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STATE OFFICE

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Detroit Citizens League

Cast Your Vote For

Ernest

D.

O'BRIEN

- JUDGE OF

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Theodore I. Fry, former state
treasurer, again is the Democratic
nominee for the office of State
Treasurer. First elected to that
important office in 1933, Mr. Fry
faithfully served the people of
the state of Michigan for six
years, through some of the most
difficult periods of Michigan's his-
tory.
In an era when bond defaults
were common, Mr. Fry purchased
$25,000,000 of securities for the
State Sinking Fund, none of
which have defaulted.
Mr. Fry has the reputation of
being a capable and conservative
businessman, and has always
managed the office of state treas-
urer on that basis.
While in office Mr. Fry voted
for all necessary financial asist-
ance for the maintenance of the
Public School System, and the
prompt distribution of the Pri-
mary School Funds each year.
In the spring of 1939, Mr. Fry
was appointed trustee of the Reo
Motor Car Company, and was
subsequently elected vice-presi-
dent of the company after its
re-organization.

Symphony Announces
Important Concerts

Bruno Walter to Conduct Two
Events; Noted Singers
on Program

Two important concerts are
scheduled for the Detroit
Symphony Orchestra this week,
the third subscription program
Thursday night, Nov. 7, which
will be under the leadership of
the great conductor, Bruno Wal-
ter, and the second concert in
the "pop" series, Saturday night,
Nov. 9. Both events will take
place in Masonic Auditorium.
Walter is the first of the noted
orchestra leaders who this sea-
son will be presented as guests

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November I

,

1940

PRO-NAZISM IN
James Roosevelt
N. Y. SCHOOLS
Looks at "Pastor
Hall"; Here Nov. 8
Protest Is Registered by
When, somewhat more than a
American Jewish
year ago, James Roosevelt went
to Hollywood to become a motion
Congress

picture producer, it was only na-
tural that his plans and blueprints
Charging that the school sys-
were drawn up in orthodox man- tem of New York City is rife
ner. He chose a staff of seasoned with Fifth Columnism and that
it has been neglected by the
school authorities, Max F. Wolff
called for immediate action by
the Board of Education to clean
house in the school system and
to institute a program to defend
democracy and to make youth in--
pregnable to the divisive forces
now at large.
Mr. Wolff, who is the former
Grand Master of the Independent
Order Brith Abraham and the
chairman of the Council of Or-
ganizations of the American
Jewish Congress, spoke at the
Brooklyn Masonic Temple before
Cambridge Lodge 662 F. & A. M.,
Oct. 21.
He charged that in one school
in particular, the Gompers Vo-
cational High School, Timothy F.
Murphy, occupying the multiple
positions of dean, librarian,
chairman of the academic de-
partment and administrator of
the National Youth Administra-
tion, has been under charges of
Nova Pilbeam and Linn Barrie in anti-Semitism and pro-Nazi alli-
ances for more than one year
"Pastor Hall."
without an investigation being
veterans and the procedure he fol- undertaken by the board and
lowed in organizing his business without action being taken to
had not even a soupcon of icono- rid the school of his anti-Semitic
and pro-Nazi activities.
clasm.
An investigation conducted by
Young Roosevelt frankly con-
sidered himself an outsider and a the American Jewish Congress,
novice, who needed several months he said, showed that Mr. Murphy
of apprenticeship. Said Jimmie, has been in communication with
the over-six-foot Hollywood new- a man reputed to be a Nazi
come•: "I don't know a thing whose wife's name was mentioned
about the motion picture business. in a similar connection by the
I'm giving myself a certain period Dies Committee.
in which to study it. If in that
The investigation of the Amer-
time I can't grasp what it is all ican Jewish Congress disclosed a
about, then I'll quit. But I'm post card purportedly written by
Timothy Murphy to this Nazi
going to give it a try."
A year passed. Then Roosevelt which declared: "I will call to
announced that he was going to see you tomorrow evening about
release a picture called "Pastor 7 o'clock. I will then recommend
Hall." This is the picture that that you come to school and talk
other Hollywood producers admit- to some of our younger members
ted they feared to sponsor. At who are schooled in methods of
least a score of old-time producers joining the ranks." The person
warned him against the film in to whom this card was addressed,
Mr. Wolff said, has rather
their best empirical manner.
checkered career.
Roosevelt was being neither
"His wife's name was men-
stubborn nor iconoclastic when he
decided to stick to his decision. tioned in the Dies Committee In-
Having seen "Pastor Hall," he vestigation of un-American ac-
had already made up his mind tivities. In his residence, which
about "the picture nobody dared he had left two days prior to
to touch." Roosevelt felt that he our investigators catching up with
had to sponsor the showing of this him, we found papers strewn all
film. He was too impressed and over the floor and in all the
too moved by the story in "Pas- printed matters found around,
tor Hall" to ignore the picture there was only one angle which
and to sidestep the gamble in re- continually recurred: The address
of 17 Battery Place which, as is
leasing it.
well known, is the address not
"I was determined to see this alone of the German Consulate
picture when I learned that all in New York, but as recently
the major studio heads had voted was made perfectly plain, of the
thumbs down," he said. "This was German propaganda agency in
a challenge.
America, the socalled German Li-
"The film impressed me so deep- brary of Information."
ly that I began immediate plans
Mr. Murphy, Mr. Wolff pointed
for its presentation. It is a saga out, is in charge of the employ-
of frightened bewildered people, ment service for graduates of
whose lives are drawn in terms Gompers High School and, "if
of the Nazi idology. And I want- you further contemplate that hun-
ed my fellow-countrymen to have dreds of pupils have left that
the opportunity of seeing it."
school for employment in war in-
"Pastor Hall," which Roose- dustry or near military objects,
velt will present beginning on Nov. you can readily understand the
8 as a United Artists release at importance of the investigation
the Town Theater, in the former and how it forms a direct coun-
Orchestra Hall, Woodward and terpart to the recent revelation
Orchestra Place, has in its star- before the Dies Committee which
ring cast Wilfrid Lawson, Nova showed alien German Bundists
Pilbeam, Seymour Hicks and Mar- employed in American war in-
ius Goring.
dustries."

`ser.77

with the Detroit Symphony. He
was born Sept. 15, 1876, in Ber-
lin, although he has always been
identified musically and spiritual-
ly with Austria and Vienna.
Known throughout the civilized
world for his musical accomplish-
ments, he was the guiding spirit
of the Salzburg Festival in its
pre-Nazi heyday.
The Saturday "pop" concert
will feature the first appearance
anywhere of the newly-formed
American Oratorio and Concert
Quartette, made up of Thelma
von Eisenhauer, soprano; Eileen
Law, contralto; Joseph Victor La-
deroute, tenor; and David Austin,
bass-baritont. Victor Kolar will
Sisters of Zion Mizrachi
conduct this concert.
to Meet on Nov. 5
Mrs. von Eisenhauer is among
Detroit's most capable and most
popular sopranos. She has ap- • Sisters of Zion Mizrachi will
peared with the symphony a num- meet Tuesday, Nov. 5, at 1 P.M.,
ber of times. Miss Law was at Congregation Shaarey Zedek.
Members and friends are in-
born in Belfast of musical par-
ents and made her first public vited.
Plans are in progress for the
appearances at a recital in that
city. She came to Canada at an annual donor luncheon, to be
early age and is now considered sponsored by the Chapter, on
one of the Dominion's finest con- Tuesday, Dec. 17, in the social
hall of the Shaarey Zedek.
traltos.
A card party will be held on
Austin's home is in Chicago,
where he is known as the posses- Wednesday, Nov. 20, at Congre-
sor of an excellent bass-baritone gation Bnai David, to help those
voice. Laderoute came to the who wish to earn their luncheon
United States two years ago from money. For tickets call the chair-
his native Canada and has made man, Mrs. Ida Goldsmith, Ho.
successful appearances in many 4580.
parts of the country. Last year
A store is available for rum-
he enjoyed a brilliant debut with maging. For information call the
the Detroit Symphony.
chairmen, Mrs. Pauline Adler and
Vivian Gilpin Robison, of De- Mrs. Anna Spivack, Ty. 7 0561.
troit,recently organized the
American Quartette which, per-
haps, is the only group existent ber is a soloist of the highest dis-
formed for the distinct purpose tinction, the voices were chosen
of appearing as a unit in oratorio to insure perfection of balance
and concert. Although each mem- and ensemble.

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He revealed that on May 9.
1940, the American Jewish Con-
gress addressed itself to the
Board of Education in a commu-
nication signed by Mr. Carl Sher-
man, chairman of its administra
tive committee, calling attention
to the situation.
Mr. Wolff revealed that while
a number of the members of the
Board expressed concern with the
situation, with the exception Of
Commissioner Johanna M. Lind-
lof, no active efforts were under
taken to clear up the situation
and that even today, while there
is hope, there is no definite as-
surance of an official inquiry b:.'
the Board.

The best preparation for the
future, is the present well scull
to, and the last duty done.---t ,
Macddnald.

VOTE FOR

Theodore I. Fry

State Treasurer—Democrat

