Friday, February 21, 1947
THE JEWISH NEWS
Page Sixteen
Zionists Ask U. S. to Seek
Interim Policy on Palestine
Plan to Transfer
30,000 DP Jews
To German Zone
Scholar, Teacher, Researcher Dies
Important Career in Chemistry
Ends at 81' for Dr. Oomberg
(Continued from Page 1)
Some 30,000
by Benjamin M. Laikin, Rabbi Leon Fram, Leon Kay 'and
PARIS, (JTA)
Sidney Shevitz and included several other representatives displaced Jews in Austria will be
. transferred to the U. S. zone of
from Detroit and other Michigan communities.)
—
The.death in Ann Arbor, on. Feb. 12--fotir days after he had
reached his 81st birthday—of Dr. Moses Gomberg, drew worldwide
attention to the career of one of the greatest chemists of our time.
A member of the faculty of the-University of Michigan for 43
years—from 1893 to 1936—Prof. Gomberg taught chemistry to tens
of thousands of students who
later made their marks in prac- came the chairman of the chem-•
tically every civilized country on istry department 1927:
the face of the globe. Throughout the years. many
tRetaining an accent which tempting offers came his way
stuck to- him from the day he from large industrial organiza-
arrived in this country as an tions to join their staffs in exe-
exile from Russia, Dr. •Gomberg cutive capacities, but he turned
nevertheless enchanted his stu- down offers of large salaries be-
dents who were spellbound 'by cause he preferred the. labora-
the romantic touches he gave tories of the University of Mich-
to the subject of chemistry in igan and the opportunities to
Germany before American troops
are withdrawn from Austria,
Joseph Schwartz, European di-
Special Cable to The Jewish News
LONDON. (JTA)—British Foreign Secretary Ernest rector* of the Joint Distribution
the Jewish Tele-
Bevin, in his statement in the House of Commons on Tuesday Committee, told
af ternoon, reviewed negotiations with Jews and Arabs and graphic Agency. this week.
He said the attitude of the Aus-
emphasized that Great Britain has no power under the trian
government and people has
Jews,
or
even
Arabs
or
1\landate to award Palestine either to
caused concern over the fate of
to partition the country between them,
the Jews should they be left be-
ll was therefore decided. he 7
hind after the withdrawal of Al-
stated, to submit the problem to that the Jews always considered lied troops.
the United Nations and to in- the problem an international one
elude in the referral the Arab for which the "world as a whole 5 Displaced Jews Sentenced
plan and Zionist aspirations. He should shoulder some of the res- For Beating U. S. Investigators
added that it is not his govern- ponsibility."
MUNICH, (JTA)—A military his classes. teach chemistry.
• • •
ment's intention to recommend
Headed Chemistry Department
government summary court at
Discovered Anti-Freeze
Marshall Believes Negotiations
a particular solution.
Graduated from the Univers-
Bamberg today sentenced five
He was the discoverer of Triv-
in
1890,
he
sity
of
Michigan
The British Government's de- Still Proceeding In London
displaced Jews to prison terms
carbon and developed
joined the faculty of his alma alent
cision to place the Palestine prob- i WASHINGTON (JTA)—Secre-
leebefore the United Nations • tary of State Marshall declined ranging from three months to a mater three years later, and be- many processes which were ac-
knowledged as great contribu-
does not imply Britain intends any comment on the Palestine year for assaulting two U. S.
Army investigators last month.
tions to chemistry. Among his
to surrender her mandate or to problem on the grounds the ' N
accomplishments was the devel-
withdraw from the country, negotiations in London are not Two other DPs were acquitted.
opment of the first satisfactory
Burin told a private conference yet completed, and the conferees All were camp policemen.
The alleged beatings took place
anti-freeze for automobile radi-
of 500 leaders of the Labor Party. were still struggling with the at the Bamberg DP camp when
ators. He also was the discover-
He said that the only duty of issue. He was asked if he would-4'.
civil-
er of important solvents for auto
Americans, dressed in
we UN was to find a solution comment on Bevin's proposal to the
ian clothes, were niistaken for
lacquers. -
acceptable to Jews and Arabs. ! submit the issue to the United
During World War I, he
: Nations. He replied he was in- Germans attempting to force
• • •
their
way
into
the
center.
learned the German secret of
formed shortly before the begin-
Agency Calls Conference
i ning of the press conference that
making basic materials for mus-
i
To Air Case Before UN
tard gas. During that war he was
negotiations were still under way. Uruguay President to Defend
S , • , I Ca ble to The Jewish News :
Jewish Rights Everywhere
• •
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a major in the Army Ordnance
JERUSALEM (JTA)—A Jew- '
WASHINGTONIL(JTA)
—
The
Department and served as con-
ish Agency meeting is scheduled 804 On Immigrant Ship
sulting chemist for the U. S.
, Uruguayan government will con-
to be held in Jerusalem within Transferred to Cyprus
Bureau of Mines.
FAMAGUSTA, Cyprus. (JTA) tinue to maintain its friendly at-
t %. o weeks to consider the new
Honored by Legislature
political situation after the fail- —The British deportation vessel titucle toward the Jewish people ;
ure of the London talks and to Ocean Rival disembarked 804 and do everything for the defense
In 1931 he was one of three U.
rights
everywhere.
of M. scientists in whose honor a
v. ork out plans for presenting Jewish refugees from the Hama- of Jewish .
the Jewish case to the United apil Haalmoni (Unknown Im- Tomas Berreta, president-elect of ,
joint session of both Houses of
Uruguay,
told
Moises
Toff.
di-
!
the State Legislature was held
The Zionist Actions migrant ship) on Tuesday.
Nations.
A one-hour country-wide gen- ' rector of the Latin-American de-
to pay them homage for their
Committee will meet March 7 to
eral.. strike on Feb. 17 protested Partment of the Jewish Agency
contributions to knowledge.
deal with the same issues.
Born Feb. 8, 1866, in Elizabet-
Replying to the action of the the deportation to Cyprus of ' office. He is here on a visit at the
:
Russia, Dr. Gomberg was
British government in referring 804 refugees aboard the im- invitation of the U.S. government.
BENCYEN SZERMAN, 22, con- grad,
the son of a landed proprietor
the Palestine issue to the United migrant vessel en route to Haifa! Bulgaria Permits Hebrew
centration camp survivor, was whose possessions were confis-
Nations, the Jewish Agency re- harbor under the escort of two ; Taught in Jewish Schools
discovered in a DP center in Ger- cated prior to being exiled on
veal.eci that it is "preparing for a . British destroyers.
JTA)—The
A ) —The n major part many by Lt. Norman H. Gold, charges of conspiracy against
political struggle in a new form." i Seven-hundred and sixty-four . ! SOFIA,
Bulgar i an who saw in him a close reseni- the Czar. The family moved to
The Jewish Agency demands refugees, who arrived in Pales- , of the curriculum
abrogation of the White Paper in tine aboard an immigrant ship ' Jewish schools will be taught in blance to his brother, Berwyn, Chicago.
Dr. Gomberg died at the Uni-
the interim period before UN acts . about six months ago and were H Hebrew under a new plan for the result
killed
France. As
a
y action
Szerman
was
, in
o u n g in
versity Hospital in Ann Arbor,
dis- ;education of children of minority
on proposals. "Continuation of subsequently sent to Cyprus.
roug ht to this countrY with the where he had been a patient
w
ill
be
re
_
'
groups
published
here
by
the
!
b
the present regime only will pro- embarked here. They
•1 aid of United Service for New
of Education.
since Jan. 2. He was a bachelor.
long bitterness," a Jewish Agency leased under a forthcoming im- : Ministry
In order to prepare Jewish! Americans, whose work is sup- He is survived by a sister, Miss
1
"polzesman declared. He added migration schedule.
cam-
children for Bulgarian h i g h , ported by the $170,000,000
. • •
Ap- Sonia Gomberg, a retired teacher.
schools and institutions of higher paign of the United Jewish
resume
of
events
affectitig
the
situation
in
'
parents,
The following is a
education. the plan provides the : peal for 1947. Lt. Gold's
Palestine, .culled from cables from London, Jerusalem, Washington : same number of hoursw• ii ,. i , oe . Mr. and Mrs. Jakob
. Gold of
; Ph i ladel phia, gave him a home.
and other world centrs: •
Britain Lacks Power on Zion, Bevin Says
Acquires a Family
I spent in Bulgarian language in -
,
Laneester..
. I struction as in• Hebrew.
I
I Brandeis University Gets
Pennsylvania, sister of convicted eviction orders and the manner,
li Ltunite Dov Gruner, met with , in which they are being carried Czech Jewish Communities
$1 ,,
000 000 in Pre-Drive Gifts
High Commissioner Cunningham ' out was brought before the Jer- ' To Train More Rabbis
an effort ! WALTHAM, Mass. (JTA) —
and a ith General MacMillan. new usalem High Court by Mr. Sal- i PRAGUE. (JTA)—In
commander in chief of Palestine onion, a Raira attorney, in be- to supply more rabbis to Jewish Nearly $1,000,000 has already
and been -contributed to Brandeis
tai et.•.. to plead for a communta- , half of a woman client who was, communities in Bohemia
hot) ut Gruner's death sentence. ordered on Feb. 5 to vacate im- , Moravia the Council of Jewish University, the first Jewish-
' sponsored secular university in
iN.1: - Friedman visited her broth- . ' mediately a flat she had occu- Communities has decided to :
I
e. it Jerusalem prison as soon as pied for eight years.
1 award a number of scholarships • fall
America,
which
will
open in he
the
of 1948,
it was
revealed
she arl ived from America Feb. • Three hundred displaced Jews for rabbinical students to studs by George Alpert, chairman re
of
11 GI uner's execution has been in the British zone will be al- in Britain and return to serve in
the board of trustees. The drive
po , tponed pending appeals to the lowed "immediate and direct communities which need them.
for $15,000,000 for the university
• Helen Friedman,
Council in London.
entry" into Palestine. They are '
• Leaders of the American Fed- all skilled workers. Their trans-1
el ..t ion of Labor, C.I.O., and Rail- portation will be financed jointlyi
1. oici Brotherhoods, at a confer- by UNRRA and Jewish relief
enc.,. in Minneapolis addressed by organizations. It is understood
Pines, co-editor of the Pal- that this will be the first group
D lifl
c:tine labor daily "Davar.' ca- 1 to emigrate under a plan by the
bled British Foreign Minister Er- , British authorities providing for
tie,a Bevin that the American la- . i the issuance of 360 Palestine im-
bar movement "is vitally con- migration certificates monthly to
cerned about the crisis in Pales- displaced Jews in the British
tine and urges immediate and zone.
just disposition of the matter.
i • Rabbi Philip Bernstein, adviser
• Hassan el Banna, leader of the on Jewish affairs to the' U. S.
anti-Zionist Moslem forces in Europe, arrived in Lon-
fanatical
Brothe•hood, protested to the don for conferences with Foreign
Egyptian government against the Minister Bevin on the recom-
showing in Cairo of a newsreel mendation by Gen. Joseph Mc-
depicting Jewish re-settlement in Narney, American commander in
Germany, that Jewish DPs in the
Palestine.
• The Palestine Government had U. S. zone be permitted to enter
planned to evacuate all Ameri- Palestine.
cans from Palestine, but was
prevented from doing so by U. S. World Congress Seeking
Consul-General Lowell C. Pink -
) erton. Pinkerton told the authori- Books for European Jews
ties that the Americans were in
The World Jewish Congress
no danger from either Jews or
appeals for contributions of edu-
Arabs.
• its part of their extraordinary cational, religious and cultural
security measures, which have materials for European Jews.
disrupted normal trade and corn- Urgent requests for books, parr-
merce, the British authorities ticula•ly in Hebrew and Yiddish,
have placed an embargo on Pales- have been received at Congress
tine ports, and notified British headquarters daily from war-
and Australian vessels not to call torn communities and displaced
here. Local merchants have been persons camps in Europe where
advised to instruct foreign firms the demand for spiritual rehabil-
with which they deal to ship itation is declared to be as great
imports by way of Alexandria. as physical and economci needs
• A test case of the legality of of the people.
PriVy
Leads Congress
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g
w.
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has not yet been inaugurated,
Alpert added.
dddeid
that several
disclosed
sc .
hundred applications have al-
ready been received from stu-
dents all over the country. The
university will commence its
activities with 1,000. students in
a liberal arts college. He said that
an educational advisory commit-
tee is being formed to choose a
president.
,.,..
,-
MRS. SYLVIA H. BLEICH,
New York attorney who headed
the fight against discrimination
The United Hebrew
in education and employment in
Schools of Detroit
Brooklyn, has been named execu-
tive secretary of the Women's
Gratefully Acknowledge
Division of the American Jewish
the Receipt of
Congress, Mrs. Stephen S. Wise,
one scholarship from Mr. and
president, announces.
Mrs. Morris Stikenic of Wooding-
ham Dr. in honor of the Bar
Governors of Hebrew U.
Mitzvah of their "son, Lawrence,
Meet in II. S. Next Month
NEW YORK, (JTA)—Dr. David which will be observed Saturday,
W. Senator, former member of Feb. 22, at the Shaarey Zedek,
the Jewish Agency executive and
administrator of the Hebrew Uni-
versity of Jerusalem, has arrived
here in connection with the first
meeting of the University's board
of governors which is to take
place in This country next month.
and in honor of their mother,
Mrs. Jacob Sukenic, who has re-
covered from a serious illness.
*
one scholarship from Mr. and
Mrs. Eli Lightstone of Rochester
Avenue.
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AN INTERESTIN41
RECIPE FOR THE
JEWISH HOME
from a
Nina MOUE INSTITUTE
A "MAI." Soup Coke
What will they think of next?
Soup Cake! Sounds a bit unusual
but it's a home-maker's boon, when
she wants something new and
interesting for an jextra special
"mikhig" meal. Try
Tomato Soup Coke
Cream thoronglay--
% cup shortening
1% cups
Besting Wier
2 eggs.
Cone--
1-11-oz. can •Condensed Cream
of Toznoto Soup„undiluted
% cup water
1 teaspoon baking soda.
Sift together-
3 cups sifted all-purpose flour
1 tablespoon baking powder
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon nutmeg
1 teaspoon cloves.
Add the soup mixture and sifted
dry ingredients alternately, stir-
ring after each addition. Pour into
a pea (8% 'x12% 1'11:241. greased
with vegetable shortening or but-
ter. Bake in a moderate crren
(350' F.) for 60 minutes. Frost
with Cretin Cheese Frosting
(recipe below).
Croons Choose Pest**.
Beat with rotary beater until
:mooch-
1 Package (2 o*) cream
Add, and continue beatiney h 4Zt
well Waded--
1% cups confectioners' sow.
Add--
% tablespoon batter
% teaspoon vanilla.
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