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Detroit Jewish Chronicle
SECTION ONE
_and The Legal Chronicle
VOL. 42, NO. 28
Anti-Semitic
Uprisings in
Rumania Grow
Jews Endangered by
Appointment of
Jew-Baiters
LONDON (WNS) — Complete
capitulation of Rumania to the
Rome-Berlin axis as evidenced by
the appointment of a pro-Nazi
and anti-Semitic cabinet, headed
by Ion Gigurtu, close friend of
Nazi Field Marshal Hermann
Goering, has endangered the lives
of Rumania's remaining 450,000
Jews, diplomatic circles here were
convinced.
In a radio address to the Ru-
manian people shortly after his
appointment as Premier, Gigurtu
accused the Jews of disloyalty in
the country's "last hours of
trial" and warned that "we will
never forget." The new premier
adhered to the apparently Nazi-
inspired policy of blaming the
Rumanian Jews for the Russian
occupation of Bessarabia and
northern Bukovina.
Gigurtu said that the Govern-
ment had "decided in the future
to collaborate in close contact with
all those minorities which loyally
enter into the life of Rumania."
Chief Rabbi's Statement
Without mentioning the Jews,
the pro-Nazi premier continued:
"I do not consider as a minority
of this category those who have
repaid our goodwill with hate and
idle words. We will never forget
• and we will not tolerate the peo-
, pie of Rumania forgetting the
-*.-attitude.' that . the • minority to
which I allude had in our last
!
hours of trial."
While the premier was accusing
the Jews of disloyalty, his cen-
sors were forbidding the publica-
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tion in the Rumanian press of a
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statement of loyalty in behalf of
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Rumania's Jews by Chief Rabbi
Alexander Safran. The Chief
Rabbi had planned to make his
statement in the Senate, of which
he is a member, but since no
complete sessions of the Senate
have been held, the rabbi at-
tempted to publish the message,
but was not allowed to do so.
R
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Paper Incites to Pogrom
It was pointed out here that
although Government officials and
the press have made much of the
fact that thousands of Jews, seek-
ing to escape anti-Jewish excesses,
had fled to Soviet-occupied Bes-
sarabia, no mention was made
of the fact that thousands of
Jewish merchants and business
men left Bessarabia and came to
Bucharest prior to the Soviet oc-
cupation.
Earlier Government attempts to
halt anti-Jewish riots have been
relaxed and one Rumania news-
paper went so far as to call for
a pogrom. Declaring that the
Jews showed "great joy" at the
Russian occupation, the newspaper
charged that "the Jews betrayed
us" and said that silent answers
will not be enough.
The newspaper attacked the
Chief Rabbi for contributing to
See
RUMANIA—Page 9
DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, JULY 12, 1940
Charge Rumania
Plans a Pogrom
Leaders of Four National
Groups Say Bucharest
Creates an Alibi
NEW YORK. (WNS)—Domi-
nant elements in Bucharest are
creating a spurious alibi for a
pogrom against Rumanian Jews
in order to divert attention from
the Soviet occupation of Bessa-
rabia and northern Bukovina,
leaders of four national Jewish
organizations charged in a state-
ment issued here.
Alleged uprisings of "Jews and
Communists" in seized Rumanian
territories, reported in govern-
ment propaganda releases from
Berlin, Rome and Bucharest,
were branded as similar to "justi-
fications" advanced by the Nazis
for their persecutions in the past.
The Statement
The statement was signed by
Adolph Held, chairman, Jewish
Labor Committee; Henry Monsky,
president, Boni Brith; Sol H.
Stroock, chairman, executive com-
mittee, American Jewish Commit-
tee, and Rabbi Stephen S. Wise,
president, American Jewish Con-
gress.
The statement follows:
"Recent dispatches based on
government propaganda releases
in Berlin, Rome and Bucharest
describe what purport to be
armed uprisings of "Jews and
Communists" in the Rumanian
territories of Bessarabia and
northern Bukovina which have
been annexed by the Soviet Gov-
ernment. The official German
news agency and the Bucharest
newspaper Cu•entul have also
published inflammatory anti-Jew-
ish articles accusing the 300,000
Jews of the lost area of "ex-
cesses" designed to cause in-
ternal unrest.
NEW YORK. (WNS)—Joseph McWilliams, leader of the pro-Hitler Christian
Mobilizers and candidate for Congress on an exclusively anti-Semitic program, was
convicted of a disorderly conduct charge and received the choice of a $50 fine or 30
days in jail as the result of a violent anti-Semitic speech two weeks ago.
McWilliams, American Destiny party candidate for Congress from the 18th
Congressional District, was arrested during a street corner meeting in Yorkville when
Bnai Brith District
Elects Klutznick
PHILIP M. KLUTZNICK
Philip Klutznick of Omaha,
former grand aleph godol of
Aleph Zadik Aleph, was elected
president of Bnai Brith District
No. 6 at the convention in Omaha
this week, succeeding Aaron
Droock of Detroit. Rabbi Jerome
D. Folkman of Grand Rapids was
elected second vice president.
Among those elected to the gen-
eral committee are Harry Yud-
koff and Mr. Droock of Detroit
and Arthur H. Kaufman of Grand
Rapids. Miss Charlotte Gant of
Detroit was elected third vice
president of the Women's Grand
Lodge.
A. C. LAPPIN IS
RE-APPOINTED
Named by Governor
for 3 Years More
on Labor Board
A. C. Lappin, prominent De-
troit Jewish leader who has been
active for many years in Republi-
can circles, was reappointed this
week by Gov. Lu•en D. Dickin-
son for another three-year term
See
LAPPIN—Page 16
111111 ■ 1.—._
Arrangements are being made
by Justice Department officials
for the registration and finger
printing of approximately 3,500,-
000 aliens. This is the result of
the new Alien Registration law
recently enacted by Congress re-
quiring that every alien must
submit to examination and finger
printing.. The details will be han-
dled by the Post Masters and the
Bureau of Immigration will pro-
vide such help as is needed. All
records and finger printing will
be kept by the Federal Bureau
of Investigation.
An alien will be required to
furnish, under - oath, the date and
place of his entry into the United
States; activities in which he has
been, and intends to be engaged;
the length of time he expects to
remain in the United States; the
record of the commission by him
of any crime, and such additional
information as the Commissioner
of Immigration may prescribe.
Provide for Fines
Congress provided that the rec-
ords shall be secret and confiden-
tial, and made available only for
persons and agents designated by
the Commissioner of Immigration
with the approval of the Attorney
General. Once an alien is regis-
tered, he must notify the Com-
missioner within five days if he
changes his address. Aliens visit-
ing. here must notify the Com-
missioner of his address at the
expiration of each three month
period of residence in the United
States. Children from the age of
14 years must be registered by
their parents or guardian. Wilful
failure to register or false regis-
tration• entails a fine of $1,000
and six months imprisonment, and
upon completion of sentence,
mandatory deportation.
The bill contains other provi-
sions adding to the deportable
class of aliens, prohibiting sub-
versive activities, and punishing
attempts to incite the members
of the Army and Navy to diso-
bedience. A period of four months
is allowed within which the regis-
tration shall take place. This pe-
riod of grace will enable many
See
ALIENS—Page 16
he challenged Jews in the audi-
ence to step up and fight. Mc-
Williams had boasted that his
strong-arm men "could beat up
anybody".
Rapidly forging ahead as the
spokesman for anti-Semitic and
pro-Nazi groups in this country,
McWilliams, who has promised to
do for this country what Hitler
has done for Germany, has fre-
quently attacked public officials,
including President Roosevelt and
Mayor LaGuardia.
In his defense, McWilliams
maintained that his speeches,
however anti-Semitic, were privi-
leged under the Constitution's
free speech guarantees. Magis-
trate Vincent J. Sweeney, in an-
nouncing his decision, said:
"Because the Federal Con-
stitution says
that Congress
shall make no law abridging
the freedom of speech or of the
press, or the right of people
peacefully to assemble; and
that the State Constitution pro-
vide s that every citizen may
freel y speak, write or publish
his sentiment on all subjects,
being responsible for the abuse
of that right, and that no laws
shall be passed to restrain or
abridg e the liberty of speech
or of th e press, it by no means
follow s that the State is with-
out the power to protect it-
self or its citizens from the li-
centiousness of the pr e ss or
of speech.
"Th e test is. as I see it: does
the matter which is distributed,
or the words spoken, tend to a
breach of the peace? If it does,
then there i s no constitutional
protection for the act of dis-
tribution or speaking, and a
person committing either one
of these acts in the City of
New York may be arrested and
prosecuted under the disorderly
conduct statutes.
"The Supreme Court of the
United States has held that
'resort to epithets or personal
abuse is not in any proper
sens e communication of in-
formatio n or opinion safe-
guarded by the Constitution,
and its punishment as a crimi-
nal act would raise no ques-
tion under that instrument'."
McWilliams, who announced
that he would appeal the de-
cision, was given five days to
raise the fine.
Investigat e Bundsmen
Scores of members of the Ger-
man-American Bund, Christian
Front and Christian Mobilizers
were rounded up by the police
See ANTI-SEMITES—Page
13
FIGHTING MALARIA
Work of Hebrew University Malaria Research Station Is
Valuable Contribution to Control and Prevention
of Disease in Palestine
of democracy" to the citizens of
this country.
Included among the signers of
the call were Dr. Samuel McCrea
Cavort, general secretary of the
Federal Council of the Churches
of Christ in America; Dr. Dan-
iel A. Poling, president of the
National Society of Christian En-
deavor; Daniel P. Higgins, presi-
16
Plan Alien
Registration
Theodore Levin Ex-
plains Aspects of
New Law
"Clarion Call" Issued by Leaders of 16 Important
Organizations, Including the American
Jewish Committee
See DEMOCRACY—Page
10 Cents Single Copy; 83.00 per Year
Free Speech Guarantee Claimed by McWilliams; Painters of Swastikas
on Synagogue Sentenced in St. Paul; New York Police Investi-
gate Bundsmen and Frontists as Explosion Suspects
Familiar Language
"This language, published by
permission of the Rumanian cen-
sor, is familiar to any American
who recalls the 'justifications' ad-
vanced by the Nazis for their per-
secutions in the past. In order
to divert the attention of the
Rumanian people from the loss
of territory to the Soviet Gov-
ernment, it is apparent that the
dominant elements in Bucharest
are whipping up a spurious alibi
for a deliberately plotted pogrom
against Jews.
"The Rumanian Government is
cooperating with the Nazi Gov-
ernment. The newly formed to-
talitarian Tarty of the Nation,'
which bars Jews from member-
ship, is now all powerful. Newly
instituted laws, now applied with
redoubled severity, aim at elim-
inating Rumanian Jewish citizens
—some 4',; of the population—
from the nation's political and
economic life. Now, by spreading
inspired stories, unconfirmed by
any impartial observers, the Nazi-
tied elements in control at Bu-
charest are attempting to throw
a mask of terror and pogrom
over their own shortcomings.
"The reported massacre of 600
Jews in Galati may be followed
by even more awful slaughter, as
the Rumanian people is whipped
up to seek an outlet for despair
at seeing their land so brutally
partitioned. The smokescreen of
'insurrection,' attached to an im-
poverished, weak and politically
helpless group, will nut mislead
intelligent Americans."
This Paper Printed in Two Section,
Anti-Semitic Candidate for Congress Found
\ Guilty of Disorderly Conduct; Christian Front
\) Leader Is Facing Deportation Proceedings
National Bodies Appeal for
Democracy's Revitalization
NEW YORK (Religious News
Service) — A "clarion call" to
all Americans to "revitalize the
ideals
and practice of American
de
mocracy," has been issued here
by the leaders of 16 national or-
ganizations. The call was released
under the auspices of the Citizen-
ship Educational Service, a co-
ordinating committee recently con-
stituted by 21 national bodies to
aid in interpreting "the meaning
—
A.
C.
LAPPIN
Hebrew University has for a
number of years conducted im-
portant research and given val-
uable practical assistance in anti-
malaria work throughout Pales-
tine. These efforts are centered in
its Malaria Research Station at
Rosh Pinah, in upper Galilee, at
the edge of the Huleh swamps, a
district where malaria is preva-
lent. The value of the Malaria
Station lies not alone in its gen-
eral scientific significance but in
the immediate and practical serv-
ice rendered to the inhabitants of
the Huleh area. The local popula-
tion is mainly Arab and a very
large number of Arab patients
receive treatment at the Station.
The University's research in
control and prevention of malaria
is under the direction of Dr. I.
J. Kligler, an American scientist
formerly affiliated with the Rocke-
feller Institute of Medical Re-
search. Dr. Kligler directed the
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MALARIA—Page 12