-or Tip *-7 BUY MORE WAR BONDS VOL. 7—NO. 16 THE JEWISH NEWS A Weekly Review 2114 Penobscot Bldg. RA. 7956 of Jewish Events Detroit 26, Michigan, July 6, 1945 BUY MORE WAR BONDS 34 coriik. 22 $3.00 Per Year; Single Copy, 10c Demand Probe of Anti-Semitic Army Correspondence Course CIO and Catholic Leaders Condemn Prejudice Anti-Jewish Speech in Senate Stirs Protests WASHINGTON, (JTA)—A War Department spokesman told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that the correspondence course containing anti-Jewish statements, which was distributed by the U. S. Armed Forces Institute, was sent to 2,609 members of the armed forces in various parts of the world. The Institute, he revealed, purchased 9,000 copies of the course. The course, together with the textbooks con- taining the anti-Semitic material, was purchased from the University of Alabama, one of the 85 uni- versities and colleges cooperating with the Insti- tute, which operates under the auspices of the Army and Navy, the War Department spokesman disclosed. It was used for approximately one year, he added. Used By 2,609 All Over the World. Emphasizing that the 2,609 soldier and sailor students who used or are using this course are scat- tered all over the world, the War Department of- ficial said that this accounts for the fact that it is still cropping up here and there; He pointed out that the institute began moving toward elimination of. the course in October, because it failed to meet the Army's academic standards. Planning has been started for a new course to begin early next month, he declared. Work; on this course is continuing. In the meantime, with the controversial course eliminated, nothing has re- placed it. He added that the 2,609 students who ap- plied for and received the course constitute a very small percentage of the over 1,000,000 students in the Army and Navy who took USAFI courses. • —British Combine Photo Services. in Ran goon: Navy Refuses to Conlment . Liberation by Allied forces of Rangoon, India, recently found the Jewish community eager to resume religious worship after years of persecution by the Japanese. They managed to save much of their religious treasures during the occupation of the city. The first Jewish services to be held publicly there since the entry of the Japs was conducted by the REV. M. A. JAFFE of Halliwell Lane, Manchester, England, shown holding a Serail and a prayer book. The soldiers are British. The Army spokesman said that there were no "civilian specialists" involved in selection of the. course. The personnel of the USAFI, he declared, is composed entirely of Army men. Jewish Appeal Leaders: Welder: Officers of the reconstructed United Jewish Appeal for Refugees, Overseas Needs and Palestine are, top row, left to right: RABBI G. HELLER, RABBI JONAH B. WISE and WILLIAM ROSENWALD, national charmen; Bottom row, left to Wright: I. EDWIN GOLDWASSER and CHARLES J. ROSENBLOOM, national treasurers; and ISIDOR COONS and HENRY MONTOR, executive vice-chairmen. The Joint Distribution Committee, United Palestine Appeal and Na- tional Refugee Service will benefit from the UJA drive in 4,600 communities in the U, S. in 1945. (Continued on Page 10) A former refugee from Nazi Europe, this man was brought to the Jewish National Home with the aid of the UniUd 'Palestine Ap- peal. He is one of the 62,000 employed in Jewish indus- trial production in Palestine. The Jewish Homeland has become an important industrial center in the Middle East during the war years.