THE JEWISH NEWS

Page Eighteen

Friday, June . 16, 1944

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National, Detroit Leaders Center Fetes
Commend Arlazaroff Group Volunteers

Arlazaroff Memorial Book
Hailed Throughout Country

Segal, National Secretary of JNWA, Sounds Optimistic
Note Regarding Jewish Position in Palestine;
Schaver Honored at Anniversary Event

More Than 100 to Be Given
Merit Awards for Aid
During 1943-44

Publication by JNWA Branch Here Called Outstanding
Contribution to Yiddish and Zionist
Literature in the U. S.

Nationally prominent leaders joined with leaders of the
Jewish community of Detroit in extending greetings to more
than 200 members of • Arlazaroff Branch of Jewish National
Workers' Alliance, at the dinner at the Lee Plaza on Sunday
evening, marking the 10th anniversary of the branch.
Louis Segal, national general secretary of the. Jewish

Next Thursday evening in the
auditorium of the Jewish Com-
munity Center, the Center will
hbnor upwards of a hundred of
its young people for volunteer
services rendered the Center in
the year 1943-1944, it is an-
nounced by Herman Jacobs, ex-
ecutive director of the Center.
Volunteers to be honored have
served in several capacities.
Some are club leaders; others
have done the addressing and
mailing 'for War Workers' pro-
grams, Holiday Hops and other
activities; many have ushered at
a series of functions and some
have assisted in the planning and
promotion of activities or super-
vision of areas.
Will Present Certificates -
The -president of the Center,
H. C. Broder, will convey the
appreciation of the Center to
each volunteer who will receive
a certificate of award.
A feature of the program will
be an address by Isidore Sobe-
loff, recently returned to his post
as executive director of the Jew-
ish Welfare Federation, who will
draw on his interests and experi-
ence in Jewish communal life in
speaking on the subject "The
Value of a Volunteer in the
Community."
One of the Volunteers, Al
Krass, will represent the groups
in brief remarks on the reasons
why a person serves as a volun-
teer in the Center.
Reception by Board
After the program, which
opens at 8:45 p. m., a reception
will be tendered by the board of
directors. Mrs.. Aaron DeRoy
and Mrs. H. C. Broder will pre-
side at the refreshment table.
Mrs. Benjamin E. Jaffe and Mrs.
Mary Lakoff, vice president and
secretary respectively, will be in
charge of arrangements.
Friends and relatives of the
volunteers and members of the
Center are invited' to attend.

Publication by Arlazaroff branch of Detroit of - the Jew-
ish National Workers Alliance of the Chaim Arlazaraff :Mem-
orial Volume, on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the
death of the great labor Zionist -leader at the hands . of an
assassin in Palestine, is being hailed. throughout the- country
as an outstanding contribution to Yiddish and Zionist

National Workers' Alliance (Far-€)
band), wile, was the principal raising sums running in the hun-
speaker, struck an optimistic note, dreds of thousands during the
when he declared that good news past 10 years.
soon' will come with regard to
A. Meyerowitz spoke in behalf
the Jewish position in Palestine. of the other branches of Farland
Outlining the place of the Far- in Detroit. Abraham Cohen
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band in American Jewish life, greeted the gathering in behalf
Mr. Segal described the move- of the Jewish Community Coun-
ment's growth and its important cil.
position in the American Jewish
Speaks for Zionists
community:
Philip Slomovitz, speaking in
the name of the Zionist Council
Honor Morris Schaver
. The gathering showed appre- told of the heritage for cooper-
ciation for the work of the presi- ation left to the Zionist move-
dent, Morris L. Schaver, who ment by the late Dr. Chaim
was one of the founders of the Arlazaroff in .whose honor the
branch. and its first president, branch was founded.
A stirring address was deliver-
and who presided at Sunday's
ed by William Hordes, president
dinner.
Mr. Schaver called ..upon the of the Jewish National Fund and
gathering to enlist more mem- a former Arlazaroff president,
bers in the Barband, to buy War who commended the branch for
Bonds, to assist in war efforts its pro-Palestine activities and
conducted by the group and to who urged increased efforts in
participate in efforts for Pales- behalf of land-redemption in
Zion.
tine's reconstruction.
A. H. Kuschinsky, organizer of
Isaac ,Hamlin, national secre-
tary of the Gewerkshaften, one the branch, spoke on the out-
of the guest - speakers, praised standing achievements of the
members of Arlazaroff branch past 10 years.
Eugene Mondry, son of Mr. and
for their efforts on all fronts to
protect democratic institutions Mrs. H. Mondry, leaders in the
and to assist in Palestine's re- branch, recited a selection from
the works of Chaim Nachman
demption.
Bialik.
Schumer's Financial Report
Plea for Blood Donors
The program opened with brief
Mrs. Mondry made an appeal
remarks by David Sislin who in-
for Red -Cross Blood Donors
troduced Mr. Schaver.
Harry Schumer, treasurer, stat- through the Pioneer Women's
ed in his address that the Arlaza- groups.
M.. Rogovoy of Akron, 0., was
roff branch assisted all worthy
causes, Jewish and civic, and that another speaker. Among the
its members were responsible for guests introduced was M. Cho-
metz of Philadelphia, A. Schnei-
der, field organizer, representa-
tives of other Farband branches,
Pioneer Women's groups and
Poale Zion.
The dinner was the occasion
It is only a small, insignificant- for the introduction of the Ar-
looking mechanical device and 1.4s lazaroff Memorial Volume pub-
inventor, Kurt Schwartz, is but lished by Arlazaroff branch. A
an 18-year-old refugee lad from review of this book appears else-
Stuttgart who put it together in where on this page.
Cdncert by Gtinkowsky
his spare time. Yet this device
The gathering was enhanced
is credited with speeding up pro-
duction in the war plant where by the concert of Jewish music
Kurt is employed by 400 per presented in the course of the
evening by Cantor David Glin.-
cent.
kowsky of Cleveland.
Kurt left Germany a few
Cantor Glinkowski, a former
months before the Nazis' first
bombs fell on Warsaw in 1939. Palestinian, sang Yiddish and
Hebrew melodies. He was ac-
When Kurt and his family ar-
rived in the U. S. they were as- companied on the piano by .Re-
_ sisted by the National Refugee becca Frohman.
Service, a beneficiary of the
United Jewish Appeal.
Kurt decided to become a ma-
chinist. He trained at Brook-
to Hold
lyn. Tech in New York and
eventually got a job in a war
plant.
MILWAUKEE, (JTA) — T h e
One day it occurred to him that
he could develop a mechanism first meeting of the steering-
which would speed up production committee elected recently at
of war materials which his plant the Indianapolis meeting of the
was turning out. He presented it English-Jewish newspaper pub-
one day to his employers.
lishers will be held in Milwaukee
He didn't hear any more about on June 16, 17, and 18.
it for some time, until one day
The- committee members are:
he received from Washington an Dr. Joseph G.- Brin, Bostdn; Ir-
impressive-looking official en- ving G. Rhodes, Milwaukee;
velope. The document enclosed Phillip Slomovitz, Detroit; Jack
was signed by the Chief of Staff Fishbein, Chicago; Gabriel Co-
of the War Ptoduction Drive hen, Indianapolis;. L. M. Frisch,
Headquarters and it read in part: Minneapolis; and Samuel- Neus-
"War Production Drive Head- ner, Hartford.
quarters acknowledges with ap-
While in Milwaukee, the com-
preciation the production sugges- mittee members will be guests
tion of Kurt Schwartz . . . to fur- of Irving G. Rhodes, publisher
ther the, successful prosecution of the Wisconsin Jewish Chron.-
of the war."
icle.

Refugee'S Invention
Speeds War Weapons

Jewish Publishers'
Committee
Milwaukee Parley

literature in this country.
Arlazaroff . branch financed the
Joseph Sprinzak, another world
publication of this volume on the Zionist leader, presents episodes
occasion of the 10th anniversary from the life of Dr. Arlazaroff.
*
A stirring essay by Dr. Arlaza-
roff's sisters, Dora and Eliza,
takes the reader back a genera-
tion -to explain the childhood of
the martyred Zionist leader and
to relate the pro-Zionist influ-
ences of his family in the days
of his childhood:
-
I. Luf ban writes on the last
two years of Arlazaroff.
Jacob Fichman, Moshe Shertok,
member of the World Zionist Ex-
ecutive, and Gerda write the
three other essays in the book.
His Final Address
The balance of this splendid
volume is devoted to excerpts
from Dr. Arlazaroff's writings.
Included among them is the final
address he delivered, in Warsaw,
in 1933, prior to his departure
for Palestine and almost on the
eve of his death.
LATE DR. ARLAZAROFF
Dr. Arlazaroff's essays include
of the branch which was cele- his opinions on the Wedgwood
brated last Sunday. Produced in proposal that Palestine become
splendid typographical form. with the "Seventh Dominion" in the
a fine hard cover, this volume of British Empire, his views on Brit-
320 pages, edited by Shlomo ish officialdom in Palestine, an
Grodzensky of NeW York, con- essay on "New York and • Jer-
tains essays by- outstanding usalem" and other articles. Ten
American Jewish leaders eval- pages in the book are devoted to
uating the life and work of the excerpts from letters written by
late Dr. Arlazaroff, and a number Dr. Arlazaroff.
of essays by Dr. Arlazaroff which
This very important book, one
have not been published until of the most significant Zionist
now.
works published in many years,
Important Article
is available from members of the
In addition to the opening es- Arlazaroff branch and from Mrs.
say by Mr. Grodzensky, this Adele Mondry, who heads the
volume contains the following:
committee on distribution of the
An important article by Baruch book.
Zuckerman, labor Zionist leader,
giving. impressions of his meet-
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seditionists on trial in Washing-
ton, with Julius Streicher, mem-
ber of the Hitler camarilla and
notorious Jew-baiter, was of-
fered by Peter Gissibl, former
leader of The German American
Bund in Chicago.
He told of a visit to Streicher's
offices in Nuremberg, Germany,
and named Robert E. Edmond-
son, Gerald B. Winrod, Edward
James Smythe and George E.
Deatherage as having been in
correspondence with the Sterich-
er office. Gissibl testified that
Lois de Lafayette Washburn, an-
other defendant, addressed a
German American Bund meeting
in Chicago.
The government is set to offer
in evidence fourteen fat volumes
containing the mailing lists of
Nazi and pro-Nazi propaganda
agencies which operated here
early in 1941. The lists contain
the names of officers and men
in the Navy and Army and will
be introduced to show that the
defendants sought to impair the
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