August 15, 1941 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and the Legal Chronicle NEWS AT A GLANCE FROM ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD 11 a rt ly IC 11 f ne nC or )I. it. , is ne in in a b- no, P- re it- )f. ch ke re- . en en ey ys nd 48 ks tw at to nd o- o- th ng : y- at Y 1 1 AMERICA: Charles A. Lindbergh foresees dire consequences for Jews in America if this country should suffer defeat in war- time, a writer in Life reveals . . . Unusual character of New Orleans Jewish community reflected in statistics that of 6,472 inhabitants, 5,011 are native born Americans . . . Dr. Solomon Goldman charged the British with continued appeasement in the Near East . . . French don't fall for "Judeo-plutocracy" line, returned correspondent, Jay Allen, says . . . 200 refugees arrive in New York from French African camp . . . Free French dele- gation in United States issues statement of General deGaulle announcing abandonment of Vichy anti-Jewish restrictions in Lebanon and Syria under Free French rule . . All service men, regardless of religion, get free use of Jewish center facilities in United States, Jewish Welfare Board announces . . . Roberto Farinacci, chief Italian Jew-baiter, praises Cardinal O'Connell of Boston . . . U. S. 0. exceeds goal and expects $12,000,000 by end of year . . . Emergency Committee for Zionist Affairs asks session of World Zionist Actions Committee in America soon . . . Mrs. Richard Gottheil, noted woman Zionist leader, reaches 80 . . . Variety, theatrical newspaper, charges that recent attacks on films by Senator Wheeler and Nye are synchronized with re- ports of internal troubles in Germany, making necessary return to racial question . . . Refugee on Nyassa, Portuguese boat arriv- ing from Lisbon, asks whether "V" buttons are permitted in United States . . . Hias reports 1,909 Jewish refugees arrived in United States in July . . . Nazi propagandists now converting Indian heads on nickels into profiles of bearded Jews, report from Long Island . . . Assistant Secretary of State Adolf A. Berle, Jr., forecasts integovernmental support for large-scale programs of relief and rehabilitation after the war . . . Government officials shift civil servants born in Axis lands away from confidential work . . . Mayor La Guardia calls job discrimination "vicious" . .. Chile nips Nazi plot. Mexico, Argentina on alert against Ger- man propaganda . . . Lieut.-Col. Harold Riegelman warns public to prepare for use of gas in war . . . Jewish scientist in England finds new type of blood cell in spectacular experiment, American circles learn . . Milch, Jewish Nazi air chief, reported slain by order of Himmler . . . Twenty Young Judaea leaders win camp scholarships .. . Rabbi Abraham B. Rhine of Hot Springs, director of Denver National Jewish Hospital, dies in Chicago at 64. WAR (Continued from Paste One) video] the first opportunity since the Russian Revolution for non- Communist Jews to state their point of view to the Soviet lead- ers. This opportunity has been grasped by a number of Jewish bodies in London which are par- ticularly interested in Russian Jews and their problems. The J. P. S. correspondent is in a position to report that the dis- cussions are proceeding very favorably and there is hope that the Soviet Government will be impressed by the Jewish views, some of which it has heard pre- sented without bias for the first time. Plan Anti-Semitic Legion Formation of a Ukrainian Le- gion, whose numbers will alleg- edly embrace 50,000 men, has been announced by the notorious anti-Semite, Hetman Skoropad- sky "to liberate Ukraine from the yoke of the Jewish Bolsheviks," according to a story in Dielo, Ukrainian daily published in Lem- berg under Nazi auspices. Called "Bogdan Chmelnitsky," the Legion is supposed to repeat the Jewish slaughters which made the name of Chmelnitzky in- famous in Ukrainian history. 13 Forum of Youth Council Aug. 21 Thursday, Aug. 21, at 8:30 p. m., the Forum of the Jewish Youth Council will sponsor a round table discussion on the topic of "The Role of Jewish Youth in the Figth Against Hitlerism." Aaron Rosen- berg, secretary of the Jewish Community Council of Detroit, will serve as moderator of this ation would be granted to each nationality, no matter how small. Each would have a right to use its own language and build its own culture, and would possess full civil and political rights. Especial beneficiaries of this plan, Soviet sources emphasize, have been the Jews. PALESTINE: After a three-month odyssesy which took them through Japan, India and South Africa, 52 refugees reached the shores of Palestine . . . Agricultural products valued at over $8,000,000 were grown by Jewish settlements in Palestine in 1940 . . . Nearly 20 Jews were included in a group of 220 Palestinian soldiers reported on the 10th military casualty list issued by the Palestine Government . . . Jewish married men, between the ages of 20 and 30, who have no children are being considered for enlistment in the British Forces in Palestine, the Vaad Leumi said . . . Free French have recognized the Alliance Israelite Relatives of Polish-Jewish Pris- schools in the all-Jewish city of Tel Aviv . . . Eleventh casualty oners Asked to Write Polish list of Palestinian soldiers shows 240 "missing", of whom half Official are Jews . . . High proportion of "missing" in recent communiques Dr. Ignatz Schwarzbard, Jew- laid to desperate evacuations from Greece and Crete. ish representative of the Polish National Council in London, has OVERSEAS: Italian municipalities have ruled that Jews will asked American Jews who have relatives among Polish civil and receive no coal this winter . . . Jews are shot to death in Yugo- military prisoners of the Soviet slavia on charges of being "spiritual authors" of sabotage . . . government to send him all pos- Baltic countries occupied by Nazis have become breeding-grounds sible information in order to ex- for pogrom incitation . . . Finnish press joins in crusade against pedite their release under the terms of the new Polish-Russian "Jewish-Bolshevik" menace . . . Germans "invite" Danish-Jewish agreement. doctors to serve at front . . . German munition workers driven Dr. Schwarzbard, whose address from Old Reich by repeated British bombings are given room by is 45 Queens Court, Queens Way, London, W. C. 2, England, as- deportation of Jews from Vienna to Poland . . . The British serts that as soon as information dispatched a special Ministry of Information official to study the regarding the imprisoned men is news situation in Palestine and the Middle East . . . Foreign sent him, he will turn it over Secretary Eden announced that post-war reconstruction plans were to the Polish government-in-exile for transmittal to the Russian being discussed with the Washington authorities . . . Jewish government. organizations establish contact with Soviet Embassy in London U. S. and Britain Consider Post- looking toward closer ties between Jews in Soviet Russia and War Reconstructio n Blueprints of the world after English and American Jewry . . . "War to End Anti-Semitism" becomes popular Jewish slogan in U. S. S. R. . . . Russian Govern- Hitler are being considered by the United States and Britain, ment awards highest medal to Jewish guerrillas, praised for "re- according to an official announce- sourcefulness and natural intelligence" . . . Notorious Hetman ment made by Foreign Secretary Skoropadsky forms Ukrainian Legion" to liberate Ukraine from Eden in the House of Commons. the yoke of the Jewish Bolsheviks" . . . 1,000,000 Jewish refu- "Exploratory" exchanges of view gees stream out of war zone into Russian interior . . . Slovakia have already taken place on some revives old Egyptian custom by making Jews in labor gangs aspects of the post-war recon- provide own food . . . Nazi Ukrainian newspaper urges Lemberg struction program. Jews are hopeful that some- monument to Petlura as "national hero" . . . Hungary orders expulsion of Jews to Galicia. 45,000 affected . . . France curbs where in these discussions assur- Jewish doctors. War victims win priority . . . Emanuel Shinwell, ances for Palestine's future de- Jewish Member of Parliament, urges Britain to attack Italy in evlopment and restoration of Jew- offering greater assistance to Russia . . . Paris press calls Jewish ish status in European lands will stamp-buying "scandalous", demands Jews be barred from market be agreed upon. . . . British Jewish organizations mark 60th birthday of Leon Conscription Bill for Allied Refu- gees Deferred in Britain Simon, Zionist leader and scholar . . . Hungarian Jews forced Major Clement Attlee, Deputy to turn in radio sets. Prime Minister and Lord Privy Seal, has announced to Parlia- NEWS BREVITIES: Martini, a famous anti-Semitic singer ment that the bill to conscript in Paris cafes in the pre-war era, has become Enemy No. 1 of citizens of allied countries now Nazi military authorities in Paris, Michael Pobers, former French residing in Great Britain, intro- duced in the House of Commons editor, writes in New York Daily News . . . A plan is being drawn recently, has been deferred until up whereby Jewish summer resorts in the Catskills would be pre. after the Summer recess. The bill primarily affects thou- pared to house 1,000,000 New Yorkers in the event of a mass sands of Polish and Czecho-slova- evacuation of old men, women and children. The evacuation plan kian Jews in England. is being worked out under the direction of Abraham Pomeranz, Russians to Propose own Solu- assistant to State Housing Commissioner Edward Weinfeld . • . tion for Nationalities Problem It is learned from authoritative The possibility of early establishment of a "refugee town" near Russian Government sources here Lisbon, to find a center for the hundreds of refugees stranded that in the post-war peace con- in Lisbon without possibility of migrating to the United States ference the Soviet representatives is being broached . . . David is the name of the grandson of the will propose their own solution of late Felix M. Warburg, born to Edward M. M. Warburg, Jewish the nationalities problem as the communal leader, and the former Mary Whelan Prue . . . James remedy for national disputes which Waterman Wise, son of Stephen S., was sued for divorce by his have plagued the continent for second wife, the former Elizabeth Halle Kraus . . . Setting a hundreds of years. Under this policy, which has world's record for women, Mrs. Maurice Meyer, Jr., veteran angler been carried out among the hun- of Elberon, N. J., last week landed an 818-pound tuna while dreds of nationalities in the So- fishing in Maine waters. She made the catch after a two and one- iet Union, full national and cul- half hour struggle. (Copyright JPS). tural autonomy and self-determin- Alfred Knopf is buying him- self a whole flock of those dark- colored shirts he fancies because Shire•'s "Berlin Diary" is sell- ing more copies at a faster rate than any book the dark-featured publisher has issued in his 25 years. British Create Fund in Memory of Jochelman At a meeting in memory of the late Dr. David Jochelman, relief worker famed for his activities on behalf of East European Jews, the suggestion of Dr. J. L. Hertz, British Chief Rabbi, for the cre- ation of a fund to aid Jewish children in Eastern Europe who are victims of Nazi oppression and the war, was adopted by the large audience. Only Three Polish Cities Escape Destructio n in German Path Urge Monument to Petlura The war correspondent of the A monument to Hetman Simon Voelkischer Beobachter, Hitler's Petlura, who instigated countless pogroms during the Whiter Terror in the Ukraine after the last war, is urged by the Ukrainian Nazi newspaper Shtshodeni Novo- sti of Lemberg, which has opened a subscription list for funds for the memorial. The monument, to stand in Lemberg, is meant to portray Pet- lura as a "national hero" of the Ukraine, apparently in recognition of the massacres he engineered against Ukrainian Jewry. It is estimated that 200,000 Jews per- ished in pogroms instigated by Petlura and other leaders of bandit bangs. The man who is the new "na- tional hero" for the Nazis was killed in 1926 by a Jewish vet- eran, Sholem Schwarzbard, as an act of vengeance. Schwarzbard was acquitted by a French jury. meeting. Robert Mazer, George Muttnick, Harry Stutz and other youth leaders will be the speak- ers. There will also be .discussion from the floor. The round table meeting will take place in the banquet hall of the Bnai Moshe Synagogue, Dex- ter and Lawrence. A social hour will follow. Everyone is welcome to attend and Admission is free. newspaper in Berlin, reports upon his return from a tour of Poland that the districts of Lomza, Sam- brow and Augustovo are prac- tically the only sections in the path of the German armies which have escaped destruction in recent battles on the Eastern front. Anti-Jewish restrictions in these areas, he asserts, are being vigor- ously enforced. 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