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THE JEWISH NEWS
Friday, August 14, 1947
More Arab Attacks Follow
Murder of 4 Tel-Aviv Jews
N. W. Congregation Seeks Holiday Week Named
200 Additional Members Rernernberance Period
Jerusalem correspondent said
that the reason - for the recent
wave of bank robberies in Tel
Aviv and suburbs is that the
Irgun terrorists have ceased re-
ceiving funds from their main
source in the United States, the
Bergonites.
• Vita Cohen, Jewish locomotive
engineer of a Cairo-Haifa train
was ,killed and British soldiers
aboard the train were injured
when five coaches were derailed
in another terrorist attack on
Palestine . rail - communications
Saturday in which two of the at-
tackers were captured.
• The - three Jewish mayors ar-
rested last week in the mass
round-up of Jewish leaders by
Palestine.police will not be dis-
missed from their posts nor does
the Palestine government intend
Additional shootings _and to appoint ,deputies for them, a
murders on Tuesday and Wed,- spokesman declared. Earlier it
nesday, which resulted in was reported that they had been
more deaths — boosting the denied the privilege of having
total dead for the week to 17— visitors because they refused to
and numerous more injured, answer queries put by British
caused the British authorities intelligence agents.
to set up barbed wire protec- • A two-day conference of the
tions between Tel Aviv and Mapai, Palestine Labor Party,
wound up•with a resolution call-
Jaffa.
ing on the Palestine community
TEL AVIV (JTA)—The Gen- to combat the extremists. David
eral Zionist Central Committee Ben Gurion, chairman of the
Monday night decided to oppose Agency executive, called for the '
any action by the Zionist Actions withdrawal of Britain from Pales-
Committee, at its meeting the tine.
-
The exodus o frefugees who are
end of this month, which might • t—
lead to civil war. It instructed imprisoned aboard three British
delegates
to
vote
that
way
vessels
in Port de Bonc, 'France,
all its
and issued a unity appeal to all today marked the completion of
one month at sea. They still re-
parties.
fuse to discuss disembarkation.
The following is a resume of • Reports that the 4.500 Jews
the latest JTA dispatches on the from the Exodus 1947 will be
situation affecting Palestine:
transshipped to Kenya were de-
Defense Committe of the
• The of
Board
Deputies of British Jews nied by a spokesman of the For-
announced that "on the whole" eign Office. by the Jewish War
-
the situation is now improved-and • An appeal the United States
that the authorities have the Veterans
of
asking that the U. S. represent-
matter well in hand. The various
com- ative at the United Nations place
mittee instructed the
the Palestine dispute on the
local communities not to organ- agenda of the Security Council
ize self-defense units, following and that the UN take over re-
the release of a statement by the sponsibility for the country and
Jewish Legion of Ex-Servicemen order out all British troops and
that
if the
attacks turn outrages,"
into"or- police and replace them with a
ganized
anti-Semitic
UN security force appeared in
it will "take all steps necessary the Tew York press as an ad-
to prevent damage to Jewish , vertisement.
i
property."
' • Asserting that the military au-
Manchester,
where
more
• In
thorities in Palestine have taken
700
persons
smashed
win-
than
a short-sighted view of the situ-
dows of Jewish-owned shops, the ation there, Lord Strabolgi, pro-
mayor appealed to the inhabit- Zionist Labor peer, who is visit-
ants not to join the attacks.
ing Canada, laid the major part
committee representing 20,000
employes at the Vickers arms of the blame for the violence
on the military authorities rather
workers not to
plant called on the demonstration.
than on the government which,
take part in the
he said, inherited the Palestine
A 38-year-old Englishman, Jack Problem from its predecessor.
Special Cable to The Jewish News
JERUSALEM (JTA) — T h e
murder of four Jews in Cafe
Havai in Tel Aviv by an Arab
gang was followed up by fur-
ther attacks by Arab bands. A
Jewish couple was stabbed Mon-
day night while walking near
Jaffa on the Tel Aviv boundary
line. Jews who were attracted to
the scene by screams grabbed
one of the attackers and beat him
to death. Another Arab band
robbed all occupants on a Jewish
bus bound from Tel Aviv to
Holon, but none was injured.
The Jewish Agency Executive
Tuesday -asked the government
Mmediately to release Alrieh Alt-
man, Revisionist president, to
enable him to participate in the
Zionist Actions Committee meet-
ing.
Samuel Bez and Max Haidy
were named co-chairmen of the
membership committee of the
Northwest Hebrew Congregation,
Ira G. Kaufman, president, an-
nounces.
An intensive campaign is
planned to complete the roster
of members before the High Hol-
idays. It is expected that 200 new
members will be added to the
ranks of the congregation, after
which membership will be closed
for some time.
Charles .Charlip, Sam Simmer,
Morris Birndorf and William
Shulman, co-chairmen of seat-
ing arrangements for the holi-
days, report that disposition of
seats will begin at the Synagogue
on Aug. 25 to members and non-
members.
The construction of the new
social hall will be completed for
the forthcoming holidays. The
synagogue has retained the serv-
ices of Cantor William Glueck,
of New York.
Port Huron Society
Holds Annual Picnic
Mt. Sinai Society of Port Huron
will hold its annual picnic at
11 a.m. Sunday, Aug. 17, at Glo-
Rita Beach, one mile south of
Lexington. The beach facilities
are being donated for the picnic
by Samuel A. Belkin and William
E. Genser.
Detroit friends and relatives
of Port Huron Mt. Sinai members
are invited to attend the picnic.
ror D.P.
and Zio1Aid
Henry Morgenthau, Jr. general
chairman of the United Jewish
Appeal, has announced that the
High Holiday period will be ob-
served by American, Jewry as
the "Ten Days of Remembrance"
as part of a nation-wide mobil-
ization to assure the attainment
of the $170,000,000 quota of the
United Jewish Appeal to rebuild
Jewish life overseas and in Pal-
estine and to aid refugees in the
United States.
The "Ten Days of Remem-
brance" will mark the opening
of the 2,000 local community fall
drives in behalf of the United
Jewish Appeal and will also re-
present the concluding phase of
spring drives in many cities to
give new hope and life to the
survivors at a time "when they
are subjected to infinitely great-
er trials than at any time since
the end of the war and with far
less resources available from in-
tergovernmental agencies," Mor-
genthau said.
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Piggott, was sentenced to six
months imprisonment in s Lan-
cashire court for breaking a store
window. The magistrate called
his action "un-British and un-
patriotic." ,
• The United Zionists-Revision-
ists protested to the United Na-
tions against the mass arrests
in Palestine of three Jewish may-
ors and a number of Revisionist
leaders.
• Dr. Abba Hillel Silver, chair-
man of the American Zionist
Emergency Council, sent a mess-
age of support to the three Jew-
ish mayors and the 30-odd Jewish
Radio Writer Adapts
Sholem Aleichem Tale
NEW YORK—From the stories
of Sholem Aleichem, beloved fig-
ure of Jewish letters, Joseph Liss
has adapted a radio play entitled
"The Daughters of Tevve." for
broadcast on The Eternal Light,
at a. m. Sunday, Aug. 17 on sta-
tion WWJ.
Liss is the author of "Radio's
Best Plays, - which was published
by Greenberg last April. A col-
lection of 20 scripts by eminent
radio writers, this volume sets
out to show the flexibility of
radio as a writing medium. The i
Rockefeller Fellowship, estab-
lished for the purpose of discov-
ering new art forms in writing
for radio, was awarded Liss in
leaders seized in- yesterday's mass
arrests.
• First reports from Latrun in-
dicated that Mayor Israel Ro-
kach of Tel Aviv, who suffered
a heart attack when he was ar-
rested, is in -need of medical,at-
tention.
IS At • an emergency meeting the 1940.
-members of the Tel Aviv mum- From 1943- to 1944, he was chief
elpal council' demanded . the im- of the Editorial Division Domestic
mediate release of the prisoners. I Radio Bureau, Office of War In-
The vice-mayor reported on the !formation, and spent the follow-
failure of a municipal delegation ing year as English editor for
t* receive a satisfactory answer • the Office-of Inter-American Af-
fioni the local district commis- fairs and the State Department.
. aiciner when it protested, the seiz- It was for this work Mr. Liss
s.The Tel Aviv ChaMber of received Variety's Showmanship
Commerce recommended that a award in 1946.
24-hour general strike be called.
• Reporti indicate that the mem- Widows Demonstrate
bers of the United Nations Spec-
Lel_ Committee on Palestine are As Nazi Is Executed
in agreement that the situation
must be changed, that the British _ BUDAPEST (JTA) — Prompt
mandate is legal but Unworkable, action by police averted a near
and that Palestine must be given riot as the widows of several
independence. The likelihood of hundred Jewish • slave laborers
a United Nations trusteeship over demonstrated outside a prison
Palestine seems much less em- courtyard here where Emil Mes-
phasized.
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