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THE JEWISH NEWS
Weekly Review of the News of the World
(Compiled From Cables of Independent Jewish Press Service)
AMERICA
(See Also Page 3)
An anti-discrimination bill, effective im-
mediately, and providing a $500 fine, 90 days
imprisonment, or both, for any individual pr
organization, printing or distributing anony-
mously, literature inciting religious hatred,
was signed in Tallahassee, Fla., by Gov. Mil-
lard Caldwell. The bill, said to be the first
such legislation in the South, was sponsored
by the Florida regional office of the Anti-
Defamation. League of Bnai Brith, and was
presented in the House by Dade County Repre-
sentative George Okell, and in the State Sen-
ate by Senator D. C. Coleman.
The allegation that the New York Staats-
Zeitung, German-language daily widely read
by refugees, at one time "supported Nazism
and Pan-Germanism," was made by Louis
Nizer, author of "What to do with Germany,"
and attorney for the plaintiff in a $100,000
libel suit filed against Victor Ridder, publish-
er of the newspaper. Dr. Friedrich Wilhelm
Foerster, the plaintiff, a staunch anti-Nazi and
opponent of Pan-Germanism, charges that he
was libeled in a letter allegedly circulated by
Ridder in reply to Foerster's pamphlet charg-
ing Nazism to the Staats-Zeitung.
The Houston Rabbinical Association has
adopted a resolution condemning as "un-
founded and an insult to the vast majority of
American Jews," a statement by Rabbi Hyman
J. Schachtel, of Congregation Beth Israel, as-
serting that Zionists "would ghettoize" the
Jewish people. Rabbi Schachtel, whose con- -
gregation last year relegated Kashruth obser-
vers and Zionists to second class membership,
, was further rebuked by his colleagues, who
stated that his "insinuation that only anti-
Zionist are real American Jews, and that
only they can be properly called proponents
of 'American Judaism' is . a falsehood, deeply
resented by American Israel."
Although they have been liberated, the
surviving Jews of Europe have no sense of
freedom and no sense of security, and hun-
dreds of thousands of them are yearning for
settleMent in Palestine, as the one means of
achieving a new life, according to Harry
Greenstein, former deputy director of the
Welfare Division of UNRRA.
PALESTINE
The adoption of an amended resolution
by the Vaad Leumi, Jewish Palestine's Na-
tional Council, on the public observance of
the Sabbath, has cleared the way for the re-
turn of Mizrachi and Hapoel Hamizrachi, to
their posts on the Executive Committee of
the Council.
Dr. M. Soloveitchik, director of the Vaad
Leumi school system, warned that Jewish
Palestine's schools faced a crisis, because of
the Government's failure to approve recom-
Hanita Group to Install
New Officers on Monday
Detroit Chapter of the National
Lawyers Guild requested its
members to urge Senator Homer
Ferguson to assume leadership
in reviving and extending the life
of the temporary FEPC (Fair
Employment Practices Commit-
tee) which expires June 30 be-
cause of failure of the House Ap-
propriations Committee to grant
further funds.
Senator Ferguson is a member
of the Senate Appropriations
Committee which has the auth-
ority to revive the measure kill-
ed by the House Committee.
The letter released by
Alan N. Brown, administrative
secretary of the Detroit Chap-
ter of the Guild, says in part:
'Discrimination in employment
is inimical to the proper func-
tioning of our democratic proces-
ses. Merit and ability should be
the determining factor in em-
ployment, not one's race, reli-
gion or color".
OVERSEAS
Newspaper correspondents at the interroga-
tion of Julius Streicher, Germany's number
one Jew-baiter captured by a New York
Jewish army officer, were strictly forbidden
to ask questions on the persecution of Jews.
The censors acted on orders from Supreme
Allied Headquarters.
Danish citizens who enriched themselves
working for the Germans during the occupa-
tion, were listed among those • who would re-
ceive severe punishment under an amendment
to Denmark's penal law, submitted to the
Danish Parliament by Justice Minister Busch-
Jensen. This would include Danes appointed
"Aryan Commissioners" for Jewish property.
The invaluable equipment of the Mechni-
kov Institute in Kharkov was saved from Nazi
destruction through the efforts of Dr. Marie
Segal, its director.
Acting UPA Head
Hanita Group of Pioneer Wo-
men's Organization elected the
following officers on June 3, at
the home of Mrs. Abraham Co-
hen, 2950 Leslie.
Chairman, Mrs. S. Slutsky;
co-chairman, Mrs. A. Schreier;
recording, corresponding and fi-
nancial secretaries, Mesdames S.
H. Rovin, Jos. Radin and S.
Wasserman, • respectively; donor
. chairman, Mrs. H. Schechter;
educational chairman, Mrs. A.
Cohen; membership, Mrs. S.
Richardson; social activities, Mrs.
H. Horenstein; contact chair-
man, Mrs. B. Beckerman, assist-
ed by Mrs. M. Salinger.
Jewish Community Council
representative, Mrs. J. Schre-
ier; Jewish National Fund chair-
man, Mrs. S. Glasier; Geverk-
shaften representative, Mrs. A.
Cohen; Child Rescue chairman,
Mrs. N. Drachler; war activities,
Mrs. G. Goldberg.
Installation of new officers will
take place next Monday evening,
at the home of Mrs. A. Schreier,
3238 Leslie Ave.
Lawyers Ask Ferguson
To Help Revive FEPC
mendations by i own commission, headed
R. H. Crosbie, for proposed improvement of
working conditions for teachers, and an in-
creased government grant for Hebrew educa-
tion. .
Declaring that American Jewry was "fight-
ing its hardest for Palestine and we believe to
have met with "success," Rabbi James G. Hell-
er, national chairman of the United Palestine
Appeal, conveyed the personal greetings of
American Jewry to Jewish Palestine at a plen-
ary session of Vaad Leumi, Jewish Palestine's
National Council. He asserted that the fer-
vent wish among American Jews, was for
a Jewish state in Palestine, and upon this
will, Zionism could depend in its most dif-
ficult hours.
Palestinian men and women serving with
British armed forces will be demobilized by
a system similar to the scheme for the release
of United Kingdom military personnel, it was
officially announced in a statement issued by
the Allied authorities.
A conference of central Jewish organiza-
tions, such as the American Jewish Congress,
the American Jewish Joint Distribution Com-
mittee, the Boards of Jewish Deputies of Bri-
tain and South Africa, to discuss the estab-
lishment of a suitable memorial in Palestine
for Europe's Jewish martyrs, was decided on
at a special meeting at the offices of the Vaad
Leumi, Jewish Palestine's National Council.
Sir Edward Spears was accused of meddling
in the Levantine situation, by the Beirut news-
paper Sawt Elahrar, which asked why he
doesn't intervene "in behalf of the Arabs in
Palestine and Transjordan?" Spears was un-
der fire several months ago when he made
anti-Zionist utterances, although, as alleged.
by Moshe Shertok, Chief of the Political De-
partment of the Jewish Agency, he had not
visited a single Jewish settlement in Pales-
tine, nor met a single Jewish leader.
Friday, June 15, 1945
Brigade Hoping
For Occupation
Role in Germany
Disappointed Over Delay in
Assignment; Now on
•
Frontier Control
By NORMAN LOURIE
TAR VISIO, Italy (JPS-Palcor)
—Delay in assigning them to
duties with the forces of occupa-
tion in Germany proper has
made the members of the Jew-
ish Brigade restive, as they re-
call that Winston Churchill, an-
nouncing the Brigade's forma-
tion in September, 1944, express-
ed the hope that the Brigade
would not only participate in
frontline fighting, but also in the
occupation of Germany.
Within limits, the Brigade has
participated in frontline fight-
ing, bit it is yet to be assigned
to duties with the occupying
forces. It is generally recogniz-
ed, however, that the question
of occupation presents a distinct
psychological problem, particu-
larly for the many whose fam-
ilies were persecuted or murder
ed under the Nazi regime.
Some gesture toward "appeas-
ing" the Jewish Brigade is seen
in their assignment, in the past
few days, to frontier control and
security functions on the Aus-
tro-Italian and Yugoslav-Italian
frontiers, with Tarvisio as head-
quarters. Operating under the
command of the Fifth Corps as
part of the 78th Division, which.
comprises predominantly. United
Kingdom troops and one Ameri-
can Mountain Regiment, the Jew-
ish Brigade finds itself, for the
first time, in direct control of
German military personnel
which includes over one thous-
and occupants of the German
military hospital at Tarvisio,
mostly paratroopers.
The Brigade's military police
controls traffic on the main road
from Tarvisio, Italy, to Klagen-
furt, Austria. But the Brigade
area is specifically on the Italian
side of the frontier, although
convoys of Palestinian transport
companies and of the Brigade
transport pass, daily, in and out
of Austria.
Frisch Heads Bnai Zion Drive
For Hebrew-Culture Chair
NEW YORK (JPS) — Daniel
Frisch chairman of the adminis-
trative committee of the Zionist
Organization of America and
member of the Interim Commit-
tee of the American Jewish Con-
ference, has accepted chairman-
ship of a drive undertaken by
Bnai Zion for the New York
University Chair of Hebrew Cul-
ture and for the Jewish Culture
Foundation there.
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tvlothersi Clubs to Have
Farewell Social Parties
The following Mothers' Clubs
will hold farewell social parties
next week:
Young Women's Study Club
at the home of Mrs. Tessie Kom-
Mars, 11311 Mark Twain, June
16, at 1:30 p. m.
Dexter Mothers' Club, Tues-
day, 1:30 p. m., a luncheon at
Bnai Moshe.
Woodward Study Club, Wed-
nesday, at 12:30 p. members
will meet in the lobby of the
General Motors Building. For in-
formation call Bessie Stone, TO.
6-3556.
Center Mothers' Club, Wed-
nesday, at 8:30 p. M., at the Jew-
ish Center.
Twelfth St. Mothers' Club,
Thursday, at 8:30 p. m., at
Lachar's, 8939 Twelfth.
A regular meeting will be held
by the Young Women's Study
Club, Tuesday, at 1:30 p. m., at
the Jewish Center, for a re-
hearsal of the play.
Herman L. Weisman, promin-
ent New York attorney and
chairman of the board of direc-
tors of the Palestine Foundation
Fund, has been elected acting
chairman of the United Pales-
tine Appeal, central fund-raising
instrument of American Jewry
for the support of immigration,
settlement and upbuilding in the
Jewish National Home in Pales-
tine whose constituent bodies re-
quire $35,300,000 in 1945. Mr.
Weisman will direct the activi-
ties of the United Palestine Ap-
peal in the absence of Rabbi
If you have sent us non-es-
James G. Heller, national chair-
man, who is visiting Palestine. sential travel announcements,
please understand that the rea-
son they were not published is
Mussolini Hated Jews,
due to our adherence to official
Edda Almost Wed One
ODT requests that such travel
be discouraged.
NEW YORK (JPS)—"Mussol-
In agreement with the leading
ini believed that - Jews were English-Jewish newspapers
`jettatori,' that is, that their very throughout the land, The Jewish
look could bring misfortune," News is therefore banning such
according to the late Duce's announcements from its columns.
daughter, Edda, Curt Riess, NEA
We do, however, continue to
correspondent, reports fr om publish vital statistics—engage-
Paris in the second of a series ments, marriages, births; and an-
of interviews with Edda Mus- nouncements of trips made by
solini, now living in a Swiss servicemen, members of service-
sanatorium.
men's families traveling to visit
"This was an old Italian super- their sons or daughters at
stition, and Mussolini never military camps; and news about
wanted Jews around if he could students.
help it." On the other hand,
Edda Mussolini says that she youth, she planned to elope with
herself never had anything one, until her father intervened,
against the Jews and that in her Riess reports,
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