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VOLUME XI—NO. 12
THE JEWISH NEWS
of Jewish Events
A Weekly Review_
2114 Penobscot Bldg., Detroit 26, Michigan, RA. 7956
So'baton Shetzer
Death Cuts Short Career
Of Brilliant Jewish Leader
Jews in all walks of American life, Zionists and non-
Zionists, Reform, Orthodox and Conservative, mourn
the death of Simon Shetzer, brilliant young leader whose
place as a national leader was cut short by his illness in 1943.
National Jewish organizations, the Zionist movement and
leading relief and reconstruction causes looked to
him for leadership. The long list of honors accorded him in
his lifetime by civic and religious groups attests to a rich
career which ended on Thursday noon, May 27.
The many hundreds who turned out for his funeral
service at noon on Friday—Decoration Day—in the Chapel
of Clover Hill Park Cemetery
gave evidence of the esteem in
which he was held.
Rabbi Morris Adler's tribute
to his memory at the funeral
service echoed the sentiments
of an entire community.
The funeral service was con-
ducted after the annual
haarev Zedek Memorial Day
service. It came as a fitting
expression of honor to the man
who, eight years ago, delivered
one of the most stirring ad-
dresses ever delivered on
Decoration Day at the Clover
Hill annual ceremonies. That
address was considered so
significant that the Detroit
News at that time saw fit to
reprint it in full on the first
SIMON SHETZER
page.
He it survived by his wife, Gloria Joy; a daughter,
Elizabeth Ruth; his mother, Ella Minnie (Sarasohn) Shetzer;
five sisters, -Mrs. Seymour Frank, Mrs. Harry August, Mrs.
Jacob Keidan, Edith and Cecelia Shetzer. His father, the
late Isaac Sh.etzer, who was one of Detroit Jewry's outstand-
ing_..leaders, died on Nov. 2, 1945.
Boil:tin Detroit, Jan. 16, 1900. Simon Shetzer was educat-
ed in the Detroit schools and received his B.A. degree, magna
cum laude, from the University of Michigan, in 1921. One
of the most brilliant students at the University of Michigan,
whom he represented on debating teams, he was elected to
the honorary Phi Beta Kappa scholastic society. In 1924 he
received his LL.B. degree from Harvard Law School.
After two years of law practice. he joined his father i
the wholesale dry -goods firm of I. Shetzer Co. in 1926, as
treasurer of the firm, becoming a full partner in 1937.
On Nov. 1, 1941, he was accorded the high distinction of
being named national executive director of the Zionist Or-
ganization of America. In this capacity, he addressed public
meetings in every important Jewish center in the land. He
held this post until his illness.
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Friday, June 6, 1947
10,000 at Cyprus
Considered DPs
LONDON, (JTA)—The 10,000
Jewish refugees interned on Cy-
prus are considered DPs within
the definition of DPs in the char-
ter of the International Refugee
Organization and may appeal to
the IRO against any action of the
British authorities, Sir Herbert
Emerson, director of the Inter-
governmental Committee on
Refugees, said.
Sir Herbert also said "infiltrees"
from Eastern Europe become
"displaced persons - upon entering
Germany or other western coun-
tries and are entitled to the same
assistance given other DPs.
Sir Herbert said his committee
had failed so far to make avail-
able to the Jewish Agency and
the Joint Distribution Committee
the $22,500,000 earmarked by the
Allied Reparations Conference in
Paris last year, because the funds
had not been placed at the Com-
mittee's disposal.
NEW YORK: Henry Morgenthau Jr., former secre-
tary of the treasury and general chairman of the
$170,000,000 United Jewish Appeal, has summoned an
emergency conference of Jewish leaders to consider the
effects of the liquidation of UNRRA on the program fors,
the relief, rehabilitation and resettlement of displaced
Jews in Europe, and to take definite action to deal with
the problems confronting the UJA.
More than 200 Jewish communal leaders will as-
semble at Galen Hall, Wernersville, Pa., Saturday, June
7, for the two-day conference.
The situation of more than 800,000 displaced per-
sons in Germany, Austria and Italy, of whom 250,000
are Jews, will be discussed by Gen. Joseph T. McNarney,
former commander of American Occupation Forces in
Europe. Gen. McNarney is expected to deal with
the new responsibilities that will have to be under-
taken by the American Army and private agencies
when UNRRA goes out of business on June 30.
Among the other items on the agenda for the
emergency conference will be a review of the progress
made by hundreds of communities throughout the
country in their campaigns in behalf of the $170,000,000
United Jewish Appeal drive.
Among the major problems to be considered will
be the urgent need of finding new homes for displaced
Jews in Palestine, the U. S. and other countries.
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Harrison Pleads for U.S. to Lead Way
In Admitting Thousands of Displaced
Sees Other Lands Following
Example; Urges Support for
Stratton Bill on Refugees
Open the doors for the home-
less!
Make an end of detention
camps!
These are the battle-cries of the
champions of humanity who not
only are striving for removal of all
limitations in Palestine, but who
also insist that the United States
must lead the way in providing
for a large number of the Euro-
pean displaced persons.
Earl G. Harrison, chairman of
the National Citizens Committee
on 'Displaced Persons, in his stir-
ring address in Detroit on May 28,
expressed the view that with the
U. S. leading the way, other lands
will follow our example and will
open their doors to the survivors
from Nazism.
To speed action on the bill in-
troduced by Rep. William Stratton
(H. R. 2910) for the admission
of 400,000 DPs over a period of
four years, all Americans must act
promptly in stirring' our represen-
tatives in Congress to action.
Write to your Congressmen!
Write to Rep. Frank Fellows,
chairman of the sub-committee on
immigration ! Tell them how im-
portant it is to perpetuate the
American tradition expressed on
the Statue of Liberty : "Send these,
the homeless, tempest-tossed, to
me !"
group of children unfurling the Star of David—
French port
the Jewish Symbol of Freedom—as they leave a
bound for Palestine, where the United Jewish Appeal agencies
will restore them to health and train them to work in the country's
expanding economy.
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On Way to Happiness: A
This Jewish mother and her
chill were among recent arrivals at a Displaced Persons
camp in Germany. It is This kind of people et whom the
bigoted opinions on immigration of certain prominent
Americans are being directed.
'Lives of
Our
Times'
Gen. McNarney, Morgenthau
To Discuss Closing of UNRRA
At U.S. Emergency Conference
Their Flag: A
Seek New Home:
FELIX M.
WARBURG
in This Week's
Group
of
Jewish emigrants
from Eurgpe smile happily before boarding a plane at a stopover
point in Brazil, enroute to Chile to join their kin. HIAS arranged
air transportation for the emigrants in order to by-pass war-torn
Paraguay. South America already has opened ifs doors to many
(Reports of Mr. Harrison's address, Michigan
Committee's Plans for DPs—Pages 5, 20.)
thousands of skilled immigrant workers.
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