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SECTION ONE
1941
DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY. JULY
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Ghettos Breed
Dread Typhus
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ADnitsie-Biloltsry Bill
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HARRISBURG, Pa. (Religious
News Service)—The House has
"killed" a bill designed to make
unlawful the inciting of racial
and religious hatred.
Introduced by Representative
Ray E. Taylor (R., Dauphin),
the measure would have out-
lawed the distribution of litera-
ture, speeches and public meet-
Charge Wheeler, Nye
Are Franking Nazi
Propaganda
Correspondent Reports
Results of Nazi
Overcrowding
NEW YORK (JPS)—Charging
that Hitler's peace proposals, even
if they should guarantee the in-
dependence of Nazi-occupied coun-
tries, would be protested in the
United States by "refugee Ger-
mans and their fellow racial and
religious brethren," the America
First Bulletin, in an editorial
called "Peace," comes out in its
first published attempt to create
a line of division among various
segments of the American popu-
lation. The Bulletin is the organ
of the New York chapter of the
America First Committee.
John T. Flynn, New York
chairman of the committee, sup-
ported the wording of the editor-
ial in a telephone conversation
with representatives of the Non-
Sectarian Anti-Nazi League. Prof.
James H. Sheldon, chairman of
the board of directors of the
League, sent a telegram to Gen-
eral Robert E. Wood, national
chairman of the America First
Committee, saying that the com-
mittee can "hardly claim to be
'American' when it uses the Hit-
ler type of propaganda which
tries to convince the public that
all opposition is 'Jewish' or is
motivated by other than patriotic
American motives."
CHICAGO (JPS)—In a Europe ther study".
ridden with disease taking its toll
in refugee camps, overcrowded
refugee cities and the starved
populations as a whole, the ghet-
tos Adolf Hitler has set up in
Eastern Europe are rapidly be-
An Interview with the
coming the breeding source for
Nation's Songwriter
the dreaded typhus, according to
a dispatch to the Chicago Daily
By LAWRENCE GOULD
News from David M. Nichol, its
Swiss correspondent.
Though the Nazis make a prac- Editor's Note: Fascists boo when
"God Bless America" is played.
tice of quarantining other people
Irving Berlin wrote it and the
who are being forcibly resettled
disciples of Hitler seek to im-
in an effort to control epidemics,
the Jews are not subjected to this
port "Aryanism" to America.
supervision. Among the unknown
A glimpse of the personality
centers of danger, therefore, says
of the composer is provided
the correspondent, "are the walled
in this sketch.
ghettos of Warsaw, Lublin and
Cracow, where hundreds of thou-
There is a new song on the
sands of Jews are crowded into air today upon which ASCAP
areas that can accommodate only has released all restrictions. Its
a fraction of their number.
copyright is held by Henry Mor-
"A German-language newspa-
per in the general govern-
ment gave some hint of the
situation last spring, when it
boasted that in March there were
only 224 cases of typhus in War-
saw—of which 190, the news-
paper said, were inside the ghetto.
The German authorities are car-
rying on extensive investigation in
the control of the disease, among
other items offering Jews a few
zlotys to permit lice to feed on
their bodies for the purpose of
the experiment—almost the only
way the Jews can earn money."
Nye, Wheeler Frank Nazi Mail
Charges that pro-German propa-
ganda is being sent free through
the United States mails are made
in an article published in the
New Yorw Post here. Franking
privileges of Senators Burton K.
Wheeler and Gerald P. Nye are
used on envelopes containing Steu-
ben Society propaganda, accord-
ing to the report. The technical-
ity justifying franking is pro-
vided by the propaganda being
read into the Congressional Rec-
ord by one of the Senators named.
One such item, which had been
read into the Congressional Rec-
ord by Senator Nye, was a speech
by Theodore H. Hoffman, national
chairman of the Stuben Society.
Like all the material, it was ultra-
isolationist in character. Several
months ago Hoffman tried to
raise a $100,000 fund to fight
British propaganda in this coun-
try.
ings aimed at intolerance. When
the bill came up for final reading
in the House, Taylor made a
motion to recommit it "for fur-
HENRY MONSKY
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Presi-
dent Roosevelt has named Henry
Monsky of Omaha, president of
Bnai Brith, to the membership of
the National Volunteer Partici-
pation Committee, which will act
as an advisory and planning
body in the organization of the
Office of Civilian Defense, head-
ed by Mayor LaGuardia.
The members represent not
only regions but "interests of
the nation" to assist Mayor La-
Guardia in carrying out the Civ-
ilian Defense Program.
Among others appointed was
Mrs. Anna M. Rosenberg, re-
gional director of Region No. 2
Social Security Board, New York
City.
Marshall Calls
Nock Defeatist
Declares Problem to Be TO CHOOSE NAME
Not Jewish But of FOR NEW TEMPLE
Democracy
MONDAY NIGHT
Discrimination
Is Reported By
OPM Official
Bill to Form "Concen-
tration Camps" for
Aliens to be Fought
WASHINGTON. (JPS)—Testi-
before a special House
committee investigating problems
of migratory labor, Dr. Robert
C. Weaver of the Office of Pro-
duction Management admitted
that in addition to discrimina-
tion agoinst Negroes in defense
industries, • instances of discrimi-
nation against Jews and workers
of Russian and German parent-
age had also been found by his
office.
Dr. Weaver is chief of the
branch of Negro employment and
training of the OPM.
Among the members of a spe-
cial committee appointed by
President Roosevelt to investi-
gate discrimination against Ne-
gro workers in defense indus-
tries is David Sarnoff, president
of the Radio Corporation of
America.
fying
"Concentration-Camp" Bill
The Hobbs Bill, providing for
the placement in detention camps
of all aliens who are ordered
deported but who are not de-
ported within 90 days, faces a
bitter fight when it comes up
before the House, since Labor
and other liberal elements see
in it the beginning of Fascist
concentration camps.
The passage of the bill would
create a declassed group of peo-
ple who might spend years in a
detention camp, since Assistant
Attorney-General Alexander
Holtzoff, its chief sponsor, has
referred to it as "permanent"
legislation. It is known that
there are a great many aliens in
the United States who have been
forced, by the lack of immigra-
tion visas, to extend their stay
illegally. They are therefore sub-
ject to deportation and would
automatically become subject to
detention if the Hobbs Bill is
passed.
NEW YORK. (JPS)—Albert
Jay Nock's fear that the Nurem- Plans to Be Made for Religious
School and Services; Fram
berg laws will be enacted in the
to Outline Policies
United States during his own
IRVING BERLIN
lifetime betrays "a confession by
The New Reform Jewish Tem-
the intellectual that he is im-
genthau, Jr., Secretary of the Army Men Want Religious Guid-
potent in the face of the 'mass- ple of Detroit will hold a rally Treasury. The tune is growing
ance, Says Chaplain Lev
man,' " according to James Mar- of charter members and their familiar to the entire nation but
Jewish men in the army, like
shall, son of Louis Marshall, in friends next Monday night, July no commercial barometer will ever
all others, are particularly de-
his reply published in the cur- 28, at 8 o'clock, in the Michigan gunge the degree of its success.
rent Atlantic Monthly to Nock's Room of the Statler Hotel.
"Any Bonds Today?" Irving sirous of religious guidance and
The principal business of the Berlin has asked of the Ameri- the chance to observe their own
two articles that previously ap-
meeting will be to choose a per- can people. "Here comes the free- religious ritual, according to
peared there.
"Here is defeatism," says Mr. manent name for the new lib- dom man, scrape up the most you Chaplain Aryeh Lev in "The
Frankfurter
Wheeler Calls
Marshall,
"without even the sav- eral Jewish congregation of De- can"—and Berlin, whose output Army and Religion"—the first of
Roosevelt Adviser
ing
grace
of recognizing that troit, which was organized three of hits over the past three dec- three Saturday night broadcasts
Supreme Court Justice Felix
many
Americans
identify perse- weeks ago and which called Rab- ades has made him the most pro- by Jewish cpaplains arranged by
Frankfurter is one of those chief-
the War Department.
ly responsible for President Roose-
See BERLIN—Page 8
This attitude, said Chaplain
See NEW TEMPLE—Page 9
See
MARSHALL—Page
12
velt's foreign policies, according
Lev, was probably due first to
to a statement made here by
"the closer relationship estab-
Senator Burton K. Wheeler.
lished in Army life between
"Knox, Stimson, Ickes, Hop-
chaplain and soldier as com-
By NATHAN RICARDO
kins and Frankfurter—what a
pared to minister and congre-
motley crew to determine foreign
gent in civilian life. Most boys'
policy for 130,000,000 people in
parents do not belong to a
the United States," the Senator
said.
Every cataclysmic world event Lozovsky's own first occupation as made general secretary of the church or synagogue, and those
"The President today seems to projects one person into promi- a blacksmith, but one may per- Profintern in 1921, and was sent whose parents do rarely have the
to China in 1927. His appoint- occasion to meet the minister or
be wholly dependent for his in-
haps discount that as a fairy tale ment as vice-commissar of Foreign rabbi personally."
formation on a little handful of nence immediately. The man who
The Army, said Chaplain Lev,
men surrounding him who couldn't became a daily presence in Amer- made to order for the Soviet Affairs, in which post he is today
be elected to the office of (log ican newspapers as soon as Ger- idealization of the proletariat. At arousing the admiration of hard- fosters this religious tendency
catcher in their own home towns. many attacked Russia in June is any rate, Lovocsky joined the boiled reporters in Moscow and
And yet they, along with Win- Solomon Abramovitch Lozovsky, Social Democratic Party in 1901. equally hard-boiled readers in the See DISCRIMINATION—Page 8
ston Churchill and the royal refu- Vice-Commissar of Foreign Af- Two years later he came to St. United States, came about in
gees in the United States, are fairs and Soviet representative to Petersburg and within a short 1939.
the English press.
time his political activity sent
determining foreign policy."
KACANOVICH
Before a week was out, Lozov- him into exile at Kazan. He es-
Guardian of oil and railroads at
sky had provoked editorial com- caped, was again arrested in 1906
this difficult time is Lazar Mois-
ment in leading American news- and escaped again.
papers. For want of a better term,
From 1909 to June, 1917, Lozov- yevitch Kaganovich, the only Jew By DR. MARTIN ROSENBLUTH
he was called a "funny man." sky lived in Paris. On his re- among the nine men who con-
Actually, his wit, his cosmopoli- turn to Russia, just in time for stitute the Politbureau, which is Editor's Note: Through a ll the
misery of European-Jewish ex-
tanism and his adeptness in the the Bolshevik Revolution, he was the controlling agency of the Com-
istence there still comes the
English language enable him to one of the initiators of the Profin- munist Party in the Soviet Un-
An Editorial Story
clear sign, again and again,
express himself so sharply that tern, the international trade un- ion. Kaganovich has been a mem-
that Jewish life is being sus-
reporters must quote him; they ion organization. In 1920, while ber of the Politburcau since 1930.
By SOL KAUFMAN
He was born in Kabany, now
tained. Who are those that
do not try to paraphrase him. working abroad as representative
called Kaganovich, near Kiev, in
give it breath? The following
The other (lay when the tem- "Hitler," he said, "will see the of the Trade Unions of the Soviet
article tells you of some of
perature was zooming skyward Kremlin only on a picture post- Union, he was arrested in Ger-
See RUSSIANS—Page 13
these courageous leaders.
and we were dreaming of a new card." And it was he who intro- many and expelled. Lozovsky was
world where columnists and com- duced to the American press the
With almost five million Jews
mentators would have their tongues well-known Central European
and typewriter-ribbons cut out, story about the hunter who shout- EDITOR'S NOTE: Probably no aspect of European politics has thrown again into the vortex of
been so misused as that dealing with Jews in the Soviet a new war, the importance of
the editor marched over to our ed: "I've caught a bear, but he
let me go."
government. Their presence is far from frequent. Yet at the those who do not become desperate
desk wearing a long shadow with won't
Lozovsky
was
born
in
1878
in
and who know how
a clipping in his hand. Jumping a small Russian village. His father
present moment there are several Jews on whom a great part in adversity
of the responsibility for civil defense and military attack
cannonballs, here's work again.
The
contempor-
See TORCH BEARERS—Page
What's cookin, we said as the was a tnelamed.
rests. Here is an introduction to them.
ary Soviet encyclopedia gives
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They Help Russia Hold Hitler
Toreh Aloft!
What's Your
Down Payment?
See ROBINSON—Page