THE JEWISH NEWS

Weekly Review

VOL. 8—NO. 12

2114 Penobscot Bldg. RA. 7956

of Jewish Events

Detroit 26, Michigan, December 7, 1945

34 slipo 22 $3.00 Per Year; Single Copy, 10c

State Tourist Council
liars Discriminatory
Resort Literature

Dr. Glazer Wins Fight to Eliminate Racial Bias
In State Financed Bureaus tinder Civil Liberties

$10,000 for Student Loans is the gift made last week
by Samuel Lemberg (left) to • Henry Monsky, president of
Bnai Brith, and Dr. A. L. Sachar, national director of Hillel
Foundations through whom the fund will be supervised.

Michigan , this week emerged: as the first state hi. the .Union corn-
pletely to bar distribution of discriminatory hotel and resort literature
through state-financed bureaus, in c ompliance with the Michigan Civil
Liberties Law.

This action came as a result of the one-man fight conducted against discrimin-
atory literature by Dr. B. Benedict Glazer, Rabbi of Temple Beth EL

As a result of Dr. Glazer's efforts, William Palmer, secretary of the State of
Michigan Tourist ,Council, under date of Dec. -1 ad-
dressed the following memorandum to the following
managers of tourist bureaus:

"Miss Clare D. King, manager, Michigan Tourist
Council Information Bureau, Chicago; Miss Audrey
Provost, manager, Michigan Tourist Council Informa-
tion Bureau, Detroit; Mist Catherine Ferguson, man-
ager, Michigan Tourist Council Information Bureau,
Cleveland:

.

The Council has ins tru. c7 me to ask you to
check all items of literature in your racks and remove
those items which contain words or phrases indicating
either a religious or racial preference or the euphemis-
tic 'restricted', 'restricted clientele', 'selected clien-
tele', etc.

„

100th Anniversary of the West End Synagogue of New
York was marked by the presentation of a citation by Dr.
Maurice N. Eipendrath, director of the • Tinian of American
Hebrew Congregations to Rabbi Bernard J. Bamberger (left)
and Harry M. Wassel, president of the congregation.

"Please have all of the designated literature sorted
according to the regional area in which the hotel or -
resort exists. It should then be packed and returned
to the regional headquarters of each association. For
the time being this literature will be distributed only
through the auspices of the associations or other
Dr. B. Benedict Glazer
private channels until the items are exhausted. All
of the new literature which you receive m ust conform with the Council's ruling,
otherwise it cannot be distributed.

"All resort and hotel operators will b e instructed in due course by the man-
agers of the regional tourist associations as to the policy of the Council on this
matter. A rubber stamp will be design ed for use in each office which will in-
dicate literature approved for distribution under state auspices.

"It is imperative that all correspondence relating to this matter be directed
to my attention. Further instructions will be issued as the occasion demands.”
. (Continued on Page 7)

Detroit Jews to Protest
British Policy Thursday
As Zion Tension Mounts

—Page 5

Balkan Jews

will
soon receive this J. D. C.
'shipment of 164 tons of
garments. United Hun-
garian Jews of America
alre'ady have sent 35 tons
of clothes to Hungary.

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Council of Jewish. Women's case worker, Miss Rebecca
Kapelsohn, third from left, is on a mercy mission abroad. In
the photograph seeing her off are Mrs. Hortense Goldstone,
supervisor-of Council overseas staff; Mrs. Anna K. Schwartz,
Council's executive director, and Mrs. David Barr, chairman
of Council's overseas committee.

Visas for Palestine! The last of the available coveted
certificates were handed to .400 Jewish refugees about to
leave Italy for Palestine by Capt. George Hartman, repatria-
tion officer of the Allied commission in Rome. The refugees
were housed at Cinecitta, the movie center that once was one
of Mussolini's pet projects. Benjamin N. Brook is standing
beside Capt. Hartman.

—International Wirephoto