THE JEWISH Complete Coverage _Of World News 14 Direct Wire VOLUME 12—NO. 19 A Weekly Review 2114 Penobscot Bldg., The Sfory.of ISAIAH New Bible Cartoon Starts Today of Jewish Events Detroit 26, Michigan, Janu4ry 23, 1948 on Page 22 34 • 22 $3.00 Per Year; Single Copy, 10c Palestine Mobilization Feb. 1 All Jews, 2540 Called to Action a ws npower Committee By e Jew sh Ne re to ThM pe Fi ;ectiTe9 (JTiA.)—The Jewish National Committee for manpower announced that registration of all Jews between the ages of 25 - and 40 will begin February 1 for their assignment to essential services. At the same time, it was announced that stu- dents will not be permitted to go abroad to continue their studies. JERUSALEM . Sources close to the government revealed that the British are attempt- ing to sell $20,000,000 worth of planes, scout cars, barbed wire and other British army surplus supplies to the Jewish Agency. Only eight or nine scout planes said to be in operating condition. The material previously was offered also to Arabs, who refused it. The Irgun and Sternists Monday attacked at least six Arab villages from fast moving vehicles, throwing grenades and using automatic, weapons in hit and run 'raids. Twelve Arabs were killed and a score wounded Haganah blew up houses used as a center for guerilla bands in Bet Dajan Lifta. n, action near Tamara Arav, an Arab village where Haganah killed at least 25 Arabs, however, another house was blown up with three Arabs killed and two Haganah men dead. Arab snipers in the Sheikh Jarach quarter of Jerusalem are continuing almost uninterrupted - sniping, killing one Jewish woman, wounding a number of other Jews and firing on a Red Mogen Dovid ambulance. Furious Fighting Continues in Hebron Hills The Kfar Etzion battle continued to rage as numerous bands of Arabs attacked Jewish defenders in and around the settlement. Observers stated that the battle was probably the fiercest thus far in•the war which has now entered its seventh week. An attack on the northern colony, Yechiel, by 500 Arabs resulted in the death of nine Jews. WOodward 5.1155 Our New Telephone Number More Lines - . Better Service —Photo by Paul Kirsch, Jewish News Photographer Windsor Receives 12 DP Children in Foster Homes Twelve children, aged 14 to 18, survivors from Nazism and until recently inmates of displaced persons camps in to Windsor last week and were placed in foster homes. Germany, were welcomed The Windsor arrivals are part of 250 children who were welcomed to Canada and were distributed in homes of various Jewish communities. They arrived by boat in Halifax and reached Windsor by train, at the Canadian National station on Thursday afternoon, Jan. 15. A committee of prominent community leaders welcomed them to the city. They were accompanied on their trip to Windsor by LOUIS LIEBLICH. (extreme left,) executive direclor of the Windsor Jewish Community Council, under whose supervision the placements were made in foster homes, and MILTON M. SUMNER (extreme right), president of the Windsor Council. The children who were brought to Windsor are: Szaja Delatiski, Vera Fixler, Magda Schweiger, Lilli Weiss, Joseph IDrezner, Alexander Rosenbaum ; Jacob Wasserman, Jenoe Weisshaus, Lajos Weishaus, Majar Volozynski, Esther Arono- vitz, Aaron Shor. Foster parents of the children are: Messrs. and Mesda mes Nathan Bergert, Isadore Blitzer, Jack Brooks, Abe Cohen, Samuel Cohen, Samuel Kaner, Samuel Kopstein, Morris Janowsky, Abraham Price, David Rosenthal (who took two children), Louis Shore and Dr. and Mrs. Oscar Pascal. reception for the childpen was arranged last Sunday evening at Shaer Hashomayim Synagogue by the Windsor Youth Council and there was a community-wide reception at the synagogue on Tuesday evening. Upon their arrival, they were guests of Rabbi and Mrs. Benjamin Groner at dinner. A (Continued on Page 9) Correspondents Tour old City of Jerusalem JERUSALEM (JTA)—Two of - the many for- eign correspondents here were taken, under military protection, into the walled Old City bf Jerusalem to see at first hand what was hap- pening to the 1,800 Jews who have been be- sieged there for more than a week by more than 35,000 Arabs living within the walls. The newsmen saw heavily armed soldiers not only guarding the streets, but also the roofs, one which barbed wire barriers have been erect- ed, -gun emplacements established and sand bags piled up. The Jewish Street leading to the Wailing Wall and the Wall 'itself, the holiest Jewish, place, were quiet. The only access to the Jewish quarter is by way of Zion Gate, which is too narrow for any sort of vehicles. 'Anybody ven- turing to use the more accessible Jaffa Gate faces death since a three-story house dominating the gate is a snipers' nest. The Army said that Haganah snipers are also active in the area. Military quarters V estimate that there are 300 to 400 armed Jews inside the, Old City, including a number of Irgunists and Sternists who have accepted Haganah manders. One section of the Old City, nearest the Arab quarter, is so devastated as a result of numerous attacks that the soldiers have dubbed it "Little Warsaw." . When the correspondents were being shown_ around, the Jewish residents were lining up for food. Each one received 500 grams of bread and 200 mills—about 40 cents to purchase sweets in the few Jewish shops still open. Also in opera- tion are a few schools. Welcome, Mayor Rokach! The Jewish News joins in welcoming to Detroit Mayor and Mrs. Israel Rokach of the all-Jewish Judean city of Tel Aviv. Mayor Rokach's visit here links Detroit Jewry with the Yishuv of Palestine and is an occasion for our community's re-dedication to.the great effort of assuring the redemption of Palestine's. soil through the Jewish Na- tional Fund and the great responsibility of settling hundreds of thousands of Jews in Palestine through the media of the United Palestine Appeal and the Joint Distribution Committee—agencies of the United Jewish Appeal. We pray that Mayor Rokach's mission in this country in the interests of the infant Jewish state should be crowned with success. (Detailed story of plans for receptions for Mayor and Mrs. Rokach on Page 5).