DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and the Legal Chronicle

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Women in the News

WOMEN

By MARTHA NEUMARK

REFUSED PRIZE SHE HAD TO
SHARE WITH HITLER
"Me — In Wartime" is what
Naomi Jacobs titled her latest
book, just out. But "Me" at any
time would make fascinating read-
ing, if the subject remained the
prolific, khaki-clad author who
these days is busying herself
making the rounds in England,
speaking and broadcasting on war.
For 20 years before the war
Miss Jacobs lived in Italy, whence
she escaped the day after II

Duce decided that Hitler had al-
ready won and consequently
plunged his own country into the
maelstrom.
Not too much water has passed
under the dam since Naomi Ja-
cob's "Honour Comes Back" was
awarded the Eichelberger prize.
Co-recipient turned out to be one
A. Hitler, cited for his "Mein
Kampf." While she was search-
ing for the bon not that would
best describe her state of mind,
Miss Jacobs ran across a clipping
from an English paper: "What
does Hitler think about having his
name coupled with that of a
Jewess?"
"Never mind what Hitler
hinks," she wired the paper; "it's
what I think that counts."
The net result was twofold: A

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to resound with the clatter of re-
tainers' swords and the squeak of
caked mud on warriors' buskins.
Glimpses of the Polish
Following the military exhibi-
tion, we were served tea and
Ukraine
trays full of incomparable War-
saw pastries. The huge reception
By LIBBY BENEDICT
rooms of the palace were canopied
Adolf.
I had been invited to join a in Oriental embroideries, part of
SHE SANG FOR HER
party of journalists for whom the the loot Sokieski's men took from
government was providing a spe- the Turks. In the yellowish light
FREEDOM
cial week-end excursion to the of the oil lamps the folds became
That in America one may speak Galician Ukraine to celebrate the chasms, the corners measuresless
out without fear of the Gestapo's 250th anniversary of the victory of recesses. Landowners appeared
vengeance came as a welcome sur- Jan Sobieski over the Turks at from near by, aristocratic in
prise to Maria Lynn, non-Jewish Vienna, when the Mohammedan bearing and in face, shabby in
Austrian film actress who had to invasion of Europe was stopped. spite of their fortitude—looking,
flee her native land with her hus- The government was dedicating in the nostalgic re-creation of the
band because she refused to re- Sobieski's old palace as a museum past, the ghosts they were. I
talked to a young nobelman, pre-
nounce her marriage to the Jew and a shrine.
Walter Strauss, son of the famous
When we stepped out of the cise and comfortable in the Eng-
Viennese composer Oscar Strauss, automobiles for a splendid break- lish language, because his family
who is now in Hollywood direct- fast, served on tables set up in had occupied important diploma-
ing the screening of his light stables, Ukrainian peasants stood tic posts in English-speaking
"What is your hope for the
opera,` The Chocolate Soldier." stolidly around. Shabby caracul
She had started to tell the hats were on their heads, shreds Polish democracy?" I asked him.
"We of the nobility don't recog-
story of how she had sung her of clothing padded with sacking
way to freedom for both her hus- were tied thickly around their nize a democracy," he said.
"We shake hands with certain
band and herself. But suddenly bodies, their feet were wrapped in
she stopped and cried in alarm: rags. They had come out of the people on occasions like this be-
"I must not talk like this! I have lonely, thatched huts we had seen cause we must, but they are not
told too much." She exhibited a along the roads. The official lead- part of our world," he added.
Six years later, in the fall of
very real fear that her account ers of our party wore badges,
of the death of her father after but not a peasant stirred in wel- 1939, he escaped on horseback
his imprisonment in a Nazi con- come. Nor did they flee in ter- through the front gate of his es-
centration camp, into which he ror. They merely stood still and tate and rode to Rumania. The
had been thrown because of his looked, and their hatred was clear. Russians conic in through the
After breakfast we went back back gate, killed his father, and
daughter's marriage, and of the
German's refusal to let her at- into the automobiles for the drive distributed his estate to peasants.
tend her mother's funeral unless to the first place of celebration, By night the gray which had
been thickening all day changed
she renounced her husband, might
result even in this country in the where a memorial was to be un- to a pouring rain. We waited
The roads were crowded
visitation of nameless horrors on veiled.
her and the young impressario. with muddly, lop-sided, creaking under the portico of the palace
wagons, overflowing with peasant for the automobiles that were to
Reassured finally on this score, families. Horses reared at our carry us back to the train. Carbon
she nonetheless decided to let her
flares, as tall . as men, were lit
husband tell the rest of the story automobiles. The women and chil- and held waving at the gate of
dren
stared
either
stupidly
or
bel-
the courtyard and on the balconies.
how, when the Spanish guards
tried to stop them on their flight ligerently at the invaders. Now
jam— One by one the automobiles lurch-
from Paris, she won them to her and then there was a
ed in, screeched to a stop in the
aid by singing to them in her horses, wagons and automobiles wetness, and lurched laden away
gloriously trained voice all their were caught in a heavy criss-
cross pattern out of which no ye- again.
They
tainly.
But were
amid automobiles,
the hissing of cer-
the
favorite songs.
hide could budge. The whole flares and the cascade of the rain,
scene—the poverty of the peas-
WOMEN YOU'LL HEAR MORE ants
their uncertainty, the fear the throbbing of their motors as
d, even the fury on some of ed they battled with the coblestones
ABOUT
an
was like the beating of horses'
the faces, the air turned
of unwanted
into a hoofs, and the grinding of their
The new Bronx president of
the Women's Division of the nightmare of war and flight. The brakes like the bend of armor.
American Jewish Congress—New future was implicit in that day,
York's Assistant Attorney General but we did not think that the fu-
Bertha Schwartz, the stock-fraud ture would double hack on it- J. S. Bache & Co., Now in
sharpshooter of Attorney General self. For now, for the second time
50th Year, Moves Its
Bennett's office . . . The wife of in two years, these peasants are
the published of New York's most facing real invaders, not journal-
Detroit Office
forward-looking afternoon paper, ists in hateful official cars. It is
the New York Post—Mrs. George no longer inexperience before au-
J. S. Bache & Co. will move
(Dorothy Schiff) Backer, whose tomobiles that makes their horses
very decorative picture appeared rear, but well-grounded animal its Detroit office to 13? Penob-
in all the metropolitan papers fear before the imminence of scot Bldg., on July 14, according
when she met her husband on his death. And not only are there au- to an announcement made by
Clipper return from England. Iler tomobiles cutting across the mud F. W. Pritchard, resident man-
seven-year-old girl consumes the roads, but there are tanks—ve- ager. J. S. Bache & Co., one of
time not taken up by her exten- hicles from hell itself—careening the largest wire houses, is head-
sive social-welfare activities . . . across the fields and pushing ed by Jules S. Bache, who is
The National Refugee Service's down the thatched huts as if they well known in Detroit because of
energetic and efficient Mrs. Paul- were important concrete houses. his many interests in this city.
ine Baerwald Falk, daughter of
The mood of what was finally He is vice president and direc-
Paul Baerwald.
to happen hung over the rest of for and member of the finance
the day, particularly for the hour committee of the Chrysler Cor-
FANNIE BRICE SAGA
and a half of military exhibition poration, is a director of Motor

Where Tanks Roll

clipping from a German paper
complaining that "Jewish Woman
Insults the Fuehrer." And a cable
from Miss Jacobs to the donors
of the Eichelberger prize that she
would not accept it if she had
to share it with der schoene

Even now, after two years of late in the afternoon, when the Products, and is an officer and
marriage to aquatic queen Elean- conscripted youngsters of the in- director of many other corn-
or Holm, Billy R ose t o many re- fantry, the bicycle corps, the panics, including Dome Mines,
mains the former husband of cavalry, the cannon caissons and Ann Arbor Railroad, New Am-
Fanny Brice. 'Twas ever thus,' the machine-gun companies march- sterdam Casualty Co., Tennessee
sighs the dimunitive showman. ed, rode and thundered past.
Corp., Julius Kayser & Co., U.S.
When he was still married to the After the unveiling of the me- Industrial Alcohol, etc.
J. S. Bache & Co. will cele-
comedienne now known all over morial we were given an ornate
this fair land as radio's Baby lunch, catered from Lwow, and brate its fiftieth anniversary next
Snooks the five-foot impressario much excellent vodka. I asked one year, the firm having been or-
sought to gain recognition on his of the journalists from Lwow, ganized by Mr. Bache in 1892
own by erecting the 14 -story who had been friendly to me as a successor to another firm
sign reading simply: BILLY because I was an American, what originally established in 1859.
ROSE. When the sign was fin he could tell me about the Jews The company has branch offices
ished and lighted he stood on the of Lwow.
in 38 cities and in addition has
opposite street corner to ,, admire
He stepped back a pace, drew correspondents in principal cen-
i
it. "Know who that t? asked himself together, and said to his ters throughout the country, all
a casual stranger. "That's • Fanny companion:
connected by a private telegraph
Brice's husband."
"The Jews! This lady wants to system.
know something about the Jews."
In addition to its memberships
COUNTESS' DAUGHTER
I assume he has learned since in the New York Stock Exchange
BRINGS HUBERMAN HIS then that Nazis are worse than and the New York Curb Ex-
STRADIVARIUS
J ews.
change, Bache & Co. are mem-
Finally we were driven to the bers of the Detroit Stock Ex-
Her
brother
and
Bronislaw
Ilu-
Sobieski palace. From the art
the official piano of
berman's Stradivarius were the gallery the balcony looked out change, Chicago Board of Trade,
the Metropolitan Opera
two charges safely delivered to over the green fields of the and other leading stock and
this country by 19-year-old Jo- Ukraine. One could see only to commodity exchanges.
S modern Knabe console will bring new
hanna Bninska, daughter of the the horizon, of course, and yet
Polish Count and Countess Bnin- their vastness even beyond was
life, charm and interest into your home ... pro.
ska who have now found refuge apparent. Perhaps it was the
Anxiety Rises for Refugees
vide a lifetime of happiness for your loved
here, when she arrived in New knowledge that one was looking
Stranded i n Japan
ones. Its moderate price and Grinnell's bud.
York harbor on the Portuguese toward the vastness of Russia
liner
Serpa
Pinto.
With
no
less
which gave the horizon scope be-
get terms make it easily possible for you to
KOBE, Japan (JPS) — Anx-
ebonized
joy than that with which her par- yond itself. Perhaps, too, it was
have the Knabe for your home today!
ents welcomed the 16-year-old boy the stretch of history behind, for iety has heightened here over the
did the famous violinist and foun- this was feudal country, hardly fate of thousands of Jewish refu-
'One of Grinnell's "space.toting' piano,.
der of the Palestine Symphony awake, although resentful spirits gees stranded in Japan and China
Orchestra greet the return of his smoldered under the thatched roofs as a result of the increasing ten-
two-and-a-half century old violin, of the isolated huts, and sometimes sion of American-Japanese rela-
so ably guarded by the young Po- a shot rang out and a tax col- tions and the cancellation of a
number of ship sailings, though
lish girl.
lector lay dead.
for the time being only freight
In the town we had left behind shipments have been cancelled and
1513.21 WOODWARD AVL
Jews in capotes and shtreimlech passenger steamers are unaffected.
Levy Heads Army Stores
had mingled with the peasants in
The only lines which have regu-
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WASHINGTON. — (JPS) caracul hats or shawls. They, too,
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4107 SCIAEFEI (Palm)
moseammilmmme The United States War Depart- were part of the history—as in- larly taken visa holders to Pacific
ports of the United States have
ment has appointed Will I. Levy, digenously part of it as their been Japanese-owned. Although
a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Army neighbors and the huts in which their facilities were recently
Reserve, head of the Army Ex- they lived. For 500 years Jews crowded, and the government had
change Service which sells mer- had been here.
introduced severe restrictions on
chandise to soldiers and their
Of the Piano Department of Grinnell Brothers
Below, beneath the art gallery the number of refugees who might
at
army
to
posts.
.
Him
Visit
of the palace, were the present stay in Japan, the N. Y. K. line
families living assistant to
Extends an Invitation to His Many Friends to
living quarters. The spacious had regularly carried human cargo
bir. Levy is
1516 WOODWARD AVENUE
dent of the Allied Stores kitchen, with a large table around as well as freight from Kobe and
president
Them
the
Latest
Piano
Creations
Corporation of New York. which sat servants, seemed still Yokomaha.
Where Ile Can Display to

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July 11, 1941

HARRY BRADLIN

