rage SiSfaen' THE JEWISH NEWS Capt. Shulman Wins Our Letter Box I Bronze Star Medal Miss Gurvitch Presents Annual Piano Recital Friday, March 21, 1947 Marvin Lonitin Wins Scholarship at State ship at Michigan State College. This scholarship is awarded to junior or senior Jewish stu- the Marvin LoPatin of 2014 W. Evelyn Gurvitch, pianist and Euclid, has been awarded the dent on the campus who attains teacher, will give lwr annual re- Marshall D. Shulman; who was Some Pertinent Questions Jacob Baker Memorial Scholar- an outstanding college average. About 'Ben Hecht' Claims retired from the U. S. Army cital in the lecture hail of the Art Institute at 8:30 p. in. Wed- • Editor, The Jewish News: with the rank of captain, this nesday, March 26. Your excellent editorial quoting Miss Gurvitch, who returned For taking from my article in the Congress recently from the Fontainbleau - Weekly exposing the false claims on immigration of Peter Berg- son's Free Palestine League may need a follow up in view of the fuss that the League is making over their "showboat," the SS Ben Hecht, which finally arrived in Haifa last week. We can now expect a flood of effeclive ads, written by highly paid advertising talent implying that the Bergson group has many more ships ready to take refugees to Palestine and asking the read- ers for donations. Many gullible people will, as in the past, fall for these misleading advertise- ments. and send them their dona- tions. The truth is that the Bergson group has been collecting money through these advertisements and other inethkxis for the stated purpose of rescuing refugees since it founded the Emergency Committee to Save the Jews of Europe some five years ago. The Emergency Committee was not registered with the President's War Refugee Board where it would have had to submit a Pr' financial statement and all ef- forts to obtain a statement of their collections and disburse- ments from the Bergson office have failed. We can safely esti- mate. however, that the collec- tions of the Emergency Commit- tee over a period of three or four years together with the $325,000 which Bergson's Free Palestine League has announced that it has forwarded to an un-named re- patriation commission in Europe, must amount to over one million duila rs. Out of this million dollars col- lected from American Jews for the purpose of rescuing refugees from Europe, the announced ex- penditures on refugees has been $36,000 for the purchase of the SS Ben Hecht and probably an- other $100,000 for its outfitting and the expenses of the trip to Palestine. As this is the first boat which the Bergson group has brought to Palestine, this,js all that they have spent on refugees. Where the rest of the money has gone. we can only guess. We have some evidence from the fact that simi- lar collections have been carried on in South Africa. When ques- tioned on the disbursement of the funds, one of the heads of the group there said, "We spent it on propaganda. So what?" While the Bergson group have been placing their advertisements in the press, the Haganah has brought to Palestine over 25 shiploads in the past 14 months. The Haganah makes it a practice of taking off the crew members before the ship enters the Pales- tine territorial waters since en- gineers and seamen are valuable personnel. There are other Ha- ganah ships waiting to be manned and more refugees waiting to be rescued. Since the League has no other boat except the Ben Hecht at the present time, the crew was no' taken off. Their arrest by the British is more grist for the League's publicity mill. Despite these undeniable facts, the Bergson group will, no doubt, continue to confuse the American puWic, Ben Hecht will write an- other play: and another million dollars or more will be collected from gullible Jews who should be giving their money to those who are actually rescuing refu- ' gees from the European helL No doubt, if we wait long enough (I hope not another five years) a small portion of the collected money will be donated towards a second "showboat," Ben Hecht TI. JESSE Z. LURIE, 1834 Broadway, New York - 23, N. Y. Collegiate Organization To Combat Campus Bias SWARTHMORE, Pa., (JTA )— An intercollegiate organization to combat racial and religious dis- crimination on American camp- uses was formed at the closing session of the first Intercollegiate Race Relations Conference at Swartnmore College. - Music School' in France where. she studied with Robert Casade- sus, will include on her program works by Rameau, Schumann, Debussy and Prokofieff. The Prokofieff composition, Sonata No. 2, Op. 15, will be heard for the first time in Detroit. ' Dr. Zalesky to Address Kvutzah Ivrith Saturday MARSHALL D. SHULMAN week received word that he has been awarded the Bronze Star Medal for meritorious service from October, 1944, to March, 1945. Capt. Shulman, who is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Shulman of 2651 Webb, will be presented with the decoration soon. He was informed of the dis- tinction awarded him in recogni- tion of his services by Maj. Gen. Edward F. Witsell, of the Adjut- ant General's Office of the War Department in Washington. In the army four years, Capt. Shulman served in the Glider Corps and later was transferred to Intelligence and was in service in the China-Burma sector. CARD OF SYMPATHY The Primrose Benevolent Club regrets the passing of one of its members, Mrs. Eva Simon, and offers deep sympathy to the mem- bers of her family. WilSCHEWITZ i odzei& INE Dr. Moses Zalesky, director of Jewish Education in Cincinnati, will address the Kvutzah Ivrith this Saturday evening. .Dr. Zalesky will speak in He- brew on 'Modern Palestinian Poetry." The program will be held in. the auditorium of the Rose Sittig Cohen Building, 13226 Lawton. It is open to the public. There is no admission charge. ROKEACH KosherNYAF AT Yes, do your Passover cooking, baking, and frying with this purely vegetable product. It helps make your foods tastier, more wholesome, more easily digestible. Use it •II year 'round. Your grocer has it. Ask for it by name. Look for the special "KOSHER FOR PASSOVER" label oe the jar I.ROKEACH & SONS, INC -- STATE LAND BOARD'S FINAL LIQUIDAHON SALEM 3500 LOTS PIZE: Linn 1200 PARCELS ATPUBLIC AUCTION! Properties may be purchased outright for cash or on Land Contract (minimum S100 or 20% down) NO FORMER OWNER RIGHTS EXIST! 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