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Palestine .Fights Conviction Schaver Maps
Of '2 . Arthed for Proteetiori . • Histadruth's

All Zion

Is Aroused by 'Cause Celebre'; . Police Official
Testifies They
Not Terrorists; Claim Gov-
ernment
ernment: Approved Self-Defense

Temple Israel frs.
To Hear Dr, Tumin

Detroit Drive

1945 Gewerkshaften Needs
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JERUSALEM (Palcor) —: Jewish Palestine as one man sprung
to Be Outlined at Shaarey
to the defense of David Solomon, 24, and David Epstein, 23, mem-
Zedek on Jan. 7
bers Of a lone Jewish settlement within the heart of Bedouin terri-
tory, who were convicted by a military court to seven years'
imprisonment each for illegal possession of arms.
The Detroit Branch of the Na-
They were convicted despite testimony by _Police Deputy Supt. tional Labor Committee, Serving
John Forde that the accused did not belong to any of the terrorist the needs of the Histadruth---
groups, and by Eliahu Golomb, in charge of the _recruiting and Palestine Federation of. Labor—
security activities of the Vaad •Leumi, Palestine National Counoil, whose drives are known - as
who declared that the government frequently advised Jewish settle-
ments, exposed to attack, to use "illegal arms" for self-defelise. 1 Gewerkshaften, is mobilizing
forces for the-1945 campaign. :-
Golomb charged that the pollee always . "came belatedly and
sufficiently."
Announcement was Made this
The convictions appear , to be rapidly developing into a "cause
eelebre" and a test case to deterinine Jewish Palestine's right to .week by-Morris L. Schaver, local
chairman, that plans now 'are
Self-defense.
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being `completed for the annual
Held Reasonable .Basis for Acquittal
Epstein and Solomon, members of a Hashomer Hatzair grbnp conference of delegates of , organ-'
Settled at Nachiath Yehuda, were arrested Aug. 5 by police while, izations and , volunteer workers
„they , were guarding their lands armed • with revolvers for which to take place at 1:30 p. m. Sun-
they had no licenses. The police swooped dOikn on the settlement daY, 'Jan-. 7, at- the Shaarey Zedek
on a tip that terrorists were hiding in the vicinity. A search.revealed ••Mr. Schaver stated' :that • two
•. A quantity of arms, and some ammunition was • found inside a well.
The defendants admitted carrying revolvers illegally, but Said outstanding speakers — Rabbi
:they had reasonable and Moral jiistifiCation for carrying arms. Under Samuel. Wohl of Cincinnati ; and
shbein, the noted dra-
,Palestine's Emergency Regulations: a. reasonable excuse serves as a Peretz Hir
basis for acquittal.
matist,' will address' the • Corifer-:
" The defendants stated' that their settlerrient was newly estab- ence.
lished, six kilometers from the nearest inhabited area, with the- - Organizations are Called upon
fields situated in an Arab region . inhabited by Bedouin tribes. Ten7
.sion developed among Arabs and thefts of crops and material be- to elect their delegates at 'once
came frequent. Apprehension increased in anticipation of the rainy and to prepare to participate in
season which made access to the settlement difficult and cut it off, the drive. • .
from any outside help. The settlers applied to the authorities for
Mr. Schaver stated that during
licenses for arms, but to no avail.
the current year $77,000 was
-"We have been most careful, " the defendants declared in court, raised against a set quota of
"to keep our arms sacred for one moral purpose—self-defense. There $75,000. He expressed .confidence
has been no case in which illegal arms in a Jewish settlement were
turned against innocent people. Even the authorities will admit that that a larger sum will be sub-
,arms held by us for defense have been used for this purpose only." scribed this year.
Illegal Arms ApproVed by Authorities
Eliahu Golom b, testifying in his official capacity as a member Capacity Gathering
of the Vaad Leumi, told• of the many attacks- on Jewish settlements
"during the whole period, of British mandated administration. It Attends Halevy Dance;
occurred many times that the authorities actually advised JeWish- Jubilee Concert Near
settlements to use illegal arms in • the event of an attack."
Golomb, revealed that, faced by the,passive resistance of 500-600
A capacity gathering enjoyed
Jewish settlers who assembled frdrn a wide area on hearing of the
flying squad raid on Nachlath Yehuda, the police retreated without the social and dance given last
taking the two defendants. The latter surrenderdd on GolOrnb's Sunday evening by Halevy Sing-
advice. He then indicated a breach of faith by the authorities, when ing Society at the Jewish Cen-
he declared: "I had been assured by the Superior Police Officer ter.
that the authorities regarded the arms found as intended for pur-
A. -program of vocal music, was
poses of defense, and that they knew that the accused had no cdn-
, nection with terrorism but belonged to groups that were most introduded by Eugene Franz-,
blau, president. Participants
strongly opposed to the terror.," •
were 'Anna Warren, - soprano;
Chief Says They Were Not Terrorists
Ed Gotein, a Jewish barrister from Britain, defense attorney, Joe Siegel, tenor; and a duo ,corn-
emphasized the fact that the Palestine Emergency Regulations, posed of Edith Reznick, soprano,
, enacted in 1936 owing to organized Arab. terrorism against Jewish_ and Gertrude Levine, alto. Bella
settlements, were now being directed against the persons who de- Goldberg was at the piano.
fended these settlements.. -
The Halevy chorus, under the
Deputy Supt. of Police Forde testified that the accused did not direction of Dan Frohman, is pre-
belong to' the terrorists. After the defendants had been pronounced paring the program for the 20th
guilty, Defense Counsel, urging mitigation of the sentences, pointed
out that neither had criminal records; and that Solomori • belonged jubilee concert, to take place
to an old, established Jewish family in Jerusalem. A grandfather Feb. 4, in the Masonic Temple.
of. Solomon was the editor of the first Hebrew paper published in Igor Gorin; prominent young
Palestine, and his uncle, Haim Solomon,. is a member of the Jeru- Russian-Jewish baritone, will be
, Salem Municipal Council and was at one time acting Mayor of guest artist. Tickets may be -0b-
Jerusalem.
-tained from Halevy - members,

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Histadruth to Oust Terrorists from Jobs
JERUSALEM (JTA)
A four-point program to combat terror
in Palestine was adopted at a conference of the. Histadruth, Palestine
Federation of Labor, called for the purpose of finding effective
measures to check terroristic activities in the country. The resolu-
.tions, provide: •
• 1. People suspected of belonging to Jewish terrorist groups
:should be ousted from employrrient; 2. All suspects shotld be ex-
, pelled from schools and other educational institutions; 3. Strong
. opposition should be organized to any attempt by terrorists to extort
money from individual Jews; 4. Full assistance should be given to
the authorities "as far as the authorities or police are interested in
such assistance."
The resolntions were suggested by David Ben-Gurion, Hista-
druth leader and chairman of the executive of the Jewish Agency.
Moshe Shertok, head of the political department of the Jewish
Agency, and David Remez, general secretary of the Histadruth,
supported the recommendations.

New Book Tells of Nazi
Death Camp for 'Jews
BOSTON (JPS)—The book
"Story of a Secret State," by
Jan Karski, member of the Po-
lish underground, • containing a
chapter with an eyewitne'ss ac-
count of a Nazi -death camp for
Jews, - has been published by
Houghton Mifflin Company here.

Music Study Club
To Plan Concert

Dr. Melvin Tumin, of the soci-
ology department of Wayne
versity, will discuss "Education
for Democracy" at the' Hanukah
meeting of Temple Israel jun-
iors at 2:30 p. m. Sunday, at the
home of Raith Miriam Levine,
3742 Cortland.
Dr. Tumin received his doctor-
ate last June at Northwestern
University on the . basis of • a•
thesis entitled "Social Relations
in• Eastern Guaternala," written'
after a year's research work.
His talk will be followed by a
general discussion. Other fea-
tures Will. inChide a display of
literature honoring JeWish Book.
Week, the lighting of Hanukah
candles and the singing of Hanii-
kah songs.
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The Juniors' Comparative Re-
ligion. study group witnessed _a.
High Mass at St...Agnes ,church
last : Sunday, and compared
Catholicism with Judaism at a
brunch at • the ".home of Rtith
Medal, study group. chairman.

Members of the Music Study
Club of Detroit will gather at a
luncheon . in the home of Mrs.
William B. Isenberg on 'Edison
Ave., next Tuesday, to launch
plans for the annual Sylvia Sim-
ons Scholarship Memorial Fund
concert to be held on June 10,
1945, at the Detroit Institute of
Arts.
Guest artist will be Eugenie
Fichtonova, CzechoSlovakian vio-
linist. Proceeds will be used to
assist talented students, and such
projects as Percy Jones Hospital
MuSic : Appreciation Roorri, 'sup-
plying ships with radios, records,
etc.
Mrs. Harry 'Cohen is chairman
of the committee, and Mrs. Jack
Scheer and Mrs. J. S. Sauls, co-
chairman: Others are Mesdames
Henry Weinberg, patrop. commit-
tee chairman, and DaGid Hubar,•
co-chairman; Max Reich, secre-
tary; Ezra Lipkin,. treasurer; I.
Mendelsohn„, tickets; Maurice
Benyas, program; L a ti.r.e n c e
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Titlebauni, hospitality.' Hostesses •
Zedakah Club Event
assisting Mrs. Isenberg are Mes-
Outstanding Success;
dames Abraham Cooper; • J.
Schakne and Maurice Morse.
Group Meets Monday
Mrs. Rosina Bettinan Lakritz
Zedaka.h. Club;s annual donCor' will sing at Tuesday's meeting.
Mrs. Reva Reatha Jackson is
event, held Nov. 28 at the Book
Cadillac Hotel, was an•outstand- president of the organization.
ing success. Regrets were ex-
pressed by the officers that the
planned luncheon could not .be
served, due to wartime condi-
tions.
Mrs. Irving Shevin, cultural
chairman, introduced the pro-
gram which included entertain-
ment and music by Dave Dia-
mond. Mrs, MorriS Davis, presi-
dent, welcomed members and
NOW OPEN
guests, and expre'ssed thanks for
• To Serve You!
cooperation received.
RECORDS
Mrs. Marvin.. H. Goldberg,
SHEET MUSIC
chairman of the event, gave a
COSTUME JEWELRY
resume of Zedakah Club's work.
Open to 9 P. M.
Thurs. and Sat.
The organization will meet at
TO. 84114
8:30 p. m. Monday at the home-
of Mrs. Leonard Shapiro, 3236
10324 Dexter near Calvert
Tuxedo.

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. Effort to Crush Terrorism Backed by Labor Committee
NEW YORK (JTA) -- Support of all efforts to eradicate 'terror-
ism in Palestine was voiced in a proclamation issued by the 21st
annual convention of the National Labor Committee for -Palestine,
which is the fund-raising' organization in America of the Histadruth,
the Palestine. Federation of Labor. The proclamation protested, at
the same time, against attempts to hold the entire Jewish people
responsible, for the terror. •

AY. THE SPIRIT of the Maccabees inspire
us in thepresent 'battle for freedom for
all mankind, for the liberation of Israel and for a
redeemed Jewish Nationale Home in Palestine.

Wil liana Hordes

With our boys fighting their
toughest fight on every .bat-
tlefront, the LEAST that we
can do is match their sacri-
fices by LOANING the money
that will be a guarantee of
our VICTORY! They Fight
for the future . . . we invest
in it! That is ALL that YOU
are asked to do for the privi-
lege of FREEDOM!

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