Swainson, Names George D. Kent
as Judge of Corn mon, Pleas Court

Governor John B. Swainson
on Monday announced the ap-
pointment of George D. Kent
as Judge of the Common Pleas
Court, to fill the vacancy caused
by the recent death of Judge
Cartwright.
Judge Kent will serve until
next February when he will be
a candidate to succeed himself
at the Primaries preceding the
April election.
Born in Detroit, Sept. 26,
1916, Judge Kent resides with

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British Anti-Semite
Who Provoked Riot Is
Suspended as Teacher

Egg-Throwing Mob Breaks-Up
Neo-Fascists Rally in London

to the Bar of Michigan in
1941.

LONDON, (JTA) — Colin Jor
dan, leader of the British Nation
To make his way through al Socialist movement which pr o-
school, Kent worked as a shoe yoked a riot in Trafalgar Squar e
salesman, as a parking lot at- on July 2, said this week h e
tendant, on the Briggs produc- would fight his suspension fro m
tion line and in jobbing shops. his teaching post in the Stok e
In the latter capacities he was Secondary Modern Boys School
associated with the UAW-CIO at Coventry.
Local 157, which later granted
The Coventry Education Corn
him honorary membership.
mittee told him he was not t 0
From 1943 to 1945 he served resume his teaching duties, pend
in the U.S. Army, and was ing an appearance before th e
wounded in action on Sept. 14, school's board of governors in
1944. He was hospitalized for connection with his pre-Hitle r
10 months before being hon- activities. The 39-year-old teach
orably discharged as a Private er of English and mathematics
told the press he would fight the
First Class.
His military awards for decision "as far as I can."
A spokesman for the education
bravery in action included the
Combat Infantry Badge, Purple committee said "we have been in-
Heart, Good Conduct Medal, and undated with letters from all
over the country" following an-
campaign ribbons.
ouncement of the suspension.
Judge Kent, who last year
Asked how he felt about being
took an active part in the Is- c ailed a Nazi, he replied: "We
rael Bond drive of Congrega- want to make Britain white. The
tion Ahavas Achim, on whose J ews have a country of their
board he is serving, is a mem- 0 wn."
ber of the Jewish War Vet-
The suspension came after the
erans, Veterans of Foreign British government gave assur-
Wars, the Masonic Order, civic ances that strong measures would
and neighborhood improvement be used in the future against the
associations. He is active in kind of pro-Hitler and anti-Jewish
the Democratic Party and at- agitation which sparked the riot
JUDGE GEORGE D. KENT
tended the last Democratic na-
his wife, the former Jennie tional convention as a contest in Trafalgar Square.
Levin, and their two daugh- winner. He has been a delegate
Age takes precedence when
ters, Carol, 19, and Beverly, to Democratic County and State
sitting down at a festive meal.—
1.4, at 18047 Prest.
conventions.
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Named as an assistant to Pros-
ecuting Attorney Gerald K.
O'Brien, in 1949, Judge Kent,
at the time of his appointment,
served as Chief of the Wayne
County Prosecuting Attorney's
Homicide Division, under
Prosecuting Attorney Samuel
W. Olsen.
A graduate of the Dwyer
Elementary School and the
Northern High School, he at-
tended Wayne University, 1933-
1936, received -his law degree
from the Detroit College of
Law in 1940 and was admitted

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One member of the newly-formed neo-fascist National
Socialist Movement uses a banner to fight off hecklers in
Trafalgar Square, London, as others face the angry crowd.
Police arrested 20 persons on charges of insulting behavior
or obstructing the law as the egg-throwing mob broke up the
rally. Trouble erupted when the NSM leaders advocated its
doctrines of anti-Semitism, abolition of democracy and estab-
lishment of a racial folk-state.

British Government
to Curb Anti-Semitic
Rallies in London

LONDON. (JTA)—The Brit-
ish government gave assurances
that stronger measures would
be used in the future against
the kind of pro-Hitler and anti-
Jewish agitation which sparked
a riot in Trafalgar Square Sun-
day during a meeting of the
British National Socialist move-
ment.
The assurance was given in
the House of Commons by R.
A. Butler, Home Secretary, as
demands rose for the dismissal
of the party's leader, Colin Jor-
dan, from his teaching job in
Coventry. The Home Secretary
said police had not expected
the violence that erupted in
response to the anti-Semitic
speeches at the meeting.
He said in the future police
would act more strictly in such
situations and that there was a
possibility that the Nazi speak-
ers would be charged with vio-
lation of the Public Order Act.
Twenty persons, including a
number of Jews, were arrested
and fined for breaking through
police lines at the riotous meet-
ing.
As press condemnation grew
against the inflammatory
speeches voiced at the meeting,
other government officials indi-
cated that the British Nazi
group probably would not be
given permission again to hold
public rallies. Government
spokesmen had consistently ar-
gued, in response to complaints
in parliament prior to the
meeting, that barring it would
be a violation of free speech.

Less than 8 per cent of the
patients in Michigan's hospital
for criminal insane are women.
Michigan Department of Mental
Health reports that of the 1,394
patients at Ionia state hospital,
1,295 are men.

The Centennial OfThe Jewish Military Chaplaincy

The appointment of Rabbi Jacob Frankel,
on September 18, 1862, as the first Jewish
military chaplain was a milestone in the
slow struggle to attain the ideals embodied
in the Constitution of the United States.
In signing Frankel's commission, Presi-
dent Abraham Lincoln swept away the
last obstacle to equality for Judaism in
American religious life.
At the outbreak of the Civil War, Con-
gress had passed a law designating the
appointment of chaplains by the regimen-
tal commander on a vote of the officers of
the regiment. However, the law—and here
was the rub—provided that the chaplain
be a "regularly ordained minister of some
Christian denomination." This require-
ment, an implicit discrimination against
all non-Christians, soon became a hotly
debated public issue. The government had
to decide whether Judaism was a faith on

a par with Christianity in America.

Rabbi Arnold Fishel, whose own appli-
cation for a chaplain's commission had
been denied because of the law, laid the
matter before Abraham Lincoln. A few
days later Lincoln wrote to the rabbi: ''I
find there are several particulars in which
the present law . . . is supposed to be
deficient ... I shall try to have a new law
broad enough to cover what is desired by
you in behalf of the Israelites." Lincoln
was as good as his word. Congress passed
a new law in 1862 whose sole requirement
was that a chaplain be a "regular ordained
minister of some religious denomination."
Today, a hundred years later, com-
memorating the removal of this last bar
to complete religious equality, another
President, John F. Kennedy, writes: "It
gives me great pleasure to join the cele-
bration of the centennial of the establish-
ment of the right of rabbis to serve as
military chaplains in the Armed Forces of

the United States. These hundred years
have been marked by the service. devo-
tion and valor of our Jewish Chaplains in
times of war and peace."

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