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Anti-Semites
Are Doing

Samuel T. Gilbert Consultive Role
Dies at Age of 67 In UN Granted

Samuel T. Gilbert, president
of the DSR Commission and na-

tionally

prominent cigar manu-

Fascists at it Again

:\1()NTREAL (JTA) — Adrien
A; in(l. leader of the anti-Semitic
•...t•HR.111. in Canada who vas
11,1,e - tied as a fascist for five years
.ee the war, and who is now
d
Ie.-elene his anti-Jewish a•tivi-
(-Je• out with a statement in
t
p i , ss urging all Jews from
,
1', , .. tin.' and from other coun-
t. iie deported to the island of

"i•ei• climate in Madagascar is
he
colonization,"
for
s;,;(ibli•
"The island is 1,300 miles
and it can comfortably con-
t t Il 100 million people. There are•
some four million Negroes there
no;.V. they could be sent to Africa,
to Liberia, for instance.
- Then the Jews from America,
from Britain, from every country
in the world, could be isolated
there. without contact with the
white race, and spend the rest of
tlieH lives carrying out their ne-
fal loos plotting among them-
selVeS -
Al cam] asserts his party is now
legally recognized and that its
membership ahs grown "tenfold"
SPI•• IIIS release from internment.

Indiana Curbs Hate Groups

INDIANAPOLIS, (JTA) — Or-
gam/atoms spreading racial and
roligpurs propaganda, such as the
Ku Klux Klan, were outlawed by
a bill signed by Gov. Ralph F.
liates. The measure provides a
lit is•n term of two years and a
$1 , 1.000 fine for individuals or
eips who spread hate against
whet for reason of race. religion

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Friday.' March 7, 1947

THE JEW1S1-1 42- EWS

Page Sixteen

Sentenced to Life

LATE SAMUEL T. GILBERT

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To Address JWB Parley

Jewish Groups

Hoffman to Speak
At Russian Relief
Parley in Detroit

LAKE SUCCESS, (JTA)—The

Committee on Non-Government-
al Organizations of the UN Econ-
omic and Social Council granted
consultative status to a number
of Jewish organizations at the
conclusion of a two-day meeting
to act on applications filed by 128
religious, social welfare, indus-
trial and labor groups.
Those given official approval
were: Jewish Agency for Pales-
tine, World Jewish Congress and
the Consultative Council of Jew-
ish Organizations. The latter
group consists of the American
Jewish Committee, the Anglo-
JeWsh Association and the Alli-
ance Israelite Universelle, as well
as any other organizations the
three may invite to join.
The Jewish, groups were plac-
ed in Category B, which is for
organizz _ions with "a special
competence, but concerned speci-
fically with only a few of the
fields of activity covered by the
Council."
Reeresentatives of the organiz-
ations in categories B and C may
submit statements, a list of which
will be circulated to Council
members and anyone of which
may be circulated in full at the
request of any Council member.

facturer, died of a heart attack
soon after boarding a train for
Florida on Monday. He was 67.
Starting his career in the to-
bacco business as a boy, working
for $3 a week, he rose high in the
field, becoming president of the
Consolidated Cigar Co., and later
of the Webster-Eisenlor Co. In
19:17 he acquired the B. Schwartz
Co., and the cigar brand name
of "R G. Dun." which has be-1
come one of the largest cigar,
manufacturing firms in the
country.
Mayor Jeffries named him to
the DSR Commission in 1940. His
colleagues always selected him
for the chairmanship.
He is survived by a son, Julius,
who lived with him at 31 Arden
Park, and two sisters, Mrs. Rosa-
lie Gates of Hollywood, Calif.,
and Mrs. D. W. Davis of Detroit.
Ile was a member of Temple
Beth El, Franklin Hills Country
Club and Great Lakes Club.

CHARLES P. TAFT. president of
the Federal Council of Churches
of Christ, will be one of the prin-
cipal speakers at the 1947 annual
meeting of the National Jewish
Welfare Board, at William Penn
Hotel, Pittsburgh, May 10-12.

Rehabilitation Held
Major Need for DPs -
In Future Relief

BAD REICHENHALL. (JTA)-
In mapping future aid for dis-
placed Jews in Germany the
emphasis must be laid on rehabil-
itation rather than relief, repre-
sentatives of the Central Com-
mittee of Liberated Jews, volun-
tary organizations and the Ger-
man provincial administration in
NEVr–.YORK.—Passover, 1947,
Bavaria told the second annual
will see Jewish survivors through-
out Europe provided with more conference of the Central Com-
than 8,000,000 pounds of matzoth, mittee.
Dr. Philip Auerbach, Bavarian
matzoth meal, macaroons and
other Holy Day foods by the commissioner for Racial and Reli-
gious Persecutees, reported to the
Joint Distribution Committee.
In the greatest Passover pro- 200 delegates and 500 guests on
gram since its founding in 1914, the progress of restitution legisla-
JDC which receives its funds from tion now being drafted in cooper-
the $170.000,000 campaign of the ation with U. S. occupation auth-
United Jewish Appeal, already orities. He also disclosed he
has shipped more than 3,400.000 would press for enactment of a
pounds of matzoth to Jews in 131 law confiscating the wealth ac-

JDC to Ship Out
8,000,000 Pounds of
Passover Supplies

Isadore Starr, chairman of the
Detroit • Jewish Committee for
Russian Relief, announces that
Herman Hoffman, chairman of the
administrative committee of the
National Jewish Council for Rus-
sian Relief and chairman of the,
board of the Non-Sectarian Anti-
Nazi League, will make the key-
note address to the annual con-
ference of the _ Detroit Jewish
Committee for Russian Relief
scheduled to take place Sunday,
March 16, 10 a. m. to 5 p.m., at
the Lee Plaza Hotel, Grand Blvd.
corner Lawton.
Herman Hoffman, former
Grand Master of the Independent
Order Brith Abraham who de-
voted the major portion of his
life to the cause of Zionism, was
responsible for the expose of the
dangerous anti-Semitic Colom-
bians in Georgia.
In addition to Mr. Hoffman's
address, a representative of the
Soviet Consul will greet the con-
ference and Jewish leaders in the
Detroit community will speak.
Organizations are urged to se-
lect three delegates each to at-
tend this conference. All secre-
taries of organizations are re-
quested to send in their creden-
tials to the office of the Detroit
Jewish Committee for Russian
Relief, Inc., 139 Cadillac Square,
1002 Lawyers Bldg.

Bureau Plans to Issue
Community Directory

To mark the 14th year of its
activity, the Jewish Information
Bureau of 103 Park Ave., New
York. N. Y., will shortly issue
the Jewish Community Direc-
tory which will serve as an in-
dex and guide to the national
Jewish organizations and to the
central relief, welfare, educa-
tional and cultural institutions
and agencies of every type hav-
ing their headquarters in Greater
New York.
This will be the first book of
its kind to be issued since the
Jewish Community (Kehillah) of
New York City published the
Jewish Communal Directory of
1911-12 and the Jewish Com-
munal Register of 1917-18. The
editor of the first of these pub-
lications, Bernard G. 'Richards,
who was then the executive sec-
retary of the Jewish Community,
is directing the work on the new
publication.

PRAGUE (JTA)—Hugo
Czech anti-
•
rulloriotis
Seeete. was sentenced to life
by a People's Court
t o
for .,;it ending fascist propaganda
Ow zoo, the occupation. A journal-;
ist. h. • broadcast ant i -Jew ish
European countries as well as cumulated bx active Nazis be-
sl(itHei. and wrote many articles
Jewish men, women and children tween 1933 and 1945 for use in
ae•llost the Jews.-which the Nazis' •
in Shanghi, China, Bolivia and rehabilitating and resettling DPs.
Czechoslo- .
Among the experiments being Haiti.
Spivt hroughout
Leo Schwartz, retiring JDC di-
At the trial Tuskany as- conducted in the Antarctic re-
v.ikr.i
. Passover wine from Palestine rector in Germany, reviewed the
set t•d he was an anti-Semite "by gion by Admiral Richard Byrd's will be flown into the camps un- activities of the organization
exploratory mission, is that con- der a special JDC arrangement. since the end of the war and said
con,cientious conviction."
cerning the use of the helicopter
Chief recipients of JDC pro- that plans for the current year
—newcomer to the field of fly- visions are the Jewish survivors will be built around an extensive
Harris Reports Success
ing — by three highly-skilled in Romania, who number 400,000
employment program.
aviators.
Of Palestine Forum;
and comprise the largest Jewish
Leon Retter, general secretary
Of these three, Lt. David Ger- community in Europe outside of
of the Central Committee. ex-
Plan Detailed Follow-up showitz of Brooklyn is generally
the Soviet Union.
pressed thanks for the help given
acknowledged to be among the
The Committee will provide , by the Army last summer and
re than 400 Detroit Jewish top helicopter flyers in the
funds for the local boking of
yoiat! 1, attended the four talks in world. His choice for the diffi- matroths and other provisions fall. He praised UNRRA's relief JWB Publishes Book
activities.
the I ':destine Forum on "What's cult assigwent stems from his
wherever facilities are available
de,tine to You?" presented by local base at Floyd Bennett Field
The congress adjourned with- For Use in Group Work
in Europe. In Germany alone, for
NEW YORK—A source book,
o:t Llechalutz (Jewish Youth and from the higher echelons of Jewish survivors in the displaced out the Revisionist delegation,
containing discussion of the tech-
l'Hine , •, , ) at the Jewish Commun- the Navy in Washington.
persons' camps, JDC will pay for who had earlier walked out of niques of story telling and exten-
( . 4nter during February, ac-
the meeting, returning to assume
Lt. Gershowitz is a veteran of the manufacture of over $50,000
sive bibliographies of various
co,ihne to Matt Harris, execu-
difficult assignments for the pounds of matzoth and matzoth their seats. The 30 Revisionists types of stories for Jewish
tive secretary of Hechalutz.
Navy as test pilot, rescue flyer, meal, which will be used to sup- left in protest when the other groups, was issued by the Na-
In a followup to the Forum. instructor and pioneer in crop- plement JDC shipments from this 105 delegates unanimously adopt-
Herb:dirt/. is working on a more spraying work. He is the hero of country of 1,075,000 pounds of ed a resolution condemning "ter- tional Jewish Welfare Board for
use in group work of its 295
Selective program for the young several heroic rescue missions, matzoth.
rorism" in Palestine.
affiliated Jewish Community
pe,ple who said they wanted to and has piloted a helicopter on
HungarY, where the JDC has
[:it n more about Palestine life, successful bond-selling tours.
Textile machinery for spinning, Centers and YM-YWHA's in the
sent 800,000 pounds of matzoth
is said.
weaving and dyeing is coming U. S. and Canada. It is called
and
matzoth
meal,
and
Poland,
A city boy, his at-sea, on-the-
Telling for Jewish
Ile urged all Jewish youth to
where the Committee has shipped into Palestine from the United "Story -
Groups."
attend the Youth Conference on farm. and Antarctic missions are 440,000 pounds of Passover sup- Kingdom.
as
new
to
Lt.
Gershowitz
as
the
Vile,tine at the Jewish Center,
plies. are among the major bene-
h 28 to 30. He pointed out helicopter is to aviation. Yet he ficiaries of the JDC program.
has reached such success that
that the conference will take up
not only is he rated one of the
in d , •tail aspects of Palestine
top 10 helicopter pilots in the Palestine Soccer ,Team
the four forum speakers
Navy but as one of the top-flight
Lists Detroit on Tour
coti:d discuss only briefly.
consultants in the field in the
country. He expects to spend
NEW YORK—Organized sports
several years in the Navy, but
already many civilian firms are are continuing .. in Palestine de-
(On Her 35th Birthday)
spite unsettled conditions, accord-
bidding for his services.
MRS. WALTER FARBER
ing to Leib Sirkin, a director of
"Hapoel" Sports
the National

Lt. David Gershowitz
Aids Helicopter Trials
On Byrd Expedition

Scientist Reunited With Parents

Hadassah

has the
tree grown,
is tier name
I n thnt, -live years of iii iii
SIR.. h.,. 12...ined world-
renowned fame.

.1 seedling

Navy Presents Award
To JWB for War Service

Federation of Palestine.
Sirkin, who has just arrived in,
this country to manage the spring
good-will tour of the Palestine
national "Hapoel" soccer team in
the U. S., stated that regularly
scheduled games betwri British
Army, Police, Arab and Jewish
teams were held until recently.
Sirkin will act as manager of
an all-star Palestinian soccer
team which will arrive in a few
weeks in advance of its American
tour in May and June. The team
will play in Detroit. Elimination
games are now going on in Pal-
estine to select the all star team
which will meet all-star Ameri-

NEW YORK, (JTA)—A Cer-
tificate of Achievement to the Na-
tional Jewish Welfare Board "in
glees that ,Inch
is greater than she
grateful recognition of outstand-
reaches to the core
For
ing service to naval personnel
111 a Waiting humanity
•itil outstretched arms
during World War II," was
:,n,1 an open heart.
awarded by the U. S. Navy De-
11/41... this Irtutful tree continue
partment at the office of the
i“ blossom
Commandant, 3rd Naval District.
Arid grow to tar - reaching heights,
D.,,,topIng her potentialities
The certificate was presented
Wherever she alights.
by Rear Adm. Monroe Kelly,
And always remain in the vanguard.
Wherever and whenever she
U.S.N. Commandant, 3rd Naval
is needed.
District, Milton Weill, chairman,
From a seedling has the
JWB Army-Navy committee, ac-
onyitle tree grown.
Badassah is her name.
cepted the award on behalf of
Branched out into maturity.
can
the agency.
aunt
as
her
the
human
spirit
assaying

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Queen Esther

in

days of yore,

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teams here.

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Separated for 11 years, Prof. Arnold Siegert of Syracuse Uni-
versity is greeted by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Siegert, on
their arrival in New York by plane from Berlin, with the aid of
United Service for New Americans, in cooperation with the Jewish
Welfare Federation of Syracuse. United Service receives its funds
from the $170,000,000 campaign of the United Jewish Appeal for 1947
Professor Siegert, a physicist, refused a teaching post at Leipzig
University and came to America where he helped this country's
war effort by scientific research. His Jewish mother survived forced
labor, while his father, a former Protestant minister, escaped to the

Americas lines.

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