Friday, Augusi 18, 1944

THE -JEWISH NEWS

Moscow Writer Says Blum
Perished in Death Camp

Palestine Arrival
Causes Rejoicing

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Sweden Prepared to Admit
10,000 Hungarian Children

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Pre-War Premier of France Last Seen Alive in 1943 a
'Jewish Extermination Camp' Near Lublin,
According to Mbn Who Saw Him There

Prime Minister Announces His Country Is Ready to Give
Them Temporary Refuge; Hopes Red Cross
Succeeds in Arranging Emigration

BY RAYMOND A. DAVIES

LONDON (JPS)—Sweden's Prime Minister announced
that Sweden was prepared to temporarily admit 10,000 Jew- ,
ish children from Hungary in accordance with the offer of
Hungary's Regent Horthy td release Jewigh children with
visas for Palestine, neutral countries • and overseas. He said
that his government hoped that the International Red Cross

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MOSCOW,

(JTA)—Leoh. Bluth, pre-war Premier - of
France, died in a "Jewish camp" near Lublin in 1943, accord-
ing to a report here this week by the well-known Soviet
author Constantin Simonov, who has just returned Irtm a
visit to the newly liberated Polish city.
If Simonov's story is correct—he got it from two persons

who claimed to have spoken to •
Blum shortly before he died—it don told The . United Press that
clears a mystery of more than a M. Blum was alive "just a few
year as to the ex-premier's fate. days ago," but declined to elab-
Blum, one of the French readers orate on their information for
tried by the Vichy government "obvious reasons," adding that
in the never-completed Riom "the less said about the matter
trials in 1942, was last reported the better." Reuter quoted
in 1943 to be in. a prison camp Andre le Troquer, French Com-
in western Prussia.
missioner for the Adniinistration
According to Simonov's story, of Liberated Territories, as say-
Blum was held in one of the ing it was known that M. Blum
grimmest and most notorious was alive in May, 1943, 'given in
Nazi prison camps about a mile the Moscow report as the date of
from Lublin. What happened his death.)
there was told to the Soviet au-
thor by the two men with whorri
he talked in Lublin.
`That's Leon Blum'
In 1943, they said, they were
Kinnert
in a warehouse filled with con-
struction materials for the camp,
and met one of the Lublin Jews
whom, they had known in the
The annual youth day held last
past. He talked to them for a Sunday at Camp Kinneret, main-
while, and then, pointing to an tained by Habonim, Labor Zion-
old man who was lugging boards, ist Youth Organization, featured
said: "Do you know who that is? the laying of the cornerstone of
That's Leon Blum."
a new building to be erected as a
Seeing that there was no one memorial to Seaman Joseph Ro-
near them, the two men ap- senberg, who • was lost in the
proached the old man.
South Pacific.
"Are you Leon Blum?" he was
Members of Habonim in De-
asked.
troit, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Ak-
"Yes," the old man replied.
ron, Chicago -and other midwest
"Prime Minister of France?"
"Yes, Prime Minister . of cities participated. Arthur Gold-_
berg, who has been serving as
France."
camp. director, was chairrnan.
"How did you get here?"
Campers presented an original
"I came with the last party of
French prisoners," he answered. operetta entitled "What Is Torah."
"Why didn't you try to save There was a brief address by
yourself at home?" he was asked.. Abraham Meyerowitz, director of
Camp ,Kinderwelt, member of
"Couldn't you have done it?"
the youth committee of the labor
Shared Fate of People
"I don't know," the old man Zionist movement. An appeal for
said. "Perhaps I could. But I funds for new buildings was
decided to share the fate of my made.
Miss Ruth Meyerowitz, who
people."
Just then some Gestapo men succeeded Joseph Rosenb,erg as
came up, and Blum picked up the Rosh Machaneh!(chairman of the
heavy board and went on. In a organization), spoke of Rosen-
few steps he fell down. Someone berg's devotion. and activity in
helped him up, and he went on all phases of Zionist work and of
the role he had played in build-
again.
A week later the two men ing Camp Kinneret.. -
Yosef Israeli, representative of
were back at the warehouse, and
met their Jewish friend again. Histradut, spoke on behalf of the
They asked him where Leon national executive and nation=
Blum was. "Up there," the man wide membership of Habonim,
replied, pointing to the sky, and paid tribute to Rosenberg's
memory.
"where I'll be soon."
Camp Kinneret, one of a chain
(Well-informed sources in Lon-
of camps maintained by the
Habonim Organization through-
out the U. S. and Canada, is con-
ducted on a co-operative basis,
all campers and staff members
'sharing in all the work in the
camp. Known as the summer
Kvutzah of the organization, they
are modelled after the collective
Lenamya Saulson Leader in labor settlements in Palestine.
The season will close with a
High School Group. S
five-day educational seminar and
a regional organizational confer-
Wine is Third
ence.
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Lenamya Saulson of 633 W.
When Joel Kupperman made
Hancock Ave., Detroit, won firSt
prize in the high school group, a guest appearance on Fred
ages 14 to 18, in the youth essay Allen's program, he was con-
contest sponsored by the Ameri- siderably worried over a loose
can Zionist Youth Commission "toot" fearful lest it fall out
and the American Zionist Emer- during the broadcast. It didn't
however, and it wasn't until he
gency Council. _
Another Detroiter, Sherman was on the train homeward
Wine, was among the third prize bound that it dropped from hit
jaw. A few days later Allen re-
winners in the same division.
The first prize-winner *ill re- ceived a letter which he insists
ceive a $50\ War e Bond and the "tried to bite him."
third prize winners will get $10
in stamps.
Quality Tailors
The list of winners was an-
nounced this week in 'New York
Since 1909
by Herman L. Weisman, chair-
See Our Better Woolens
man of the American: Zionist I
Youth Commission, who express- 1.
ed satisfaction over the encour-
aging response to the contest for
essaYs on the subject of Pales-
tine, Zionism and the fight
against the White Paper.
The judges in the contest were
Prof. Simon' Halkin of the Jew-
ish Institute of Religion, Maurice
Samuel, noted author and lectur-
er, and Sulamith Schwartz, di-
MEN'S TAILORS
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rector of publications of the
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American Zionist Emergency
Council.

Place Cornerstone
At Camp
For J. Rosenberg

would succeed in arranging the
children's emigration to Sweden.
Hungary's •cabinet shake-up,
which resulted in the removal of
the two ministers most respons-
ible, for the hounding of 'Hun-
The Week's Best Stories
gary's Jewry — Andor Jaross,
mininister of the interior, and
Bela Imredy, minister of econom-
A Goebbels Conversation
ics, was blamed by the official
"Say, Goebbels, what does it
organ of Hungary's Nazis, Mag- mean in this note where it says,
yarsag, on the "Jew-loving Mag- `irreducible , minimum'?"
yar aristocracy."
The Doctor; scowling through
a fog of hatred, replied, "T h a t
means unconditional surrender,
WRB, British Confer
Adolf, our share in the postwar
On Horthy's Proposal
WASHINGTON, (JTA) — An settlement." * * *
authoritative source revealed
that the War Refugee Board is Mama Wields a Heavy Spank
-A group of adults were discus.
in consultation with the British
Government 'on Admiral Horthy's sing what to do with Mr. Hitler
proposal to permit the evacuation after the war. All agreed that he
of ,Jews from Hungary. "It would must be shown the error of his
be an exaggeration to give the ways if possible. A four-year-old
impression that all the Jews of boy listened to them, with inter-
Hungary could be ' evacuated," est for a while, until he could
constrain himself no longer.
this source warned.
"I just wish my Mama could
spank him!" he said, with all the
Arrest Hungarian Jews
conviction of experience.
As 'Disloyal to State'

In Lighter Vein

After years of wandering, these
youngsters have arrived in Pales-
tine, with the assistance of the
United Palestine Appeal, one of
the major agencies of the United
Jewish Appeal. The rejoicing
they evidenced upon_their libera-
tion was made possible with
funds raised in Detroit through
the War Chest.

Gus Film Folk

By HELEN ZIGMOND

(Copyright, 1944.
Jewish Telegraphic Agehcy)

Jack Warner received a letter
of thanks from Haile Selassie for
having sent- him, by the way of
the OVVI Overseas Film Bureau,
a print of "Mission to Moscow."
* * .*
Belle Baker, refusing a Broad-
way offer, put her pen to a con-
tract for a role in the screen
edition of "Earl Carroll's ' Vani-
ties."
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Max Factor received the "E"
for manufacture of plastic eye-
shell frames used in gas masks.

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ZURICH, (JTA.) — While the
deportation of Jews from Hun-
gary has been temporarily sus-
pended during recent - days, mass-
arrests of Jews are takes place
throughout the country on
charges of "disloyalty to the
state" and under the pretext that
they are "politically unreliable."

MICHIGAN'S LARGEST
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Detroiter's Essay
About Zionism
Wins First Prize

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SCIIMANSKY
BROTHERS

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There and-then . . . the aszembiiiine was born

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in 1913, Henry Ford had
his technicians try a new pro-
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duction idea which had come to

him as he observed a watch factory
in operation. Instead of having a
single group of men make the entire
assembly on each flywheel magneto,
the unit was moved from oite worker
to an-other. The result was a 50%
saving in time!
"Why not test this idea oh the
whole chassis?" Mr. Ford next sug-
gested. So mow , along ele.vated
greased rails, each chassis was being
pushed by hand as workers added
the various parts in sequence. There
and then, the assembly line was born!
A chain-driven line was soon after
put into operation. Under the new

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system, the 14 hours formerly re-
quired for a single chassis assembly
were cut to 1 hour and 33 minutes.
Before 1913 was over, more than
100,000 Ford cars had been built.
All records for the mass production
of automobiles had been broken.
Remarkable as this achievement
was, it meant more than just a
saving in production time, more
than creating new methods for
industry everywhere. To Mr.
Ford and his associates, this was
another step in their endeavor to
make life easier for millions.
From the first, the assembly line
techniqUe of production eased
working conditions. Along with
other modern advances, it helped

to increase the life span of workers.
At Ford, it soon made possible the
8-hour day. And with unskilled
labor in many places earning as
little as $1 a day, Ford basic pay
was raised to $5.
The assembly line also brought
price reductions on Ford.cars, plat-
ing their pleasure and convenience
within reach of more people. This
policy of sharing production sav-
ings with the public has remained
fundamental with Ford.
Today, in the creation of equip-
ment vital to victory, Ford men con-
tinue to search for better ways of do-
ing things. What they are learning
will be reflected in the improved
Ford transportation cif tomorrow.

FORD .MOTOR COMPANY

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