Off the Record

(Copyright, ,19,18, Seven. Arts Feature Syndicate)

By NATHAN ZIPRIN

The Koch Case
• The storm of protest over the commutation of sentence of use
• Koch, the depraved creature who made lampshades from tattooed
human skin at the notorious Buchenwald camp, has not abated . .
Camp inmates who survived the horrors and American soldiers who
saw the camp immediately after liberation have testified to her
crimes in letters to the editors of their local newspapers . . . Gen-
- eral Clay has justified the commutation on the ground Koch was
convicted on much hearsay evidence . . . Would hearsay evidence
' be insufficient to convict Hitler if he ever turned up? . . . Isn't there,
General, what is known in law as general knowledge? . . . If gen-
. eral knowledge existed among the inmates in Koch's camp that
- she made household articles from human skins that evidence is
admissible if there is other proof to sustain a charge that she en-
- gaged even in minor criminal acts in the camp . . . If there was
evidence that people with tattooed skins were selected by Ilse for
. some mysterious purpose and that they subsequently disappeared
from the scene then the military court had every reason to infer
that she' was responsible for their disappearance . . Because it is
common knowledge what happened to people who disappeared sud-
denly from Nazi death camps the court which tried her was certainly
- justified in taking judicial notice of the fact . . . Because the victims
. of her depravity did not testify does not mean she is not guilty .. .
Many a person in the United States has gone to the electric chair on
circumsipntial evidence alone . . . Before the Nuremberg trials began
the jur . s.s who ran it agreed that the procedure was a deviation
from international law but that the enormity of the crimes justified
a new concept of jurisdiction and guilt . . . The Nazis were no ordin-
ary criminals and it seems to this corner that it is mockery of
justice to apply to them the ordinary principles of law . . . We do
not question General Clayy's honesty and sincerity „ We believe
he has erred gravely.

Mrs. Frank Lists
Committee Heads

Rabbi Paretzky Back
On Mission for Labor
League in Palestine

Committee chairmen for the
various phases of the 1948-49 pro 7
gram of the Women's Division
of the Jewish Welfare Federa-
tion were appointed this week
by Mrs. Max Frank, president
of the division.
For the committee on program,
Mrs Harry Becker, chairman,
Mrs: Raymond Sokolov and Mrs.
Nathan Spevakow, co-chairmen;
committee on education, Mrs.
Harry August and Mrs. Louis
Glasier; speakers, Mrs. Alexan-
der W. Sanders and Miss Pearl
Bevenow.
Other appointments include:
Publicity, Mrs. Leo Orecklin and
Mrs: Sidney R. Marwil; commit-
tee On campaign structure, Mrs.
Robert J. Newman; Mrs. Maurice
A. Klein, chairman, and Mrs.
Sarniiel Blacher, co-chairman,
committee on committees; Mrs.
Jack Berger and Mrs. Philip Kan-
tor, office committee; Mrs. Daniel
Krouse, collection committee;
Mrs. Maurice A. Laudau, com-
mittee on research and analysis.
Mrs; Irving I. Bittker, promotion
committee, and Mrs. Julian H.
Krolik, committee on community
relations.

Rabbi Mordecai Paretzky, na-
for Religious Labor in Palestine
tional field director of the League
and former Detroit rabbi, re-
turns to Detroit
to bring the mes-
sage of the relig-
i o u s pioneers
and to conduct
the annual cam-
paign of the
League.
The religious
labor movement
in Palestine,
which includes
Rabbi< Paretzky Hapoel Hamiz,
rachi, Hashomer Hadati and Bnai
Akibah Youth Groups, is an ac-
tive force in the upbuildings of
the land,' consisting of 30,000 men
and women. B_esides maintaining
more than 32 colonies numehous
welfare and educational institu-
tions and cooperatives, the move-
ment aids thousands of _refugees
to settle in Palestine.

Stone's 'This Is Israel'
To Be Published Nov. 12

The publication on Nov. 12 of
"This Is Israel" by I. F. Stone
give many Americans their first
intense understanding of the
epochal development in Palestine.
The vivid account of a Jewish
prophecy fulfilled after 20 -cen-
turies of struggle, Mr. Stone's
first-hand story of Israel's birth
is history written with a depth
and perspective rarely displayed
by an author so close in time to
the events he chronicles.
"This Is Israel" is an exciting
record of the Jewish war for
independence, a key to the secret
of how a deserted, poorly-armed-
and tiny nation stood off seven
Arab armies. It is an up-to-the-
minute interpretation of the
politics behind the front page
news on Israel, including an an-
alysis, of Count Bernadotte's
murder.
As Bartley Crum says' in his
introduction, I. F. Stone brings
"singular qualifications" to his
task of acquainting Americans
with Israel. "He knows these
people well . . . He went as one
of a group of refugeeS
East-
ern Europe on their :tortured
voyage to the Promised Land.
He knows what is in their minds
and in their hearts."
The spectacular photographs of
war and peace in Israel in this
book, published by Boni & Gaer,
are by Capa, Cooke and Gidal.

Prof. Basilius to Speak
At Sholem Aleichem Fete

The Women's Division of the
Sholem Aleichem Folk Institute
resumed its social and cultural
winter program at a gathering
took place at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Samuel Rosen, with Bernard
Goldman of Wayne University'
speaking on "Art and Society."
At .a luncheon and book review
on Nov. 6, at the
o f Mrs.
A. A. Kosarin,
17181 Ponchar-
train Drive.
Prof. H. A. Basi-
licas of Wayne
University w i 11
discusS the
works of Thom-
. as Mann on "Jo-
seph:"
The donor Mrs. Kosarin
luncheon of the'
Sholen Aleichem Institute, head-
ed by Ethel ,Shorr, is scheduled
for Dec. 8, at the Masonic Temple.
Anyone wishing to raise funds
through the sale .of rummage
should contact Irma Waldman,
TY. 6-0110. Sarah Freidman is in
charge of the souvenir book,
assisted by Esther Nusbaum in
compiling the Darling Page.
Funds realized from the donor
luncheon will help maintain the
Jewith. Peoples' Schools.

N.

'Y. Journalists to Honor
Interfaith Relations Work

NEW YORK (JTA)—A com-
mittee of five judges, including
Herbert Bayard Swope, has been
named to make the Irving Geist
Foundation awards for the stories,
cartoons or editorials appearing
in metropolitan newspapers which
do most to further interfaith
understanding, the New York
Newspaper Guild announced.

New Cuban President
Opposed to Partition

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HAVANA (JTA)—Dr. Carlos
Prio Socarras, newly-elected
President of . Cuba, told news-
papermen that, like his prede-
cessor President San Martin, he
is opposed to the plan to parti-
tion Palestine into separate Arab
and Jewish states. Cuba joined
the Arab states last Nov. 29 at
the UN General Assembly in vot-
ing against the partition resolu-
tion.

THE JEWISH NEWS

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Friday, October 29, 1948

LZOA President
Speaks at Detroit
Labor Meeting

Baruch Zuckerman, president
of. the Labor Zionist Organization
of America, will address an open
meeting of the Detroit Labor
Zionist movement and its friends

20 Michigan Communities Participate
In Collections for SOS on Sunday

More than 20 outstate Jewish
communities - are taking their
places by the side of Metropolitan
Detroit'- in participating in next
Sunday's SOS drive. Among the
cities included'in the Detroit SOS
drive are: Lansing, Grand Rapids,
Jacksdn, Pontiac, Ann Arbor, Bat-
tle Creek, and Mt. Clemens. List-
ed among 'suburban communities
in the Detroit-conducted drive are
Huntington Woods, Wyandotte,
Birmingham., Blooinfield Hills,
East Detroit,-Delray; Ecorse, River
Rouge and Trenton, Pleasant
Ridge and Royal Oak:
Outstanding in this_ list is. the
Pontiac group which. sponsored a
huge rummage sale, the proteeds

from which were used to pur-
Chase diapers for shipment over-
seas. Contributions to the Pon-
tiac sale came from as distant
points as Gla ".win, Mich.
All communities active in the
1948 drive have participated in
previous years. Leaders in these
drives include the following:
Maurice Reistman, Wyandotte;
Lester S. Berman and Nor-
man Smith, Grand' Rapids; -
Mrs. Sam Benson, Pontiac;
Jerome Banes, Mt. Clemens. -
Nathan Cohen, Battle Creek; .
. Isadore Rosenthal, East Detroit;
Jack • Fromm, South Oakland
County.
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Mrs. Sol Stolorow, Jackson;
N. H. Willer, Ann Arbor.
.
The Ann Arbor solicitation Will
Workmen's Circle Sets
include a special canvass of the
Adult Yiddish Classes
campus by two student co-chair-
men. The Ypsilanti campus will
Classes in Yiddish for adults .be solicited in the same fashi6n.
Will be conducted at the Work-
Dr.Martin Naimark is outstate
men's Circle beginning Wednes- chairman for SOS.
day, evening Nov. 3. Instruction
will be provided for beginning .
and advanced students.
For further information,. • call
TO 8-5368 between 1 and 6 p. rn.
Monday through Friday.

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SPAE-TANS'

BARUCH ZUCKER1VIAN
at 9 p.m. Friday, Oct. 29; at the
Labor Zionist Institute, Linwood'
and Pasadena.
Zuckerman, a member of ihe
World Zionist Actions Commit-
tee, will analyze the issues and
conclusions reached at the Actions
Committee session in Israel.
One of the founders of the
Labor Zionist Movement, vice
chairman of the United Palestine
Appeal, and a leader 4)f the
American Zionist Emergency
Council, Zuckerman is recognized
as one of the outstanding. Zionist
thinkers in the country.

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Jewish Center
Activities

The CHERIEKOKES CLUB
and TEEN CLUB COUNCIL is
sponsoring a costume carnival in
the auditorium of the jewiSh
Center at 8 p.m. • Saturday, Oct.'
30. All Jewish youth is invited.
There will be prizes for the best
costumes, stunts, skits and booths.
Committee heads are Charlotte
Schneider, Gere Aaron, Sylvia
Jafee, Mae Guyer and _ Frona
Johnson.
* * *
Mort Goodman, director of
teen-age activities at the Jewish
Community Center, announces
that the WEEKLY • SOCIAL
DANCING GROUP for TEEN-
AGERS will resume classes at 4
p.m. Monday, Nov. 1, in the But-
zel Hall. Informal instruction in
all modern techniques of ball--
room dancing will be offered.
* * *
On Nov. 3, the WEDNESDAY
EVENING DISCUSSION GROUP
will have a guest speaker Oscar
Cohen, director of the Jewish
Community Council. Cohen re-
cently returned from an extensive
trip in England and Europe. His
topic will be-"Economic Revolu-
tion in England."

Shelter and peace—a couple of plants to water and watch—warm, soft
wool to keep worn fingers busy—the gentle motion of a familiar rocking

chair—and good friends to talk to Red Feather services provide these
simple pleasures for folks in their declining years. Community centers
offer club activities and meeting places for old people—Family services
offer aid and advice on problem; of home, budget and special care..:
and in Red Feather homes for the aged, men and women like this one
find comfort and security. You support these services when you pledge
through the•Community Chest. When you give—give enough! Enough
for all Red Feather services—enough for a full year.

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