Telethon Drive to Give Campaign Final Push
LAWN
SPRINKLERS
an extensive network of telephones' named chairman of the entire April 26 will honor arts and
crafts, mechanical trades and
REPAIR AND
to reach everyone by the Victory Telethon project.
mercantile divisions and the
INSTALLATION
Dinner May 8.
"We are asking persons who
outstanding section chairmen.
Campaign workers should at- are presently working in the
Quality Work at
The victory dinner will be held
tempt to complete solicitations campaign, as well as people in
Reasonable
Prices!
May
8
with
a
reception
at
6:30
from all regularly assigned pledge the community, to give time to
cards before May 1 so they will the Telethon effort by volun- p.m. and dinner at 7.
be available, to help in the Tele- teering to work out of the down-
thon project, Deutsch said.
town or suburban headquar-
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
"Get Our Price Last"
Paul Broder, chairman of trades ters," Broder said.
6—Friday,
April 19, 1968
and professions and president of
Volunteers are asked to indicate
the Detoit Service Group, has been
their desire to assist in the Tele-
thon project by filling in the
coupon printed below on this
page and mailing it to Paul Bro-
der, Allied Jewish Campaign-
Israel Emergency Fund, 163
ference and "it is now hoped that Madison, Detroit 48226, or calling
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May, but it denied in a statement, an improvement in Rabbi Levin's campaign headquarters, WO 5-
that there had been any negotia- health will enable him to attend on 3939.
Day and evening shifts and two
tions between it "and any repre- that new date." A council spokes-
sentative of the Soviet Union per- man told JTA the new date would Telethon locations will make it
taining to the invitation to Rabbi be in the fall. The Soviet Embassy, convenient for both men and
however, made it clear Tuesday women volunteers. Telethon of-
Levin or to any other matter."
The council said that in invit- that it expected the delegation in fices are at the Jewish Center,
Consult our Expanded Marine Department
15110 W. Ten Mile, Oak Park,
ing Rabbi Levin, it was "motivated May, as previously announced.
The Council for Judaism said and Jewish Welfare Federation,
for
by a deep concern about the wel-
fare and security of Soviet Jews that in replying to Rabbi Levin, it 163 Madison.
and about their unrestricted had asked for the identity of the
Legal Liability & Hull Protection
Telethon chairmen w h o are
right to practice their religion. associates he had proposed. It de- working with Broder within each
This concern," it asserted , "is clared that "at this date, there is division are: Mercantile, Benjamin
shared with our fellow-Jews and is no understanding or agreement Frank and Warren D. Greenstone;
consonant with the desire to hear with respect to the appearance in Services, Leonard J. Bonin; Mech-
from the acknowledged Jewish re- the United States under the aus- anical Trades, Seymour R. Jones;
ligious leader of the Soviet Union." pices of the American Council for Real Estate and Building. Morris
The council said that Rabbi Judaism of any Jewish represen- H. Brown; Food, George D. Keil;
Levin had accepted its invitation tative from the Soviet Union other Professional, Jack A. Robinson;
Rossen & Kaufman Agency
on April 5 but asked that "be- than Rabbi Levin."
Arts and Crafts, Robert A. Benyas;
cause of recent surgery the invi-
Rabbi Israel Miller, chairman of Junior, Michael A. Hermanoff;
Commercial-Personal — Life & Health
tation be extended to associates of the American Jewish Conference Metropolitan, William Greenberg;
his who would come in his stead." on Soviet Jewry, in a comment on and Women, Mrs. Morris Baker.
Insurance Protection
The statement added that the coun- the Soviet Embassy disclosure, said
The third campaign report
cil had, earlier, postponed its con- it "can only be deemed a cynical brunch honoring the food, metro-
attempt to perpetuate a grotesque politan, professional and services
KE 8-5200
hoax on the American public."
divisions will be held at the
He said that "we are necessarily Jewish Center 10:15 a.m. Sunday.
19036 W. McNichols Road, Detroit, Mich. 48219
pessimistic about the opportunity
A final campaign report lun-
for genuine and meaningful dia-
cheon at the Fred M. Butzel
logue with the Soviet Jewish dele-
Memorial Building 12:15 p.m.
gation that would be provided by
a
visit
on
invitation
by
the
Amen
BONN (JTA) — Three Jewish
witnesses from Chicago, all sur- can Council for Judaism. The aus-
vivors of the Grodno ghetto mas- pices and the circumstances sur-
sacre of World War II, Tuesday rounding such a visit," he added,
identified the principal defendant "suggest we may expect little more
in the Grodno war crimes trial in than a repetition of the standard
Cologne as the man they saw Soviet line, with small chance for
shooting down Jews in cold blood. a break-through to the kind of
The defendant, Kurt Wieser, was people-to-people confrontation with
pointed to in the court by Reuben the Jews of Russia for which
Loren, 47, Aaron Berman. 46, and American Jews long have yearned."
The conference chairman charg-
Lisa Berman, all of whom said
ed that the American Council for
their identification was positive.
Loren said he was born in Grod- Judaism "has repeatedly parrotted
no and lived in the ghetto from the Soviet propaganda line that
1942 until its destruction by the the root cause of conflict and ten-
MAY 1 TO MAY t 8
Nazis. He said that Wieser held sion in the Middle East is the in-
the power of life or death over the ternational Zionist conspiracy
Telethon
ghetto inhabitants. In all, he testi- which we know today to be a
fied, he saw some 300 Jews being euphemism for anti - Semitism; and
shot, 50 of them at one time. has been an apologist for the
Eighteen Jewish men and women USSR's policy of depriving Soviet
who were captured in the woods Jews of the same constitutionally
15110 W. 10 Mile Road
163 Madison Avenue
shortly before the ghetto was de- guaranteed cultural and religious
Oak Park
Detroit
stroyed were lined up in a court- rights which are granted to all
yard and shot by Wieser with an other recognized religions and na-
automatic pistol. Loren said he tionality groups in the USSR."
Indicate the TIME and PLACE you will work by circling the
witnessed this crime from his win-
A statement issued for the
dow. The bodies were left lying on Jet-;:.:311 Agency-American Sec-
location JWF or CNTR. in the schedule below.
the pavement for two days to ter- tion, by Mrs. Rose Halprin, its
rorize other Jews, according to chairman, described the an-
Loren. Berman, a Chicago busi-
nounced visit as "a clumsy pro-
nessman, and Lisa Berman, who
escaped from the ghetto in 1942, pagandistic device" and describ-
ed the arrangement as "an al-
also testified that they saw Wieser
liance of the great Russian bear
shooting Jews.
with an insignificant American
In Hanover, a former Nazi police
officer who had been sentenced to mouse."
In Washington, Sen. Charles H.
life imprisonment for the wartime
murder of two Jewish women and Percy, Illinois Republican, said in
JWF
their children in a ghetto in occu- a Senate speech that the Jews in
CTR
pied Poland, has been acquitted the Soviet Union were being de-
nied
free
religious,
cultural
and
on an appeal. Kurt Jericho, 59,
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JWF
was given the life sentence at community expression" and de-
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a trial in Lunenberg on his convic- clared that the pressure of world
tion for the murders in the Chen- opinion should be brought to bear
JWF
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stochau ghetto in the winter of on the Soviet Union to end dis-
1942-43. His conviction was re- criminatory practices against its
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versed when the jury in the Han- Jewish citizens." He urged mem-
over court agreed there was "in- bers of "the parliaments of other
sufficient evidence" to prove his nations" to speak out on the sub-
ject.
guilt.
Phone No.
Name
(Reports from Moscow disclosed
that Soviet officials had canceled
Dutch Give Aid to Israel an
Address
exhibition of the works of
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)
Marc Chagall, the Jewish artist,
AMSTERDAM — Dutch civil which had been scheduled for May
Mail to or call
servants raised 800,000 florins 12 in Akactemgorod, the city re-
(about $212,000) for Israel bet- cently built in Novosibersk, Si-
ween last June's Six-Day War and beria, for the Academy of Sciences.
April 1 of this year, it was an- A Chagall show was ordered clos-
nounced Tuesday by the Nether- ed in Moscow last year only two
163 Madison Detroit, Michigan 48226 WOodward 5-3939
hours after it had opened.)
lands minister of interior.
A massive Telethon drive will
be launched May 1-8, for the 1968
Allied Jewish Campaign-Israel
Emergency Fund to contact all
prospective Detroit and suburban
donors who have not yet contribu-
ted, announced Campaign Chair-
man Alfred L. Deutsch and Co-
Chairman Maxwell Jospey.
Division leaders, campaign
workers and volunteers will voice
their requests for donations over
527-5044
Russia Agrees to Send 'Religious
Delegation' of Jews to Visit U.S.
YACHT, BOAT &
SAILBOAT INSURANCE
HERBERT W. KAUFMAN & CO.
3 U.S. Witnesses
Identify Nazi
in Grodno Trial
will volunteer for the Allied Jewish
Campaign-Israel Emergency Fund
ELETHON
Locations:
Jewish Welfare Federation
Hours
Jewish Community Center
Sun. Mon. Tues. Wed.
Wed. Thurs. Fri.
May 1 May 2 May 3 May 5 May 6 May? May 8
AM
10 a.m.-11 p.m. JWF
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2-4 p.m.
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4-6 p.m.
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1968 ALLIED JEWISH CAMPAIGN