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Detroit Jewish Chronicle

SECTIO

VOL. 42, NO. 36

_ _and The Legal Chronicle

DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1940

This Paper Printed in Two Sections

10 Cents Single Copy; $3.00 per Year

Settlers Earning Re ligthAjivji.t ioe. Funds
Nazi Anti-U.S. Dominican
X
Axis Incites
Own Bread, Dr. Rosen Sags
Group of Refugees Adjusted to New En-
Plot Is Set for First vironment
Arabs Against
in Three Months; 2,000 Visas
ThisWeek-End Issued, Room for 100,000 Settlers
The British

Revelations Made by
Writer for PM
Daily

NEW YORK (WNS) — The
first violence and bloodshed in
Hitler's undeclared war against
America is tentatively scheduled
for this week-end, according to
Henry Paynter, writing in the
New York newspaper PM.
"Hitler's fantastic plan," Mr.
Paynter charged, "developed here
and in Mexico by his official dip-
lomatic and consular representa-
tives, calls for simultaneous ac-
tion along the following lines:
"1—A revolution in Mexico.
"2—A Mexican border inci-
dent in which a number of U.S.
soldiers might be murdered.
"3—Destruction of U. S. na-
val vessels at west coast bases
by chemical bombs shipped from
Germany by way of Japan.
"4—Bombing of west coast
arsenals, munitions plants, utili-
ties and aircraft factories by
German chemical bombs disguised
as lead pencils.
"5—Bombing of Panama Canal
locks. This particular plot al-
ready has been liquidated quietly
by U. S. agents, although Pana-
ma may still be bombed from
secret German-Japanese air
bases."
"It sounds incredible," Mr.
Paynter explained, "but no o r e
than 100 German agents and al-
most as many Japanese have been
working on the plot for more
than a year. Several times that
number of each have been at
work in Mexico."
"Hitler's Transoceanic News
Service, which has offices in
Washington and New York," the
writer disclosed, "is flooding
Mexican newspapers with stories
that depict the United States as
a nation of gangsters and loose
women headed by a President
whose real name is Rosenfeld and
dominated by Jews who are al-
leged to be the cause of all Mexi-
co's troubles.
"Widely distributed today in
Mexico are the fake 'Protocols of
the Learned Elders of Zion' in
Spanish, using Henry Ford's name
on the cover in such way as to
make Mexicans believe that Ford
wrote and sponsored the publi-
cation."

Ask Crackdown

On McWilliams

Funds provided by Ameri-
can Jewry through the United
Jewish Appeal enabled the
Joint Distribution Committee to
carry on urgent emergency re-
NEW YORK. (WNS) — The a four-month visit to the Sosua lief activities at the peak of
first group of settlers in the re- Colony, reported "that none of the European conflict during the
cently established Sosua colony them has suffered from any dis- period from May 10 to Aug.
in the Dominican Republic, ease or discomfort, all of them 10, when a total of $910,000
about 50 German-Jewish refu- gained in weight and none of us was spent to aid Jews in areas
gees, have so adjusted themselves has any doubt that with the
in the three months that they proper arrangement of their of suffering in Europe, it was
have been there that they are working hours and periods of revealed in a report by Mor-
already "earning their bread," ac- rest they are fully able to work ris C. Troper, chairman of the
cording to Dr. Joseph A. Rosen, and produce enough for their European Council of the Joint
vice president of the Dominican subsistence."
Distribution Committee, A finan-
Republic Settlement Association.
Produce Food Crops
He said that the first settlers cial clearance agreement which
Dr. Rosen, who has just re-
turned to the United States after have already established a herd the Joint Distribution Commit-
of about 300 head of cattle pro- tee has with the German gov-
ducing milk, butter, cheese and ernment made possible the ex-
meat for the colony, and planted
a substantial acreage of food penditure of Ibis large sum of
crops. The settlers have also money even though no Ameri-
M started banana and cocoanut can dollars were sent into Ger-
many or German-occupied ter-
plantations.
By WILLIAM HABER
"We have also put up very ritories.
comfortable and substantial dor-
II. Out of New York—Into
mitories for the accommodation
America
of 150 to 200 children and
trainees whom we expect to bring
Editor's Note: This is the second in to Sosua from England, main-
of five articles by Dr. William ly from refugee families who
Habor, Executive Director of have lived in Great Britain for
some time," Dr. Rosen said.
the National Refugee Service,
Room for 100,000
dealin g with the problems of
"The government has now is-
local resettlement.
sued over 2,000 immigration
visas at our request," he added,
In the records they are a "and this number can be multi-
Recently appointed as director
"unit." But as you watch them plied many times depending on
board a bus in roaring midtown our ability to take care of the of Detroit's Jewish Vocational
Manhattan you don't think of people. There is room enough in Service, M. William Weinberg.
formerly of the
them in cold case record terms. the Dominican Republic for 100,-
Federation Em-
Here they are warm human be- 000 refugee immigrants, and
ployment Ser-
ings; a little frightened, a bit more, and the country needs
vice of New
bewildered, but eager, looking them and wants them."
York City, as-
forward anxiously to a new home
"Our greatest drawback at
sumed his new
and a new life somewhere in present," he stated, "is the diffi-
duties during
America. The man's face is care- culty in arranging transportation
the past week,
worn—perhaps some of those lines and transit visas through various
according to an
were carved in a concentration countries for our prospective set-
a n n ounce-
camp. His wife, careworn but tlers and other immigrants in-
pretty. A little girl, luckiest of cluding children and trainees. We
ment by Henry
all, for her mind bears no scars have groups of settlers impa-
Meyers, presi-
from the days and nights of tiently waiting for transportation
dent of the
terror abroad, her memories will and transit visas in Germany, Jewish Community Center. In
all be of America.
Italy, Switzerland, England and keping with the plans for the
expansion of community pro-
Again in technical language, France.
gram, made possible by the en-
Interest of U. S.
they're going to be "resettled."
"Under present conditions in larged facilities of the Center, the
This compounded word is feeble
to describe all the adventures they Europe the multiplicity and diver- Jewish Vocational Service repre-
fate—the bus trip through this sity of those difficulties is really sents an extension of the employ-
exciting United States, the greet- disheartening. Time and again ment work and an initiation of
ings of the local committee when arrangements brought almost to vocational guidance procedures.
they reach their destination, the completion with superhuman ef- Miss Anna Rose Hersh, who was
setting up of a new home, the forts have broken down at the in charge of the placement ser-
vice of the earlier employment
search for and the finding of a very last minute."
Dr. Rosen attributed the early program, has been named asso-
job, the adjustment to American
life, American people, American success of the refugee colony to ciate director of the enlarged
customs. In the National •efugee the wholehearted interest and co- service.
Mr. Weinberg has also served
Service we try h?rd to keep these operation of both the United
tangibles before us at all times. States and the Dominican Repub- as assistant personnel supervisor
and area administrator of the
We are dealing in human lives, lic.
"We were particularly fortu- W.P.A. adult education program
human destinies, joy and sorrow,
success and failure. Because our nate," he said, "in having made in Brooklyn. Previous to his
resettlement program is on a mass available to us, without any cost W.P.A. affiliation, he served as
scall—in 1939 we resettled 3,500 to us whatsoever, constant con- Vocational Guidance Counsellor
people, in seven months of 1940 sultation of Mr. A. Lee, director at the Brooklyn Boys Vocational
we have already equalled this of the United States Govern- High School. In his work at the
figure—there is always the dan- mental Experimental Station in New York Federation Employ-
ger that the curse of impersonal- Porto Rico, who visited Sosua ment Service, Mr. Weinberg acted
ity, the deadening tendency to suc- personally and has enabled us to as assistant to its director, Louis
cumb to routine, will catch up secure considerable quantities of H. Sobel, former executive di-
seed and plants from the Porto
See VOCATIONS—Page 12
Rico station."
See REFUGEES—Page 13

Resettling

It e f u g ee w

Vocational
Head Chosen
M. W. Weinberg Is

Named to Direct a
New Service

Yorkville Jewish Busi-
nessmen File Vig-
orous Protest
COUNCIL AGAINST INTOLERANCE ISSUES MAP
NEW YORK (WNS)—A dele-
"AMERICA — A NATION OF ONE PEOPLE FROM
gation of 30 Jewish businessmen
from the Yorkville section of New
MANY COUNTRIES" FOR USE IN U. S. SCHOOLS

York City visited the Summer
City Hall to urge Mayor La-
Guardia to curb the nightly street
corner meetings and demonstra-
tions of the anti-Semitic candi-
date for Congress, Joseph McWil-
liams.

Byrnes MacDonald, secretary to
the Mayor, assured the delegation
that a full report of their testi-
mony would be given to Mayor
LaGuardia when he returned from
a meeting in Ottawa of the Joint
Canadian-United States defense
board.

The business men charged that
MacWilliams, through his street
meetings, had curtailed business,
created racial animosity and
preached doctrine harmful to the
neighborhood.
Rabbi Carol Kline said that
"as an American citizen I have
the right to ask that such a
man be eliminated, and that he
be stopped from preaching what
he preaches."

Schoolroom walls all over
America will soon be displaying
a map, entitled "America — A
Nation of One People from Many
Countries," published by The
Council Against intolerance in
America. Distribution begins this
week. From preview copies sent
out this summer 7,000 requests
have been received by the Coun-
cil before official distribution has
begun. These requests have come
from teachers, superintendents,
girls' and boys' comps, church
organizations, summer school stu-
dents and civic groups.
Requests have come in from
such varied sources as Rikers
Island Penitentiary and prospect-
ive students at Yale University
who want to use it to decorate
their rooms.
Show 35 Nationalities
The map shows in broad out-
line where Americans live, what
they do, where they come from

and what their religion is. Sug-
gestions for use in the classroom
accompany the map which is 35
inches by 54 inches, printed on
heavy paper in four colors. It
can be used alone or as visual
aid to the Council's Manual for
junior and senior high school
teachers, "An American Answer
to Intolerance."
nationalities
are
Thirty-five
shown, where they came from
in Europe and Asia, where they
settled in the United States and
in what industry or agricultural
work most members of each
group entered after arriving. An
American Indian, prominently
displayed, carries the caption,
"With the exeception of the In-
dian all Americans or their fore-
fathers came from other coun-
tries."

Distribution of Groups
While leading Americans in

industry, the arts, science

and

literature are listed in one cor-
ner of the map, emphasis is
placed on the contributions made
by the railroad builder, the truck
farmer, the garment worker, the
coal miner and all the other
workers who have helped build
America. And because the map
is intended principally for school
children, the symbols for the
various industries are depicted in
amusing and entertaining forms.
A lively fish swims the rapids to
show the salmon industry; a
piquant pig stands among the
tall corn in the Middle West; a
spirited horse gallops through the
ranch country and so on from
border to border and coast to
coast.
To give an example of the
many people that make up the
country, the map shows 31 na-
tionalities on the Eastern sea-

Petain Fovernment Re-
leases Those Guilty
of Anti-Semitism

NEW YORK. (WNS) — Nazi
Germany and its Axis partner,
Fascist Italy, are using anti-
Semitism to stir up the Arabs in
the Middle East against Great
Britain, Ralph W. Barnes wrote
in a cabled dispatch to the New
York Herald Tribune from Cairo.
"As the war clouds thickened
in the spring of 1939," Mr.
Barnes wrote, "propaganda from
Berlin was intensified. British
'atrocities' in Palestine were
painted in lurid colors in regular
radio broadcasts in Arabic from
the German capital. Here in the
Arab world was a field in which
the Germans could play the anti-
Jewish theme with effect."

Spread Unrest
"As for paid agents from the
Axis camp," the correspondent
said, "there are probably many
of them engaged in spreading
unrest among the Arabs. There
are various suggestions as to the
identity of the Arab who may
have been picked by the Ger-
mans to lead the fifth column."
The writer held that the Nazis
would concentrate their efforts
"on bringing into line Haj Amin
Effendi Al Hussein, the exiled
mufti of Jerusalem, who directed
a three-year Arab revolt in Pal-
estine."
"Views are widely current," he
said, "that at least some —Ger-
man and Italian money was in-
volved in the revolt in Palestine.
It is believed that this money
was contributed to Arab clubs
and other organizations. There
is no definite confirmation of
persistent reports that the mufti
or one of his principal lieutenants
was personally in direct contact
with the Germans during the
period of the Palestine uprising."

France Releases Persons Guilty
of Anti-Semitism
LONDON. (WNS) — All per-
sons in unoccupied France, im-
prisoned for violently anti-Se-
mitic speeches or writings under
the provisions of the racial de-
famation law of 1939, have been

See AXIS—Page 19

Lillian Wald
Is Dead at 73

Nation Mourns Passing
of Pioneer Social
Worker

NEW YORK. (WNS)—Leaders
in all walks of life joined in
mourning the passing of Lillian
D. Wald, pioneer social worker
and founder of the Henry Street
Settlement, who died at her home
in Westport, Conn., last Sunday
night after a long illness. The
world-famous social worker was
73 years old.
New York's famed East Side
was plunged into mourning as
tributes and messages of condo-
lence poured into the Henry
Street Settlement house from all
parts of the world. Miss Wald,
who devoted her life to improv-
ing the plight of the poor, was
known and admired by presidents
and kings.
Born in Cincinnati to wealthy
and socially prominent German-
Jewish parents, Miss Wald gave
up a comfortable life to fight for
medical attention for the poor,
recreation centers for East Side
children, and elimination of New
York's slums and sweatshops.
Her decision to devote her life
to helping the poor was reached

See TOLERANCE—Page 18 See LILLIAN WALD—Page 18

