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THE JEWISH NEWS
NCJSS Convention Names
Harold Silver President
Conference Shuns
State Dept. Bid
To View Report
Director of Jewish Social Service Bureau of Detroit Chosen
Declines Invitation, Demands
National Head of Jewish Social Workers; Parley Urges
Immediate Action -to Send
Extension of the FEPC Programs
100,000 DPs to Zion
ATLANTIC CITY—Harold Silver, director of the Jewish • Social
Service Bureau of Detroit, was elected president of the National
Confrence of Jewish Social Service at the convention held here
last week-end. Hershel Alt of New York and Virginia Frank • of
Chicago were elected vice-presidents and Michael Nisselson of
New York was chosen treasurer.
Establishment of a School of Jewish Social Service was urged
in a resolution adopted by 800 delegates.
Other resolutions urged establishment of Fair Employment
Practice Committee on national, state and local levels; demanded
that social workers be included under provisions of the Social
Security Act and asked U. S. support to the UN in preventing
another world war.
800 Delegates Attend National Conference
Problems of Jewish, social service in the U. S. were discussed
by the conference, attended by 800 delegates.
Harry L. Lurie, retiring president, speaking on "Planning
Social Services for the Total Jewish Community," said that with
the great extension of governmental public welfare services, the
primary task of Jewish social service agencies will be to pioneer
in new contributions to social well-being and to help raise the
general standards of welfare services throughout the country.
He also predicted that governmental agencies could be expected
to assume major responsibility for many essential public health
and welfare services in the future, but pointed out that a great
many services will remain in the province of the voluntary agencies.
Louis H. Sobel, assistant secretary of the Joint Distribution
Committee, demanded that governmental and intergovernmental
agencies assume responsibility for providing food, clothing and
medical care for surviving Jews. in Europe. He emphasized that
it is impossible for the Jewish voluntary agencies to meet all the
basic requirements of the survivors.
Christians Demand Byrnes
Press Truman's DP Policy
Order's Court Move to Revoke 'Violated' Charter; Federal
Lien Filed Against KKK for $685,305 Tax Evasion;
Rep. Rankin Refuses Investigation
ATLANTA, Ga. (JPS)—Governor Ellis Arnall has in-
structed State Attorney General Eugene Cook to bring
action to revoke the charter of the Ku Klux Klan in Georgia,
NEW YORK. . (JTA)—Stating which' the Klan claims as its birthplace. In a series of di-
that a discussion of the long- rectives the governor asserted that if efforts through the
terni recommendations of the courts are unsuccessful he might call an extraordinary
Anglo-American Committee of
Inquiry"' would be "premature
and harmful" and would delay
the transfer of the homeless
Jews of Europe to Palestine, the
American Jewish Conference
declifted the invitation of the
Department of State to submit
its views on the report of the
committee.
The Conference sent a letter
to Under Secretary of State
Acheson calling his attention to
the 'fact that its view on the
Palestine question were present-
ed to the Anglo-American in-
quiry committee during the
latter's hearings in Washington.
The letter, signed by Henry
Monsky, chairman of the interim
committee of the Conference,
read:
Premature and Harmful
"While we appreciate yOur
courtesy, we beg to call your
attention to the fact that our
views on the Palestine question
were presented to the Commit-
tee of Inquiry during. its hear-
ings in Washington in January.
"In our view. it is premature
and harmful at this time to
Teen-agers Sentenced by British Military to Two to Four enter into a discussion of the
long-term recommendations of
Years on Charges of Possessing Arms After Alleged
the committee. This would only
Attack on Arab Legion Camp
serve to delay the implemen-
tation of the affirmative recom-
mendations of the report which
By BERL CORALNIK
have been accepted by President
Jewish Telegraphic Agency Correspondent
- JERUSALEM, (JTA)—Twenty-four Jewish settlers, the entire Truman.
male population of the colony of Birya, were sentenced this week to
In Accord With Truman
prison terms ranging from one to four years by a British military
"We are in accord with the
court at Safed which convicted them of illegal possession of arms.
The prisoners, who were arrested Feb. 28, following a raid on position taken by President Tru-
Birya after an alleged "attack upon an Arab Legion camp near the man, that the recommendation
settlement, pleaded guilty. Two youths, aged 16 and 17, received calling for the transfer of 100,000
one-year terms; two others, 17 and 18 years old, were sentenced to Jews to Palestine should be put
two years, while the other 20 defendants received four-year into effect immediately. It
sentences. Early in May all went on a four-day hunger strike in would do irreparable injury to
the Jews of Europe if, the long
protest against police brutality.
Palestinian Sentenced Without Trial
proposed action to relieve their
British
Peter Martusch, a Palestinian Jewish sailor in the
suffering and distress again were
Navy, who was charged with illegal possession of explosives, fol- postponed to permit an extended
lowing his arrest aboard the destroyer Chevron in Haifa harbor, discussion which has no prospect
was sentenced to six years by a military court at Haifa. Martusch of an immediate solution of the
was one of 13 seamen arrested aboard the Chevron on May 1 for
complicity in an alleged plot to blow up the vessel. Eleven of the problem.
Urge Immediate Action
group were freed and the twelfth, another Palestinian Jew, was
sentenced without a trial to one year's detention.
"We urge that the Department
23 Internees Expect Release Soon
of State undertake immediately
Twenty-three 'Palestinian Jews detained in Eritrean intern- to make the necessary arrange-
ment camps during the war were returned to Palestine this week. ments for the transfer of the
The 23 will be held at the Latrun detention camp near Jerusalem.
It is reported they will be released soon. Among the returned homeless Jews in Europe to
prisoners is Dr. S. Yunitchmann, a leader of the Zionist-Revision- Palestine, in accordance with the
ist movement. Colonial Secretary George Hall announced in views of the President."
During the hearings at Wash-
Commons that 345 Arabs and 93 Jews had been arrested for illegal
possession of arms during the last six months. Of this number, ington the Conference urged the
159 Arabs and 17 Jews already have been tried and 122 Arabs immediate abolition of all exist-
ing restrictions and limitations
and 14 Jews convicted.
on free Jewish immigration into
Palestine and on . the right of
Jews to purchase and settle on
the land there, and the immedi-
ate announcement of the • de;
termination by the responsible
powers to reconstitute Palestine
as a free and democratic Jewish
Commonwealth.
24 Settlers, All Birya's Male
Population, Sent to Prison
Georgia Governor Launches
Action to Te-Hood' Klan
session of the legislature to enact laws to "de-hood" the - Klan
and "prohibit activities which the General Assembly might de-
termine to be detrimental to the public good."
may Ask FBI Assistance to Outlaw Klan
The governor's directives charged that the Klan had violated
its charter as a social and benevolent order by engaging "in un-
lawful activities . . aimed at the destruction of civil liberties
as guaranteed by the state and Federal Constitutions . . . The
Klan is not a bona fide fraternal organization, but exists prim-
arily for the purpose of arousing, fostering, promoting and effectu-
ating prejudice, hate and intolerance through the' concerted action
of its members." Governor Arnall ordered the attorney-general
to seek assistance of the Department of Justice and the FBI, if
necessary, in outlawing the Klan in Georgia.
The U. S. Collector of Internal Revenue here has filed a
Federal Tax lien against the Georgia Klan for $685,305, allegedly
due the government in income taxes for 1921 through 1924 and 1946.
Dr. Samuel Green, Atlanta physician who is Grand Dragon
of the Klan, said he would welcome any investigation and would
extend to the state "the same cooperation" he offered to the pro-
jected investigation by the Wood-Rankin Committee on . Un-
American Activities.
Rep. John E. Rankin (D., Miss.), acting chairman of the
House Committee on Un-American Activities, has postponed indefi-
nitely the projected investigation by the committee ot the revived
Ku Klux Klan activities in Georgia and other states, the Atlanta
Constitution reports. According to the paper, Rankin said he
intends to let Georgia investigate the Klan itself, before the com-
mittee considers an investigation of its own.
Earlier, Rep. Landis (R., Ind.), announced in Washington
that a committee investigator would be sent to Atlanta to look
into Klan activities. •
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WASHINGTON BOULEVARD
American Christian Palestine Committee Charges State
Dept. Is Failing to Back President's Stand on Immigration
of 100,000; Britain Urged to Keep Pledge
OCEAN CITY, N. J. (JTA)—The American Christian Palestine
Committee, representing several thousand Christian church and
lay leaders throughout the country, charged that the 'State Depart-
ment is failing to back President Truman's policy calling for
immediate entry of 100,000 displaced Jews into Palestine as recom-
mended by the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry.
Closing a three-day conference, the Committee, of which Sen-
ator Robert F. Wagner of New York is honorary chairman, wired
President Truman commendation of his stand but warned that
the State Department's "failure to insist" upon that policy "is
causing widespread dissatisfaction."
The conference, attended by more than 50 outstanding church-
men and civic leaders, called upon Secretary of State Byrnes
"forcibly to present the American position to the British Govern-
ment," reminding him of the recent Congressional resolution sup-
porting free Jewish entry into Palestine, and in cables to Prime
Minister Attlee and British Ambassador Clark-Kerr warned that
"the sacredness of Britain's pledged word and the integrity of
international agreements will be seriously shaken by further delay."
The conference also unanimously adopted a resolution peti-
tioning the President and the Congress to do "all in their power
to secure the immediate realization" of the Anglo-American com-
mittee's recommendations relating to entry of the 100,000, abandon-
ment of the White Paper of 1939, and removal of barriers to free
Jewish colonization and settlement in Palestine, and "to accept
responsibility under the United Nttions for their achievement:"
(Arthur Neef, Prevost of Wayne University and Dean of its
law School, and the Rev. Tracy Pullman represented Detroit at
the conference.)
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