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Weekly Review of the News of the World

(Compiled From Cables of Independent Jewish Press Service)

Homer Maertz, described as an "ex-con vict
who once ran the Chicago Silver Shirt Division
for William Dudley Pelley" and "a pogrom
specialist," frequently advises Eugene Flit-
craft, promoter of the anti-Semitic Gentile
League or Association, the Gentile News and
the American Business Directories Co., accord-
ing to Victor Riesel, N. Y. Post columnist.
The dress industry of Los Angeles, owned
almost exclusively by Jews, 90% of whose
labor is Gentile, has extensive postwar plans
which include a promotion program in Mexico,
South America, and even China, according to
Murray Goldstein, president of the Drest and
Sportswear Manufacturers' Association.
A recent Independent Jewish Press Service
dispatch from Lisbon reporting arrival there-
by Nazi plane, of Budapest Jewish arms mag-
nates after they had signed over all their
holdings to the Nazis, was confirmed here by
Edward P. Morgan, New York Post-Chicago
Daily News correspondent in Madrid. He con-
firms the Independent • Jewish Press Service
report that Franz Chorin and family, and the
brothers Alfonse and Eugene Weiss, jointly
controlling 80% of all Hungary's heavy indus-
try, signed over all their interest in the indus-
try to the Herman Goering Werke . . . Accord-
ing to information reaching the Independent
Jewish Press Service, the families involved are
apostates.
"England should open the gates of Palestine
and admit the Jews not only of Hungary but
from whatever other parts of Europe they have
escaped from the heel of the Nazis," is the
demand of Hearst's New York Journal Ameri-
can endorsing demands formulated in a cable
addressed to British Prime Minister Winston
Churchill by the Bergonsite American League
for a -Free Palestine.
Free mail privileges similar to those enjoyed
by members of _the armed forces were extend- 7
ed by the Post Office Department to war refu-
gees to aid in reuniting scattered families. The
Red Cross will distribute free mail cards to
refugees here and abroad.

(See Also Page 3)

,PALESTINE -

The Prime Minister of Transjordan. Tewfik
Pasha Abul Huda, has re-formed his Gov-
ernment, taking for himself, in addition to the
Premiership, the portfolios of Foreign Affairs
and Defense.
Rationing has been removed from 16 com-
modities, effective on Sept. 4, due to the in-
crease in food production and reserves in Pal-
estine. As a result of this no points will be
required for meals at restaurants or for short
stays at hotels serving meals. Restaurants
and cafes will be permitted to serve sugar
With hot drinks for the first time since the war.
Deposits in all Palestine banks amounted to
$243,089,748 in April. of this year, the month
for which figures are last available, represent-
ing an increase of $7,000,000 over March 1944,
and $90,580,000 as compared with April 1943.
With a total of 3,500 skilled hands in Pales-
tine's diainond-cutting and polishing - work-
shops—all Jewish-55% of .them are in Tel
Aviv and vicinity, 40% in Nathanya, and 5% in
Jerusalem it is reported. Cutters represented
about 10% of the total of 3,500, while among
the remainder two-thirds are polishers. Over
two-thirds of those employed have been at their
jobs for a. year or more, and only 5% have
been added in the past year.

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AMERICA

Staff Sergeant Solomon Blechman, a Marine
Corps combat correspondent, died aboard a
hospital ship of wounds suffered during the
invasion of Guam, it was reported by Marine
Headquarters. Sergeant Blechman was the son
of Rabbi and Mrs. Nathan Blechman of Mam-
aroneck, N. Y.
P. G. Wodehouse, British author who made
five broadcasts on the Nazi radio - during his
internment in the Reich, declared "he meant
- no harm" and it was "all a mistake," in an
interview cabled from Paris by J. Darcy Daw-
son, correspondent of the London Daily Sketch,
and reported by the Associated Press.
Max Nadler, one of the founders of the Miz-
rachi Orthodox Zionist Organization of Amer-
ica, and its national treasurer for the past 18
years, died here at the age of 59. Born in
Yuzefov, Poland, he ""came to this country as a
youth of 20. He was president of the Victory
Curtain Company and a leader in the industry.
Yascha Bunchuk, cellist and conductor, who
in recent years. had been musical director at a
movie studio, died in Los Angeles at 48. •
- Isaac Gilman, founder and president of the
Gilman Paper Company, after whom the town
of Gilman, Vt., was named, died at his home
in Gilman at the age of 79.
Moissave Boguslawski, - concert pianist and
head ol the Boguslawski College of Music in
Chicago, died at • the age of 57.

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Friday, SepTember 8, 1944

THE JEWISH NEWS

Page.Eighteen

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Rabbi Elmer.Berger, executive director of the American
Council for Judaism, anti-Zionist Organization headed by
Lessing J. Rosenwald of Philadelphia, in a letter addressed
to the editor of The Jewish News takes exception to the
manner in which the correspondence he had with Chief
Justice George W. Maxey of Pennsylvania was handled in

Text of His Letter

Letter Unanswered

"The first of these facts is that
Judge Maxey did not publish all
of the correspondence that I had
with him and, as a matter of
fact, has never answered my last
letter. This, despite the fact that
it seems to make no difference
to you that Judge Maxey's dis-
missal of my offer to discuss the
problem with him, with the
ategorical statement that no

relatives of American Jews. Until
Aug. 23, the number of such Pal-
estine immigration certificates
secured by the ZOA Bureau ex-
NEW YORK—Some 7,000 Jews ceeds 7,000, Dr. S. Bernstein, head
of Hungary will find a perman- of the Bureau, announces.
ent haven in Palestine as a result
of • efforts made in their behalf
by the Palestine Bureau of the
Zionist Organization of America,
Dr. Israel Goldstein, president of
the organization, revealed.
Your Vote Will Count!
The escape of this -large num-
ber of Hungarian Jews from
threatened extermination at the
hands of Nazi dominated Hun-
gary' is made possible through
AT THE CITY HALL
the action taken by the Jewish
Oct.
18 Is the Deadline
Agency for Palestine, through its
representatives in Turkey, in ap-
League to Conibat- Anti-Semitism
proving all applications for entry

moved into Paris, the Royalist anti-Semitic
newspaper L'Accion Francais charged that the
Vichy government had allowed 10,000 "danger-
ous Jews" to go into hiding in Southern France
and that these have now formed Jewish guer-
illa bands , or joined general -units of the
French Army of the Interior, especially in Mar-
seilles, Grenoble and Avignon.
The sale or purchase of Jewish belongings
has been banned by the authorities in liberated
France. Non-Jews possessing such property
have been notified to register it with the au- •
thorities.

Leader of American Council for Judaism, Inc., Charges
Judge Maxey of Philadelphia Did Not Reveal
All Correspondence Between Them

The complete text of the letter
follows: -
"My attention has been called
to the publicatiOn, in your issue
of August 25th; of an exchange
of letters between myself and
Judge Maxey of Pennsylvania
and also to your Editorial in the
same issue, pertaining to these
letters.
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"There are two factors in this
situation which are not contained
in your published material, one
of which you would not be ex-
pected to know and the other of
which is a Statement bordering
on libel, for which I assume that
you are ready to accept responsi-
bility.

LOA Secures 7,000
Palestine Permits
For Hungarian Jews

I WHO WILL BE
PRESIDENT?

REGISTER AT ONCE

JAW,

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In one of its last issues before the Allies

Berger Denies Discouraging
Contributions to the UJA

our issue of Aug. 25 and declares
that he considers the article and
the editorial comment libelous.
"Either you publish this letter
in as prominent way as you
publicized and editorialized on
the Maxey correspondence, or
else you may be prepared, to have
me take any legitimate steps to
Satisfy myself in defense against
this kind of unfounded slander
of personalities," he states in the
concluding paragraph of his let-
ter.

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permits submitted by the ZOA
Palestine Bureau on behalf of

good would be accomplished by
a debate' reveals- anything but a
judicial attitude. But, of course,
it was not to the interests of your
`fair' reporting of the situation,
to comment on that fact.
"The second item to which I
take even more vigorous excep-
tion is your utterly unfounded
assertion that I 'discouraged Jews
from contributing to the United
Jewish Appeal because the agen-
cies include Palestine.'

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Members of Eva Prenzlauer
Maternity Aid and the Ladies'
Auxiliary of the Jewish National
Fund of Detroit. served at the
Downtown USO Canteen on
Monday afternoon and evening,
Aug. 28.
Mozerer Society sponsored the
Sunday morning breakfast at the
Jewish- Community Center USO-
JWB Lounge on Aug. 27.
• H. V. V. C. Club contributed
to the social evening for service-
men at the Great Lakes Club and
is. sponsoring this service every
fifth Wednesday.
Workmen's Circle of Detroit
served refreshments after serv-
ices at Romulus Air Base on
Sept. 1.
William Karbal and Hy Mar-
golis contributed ices and ice
cream for the social evenings at
Great Lakes Club and 'JWB-USO
Lounge at the Center.

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Berger's Challenge

"In the first place, the whole
statement is an absolute libel and
I challenge you to name even one
person upon whom I attempted. to
prevail not to contribute to the
United Jewish Appeal for any
grounds whatsoever. In . the sec-
ond place, even if I had indulged
in such activity, it would be be-
cause the United Jewish Appeal
subsidizes the Nationalistic polit-
ical activities of the Zionist or-
ganization and not because some
of its money goes to Palestine.
, "In the light of the utterly ir-
responsible way in which you
have made these statements, I
expect one of two things, either
you publish this letter in as
prominent way as you publicized
and editorialized on the Maxey
correspondence, or else you may
be prepared to have me take any
legitimate steps to satisfy myself
in defense against this kind of
unfounded slander of personali-
ties.
"Very truly yours,
Elmer Berger,
THE AMERICAN COUNCIL

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