Friday, August 1 8, 1944

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PALESTINE

• Of three boats carrying a total of 1,040 refu-
gees from Romania to Turkey, en route to
Palestine, two with a total of 750 persons ar-
_ rived here, while a third boat with 290 passen-
gers was sunk in the Black Sea. Only a few
of the 290 survived.
The exports handled by the Foreign Trade
Institute at Tel Aviv, established by the Jewish
Agency out of Keren Hayesod funds, rose in
1943 to $1,756,000, as compared with $104,000
in 1938. The Institute's exports last year were
divided as follows: 45% to Egypt, 12% to Syria,
30% to Iraq, 6% to Cyprus, and 4% to Iran.
The remaining 3% went to other neighboring
territories and also to India.
For the past several months, groups of
Pupils have been engaged in various Tel AviV
. schools on model boat-building. About a hun-
clred pupils all over the city have been or 7
ganized into groups for this purpose, repre-
senting possibly the pioneers of tomorrow in
the shipwrights' craft..

OVERSEAS

Police dispersed unruly crowds of pro-Axis
_Arab youths. who had assembled in Rabbat,
Morocco for an anti-Semitic- demonstration. It
is believed that they were instigated by agents
of Haj Amin El Hussein, Mufti of Jerusalem,
• who is conducting anti-Allied agitation in
countries with Arab populations.
• The turn of the tide in the Balkans under
the impact of Allied victories and Turkey's
breaking off of relations with Germany, is
manifested in many ways. One of the mani-

Pvt. Schwartz Sent
To Dental School

festations is the . report received here that the
Bulgarian government has permitted the re-
turn to Sofia of 100 families of Jewish ex-
servicemen.

AMERICA

Senator Richard B. Russell (D. Ga:) charged
on the Senate floor that the Fair Employment
Practices Committee had "deliberately foment-
ed" the recent transportation walkout in Phila-
delphia, and said that if there were no F.E.P.C.
"not a single man-hour of war production
would have been lost and there would have
been no racial disturbances." He warned the
F.E.P.C. not to attempt to "re-enact the Phila-
delphia story" in Southern states.
Elmer Davis, director of the Office of War
Information, was requested by Congressman
Emanuel Celler, to arrange• through the O.W.I.
for the showing of the Soviet film "Justice Is
Coming," about the Kharkov trial and execu-
tion of Nazi officers guilty of atrocities.
Correspondence of William Dudley Pelley,
Silver Shirt leader and sedition trial defendant,
linking him with other - defendents in a con-
spiracy to raise racial and religious issues in
their alleged strategy for sedition, was intro-
duced by the government attorneys at the
sediton trial in Washington . . . One of the ex-
hibits was a letter which the government said
was addrssed by Colonel Eugene N. Sanctuary,
a defendant, to William Dudley Pelley and
which charged a deal in 1936 between Presi-
dent Roosevelt and Pope Pius XII, the then
Cardinal Pacelli, to obtain the Catholic vote
for the New Deal.

Percy Jones Patients
Treated to Outing;
`AI' Co-eds Assist

Pvt. Larry Schwartz, well-
known Detroit musician, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Nathan L. Schwartz,
Of 4214 Richton
Ave., was select-
ed as one of two
students at Hope k.
College to at ";
tend t h e - Pre-
Dental School at
t h e University.
of Illinois, fol-
lowing an exam-
ination in which
he compiled the
Pvt. Schwartz
highest score.
A graduate of Central high, he
received a scholarship in music
to Wayne University, where he
took a general course. He enlist-
ed in April, 1943, and received
his basic training at Fort McClel-
len, Ala., from where he went to
the Engineering School at Hope
College. Home on furlough re-
cently, Pvt. Schwartz played his
saxophone in the Musical Fes-
tival held annually at the Uni-
versity of Illinois.

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Sgt. Samuel Press
Given Purple Heart

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Relatives of Sgt. Samuel Press
of 1756 Euclid Ave. were in-
-s$, formed recently
Mr. and Mrs
by the War De-
partment that
he was wounded
Address
in Italy, July 27.
Before enter-
ing the service
in Sept ember, Aesculapian Society
1942, Sgt. Press Donates Ice Cream
w a s employed
by the Decca To •Parties at USO
Record Co. as
Contributions of ice cream
Sgt. Press
manager.
Press, who was awarded the have been made by pharmacists,
Purple Heart, is a graduate of members of Aesculapian Jewish
Pharmaceutical Fraternity, to
Northern High School.
parties for servicemen at the
USO.
A committee of pharmacists
handles arr angements whereby
one donor contributes to the Sun-
day afternoon party at the Cen-
ter and another to the Wednes-
day evening party at the Great
Lakes Club at the Belcrest Hotel.
At present, 40 pharmacists are on

An outing for servicemen who
are undergoing rehabilitation at
Percy Jones General Hospital,
Battle Creek, was arranged last
Sunday by Michigan Council of
Bnai Brith, under the direction
of the war service committee
headed by Norton Davis.
Thirty - five Michigan co-eds,
under the leadership of Mrs.
Alice Crocker Lloyd, dean of
women, participated.
Through the courtesy of Capt.
Kendall Scofield, commanding
officer at Kellogg Field, service-
men and co-eds enjoyed a day of
sailing, swimming, motor boat-
ing, golf,, tennis and other out-
door sports at Gull Lake. This
was followed by a picnic dinner
prepared by members of the Bat-
tle Creek chapter of Bnai Brith
Meyer J. Franklin Lodge
The plans were made by the
Hillel Foundation at the Univer-
sity of Michigan and the Michi- Mass-Murder in Polish City
gan League at the University.
by Nazis Has No Parallel
Arrangements in Ann Arbor
were made by Sybil Kahn of Bay
in History, He Says
City, student director of Hillel;
Helen Alpert of the Women's
MOSCOW (JTA)—The Jewish
War Council; and Miss Ethel Mc- Telegraphic Agency w a s in-
Cormick, social director of the formed here that virtually no
Michigan Women's League.
Jews are to be seen in the Lublin
area liberated by the Russian
Army. "You can tell American
and Canadian relatives who are
seeking information about Jews
The United Jewish Appeal an-
who lived in or near Lublin,
nounced this week that it had
that very few Jews are alive in
received contributions from the
Karl Warner, formerly of De- that region," t h e JTA corre-
Jewish men in the Ninth Air
troit, who died in active service, spondent was told.
Force Troop Carrier Command
had told his fellow-servicemen
which ferried commandos, para-
Vasili Grossman, 'Russian-Jew-
troops, and airborne infantry to that he was half • Russian, half ish writer, who returned from
France prior to, during, and after Jew. Thereafter, they called him the liberated part of Poland,
"Molotov, mayor of Brooklyn."
D-Day.
Now,- interesting legends are stated that he did not see a single
The sum represented the re-
being
told about the exploits of Jew in the entire city of Lublin.
sult of a voluntary effort made
this
24-year-old
private who was The mass-murder of Jews in
by Jewish officers and enlisted
once
considered
the poorest ex- Lublin area has no parallel in
men ranging from glider pilots to
world's history; he declared.
flying personnel of all types and ample of a soldier.
He became an outstanding ex-
from ground crews to adminis-
trative and executive officers, in- ample for courage as a one-man
cluding men from the rank of army in- the Tunisian campaign.
He was the best scout, killed a
private to that of colonel.
Chaplain Judah Nadich, at- score of enemy officers, bluffed
tached to the European theater an entire Italian company into
of operations, declared in a letter surrendering and disarmed 140
to Rabbi James G. Heller, na- men without firing a shot.
The story of Warner's exploits
tional. UJA chairman, that "our
American Jewish servicemen and is told in Stars and Stripes. It
women in this theater feel that is related that he broke all army
they would like to associate rules, but he was brave and fear-
'themselves with their fellow- less and he died a hero, having
Jews at home in this great work been ambushed by a German
of rebuilding Palestine, redeem- machine gunner.
Among his exploits was the
ing the Jews, and revitalizing
following: At Sened he took an
Israel.' •
interpreter and boldly went tlp
to an -opposing Italian garrison.
Lt. Alfred I. Deutsch
He told them they were sur-
rounded by an overwhelming
Gets New Assignment
American force and they gave up
Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Deutsch without resistance.
Staff Sgt. Charles Kiley of Jer-
of 18495 San Juan were informed
this •week that their son, Lt. Al- sey City wrote the detailed ac-
fred I. Deutsch, has been assign- count of Warner's heroism, and
ed to the Field Investigations Stars and Stripes, referring to
Branch of the Office of Depend- him as the most efficient and
ency Benefits in Newark, N. J. most courageous soldier, said of
Lt. Deutsch formerly was at- him that he is "a soldier whose
tached to the Eighth Service fabulous story may make him
the Sgt. York of World War II."
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Not a Jew Alive
In Lublin, Soviet
Writer Declares

Jewish Fliers Based
In England Send
Donations to UJA

and Family

the list of contributors, the sched
ule extending through Septem ,
ber. Plans are being made for a
continuance of the contributionE
throughout the year.
Pharmacists who have not ye -,
been contacted, and who wish t(
become donors, are asked to corri
municate with Ben Bavly, MA
4413.

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