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THE JEWISH NEWS

Twelfth St. Property Owners
To Act on Housing Problem

Jewish owners of property in
the Twelfth St. area are being
called together by the Jewish
Community Council to discuss
problems faced by them as a re-
sult of the recent changes which
, have been occurring there. At
a successful preliminary meeting
held on Aug. 19 it was voted to
invite larger numbers to partici-
pate in a similar discussion.
Rabbi Max J. Wohlgelernter,
chairman of the Community
Council's committee dealing with
this situation, will preside at the
meeting. Other speakers will be
Fred Butzel, honorary president,
and Aaron Droock, president, and
Oscar' Cohen, executive director
of the Community Council.
The Community Council is
working for peaceful relations in
he neighborhood between old and
new residents. It believes that
the people who own property
should not give way -to panic
baSed on false stories about the-
Negro families who have moved
in. Some rumors are deliberate-
ly circulated by unscrupulous real

186 Jewish Men From Michigan

Masons Elevate
Judge Friedman
To 33rd Degree

estate dealers who hope to fright-
en home owners into selling their
property quickly and at relative-
William Friedman, chairman of
ly low prices. It has been found the board of governors of the Jew-
by national agencies that when ish Welfare : Federation of Detroit
such panic selling takes place it
drives down values for a time.
However, experience in other
cities has been that 'prites re-
cover thereafter, often exceeding
the previous levels
Besides the questions of prop-
erty and money which are • in-
volved, the Council is also con-
cerned with the ethical aspects
of the problem. '• It is 'contrary to
Jewish traditions to Utilize de-
vices like restrictive covenants
against others. The Council hopes
that those members of the Jewish
community who live in the Twelf-
th St. area will so conduct them-
selves in this situation as to bring
credit to all Detroit Jewry.
The Council invites all property
owners to come to the meeting
in the Hutchins School, 8820
Woodrow Wilson, Oct. 9 at 8:30
p. m., to discuss the action which
they wish to take.
WILLIAM FRIEDMAN

and former judge of the Wayne
County Circuit Court, was accord-
ed the high honor of being one of
four men elected from the De-
troit District as 33rd Degree Ma-
son.

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Strictly Confidential

By NATHAN ZIPRIN

(Copyright, 1947, Seven Arts Feature Syndicate)

Back-Stage Diplomacy

True to the concept of diplomacy as the art of saying one thing
and meaning another, Washington's wires have been busy these last
days ticking out stories giving weird constructions to Secretary of
State Marshall's recent assurance that the U. S. government was
giving great weight to UNSCOP's majority report . . . On the 'other
hand it may be fear of the Arab threat to "desert" the western world
that precipitated the wave of weird construction of Marshall's simple
language . . . The voluminous memorandum prepared by the State
Department as a guide to the American delegates in the handling of
the Palestine question minced no words in depicting the ugly Arab
record when western civilization was fighting for survival .. . Surely
our Secretary of State had access to that information when he spoke
before the UN General Assembly.
Now we hear the U. S. has decided on a policy of wait and see, or
"neutrality" as it is called in diplomatic lingo . . . Has Arab oil
greased the new slide . . . The Arabs, have many friends iris Wash-
ington, but the practical politicans there understand that if America's
commitments are discarded by the diplomats the Jewish voters in.
America will have every moral right to cast their ballots for candi-
dates who can, be counted on keeping promises .. .• U. S. indecision
has been a source of anxiety to the many ZioniSt leaders in this
country who had been looking forward to a firm course by our
country . . . Yet the picture is not as distorted on the _whole as it
appears this moment . . . The odds are still heavy that the U. S. will
back partition, and we venture the prediction that the situation .will
crystalize itself perhaps this week yet, when top-ranking Jewish
leaders will call on the White House.
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Stop It

CandidateS for this honor are
selected on the basis of good wor,k
in Masonry - and outstanding com-
munity, services. Friedman's se-
lection was made last week in
Cincinnati by the Supreme Coun.L
cil of the 33rd Degree of the /Or-
der of Free and AcceptedMasons.
The late Judge Harry B. Kei-
dan was the only Jew in Michi-
gan preViously 'to be chosen for
this honor.
Mr. Friedman is a life member
of Union Lodge and is a member,
of Blue Lodge.

Story Book to Acquaint
Children with Tradition

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The Union of American He-
brew Congregations announces
the publication of a new book
"Down Holiday Lane" by Rose W.
Golub. It is intended for 'children
in Grade 3.

The book contains stories re-
•lated to the. holidays. They are
told primarily for character
training and training in religious
observances. The book is illus-
The country's music shops featuring Jewish records are - filled trated by Louis Kabrin.
with reaordings,- made by so-called Jewish actors, singers and vaude
vilians, of such filthy, salacious and, yes, immoral content that, unless
they are stopped.by Jewish pressure groups they are 'bound to bring Yablokoff Ends Tour
shame upon the Jewish comMunity in this country . . . Parodies on of DP Camps in Reich
Jewish folklore and ceremonies are not objectionable by themselves
PARIS—After a • five-months'
. . But these charlatans, we hear, are defiling, in unprintable lan- tour of the Jewish displaced per-
guage, the most sacred of Jewish institutions.
sons' camps of Germany, Austria
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and Italy, Herman Yablokoff,
Personalities
Jewish actor, will return to the
Homer Bigart, the -New York Herald Tribune correspondent who United States with the knowl-
has done such a terrific job in covering Palestine, is returning to the edge that he brought laughter
United States for a new assignment . . . He is expected to write a again to thousands Of DPs. Yab-
book with sensational disclosures . . . Fitzhugh Turner, Bigart's lokoff's tour, was sponsored by the
replacement, is doing nicely '. . • A quickie motion picture, "The.
Joint Distribution Committee.
Burning Cross," is not a grade A movie but it is a swell expose of
the Ku Klux Klan . . . The Palestine film "My Father's House,'"
authored by Meyer Levin, formerly with the Overseas News Agency,
is a stirring epic . . . Don't miss it . . . Rabbi Milton Steinberg
seemingly has another successful book . . . His "Basic Judaism" is
selling so well that the publishers, Harcourt Brace and Co., are
Scottish Rite Auditorium
printing a second edition less than two weeks after the original
publication date. - •
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One Performance Only
Unholy ' Radicals
A scandal is -brewing in Mohegan Colony, a community approx-
imately 50 miles from New York, over the refusal of its 'hoard of
managers to permit the. use of its 'social center for High Holiday
services . . The colony, organized some twenty -or more years ago
by a group of "radicals," is about 90 per cent Jewish and is operated
Two Well Known Stars
on a cooperative basis . . A week before the holiday season the
executive board approved
resolution permitting the • use of the
AARON LEBEDEFF
center as a synagogue . •. A number of Jewish radicals, many of
MICHAEL MICHALESKO
great wealth, raised a hue and cry, claiming it was un-American and
•undemocratic to use communal property, for a synagogue even on
In a play written especially for
a special occaSiOn, and this despite the fact that such a precedent was
them by' William. Siegel, with
established some year or two . ago when a Protestant group was
granted this right . . . As a result services were held in .private
15 musical numbers by Sholem
Mmes.
Secunda.
The upshot of it all was that a group of men and women decided
to raise a $35,000 fund for • the construction of a synagogue and
THE JOLLY BACHELORS
Jewish - social center . . . But the opponents, many of them said to be
(Freiliche Bochurizn)
donors to Jewish institutions seeking to rehabilitate Jewish life
abroad, are threatening to air the issue before the courts on the
Supported by the well known
ground that the colciny rules prohibit the use of land for the con-
comedian, Jacob Zanger; Paula
struction of non-dwelling units.
Rubelsky, Vera Luboff, Hyman
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Levine, Stella Shulman, Clara
Here and There
Kaplan, Sam Schechter, Hy-
man Feinstein and Sam Blum-
One of New York's leading newspapers, the World-Telegram,,
stein, noted orchestra leader.
recently carried a story about Yom Kippur and the leading para-
graph informed the reader that Yom Kippur is ushered in by Kol
Tickets, $1.20, $1.80, $2.40 and
Nidre, the prayer for the dead . . . Such errors are inexcusable,
$3, tax included.
particularly in a publication appearing in a city with so large a
Tickets on sale at Metro Music
Jewish population as New York . . . A group of legal luminaries
Store, 10328 Dexter; Zion Book
recently petitioned the American government to lend its support to
Store, 9008 12th St., and from
the majority report of the UN Palestine Commission. Among the
A. Littman, 2086 Blaine, Apt.
signers of the petition was Jerome Frank . . . Is this the Jerome
101, TY. 6-5405.
Frank who authored the bitterly denounced assimilationist article in
the Saturday- Evening Post some two years ago?

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MASONIC TEMPLE

Friday, October 3, .1947

Killed in Action, Records Show

One hundred eighty-six Jewish
men froth Michigan were killed
in action during the war, it was
revealed in the recently pub-
lished book, "American Jews
in World War II". The book
(which was the subject of an
article in The Jewish News' Rosh
Hashana issue) consists of two
volumes. The first volume, "The
Story of 550,000 Fighters for
Freedom," is written by I.
Kaufman and tells of the heroic
deeds of Jews in all branches of
the service. It is, indeed, a rec-
ord of courage, patriotism and
sacrifice.

Forty-one more Jewish soldier$
from Michigan died in the ser:
vice of causes other than com-
bat injuries, 35 of them from
Detroit, two from Bay City, and
one each from South Haven,
Flint, Saginaw and Gobles.
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Altogether 550,000 Jews sei=
ved in the armed forces, and more
than . 10,000 gave their lives. The
pecentage of Jewish servicemen
was 31/2% of the total armed
forces. More than 36,000 Jews, re-
ceived decorations.

Reform Group Names
Field Activities Head

The second volume was corn-
piled by the Bureau of War Rec-
The Union of American Heb-
ords of the National Jewish Wel-
fare Board under the direction rew Congregation announces the
of Dr. Louis I. Dublin, chairman
appointment Of
of the technical and advisory
;Rabbi Sylvan D.
committees, and Dr. Samuel C.
Schwartzman, as
Kohs, director of the Bureau of
director of field
War Records. This volume gives --
activities of the
the names of Jews who died in
Union. Schwartz-
the service, were wounded or
man, a graduate
earned decorations, and is broken
of Hebrew Un-
down according to states.
o n College,
Michigan comprises 11 pages.
formerly w a s
Of 186 Jews killed in action,
rabbi in Au-
169 were from Detroit, two
Rabbi
• gusta, Ga., and
each from South Haven, Grand
Schwartzman is author of a
Rapids, Royal Oak, and Sag- text-book, soon to be published,
inaw, and one each from Lans-
on the history of Reform Judaism.
ing, Deckersville, Baltimore,
Niles, Flint, St. Clair Shore-s,
Ann Arbor, Marquette - and
Elkton.

Aside from the late. Raymond
Zussman who was the only Amer-
ican Jew to be awarded the Con-
gressional Medal of Honor, Mich-
igan Jews have received hun-
dreds of medals 'and 'citations,
from the Air Medal and Silver
Star -down to Presidential • Unit
Citations. Several hundred were
awarded the Purple Heart for
wounds received on the battle-
field.

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