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VOLUME 17—NO. 6 708-10 David Stott Bldg.—Phone WO. 5-1155 Detroit, Michigan, April 21, 1950
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Bonn Germans Asked by World
Leaders to Crush Anti-Semitism
Direct ETA Teletype Wires to The Jewish News
Campaign Workers to Hear
Israel's Rationing Minister
At Bruncheon Sunday Noon
Leaders in the Allied Jewish Campaign are calling
upon Detroit Jewry to utilize the second anniversary of
the establishment of Israel to send forth messages of good
will to the builders of the JeWish state in the form of en-
couragement through the United Jewish Appeal, major
beneficiary of the. Detroit drive.
On Sunday, April 23—the day on which the Jewish
state's anniversary will be observed in Israel
—the man who manages Israel's austerity
program, Dov Joseph, minister of rationing
and supplies, who is in this country in be-
half of the UJA, will speak to campaign
workers and contributors at a bruncheon
meeting---at noon—in the auditorium of the
main Jewish Coinmunity Center.
Hero of Israel's economic struggle for
the absorption into productive life of the
iDov- ,Josph 400,000 Jews who have poured into the little
state since 1948; Dr. Joseph won military renown. during
Sraers...iw.aur,,.Wependence. As military governor of
,Jeriicalem, he held his position in the face„of superior man-_
and fire:-power.
As z Sponsor and enforcer of Israel's harsh austerity
program, Dr. Joseph became a symbol of the new state's
willingness to sacrifice to keep its gates open to homeless
Jews all over the world. Under his administration, Israel's
cost" ofliving has been rolled back 20%, and prices, Drofi+-1
and wages have been scaled down.
Dr. JoSeph has also become the center of a new apo-
crypha of 'legends and humorous stories. Every time Is-
raelis have to tighten their belts—and the last notch was
a 2000 calories basic ration in the Immigrant camps—
another Dov JOseph joke is born.
Reared in Canada, Dr. Joseph first came—to Palestine
in 1917 as a member of the Jewish Legion under Gen.
Allenby. Prior to the establishment of Israel, he served
as legal advisor to the Jewish Agency for Palestine. In
1946, he was interned by the British Mandatory Govern-
ment, together with Moshe Sharett, now foreign minister
of Israel, and other top officers of the Jewish Agency.
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The United Hebrew Schools Choir, directed by Moe Kesner,
will provide the musical program at Sunday's bruncheon.
The Allied Jewish Campaign made further advances at
the rally held on Tuesday evening at the Shaarey Zedek, with
Dr. Abba Hillel Silver as speaker. A report of the rally will be
found on Page 3.
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MUNICH—Two protests against the rising wave of anti-Semitism have been ad-.
dressed to the West 'German Government by German organizations. The two groups
—the German Peace Society and the League of Former Political Persecutees—asked
that the Bonn government adopt legislation "to halt the anti-Semitic incidents" which
they said menaced German democracy as well as German Jewry.
Jewish communities of the American and British zones are planning to protest to
the occupation authorities against the Deutsche Presse Agentur, a German news agency
,,founded by the Americans and turned over to the Germans, which has been circulating
anti-Jewish reports. The communities have been compiling a list of false reports and
distorted stories about Jews which the DPA has been circulating.
Jewish circles in Germany are questioning the continued forebearance of the Allied
authorities in Germany in relation to the constantly mounting number • of anti-Jewish
developments. It is felt that the almost frequent appearance of new rightist and anti-
Jewish groups in this country can only be dealt with on the highest possible level—by
the states occupying Germany.
In the latest attack on a Jewish cemetery by Nazi vandals, the cemetery at Drans
feld was desecrated Monday night. This time, however, five men were arrested by the
police. They had damaged 15 tombstones.
Jewish organizations in Western Germany decided to call an eitraordinary confer-
ence to deal with the problem of organizing adequate self-defense measures against the
mounting anti-Jewish "incidents" in the American and British zones of Germany. The
Jewish organizations also intend to appeal f or outside intervention against the "continu-
ing neo-barbarism" in the country, it was indicated.
(In Washington, Sen. Guy M. Gillette introduced
a resolution in the Senate demanding an investiga-
Henry Ford II Makes
_ „tam (If American _denazification policies in Western
$50,000 Gilt to UJA
Germany. Co-sponsors of the resolution were -Sen-
ators Herbert H. Lehman, Paul IL Douglas, Claude
The Detroit Allied Jewish
Pepper, Dennis Chavez, Harley M. Kilgore, Irving
Campaign
and the national
M. Ives and Robert C. Hendrickson.)
United Jewish Appeal in-.
Minister of Interior GuStav Heinemann, of the
Federal West German Republic, broadcast an appeal
comes were enhanced by the
—in the name of the Protestant church—calling on
announcement,
all Germans to "work against prejudice and anti-
I made simul-
Semitism."
taneously i a
In Nuremberg, the Jewish proprietor of a build-
Detroit and in
ing returned to him under the restitution laws, who
Wa s h i .ngton,
recently came to Germany from Israel to claim his
of the $50,000
property, received an anonymous note declaring that
gift of Henry
"Jews are not wanted." Dr. Philip Auerbach, Bavar-
Ford II. The
ian Comniissioner for Persecutees, commented that
g ift, made .
the week-end incidents were organized by the Nazi
known at the
Henry. Foxd II U J A confer-
underground.
The Social Democratic Party issued a statement
ence in Washington on Sun-
denouncing the anti-Semitic incidents perpetrated in
day, was secured through the
this country during the week-end as "doubtless or-
newly-formed Christian Com-
ganized by neo-nationalists." The statement added:
mittee for the UJA. It was -
"The labor unions and the Social Democrats will reply
made in behalf of the Ford
with all their means."
Motor Co.
Conference Story on Page 3
(More Reports from Germany on Page 6)
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Governor Williams, Mayor Cobo
Day'
Proclaim April 30
To Honor State's Anniversary
Forward to New Life!
These new immigrants show their happiness
at being in Israel on the eve of the Jewish State's second anniversary. With the help of
American Jewry, the United Jewish Appeal brought them to Israel and made possible
their settlement in this abandoned Arab village. The UJA derives its funds in Detroit
from the Allied Jewish Campaign, now in progress.
An atmosphere of celebration is being created
throughout the community for the second anniversary o1
the establishment of Israel, to be observed in Detroit ink
the State Fair Coliseum on Sunday, April 30.
Proclaiming April 30 as "Israel Day" in Detroit and
throughout Michigan, Governor G. Mennen Williams
and Mayor.Albert E. Cobo aligned themselveS with the y
local celebration which is being sponsored by the Zionist
Council and the Jewish Community Council.
Governor Williams will attend the celebration to greet
the assembly on the historic occasion of Israel's second.
birthday. Rabbi_ Jacob E. Segal of the Northwest Heb-.
rew Congregation will deliver the principal address.
Sidney Shevitz, president of the Zionist Council,.
will preside at the rally. Greetings will be extended by
Dr. Shmarya Kleinman for the Community CounCil.
A musical program will be presented by the Detroit
Cantors under the direction of Dan Frohman. Florence
Weintraub will lead singing of the national anthems.
(Additional facts about Detroit's celebration on Page 5)