Judge Picard to Introduce Chairman of Canadian Palestine
Commiffee at Public Meeting at Shaaray Zedek; Event
to be Held on Eve Of Balfour Anniversary

Judge Frank A. Picard, chairman of the Michigan chap-
ter of the American Palestine Commttee, the Christian
pro-Palestine movement, will introduce Herbert A. Mowat,
chairman of the Canadian Palestine Committee at a public
fmeeting of the Zionist Organization of Detroit on Tuesday
evening, Oct. 31, at Congregation Shaarey Zedek.

Akivah Drasnin, president of
Zionist Chapter 1. announces
that the group has launched an
active membership drive for
young men and women over 20
who are interested in working
constructively to help do away
with Jewish homelessness.
Chapter I has• adopted as its
financial project support• of Jew-
iSh National Fund.
Anne Baker and Max Roten-
berg, program co-chairmen, an-
nounce that the program for the
coming year is designed to pre-
sent "Inside Palestine." Law-
rence Crohn, former president of
the Detroit Zionist District, will
speak at the meeting next •Thurs-
day, Nov. 2, at 8:30 p.m., at the
home of Lois Linden, 2097 Oak-
► man Blvd.
Miss Shirley Bachman, tal-
ented student of Robert Casa-
desus, will present the musical
program.
All young people are invited
to attend and are urged to bring.
their friends.

Rabbi Leon Frain, president of
the organization, announced the
program and extended an invi-
tation to all interested Detroit
Jews to come to this gathering,
which will be held on the eve of
the celebration of the 27th anni-
versary of the Balfour Declara-
tion.
Mr. Mowat twice has headed
delegations of Canadian Chris-
tians to present briefs in behalf
of a Jewish Commonwealth in
Palestine to the Prime Minister
of Canada, and to the Depart-•
meat of External Affairs. He is
an outstanding writer contribut-
ing regularly to "Toronto Satur 7
day Night," "Magazine Digest"
and "Empire Digest," and is
heard over the Dominion Net-
• work of the CBS.
He is about to publish . a book
on the life and military career of
JUDGE FRANK A. PICARD
Field Marshal Wavell, Viceroy
of India.
Member of an outstanding Ca-
- nadian family dating back to 'NATIONAL WAR FUND
colonial times, he served in
France . in World War I with the
8th Canadian Infantry, known as
the "Little Black Devils," and
was wounded. For three years he
has been Dominion General Sec-
retary of the Brotherhood of St.
Andrew.

With approximately 1,000 peo-
ple supporting the annual Bal-
four Ball of the Zionist Organ-
ization of Detroit, to be' held at
Statler on
Saturday night ;
Nov. 11, officers,
of the organiza-
tion were en-
couraged this
week that the
educational and
youth programs
of the organiza-
tion will thus
continue without
Rabbi Fram interruption.
- The Zionist Organization of De-
troit has chosen Armistice Day
as the appropriate time to cele-
brate the Balfour Declaration at
the Balfour Ball.
Harry Cohen is co-chairman
of the Balfour Ball committee.
Tickets for the Ball may be ob-
tained by applying to the office
of the Zionist District of Detroit,
1044 Penobscot Bldg., Cherry
6559.
"In this fateful hour;" Rabbi
Leon Fram, chairman of the De-
. troit Zionist District, declares,
"when the final decisions with
regard to Palestine are about to
be made, we want all Christians
as well as all Jews to be fully
informed of what is at stake in
Palestine, not only for the Jew-
ish people but for all mankind.
We are holding this celebration
of the Balfour Declaration anni-
versary in order to bring the sig-
nificance of Palestine vividly to
the attention of the citizens of our
community."

Sweden Extradites
Persecutor of Jews

NEW YORK, (JPS) — Arno
Anthoni, former Helsinki police
chief and aid to the Gestapo in
Finland, "the first war criminal
to appear on Swedish territory,"
has been classed an "undesirable
foreigner" by. Swedish authorit-
ies and will be returned to Fin-
land, the British radio reported.
Anthoni was reported to have
gone beyond the orders of the
pro-Axis Finnish government,
which removed him after dis-
covering that he had embezzled
funds confiscated from the Jews.

Representative Detroit
Delegation at UPA Parley

Crohn Will Address
Zionist Chapter
Thursday Evening

Mowat to Address Zionists
n Oct. 31; Public Invited

Rabbi L. Fram Urges
Support of Annual
Zionist Balfour Ball

Friday, October 27, 1944

THE JEWISH 'NEW.S

Ptitie Eight

of the Executive of the Jewish
Agency, will base his address to
the gathering on his recent trip
via bomber to Palestine. Another
distinguished speaker will be
James G. MacDonald, chairman
of the President's Advisory Com-
mittee on Refugees and former
League of Nations High Commis-
sioner for Refugees, who will
review the refugee problem.
With recent events focussing
widespread attention on the Jew-
ish National Home and providing
a dramatic background for the
gathering, it is expected that the
National Palestine • Conference
will surpass all previous annual
sessions sponsored by the U.P.A.,
both with regard to achievement
30th Annual Convention In and participation by leaders of
American Jewry, Dr. Heller said.
Cleveland, Nov. 13-16,
Palestine's outstanding role in
Reduces Delegates
the relief and rescue of refugees,
coupled with the recent an-
NEW YORK—The 30th annual nouncements by President Roose-
convention of Hgdassah, Women's . velt and New York's Governor
Zionist organization of America, Thomas E. Dewey endorsing the
to be held in Cleveland, Nov. 13- establishment of t h e Jewish
16, will take the form of a presi- Commonwealth in Palestine and
dents' conference, and will be at- pledging non-partisan support by
tended by 500 instead of 1,500 the American government for the
delegates, in compliance with the realization of the Zionist goal,
; request of the ODT that national have brought Palestine to the
gatherings be kept down to a fore as the solution to the prob-
minimum, Mrs. Herman Shul- lem of Jewish homelessness.
man, of this city, convention
Plans for the program of the
chairman, announced.
Presidents of Hadassah chap- conference include an Oneg
ters and business and profession- Shabbat on Saturday afternoon,
al women's divisions from 47 Nov. 18, with sessions on Satur-
states will attend. Problems on day night and all day Sunday,
all fronts on which the organiza- Nov. 19. A meeting of the Ad-
ministrative Committee of the
tion operates will be discussed.
U.P.A. will be held on Nov. 17.
(The U.P.A., one of the agen-
cies of the United Jewish Appeal,
receives its income from the De-
troit War Chest).

Hadassah to Contply
With ODT Request

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Sessions to be Held in Chicago, Nov. 18-19; Dr. Nahum
Goldmann to Report on His Trip to Palestine;
James G. McDonald to Speak
•
A representative delegation of Detroiters will attend, the
National Conference for Palestine, to be held Nov. 18-19 at
Hotel Stevens, Chicago, under the auspices of the United
Palestine Appeal.
Dr. James G. Heller, national U. P. A. chairman, an-
nounces that a first-hand report on the achievements, pros-
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Dr. Nahum Goldmann, member Given Honorary Degrees

Kvutzah Will Honor
Katznelson Memory

Dr. Chaim Weizmann, Capt.
Lewis L. Strauss, USNR, and Dr.
Paul Kahle received honorary
degrees at the commencement
exercises of the Jewish Theo-
logical Seminary of America on
Sunday.
The class upon whose mem-
bers were conferred the degree
of Rabbi, Teacher and Preacher
was the third to be graduated
under the Seminary's accelerated
war-time plans.

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A memorial meeting, honoring
the late Palestinian leader and
author Berl Katznelson, will be
held Saturday evening, Nov. 4, in
the auditorium of the Rose Sittig
Cohen Building, under the spon-
sorship of the Kvutzah Ivrith.
A prominent educator and a
close friend of the late leader,
Mordecai Halevi, educational di-
rector of the Cincinnati Hebrew
Schools, will be the guest speak-
er.
Joseph Haggai, head of the cul-
tural committee of the Kvutzah,
will act as chairman.

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