Jewish Communal Agencies Aid Victims
of Riot; Attorneys Defend Prisoners' Rights
Major Jewish community agen-
cies are cooperating in efforts to
provide -relief for the needy who
have suffered from last week's
riots.
The Jewish Vocational Service
has instituted a program of assist-
ance to jobless and to firms in
need of assistance. (See story,
Page 1).
"Operation Fund" set up by the
United Community Services has
the assistance of all related Jewish
agencies. The Jewish Community
Center, Jewish Community Coun-
cil, Hebrew Free Loan and other
agencies are continuing their pro-
grams of aid, and special efforts
have been instituted by the Jewish
Family and Children's Service.
William Ellmann, president of
the State Bar of Michigan, played
a leading role last week in the
mobilization of lawyers who have
been asked to volunteer their
services free in behalf of the
many hundreds of arrested who
need assistance in the courts.
In a telegram to President John-
son, Governor Romney, Mayor
Cavanagh and other governmental
leaders, the Michigan Civil Rights
Commission urged insistence that
due process be instituted imme-
diately for-all persons held in jails
for charges related to the riots;
that fair bond be set; that every
precaution be taken to prevent any
action that may be regarded as
police brutality or vindictiveness;
that equal protection of the law be
assured for all persons. Sidney M.
Shevitz is secretary of the com-
mission.
Stating the Jewish Labor Com-
mittee's firm opposition to the
Cramer "anti-riot" bill which
passed the Iloust last week, Mich-
igan Regional Director Jack Car-
per has urged that wires, tele-
phone calls and visits flood the
offices of Senators before they
vote on the bill ate this week
or next.
The JLC opposes the bill on four
grounds, he said: "Its attempt to
regulate words and speech is clear-
ly unconstitutional; the bill gives
anti-union forces, particularly in
the south where unions are most
needed, a club to intimidate organi-
zing attempts; it adds nothing to
riot controll that does not already
exist. Since it is already against
the law to incite riots; and it is a
reaction to the riots of the last
weeks which neither solves the
problems at the roots of the dis-
orders-namely; poverty, unemploy-
ment and, under - employment,
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ghettoization and the like - nor
does it in any way deter those
frustrations and despair that leads
them to riot."
Associated with Joseph L. Hud-
son Jr. on the committee to rebuild
riot-torn areas are Councilman
Mel Ravitz, Stanley J. Winkelman,
Richard Strichartz, Paul M. Bor-
man, Dr. NorMan Drachler and
Max M. Fisher.
Wayne State University Presi-
dent William R. Beast has ap-
pointed Strichartz university
general counsel and former
Detroit city controller, as uni-
versity coordinator of a task
force to take immediate steps
in assisting the city in its re-
construction work.
Members of the task force,
drawn from the University's
newly created Center for Urban
Studies and other specialized areas
of the university, include from
this area Robert Mendelsohn, 18019
Roselawn, and Leonard Stitelman,
26201 Harding, Oak Park.
Meyer Ellis, president of Fa-
mous Cleaners and Dyers, an-
nounced that all 17 of the com-
pany's branch stores damaged in
last week's rioting will be re-
opened at the same locations.
"We have great faith in the
people of the neighborhoods where
the looting and pillage took place,"
Ellis said at the formal reopening
of the branch store at 10240 Dexter
at Calvert.
The 17 branch stores are among
37 in the Detroit area. The firm
operates a total of 100 modern
branches in Wayne, Oakland and
Macomb Counties.
As a token of good will, Ellis
turned over to Councilman Nicho-
las Hood a semi-trailer load of
clothing and linens for distribution
through the Interfaith Emergency
Center.
In Washington, President John-
son announced appointment of Da-
vid Ginsburg as executive director
of the Special Presidential Com-
mission on Racial Disorders which
was established last week. Gins-
burg, a partner in the law firm of
Ginsburg and Feldman, has been
active in the practice of law in the
capital since the 1940s. He is consul
for the Israel government's treas-
ury department in New York, han-
dles Democratic Party problems
and is active in practice before
federal agencies. His law partner,
Myer Feldman, was special deputy
counsel to Presidents Kennedy and
Johnson.
Milwaukee's Mt. Sinai Hospital.
maintained by the Jewish commu-
nity, provided emergency service
to persons injured in the rioting
and disorders in the center of the
town. The hospital is located on
the fringe of the core.
Unlike the pattern of rioting in
other cities where Jewish mer-
chants bore an undue proportion
of the loss because many of the
stores in the ghetto areas were
Jewish-owned, Jewish merchants
in Milwaukee suffered little riot
damage.
The area in which the damage
was concentrated was once a
predominantly Jewish area but
there are few if any Jews there
now. Jewish merchants, however,
may suffer some loss of business
as a result of Mayor Maier's
Pinsk Names Street
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LONDON (JTA) — A street in
Pinsk, a Soviet city occupied by
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been named for Sasha Berkowich,
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Berkowich was secretary of the
underground committee in Pinsk
during the occupation. He was a
member of an underground unit
clashed with a Nazi detachment.
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I last bullet.
action in halting all traffic into
and from the city's central core.
In Newburgh, N.Y., a rally in
the court house by the fascist
National Renaissance Party, whose
speakers blamed Jews and Ne-
groes for "tearing down" the coun-
try, triggered a riot by Negroes
throughout Newburgh. The rioting
and looting continued all Saturday
night and Sunday morning. Win-
dows of shops owned by Jews and
Christians, including N e g r oe s,
were broken in the disorder which
started during the NRP rally.
About 25 Negroes had been arrest-
ed and there were some injuries
and small fires, police authorities
said.
There are about 700 Jewish
families in Newburgh. Jewish and
Negro organizations had fought in
the courts to stop the NRP rally,
but a permit was issued by a New
York State Supreme Court judge.
Once the permit was granted, Jew-
ish and Negro organizations had
agreed to stay away from the rally.
However, several hundred resi-
dents, mostly Negroes, showed at
the rally, and about 30 gained ad-
mittance to the court house.
Only 11 NRP members came to
the rally, and all except one was
from out of town. Some gun shots
were fired during the night, and
a policeman was injured.
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burned, looted or otherwise dam-
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cause a nearby Catholic church
was also hit by the rampaging
rioters. The 12 enterprises owned
by Jews represented less than one-
fourth of the total number of
businesses attacked. This led to a
conclusion that the rioting was
generally anti-social in nature, and
that there was no special effort
to single out Jews.
In New York City, the American
Jewish Congress welcomed the
plea by four top Negro leaders for
an end to mob violence in urban
ghettos.
Shad Polier, chairman of the
AJCongress national governing
council, said that criminal acts of
those who carry out and incited
violence must be punished and
compensation given to the victims I
of physical injury and economic
loss.
But he warned that the "despair
and desperation which grip so
many black Americans" required
vigorous Congressional action "to
end racial discrimination and eco-
nomic injustice against the Negro
people."
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