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The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1947-02-07

One of the first signs of the
birth of a nation is the sight of
new merchant flag on the high
seas and in the principal ports of
the world. Such a sight will be
seen in the port of LOndan early
next month when the Jewish man.
ned, Jewish operated ship Kedma
sails down the Thames estuary on
her maiden voyage to Palestine,
flying the blue and white merchant
ensign of Jewish Palestine. The
Kedma, owned Jointly by the Zim
Navigation Company of Haifa, in
which the Jewish Agency is a
stakeholder, and the established
London shipping firm of Harris
and Dixon, Ltd, will inaugurate
the first Jewish passenger and
freight service between western
Europe and Palestine. Though
she's a small vessel, with modest
accommodations, the Kedma is the
pioneer of a Jewish fleet which
may some day link Palestine di-
rectIy with the great ports of Eu-
rope, the Americas and the Far
East.
The Importance of a merchant
marine to the Jewish State was
recognized in the earliest days of
the Zionist movement. Theodore |
Herzl, father of political Zionism,
wrote in his "Judenstaat" "The
Jewish flag shall fly the seven seas
and bring a message of peace and
goodwill from the Homeland to it's
prosecuted sons throughout the
world"
The first step towards the full
fillment of Herbs prophecy was
taken in 1884, with the establish
ment, by private and Jewish
Agency capital of the Palestine
Maritime Lloyd, which began a
and freight service be-
tween Haifa and the Black Sea
Port of COnstanza, ROmania. 1t
became self supporting and began
to yield profit after two years
operation. In 1885 a more am
bilious venture was undertaken
with the establishment of the Pal
estine Shipping Company which
began operation of the Tel Aviv,
formerly an Italian ship, on the
key route between Palestine and
ports in Italy and Greece. The
Tel Aviv however, was unable to /
compete with the vast fleet of
subsidiary of the
powerful Italian Government Oper-
ated Lloyd TriestinO, which DOM
mated shipping in the Eastern ]
Mediterranean before the war, and {
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1947-02-07

Navy, COIlClIluCu '
the hard school Of war. Some
were killed in action. But otlelS
became licensed seamen ana olllc-
ers who will form the nucleus u
the future Jewish merchant MA
rine.
Great Prospects For Jewish
Shipping
Shipping is the one industry IN
which small, Observation-Disclosures ma
lions can compete effectively with
the mightiest powers. 1t requires
neither vast natural resources nor
great populations. The small az
ricultural states like the Neither
lands, Denmark, Norway ana
Sweden rank among the top mari
time nations. It is possible that
within a generation Jewish Pales-
tine may join their ranks.
Now is the most suspicious time
for the development of the Jewish
merchant marine The Italian
merchant fleet which once rivalec
the British in the Mediterranean
is now virtually nonresident. The
French, Polish, Romanian ana
Greek fleets which carried consid-
cradle Palestine trade before the
war are badly depleted. The once
great merchant fleets of Italy and
Germany had their start as immi-
grant carriers. The Polish and
Rumanian lines thrived on the
Jewish immigrant trade to Pales-
tine before the war. A tremend-
GUS backlog of voyagers is now
building up in Europe. The trag-
edy of the underground refugee
hulks must come to an end soon
with the opening of Palestine to
homeless Jews, and tens
of thousands of these new immi-
grants will want to travel to their
Homeland in comfort in Jewish
ships.
Palestine's fast developing indus
tries which are finding new mark
cts all over the world, and the
great volume of Jewish imports
promise lucrative freight traffic
to Palestine shipoWners. Every
ton of cargo imported into Pales-
tine in Jewish bottoms, constitutes
an invisible export thus helping
to balance Palestine's row unfav-
orable balance of trade. Before
the war the bulk of Palestines
100000 ton annual import and
export traffic went to foreign
steamship lines which extracted
5 100000 pounds ($24,O0O,OOO) an.
nually from the country out 0
which the Jewish community pa:('
IN average of 1900 pounT-
$4,000 per ton. With a well es
,ablished merchant fleet of it's owr
Jewish Palestine can recapture
hat loss and in addition erobarr
m a new highly profitable field
# endeavor. i
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1947-02-07
BY WILLIAM B. SAPPHIRE

ships time a nautical school,
William SAPPHIRE feature writer the Independent Jewish
Service subject heartshppng
Jewish shipping Editor
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1947-02-07
The Jewish Flag On The High SeaS

Navy, continued their training IN
the hard school of war. Some
were killed in action. But otnerS
became licensed seamen and offic-
ers who will form the nucleus OF
the future Jewish merchant ma
rine.
Evening star., 1947-11-09

the District Of Columbia Medical So
ciety announcing the opening of its
center. Generous contributions have
been received and physicians have
referred to the center many chronic
alcoholics in the hope they might be
helped by change in approach.
'The Information Center to Aid
Alcoholics is taking no sides in the
ancient tug of war as to whether
individuals should or should not
drink" Mrs. Williams told me.
Neither it, nor the Washington
Committee for Education on Alco-
holism nor the Yale Plan for Alcohol
Studies. is wet or dry, or concerned
in any activities either to pro-
mote or to prevent the sale or
consumption Of alcoholic beverages.
Our combined job is to try to help
make one-time alcoholics better
than average citizens, assets to their
communities, instead of stones
around their own necks and to all
who come in contact with them"
Mrs. Williams, Washington girl
educated in Holton Arms and a
member Of this city's Junior League
calls attention to the $4,000, 900 to
So, ,000, 900 cost over a three-year pc
riod of the alcoholics who go to Jail
Under the setup of the Hebert bill
with the proper cooperating agen-
cies, it Is estimated that at least
half of this sum may be saved.
Evening star., 1947-11-09

She pleads for "the girl next door" Z"
or the ''neighbor on the block" who
may be the one in 20 liable to be a
victim of chronic alcoholism.
unfortunately" she said, ''ittle
is gained by talking to the alcoholic
until he or she is ready to ask for
help, with unsought advice useless
and valueless. But the family and
friends of alcoholics can be guided
as to how to be most helpful once
the alcoholic is ready to seek as
sistance. The general public needs
to realize that the alcoholic who is
helped back is apt to be better ad-
jisted than the one who makes the
battle alone out of sheer will power
and desperation"
The Washington Committee for
Education on Alcoholism has out
lined $4,000 program for 1947 to
1948. Civic minded persons are un-
derwriting this program for sums
ranging from $25 to $1,000. Sustain
ing memberships are IS. Any con-
tribution, no matter how small, will
help an unfortunate alcoholic win his
way back to a respected place in the
community. Checks should be made
payable to E. D. Merrill, treasurer,
and sent in care of Mrs. Jane
Thorpe Williams, the Information
Center to Aid Alcoholics, 1713 M
street NV. (Telephone, Republic
6522.)
Evening star., 1947-11-09
alcoholics Get Free Assistance
i From New Information Center
y have recently been appointed

Casey have recently been appointed
by the Commissioners to serve upon
the Citizens Advisory Committee in
administering the provisions of the
important Hebert bill dealing with
alcoholic problems and now become
Public Law No. BAT.
Judge Casey is succeeding Judge
Bentley in the important post OF
chairman Of the Washington Com
mittee for Education on Alcoholism
DR.. Oscar B. Hunter Is the vice
chairman, and e. D. Merrill the
treasurer.
Requests for help that have come
to Mrs. Williams in the last three
months have ranged from pleas fol
advice on how to stop drinking tc
inquiries on how to secure hospital
ization and how to summon nurses
and doctors to homes to treat alco-
holics.
The sponsors OF the Washington
Committee for Education on Alco-
holism and its Information Center
to Aid Alcoholics have the definite
conviction that such groups as theirs
must take the lead in persuading
general hospitals to open beds fol
the treatment of acute alcoholics
They are optimistic about the spe-
cial ward for alcoholics to be avail
able in the new George Washington
University Hospital. Recuperatior
centers for alcoholics who require
long-term care, are included in the
committees objectives.
In addition to its personal inter.
views and counseling, the Informa'
/ ton Center to Aid Alcoholics ha!
sent out 1000 letters to members o.
Evening star., 1947-11-09
Nay|or Gardens Group Hits
Use of Broker 10 Sell Units

The Naylor Gardens Association
last night criticized the employment
of real estate broker by the Vet
Grams Cooperative Housing Associ-
alton to take over sale of about $50
remaining Naylor Gardens apart
ments the coop must sell If it is to
be allowed to buy the project from
the Government.
Max Bloom, chairman Of the vet
Grams unit Of the Naylor Gardens
Association, said Victor Wicker
sham, real estate broker, had been
hired by the coop at three per
cent commission to sell the apart
ments the coop itself has failed to
sell in the last six months.
Mr.. Wickersham. he said, has
taken over one Of the vacant apart
ments at the project and set up an
Office inside, depriving some vet
eran Of the apartment.
Mr.. Bloom asserted that the coop
has only sold 165 of the apartments
to date, OF about 300 it must sell be-
fore January to live up to its con-
tract with the Defense Homes
Evening star., 1947-11-09
raveIer>s n otebook

time, the vacationer finds himself
in like company. A survey for
the first eight months Of this year
brought out the fact that TO per
cent of all Bermuda vacationers
were making their initial visit.
A further insight into fellow
passengers comes from these find
ings: IA per cent will be honey
mooners, 78 per cent will be look
ing forward to the climate, with
natural beauty" beaches" and
sports" following in close order.
One in every four passengers, ship
or plane, will be from New York
City, 7.2 per cent from the District,
Maryland and Virginia and 16 per
cent from New England.
Less than per cent will be trav-
cling on business, 80 per cent will
wish to ''rest," "rest and play or
just play" More than 80 per cent
will say swimming is their chief
interest there, but u per cent will
confess that 'loaflng" was thu
chief sport while there. Outdoor
preferences fall in this order: Loaf
ing on the beach, swimming, cy-
cling, sailing, golf and fishing.
Chances are, each visitor partici-
pates to some extent in all these
diversions.
Evening star., 1947-11-09

Corp and that 1t Is now campaign
ing to force remaining tenants to
buy into the coop.
Evening star., 1947-11-09

It's purpose is Mrs. Williams.
to serve as a philanthropic liaison
agency offering personal counseling
and literature without cost to help
alcoholics or their families locate
appropriate agencies for treatment
or rehabilitation either here, in Ar
lington County or in Alexandria
without official connection with AL
coholics Anonymous, it works closely
with it, with the District Clinic Tor
Alcoholics, and with the District
Health Department.
Judge Fay L. Bentley Of Washing
tons Juvenile Court has been serv-
ing as the first chairman of the
sponsoring committee, from whose
number Mrs George c. Thorpe. E
Goring Bliss and Judge Walter J
Evening star., 1947-11-09
Continued From Page A-3O.)

stands on q 10-acre tract on thu
south shore of Harrington Sound
Below is a private bathing beach
a boathouse and a private pier. 1r
remodeling the residence into a
guesthouse Of Is rooms, the out
standing features Of the interior
were retained. These include a
marble entrance hall and an oak
paneled main lounge.
From an outside balcony, which
runs completely around the house,
the visitor can see Harrington
Sound and, beyond, the Atlantic
Ocean. Some of the guestrooms
have fireplaces. The remodeling
program included installation of a
private bath for each room.
The work was completed only re-
Gently. and Deepdene was opened
to the public for the first time on
November /.
Going to Bermuda for the first
Evening star., 1947-11-09
Three Stolen Pork Chops
Cost Man 1888 Eoch

The high cost Of meat yesterday
surged to new heights for James
Washington, IS, who had to pay
1888 each for three pork chops
in Municipal Court.
This price was assessed by Judge
Almond w. Scott who convicted
the man Of theft Of the pork chops
from Giant Food Store, $500
Georgia avenue NV. The colored
defendant. who lives in the 900
block of @ street NV, faced 30
days If he had failed to pay the
S25 fine.
Evening star., 1947-11-09

NV, Mrs. Jane
T orpe VIII
liams, director.
In operation
since July under
auspices Of the
t a m Gus Yal e
Plan for Alcohol
S t u d / e S, it is
sponsored by the
w a S h / n 6 t o n
Committee for
Education on Al
coholisn, one Of
20 such citizens
committees in
leading cities.
Evening star., 1947-11-09
Poetry Society to Hear Foley

The Washington Catholic Poetry
Society will hear the Rev. Leo Foley.
Catholic University professor. speak
on The Content Value of Poetry"
at 3 pm. today in the Study Guidl
Library, l725 Rhode Island avenue
N. w. Mrs. Amy Putnam Lesher
will preside.
Evening star., 1947-11-09
By Jessie Font Evans

Washington has new, little
known, free humanitarian service
the Information Center to Aid Al
coholics, situated at 1877 M street
Evening star., 1947-07-31
$4,000 Auto Workers
Made Idle by Strikes,
Production Cufbacks
by the Asseeiofsd Press

DETROIT, July 31.-Nearly $4,000
auto workers here were made idle
todsy by strikes and production cut
backs while additional hundreds
faced layoffs next week.
The Ford Motor Co., threatened
with q strike by the CIO United
Auto Workers, notified 22,0o0 en-
ployes not to report for work today
or tomorrow because of a parts
shortage resulting from strike at
the Murray Corp. Of America.
Earlier Ford laid off $500 due to
the strike at Murray, where 1000
UAW-CIO members are demanding
protection from civil liability suits
for unauthorized work stoppages
under the Hartley Labor Act.
Chrysler Corp. said a shortage OF
frames usually supplied by Murray
will force . so per cent cutback in
Dodge truck production effective
Monday, necessitating layoh Of 800
employees.
D. s. Harder, Ford vice president,
said the company might have to cut
its work week to two days II the
Murray strike continued.
Negotiations between Murray and
the UAW have been recessed until
Monday over the unions demands.
Evening star., 1947-07-31
Chandler Gets Life
And $4,000 Fine
By me Asseelafsd Press

BOSTON, Mass, July 31.-Douglas
Chandler. 5s, Chieago-born writer,
was sentenced to life imprisonment
and fined $4,000 for treason yester-
day after he defiantly told the court
he had not changed bit from the
opinions he spouted for the Nazis
over the German radio during the
war.
Brushing aside his colnsel's plea
that he was insane, Chandler per-
sonally addressed the court just be-
fore Federal Judge Francis j. w.
Ford imposed sentence.
Standing erect, Chandler showed
no emotion as he heard tho sen
tence, except TO swallow noticeably.
Chief Defense Counsel Claude n.
Cross Immediately filed motion for
Q stay of execution of sentence and
1t was taken under advisement.
Judge Ford, Harvard classmate
of the late President Roosevelt, said
he was taking into consideration the
Governments stress on the impor-
tance of propaganda as q weapon OF
war and asserted he was satisfied
the sentence would serve as de
terrent to others who might be in
clined to commit o. crime OF q
similar nature"
Oscar r. Ewing, special Govern
ment prosecutor, had demanded the
death penalty with the assertion
Evening star., 1947-07-31

The strike has been In progress since
July 23.
Meanwhile, the UAw-CIo Execu-
tive Board scheduled meeting Sat-
urday to consider strike action
against Ford. The unions Ford de-
partment asked authorization for q
walkout by 107, 900 workers to sup
port demands for mo penalty"
contract clause similar to the one
asked from Murray.
Some $4,000 workers, idled by ex-
cessive heat yesterday, were called
back to their jobs at Chrysler and
the Hudson Motor Car Co. today.
Eight Thousand at Hudson and 5000
at the Dodge main plant had been
sent home when ventilating systems
failed in the 93-degree heat
Evening star., 1947-07-31
THE EVENING STAR, Washington, D. c.
THURSDAY, July 3l 80.

other ship was doing, and each
faileod to keep 3 proper lookout.
The decision ordered apportion-
ment Of costs On a two-to-one basis
and granted leave to appeal to the
House Of Lords. What these costs
would total was not mentioned at
the hearing.
Evening star., 1947-07-31

ain-bound American troops on
board. The cruiser was providing
anti-aircraft protection for the
troopship.
The decision ahnxing only two
thirds OF the responsibility on the
Curacao was by q two-to-one ruling
The Admiralty had appealed after
an Admiralty Court held the cruiser
was entirely to blame.
Each ship, the majority opinion
said, failed to appreciate what the
Evening star., 1947-07-31
Liner Queen Mary Assigned
Third Of Collision Blame
Nv Tho As,ee;o,ed Press

LONDON, July 31.-A three Judge
Court of Appeal ruled yesterday that
the giant liner Queen Mary was one
third to blame for q collision with
the British crusier Curacao off the
Donegal coast October 2, 1912. The
cruiser sank with SOC of her crew.
The Queen Mary had 10000 Brit
Evening star., 1947-07-31
Aviutnx Honored

Maryse Bastie, prewar aviatrix, Is
the first French woman to be made
a Commander Of the Legion OF
Honor, for her work inthe resistance
movement in wartime.
Evening star., 1947-07-31
New Secret ORGANIZATION

A new semisecret anti-Semetic
organization in London has for its
motto q German slogan: "Wir kon1-
men wieder" (We come again.
Evening star., 1947-07-31

ANYTHING lsss would encourage the
commission OF similar crimes In the
future"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1947-05-09
Power Trust
CONTINUED from Page one)

to prevent the administration from
making loans for generating facilities
of transmission lines. Many REA
co-ops have an acute need for great
er power supply. This drive is set to
see that they can't get it, in the hope
that service will become unsatisfac-
tory and the co-ops will eventually be
sold by disguised patrons to the priv
ate utilities.
There is also a drive on to reduce
REA administrative appropriations
an old technique for beginning the de-
struction of an agency. When it re-
duces its services to meet budget cuts,
the very people who forced the reduc-
tion start criticizing Gala the late
Opal Then they cut some more and
criticize some more until the agency is
destroyed
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1947-05-09
The Dardanelles

In all honesty, the congress and the
people of the United States must not
allow themselves to be drawn in the
question of the Dardanelles without
recalling what this country did in a
similar situation in regard to the
Panama Canal. Colombia originally
held the potential Canal Zone, as
Turkey now holds the straits which
connect the Black Sea and the Medi-
terranean. When Colombia would not
accept our terms for the Canal Zone
we encouraged a revolt in a part of
her territory, Panama, and sent battle
cruisers to keep Colombian troops
from landing to suppress the revoIu-
ton. We then arranged a quick lease
with Panama. We justified it on the
grounds of not allowing a backward
country to hold up the progress of
world power.
AS early as 1850, when Great Britain
was strong in Central America, we
signed the Clayton-Bullwer Treaty,
which stipulated that the United
States and Great Britain should build
and fortify the Isthmian Canal After
the Spanish-American War, when we
definitely became a world power, we
told Great Britain that if she would
not agree to abrogate that treaty we
would ignore it anyway. We alone
must have the right to build and for
tify the Canal. Realizing there was
nothing else to do, the British prom
Used to let us have our way in the
Caribbean if we would not limit her
around the Suez Canal.
Does not our own experience sug-
gest that we get together with Russia
and arrange the question of the OAR
danelles, now that Russia has become |
a great power, as we had at the open !
ing of the twentieth century? Accord /
ing to our history, what would we do (
about the DardaneIIes if we we're in
Russia's pIace?-Sen. Edwin C. John /
son, Colo, in u. S. senate, April 21,
l947, from Congressional Record /
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1947-05-09

to stay behind the fence" during the
Today strike of the Miners.
Many of these men had served the
company for years, some of them hav-
ing worked from 20 to 40 years. The
justification for discrimination against
the men involved has been that the
men were not loyal to the ACM COM
pany In future recording of the
league, it will be shown how the com
pany in former years rewarded CD
the loyalty" of former employees, in
Guiding former gunner.
AS reported in company newspapers,
the ACM company in 1916 (the year
of the Today strike resulting in an
1S-cents-an-hour increase in wages)
had in round figures an increase in
net earnings of four million dollars
more than in 1945-the total net earn
ings for 1916 being slightly less than
"a million dollars.-Montana Anti-Dis-
elimination League, Bruce Smith, Har-
ry |. Baird, publicity committee
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1947-05-09

Officers of the Montana Anti-Dis-
elimination league have been informed
(by Daniel r. Dimick, regional attor-
ney for the National Labor Relations
Board) that Representatives of the
United States government and ACM
company representatives have filed to
reach an agreement on settlement of
the cases of discrimination charged
against the ACM company
Mr.. Dimick will be in Butte about'
May Is, to file complaint against the
ACM company. Following that the
company will be allowed 10 days in
which to file an answer to the charges
of discrimination. Hearings will then
be held in Butte and the examiners
findings submitted to the NLRB.
The men involved who have filed
statements of losses suffered as re-
suit of ACM company discrimination
are men who were part of the unor-
ganized personnel of the ACM COM
pany in April, 1916, and who refused