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cUPTON AVEN01 • CINCINNATI 30, OHIO
THE JEWISH CHRONICLE
MICHIGAN'S JEWISH HOME PUBLICATION
VOL.
Hundreds Dead in Pogroms
in Twenty Polish Cities,
Per Year, $2.00; Copy, 5 Cents.
DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1918.
Iv. NO. 27.
LYON W. JACOBS
ACTING MAYOR OF
MONTREAL, QUE.
Earliest Jewish Immigrants of Forties
Included Linguists: . Artists, Devotees,
Financiers, Adventurous Traders, All
Preceding Great Immigrations of 1850
SAMUEL F. NIXON,
THEATER MAGNATE,
DIES AT HIS HOME
Twenty Million Marks Are
Given to Jewish Purposes
By Famous•Berlin Magnate
Samuel E.
PHI L.XDELP111.\
MONT R E.A1.—The Jewish Com-
Nirdlinger, knows in theatrical cir-
munity of Montreal hate had a signal
cles as Samuel F. Nixon, died at his
_ ---
honor conferred on them, when Ald-
Dr. Walter Rathenau Parts
home in Philadelphia last week
Max Reiner Blames Legionaires erman Lyon \V. Jacobs, B. C. Ir., rep-
Mr. Nirdlinger, who was born 'hi With Entire Fortune to Jewish
resentative of the city council of
Ft. \Vayne, Ind., in 1848, came to
for Arson and Murder After
Community, in Which He Has
Montreal, of St. Louis Ward, was David E. Heineman Tells of Leopolds, Who Founded Fish Industry; Philadelphia in 1865 and drifted into
Polish Troops Took Lemberg 1111ani111011Sly elected on November 11,
of Edward Kanter, Indians' Friend; of Bresler's Farm, Where the theatrical business some years Ever Borne a Helpful Hand.
1918, acting mayor of Montreal for
From Ukrainians.
later. skt the time of his death he
Two Villages Were Built Within Owner's Lifetime.
the next three months.
was the owner or director of the
Alderman Jacobs is the youngest
Broad Street, Garrick and Forrest SPENT 18 MONTHS
DANGER NOW SEEN
man ever elected to this position, and
IN NEW YORK BANK
Theaters of Philadelphia and was a
Jewish
Painter
Had
Honor
of
Training
L.
T.
Ives
and
Robert
Hopkin
IN WHITE RUSSIA his election shows in what high es-
big factor in the so-called Theatri-
—Washtenaw County Settlement Mother of Detroit Jewish cal Syndicate.
teem he is held by his colleagues in
BERLIN.-- Dr. Walter Rathenau,
NENV YORK—A series of cables the council.
Colony.
director-general of the General Elec-
received by the Zionist Organization
tric Co. of Germany, has given 20,-
JEWISH CONGRESS
give details of terrible pogroms re- RUMANIAN PREMIER
QUESTION PENDING 000,000 marks, practically his entire
BY THE HON. DAVID E. HEINEMAN.
ported in Lemberg and other parts of
fortune, for Jewish community uses.
TELLS N. Y. JEWS
Galicia. Most of these details come
ALL FAITHS SECURE This is the third o/ the important and lau in 1824. His father was Louis NEW PORK—Judge Leon Sand- The entire amount is given as a single
from a prominent Lemberg journal-
valuable series of articles on "Jewish Bettin• Kanter, a prosperous linen merchant ers, the Grand Master of the Inde_ fund.
ist, Max Reiner, whose reliability is
prepared b,
flings in Michigan Bcfore 1550 "
Doctor Juris Walter Rathenau, now
vouched for by the Copenhagen Zion-
NEW YORK.--The American Un- the scholarly research of thr Hon. David E. and a member of the Linen Mer- pendent Order B'rith Abraham, has
Heineman, United Stales Food Administrator chants' Guild. His mother was He- sent a letter out to the various ride-, about 40 years of age, is the distill-
ion
of
Rumanian
Jews,
with
heae
ist Office.
of Wayne County. The three articles now
Ile reports that the - pogroms began quarters at 44 Seventh street, New published in THE JEWISH CHRONICLE lena Lasker, a near kinswoman of Ed- gates elected to the Jewish Congress, guished son of his distinguished
in Lemberg immediately after the ar- York, has received from Mr. Lucien are a reprint of a paper read by Mr. Heine. ward Lasker, the German parliamen- which was postponed last November. father, the late Emil Rathenau, found-
man before the American Jewish Historical
Mr. Sanders asks that the dele- er of the General Electric Co. of Ger-
tarian, of whose birthplace she was
rival in that city of Polish Legion- ‘Volf, chairman of the Joint Foreign
Society.
gates inform him whether in their many. The personality and influence
In the previous instrernents Mr. Heineman also a native.
sires on November 22d. Legionaires Committee of the Anglo-Jewish As-
individuals of old French
discussed
Jewish
A
Young
Scholar.
estimation the Jewish Congress ought of Emil Rathenau were made plain to
stormed the Jewish shops, plundered sociation of London, a fac-simile of
and British times and Iervis:r heroes of Indian
them and then hawked the goods about the following letter, received by him wars. /ri the present article he discusses the
Young Kanter graduated from the to be called, and if so, he will pres- the world in the hook by Frederick
of the middle of the
Breslau Gymnasium, equipped among ent the matter to the Administrative William Wile, "The Men Around the
for sale. They attacked everyone who from M. Take Jonescu, Rumania's new order of pioneers
Nineteenth Century, with a few fascinating
opposed them. As proof that these foremost statesman:
Ind significant lift.stories of the honored other things with a knowledge of Committee of the Congress, and ask Kaiser."
founders of the modern Jewish communtly.— Greek, Latin, German, English, them to call it.
Dr. Walter Rathenau is president
excesses were sanctioned by the mili-
"The Berkeley Hotel,
, iditor The Jewish Chronicle.
French and Hebrew. In later years
of the Reformed Congregation in Ber-
tary authorities, if not organized by
"Piccadilly, W. L., Oct. 11, 1918.
be
was
often
heard
to
remark
that
it
lin, and has always been active in
them, Reiner declares that the Polish
POLISH LEADER
kVolf:
An account of the Jews who came
"Dear
was his education above all things
Jewish interests. When about 22 he
Commandant issued a proclamation
"In answer to your letter of the to Michigan in the years immediately which helped him out in emergencies.
PLEDGES LIBERTY
giving leave to the soldiers to plunder
wrote a significant series of articles
18th of September of this year I can succeeding 1850 would he of second-
A wild spirit of adventure seized
for 48 hours. The Jewish militia was
TO ALL RELIGIONS entitled "Iloere Israel," which ap-
tell you that you have well under- ary interest. Such an account would him early in life with the result that
disarmed and many members of that
peared
in Maximilian Hardin's paper,
stood my proposal. I mean that all deal with the extensive immigration, he ran away from home and made his
body killed by Legionaires.
principally German, of that period, way to Paris, where his knowledge of Pederewski Assures Jews, Protestants, Die Zukunft. These articles de-
Jews
born
in
Rumania
and
not
having
After the Polish conquest of Lem-
nounced the type of successful man
Catholics of Equal Rights.
and be made up of long lists of names,
the language obtained him employ-
berg, Polish Legionaires marched into claimed foreign protection themselves birthplaces, and dates of arrival.
of Jewish origin whose worldly ad-
—
will
be
considered
as
Rumanians.
went
in
a
lawyer's
office.
the Jewish streets in double file under
NEW YORK—Possessed of power vancement leads him to forget or to
It would be a recital common at a
Six months later saw him at Havre
command of their officers, systemat- with equal rights like all other Ru- somewhat earlier date to most of
where, as he was strolling about the of attorney to act on behalf of the try to deny his humbler beginnings.
icaly plundering all the shops, break- manians, even if their fathers would the then Western States telling of the
Dr. Rathenau is far from being un-
wharves, a sudden impulse prompted various Polish committees in the
ing doors open with their rifle butts have been under foreign protection.
humble beginnings of prosperous mer- him to go aboard a vessel bound for United States, lgnace J. l'aderewski known in the world of American
"This is the principle which, in my
and hand grenades.
sailed
from
New
York
on
November
chants, successful professional men,
finance. In 1912 he came to America
Ott November 23d, after all the opinion, Is ill wipe forever the Jewish and communal leaders, in largest New Orleans. He hid behind a coil
23 for Europe to further the interests for a stay of 18 months. He was as-
wine cellars of the city had been question from the annals of Rumania. measure, valuable and valued citizens. of rope until well out at sea when he of his compatriots in the pending
sociated during that period with the
"I hope this statement is clear and The beginnings of congregations was discovered, and at once given a
looted, the massacres began. At first
banking firm of James Speyer & Co.
further taste of the rope, accompanied political developments.
Legionaires slew several Jews walking will satisfy you.
would he accurately set down and the
In Paris the noted pianist plans to Mr. Speyer was a friend of the elder
by an assortment of curses in several
in the streets. Afterward they drove
"Yours truly,
memory of man would still suffice to
confer with the Polish National Com- Mr. Rathenau.
languages.
the Jews into their homes and
"(Signed)
TAKE JONESCU."
amend the errors due to a neglect of
After his return to Berlin, Dr.
As he was able to turn away wrath mittee, 1AI•id' has been recognized by
slaughtered whole families. Several
local history.
with soft answers in all of the re- the Allies, and will visit London and Rathenau became a director in the
families were entirely exterminated. RUMANIAN POLISH
Inasmuch as there has hitherto been
Rome
and
perhaps
represent
Poland
great Berlin bank known as the Ber-
spective tongues, it instantly dawned
Several hundred men and women who
CONDITIONS SCANNED
a woeful neglect of proper investiga-
upon the mate at the other end of the during the peace conference.
liner Handelsgesellschaft. In 1908 he
had tied into the synagogues, hoping
"Poland will be free and so will had been elected a director of the
BY U. S. INQUIRERS tion, the writer does not hesitate to rope that he had found a much-need-
the Poles would respect these holy
enlarge upon the commencement of
her inhabitants," Mr. Paderewski said General Electric Co., and in 1912, on
ed
interpreter
for
the
immigrants
of
places, met death in the flames to
WASHINGTON—The State De- this immigration and upon a few pio- various nations with whom the ship in a statement before departing. "The
flue retirement of his father, he suc-
which the Legionaires consigned the partment has ordered an investiga- neers therein, all prior to 1850.
democratic constitution of Poland
was crowded.
ceeded as director-general of this
synagoges. The number of victims tion of the position of Jews in Poland
NVe again recur to Mackinac, and in
The rest of the trip was pleasant will assure liberty and equality to great enterprise.
in the synagogues was over a hun- and Rumania.
1845 find at this point members of
every
citizen
without
distinction
as
sailing for the young stowaway. On
The personality of Dr. Rathenau is
dred.
the Leopold and Austrian families (1)
rriving at New Orleans, he found to race, religion or political opintm. r41-1 -and detauzratit. ,Desplte.ch:s
Martial Law Late.
Europe, who on November 10th ca- which afterward became prominent a
CatholcS, ProilStanhr and AwS 4 all
Itself
with
but
a
single
shilling,
The whole Jewish quarter was cut
lack of aristocratic haughtiness, his
led to she' ZiOnist Organization of owners of Lake Michigan vessels an
wilich he gave to be changed to one will enjoy equal rights, as they will extraordinary abilities have been pub-
"off liy Leglonatres and every house
America, warning it of what was merchants in the ports of the Great of the sailors on the ship. The sailor all fulfill equal duties."
systematically destroyed by tire and
licly recognized in many ways. To
about to transpire, appealing to it to Lakes.
did not return and so the lad landed
bombs. People who tied from the
him, at the beginning of the great
Lewis F. Leopold, his wife, who
petition President Wilson to inter-
on the:soil of America with literally CATHOLIC LEADERS
burning bosses were driven back by
war, was committed the task of mo-
vene. This cablegram was laid before was a Miss Babette Austrian, and not a single penny in his pocket.
Legionaires using bayonets. They
bilizing
Germany's raw material. It
GREET PALESTINE
the President by lion. Julian \V. their son of less than a year old, to-
Hardly ashore, he was laid low with
w ere either burned or slain. A few
was
tile masterly accumulation and
gether
with
his
sister,
Hannah,
and
Mack, President of the Zionist Or-
HOMELAND
PROJECT
yellow
fever.
He
was
taken
care
of
of the wealthier Jews were able to
husbanding of these resources that
ganization of America, and Mr. Louis his brother, Samuel, were located at by a relief committee, of Jewish citi-
buy their escape.
Marshall, President of the American the island in the year mentioned.
zens of New Orleans, among them Pope Benedict and Cardinal Gibbons In- enabled Germany to prolong the
November 23d, in the afternoon, the
Samuel F. Leopold soon after his
struggle as she did.
Jewish Committee.
Mr. Isaac Hart, afterwards a resident
dorse Zionist Plan.
entire Jewish quarter had been en-
Of the pogroms thus far reported, arrival at Mackinac purchased a one- of Detroit, a gentleman most kindly
tirely destroyed. Charred bodies lit-
the worst has occurred in the town of mast sloop. the "Agate," with which remembered by Detroiters. Upon his
BALTIMORE— Cardinal Gibbons PHILA. HAS 8 JEWS
tered the streets. No exact estimate
Cherzanow, where on November 7th he gathered up the product of the dif- recovery the same committee. set him
has authorized the publication of a
IN LEGISLATURE
of the number dead is possible, but it
ferent
fishing
points,
becoming
the
the Jewish militia was disarmed by
to peddling cigars until a congenial statement by him approving the pro-
is certain that the number exceeds
the Polish Legion, after a clash in first pioneer at this locality in the place was found for him in a drug
ject to establish in l'alestine a nat-
eleven hundred. Ten thousand Jews
PH
I
LA
DELPH
IA — Philadelphia
which four Jews were killed and many fishery business, which 'since that time store.
ural homeland for the Jewish people. will be well represented by members
are shelterless and 80 per cent of the
wounded. The damage from this has grown to such a great industry.
The
place
was
too
congenial;
he
The statement, which us dated No- of the Jewish faith at the coming ses-
J ewish population of Lemberg is ab- pogrom is said to run into the mil- The brothers sent down to Cleveland
was much given to chemical experi- vember 19, is as follows:
solutely ruined.
sion of the Pennsylvania Legislature.
lions. Other pogroms have occurred a thousand barrels of salted fish each ments, reminiscences perhaps of the
"It is with pleasure that 1 learn
Not before the morning of the 24th
In the Senate will be Samuel W.
at Kreszo•ice, Niepolomice, Sator, season, no insignificant industry for Breslau Gymnasium. Presently one of
was martial law proclaimed by the
of the approval accorded by His
Salus, who has been re-elected from
Odow and other Galician towns.
those days.
his experiments resulted in a bad ex-
Holiness,
Benedict
XV,
to
the
Polish commander, although its proc-
the Second District.
This venture, together with the sale
In Twenty Sisters.
plosion of the drug store, from the
lamation on the 22d would have pre-
plan of providing a Homeland in
In the House of Representatives
In Poland they occurred at Jaworz- of supplies to fishermen, Indian trad- wreck of which the young scientist
the
sented these massacres. Reiner
Palestine
to
the
members
of
will lie the following; Leopold C.
na and neighboring towns, including ing, and the purchase of furs, laid the rushed terrified to the levee.
charges that this omission was delib-
Jewish Race.
Glass, First District; Julius J. Levis,
Donibrover and Szakow. Riots oc- foundations for an extentive business.
He went aboard the first boat which
erate. Ile points out that after the
"I ant sure that there are many
Third District; Max Aron, Thirteenth
Samuel F. Leopold left Mackinac happened to need a waiter. Because
curred in Warsaw on October 18th,
proclamation of martial law only three
who
would
feel
happy
to
return
District; Samuel J. Ephraim, Nine-
when the Poles were celebrating the in 1853, joining his brothers, Ilenry of his excellent penmanship he was
looters were shot. but not a single
to that land so rich with the
teenth District; Benjamin M. Golder,
realization of their hope of national and Aaron, and Julius Austrian, who soon promoted to the position of
officer or soldier of the Polish Legion
sacred
traditions
of
the
past,
and
Twenty-second
District; Sigmund J.
had married Miss Hannah Leopold in clerk and as such he continued to sail
emancipation.
had been apprehended, although many
which
is
at
the
same
time
the
Gaits, Twenty-third District; Philip
In Siedlez, the students and intel- 1849, in their recently undertaken bus- up and down the Red River until one
of the Polish officers who participated
home of the fathers.
Sterling, Twenty-sixth District.
lectuals looted and the whole Jewish iness ventures at La Pointe and Fond day the boat happened to blow up
in the looting have been recognized.
"Very faithfully yours.
population had to flee the city. The du Lac, Wisconsin, where they were opposite Helena. He swam ashore,
After the pogrom the Polish com-
"JAMES CARDINAL GIBBONS,
cablegram gives a list of 20 Galician among the first white settlers.
Renegade Taken
worked his way to St. Louis, took
manders issued a proclamation in
"Archbishop of Baltimore."
The town of Hayfield, Wisconsin,
towns in which pogroms have been-
a steamer to Pekin, Illinois, and walk-
Prisoner, Marched
which they declared that the excesses
The
approval
of
this
plan
by
Pope
reported. .\ Jewish National Guard was platted shortly thereafter, Marks ed thence to Chicago, where he ship-
bad been provoked by Jews having
To Jail by Band
and a National Council representing and Julius Austrian being the pre- ped on the steamer, Wisconsin until Benedict XV, was given in person by
shot at Leginoiares.
the l'ope to Mr. Nahum Sokolow,
all Jewish parties has been organized emptors, and Mrs. Julius Austrian the the close of navigation, 1844.
The Copenhagen Zionist office has
JERUSALEM—The American Jew-
Ambassador-at-large of the Inter-
first white woman resident at that
l'rzymesl.
Arrives in Detroit.
supplied the following details of the al
ish Legionaires, who participated in
national Zionist Organization.
The Zionist Organization of Amer- place.
He was now only twenty years of
boycotts against the Jews that prevail
Mr. Sokolov, in an audience at the the final campaign of General Allenby
Many Branches.
ica has received a cablegram from the
age, but had certainly obtained a few
throughout Poland and Galicia. In
Vatican. explained in detail the ob- in Palestine, captured a prisoner
The history of these enterprising
Were rperesentatives of the 'Merchants and
lessons in the larger university of life.
Warsaw, black-edged posters
Industrial Workers of Minsk and Sec- and prominent families, it will thus be He spent the winter of 1844 in De- jects of the Zionist movement. His whom they brought to Jerusalem
put up all over the city containing the
Holiness several times reiterated his headed by a band of music.
ond Mayor. of Minsk, Gregory Kap- seen, falls properly to Wisconsin, but
troit. The English he had learned at
names and denouncing as traitors all
Ile was Joseph Rivlin, a soldier in
lan, the Vice-President of the Jewish in addition to what has been mention- Breslau had always given him trou- thorough accord with its aims. and
who had been selling provisions to the
at although he has received the Turkish Army, a former teacher
community of \Vilna and of Central ed it should be stated that within a
ble, or more properly speaking, had stated t h
Jews. At Wilna all sales and all pur-
Relief Committee of \Vilna, asking few years after 1850 they had estab- always given trouble to those to a report from the I'apal Secretary of of Hebrew in Jerusalem, a journalist
chases from Jews have been prohibit-
the Zionist to endeavor to secure ac- lished leading stores in Michigan. at whom he spoke, and so he profited by State, he welcomed the opportunity and a cousin of one of the legion-
ed. Jews have been excluded from
tion by America which will prevent Eagle River, Eagle Harbor, the Cliff his stay in Detroit to take some les- of receiving fuller details from a rep- aires.
the new Polish army. At Cracow
pogroms which are feared throughout `Aline, Calumet, and at Hancock, Mt. sons from Charles E. Bresler. a Jew- resentative of the Zionists.
and in several other cities. the Jewish
The Pope declared that he saw no PALESTINE WILL
that part of Russia which was occu- Joseph Austrian having selected at the ish resident of Michigan, originally
militia hastily organized for the pur-
pied by Germany. The cablegram latter place the site for its first store from the same part of Europe as Mr. obstacle whatsoever from the point of
BRIGHTEN WORLD IN
pose of defense, has been disarmed.
and warehouse.
view of Catholic religious interests.
reads:
Kanter.
Neutrality Cause.
MANY DIRECTIONS
The Leopolds came from Baden
He was concerned only with the holy
"The approaching retreat of troops
The
ensuing
spring
saw
hint
again
The correspondent of the Vossi,che
where their name was Freudenthaler;
Zeitting, which contains a similar re- from the occupied territory of White on the lakes, this time as clerk of the places.
Russia threatens us with great dam- the Austrians, whose name originally steamer Illinois. He left this position,
Mr. Sokolow assured the l'ope that Lord Bryce Foretells Grand Creative
port, gives as the motive for the
Era in Homeland.
ger. The country which for over was Oesterreicher, came from Wit- however, taking employment the same the Jews would most carefully respect
pogroms the neutrality of the Jews in
telshofen, Bavaria. As is obvious, the year at Mackinac as clerk and Inter- Christian religious properties and
the struggle between the Polish and three years was the theater of war
name in each instance was changed preter for the American Fur Com- Christian sentiments. llis Holiness
LONDON—Viscount Bryce was
Ukrainian regiments and the appeal now is exposed to the danger of being
overrun by Bolshevist gangs. and be- purely for convenience.
pany, the successor to John Jacob As- stated that he received these assur- one of the speakers at a dinner wel-
for protection to President Wilson.
There
was
a
young
',Ian
at
Mackinac
coming
Dr. Weizmann and the other
ances with the fullest confidence. He
tor's venture.
Pogroms have occurred also in the ing destroyed by atrocities including
who in 1846 worked for the parties
Here again his French and English ended the audience by repeating sev- members of the Zionist Commission
Polish Galician towns of Rozwadow, robbery, destruction of property and
just mentioned and whose name was stood him in good stead. His re- eral times: "We will be good neigh- on their return front Palestine. In
Brzesko, Kielce, Chmelnik, Grochow, murder.
Iris speech, the distinguished states-
"Before the whole Jewish popula- Edward Easter. (2) He had come to markable faculty for languages re- bors."
Lasi and Przymesl.
Detroit in the fall of 1844 and re- vealed itself in the rapidity with which
man said:
Riots and masssacres are reported tion fall victims to anarchy and po-
mained
a
citizen
of
Michigan
until
his
"We look to you when you begin
he picked up the Indian tongues. In
in Jewish communities throughout groms we appeal to you to exert your
death,
52
years
later.
your permanent home in Palestine,
a short time he had mastered the
Poland and Galicia. Excesses in the influence.to prevent the country from
Always a modest rnan, he never, in Iluron, Chippewa, and Pottawatornie
to
give a stimulus to its success under
this
threatening
danger
through
in-
latter country appear to have reached
spite of his prominence as a citizen, languages and even in later life could
the influence of those traditions which
their greatest violence in that section ternational intervention, if necessary
permitted the publication of his biog- on occasion unconcernedly carry on a
ANGELES—Miss Mildred you have exerted over thirty or forty
of Galicia which, it is expected. will by the sending of some military forces
raphy and the interesting facts of his fluent conversation in any of them .
become a part of the reconstituted if that is possible before the retreat
Harris, the screen aCtseee--wiwybe - centuries to give us a new intellectual
career
certainly
deserve
such
preser-
He visited at this time Duluth and came the bride of Charlie Chaplin in life, a new intellectual stimulus, new
Polish republic, according to advices of the armies, and until the whole
vation as the records of this Society the Apostle Islands and was a passen-
received by the Zionist Organization problem will be solved by the Peace
California last month, is a Jewess. A types of creation in the field of art,
afford. They are here set forth for ger on the first trip of the "Julia Pal-
Congress
in
such
a
manner
as
will
long interview with her appeared in philosophy, of science, and of lite-a-
of America.
The pogrom wave which is in full protect the lives and property of the the first time.
tore."
(Continued
On
Page
Fours.
a
Yiddish
paper recently.
Bres-
Edward Kanter was born in
swing was expected by the Jews of population."
Says Copenhagen Dispatch
CHARLIE CHAPLIN'S
BRIDE IS JEWESS
-"LOS
r
ill
fY