Friday, September 6, 1957—THE DETROIT JEWISH NEW S-1 6
Grant 'Immediate Aid' Eight Candidates for City Council
to Nazi Survivors
Win Backing of Local Leaders
in Rhine Westphalia
Six incumbents and two
newcomers to posts on the De-
troit Common Council in next
Tuesday's Municipal Primary
Election this week received the
support of leaders in the local
community.
They are: Charles N. Young- ,
blood, Bill Rogell, Eugene I.
Van Antwerp, Del A. Smith,
Edward Connor and Mrs.
Blanche Parent Wise, all incum-
bents, and Ed Carey, presently
the Democratic minority leader
in the Michigan House of Rep-
resentatives, and C. V. Velas-
quez.
Charles N. Youngblood, born
and educated in Detroit, is a
graduate of Assumption Col-
lege and Wayne State Uni ver-
sity law school. He has been
a public official since 1935, and
served in the State Senate from
1943 to 1947.
He was elected to the Coun-
cil in 1953 to fill the vacancy
left by the resignation of
Charles G. Oakman, and was
re-elected later that year for
the full term.
Councilman Roge 11 has
served 14 years on the Coun-
cil, since ending his colorful
baseball career with the De-
troit Tigers. Among his acts
on the Council, Rogell in-
augurated a baseball school
which trained 15,000 Detroit
children.
He also led the fight to pre-
vent government housing units
in the Northwest section, spon-
sored a proposal to provide 60
parcels of land for playfields
in the area and combatted
plans to build an airport in
1944 between Meyers and
Greenfield.
Eugene I. Van Antwerp, a
native Detroiter, is a Council-
man of long standing and a
former Detroit Mayor. He is
`She is more precious than a graduate engineer and a
rubies."--Prov. 3:125
former instructor at Gonzaga
University, Spokane, Wash.
A veteran of World War
WE NEED
Van Antwerp was a founding
Boarding homes for children
member of the American Le-
temporarily separated from their
gion here. He also is a member
families.
of the Veterans of Foreign
WE PAY
Wars, Disabled American Vet-
Boarding care and all other ex-
erans, numerous professional
penses.
societies, was the first Council-
CALL
man to be chairman of the
TO. 8-2490
Wayne County Board of Super-
visors and is an elected mem-
Jewish Social
ber of the three-man City-
County Building Authority.
Service Bureau
Now seeking his fifth con-
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secutive term as Councilman,
DUESSELDORF, (JTA)—The
state of North Rhine Westphalia
has issued instructions to pay
a $1,425 "immediate-aid" in-
demnification allowance to Ger-
man Jews who were shipped to
such Nazi concentration camps
outside Germany proper, such
as Auschwitz, Theresienstadt or
Mauthausen, and who returned
to Germany after the war to
settle here.
All German states but one
have now abandoned the speci-
ous reasoning previously em-
ployed in this connection. The
l956 version of the Federal In-
demnification Law contains a
clause providing an "immediate-
aid" award to Nazi victims who
were former residents of Ger-
many.
If they emigrated from Ger-
many due to Nazi persecution;
if they were deported or ex-
pelled, they are entitled—once
they have returned to Germany
on a permanent basis—to a
$1,425 allowance, half of which
is later deducted from other,
indemnification grants.
By dint of strained leg al
argumentation, some German
indemnification author Ales
ruled that Jews whom the Nazis
shipped to concentration camps
outside Germany, and who re-
turned to Germany after the
war, had not been "deported"
or expelled within the mean-
ing of the law and therefore had
no claim to the "immediate-aid"
gr ant.
The state of Rhineland-Palati-
nate still adheres to this inter-
pretation, and has now appealed
to the German Supreme Court
against a decision of the Neu-
stadt Superior Court which
affirms that a Jewish com-
plainant is entitled to the "im-
mediate-aid" allowance.
No. 38 on Your Voting Machine
Friendly — Informed Effective
March of Dimes Se eks Polio Patients
More than 10,000 former polio
patients in Wayne County are
being mailed questionnaires in
a census conducted by the
Wayne County Chapter of the
March of Dimes. William J.
Young, Jr., chapter chairman,
has announced.
The local canvass, part of a
nationwide program, is to serve
as a basis for an intensive
study of the current medical
needs of all former' polio pa-
tients both paralytic and non-
paralytic. It has been found that
some polio patients originally
diagnosed as nonparalytic de-
velop weakness and even de-
formities after a lapse of years.
"We want the names and
addresses of everyone who ever
had polio now living in Wayne,
County. Many former patients
have moved here from other
parts of the nation, and there
were many persons stricken by
polio before the March of
Dimes was incorporated 20
years ago," Young said.
"We want to know how many
former polio patients, regard-
less of age or when they had
the disease, can be helped by
modern rehabilitation tech-
niques and thereby gain more
useful lives," he added:
Young urged that all polio
victims — whether disabled or
not — send their names and
addresses to: Wayne County
Chapter, March of Dimes, 153
E. Elizabeth •t., Detroit 1.
Del A. Smith has been ex-
tremely active in the fight for
better sewage and sewage dis-
posal, a rapid transit system
adequate to meet the needs of
an expanding population and in
leading in Detroit's rehabilita-
tion and public housing pro- Veterinarian Says
gram.
His constant efforts to im- Schechitah Humane
prove housing and job oppor-
NEW YORK, (JTA)—Shech-
tunities for lower-income work-
itah,
ritual slaughter of animals
ers, coupled with his interest
in problems confronting dis- and fowl for kosher consump-
placed immigrants, have won tion, "is done so quickly and
him support of labor, civic, skillfully that a feeling of pain
fraternal, foreign born and as a result of the cut is im-
probable," a Cornell University
minority groups.
Councilman Edward Connor, expert has concluded after a
now serving a fourth term, was study of the procedures made
recently elected to a fourth public by the Research Institute
term as chairman of the Wayne of Religious Jewry of New
County Board of Supervisors. York.
He also has been a member
The Research Institute under-
of the executive committte of took a program of scientific re-
the Detroit Metropolitan Area search of Schechitah through
Regional Planning Commission Cornell University more than a
since its inception in 1945.
year ago, according to Dr. Salo-
His other government serv- mon Goldsmith, its chairman.
ice experience has been with The study was made by Prof.
the Federal Works Agency of H. H. Dukes, a non-Jew, who
Community Service Projects, is chairman of the Department
chairman of the Michigan of Veterinary Physiology at the
State Housing Study Com- New York State Veterinary Col-
mittee and chairman of the lege at Cornell University in
Michigan State Technical Ithaca, N.Y._ -
Committee on Public Works
The report was based on a
in the Civil Defense organiza- detailed observation by Prof.
tion.
•
Patios
Nursery Sales
Dukes on all phases of schech-
An attorney, Connor has held
•
Fertilizer
itah, including both direct ex-
Dirt
posts in several business or-
amination and studies of motion
Crushed Concrete • Flowers
ganizations. Presently, he is
pictures. "An uninformed per-
Seeding
•
Sodding
chairman of the Supervisors
son watching the reactions of
Lawn Service • Garden Tools
Inter-County Committee, com-
Tree Trimming • Evergreens
posed of Wayne, Oakland, Ma- an animal dying" could reach
"erroneous conclusions with re-
comb, Monroe, Washtenaw and
Top Dressing
spect to consciousness and
St. Clair Counties, which is
pain,"
Prof.
Dukes
said
in
his
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working to develop joint action
on water, sewer, road and port report.
development programs.
Seeking office is Ed Carey,
State Representative from De-
troit's Third District, who has
been Democratic leader of the
House since 1951. A Detroiter
since 1928, Carey worked here
at automobile plants, helping
YOUR CANDIDATE for Detroit Common Council
to organize the original United
Automobile Workers Union
member — author of the VELASQUEZ DSR PLAN.
(UAW).
He served as president of
90 C. V. VELASQUEZ
UAW Local 7 in 1943 and the
following year was elected to
The VELASQUEZ DSR PLAN — forty pages of
RECOMMENDATIONS and eight pages of TRANSFER
the State Legislature. Except
ILLUSTRATIONS (3 per page), all on legal size paper—
for 1947-48, he has served
offers a City-wide Zone Fare System which utilizes the
continuously since that time.
same two - door, one - man DSR coaches now on hand.
Carey, who is number 35 on
Patrons still can leave by the REAR DOOR — they are
the ballot, is not to be con-
CHECKED! The DSR business picture has clearly shown
fused with two other "name"
an urgent need for a new Gen. Manager who can offer
candidates who are also run-
REMEDIES — NOT EXCUSES — for its continuous LOSS
, ning for Council.
OF PATRONAGE, and financial plight In 1950 DSR Corn-
Councilman Blanche Parent
mission Sec'y Fitzgerald tried to trick me into revealing
Wise, a native Detroiter and
the details of my DSR PLAN while he REFUSED to offer
seventh generation American,
any guarantee against piracy — the DSR Management
graduated from the Detroit pub-
wants a Zone Fare System FOR FREE!
lic school sys-
tem, and taught
THE VELASQUEZ DSR PLAN
in various
schools here.
OR DSR SUBSIDY
She is married
Nowicki's
DSR
RECORD shows the PATRONAGE
to John A.
COUNT HAS DROPPED STEADILY from 420,421,966 in
Wise, a build-
1948 (last fiscal year under Sullivan) to 190,726,413 in 1957
ing contractor,
— a TERRIFIC LOSS of more than 54% which Nowicki
is the mother
has declared NORMAL. Nowicki expects MORE LOSSES
of five and has
TO COME — he is reconciled to DSR BANKRUPTCY. He
two grandchil-
is against Zone Fares; and his favorite remedy is FURTHER
dren.
Mrs. Wise
CURTAILMENT OF DSR SERVICE so he can boast of the
She is on the Detroit Girl
BIG SAVINGS. NOW THE DSR OWES MORE THAN
Scout Council, active in the
WHAT IT IS WORTH. A City-wide Zone Fare System in
Torch Fund, a member of the
1950, when the patronage count was 331,782,828, would have
Women's Steering Committee of
brought to the DSR YEARS OF PROSPERITY with
the United Foundation and a
efficient operation under the VELASQUEZ DSR PLAN —
member of the Detroit Round
instead of BANKRUPTCY. A FARE BOOST will only
Table of Christians and Jews.
bring MORE PATRONAGE LOSSES — look into DSR's
She inspired Detroit's famous
history! Eventually Detroit homeowners will be TAXED—
and tenants will find their rents raised — to SUPPORT A
R.iverama Festival.
BANKRUPT DSR, unless Nowicki is FIRED!
Elected to the Council in 1954;
Mrs. Wise has been chairman of
Judging by their firm opposition to Cobo's Refinancing
several committees, and was se-
Program, the following members of Detroit Common Coun-
lected by the U. S. Government
cil can be expected to favor FIRING of Nowicki:
to visit Europe with a survey
EDWARD D. CONNOR, Miss MARY V. BECK,
group of American women. She
JAMES H. LINCOLN and EUGENE I. VanANTWERP.
was also invited in March of
this year to be the guest of the
Their reelection is NECESSARY, if the voters of De-
West German government for a
troit desire a City-wide Zone Fare System which CAN
study tour.
STOP THE DSR's CONTINUOUS PATRONAGE DECLINE.
Velasquez, who is seeking
Opposing this group are the RUBBER STAMPS of Comnion
election to the Council, is a
Council, who favor Cobo's policy of BORROWING MONEY
strong supporter of a revital-
TO PAY DEBTS and keeping Nowicki on the DSR until
ized DSR system.
it SINKS FARTHER INTO HOPELESS BANKRUPTCY.
He has issued a 40-page plan
The voters of Detroit CAN SAVE the DSR from becoming
a TAX BURDEN by GETTING RID OF THE RUBBER
for the DSR, which would in-
STAMPS in the City-County Bldg. . . . I DARE THESE
corporate city-wide zone fare
RUBBER STAMPS — Miriani, Rogell, Smith, Mrs. Wise
system, and strongly opposes a
and Youngblood — to pledge in their political campaign
fare boost as certain to bring
that "THEY WILL GET Nowicki FIRED!"
increasing revenue losses.
DICK'S LANDSCAPING
and TREE COMPANY
TO THE VOTERS OF DETROIT
AND DSR RIDERS
Quality has everything in its
favor including the price.
TO SAVE THE DSR — FIRE NOWICKI!