Aaron Kurland 50 'Saturday

Former JNF, Pisgah President
Active Here Since "Boyhood

In his early youth shortly after ,doming to the United States in
1912, Aaron Kurland became active in Jewish circles here. He was
a leader in the old Zionist Maccabaean Society. From 1930 to 1932—
during the two eventful years when the late Menahem Ussishkin
visited Detroit—he was president of the Jewish National Funia
Council. He was president of Pisgah Lodge of Bnai Brith in 1931.
From 1926 to 1932 he was '•
chairman of tie Jewish Open articles and has written exten-
Forum which attracted a great sively for Jewish periodicals.
deal of interest. From 1931 to
He was married to Rose Sam-
1938 he was moderator of the ter on July 22, 1926. They have
Jewish Radio Forum. In 1947 he twa sons—Norman David and
was elected vice-president of the Richard Erwin. Norman, a stu-
Business and Professional Chap- dent at the University of Michi-
ter of American Jewish Con- gan, Graduate School, will re-
gress. He has been editor of Pis- ceive his Master's degree next
gah Lodge Broadcaster since month, having been awarded a
fellowship at the U. of M. for
1948-49. Richard is a student at
Highland Park Junior College,
and will graduate from Temple
Israel High School May 21. Mrs.'
Kurland is. active in Hadassah
and other local community af-
fairs.

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`Hollywood on Trial'
Warns Against Nazi
Treks in this Country

AARON KURLAND
• 1947. He is a member of the .
Zionist Organization of Detroit,
Temple Israel, Arlazaroff Branch
of Jewish -National Workers Al-
liance and Pisgah Lodge.
These in brief are the Jewish
affiliations and activities 'of
Aaron Kurland, well known in
legal circles, who will observe
his 50th birthday this Saturday.
Born in Russian Poland, May
15, 1898, he was educated in the
Passaic, N. J., public. and high
schools. He was graduated from
the Detroit College of Law and
admitted to the Michigan Bar in
1924. He is a member of the De- -
troit and American Bar AsSocia-
tons.
Kurland 'did not limit his ac-
tivities to Jewish and Zionist
affairs: He served as chairman
and counsel to the Michigan De-
positors League; was counsel for
the Guardian lational Bari De-
positors League and for the De-
positors Committee of First Na-
tional Bank, and fostered the -
movement for payment of 100
per cent to depositors on closed
national banks during the 1930s.
When Frank Murphy was
Governor of Michigan, he ap-
pointed him counsel of the Mich-
igan Public Trust Commission
and Kurland served in that ca-
pacity during Governor Mur-
phy's term of office.
Kurland is the author of legal

Jews Work to Save -
Church Facing Sale

NEW YORK, (JPS) — The
tiny Jewish congregation Brith
Shalom, in upper Manhattan,
which hasn't even got a syna-
gogue of its own, is going all out
in a campaign to help raise $100,-
000 by May 11 to save the build-
ring and other properties of the
192-year-old Second Presbyterian
Church. The church, which has
owned its site for the last 56
years, is campaigning for funds
to pay off bond-holders in the
original mortgage.
The Brith Shalom congrega-
tion, whose rabbi is Dr. Gabriel
Schulman, has used the facilities
of the church for its own serv-
ices since 1938. Rev. L. Humph-
rey Walz, minister of the church,
revealed that as soon as Dr.
Schulman learned' of the crisis
facing the Christian institution,
he immediately volunteered his
own services and enlisted the aid
of his congregation.
There has been mutual respect
and friendship between the
church and the Jewish communi-
ty since Colonial times. Jews
were among those`who contribu-
ted funds to repair the church
when it was damaged by Hessian
soldiers during the Revolution-
ary war.

Gordon Kahn's "Hollywood on
Trial: The Story of- the Ten Who
Were Indicted," 'recently pub-
lished by Boni & Gaer, Inc., 133
W. 44th St., New York 18, is a
significant book. The value of the -
expose of witch-hunting is en-
hanced by the foreword to the
volume in which Thomas Mann,
Nobel prize winner who left
Germany when it fell under Nazi
control, warns that the same
symptoms which preceded the
Hitler era are manifesting them-
selves in the United States- as a
result of the, Hollywood and other
investigations. Mr. Mann' states
in the foreword 'to this book:
"As :an American citizen of
German birth I am painfully
familiar with certain political .
trends. Spiritual intolerance, po-
litical inquisitions, declining legal
security, all in the: name of an
alleged 'state of emergency'—that
is how it started in Germany."
Mr. Kahn's expose of the • trial
of,the 10 Hollywood writers is an
important contribution to the-
fight for liberty and justice. It
presents in clear fashion the
stupidity of witch-hunting and
shows up the ridiculous position
of lawmakers who seek "reds"
under every bed. It is an excel-
lent exposition of the fantastic
search for Comniissars among
men who are thorbughly Amer-
ican but whose liberalism is dis-
tasteful to reactionaries.
"Hollywood on Trial" is a
warning ...against placing any other
group or city on trial. It may
be Detroit or Hamtramck or
Flint, or any other city—or any
other group. It is a warning that
we should start studying the
principles of Jefferson all over
again. If lawmakers could be
forced to study the Constitution
and the Declaration of Iindepen-
dence, it would help a lot.

`Volponel Sponsored
By U. of M. Hillel
For Benefit of UJA

European Police Join
Farran Bomb Search

18 Hadassah Study Groups Combine
For "Luncheon Meeting on Monday

LONDON, (JTA) — The In-
ternational Police Commission in
Paris was asiced by Scotland
Yard to have all police forces
in Europe join in the search for
the person or persons responsible
for mailing a parcel bomb to
Capt. Roy Alexander Farran
which accidentally killed his
brotherl Rex, who :opened the
package. Meanwhile, Capt. Far-
ran has left his home at Wol-
verhampton: for an unknown
destination.
Scotland Yard instituted one
of the greatest manhunts in re-
cent British- police history in, an
effort to find - "Jewish terrorists"
in Britain, who they believe may
be responsible for -the mailing
of the bomb. Capt. Farran was
acquitted_ last year of charges of
killing an 18-year-old Palestin-
ian Jew, Alexander Rubovitz.
The Stern Group, which claimed
the murdered Palestinian youth
as a member of the organization,
vowed to avenge his death at the
time Farran was freed. One re-
port said the Hebrew word for
revenge. was foulnd in the par-
cel's markings.
Scotland Yard announced that
it on the crack of an Arab
band organized in this country
for the purpose of smuggling
arms into Palestine via Lebanon.
Customs officials over the 'week-
end seized two packages contain-
ing a large sum of - small-de-
nomination currency addressed
to persons resident in Britain,
presumably for the payment of
arms.

Rabbi Sperka Officiates
At Jackson Prison Seder

Rabbi Joshua Sperka, Jewish
chaplain of Michigan State Prison,
announces that Passover food
was supplied to all Jewish im-
mates of the State Prison of
Southern Michigan at Jackson, at
Marquette, and Ionia, for the en-
tire -week of Passover.
*A Seder was held at Jackson
prison, conducted by Rabbi Sper-
ka, assisted by Cantor H. Adler.
The Seder meal • is •kosher food
prepared at the House of Shelter.'
Among the guests at the Seder
were ' Mayor Eugene Van Ant-
werp of Detroit; JoSeph W. San-
ford, commissioner of correction;
Victor Anderson, legal advisor to
the governor; assistant deputy
warden George L. Bacon; Earl E.
Roger, director of education; Rev.
S. H. Griffith, Protestant chap-
lain, 'and Dr. Edward Douglas.
The committee in charge of ar-
rangements included D. Gold-
berg, chairman, Max Charness,
Morris Dorn, Norman Singer, Ir-
ving Brant, Mrs. Sarah Altman,
Mrs. D. Goldberg, Mrs. Dorn and
Mrs. Levinson.

Daily News Will Not
Appeal FM Decision

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The two year fight of the
American Jewish Congress to
prevent the New York Daily
News from getting an FM license
ended with the announcement' by
the president and general man-
ager of the News that it would
not appeal the FCC • decision of
April '7 denying it an FM license
in New York. The News thereby
decided to waive its right both to
file a petition for rehearing with
the Commission and to take the
case to court.
The FCC did not base its rul-
ing denying the News a license
on the evidence of racial and re-
ligious bias on the part of the
News presented by the American
Jewish Congress. However, the
Commission did overrule the
argument of.,the Daily News that
such evidence was irrelevant and
allowed it to remain as part of
the record in the case. It held in
no uncertain terms that a radio
licensee must be "fair in his
treatment of racial and religious
groups in the community."

The Art -Cinema League will
present as its final picture of the
year Ben Jonson's immortal mas-
terpiece, "Volpone," in a modern
dramatization by Jules Romain
and Stefan Zweig, starring Har-
ry Baur as. Volpone, the de-
praved merchant, dnd Louis Jou-
vet as Mosea who buys for him.
This movie has been playing at
one of the movie houses in New
York City continuously since last
*December where it has been
lauded by many people as one
of the funniest films that they
have ever seen.
This film will be co-sponsored
with the Hillel Foundation and
net proceeds will go to the Unit-
ed Jewish Appear.
This movie will be shown at
the •Hill Auditorium in Ann Ar- Habimah Makes Debut
bor on Friday and Saturday, May
14 and 15, at 8:30 p.m. Tickets
NEW YORK, (JPS) —Habim-
are on sale at Hill Auditoriurn.
ah, Jewish Palestine's interna-
tionally famous theater troupe,
Aid to the Jewish blind is made their New York debut last
given through the Jewish Braille week in "The Dybbuk," going on
Institute, an agency of the Al- stage within a half hour of their
lied Jewish Campaign.
arrival by plane from London.

All eighteen Hadassah study
groups are joining for the second
'year at a luncheon program to be
held at 12:30 p. m. Monday, May
17 at the Lee Plaza Hotel.
Rabbi Leon Fram will inter-
pret the current political scene.
All education chairmen „and
study group members will take
part in an education workshop.
Brief reports of the year's activ-
ities in the study groups will be
given by each group chairman.
Individual members will have 'an
opportunity to make suggestions
for Hadassah's education pro-
gram for next year.
' This program has been ar-
ranged by Mrs. Harry A. Pays-
ner, chapter education chairman,
and Mrs. Adolph Ehrlich, co-
chairman, and the following
group • chairmen: Mrs. Benjamin
Laikin, Central East; Mrs. Sam-
uel Croll, Central West; Mrs.
Alex Zuckman, Russell Woods;
Mrs '.Henry J. Goodman and
Mrs. Louis Kazdan, University
West; Mrs. Benjamin Coggan
and Mrs. Arthur Snyder, Uni-
versity • East; Mrs. Daniel J.
Mandelbaum and Mrs. Harley
Citron, Southern Oakland Co:

..Left to right: Mrs. Morris
Bachman, Mrs. Lewis Grossman
and MRS. ADOLPH EHRLICH,
incoming , Hadassah educatiuu
chairman.

U. S. Workers ( Adopt
Over 600 War Orphans

Jewish workers have a strong
spokesman in the JeWis'n tabor
Committee, an agency of the Al-
lied Jewish Catnpaign.

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NEW YORK.—Over 600 chil-
dren who -lost one or both par-
ents in-the ghettos and concentra-
tion camps during. the Nazi reign
o:C terror in Europe have, during
the last 12 months, been "adopt-
ed" by workers and employers in
this country under a program
sponsored by the Jewish Labor
Committee, 175 East Broadway,
New York, it was announced by
Adolph Held, National Chairman
of the Committee. Over $180,000
was contributed by the benefac-
tors, providing $300 for' the up-
keep of each war orphan.

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Friday, May 14, 1948

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Chapter education chairmen
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Bachman, Mrs. Lewis Grossman
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