May 18, 1945

…THE JEWISH NEWS A Weekly Review VOL 7—NO. 9 2114 Penobscot Bldg. RA. 7956 of Jewish Events Detroit 26, Michigan, May 18, 1945 34 cligeo. 22 $3.00 Per Year; Single Copy, 106 Photo by Arnold Eagle, Courtesy Jewish Education Committee of New York SHEVUOTII 1945-5705 On Shevuoth, the Festival of the Giving of the Law and of the Harvest, The Jewish News congratulates the 1945-5705 Confirmands, Consecrants and Graduates of our Schools, wi...…

…Page Two THE JEWISH NEWS Purely Commentary By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ A WORLD IN THE MAKING SAN FRANCISCO — This great and fascinating city's lights and shadows, its hills and lanes and parks, its population of many racial characteristics, are repre- sentative of the great drama which has been enacted here for several weeks. There are dark moments and light moments in the course of the delibera- tions in which representatives of 49 countries are...…

…Friday, May 18, 1945 THE JEWISH NEWS USSR Hails Jewish General For Liberating 3 Capitals Cot Gen. Kotlyar, Officer in Russian Army Since Last War, Awarded Title of Hero of the Soviet Union for Freeing Vienna, Budapest and Belgrade MOSCOW, (JTA) — Col. Gen. Leon Kotlyar, a Jewish Red Army officer with 26 years of service, has been awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union by the presidium of the Supreme of the USSR as token of his particip...…

…( Page Four THE JEWISH NEWS As the Editor Views the News - The Feast of Shevuoth One of the great festivals on our calen- dar, Shevuoth has special significance for mankind in these critical days in world his- tory. Shevuoth is primarily the Festival of the Giving of the Law to Israel. The Law, which has become the guide for all spiritual forces in the world, incor- porates all the sacred principles for the re- lationships between men and m...…

…Friday, May It, 1945 THE JEWISH NEWS Page Five Jewish Groups Organize United Front at 'Frisco By PHILIP SLOMOV1TZ Jewish leaders setting forth the Jewish views on the position in Palestine. At the same time, all the leaders present here hail with • great satisfaction the agree- ment by the Big Five ob. the Bill of Human Rights clause to be incorporated in the World Charter. (Editor, The Jewish News) •SAN FRANCISCO.—What at first appeare...…

…Page Six THE JEWISH NEWS The Editor Views the Conference Vandenberg Discusses Human Rights Clauses Senator Gillette To Address JWV's Memorial Rites Friday, May 18, 1945 3 Congressmen Speak Here At Interfaith Affair Monday 'Pattern for Just and Durable Peace' to Be Theme of Pro- Roosevelt, Rose and Harris gram at Rackham Bldg.; Sponsored by Round Table, To Be Honored at Annual Religious and Educational Groups Trusteeship Question May Not...…

…Friday, May 18, 1945 THE JEWISH NEWS Page Seven Labor Palestine Group World Jewish Congress Palestine Marks V - E Day To Present Festival With Great Demonstration On Saturday Evening To Hunt Liberated Jews The League for Labor Pales- All Traffic Comes to Halt as Celebrators Fill Synagogues tine will hold a Shevuoth Fest- U. S. War Dept. to Cooperate with WJC in Project to ival in the form of a Palestinian Locate Survivors; Lists of Rescue...…

…THE JEWISH NEWS Page Eight May 18, 1945 • In fierce, bloody struggles to wrench the „stepping stones to Tokyo from the enemy, our fighting men are engaged in two battles—one, a combined land and sea operation—the other, in the skies overhead.' AT HOME, WE HAVE TWO WAR 'LOAN DRIVES .: ROLLED INTO ONE! No; we'- can't i;are our "sacrifices" with their sacrifices. Yet this mighty 7th War- Loan Drive—taking the place of two drivei up to this ...…

…Friday, May 18, 1 945 THE . . JEWISH NEWS Page Nine rt Zionist, Allied Flags Wave Adler will Conduct 'Rusalka' Over Dachau Watchtower At the Masonicf Temple May 27 Detroit Friends of Opera ticket Americans Facing Hard Job Cleaning Out Horrible Con- committee, headed by Mrs. H. ditions Left by Germans; Chief Rabbi of Berlin Found Glenn Shutes, reports a steadily Alive at Terezin; 100 Jews Survive in Prague DACHAU, Germany (JTA)—The Blu...…

…Lt. Jack Nater is spending a two-week leave with his wife, the former Gertrude Weinstein, of 2971 Glendale. Lt. Nater has just completed a four-month course in ordnance at the Officers' Can- didate School at Aberdeen, Md. He previously spent 18 months in the Aleutians. He will report back to Aberdeen, where he will serve as instructor. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Sucher of 19570 Stratford Rd. have just returned from Boston, Mass., where their son, GM 3...…

…Engaged Women's Club Activities Mrs. Morris Rosenberg, 19271 Strathcona Dr. will be hostess to the paid up members of the HOME RELIEF SOCIETY at her home on May 28, at 12:30. A luncheonette will precede the meeting. Mrs. Morris Rosenberg and Mrs. Jules Englander are chairmen of the membership committee. Mrs. Al Weisman, program chairman, announced that Mrs. Gertrude Oberstein will review "A Bell for Adam", by John Hershey. Mrs. Sam Marks, Wa...…

…Page Twelve THE JEWISH NEWS Friday, May 18, 1945 He can't ask you now! • • • He's an American hero. After fighting bloody battles in the Pacific, he was home on leave two years ago. • • • You may remember seeing his picture. His name is John Basilone, Marine Gunnery Sergeant. He trav- eled all over America, urging every American to buy more bonds. • • I. • He said: 7You don't know— you can't know—how much it means to the boys out there wh...…

…Pige Thkfeer THE JEWISH NEWS Fticlay, May 18, 1945 At Homes for Confirmands Of Temple Israel Dr. J. Goldin Named Aide to Hillel Head Jewish World Population Depleted By 4,000,000, New Booji Reveals CHAMPAIGN, I11.-=Appoint- Pointing, out that "almost two ment of Dr. Judah Goldin, na- Annual Confirmation Services were conducted by tionally khown educatof and thirds of the entire Jewish pop- Temple Israel in the main auditorium of the Detr...…

…Page Fourteen THE JEWISH NEWS Lewisohn Urges Support f JNF; Schaver Honored Lecturer Declares We Must Buy Up All the Land in Palestine As Practical Way of Rebuilding Homeland; Views British Labor Party's Daring Resolution Center Opens New Program On West Side Friday, May 18, 1945 `The Plot Against the Peace' Sayers-Kahn Book Reveals German Terrorist Group Detroiter Collaborates in Important Volume Disclosing UHS Branch, Winterhalter Ac...…

…Page Fifteeve THE JEWISH NEWS Friday, May 18, 1945 Jewish Organizations Reach Understanding at 'Frisco Mrs. Meyers Reviews Serve-A-Camp Bnai Brith Holds Activities at 3rd Annual Meeting Mass Initiation Monday at Center Leaders of World Jewish Agencies End Confusion at United Nations Security Conference to Present Solid Front in Demands for Bills of Rights, Commonwealth (Continued From Page 5) ' The jubilation over the agreed- upon Bill o...…

…Page Sixteen THE JEWISH NEWS Congregational Activities Rabbi Fram to Give Readings from Great Jewish Literature Beth El Men's Club Elects Leon Wayburn Elect 18 Directors At Beth Yehudah Monday Evening Friday, May te, r945 Child Care Workers to Aid Overseas Program of JDC Group to Operate As a National Council of Jewish Women Unit, Mrs. Welt Announces; NCJW to Render Service. to Homeless, Orphan Children Leon S. Wayburn- was elected pr...…

…Weekly Review of the News of the World (Compiled From Cables of Independent Jewish Press Service) See also page 3 AMERICA Four hundred Jewish refugees domiciled in Switzerland will leave for Palestine at the end of May on a chartered Spanish ship, according to a cable report received by the Hebrew Shelt- ering and Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS) in New York, from Dr. James Bernstein, its Euro- pean representative. Negotiations are under way t...…

…Page Eighteen THE JEWISH NEWS Detroiter 50 Yards Away When Ernie Pyle W as Killed Friday, May 1 8 , I94S List 8,150 Detroit Jews in Service With the belief that more than 10.0,30 men and women of the Jewish faith from Detroit are in gan. Twelve deaths in action, in- cent of the total in uniform. cluding those who died other Benno Levi, Who Red Germany in 1935, Winner of Silver Awards of all types . through the armed forces, the Detroit ...…

…Jewish Youth's LISTENING 0 By Danny Raskin SOL LEWIS, former ace PVT. window trimmer on the haber- dashery circuit, is in -town . . • 'Lost 35 pounds while a German prisoner 65 days . . . and was forced to march from camp to camp with a shattered knee . . . Had he fallen out of line, it would have meant death. * * * HE HASN'T lost all of his hu- mor, though . . . When a local lassie asked Sol, whose stomach strunk to the size of his palm, i...…

…Page Twenty THE JEWISH NEWS Friday, May 1'8, 1945 CONGRATULAT To The 1945 Classes of Confirmands and Consecrants of Detroit's Congregations and Graduates of Religious Schools Confirmands of Temple Beth El Consecrants of Congregation Shaarey Zedek Exercises on Sunday Morning, May 20, 1945 Kenneth Richard Adler Harry John Lippman, Jr. William M. Altman Richard A. Mann Marilyn Jean Baskin William M. Mazer, Jr. Barbara Bauer Russell R....…