The Jewish Community's Family Newspaper VOL. 8—NO. 13 THE JEWISH NEWS of Jewish Events A Weekly Review 2114 Penobscot Bldg. RA. 7956 Detroit 26, Michigan, December 14, 1945 America's Leading English- Jewish Newspaper 34 46003 , 22 $3.00 Per Year; Single Copy, 10c Truman Names Inquiry Board Judge Joseph Hutcheson U.S. Head of Joint Commission on Palestine WASHINGTON.—President Truman on Monday announced the appointment of Judge Joseph C. Hutcheson of the Fifth Circuit Court at Houston, Tex., as U. S. Chairman of ihe Anglo-American inquiry commission on Palestine, which will examine the political, social and economic conditions in Palestine, "as they bear upon the problem of Jewish imuligration and settlement therein and the well being of the peoples now living therein." Sir John E. Singleton, judge of the King's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice, London, England, is the British chairman. The commission will consist of 12 members. President Truman has stated that both the American and British governments have urged the committee to make its report within 120 days after the inquiry has begun, the committee determining its own procedure. The other five American members of the commission are: Dr. James G. McDonald, who formerly held these positions: Chair- man of the board of the Foreign Policy Association, High Commission- er for Refugees and member of the New York Times editorial board. Frank Aydelotte, former president of Swarthmore College, now director of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University and American secretary of the Rhodes Trust. Frank W. Buxton, editor of the Boston Herald. 0. Max Gardner, former . Governor of North Carolina, now prac- ticing law in Washington. William Phillips, former Undersecretary of State, Ambassador to Italy and personal representative of the President at New Delhi, India. The other British members are: Wilfred P. Crick, economic adviser to Midland Bank; Richard H. S. Crossman, Labor member of Parlia- ment; Sir Frederick Legett; Maj. Reginald E. Manningham, Conserva- tive MP; Lord Morrison (Baron Robert Craigmyle), former Labor MP. World's Jewish Leaders Map DPs Aid; General Assails Camp Tragedies Oneg Shabbat in Japan: . This photograph promises to be- come historic. It shows the first Oneg Shabbat for Jewish troops in Japan. Arranged by Capt. Morris Adler, Army chaplain, in Tokyo, this photograph shows some of the Jewish soldiers with Rabbi Adler (center), who is on leave from Cong. Shaarey Zedek. ATLANTIC CITY.—As more than 600 delegates from all sections of the country reached here for the historic three-day National Conference of the United Jewish Appeal which opens Saturday, Dec. 15, at the Chelsea Hotel, word was received that Jewish leaders from France, Belgium and Holland are on the last lap of their journey by plane from Paris to participate in the sessions out of which will come a clear-cut and extraordinary program of Am- erican Jewish aid to Jews in Europe and Palestine in 1946. The most impressive array • of distinguished leaders ever to address a national Jewish assembly will be the principal speakers at the first conference to be convened by the UJA since its organization in 1939 as the combined nationwide fund-raising instrument for the Joint Distribution Committee, the United Palestine Appeal and the National Refugee Service. During the three-day meeting addresses will be delivered by Dr. Chaim Weizmann, president of the Jewish Agency for Palestine; Dr. Leo Baeck, former - Chief Rabbi of Berlin; Earl G. Harrison, American member of the Inter-Governmental Committee on Refugees and author of the report to President Tru- man which brought to light the deplorable situa- tion of the displaced Jews of Europe; Robert Gam- con of Paris, one of the leaders of the Maquis resist- ance movement and president of the Eclaireurs Israelites de France (French Jewish Boy Scout movement) ; Paul Philipps= of Brussels, grandson Hate-Fighters : REP. DICKSTEIN, who becomes a mem- ber of the N. Y. State Supreme Court in January, signing the first petition calling on Congress to pass his resolution condemning all hate propaganda. Left to right: N. W. SCHUR, National Committee to Combat Anti-Semitism; M. ROSEN- BERG, Trade Union Committee for Jewish Unity; Rep. Dick- stein, and GEORGE STARR, Jewish People's Fraternal Order of IWO. Killers Rest : NRS at Work : Interviewing a potential employer to find work for refugees is part of the program carried on by the National Refugee Service. Funds for the NRS are supplied by the United Jewish Appeal, which derives its Detroit in- • come through the Allied Jewish Campaign of the Jewish Welfare Federation. While a U. S. MP maintains a close watch, a few of the Nazi war lords on trial for their war crimes—including the slaughter of 5,000,000 Jews, chat during a recess at Nuernberg, Germany. RUDOLF HESS, No. 2 Nazi, is seated on the edge of the prisoners' dock while facing the camera is HERMANN GOERING. (Continued on Page 5)