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eman d iraq Protect
OLD FOLKS' HOME Ask;
; to D —emarki
Jews
Before
Its Admission to League
TO COMPLY WITH
BUILDING CODES
DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, JULY 31, 1931
p
J. D. C. Halts Run On
Co-operatives in Riga.
RIGA, Latvia—(J. T. A.)—
Expect House of Lords to Reverse Ruling That National A serious run on the Jewish cre-
co-operatives of Latvia,
Fund is Not Charity; 10,000 Attend Tisha b'Ab
I dit
which are supported by the
Procession at Wailing Wall.
American Jewish Joint Distri-
Everything Being Done to
Make Home Safe and Com-
LONDON.—(J. T. A.)—Members of the House of Com-
fortable for Inmates.
mons called upon the British government to see to it that
before Iraq is admitted to the League of Nations as an in-I
dependent state it should give guarantees of fair play and
PROSECUTOR'S REPORT
POINTED TO DANGERS protection for its national minorities. The question of Iraquian mi- ,
Statements Made by Assist-
ant Prosecutor Stutz and
Max Lieberman.
!nities created a long and heated discussion during the debate on the '
Middle East vote.
Replying to the apprehensions voiced by G. L. 61. Standar, Lib.'
Sir Samuel Hoare, Conserve- I
t n itvoen d a n ds I thie sr . na le nm i b e r ersse, (i: t . aD f y r u o
SINGER PRESIDENT
CZECH JEWRY DEAD
f
bution Committee, was preven-
ted by the hurried dispatch of
$50,000 from the Berlin head-
quarters of the committee. These
Jewish credit co-operativea have
been undergoing serious difficul-
ties as a result of the German
financial crisis.
Recently two such co-opera-
tives in Riga were suddenly be-
sieged by depositors and the co-
operatives were compelled to dis-
continue payments. This led to
a run on the other co-operatives
which were stormed by deposi-
tors seeking their money. In
order to meet the emergency the
Jewish co-operative banks ap-
pealed to the Joint Distribution
Committee in Berlin which
quickly sent $50,000. The receipt
of these funds enabled all de-
positors to be paid and ended
the run.
The Joint Distribution Com-
mittee has 22 such co-operative
banks or kassas in Latvia with
a membership of 11,000 out of
a total Jewish population of
150,000. In 1930 loans granted
by these 22 institutions totalled
$575,000.
DR. LEE K. FRANKEL, I Professor Sprengling Says Alphabet
FIFTH OF WARSAW'S
Invented
By
Semites,
Not
Phoenicians
NOTED SOCIOLOGIST,
JEWS GIVEN RELIEF
64 DIES IN PARIS
DURING LAST YEAR
1
CHICAGO.—(J. T. A.)—Thejland just to the east of Sinai, prov-
alphabet was invented by Semites,' ing that the people who made the
not by Phoenicians, as scholars inscriptions and who were work-
g the mines u nd er Egyptian
,,
Outstanding American Jew - have thought. This is the conclu. in ction
Outstanding
were fro m that land. One J. T. A. Dispatches Report
ion reached by Prof. Startin e
ish Leader Was on Tour
Ii. S npren
inscription
Professor
Sprengling
New Evidence of Polish
I!
prengling
of the University of
of European Countries.
Chirasfo,who has decipliCretly the. translated to read: "I ant the bad-
Anti - Semitism.
ger (miner) Sahmilat, foreman of
inscriptions on Mount Sinai, wher
.
mine shaft Nu
according to the Bible, Moses re-.
JEWISH AGENCY CHOSE
THREAT
AGAINST JEWS
Professor Sprengling
rengling believes
the tablets of the Ten Corn-
HIM JOINT CHAIRMAN ceived
mandments. Dr, Sprengling has that a friendly Egyptian scribe BY JEW - BAITING ORGAN
--
just published a monograph on the taught an ambitious Semitic fore-
man the rudiments of the hiero-
Won World - Wide Recogni - subject.
Priest Ur g c s Ousting of Jew•
method so that the fore-
tion by His Health Pro-
Dr. Sprengling believes that the glyphic
a
.
h P
n eople as "Enemies
i • sh
nun could keep the records Ind-
alphabet was invented
to between n
motion Efforts.
of Poland."
ars ago. B C., o r more than dental to his work, but that the
—
,
simple
Bedouin
unable
to
master
3,700 and
y e 1800 by a Be mor e in the e I I tne
.
.
NEW YORK.—Dr, Lee K. Fran- 1850
i ntricacies ' of the Egyptian
foreman who was working
WARSAW.—(J.
T. • A,)—One-
sec • ond v ice-resident
p
ic tu re language, took a bold step —
. the
•
of the Sinai desert for
e entire Jewish popula-
hi,
Metropo litan Life Insurance Co
d produced an alphabet by r ep- fifth or
tion
of
promo- This
Bedouin . i s believed . to
have
h
Warsaw
has
received aid
puny aald a world-w d auth
.
s.
resenting actual single sounds with
devised
a
simple
system
or
sr
sy
m-
in soci work and he alth
a single symbol which might be r m t e Central Jewish Relief
Committee during the past year,
bolo in order to keep records of I combined with others. When an accordin
mine operations, and to have
g
din- , ; industrial depression hit the Sinai a .
a report of the com-
carded entirely the complex sys-, re ion the d s rt
I
•
t mittee's activities for the budget-
1
etate for the colonies, said that I
Commenting on the report that
the position of the Jewish mi nor-j
was made by Assistant Prosecuting
ity in Iraq is the best example e
Attorney George M. Stutz, in be- j
Iraq's fair treatment to its minori-
half of Prosecuting Attorney liar-
ties because none of the 88,000
ry S. Toy, pointing to the poor Member of Parliament Was Jews in Iraq are complaining off
condition of the Jewish Old Folks'
discrimination against them.
an Active Zionist and
Home on Edmund place and Brush
He also pointed out that the I
Communal Leader.
street, Max Lieberman, treasurer
House knew that in countries '
of the home, stated on Wednesday
, where Jews are badly treated
PRAGUE.— (J. T. A.) —Dr there was a great desire to go to
that the home always obeyed the
rules and regulations of the de- Ludwig Singer, member of the Palestine, bat no such desire
was
partment of building and safety Czechoslovakian parliament, presi- evinced by the Jews of Iraq who
engineering and will in the future dent of the Jewish National Coun-
comply with all the building codes. cil of Czechoslovakia, and one of appear to be happy and contented.
Mr. Lieberman states that offi- the outstanding Jews of Czecho- Mender declared that he hoped
cers of the Jewish Old Folks' Home slovakia, died here Monday of a before Iraq was admitted to the
will follow all the new suggestions heart attack. Ile was 55 years old. League
f Nations it
made as a result of the prosecu-
Born in holm, Bohemia, Dr. down guarantees of fair play for
tor's report. He expressed regret Singer was educated at the Um- its national minorities and that
that economic conditions make the versifies of Prague and Jena. these guarantees would be carried
erection of a new home impossible Shortly after his graduation he out in the daily lives of those mi-
at this time, and declared that entered the service of the Austro- norities residing in Iraq.
everything is being done to make Hungarian government, being sta.
Kurds Dissmisfied.
tioned at Reichenberg, Hohenelbe
the home safe and comfortable,
and Prague. He left the govern- When the Anglo-Iraq treaty was
Stuta's Report.*
The report of Assistant Prose- ment service in 1909 to open a ratified Iraquian minorities such
cutor Stutz is contained in a let- law office. Two years earlier he as the Kurds and Assyrians mani-
ter he addressed to the board of had associated himself with the tested antagonism to it, fearing
that the pact would give the Arabs economic Depression Drives
governors of the home as well as Zionist movement.
As chairman of the Zionist dim- unlimited powers.
The Kurds,
to the department of building and'
South African Jews to
safety engineering. The report trict committee, Dr. Singer led the have carried their protest to the I
Suicide.
points to defects in the exterior of negotiations in 1917 with the lead- League of Nations and at the same' .
the building as well as the interior.' era of the newly-formed Czecho- time guerrilla bands of Kurdish!
FRANKFORT.—(J.
T. A.)__4
The report describes at length' slovakian government, including chieftains have organized against ' Emil Weiler, managing director
of 1
the defects in the basement and Dr. Thomas Masaryk and Dr. Ed- the Iraquian government.
I
the
prominent
Frankfort
banking
on the second and third floors. The card Benes, regarding the regula-
The Jews of Iraq are of two 1 firm of Jacob Isaac Weiler, which
first floor exits are called good., tion of Jewish national questions kinds, the native Iraqui and the, closed its doors on July 22 after
exits on upper floors are especi- in the future Czechoslovakian re- Persian-Kurd stock. The Kurdish having been in business for 130
ally criticized and condemned.
public. As the outcome of these Jews are very Orthodox and al- years, committed suicide Saturday
Makes Recommendation.
negotiations Jewish minority most all of them can speak Ile- i by taking poison. The Weiler
DR. LEE K. FRANKEL
Mr. Stutz's report makes the rights be
tin integral part of brew. They are mostly farmers'
hank, which had been a pioneer in lion, died suddenly at the Hotel
the Cchoslovakian
ta
constitution and handicraftsmen and live in the financing
following recommendations:
Germany's dyeing Indus-
Bristol in Paris, Saturday.
On the exterior he urges the re- following the break-up of the pus- Kurdish villages. They have a try ,
fa i led a s
d i rect result o f
A transatlantic telephone met-
moval of all loose masonry, their tro-Hungarian empire.
great attachment for Palestine and , G ecniany ,a financial
crisis.
I
sage was received by his daughter,
resetting with proper anchors, the
When the Jewish National Coun- many of them, as a matter of fact,
In Jewish circles Herr Weiler'si Mrs. Richard Rafalsky,
removal and repair of the water cil was formed in 1918, Dr. Singer emigrated to the Holy Land.
her
th at
street
table, the repair of window sills was elected president, an office he The Jews of Bagdad, the Ira q- ' suicide is seen as the latest indi-1 home, 25 West Eighty-six
the post-war
decline of; did
The
came
and ornamentation.
has held ever since. As president ' uian capital, have a kehillah, to j jcation
the most of
important
Jewish 1'mi-1h-onkel
n so end
swiftly
that Dr.
not
realize
it
was
near,
In the basement the report of the council he participated on! which everybody, Orthodox as well ,
urges the replacing of ceiling with the Versailles peace treaty par- as free-thinkers, belongs. Out of Ilies in Germany. lie is the tenth j Mrs. Rafalsk y was told. Mrs. Fran-
metal lath and cement plaster, the legs, serving as a member of the a tax on kosher meat this kehillah! I prominent Jew in the last year to 'Awl was with her husband when he
'
died. He was almost 64 years old.
i Delegations supports Jewish schools, which arel take death as the
covering of wainscoting with sheet Committee of Jewish
metal, the covering of all parti-
Paris.
attended by 7,200 pupils; dress- of economic difficulties which are An Associated l'ress dispatch mid
Two years ago he was elected making sc hls
oo which have more gradually impoverishing German death was due to heart disease.
tions with metal, removal of dumb-
Jewr
Dr. Frankel's body will be
waiter, removal of all inflammable to P arliament on a combined Jew- than 1,000 girl s;
pupil
two hos-I Dr y.
materials from basement, and the ish and Polish ticket. It was at pitals, a clinic and several other ' ieni
n a f m atic attention to the prob. brought to New York on the Bre-
the economic impoverish- men which If Cherbourg Monday.
provision of proper exit from his behest that the government institutions.
ment of people once prominent in
Agency's Joint Chairman.
took prompt steps to suppress the
janitor's sleeping quarters.
Almost 90 per cent of the Jews
I Bagdad are in business. Though German Jewry for their wealth and
r. Frankt.I left New York at the
For the second floor, the report anti-Jewish and anti-German riots of
.
tree
i
a
e
i
en
of April to make a special
recommends that provisions be which broke out in Prague last i n dustrially the
la
an
important
yp y
Jews 1930 by the suicide of Dr. Eduard 1 study of social insurance in Europe j
To nal, role
made for another means of exit September. When a sensat iona
in the country,
y, I raquian
ness p
p
lie was ses i
and does not recommend its use blood ritual libel against the Jews have a smaller influence in politics Simon cousin and
for the old and infirm. The third, of Carpatho-Russia rose, it was than the Christians of the country, ner of ' James Simon, president of companied by his wife and by James j
. ('rang, actuary of the company,1
floor is condemned as a fire trap. Dr. Singer who raised the question who are less numerous than the he Hin der
i ye and Roderic Olzendan, another Met-'
year
The investigation on which the in Parliament and fought for a , Jews. The Jews have five roam- Judea. In January of this hs
itan
rt
Dr. Frankel and
report is based was conducted by I government investigation which' tiers in Parliament, two from Bag- Erich Goldschmidt, former head ropol a
Mr. Stutz and John M. Bischoff, eventually cleared the Jew in- dad and one each from Bethra, of the Berlin banking house of Jo- his party had traveled through
seph
Goldschmidt,
Inc.,
and
Fritz
England,
Germany
and
Switzerland
former commissioner of buildings volved.
'Mosul and Karkak, and one sans-
Steinfeld, another Jewish banker,' and spent considerable time with I
Dr. Singer also played a leading tor.
and safety engineers.
shot
themselves,
I
officials of the International Bur-1
role in the fight for an amendment
The Jews of Iraq claim their
La t April, Anne
‘ nne Goldschmitltdeau of labor attached to the
the new citizenship law which ancestors came here from Persia
JUDGE H. B. KEIDAN'S to
r I! daughter, Martha
artha Valentine, League of Nations at Geneva.
the naturalization
problem
solved
of
thousands
of Jewish war
veto- hundreds of years ago, some even her
MOTHER DIES AT 74
They had just finished their '
claiming that they have been iv- and Toni Weissman, widows of
gees in Slovakia and Carpatho- inghere from the time of Nebu- well-known German Jews, died study and had returned to Paris.
Mrs. Erode' Hannah Keidan, Russia. When the National Jew- chadnezzar, king of Babylon, who together of gas suffocation in a Dr and Mrs. Frankel had intend-
mother of Judge harry B. Keidan, ish Party was founded recently he destroyed the first Temple
. In a suicide pact which was blamed on ,ed leaving there for Carlsbad for a
economic troubles. Shortly after
died in her home at 461 BlaMe pledged it his support, but pre-
(Turn to Page Opposite Editor' all
(Turn to Last Paget
Adolf Mannheimer, once the owner
avenue, at 2:30 p. m. Tuesday af- ferred to remain a member of the
of the leading dressmaking firm in
Social Democratic party.
ter a long illness.
Germany,
shot
himself.
The
re-
Mrs. Keidan was born in 1857.
cent closing of the Darmstaedter
She had lived in Detroit the last SCHOOLS CLOSE FOR
and National Bank, prompted Mr.
50 years. Her devotion to family
and Mrs. Arthur Jaffe, long promi-
MONTH'S
VACATION
ond home life has made the Kei-
nent in Berlin society, to kill
clan home stand out as a sanctuary
themselves.
The United Hebrew Schools will
in the community.
Funeral services were held in close for vacation during the en-
Cantor Commits Suicide.
Resolutions
Deal
With
Pro-
Dean Who Expelled Jewish
the home Wednesday at 2 p. m. tire month of August and will re-
MONTREAL.— (J. T. A.) —
with Rabbi A. M. Hershman, of open Tuesday, Sept. 1. Sessions
blems Affecting Amer-
Student is Removed
Missing
for
two
days,
Cantor
Men-
C.ingregation Shaarey Zedek in will then be held during the morn-
ican Jewry.
From Office.
del Blumenfield was found dead
charge. Burial was in Clover Hill ing hours beginning at 9 :30. Af-
Monday among the graves of the
ter Labor Day, when the public,
Park.
CCHICAGO, Ill.—Important res.). local Jewish cemetery, a victim of
BERLIN. — (J. T: A.) — Prof.
Survivors include the husband; schools will reopen, the sessions at lotions
concerning vital problems suicide by poison. Cantor Bu- Gustav Adolf Deissman, rector of
Abbe L. Keidan; four sans, Judge I the Hebrew schools will be held I confronting American Jewry .
were
menfield
was
well
known
in
Mon-
the
University of Berlin, whose
during
the
afternoon
hours
begin-
B. Keidan, Joseph N,. Hyman
A. and Max J.; four daughters, ning at 4 o'clock. The duration of discussed at the closing session of treat, having officiated at numer- resignation aad been demanded
the
seventh
annual
conference
of
out
birthhs
and
marriages
and
last
week
by Karl Zweig because
each
session
is
one
and
one-half
Mrs. Ii. S. Blumenthal, Mrs. Sam-
uel M. Levin, Mrs. harry Z. hours. This means that the 4 the Rabbinical Association of the having conducted high holiday the latter's stepson, Leo Dobriner,
Hebrew Theological College, which services for a number of years. had been expelled from the uni. •
o'clock
session
is
over
at
5:30
and
Brown and Mrs. Abraham Caplan,
took place July 20 and 21 at the His suicide was attributed to
era' y on unfounded charges of
the 9:30 session at 11 o'clock.
and 14 grandchildren.
Hebrew Theological College build- failing health and straightened cir- having participated in the recent
ing in Chicago- cumstances. He was 64 years old. anti-Semitic riots, was replaced by
The convention was addressed by
Heinrich Lueders, professor of
Rabbi Ch. Korb, head of the Tel.
South African Suicides,
Indo-Aryan philology at the Uni-
mudic department, who spoke --"Pn - I JOHANNESBURG, South A f- versity of Berlin.
cerning interprtations of various rica.—(J. T. A.)—So hard hit has
In an open letter to Professor
Talmudic conceptions. Dr. Meyer South African Jewry been by the Deissmann, Herr Zweig had ac-
co
GERMAN BANKER
COMMITS SUICIDE
RABBINICAL GROUP
HOLDS CONVENTION
Tendencies Ascribed to
His Group.
35.
Edwin I.. Miller, assistant su-
perintendent of Detroit schools,
told the editor of The Chronicle:
Dec
Dec
BERLIN UNIVERSITY
REPLACES RECTOR
Palestine Jews Adapt Themselves
To New Agncultural Conditions
Compelled to Seek New Sources of Vegetables After the'
Disturbances of August 1929, They Become
Experts in Truck Farming.
Theological Collesse, on "The Lunar quest of late and are cousinri- action in
The Jews of Palestine are a realized that if the Jews were to
Sardy, courageous groups—but they be a self-sufficient community they
are also plastic and flexible. They must raise enough vegetables to
have proved this innumerable times satisfy the large Jewish population.
during the past decade in adjust- Thereupon truck gardens were de- ed by the president, Rabbi Uri Mil - jvanish if conditions do not im-
mg themselves to new conditions veloped in a circle around Tel Aviv. Icr of Terre Haute, Ind. He dis- prove
and in surmounting new problems.. Old vegetables were planted and
tine of the most forceful illustra- , new verities were developed. A
Urals of this ability to meet new I few weeks ago Tel Aviv witnessed
ircumstances was furnished in the an exhibition of the products that
recent agricultural products exhi- had been created by Jeish farmers
bition held in Tel Aviv. A report in less than two years. What was
of the exhibition, the first of its first an enforced experiment has'
kind, has just been issued by the now gradually become one of the
American Palestine Campaign, the largest industries in Palestine, giv-
fund-raising instrument of the Jew- ing employment to hundreds of men
ish Agency, whose support of agri- and women. Experts who attended
cultural experiment stations in Pal- the exhibition were unanimous in
estine has been a primary factor characterizing the products as the Rabbi Miller deplored the preval-, to aid the poor Jews of South
in developing the most advanced finest of their kind they have ever ency of the "quack-rabbi" and in-' Africa.
seen.
dirated the suggested Union of , At this meeting many speakers
methods of farming.
Many of these gardens were Congregations as a means of curb- I emphasized that the Board of
After the August, 1929 disturb-
ances, the Jews of Palestine, were started with funds loaned by ing this evil. The creation of an Deputies itself is practically penni-
compelled to seek a new source of the Jewish Agency through the endowment and pension fund was less. It was pointed out that 40
agricultural products, Hitherto Keren llayesod. The vegetable recommended. I per cent of the 143 Jewish corn-
Officers elected for the ensuing munities in South Africa whom
they had in large measure devoted patches were planted by the Hayar-
themselves to the raising of kon, an organization of Jewish year were Rabbi Miller, re-elected the board represents have not paid
oranges. lemons and similar prod- truck gardeners. It is the hope president; Rabbi Milton Rosen,
uct,. Whatever vegetable produeoa of this group to introduce truck' Oklahoma City, Okla. vice-presi-
they had raised were a negligible gardening into every section of Pal- dent; Rabbi Louis Kaufman, Chi-
estine, so that the Jewish commun-j cago Heights, Ill., secretary; Rabbi
factor in the market.
But such cities as Tel Aviv and ities can always have their own
Jerusalem, where the largest Jew- source of vegetables. In this way
ish communities are located, had the Jews of Palestine are gradually
need of vegetables on a large scale. becoming a self-sustaining econo-
Immediately the Jewish farmers mic unit.
Ili
D b
d that both
ou s
tion of Race Matters in Russia.
inter-linked. He added, however,'
MOSCOW.—(J. T. A.)—The Stalin's characterization of ■ nti-
that they are generally subjected
to ridicule and are not taken seri. conviction that ultimately inter- Semitism.
marriage
will end the distinction
"The Soviet policy toward race
ously.
between Jew and Christian was discrimination is the only logical
expressed here by
b George
Geor Bernard policy," Shaw said. "There is no
Shaw, world famous critic and reason why two people when talk-
NES ZIONA'S STORY playwright, in an interview with ing and dealing with one another
the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, should be thinking in terms of the
JERUSALEM.—(J. T. A.).— his first public expression of his race to which each belongs. The
There has just appeared the first views on the ultimate solution of normal man ought not to be con-
booklet of the German edition of the Jewish problem.
scious of such things. If I were
Mr. Shaw made his statement running the C. P. U. (Soviet se-
the Hebrew Palestine Library
"Lerman" This is "Net Ziona " after a week of observation, among cret police) and I saw two prole-
by S. Ben-Zion, the well-known other things, of race matters in tarians arguing with one another
llebrew writer. The translation Moscow. Having said that much over questions of race, I would
i all seriousness, Mr. Shaw added imprison both. It seems to me
is by Dr. Max Mayer. Like other Jn
booklets in the series, "Nes Ziona" , jestingly that the other prerequis- that the Communist regime in
jew
thse
gives a vivid and intimate picture ite . foir o nth i e . sf o o lu r t itohne of
Rttssia is taking the right ap-
tj oew lose proach to the solution of the Jew-
of the foundation, early growth 9ujet
their
superiority
complex.
"The
ish question for it not only makes
and development of this flourish-
thm must
tothbelieving
er rac es persecution of the Jew criminal
ing Judean settlement. The Pal- Jews
euesst superior
orto
but it also makes it possible for
estine library, which in the origi- themselves
kn sometimes
e titmhiensk
thinking ythheamveseljvue;
s the Jew to forget he is a Jew,
nal Hebrew now includes 30 vol-I even mi if
which is a great attainment."
umes, is published in conjunction t
Jews' Superiority Complex.
with the Jewish National Fund by so, he declared.
It was at this point that Shaw
Omanuth, Tel Aviv. The volumes
Approves Stalin's
remarked
that the Jew was no km
are illustrated, and each carries a
Having seen the statement in
map of the respective settlement which Stalin recently declared a problem to the world than the
world
was
to the Jew. "I have
region.
anti-Semitism to be a remnant of
The first booklet in the French the man-hating customs character- never shared the viewpoint that
Jews
suffer
from an inferiority
edition is "Mikveh Israel," by S. istic of the era of cannibalism and
!Miele, translated by J. J. Cohen. his further etitement that under complex," he asserted. "On the
I
contrary,
Jews
suffer from a Int-
Mikveh Israel owes its foundation Soviet laws militant anti-Semitism
to the Alliance Israelite Univer- is punishable by death, Mr. Shaw 1 periority complex. This is very
selle. expressed complete approval of i (Turn to Page Opposite Editorial)
GERMAN BOOK TELLS