night Jan. 24

Mrs. S. Traison is chairman of
the annual fund-raising event of
the Bnai David Sisterhood, in the
form of an evening of games, to
take place Monday evening, Jan.
24, in the synagogue social hall,
Elmhurst and 14th. Members
and friends are urged to call
Mrs. Traison, TO. 6-0889, for
tickets.

Next Tuesday the annual
membership party will take
place at the Wilshire Hotel. Mrs.
L. Garvin is chairman of the
event and Mrs. David J. Cohen
is in charge of the program. Fea-
tured on the program will be a
review of "Under Cover."
Members of the Sisterhood will
act as hostesses at the reception
this Friday evening honoring
Rabbi Joshua Sperka on his 10th
anniversary with the synagogue.

The late Ben Bernie's son is
Pvt. Jason Bernie.

ANNUAL CONFERENCE

and

Palestine Histadrut
Demonstration

Official Opening of the 1914

GEWERKSHAFTEN CAMPAIGN

SUNDAY, JANUARY 9TH, AT 1:30 P. M.

AUDITORIUM OF

Congregation Shaarey Zedek

CHICAGO at LAWTON

Guest Speakers

BARUCH ZUCKERMAN,
one of the founders of the World Labor Zionist
Movement and the Gewerkshaften Campaign.

PHILIP A. ADLER,
member of the editorial staff, The Detroit News
and writer on International Affairs.
And other prominent speakers.

Musical Program

ARTHUR GROSSMAN,
well known and talented violinist, member of the
Detroit Symphony Orchestra.

CANTOR IRVING RINGEL,
although American-born, he is acclaimed on of the
foremost Chazonim artists in the musical world.

Rep-cv

DAN FROHMAN at the Piano
of the achievements of the 1943 Gewerkshaften
Campaign will be made.

ADMISSION FREE

NO SOLICITATION OF FUNDS

ALL ARE WELCOME!