Friday, April 21, 1944

THE JEWISH NEWS

Helped Frame Palestine Mandate

Isadore Levin's 50th Birthday
Recalls Interesting Career

Jewish Agency, JNF
Spend 3 Million to Aid
Refugees in 2 Months

NEW YORK (JTA) — Almost
$3,000,000, a record sum, was
Nationally Famous Attorney, a Captain in Last War at 25, spent by the Jewish Agency,- for
Palestine and the Jewish Na-
Assisted Frankfurter and Mack in Establishing
tional Fund in the first two
Terms for Jewish National Home
months of 1944, with the largest
single expenditure being made
for immigration assistance and
relief to refugees, as thousands
of Jews found homes in Pales-
tine, it was announced here by
Dr. James G. Heller, national
chairman of the United Pale-
tine Appeal.
In the months of January and
February, 1944, t h e Jewish
Agency, with the funds of the
Palestine Foundation Fund, its
fiscal instrument, spent $1,914,-
932; The Jewish National Fund
spent at the rate of a million
dollars for the same period. The
inadequacy of income from the
U. S. and the rising rate of
expenditures made it necessary
for the Palestine Foundation
Fund to borrow $1,215,000 from
Lloyds Bank in London, Dr.
Heller stated.

Page Eleve n

Cantor Meisels
Publishers Meet
Guest Soloist
In Indianapolis
At Zionist Event Forms of Community Coop«

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Mrs. Cooper to Participate
In Night of Jewish Music
At Center Thursday

Saul Meisels, cantor of Cleve-
land Temple on the Heights, will
be guest soloist at the annual
Evening of Jewish Music spon-

eration to be Discussed
On April 29 and 30

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., (JTA)'
Indianapolis will be host to pub.'
lishers of weekly English-Jewish
newspapers from coast to coast
Saturday and Sunday, April 29
and 30 when almost all of the
fifty odd U. S. Jewish papers
published in English will con-
verge on the city for their first
annual convention.

An invitation to the publishers
was sent out this week by Ernest
Cohn, president of the Indian-
apolis Jewish Federation, express-
ing the hope that the publishers
would find their stay in the city
pleasant. The Federation will be
host to the publishers at luncheon
Sunday at Beth El.

Activities will open with an
Oneg Shabbat at 2 p. m. Satur-
day, with Philip Slomovitz, of
The Jewish News of Detrbit, and
Joseph Brin, of the Jewish Advo-
cate of Boston, delivering papers.
Mr. Slomovitz will discuss forms
of community support and Mr.
Brin will discuss the failure of
SAUL MEISELS
Jewish leadership to cooperate
sored by the Zionist Organiza- with the Anglo-Jewish press.
tion of Detroit, next Thursday
Saturday night and Sunday
evening, at tee Shaarey Zedek.
morning's sessions will be devot-
Mrs. Abraham Cooper will ed to advertising and circulation
participate in tIte program and respectively. After the luncheon,
assisting will be the instrumental the final session of the convention
trio composed of Bernard Argie- will be held, with the editorial
wicz, 'cellist; Morris Hochberg, work of the papers the topic oil
violinist, both members of the the discussion. Election of officers
'Detroit Symphony Orchestra, will close the convention.
and Sylvia Hochberg, pianist.
There also will be community
singing.

creases in 1923. He has won
national recognition for the
handling of cases before the U.S.
Supreme Court in matters in-
volving interstate commerce and
the anti-trust laws, before courts
over which Chief Justices Charles
Evans Hughes and William How-
ard Taft presided. These cases
are frequently referred to in the
courts and in law colleges.
Mr. Levin on several occasions
refused to accept public offices
that were offered to him in the
City and State, preferring to
carry on his law practice.
He has served on committees
of the City and State Bar As-
sociations and was a member of
the State Bar Association com-
mittee which framed the exist-
Admission is free and all are
ing corporation law.
invited. .

Served on Clinic Board

—Photo by Herman Krieger, Jewish News Staff Photographer

ISADORE LEVIN

Twenty-five years ago, then a Captain in the U. S. Army
who had been retained to assist in the dismantling of U. S.
artillery that remained overseas after World War I, Isadore
Levin was called upon to help in drafting terms with respect
to Palestine that were to be incorporated in the Mandate
which later was given by the Peace Conference at Versailles
to Great Britain.

He was then 25, but his
liant scholarship at the Har- that he received the call to par-
yard Law School placed him in ticipate in framing the terms of
the foreground among the ablest the Palestine provisions to be in-
available lawyers for the his- corporated in the Mandate. Up-
toric task of preparing the on completion of that task, he
ground for the establishment of went to Palestine, from there
the Jewish National Home.
going to Paris and London, re-
Assisted Frankfurter
turning to Detroit in October of
Thus, in 1919, Capt. Levin had 1919.
the great privilege of working Upon his return here, he was
with Prof. Felix Frankfurter— honored by a large assembly
now one of the Justices of the that gathered in the Shaarey
U. S. Supreme Court—and Judge Zedek synagogue on Willis and
Julian W. Mack, who passed Brush Sts. to hear a report of
away a year ago, in preparing his experiences in Palestine.
the legal documents for the Pal-
He returned to the Butzel and
estine Mandate.
Butzel office and has been for
Last Tuesday, on his 50th many years a member of the
birthday, which was just an- *firm now functioning under the
other day in his busy career as name of Butzel, Levin and
one of the state's leading law- Winston.
yers, Mr. Levin recalled his
On Alien Enemy Board
early experiences. He was full Among the great honors that
of faith that the ground that have come to him in this war
had been prepared 25 years ago was the call he received from
for the solution of the problem U. S. Attorney General Francis
of homelessness of great num- Biddle to serve as a member of
bers of Jews will yet bear the Alien Enemy Board for
fruit, and that the work of the Eastern Michigan. He accepted
pioneers is not a lost cause.
the appointment several days
Born in New Haven
after Pearl Harbor. He is also
He was born in New Haven, Government Appeal Agent for
Conn., April 18, 1894. His par- Draft Board No. 10.
ents, Rabbi and Mrs. Judah L. In his legal work, Mr. Levin
Levin, came to Detroit with has handled many intricate
their family three years later.
matters involving many organ-
Mr. Levin, after graduating izations and re-organizations.
from Cass High School, received He appears frequently before
his B. A. degree from Harvard the Michigan State Supreme
College and his LL.B. from Har- Court and he has argued before
yard Law School. the U. S. Supreme Court in im-
In August of 1916 he entered portant cases.
the law office of Butzel and He enjoys this type of work
Butzel, the partners of which because it enables him to deal
were Henry M. Butzel—now with legal doctrines and to in-
State Supreme Court Justice— terpret legal decisions so as to
and Fred M. Butzel. Shortly bring about the development of
thereafter, in May of 1917, he important principles and prece-
enlisted in the Army. He was dents. He finds interest in the
sent overseas in September of great variety of problems that
that year with the Field Ar- come to him in a broad general
tillery.
• practice.
On completion of the officers'
Given Natonal Recognition
training school course he was
An important- case which
commissioned Lieutenant and brought him fame was the suit
later was promoted to Captain. which prevented th e Detroit
Went to Palestine
City Gas Co. from putting into
It was in September of 1919 effect its announced rate in-

He served for six years as a
member of the board of North
End Clinic, is a member of the
boards of several corporations,
is a director of the Detroit
Times and serves on the com-
munity advisory board of The
Jewish News.
His father, the venerable
Rabbi Judah L. Levin, died in
1926. His mother passed away
in 1933.
Besides his brother and law
partner, Abraham J. Levin, he
has two other brothers, Dr. Na-
than P. Levin, who resides with
his family in Los Angeles, and
Prof. Samuel M. Levin of
Wayne University.
Mr. Levin is proud of the
fact that four members of the
family are serving in the armed
forces. Capt. Gerald Levin, son
of Dr. and Mrs. Nathan P. Le-
vin, is serving with the Air
Force overseas. Prof. and Mrs.
Samuel M. Levin's two sons and
their son-in-law are in active
service. They are First Lt. Jos-
eph H. Levin, who is stationed
at the A b e r d e en Proving
Grounds, Maryland; First Lt.
Herbert G. Levin, who is com-
pleting his medical internship in
Chicagq before entering active
service, and Stanley B. Fried-
man, who is with the U. S.
Engineers at Camp Belvoir.

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Mr. Meisels will sing Shir
Hashirim by Lazare Saminsky,
Adamah by Max Helfman, Der
Batlan, Hotzmach and Der Rebele
by Henoch Kon, Bialik's Bein
N'Har P'Rat by Nachum Nardi,
Kaddish by Joel. Engel and the
Folk melody Die Chassene.

The instrumentalists will ren-
der Jacob Weinberg's Trio in
Hebrew Themes and Jacques
Halevey's Escerpts from LaJuive.

Jewish War Vets
To Meet Monday

The Jewish War Veterans will
hold a joint meeting of all posts
and auxiliaries on Monday at
8:30 p. m., in the -Mezzanine
Auditorium of the Maccabees
Building, Woodward and Put-
nam.

World War Veterans II Post.
No. 268 %ill be instituted and
its officers installed.
Official movies of the Office
of War Information will be
shown and the Jewish War Vet-
erans Memorial Home Drive will
be discussed at a short business
meeting. There will be refresh-
ments with the compliments of
the State Department.

A New War-lime Convenience!

Ready Cooked
Foo- ds

in the Casserole Carton

Sanders offer two or more Ready
Cooked Foods daily — Chopped
Beef Pie and Biscuits, Steak and
Kidney -Pie, and many others.
These foods are packaged in the
new Casserole Carton which can
be placed right in the oven for
heating — and then on the table
for serving. Each carton contains
four generous servings. Ready
Cooked Foods are carried in stock
at seven Sanders stores. Orders
may be placed at any store for
next day's specials.

CONFECTIONERS

CANDIES • BAKED GOODS • ICE CREAMS

She Always Wants
The Best for Her Family .

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