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Detroit Jewish Chronicle

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VOL. 41 NO. 39

DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1940

Unity Appeal
Made by Three
Faiths in U. S.

100 Leaders Join in
Making Plea for
Good Will

NEW YORK (Religious News
Service) — Warning that indi-
viduals and groups promoting hat-
red against religious and racial
elements are "America's poten-
tial traitors," over 100 religious
and lay leaders of the Protestant,
Catholic and Jewish faiths in
New York issued an appeal here
for unity and goodwill among
citizens of all faiths and classes.
The appeal, made public by the
New York Round Table of the
National Conference of Chris-
tians and Jews, was issued simul-
taneously in communities through-
out the country by local units of
the National Conference.

Freedom Threatened

At the same time the inter-
faith group announced that its
national co-chairmen had issued
a call to religious leaders of all
faiths in the United States to
meet in every village, town and
city in the fall of 1940 to con-
sider specific ways in which the
spiritual values of religion can
be applied to the solution of pres-
sing national problems which face
the country.
"The freedoms that we cherish
in America," the appeal said, "are
threatened by enemies within as
dangerous as are any of those
without. Recent events have
shown that the totalitarian states
are using new and insidious
weapons of conquest. It is the
propagation of lies and suspi-
cion directed against religious or
racial groups in the population,
and its victory is the division of
nations into mutually hostile
groups.
"We warn the American peo-
ple against those who, under vari-
ous guises, are promoting un-
founded prejudice against any
group or class. Such professional
haters are America's potential
traitors."

Plea for National Unity

In appealing for national unity
the religious and lay leaders em-
phasized that they were not urg-
ing "uniformity of opinion on all
issues of public life." National
unity, they said,. "does not infer
the kind of unity enforced in
totalitarian countries where opin-
ions on social, political and econo-
mic matters must conform with
those promulgated by the ruling
powers."
They defined national unity as
unity of spirit binding all citi-
zens together in a common devo-
tion to American democratic
ideals, and unity of action on
matter s of common concern to
Americans of all faiths and clas-
ses as citizens of the one democ-
racy."

Catholics Campaign
Against Jew-Baiting

NEW YORK ( WNS) — As
part of its nation-wide cam-
paign against anti-Semitism,

the Catholic Information So-
ciety of New York will send
through the mails 5,000 let-
ters and folders "in interest
of tolerance and understand-
ing," it was announced by the
Rev. Bonaventure Fitzgerald,
moderator of the society.
The literature will include
a reprint from the Catholic
World of "The Sin of Anti-
Sernitism," by Thomas F.
Doyle, and other pamphlets
against religious intolerance.
The society has distributed
44,929 pieces of literature in
the past year, it was disclos-
ed.
At the same time the Cath-
olic organization will launch a
campaign to induce large cor-
porations and firms in New
York City to distribute its
pamphlets against anti-Semit-
ism among their employees, it
was announced.

Consuls at
Pisgah Fete

Latin-Americans to Ad-
dress Meeting on
Monday

National Periodicals
Renew Accusations
Against Ford

In a statement to The Detroit
Jewish Chronicle on Tuesday,
William J. Cameron,—one of
Henry Ford's secretaries, former
head of the Anglo-Saxon Feder-
ation of America, who was edi-
tor of the Dearborn Independ-
ent when that magazine pub-
lished a series of anti-Semitic
articles that culminated in a libel
suit resulting in an apology by
Mr. Ford,—denied charges of his
association with Fritz Kuhn, head
of the German American Bund
who is now serving a jail sent-
ence for embezzlement of funds.
Charges against Mr. Cameron
and the Ford organization are
contained in numerous articles
published in PM, New York daily
newspaper; Friday Magazine, a
weekly published in New York,
and the Protestant Digest, a bi-
monthly published in New York.

Cameron's Denial

In his denial, Mr. Cameron
states that the letter reprinted
in Friday and PM is a forgery.
Furthermore, he charges that
there is no such organization as
the Anglo-Saxon Society of
America, the masthead appear-
ing on the reprinted letter ap-
pearing in photostatic form on
the cover of Friday Magazine of
Sept. 27. Mr. Cameron also states
that "P... 0, • Box 12, Dearborn,
Mich.." given on the reprinted
letterhead, is non-existent.
Mr. Cameron states that he
never saw or knew Kuhn and
learned of his existence only af-
ter news stories began to appear
about him in the press. He also
s ay" that Kuhn was not in the
employ of the Ford Motor Co.
at the time the alleged letter is
dated—May 19, 1937. Further-
more, he denies that Mr. Ford
vo, s in Florida at that time, as

Fifth Column
Is Exposed

Resettling New Americans

Shows How Spy
System Works

No statement could be more
misleading, writes Werner Gutt-
mann in the October Survey
Graphic, out Sept. 30, than that
N. Even Professors Must Eat
which holds there is nothing new
in the weapon of the Nazi Fifth
Editor's Note: This is the fourth of five articles by Dr. William Column—that it is on the level
Haber, Executive Director of the National Refugee Service, with the espionage and sabotage

By WILLIAM HABER

Dealing with the problem of local resettlement.

A proclamation was issued
by the heads of all the Zion-
ist parties and groups in the
United States, solemnly pro-
claiming Sunday, Sept. 29, as
National Shekel Day.
In the proclamation an ap-
peal is made to all Zionist
groups and parties and to all
Jewish organizations, fraternal
orders, landsmanshaften, cul-
tural, educational, and religi-
ous societies to devote Na-
tional Shekel Day to a sys-
tematic canvass of their com-
munities, for the purpose of
enrolling as Shekel Payers
every Jew and Jewess over 18
years of age.

Educational •
Month Begins

Hebrew Schools Intro-
duce New Feature
This Year

The 14th annual Education
Month of the United Hebrew
Schools was launched at a meet-
ing of board members, teachers
of the United Hebrew Schools,
members of the Kvutzah Ivrith,
the Hebrew Cultural Group of
Detroit, Senior and Junior Alum-
ni, and the Women's Auxiliary,
on Thursday evening, Sept. 19,
at the Shaarey Zedek Syna-
gogue.
Rabbi Morris Adler, chairman
of Education Month, opened the
meeting with an explanation of
the aims and purposes of this
annual observance aimed to fo-
cus the attention of Detroit Jew-
ry- upon the problem of the Jew-
ish education of their children,
and to acquaint them with the
educational facilities offered by
the United Hebrew Schools of
Detroit. Rabbi Adler pointed out
that the United Hebrew Schools
were the pioneers of this Edu-
cation Month movement in Amer-
ica. This movement which has
been for many years confined
to Detroit has, of late, become
ration-wide. Both the National
Council for Jewish Education
as well as the American Asso-
ciation for Jewish Education are
row sponsoring a national move-
ment for Education Month ob-
servance.
The Education Month this year
will be conducted along the
same main lines as last year.
However, some new features
have been added which will make
the Fducation Month much more
effective and far-reaching. The
public will be reached through
the following media:
(1) Newspaper publicity —
utilizing the Yiddish and English-
Yiddish and English press. Philip
Slomovitz, editor of The Detroit
Jewish Chronicle, and Joseph
Haggai, editor of the local Tog,
are associated chairmen in charge
of the Yiddish and English-Jew-
ish press. Jack Kellman, an

See EDUCATION—Page 13

But Premier's Statement
Contains "Sabo-
tage" Clause

BUCHAREST. (WNS) —Ru-
mania's hard-pressed Jews clung
to a faint wisp of hope in the
promise of Premier Ion Antonescu
to protect Jews from all attacks
on the condition that they do not
"sabotage" his regime "either po-
litically or economically," it was
announced here.
Premier Antonescu's promise
was made in the form of a mem-
orandum to Dr. William Filder-
man, president of the Union of
Rumanian Jews, who recently ap-
pealed to the Premier in a per-
sonal interview to curb violent
anti-Jewish demonstrations.

The Memorandum

In his memorandum the pro-
Iron Guard Premier said: "Will
Mr. Filderman please explain to
his co-religionists throughout the
country that General Antonescu
could not possibly accomplish
miracles in one week? He found
the country in a state of chaos. It
was also a week of romantic en-
thusiasm. A generation that had
been tortured, tracked down and
killed had the right to burst out
when freed. In 10 days it had
again become orderly and would
daily be increasingly disciplined.
"'I assure Mr. Filderman that
this will be so and assure him
also that if his co-religionists will
.not sabotage the regime either po-
litically or economically, the Jew-
ish population will suffer nothing.

Week of Abuse

"But the Jewish population
must renounce--and I seriously
draw its attention to this without
threatening it—the systems em-
ployed hitherto, because political
regimes aimed at economic op-
pression have prevented the po-
litical and moral wakening of our
national resistance."
The week referred to by Pre-
mier Antonescu followed King
Carol's abdication during which
uniformed Iron Guardists paraded
through the streets of Bucharest,
smashing the windows of Jewish
shops and shouting, 'Down with
the Jews."

Yugoslavian Discrimination

GENEVA. (WNS) — Legisla-
tion designed to curb Jewish par-
ticipation in the political, eco-
nomic and social life of Yugo-
slavia appeared imminent as the
pro-Nazi faction gained control
in the government, it was learned
here.
A shortage of food and rocket-
ing of prices last week resulted
in angry street demonstrations
in Belgrade and other cities. In
an obvious attempt to pin the
blame for the food shortage on

See RUMANIA—Page 13

National Keren Kayemeth Conclave
To Be Held in St. Louis Nov. 9 to H

Yishub Confident of Struggle Outcome, Counts On U. S.
Jewry's Support, Ussishkin Declares
In Rosh Hashonah Message

0 .• in Omaha is a local radio made by a local fraternal organi- See FIFTH COLUMN—Pag e 9
The problems affecting the
zation. The towns ranged in size
Jewish National Home in Pales-
from hamlets of 200 to small ci-
tine, in connection with the ex-
ties of 15,000.
tension of the war to the Medi-
Earlier
Deadline
Such a reaction, however, would
terranean, and the methods nec-
cause no amazement to the Na-
essary to secure an adequate
For
Holiday
Issue
who • rned out to be a doctor, tional Committee for the Resettle-
measure of American support for
with('
The annual Rosh Hashonah the Jewish National Fund's war-
1■ TA. a practice, recently on ment of Foreign Physicians, a
group
affiliated
with
the
National
issue of The Detroit Jewish time program, will be reviewed
tervi e In the course of the in-
w the doctor said he was Refugee Service. In its files are Chronicle will go to press
and discussed at the National
looking for a town in which to scores of letters from communi- three days earlier than usual, Conference of the Jewish Na-
start practice. The radio inter- ties throughout the United States and copy for insertion in it tional Fund Councils, Commit-
viewer rather casually asked that telling of medical needs, asking
must reach the editor before tees and Keymen. The Confer-
any town needing a doctor write "Why can't a refugee physician
10 a. m. Monday, Sept. 30.
ence, which is held biannually,
to the station.
come to practice here?" The
There will be earlier dead- will take place during the Armis-
To the
truth
seems
to
be
that
most
grad-
amazement
of
the
sta-
lines for forthcoming issues
tion it
tice Day week-end in the Hotel
received letters from 72 uates of American medical schools which will appear during the Statler, St. Louis. Mo., Dr. Is-
towns in 7 states asserting that want to stay in the cities or Succoth festival, and announce- rael Goldstein, president of the
they were in need of a full time larger towns where hospital faci-
ments regarding them will be Jewish National Fund of Amer-
doctor. In one case there was
published this week.
ica, announced on behalf of the
See REFUGEES—Page 12
even a $100 a month guarantee
administrative committee.

stat n
which runs a "man-pn-
the,: eet" program, conducting
case:.! interviews with passers-by.
A f
months ago their inter-
view, questioned a young man

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Kuhn Letter
Pro'laati nolLepSt1;e2k9e1 Day Assurance of
Called Fake
Safety Given
By Cameron
Rumanian Jews

An evening with the Latin-
American Consuls and the Brit-
ish Consul in Detroit will feature
the first open
meeting of the
season of Pis-
gah Lodge No.
34 of Bnai Brith
on Monday,
Sept. 30. at 8:30
p. m., in the
main auditorium
of the Jewish
Community Cen-
ter. The public
is invited.
Louis H. Scho-
stak, president
L. J. Rosenberg of the Pisgah
Lodge states
"This inter-American good will the letter alleges.
meeting promises to be the high
Signatures of W. J. Camer-
light of Pisgah's cultural pro-
gram, when the lodge has as its on appearing on letters to the
guests representatives of Latin- editor of The Detroit Jewish
Chronicle dated Feb. 13, 1935
American governments."
Pisgah Lodge will have as its end Aug. 19, 1940, do not
guests of honor the Consuls in tally with the signature of Mr.
Detroit for Republic of Cuba, Cameron appearing in the let-
Major I. de Algarra; Republic ter reprinted in Friday Mag-
of Mexico, Hon. Adolfo G. Do- azine and PM, thus indicating
minguez; Republic of Panama, that in this instance the edi-
Hon. Louis James Rosenberg; Re-
See CAMERON—Page 8
public of Nicaragua, Dr. Jose
Guerrero; Republic of Costa Ri-
ca, Hon Jorge Vargas; Republic
of Honduras, Hon. Saul R. Le-
vin, and Great Britain, Hon. Cy-
ril H. Cane. These foreign rep-
resentatives will discuss all phas-
es of Latin-American relations.
In addition to the speakers, Survey Graphic Writer

See PISGAH—Page 9

This Paper Printed in Two Sections

Called to review past American
achievements in the field of Pal-
estine Land Redemption and to
plan the program of activities
for the coming year, the National
Conference will be attended by
representatives of the Jewish Na-
tional Fund Councils and Com-
mittees in more than one thou-
sand communities throughout the
United States. The sessions will
begin on Saturday evening, Nov.
9, and will continue throughout
Sunday, Nov. 10, and Monday,
Nov. 11. Further details con-
cerning the comprehensive con-
ference program which is now
being prepared will be announc-
ed, it was stated. It is also likely

See J. N. F.—Page 8

