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May Grant U. S. Visas
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13,000 Children
WASHINGTON (WNS)—Mov-
ing swiftly to eliminate the red
tape hampering efforts to bring
British children to the United
States for the duration of the
war, the Departments of State
and Justice announced plans to
grant visas to approximately 13,-
000 children by Aug. 1.
The announcement followed a
statement by President Roosevelt
that the failure of Great Britain
to supply ships to bring the chil-
dren here and not American red
tape was responsible for the
slowness with which the evacua-
tion of children under 16 years
was proceeding.
Proposed Program
The new program for bringing
these children to the United
States is as follows:
1—Children will be admitted
on visitors' visas upon the show-
ing of intention that the small
refugees will return home after
the war. This eliminates quota re-
strictions of 6,500 per month,
now applied to those entering the
country from Great Britain on
"permanent" visas.
2—A corporate affidavit, rather
than affidavits from individuals
alone, will be accepted by the gov-
ernment, the corporation obtain-
ing greatly simplified individual
affidavits itself. The corporate af-
fidavit will be supported by a
trust fund equal to $50 for each
child entered. Corporations must
be approved by the Attorney-
General.
3—American consuls abroad are
to be informed that visas can be
issued to children whose names
have not been approved by the
department but who have merely
been selected by representatives
abroad of the United States Com-
mittee for the Care of European
Children.
and The Legal Chronicle
DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, JULY 19, 1940
Say Franz Werfel
Executed by Nazis
NEW YORK (WNS)—Franz
Werfel, world-famous 'German-
Jewish novelist and author of
"The Forty Days of Musa
Dagh," who fled to France
from Germany, has been seized
and shot by the Nazis, ac-
cording to a British broad-
cast heard here by the Na-
tional Broadcasting Company.
The broadcast said, however,
that the report has not been
confirmed.
Another report received here
from London said that Mr.
Werfel's British publishers have
made fruitless attempts to find
the author. He was last re-
ported at Vichy, France.
Find 'Bomb' at
Hebrew School
Harmless Contraption
Causes Disturbance
In N. J.
This Paper Printed in Two Section,
10 Cents Single Copy; $3.00 per Year
BOMBING OF HAIFA BRINGS
WAR TO HOLY LAND; ITALY
Hard Hit by Creation
AIMS AT MOSUL PIPE LINE
of Fascist Gov-
Jews First
Targets In
New France
ernment
ZURICH, Switzerland (WNS)
—Mass arrests of Jewish jour-
nalists, attorneys and merchants
throughout France marked the
formal creation of a Fascist state
under the dictatorship of Marshal
Henri Philippe Petain.
The new Fascist government
launched its regime with a
"purge" at Vichy, temporary cap-
ital, resulting in the arrest of at
least 20 persons, mostly Jews
known to have been strongly pro-
British. The purge followed pub-
lication of a decree by the Petain
government providing that "only
men of French parentage" may
hold important government posts.
Eliminate Jews
Nazi sources said that the new
decree will result in "the elimi-
nation of Jews from government
posts." The Nazi radio announc-
ed that the 20 persons seized,
who were ordered to leave Vichy
immediately, are still subject to
imprisonment. The German radio
described those arrested as "Jews
and Leftist journalists who in re-
cent weeks have been gathering
information from parliament on
behalf of foreign quarters."
Neutral observers here believed
that the decree was the beginning
of Nazi-inspired anti-Semitic cam-
paign similar to those launched
in other Nazi-dominated lands.
They pointed to the fact that
almost the entire French press
has published anti-Semitic edi-
torials in recent days.
One Killed, Ten Injured in One of Key Cities
Built by Jews in National Home
in Palestine
JERUSALEM (WNS) — One person was killed and
several others, including an American employee of an
oil refinery, were injured, when 10 Italian airplanes
dropped more than 50 bombs during a 20-minute raid on
Haifa, one of the most important port and industrial
cities of Palestine.
The Italian bombers, coming in two waves, were
Europe Vast
Horror Camp
Troper Arrives to Dis-
cuss Readjustment
Plan
driven off by British planes and
anti-aircraft batteries, which fired
on the raiders from the summit
of Mount Carmel.
As soon as the air raid sirens
sounded their warning, Jews and
Arabs went into recently con-
structed air raid shelters. Al-
though the raid was the first ex-
perienced in Palestine since the
beginning of the war there was
no panic. In the air raid shelters,
Jews and Arabs discussed meas-
ures necessary to defeat their
common enemy.
The injured American was J.
E. Flannigan. Several tanks of
the Iraq Petroleum Company
were damaged during the raid.
(An official Italian war com-
munique from Rome said that
the Italian raiders caused fires
which could be seen by Italian
aviators 125 miles away. The
communique alleged that great
damage was done to the port
of Haifa and that all planes par-
ticipating in the Haifa raid re-
turned safely to their bases.)
UNION CITY, N. J. (WNS)-
While the police pressed their
search for the perpetrators of
the World's Fair explosion which
took the lives of two detectives
"The whole European continent
and injured five others, a phony
with a few notable exceptions has
"bomb" found on the steps of
been converted into a vast con-
the Hebrew School of the North
centration camp as a result of
Hudson Jewish Community Cen-
ter led police to believe that pro-
the recent occupation of Belgium,
Nazi elements were responsible
Holland, Luxembourg and a large
for the recent bombing and
part of France", declared Morris
hoaxes.
C. Troper, European chairman of
An unidentified man called the
the American Joint Distribution
Union City police last Friday
Committee, upon his arrival in
night and said that a bomb had
New York on the Yankee Clipper
been planted on the steps of a
from Lisbon.
synagogue. The police sped to
Mr. Troper arrived to confer
several Jewish institutions be-
with the officers and directors
Property Confiscated
fore they found a box on the
One French newspaper, La Pe- of the American Jewish Joint
steps of the Hebrew school.
Distribution Committee, major
The box was doused in a bar- tite Gironde, assailed German American agency for aid to dis-
Nightly Black-Outs
rel of oil when the police heard Jewish refugees, charging that tressed Jews overseas, concerning
Palestine had its first practice
a ticking. Several hours later the Jewish refugees, who had readjustments in the policy and
Lieut. James A. Pyke of the enjoyed the hospitality of France, program of that organization black-out covering the whole of
the country on the night of June
New York City bomb squad open- are now trying to escape with necessitated by recent develop- 3. In some places, such as Haifa
ed the box and found an alarm gold and diamonds. The news- ments in Europe.
and Tel Aviv, the "Lights Out"
clock, some wire, a coil and a paper said that France will never
Troper, who was one of order from midnight to dawn had
white building brick. According again be so "naive" as to give
the last Americans to leave Paris been enforced for a short while
to the police the box contained hospitality to Jews.
previously purely as a precau-
no explosive, detonator or bat-
M. P. Praises Efforts of Jewish
tionary measure.
See TROPER—Page 9
See FRANCE—Page 8
tery for electrical current.
Group
Contrasting with the brilliant-
NEW YORK (WNS) — Ro-
ly lighted streets, restaurants,
land Robinson, British member of
store windows and places of pub-
Parliament, praised the efforts
lic entertainment which have
of the Jewish Assistance Group,
brought Tel Aviv to the fore-
recently established to provide an
front of Mediterranean watering
information center in co-opera-
places, the dense pall of gloom
tion with the U. S. Committee
that hung over the city and was
for the Care of European Chil- Stories Published in German and Italian Papers; Recruiting of Jewish Units in Pal- only relieved by the sickle moon
dren, at a meeting of the organ-
in the early hours of the morn-
estine Believed to Be Strengthening Jewry's Rights; Blackout and Air
ization at the Spanish and Portu-
ing served to bring home to resi-
guese Synagogue. Mr. Robinson is
Raid Precautions Are Functioning Smoothly
dents the full implications of the
the official representative of the
British government in connection
LONDON (Palcor Agency) — Recruiting of Jewish Units Seen cal transport company, Mr. Sher-
See HAIFA—Page 8
tok reported.
Strengthening Palestine
with the work of the U. S. Com- That a secret agreement has
Jewry's Rights
The Jewish Agency had offered
mittee.
been signed between the British
JERUSALEM (Palcor Agency) its assistance in enrolling Jew-
government and the Jewish peo- —The recruitment of Jewish ish pilots already trained or avail-
ple is the contention of a story soldiers in various units of thi able for training, but only Brit-
prominently displayed in German British Army was seen as a ish-born pilots are now admitted
to the Royal Air Force. If a
and Italian newspapers, it has strengthening of the Jewish posi- change in the rules should oc-
tion in Palestine in a statement
been. learned here.
made here by Moshe Sher- cur, Jews would be eligible.
According to this latest publi- tok, chief of the political depart-
The Jewish Agency regards the
cation of assertedly secret agree- ment of the Jewish Agency for present recruiting of Jewish units
ments by the Rome-Berlin axis, Palestine.
as an important step toward the
the British government has prom-
The views of the Jewish Agen- recognition of the Jewish posi-
ised to recognize Palestine as an
cy
leader were expressed at a tion in Palestine, enabling the
independent Jewish Dominion of
Announcement is made of the
press
conference devoted to a Jews to make their contribution
NEW YORK. (WNS) — The the British Empire and has fur- clarification of the military posi- to the prosecution of the war as program for the fall Conference
Non-Seetaritn Anti-Nazi League, ther promised to the Jews a part tion. The present enlistments, he a nation, Mr. Shertok declared. on Science, Philosophy and Re-
Answering another question at ligion to meet on Sept. 9, 10, and
which\ recently supplied evidence of Abyssinia as colonization ter- pointed out, envisioned a total
of the "irregular activities" of ritory after the common victory. of 1,800 Jews, of whom 500 will the conference, Mr. Shertok stated 11, at the Jewish Theological
Believed Nazi Trick
that an improvement had recent- Seminary of America in New
Dr. Friedhelm Draeger, Nazi
The Jewish people, according be assigned to a Jewish mechani- ly occurred in the sphere of the York City. Invitations have been
Consul in New York, at the re-
cal
transport
company
whose
quest of the Department of State, to this story, was represented in non-commissioned officers will, at utilization of sources of Palestine issued to over a thousand insti-
has wired the department asking the alleged negotiations that cuk first, be British but, later, Jews. supplies and industry for army tutions of higher learning, ex-
for the recall of Captain Fritz urinated in the Axis-styled secret
needs. But the question of raw p e r i m e n t a l laboratories, and
Wiedemann, Nazi Consul-General agreement by Dr. Chaim Weiz- Of the balance of the 1,800, 660 materials, he added, still requires learned societies to sent official
are
for
a
Jewish
company
of
the
in San Francisco, and all other mann, president of the Jewish
a solution, with the assistance of delegates to the sessions of the
Consular representatives "engaged Agency for Palestine; Moshe pioneer corps and 550 for var- the authorities.
conference.
ious
trades
for
ground
services
in similar extra-consular activity. ' Shertok, head of the political
Palestine Black-Outs Functioning
The invitations have been is-
Wiedemann has been denounced department of the Jewish Agen- in the air force and the like.
Sm oo thl y
sued in the name of 81 founding
Through the Jewish Agency,
by a U. S. Commissioner in Los cy and Mr. Rubinstein.
Angeles as having "stepped out-
Since the beginning of June members of the conference, which„
Neutral quarter, have ventur- Mr. Shertok remarked, 700 Jews
side the regular diplomatic pro- ed the opinion that the purpose of were previously enlisted for tech- precautionary black-outs have includes the outstanding men of
cedure," in connection with the this story is to alienate the Arab nical British Units. Of that group been the order of the day—or science, philosophy and religion
arrest of Herbert Hoehne, a Ger- world from the Allied cause. The 300 are now to be transferred, rather night—in Palestine; and in the country. The Conference
man citizen, on espionage charges. story itself is presumably based together with 20 Arabs, to form previous in many places through- will discuss "Science, Philosophy
and Religion in Their Relation to
"Never in the diplomatic his-
given to a special Royal Engineers unit, out the country had so well pre- the Democratic Way of Life".
tory of our country has a foreign on an alleged promise
Winston officered by five Jews and one pared the inhabitants that there
by
Dr.
Weizmann
Power appointed a man to a ma-
has been a minimum of untoward The invitation states that "clear-
Arab.
for diplomatic post when that Churchill to the effect that after
Two hundred and fifty drivers incidents. ly the time has come when those
the
war
Palestine
would
at
last
man has been connected with the
be given to the Jews as their who were previously enrolled are
See DEMOCRACY—Page 16
See PALESTINE—Page 12
now entering a Jewish mechani-
very own.
See NAZI CONSUL—Page 1 3
AXIS POWERS SEEK TO ALIENATE ARABS FROM ALLIED
CAUSE BY ISSUING A RUMOR OF A SECRET AGREEMENT
BETWEEN BRITAIN AND JEWS FOR INDEPENDENT STATE
NAZI CONSUL'S
RECALL URGED
Fritz Wiedemann's Ac-
twines in the U. S.
Is Exposed
PLAN PARLEY
ON DEMOCRACY
To Help Fashion the
American Way
of Life