86 Scientists Protest to Truman
On 'Massacre' of Hadassah Unit

President Truman has been personnel, institutions and ve-
giyen a strongly worded protest hicles shall be immune from at-
against the "horrifying •massacre" tack."
President Truman was, asked
of _Palestinian medical personnel
by the Arabs, signed by 86 top- "as head of our country 'to, use
ranking American physicians, re- your great position and influence
search physicians, research sci- to make possible any recurrence
entists, educators, deans and de- of such a tragedy. Whatever the
partment heads 'of medical political solution which may
schools and hospitals, it ,.., was an- come about- fop Palestine, as
nounCed by the Medical Refer- Americans, as physicians, as
ence Board of Hadassah and the members of a democratic com-
munity, we . ask your aid to help
Hebrew University, 1819 Broad-
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preserve those values which civil-
way, New York.
The protest, delivered to the ization has built up through bitter'
White House, was _handed per- struggle over the cerrturies."
sonally to the President by Dr.
Louis. I. Dublin .of New York,
second vice-president of the
Metropolitan Life Insurance
Company :who is a member of the
Medical Reference Bogrd. Dr.
E. M. Bluestone, director of
Montefiore - Hospital, New York,
is its chairman. •
Abraham Bonder of New York,
Couched in sharp' accents, the
camp
consultant of the National
letter requests American action
"to make impossible any recur- Jewish Welfare Board, will in-
rence of such a tragedy . . . troduce . the Jewish Center's
which outrages every decent in- Camping Seminar for Counsel-
stinct of civilized man." The in-
cident referred to is the killing ors at 8 p.m. Monday, May 10,
of the Hadassah medical direc- with a talk on "Why Camping?—
tor, Dr. Haim Yassky, and 76 Objective and Program." Follow-
workers, patients and members ing his talk, small groups of
of the Hadassah and Hebrew counselors, led - by camp direc-
University Staff who were am ,= -
bushed April 13 in a routine tors, head counselors and Center
medical convoy on its way from staff, will continue the discus-
the center - of Jerusalem to Mt. sion. A social mixer will con-
Scopus, site of the Hadassah Hos- clude the evening.
pital. Twenty additional medical
The remaining three sessions
personnel were wounded, five of
them seriously, in the seven-hour Of the Seminar, May 17 and 24
onslaught on the 11 ambulances and June 1, will focus on such
and other vehicles which made subjects as "Group Planning in
Camp," "Understanding the In-
up „ the convoy.
dividual Camper;" "The Role of
Of those killed, a majority the Counselor;" "Workshops in
were burned so badly as to defy. Arts and Crafts;" "Camp Sing-
identification. Also killed were ing;" "Creative Dramatics," and'
Dr. Leonid Doljansky, interna- "Folk Dancing and Camp
tionally known cancer research Games." ,
scientist, Dr. Moshe-Ben-David,
Ben Rubinstein, director - of
executive director of the Hebrew North Star Camp, will address
University and other heads of 'the counselors on "Understand-
medical and laboratory depart- ing the IncliVidual Camper." Cy-
ments.
61 Aronson of Cyril Art Studio
(The protest takes on special and Highland Park Junior Col-
weight as news comes through of lege, with the assistance of at
Haganah's attempt to take the education majors and teachers,
Sheikh Jarrah sector at the baser will conduct a workshop in arts
of 'the Mt. Scopus hill from which. and crafts.
the April 13 attack was launched.
Participating in the planning
Haganah, at last reports, is being and organization of the Seminar
counter-attacked by the British are Lou Handler, director, and
and is having difficulty holding Morris Weiss, head counselor, of
this vital sector without which Camp Tarnakwa; Herman Fish-
the Hadassah Hospital road re-. man, director of Camp' Mich-
mains under seige.)
igama; Stan Michaels, director
Included among the signees were
Dr. Man M. Chesney, Dean, John of Camp Nahelu; Norman Drach-
Hopkins Medical School; Dr. Milton ler, director of Camp Kinder-
C. Winternitz, former Dean of the welt;Marion Haidy of the Cen-
Yale Medical School; Dr. Currier Mc-
Ewen, Dean of the New York Universi- ter Camp Leaders Association;
ty College of Medicine; Dr. Bela Moe Kesner, direbtor of Oak
Schick, who developed the Schick Test
for diptheria; Dr. C. E. A. Winslow, Grove Camp; Harold Weiss, di-
Emeritus ProfessOr of Preventive, rector of 12th St. Council Center
Medicine, Yale University; Dr. C. C. Day Camp; Sam_ Neuschatz, di-
Burlingane, former consultant of psy-
chiatry for the Secretary of War; Dr. rector of Camp Chelsea, and
W. C. Davison, Dean of Duke Uni- Frances Winokur, director of
versity Medical School ; Dr. Basil Mac-
Lean. director of Strong. Memorial Camp' Habonirn.
Hospital; Dr. J. A. Currall, president
Registration for the seminar is
of Long Island College of Medicine;
Rev. Alphonse M. Schwitalla, S.J. Dean open to all counselors and pros-
of St. Louis University School of pective counselors who are over
Medicine; Dr. Lowell Reed, vice-presi-
dent of Johns Hopkins; Dr. Florence 18 years of age or students at
R. Sabin, Emeritus Member. Rocke- college.

JWB Consultant
To Open Center's
Camping Seminar

feller Institute for Medical Research;
Dr. Adolph, Meyer, Professor of psy-
chiatry, Johns Hopkins Medical School,
and Dr. Andrew Conway Ivy, profes
sor of psychology, University of Il-
linois.

Declaring that "their death - and
the manner of it, outrages every
decent instinct of civilized man,"
the appeal said, "they have been
destroyed in the face of a uni-
versally accepted principle 'em-
bodied in the Geneva Conven-
tion and Concurred in by all civil-.
)zed society. This is that medical

Mrs. Victor (Judith) Avrunin,
Haifa. reporter for the Palestine
Post of Jerusalem, arrived in De-
troit last week for a few days'
visit with her family prior to
joining her husband in New
York. She arrived here by rqane
from Lydda during the week of
Haifa's capture of Haganah.
Mrs. Avrunin said that thil
Jews of Palestine are aware of
the dangers on all fronts and of
the overwhelming number of in-
vading- Arabs who threaten their
lives and property. She declared
that the great need is for weapons
and food.
"Food is as important as arms,"
she said. "The colonies have been
compelled" to devote so much
manpower to defense that they
have not been able to devote the
time needed to farming. If food is
not brought to Palestine 'there
will 'be great suffering."
Mrs. Avrunin said that a very
small percentage of the British
troops have left Palestine, that
most 'of them still are there and
—International Photo
that Jews as well as Arabs re-
fuse 'to believe that Britain actu-
JOSEPH UNTERMEYER, 19, son of the Louis Unfermeyers (cli-
ally will evacuate her troops from vorced),is shown (center, with glasses) in custody of detectives after
Palestine.
a police raid on a New York loft bUilding in which arms marked for
shipment to Palestine were seized. The defective at left' carries a

`Unpromised Land'
Reveals Refugees'
Trials in Escaping

machine. 'gun which was part of the arms cache. His father, the
noted - poet and anthropologist, said his son's xork reflected ,-fhe
resentment of Jewish youth against betrayals of pledges to Jews,
He added that his son's work supported the United Nations dacisions."
His mother, treasurer of the League for a Free Palestine, expressed
satisfaction with her son's activities.

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Detroit Workmen's
Circle Chorus

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Red Cross Sending Supplies
To Palestine Jews, Arabs

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Nab Poet's Son in Zion Arms Raid

Burton E. Martin's "Unprom
ised Land" is a novel about refu-
li—THE JEWISH NEWS
gees who survived the Nazi ter- 700- Polish Jews Return
ror and sought avenues of escape To Poland from Soviet
Friday, May '7, 1948
to other 'lands. Most of them
wanted to go to Palestine„ some
WARSAW, (JTA) — A group
were willing to accept other hav- of 700 Polish Jews who were ar-
ens and there even is a dispute rested during the. war and held
in the story as to the desirability in various prison" camps • in the
of enckiuraging "illegals" on the Soviet Union for several years
road to Palestine.
were repatriated to Poland.
onor oder
Published by Ives Washburn, They were brought to the Russo-
Inc. 29 W. 57th St., New York Polish border at Brest-Litovsk,
19, ' the - ncivel holds the attention together with 800 non-Jewish
of the reader/ from 'beginning s to Poles, and released by their Rus-
on Mother's Day
end. The theme emanates from sian guards. The entire group
the comment by one of the char- immediately, crossed the frontier
acters that. "we are not only into Poland.
Jews, we are refugees. For us
By planting frees in
the whole world is an unpromis-
15th ANNUAL CONCERT
ed, land."
The desperate conditions ex-
her honor in
isting in the camps, the battles
between those who were engag-
Palestine
ed in the "illegal" traffic and
those who supported the friend-
(110 VOICES)
ly U. S.. Kommandant who pre-
ferred that the reftigees should
– DON -
await their turn for - legal _ en-
FROHMAN
trance to Palestine and the strug-
gle between those who seek or-
DIRECTOR
der and others who resort to
stealing and black markets, throw
Guest Artist
new light on the horrible condi-
tions under which the survivors
MASCHA
lived. .
BENYA
Of course, there are hot-heads
SOPRANO
and there are the reasonable peo-
ple. The hero of the story—pub
Don. Frohman.
Hugo7--who tells his tale in the
It is traditional' to honor the
Sunday Eve, May 16th
first person, supports the Kom-
At 8:30 P.M.
mandant, who takes him and his
living mothers by planting
bride, Gita, to the U. S. Most of
Scottish Rite Cathedral
the others. set out on illegal boats
trees in Eretz Israel on Moth-
(Masonic Temple)
to Palestine.
Tax
Inc.
er's Day and to express tribute
$1.00, $1.50, $1.80, s2.40
The author writes from experi-
ence, having served with the
For Reservations Call
Wins YTS Fellowship
to the memory of departed
UNRRA in Italy, where the camp
TO. 5-2580- or TO. 8-9867
described
in
the
story
is
located.
Dr. Reuben Wallenrod, of the
dear ones by planting trees is
faculty of the Teachers Institilte
their honor.
of the )-ewish
FOR EARLY SUMMER
Theological Se-
minary of Amer-
IS
ica, has been
awarded- a fel-
NO PLACE IN THE WORLD QUITE LIKE
lowship for stud-
ies in the. field
of modern He-
brew Palestin-
ian literature by
the John Siinon
Guggen h .e i m.
Memorial Foun-
Dr. Wallenrod dation.
Order trees to be planted in

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GENEVA, (JTA)—Ttie Amer-
ican Red Cross is 'sending large
quantities of medical supplies to
Palestte for both Jewish and
Arab relief organizations, it was
announced by the International
Red Cross, which Will supervise
the distribution of the supplies
in Palestine.
The international body also re-
vealed that it will send addition-
al Swiss representatives to Pales-
tine to help protect hospitals,
Wounded persons, prisoners of
war and wherever possible, the
civilian population.' The action
was taken following receipt here
° of written.assurances by the Jew-
ish Agency and the Arab Higher-
Committee. that they will ad-
here to the Geneva convention
on warfare.

Food, Arms Urgently
Needed in Palestine,
Mrs. Avrunin Reports

MAWR SPRINGS

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Agree' Memorial Society
Doubles Campaign Gift;
Synagogue Redecoraled

Isaac Agree Memorial Society
voted to increase its pledge to the
Allied Jewish Campaign - 100 per
cent. The sum pledged is $2,000.
The society also has raised $7,-
500 for the building fund of the
new" Jewish hospital to be erected
in Detroit. -
The DowntbWn Synagogue at
1205 Griswold ,St., which is spon-
sored by ,:this society, has been
newly :decorated, and new seats
installed, Services are held at, 8
a.m. and 5:20 p.m. daily.

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by calling

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TO. 8-7384

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