Cohen Forest Committee Enlarged;
Kasle Urges Prompt Cooperation

The project for the planting the good response to the call
of a forest in Israel, on soil of for the Cohen Forest shows the
the Jewish National Fund, to appreciation this community has
for the able leader who has been
in the forefront of Jewish com-
munity affairs for 25 years.
In addition to those listed last
week, the following have been
added to the Harry Cohen Testi-
monial Committee : Rabbis Ja-
cob Segal, Benjamin Gorrelick,
Morris Adler, M. Chinitz; also
Dr. Leonard Sidlow, Alfred L.
Deutsch, Isidore Leemon, Harry
Green and Manny Lax.
In his appeal for prompt re-
sponses and community-wide
cooperation in the speedy com-
pletion of the Cohen Forest, Mr.
Kasle expressed the hope that
there will be many gardens
planted by Mr. Cohen's co-
workers and admirers.
Checks for tree-planting in the
Cohen Forest should be made
payable to the Jewish National
ABE KASLE
Fund and should be mailed to
honor the 70th birthday of Har- the JNF office, Linwood and
ry Cohen, is gaining momentum, Lawrence.
Abe -Kasle, chairman of the tes-
Additional information may be
timonial committee, stated this secured by calling the JNF
week.
executive director, Percy Kap-
"The first announcement of lan, TO. 8-7384.
our plans already has brought
good results," Mr. Kasle report-
ed. "Several people have planted
gardens of 100 trees each, a few
are planting 70 trees each and
we have one gift for 335 trees.
Our committee feels confident
Announcement has just been
that we shall be able to complete made that all stores in the Big
the project close to the date of Bear supermarket chain have
Mr. Cohen's birthday—Sept. 15." been completely air conditioned.
In Detroit, little more than a
Mr. Kasle pointed out that
trace of the old-fashioned gro-
cery remains.
Try Nazis for Deporting
Today's grocery store is a huge
super market and modern shop-
Jews from Offenbach
ping center which easily can
FRANKFURT, ( J T A ) — Two hold 10 of yesteryear's grocery
former 'Gestapo officials, Jo- stores. It boasts spacious aisles
hann Schmitz and Josef Red- and well-stocked bins of food.
Gay wallpaper contrasts with
derich, went on trial on charges
of "having been accessories, subdued pastel tones in an eye-
while exercising an official func- pleasing decorative scheme. Soft
tion. to aggravated deprivation music is "piped" to customers
of liberty and to the persecution throughout the store. Automatic
conveyor-belt check-out booths
of innocent people."
In 1943 the two were in speed the adding and totaling of
charge of the Gestapo in Offen- purchases. And on the way out
bach near Frankfurt. Although to the huge parking lot, a foot-
Jews living in mixed marriage step on the rubber "magic car-
were not yet subject to deporta- pet" opens the wide doors ef-
tion at the time, Schmitz and fortlessly.
Throughout the store, mod-
Hederich went beyond even the
official Nazi instructions by de- ern air conditioning provides
porting scores of such Jews cool, spring-like comfort the
from Offenbach. Almost all of year-around in Big Bear's 26
Detroit area stores. The air in
their victims perished.
Schmitz a n d Hederich were the store is constantly filtered,
and dehumidified.
indicted by the Darmstadt Dis- cooled
"And," according to Big Bear
trict Attorney some years ago. president
. Sol C. Shaye, "house-
In an action, which observers wives have
told us that they -
consider significant for the way find shopping
a pleasure. Also,
many Germans feel about such employees enjoy
ideal working
cases, the Darmstadt court sim- conditions," he declared.
ply refused to arraign them.
Air conditioning is one of the
The District Attorney then ap-
pealed to the Superior Court, most recent features employed
by super market owners to im-
which has now ordered the trial prove
methods of retail food
to be held in Frankfurt.
merchandising. Big Bear spokes-
men state that the company is
Historian Attacks McCarthy the first large Michigan food
For Banning Book Overseas
retailing chain to provide air
Restoration of his book, "A conditioning in all of its stores.
Four additional stores, now
Documentary H i s t or y of the
Jews in the United States, 1654- under construction, are beie_g
1875," to the U. S. Information equipped with multi-horsepower
Service Library in Tel Aviv was central-station air conditioners.
asked for by Morris U. Schappes, Six more stores, still in the
historian, in a letter to Secre- planning stages, will include this
tary of State John Foster Dulles. type of installation. In about a
The book was removed on April year from now, Shaye said, the
chain will have 36 air-conch-
3.
markets operating in this
On releasing to the press the toned
letter he had sent Mr. Dulles, area.
Air conditioning, Shaye finds,
Mr, Schappes declared that Mr.
Dulles' failure to reply to it in- has proven a profitable invest-
dicates that he continues to be ment. Increased store traffic and
intimidated by McCarthy and in larger individual purchases have
doing so is undermining the softened the usual drop in sum-
mer business blamed on summer
cause of democracy itself.
appetities and vacationing fam-
ilies.
Israel, Egypt Sign Pact
Announcing the completion of
On Release of Vessels
the air conditioning program,
TELAVIV, (JTA) — Israel and Shaye declared that "supermar-
Egypt signed an agreement ket food merchandising must
under which vessels of either keep abreast of present trends.
"Plenty of open space, func-
country that enter the territor-
ial waters of the other nation tional design, airiness and taste-
be ca us e of engine trouble, ful furnishings have made the
storms or any other uncontroll- atmosphere in the modern home
able factor will be given shelter a cheerful one.
"Next to her home, the aver-
and will be permitted to con-
tinue to their destination. The age housewife probably spends
agreement covers non-military more time shopping in stores
vessels carrying non-military than anywhere else. So, we have
cargoes. Similar agreem e n t s tried, within the limits of good
were recently concluded be- business, to make her shopping
tween Israel a n d Syria and atmosphere as pleasant as pos-
Israel and Lebanon.
sible," he concluded.

Air Condition 26
Big Bear Stores

DETROIT JEWISH NEWS-9

Friday, August '7, 1953

Political Candidates) Lowe Seeks Judgeship

Candidates for political of- in opposition to Martha Grif-
fices, to be balloted on at the fiths, the recent Williams ap-
Sept. 17 primaries, in c l u d e pointee.
Turkish Jews Attend
George Karbal, who filed for
State Senator Charles Blondy
International Congress
Mayor, in opposition to Albert has filed for the Council. Others
E. Cobo. incumbent.
in race for the Council include
ISTANBUL, (JTA)—The Turk-
Maxwell M. Lowe is in the A. Charles Becker, Sophie Blon-
ish Government has permitted race for Recorder's Court Judge, dy,
Blanche P. Wise.
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MEM in
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