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Morris M. Jacobs was reelected to the presidency of
the Zionist Organization of Detroit at the annual meeting
held Tuesday. May 27, at Shaarey Zedek.
Other officers named include Louis Berr9r, Walter L.
Field and Abe Kasle, vIce presidents; Seymour Tilchin,
secretary; Charles Woloic, treasurer, and Mrs. Albert
Feldstein, executive director.
Reports of the past year's ac-
tivilies were submitted by Jacobs
Emergency Parley
Called to Discuss
UJA's New Crisis
Lack Bed Space
at Cyprus Camps
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The
internment camps for Jewish
refugees on Cyprus are so
overcrowded that hundreds of
persons are without beds and
compelled to sleep on the bare
ground.
The situation worsened when
400 immigrants who arrived in,
Palestine aboard the Yehuda
Halevi disembarked at Fama-
gusta from the Ocean Vigor.
An Irgun Zvai Leumi broad-
cast denounced as lies British
insinuations that members of
the UN inquiry commission will
be in danger from Jewish ex-
tremists when they arrive here.
The broadcast said the probers
will not be molested, but the
Irgun will not refrain from at-
tacking the British during the
inquiry period.
All Detroit Jewry Mourns
Death of Simmi Shetzer
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Upon assuming this national post, the Jewish community
of Detroit honored him at a public banquet at which spokes-
men for all important Jewish
movements honored him for his A prolific writer, he was the
services.
-- author of numerous articles and
He first assumed an important of a lengthy brochure, "The Jew-
community post in 1929, when he ish Community -Comes of Age."
was elected president of the In 1936, he was elected a dele•
Zionist Organization of Detroit, gate to the World Jewish Con-
serving in that capacity for two gress held that year in Geneva,
years. Switzerland, but at the last mo-
He reached new heights in ment was prevented from attend-
leadership when he was elected ing these sessions.
first president of the Jewish Corn- Among other distinctions ac-
munity Council of Detroit, which corded him was his appointment
he helped organize and for whose by Governor Murray Van Wagon-
constitution he was mainly re- er as a member of the Wayne
sponsible, in September, 1937. He County Defense Council.
resigned in October, 1941, to as- He was married to the former
sume the executive directorship Gloria Joy Zeitsman of Columbus,
of the ZOA, on whose national O., in Columbus, on June 14, 1925.
executive board he served for a
Nationwide Tributes
number of years.
Cantor J. H. Sonenklar assist-
The numerous positions he held
Rabbi Adler in conducting the
indicate
indicate his variety of interests. funeral services.
He was:
Tributes in memory of Mr.
t A member of the board of
Shetzer are pouring in from all
governor of the Jewish Wel-
parts of the country.
fare Federation of Detroit.
• President of the °Michigan
State Zionist Organization and
Ex-Military Governor
president of the Midwest Re-
To
Speak at Installation
gion of the Zionist Organiza-
tion of America.
Of Rabbi Zager Lodge
• Chairman of the Detroit
Service Group.
Col. Harry G. Hershenson, for-
• President of the Detroit mer military governor of Naples
Society of Friends of the Jew-
and Milan, Italy, and past presi-
ish Theological Seminary of dent of Adolf
America.
Kraus Lodge o
• Vice - president and treas- Bnai Brith, will
urer of the United Hebrew be guest speak-
Schools.
er at the instal-
• Director of: American lation of officers
Economic Committee for Pales-
of Rabbi Mandel
tine, East Central States Region
M. Zager Lodge
of the Jewish Federations and
at 8:30 p. m.
Welfare Funds, Detroit chapter
Tuesday, June
of American Jewish Congress,
10, at 2705 Joy
Detroit Board of Commerce,
Rd.
1932-36; Detroit North End
Col. Hershen-Col. Hershenson
Clinic.
son was awarded the United
• Chairman of Detroit
States Legion of Merit, the Mal•
League for Human Rights,
which conducted the boycott of tese Cross of the Knights of Mal-
of the ,
Nazi-made goods upon the rise ta, was elected a member
Order of the Crown of Italy, and
to power of Adolph Hitler.
• President, Wholesale Mer- was decorated by Pope Piux XII
chants Bureau of Detroit Board and by the National Committee
of Liberation of Italy. He will be
of Commerce, 1932-36.
• Member of Contributing introduced by Ben Fellows, in-
Editorial Board of Reconstruc- stallation chairman.
The public is invited to attend.
tionist Magazine.
• Member: National Semin-
ary Council, Phi Sigma Delta,
Chenstochow Verein's
Harvard Club of Michigan, ex-
ecutive committee of United Banquet on June 22
Jewish Appeal and United Pal-
Chenstochover Rajoner Verein
estine Appeal, and was a na-
tional vice-president of UPA: will sponSor a banquet on Sun-
general -state committeeman of day evening, June 22, at Jewish
Michigan Merit System Asso- . Cultural Center, 2705 Joy Road.
Proceeds will be used to pub ■
ciation; Congregation Shaarey
lish "The History of Chensto•
Zedek.
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• He was one of the founders chow."
The banquet will be featured
and a member of the executive
committee of the Detroit Round by a musical program and the
presence of two Chenstochow
gable of Catholics, Jews and
survivors from Nazism.
Protestants.
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Dr. Joseph J. Schwartz, Euro-
pean director of the Joint Distri-
bution Committee, is making a
special flying trip to the U. S.
from Paris to present to the
Wernersville Conference an up to
the minute report.
Eliezer _Kaplan of Jerusalem,
treasurer of the Jewish Agency
for Palestine, will outline the
progress being made in Palestine
at the present time in the recep-
tion of Jewish immigrants who
continue to arrive in the Jewish
homeland.
Special Cable to The Jewish News
The U. S. government has given
LONDON (JTA) — The Daily
assurance it will continue the pro-
gram for immigration of displaced Express reports from Merano,
persons under President Truman's Italy, that 216 Jews, including 16
MORRIS ' M. JACO c S
directive, it was revealed by women and nine children, who
Edwin Rosenberg, president of
and by leaders of the four exist- United Service for New Ameri- crossed from Austria through dif-
ing chapters of the ZOD, empha- cans.
ficult mountain passes were load-
sizing the decentralization pro-
ed into trucks by Italian police
The
assurance
was
given
by
As-
gram now in progress.
Elected to the Board of Directors sistant Secretary of State Hill- and returned to Austria.
were:
dring, in a letter to Rosenberg.
The report said the immigrants,
Past presidents: Rabbi Morris Ad-
The immigration program un- who hoped to go to Palestine,
ler, Dr. Harry E. August, Abraham
Cooper, L. W. Crohn, James I. Ell- der the Truman directive has slept in windy mountain passes
mann, Rabbi Leon Fram, Dr. A. M.
Hershman, William B. Isenberg, Rob- brought 13,377 displaced persons for five days and arrived at
ert Marwil, Philip Slomovitz and of all faiths to the U. S. from the Merano not having eaten for three
Maurice Zackheim.
days. Their feet were cut and
(Simon Shetzer, who palsed American - occupied zones in
Europe during the past 12.months, blistered. The group left Vienna
away on May 29, was among
May 10. -
the past presidents who were Rosenberg pointed out.
named to the board in this
Deny Jews Flee Hungary
American Relief Leaders
classification).
Visit Lower Silesian Jews
In Fear of Pogroms
Reelected directors: Nathan Baron,
Special Cable to The Jewish News
WARSAW, (JTA)—Moses A.
Abraham Borman. Fred M. Butzel,
BUDAPEST (JTA)—A spokes-
Philip J. Cutler, Dr. D. H. Fauman, Leavitt and Dr. Joseph J.
Philip J. Gilbert, Bernard Isaacs,
man for the Foreign Ministry
Leon Kay. Philip Langwald, A. C. Schwartz, executive vice-chair-
Lappin, Rabbi Eliezer A. Levi. M. B. man and European director of the sharply attacked reports appear-
Lewis. Dr. M. S. Perlis. Philip L. Ros- Joint Distribution Committee, re- ing in the Austrian press and
enthal. Nathan Spevakow, Harold B.
spectively, last week arrived in statements by Austrian govern-
Weisman and Dr. Bernard Weston.
New direetoex: Benjamin D.' Bur- Poland and visited Jewish com- ment officials that Jews are flee-
dick Harry Cohen, Oscar Cohen,
ing Hungary in fear of pogroms..
David Colman. Herbert Fortgang. Soil munities in Lower Silesia.
Ginsburg, Herbert Harris, Leonard
The Polish Government will They stated that the Jewish
Haste, Dr.. .Louis Kazdan. Dr. Sam
population is safe.
Krohn. Dr. Philip E. Lachman. Meyer sponsor' a bill placing under gov-
Mendelbaum, Charles Rubiner. Dr. ernment protection Jewish ceme-
Oscar Schwartz. Rabbi Jacob Segal, teries and other places 'connected Jit wish War Hero Freed
Dr. I. Walter Silver, Sol Wildstrom,
n London Street Brawl
William Weinstein. and Louis Panush. with the memory of the more than
Special Cable to The Jewish News
Delegates to the annual Zion- 3,000,000 Polish Jews who died
LONDON (JTA)—Eight men,
ist convention, schedbled for July under the Nazi regime. A special
3 to 6 in New York City, were council including Jews will be set including several fascists who
named at the meeting, including: up to administer these sites. The were interned during the war, and
Morris M. Jacobs. Walter L. Field. action followed a meeting be- a Jewish war hero were released
Seymour Tilchin, Mrs. A. Feldstein,
on bail pending a hearing follow-
Charles Wolok, Rabbi Leon Fram, tween Jewish representatives and
Leon Kay, Dr. M. S. Perlis Maurice Minister of Culture Stanislaw Dy- ing two street brawls Monday
Zackheim. Philip Slomovitz, Sol Dann, bowski on problems involved in when enraged listeners broke up
Dr. Bernard Weston, Rabbi E. A. Levi,
Dr. Louis Kazdan, Louis Berry, Abe protecting Jewish cemeteries and meetings called by fascist groups.
Kasle, Louis Kasle, Herbert Harris, museums.
„ The meetings, called by Mos-
William Weinstein. L. W. Crohn. Nath-
an Spevakow, Nathan Shur. Philip L.
• leyites and other fascists, fea-
Rosenthal, Pearl Meisner, Selma
The Visiting Nurse Associa- tured denunciations of Jews,
Jakont. Mollie Tron, Lillian Tron. Her-
bert Fortgang. Bernice H. Weisman tion, a Red Feather service of charging them with responsibility
and Tybe Schneider.
the Community Chest, made for the murder of British soldiers
148,193 visits during 1946.
in Palestine.
Sunday, June 22, Designated
Second "Z" Membership Day
In response to Dr. Abba Hillel
Silver's plea, Mr. Jacobs an-
'Bounces that Detroit Zionists are
'enlisting in a campaign for new
Sly your tickets NOW to see
members which will be climaxed
by a second "Z" Day—Sunday,
June 22.
On that day Zionist members
will assemble at a mobilization
versos
breakfast, at 10 a. m., at the Rose
Sittig Cohn Auditorium, 13226
Lawton. The workers will be
supplied with the names of men
who have not yet affiliated with
the Zionist Organization. They
will visit them at their homes
and seek to enroll them as mem-
bers.
Any adult Jew may join the
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TO THE STATE OF MICHIGAN — SIGNALLING TO NON - JEWS AND JEWS ALIKE THE
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GENIUS OF JEWISH CREATIVE EFFORT IN PALESTINE AND BELYING THE FALSE EMPHASIS
for $5 to cover dues, to the Zion-
ist Organization of Detroit, 1044
IN NEWSPAPER HEADLINES TO THE NEGATIVE RATHER THAN THE POSITIVE ACHIEVEMENTS
Penobscot Bldg.
OF THE JEWISH PIONEERS.
216 Jews Cross
Alps, Seized, Sent
Back to Austria
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Friday, June 6, 1947
THE JEWISH- NEWS
Zionists Re-elect Jacobs,
Name Convention Delegates
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