UN's Ability to Defend
Jews Doubted by Israel
THE JEWISH NEWS-17
Frida y , October 15. 1948
Richards' Case Is Stalemated in FCC
Mullen, in an affidavit to the
By ESTELLE BRAND
WASHINGTON.—E y e b r ows FCC in connection with the in-
AJC Executive Committee are being raised in the Capitol vestigation, stated that:
"As president of the three licen-
Meets in Chicago October these days over the Federal sees,
affiant will not only continue
Communication C o m m i s s ion's the high standards of performance
heretofore
observed, but will im-
Four major problems of con- long delay in announcing the prove and expand
the service render-
cern to American Jews will be results of an investigation into ed by each station to the best of
his ability, with emphasis on public
upon when charges that radio station KMPC service,
community welfare, a n d
t h e executive in Los Angeles had carried news adequate attention to all component
parts
of
our
national life.
committee of the slanted in a biased and anti-
• "Under no circumstances will he
,;:American Jew- Semitic manner.
issue, or allow to be issued, any
The investigation was ordered instructions or directions to anyone
ish Committee
connected with the stations to slant
by
the
Commission
late
in
March
'holds its fall
or color the news either for or
any lawful political body, can-
meeting in Chi- because of petitions it had re- against
didate, group . person, race or religion.
cago at , the Ste- ceived charging G. A. Richards,
"Persons employed by any of these
vens Hotel, Sat- owner of KMPC and of stations stations - engaged in broadcasting
news
or information ar,e to be vested
WJR
in
Detroit
and
WGAR
in
urday evening,
with discretion to -select and present
Oct. 16, and Cleveland, with having ordered the news and will be engaged and
only according to legitimate
Sunday, Oct. 17, his fiewsroom staff to - deliber- retained
standards relating to their ability to
ately
slant
newscasts
in
a
biased
present
news
and opinions honestly;
it was announc-
expertly, fairly, 'impartially and in
Blaustein ed ,.._by • Jacob manner.
interesting fashion."
As late as the end of Septem-•
Blaustein of Baltimore, chairman
California newsmen, however,
of the ASC executive committee, ber the Commission maintained relate that the only real change
that
the
investigation
had
not
who will preside. --
in KMPC policies seems to he
Judge Joseph M. Proskeuer, yet been completed and that in subduing the slanting of the
AJC president, will -discuss the no announcement could be made news. In other words the slant-
impact of the State of Israel on until all the facts were in. The ing continues but -in a much more
the American Jewish community. suspicion that there might be subtle way. Calfiornia Demo-
Irving M: Engel, chairman of the some "stalling" in the matter crats- have also complained that
AJC administrative committee grew when it became known their names are never mentioned
and immigration committee, who that the FCC legal staff had on KMPC except in an un-
recently testified in Washington nearly a month earlier made an favorable light.
before the Senate Judiciary Com- - oral report to the Commission
On Sept. 20, six months after
Mittee on longrange revision of recommending that a hearing be the investigation was ordered by
held.
American immigration policy,
Chronologically, the develop- the FCC, Rep. —Arthur G. Klein,
will address the meeting on the
ments
in the case are as follows: (N.Y., D.) wrote to Thomas J.
DP Act and 'basic U. S. immigra-
Slowie, secretary of FCC, urg-
Early in March Billboard Mag-
tion laws, which the Congress is azine,
weekly amusement news mag- ing that some action be taken on
studying with a view to revision. azine, published charges against the charges. Slowie. wrote back
Richards made by a Hollywood radio
Prof. Herman A. Gray of New news writers group. In sworn state- on Sept. 22 that the delay "has
ments by former KMPC news room been caused only by the nature
York University, chairrr an of the personnel
Richards wa4,s charged with:
AJC European affairs committee, having ordered newscasts slanted to . of the investigation
that Bugsy Seigel mur-'
who has just returned from a emphasize
dered gangster, was Jewish, to play
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Nor..
'Wilk VOW
two-month mission to Europe, up David Lilienthal, Atomic Energy
Commission
Chairman,
as,
a
Jew,
and
will report on the position of the to use "very little" on the Palestine
9ot PVticti,os
Jews in the countries he visited. situation.
Official communiques reported
PARIS (JTA) — Israel cannot
confide the safety of Jerusalem's that the battle for two strategic
100,000 Jews to the United Na- heights in the Negev area was
tions, Foreign Minister Moshe resumed by Egyptian troops, but
Shertok told a crowded press that notwithstanding the use of
conference at the Palais de Chail- tanks, aircraft and artillery, the
lot. Nothing but a Jewish force Arabs were driven back by the
can assure their protection, he Israelis who hold the positions.
declared, adding that the Jews Another official announcement
of the Holy City and of the world said that there was some Arab
have lost confidence in the abil- activity in the Deir Abu Tor and
ity of the UN to safeguard their Musrara sections of Jerusalem.
The Jerusalem communique also
lives and vital interests.
Pointing out that the • Holy stated that the UN raised its flag
Places could be protected through over Government House as it
an international regime for the formally assumed control of the
walled city only, Shertok said: neutral area surrendered by the
"We have the right to ask that International Red -Cross.
An Israeli Government spokes-
the New City form a part of the
territory of Israel, as it does to- man has denied a statement by
day, and that it be linked to the the Greek Government that two
Jewish state by a strip of terri- Israeli Spitfires on maneuvers
tory." He added that the fact from an Israeli base which made
that the Jerusalem Jews did not a forced landing on the island of
die of thirst during the siege was Rhodes were armed. The spokes-
due entirely to Jewish valor and man said the Greek claim was in-
to self-discipline. "I am sorry to accurate.
Minister of Immigration Moshe
say," he asserted, "that the Unit-
ed Nations can claim no credit Shapira has revealed that 50,-
000 Jews have entered Israel
for that."
Asked to comment on the since the proclamation of the
Bernadotte recommendations. state May 15 and that 20,000 had
arrived during the period from
for Palestine, the Israeli Cabi-
net member said that they January to May. Ar additional
were not acceptable as a basis 50,000 will enter by the end of
of discussion. Western Galilee this December, Shapira added.
He said Israel hopes to admit
is no substitute for the Negev,
120,000 Jews next year and thus
he remarked. He added that
Israel had claimed that area force the closing of the European
from, the outset, Israeli troops DP camps for Jews.
Pavel Yershov, Soviet Minister
had occupied it, and events and
experience had proved it indis- to Israel, and James G. MacDon-
ald, U. S. special envoy to Israel,
pensable to national defense.
Formal application for UN called on President Weizman,
American Jewish Congress president
Rabbi Stephen S. Wise petitioned the
membership will probably be fil- who also received Maurice Bis-
Commission
to revoke KMPC's license
ed by Israel during the present gyer, executive secretary of Bnai Manischewitz Plant
on the grounds that Richards had
ordered the newscasts slanted "in a
session, the Foreign Minister Brith, at Rehoboth.
manner which would stir up re-
A group of American and Enchants Delegates
disclosed. On the subject of the
ligious and racial hatred."
Shortly thereafter the Commission
disposal of the Arab areas, he said Canadian Jewish leaders — in-
Sunday Night, Oct:17
that it would investigate
cluding Bisgyer, Rep. Emanuel
that as a matter of principle Is-
Terming t h e Manischewitz announced
the charges to determine whether
Madison & Brush
Celler and Harry Friedman of Matzo Bakery in Jersey City, hearings should be held in the case.
rael would prefer to see those
-
D:ETROT.T
the American Red Mogen Da- N. J., a "landmark of Jewish cul-
Nothing further developed in
sections established as a separate
vid,
and
David
Croll
and
Dr.
the'
case
until
early
-
summer
state. However, he said, the Ber-
ture and enterprise in the United
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nadotte proposal that those Arab Leon Harris or Toronto — are States," • Simuel Roszansky, edi- when Richards hired Frank .E.
Because of the limited number of tick
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et*, send your order now to assured
Transjordan seemed a plausible pitals. In a statement to the Buenos Aires, one of the 40 or of NBC and well known and
good reserved seats,.
press, Celler' said that an an- more delegates to the World Con- respected in the radio industry,
one.
z: The so-called Arab Palestine nouncement would soon be gress for Jewish Culture who vis- to take over as president of the
Do you wont Walace and'
vernment at Gaza he describ- forthcoming from Washington ited the plant, expressed his -three stations. Switching Mullen
Taylor on the radio? It
which
would
leave
no
room
for
from the NBC post to the- KMPC
as a '"propaganda agency, not
amazement
and
that
of
the
other
ta kes money your mone y
an administrative authority," and doubt that the U. S. favors Is- delegates at the many unique fea- enterprise was generally con-
raeli possession of the Negev.
sidered
in
these
parts
to
be
the
remarked that this situation was
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Briton Gets Seven Years
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the Arab world _as well as among
The delegates, representing charges. The idea, it was gen-
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Fred-
138 Cadillac tquare;
Palestine Arabs. Israel, he de-
erally
reasoned,
was
to
give
an
nine foreign nations -and the
clared, would content itself with erick Sylvester, a British resident
air of respectibility to three sta- Listen to HENRY WALLACE even
United States, were conducted on
maintaining a "watchful attil of Jerusalem, was convicted by
tions by putting Mullen out in Monday night .. . WW.i 10:30 p.m,
tude, expressing a preference on- a district court here of illegal a tour of the six story Manis- front.
.nens. Nam. vox. now vow 'now 'now van
possession of a transmitter and chewitz Matzo Bakery, to view
• ly in principle."
the
technical
marvels
of
this
vast
of
broadcasting
information
of
On the issue of the Arab re-
fugees, Shertok reiterated Israel's value to the enemy. He was sen- modern plant.
position that those _peqple could tenced to seven years imprison-
not be accepted back-until there ment. His attorneys will appeal because of the "violent opposi-
Vases, urns, pitchers, flasks, candle sticks, figurines, statuary
- was a final peace- settlement with to the Supreme Court. Four other tion of Secr"tary Marshall." The
and other keepsakes converted into artistic table lamps.
the Arabs. He said that Israel Britons, arrested on the same Secretary is an ex-officio mem-
Oil lamps electrified.
LAMP SHADES MADE
- LAMPS MOIDERNIZED,
was prepared- at any time to sit charge, were freed earlier.
ber of the board of the Export-
AND RECOVERED
REPAIRED
&
REFINISHED
For the first time in about Import Bank and therefore in a
down- at a table with the Arabs
Old style floor lamps made Custom made and recovered.
two months 35 Jewish guards on position to wield a certain amount
Styled to your lamp. Large
into indirect lamps and
and discuss peace terms.
stock on display.
torcheres.
duty on demilitarized Mt. Scopus of influence in decisions involving
PICKUP AND DELIVERY ALL PARTS OF DETROIT
were relieved and replaced by loans to foreign countries.
•
Egypt's Election Protested
The election of Egypt as a fresh troops who arrived in a
Bank officials had changed
member of the Security Council UN convoy. This follows the ar- from a discussion of the full cre-
at the UN General Assembly was rival of the first food and water dit of $100,000,000 to a discussion
16841 Livernois Ave.. V/ Block South of Six Mile
.protested in a statement issued supply convoy on the height.
of the possible financing of speci-
Phone UN. 2-8338
Open Thursday to 9 P.M.
here by a spokesman for the
fic projects for Israel.
Denies
Marshall
Blocked
Israeli delegation. The statement
was made following the election $100,000,000 Loan to Israel
WASHINGTON (JTA)—Acting
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of Cuba, Norway and Egypt to
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replace Colombia, Belgium and Secretary of State Robert A. Lov-
Syria. Although Cuba received ett emphatically discredited a
53 votes and Norway 44, Egypt press report that Secretary of
received only 38, two more than State George C. Marshall had
blocked the consideration of a
the necessary minimum.
The election of Norway to suc- $100,000,000 Export-Import Bank
ceed Belgium does little to alter loan to Israel.
Secretary Lovett told a press
the alignment within the Se-
curity Council, although Nor- conference that "there is nothing
way's attitude vis-a-vis Israel has in it" when asked to "shed some
light" on a report in a New York
been somewhat more positive.
An attempt to arrive at an newspaper indicating that the Is-
• IN BOTTLES
agreement on p Palestine policy raeli Government's application
IN CANS —
at a Middle EaSt caucus of mem- for such a loan had been "shelv-
OR ON TAP
ber states of the UN failed. The ed" by the Export-Import Bank
EVERYWHERE
Arab states proposed that the
caucus favor total rejection of
"WORD-OF-MOUTH" advertising is making SCHMIDT'S
the Bernadotte proposals for a
Palestine settlement, but Turkey,
a bigger selling beer. On the tip of every tongue that's
India and Greece refused to go
ever tasted the new SCHMIDT'S is the good news that
along, preferring to remain neu-
SCHMIDT'S actually is the best tasting Leer in town
tral on the Bernadotte plan at
bar none! Ask anyone, but, better still—try a gloss of
time.
this
SCHMIDT'S yourself—TODAY! You'll be glad you did!
Repel Egyptian Attacks
TEL AVIV (JTA) — Jewish
forces were in full command of
The United. Hebrew
two heights east of Gaza and
• south of Faluja which were cap-
Schools of Detroit
tured by the Egyptians.
Gratefully
Acknowledge
A Jewish counterattack rolled
the Receipt of
the Egyptians out of Tel el Kun-
eitra and Kirvet Nahaza which a large contribution to the Scho-
they had seized earlier in the day larship Fund of the Schools from
in unexpected truce violations. Louis Schlussel of Chicago Blvd.
Israel has notified UN truce ob- in memory of his dearly beloved
,:10111 ■ T BiEWIA, co. DETROIT Ni1C111
servation headquarters of the wife, Anna Schlussel, who passed
away Aug. 13, 1948:
Egyptian attacks.
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