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VOLUME 10—NO. 22

THE JEWISH NEWS

A Weekly Review

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of Jewish Events

Detroit 26, Michigan, February 14, 1947

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V. S. Intervention Is Predicted;
American Jews Map Zion Pleas

Professional Division Mobilizes Here
To Push $5,335,000 Allied Campaign

(Summary of Events Based on JTA Cables)

Intervention by the United States government in
the Palestine situation was predicted this week as a
result of deep interest shown by the State Depart-
ment in the situation which has become seriously
aggravated.

A Jewish Telegraphic Agency cable received by The
Jewish News from Jerusalem on Tuesday revealed Lowell
Pinkerton, U. S. Consul General in Jerusalem, visited at the
offices of the Jewish Agency and discussed the present Pal-
estine situation with Mrs. Goldie Meyerson, head of the
Agency's Palestine political department. Mrs. Meyerson re-
vealed to Mr. Pinkerton facts that hitherto have not been
_made public.

Jewish Leaders Meeting in Washington

American aid in the present crisis will be sought at the
extraordinary conference called for Monday, Feb. 17, in
Washington, by the American Zionist Emergency Council.
Jewish leaders from more than 40 states are expected to at-
tend and to ask for American intervention against threats,
inherent in present British policies, to destroy the entire
structure of the Jewish National Home.
An Agudath Israel delegation visited High Commissioner
Cunningham on Tuesday to discuss the situation. At the same
time Hashomer Hatzair protested the deportation to Cyprus
of 650 immigrants who arrived at Haifa Monday on the La
Negev.
Lazar Lauer, 25, one of the arrivals, died of wounds suf-
fered in the clash with the British aboard the Negev.
Meanwhile, it is reported, another ship with 600 aboard
left North Africa for Palestine.

3 More Irgunists Sentenced to Death

—Photo by Paul Kirsch, Jewish News Staff Photographer

CAMPAIGN PLANNING: Organization of professional workers in support of the 1947 Allied

Jewish Campaign came in for serious considerate on when the campaign planning committee of the
Professional Division of the Detroit Service Group met Sunday, Feb. 9, at the Jewish Center. Mem-
ben of the committee working out campaign plans here are (left to right): JACOB L. KEIDAN,
JOHN M. WISE, HELEN S. KASS. DR. HARRY C. SALTZSTEIN, GEORGE M. STUTZ, chairman,
and DR. SIDNEY F. ELLIAS. Other groups now a re preparing for the drive.

Recognizing the need for united industrial
and professional cooperation in the 1947
Allied Jewish Campaign for $5,335,000. prin-
cipal divisions of the Detroit Service Group
have held advance campaign planning corn-
mittee meetings.
Real Estate and Building Council Corn-
mittee met Jan. 20 at the Jewish Center
under the chairmanship of David Wilkus.
In addition to discussion of the national,
local and overseas needs which necessitated
the unprecedented quota, they considered
questions of leadership and general cam-
paign methods.
Aiming for a well-knit campaign struc-
ture, the Mechanical Trades Division Com-
mittee followed an initial conference Jan. 20

with a joint session with the executive corn-
mitfee of the Division, Jan. 27, at Hotel
Statler. William Gershenson is chairman.
Representatives of various sections of the
Professional Division agreed to organize in-
dividual planning committees and arrange
special programs for each Section at the
Division's Committee Meeting held Sunday,
Feb. 9, at the Jewish Center, under the chair-
manship of George M. Stutz. Reports of the
individual sections will be presented at the
Division Board Meeting at 8:15 p.m. Feb. 24,
at the Jewish Center.
The.Campaign Planning Committee of the
Food Service Council will hold its initial
meeting at 11 a .m. Sunday, Feb. 16, at the
Center. Nathan Lurie serves as chairman
of this Committee.

Mobilization of forces to secure American aid in defense
of the Jewish position in Palestine was speeded as a result
of the verdict on Monday condemning three more Irgunists
to death. The condemned men are: Eliezer Ben Zion Kashari,
23; Dov Ben Salman Rosenbaum, 24; Mordecai Ben Abraham
Alkachi, 21.
Col. Michael Fell, president of the court that handed
down the death sentences, and Maj. E. W. Stubbs, the prose-
cutor, are under constant guard, having been warned they
will be targets of the Irgun.
Britain's policies continue to be defied by Palestine
Jewry. The establishment of three new colonies in the Negev
last week was followed by the establishment of another

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A Hero's Reward:

The Irony of It!

Dov Bela Gruner, the Hungarian Jew who is under
sentence of death as an Irgunist in Palestine, this week re-
ceived a bonus check in the amount of $480 from the British
government. Gruner, who served in the British army for
five and a half years, said he has no need for the money and
wrote a will bequeathing it to the Irgun.

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Wiesbaden Jews Rededicate

Rebuilt Historic Synagogue

At this rededication service, held
in the restored Wiesbaden (Ger-
many) synagogue, with prayer
books supplied by the National
Jewish Welfare Board (JWB), a
civilian congregant from the corn-
munity proudly holds the Torah
rescued from the Nazi despoilers
by the "gabbai," and hidden in
Zurich. The "gabbai" later per-
ished at Auschwitz. The restora-
tion services, conducted by CHAP-
LAIN WILLIAM Z. DALIN, were
attended by the son of the "gabbai,"

a Buchenwald survivor. Also pres-
ent were Jewish GIs and high
Army officials. Rabbi Philip S.
Bernstein, Advisor on Jewish Af-
fairs to the commanding general of
the European Theater, lauded the F.
DP efforts of the chaplains, "who
had literally saved thousands of
lives."

Important Strides in the reconstruction of Jewish life in Europe

are being taken as Joint-Distribution Committee-supported Centers
and ORT schools teach new skills and bring hope to Europe's sur-
vivors who will be weN trained before their approaching journey-
to Palestine. Above is an artisan in Hungary who has become self
supporting. The JDC is supported by the United Jewish Appeal.

