Federation s
Committee
Appointments

Israel Buys $3,600,000 I
In U.S. Surplus Goods

Jacob Scholnick,
Noted. Merchant,
Is Dead at 86

WASHINGTON. (JTA)—Israel
signed an agreement with the
United States Government to
Jacob Scholnick, one of De-
purchase $3,600,000 in U.S. sur-
plus agricultural commodities troit's best known merchants,
under the Agricultural Trade died Monday morning at the
Development and Assistance Act
of 1954.
Repayment will be in Israel
pounds. The agreement covers
22,000 tons of wheat, 40,000 tons
of feed grain, and transporta-
tion thereof.
The purchase will meet the
emergency created by drought
conditions in Israel and crop
failure. It brings to a total of
$13 million the sum of purchases
in this category in the fiscal
year. Ambassador Abba Eban
signed on behalf of Israel with
John D. Jernegan, Deputy As-
sistant Secretary of State for
Near Eastern Affairs, signing for
the State Department.

German Jews.Protest Acquittal of
Producer of Extermination Gas

DUSSELDORF, (3 T A) — The forming the Attorney General
Central Council of Jews in Ger- of the Central Council's position
many has protested against the and advising him that the fami
lies of Jews killed at Auschwitz
verdict' of a Frankfurt court in by poison gas expected a review
Appointments to the Jewish
acquitting Dr. Gerhard Peters, of the acquittal by a higher
Welfare Federation's budget and
chemical manufacturer w h o court. The city'F' judicial au-
planning divisions and to other
produced a 'special "Zyklon B" thorities, however, ignored the
important committees are an-
brand of lethal potassium cya- Council message and no appeal
itiounced. by Judge Theodore
nide. The product was sold to was filed within the one-week
Levin, president of Federation,
the Auschwitz extermination period prescribed by German
its follows:
camp in quantities sufficient to law.
George M. Stutz, chairman;
asphyxiate hundreds of thou-
Erwin S. Simon, associate chair-
sands of its inmates.
men, health and -welfare divi-
The Council's protest noted
sion.
that
Peters admittedly knew
For the Best Buy
Morris G a r v e t t, chairman;
what the crystals were used for.
Louis La Med, associate chair-
The Council regretted that com-
a New Pontiac
man, education division.
petent Jewish authorities were
Jacob A. Citrin, chairman;
Anytime • Anywhere
neither consulted by the prose-
Milton M. Maddi n, associate
cution, nor asked for help in- SEE
chairman, community relations
locating witnesses to. the em-
division.
ployment of "Zyklon B" in
Max AC Fisher has been
Auschwitz. The circumstances
named chairman of the finance
of the case, the Council observed
committee, a joint group of Fed-
bitterly, made it probable that
eration and the United Jewish Kaganovitch Named to
Nazi crimes against the Jews
Charities, which manages the Russia's Top Labor Post
would be blamed on the Jews
resources (other than Allied
themselves.
Jewish Campaign fund s) of
The Jewish representative
JACOB SCHOLNICK
Lazar
Kaganovitch,
First
Vice-
these t w o organizations. Hy
body asked that the Frankfurt
Premier
and
only
Jewish
mem-
&a.fran is chairman of the in-
age of 86. His late residence was Attorney General appeal against
surance and retirement commit- ber of the Soviet cabinet and at 17541 Northlawn.
the acquittal, in a telegram in-
tee which 'reviews insurance and Politburo. has been named
Born in Russia, he came to
chairman
of
a
new
committee
retirement plans of local agen-
handling all matters concerning the United States 57 years ago 6—DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
cies.
At PACKER PONTIAC
labor
and wages in the U.S.S.R., , and settled in Detroit 39 years
Tamarack Authority, respon-
Friday, Tune 24, 1955
18650 Livernois
UN. 3-9300
the
Jewish
Chronicle of London ago.
sible for the development of the
He operated one of the lead-
Tamarack Site, has as its chair- reports.
T h e new committee w a s ing men's stores in the state on
man Nathan Silverman.
created
primarily to increase Hastings Street and 29 years
Budgeting and planning
production
and overcome short- ago, together with his sons, Na-
meetings are now underway so
than and Maurice, established
that aliocatiOns_ to local agencies comings widely criticized at a the well known "Scholnick's"
may be recommended to Fed- recent Conference of Industrial men's furnishing shop on Wash-
CERTIFIED PUBLIC, ACCOUNTANT
erations' board of governors at Workers at the Kremlin.
ington Boulevard.
Ka.gnovitch's
post,
affecting
their July meeting. Under the
Until a very short time ago,
LEONARD A. MASON, C.P.A.
1955 pre-campaign formul a. some 40 million Workers
$995,000 will be available for throughout the U.S.S.R., is - "the Mr. Scholnick 'Lade his daily
ASSOCIATE
trips
to
the
Washington
Boule-
biggest job ever held by any per-
local allocations.
son in • the Soviet system," ac- , yard store and took a deep in-
ANNOUNCES THE REMOVAL OF HIS OFFICES
cording to the British publica- terest in its Operations.
New York Banks, Law
He
was
a
deep
student
of
tion.
TO
Another Jew recently given a Jewish affairs and wrote many
Firms Charged with
top position by the Communist essays on Jewish life in this
Bias Against Jews
1335 LAFAYETTE BUILDING
regime is Eugene Szyr, who was country and abroad. He was
I appointed chairman of the State especially interested in congre-
DETROIT 26, MICHIGAN
WASHINGTON, (JTA)—Rep. Planning Commission in Poland, gational activities and in Zion-
Abraham J. Multer, New York a body responsible for reorganiz- ism and Israel.
Democrat, told the House Bank- l ing that country's industries.
FLINT OFFICE
In the middle twenties, he
ing Committee here that despite
participated in an essay con-
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WOodward
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New York State's FEPalaw Jews
test on JeWish life in this coun-
CEDAR 4-8996
and Negroes qualified for re- EN Sisterhood Elects
try and wrote a long disserta-
sponsible posts are being dis- New Slate Of Officers
tion in which he advocated the
criminated against by banks and
building of fewer houses of v, , or-
law firms in New York
New officers of the Evergreen ship and the striving for a les-
Rep. Multer said that, as a
Jewish
Sisterhood, i sening of mortgages on Jewish
Jew, he knew something about voted Congregation
into
office
at
a recent 1 public buildings. He won hon-
discrimination and that passing meeting, include Eleanor
Heide- orable mention for his essay
a law would not end it if the law man, president; Ida Waldman,
from the Rosenwald Founda-
is administered poorly or if many Esther Karber, Roslyn Finkle- tion.
people evade it.
He was a member of the
man and Ruth Kovan, vice-
presidents; Sylvia Idelsolm, Eve- Shaarey Zedek, Bnai Brith and
Bible for School Use
lyn Wilner and Laura. Bernstein, the Zionist Organization.
Outlawed in California
Funeral services were held at
secretaries; and Sarah Nadis,
Kaufman Chapel on Tuesday.
LOS ANGELES, (JTA )—Attor- treasurer.
Board members are Zee Bern-
Surviving him are four sons,
ney General Edmund G. Brown
Greta Cohen, Jerry Levy, Nathan and Maurice of Detroit,
has ruled that the Bible may stein,
Sara Manson, Dolly Sim o n, Ethan Allen and Reuben of
not. be used in California public Thelma Abel, Ruth Kass, Ethel
Pittsburgh; three daughters,
schools for religious purposes.
Rosenberg, Zelma Sussman and MesdaMes Henry Pollack of
In a long awaited decision. Molly Feinberg.
In buying carpet _cleaning service as
Cleveland, Charles Lapides and
Brown held that the use of the
° in buying merchandise you must choose
The final meeting of the year Alfred Meyers of .Detroit; 14
Bible in classroom exercises will be held at 8:30 p.m., grandchildren and four great-
carefully to get the most for your
"might well amount to sectarian Wednesday, at Northland Com- grandchildren.
money.
instruction." The Bible may be munity auditorium. A movie
His wife passed - away three
used for refuence,literary, his- party, showing scenes of pre- years ago. - They were married
torical or ether non-religious vious Sisterhood events, will be 61 years.
It is to your advantage to make certain
purposes.
featured. Friends are invited.
of quality work and responsible work-
The family is observing shi-
-
vah at the home of Mrs. Alfred
men.
Meyers, 1610 Lincolnshire.

On

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Mrs. Eban. Accepts Commemorative
Plates for Shipment to Israel

Hebrew Teachers to Honor
Late Solomon Kasdan

The Association of Hebrew
Teachers of Detroit is arranging
a memorial meeting for the late
Solomon Kasdan, to be held at
9 p. m., Wednesday, in the audi-
torium Of the Rose Sittig Cohen
School.
Mr. Kasdan, • a distinguished
educator and widely known as a
Talmudist and Hebraist, was one
of the founders and a former
of the Teachers' Asso-
Mrs. Abba Eban, wife of the Ambassador of Israel to the president
ciation.
He
had been associated
United. States, accepting seven commemorative plates from the with the United
Schools
Sisterhood of She'erit Israel, the Spanish-Portuguese Synagogue since 1919, the Hebrew
year they were
in New York. The 'plates were presented on the occasion of the
Tercentenary Celebration of She'erit Israel, the oldest Jewish founded.
Memorial tributes will be de-
congregation in the United States. In accepting the plates, Mrs.
Eban said that they would be placed in the residence of the livered by Rabbi Morris Adler,
President of the State of Israel, adding that their presentation is Albert Elazar, Morris Lachover,
"a further illustration of the innumerable ties of deep friendship and Morris Nobel. Cantor Son-
and fraternity that link. Israel with American Jewry—and with enklar will chant the "El Mole
its most venerable house of prayer and learning." In the photo- Racharnim," and Allan Silver
rraph, from left: Mrs. A. L. Cardona, Mrs. Louis C. Gerstein, Mrs. will read a chapter from the
Adolphe Pressel, Mrs. David de Sola Pool, Dr. David de Sola Pool, Book of Psalms.
rabbi of She'erit Israel; Mrs. Eban, Mrs. Ferdinand S. Oppenheim,
"Hitch your wagon to a star."
artist who designed the plates; Mrs. Harold Lewis, lWrs.

Joseph Adelammy peeddevat tot Sisterhood.'

—Emerson

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