Victory Party for BIG Workers;
$100,000 Israel Bonds Sold Sunday
24 — DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
From. Volunteer to President
Friday, June 19, 1953
Name Max Lapides
To Assist Jewish
Agency Treasurer
18 Years of Bottom to Top Service
Qualifies Mrs. Bargman as JSSB Head
•
February 21, 1935, marked a
turning point in the life of Mrs.
Theodore Bargman. On that day
she came to the offices of the
Jewish Social Service Bureau to
offer her services as a volunteer.
In the ensuing 18 years she
traveled the
road of volun-
teer in this
agency to her
election this
year as presi-
dent.
Because of her
deep conviction
that the family
is the basis of
our society, she
quickly became
an integeral
part of the
Mrs. Bargman JSSB activities.
Born in Detroit, Mrs. Barg-
man was graduated from Nor-
mal School as a teacher. She
was married to Theodore Barg-
man in 1917.
Elected to the JSSB board in
1943, she has served on it since
with a break of one year as re-
quired by the by-laws. She has
held successively the offices of
treasurer, vice - president, and
was recently elected president.
Her interests and activities in
the agency are manifold. She
served on the children's case
committee, executive committee,
nominating committee, delegate
to the United Community Ser-
vices Council of Social Agencies,
and the Family Welfare United
Community Service Federation.
Currently she is the board dele-
gate to the General Assembly of
Former Detroiter Max Lapides
has been appointed advisor to
the treasurer of the Jewish
Agency for Israel, Dr, G. Josepn-
thal.
Lapides, who directed - and
brought to a successful conclu-
sion the transfer of nearly 50,000
Yemenite Jews
to Israel, served
First subscription on BIG Day was the purchase of a $3,000
with the Recon-
Israel bond by Mrs. Bella Osnos from Grand Marshal PETER
struc tion Fi-
GOLDSTEIN. Shown in front of the organizational "score-board"
nance Corpora-
at BIG Day Headquarters, United Dairy Workers Hall, are (from
tion prior to
left) : BERNARD OSNOS, vice marshal in charge of the telephone
World War II,
squad; Mrs. BELLA OSNOS; Co-Marshal Mrs. BERNARD OSNOS;
•and was a lieu-
GOLDSTEIN; Mrs. THEODORE BARGMAN, chairman of the Wo-
tenant colonel
men's Division; and JULIUS GINSBURG of Chicago, who ad-
attached to the
dressed the workers.
U. S. Eighth and
*
*
Ninth Air Force
during the war.
A BIG Day Victory Party for There will be no admission
It was in 1949
all workers who volunteered charge and no bond solicitations.
., that he assum-
As part of a national effort
their services in the one-day
ed the direction
Lapides
door-to-door canvass for State to speed investment dollars to
of Israel Bonds last Sunday will Israel, 500 volunteer salesmen of "Operation Magic Carpet" in
be held at the Davison Jewish cbtained $100,000 in Israel which giant Skymasters trans-
Center, Tuesday, 8 p.m., it was Bond subscriptions during the ported nearly the entire Jewish
community in Yemen, on the
announced by BIG Day Grand BIG (Bonds of the Israel Gov-
Marshals Peter S. Goldstein and ernment) Day drive in Detroit Arabian peninsula, to Israel.
In June, 1950, while still di-
Sunday. This total was secured
Mrs. Bernard Osnos.
Awards of three expense-paid through the combined facili- recting "Operation Magic Car-
week-end trips to Washington, ties of door-to-door canvassing pet," Lapides boarded a vessel
carrying prayer books and
D. C., will be presented • that and a telephone squad of 30
shawls, Scrolls of the Law and
evening. The trips, contributed persons, operating from BIG
by Peter Goldstein and Theodore Day Headquarters at United other religious articles left be-
Bargman, are scheduled for the Dairy Workers Hall, Second at hind by the Israel-bound Yem-
enite Jews. • The ship, in a dar-
week-end of Sept. 26-27, permit- Midland.
The workers were addressed by ing 'move, sailed through the
ting the winners to witness the
National Economic Conference Julius Ginsburg of Chicago, na- Gulf of Aqaba dominated by
tional chairman of "Israel's Egyptian and Saudi - Arabian
for Israel.
A program of entertainment Redemption Mont h. Benny forces—for Elath, southernmost
has been arranged, and refresh- Baker, comedy star of the musi- tip of Israel which is on the
ments will be served, according cal play "South Pacific," now Gulf of Aqaba. The docking of
to the local committee of the playing in Detroit, and "Thun- the vessel marked the first regu-
Israel Bond organization, which der Birds," a motion picture, lar use of the Elath seaport
is sponsoring the affair in trib- served as master of ceremonies since the establishinent of Is-
rael in 1948.
utee to all BIG Day workers. at the rally.
A graduate of Buffalo Univer-
sity and the Yale Law School,
Lapides joined the Joint Distri-
bution Committee after his dis-
charge from the Air Force.
BRUSSELS, (JTA) — A Bel-
Lapides will assume his duties gian "Finaly Affair" has ended
with the Jewish Agency in Jeru- with the return of a 13-year-old
SAN FRANCISCO, (JTA)—The offense committed in his pres- salem in July.
Jewish girl to her family. She
ence.
right of a citizen to order the
was recovered from a Catholic
In his appeal to the District
arrest by a policeman and with-
family which had sheltered her
out warrant of anyone disturb- Court, Levy pointed out that Five International Fairs
during the war, returned her to
ing the peace by making deroga- when he threatened to call a Plan Display of Israel Wares
JERUSALEM, (IIP) — Israel her family and later kidnapped
tory remarks about Jews in a policeman Hill told him to "call
public place has been upheld in a whole bunch of them. Calling will be represented at five inter- her.
During the Nazi occupation,
decision of the California Dis- one would be a waste of your national fairs during the sum-
time and mine." Levy contend- mer. The industries fair in Ismia, the child, Helen Szpilman, was
trict Court of Appeal.
The case began Feb. 27, 1949, ed that this convinced him that Turkey, opening August 20, will handed over to the Catholic
in the dining room of a Bakers- he could not make the arrest give Israeli manufacturers a family of Van den Bossche by
the Jewish underground when
field hotel where a man named himself. The appellate court chance to show the industrial she was two years old. At the
Jim Hill was making defamatory ruled that the arrest had been achievements of the young Re- end of the war the Catholic
remarks about Jews. Jack Levy made "within a reasonable time public within the last few years. family, which had secretly bap-
Other fairs in which Israel will
who was sitting nearby demand- and as soon as the circum-
tized the girl, returned her to
ed that Hill cease his remarks, stances permitted" and reversed participate are in Salonica, her family. Shortly afterwards
but this only brought forth fur- the lower court's award of dam- Greece; Stockholm, Sweden; an aunt of the girl, a Mme.
Padua, Italy and Bari, Italy.
ther -vituperation and Levy went ages.
Ciecura, was named her legal
out of the restaurant • to find a
guardian.
policeman. During the time he
In August of 1946 M. Van den
Was gone Hill continued his an-
Bossche, during a visit with the
ti-Semitic remarks.
child, kidnapped her. After long
When Levy returned with the
and bitter wrangling M. Van
By NATHAN ZIPRIN
policeman, he exercised his right
(Copyright, 1953, Seven Arts Feature Syndicate)
den Bossche was arrested. The
of a citizen to make the arrest.
child was returned to the aunt
Finaly
Case
.
Bill was held for an hour, re- The
and the kidnapper will go on
The
endless
procraStination
in
-
solving
the
"mystery"
of
the
leased and later brought to trial
trial July on charges of kid-
on a complaint filed by Levy. A disappearance of the Finaly orphans only lends credence to the napping.
jury returned a verdict of not conclusion that this is' a case of "ritualistic kidnapping" whose
guilty, whereupon Hill sued Levy solution does not rest in Jewish hands alone. The imputation of French Primate Differs With
insincerity to Catholic churchmen by the Grand Rabbi of France Chief Rabbi on Finaly Case
for false arrest.
may have been an emotional outburst, but the unalterable fact
lower
court
found
in
favor
A
PARIS, (JTA)—Cardinal Ger-
of Hill and awarded him $600 in remains that the case is far from solution despite alleged agree- lier of Lyons, Primate of France,
ments
under
which
the
children
would
be
place,d
under
neutral
damages, holding that in not
the protested this week against the
arresting Hill immediately, and custody pending final court action on their custody. Where
Rabbi was remiss perhaps was ,in his imputation . of Mac- statement of Grand Rabbi Jacob
in going for a policeman Levy Grand
to Pierre Cardinal Gerlier who is known to have saved hun- Kaplan who questioned the good
had unnecessarily delayed and ton
dreds
Jews, particularly children, and who was one of the few faith of the Catholic authorities
forfeited his right to make an men of of the
cloth who had the moral courage to publicly denounce who more than three months
arrest under a penal code pro-
ago concluded an agreement
the
Nazis
during
the occupation.
vision entitling a private citizen
There was however the admission by the Cardinal's represen- with the Grand Rabbinate for
to make an arrest for a public tative in the Finaly affair that although everything had been the return of the kidnapped Fi-
done to secure the return of the children the French church was naly children.
In his formal protest," Car-
powerless to get them out from the "mysterious" forces holding
Danish General Head
them in Spain. Who are the "mysterious" forces? The answer to dinal Gerlier declared that when
that question certainly holds the key to the tragic riddle. Cardinal "the moment comes that we can
Of UN Truce Team
Chaillet, who handled the affair, also asserted that the children reveal the serious efforts under-
were known to have lived in a Spanish convent on February 21, taken to return the children and
UNITED NATIONS, (JTA)
but that they were removed on that day following a telephone the difficulties encountered, it
— Major Gen. Vagn Bennike
call.
to the convent by a woman. Was that the lady who secretly will be readily understood that
of Denmark has been ap-
baptized theM and conspired to abduct them across • the border the maximum possible had been
pointed chief of staff of the
rather than yield them to Jewish custody. There is the implication done to execute the clauses of
United Nations truce super-
in that story that one, or perhaps both, of the children are no longer the March 6th agreement." The
vision organization in Pales-
alive. But this story does not square with another version. This Cardinal added that the respon-
tine to succeed Lt. Gen. Wil-
time by the Spanish Consul in Jerusalem who was reported to sibility for the delay is "in no
liam E. Riley, who resigned
have told lawyers for the Finaly family that the children were in way incumbent" upon those
effective May 15, it was an-
Spain and that' he was astounded at the inability of the French "whom one would seem today to
nounced by. UN Secretary
authorities to locate the children. Is this a true report, or was blame to the point of formulat-
General Dag Hammarskjold.
ing injurious and unacceptable
it
merely designed to throw off the trail?
The 65-year-old veteran of
It seems only logical that if there were sincere efforts on be- suspicions on their good faith."
Denmark's engineering and
half of those charged with untangling the ravel, the "mystery"
telegraphic corps will pro-
would have long been solved. We fear this is another case of soul AJC • Unhappy over Finaly Case
ceed to Jerusalem to take up
NEW YORK, (JTA) — The
snatching in which some of our Christian friends have fallen into
Anti-Jewish Remarks in Public Places
Ruled Warranting Arrest in California
On the Record
his new duties on June 17.
the error of the means justifying the end.
Family Service Association of
America.
Elected president of the De-
troit Chapter of Hadassah in
1949, she served two terms, and
during this period she was also
a member of Hadassah's nation-
al board. She is chairman of the
Women's Division of Bonds for
Israel, and holds the position of
treasurer of the Central States
Region of Hadassah.
Mrs. Bargrnan's desire to give
service to her community is re-
flected in the work she did
when she lived in Royal Oak.
She served on the OPA board,
was vice-president of Council of
Social Agencies of Southern
Oakland County, president of
the Family Service Society,
board member of the Mental
Hygiene Society, chairman of
the Family Division of Council
of Social Agencies.
At the present she is on the
board of the women's commit-
tee, United Community Services.
and a member of the national
support committee of the Fam-
ily Service Association of
America.
The Jewish Social Service
Bureau has remained her dom-
inant interest through the years.
As a volunteer she felt herself
a member of the professional
staff and was accepted by the
staff. Her genuine - interest in
the work of the Bureau and her
eagerness to qualify better for
her duties were evidenced by
her enrollment for a course in
social work at Wayne University
and her constant use of pro-
fessional periodicals.
Belgian `Finaly Case' Ends As
Child Is Returned To Family
adopted a resolution expressing
its "sense of utmost disquiet"
over the fact that the, Finaly
children, abducted in Fr an c e
and irregularly baptized despite
the clear wishes of their parents
that they be reared as Jews,
have not yet been returned to
their relatives.
The resolution asserted that
"a large measure of responsi-
bility rests on the Spanish Gov-
ernment, within whose terri-
torial jurisdiction the children
have been for several months
and on the Vatican, supreme
authority of the Catholic
Church whose functionaries
have been actively and dishon-
orably inyolved in the affair."
Says Bermuda Hotel
Bars Jewish Guests
LONDON, (JTA)—Ian Mikar
do, Labor M. P., charged that
Jews are barred as guests at the
Mid-Ocean Club at :Bermuda,
the headquarters of the forth-
coming talks among President
Eisenhower, Prime Mini s-t e r
Churchill and a French Govern-
ment representative. Mr. Mikar-
do said that he would task the
Prime 'Minister to try to get the
locale of the Three Power con-
ference changed..
(In New York, the Travel
Agents • Committee to Combat
Discrimination in the Travel
Industry, representing 125 travel
bureaus in the metropolitan
area, confirmed that the Mid
Ocean Club "has a policy of
religious discrimination. It will
not accept Jewish guests.")
Israel Water Consumption
Rises Because of Irrigation
JERUSALEM, (IIP) — Water
consumption in Israel has risen
to 700,000,000 cubic meters, it
was revealed by Pinhas Sapir,
head of the Water Authority of
the Ministry of Agriculture. In
1948 water consumption totalled
25,000,000.
A tremendous expansion in,
the area under irrigation dur-
ing the past five years with the
aid of a $18,060,000 appropriation
from State of Israel Bond in-
vestments is largely responsible
American Jewish Congress for the increased demand,