Women Mobilized for Ga-Day

Briefing Sessions April 26-27-28
To Acquaint Workers With Plans

Whitmania

Feinberg in London

(From the April 2 issue of
Jewish Observer and Middle
East Review of London, Eng-
land).

Members of general solicitation of the Women's Division of
the Allied Jewish Campaign shape up last minute details for
G-Day, which will take place on Sunday, May 2. Vice-Chairmen
and Secretaries, who comprise the leadership of General Solicita-
tion are shown in the photo above, left to right, standing, Mrs.
HAROLD ROBINSON, and Mrs NORMAN NAIMARK, Vice-Chair-
men, and Mrs. MERLE HARRIS, secretary; seated, Mrs. MAURICE
CLAMAGE, vice-chairman, with Mrs, ALEX BROOKS, her secre-
tary.
Other vice-chairmen and their secretaries of general solicita-
tion, in the lower photo, are left to right, seated, Mrs. BENJAMIN
GUTOW, secretary to Mrs. AUBREY GOLDMAN, vice-chairman,
and Mrs. HARRY ROBINSON, also a vice-chairman; standing,
Mrs. ADOLPH LOWE, secretary to Mrs. MAX LICHTER, vice-
chairman.

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An army of 2,000 volunteers of
the Women's Division in the 1954
Allied Jewish Campaign will
embark Sunday, May 2, on one
of the greatest events of the
year, G-Day, a great day for
giving."
In their day-long effort, mem-
bers of general solicitation will
visit 15,000 Jewish women for
their individual gifts to support
local, national and overseas
causes.
The general solicitation phase
of the Women's Division in the
drive is under the chairmanship
Of Mrs. Alexander Sanders.
All activities for G-Day will
emanate from Temple Israel be-
ginning at 10 a.m. when kits will
be distributed to all workers. In-
itiating a new plan for this
year's drive, only captains of
each of the 27 divisions will be
responsible for returning their
workers' kits to Temple Israel
that day. Workers will not be
required to report back to head-
quarters.
To acquaint all general soli-
citation workers with the pro-
eedur e for G-Day, briefing
meetings will be held on April
26, 27 and 28. WorkerS are re-
quested to attend only one of
the 65 briefing meetings desig-
nated for their' area.
Briefers for the training ses-
sions include Mesdames Samuel
S. Aaron, Murray Altman, Theo-
dore Bargman, Henry Berris,
Maurice Clamage, Joseph Ellis,
Lawrence Fleischman, Stanley
Friedman, Arthur I. Gould,
Lewis Grossman, I. Jerome Hau-
ser, Sander A. Hillman, john C.
Hopp, J. Shurly Horwitz, Harry
Jackson, Benjamin E.• Jaffe,
Harry L. Jones, Sidney J. Karbel,
Maxwell E. Katzen, Harold

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Kukes, Louis LaMed, Max Lich-
ter, Adolph Lowe, Lewis H. Man-
ning, Philip R. Marcuse, teo
Mellen, Norman Naimark, Harry
A. Paysner, Irving Posner, Mil-
ford Pregerson, Louis G. Red-
stone, Harold Robinson, George
Rubin, Alexander W. Sanders,
Carl S. Schiller, Julian H. Scott,
Ben Snider, Isidore Sobeloff,
Milton L. Soroch, Joshua Sper-
ka, Daniel Siegel, Nathan Speva-
kow, James L. Van Vleit, Leon-
ard H. Weiner, S. S. Willis.

I would commend my poet
friends to visit the Walt. Whit-
man exhibition at the American
Library, in Grosvenor Square.
I would commend my collector
friends to do likewise, if I knew
any collectors apart from a
young relative who hunts bus-
tickets with more zeal than dis-
crimination. Poets will find
Whitman's work-sheets fascin-
ating. His . poems evolve with
painstaking slowness through as
many as 30 or more drafts, sev-
eral of which were first set-up
in print and then revised. Col-
lectors will find Charles E. Fein-
berg, a middle-sized, relentlessly
modest American-Jewish busi-
nessman from Detroit, Michigan,
who has pursued rare manu-
scripts—especially Whitman's—
for more than thirty years.
Feinberg left Whitechapel at
the age of five and settled with
his parents in Canada where, as
a young man, he first read
Whitman in a volume of Ameri-
can poets he bought for 10 cents.
Whitman touched off a respon-
sive cord: "I was drawn to him
because of my Jewish upbring-
ing and the strong influence of
Biblical writing," he told me.
Now his collection of Whitman is
the finest in the world, but-
tressed, but not rivalled, by Mss.
and first editions of Joyce, Hous-
man, D. H. Lawrence, Katherine
Mansfield and many other, in-
cluding contemporary writers.
"I have every Ms. Thornton Wil-
der ever wrote," he said proudly.
But Feinberg is also noted for
his remarkable collection of
Hebraica and Judaica, which in-
cludes the complete records of
the Frankfurt Jewish commun-
ity, who singular influence in
European Jewry is well-known.
He is careful to discount own7,
ership. "A collector buys, bud
does not possess. He safeguards
what he has for the future. It's
a big responsibility," the man
from Detroit remarked pensive-
ly. The admirable way he dis-
charges this responsibility is
shown in the American Library's
first Whitman exhibition to be
held in Britain. The theme of
the exhibition is Whitman'sliter-
ary development, and his friend-
ships with Tennyson, Rosetti
Swinburne and Edmund Grosse.

Plan Free Port in Haifa
JERUSALEM, (JTA)—The Is-
rael Ministry of Communications
announced that it plans the es-
tablishment of a free port at
the new Kishon Harbor on Haifa.

29-DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Friday, April 23, 1954

Anti-Semitism Charged in Navy
Security Firing; Probe Requested

WASHINGTON, ( J T A )—The
American Jewish Congress call-
ed on Secretary of the Navy
Robert B. Anderson to investi-
gate charges that anti-Semitism
lay behind the dismissal as a
security risk of Abraham Chasa-
now, distribution control officer
in the Navy Hydrographic Office,
and a Navy employee for 23
years.
Dr. Israel Goldstein, president,
told Mr. Anderson that the Jew-
ish organization was "gravely
concerned" by charges that an-
ti-Semitic motivations played a
part in the Chasanow case. If
the charges were false, he said,
they should be immediately
countered.
Chasanow was dismissed by
the Navy April 7 although a na-
val security board unanimous-
ly cleared him of charges that
he had associated with Com-
munists in the suburb of Green-
belt, Md., where he lives. He
had been distribution control
officer of the Navy Hydrographic
Office.
Three other Jews employed in
the same office and also living
in Greenbelt have already been
dismissed, and a fourth has been
charged with being a security
risk. Charges against Mr. Chas-
anow and, presumably his four
J e w i sh neighbors, originated
among certain of his neighbors
in Greenbelt where anti-Semi-
tism is a matter of public rec-
ord.
Board Threw Out Charges
The security board which
threw out the charges against
Mr. Chasanow said at that time
that neighborhood disagree-
ments "often developed into
personal animosities" and that
"as a result, such terms as
.`crackpots,' `long hairs,' radicals'
`pinkos' and 'communists' have
been bandied about loosely by
disgruntled individuals."
The decision of the board was
thrown out by James H. Smith,
Jr., Assistant Secretary of the
Navy for Air. Mr. Smith said
the hydrographer of the Navy,
Capt. J. B. Cochran, who had
been Mr. Chasanow's superior
only a few months when the
charges were filed, did not con-
cur with the security board.
Mr. Smith also said the Navy
Department's Security Appeal
Board had reviewed the record
and unanimously found that Mr.
Chasanow's employment "is not
clearly consistent with the in-
terests of the national security."
Tainted by Anti-Semitism
In the appeal brief, Mr. Chas-
anow's counsel disclosed that
"there are but five members of
the Jewish faith who are or were
both Greenbelt residents and
employes of the hydrographic
office. There are at least eight

Two Red Letter Days On
ur Community Calendar

Tuesday, April 27.-Formal Opening of

Allied Jewish Campaign, 8:30 p.m.,

at - Temple Israel.

Sunday, May 2—G- ay of Allied Jewish.

Campaign Women's Division—

Great Day for. Giving and Working.

Volunteer Your Services—
Call Campaign Office, WOodward 5-3939

members of the gentile faiths
who are both residents of Green-
belt and employes of the Hydro-
graphic Office. All five of the
Jews have had security difficul-
ties in the Hydrographic Office.
All the gentiles remain undis-
turbed.
"In the absence of a state-
ment of reasons for "the ad-
verse decision, it may well
be believed that the proceedings
which led to that decision were
tainted by anti-Semitism."
Mr. Chasanow declared this
week that: "I have never asso-
ciated in any way with any
known Communist or with any-
one known to me to be a Com-
munist, Communist sympathizer,
radical or any kind of pink."
Speaking in his support were
the Mayor of Greenbelt, the
Chief of Police, the City Clerk,
the City Manager, the Protes-
tant minister, and the former
rabbi, Rabbi Morris Sandhaus,
now assistant to the Chief of
Chaplains of the Veterans Ad..
ministration.
ADL Action Criticized
Sharp criticism of the Anti-
Defamation League of the Bnai
Brith for its handling of the
security suspension of Jews em-
ployed at Fort Monmouth was
voiced in an editorial in the
Newark Jewish News.
The editorial referred to re-
cent public allegations that an-
ti-Semitism was a factor in the
suspension of 45 employes at
Fort Monmouth, 41 of whom are
believed to be Jews. It quoted a
speech by Arnold Forster, direc-
tor of civil rights of the ADL,
delivered at a dinner in New-
ark supposedly "off-the-record"
but extensively quoted by the
Newark Sunday News, in which
Mr. Forster stated that the ADL
had made a thorough investiga-
tion of anti-Semitic elements in
the situation and had forward-
ed a report to Secretary of the
Army Stevens.
"For the record," the editorial
declared, "it should be stated
that some months ago the New
Jersey Jewish Community Rela-
tions Council composed of dele-
gates of local Jewish communi-
ties and representatives of some
national agencies, invited the
ADL to sit down with other
groups in order to review the
Fort Monmouth matter and to
determine if any action were in-
dicated. It is regrettable that
the ADL refused this invitation.
Instead, subsequently, it initiat-
ed its own investigation, prepar-
ed a report and forwarded it to
Secretary Stevens without con-
sultation or foreknowledge on
the part of other interested
groups. Credit lines and testi-
monials are not of paramount
importance. It's far more im-
portant that in matters of this
kind national organizations and
local Jewish communities act
together."
Mr. Forster was quoted in the
Newark press as charging that
"rampant anti-Semitism" was
behind the accusations and as
having asserted that a report
concerning a "person with a
strategic position at the fort in
respect to the charges had been
sent to Secretary Stevens."

$50,000 for Cancer
Research in Israel

NEW YORK (JTA)—A $50,000
contribution ' to conduct basic
cancer research in the Miriam
Levy Finn laboratories of the
Weizmann Institute's Center of
Experimental Biology at Reho-
voth, Israel, was made by Joseph
Levy on behalf of the Joseph
and Helen Yeaman Leyy Foun-
dation. Mr. Levy presented the
$50,000 check to Abraham Fein-
.berg, president of the American
Committee for the Weizmann
Institute, as a memorial for his
daughter, Miriam, for whom the
Weizmann Institute wing was
named.

