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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and the Legal Chronicle

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A GLANCE FROM
ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD

AMERICA: A Democratic International to protect refugees
and facilitate their emigration to the Unitcd States was proposed by
Dorothy Thompson, as the Spanish and Portuguese governments
were accused of imposing exorbitant charges for fares on boats that
they own . . . Wendell Winkle declared that he would prefer a large
national debt ,to Hitler any time . . . Rumania began an extortion
campaign to obtain Jewish money from the United States ... Writing
in Liberty Magazine, Fritz Thyssen charged that Hitler is an ille-
gitimate descendant of the Viennese House of Rothschild . . . Con-
gressman Martin Dies called upon by Congressman Samuel Dickstein
to investigate the America First Committee . . . A new anti-Semitic
weekly, the Herald, was founded by the editor of Scribner's Com-
mentator . . . A special delegation of legislators was sent by Ar-
gentina to study U. S. methods of unmasking Nazis . . . Wendell
Willkie was named as a director of the Lehman Corporation . .
The investigation of the motion-picture industry by the Congressional
Committee under Senator D. Worth Clark of Idaho evoked protests
on a widening scale, those opposing it including Congressman Eman-
uel Celler of New York, Fight for Freedom, Inc., and the Non-
Sectarian Anti-Nazi League. . . . The Chilean Government was ac-
cused by veteran Yiddish actor Maurice Schwartz of having made
his passage through Chile difficult because of his being a Jew.. . .
Yehudith Simchonit, Palestine Labor delegate, reported on her ar-
rival in this country that extensive training of women for war work
was going on , uninterruptedly in her country. . . . The fall campaign
of the United Jewish Appeal for Refugees, Overseas Needs and
Palestine will include 1,240 communities throughout the country, it
was announced. . . . Argentina appeared determined to stamp out
Nazi propaganda, as evidenced by the activities of the pro-democratic
Argentine Congressional committee under Deputy Paul Taborda. . .
The advent of many refugees formerly prominent in the diamond
industry in Hitler-dominated lands is making New York the diamond
center of the world. . . . An outbreak of typhoid fever was noted
among recent passengers on heavily laden refugee ships arriving in
New York from Lisbon. . . . An expose in the New York Herald-
Tribune of the pro-Nazi activities of Gaston Henry-Haye brought
an official protest from - the Petain regime which the paper was
quick to answer. . . . Further Axis film importations were prohibited
by the State Department. . . . A recrudescence of violent Nazi
tactics occurred in Mexico and was protested by Mexican Congress-
men, who demanded an energetic suppression of all fifth-column
activity in the country. . . . Rabbi William F. Rosenblum of New
York's Temple Israel reported army morale high on his return from
a month's service as Army chaplain..
PALESTINE: A mliitary,parade marked the first anniversary
of the formation of the Palestinian units. . . . The men closed the
review by forming a living "V" for, Victory and Volunteers. . . .
Mrs. M. Nethaniei, a Jewish widow of Jerusalem, was singled out
for mention because all five of her sons are now serving with the
British forces. . . . One has been invalided home and two were re-
ported missing after the Greek campaign. . . . The 15th Palestinian
casualty list reported 88 soldiers, half of them Jews, as missing; four
Jews were listed as killed, and two others as wounded. . . . South
African Jewish soldiers visited Palestine from their base in Egypt.
. . . The Tel Aviv Municipality ordered all its eligible employees to
enlist, providing that otherwise their services under the Municipality
might ne terminated.
OVERSEAS: A decrease in the number of Jewish suicides has
been noted since the outbreak of the war, according to the Grenzbote,
the Nazi organ in Slovakia. .. . Yellow armbands for Czech Jews
were demanded by the Nazi press to put a stop to the "open frater-
nization of the population witn the Jewish neignbors." . . . A British-
Jewish aviator and a Russian-Jewish parachutist were both honored
for distinguished service. . . . The dictators again announced a plan
for the reconstruction of all Europe under the Axis flag. . . . 3,000
Jews were released for emigration from Nazi-occupied territories
for the United States by the Nazis. . . Four films of French-
Jewish property is now in Hitler's hands, it was announced. . . .
The Nazis were reported to be considering moving all German Jews
to Bialystok. . . . Dr. Hermann Liebermann, Jewish Socialist leader,
was named Minister of Justice of the Polish Government-in-Exile . .
Rumanian anti-Jewish excesses found new expression in a public
ceremony of degradation for Rumanian-Jewish officers and the
seizure of all Jewisn personal property in Bessarabia and Bukovina.
. A black Magen David on a yellow patch bearing the word "Jude"
was oruered as the new icientifying symbol for German Jews. . . .
By decree, Dutch-Jewish children must now be taught in ghetto
schools, with institutions of higher learning excepted from the
ruling. . . . 1 he Soviet government decided to organize a central
Jewish body to represent the interests of Russian Jewry and to
stimulate contact with Jews throughout the world. . . . Chief Rabbi
J. H. Hertz of Britain prayed for the victory of British and Russian
arms as he stood alma tue bombed ruins of London's Great Syna-
gogue. . . . Pierre Masse, former French Minister of Justice, was
among the prominent l renchmen seized as hostages by the Nazis. . . .
Writing in the Bulletin of the British Board. of Jewish Deputies,
Dorothy Thompson appealed to American Jews to "discuss the war
openly." . . . The Algerian government began the registration of all
European Jews for early transfer to special ghetto; . . . The arrest
of several Danish Jews as "Communists" marked the first yielding
of the Danes to German pressure against the Jews. . . . 40,000 Polish
Jews were reported at forced labor in German munitions plants. . . .
All except three of the former hundreds of Jewish schools in Greece
have now been forced to close.
NEWS BREVITIES: Four hundred young people attended the
sixth Masada Camp and Seminar at which Lavy Bakstansky, secre-
tary of the English Zionist Federation, led seminars on Zionist
diplomacy in London and Zionism and the post-war conference. . . .
Thirty thousand Jewish soldiers in the Third Army, now on
maneuvers in the South, will have special religious services during
the High Holy Days under the chaplainship of Captain Bernard
Segal of Fort Dix, N. J. . . . Two Jews &Mated the organ for the
new Church of the Good Thief at the Clinton Prison at Dannemora.
. . . In the frame of an old engraving William Goldenburg of Phila-
delphia found a promissory note for £366 dated 1780. At six per cent
interest it is now worth $15,000,000. . . . The Rumanian government
set up a special commission to assist JewS in changing their names
from Rumanian-sounding appellations to good Jewish ones. . . . A
Jewish lieutenant in the Russian army, named Yakovlev, was com-
mended by the Krasnaya Zvezda, Red Army organ, for his leadership
in routing German troops from a number of occupied towns in the
central sector. . . . Special taxes on Bulgarian Jews were expected
to yield an income of 2,000,000,000 levas. The imposts were placed
because the Jews are forbidden to engage in military service, says
the official explanation. . • . Francis J. Bloustein, an assistant cor-
poration counsel in New York, has been named by Mayor LaGuardia
as a member of a four-man board to determine priorities for the
normal needs of local governments throughout the United States. . . .
The Nazis have established a ghetto in Riga, in the suburb of Let-
t gallien on the eastern bank of the Dvina river. . . . The Jews of
East Galicia who were , formerly within Russian territory and are
now in the German-occupied zone are liable to forced labor, the Nazi
Governor of Poland has announced. . . . Jewish students have been
excluded from secondary and higher schools of learning in Algeria,
as the first step in the • imposition of the Vichy'"anti-Semitic laws
in the French African colony. . . . Max Ferber, 32-year-old Jew of
Zagreb, was shot for "communism" after" having bene sentenced by
court-martial. . . . Hungarian Nazis, trying to imitate Goering in
his earlier days, set fire to the Jewish quarter of the little town of
Saturmay in Transylvania. The section was completely destroyed
in the blaze. . . . Because several Jews were share-holders in an
American electrical plant in Novy-Sad, Yugoslavia, the Hungarian
authorities now in charge confiscated the property. (Copyright JPS)

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ANTI-SEMITES

(Continued from Page 1)

Mt. Sinai Fund
To Benefit From
Softball Games

obtain unprejudiced jurors in a
trial of Nazi spies without ask-
ing questions about membership
Due to the untiring efforts of
in the Christian Front and the Mrs. Charles (Esther) Gitlin, the
German-American Bund.
Mt. Sinai Hospital Association
Christian Front, Bund Omitted Fund will be swelled considerably
as a result of the world softball
In Spy Trial
Judge Mortimer W. Byers, who championships which started in
is conducting the case of 16 Nazi University of Detroit Stadium
agents in a Brooklyn court, man- Wednesday night.
Mrs. Gitlin, a member of the
aged to complete selection of a
jury without once involving him- 1941 world championship softball
self in the following subjects, executive committee, has directed
which are ticklish in a neighbor- ticket sales for the Mt. Sinai
hood inhabited in part by Fund. Fifty percent of each tick-
Fronters and former Bundists: et sold for the finals at U. of D.
Have you ever been a member of Sunday afternoon will be rebated
the Christian Front or the Ger- to the Association.
man-American Bund?" "Do you
The profit split was through
feel any prejudice against the the courtesy of Wilbur E. Landis,
Jews?"
president of the Amateur Softball
The omission is all the more Association of America, a close
notable in view of the fact that friend and admirer of the Mount
originally the prosecution had Sinai Hospital Association.
drawn up questions along these
The eighth annual world soft-
lines which were ignored by the ball championship gables, second
court.
to be' held in Detroit, got under-
One of the defense lawyers is way at U. of D. Staidium Wed-
Frank J. Walsh, who has been a nesday night with the colorful
speaker for the Front on several "Pageant of American Youth"
occasions and has served as at- feattiring the opening program.
torney for the anti-Semite, Joe
More than 100 teams, four of
them from Canada, one from
McWilliams.
The restrictions do not work Puerto Rico and nearly 100 rep-
the other way, however. One juror resenting every state in the Union
was excused because he is Jewish arrived here Monday and Tues-
and would therefore "not be im- day by plane, boat, bus, train
partial."
and auto to bid for the Pepsi-
Scribner's Commentator Issues , Cola awards emblematic of world
supremacy in softball.
Anti-Semitic Paper
will return to
Add another link in the chain U. Semi-finalists
of D. Saturday afternoon at
combining isolationists and Jew- 1:30 for games which will de-
haters. Douglas Stewart, editor of termine who will meet Sunday
Scribner's Commentator, isolation- afternoon at U. of D. for the
ists monthly, has founded a new world title.
weekly called the Herald, which
The five-day program is on the
hates England, President Roose- basis of NO RAIN. Never in the
velt and refugees, and loves history of the world champion-
Wheeler, Lindbergh and Nye.
ships has the schedule been kept
PM, , New York's liberal tabloid, because rain invariably showed
writes in an expose that the up at. , the wrong time.
Herald is clearly anti-Semitic.
The editors of the Herald have
nothing against the Jews, except Weekly Great Falls News showed
that they "are pushing the United that if Wheeler were to make the
States into war.'' In recent issues race now, he would be overwhelm-
of the Herald there have been ingly defeated. The poll has ap-
many sly remarks against the parently stung.
Jews. Walter Winchell has been
pictured as "the voice of Ameri- Thyssen Charges that Hitler Is
ca's refugee minority." A feature
Descendant of Rothschild'
"Fifth Column Notes," takes
NEW YORK (JPS) — In an
pleasure in mentioning prominent account which would challenge the
Americans and Britons who sport inventiveness of a Hollywood
Jewish names. There has been a scenarist, Fritz Thyssen, the Ger-
lengthy article bewailing the fact man industrialist who paid Hit-
that there are many refugee doc- ler's way to posi•ei:,„, charges that
tors in this country.
the Nazi Fuehrer Is an illegiti-
The Herald, say its backers, is mate descendant of the Viennese
primarily against intervention.
Rothschilds. Writing in Liberty
Magazine, Mr. Thyssen alleges
Rosenman and Cohen Assailed at that public records arc in exist-
America First Meeting
ence which indicate that IIitler
CLEVELAND (JPS) —"Judge has Jewish blood by virtue of
Rosenman and Cohen" were as- the fact that his grandmother be-
sailed as the "dictators of the came pregnant while working as
actions of President Roosevelt" a servant in the household of the
at an America First rally at Lake- famous Jewish banking family in
wood addressed by John B. Os- Austria.
mun, chairman of the Cleveland
Weaving a startling theory, Mr.
chapter. Boos were heard at the Thyssen attributes Hitler's re-
President's name, as well as markable political insight to the
when Judge Samuel Rosenman Rothschild business acumen and
and Benjamin Cohen were linked the Nazi leader's anti-Semitism
to the President's alleged effort to his desperate effort to erase all
to get American manpower into vestiges of his Jewish ancestry.
the war on the side of England.
According to Mr. Thyssen's ac-
count, Chancellor Dollfuss of Aus-
Test
Wheeler May Resign to
tria was assassinated because he
Isolationist Sentiment
refused to give up documents
HELENA, Mont. (JPS) — It proving Hitler's Jewish origin;
is reported here that Burton K. and his successor Schuschnigg was
Wheeler, senior Senator from called to Berchtesgaden because
Montana, may resign his post to those papers later came into his
run against his junior colleague possession. The British Secret
and Administration supporter, Service is supported to have a
James E. Murray, in November. copy of the genealogical history
The move is expected to be of Hitler, Mr. Thyssen says.
Wheeler's bid for a vote of con-
In the course of his article the
fidence in his rabidly isolationist German tycoon, who is supposed
policies.
to have broken with the Nazi
A recent poll conducted by the regime, also reveals that Geheim-

CADILLAC 1040

Trees Planted in
Palestine Forests

The Jewish National Fund
Council of Detroit announces the
planting of trees in Palestine
forests as follows:
In the Fred M. Butzel Forest:
One tree in honor of their 16th
anniversary by Mr. and Mrs.
Sam Borenstein; two trees in
memory of Meyer Newman and
two trees in memory of Mollie
Lichter by Morris and Jennie
Jacobs; two trees commemorat-
ing Yahrzeit of Rose Bailen by
Lillian Bailen; one tree in mem-
ory of Mrs. Helen Schwartz,
sister of Mrs. Jennie Weiss by
Hebrew Ladies Aid Society; one
tree in memory of Norman Stern-
berg by Mr. and Mrs. William
Sarut.
In the J. H. Ehrlich Forest:
Three trees in memory of Marie
Harris, Mr. and Mrs. L. Goon-
man and Mr. and Mrs. Harry
Bieberstein.
In the Pioneer Women's For-
est: Two trees in memory of
Lena Aronson by Rebecca Fam-
ily Club; two trees in honor of
Baby Norman Saul Hearshon
and Baby Sharon Rena Salinger
by Kinereth Group of Pioneer
Women; three trees in memory
of Malka Schumer by family.
To plant trees in Palestine
Forests call the chairman of the
tree committees of the Jewish
National Fund Council of Detroit,
Mrs. Alexander W. Sanders, Ho-
garth 0967, 12342 Broadstreet.

Plant Trees in Honor of
.George Pevin's Recovery

In honor of the recovery of
George Pevin, son of. Mr. and
Mrs. M. Pevin of 2261 Calvert
Ave., from serious injuries sus-
tained in an automobile accident,
trees were planted in the Fred M.
Butzel Forest in Palestine as fol-
lows: One by Mrs. Lena Alter
and two by. Bessie Sorin Zviller
Society at a meeting held on
Monday, at which Mrs. Pevin gave
a luncheon in honor of her son's
recovery. Mrs. L. Lindenbaum
donated to charity in honor of
George Pevin's recovery.

Asthmatic Children Benefit
in alorado Climate at
National Home for Jew-
ish Children

The National Home for Jewish
Children at Denver has had great
success in the care of asthmatic
children. To most asthmatics the
change of environment and cli-
mate has been found of great aid.
The home has made a remarkable
record in the past few years in
the alleviation of suffering of
children afflicted with asthma and
other allergic manifestations.
Among the 15 children admitted
to the home last month, 10 were
suffering from severe asthmatic
attacks, in fact some were forced
to quit school and were confined
to bed. Since their arrival, not
one of these 10 children has had
a single severe attack.

rat Kastl, one of the most power-
ful industrial leaders in Ger-
many, was a Jew. He tells the
story of Air Marshal.Mileh, who
is known to have Jewish blood,
and the difficulties which Goering
had with his associates in safe-
guarding Milch's position. Goering
is reported ifs having said that
he alone would decide whether
a man was a Jew or not. Thysien
asserts that Milch's problem was
solved by the declaration that his
Christian mother had committed
adultery with another,Aryan.