e° iffEnEfROHIL111511CAROPIICIA --- OPPOSE ATTEMPTS TO CONVERT JEWS AS REFUGEE FOLK Urge Coordination of Fund•Raising Efforts ATTORNEY ACCEPTS CALL TO DEFEND HERSCHEL CRYNSZPAN Levi Memorial Hospital !EMINENT - By A. B. RHINE I 2 3 o this or any other country, "I am glad," he said, "to have had this opportunity of giving you my thoughts on our work toward the solution of this vital mat- ter . . . vital to hundreds of thousands of innocent persons and one to which we have dedi- cated ourselves with the deter- mination not to relax our ef- forts until it has been solved." Declining to comment on the pos- sible decisions of the meeting, Mr. Taylor said, "I hope the people of the world will continue to take notice of the plight of these opprgssed people." The board of governors of Ft igah Lodge of Detroit is pay- the Jewish Welfare Federation ing a fine tribute to the Leo N. has issued a plea urging the co- blee, in establishing temporary, 'CONCLUDED PROM PA DIA ON• / !project to give homes to Ameri. operation of all members of the Levi Memorial Hospital by nam- transient homes or hostels for can families who had been un- community in its work of co-or- Jews of Germany, tens of thou- ing this year's class of new mem- The first step toward carrying out , able to find adequate means of dinating fund-raising activities. sands of them pending their ul- bers the Leo N. Levi Memorial the plan which the Nazi organ livelihood within the States. The call to the community timate distribution among the Class. By associating the name outlines will be a new anti- states: lands, the provinces, the domin- MEDICINE HAT, Albert a. of Leo N. Levi with this class, Jewish decree issued by Field "When solicited for any Jew- ions, nations and continents in Marshal Hermann Goering under (WNS)—A plan to bring 10,000 ish cause, local, national Of which they will ultimately be Pisgah Lodge is paying a tribute whom all measures for "liquida- Jewish refugees—two thousand overseas, with which you are likewise to the great leader of the tion" of the Jews—now being integrated. families—from Europe to settle not intimately acquainted, please lanai With of a generation ago, issued in rapid succession—will "But the one great, indeed on community farm lands in the call the Federation office for in- who should be remembered vrate. supreme, service that England Medicine Hat district is under be concentrated. formation or advice. Jewish fully by American Jewry. In can render the Jewish people, consideration. Government sanc- Poland Bans Bnai Brith The new decree, it is under- Welfare Federation headquar. 1903, the world was outraged by the whole JeWish people, not tion would be required to permit WARSAW, (WNSI—Confisca- stood, will create definite ghettos tors are in the Detroit Como the Kishineff massacres, as it is merely German Jews, is at once, entry of the refugees into Can- tion of all property of the Jew-. h compelling the Jews to live munity Fund Building, 51 W. outraged today by this German by without a moment's delay, to ada. tsh fraternal organization Bnai Warren Ave. The telephone atrocities. Throgh the indefatig- in certain restricted districts in grant the request of the Jewish DAR-ES-SALAAM, Tangany- Brith, was ordered by the Polish s of Leo N. Levi, then a restricted number of cities, number is COlumbia 1600. Ask able effort population of Palestine that they ika. (WNS) — Prime Minister government on a decree banning for Extension 160." president of the Constitution probably 25. At the same time be permitted to welcome ten they are to be excluded under Neville Chamberlain's statement Free Masonry in Poland. Vir- Grand Lodge of Bnai Brith, a thousand Jewish children out of on the possible settlement of tually nothing, however, would monster petition of protest, bear- pain of punishment from certain Jewish refugees in Tanganyika Germany, another ten thousand be confiscated inasmuch as the parts of cities in which they will Jewish adolescents, another eight matter for wonder that Palestine ing over a million names was pre- he permitted to dwell such as has been favorably received by Bnai Brith in Poland never or ten thousand relatives in Ger- is regarded by the Jewish refu- sented t o the Czar of Russia all the Britons in the territory, owned much property and all Berlin's government district, and man lands. In one word, England gee as his true homeland. His through our state department, from other cities such as Pots- who are seeking a sound devel- funds collected by it were imme- can do most today for German sorrow lies in its inadequacy." which wan in charge of John Hay, dam, IN eimar and Berchtesgaden opment policy. Leading business miately turned over to check- Jews by opening wide the doors The chapter on Palestine alone the great American statesman. they will be banned entirely. men predict all-around progress able organizations. While the Czar refused to ac. of Palestine." as more areas can be developed. ought to make every Jewish std Elmination of Jews from Ger- dent of the refugee problem cent the petition, the public spin- Favors the Boycott s Nails Force Edicts in Prague study Sir John's report. ion of the world and its indigna- man business life is being effected PRAGUE. Czechoslovakia. Su ch an action will win the HAVANA. (WNS)—In an ef- in a series of sweeping decrees A table on age composition of Lion was brought home to him. (WNS) —Nazi penetration into supp art of world opinion and in. Jews in Germany shows the de- and the massacres stopped. This issues by the government, one fort to facilitate the entry of deed the conscience of mankind. of which orders complete liqui- Jewish refugees into Cuba. Pres- Czechoslovakia is beginning to He said, if Great Britain fails cline in the number of children gigantic task undertaken by Leo dation of all Jewish retail stores, ident Federico Laredo Bru ha s show there with orders and de- N Levi, sapped the strength of crees sent out by the Party of to to ke the larger steps, "to give and young people over a period N. N. 'Levi, and led to his un- mail order enterprises, commis- signed a decree ordering Cuban National Unity, which replaces hoe e not refuge, to German of four years. timely death at the age of 49. sion houses and handicraft shops. consuls to grant visas to Jews Jews in Palestine, all else that it Sir John states that in spite of In addition to this other services The decree, signed by Economics fleeing from Nazi persecution, the various political parties for- cent implates and proposes and all difficulties "the refugees have is the Bnai Brith and to Ameri- Minister Walter Funk and Jus- provided they can comply with merly existing. All pictures of anno unces will be in vain and already made substantial eco. can J ewry, as an orator, leader tice Minister Franz Guertner un- the immigration laws of the is- former Presidents Thomas G. Masary U f1"111 VIC. k and Eduard Banes were the very sincerity of English con- nomic contributions to the coun- and exemplory Jew, this particu- der the personal direction of land, Under-Secretary of State "` :- ordered removed from public cern will be questioned." tries in which they have settled, Ian service to world Jewry should Goering, is expected to be fol- Miguel Camps announced. buildings and repalced by the . Wise also appealed for the by, for instance, bringing ape- enshrine the memory of Leo N. lowed by similar orders elimi- shield of the Czechoslovak re- orgy nization of an American boy- cial skill or important trading Levi among the immortals of our nating Jews from their few re- BUCHAREST, Rumania. public. colt movement declaring, "even connections; they have largely people. maining positions such as in in- (WNS)—A Rumanian proposal as Jewish persecution in Ger- transferred the for trade from But this Leo N. Levi Memorial dustry and the wholesale trade. man r has ceased to be a Jewish Leipzig to London and Paris; Class of Pisgah Lodge is a tribute Compelled to pay salaries up to to provide for settlement/of Jews Landon Sees Lehman Outstand- ques ;ion so the boycott in Amer- it is estimated that in Holland a l so to the institution which bears the first of January. Jewish.. in Northern Rhodesia, British ing Democratic Presidential ice must not for one hour re- enterprises introduced by Ger- the name of this great Ben Brith, owned business enterprises must crown colony in Africa, was said Nominee in 1940 main a Jewish boycott, It must man emigrants now give employ- and which is about to observe its nevertheless be dissolved imme- today to have been advanced and NEW YORK. (ENDI—Shying to have received sympathetic he boycott of all Americans ment to 5,000 persons and in- 25th anniversary, for, in all mod- diately. away from suggesting a Repub- consideration in London. who loath the things for which directly to a further 3,000, and esty one may say that the Leo lican candidate for president in Despite pleas from the United Nazi dom stands so that Germany that part of the decrease in the N. Levi Memorial Hospital has 1940 Alfred M. Landon, 1936 States and other governments PARIS (WNS)—France and Republican Presidential nominee may be set free." import and the increase in local done a good job in the past 25 manufacture of certain goods can yturs. Its location in the nation's that rights of citizens in Ger- Britain will each offer hospital- pictured Governor Lehman as many be protected, there is noth- ity in their colonies to 10,000 Con l iscation • of Jewish Posses- be attributed to the arrival of health resort has proved a bless- ing in any decree thus far to in- the "outstanding candidate for German emigrants." frig to ninny thousands who conic dicate special provision for for- Jewish refugees, it was decided the Democratic nomination for dons Called "Blackmail" during the French-British con- President in 1940." Si r John Hope Simpson. K. B. Study Made by Foreign Policy there in search of health. Its na- eign citizens of Jewish extrac- Association tional character enabled it to tion except in the case of the versations here. E., C. I. E., who is famous as In a brilliant analysis of the serve the poor from every sec- 20 per cent capital levy on prop- the author of the Simpson Re- Oneg Shabat Forum at DUBLIN (WNS)—A commit- refugee problem prepared for tion of the country. Non-sectar- erty. In order to collect the port on Palestine, has written a Bnai David on Dec. 9 valuable preliminary report on the Foreign Policy Association, 8 ian, it did not limit its ministra- 1,000,000,000-mark fine imposed tee representing the Catholic 11 Church and Jewish interests was 40th St., New York, David tions to our own people, but em- on the Jews as punishment for a survey on refugees. It is pub- formed to make provision for tipper. in a pamphlet "In- The Friday night gathering at braced the afflicted of all races lished by Oxford University ss the murder of Ernst vom Rath, Press, New York, and is issued ternational Aid to German Refu- and creeds, and thus was instru- the government decreed a 20 per receiving German and Austrian Congregaton Bnai David, Elm- refugees. Frank Fahy, speaker hurst and 14th Sty., on Friday gees," describes the increasing mental in creating good will and underthe auspices of the Royal cent capital levy on the property respect for the Jewish people. of all German and stateless Jews of the Dail Eireann, was ap- evening, Dec. 9, will be in the Institute of International Af- pointed chairman and a public rises set up against those who form of an Oneg Shabath and The fact thet more than one hun- possessing more than 5,000 fairs, London. appeal will be made for funds. are forced out of their home. dred thousand persons, men, wo- open forum. The entire program Scholarly and brilliant in every lands. Outlining the prospects men and children, knocked at its marks. Foreign Jews were specifi- of the evening will take place detail, Sir John's report blasts for resettlement, he points to doors during the past quarter of cally exempt, although German Refugee Aid Plans in the social hall of the syna- Jews living abroad must pay on the German policy of discrimina• the magnitude of the task under- NEW YORK. (WNS)—Plans gogue. Instead of a formal lec- a century, and now was turned their domestic and foreign prop- tion against Jews and bluntly taken by the refugee committee away, proved how essential this erties as well as those who re- of the Intergovernmental Com- ture a brief talk will be pre- calls the Nazi method of confis• and predicts only "partial sac- institution has become. Present- side in Germany. The levy is mittee for Political Refugees for sented by Rabbi J. S. Sperka on cati ig Jewish possession black- cese, for the Intergovernmental ing special facilities in the treat- payable in four installments of settlement of Jewish and other the topic of "How Shall Jews mail, To quote Sir John on this Committee. His conclusion states: ment of arthritis and other Thee , racial and religious groups wish- Meet the Present Emergency?" 5 per cent each, due Dec. 15, point: "It is apparent that the tech- matte diseases, because of the 19:18, in February, May and Au- ing to leave Germany because of The entire evening! will be spent "T {s 1°'" of 10° 0 "."' s will be discussed in open forum discussion by the meld alone 1913 In tactilely di., Intone - nical obstacles to emigration, therapeutic hot waters with which gust, 1939, until the 1,000,000,- persecution log truing lit JenIth population ham great as they are, are not the it is supplied, it is the only insti- when the committee's seers meet entire group on the above topic. mans niessaset diffirttitie• Jet• • principal factor preventing ado- tution of its kind in the country 000 marks have been raised. in London December 2. Myron Cantor Abraham Singer will I hrouahoor Pattern Kuno., .Other go, C. Taylor, vice-chairman of the be in charge of the musical por- enonrol., is national in scope and de- by problems quote • - - treatment — - nt of the refugee alsing from their Jewish minorities, problem. WASHINGTON. ,( W N S ) — committee, before sailing on the tion, assisted by the new Choral Given a real deter- voted to the indigents. It must am sees German e adoer. silt 11)11!. app. .rtlt injury to 11Pv.elf sill • II 'tout mination to assist the refugees, be borne in mind also that the Secretary of the Interior Harold Normandie, reiterated his state- Group of the Bnai David Syna- owns, from saw s A n n, these obstacles could be quickly past 25 years have been abnormal L. Ickes said today that it might ment made in a radio broadcast gogue. A social hour will follow • diey of •Iel MID& Ion that se, overcome, But as long as the years, particularly the past dec- be well to consider Alaska as a that plans of the committee did and the public is invited. This al I L! t."°°-nt""° °°°- p Pro roblem is considered one of sec- ade, years of unemployment. of possible refuge ter German Jews not involve any alteration of Friday evening will - be dedicated of her total Jeo itl, popula tion. T aryterbase b., III. %W .V. and I- quhe nt ( ondary 1 importance by the coun- hardships and of poverty. During along the lines Pursued by this exieting immigration laws, nor to the Sisterhood of the Congre- emery aim .11101 Ger many hat ear- " •• CO - • - - potential settlement, war- this period the Hospital proved country in its Matanuska Valley any flood of incoming aliens for gation. ded throttill a persecution of Jew• .• '`. filo hen keleaed the eaboaatha ranting no extraordinary efforts a special blessing, and while it 4111I011 Of 114.4 1 ,5•P•••• ...I if and no sacrifices, hopes for an was taxed to the utmost, and its • ;0 integral solution must remain income fell off alarmingly at . 1 .41 1 r e 1■ 011.1411. $1 ,011NI MIN f 'nation dim. Ftigitives must continue to times, the hospital continued id section of pdopulati on orbit noll y be trapped in Central and East- without interruption to serve 'II (l eur .. rlia.d rable.' Tiler hot. t1 and the Olse- ern Europe because of the po- those who came to it in increas- ,• n relief ori notira0011 n, of the vitiated • orld retpooll to • litical and financial difficulties of ing numbers and under the direst pelmet., molt Went to block .. II. the Inapt *lion to Mete other Rote...nit emigration — unless they are need. to fn on the German etstople ob- goaded to mass suicide, or un- Under these circumstances it i 1.11 f the policy palmed Geri, no, and later • illtin Amon+. less the outbreak of a general was inevitable that the hospital I„ token ms a precedent, other roun• war still further aggravates their should incur a deficit from time tries limy argue that the only oaf condition. Yet simple humani- to time. The Supreme Lodge they con •etore she Inherent of the inter ell onal community in their polni- tartan considerations, which are that had voted $12,000 per an- Ad o l problems is to adopt a timilar an essential component of the sumfor the five year period poll, told to begin to vontart the domett le problem into an intenrationol liberal democratic ideology, make 1930-1935, was compelled to re- probl rot of refuge•••• inertia impossible. In this sense, duce its subsidy by more than Sir John reaches the conclusion every additional refugee success- half. Subordinate lodges, and that the problem of the refugee fully rescued from sub-human Welfare Funds had to do like- is part of a much wider ques- conditions vindicates belief in ac- wise. tion Ile declares that it is "a tive democracy and religious Above all, the hospital will have world responsibility demanding ethics. The odds against which to modrnize its hydrotherapy de- international action by govern- the Intergovernmental Commit- partment, and to construct a pool ments. It is a world problem in tee must contend are admittedly for underwater treatment which the sense that the existence of enormous; at best it can hope is proving so helpful in the treat- refugees is a symptom of the for only partial success. More meat of cases paralysis. Warm disappearance of economic and than this is not to be expected Springs in Georgia have been political liberalism. Refugees are until national barriers to trade made famous by the accident of the by-products of an economic and migration are sufficiently re- President Roosevelt's visits to isolationism which has practically taxed to ease the tensions which those springs. There is no doubt stopped free migration; they are are the source of totalitarianism." that the Arkansas hot springs the products of the population Harold Field. Lauds Cootribu• would prove equally helpful, Cons to U. S. by Refugee' Pressures in Europe which result given the proper equipment. Hy- in part from the paralysis of in- , A definite contribution to the drotherapy has made great strides ternational trade and the restric- study of the refugee's problem in in the past twenty five years, and tion of markets; they symbolize this country is made in "The a Hospital like ours must keep in a most tragic way the devel- Refugee in the United States," abreast of progress. Such a pool opment of poiltical authoritarian- by Harold Fields, executive direc- would require about $25,000, and ism. The basic real solution of for of the National League for $10,000 more for equipment and the refugee problem, real or po- Americad Citizenship. His 230• the necessary changes in the tential, is necessarily therefore page book has just been publish- main building to acomodate such related ed to the solution of the ed by the ()scold Press, 114 Fifth a pool. All in all, it would re- great problems of economic and Ave., New York. quire about $100,000 to make the political adjustment in the con- Mr. Fields declares in his splen- Leo N. Levi Memorial Hospital tem porary world." did work that a statement sub- worthy of its tradition of 25 Must Tackle Difficulties at the mated in a report to the Nan- years of service. sen International Office for Refu- Source The Hospital is making this rin- He opposes, however, postpone- gers that "emigration (can) not tional appeal for $100,000 for the ment of the solution to the prob- produce satisfactory results un- first time in its history. The lem until the solving of more less colonist spossess a fair amount asked for is rather mod- fundamental problems. lie urges amount of capital" is disproved est in comparison with the previ- radical and preventive action, not by "the contributions of refu- ous appeals of other institutions. superficial and palliative. He gees already in the United In view of the service which the calls for international action to States." Ile states: "The United Hospital has rendered to thou- ease political and economic ten- States is richer because of the sands in the 25 years of its his- sion that threaten to produce presence of these refugees here; tory, it is entitled to this recogni- unplanned emigration movements. of economic considera- tion on the part of American "The immediate need is to pre. tion. their contributions have Jewry. "Th vent any further movement of fully justified their admission. In European Jewry from becoming a developing any policy toward the Contributions to the Jewish refugee movement," he declares refugee, economic factor should Children's Home andadds that "a preliminary be a check but not a bar; the measure will certainly have to social, humane factors are the The Jewish Children's Home be an attempt to eliminate the Primary one to give heed to." Covering the subject thorough- acknowledges the receipt of done- special political factors, and par- ticul arty organized anti-Semitic IY• Mr. Fields shows that "those trolls from the following: Mrs. I. propaganda, which are creating who are planning for aid to Chris- Cohen, Mr. and Mrs. Paserman, the immediate danger." tiers refugees, find the problem Silver Wholesale Grocery, Mrs. "The difficulties must be tackl- complicated by the repeated con- Fmnzblau, Metropolitan Cleaners ed at their source," Sir John fusion of the terms 'Jew' and Dyer', Young Peoples Society of states, and points out that coun- erfugee and the persistent im- S • hairrey Zelek, Council of Jewish tries of refuge will have to be pression that the situation of the " unk'n'' converted into countries of set- Christian refugee is an individual tlem mt. This, he says, will re- one rather than a group prob- An interesting table in this quire capital investment on a co- less." volume shows the comparative lossa I scale. Ile adds that "the Dealing with the problems of distribution of refugee group+ of task is essentially one for goy- the recent German refugees, the Cerman origin. Michigan ab- ernments, which alone can or- author describes their inability sorbed 4.3 per cent of the refu- rani e the planning and execu- to join abor unons "even though gees. lion of preventive action." they might have belonged for a An important point in the • study of the refugee prob- lifetime to the German unions." book is the quotation from the lem would be inadequate with. He states: "The opportunity of National Commission on Law out Sir John Hope Simpson 's sur• becoming a union member is gen- Obsscrvance and Enforcement vey 'Refugees." Included in this orally open only in instances appointed by President Hoover, report is an outline of various where new unions are organized. which arrived at the following proposed solutions of the refu- For that reason almost all Ger- conclusions: That foreign-born gee problem, the origin of the man Jewish workers ae faced commit fewer crimes than native- existing refugee situation and the to belong to the C. I. D. unions, born; that in crimes for gain, in- position of refugees in various iespopsive of their views. The eluding robbery, native whites countries. A. V. of L groups generally re- greatly exceed the foreign-born. One of the finest chapters in fuse to grant them admission." Another significant point is the the book is the one dealing with (Membership in C. I. 0. in turn result of the investigation of the the conditions in Palestine. Un- i3 occasionally Interpreted as ex- Emergency Relief Bureau in usual tribute is paid to the Jew- treme radicalism on the part of New York City showing that the ish settlers. He outlines the var- immigrant Jewss. and Mr. Fields' percentage of non-citizens on re- Isms accomplishments which are interpretation serves to explain lief is lower than the percentage the results of Jewish creative an interesting point relative to of non-citizens in the total city Cavities 1938, LiamFirm TOBACCO CO. genius and said that "it is no Jews' union affiliations.) population. (CONCLUDED FROM PAGE ONE) 1 December 2, 1938 and THE LEGAL CHRONICLE YOU CAN Jewish Center Swimming badminton, volleyball and swim- ming instruction. For informa- Party for Girls tion, phone Miss Muskth at Madi- son 8275.. A splash party at the Northern High School swimming pool, on Wednesday, Dec. 7, at 9:15 p. m., will be sponsored by the women's health department of the Jewish Community Center, Woodward at Holbrook. All female members of the Center will be privileged to participate in the entertaining pro- gram which Into been planned. Those attending may wear their own suits, but woolens ones will not be permitted. The program consists of swimming games, novel- ty relay races and entertainment planned by the committee. 'Miss Edith Muskin, director of the Wo- men's health department, has an- nounced that Bob Lublin, Morton Adelman and Meyer King, swim- ming instructors, will assist her on that evening. All members are urged to attend this party, for which there will be no charge. The women's gym department also offers classes in social, mod- ern and tap dancing; calisthenics, Young People's Chapter of Bicur Cholem The officers and members of the Young Women's Chapter of Blear Cholem wish to extend their sincere thanks and appre- dation to each and every indi- vidual and firm who contributed in any way to the success of their annual bridge luncheon, which was held Tuesday, Nov. 22, at Rnai Moshe Auditorium. Proceeds will be used to care for needy sick. Donations to Jewish Home for Aged The following have made con- tributions to the Home for Aged: Mrs. Alexander Freeman, David Levy, Abe Miller and Mrs. J. Weinberg. GRINNELL For Your 44,,ga No R- GNINNELL'S HOME CONSOLE $395 Magnificent Performer The name Grinnell on your piano is recognized today among music critic. everywhere as true superiority in tone mastery—Grinnell's own make piano is favored by leading artists throughout the nation—evadable on convenient terms. "Th Musical Center &Whig." GRINNELL BROS. 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