mericatt ,eivish Periodical Cotter

July 25, 1941

CLIFTON AVENUE - CINCINNATI 20, OHIO

DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and the Legal Chronicle

NEWS AT A GLANCE FROM
ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD

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RUSSIANS

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CAMPAIGN LAUNCHED IN DETROIT
TO AID WORK OF BRITISH CHIEF
RABBI'S EMERGENCY COMMITTEE

AMERICA: Viscount Halifax, speaking in San Francisco, 1893. His proletarian background
denounced the "old cruelties with which the world is only too is provided by a sentence stating
familiar" that have been inflicted on the Jews by the Nazis . . • that he worked in mills and shoe Dr. M. Rattner Heads Detroit Group for Sale of "The
Mark of the Swastika"; Proceeds to Aid
The Church Peace Union stated its disbelief in the possibility of factories. He joined the Bolshevik
being neutral in the present war . . . Congressman Samuel Dick- Party in 1911, and was active in
Religious Work in England
stein, in a speech in the House of Representatives, pointed out the October, 1917, revolution, dur-
ing
which
he
was
in
Gomel,
in
Publication of "The Mark of Emergency Council of the Chief
that the "Mayflower" Fifth Columnists were doing as much harm
to the unity of the country as the Nazis and Communists . . . The White Russia. Later he helped the Swastika", a collection of Rabbi of Great 'Britain, 55 Leon-
Interfaith Committee for Aid to the Democracies rejected discus- create the Red Army in Petro- extracts from important official ard Street, New York City.
The sale of the book in Detroit
sion of a negotiated peace as fantasy in the face of tragic reali- grad and Moscow.
war documents of the British
Before assuming direction of Government, is announced by a is being directed by Dr. M. Ratt-
ties . . . Jewish labor leaders pledged $100,000 to the American
ORT for its vocational training activities . . . A Brith Milah, the the Railroads and Oil of the coun- group of distinguished Ameri- ner, 1537 David Whitney Bldg.
first in many years, was performed in the immigrant quarters of try,Kaganovich was for a time cans, with all proceeds going to He is being assisted by Mrs.
Commissar r of Heavy Industry.
Ellis Island . . . Nathaniel Maranz, son of a New York doctor, , er his direction was started
help the work of the Religious Aaron Fellman, 1645 W. Chicago
set
h
originally thought killed on R. A. F. duty, wrote that he was tu
the decentralization of Soviet i n - Emergency Council of the Chief Blvd., and Mrs. L. A. Woolman,
:3244 Fullerton.
side in a German prison camp after having parachuted out of a • aus
eralded by Rabbi of Great Britain.
burning plane over the English Channel . . . The "V" symbol of Britain as well as by Mosco
It is entirely a co-operative
Moscow as
victory originated in the hand formation of the Kohanim when insuring the continued
y supply of undertaking. The British Library
blessing the people, it was pointed out in New York City • • • essential materials even if parts of Information and Farrar and
The memory of Emma Lazarus, whose poem is inscribed on the of the Ukraine should be occu- Rinehart, publishers, waived all
pedestal of the Statue of Liberty, was honored on the 92nd anni- pied. Later Kaganovich supervised royalty rights on the documents;
versary of her birth by services at the statue . . . The Non- the construction of the Moscow Arthur LeVine, head of Ad Press
Having scored a hit during
Sectarian Anti-Nazi League urged a blacklist of American firms subway.
Ltd., of New York, underwrote
Rumor has Kaganovich a broth- all printing costs and volunteers the broadcast on Altman's Jewish
controlled by Nazis . . . George Sokolsky, American journalist,
denied that there was a Jewish problem in the United States . . . er-in-law of Stalin, but the offi- everywhere have agreed to han- Hour on Station WJLB last Sun-
day, William Gayman's quartet
Congressman Philip A. Bennett of Missouri attacked the admission cial Russian silence on matters of dle the sale.
will return to the program this
of refugee doctors into the United States. . . . Dr. Chaim Weiz- personal life prevents any authori-
Dr. J. H. Hertz, Chief Rabbi
mann said he favored a special World Zionist Conference in the tative confirmation of the story. of Great Britain, in his foreword Sunday, H. Altman announced.
By popular request, Mr. Gay-
United States in the near future . .. Dr. Judah L. Magnes, presi- Stalin is said to be married to for "The Mark of the Swastika,"
man, tenor, and the following as-
dent of the Hebrew University, said in an interview for the New Kaganovich's sister.
says:
sociates will sing a group of
York Times that Palestine should become a bi-national State in SIIMUSHKEVITCH
"These are historic documents Jewish songs; Ruth Safer, so-
As the Russian air force comes
an Arab Federation . . . The Nazis were said to be stirring the out of its backwoods hiding and which remain a lasting testimony
prano; Bella Ritten Goldberg,
Ukrainians in the United States to help foment a revolt of
into German panzer di - of the inhuman barbarism against soprano; Allen Samet, baritone.
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Ukrainian nationalists in Russia . . . Aid was asked for
visions, General Yakov Vlad imi ro - which free humanity is fighting Miss Prudence Butterfield, staff
Yeshivas still functioning in Hungary . . . Mexico launched a vich Shmushkevitch rides i nto ful today. The proceeds of the sale pianist of WJLB, will accompnny
Palestine Foundation Fund Drive with the arrival of Leib Jaffe. let- view. Shmushkevitch is chief are to be devoted to the relief of the quartet.
PALESTINE: Men and women in all parts of Eretz Israel of the Russian Military Air Force. the many evacuees, refugees, in-
gathered to mark the seventh and 37th anniversaries respectively Born in Rakiski, Lithuania, in cluding internees, under the care
of the deaths of Chaim Nachman Bialik, Hebrew poet laureate, 1902, Shmushkevitch represents of my Religious Emergency
and Dr. Theodor Herzl, founder of political Zionism . . 600 the younger group of military Council.
women and children evacuated last month from nine small Jewish leaders. Driven from their home
"May this publication be wide-
settlements on the Syrian border returned to their homes . . • by a pogrom, the Shmushkevitch ly read.
Over 6,000 Hebrew books have been published in Jerusalem, it family settled near Moscow.
BALTIMORE, Mr.—The Agu-
"I am sure that everyone will
was disclosed as the hundredth anniversary of the establishment Shmushkevitch joined the Bol- welcome the opportunity of par- das Israel of America will hold
shevik
party
in
1917,
and
at
the
of the first Hebrew press in that city was celebrated ... The food
ticipating in the sacred work of its third annual convention at
shortage in Syria is being relieved through contributions from end of the Civil War in 1921 he the Religious Emergency Coun- the Brith Sholom Hall in Balti-
Palestine's granary . . . Dairy products from Palestine's £1,100,000 was already commissar of a pur- cil."
more from Aug. 21 to 25, with
dairy industry form a substantial part of the supplies . . . More suit-plane group.
Dr. David de Sola Pool, chair- more than 300 delegates from
Shmushkevitch's technical edu-
than half the 222 soldiers listed as missing in Palestine's eighth
man
of the committee on reli- various parts of the country ex-
cation,
as
well
as
his
cultural
military casualty list were Jewish, as were five of the eight
training—except
for
two
years
at
gious
activities of the Army and pected in attendance. This or-
soldiers wounded . . . Abdul Radef el Bitar, Mayor of Jaffa and
a Jewish school—came late. He Navy Department of the Jewish ganization is the American branch
advocate of Arab-Jewish cooperation, died and was succeeded was sent to the Far East in 1935,
of the Aguda World Organiza-
by his brothel., Omar Effendi el Bitar .. . Abdul Radef had more and four years later he com- Welfare Board, heads the group tion, Orthodox Jewry movement.
which
has
undertaken
the
sale
of
than once been an assassins' target because of his sympathetic manded the Soviet planes in the
Detroit will be one of the ci-
"The Mark of the Swastika" in
attitude toward his Jewish neighbors.
Russo-Japanese fighting in Outer this country. Other sponsors are ties in the Union to be repre-
OVERSEAS: Russia has arranged lectures in Yiddish on Mongolia. He has been Comman-
sented at the sessions.
Air Raid Precautions; the lectures, part of the civil defense pro- der-in-chief of the Red Air Fleet Rabbi Herbert S. Goldstein, hon-
Although the American branch,
orary
president,
Union
of
Ortho-
gram supervised by British experts, are given in cities with large since December, 1939.
of which Rabbi Eliezer Silver of
dox Jewish Congregations of
Jewish populations . . . The Nazi "victory" film of the Russian
Cincinnati is the president, has
MEKHLIS
invasion shows the tortures administered to the Jews in the cap-
Even in wartime the political in- America; Max Zaritsky, presi- been in existence no mote than
.
dent,
United
Hatters,
Cap
&
Mil-
tured cities and alleges that they were guilty of Communist terior of Russia is of great im-
three years, the Agudas Israel
sabotage and got what was coming to them . . . Polish Jews will portance. The position of Chief linery W o r k e r s International youth movement in this country
Union;
Abraham
Cahan,
editor
all go to Siberia, other European Jews to Madagascar, according of the People's Commissariat of
dates its origin to more than 15
to Hitler's plan . . . French Nazi zealots don't want to share State Control is therefore a re- of The Forward; Rabbi Stephen years. Rabbi Simon Schwab of
the Atlantic Ocean with Jewish bathers, so Jews are barred sponsible one. This position is now Wise, president, American Jew- Baltimore heads the arrange-
from Deauville and Biarritz . . . No music by Jewish composers held by L. Z. Mekhlis, once edi- ish Congress; U. S. Judge Julian ments committee. The conven-
may be played in Paris cafes . . . Jews who were officers in the for of Pravda, and the duties in- Mack, former president and now tion will devote itself specifically
Rumanian army may show their erstwhile rank by the color of elude the survey of the financial vice-president, Zionist Organiza- to problems dealing with the
the Mogen David they are forced to wear while doing compulsory accounts and general behavior of tion of America; Harry Schnei- strengthening of religious ob-
labor; all other Jews wear a yellow stripe . . . The "V" symbol the various State Commissariats. derman, editor, American Jewish servance among the Jewish mas-
U. S. S. R. Year Book; Leon Gellman, presi-
Every republic in
of Victory has so nettled the Nazis that they now accuse Jews has its own
.ssarists, and the dent, Mizrachi of America; Sam- ses in America.
of listening to British broadcasts exhorting the use of the symbol .
The parley will be opened with
iat which
i Mekhlis heads uel H. Fromberg, national presi-
and have arrested hundreds of Jews in Yugoslavia on that charge Commissar
a session of special prayer in be-
dent, Young Israel, and many half of Jewry in distress. A me-
. . . A hundred Jews and Communists were executed in Belgrade is over
them all.
LITVINOFF
others.
morial service will be conducted
Returning to grace as well as
. . . Guerilla warfare persists, however, and several hundred pris-
Col. Josiah C. Wedgwood, fa- for members of the Jewish faith
oners, many of them Jews, shot their way out of a Croatian prison to audibility, Maxim Litvinoff
mous
Member
of
Parliament
and
camp . . . Berlin, with Rome piping alongside, blared out at Presi- now stands
who have perished as the result
exonerated
t d not
Father of the British Labor Par- of World War II.
dent Roosevelt and his "Jewish associates" for "plugging their nbut thoroughly
justified
n
in ion
h tlos ty, has written an introduction
Among the prominent guests in
friendships in Moscow" . . . The Italian press, on its own, warned ideal for Russia of orientation
the Jews that it was too early to be cheerful about Palestine; that Western Europe. Litvinoff's hardy to the volume, stressing that this attendance will be Jacob Rosen-
Axis plans had not changed . . . Some change was expected in the figure and his courageous atti- is a war of religions. Col. Wedg- heim, president of the Aguda
manner in which the Palestine case will be handled in the House tude on world affairs earned him wood acquainted lecture audi- World Organization, who has
of Commons with the appointment of Richard K. Law to succeed the respect and the affection of the ences throughout the country just arrived in this country. Vari-
Richard A. Butler as Parliamentary Undersecretary for Foreign countries he visited on behalf of with the purposes and object of ous prominent rabbis from the
Affairs . . . Moving eastward, the Nazis tried unsuccessfully to Russia and of the representatives "The Mark of the Swastika," United States will participate in
rouse the Red Armies and the populations to spontaneous anti- who met him at the League of prior to his return to London. the deliberations.
"The Mark of the Swastika",
Semitism by distributing "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" Nations, of which he was chair-
printed in Russian and Ukranian . . . Hans Frank, Nazi anti- man for a time. Litvinoff was printed in both English and Yid- Jr. Hadassah "Grass Hop"
born in Bialystock in 1876 and
Semitic expert, was transferred from Poland to newly occupied received a thorough Jewish edu- dish, is selling for $1. It was
on Wednesday Evening
edited by Herman Appelman,
. . . Rumania closed synagogues and Jewish houses of
member of the staff of the New
study
.
.
.
Decision
was
announced
to
keep
gas
masks
from
Jews
cation
before
stepping
out
as
a
Junior Hadassah invites mem-
study
figu . re. His return t o
York Journal-American, and Mo-
large cities unless there turns out to be a tremendous surplus world
in large
nifican ce in Mos cow augur s well ses Schonfeld, American repre- bers and prospective members to
of masks . . . Croatia arrested 3,000 more Jews for forced labor, for the mutual compromises which
a garden party, alias "Grass
making a total of 15,000 in camps . . . In London visas were sought the Allied powers will have to sentative of the Chief Rabbi's Hop", on Wednesday, July 30, at
Religious Emergency Council.
for refugees to various parts of the British Commonwealth.
make in the peace that will be
The editors give it as their be- 8:30 p. m.
NEWS BREVITIES: The work at the New York Butchers formed out of their victory.
Novel entertainment is being
lief
that the state documents,
Dressed Meat Company, a kosher meat subsidiary of Armour and
planned by Lil Milgrom and her
communications
and
hitherto
sec-
Company, have gone out on strike. The workers belong to an Board of Ladies' Auxiliary
ret papers presented in "The entertainment committee. Only
American Federation of Labor affiliate local. They charge the
of House of Shelter Are Mark of the Swastika" offer "the ticket of admission will be pro-
company with refusing to negotiate with the union . . . Jews in
clearest portrait yet drawn of the per sports attire suitable to a
Guests of Mrs. Altman
Algiers were ordered to turn in any arms and ammunition in their
characters.
mental processes and "Grass Hop".
possession within a week . . . Scoffing at a new Nazi claim that
The "Grass Hop" will be held
The
members
of
the
board
of
personalities
of Chancellor Hitler
the basis for the British-Russian alliance was laid by Disraeli, the
at Shirley Max's garden, 2978
directors
of
the
Ladies
Auxiliary
and
the
men
who,
with
him,
rule
Daily Express here suggests that Hitler would do better to pay
Burlingame.
attention to the fact that General Timoshenko of the Russian of the House of Shelter met on Germany today and likewise sub-
Plan on coming and bringing
army is of Jewish descent . . . Dr. Herbert Wechsler, professor of Wednesday at the summer cot- mit the most comprehensive sur- your friends. Refreshments will
tage of Mr. and Mrs. Hyman Alt- vey of Germany's treatment of
law at Columbia University, visited the Tennessee Valley Authority
be served.
to observe recruiting methods; he is executive secretary of the man, at Horseshoe Lake. Mrs. Jews and other minorities within
For additional information call
Altman, president of the auxili- Germany, including conditions in
committee that will recruit government attorneys . . . Johannes
Virginia Brand, TO. 8-2748.
ary, entertained the board at concentration camps."
Steel, radio commentator, predicted that Maxim Litvinov will be-
lunch. Plans for the ensuing year
By acquiring and recomending
come Stalin's ambassado•-at-large to the democracies, and said that
"Herbie Fields" Toots Sax
"The Mark of the Swastika", the
it would be up to the latter to send the Soviet Union further on were discussed.
for Army
reader
will
contribute
doubly
to
the road to the democratic government promised in its constitution
$16,600,000 Spent by Rosen-
those•
fighting
our
battle
for
. . . The synagogue in the university town of Oxford, England,
FORT DIX, N. J. (JPS)—The
wald Fund
freedom in Britain. The funds
recently celebrated its 100th anniversary . . . A report recently
camps in the Second Army Corps
will
alleviate
suffering
among
circulated that all Jews had been ordered ousted from the Finnish
(JPS) — In the war victims; and they will also area are now being entertained
Army by the Finnish Minister of Defense has been denied in 24 CHICAGO
years of its existence the Ju- make available to the British by a swing band built up by the
Washington by the Finnish Legation . . . James Speyer lius Rosenwald Fund has spent Government much - needed and army out of picked musicians
was helped in celebrating his 80th birthday by 250 children of the $16,620,000 for the "well-being of valuable dollar exchange to pur- from the country's best-known
dance bands, led by conductor
University Settlement Society Camp at Beacon, N. Y., run by the mankind," according to an an-
University Settlement — the first institution of its kind in the nouncement made here. Much of chase additional supplies in this Sergeant Herbert Bernfeld. The
jive addicts know the Fort Dix
United States — which Speyer had founded . . . Dr. Israel Efros, this money has been spent on wet- cou ,,nti y.
"The Mark of the Swastika" soldiers better as Herbie Fields,
well-known Hebrew writer and teacher, will head the newly estab- fare among Negroes. By 1957,
can be purchased through volun- who played the saxaphone and
lished Hebrew department at Hunter College, Nw York City . . .
Because of the opposition of the Red Cross, the Cincinnati plan to now totals $4,000,000 • must be teer groups. If it is not available clarinet for Raymond Scott. Since
the band is motorized, they're
unite the Jewish Welfare Fund, the Community Chest and all other spent, according to the terms of in your community, it can be say its music comes from "tin
major campaigns for a drive in October has fallen through. (Copy- the will of Julius Rosenwald, who obtained by writing to the
died in 1932. American Chapter, Religious pan-zer alley."
right JPS)

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