Americo, periodical Carter CLIPTON AVENUE - CINCINNATI 10, OHIO Detroit Jewish Chronicle and The Legal Chronicle VOL 42 No. I Say Coughlin Group in N.Y. Has Disbanded "Trouble-Makers" Are Warned by LaGuardia Against Racial Bias NEW YORK. (WNS) — The "Christian Front," anti-Semitic Coughlin organization which, to- gether with German - American Bund members, had demonstrated in anti-Semite meetings in New York City, is said to be almost completely disbanded, representa- tives of the Yiddish press, in- vited to City Hall by Mayor La- Guardia's secretaries Nathan Frankel and Byrnes MacDonald, were told. Frankel and MacDonald, asked by the Mayor to conduct an in- vestigation of anti-Semitic activi- ties in New York City, submitted a report of their survey to mem- bers of the Yiddish press. Ac- cording to the report, the "Chris- tian Front" was made up almost entirely of followers of Father Coughlin. DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, JANUARY 5, 1940 A NEW DECADE BRINGS A NEW DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE Beginning with this issue, The Detroit Jewish Chronicle is happy to bring to the Michigan Jewish community a vastly improved periodical to serve as the mouthpiece for the Jews of this state. The new tabloid format in which The Chron- icle will appear henceforth will make the paper easier to handle. At the same time, the number of pages has been increased to provide for the pub- lishing .of a larger number of features. With improvement in format and paper, The Detroit Jewish Chronicle also introduces new type faces to make reading of the paper easier. The use of book stock adds to the comfort for the eyes and emphasizes The Chronicle's significance as a home newspaper. These changes are consonant with The Chron- icle's policy of rendering service to the Jewish communities of Michigan. We invite the continued cooperation of Michigan Jewry in our efforts to make continued improvements in the make-up and contents of the paper. REVUSKY HERE ON THURSDAY Elect First Jew in 40 Years as President of Dutch Journalists' Ass'n "Any misguided troublemakers Authority on Palestine who, under the guise of free to Address Zionist speech, slander or villify peaceful Meeting groups in this city will be prop- erly dealt with by the authori- ties," declared Mayor F. H. La- Abraham Revusky, prominent Guardia in a letter published in journalist and an outstanding au- the current issue of the Voice, organ of the Committee of Cath- thority on Palestine affairs, who olics for Human Rights. was formerly Minister of Jewish The official stand of the ad- Affairs in the Ukraine, will be the ministration was contained in a letter replying to a request by Dr. Emmanuel Chapman, secre- tary of tho Catholic .ituatitta, for the Mayor's "emphatic views on current anti-Semitic disturb- ances." Said the Mayor: "The police will simultaneously recog- nize 'both freedom of speech and the right of racial and religious minorities to be free from abuse.' "Alluding to police action against anti-Semitic soapbox speakers and news venders for breach of the peace, the Mayor revealed that in the past six months the police have brought up for arraignment 238 cases of arrest or summons. Of these, 112 have resulted in convictions in the Magistrates' Courts, carrying sentences of fine or imprison- ment. Additional cases are sched- uled for trial. These cases have ABRAHAM REVUSKY served to bring to light, in at least five instances, convictions guest speaker at a public meet- for other crimes of some of the ing, of the Zionist Organization active participants at such meet- of Detroit on Thursday evening, ings. The Mayor's letter described Jan. 11, at the Jewish Commu- the activities of anti-Semitic nity Center, Woodward and Hol- groups, which he said consisted brook. The public is invited, ad- 'principally of street sales of mission being free. magazines, street corner meetings Born in Palestine of Russian and the picketing of radio sta- parents., in February, 189:., Mr. tions.' " Revusky went to Russia with his "To guard against any possible parents at the age of 1 d and breach of peace," the Mayor as- graduated from high scho.d. He serted, "street corner meetings of studied engineering sciences at the ROTERDAM. (WNS)—The election of G. Polak Daniels as president of the Dutch Journalists Association marks the first time in the 40 years of its existence that a Jew has been elevated to that position. Daniels is well known as a liberal journalist and parlia- mentary correspondent of the newspaper Het Vaterland. LaGuardia's Warning HABER SPEAKS HERE JAN. 16 Will Address Budget Committee of Allied Campaign The work and budgetary needs of the National Refugee Service will be discussed by William Ha- ber, executive director of the agency, at the second general meeting of the 1940 Allied Jew- ish Campaign Budget Committee, to be held on Jan. 16, at the Jewish Community Center. The Budget Committee is composed of a cross-section of Detroit Jewry. It has been appointed by the Detroit Service Group, the fund-raising arm of the Jewish Welfare Federation, to conduct the hearings and weigh the re- quests of the various local, na- tional and overseas organizations petitioning for inclusion in the 1940 Jewish drive, to be conduct- ed by the Federation next spring. Mrs. Joseph H. Ehrlich is serving as chairman. Designed to carry on the ac- tivities of the National Coordi- nating Committee for Refugees and certain of its affiliates, the National Refugee Service was organized in June, 1939. It is a See COUGHLIN, Page 16 See REVUSKY, Page 12 functioning agency with services available to refugee immigrants from Greater Germany, Hungary, Italy and other countries of refu- gee emigration. It attempts to the need of the refugee for United Jewish Appeal Sends Gift to Catholics, meet emergency assistance and, at the Protestants from Funds Raised in 1939 same time, to carry out a basic program of adjustment for the From funds raised in 1939 to location of the funds • Jr Jewish refugee to his new social, cul- meet the needs of its Jewish re- agencies felt a pottioi, of them See HABER, Page 12 lief and reconstruction agencies, should be reserved for distribu- the United Jewish Appeal for tion through Christian agencies Refugees and Overseas Needs to help victims of persecution RABBI FRAM TO BEGIN announced the allocation of the without regard to race or reli- SERMONS ON PLANNING sum of $250,000 for assistance to gion. FORTHCOMING PEACE Christian refugees, half to be LAUD POPE'S OPPOSITION made available to Pope Pius XII TO DOCTRINE OF RACIALISM Beth El College to Reopen Next for aid to Catholics and the other The fund of 125,100 which is Monday Night half to be contributed to Prot- to aid Catholic refugois is to be estant agencies through Dr. Presented to Pope Pius XII In view of President Roose- George A. Buttrick, president of through Bishop Betrtrd J. Sheil velt's action in sending a special the Federal Council of the of Chicago, as a memorial to the ambassador to the Pope and ap- Churches of Christ in America. late Pope Pius X pointing representatives of Juda- Pointing out that the problem The Jewish pe )le will never ism and Protestantism to advise of the refugees is by no means forget "the mag i cont struggle him in his efforts towards peace, a Jewish one but that it includes he made to com i t the ungodly Rabbi Leon Fram announces that members of all faiths, Rabbi Abba doctrine of racial' le which strikes he will begin a series of sermons Hillel Silver and Rabbi Jonah B. at the very roots 4ftt o religious dealing with the aims, the prin- Wise, national chairmen of the faith of civilized Peh," the Jew- ciples, and the terms of the United Jewish Appeal, declared See REFUG , Page 13 See FRAM, Page 16 that those responsible for the al- Aid Christian Refugee Fttnd 10 Cents Single Copy; $3.00 per Year Predict Record Exodus of Jews front Reich; 500,000 Leave Poland for Russia Refugee Colonization of Alaska Is Urged as Necessity for Growth of United States Territory PARIS. (WNS)—Central .1(‘wish relief organizations here predicted the largest Jewish exodus from the Reich and Nazi-occupied territories during 1910 that has been experienced by Jews since the creation of the Nazi re- gime. The prediction, based on year-end reports from various relief committees in central and eastern Europe, is predicated on the belief that FEDERATIONS' PARLEY PLANS Arrangements Being Facilitated by Local Committee Under the chairmanship of Mrs. Henry Wineman, a Detroit assembly committee has been or- ganized to make local arrange- ments which will facilitate the program of the seventh annual general assembly of the Council of Jewish Federations and Wel- fare Funds, to be held in Detroit, on Jan. 27, 28 and 29. Mrs. Jo- seph H. Ehrlich, Mrs. Albert Kahn and Mrs. Joseph M, Welt are serving as vice-chairmen of the committee. Headquarters for the national conference will be at Hotel Stat- ler, and all hotel arrangements will be made by Mrs. Meyer L. Prenti s, with Mrs. Maurice J. Caplen assisting. her. Mrs. Douglas I. Brown is to be in charge of the exhibit room, where the litera- Mrs. Wineman t u r e, campaign appeals, forms and techniques utilized by federa- tions throughout the United States and Canada, plus graphic charts and picturizations of the social services supported by these federations, will be displayed. Mrs. Max Frank will be in charge of the registration of all delegates to the assembly. A motor squad, for the trans- portation of delegates, will be di- rected by Mrs, H. J. L. Frank and Mrs. Abe Srere; and Miss Emma Butzel heads the hospitality com- mittee. At the initial meeting of the Detroit assembly committee, called by Mrs. Wineman last week, ten- tative plans were formulated. Sub- committees will be invited to serve with those in charge of the var- ious activities under its aegis, and hostesses will be appointed to welcome the guests. the Nazis will permit emigration and continue to stimulate it by One means or another. The focal point of the emigra- tion will be centered in Nazi Poland where approximately 1,250,000 Jews remain. Only 185,000 Jews are left in the old Reich of the more than half mil- lion at the time of Chancellor Hitler's accession, and little more than that in former Czecho-Slo- vakia and Austria together. Approximately 500,000 Jews entered Soviet-controlled terri- tory from that section of Poland held by the Nazis, it was dis- closed officially in Moscow by So- viet authorities. According to the report the number of Jews in the Soviet increased from 2,600,000 to nearly 3,100,000 during the oast three months. Registration Will Not Affect "Loycl" Refugees in Lithuania WILNO (WNS) — Registration of refugees in Wilno, recently or- dered by Lithuanian authorities, will have no effect on "loyal" refu- gees who will be permitted to re- main in Wilno, the Yiddish news- paper Vilner Tagblatt said. The Lithuar ' Coma i2,31.%icr further assured Jewish leaders in Wilno that alarm over the objec- tives of the registration is un- founded. The Tagblatt also reported the arrest of Dr. Joshua Gottlieb, former Polish deputy and Warsaw Jewish leader, by the Soviet au- thorities in Pinsk, to which he had escaped after the fall of the Po- lish capital. The Lithuanian Red Cross an- nounced that it had registered 21,506 refugees in the Wilno dis- trict, including 7,437 Jews. Chile Admits 600 Refugees VALPARAISO, Chile (WNS)- Six hundred German Jewish refu- gees who came here aboard the Italian steamer Augustus, were allowed to debark on condition they devote themselves to agricul- ture. The refugees immediately left by train for various sections of the country. Vatican Aid for Converted Jews Revealed in "Yellow Book" NEW YORK (WNS) — The Vatican has been quietly and un- obtrusively helping converted Jews LOCAL LEADERS PLAN in countries where they are being EDUCATION SESSION Within the framework of the persecuted, a Rome dispatch to general assembly of the Council the New York Times disclosed. of Jewish Federations and Wel- Details of a secretly printed "Yel- See FEDERATIONS, Page 9 See EXODUS, Page 13 Human Drama—In Anguish The Epic Story of a Refugee and an Americas' Mormon Family Who Tried to Save Him The great drama of the refu- gee reaches its climax in the epic story of a Mormon who gave evi- dence of the deep-rooted devotion of Americans to the cause of de- cency, and their determination to strive for what is right when they recognize a sacred cause. Stories of attempts on the part of Americans—Christians as well as Jews—to save refugees and to try to find havens of refuge for the persecuted in European coun- tries, are too numerous to be told at one sitting. But one story mer- its telling and retelling, even at the expense of repetition. It is the story of Miss Gloria Simmons, her father, Almo Beals Simmons, the treasurer of Provo City, Utah; their family and a youth from Bratisburg, Czechoslo- vakia. Part of this story has al- ready been told to Americans in Every Week Magazine. But Ow complete story is now available in book form, in a tale appropriately labeled "I Write in Anguish,'" which is in the main the exchange of correspondence between the Czech-Jewish boy, Johann Ber- man, the author of the book; Mr. Simmons, the young lady who started the drama, Miss Gloria Simmons, and other characters who were drawn into the plot— among them being American Con- sular officials, former President Edouard Benes of Czechoslovakia and others. The plot grew out of a f Gloria began to write to pean boys and girls who English, in order to est' See DRAMA.