Amerka frwisk Peddled Crater
CLIFTON AVENUE - CINCINNATI 20, OHIO
Detroit Jewish Chronicle
SECTION ONE
and The Legal Chronicle
VOL. 42, NO. 41
DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1940
This Paper Printed in Two Sections
10 Cents Single Copy; $3.00 per Yeer
Seek to Put 1st Yom Kippur "Wrongs Directed Against the Jews
Will Be Righted" at End of the War,
Fr. Coughlin
Back on Air In Amsterdam
Is Assurance of British War Cabinet
By MOSHE DAVIS
It was the Holy Day of Yom Statement of Sympathy Sent to World Jewish Congress by the Rt. Hon.
Kippur, 1593. This was the first
Arthur Greenwood Called as Significant as Balfour Declara-
Atonement Day service called by
the former Spanish Marranos who
tion by Dr. Stephen S. Wise
had found sanctuary in the Neth-
erlands. On this day when, accord-
The British War Cabinet, through the Rt. Hon. Arthur Greenwood, member
A group of Coughlinites who ing to tradition, the fate of the
were formerly associated with the Jew is determined and sealed, a without portfolio of the War Cabinet, and Deputy Leader of the British Labor Party,
Christian Front have launched a large assembly was gathered to offered to the Jewish people throughout the world its sympathy with its suffering
movement to get Father Charles thank the .Lord for His benevolent and its assurance that at the end of the war "the wrongs directed against the Jews
protection and to plead that He
E. Coughlin back on the air.
shower blessings upon their new will be righted", and "freedom and full equality before the law with every other
A series of meetings have been haven of refuge.
citizen" will be restored.
organized here. At one of them,
The Jews, wrapped in their
This message in behalf of the British Government, embodying the first public
attended by a few more than 100
prayer-shawls
and
embracing
the
declaration since the outbreak of
persons, Alfred R. Robitaille,
the war on the Jewish question,
chairman of a Committee of siddurim that had known the sec-
was sent to the World Jewish
Friends of Fr. Coughlin, held at ret recesses of Marrano syna-
Congress, an organization repre-
the Book Cadillac Hotel on Oct. gogues in Spain, raised their Earlier Deadlines
senting 39 countries of the world
3, it was announced that Fr. voices in fervent prayer: "Our
Father
in
Heaven,
remember
Thy
engaged in the effort to protect
Coughlin intends to push his fight
For
Succoth
Issues
mercy—Inscribe
us,
the
children
of
rights of Jews everywhere, with
for broadcasting time on big net-
Thy
covenant,
for
a
good
life."
works. Robitaille told the gather-
headquarters in New York, Lon-
Contributors'
to
the
columns
PM
Correspondent
De-
Suddenly a firm and decisive
ing that Coughlin wishes his fol-
don, Geneva, Lisbon and Buenos
of The Detroit Jewish Chron-
knock
was
heard
on
the
door.
It
lowers to remain inactive for a
scribes Horrible
Aires. It was conveyed to the
icle are asked to observe the
was
not
the
secret
tap
of
a
fel-
time, until after the national elec- low-worshipper asking admittance, following deadlines:
chairman of the British section
Conditions
tion. Several persons attempted
of the World Jewish Congress,
On account of Succoth, the
but—the
authorities.
Panic
struck
to pass circulars advertising "A
deadline for the issue of Oct.
Rabbi Maurice L. Perlzweig, by
the
hearts
of
those
who
knew
only
Great Christian Mass Meeting"
NEW YORK (WNS) — Rich- Mr. Greenwood in a letter for
18 will be at 10 a. m. on
well, from their recent exper-
Boyer,
an
American
news-
0.
to be held the following evening too
ard
ience, the action subsequent to Tuesday, Oct. 15. The dead- paper correspondent who returned presentation to the executive
at Hotel Statler, but the chairman such
They were trapped, line for the issue of Oct. 25 recently from Germany, declared committee of the World Jewish
stopped him. The circulars an- with discovery.
Congress, a great number of
no
chance
of concealment or will be on Tuesday, Oct. 22.
nounced the launching 7 an ef- escape. Some cowered in corners.
The regular deadlines for that conditions are so tragic in whose members are to be found
fort against Roosevelt's re-election The others, like their fathers and copy to be submitted for publi- Germany that all a Jew can do in the United States, and also
as the purpose of the Oct. 4 forefathers before them, tightened cation in The Chronicle are at there "is to sit in his room and to report to them on develop-
hope and wait for death."
meeting.
ments in Europe in most recent
their prayer-shawls—their impen- 10 a. m. on Wednesdays, and
Writing a series of articles on months. He presented the mes-
Robitaille stated that for the etrable • coat of • armor—about they vary on weeks which in-
present the sole purpose of the themselves. All faced the inevit- clude civic or religious holi- Nazi Germany in the new news- sage of Mr. Greenwood to Dr.
paper PM, Mr. Boyer said: "Regu- Stephen S. Wise, president of the
Committee
of the
Friends
of the
Fr. able with the determination that days.
Coughlin will
be to
further
Our contributors are asked lations directed against the 187,- American Jewish Congress, who
sale of Social Justice and of there would be no retreats to new
baptismal fonts. "Death for His to cooperate with us by sending 000 Jews in Germany—there were is chairman of the executive
Christmas cards.
Name's sake" would be the pref- their copy as early in the week never more than 500,000—have committee of the World Jewish
as possible and to have their made it literally true that all a Congress. At a conference with
erence.
Branded as Treason
At this moment, when all hov- stories typewritten on one side Jew in Germany may do is stay the press held Oct. 1 at Hotel
his room and slowly starve or
The meeting on Oct. 4 was ered between life and death, the of the paper only and double- in
become ill from insufficient food Astor, New York, where the
described by Dr. Robert Rosen, tragedy of their Jewish existence spaced.
Greenwood message was present-
or heat."
chairman of State Encampment was brought into quick review
ed, Dr. Wise declared that in his
25,000 in Concentration Camps view this statement in a sense
of the Jewish War Veterans of See YOM KIPPUPR—Page 12
He reported that "about 25,000 "has wider and farther reaching
the United States, as "nothing
Jews are still in Nazi concentra- implictions
than the l3ri tish dec-
a
short of treason." Presided over
tion camps and their treatment laration of Nov. 2, 1917, for Mr.
by Lawrence J. Gilpatrick, who Friday Services
e
writer
pre-
d
"
Th
can be imagine .
Greenwood's statement has re-
gained notoriety as a leader in
sented the following summary of
Jews
To Be Resumed at
_
the Christian Front in New York,
Bard to the status of
con ditions prevailing today in Ger
throughout the world, that is, in
who had planned the Frontists'
Temple on Oct. 25 m cWilliams Is Given man y :
all landsafter the downfall of
parade that was called off at
"Jews are forbidden to buy Hitler • s 'and Mussolini's regime e
Coughlin's request, this meeting
On Friday, Oct. 25, Sabbath
clothing of any kind; receive re-
75 Days in the
"
was a violently anti-British and Eve services, which for several
dared food rations, with no milk; of In
lawlessness
and
destruction.
his message
Mr.
Greenwood
pro-Nazi gathering, according to years have called forth large
Workhouse
are forbidden all coal, cannot recalls that since the advent of
veterans who were in the audi- congregations, will be resumed
engage in business, cannot walk Hitlerism, the British government
ence. Gilpatrick spoke for two for the season 1940-41 at Temple NEW YORK (WNS)
— De- certain streets at any hour and has repeatedly sought to amelio-
hours, attacked Roosevelt, inti-
El. At the first service, Dr. dared legally sane by • Bellevue must be off all streets b Y 9 p. ni.;
mated that if necessary his fol- Beth
Leo M. Franklin will preach on Hospital psychiatrists, Joseph Mc- cannot have telephones or radios, rate "the lot of persecuted Jewry
lowers will resort to force to
"
subject, Einstein
and the Williams American Destiny party cannot go to movies, restaurants, both in Germany itself and in
accomplish their ends. He called the
,
God Whom He Rejects."
shows or operas; cannot enter the countries which were infected
Coughlin the greatest living man.
The musical service will be con- candidate for Congress on a strict- most stores before noon and can by the Nazi doctrine of racial
He announced that the expense
incurred for the meeting was $50 ducted by the enlarged Temple ly anti-Semitic program, was sen- enter food stores only between hatred."
The assurance is expressed that
5 p. m.; can do only menial
for the hall, $7.50 for a micro- choir under the direction of tenced to 75 days in the work- 4 and
phone and $5 for circulars, which George Galvani, with Jason Tick- house on a disorderly conduct work and are forbidden refuge "when we have achieved victory,
charge growing out of anti-Se- in bomb shelters in many places." as we assuredly shall, the nations
were used as stufTers for Social ton at the organ.
of the world will have the op-
Services
for
the
first
day
of
Justice Magazine as well as for
portunity of establishing a new
Succoth
will
be
held
on
Thurs-
mitic
street
corner
speeches.
Ex-Bundist
Testified
He
Trained
general distribution.
world order based on the ideals
for Day When U. S. Would
sentence was greeted `with
The sen
Tht
"Give America back to the day morning, Oct. 17, at 10
of justice and peace" and that
Be Overthrown
Americans" was the constant plea o'clock. Dr. Franklin will preach boos and howls of displeasure by
— "in the rebuilding of civilized so-
sermon
on
the
subject
"The
about
150
of
McWilliams'
anti-
-
W
A
S
H
I
NGTON
(WNS)
of Gilpatrick, who lauded the ef-
Seed and the Sower." At the Feast Semitic followers. One follower Richard Werner, former member cietY after the war, there should,
forts of the Mothers of America, Seed
headed by Mrs. Mary Decker of of Conclusion Rabbi Leon Fram shouted: "Good bye, Joe. We'll of the German-American Bund, and will be, a real opportunity
Detroit. He also announced that will occupy the pulpit, his sermon have the last laugh yet."
See FREEDOM—Page 8
See NAZIS—Page 13
the new organization he and his subject being, "A Review of the
McWilliams, head of the Chris-
Year 5700." To all of these serv-
ices the general public is invited. tian Mobilizers, will face another
See ANTI-SEMITES—Page 13
disorderly conduct charge when
- — —
he finishes his present sentence.
He was haled into court several
times within recent months as a
Their Culture and Occupations
result of his violently anti-Jewish
By Z. GLUSKA
utterances.
Anti-Semites Continue
Their Activities
in U. S.
German Jews
Await Death
nt emite
Is Sentenced
The Jews in Yemen
Nazi Radio Boasts Air Raids
Disrupted New Year Services
But Rosh Hashonah Was Observed Normally in London;
Hitler Again Envisions African Colony
for European Jews
Jews residing at a great dis-
LONDON. (WNS)—Nazi air
tance from a synagogue were
raids on England compelled Jews
to observe the Jewish New Year instructed to pray in their homes
or shelters rather than run the
in 'air raid shelters in a manner
of being trapped in an air
reminiscent of the way the Span- risk
raid. The overwhelming majority
ish Inquisition forced Jews to of London's Jews, however, at-
pray to their God in secret un-
tended services in their syna-
derground caves, the Nazi radio
gogues.
gloated.
Hitler Coll.:my Scheme
A survey showed, however,
A plan to ship Europe's Jews
that the Nazi bragging had no
foundation in fact. With the ex- to Africa at the culmination of
ception of a few synagogues, the present war is now being
damaged in previous raids, the considered by Chancellor Hitler
traditional services were offered and Premier Mussolini, according
in all of London's synagogues and to advices received here.
The Nazis had originally plan-
temples.
Services were curtailed some- ned to send all the Jews from the
what, at the order of Chief various Nazi-dominated countries
Rabbi Joseph Hertz, as a pre- to the Jewish "reservation". Al-
cautionary measure. Services be- though all communication with
gan at 6 p. m. and ended before the reservation was cut off, refu-
the blackout to permit Jews to gees reaching London reported
arrive at their homes and shelters conditions there to be indescrib-
able.
before the usual night raids.
President, Palestine Yemenite Community
Federation, Service
Group Boards Meet
Jointly on Tuesday
Editor's Note: Z. Gluska, eminent leader of the Yemenites in
Palestine, is at present a guest in Detroit, and is seeking a fund
here to alleviate the sufferings of this Jewish group. We are pleased
to publish his article on "The Jews in Yemen", written especially
for The Detroit Jewish Chronicle.
A joint meeting of the board
of governors of the Jewish Wel-
fare Federation and the board of
directors of the Detroit Service
Group will be held Tuesday after-
noon, Oct. 15, at 4 o'clock, in the
offices of the Jewish Welfare Fed-
eration, 51 West Warren Ave.,
Room 308.
Irving W. Blumberg, chairman
of the board of the Detroit Serv-
ice Group, who, together with
Clarence H. Enggass, chairman
of the board of the Federation,
issued the invitation to the meet-
ing, stated that among the impor-
tant items to be taken up will
be the election of officers of the
Detroit Service Group, as well as
other timely matters.
According to popular legend saw the destruction of Ezra's
Jews settled in Yemen since the Temple and exile for Israel. Was
destruction of the First Temple. it, then, not wiser to listen to
Although there is no documen- the prophets, they maintain?
tary proof this is generally an Their sole consolation is the fact
accepted fact which has its origin that Ezra the Scribe was not
in the tales told by old men deemed worthy to die in Pales-
from generation to generation. tine; and was thus punished for
It may be surmised that it really the curse he sent upon them, the
is so. I well remember the dis- Yemenite Jews.
The Jews of Yemen knew
cussions of city elders in Yemen
who bitterly referred to Ezra nothing of the existence of a
the Scribe as the cause of their world-wide Jewry, about Europe
poverty and misfortune because or America. They never were
he cursed them. When asked why taught geography and only the
the ancient Yemenite Jews had countries mentioned in the Bible
not answered Ezra's call to re- had any meaning to them. My
turn to Palestine, the elders re- father, may he rest in peace, had
plied that at that time the Yem- always answered my questions as
enite Jews had prophets of their to where the Jews who will re-
own who counseled them to re-
See YEMEN—Page 16
main in Yemen because they fore-