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DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, AUGUST 16, 1940

The Lamp of Liberty
Relief Funds A Pageant
Presented by Jewish Welfare Board
at World's Fair
Do Not Help
Nazi Economy

Emergency Assistance
Continues for Jews
Under Hitlerism

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Emergency assistance is being
extended to large sections of
2,900,000 Jews under Nazi domi-
German - controlled
in
nation
areas without benefiting the Ger-
man economy, it was announced
by the United Jewish Appeal,
t h e fund-raising channel by
which the Joint Distribution
Committee, participant with the
United Palestine Appeal and the
National Refugee Service, in the
nationwide drive, receives the
resources for its relief activities
in European war zones and other
parts of the world. Through a
financial clearance arrangement,
no American dollars have ever
been sent into German territory
by the J. D. C. Funds are made
available in marks or zlotys to
relief committees for the Joint
Distribution Committee program
in Germany and Poland, by Jews
emigrating to other parts of the
world. In turn, the J. D. C. pays
transportation fees for these
refugees to steamship companies
outside of Germany.
With the interruption of nor-
mal shipping in the Mediterra-
nean and the establishment of
new channels of emigration via
Russia, Siberia and Japan, the
Joint Distribution Committee has
been transmitting to steamship
companies in Japan funds to pay
for the emigration of Jewish
refugees reaching that country
en route to havens in North and
South American countries.

The extent of the increase in

needs of Jews in German-
controlled areas at the present

the

See RELIEF—Page

12

Drama Marks
Bias Reunion

Parents Find Son Be-
lieved Dead in Con-
centration Camp

NEW YORK.—A scene of great
dramatic force, epitomizing the
anguish and the tortures of Jew-
ish refugees since the advent of
Hithrism and the march of total-
itarian aggression, was enacted
at the national headquarters of
the Hebrew Sheltering and Im-
migrant Aid Society (IIIAS) sev-
eral days ago when a strange but
kindly fate brought about the
suchFn and joyous reunion be-
tween refugee parents and their
refugee son, long ago considered
by them to have perished in a
Nazi concentration camp.
The scroll of wandering. , de-
spair, hope and the final victory
of tenacity over great difficulties,
is told in the HIAS record of the
refugee family of Mr. and Mrs.
Jacob Cabin and their son, Sam-
uel, formerly of Vienna, Austria,
and now grateful immigrants in
the United States temporarily
sheltered at the HIAS dormi-
tories for new arrivals,
Jacob Cabin and his wife,
Sarah, lived in Przemislany, Po-
land. Twenty-five years ago, with
their son, Samuel, then one year
old, they moved to Vienna where
they resided until that black day
in March, 1937. On that day, the
Nazi hoardes marched into the
capital of Austria. Several days
after Anschluss, Sam was arrest-
e d by the Gestapo and thrown
into a concentration camp. From
the first camp he was later trans-
ferred to another place of tor-
ture with which Heinrich Himm-
ler has filled Germany. In the
Process, the parents lost track of
their son and gave up all hope
of ever seeing or hearing from

See HIAS—Page 7

NOTE: This pal riot it pageant %%as presented at the Temple
of Religion, VII `..41. orld's Fair, under the sponsorship of the Ne0 fork
:11e1 ropolit an Section of the Jewish %%Mare Board, Celebrating . ,leuish Center
Home tamp Imp, children from 10 'feu Ish
CollIIM11111 y
Center organization
camps tools part in the [n141'11111, and more than 2,0110 children participated
iu he general ceremonies. It is hero% Rh published in the belief that this
time! presenlal ion
it the struggle for deniocrac) in t he united States from
the (inn- of t he earliest settlers to the present do) will be of particular
interest and a ...tire'. of ilopirflt 11011 to our re aders.

PROLOGUE

the world for the mere price of
a rub of the hand and a few
This pageant we are about to magic words.
present is an American pageant,
This is a lamp that has to be
given by Jewis:i children, who
wish in this manner to testify to worked for; that has to be guard-
their love of America and their ed, that has to be cherished. It
must be kept lighted on all oc-
devotion to democracy.
The story we are going to tell casions lest the whole world re-
is the story of a lamp . . . a main in darkness.
For this is the lamp of liberty.
magic lamp.
You mean Aladdin's lamp?
So long as it is kept burning,
No, not like the lamp of Alad- mankind can be kept free.
din that promises the riches of
That is worth all the riches on
earth.
Yes, as long as it burns, men's
faces will brighten when they
greet each other . . . and the
flow of affection and brotherly
love will warm every heart.
and intolerance will
Institute Hears Dicta- not Hatred
dare to come forward in the
light of its flame.
tors Spread
Because the rest of the world
Prejudice
is in darkness, this light never
shone more brightly than it does
ESTES PARK, Colo. — (Reli-
gious News Service.)—Dr. Frank here in America, where it has
Kingdon, president of the Uni- burned without interruption for
versity of Newark, told the In- 300 years.
It is a flame like the Eternal
stitute of Human Relations here
that the "German propaganda Light in front of the Holy of
machine is trying to break down Holies.
It is a flame like the lamp that
communication between groups in
this country by the devices of burned in the Temple . . .
At the time of the Maccabees?
group prejudice."
Yes, at the time of the Macca-
Addressing leaders of the
Protestant, Catholic and Jewish bees.
We think that the flame of
faiths convened under the auspices
of the National Conference of freedom is such a light.
It burns in the heart of every
Christians and Jews, Dr. Kingdon
declared the Nazis are "trying to American.
PANEL I
destroy the meaning of such
The first settlers brought the
words as peace, trying to make
reasonable argument impossible flame with them when they came
and trying to drive wedges of to America. They were fleeing
from darkness . . . The first
division into our society."
The educator suggested that the immigrants, the early colonists
United States "must check free-
Who were the early colonists?
dom for certain groups by demo-
cratic methods ill order to con-
Pilgrim Fathers
tinue our own freedom.
Jamestown Cavaliers
Strike at Religious Freedom
French Huguenots
Our nation must recognize
Moravians
this fact. The experiences of Hol-
Scots
t a n d , Belgians, Norway and
Swedes
France make me question the
Hollanders
rights of Communism and Nazism
Protestants
in this country to use our free-
Catholics
dom to destroy our freedom. To
Quakers
keep democracy in America we
Jews
must keep America," he said.
America in those days was a
In a symposium on "Religion
in a World at War", William Al- blank page in history on which
len White, Kansas ed itoP, de- each of the new arrivals wrote

Bigots Foment
Hatred in U. S.

Rabbis Discuss New
Ritual for Girls

CHICAGO.—(Religious News
Service.)—The Rabbinical As-
sembly of the Hebrew Theolog-
ical College here is discussing
the possibility of framing a
dignified "Bas-Mitzvah" ritual
for girls, analagous to the pres-
ent "Bar-Mitzvah" ceremony
by which boys of 13 are ushered
into adult responsibilities.
Rabbi Oscar Z. Sasman, pres-
ident of the organization, denied
a story released by a secular
wire service which described
the Rabbinical Association as
setting up plans to give Jew-
ish women "places of promi-
nence in the Orthodox syna-
gogue."

Find Gestapo
In New York
German Commercial
Agency Is Called
Nazi Front

NEW YORK. — (WNS) — A
German travel and foreign ex-
change agency, Deutscher Han-
dels and Wirtschaftsdienst, which
was mysteriously bombed last
June, is actually a front for the
New York headquarters of the
Nazi Gestapo, according to infor-
mation furnished the United
States Attorney's office by Dr.
Paul ' Schwartz, former German
consul.
Dr. Schwartz, who was ousted
from his post in 1933 when Hit-
ler came into power and who has
since become a naturalized citi-
zen, said that the so-called com-
mercial agency is operated by
Jochem Frieherr von Wimmers-
perg and Ernest 0. Hopf.

Consul Enraged

This Paper Printed in Two Section%

10 Cents Single Copy; $3.00 per Vier

New Decrees
Strike Jews
In Rumania

Virtually Eliminated
from All Phases of
Country's Life

LONDON. (WNS)—A new se-
ries of anti-Jewish laws, consid-
ered inevitable since Rumania
entered the Axis powers' orbit,
was announced by the Rumania
Cabinet, headed by the violently
anti-Jewish, pro-Nazi Premier Ion
Gigurtu. The decrees are aimed
at the virtual elimination of Jews
from all phases of Rumanian life.
The anti-Semitic code lists all
those who belong to the Mosaic
faith or whose parents were un-
baptized Jews as Jewish. Others
subject to the decree are persons
who have Christian mothers and
unbaptized Jewish fathers; ille-
gitimate children of Jewish moth-
ers; Jews baptized after the law
goes into effect, and Jewish wom-
en married to Christian men and
not baptized at least one year
before the creation of the Na-
tional Party.

Three Groups

The law separates the Jewish
population into three categories:
(1) Jews who became citizens in
the old Rumanian kingdom, sol-
diers who fought for Rumania, or
those who gained citizenship as
the result of special services ren-
dered to the country; (2) Jews
who came to Rumania before
Dec. 30, 1918; (3) Jews who
entered Rumania after Dec. 30,
1918.
Jews in the first category, num-
bering about 6,000, retain all
their present rights except that of
possessing rural property. Jews
in this category, however, com-
prise but a tiny minority of the

The agency is located in the
same building as the Nazi Con-
sulate in New York. When it
was bombed last June, the corn-
mon belief was that the bomb
had been intended for the Con-
See RUMANIA—Page 12
sulate, one floor above.
At the time of the bombing,
Dr. Hans Borschers, Nazi Consul
in New York, said that the
"travel agency" was a private
firm and insisted that "we don't
even know the people."
Dr. Schwartz maintained, how-
ever, that the agency originally
had quarters on the same floor Continues in Spite of
as the German Consulate, but
Removal of Its
was moved to the floor below
World Office
when Dr. Borschers became en-
raged when he learned that the
The relief work for refugees
agency was spying on him and
and war sufferers which was
his staff.
started by the World Jewish
See GESTAPO—Page 6
Congress at the beginning of this
See PAGEANT—Page 6
See INSTITUTE—Page 6
war is being continued in spite
of the fact that the Central Bu-
reau of the Congress has had to
move from occupied France to
the United States. Among other
countries where this work is be-
ing conducted is also included
the Southern part of France
where members of the organiza-
tion are visiting refugee camps
and distributing relief among the
Refugees and War Victims Receive Largest Measure of Assistance;
thousands of former Jewish citi-
zens of Holland, Belgium and
$4,477,500 Appropriated During First Six Months of. 1940
Northern France as well as the
refugees who fled from Nazi ter-
For
activities
in
behalf
of
the
United
Jewish
Appeal
for
Refu-
ritories previous to the Battle of
NEW YORK. — Efforts of
gees
and
Overseads
Needs.
Jews
of
Poland,
the
Joint
Distri-
France.
American Jews to assist their
In his resume of services ren- bution Committee expended $1,-
stricken co-religionists extended
Details of the relief activities
into more than 50 countries dur- dered during the first six months 300,000 during 1939, a consider- of the World Jewish Congress in
ing the past year and a half, ac- of 1940, Mr. Hyman declared that able part of this sum after the the various parts of Europe are
cording to the American Jewish the Committee appropriated $4,- conquest of Poland by Germany. contained in a statement issued
Joint Distribution Committee 477,500 for that period.
Prior to the war, the funds were by the Bureau of the World Jew-
ish Congress recently established
which just published its annual
Analyzed on a functional basis, applied to constructive programs in New York City.
report for 1939 including a resu- the largest expenditure during of economic aid, vocational train-
Unite Relatives
me for the first six months of 1939 was $3,251,900 for relief ing, child care, medical aid, as-
1940. The report marked the work among refugees. An addi- sistance to refugees who had fled
Upon receipt of the first tragic
completion of 25 years of activ- tional $2,366,600 was expended from Germany into Poland and news of the plight of Polish-Jew-
ity on the part of the committee, for emigration service to refugees to cultural and religious institu- ish refugees attendant upon the
breakdown of the Polish State,
major American agency for aid to permitted to enter Palestine, La- sions.
distressed Jews overseas.
tin American countries and other
The report is prefaced by a active relief work was imme-
With the critical conditions overseas lands for permanent set- foreword signed by officers of diately organized through the
among the refugees from Ger- tlement. Emergency assistance for the committee including Paul Geneva office of the World Jewish
many and the Jews of Eastern others than refugees received Baerwald, chairman; Edward M. Congress.
The most pressing need at that
and Central Europe further ag- grants totalling $1,000,000 while M. Warburg, co-chairman; James
gravated by outbreak of the war other large sums were expended N. Rosenberg, chairman of the time was to obtain help for refu-
in September, the Joint Distri- for vocational training, medical executive committee; Dr. Jonah gees by placing them in touch
bution Committee appropriated a aid, child care and economic as- B. Wise, chairman of the national with relatives and friends in other
countries. This the World Jew-
total of $8,923,700 for their as- sistance.
campaign; and James H. Becker, ish Congress accomplishedby
sistance in 1939, it was revealed
These services were rendered chairman of the National Council sending special representatives
by Joseph C. Hyman in his re- to Jews in Greater Germany, Po- and a message from Morris C. into the countries to which the
t
as
executive
vice
chairman.
por
land and other East European Troper, chairman of the Euro- majority of the Polish-Jewish
Pledges income of the commit-
tee, however, amounted to only lands, and to refugees throughout pean Executive Council of the
See CONGRESS—Page 12
Committee.
$8,150,000 as its share of the the world.

Joint Distribution Committee Granted $8,923,000
During 1939 to Aid Jewish Sufferers in 50 Lands

Relief Work
Of Congress

