Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1945-04-27

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Vol. 23,  No.  18    Entered as Second-Class Matter, Postofflce   Columbus,.  Ohio.
COIjUMBUS, OHIO, PRIDAY, APRIL 27, tlM5
D«votad   to  Atntrlcan and   Jawlih   ld«ali
Strictly Confidential
Tld lilts   From   Everywhere Bv riiincns J. Biron
NOW IT CAN BK TOLD . . .
B^ Now that Franklin D. Hon.se- velt i.13 no more we can tell voii that   he   hatl   definitely  as.suied the  Zionist   leadership  that  he would sec the .lewl.sh  common wealth    in    Palestine   through that Marshal .lo.sef Stalin was In favor of a .lewish state in Pales tine and that he was very sadly disappointed in Ihn Saud's antl Zionist attitude  .  .  .  Pre.sident Truman is very much interested in   the   Palestine   cjuestion   and favorably disposed toward a .leu ish state. . . LlfiTBN HBRE . . . )^ In Boston a militant group of Protestant   ministers   Is   under taking official step.s to force ac tion   by   the   Governor  of   Mas¬ sachusetts    to   curb   organiijed anti-Semitism   in  Waltharh  .  .  . There  Is  rellah)le evidence  that the anti-.Semitic handbills recent¬ ly     distributed  In  Philadelphia were promoted and circulated by two members of the police force of that City of lirotherly Love . . The  pamphlets, you  rememliei', featured the Hitler slogan "The Jews are America's misfortune". CANADIAN NEWS . . . llB IVTontreal .Jewry i.s very much perturbed by the attitude of the Westmount Protestant Board of Education    concerning    Jewish • pupils in that district . . . The Protestant- board   has   publicly announced   that   after  July   1 1945, it will accept no more Jew¬ ish   children   as   pupils   In   its schools ...  If the    Protestant board  persists in  this decision 3,000 Jewish youngsters In West- mount will be left without the opportunity  for schooling  .  . . The Canadian general election.s. scheduled   for  June   Ilth,   wlil see the Jacques Cartler Division in  Miontreal   contested   by   two {Continued on Ppge 8-;
B. B. War Service Council In Scrap Paper Drive Sunday
The local B'nai, H'rith War Service Council has .set Simday. April 2nth. as the one-day pick¬ up of .scrap pa|)er in (.'oiumlius lewish community Wm 1 G o 0 d m a n    Hh^j Pei kelev Vtd
A WELL DESERVED HONOR TO ALLEN GUNnERSHBMER
In appreciation for his many years of loyal nnd devoted ser¬ vice to every worthwhile endeav our in Columbus, and' the Com munity Chest in particular, Al len Gundersheimer was this week elected president of the Community Chest for the coming year at a meeting of the l>oard of trustees.
The Chronicle congratulates Mr. Gundersheimer on this oc¬ casion and feels confident that ht will more than merit the confidence vested In him by this body of public servants who.se humanitiirian efforts are well recognized throughout the city and state.
WILL   ADDRESS   BR'VDEN
BD.    TEMPLE     ANNUAL
DINNER MEETING
WILL BK INHTALLED AS PRESIDENT OP COUNCIL NK.XT TUESDAY AT 12:30
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chairman of this p r o j e c t has announced that the Sunday religious schools of the Bryden Road Temple, Kast Broad St Temple and Agudath Achlm Synagogue are cooperating In this .salvage drive. The HlUel F'oundation, ./ewlsh fraternities and Sororities will also give their .support in the success of this effort.
On the eve of Sunday's city- wide "blitz" campaign to collect waste paper, the committee Sat¬ urday made public a telegram from the War Pro<luetion Board urglng\that efforis be redoubled to .salvage paper and thus dim. inish the current "critical short¬ age"  of waste paper.
"The shortage of waste paper (Continued on Page Two)
Zionists Will Install New Officers .And Board Members Sunday, May 6th
Truman To Follow Palestine Policy Of Late President
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Leonard Muiiekin
On Sunday, May 6th, at the Installation Banquet, the Zion¬ ist District of Columbus will in¬ stall the foilowing newly elected officers: Leonard Manekin, Pres¬ ident; Messrs. Sidney L. Katz, ElUa Krupnick and Ben Yenkin, Vice-Presidents; Manny Block, Secretary and Rudolph Stern, Treasurer. ^
Mr. Manekin, the new presi¬ dent, pre'viously served as Vice- president o( the district, has been very active In member¬ ship and made a distinguished
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record for himself as chairman of the Membership Retention Committee during the past en¬ rollment drive. He has been actively Interested In Zionist work for a number of years.
Mr. Katz is Chairman of the Radio Committee of the Zionist District and was largely instru¬ mental in Instituting the radio program, "Palestine Speaks", which Is being broadcast fdr a total of thirty-nine weeks over WHJCC.   He was slsti chairman
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Mrs. Robert Blashek
The last meeting ot the Colum¬ bus Section, National Councll of Jewish Women, will be celebrat¬ ed with a De.ssert Bridge next Tuesday, May I, at' 12:30, at the Bryden Road Temple. After dessert and coffee, there will be a short business meeting prompt¬ ly at 1:30 which is to include the installation of officers.
Aftenvards door prizes will be awarde<i and there will be plenty of time for bridge and mah¬ jong. Members are a.sked to bring cards or mahj. sets.
Mrs. Robert Blashek. 1755 Oak St., who will be Installed as pre.s¬ ident by Mrs. Edna Hofmayer. has long been an anient and en¬ thusiastic member, of, council, its regular and executive boards. Her experience in and love for the work of the Councll, both local and National. qui)lifled her in carrying on the great tradi¬ tion ot the Columbus Section.
The opening prayer will be given by Mrs. Moshe Goidbium. wife of the new Rabbl at Broad Street Temple, and Mrs. Sam Melton will read resolutions for our late president, Franklin De¬ lano Roosevelt.        /
It Is hoped that the entire membership will be on hand next Tuesday as an Itidlcation of their support for the'new offi¬ cers In their newly assigned tasks.
75 New Members Are To Be Initiated At Meeting Tuesdj^y
B'nai    B'rith    WIU    Afto    Hear DiBCUBslon On San Francisco ) Conferen«(e
Bishop Michael J. Ready will be the guest speaker al the An¬ nual IDinner IVIeeting of the Dry- don i^oad 1'emple next Tuesday night. May 1, at the Southern Hotel.
Tho presence of the Bishop of thi.s Catholic Diocese is the first tiirie in the history of the Temple, and one of the rare in- stinces in Jewish history where¬ in an high official of the Church will have participated in the annual meeting of a Jewish con¬ gregation. This uniqueness of the program has elicited a tre¬ mendous Interest among the members, and has already been noted by Jevi'S -throughout the country. Arrangements have been made to accommodate the largjest crowd at the annual business meeting of the congre¬ gation, ever assembled. •
In addition to the address by Bishop Ready. Rabbl Samuel M. Gup wiil also address those pres¬ ent. The event will mark the beginning of the fourteenth year of the Rabbi to the minis¬ try of the Temple.
Other aspects of the program will Include the annual address of the President, Leon J. Good¬ man, the transaction of business and election of officers and trus tees for the ensuing year. Brief reports will be made by a num ber of conamlttees. Mr. Simon Lazarus will preside at the 'meeting and present the Bishop. Entertainment will be furnish ed by the Gateway Players, who will present musical selections from "The Firefly".
The Temple Choir, which is the outstanding Jewish Choir in Central Ohio, will lead the congregation in the singing of "The Star Spangled Banner". During the dinner hour, string ensemble wlli play.
Featuring the meeting will be the presentation to every mem ber of a printed record of the business of the congregation and its various affiliated agencies which Include the Sisterhood, Brotherhood and Youth Temple and committee reports.
In the near future, the con¬ gregation plans to celebrate its lODth Anniversary.
Reservations for the Dinner are sllll being accepted. Mem¬ bers are advised to contact the Temple Office not later than Sunday morning personally or by phone.
WASHINGTON (WNS)_Pre.s- ident Harry .S. Truman last week assured a delegation of Zionist leaders that he will .tjupport the policies of the late Pt>esldent Roosevelt in relation to Pales¬ tine.
The delegation consisted of Dr. Stephen . S. Wise, chairman of the American Zionist Emer¬ gency Council, Haylm Green¬ berg, chairman of its Executive Commitl(;e and Herman Shul¬ man, chairman of its Administra¬ tive Committee.
After visiting, the White House, Dr. Wise declared that he had been authorized by the President to say Ihat he was carrying out the pniicles of Presi¬ dent Roosevelt and that the dele¬ gation •¦linew what Mr. Roose¬ velt's |)olicy in regard to Pales¬ tine has been. Dr. Wise said that, when the delegation visited the President lie had before him the lato President's recent state¬ ments on Zionism and that he in¬ dicated "in clear and unmistak¬ able terms that he is .supporting the program".
Mr. Roo.seveit in that state¬ ment said efforts would be made to find "appropriate ways and means" of fulfilling the' Uemo- cralic party platform plank call¬ ing for the opening of Palestine •'to unrestricted Jewish immigra¬ tion and colonization, and such a policy as to result in the estab¬ lishment there for a free and Ujemocratic Jewish Common¬ wealth".
Dr. Wise also revealed that on March 16th, Mr. Roosevelt relter- ited his position, on Zionism. Mr. Roosevelt told Dr. Wise "that position I have not changed and shall continue to seek to bring about its earliest realization". Traman Invites Proskauer And Monk.sy To White House Leonard Reinlsch. the Presi¬ dent's press secretary disclosed here, that Judge Joseph M'. Pros¬ kauer," president of the Ameri¬ can Jewish Committee, and Harry Monsky, member of the Interim Committee of the Amer¬ ican Jewish Conferenjce,, had been invited last week to meet with Mr. Truman. Mr. Reinlsch said that in view of the fact that both Judge Proskauer and Mr. Monsky are on the way to San Francisco, the President will meet them some tim^ln the ' hear future.
Professor   Allen   Griffin,   of Ohio State University, will ad¬ dress the B'nai B'rith meeting at the East Broad Street Temple (Continued on Page Two)
PAM8. (NS)—Adolph Hltler- Strasse" In the captured Ger¬ man town of Bad-Creuzberg has been renamed "Franklin D. Roosevelt Strasse" In mennpry ol the late President, It was an¬ nounced here this week.
Temple Sisterhood Mother-Daugrhter Sabbath May Sth
The annual Sisterhood Moth¬ er-Daughter Sabbath of the Bry¬ den Road Temple will be held on Saturday, May Sth, at 11:15 A. M, Services will include: Opening prayer, Mrs. Bertha R. Levy,. Mrs. Ben G. Yalman, and Miss Marjorle Yalman; Readers, Mrs. Henry Piatt, Miss Barbara Piatt, Mrs. Irwln Bamtwrger and Miss Janice Lee Bamberger; Closing prayer, Mrs. Lester Glickman and Eleanor Glick¬ man.
The limcheon which wll) fol¬ low the service Is In charge of Mirs. Harry Freldenberg and Mrs. Harry L, Mellman, chair¬ men, and members of their com¬ mittee Include Mesdames Harry Frltedman, J. Shaplra and Re¬ becca Hamberg^r.
The business meeting follow¬ ing the luncheon ivlll hear the annual report of Its president, (Continued pn Fan 8)
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