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THE JEWISH NEWS
Palestinians Deny Charges;
Blame Police, Arabs for Riots
Fellowship Honors
Late Dr. E. L. Israel
Allegations in London Times Blaming Jews for Terrorism
Assailed; Deny Jewish Community Failed to Aid
In Apprehending Responsible Persons
sah-University Hospital in Jeru-
salem, declared at the meeting
of the National Board of Ha-
dassah here. Mrs. Bertha S.
Schoolman, writing in the Ha-
dassah Newsletter, quotes him
as having told the Hadassah
DR. EDWARD L. ISRAEL
meeting that "the Jewish set-
WASHINGTON. — In memory
tlers in Palestine have a very
intelligent agricultural program of the late Dr. Edward L. Israel,
. . . I have a great deal of sym- nationally-known rabbi and la-
pathy with it, and think you are
bor mediator, who died in Octo-
exactly on the right track."
ber, 1941, as he was being in-
Anti-White Paper
stalled as executive director of
Barrage Continued
the Union of American Hebrew
NEW YORK (JPS)—The bar- Congregations, B n a I Brit h,
rage of criticism againg the through its National Hillel
White Paper policy in Palestine
continued; with editorials and Commisison,'• has created the Ed-
columns demanding that the ward L. Israel Memorial Inter-
British Government "revoke its faith Fellowship at 'the Uni-
discriminatory policy against versity of Maryland, it was an-
Jews in Palestine," open the
nounced
by Henry Monsky,
country's doors to Europe's flee-
ing Jews and abide by the prom- president of Bnai Brith, • the na-
ise of the Balfour Declaration. tion's_ oldest and largest Jewish
An editorial in the New York service organization.
Post pointed out that Britain
has violated numerous articles
of the Mandate, including .article
2 which makes her "responsible
for putting into effect the Bal-
four Declaration"; article 6
which calls upon "Britain to
facilitate Jewish immigration";
article 15 which says that "no
person shall be exuded from
Palestine on the sole ground of
his religious belief."
The editorial proposes that an
American Jew apply for an im-
migration visa to Palestine, and
if he is refused, the matter be
taken into the courts as evidence
that Britain has violated an
agreement not to exclude any
one because of his religious
beliefs.
Jewish Accomplishments
In Palestine Praised
NEW YORK, (JTA)—A pro-
posal for a vast postwar irriga-
tion and hydro-electric project_
for Palestine was described this
week to 1,800 persons who at-
tended the final Book and Au-
thor Luncheon of the 1943-'44
season at the Hotel Astor.
In picturing the Middle East
as a region ideal for a reclama-
tion project, Dr.. Walter Clay
Lowdermilk, who is assistant
chief of the soil conservation
service of the Department of
Agriculture, traced the . collapse
of its ancient agriculture. This,
he said, led to the desert wastes
of today. He pointed to the ac-
Says White Paper
complishments of the Jews in
Doesn't Bar U. S. Jews
Palestine, and emphasized that
WASHINGTON (JPS) — An- the Jews have kept faith with
swering a recent charge that the the Balfour agreement, "They
British White Paper bans Amer- deserve something better," he
ican Jews from Palestine, t h e said.
State Department disclosed that
Americans of Jewish faith may Open Palestine,
be admitted to Palestine aside Gov. Dewey Says
froth the 75,000 quota set by the
NEW Y O R K, (JPS)—"The
White Paper. The State Depart- doors of Palestine must be
ment did not say whether Amer- opened and opened permanent-
ican Jews may be admitted • as ly" to the Jewish people, Gov-
settlers or as tourists.
ernor Thomas E. Dewey de-
clared at a dinner here opening
Current Immigration
the 1944 campaign of the United
Quota is Delyed
Jewish Appeal. He . pointed out
JERUSALEM, (JTA)—Jewish that "many. thousands of Euro-
leaders here are concerned at pean Jews will want to go to
the failure of the Palestine Ad- Palestine after the war," be-
ministration to issue the immi- cause "the evil ideology' planted
gratiOn schedule for the three- by Hitler and inculcated in the
month period beginniwg April 1. youth he has dominated -for
The usual procedure heretofore twelve years will not easily be
has been for the administration eradicated in the years ahead."
to notify the Jewish Agency in
advance of the number of cer- F. D. R.: No Decision
tificates that would be made Without::Arabs and JeWs
available to it.
WASHINGTON (JPS)—In re-
sPonse to an - inquiry from Emir
Admiral Would Like
Abdullah of Transjordan, Presi-
To Live in Palestine •
dent Roosevelt cabled a reply
NEW YORK' (JPS) — "Given that no changes would be made
opportunity, I too would like to in the status of Palestine with-
live in Palestine," Rear Adm. out first consulting with both
Charles S. Stephenson, of the the Arabs and the Jews.
•medical branch of the U. S.
NaV:k., who spent six weeks as a
patient. -of :thQ Rothschild-Hadas-
Buy War Bonds!
Trade Union Spokesmen
Join War on White Paper
American Jewish Trade Union Committee for Palestine,
Representing Thousands of Organized Jewish
Workers, Asks Actin on Resolutions
JERUSALEM (JPS-Palcor) — Strong resentment was
voiced by Jewish leadership here against charges in the Lon-
don Times by its Jerusalem correspondent that the Jews were
not responsible for the recent acts of terror. If there were
-. any lack of co-operation between the police and the Jewish
community, the leaders said, it was because of distrust en-
gendered by the police them-q=
se 1 ves.
The correspondent charged
that the Jews were actuated by
the same motives as had actuat-
ed the Arabs' in the past, name-
ly, solidarity with the terrorists
and fear of their reprisals.
-Jewish leaders felt that the
London Times allegations should
not be honored with a formal
reply. Their informal refutation
of the charges in the London
Times may be summarized., as
follows:
Called Fallacious
The comparison with the
Arabs is fallacious and mislead-
ing. Arab disturbances through-
out were directed by an Arab
committee on which all parties
were represented, and which
was presided over by the Arab
religious head in Palestine. The
Arab press heartily supported
their activities.
The reaction of the Jewith
community to the recent terror-
ism was one of utter disgust,
condemnation - and • anger, as ex-
pressed in resolutions adopted
by central and local Jevish pub-
lic - bodies, trade unions, profes-
sional 'organizations and the
Hebrew press.
Using information "supplied
by the public," the police track-
ed down and, in an ensuing gun
fight, killed two Jewish youths
in the village of Yavneel, near
Tiberias. The youths, identified
as Monachem Luntz, the son of
a villager of. Yavneel, and Zvi
Gross of Tel !Aviv, were wanted
for alleged complicity iti the fa-
tal shooting of Jewish Police
Sergeant Itzhak Polany and the
wounding of British Police In-
spector Coles in Haifa, April 1..
Talks With Arabs
There have been talks between
members of the Jewish Agency
Executive and leading Arab per-
sonalities of Palestine and neigh-
ba oring countries for the purpose
of • reaching an understanding on
the Palestine question, it. was
revealed here by David ben
Gurion, chairman of the Jewish
Agency Executive, speaking be-
fore the Council of the Hista-
• ruth, General Jewish Federa-
tion of Labor.
The chairman of the Jewish
Agehcy Executive declared that
the principal difficulty blocking
an understanding was the Arab's
opposition to extensive Jewish
immigration. He added that he
was a participant in these talks.
Page Fifteen
NEW YORK—The American Jewish Trade Union Com--
mittee for Palestine, representing several hundred thousand
organized Jewish workers, both AFL and CIO, demanded the
immediate abrogation of the White Paper policy which bars •
further Jewish immigration into Palestine, and called for the
reconstitution of that country as a free and democratic Jew-
ish Commonwealth.
In a declaration unanimously"'
adopted at a meeting of its mem- Workers Union, Joseph Gold,
bers, the Committee stated that manage r, CoatmakerS Trade
"the American labor movement Board, A.C.W.A.
generally, embracing 12,000,000
Others are: - William Wolpert,
members, is completely in favor
of, and supports the aims of their secretary-treasurer, United He-
Jewish co-trade unionists — to brew Trades, and Murray Ku-
help in the rebuilding of Pales- dish, vice-president, United
tine as a Jewish Commonwealth." Wholesale - R e t a i I Department
Store Employees Union of Am- •
Pending Resolutions
erica. I. H. Goldberg;
The declaration also urged dent of the United Hatters Cap
passage by Congress "at the earli- and Millinery Workers Union of
opportunity" of the pending Pal, America, r and Harry- Wander,
estine resolutions, introduced in vice-president of the ILGWU are
the House by Representatives co-secretaries.
James A. Wright (D.) of Penn-
Abraham - Miller, 'secretary of
sylvania, and • Ranulf Compton the New York Joint Board of the
(R.) of Connecticut, and in the Amalgamated Clothing Workers
Senate by Senators Robert • F. Union, and Harris Horwitz,
Wagner (D.) of New York and manager of the Bakers -Union, •
Robert A. Taft (R.) of Ohio..
are co-treasurers.
The Committee hailed Presi-
dent Roosevelt's statement of Dr. Knopmacher, WJC
March 9, that "the American Leader, Dies in N. Y. at 56
Government. hag never given its
NEW YORK, (STA) —Dr.
approval to the White Paper . . . Ernst Knopfmacher, 56, noted
and that when future decisions journalist who had been con-
are reached, full justice will be nected with the World Jewish
done to those who seek a Jewish Congress since its establishment
National Home, for which our in Geneva, died here this week
-Government and the American from a heart attack.
people have 'always had the
deepest sympathy."
Prevailing Sympathy
Pointing out that the AFL, at
its last convention in October,
Dr. Heller Reveals Cable 1943; unanimously adopted a
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resolution calling for full imple-
mentation of the Balfour Decla-
From Cernauti
ration, and that the CIO, at its
convention in November, 1943,
Dr. James G. Heller, national
also demanded abrogation of the
chairman of the United Palestine
A New War-Time Convenience!
Chamberlain White Paper, the
Appeal, has made public a cable
Committee said:
revealing that 238 refugees who
"We know that these resolu-
have escaped from the Balkans
tions
of the two great American
have left from Turkey by train-
labor organizations are a - result
for Palestine.
The information was relayed of the generally prevailing sym-
from , Turkey by Chaim Barlas„ pathy of American organized la-
in the Casserole Carton
representative of the Jewish bor toward the fate of the Jew-
ish people, and indicate their
Agency for Palestine.
Sanders offer two or more Ready
The .cable reported the arrival willingness and determination to
Cooked Foods daily — Chopped
in Turkey of the S. S. Milca, on help them in the achievement of
Beef Pie and Biscuits; Steak and
•which there were 209 Jews who their goal:"
Branding the White Paper as
Kidney 'Pie, and many others.
had escaped from Cernauti just
before the _ Nazis were driven "a cruel blow aimed at Hitler's
These foods are packaged in the-
from the city, and 29 others who first victims and staunchest .op-
new Casserole Carton which can
had fled from Bucharest, Ru- ponents," . the Committee ap-
be placed right in the oven for •
pealed
to
the
American
Govern-
mania.
-
heating — and then on the table
•
The Jewish Agency for Pales- ment for "speedy and direct ac-
for serving. Each carton contains
tine proVided- the refugees with tion to effect the opening of Pal-
estine's
gates
four
generous servings. Ready
to
Jewish
immi-
Palestine immigration certificates
Cooked Foods are carried in stock
to leave by rail for the • Jewish gration." .
at seven Sanders stores. Orders
Officers of Committee
National Home in Palestine.
The officers of the Committee-
may be placed at" any store for
Are Max Zaritsky, president of
Tena or Thelma Berger
next day's specials.
the United Hatters, Cap and
Is Sought in Detroit
• Anyone knowing . the where- _Millinery Workers Union of Am-
abouts of Miss or Mrs. Tena or erica, chairman. Vice-chairmen
Thelma Berger who has a sister, include: Isidore Nagler, Morris
Hinda Wachs, living in Argen- Bialis, • Joseph Breslaw, and
■ O
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CONFECTIONERS
tina, please get in touch with Harry Greenberg, viCe-presi-
Mrs. Sam Cron, • Jewish Social dents,. International Ladies Gar-
CANDIES • IAKED GOODS • Ice CREAMS
Service Bureau, 5737 Second, ment Workers Union; Joseph
Schlossberg, secretary - treasurer
TRinity 2-4080.
Refugees
Flee Balkaits
For Palestine
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