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THE JEWISH NEWS

Zion Resistance Movement
Battles to Bring Refugees

Jewish Woman Killed, One Man Injured, 36 Arrested in Ser-
ious Effort to Prevent Exclusion of Visa-less Newcomers;

Memorandum Declares All Jews in Resistance Cause

(Special Cable to The Jewish News)

JERUSALEM. (JTA)—One Jewish woman was killed,
one Jew was wounded and 36 were arrested early Tuesday
in the vicinity of Tel Aviv in sporadic incidents intended to
cover the landings of 240 visa-less Jewish immigrants from
the motor schooner "Brigadier Wingate."
The immigrants landed at Haifa under a heavy guard

from the schooner which carried
• •
the Union Jack and Zionist colors,
after interception by a British de-
stroyer. The refugees were trans-
ferred to a detention camp under,
a heavy police military guard.
In order to meet the critical
Police Use Machine Guns
shortage of teachers and princi-
Coming from Poland, Hungary
pals in Hebrew schools, repre-
and other Eastern Europedn
sentative Jewish educators from
countries, the immigrants board-
the midwestern communities held
ed the ship at a southern Italian
a special conference at the Col-
port. As the ship approached the
lege of Jewish Studies in Chi-
Palestine coast, attacks were
cago to seek ways and means of
launched on the northern Tel
expediting the process of training.
Aviv police station to detract at-
The conference was presided
tention from the coast and en-
over by Dr. Samuel M. Blumen-
able the immigrants to land.
.field of Chicago and Bernard
Jewish resistance forces block-
Isaacs of Detroit and went on re-
ed all roads leading to the shore
cord favoring the establishment of
and laid mines on the Tel Aviv
a summer school for the training
railroad crossing. In some places
of teachers to combine an inten-
the tracks were removed. The
sive program of Jewish studies
police opened fire with machine with recreation. The summer
guns and later conducted school is to be conducted by the
searches.
College of Jewish Studies in co-
Warning that virtually every operation with the Conference of
Jew in Palestine is a member of Middle Western Bureaus of Jew-
the resistance movement and that ish Education.
every Jew in Palestine must be
T h e following communities
crushed to stop the resistance, were represented: St. Louis, In-
the secret Jewish resistance dianapolis, Cleveland, Cincinnati,
movement in Palestine on Tues- Minneapolis, Omaha, Buffalo and
day presented a 5,000 word mem- Detroit.
orandum to the inquiry commit-
Mr. Isaacs and Morris Lachover
tee signed "Head Command of were the Detroit representatives
Jewish Resistance Movement."
at the conference.
Secretarist Gets Document
Jewish communities in the
The document- was found on middle west desiring further in-
the desk of the committee sec- formation may communicate with
retarist at 9 a. m. with a letter the College of Jewish Studies, 72
explaining why there are no E. 11th St., Chicago, Ill.
signatures and declaring that
Klal Israel would broadcast at
2 p. m. Tuesday mentioning the Mrs. Ettinger, Visiting
document and proving its authen- From Tel Aviv, Given
ticity. The memorandum asserts Warm Reception
the importance of a Jewish state:
Mrs. Joseph Eittinger, daughter
describes the importance of the of Mr. and Mrs. A. DeRoven. of
Haganah which fought for Great Kendall Ave., is visiting her from
Britain during the war; the estab- Tel Aviv, Palestine.
lishment of the unofficial Home
Formerly Rae Sulkes, Mrs. Et-
guard of Palestine volUnteers for tinger has made her home in
special intelligence and comman- Palestine for the last 14 years.
do work for the British.
Since her arrival here numer-
"Our path is not a path of ter- ous parties, luncheons and meet-
ror," the memorandum declares. ings have been held in her honor
"If there is terrorism it is prac- and she has addressed various
ticed by the authorities. If, in groups.
opposition to unseaworthy craft
Before going. to Palestine she
carrying a few hundred refugees, was active in numerous com-
the British government sends re- munity organizational affairs.
connaissance planes and destroy
ers and operates radar stations
and builds special police posts
and uses airborne troops, then
when we attack these things we
do nothing more than to defend
ourselves against government
terror."

Problem Studied

Lt. Henry Bodzin
Killed in Action

The day that Pfc. Jack Bodzin
arrived home after his discharge
from the army, official word was
received by his parents, the Rev.
and Mrs. Morris Bodzin, 1940
Gladstone, that the body of their
other son in the service, 2nd Lt.
Henry J. Bodzin, had been found
in Germany and transferred to a
military cemetery in France.
Lt. Bodzin, a native of Detroit,
enlisted in the Air Corps in
March, 1942, and went overseas
in September; 1944. While sta-
tioned England he took a spe-
cial course in aerial navigation,
after which he engaged in 15
bombing missions.
On April 8, 1945, while serv-
ing as lead navigator with a crew
of nine, his plane ran into heavy
flak and the pilot ordered every-
one to bale out, as the bomb.:
carrying mechanism had been
damaged so as to prevent releas-
ing their load. The pilot was in-
jured in a crash landing and with
two others was taken prisoner.
Jack entered the service in
June, 1943, and went overseas
with the infantry in September
of the following year. He was
wounded during the Battle of the
Bulge and was awarded the
Purple Heart.
Other sisters and brothers, all
of Detroit, are: S. Jay, David S.,
Mrs. Rose Blitz, Harry R., Mrs.
Marian Duchan, Ruth, Yetta and
Esther. Henry was engaged to
marry Miss Natalie Costrell. Both
Henry and Jack were students
at Wayne university.

Dramatic Society Plans
Play at Masonic Temple

Friday, March 29, t 946

Truman Denies Intervening
In Inquiry Committee Rift

President Says He Did Not Move fo Prevent the Resigna-
tion of Bartley Crum from American Body in Dispute
Over Procedure of Palestine Committee

WASHINGTON, (JTA)—Presi-
dent Truman denied here that he
had intervened with Bartley
Crum, American member of the
Anglo-American Committee o f
Inquiry on Palestine, to prevent
Crum from resigning. from the
inquiry body.
Earlier this week, reports stat-
ed that the President had pre-
vented Crum from resigning in
protest against the committee's
procedure and its failure to issue
an interim report recommending
- immediate action with regard to
Jews in camps in Germany and
Austria.
Transjordan Proclaimed
An Independent State
LONDON, (JTA) — Transjor-
dan, which since 1922 has been a
part of the Palestine Mandate,
became a sovereign, independent
state March 22, when it signed
a treaty of mutual assistance and
alliance with Britain.
The document terminating the
Mandate and guaranteeing Trans-
jordan's independence was sign-
ed at a ceremony in the Foreign
Office, with Under-Secretary of
Colonies Arthur Creech - Jones
signing for the British Govern-
ment and Ibrahim Pasha Hashim
for Emir Abdullah, the ruler of
Transj ordan.
Soviet Organ UrgeS Arabs
To Cooperate With Jews
MOSCOW, (JTA)—Viktor Lut-
sky, Soviet lecturer in history,

Detroit Dramatic Society will
present the drama "Tzuzeit un
Tzushpreit" by Sholem Aleichem,
under the direction of Chaim
Brisman, at the Masonic Temple
on Sunday, March 31, 8:45 p.m.
Tickets can be obtained at the
box office the night of the per-
formance.

writing in the Soviet Trade
Union Organ, "Trud," criticized
the Arab League for not - raising
the question of the evacuation of
British troops from Palestine" and
for not cooperating with Jewish
democratic organizations in a
joint struggle for Palestine's in-
dependence.
Inquiry Committee Hears
Palestine Government Aide
JERUSALEM, (JTA)—John V.
M. Shaw, chief secretary of the
Palestine government, and rank-
ing British administrative official
after High Commissioner Sir
Alan Cunningham, appeared be-
fore the full Anglo-American in-
quiry committee March 23. It is
presumed that Secretary Shaw
presented the official government
position at a closed session.
In a statement to the press,
the inquiry committee replied to
the American Zionist Emergency
Council's charges that the official
transcript of the committee's ses-
sions deliberately had omitted
those sections of the testimony of
Jamal el Husseini and Auni Bey
Abdul Hadi, Arab Higher Com-
mittee spokesmen, which adrn it-
ted the association between the
Nazis and the ex-Mufti. The
committee replied that the Arabs
had spoken in English with an
accent which was not familiar to
the American court reporter and
that he, therefore, had missed
parts of the witnesses' statements.

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