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The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1948-03-10
THIS WEEK AT
ZION GARDENS
BY Fred Richards

The most important news
this week is that we are get
ting closer and closer to the
biggest flower day of the year.
There are only II days left I'M
til Easter. We at the Gardens
are busily preparing for that
great day-Plants on sale will
include Easter Lilies, Hydran-
geas, Tulips, Rambler Roses,
Gardenia plants and many
others All indications show
that there will be plenty of
plants at lower prices than last
year. Bouquets and corsages
will be about the same price
as last year or lower.
Orders are coming in now
and we certainly appreciate
the early orders, especially for
bouquets. Since we started
making all our bouquets in
containers there has been a
decided increase in cut flow
err sales. However, it takes
time to design these bouquets
so please order early. Bouquets
ordered at the last minute will
not be in containers. Eric
Bright and your reporter will
be at the corsage bar ''for walk
in" corsage orders. The regu-
lar corsage flowers will be on
hand such as Carnations, Ros-
es, Gardenias, etc. Corsages
should be ordered in advance,
especially the fancier corsages
such as the "Glamelia."
You should be getting your
paper bundled now as the Am
erican Legion paper drive is
Saturday, March 18th. If ev-
cry one helps little this drive
should be a big success.
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1948-03-10
TWO SPECIAL
EASTER PROGRAMS
On
"GREATEST STORY
EVER TOLD"

EASTER observance will be
marked this year by two spe-
cial programs on the radio
series, It H E GREATEST
STORY EVER TOLD" The
wonderful reception given last
years Easter Trilogy, on the
same program, as we'll as on
the Christmas Cycle of plays
which also received high
praise from listeners, religious
and educational leaders, en-
couraged the sponsor and the
producers to make this years
Easter programs even better
than before.
The first of the two Easter
programs, "The Betrayal and
The Crucifixion," will be
broadcast on Sunday, March
Fl, at the usual time of the
broadcast, $3.50 p. m. est,
over the ABC network (Chi-
cago outlets WENR and WIS
$50 k. CO.. The second pro-
gram will be given on Easter
Sunday, March %, and will be
1.-THE Resurrection"
The first program drama
ties the Last Supper and the
vigil in the Garden of Geth-
semane, followed by the judg-
ment of Christ, Peters denial,
and the crucifixion.
The Easter Sunday program
dramatizes "The Resurrec-
tion," and Christ's appearance
to the Apostles and to Thomas,
the dOubter.
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1948-03-10
The TheOCraf

well, it has been a long,
long time since we have heard
from dear old Zion. We trust
that you and your family, as
we'll as our other friends there,
are fine.
"Our brothers, Raymond T.,
Andrew j. and Earl A. all send
regards too.
You no doubt know our
father passed away three years
ago the first of this month, but
our mother is still living and
was IS the Goth of February.
Father was "a at the time of
his DEATH"
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1948-03-10
EXCHANGE CLUB
ENDORSES NEW
EQUIPMENT FOR CITY

The Zion Exchange Club at
it's meeting March End endors-
ed unanimously the City of
lions Bond issue which comes
up for a Vote at the Special
Election March 18th.
The members were heartily
in favor of improving the
equipment of the Zion Fire De-
partment as we'll as getting pro-
per equipment for the Street
Department.
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1948-03-10
JAMES KRAFT IMPROVING

MI. and Mrs. Henry Kratz
are happy to report that their
son, James who has had pneu-
monia is slowly improving. He
is confined to a hospital at AS
toria, a suburb of Portland,
Oregon.
James was returned from
Japan and on his return was at
the Veterans hospital at Port
land, Oregon. After becoming
stronger he was discharged
from the Veterans hospital,
when he became i'll with pneu-
monia.
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1948-03-10

Court House at Waukegan.
The caravan will be headed
by Adlai Stevenson of Liberty
Vile, candidate for governor;
Paul Douglas, candidate for
United States Senator and Ed
ward J. Barrett, Secretary of
State, who is seeking re-elec-
ton.
The Democratic Party Coun-
ty Candidates will also be pre-
sent.
The Public is cordially invit-
ed to come and hear these can
didates.
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1948-03-10
1876 MORE PRECINCTS
THAN IN 1916

The April Is Primary cleo
tons will be conducted in the
states $3.50 Precincts. This
is gain of 1876 precincts over
the 1916 election the secretary
Of states election department
indicated. They further show
that more than half of these
are located in. Cook County,
namely 1884. Lake County's
increase is 5, namely, now 1O8,
while it formerly had 103 pre-
cincts.
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1948-03-10
PASSION PLAY SCENE WILL
BE PRESENTED IN
CHICAGO APRIL 24th

The Zion Passion play will
transport one of it's 20 scenes
from Zion to Chicago for the
Illinois Federation of Music
Clubs Emusic in Illinois" fes-
tival-pageant in the Medinah
Temple there the night Of
April oath.
The pageant will mark the
opening of Illinois Music week,
proclaimed by Gov. Dwight H.
Green, and the 32nd annual
convention of the Illinois Fed
GRAFTON, according to Mrs. AL
ma K. Anderson, president.
Jabez Taylor, producer-di-
rector, and Nine. Sophia Swan
strom Young, drama director,
said they would take the Ser
mon on the Mount scene to
Chicago. Mr.. Taylor will in
spect the Chicago auditorium
next week to determine prob
lens of props and background.
This will be the Passion plays
first appearance in Chicago
since the Zion Tabernacle in
which it first was presented
was destroyed by fire in 1887.
At that time, the play was
moved to the Civic Opera
House until provision could be
made for Zion performances.
The Sermon on the Mount
scene will be the climax of the
festival, which will depict the
interviewer history of the state
and it's music.
Choruses are being recruited
throughout Illinois, and any
musical organization interest
ed in singing in the production
is asked to submit it's qualifica-
tions to the Illinois Federation
of Music Clubs at it's headquar-
ters in the Edgewater Beach
hotel, Chicago 40.
Among those already sched-
uled are Chicago's Apollo Club
chorus, the Kraft Choral club,
the j. Wesley Jones chorus, the
Carnegie-Illinois choruses, and
the First Methodist Church
choir of Peoria and the Rural
chorus of Ottawa.
Scenes will take Illinois de-
velopment, in music, through
Indian, pioneer and Civil War
times. Songs of Columbian Ex-
hibition days and of two World
Wars will be sung.
In keeping with the Easter
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1948-03-10
THE DUNNICKS LEFT FOR
OXFORD

Mr.. and Mrs. Peter Dunnick
of 2911 Ezekiel Avenue left on
Thursday for Oxford, Kan
sas, after receiving a telegram
advising them Of Mrs. Dun
hicks sisters death, Julie,
Mrs. John Peterson). The
Dunnicks visited at Oxford
year ago, when Mrs. Peterson
became ill.
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1948-03-10

AdIal Stevenson and Paul
Douglas to speak at Waukegan
Circuit Court Room.
The Lake County Democrat
ic Central Committee has ar
ranged to present the Demo-
cratic Party's state candidates
to Lake County on the evening
of March 18th at 7:30 p. m. in
the Circuit Court Room of the
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1948-03-10
FOURTEENTH
GRANDCHILD

Mr.. and Mrs. Kurt Johnson
of 2615 Gilboa Avenue an
nounce the birth of a son, -
Casey Allen, born March 18th,
weighing eight pounds and
eleven ounces. This makes Mr..
and Mrs. G. E. Richards grand
parents for the fourteenth
time.
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1948-03-10

season, the production will
open and close on a religious
note. The Passion Play scene
will be the final one. Appear
ance of part of it's cast in the
festival will in no way inter-
fere with the plays scheduled
presentations during it's Zion
season Sundays at 800 p. m.
in April, May and June.
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1948-03-10
NEWS FROM HOUSTON,
TEXAS

In a letter received by Mr..
Glenn Norris from Mr.. Leon
ard F. Richey of Houston,
Texas, he writes as follows:
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1948-03-10
MARCH

Birthstone - Aquamarine,
Jasper, Bloodstone
Flower-Violet
1 = 31st-Red Cross Fund
Drive
z . 13th-National Save
Your Vision Week
8 = 20-American Toy Fair
Is FEDERAL INCOME
TAX DUE
Is 22nd-National Hobby
Week
20 Spring begins.
Fl -27th-National Wild Life
Restoration Week
FL PALM SUNDAY
26 GOOD FRIDAY
20 EASTER SUNDAY
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1948-03-10
THE CHRISTIAN
CATHOLIC CHURCH

Zion Auditorium
Zion, Illinois
Musical Numbers
LORDS DAY MORNING
SERVICE,
March ID, 1913
PROFESSIONAL - Beneath
the Cross of Jesus" by
Maker.
CHOIR ANTHEM - 30 Saw
Jour of the World" by
Matthews.
Soprano Solo:
Miss Erma Reynolds
CHOIR ANTHEM-"Cast Thy
Burden Upon the Lord"
from Mendelssohn's CELL
JAIL"
CHOIR ANTHEM - "Go to
Dark Gethsemane," by T.
4 Tertius Noble.
PROFESSIONAL - F'Take My
Life and Let It Be-" by
Malan.
Philip A. Pennington,
Conductor
Charles Kessler,
Organist
CHOIR REHEARSAL-Thurs-
day evening at 1880.
All members of the Choir are
urged to be present at Rehear-
sails as music is being prepared
for the season leading up to
Easter. Stainer's "Crucifix-
ion," meditation on the sac
red Passion of our Lord and
Savior Jesus Christ, will be
presented in Candle-light
Service on Thursday evening,
March 25th, in Zion Auditor
ium.
Music for the next two Lords
Days will be on the Passion of
our Lord and on Easter Sum-
day Morning the Triumphant
Resurrection message will be
presented in song.
The Arizona post., 1948-01-02
Sonia Leizernan

Sonia Leizerman
Sonia Leizerman, 38, died Dec.
Is after a lingering illness. She
came to Tucson four months ago
accompanied by her husband,
Alex Leizerman, from Detroit and
lived at 1856 E. Alturus.
The body was returned to De-
troit for burial, accompanied by
her husband, who is here sole sur
vivor.
The Arizona post., 1948-01-02
Jewish Veterans Elect Officers
Prepare For Charter
Continued from Page u

mander of the Tucson D. A. v.
Post), Aaron Sosin (past COM
mander of the Hartford Post) and
Mrs. Sosin (nurse in World War
ID, Henry Obrent, Nathan J. Lam
dar, Nathan Saltzman, David w.
Cohen, Leon E. Cohen, Leo M.
Morris, Sidney Srulovitz, Jerome
L. Cohen, Philip Helman, Wallace
A. Levin, Russell H. Gilman.
Stan Salonic, Avrum M. Hirsch,
Max DeCovnick, Jack Dorman,
Samuel Trachtenberg, G eorg e
Fischer, Joseph Wolfe, Leo Stein,
r b en- Pitluck, Abraham
S. Fried, Phil Levkowitz, Max
Kurtz, Meyer Cohen, Theodore
Berlin, Maurice H. Margolis, Louis
H. Krainess, Edmund Mosberg,
Stanley Jacobs, Morton Haas, Bob
Salt.
Others signing the charter were
Meyer Chaton, Robert Marks,
Morris Kaplan, Al Axelrod, Harry
Blumenthal.
Next meeting will be at Anshei
Israel on Jan. 6 at $3.50. The char
ter will be kept open a short per-
iod so that future members before
installation of officers may be-
come charter members.
Jewish veterans of World War
I and II are invited.
The Arizona post., 1948-01-02
COUNCIL BOARD APPROVES
BUDGET AND FORMATION
YOUTH COUNCIL
Continued from Page II

Tucson boundary with the forma-
ton of a southwestern Arizona
area for service and for the an
nual community drive. A COM
mittee consisting of William Dav-
idson, Morris ShanhouSe, Raphael
Brandes and Albert Wagner will
lay the groundwork for extend
ing the area 1t is hoped to include
Nogales in this area.
Numbers of persons are expect
ed to represent Tucson at the re-
gional meeting in Ell Paso Jan.
17-18. Planning to go are Mr.. and
Mrs. William Davidson, Mr.. and
Mrs. Raphael Brandes, Rita Corn,
Mrs. Joseph Diamond, Jack De-
Shalt, Mr.. and Mrs. Sam Kauf-
man, DR.. and Mrs. A. Lieberman,
Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer Present, Nor
ris Shanhouse, Mr.. and Mrs. Har-
ry Shift, Albert Wagner, Council
director, and Dr. and Mrs. Boris
Zemsky.
On Jan. 25 a Report to the
Community will be made by the
various committee and depart
men chairmen of the Council. A
speaker on communal activities
from the West Coast will also be
presented
The Arizona post., 1948-01-02
REPORT ARAP LEAGUE
DECIDES AGAINST
DIRECT MILITARY
CONTINUED from Page II

lars through oil concessions and
King Ibn Saud has just assured
the United States that events in
Palestine will not touch off re-
prisals against American citizens
and property in Arabia. Iraq,
like Transjordan, is closely tied to
Britain, is known to favor the
Greater Syria plan and is an "oil'
country. This would leave Leban-
on and Syria as the potential
trouble makers.
The military committee will act
in consultation with Syrian De-
fense Minister Ahmed Sharabati,
repeatedly the sponsor of this and
other decisions adopted by the
Arab League, and Lebanese De-
fense Minister Maid Arslan. In
addition to the military commit
tee, Syria will become the base
for Arab military training camps,
arsenals and medical stations.
Volunteer doctors and nurses are
supposed to set up permanent and
mobile hospital units for the
treatment of Arab casualties
which will be brought in from
Palestine.
The immediate aim of the pro-
posed guerrilla operations in
Palestine, which would be better
organized than the current out
breaks, would be to disperse Jew
ish defense forces by creating
many small, isolated fronts in
Palestine. The Arab military
planning will conform to the pat
tern of British withdrawal from
Palestine. Regular Arab armies
will conform to the pattern of
British withdrawal from PaleS-
tine. Regular Arab armies will
be kept to guard the frontiers of
their respective countries but
won't participate in action in Pal
estine as long as British forces are
there, or in the event the U.N.
Security Council sends an inter
national force to Palestine.
The Arizona post., 1948-01-02
B'NAI BIRTH YOUTH
ORGANIZATION
CONTINUED from Page IL

member of the family already be
affiliated with either the mems
or women's organization. Every
one in the 1925 age group is ac-
cepted into membership.
At the first meeting on Jan. 4,
Miss Eva M. Ballo, the regional
field person will informally speak
to the group on the purposes and
formation of the B. B. Y. o. as
it is called. Gif Giffords, B. B.
president will welcome the new
group. The B. B. Auxiliary will
be hoStesSes.
The Arizona post., 1948-01-02
SHEKEL CAMPAIGN IN
FULL SWING
Continued from Page II

in national or local election, as
we know it. This election is only
for delegates to the World Con-
gress.
In 1948, shekels cost 81 instead
of SOC and cover years (instead
of y to cover the 2 years between
the biennial Congress. Actually
this sum covers only the admin
iStrative cost of registering and
tabu1ating the worldwide voting.
The shekel originally was a
weight measure and later a He
brew coin paid by every Jew for
the maintenance of the Temple at
Jerusalem. 1t has been the symbol
of the Zionists for the past so
years to indicate support of the
establishment of the Jewish state.
The Arizona post., 1948-01-02
st. John Forum Speaker

Robert ST. John will speak this
Sunday, Jan. 4th, at the Tucson
High School under the auspices
of the Sunday Evening Forum on
''Peace or Chaos"
He got back in September from
Europe having gone over in De-
cember 1916. He is the kind of a
commentator who insists upon
digging for the facts. He is con-
cerned with the little people. He
was in Europe during the fateful
days of 1944-'45.
In letter to a friend last spring
from Yugoslavia he wrote: Il
have now spent almost three
months behind the so-called Iron
Curtain. I have travelled many
thousands of miles around the
Balkans by every known method
of transportation. I have been in
hundreds of villages and towns
and talked personally with several
thousand people"
In another letter he writes
there is so much misinformation
in America. There is a great need
for the truth to be told. "And the
truth is not what a lot of news
paper readers and radio listeners
have been getting of late. The
truth is rather Tightening"
The Arizona post., 1948-01-02

Vienna (WNS).-Henock Cos
sior, 19-year-old displaced Jew,
has been sentenced by a British
military court to three-and-a-half
years Imprisonment on charges of
illegal possession of arms and un-
lawful entry into the British zone.
Gossior was arrested last sum-
mer after an unsuccessful attempt
had been made to blow up a Brit
ish troop train in Austria.
The Arizona post., 1948-01-02
UJA CONFERENCE VOTE
DELEGATES GO HOLY LAND
Continued from Page II

uel Neumann, president of the
ZOA predicted that the 1948 UJA
drive would have the total sup
port of all elements of the Amer
lean Jewish community, Zionists
and non-Zionists alike. He added
that the Jews of America would
in 1948 translate into a concrete,
stable and unshakeable reality a
political decision now on paper"
The Arizona post., 1948-01-02

rep1ete with the type of Jewish
entertainment that will please all
groups.
To get a better idea of the YER
salty of the Yiddish Group, tune
into KOPO on Sunday at 1000 a.
m. when they will broadcast.
Admission for the Wednesday
night performance is 81, plus tax.
The Arizona post., 1948-01-02

New York (JPS)-Benjamin J.
Rabin, Democratic representative
in Congress from the Bronx, was
elected to the Supreme Court in
the First Judicial District here
last week for a full fourteen year
term.
The Arizona post., 1948-01-02
YIDDISH PLAYERS

Something different, VIII C h
those who understand Yiddish
should like immensely, is the pro-
gram of songs, drama, and comedy
to be staged by the Yiddish Thea
tire Group Wednesday, January Z,
at $50 p. M, at the Tucson Wom-
ems Club, BIT w. Alameda.
The group
The Arizona post., 1948-01-02
POLISH JEWISH CENTRAL
BODIES UNITE

Warsaw (WNS).-Th Council
of Jewish Communities, central
body dealing with religious af-
fairs, has decided after prolonged
negotiations to join the Central
Committee of Polish Jews, it was
announced here.
The Arizona post., 1948-01-02
OBITUARY
Clara Tubnan

Clara Tubman
While visiting her sister, Mrs.
Harold Goldstein, 1927 E. Black
Iidge, Mrs. Clara Tubman, so,
passed away after a short illness
Dec. 10. She was a resident of
Cambridge, Mass. She was accom-
panied on the motor trip here by
her husband, Isadore Goldstein.
The body was prepared by Reillys
and she was returned to her home
for funeral services which were
held Dec. "a.
In addition to her husband and
sister she is survived by four sons
and one daughter, all of whom
except one son, reside in Massa-
chusetts.
Mrs. Tubman was particularly
active in the Jewish War Veterans
Post, having lost her older son
in the last War. Mr.. Tubman is
retired, having been in the furni-
ture and antiques business.
The Arizona post., 1948-01-02

Zwaig, Dorothy
Zwaig, and A
dolph Tamian-
off, who are re-
puted t o have
quite a bit Of
experience on
t h e Y d d i S h
S t a G e. M r J..
Zwaig promises
that the entire
Evening star., 1948-07-11
BY John c. Henry

munitions in violation of the truce The incident
preciptated cabinet crisis in the Israeli govern
ment but the breach evidently was healed with a
net result of frming the authority OF the Ben
Gurion cabinet.
There is little doubt, furthermore, that the
Zionist Organization around the world has been
busy engaged in lining up financial and armaments
assistance in other countries. Renewed and In
creased pressure upon the United States Govern
ment to lift the arms embargo can be expected II
hostites are to continue, and the Zionist record Tor
influencing this Government reflects high record
of success.
On the Arab side probably the most significant
activity has been the round of conferences engaged
In by King Abdullah of Trans-Jordan, most active
Arab leader in the Palestine conflict, and the
neighboring rulers of Egypt and Saudi Arabia.
AS the most westernized of the Middle East
countries, Egypts active support OF the Arap
League and its participation in whatever course
is followed in the Palestine situation are of major
Importance to the Arab side. Unless internal con-
ditions prevent the scattering Of its military
strength Egypt can contribute substantially IN that
regard.
Ibn Saud Very. Influential
Even deeper significance may be attached to the
meetings between Abdullah and King Ibn Saud at
the latters capital city Of Riyadh The two mon
archs head rival families that have been feudlng
bitterly since the Sauds drove the Hashentes OF
Abdullah out Of the Hedjaz province OF the ARABIAN
peninsula proper more than 20 years ago.
While Saudi Arab military strength may be
negligible in modern terms, Ibn Saud is probably
the most influential of all the Middle East rulers
This position of leadership stem first OF all from
his own strength OF personality and character and
additionally from his power as guardian over the
Moslem holy cities of Mecca and Medina 1t is not
insignificant, furthermore, that his government
today has the most extensive access in the Middle
East to dollar exchange resulting from the royalties
flowing to the King from the American oil de-
velopments in his country
Ibn saud has been an outspoken opponent OF
Abdullahs aspirations for the so-called Greater
Syria plan which would bring under control OF the
Trans-Jordan monarch portions OF Syria Lebanon
and Palestine If some compromise understanding
has been reached between the two rulers on this
issue it could be a forecast Of a much tighter and
more durable line OF action for the entire Arab
League.
Evening star., 1948-07-11
ADDITIONAL AREA SOUGHT
BY THE IRGUN EXTREMISTS
o. APPROXIMATE BATTLE
. LINES DURING TRUCE

RESUMPTION of Arab-Jewish hostties in Pales-
tine at the conclusion of the four-week truce may
reveal rather quickly the degree to which the loosely
constructed Arab League is to become an effective
and long term power in the Middle East.
Created in 1s45 the league membership includes
Syria Trans Jordan, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, The
Lebanon Egypt and The Yemen. Criss-crossed by
variety of interests and with conflicting views on
many area problems, the membership has displayed
its strongest unanimty in its opposition to Zionist
State in Palestine.
Arab Army Fails to Impress
The decision to implement this opposition by
continuing trial at with the young State OF
Israel indicates that this unanimity has been
strengthened during the four weeks OF suspended
hostiities. Eventual victory, or even an eventual
termination on terms preserving Arab face un-
auestionably would strengthen the foundations OF
this regional association of nations and might have
a profound effect on the future history of the
Moslem world On the other hand, defeat probably
would cause the collective effort to dsintegrate or
at most to lapse into merely token association.
In the light of the fighting which took place prior
to the truce there is convincing reason to believe
that the Arab might is sufficient to bring military
victory. certainly not a quick one While the Arab
League nations surround Israel on all sides except
the Mediterranean sea front and their potential
manpower far exceeds that OF the jewish STATE
their military operations loosely organized ana
generally unimpressive. Only the brltlsh-tralneo
Arab Legion of Trans Jordan resenbled mooern
fighting force The Israeli strength, on the otner
hand appeared to be harder hitting and better
equipped for decisive military action
This combination of circumstances may yet
prompt the Arabs to respond afirr1ativey to the
new truce proposals.
Zionists Busy Lining Up Help
In several ways it must be felt that the truce
r;oJ hoe heep adv
When the interim of peace began the new state was
hardly three weeks old. During the succeeding four
weeks there was opportunity for strengthening the
administrative and organization elements IN the
new government. Very likely there was also some
concentrated activity toward toughening up the
military side. Withdrawal OF British troops ano inc
remnant. of the British mandate administration
cleared the way for more complete Israeli self-rule.
The new government also weathered an internal
test when it suppressed efforts by the 1rgun to land