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COUGHLIN IS LINKED WITH
BUND IN INVESTIGATION
CONDUCTED BY MAGAZINE

"CHRISTIAN FRONT" EXPOSED
AS JEW-BAITING ORGANIZATION

Catholic Committee Publishes Condemna-
tion; U. S. Dancer Wanted to Ask Hitler
to Stop Frightening World

Coughlin and Kuhn Good Friends

Look also quotes William Schmidt, head of
a German importing firm in Yorkville and an
officer in Fritz Kuhn's storm troops. Thinking
Mueller was a sympathizer, he told him: "Father
Coughlin and Kuhn are good friends. Kuhn tried
to get him to take off his collar and go into
politics, but Father Coughlin wouldn't do it.
He can't do much because of that collar."
Mueller also cited Joseph McWilliams of the
Christian Mobilizers who admitted his campaign
was Coughlin-inspired and also admitted his
Mobilizers were hand-in-glove with foreign
groups. "If the time comes for protection,"
he told the Look investigator, "we can count
on the Bond." MacWilliams meetings in New
York's Ebling's Casino cheer attacks on Roose-
velt and applaud Hitler. "Only the name of
Father Coughlin brings as much applause as
that of the Nazi fuehrer," says the article.
Reproduced in the article is a page from Julius
Streicher's Der Sturmer. The German publication
had, in turn, _reproduced a picture from Father
Coughlin e s" Sikial Justice in which he pictured
American communists shooting U. S. citizens
in 1945.

Catholics Expose "Christian Front" as
Jew-Baiting Organization

NEW YORK. (WNS)-Asserting that in the
City of New York and to some extent in other
cities of the East, a racial and religious war
is in the making, the `Woke for Human Rights,"
published by the Committee of Catholcs for Hu-
man Rights, declares that: "A mass movement
of intolerance, hatred and persecution • mas-
querading under the name of 'Christian' is being
fomented by people who, though for the most
part Catholic, are involved in a movement which

THIS COPY 15 CENTS

May the New Year Bring Lasting
Peace for All Peoples

AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY ON THE JEWISH CALENDAR, THE CENTRAL
THEME OF ALL JEWISH HOPES IS FOR PEACE FOR HUMANITY. WITH A LARGE
PORTION OF THE WORLD EMBROILED IN A MERCILESS WAR, THE ANCIENT HE-
BREW PROPHECY, SYMBOLIZED IN THE ACCOMPANYING ARTIST'S INTERPRE-
TATION OF THE JEWISH DREAM FOR PEACE, AGAIN BECOMES THE DOMINANT
HOPE AND ASPIR4TION OF THE NATIONS. .

German Importer Says Royal Oak Priest
and Kuhn Are Good Friends; Hitler
Applauded, Roosevelt Attacked

NEW YORK.-Contending that there is a
"tie-up between Father Coughlin and the Ger-
man-American Bund," William A. Mueller, spe-
cial Investigator for Look, reveals his support-
ing facts in the current issue of the magazine.
"Father Coughlin tacitly admits the part-
nership by including in his speeches sentences
identical in tone and structure with those of
Goebbels, Nazi minister of propaganda. He
has also quoted sources found in World Serv-
ice, Nazi propaganda handout. His Social Jus-
tice is sold at Bund meetings. Edward B. Fitch
of 21 Sherman Ave., New York, member of
the Coughlin-backed Christian Front, told me
he sold Social Justice at the Bund's nearby Camp
Nordland all last summer."

DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1939

And it shall come to pass
in the last days, that the
mountain of the Lord's house
shall be firmly established on
the top of the mountains, and
shall be exalted above the
hills; and unto it shall people
flow.

But He shall judge with
righteousness the poor, and
decide with equity for the
suffering ones of the earth:
and He shall smite the earth
with the rod of his mouth, and
with the breath of his lips
shall He slay the wicked.

And many nations shall
come, and say, Come ye, and
let as go up to the mountain
of the Lord, and to the house
of the God of Jacob; that he
may teach us of his ways,
and we may walk in his paths,
for out of Zion shall go forth
the law, and the word of the
Lord out of Jerusalem.

And righteousness shall be
the girdle of His loins, and
faithfulness the girdle of His
hips.

And the wolf shall dwell with
the sheep, and the leopard
shall lie down with the kid;
and the calf and the young
lion and the fatling shall be
together, and a little boy shall

And he shall judge between
many people, and decide for
strong nations even afar off;
and they • shall beat their
swords into ploughshares, and
their spears into pruning-
knives: nation shall not lift
up sword against nation, and
they shall not learn any more
war.

lead them.

And the cow and she-bear
shall feed, together shall their
young ones lie down: and the
lion shall like the on eat straw.

And the sucking child shall
play on the hole of the asp,
and on the basilisk's don shall
the weaned child stretch out
his hand.

But they shall sit every man
under his vine and under his
fig-free, with none to make
them afraid; for the mouth of
the Lord of hosts hath spoken
it. (MICAH, IV, 1 - 4)

They ihell not do hurt nor
destroy on all my holy moun-
tain: for the earth shall be
full of the knowledge of the
Lord, as the waters cover the

sea. (ISAIAH, XI, 4-9)

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111.2
92.8
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151.1
3561
1,120.6
142.8
Total imports
Imports from:
64.7
221.1
71.2
64.2
Great Britain
61.1
21.7
14.2
11.0
Netherlands
II.1
63.5
ILO
1.8
Fraara
19.3
10 0
19.4
33.7
United States
20.8
11.1
Italy
22.0
61.0
25.1
104.7
13.4
South America
16.1
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•1131 enures retirement monthly •ieraxes on the hashof
strillatlee for the first five months, with the exception of
Itusela, for which figure. are presented for the first quarter
of the current year, contained In Bulletin of July 17.

Total exports from Germany in 1939 are in
excess of 1938, which is probably due to the
fact that this year's figures comprise of Greater
Germany. They are, however, below the 1932
figures and very substantially below those re-
corded in 1929. Exports to the leading democ-
racies showed a substantial decline not only with
respect to 1938, but also with respect to 1932,
which is the more significant if one considers
that the lowest ebb was reached in the world
economic crisis during that year. The slight in-
crease in exports to the United States from
Greater Germany this year is probably due to
the accumulation of German goods preliminary
to the countervailing levy of 25 percent imposed
upon German merchandise, which went into ef-
fect in April. It is rather curious that trade
with Italy, while materially above 1932 levels,
is somewhat below last year's averages. A rather
appreciable setback is noted in German exports
to South America compared with 1938, although
here again figures are still substantially above
the 1932 figures.
Exports to Russia for the first quarter of this
year equalled only RM 700,000, compared with
RSI 1,100,000 in 1938, RM 21,600,000 in 1932,
and RNI 12,20,000 in 1929. Compared with 1932,
Germany's exports to Russia this year show a
shrinkage of 96.74 percent. It is probably this
disastrous decline in trade with Russia which
'hay have prompted those guiding the destines
of the Reich and of Soviet Russia to disregard
completely political complexities and mutual con-
tempt, and enter into a commercial agreement
In the hope that foreign trade, so sorely needed
by both, especially the Reich, will expand as a
result of arrangements by what everyone believed
is be uncompromising enemies,

Thousands Register for War Duty; Gryn-
rapan Applies for Permission to
Enlist in French Army

ENGLAND WILL TREAT ALIEN
VOLUNTEERS AS ENGLISHMEN

Intergovernmental Refugee Conference to
Be Held in Washington in Spite of
Situation Created by War

PARIS, (WNS)-Jewish refugees who are sub-
ject to a recent government decree, ordering
Germans and former German citizens to report
to a central 'concentration zone, are being aided
by the NIAS•ICA Emigration Association which
distributed fares to those who could not raise
funds to reach the evacuation point. The Joint
Distribution Committee, meanwhile, is making ar-
rangements with local relief organizations to
maintain the families of those ordered to report
for military or public labor.
The Joint Distribution Committee Is also ar-
ranging to provide funds to enable the OZE and
other Jewish child care organizations in Paris
to evacuate more than 500 refugee children into
the interior where they will Le maintained for
the duration of the war in special homes,
Thousands of Jews Register for War Dui,.
Jewish immigrants, here are said to be regis-
tering for service with the French army at the
rate of 200 per hour. A recruiting station, oper-
ated by the Association of Jewish War Veterans,
announced that already more than 6,000 Jewish
immigrants have volunteered and that before the
week is out all able-bodied young • men among
the 100,000 Jewish immigrants, not including
refugees, will be in uniform.
The Women's International Zionist Organiza-
tion, together with the OSE (Jewish health
society) and the Federation of Jewish Societies,
have opened a special office to receive applica-
tions for war duty from Jewish women, who are
clamoring to enlist in any service useful to the
French cause. A station has been opened by the
Federation of Polish Jews where women, inter-
ested in engaging in Red Cross work, may take
courses In medical and sanitary aid.
From the jail cell where he is lodged pend-
ing trial, Herschel Grynszpan, youthful Jew-
ish refugee whose assassination
ination of Ernst Rom
Rath, German Embassy attache in Paris,
started last November's pogroms in Germany,
wrote to the Ministry of Justice applying for
permissio n to serve as a soldier in the ranks
of the French soldier s at the front.
All aliens, meanwhile, have been ordered by
French authorities to register with the police
within five days. Facilities will be provided for
those who desire to leave the country but it is
certain that few foreign Jews will avail them-

BACKER CHARGES NAZIS
REDOUBLE PERSECUTION OF
THEIR JEWISH MINORITY

GERMAN-U. S. TRADE
FORTY PER CENT BELOW
WORST PRE-NAZI YEAR

Total Exports
Exports In:
great Britain
Netherlands
Polled State.
Italy
south America
Ituerda•
Russia

ALIENS CONCENTRATED BY
THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT
FOR PROTECTIVE MEASURES

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As indicative of proof that the citizens O.f the
United States have long held the Nazi-German
government M contempt, Dr. Max Winkler, noted
economist and research advisor to the Non-Sec-
tarian Anti-Nazi League, 20 W. 47th St., New
York, shows that German-U. S. trade for the
first five months of the current year is 40 per-
cent below that of the worst pre-Hitler year.
The subjoined table contains statistics relative
to German's overseas trade, represents monthly
averages, and is in millions of Reichsmark::

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REGIONAL PARLEY HIGHLIGHTS OF LOCAL
ON OCT. 21 AND 22 JEWISH COMMUNITY WORK

Jewish Organizations Invited to Send Delegates to
Sessions to Be Held in A Resume of the Year's Activities Reveals Extent of
Session Next Sunday Afternoon to Plan
Services Rendered by Welfare Federation Agencies
Akron; Michigan Leaders
New Center's Work
on Committee

The board of directors of the
Jewish Community Center has
issued an invitation to all local
Jewish organizations to send two
delegates each to a conference on
policies and planning of the new
Center, to be held Sunday after-
noon, Sept. 17, at 2:30 o'clock,
in the Brown Memorial Chapel
of Temple Beth El.
"The Aaron DeRoy Memorial
Building of the Jewish Commun-
ity Center, now nearing comple-
tion on Woodward and Holbrook
Ayes., has excited attention on
the part of our entire Jewish
and non -.1 e w i s h community,"
states Henry Meyers, president
of the Center board, in the in-
vitation. "A long awaited hope
is about to be realized, for a
community of over 75,000 Jews
will find a home for itself in the
new and expanded Jewish Com-

munity Center-a home open to
all, a Jewish 'Town Hall', Al.
ready many organizations, at-
tracted by the impressiveness of
the building and understanding
of its new significance in the
community, have shown a deep
interest in it.
"On the basis of this interest,
indicated by representative in-
dividuals from all walks of life
and from communal groups, we
are inviting local organizations
to send two delegates to the
afternoon conference for the
purpose of obtaining their sug-
gestions, and planning, along
with them, the policies and pro-
Krems of the Detroit Jewish
community's new thome'."
Expressions, on the part of
the majority of Detroit's Jewish
organizations, indicate there will
be ■ whole-hearted response to
Mr. Meyers' invitation,

A report highlighting the ac-
Lay and professional leaders complishments of the local agen-
from communities In six states in- cies of the Jewish Welfare Fed-
cluding Michigan, will attend the eration, during the past year,
sixth annual East Central States offers a glimpse into the labora-
Regional Conference of the Coun- tory of Detroit's Jewish com-
cil of Jewish Federations and Wel- munity life. Several new prob-
fare Funds to be held in Akron, lems have arisen in 1939, and
0., Oct. 21 and 22, Dr. C. W. ways and means to meet them
Efroymson of Indianapolis, chair- have had to be incorporated into
man of the conference, announced. as many programs. In other in-
The Conference for the first stances, the educational progress
time, this year, said Dr. Efroym- made by the agencies with the
son, will meet jointly with the families and individuals they
Central Midwest Region of the serve has facilitated work in
Jewish Welfare Board. This joint functional fields and enabled the
meeting of these two organizations organizations to enlarge the
was decided upon to effect an scope and improve the technique
economy in time for the many lay of their activities.
people who are interested in the
The Resettlement Service pro-
increasingly important activities gram, for refugees in Detroit, Is
of organized Jewish communities. illustrative of the growing needs
Judge Maurice Bernon of Cleve- to be met in certain fields. In
land, chairman of the program 1938, the family welfare de art-
committee, has announced that ment of the Resettlement erv-
MEUSE TURN TO PAO' as
ice, staffed by the Jewish Social

Service Bureau, handled a small
but growing volume of cases.
The monthly figures in 1939 show
a progressive rise, the number
of cases handled in the month
of July alone, being more than
throughout the entire year of
1938. The number of relief cases
increases proportionately each
month also.
Aid to Refugees
Children coming here alone
are served through the children's
department which is staffed for
the Resettlement Service by the
Jewish Child Placement Bureau.
All refugee children, at present
in Detroit, have been placed in
foster homes--some free and
some subsidized. Several are at-
tending college, others are in
high school.
Help and cooperation is offered
to the refugees in varied fields.
Employment assistance is obtain-

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NEW YORK. _Contradicting reports current
that Germany's treatment of the Jews has be-
come more conciliatory since the outbreak of
war, George Backer, president of the American
ORT Federation, charged that the Nazi Govern-
ment has redoubled persecution of this minority
as a reprisal for formation of a
Jewish Legion
to fight for the democracies. His statement,
made with obvious emotion, was given at a
luncheon held by the Federation in honor of
the lion. Philip E. H. Sampel- Lord Samuel's
son-who arrived here on the Queen Mary en
route to Hong Y.3ng. The luncheon took place
at the Lawyer's Club under the chairmanship of
Louis B. Boudin, and was attended by a score of
l eaders in Jewish affairs here and abroad.
Paul Felix Warburg, treasurer of the ORT
Reconstruction Fund, and John Goulston of
Sydney, a leader of the Australian branch of
the ORT, were among guests.
Mr. Backer pointed out that in Hitler's last
pronouncement only the "plutocratic and demo-
cratic member: of international Jewry" were as-
sailed. The alleged communistic and treacherous
influence of Jews in Germany was not men-
tioned. However this was small comfort.
"If to be a Jew is a crime and if to be •
democratic advocate of freedom is a crime,"
Mr. Backer said warmly, "then we must all plead
guilty before the bar of history. I for one am
willing to face the charge,• for the Jew hu
his own special cross to bear-the swastika. But
it is apparent that an extra effort is needed if
we are to save ourselves and those in Europe
from this common enemy."
Mr. Backer disclosed that since Sept. 6 it has
been impossible to communicate with any Jew
in Germany by cable, telephone or letter. He
indicated that Jews are no longer permitted
to leave Germany and are being drafted into
the Labor Front, from which they had previously
been barred.
Mr. Samuel, whose father (formerly Sir Her-
bert Samuel) was Home Secretary in the
Donald Cabinet, spoke of the present status Mac-
of
ORT in England, where a first contingent of 115
students and teachers last week arrived from the
ORT's engineering school in Berlin. The school
will be restarted soon in Leeds, but it will be
impossible of transport more pupils out of Ger-
many for the present.
"This emergency proves how important it is
that we be in a position to foresee each new
emergency," Mr. Samuel said. "Our work for
refugees is centered in Poland, France and
Switzerland. Hera hundreds of Jewish refugees
from Germany are being trained to meet the
vocational needs of various nations. These needs
will change as the war continues. We know from
past experience that the ORT is capable of adapt-
ing itself to such new demands.
"Since 1933 over 100 new centers for training
in industry and agriculture were established
throughout Europe. This year alone 40 new
centers were established. Last year 60 schools
and farms were set up in Poland, where Polish
deportees as well as other German refugees
now receive training which is already being put
on a war basis.
"More than 5,000,000 people depend on us for
vocational training that will fit them for a new
life. We have

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