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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and the Legal Chronicle

Nazi Rule Has
Musical Show of
Not Broken Spirit
League of N.H.J.C.
Of Jews in Ghetto To Be Held Oct. 21

JEWISH CURRENT EVENTS QUIZ

THE ANSWERS

August 22, 1941

Women in the

News

By MARTHA NEUMAIIK

1. To Lord Walter Rothschild.
2. Dr. Jacob Lumbrozo, a Portuguese Jew, who settled in
Maryland in 1621.
3. In 1906.
4. Dr. Stephen S. Wise.
5. Dr. Stephen S. Wise.
5. 385 (according to Boyd's City Dispatch).
6. They are both former High Commissioners of Palestine.
7. Gus Edwards, the prodigy maker.
8. Ludwig Lewisohn, Maurice Samuel, Sholem
J. At sundown.
10. Grigori Stern, who distinguished himself in the Russo-
Finnish war.
(Copyright J. P. S.)

PROVINCETOWN LADY
The Detroit League of the Na-
Iron-handed Nazi rule has not
The sand dunes of Province.
broken the spirit of the Jews in tional Home for Jewish Children
town are hospitable. The tradi-
the Nazi-made Warsaw ghetto, at Denver is planning a musical
tions of the sea, making for tol-
according to newspaper reports show as its annual fall major
erance, are reflected in the :mi.
received from Poland and de- fund-raising project, which is
tude of the inhabitants. Vaca-
scribed in the current issue of the
tioners find few of the psych. ses
"Contemporary Jewish Record,"
against Jews that might pry vail
the bi-monthly publication of the
at other resorts.
American Jewish Committee.
The natives accommodate all.
Cut off from the outside world
But the hotels which cater to the
by eight-foot brick walls and
out-of-towneds are different. The
carrying on their daily lives un-
three or four big hostelries make
der the most severe restrictions
it clear that their clients are
yet imposed by the Nazis on the
"restricted". This situation irked
conquered people of Europe, the
American-Jewish Flyer Killed in
It's a Bearded Jew Now
450,000 Polish Jews crowded into
British Ferry Plane Crash
JAMAICA, L. I. (JPS)—The a Boston lady. She felt that Jew s
the ghetto nevertheless show "no
LOS ANGELES. (JPS)—The flood of Nazi propaganda coins were as good people as any other
trace of groveling before the
Jewish community was in mourn- on Long Island swept up a new Americans. If they wanted to go
Naazis," Leib Spiesman, author
ing this week for Captain Jack brand in a nickel on which the to Provincetown they should have
of the article, declares. Instead,
Wixen, heroic Jewish aviator profile of the Indian had been the best and not the shunted
he says, "national pride is em-
who perished in the mysterious turned into a caricature of a around to the least desirable in
phasized, and faith in humanity
crash of a large British ferry bearded Jew. Secret Service hotels, in the event that they
and the brotherhood of mankind
plane in which 22 pei.sons were agents, who are tracking down didn't want to stay with a pri-
is kept alive."
killed.
the Nazi campaigners who have vate family.
And that is how Mrs. Rose
The area is "governed" by a
In a special story this week defaced quarters and half dollars
Jewish Council of twenty-four
the Bnai Brith Messenger re- with swastikas and anti-Semitic Lacob opened "The Tides" at
which has performed almost
ported that Captain Wixen had caricatures, again warned that Provincetown—as snug, as tidy
superhuman tasks of planning and
joined the Royal Air Force four the "artists" face 15 years in and as congenial a small hotel
as any vacationer would want.
administration since it was set
months ago following a brilliant prison and a $10,000 fine.
The rates aren't designed to
up in November, 1939, judging
career in aviation. He had pre-
by items in the "Gazeta Zydow-
viously served as a flying in- Russo-Polish Agreement Frees gouge. The profits, if any, ate
meager. But Mrs. Lacob is en-
ska," only Jewish newspaper pub-
structor and pilot for the TWA
MRS. ROBERT DREWS
Jewish Leaders
gaged in a crusade. She wants
lished in the Nazi General gov-
and American Airlines. His chief
A
number
of
prominent
Polish
ernment and source of the "Rec- scheduled to take place on Tues- duties in the R.A.F. consisted in Jewish leaders, among them Pro- Provincetown to he a place where
ord" article. Maintenance of a day evening, Oct. 21, at the Scot- ferrying bombers across the At- fessor Rabbi Moses Shorr, for- the Christian will envy the ac-
police force of more than 1,000 tish Rites Cathedral of the Ma- lantic from the United States mer chief rabbi of Warsaw have commodations availableto the
men, collection of a monthly head sonic Temple.
and Canada for use by the Brit- been released from prison by the Jews. In fact, no Christian is
tax, management of public serv-
Mrs. Daniel Siegel, president, ish against the Germans.
Russian government in accordance allowed in her hostelry. That isn't
ices, and arrangement for pro- has delegated Mrs. Robert S.
Wixen, who was to have cele- with the terms of the new Russo- because of religious prejudice but
visioning of food and for provid- Drews as general chairman, and brated his 28th birthday on Sep- Polish agreement, it is learned because there are so few other
desirable places where Jews nay
ing employment are but a few Mrs. Maurice Schwartz as co- tember 23, was born in Batum here by the Jewish Chronicle.
of the Council's duties. Since it chairman, and they will be assist- in the Russian province of
Among others freed are the go in Provincetown. Mrs. Lacob,
is the ghetto's sole official contact ed by the following committees: Georgia, near the cite of the well-known Bundist leader Ehr- an attractive woman herself,
with men and affairs outside the
Arrangements, Mrs. Max Ker- Russian oil fields of Baku. In lich and Saul Shwalbe, former edi- boasts of the only Jewish vaca-
ghetto walls, the Council bears a ner and Mrs. Carl Shalit; tickets, his childhood his parents took tor of the Polish-Jewish daily tion resort at the tip of Cape
great responsibility and must deal Mrs. Sol Brock, chairman, Mrs. him to Palestine where the fam- •Nash Pshonglad.
Cod. She is a woman in the
for the entire population with Charles Goldstein and Mrs. Mor- ily lived until 1923. A younger
pioneering tradition.
the Nazi "masters". Every prob- ris Schiff, co-chairmen; hostesses, brother, Balfour, named for the
France
Curbs
Jewish
Doctors;
lem of an ordinary community, Mrs. George Levey, and Mrs. author of the British declaration
A POETESS GROWS UP
War Victims Win Priority
plus all the difficulties which Maurice Cohen, chairmen; pro- endorsing the Jewish National
Although the newest decree of
arise when too many humans are gram, Mrs. Louis Davidson, chair-
It is long ago, as world events
first forced into too little space man, Mrs. Alex M. Caplan, co- Home, is now in the U. S. Army. the Vichy government sets at 2 measure time, when the literary
News
of
Captain
Wixen's
per cent the number of Jewish world seemed to have nothing
and then isolated, must be met chairman; wardrobe, Mrs. Her-
death reached his parents two
and handled by this group.
man Schmier, chairman; Mrs. days before they were to observe doctors permitted to practice in more important to do than to
One of the most difficult ques- Herbert Cohen, Mrs. David Fein- their 30th wedding anniversary. each community, physicians with discuss whether Nathalia Crane
good war records or those with was genuine or a fraud. Louis
tions of recent months was that berg, Mrs. Herman Rafelson, co-
disabilities caused by war will be Untermyer had to stop his own
of providing recreation in the chairmen; property, Mrs. Irwin
poetic production to defend the
narrow confines of the ghetto. As Cohn; telephone, Mrs. Robert Germans "Invite" Danish Jewish given first consideration.
The new regulation only codifies authenticity of the nine-year-old
Doctors to Serve at Front
Mr. Spiesman puts it: " . .
Brown, chairman, Mrs. Harry
Unable as in most European a condition which has existed for poetic genius whom he had dis-
even here remarkable progress Barksy, co-chairman; talent, Mrs.
has been achieved by the War- Sidney Wallace, Mrs. Anne Berris, countries to order Jews to serve some time, as the Vichy regime covered.
Now Nathalia Crane is 28 and
saw Jewish Council. According to Mrs. Moe Prince, Mrs. Harry wherever they are called, German seeks to cloak its anti-Jewish
authorities in Denmark have re- measures with a pretext of le- her poem, "The Janitor's Boy",
the Nazis' original plan, the Jew- Clark and Mrs. David Ebner.
which brought her first fame, has
All members and husbands who sorted to an "invitation" to Dan- gality.
ish cemetery was to be outside
given way to the more somber
of the limits of the ghetto. Nego- wish to participate in the per- ish Jewish doctors to join the
Peter Schweitzer, son of the mood of "The Death of Poetry".
tiations resulted in the exchange formance are requested to con- heavily-overtaxed military hospi-
famous Zionist father and cigar- She and her father and mother
of several streets for his ceme- tact Mrs. Drews or any of the tals on the Eastern front.
This unique "invitation" ap- ette manufacturer and brother still live in the narrow, dark
tery, which in addition now aforementioned chairmen of the
serves as a park. The Nazis also talent committee. The musical peared in the entire Danish press. of the crack rifle shot, William, Brooklyn apartment where,
did not permit the opening of show will be directed by Robert It is a plea on the part of the is TWA's publicity pride because through the years, newspaper re-
theaters at first, but the Jewish Mazer, assisted by Cy Feinberg, Nazis addressed to Jewish medi- he is the first airplane commuter, porters have charted her develop-
Council later managed to obtain John Herman and William Carl- cal men, asking them to help in riding from La Guardia Field to ment through interviews. Mr.
the present crisis caused by the Newark every day to reach the Crane, who is not a Jew, boasts of
permission to open two theaters son.
shortage of skilled physicians.
under private ownership. Usually,
cigarette plant outside Elizabeth the Jewish ancestry of Nathalia
through her mother, who goes
comedies and vaudeville are pre-
back to the Abarbanels of Spain.
sented to afford audiences a few 16,000 in Buenos Aires Greet Dr.
Goldmann, Mrs. Silverman
To believe her father—and her
hours of escape from the grim
National Refugee Service Retraining Enables mother can always be expected
reality of ghetto life . . . Despite
BUENOS AIRES. — (JPS)—A
to interject a word of reminder
terrible conditions, the inhabitants huge audience of 16,000 Argen-
Emigre to Do His Part for America's
or reminiscene — Nathalia may
in this largest ghetto in Jewish tinian Jews turned out here on
have the poetic blood of a Judah
history show an indomitable de- Aug. 10 to greet Dr. Nahum
National Defense
Halevi coursing through her
termination to outlast their Goldmann and Mrs. Archibald
enemies."
veins.
Silverman, who are touring
Through the years Nathalia
Another article, by Eugene South America on behalf of the
has been given fellowships and
Hevesi, describes conditions in World Jewish Congress. The
scholarships by those who wanted
Madagascar, the sub-tropical is- great crowd, the largest which
her to worry about nothing but
land to which the Nezis have pro- has gathered in South America
her art. She rounds out her in-
posed to exile the Jews in the during the tour of the delegation
come by teaching. As befits the
event of a Nazi military victory. which recently left the United
world through which she has
Basing his judgment on reports States, met to open the Con-
passed, Nathalia today writes of
by experts from France, Poland, gress campaign in Buenos Aires.
her disappointment in Lind-
Japan and even Germany, Mr.
Dr. Goldmann and Mrs. Sil-
bergh and her sorrow for Hitler
Hevesi concludes that any attempt
arrived here after a tri-
instead of the loves of innocent
to dump hundreds of thousands verman
children. Still gawky, sharp-
of Jews on the island "would re- umphal series of visits to Rio
featured and angular, Nathalia
sult in fullest misery and even- de Janeiro and Sao Paulo in
Crane has retained the dewy in-
tual annihilation." The hot and Brazil, where similarly crowded
nocence of her childhood days.
humid climate, the terrible sani- meetings were held in their
tary conditions, the persistence of honor. Dr. Goldmann flew to
NEW YORK (JPS) — Field
a number of diseases such as ma- South America after conferring
Marshal General Erhard Milch.
laria and yellow fever in the with American Ambassador Jo-
inspector general of the German
swamp-infested land and "the sephus Daniels in Mexico City.
Luftwaffe, has been slain by order
unexplained radiations of the His tour is stimulating interest
of Heinrich Mimmler, Gestapo
metallic soil" all combine to make in the forthcoming Inter-Ameri-
chief, according to Russian radio
existence in Madagascaar for the can Jewish Conference in Wash-
broadcasts heard hereby the Co-
white man almost unbearable and ington.
lumbia Broadcasting System. Ac-
acative labor pracatically impos-
cording to the Moscow bulletin.
sible, Mr. Hevesi states.
growing number of projects in
the Jewish-born air force chief
A German leader of a scientific their lacol communities. Special
was especially hated by Himmlet
mission sent to the former African emphasis is being placed by re-
and Goebbels. The report of hi-
colonies of German in 1933, re- ligious leaders of all faiths, he
death coincides with recent re
ported, according to Mr. Hevesi, points out, on work among school
ports of the imprisonment ei
that "It has not yet been proved and college youth.
Hermann Goering, who was a
that the European is physically
Other articles include an analy-
close friend of Milch.
capable of performing continuous sis of the "typical Jewish com-
heavy manual work in the trop- munity," in "Medurbia: The Peo-
LONDON.—(JPS) — The con -
ical highlands and of maintain- ple," by Uriah Zevi Engelman;
gestion in the ghetto of WarsaN ■
ing himself throughout the genera- "South Africa," an article in two
has become so severe that the
tions . . . From the point of view parts by Gustav Saron and Edgar
Nazi authorities have decided to
of settlement, East Africa . . . Bernstein, and "My Life as an
move 100,000 Jews who hav
must no longer be thought of as American Jew," by David Philip-
recently arrived into Polish pry
a region of colonization, properly son. The section devoted to a
vincial cities where the press
so-called; it cannot receive small digest of public opinion takes up
not yet so great, according I"
(sic) settlers, and, even less, mil- the Nazi attack on Russia and
Berlin newspaper reports.
lions of settlers."
the customary chronicles, book
There are at present 600,0( 1 "
In a discussion of "Interdenom- reviews and digest of magazine
Three members of the Auto Body and Fender Repair course.
inational Activities of American opinion are also included in the sponsored by the National Refugee Service, learning how to "make Jews in the Warsaw ghetto, an
Rabbis," Judah Goldin reveals issue. Editors of the "Record" arc 'em look like new" again. Of the dozen refugees who took this area 100 blocks square in ay
that rabbis are becoming increas- Morris D. Waldman, Harry six-weeks course, several were offered jobs before their training center of the city. Dwellituf
ingly interested in this type of Schneiderman and Sidney Wal-
was completed; since "graduation" most of them have found work Places are so crowded that thou
work an dare taking part in a lach.
sands now sleep in the open all
to enable them to become self-supporting and independent.
and in the streets.

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